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Down in the Valley (DVD)
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Drama starring Edward Norton. Tobe (Evan Rachel Wood) is a pretty
18-year-old whose father, Wade (David Morse), is the sheriff of a
town in California's San Fernando Valley. Tobe is driving to the
beach with some friends when she stops at a filling station and
meets gas jockey Harlan (Norton), who dresses like a cowpoke and
claims to have recently relocated to Los Angeles from South Dakota.
Harlan is immediately and obviously taken with Tobe, and when she
asks him to tag along for the day, he impulsively quits his job to
follow her. Tobe and Harlan soon become a couple, but Wade is
convinced Harlan is not all he claims to be.
This important book is about the origins and diffusion of
innovation, in theory and in practice. The practice draws on a
variety of industries, from electronics to eyewear, from furniture
to mechatronics, in a range of economies including Europe, the USA
and China. The eminent contributors investigate how the latest
technologies diffuse through the economy, helping to reinvigorate
seemingly old and stagnant industries in the process. Examples
drawn from Asia and Europe show how countries like China and India
are increasingly able to catchup with, or even surpass,
industrialized nations in Europe and North America, in some cases
by becoming technological pioneers. The book also examines the
effects of new information and communications technologies on
regional economies, especially in Western Europe. The themes and
findings are summarized and evaluated in an extensive introductory
chapter. Scholars of innovation from a variety of disciplines,
including management, economics, and human resources will find this
study insightful. Postgraduate students in industrial studies,
industrial dynamics and industrial development, including both
advanced and industrialising countries, will also find much of
interest to them in this timely book.
Agrippa II is the first comprehensive biography of the last
descendant of Herod the Great to rule as a client king of Rome.
Agrippa was the last king to assume responsibility for the
management of the Temple in Jerusalem, and he ultimately saw its
destruction in the Judaean-Roman War. This study documents his life
from a childhood spent at the Imperial court in Rome and rise to
the position of client king of Rome under Claudius and Nero. It
examines his role in the War during which he sided with Rome, and
offers fresh insights into his failure to intervene to prevent the
destruction of Jerusalem and its Sanctuary, as well as reviewing
Agrippa's encounter with nascent Christianity through his famous
interview with the Apostle Paul. Also addressed is the vexed
question of the obscurity into which Agrippa II has fallen, in
sharp contrast with his sister Berenice, whose intimate
relationship with Titus, the heir to the Roman throne, has fired
the imagination of writers through the ages. This study also
includes appendices surveying the coins issued in the name of
Agrippa II and the inscriptions from his reign. This volume will
appeal to anyone studying Judaean-Roman relations and the
Judaean-Roman War, as well as those working more broadly on Roman
client kingship, and Rome's eastern provinces. It covers topics
that continue to attract general interest as well as stirring
current scholarly debate. Maps 1 and 2 available in colour at
www.routledge.com/9781138331815
Furnishing essential data on all areas of toxicity testing, this
Second Edition provides guidance on the design and evaluation of
product safety studies to help ensure regulatory acceptance. Every
chapter highlights regulatory requirements specific to the United
States, Europe, and Japan, and in addition to expanded information
on data interpretation, hazard assessment, carcinogenicity studies,
and Good Laboratory Practices, new chapters regarding safety
pharmacology, juvenile studies, the health safety assessment of
pharmaceuticals, and health assessment strategies in the food and
cosmetic industry have been added to reflect changes to regulatory
requirements. Toxicological Testing Handbook, Second Edition is a
must-have reference for individuals responsible for assuring the
safety of new pharmaceutical, biotechnical, and chemical products
and materials.
This volume explores key states and their changing conceptions of
the international order in the post-Cold War era. Taken
collectively, the contributors' analyses of the United States, the
Soviet Union and its successor states, Japan, the People's Republic
of China, the East Asian Little Dragons and Germany and the
European Community paint a detailed portrait of the emerging world
order. This multidisciplinary group of contributors utilizes a
diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches to confront
common themes and questions: How do states reorganize the world by
creating idioms and conceptions of international order? What is the
state's definition of its own role and the role of others? How has
the state's idiom and conception of the international order shifted
from the recent past? What role does the past play in approaches to
the world order-in terms of historical traditions, fears, and
memories? These questions are illuminated by considering such
crucial issues as the state's approach to international or
supranational institutions and legal codes, particularly in the
area of economy and international human rights, and the role of the
state vis-A -vis other states: Does the state have hegemonic
tendencies and an active role in maintaining international
stability? Does it stress independence or interdependence?
Isolationism or internationalism? These original essays suggest the
nascent form the international order is taking in an otherwise
turbulent world. Understanding how states view the post-Cold War
arena is of paramount importance for comprehending the development
of the new world order. In addressing these issues, this volume not
only provides concrete, timely answers but offers a variety of
theoretical and methodological tools for scholars, policymakers,
and the informed public.
This volume explores key states and their changing conceptions of
the international order in the post-Cold War era. Taken
collectively, the contributors' analyses of the United States, the
Soviet Union and its successor states, Japan, the People's Republic
of China, the East Asian Little Dragons and Germany and the
European Community paint a detailed portrait of the emerging world
order. This multidisciplinary group of contributors utilizes a
diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches to confront
common themes and questions: How do states reorganize the world by
creating idioms and conceptions of international order? What is the
state's definition of its own role and the role of others? How has
the state's idiom and conception of the international order shifted
from the recent past? What role does the past play in approaches to
the world order-in terms of historical traditions, fears, and
memories? These questions are illuminated by considering such
crucial issues as the state's approach to international or
supranational institutions and legal codes, particularly in the
area of economy and international human rights, and the role of the
state vis-A -vis other states: Does the state have hegemonic
tendencies and an active role in maintaining international
stability? Does it stress independence or interdependence?
Isolationism or internationalism? These original essays suggest the
nascent form the international order is taking in an otherwise
turbulent world. Understanding how states view the post-Cold War
arena is of paramount importance for comprehending the development
of the new world order. In addressing these issues, this volume not
only provides concrete, timely answers but offers a variety of
theoretical and methodological tools for scholars, policymakers,
and the informed public.
Furnishing essential data on all areas of toxicity testing, this
"Second Edition" provides guidance on the design and evaluation of
product safety studies to help ensure regulatory acceptance. Every
chapter highlights regulatory requirements specific to the United
States, Europe, and Japan, and in addition to expanded information
on data interpretation, hazard assessment, carcinogenicity studies,
and Good Laboratory Practices, new chapters regarding safety
pharmacology, juvenile studies, the health safety assessment of
pharmaceuticals, and health assessment strategies in the food and
cosmetic industry have been added to reflect changes to regulatory
requirements. "Toxicological Testing Handbook, Second Edition" is a
must-have reference for individuals responsible for assuring the
safety of new pharmaceutical, biotechnical, and chemical products
and materials.
It is a general understanding that the advanced economies are
currently undergoing a fundamental transformation into
knowledge-based societies. There is a firm belief that this is
based on the development of high-tech industries. Correspondingly,
in this scenario low-tech sectors appear to be less important. A
critique of this widely held belief is the starting point of this
book. It is often overlooked that many of the current innovation
activities are linked to developments inside the realm of low-tech.
Thus the general objective of the book is to contribute to a
discussion concerning the relevance of low-tech industries for
industrial innovativeness in the emerging knowledge economy.
Providing examples of both theoretical and empirical research in
this area, Innovation in Low-tech Firms and Industries will be of
great interest to postgraduate students and academic researchers in
innovation studies. It will also appeal to policy makers in the
field of innovation policy as well as industrial economists and
sociologists interested in traditional industries in advanced
economies.
Agrippa II is the first comprehensive biography of the last
descendant of Herod the Great to rule as a client king of Rome.
Agrippa was the last king to assume responsibility for the
management of the Temple in Jerusalem, and he ultimately saw its
destruction in the Judaean-Roman War. This study documents his life
from a childhood spent at the Imperial court in Rome and rise to
the position of client king of Rome under Claudius and Nero. It
examines his role in the War during which he sided with Rome, and
offers fresh insights into his failure to intervene to prevent the
destruction of Jerusalem and its Sanctuary, as well as reviewing
Agrippa's encounter with nascent Christianity through his famous
interview with the Apostle Paul. Also addressed is the vexed
question of the obscurity into which Agrippa II has fallen, in
sharp contrast with his sister Berenice, whose intimate
relationship with Titus, the heir to the Roman throne, has fired
the imagination of writers through the ages. This study also
includes appendices surveying the coins issued in the name of
Agrippa II and the inscriptions from his reign. This volume will
appeal to anyone studying Judaean-Roman relations and the
Judaean-Roman War, as well as those working more broadly on Roman
client kingship, and Rome's eastern provinces. It covers topics
that continue to attract general interest as well as stirring
current scholarly debate. Maps 1 and 2 available in colour at
www.routledge.com/9781138331815
Today's warfare has moved away from being an event between massed
national populations and toward small numbers of combatants using
high-tech weaponry. The editors of and contributors to the timely
collection Transformations of Warfare in the Contemporary World
show that this shift reflects changes in the technological,
strategic, ideological, and ethical realms. The essays in this
volume discuss: *the waning connection between citizenship and
soldiering; *the shift toward more reconstructive than destructive
activities by militaries; *the ethics of irregular or asymmetrical
warfare; *the role of novel techniques of identification in
military settings; *the stress on precision associated with
targeted killings and kidnappings; *the uses of the social sciences
in contemporary warfare. In his concluding remarks, David Jacobson
explores the extent to which the contemporary transformation of
warfare is a product of a shift in the character of the combatants
themselves. Contributors include: Ariel Colonomos, Roberto J.
Gonzalez, Travis R. Hall, Saskia Hooiveld, Rob Johnson, Colonel C.
Anthony Pfaff, Ian Roxborough, and the editors
This edited collection goes beyond the limited definition of
borders as simply dividing lines across states, to uncover another,
yet related, type of division: one that separates policies and
institutions from public debate and contestation. Bringing together
expertise from established and emerging academics, it examines the
fluid and varied borderscape across policy and the public domains.
The chapters encompass a wide range of analyses that covers local,
national and transnational frameworks, policies and private actors.
In doing so, Migration, Borders and Citizenship reveals the
tensions between border control and state economic interests; legal
frameworks designed to contain criminality and solidarity
movements; international conventions, national constitutions and
local migration governance; and democratic and exclusive
constructions of citizenship. This novel approach to the politics
of borders will appeal to sociologists, political scientists and
geographers working in the fields of migration, citizenship, urban
geography and human rights; in addition to students and scholars of
security studies and international relations.
This edited collection goes beyond the limited definition of
borders as simply dividing lines across states, to uncover another,
yet related, type of division: one that separates policies and
institutions from public debate and contestation. Bringing together
expertise from established and emerging academics, it examines the
fluid and varied borderscape across policy and the public domains.
The chapters encompass a wide range of analyses that covers local,
national and transnational frameworks, policies and private actors.
In doing so, Migration, Borders and Citizenship reveals the
tensions between border control and state economic interests; legal
frameworks designed to contain criminality and solidarity
movements; international conventions, national constitutions and
local migration governance; and democratic and exclusive
constructions of citizenship. This novel approach to the politics
of borders will appeal to sociologists, political scientists and
geographers working in the fields of migration, citizenship, urban
geography and human rights; in addition to students and scholars of
security studies and international relations.
The Holy Land has been an enduring magnet for visitors seeking to
retrace the footsteps of biblical prophets, kings and saints and to
glimpse the setting of events recorded in the Scriptures. This book
offers a selection of over 350 early photographs, paintings, and
drawings of the length and breadth of the Holy Land from the rich
repository of images in the archives of the Palestine Exploration
Fund. As these images were produced before modern development
impacted on these landscapes they are an invaluable resource. The
pictures are accompanied by 7 maps and plans showing the locations
depicted and a commentary describing the biblical context, informed
by up-to-date scholarship. The book is divided into five chapters;
an introduction which includes a brief account of pilgrimage to the
Holy Land through the ages, followed by a series of geographical
'tours' through Galilee, Samaria, and Judea and Philistia, before
culminating with a focus on the two main sites of interest for the
traveller: Bethlehem and Jerusalem. While often very beautiful in
their own right, the pictures also reflect the interest and
sensibilities of the photographers and those who collected them,
and capture the opposing undercurrents of scientific enquiry and
piety characteristic of 19th Century European society. In the case
of the photographers engaged by the PEF, a striving for objectivity
is strikingly evident in their work.
The NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) houses half a million
publications that are a valuable means of information to
researchers, teachers, students, and the general public. These
documents are all aerospace related with much scientific and
technical information created or funded by NASA. Some types of
documents include conference papers, research reports, meeting
papers, journal articles and more. This is one of those documents.
In Rights across Borders, political sociologist David Jacobson
argues that transnational migrations have affected ideas of
citizenship and the state since World War II. Jacobson shows how
citizenship has been increasingly devalued as governments extend
rights to foreign populations and how, in turn, international human
rights law has overshadowed traditional definitions of sovereignty.
Examining illegal immigration in the United States and migrant and
foreign populations in Western Europe, with a special focus on
Germany and France, Jacobson shows how the differing political
cultures of these countries-the ethnic basis of citizenship in
Germany versus its political basis in the United States, for
instance-have shaped both domestic and international politics.
"This short but well-written book addresses a neglected aspect of
the contemporary decline of the nation-state. It studies in depth
the criteria by which France, Germany, and the United States
distinguish between citizen and alien, from the
political-territorial definition of the French to the
ethno-cultural one of the Germans."-Francis Fukuyama, Foreign
Affairs "Jacobson challenges scholars to rethink their views of the
state. Current theories of political sociology and international
relations are rooted in conceptions that, he feels, are losing
their relevance and bite ...A thought-provoking book."-Lawrence M.
Friedman, Law and Politics Book Review "Few people discussing
national and cultural identity or citizenship have looked at the
legal ramifications of immigration. David Jacobson fills this gap
in his important book."-Jeff Spinner-Halev, American Political
Science Review "A compelling explanation of the intersection
between transnational migration and human rights norms. It will be
of interest to scholars of both international migration and human
rights as well as a general reading audience interested in
questions regarding immigration and citizenship"-Debra DeLaet,
Perspectives on Political Science
Roberto Longhi (1890 - 1970) is regarded by Italians as their most
important art critic, art historian, and prose stylist of this
century, with unsurpassed powers of observation and description.
This book is a new English version of the third edition (1963) of
Longhi's seminal work on the Renaissance painter Piero della
Francesca, with an introduction by Metropolitan Museum of Art
curator Keith Christiansen. In the New York Review of Books,
Francis Haskell wrote, Roberto Longhi is "the most brilliant
Italian art historian of our century and a stylist of intoxicating
powers . . . few of his very idiosyncratic works have been
translated into English; but thanks to the enterprise of the Sheep
Meadow Press, this situation is at last being remedied."
First published in 1897, "The Year 3000" is the most daring and
original work of fiction by the prominent Italian anthropologist
Paolo Mantegazza. A futuristic utopian novel, the book follows two
young lovers who, as they travel from Rome to the capital of the
United Planetary States to celebrate their "mating union,"
encounter the marvels of cultural and scientific advances along the
way. Intriguing in itself, "The Year 3000" is also remarkable for
both its vision of the future (predicting an astonishing array of
phenomena from airplanes, artificial intelligence, CAT scans, and
credit cards to controversies surrounding divorce, abortion, and
euthanasia) and the window it opens on fin de siecle Europe.
Published here for the first time in English, this richly annotated
edition features an invaluable introductory essay that interprets
the intertextual and intercultural connections within and beyond
Mantegazza's work. For its critical contribution to early science
fiction and for its insights into the hopes, fears, and clash of
values in the Western world of both Mantegazza's time and our own,
this book belongs among the visionary giants of speculative
literature.
Women's bodies have become a battleground. Around the world,
people argue about veiling, schooling for Afghan girls, and
"SlutWalk" protests, all of which involve issues of women's
sexuality and freedom. Globalization, with its emphasis on human
rights and individuality, heats up these arguments. In " Of Virgins
and Martyrs," David Jacobson takes the reader on a fascinating tour
of how self-identity developed throughout history and what
individualism means for Muslim societies struggling to maintain a
sense of honor in a globalized twenty-first century.
Some patriarchal societies have come to see women's control of
their own sexuality as a threat to a way of life that goes back
thousands of years. Many trace their lineage to tribal cultures
that were organized around the idea that women's virginity
represents the honor of male relatives and the good of the
community at large. Anyone or anything that influences women to the
contrary is considered a corrupting and potentially calamitous
force.
Jacobson analyzes the connection between tribal patriarchy and
Muslim radicalism through an innovative tool--the tribal patriarchy
index. This index helps to illuminate why women's sexuality, dress,
and image so compel militant Muslim outrage and sometimes violent
action, revealing a deeper human story of how women's status
defines competing moral visions of society and why this present
clash is erupting with such ferocity.
Dialogues on Migration Policy brings together leading American and
European scholars of immigration politics to address migration
policy. Editors Marco Giugni and Florence Passy's aim to present a
number of informed "dialogues" addressing three main theoretical
concerns in this field: the role of the national state in a
globalizing world, the determinants of policy change, and the role
of collective interests in migration policy. Adopting an
unconventional format, the novelty of Dialogues on Migration Policy
lies in the fact that it is structured around a series of debates
among authors. In each debate, expert contributors working in
different theoretical traditions and with divergent views on the
subject matter confront each other followed by a commentary from a
leading scholar based on her/his reading of these authors' views.
These lively debates are certain to engage scholars of migration,
political science, and sociology.
Dialogues on Migration Policy brings together leading American and
European scholars of immigration politics to address migration
policy. Editors Marco Giugni and Florence Passy's aim to present a
number of informed 'dialogues' addressing three main theoretical
concerns in this field: the role of the national state in a
globalizing world, the determinants of policy change, and the role
of collective interests in migration policy. Adopting an
unconventional format, the novelty of Dialogues on Migration Policy
lies in the fact that it is structured around a series of debates
among authors. In each debate, expert contributors working in
different theoretical traditions and with divergent views on the
subject matter confront each other followed by a commentary from a
leading scholar based on her/his reading of these authors' views.
These lively debates are certain to engage scholars of migration,
political science, and sociology.
Following periods of intense debate and eventual demise, kinship
studies is now seeing a revival in anthropology. New Directions in
Anthropological Kinship captures these recent trends and explores
new avenues of inquiry in this re-emerging subfield. The book
comprises contributions from primatology, evolutionary
anthropology, archaeology, and cultural anthropology. The authors
review the history of kinship in anthropology and its theory, and
recent research in relation to new directions of anthropological
study. Moving beyond the contentious debates of the past, the book
covers feminist anthropology on kinship, the expansion of kinship
into the areas of new reproductive technologies, recent kinship
constructions in EuroAmerican societies, and the role of kinship in
state politics.
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