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CHARO LAGARES
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R611
Discovery Miles 6 110
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Celebrating Sorrow explores the medieval Japanese fascination with
grief in tributes to The Tale of Sagoromo, the classic story of a
young man whose unrequited love for his foster sister leads him
into a succession of romantic tragedies as he rises to the imperial
throne. Charo B. D'Etcheverry translates a selection of
Sagoromo-themed works, highlighting the diversity of medieval
Japanese creative practice and the persistent and varied influence
of a beloved court tale. Medieval Japanese readers, fascinated by
Sagoromo's sorrows and success, were inspired to retell his tale in
stories, songs, poetry, and drama. By recontextualizing the tale's
poems and writing new libretti, stories, and commentaries about the
tale, these medieval aristocrats, warriors, and commoners expressed
their competing concerns and ambitions during a chaotic period in
Japanese history, as well as their shifting understandings of the
tale itself. By translating these creative responses from an era of
uncertainty and turmoil, Celebrating Sorrow shows the richness and
enduring relevance of Japanese classical and medieval literature.
A modern introduction to synchronization phenomena, this text
presents recent discoveries and the current state of research in
the field, from low-dimensional systems to complex networks. The
book describes some of the main mechanisms of collective behaviour
in dynamical systems, including simple coupled systems, chaotic
systems, and systems of infinite-dimension. After introducing the
reader to the basic concepts of nonlinear dynamics, the book
explores the main synchronized states of coupled systems and
describes the influence of noise and the occurrence of synchronous
motion in multistable and spatially-extended systems. Finally, the
authors discuss the underlying principles of collective dynamics on
complex networks, providing an understanding of how networked
systems are able to function as a whole in order to process
information, perform coordinated tasks, and respond collectively to
external perturbations. The demonstrations, numerous illustrations
and application examples will help advanced graduate students and
researchers gain an organic and complete understanding of the
subject.
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Kevin Schmidt (Paperback)
Nigel Prince, Kathleen Ritter, Charo Neville
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R939
Discovery Miles 9 390
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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This publication comprises the first monographic survey dedicated
to artist Kevin Schmidt. Based in Vancouver, Schmidt is an
interdisciplinary artist working across performance, video,
photography and installation who has exhibited widely across North
America and Europe. He is perhaps best known for performance
expeditions and interventions into the natural world, which are
documented in photographs, installations and videos, such as his
eleven-and-a-half-hour Epic Journey, which documents a marathon
nighttime screening of the Lord of the Rings trilogy in a small
boat as it drifted down the Fraser River, or his Aurora with Roman
Candle, which shows him firing roman candles at the Aurora
Borealis.At a time when we might consider cultural production as
being democratised through the Internet, Schmidt combines notions
of the heroic with the seemingly amateur by using visible reminders
of construction and theatrical devices-smoke machines, stage lights
and DIY photographic equipment. Through this he proposes a utopian
assertion of "the commons", where both land and culture are
publicly accessible to all.Presented in partnership with Kamloops
Art Gallery and Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, this
publication features essays by Charo Neville, Kathleen Ritter and
an artist interview with Nigel Prince. The book charts Schmidt's
ongoing body of work addressing the tensions between man and
nature, performance and document and indoors and outdoors. These
propositions are tackled through references to landscape, the
invocation of the sublime at the point of apprehending such wild
beauty, and by juxtaposing seemingly disparate elements within
these environments. Works are often situated in remote locations,
where Schmidt stages remarkable events that transfer elements of
urban culture into untouched natural contexts. In this way, he
simultaneously examines both the seductive elements of contemporary
cultural production and the constructions that surround the idea of
nature.
Health systems worldwide are grappling with the challenge of
coordinating difference in an increasingly complex care
environment. In response this book features the latest research on
organizational studies in healthcare and explores the relationship
between strategic and organic change and what this means for the
way we organize health work. Focusing on the complexity of
healthcare environments, it discusses the need to cross
professional and organizational boundaries. Specifically, this book
focuses on the implications for health systems in the way that they
continue to balance planning and intervention with organic learning
systems. Comprising the best contributions from the 2018 Conference
on Organizational Behaviour in Health Care (OBHC), this book is an
important resource for healthcare researchers, as well as
policy-makers and managers within the industry. Contributors
explore the extent to which healthcare is codified through
empirical analysis of practical interventions and conceptual
debate.
Health systems worldwide are grappling with the challenge of
coordinating difference in an increasingly complex care
environment. In response this book features the latest research on
organizational studies in healthcare and explores the relationship
between strategic and organic change and what this means for the
way we organize health work. Focusing on the complexity of
healthcare environments, it discusses the need to cross
professional and organizational boundaries. Specifically, this book
focuses on the implications for health systems in the way that they
continue to balance planning and intervention with organic learning
systems. Comprising the best contributions from the 2018 Conference
on Organizational Behaviour in Health Care (OBHC), this book is an
important resource for healthcare researchers, as well as
policy-makers and managers within the industry. Contributors
explore the extent to which healthcare is codified through
empirical analysis of practical interventions and conceptual
debate.
In view of the wide range of disciplines involved in Quaternary
research, this book offers a one-stop resource for the Quaternary
research community, since it reviews the latest techniques and
provides an approach to how mollusk shell remains are used in the
reconstruction of marine environments in southern South America.
Written by specialists in the field, this monograph sets the scene
for multidisciplinary research involving taphonomy, paleoecology,
paleobiography, morphometry, shell mineralogy analysis and
sclerochronology performed on mollusk assemblages and/or selected
taxa, and offers a consistent picture of spatial and temporal
environmental and climatic changes.
The eleventh-century masterpiece "The Tale of Genji" casts a long
shadow across the literary terrain of the Heian period (794-1185).
It has dominated critical and popular reception of Heian literary
production and become the definitive expression of the aesthetics,
poetics, and politics of life in the Heian court.
But the brilliance of "Genji" has eclipsed the works of later
Heian authors, who have since been displaced from the canon and
relegated to critical obscurity.
Charo B. D'Etcheverry calls for a reevaluation of late Heian
fiction by shedding new light upon this undervalued body of work.
D'Etcheverry examines three representative texts--"The Tale of
Sagoromo," "The Tale of the Hamamatsu Middle Counselor," and
"Nezame at Night"--as legitimate heirs to the literary legacy of
"Genji" and as valuable indexes to the literary tastes and readerly
expectations that evolved over the Heian period.
Balancing careful analyses of plot, character, and motif with
keen insights into the cultural and political milieu of the late
Heian period, D'Etcheverry argues that we should read such works
not as mere derivatives of a canonical text, but as dynamic
fictional commentaries and variations upon the tropes and subplots
that continue to resonate with readers of "Genji,"
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