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Mark Lewis - Films 1995-2000 (Paperback)
Catherine Pavlovic, Lizzie Francke; Volume editing by Steven Bode, Fran Hortop; Charles Esche, …
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Mark Lewis' work functions as a critique of cinema, encouraging the
viewer's awareness of the cliches, conventions and fragmentary
nature of film, and how it has been constructed historically. In so
doing, he also acknowledges its suggestive power, and the alluring,
seductive visual qualities of the medium, whilst maintaining a
certain critical distance in his extraction and re-evaluation of
its components. This catalogue provides a survey of Lewis' film
works from 1995-2000.
Current demographic developments and change due to long life
expectancies, low birth rates, changing family structures, and
economic and political crises causing migration and flight are
having a significant impact on intergenerational relationships, the
social welfare system, the job market and what elderly people (can)
expect from their retirement and environment. The socio-political
relevance of the categories of 'age' and 'ageing' have been
increasing and gaining much attention within different scholarly
fields. However, none of the efforts to identify age-related
diseases or the processes of ageing in order to develop suitable
strategies for prevention and therapy have had any effect on the
fact that attitudes against the elderly are based on patterns that
are determined by parameters that or not biological or
sociological: age(ing) is also a cultural fact. This book reveals
the importance of cultural factors in order to build a framework
for analyzing and understanding cultural constructions of ageing,
bringing together scholarly discourses from the arts and humanities
as well as social, medical and psychological fields of study. The
contributions pave the way for new strategies of caring for elderly
people.
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Wild and Beautiful (Hardcover)
Amanda Esch-Cormier; Edited by Sarah Fabiny; Illustrated by Naya Kirichenko
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The world as we know it is changing. Find out how women leaders
will best solve today’s challenges. The purpose of Leading Our
Way is to explore new leadership models to address global
challenges, through a compelling, personal and inspiring collection
of stories of women leaders and role models, representing a variety
of sectors, cultures and countries to which you, and especially
girls and women, from across the world can relate to. Â The
key questions the book will lay out for you are the following: Does
the world need a different type of leadership? What would be the
leadership traits needed to address todays and future world
challenges, and how can we foster such traits? What are the
existing examples of women already showcasing a different
leadership style, fit-for-purpose to solve todays challenges and
lead the future? What is the role of women in shifting the dominant
leadership approach? Do they have different leadership traits
compared to men? How can we redefine leadership and success? How
can we inspire new generations to act and lead in a more
sustainable and equitable way? The book proposes new ideas and
approaches to solving global challenges and defines the type of
leaders the world needs for this to happen. It identifies the
leadership traits that our companies and societies need to build a
more sustainable and equitable world. The conclusion
outlines key take-aways and lessons learned, in order to define how
women can and already are leading the way, towards a more
inclusive, high-performing and sustainable model of leadership and
world.
Challenging the notion that Central American literature is a
marginal space within Latin American literary and world literary
production, this collection positions and discusses Central
American literature within the recently revived debates on world
literature. This groundbreaking volume draws on new scholarship on
global, transnational, postcolonial, translational, and
sociological perspectives on the region’s literature, expanding
and challenging these debates by focusing on the heterogenous
literatures of Central America and its diasporas. Contributors
discuss poems, testimonios, novels, and short stories in relation
to center-periphery, cosmopolitan, and Internationalist paradigms.
Central American Literatures as World Literature explores the
multiple ways in which Central American literature goes beyond or
against the confines of the nation-state, especially through the
indigenous, Black, and migrant voices.
This collection focuses on contemporary remakings of Shakespeare in a variety of contexts and textual forms. Located at the intersection of Shakespeare studies, performance studies, postcolonial criticism and cultural studies, the essays address the question of how Shakespeare's plays affect and are affected by their environments as they are transposed into a variety of media, cultures, geographical locations, genres and historical moments. The volume includes articles on Shakespeare in American Sign Language, theatre, film, screenplay, music, documentary and soap opera.
In 1907, pioneering labor historian and economist John Commons
argued that U.S. management had shown just one "symptom of
originality," namely "playing one race against the other." In this
eye-opening book, David Roediger and Elizabeth Esch offer a
radically new way of understanding the history of management in the
United States, placing race, migration, and empire at the center of
what has sometimes been narrowly seen as a search for efficiency
and economy. Ranging from the antebellum period to the coming of
the Great Depression, the book examines the extensive literature
slave masters produced on how to manage and "develop" slaves;
explores what was perhaps the greatest managerial feat in U.S.
history, the building of the transcontinental railroad, which
pitted Chinese and Irish work gangs against each other; and
concludes by looking at how these strategies survive today in the
management of hard, low-paying, dangerous jobs in agriculture,
military support, and meatpacking. Roediger and Esch convey what
slaves, immigrants, and all working people were up against as the
objects of managerial control. Managers explicitly ranked racial
groups, both in terms of which labor they were best suited for and
their relative value compared to others. The authors show how
whites relied on such alleged racial knowledge to manage and
believed that the "lesser races" could only benefit from their
tutelage. These views wove together managerial strategies and white
supremacy not only ideologically but practically, every day at
workplaces. Even in factories governed by scientific management,
the impulse to play races against each other, and to slot workers
into jobs categorized by race, constituted powerful management
tools used to enforce discipline, lower wages, keep workers on
dangerous jobs, and undermine solidarity. Painstakingly researched
and brilliantly argued, The Production of Difference will
revolutionize the history of labor race in the United States.
Reflecting the enormous advances made in the field over the past
ten years, this text synthesizes the latest developments in the
ecology and evolution of animal parasites against a backdrop of
parallel advances in parasite systematics, biodiversity and life
cycles. This second edition has been thoroughly revised to meet the
needs of a new generation of parasitology students. Balancing
traditional approaches in parasitology with modern studies in
parasite ecology and evolution, the authors present basic
ecological principles as a unifying framework to help students
understand the complex phenomenon of parasitism. Richly illustrated
with over 250 figures, the text is accompanied by case study boxes
designed to help students appreciate the complexity and diversity
of parasites and the scientists who study them. This unique
approach, presented clearly and with a minimum of jargon and
mathematical detail, encourages students from diverse backgrounds
to think generally and conceptually about parasites and parasitism.
This book examines the arts and artistic exchanges at the
‘Christian Oriental’ fringes of Europe, especially Armenia. It
starts with the architecture, history and inhabitants of the lesser
known pilgrim compounds at the Vatican in the Middle Ages and
Renaissance, of Hungary, Germany, but namely those of the most
ancient of Churches, the Churches of the Christian Orient Ethiopia
and Armenia. Without taking an Eurocentric view, this book explores
the role of missionaries, merchants, artists (for example Momik,
Giotto, Minas, Domenico Veneziano, Duerer), and artefacts (such as
fabrics, inscriptions and symbols) travelling into both directions
along the western stretch of the Silk Road between Ayas (Cilicia),
ancient Armenia and North-western Iran. This area was truly global
before globalization, was a site of intense cultural exchanges and
East-West cultural transmissions. This book opens a new research
window into the culturally mixed landscapes in the Christian
Orient, the Middle East and North-eastern Africa by taking into
consideration their many indigenous and foreign artistic components
and embeds Armenian arts into today’s wider art historical
discourse. This book will be of interest to scholars in art
history, architectural history, missions, trade, Middle Eastern
arts and the arts of the Southern Caucasus.
Professor Gerald W. Esch, one of the world's leading ecological parasitologists, presents a series of essays on classic examples of field parasitology. The essays focus on the significance of the work and its contribution to the field but also on the people and, particularly, the sites at which the work took place. Taken together, they represent a beautifully written account of the development of an entire field of scientific endeavor spanning a period of 50 years or more. While the essays are not meant to be academic in a scientific sense, they contain a great deal of science. The book will be of great value to all parasitologists and ecologists, but also to anyone interested in how biological field work is carried out and how it contributes to greater understanding of the natural world.
Published in 1993: The first modern scholarly edition of the
author's play, not published until 1778. Sebastian reclaims his
betrothed from Antonio; the Duchess avenges herself on the Duke for
making her drink from her father; and Abberzanes and Francesca have
an illicite affair. The witches are credible forces of evil.
Professor Gerald Esch has already published two books in what is
becoming an informal series of essays exploring the way that
discoveries about the biology of parasites have influenced
ecological and evolutionary theories over a career that has spanned
nearly 50 years. This book will be the third set of essays and will
focus on key moments of discovery and explore how these
achievements were due to collaboration, mentoring, and community
building within the field of ecological parasitology. The book will
not only describe case studies, pure science and biology but also
act as a career guide for early-career ecologists emphasizing the
importance of collaboration in the advancement of science.
A handbook for how we can use the power of our hormones to master
any stage of life. Joint pain, weight gain, migraines, acne,
sleepless nights, loss of libido - all of these and more can be
caused by hormone imbalances. Our health is impacted by our
hormones all the way through our lives. So why do we often assume
they're mainly 'a menopause thing', and wait until hot flushes
arrive before we take them seriously? The truth is that many women
find that their hormone-related symptoms aren't acknowledged,
despite the impact they can have, years before menopause hits, on
almost every aspect of their lives. With advances in medical
science, however, effective new treatment options are available,
including modern hormone replacement therapy (HRT), diet, and
exercise. So why don't more of us know that help is at hand? Why
are we still being told that we have to put up with these
conditions? Our Hormones, Our Health is written by two doctors who
draw on their experience as practitioners, and as women. With the
aid of pioneering research from epigenetics, stress medicine,
nutritional medicine, and modern HRT, they show us how women can
live with health and happiness - no matter what their age.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students,
researchers and practitioners in all of the social and
language-related sciences carefully selected book-length
publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings
and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in
its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary
field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical,
supplement and complement each other. The series invites the
attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests,
sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians
etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
In 1907, pioneering labor historian and economist John Commons
argued that U.S. management had shown just one "symptom of
originality," namely "playing one race against the other."
In this eye-opening book, David Roediger and Elizabeth Esch offer
a radically new way of understanding the history of management in
the United States, placing race, migration, and empire at the
center of what has sometimes been narrowly seen as a search for
efficiency and economy. Ranging from the antebellum period to the
coming of the Great Depression, the book examines the extensive
literature slave masters produced on how to manage and "develop"
slaves; explores what was perhaps the greatest managerial feat in
U.S. history, the building of the transcontinental railroad, which
pitted Chinese and Irish work gangs against each other; and
concludes by looking at how these strategies survive today in the
management of hard, low-paying, dangerous jobs in agriculture,
military support, and meatpacking. Roediger and Esch convey what
slaves, immigrants, and all working people were up against as the
objects of managerial control. Managers explicitly ranked racial
groups, both in terms of which labor they were best suited for and
their relative value compared to others. The authors show how
whites relied on such alleged racial knowledge to manage and
believed that the "lesser races" could only benefit from their
tutelage. These views wove together managerial strategies and white
supremacy not only ideologically but practically, every day at
workplaces. Even in factories governed by scientific management,
the impulse to play races against each other, and to slot workers
into jobs categorized by race, constituted powerful management
tools used to enforce discipline, lower wages, keep workers on
dangerous jobs, and undermine solidarity.
Painstakingly researched and brilliantly argued, The Production of
Difference will revolutionize the history of labor race in the
United States.
Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds presents a plethora of
approaches to developing human potential in areas not
conventionally addressed. Organized in two parts, this
international collection of essays provides viable educational
alternatives to those currently holding sway in an era of
high-stakes accountability. Taken together, the chapters in Part I
of Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds provide a sampling of
what the cultivation of curious and creative minds entails. The
contributing authors shed light on how curiosity and creativity can
be approached in the teaching domain and discuss specific ideas
concerning how it plays out in particular situations and contexts.
The creation of the new Globe Theatre in London has heightened
interest in Shakespeare performance studies in recent years. The
essays in this volume testify to this burgeoning research into
issues surrounding contemporary performances of plays by
Shakespeare and his fellow dramatists, as well as modern trends and
developments in stage and media presentations of these works. Truly
international in coverage, the discussion here ranges across the
performance and reception of Shakespeare in Japan, India, Germany,
Italy, Denmark and the United States as well as in Britain. Dennis
Kennedy's introductory essay places the new Globe Theatre in the
context of Shakespearean cultural tourism generally. This is
followed by five sections of essays covering aspects of Shakespeare
on film, the stage history of his plays, Renaissance contexts, the
movement of the text from page to stage, and female roles.
Exploring many of current issues in Shakespeare studies, this
volume provides a global perspective on Renaissance performance and
the wide variety of ways in which it has been translated by today's
media. About the Editor: Edward J. Esche is a Senior Lecturer in
English and Head of Drama at Anglia Polytechnic University. He has
published on renaissance drama and twentieth-century modern British
and American drama. His most recent publication is an edition of
Christopher Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris for the Clarendon Press
The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe.
In many parts of the world the language education scenario is
increasingly dynamic, as demographic, economic and social changes
powerfully influence socio-political agendas in the sphere of
language education. These in turn impact on complex issues such as
linguistic pluralism, multiculturalism, and marginalization. This
is especially so in the sphere of second language education where
local, national and regional concerns often dominate the objectives
underpinning policy choice and prioritisation. This volume brings
together scholars and researchers from a wide range of different
educational contexts and turns a sociolinguistic lens on some of
the key areas of concern for researchers in language education:
critical awareness of power and identity issues; competence in
dealing with new sociolinguistic repertoires, modalities and
literacies; ethical concerns for all who are involved. The 'case
study' approach enables the reader to reflect on and critically
engage with these issues in a rich variety of contextual
situations, and the volume as a whole provides a useful overview of
(second) language education in the world today.
Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds presents a plethora of
approaches to developing human potential in areas not
conventionally addressed. Organized in two parts, this
international collection of essays provides viable educational
alternatives to those currently holding sway in an era of
high-stakes accountability. Taken together, the chapters in Part I
of Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds provide a sampling of
what the cultivation of curious and creative minds entails. The
contributing authors shed light on how curiosity and creativity can
be approached in the teaching domain and discuss specific ideas
concerning how it plays out in particular situations and contexts.
The creation of the new Globe Theatre in London has heightened
interest in Shakespeare performance studies in recent years. The
essays in this volume testify to this burgeoning research into
issues surrounding contemporary performances of plays by
Shakespeare and his fellow dramatists, as well as modern trends and
developments in stage and media presentations of these works. Truly
international in coverage, the discussion here ranges across the
performance and reception of Shakespeare in Japan, India, Germany,
Italy, Denmark and the United States as well as in Britain. Dennis
Kennedy's introductory essay places the new Globe Theatre in the
context of Shakespearean cultural tourism generally. This is
followed by five sections of essays covering aspects of Shakespeare
on film, the stage history of his plays, Renaissance contexts, the
movement of the text from page to stage, and female roles.
Exploring many of current issues in Shakespeare studies, this
volume provides a global perspective on Renaissance performance and
the wide variety of ways in which it has been translated by today's
media. About the Editor: Edward J. Esche is a Senior Lecturer in
English and Head of Drama at Anglia Polytechnic University. He has
published on renaissance drama and twentieth-century modern British
and American drama. His most recent publication is an edition of
Christopher Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris for the Clarendon Press
The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe.
Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth captured the attention of a
large portion of the reading public when it was published in a
serial version in Scribner's for most of 1905 and then as a
hardback in October of that year. Wharton's story of Lily Bart, a
'social parasite', according to reviewer Edmund Wilson, 'on the
fringes of the very rich', topped the American bestseller list for
four months. Furthermore, the novel sealed the author's reputation
as one of the major English-language fiction writers of her
generation. Each of the four articles collected in this New Essays
volume, first published in 2001, makes distinctive claims for the
historical, critical, and theoretical significance of Wharton's
seminal work.
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