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For those who want to develop a deeper, more joyful inner life through the practice of Christian spiritual disciplines, this one-year journal-workbook helps readers find new ways to reflect on, experience, and integrate the disciplines into their lives.
This review considers the most significant and contemporary
literary contributions to the field of the economics of housing. It
discusses articles that cover the housing markets demand and supply
whilst considering these factors interactions on real estate
valuations, home ownership and wealth decisions. Literature
focusing on the interfaces that occur from the dynamics of
neighbourhoods and housing prices is analysed and the review delves
into how housing markets and their modelling have attracted
particular policy interest, such as rent control. Recent analyses
of housing markets through a lens that emphasizes the importance of
frictions, namely the Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides (DMP) model is
also extended upon. This review promises to be an informative read
to scholars and academics who are immersed in this fascinating
topic.
This book examines how the United States adopted and contributed to
the practices of international society - the habits and practices
states use to regulate their relations—during the nineteenth
century. Expert contributors consider America’s ‘entry’ into
international society and how independence forced it to enter into
diplomatic relations with European states and start a permanent
engagement with a society of states. Individual chapters focus on
US perceptions of the international order and its place within it,
the US position on international issues of that period, and how
America’s perceptions and positions affected or were affected by
the habits, practices and institutions of international society.
This volume will serve as an invaluable text for undergraduate
courses focusing on international relations theory and U.S. foreign
policy. It will also appeal to established scholars in
international relations, diplomacy, and international history, and
historical sociology.
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Yannis Ritsos; As told to Chiara Ambrosio; Foreword by David Harsent; Afterword by Gareth Evans
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Examining how the discourses of youth, race, poverty and identity
take shape when Push is adapted to the big screen, this book brings
together valuable research to delve into representations of
African-American girlhood. The book draws attention to how Black
girlhood takes shape in the film under the dominant White
discourses that racialise non-White bodies, and examines how these
discourses inform a critical reception of the film and Precious, as
a Black girl. Through a consideration of Black culture and
heritage, it questions what narratives of girlhood, growth and
development are afforded to the main character, in a film that is
informed by neoliberal and colour-blind discourses. Highlighting
the social context in which Precious was received, the book draws
attention to how a discussion of Precious in the critical press
gives insight into the racial politics that were dominant at the
time of the film’s release. It considers whether race impacts how
the film engages with, reflects and moves beyond conventions within
the genre of youth film. Concise and engaging, this vital book
sheds light on underrepresented areas of film studies that make it
an invaluable resource for students and scholars of film, race and
youth cultures.
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Jess Chandler; Contributions by ajw, Sascha Akhtar, Chiara Ambrosio, Charlie Baylis, Jack Barker-Clark, Natalie Linh Bolderston, Jo Burns, Nancy Campbell, J. R. Carpenter, Joe Carrick-Varty, Robert Casselton Clark, Rory Cook, Emily Cooper, Kate Crowcroft, Eve Esfandiari-Denney, Alisha Dietzman, Edward Doegar, Nathan Dragon, Laura Elliott, Alan Fielden, Clare Fisher, Livia Franchini, Jay Gao, Honor Gareth Gavin, Emily Hasler, Grace Henes, Martha Kapos, Annie Katchinska, Victoria Manifold, Samra Mayanja, Jessa Mockridge, Helen Palmer, Yannis Ritsos (trans. Paul Merchant), Rochelle Roberts, Kimberly Reyes, fred spoliar, Scott Thurston, Hao Guang Tse, Ralf Webb, Sam Weselowski, Chrissy Williams and Xuela Zhang
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This edited collection is the first book to offer a wide-ranging
examination of the interface between American independent film and
a converged television landscape that consists of terrestrial
broadcasters, cable networks and streaming providers, in which
independent film and television intersect in complex, multifaceted
and creative ways. The book covers the long history of continuities
and connections between the two sectors, as seen in the activities
of PBS, HBO or Sundance. It considers the movement of filmmakers
between indie film and TV such as Steven Soderberg, Rian Johnson,
the Duplass brothers, Joe Swanberg, Lynn Shelton and Gregg Araki;
details the confluence of aesthetic and thematic elements seen in
shows such as Girls, Breaking Bad, Master of None, or Glow; points
to a shared interest in regional sensibilities evident in shows
like One Mississippi or Fargo; and makes the case for documentaries
and web series as significant entities in this domain.
Collectively, the book builds a compelling picture of indie TV as a
significant feature of US screen entertainment in the twenty-first
century. This interdisciplinary landmark volume will be a go-to
reference for students and scholars of Television Studies, Film
Studies and Media Studies.
This book aims to provide the reader with an insight into the
relevance of a section of the economy, which is often referred to
as the 'social and solidarity economy' (SSE); and highlight some of
the current issues in the field, how they are being addressed and
some of their future implications. Using case studies from around
the world, this book 'Social and Solidarity Economy: The World's
Economy With a Social Face' provides an up-to-date account of the
strengths and weaknesses of these initiatives across four
continents including issues that have not been researched
sufficiently before (e.g. circular economy, social propaganda and
its dangers, social enterprise as a panacea for NGOs in developing
countries, and 'new' social movements). There is growing interest
in SSE initiatives among policymakers, foundations, researchers and
academic institutions around the world. Despite this interest, SSE
related research remains scarce. There are concerned that SSE
initiatives, which contribute significantly to their local
communities' development, need to be more widely disseminated
amongst the general public. The Social and Solidarity Economy: The
World's Economy With a Social Face will help promote the
ground-breaking work being done by organisations and individuals
but which remain undocumented and help to raise awareness of such
initiatives as well as contribute to academia with a critical
approach to the sector covering issues that have not been covered
much before, such as the circular economy and the dangers of social
propaganda. Aimed at researchers, academics and policy makers in
the fields of Social Enterprise, CSR, Tourism, International
Economics as well as supporting disciplines 'Social and Solidarity
Economy: The World's Economy With a Social Face' looks to establish
and help define the field.
This book sets out to explain blockchain for the non-technical
expert, to decipher the dense technicalities that dominate the
field and to present the opportunities for busy professionals using
practical applications and case studies. Presented in a clear and
structured way and with documented real-world cases, the book is a
practical reference guide that can be used across different
industries. It offers both a constructive and critical review of
the pain points blockchain is facing today, illustrates the
pitfalls as well as the opportunities for business and describes
the steps towards overcoming them. It also aims to provide a unique
view of both the intersection and synergy of blockchain with other
emerging technologies and the wider digital ecosystem, as we see
increasingly that blockchain alone won't be able to deliver
business solutions. Most important, the book identifies trends and
a path for the future of blockchain and its impact on society as a
whole. The book is written for business audiences across all
sectors. It is not a technical guide to blockchain, but it enables
businesspeople to be better informed and prepared to plan ahead and
develop strategies using blockchain.
What makes East African middle and long distance runners the best
in the world? How should contemporary academia approach this
question? The success of East African distance runners has
generated a plethora of studies but much of the 'evidence'
presented to support hypotheses is anecdotal, arguments being led
by non-academics who use popular media as their medium rather than
relying on scientific publications. This has resulted in many
stereotypical arguments being advocated. Within the academic
community, research has also been restricted by its isolation
within either the natural science or social science communities.
East African Running: Towards a Cross Disciplinary Perspective,
presents a rare collaboration between researchers from the sports
sciences and social sciences to explore the questions raised by the
phenomena of East African success on the track. The text includes:
psycho-social and economic explanations physiological and genetic
explanations attempts to provide unified theories bringing together
ideas from natural and social sciences Includes contributions from
John Bale, Jim Denison, Timothy D. Noakes and Craig Sharp.
Yannis Ritsos (1909-90) is generally considered to be - along with
Cavafy, Seferis and Elytis - one of the most significant Greek
poets of the last century. His life was, to say the least,
troubled. From an early age, he was dogged by the tuberculosis that
killed his mother and brother. His father and sister suffered
breakdowns and spent time in institutions. His poem Epitaphios
(1936), a lament for a young man shot dead by the police during a
tobacco workers' strike, was publicly burned by the Metaxas regime
and his books banned. During the post-World War Two civil war -
because he sided with the left - Ritsos was arrested and sent to
prison camps. Then, in 1967, when the Papadopoulos military junta
took control of the country, he was again arrested, again his books
were banned, again he spent time in prison camps, before being
confined to house arrest on the island of Samos. The violence and
tyranny of dictatorship is often fractured by the surreal. In the
poems collected here, written by Ritsos while in prison and under
house arrest, that fracture in perception is a wound. A Broken Man
in Flower has an introduction by John Kittmer and includes the text
of an illuminating and vivid letter sent by Ritsos to his publisher
in 1969 while under house arrest on Samos describing his life - and
the lives of Greeks - under the repressive rule of the Colonels.
David Harsent's thirteen collections have won a number of awards,
including the Forward Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Griffin
International Prize. He is also a librettist: his collaborations
with composers, chiefly with Harrison Birtwistle, have been
performed at major venues worldwide.
Offering theoretical insights on region building, this book
explores the attempts to formulate a political and institutional
vision for the Black Sea region in the post-9/11 era and in the
context of the enlargements of the EU and NATO. It investigates in
depth these attempts, viewed as a failure by the key actors
involved, in order to understand how regions emerge in
international politics as well as how and why they may fail to come
into being. To this end, the book explores a range of factors that
impacted region building in the Black Sea, considering the role of
region builders involved, their practices and the context of their
actions, and the spatial representations and security discourses
that were integral to the region building process. Hence, attention
is paid to how these factors both enabled and constrained the
discursive construction of the Black Sea region, thus identifying
the elements that distinguish the Black Sea from other successful
cases of region building. Based on critical approaches towards
international relations and political geography, this book both
expands and deepens the scope and understanding of regions and will
thus appeal to academics and students in the fields of
International Relations, Security Studies, Political Geography, and
Regional Integration.
The distinguished contributors in this volume provide a variety of
essays, which are written in honor of Emmanuel Drandakis. These
essays fall into four uniform areas of economics: economic growth,
general equilibrium, labor economics and game theory and
applications.The editors focus on a select set of issues that stand
high on the agenda of academic research. They provide fresh
insights and approaches to the analysis of these issues, and thus
open up wider avenues for our understanding of the dilemmas posed
for theory and policy. Readers are offered new empirical evidence
on such thorny social problems as, for example, unemployment, the
intergenerational transmission of human capital and the response of
wages to price and endowment changes. These contributions, in
conjunction with the realisation that the papers are written by
some of the most distinguished economists in the respective areas,
make the volume an attractive addition for all who are interested
in the contemporary research and teaching of economics.
This handbook comprehensively defines and shapes the field of
Critical European Union Studies, sets the research agenda and
highlights emerging areas of study. Bringing together critical
analyses of European Union politics, policies and processes with an
expert range of contributors, it overcomes disciplinary borders and
paradigms and addresses four main thematic areas pertaining to the
study of the European Union and its policies: * Critical approaches
to European integration; * Critical approaches to European
political economy; * Critical approaches to the EU's internal
security; * Critical approaches to the EU's external relations and
foreign affairs. In their contributions to this volume, the authors
take a sympathetic yet critical approach to the European
integration process and the present structures of the European
Union. Furthermore, the book provides graduate students and faculty
with ideas for future research activity and introduces critical
analyses rooted in a broad spectrum of theoretical perspectives.
The Routledge Handbook of Critical European Union Studies will be
an essential reference for scholars, students, researchers and
practitioners interested and working in the fields of EU
politics/studies, European integration, European political economy
and public policy, EU foreign policy, EU freedom of movement and
security practices, and more broadly in international relations,
the wider social sciences and humanities.
This edited collection is the first book to offer a wide-ranging
examination of the interface between American independent film and
a converged television landscape that consists of terrestrial
broadcasters, cable networks and streaming providers, in which
independent film and television intersect in complex, multifaceted
and creative ways. The book covers the long history of continuities
and connections between the two sectors, as seen in the activities
of PBS, HBO or Sundance. It considers the movement of filmmakers
between indie film and TV such as Steven Soderberg, Rian Johnson,
the Duplass brothers, Joe Swanberg, Lynn Shelton and Gregg Araki;
details the confluence of aesthetic and thematic elements seen in
shows such as Girls, Breaking Bad, Master of None, or Glow; points
to a shared interest in regional sensibilities evident in shows
like One Mississippi or Fargo; and makes the case for documentaries
and web series as significant entities in this domain.
Collectively, the book builds a compelling picture of indie TV as a
significant feature of US screen entertainment in the twenty-first
century. This interdisciplinary landmark volume will be a go-to
reference for students and scholars of Television Studies, Film
Studies and Media Studies.
In the last decades, political participation expanded continuously.
This expansion includes activities as diverse as voting, tweeting,
signing petitions, changing your social media profile,
demonstrating, boycotting products, joining flash mobs, attending
meetings, throwing seedbombs, and donating money. But if political
participation is so diverse, how do we recognize participation when
we see it? Despite the growing interest in new forms of citizen
engagement in politics, there is virtually no systematic research
investigating what these new and emerging forms of engagement look
like, how prevalent they are in various societies, and how they fit
within the broader structure of well-known participatory acts
conceptually and empirically. The rapid spread of internet-based
activities especially underlines the urgency to deal with such
challenges. In this book, Yannis Theocharis and Jan W. van Deth put
forward a systematic and unified approach to explore political
participation and offer new conceptual and empirical tools with
which to study it. Political Participation in a Changing World will
assist both scholars and students of political behaviour to
systematically study new forms of political participation without
losing track of more conventional political activities.
The European Union's stalled expansion, the Euro deficit and
emerging crises of economic and political sovereignty in Greece,
Italy and Spain have significantly altered the image of the EU as a
model of progressive civilization. However, despite recent events
the EU maintains its international image as the paragon of European
politics and global governance. This book unites leading scholars
on Europe and Empire to revisit the view of the European Union as
an 'imperial' power. It offers a re-appraisal of the EU as empire
in response to geopolitical and economic developments since 2007
and asks if the policies, practices, and priorities of the Union
exhibit characteristics of a modern empire. This text will be of
key interest to students and scholars of the EU, European studies,
history, sociology, international relations, and economics.
Clueless: American Youth in the 1990s is a timely contribution to
the increasingly prominent academic field of youth film studies.
The book draws on the social context to the film's release, a range
of film industry perspectives including marketing, audience
reception and franchising, as well as postmodern theory and
feminist film theory to assert the cultural and historical
significance of Amy Heckerling's film and reaffirm its reputation
as one of the defining teen films of the 1990s. Lesley Speed
examines how the film channels aspects of Anita Loos' 1925 novel
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the 1960s television series Gidget and
Jane Austen's Emma, to present a heightened, optimistic view of
contemporary American teenage life. Although seemingly apolitical,
Speed makes the case for Clueless as a feminist exploration of
relationships between gender, comedy and consumer culture, centring
on a contemporary version of the 'dumb blonde' type. The film is
also proved to embrace diversity in its depiction of African
American characters and contributing to an increase in gay
teenagers on screen. Lesley Speed concludes her analysis by
tracking the rise of the Clueless franchise and cult following.
Both helped to cement the film in popular consciousness, inviting
fans to inhabit its fantasy world through spinoff narratives on
television and in print, public viewing rituals, revivalism and
vintage fashion.
What does it take to dive Titanic's sister ship? This huge vessel
from a bygone golden age of ocean travel lies at over 100 metres
(330') below the surface. It is not a dive for the faint-hearted.
Requiring meticulous planning, precise execution and good
conditions, only the most capable technical divers will ever
experience it. Even then, tragically some do not make it back to
the surface. Expedition Britannic is the story of the May 2019
mission to dive the Olympic-class liner-turned-hospital ship, HMHS
Britannic. Sunk near the Greek island of Kea during World War I,
she will only be ticked off the bucket list of relatively few of
the most dedicated deep divers. Steeped in history, the opportunity
to see a largely intact near-replica of the world's most famous
ocean liner makes it an ultimate dive to aspire to. Deep wreck
photography specialist Rick Ayrton is one such diver. Assisted by
expedition leader Scott Roberts, he takes us through the planning,
logistics and preparation essential for scaling one of the
pinnacles of wreck diving. Then we explore the wreck with him -
going deeper than most divers will in their lifetimes to photograph
this once great ship - and make new discoveries.
This book sets out to explain blockchain for the non-technical
expert, to decipher the dense technicalities that dominate the
field and to present the opportunities for busy professionals using
practical applications and case studies. Presented in a clear and
structured way and with documented real-world cases, the book is a
practical reference guide that can be used across different
industries. It offers both a constructive and critical review of
the pain points blockchain is facing today, illustrates the
pitfalls as well as the opportunities for business and describes
the steps towards overcoming them. It also aims to provide a unique
view of both the intersection and synergy of blockchain with other
emerging technologies and the wider digital ecosystem, as we see
increasingly that blockchain alone won't be able to deliver
business solutions. Most important, the book identifies trends and
a path for the future of blockchain and its impact on society as a
whole. The book is written for business audiences across all
sectors. It is not a technical guide to blockchain, but it enables
businesspeople to be better informed and prepared to plan ahead and
develop strategies using blockchain.
There are no comparable works available. This field has not been
properly mapped before. Stellar international cast of contributors
led by two highly respectived and well published scholars in the
field of political theory and psychoanalysis. This Handbook will
have global reach and will appeal to the wider field of the social
sciences and humanities. This particular strand of political theory
is now incorporated in many MA schemes and is widely debated within
political research at large. ** when book comes out in pb **
American Pie represents the most commercially successful example of
the vulgar teen comedy, and this book analyses the film's
development, audience-appeal and cultural significance. American
Pie (1999) is a film that exemplifies that most disparaged of movie
genres - the vulgar teen comedy. Largely aimed at young audiences,
the vulgar teen comedy is characterised by a brazenly over-the-top
humour rooted in the salacious, the scatological and the
squirmingly tasteless. In this book, consideration is given to the
relationship between American Pie's success and broad shifts within
both the youth market and the film business. Attention is also
given to the film's representations of youth, gender and sexuality,
together with the distinctive character of its comedy and the
enduring place of such humour in contemporary popular culture.
While chiefly focusing on the original American Pie movie, the book
also considers the development of the franchise, with discussion of
the movie's three sequels and four direct-to-DVD releases. The book
also charts the history, nature and appeal of vulgar teen comedy as
a whole, providing the first concerted analysis of this generally
overlooked category of youth film. Clear, concise and
comprehensive, the book is ideal for students, scholars and general
readership worldwide.
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