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Animated adventure from popular director Tim Burton. Set in a 19th
century European village, the film follows the story of Victor
(voiced by Johnny Depp), a young man who is whisked away to the
underworld and wed to a mysterious Corpse Bride (Helena Bonham
Carter), while his real bride, Victoria (Emily Watson), waits
bereft in the land of the living.
Though life in the Land of the
Dead proves to be a lot more colourful than his strict Victorian
upbringing, Victor learns that there is nothing in this world, or
the next, that can keep him away from his one true love.
The rapid pace and increasing convergence of internet, phone and
other communications technologies has created extraordinary
opportunities for business but the complexity of these new service
mixes creates parallel opportunities for fraud and revenue leakage.
Companies seeking to use communications technology as a delivery or
payment platform for digital services are particularly at risk.
They need to understand both their strategic and operational risks
as well as those affecting their stakeholders - partners and
customers. Effective risk management is as much about awareness,
culture, training and organization as it is about technology. Mark
Johnson's practical guide, Demystifying Communications Risk,
highlights cases from a wide range of geographies and cultures and
is designed to raise awareness of the multi-faceted and often
complex forms that operational revenue risks take in the
communications sector. It provides managers with an understanding
of the nature and implications of the risks they face and the
human, organizational and technological approaches that can help
avoid or mitigate them.
The power of embodied ritual performance to constitute agency and
transform subjectivity are increasingly the focus of major debates
in the anthropology of Christianity and Islam. They are
particularly relevant to understanding the way transnational women
migrants from South and South East Asia, Christians, Muslims and
Buddhists, who migrate to Asia, Europe and the Middle East to work
as carers and maids, re-imagine and recreate themselves in moral
and ethical terms in the diaspora. This timely collection shows how
women international migrants, stereotypically represented as a
nation of servants', reclaim sacralised spaces of sociality in
their migration destinations, and actively transform themselves
from mere workers into pilgrims and tourists on cosmopolitan
journeys. Such women struggle for dignity and respect by
re-defining themselves in terms of an ethics of care and sacrifice.
As co-worshippers they recreate community through fiestas, feasts,
protests, and shared conviviality, while subverting established
normativities of gender, marriage and conjugality; they renegotiate
their moral selfhood through religious conversion and activism. For
migrants the place of the church or mosque becomes a gateway to new
intellectual and experiential horizons as well as a locus for
religious worship and a haven of humanitarian assistance in a
strange land. This book was published as a special issue of the
Asia-Pacific Journal of Anthropology.
This book sets out a theoretical framework for thinking about
equality as a cultural artefact and process, drawing on work from
the GRACE (Gender and Cultures of Equality in Europe) project. In
revisiting and reframing conventional questions about in/equality
it considers the processes through which in/equalities have come to
be regarded as issues of public concern, the various ways that
equalities have been historically defined, and how those ideas and
imaginings of equalities are produced, embodied, objectified,
recognized and contested in and through a variety of cultural
practices and sites. Bringing together an international and
interdisciplinary group of contributors, the book will be of
interest to scholars from across the humanities and social
sciences, including anthropology, sociology, and women's and gender
studies.
Seditious Theology explores the much analysed British punk movement
of the 1970s from a theological perspective. Imaginatively engaging
with subjects such as subversion, deconstruction, confrontation and
sedition, this book highlights the stark contrasts between the punk
genre and the ministry of Jesus while revealing surprising
similarities and, in so doing, demonstrates how we may look at both
subjects in fresh and unusual ways. Johnson looks at both punk and
Jesus and their challenges to symbols, gestures of revolt,
constructive use of conflict and the shattering of relational
norms. He then points to the seditious pattern in Jesus' life and
the way it can be discerned in some recent trends in theology. The
imaginative images that he creates provide a challenging image of
Jesus and of those who have relooked radically in recent years at
what being a 'seditious' follower of Christ means for the church.
Introducing both a new partner for theological conversation and a
fresh way of how to go about the task, this book presents a
powerful approach to exploring the life of Christ and a new way of
engaging with both recent theological trends and the more
challenging expressions of popular culture.
The power of embodied ritual performance to constitute agency and
transform subjectivity are increasingly the focus of major debates
in the anthropology of Christianity and Islam. They are
particularly relevant to understanding the way transnational women
migrants from South and South East Asia, Christians, Muslims and
Buddhists, who migrate to Asia, Europe and the Middle East to work
as carers and maids, re-imagine and recreate themselves in moral
and ethical terms in the diaspora. This timely collection shows how
women international migrants, stereotypically represented as a
'nation of servants', reclaim sacralised spaces of sociality in
their migration destinations, and actively transform themselves
from mere workers into pilgrims and tourists on cosmopolitan
journeys. Such women struggle for dignity and respect by
re-defining themselves in terms of an ethics of care and sacrifice.
As co-worshippers they recreate community through fiestas, feasts,
protests, and shared conviviality, while subverting established
normativities of gender, marriage and conjugality; they renegotiate
their moral selfhood through religious conversion and activism. For
migrants the place of the church or mosque becomes a gateway to new
intellectual and experiential horizons as well as a locus for
religious worship and a haven of humanitarian assistance in a
strange land. This book was published as a special issue of the
Asia-Pacific Journal of Anthropology.
Seditious Theology explores the much analysed British punk movement
of the 1970s from a theological perspective. Imaginatively engaging
with subjects such as subversion, deconstruction, confrontation and
sedition, this book highlights the stark contrasts between the punk
genre and the ministry of Jesus while revealing surprising
similarities and, in so doing, demonstrates how we may look at both
subjects in fresh and unusual ways. Johnson looks at both punk and
Jesus and their challenges to symbols, gestures of revolt,
constructive use of conflict and the shattering of relational
norms. He then points to the seditious pattern in Jesus' life and
the way it can be discerned in some recent trends in theology. The
imaginative images that he creates provide a challenging image of
Jesus and of those who have relooked radically in recent years at
what being a 'seditious' follower of Christ means for the church.
Introducing both a new partner for theological conversation and a
fresh way of how to go about the task, this book presents a
powerful approach to exploring the life of Christ and a new way of
engaging with both recent theological trends and the more
challenging expressions of popular culture.
During the last 15 years, cognitive scientists have discovered
things about the nature and importance of metaphor that are
startling because of their radical implications for metaphor
research and because they require us to rethink some of our most
fundamental received notions of meaning, concepts, and reason. Many
of the theoretical assumptions that guided earlier generations who
worked on metaphor have been undermined by this new research, which
has profound implications for philosophy.
More specifically, the level of methodological sophistication of
empirical studies of metaphor has increased markedly, making
possible rigorous, detailed analyses of how metaphors actually
structure conceptualization and reasoning. In addition,
professionals have learned that metaphor is not merely a linguistic
phenomenon but more fundamentally a conceptual and experiential
process that structures the world. The articles in this special
issue make significant contributions to these advances.
The rapid pace and increasing convergence of internet, phone and
other communications technologies has created extraordinary
opportunities for business but the complexity of these new service
mixes creates parallel opportunities for fraud and revenue leakage.
Companies seeking to use communications technology as a delivery or
payment platform for digital services are particularly at risk.
They need to understand both their strategic and operational risks
as well as those affecting their stakeholders - partners and
customers. Effective risk management is as much about awareness,
culture, training and organization as it is about technology. Mark
Johnson's practical guide, Demystifying Communications Risk,
highlights cases from a wide range of geographies and cultures and
is designed to raise awareness of the multi-faceted and often
complex forms that operational revenue risks take in the
communications sector. It provides managers with an understanding
of the nature and implications of the risks they face and the
human, organizational and technological approaches that can help
avoid or mitigate them.
How does one deal with a moving control volume? What is the best
way to make a complex biological transport problem tractable? Which
principles need to be applied to solve a given problem? How do you
know if your answer makes sense? This unique resource provides over
two hundred well-tested biomedical engineering problems that can be
used as classroom and homework assignments, quiz material and exam
questions. Questions are drawn from a range of topics, covering
fluid mechanics, mass transfer and heat transfer applications.
Driven by the philosophy that mastery of biotransport is learned by
practice, these problems aid students in developing the key skills
of determining which principles to apply and how to apply them.
Each chapter starts with basic problems and progresses to more
difficult questions. Lists of material properties, governing
equations and charts provided in the appendices make this a fully
self-contained work. Solutions are provided online for instructors.
Silicon carbide (SiC) is a robust semiconductor material being
actively developed for high-power and high-temperature
applications, especially in the field of power electronics and
sensors for harsh environments. This book, the fifth in a
continuing series, focuses on SiC growth, defects, and devices. New
developments in the growth of bulk SiC single-crystal materials,
advances in the epitaxial growth of SiC, and progress in the
characterization of materials properties and defects in SiC are
featured. The volume also highlights the development of devices
manufactured on this wide-bandgap semiconductor including:
innovative device designs; characterization of device and materials
properties; and improvements in wide-bandgap processing technology.
Today's digital economy is uniquely dependent on the Internet, yet
few users or decision makers have more than a rudimentary
understanding of the myriad of online risks that threaten us. Cyber
crime is one of the main threats to the integrity and availability
of data and systems. From insiders to complex external attacks and
industrial worms, modern business faces unprecedented challenges;
and while cyber security and digital intelligence are the necessary
responses to this challenge, they are understood by only a tiny
minority. In his second book on high-tech risks, Mark Johnson goes
far beyond enumerating past cases and summarising legal or
regulatory requirements. He describes in plain, non-technical
language how cyber crime has evolved and the nature of the very
latest threats. He confronts issues that are not addressed by
codified rules and practice guidelines, supporting this with over
30 valuable illustrations and tables. Written for the non-technical
layman and the high tech risk manager alike, the book also explores
countermeasures, penetration testing, best practice principles,
cyber conflict and future challenges. A discussion of Web 2.0 risks
delves into the very real questions facing policy makers, along
with the pros and cons of open source data. In a chapter on Digital
Intelligence readers are provided with an exhaustive guide to
practical, effective and ethical online investigations. Cyber
Crime, Security and Digital Intelligence is an important work of
great relevance in today's interconnected world and one that nobody
with an interest in either risk or technology should be without.
This compelling study of gender and sexual diversity in the
Southern Philippines addresses general questions about the
relationship between the making of gender and sexualities, the
politics of national and ethnic identities and processes of
cultural transformation in a world of contract labourers and
transnational consumers. The book focuses, in particular, on the
meaning and experience of local 'gays' --
transvestite/transgender-homosexual men -- who are at once
celebrated as purveyors of beauty (defined in terms of a global
American otherness) and valorized as impotent men and defiled
women. In short, America functions both as a sign of their abjected
status and as a space for imagining and reformulating various
gendered identities.
This innovative work -- one of the first ethnographic studies to be
published in the aftermath of the region's civil unrest -- will be
of interest to anyone working on gender, the body and sexuality.
Not only does it extend the boundaries of cross-cultural studies of
non-mainstream genders and sexualities by directly engaging the
entanglement of local sensibilities with global images and
discourse, but it also demonstrates that there is nothing ambiguous
about ambiguity -- gendered, sexual or otherwise. Rather, this
ambiguity is the specific product of different historical relations
of power through which various cultural subjects are created and
re-create themselves.
This compelling study of gender and sexual diversity in the
Southern Philippines addresses general questions about the
relationship between the making of gender and sexualities, the
politics of national and ethnic identities and processes of
cultural transformation in a world of contract labourers and
transnational consumers. The book focuses, in particular, on the
meaning and experience of local 'gays' --
transvestite/transgender-homosexual men -- who are at once
celebrated as purveyors of beauty (defined in terms of a global
American otherness) and valorized as impotent men and defiled
women. In short, America functions both as a sign of their abjected
status and as a space for imagining and reformulating various
gendered identities.This innovative work -- one of the first
ethnographic studies to be published in the aftermath of the
region's civil unrest -- will be of interest to anyone working on
gender, the body and sexuality. Not only does it extend the
boundaries of cross-cultural studies of non-mainstream genders and
sexualities by directly engaging the entanglement of local
sensibilities with global images and discourse, but it also
demonstrates that there is nothing ambiguous about ambiguity --
gendered, sexual or otherwise. Rather, this ambiguity is the
specific product of different historical relations of power through
which various cultural subjects are created and re-create
themselves.
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Corpse Bride (Blu-ray disc)
Joanna Lumley, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Tracey Ullman, …
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R116
Discovery Miles 1 160
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Out of stock
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Animated adventure from popular director Tim Burton. Set in a 19th
century European village, the film follows the story of Victor
(voiced by Johnny Depp), a young man who is whisked away to the
underworld and wed to a mysterious Corpse Bride (Helena Bonham
Carter), while his real bride, Victoria (Emily Watson), waits
bereft in the land of the living. Though life in the Land of the
Dead proves to be a lot more colourful than his strict Victorian
upbringing, Victor learns that there is nothing in this world, or
the next, that can keep him away from his one true love.
What is the difference between right and wrong? This is no easy
question to answer, yet we constantly try to make it so, frequently
appealing to some hidden cache of cut-and-dried absolutes, whether
drawn from God, universal reason, or societal authority. Combining
cognitive science with a pragmatist philosophical framework in
Morality for Humans: Ethical Understanding from the Perspective of
Cognitive Science, Mark Johnson argues that appealing solely to
absolute principles and values is not only scientifically unsound
but even morally suspect. He shows that the standards for the kinds
of people we should be and how we should treat one another-which we
often think of as universal-are in fact frequently subject to
change. And we should be okay with that. Taking context into
consideration, he offers a remarkably nuanced, naturalistic view of
ethics that sees us creatively adapt our standards according to
given needs, emerging problems, and social interactions. Ethical
naturalism is not just a revamped form of relativism. Indeed,
Johnson attempts to overcome the absolutist-versus-relativist
impasse that has been one of the most intractable problems in the
history of philosophy. He does so through a careful and inclusive
look at the many ways we reason about right and wrong. Much of our
moral thought, he shows, is automatic and intuitive, gut feelings
that we follow up and attempt to justify with rational analysis and
argument. However, good moral deliberation is not limited merely to
intuitive judgments supported after the fact by reasoning. Johnson
points out a crucial third element: we imagine how our decisions
will play out, how we or the world would change with each action we
might take. Plumbing this imaginative dimension of moral reasoning,
he provides a psychologically sophisticated view of moral problem
solving, one perfectly suited for the embodied, culturally
embedded, and ever-developing human creatures that we are.
Today's digital economy is uniquely dependent on the Internet, yet
few users or decision makers have more than a rudimentary
understanding of the myriad of online risks that threaten us. Cyber
crime is one of the main threats to the integrity and availability
of data and systems. From insiders to complex external attacks and
industrial worms, modern business faces unprecedented challenges;
and while cyber security and digital intelligence are the necessary
responses to this challenge, they are understood by only a tiny
minority. In his second book on high-tech risks, Mark Johnson goes
far beyond enumerating past cases and summarising legal or
regulatory requirements. He describes in plain, non-technical
language how cyber crime has evolved and the nature of the very
latest threats. He confronts issues that are not addressed by
codified rules and practice guidelines, supporting this with over
30 valuable illustrations and tables. Written for the non-technical
layman and the high tech risk manager alike, the book also explores
countermeasures, penetration testing, best practice principles,
cyber conflict and future challenges. A discussion of Web 2.0 risks
delves into the very real questions facing policy makers, along
with the pros and cons of open source data. In a chapter on Digital
Intelligence readers are provided with an exhaustive guide to
practical, effective and ethical online investigations. Cyber
Crime, Security and Digital Intelligence is an important work of
great relevance in today's interconnected world and one that nobody
with an interest in either risk or technology should be without.
This book sets out a theoretical framework for thinking about
equality as a cultural artefact and process, drawing on work from
the GRACE (Gender and Cultures of Equality in Europe) project. In
revisiting and reframing conventional questions about in/equality
it considers the processes through which in/equalities have come to
be regarded as issues of public concern, the various ways that
equalities have been historically defined, and how those ideas and
imaginings of equalities are produced, embodied, objectified,
recognized and contested in and through a variety of cultural
practices and sites. Bringing together an international and
interdisciplinary group of contributors, the book will be of
interest to scholars from across the humanities and social
sciences, including anthropology, sociology, and women's and gender
studies.
Using path-breaking discoveries of cognitive science, Mark Johnson
argues that humans are fundamentally imaginative moral animals,
challenging the view that morality is simply a system of universal
laws dictated by reason. According to the Western moral tradition,
we make ethical decisions by applying universal laws to concrete
situations. But Johnson shows how research in cognitive science
undermines this view and reveals that imagination has an essential
role in ethical deliberation.
Expanding his innovative studies of human reason in "Metaphors We
Live By" and "The Body in the Mind, " Johnson provides the tools
for more practical, realistic, and constructive moral reflection.
All too often, we think of our minds and bodies separately. The
reality couldn't be more different: the fundamental fact about our
mind is that it is embodied. We have a deep visceral, emotional,
and qualitative relationship to the world--and any scientifically
and philosophically satisfactory view of the mind must take into
account the ways that cognition, meaning, language, action, and
values are grounded in and shaped by that embodiment. This book
gathers the best of philosopher Mark Johnson's essays addressing
questions of our embodiment as they deal with aesthetics--which, he
argues, we need to rethink so that it takes into account the
central role of body-based meaning. Viewed that way, the arts can
give us profound insights into the processes of meaning making that
underlie our conceptual systems and cultural practices. Johnson
shows how our embodiment shapes our philosophy, science, morality,
and art; what emerges is a view of humans as aesthetic,
meaning-making creatures who draw on their deepest physical
processes to make sense of the world around them.
The world is attempting to redefine Marriage and a relationship
with God in accord with ever-shifting cultural views. In sharp
contrast, God has had a specific plan for these two relationships
in place from the beginning. Both are termed Covenant
Relationships. There is little current teaching in the Christian
community about the structure, function, and purposes-or even the
definition-of these relationships. Volume One of this three book
series begins in by introducing the defining characteristic of
Covenant relationships, drawn from the scholarly research of H.
Clay Trumbull (The Blood Covenant, 1885)-the exchange and merger of
identities and natures. This underlying reality is termed a
"one-flesh" relationship in Marriage, and is described as a "new
birth" producing a "new creation" in a New Covenant relationship
with God. The implications of this underlying reality define the
opportunities inherent in these relationships, as well as the
duties, obligations, and responsibilities we must fulfill to
properly build these relationships. God's detailed and specific
plan, which flows logically from the reality of these
relationships, produces growing love over a lifetime, as well as
the growth and transformation required in individuals to build both
relationships to their potential.
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