...Introduction<subtitle>A Player in the Rainforest</subtitle> ...

...Major Players ...

...Key Players ...

...Evaluating the Roles of the Major Players in the Federal Appointments Process ...

... A survey of slot machines on the Las Vegas Strip offers descriptions of the play and the players in the context of a larger discussion about the function of loyalty rewards in a consumer-driven economy. slot machines consumer rewards ...

... This chapter departs from the Mapfumo story to explore the world of mbira music and musicians, notably the life and music of Ephat Mujuru. A number of players of this traditional, hand-forged lamellophone describe how they became players. Accompanied by Mujuru, the author observes a bira...

... An account of three days and nights of generally low-stakes gambling at craps, blackjack, and roulette in a variety of venues in and around Las Vegas, both alone and accompanied by a friend trained as a dealer, with stories and details about card counting and cheating, player superstitions...

... The Duke lacrosse case was the most difficult chapter during Richard Brodhead’s thirteen years as president. In September 2007, after the players had been exonerated and the district attorney had been disbarred for his role in the case, the Duke Law School hosted a conference titled The Court...

... studies scholars to interrogate both the neoliberal institutional frameworks and the necropolitical logics of the modern-day public university. With Asians as vital players in the death-making machinery of the globalizing system, the notion of college as a place to receive “a better life” and the model...

... shifting sociopolitical and relational networks and fuel practices of knowledge brokering. Given the inexorable necessity of water, water knowledge is power. Controlling the dispersed networks by which that knowledge is accessed and mobilized becomes the stakes over which political players battle...