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With a pedigree going back over ten years, The Definitive Handbook
of Business Continuity Management can rightly claim to be a classic
guide to business risk management and contingency planning, with a
style that makes it accessible to all business managers. Some of
the original underlying principles remain the same -- but much has
changed. This is reflected in this radically updated third edition,
with exciting and helpful new content from new and innovative
contributors and new case studies bringing the book right up to the
minute. This book combines over 500 years of experience from
leading Business Continuity experts of many countries. It is
presented in an easy-to-follow format, explaining in detail the
core BC activities incorporated in BS 25999, Business Continuity
Guidelines, BS 25777 IT Disaster Recovery and other standards and
in the body of knowledge common to the key business continuity
institutes. Contributors from America, Asia Pacific, Europe, China,
India and the Middle East provide a truly global perspective,
bringing their own insights and approaches to the subject, sharing
best practice from the four corners of the world. We explore and
summarize the latest legislation, guidelines and standards
impacting BC planning and management and explain their impact. The
structured format, with many revealing case studies, examples and
checklists, provides a clear roadmap, simplifying and de-mystifying
business continuity processes for those new to its disciplines and
providing a benchmark of current best practice for those more
experienced practitioners. This book makes a massive contribution
to the knowledge base of BC and risk management. It is essential
reading for all business continuity, risk managers and auditors:
none should be without it.
This collection of essays offers a historical reappraisal of what
musical modernism was, and what its potential for the present and
future could be. It thus moves away from the binary oppositions
that have beset twentieth-century music studies in the past, such
as those between modernism and postmodernism, between conceptions
of musical autonomy and of cultural contingency and between
formalist-analytical and cultural-historical approaches. Focussing
particularly on music from the 1970s to the 1990s, the volume
assembles approaches from different perspectives to new music with
a particular emphasis on a critical reassessment of the meaning and
function of the legacy of musical modernism. The authors include
scholars, musicologists and composers who combine culturally,
socially, historically and aesthetically oriented approaches with
analytical methods in imaginative ways.
Modernism in music still arouses passions and is riven by
controversies. Taking root in the early decades of the twentieth
century, it achieved ideological dominance for almost three decades
following the Second World War, before becoming the object of
widespread critique in the last two decades of the century, both
from critics and composers of a postmodern persuasion and from
prominent scholars associated with the 'new musicology'. Yet these
critiques have failed to dampen its ongoing resilience. The picture
of modernism has considerably broadened and diversified, and has
remained a pivotal focus of debate well into the twenty-first
century. This Research Companion does not seek to limit what
musical modernism might be. At the same time, it resists any
dilution of the term that would see its indiscriminate application
to practically any and all music of a certain period. In addition
to addressing issues already well established in modernist studies
such as aesthetics, history, institutions, place, diaspora,
cosmopolitanism, production and performance, communication
technologies and the interface with postmodernism, this volume also
explores topics that are less established; among them: modernism
and affect, modernism and comedy, modernism versus the
'contemporary', and the crucial distinction between modernism in
popular culture and a 'popular modernism', a modernism of the
people. In doing so, this text seeks to define modernism in music
by probing its margins as much as by restating its supposed
essence.
The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability explores disability
in visual culture to uncover the ways in which bodily and cognitive
differences are articulated physically and theoretically, and to
demonstrate the ways in which disability is culturally constructed.
This companion is organized thematically and includes artists from
across historical periods and cultures in order to demonstrate the
ways in which disability is historically and culturally contingent.
The book engages with questions such as: How are people with
disabilities represented in art? How are notions of disability
articulated in relation to ideas of normality, hybridity, and
anomaly? How do artists use visual culture to affirm or subvert
notions of the normative body? Contributors consider the changing
role of disability in visual culture, the place of representations
in society, and the ways in which disability studies engages with
and critiques intersectional notions of gender, race, ethnicity,
class, and sexuality. This book will be particularly useful for
scholars in art history, disability studies, visual culture, and
museum studies.
Mauricio Kagel was undoubtedly one of the major figures in the new
music of the last fifty years. Growing up in the rich cultural
atmosphere of Buenos Aires in the 1940s and '50s, where the writer
Jorge Luis Borges was one of his teachers, he became a member of
avant-garde circles as well as receiving a rigorous musical
education. By 1957 Kagel had acted on the advice of Pierre Boulez
to move to Europe to pursue a career as a composer. He quickly
established himself at Cologne, the rallying point for young
composers at the time, and became one of the leading, if
controversial, figures at the famous Darmstadt summer courses. He
embraced multiple serialism, aleatory technique and electronics,
but he is best known for his pioneering explorations in music
theatre, radio play, film and mixed media. BjArn Heile charts
Kagel's compositional development, considering the aesthetic and
ideological issues the composer raises in his work. Focusing on
Kagel's use of music as a means of intellectual inquiry, Heile
shows Kagel to constantly question the nature of music and its role
in society. Kagel's broadening of the concept of music to include
theatre, film and other media, his disdain for purism as well as
his subversive humour and sense of the absurd have challenged
reified notions of music and art. Heile considers Kagel's
background as Argentine immigrant to Europe (born to Russian-Jewish
immigrants to Argentina) to situate the composer's aesthetic. What
emerges is the breadth of Kagel's imagination and the multiplicity
of contexts he drew from, which were both distinctive and, in the
age of pluralist multiculturalism and globalization, exemplary. As
Heile demonstrates, it was Kagel's enlarged notion of music as
inherently multimedial that may be his most important contribution
to new music, and on which his reputation ultimately rests.
Communicating Endangered Species: Extinction, News, and Public
Policy is a multidisciplinary environmental communication book that
takes a distinctive approach by connecting how media and culture
depict and explain endangered species with how policymakers and
natural resource managers can or do respond to these challenges in
practical terms. Extinction isn't new. However, the pace of
extinction is accelerating globally. The International Union for
Conservation of Nature classifies more than 26,000 species as
threatened. The causes are many, including climate change,
overdevelopment, human exploitation, disease, overhunting, habitat
destruction, and predators. The willingness and the ability of
ordinary people, governments, scientists, nongovernmental
organizations, and businesses to slow this deeply disturbing
acceleration are uncertain. Meanwhile, researchers around the world
are laboring to better understand and communicate the possibility
and implications of extinctions and to discover effective tools and
public policies to combat the threats to species survival. This
book presents a history of news coverage of endangered species
around the world, examining how and why journalists and other
communicators wrote what they did, how attitudes have changed, and
why they have changed. It draws on the latest research by chapter
authors who are a mix of social scientists, communication experts,
and natural scientists. Each chapter includes a mass media and/or
cultural aspect. This book will be essential reading for students,
natural resource managers, government officials, environmental
activists, and academics interested in conservation and
biodiversity, environmental communication and journalism, and
public policy.
This collection of essays offers a historical reappraisal of what
musical modernism was, and what its potential for the present and
future could be. It thus moves away from the binary oppositions
that have beset twentieth-century music studies in the past, such
as those between modernism and postmodernism, between conceptions
of musical autonomy and of cultural contingency and between
formalist-analytical and cultural-historical approaches. Focussing
particularly on music from the 1970s to the 1990s, the volume
assembles approaches from different perspectives to new music with
a particular emphasis on a critical reassessment of the meaning and
function of the legacy of musical modernism. The authors include
scholars, musicologists and composers who combine culturally,
socially, historically and aesthetically oriented approaches with
analytical methods in imaginative ways.
Mauricio Kagel was undoubtedly one of the major figures in the new
music of the last fifty years. Growing up in the rich cultural
atmosphere of Buenos Aires in the 1940s and '50s, where the writer
Jorge Luis Borges was one of his teachers, he became a member of
avant-garde circles as well as receiving a rigorous musical
education. By 1957 Kagel had acted on the advice of Pierre Boulez
to move to Europe to pursue a career as a composer. He quickly
established himself at Cologne, the rallying point for young
composers at the time, and became one of the leading, if
controversial, figures at the famous Darmstadt summer courses. He
embraced multiple serialism, aleatory technique and electronics,
but he is best known for his pioneering explorations in music
theatre, radio play, film and mixed media. BjArn Heile charts
Kagel's compositional development, considering the aesthetic and
ideological issues the composer raises in his work. Focusing on
Kagel's use of music as a means of intellectual inquiry, Heile
shows Kagel to constantly question the nature of music and its role
in society. Kagel's broadening of the concept of music to include
theatre, film and other media, his disdain for purism as well as
his subversive humour and sense of the absurd have challenged
reified notions of music and art. Heile considers Kagel's
background as Argentine immigrant to Europe (born to Russian-Jewish
immigrants to Argentina) to situate the composer's aesthetic. What
emerges is the breadth of Kagel's imagination and the multiplicity
of contexts he drew from, which were both distinctive and, in the
age of pluralist multiculturalism and globalization, exemplary. As
Heile demonstrates, it was Kagel's enlarged notion of music as
inherently multimedial that may be his most important contribution
to new music, and on which his reputation ultimately rests.
In The History and Function of the Target Cities Management
Information Systems, you?ll travel to six major cities in the
"Target Cities" demonstration project sponsored by the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Center for
Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT). You?ll see how treatment centers
are developing automated management information systems that have
been proven to more effectively and efficiently meet the needs of
patients requiring addiction recovery and treatment in large
metropolitan areas. Your understanding of what it takes to develop,
run, and maintain automated management information systems will
increase as you read these firsthand accounts of specialists who
have taken their own systems through the stages of initial
development, to ongoing maintenance, and to eventual evolution.The
History and Function of the Target Cities Management Information
Systems provides an excellent forum of discovery in which you have
everything you need to fully compare and contrast how various local
conditions have impacted the growth of these cities'information
systems and how individual problems can be solved. Several
real-world views of these and many other specific topics in these
metropolitan areas of the country are at your fingertips: how
central intake sites provide rapid assessment, referral, and care
management in Cleveland, Ohiofacilitating automated client
assessment, referral, and service tracking in Portland, Oregonhow
central intake units (CIUs) and a computerized management
information system (MIS) reduce barriers to treatment entry,
increase treatment retention, and support continued posttreatment
recovery in Dallas, Texasthe St. Louis, Missouri, information
system that was conceptualized and implemented statewidethe patient
tracking system (PTS) in New Orleans, Louisianalessons learned in
Detroit, Michigan, by staff using a management information system
with a terminal-host model and character-based user interfaceThis
is the only known published description of automated systems being
developed for the same purpose by different teams. Everyone,
especially hospital administrators, educators, and behavioral
health and computer professionals interested in the development of
automated medical records systems, will definitely want to access
the valuable information garnered from six important cities in The
History and Function of the Target Cities Management Information
Systems. By comparing and contrasting the true-to-life accounts of
these different cases, you?ll gain a richer, deeper understanding
of this type of software and system development process. You?ll
also acquire the insight necessary to spearhead the construction
and modification of an effective, efficient assessment and case
management system in your own city.
This volume aims to capture evidence of marginalized voices in
various contexts globally and show how speakers seek to reclaim
their voices and challenge power relations. The chapters reveal how
speakers actively confront inequities in society such as the
unequal distribution of resources. Through bottom-up initiatives
and conscious involvement in language use, documentation and the
development of language domains, speakers can address issues of
language-based marginalization, (re)establish linguistic human
rights and reclaim their linguistic and cultural identity. Chapters
in the volume explore commitments to democratic participation, to
voice, to the heterogeneity of linguistic resources and to the
political value of sociolinguistic understanding. Drawing upon the
framework of linguistic citizenship, they link questions of
language to sociopolitical discourses of justice, rights and
equity, as well as to issues of power and access within a political
and democratic framework.
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American Gothic Short Stories (Hardcover)
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With handsome young men who never grow old, and the strangest of
relatives appearing from dark corridors and long shadows, the
frenzied imagination of the American Gothic is a fertile theme for
this next anthology in the Gothic fantasy short story series. As
with other titles in the series, new short fiction complements the
work of classic authors including: Gertrude Atherton, Ambrose
Bierce, Charles Brockden Brown, George Washington Cable, Charles W.
Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, Ralph Adams Cram, Stephen Crane, Emma
Dawson, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ellen
Glasgow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Shirley Jackson,
Sarah Orne Jewett, Grace King, H.P. Lovecraft, Herman Melville,
W.C. Morrow, Flannery O'Connor, Edgar Allan Poe, Annie Trumbull
Slosson, Clark Ashton Smith, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Harriet
Beecher Stowe, Edith Wharton, Madeline Yale Wynne.
Modernism in music still arouses passions and is riven by
controversies. Taking root in the early decades of the twentieth
century, it achieved ideological dominance for almost three decades
following the Second World War, before becoming the object of
widespread critique in the last two decades of the century, both
from critics and composers of a postmodern persuasion and from
prominent scholars associated with the 'new musicology'. Yet these
critiques have failed to dampen its ongoing resilience. The picture
of modernism has considerably broadened and diversified, and has
remained a pivotal focus of debate well into the twenty-first
century. This Research Companion does not seek to limit what
musical modernism might be. At the same time, it resists any
dilution of the term that would see its indiscriminate application
to practically any and all music of a certain period. In addition
to addressing issues already well established in modernist studies
such as aesthetics, history, institutions, place, diaspora,
cosmopolitanism, production and performance, communication
technologies and the interface with postmodernism, this volume also
explores topics that are less established; among them: modernism
and affect, modernism and comedy, modernism versus the
'contemporary', and the crucial distinction between modernism in
popular culture and a 'popular modernism', a modernism of the
people. In doing so, this text seeks to define modernism in music
by probing its margins as much as by restating its supposed
essence.
A broad range of state-of-the-art methods to determine properties
of clusters are presented. The experimental setup and underlying
physical concepts of these experiments are described.
Furthermore, existing theoretical models to explain the
experimental observations are introduced and the possibility to
deduce structural information from measurements of dielectric
properties is discussed.
Additional case studies are presented in the book to emphasize the
possibilities but also drawbacks of the methods.
Increasingly more computer applications are becoming available to
assist mental health clinicians and administrators in patient
evaluation and treatment and mental health management, education,
and research. Topics covered include: automated assessment
procedures; MR-E (The Mental Retardation Expert); computerized
assessment system for psychotherapy evaluation and research;
computer assisted therapy of stress related conditions;
computerized patient evaluation in a clinical setting; computerized
treatment planning; the VA national mental health database;
networks; managed care; DSM-IV diagnosis; quality management; cost
control; knowledge coupling; telemedicine; the clinical library
assistant; and monitoring independent service providers.
In this book, the contributors reconsider the fundamentals of Music
as a university discipline by engaging with the questions: What
should university study of music consist of? Are there any aspects,
repertoires, pieces, composers and musicians that we want all
students to know about? Are there any skills that we expect them to
be able to master? How can we guarantee the relevance, rigour and
cohesiveness of our curriculum? What is specific to higher
education in music and what does it mean now and for the future?
The book addresses many of the challenges students and teachers
face in current higher education; indeed, the majority of today's
music students undoubtedly encounter a greater diversity of musical
traditions and critical approaches to their study as well as a
wider set of skills than their forebears. Welcome as these
developments may be, they pose some risks too: more material cannot
be added to the curriculum without either sacrificing depth for
breadth or making much of it optional. The former provides students
with a superficial and deceptive familiarity with a wide range of
subject matter, but without the analytical skills and intellectual
discipline required to truly master any of it. The latter easily
results in a fragmentation of knowledge and skills, without a
realistic opportunity for students to draw meaningful connections
and arrive at a synthesis. The authors, Music academics from the
University of Glasgow, provide case studies from their own
extensive experience, which are complemented by an Afterword from
Nicholas Cook, 1684 Professor of Music at the University of
Cambridge. Together, they examine what students can and should
learn about and from music and what skills and knowledge music
graduates could or should possess in order to operate successfully
in professional and public life. Coupled with these considerations
are reflections on music's social function and universities' role
in public life, concluding with the conviction that a university
education in music is more than a personal investment in one's
future; it contributes to the public good.
In this book, the contributors reconsider the fundamentals of Music
as a university discipline by engaging with the questions: What
should university study of music consist of? Are there any aspects,
repertoires, pieces, composers and musicians that we want all
students to know about? Are there any skills that we expect them to
be able to master? How can we guarantee the relevance, rigour and
cohesiveness of our curriculum? What is specific to higher
education in music and what does it mean now and for the future?
The book addresses many of the challenges students and teachers
face in current higher education; indeed, the majority of today's
music students undoubtedly encounter a greater diversity of musical
traditions and critical approaches to their study as well as a
wider set of skills than their forebears. Welcome as these
developments may be, they pose some risks too: more material cannot
be added to the curriculum without either sacrificing depth for
breadth or making much of it optional. The former provides students
with a superficial and deceptive familiarity with a wide range of
subject matter, but without the analytical skills and intellectual
discipline required to truly master any of it. The latter easily
results in a fragmentation of knowledge and skills, without a
realistic opportunity for students to draw meaningful connections
and arrive at a synthesis. The authors, Music academics from the
University of Glasgow, provide case studies from their own
extensive experience, which are complemented by an Afterword from
Nicholas Cook, 1684 Professor of Music at the University of
Cambridge. Together, they examine what students can and should
learn about and from music and what skills and knowledge music
graduates could or should possess in order to operate successfully
in professional and public life. Coupled with these considerations
are reflections on music's social function and universities' role
in public life, concluding with the co
Scholars of Edmund Spenser have focused much more on his
accomplishments in epic and pastoral than his work in satire.
Scholars of early modern English satire almost never discuss
Spenser. However, these critical gaps stem from later developments
in the canon rather than any insignificance in Spenser's
accomplishments and influence on satiric poetry. This book argues
that the indirect form of satire developed by Spenser served during
and after Spenser's lifetime as an important model for other poets
who wished to convey satirical messages with some degree of safety.
The book connects key Spenserian texts in The Shepheardes Calender
and the Complaints volume with poems by a range of authors in the
late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, including Joseph
Hall, Thomas Nashe, Tailboys Dymoke, Thomas Middleton and George
Wither, to advance the thesis that Spenser was seen by his
contemporaries as highly relevant to satire in Elizabethan England.
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This volume aims to capture evidence of marginalized voices in
various contexts globally and show how speakers seek to reclaim
their voices and challenge power relations. The chapters reveal how
speakers actively confront inequities in society such as the
unequal distribution of resources. Through bottom-up initiatives
and conscious involvement in language use, documentation and the
development of language domains, speakers can address issues of
language-based marginalization, (re)establish linguistic human
rights and reclaim their linguistic and cultural identity. Chapters
in the volume explore commitments to democratic participation, to
voice, to the heterogeneity of linguistic resources and to the
political value of sociolinguistic understanding. Drawing upon the
framework of linguistic citizenship, they link questions of
language to sociopolitical discourses of justice, rights and
equity, as well as to issues of power and access within a political
and democratic framework.
California is the country's most populous state. The home of the
entertainment industry and Silicon Valley. It's known for its
beaches, its redwood forests, and as the 'land of fruit and nuts.'
Its people, industries, politicians, climate and allure captivates
the world and draws millions of visitors each year. Exploring the
state's fascinating history, people, myths, culture and trivia, The
Handy California Answer Book takes an in-depth look at this
fascinating, quirky and diverse state.
Fully updated with the latest advances in meteorology as well as an
additional section on climate change, this comprehensive reference
addresses all aspects of weather in an accessible
question-and-answer format. All the basic elements of weather are
discussed, as are all types of weather phenomena and the science of
forecasting. In addition, the relationships between weather and
oceanography, geology, and space science are expertly covered.
Included are more than 1,000 questions and answers such as, "Has a
hurricane ever struck southern California? Could our oceans have
originated in space?" and "What is bioclimatology?" This resource
is an ideal reference for students, teachers, and amateur
meteorologists.
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