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UNINA9910781839603321 |
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Rubenstein Diane <1953-> |
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This is not a president [[electronic resource] ] : sense, nonsense, and the American political imaginary / / Diane Rubenstein |
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New York, : New York University Press, c2008 |
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0-8147-7731-7 |
0-8147-7620-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (313 p.) |
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Presidents - United States |
Political culture - United States |
Popular culture - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-291) and index. |
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Introduction: my own private presidents -- Organizational note -- The mirror of reproduction: Baudrillard and Reagan's America -- Oliver North and the lying nose -- This is not a president: Baudrillard, Bush, and enchanted simulation -- Bush, the man who Sununu too much: male trouble and presidential subjectivity -- "Chicks with dicks": transgendering the presidency -- "Honey, I shrunk the president": psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and the Clinton presidency -- "Father, can't you see I'm bombing?" A Bush family romance -- Hillary regained -- Notes -- Index -- About the author. |
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Read The Chronicle of Higher Ed Author InterviewIn This Is Not a President, Diane Rubenstein looks at the postmodern presidency - from Reagan and George H. W. Bush, through the current administration, and including Hillary. Focusing on those seemingly inexplicable gaps or blind spots in recent American presidential politics, Rubenstein interrogates symptomatic moments in political rhetoric, popular culture, and presidential behavior to elucidate profound and disturbing changes in the American presidency and the way it embodies a national imaginary.In a series of essays written in real time over the past four presidential administrations, Rubenstein traces the vernacular use of the American presidency (as currency, as grist for popular biography, |
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as fictional TV material) to explore the ways in which the American presidency functions as a “transitional object” that allows the American citizen to meet or discover the president while going about her everyday life. The book argues that it is French theory - primarily Lacanian psychoanalysis and the radical semiotic theories of Jean Baudrillard - that best accounts for American political life today. Through episodes as diverse as Iran Contra, George H. W. Bush vomiting in Japan, the 1992 Republican convention, the failed nomination of Lani Guinier, and the Iraq War, This Is Not a President brilliantly situates our collective investment in American political culture. |
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UNINA9910131023103321 |
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Infectious diseases : a geographic guide / / [edited by] Eskild Petersen, Lin H. Chen, Patricia Schlagenhauf-Lawlor |
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Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 |
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1-119-97162-4 |
1-283-40502-4 |
9786613405029 |
1-119-97161-6 |
1-119-97164-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (481 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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PetersenEskild |
ChenLin H |
Schlagenhauf-LawlorPatricia |
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Communicable diseases |
Epidemics |
Epidemiology - Methodology |
Medical geography |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Infectious Diseases: A Geographic Guide; Contents; List of Contributors; Foreword; Infectious Diseases in a Global Perspective; 1 Historical overview of global infectious diseases and geopolitics; 2 Detection of infectious diseases using unofficial sources; 3 Microbes on the move: prevention, curtailment, outbreak; 4 Diagnostic tests and procedures; 5 East Africa: Madagascar and Indian Ocean islands; 6 Eastern Africa; 7 Central Africa; 8 North Africa; 9 Southern Africa; 10 West Africa; 11 Eastern Asia; 12 South Central Asia; 13 South-eastern Asia; 14 Western Asia and the Middle East: Part 1 |
15 Western Asia and the Middle East: Part 216 Eastern Europe; 17 Northern Europe; 18 Southern Europe; 19 Western Europe; 20 Caribbean; 21 Central America; 22 South America; 23 Northern America; 24 Australia and New Zealand; 25 Oceania; 26 Arctic and Antarctica; 27 The immunosuppressed patient; 28 Emerging infections; 29 Migration and the geography of disease; 30 Climate change and the geographical distribution of infectious diseases; Abbreviations; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z |
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This concise and practical guide describes infections in geographical areas and provides information on disease risk, concomitant infections (such as co-prevalence of HIV and tuberculosis) and emerging bacterial, viral and parasitic infections in a given geographical area of the world. Infectious Diseases: A Geographic Guide is divided according to United Nations world regions and addresses geographic disease profiles, presenting symptoms and incubation periods of infections. Each chapter contains a section on the coverage of the childhood vaccination programs in the countries include |
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