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'The book contains a lot of examples, a lot of non-standard
material which is not included in many other books. At the same
time the authors manage to avoid numerous cumbersome calculations
… It is a great achievement that the authors found a
balance.'zbMATHThis book presents the study of symmetry groups in
Physics from a practical perspective, i.e. emphasising the explicit
methods and algorithms useful for the practitioner and profusely
illustrating by examples.The first half reviews the algebraic,
geometrical and topological notions underlying the theory of Lie
groups, with a review of the representation theory of finite
groups. The topic of Lie algebras is revisited from the perspective
of realizations, useful for explicit computations within these
groups. The second half is devoted to applications in physics,
divided into three main parts — the first deals with space-time
symmetries, the Wigner method for representations and applications
to relativistic wave equations. The study of kinematical algebras
and groups illustrates the properties and capabilities of the
notions of contractions, central extensions and projective
representations. Gauge symmetries and symmetries in Particle
Physics are studied in the context of the Standard Model, finishing
with a discussion on Grand-Unified Theories.
Japan is one of the world's most literate societies. Its national
newspapers are the most read newspapers in the world, and the
country also has a very vibrant local newspaper sector. This book
assesses the vital role local newspapers play in the development of
local communities, as well as examining their development, industry
structure and production conventions. The author employs the key
term, 'revitalization journalism', to explore in detail the many
techniques and conventions that local newspapers employ to engage
with, and make an impact in, their specific host regions. The book
concludes by comparing Japanese local newspapers to the current
state of newspapers worldwide, and assessing how Japanese local
newspapers are likely to develop in future.
Accidental Genius features intimate and laugh-out-loud commentary
from The Room cast and crew, including interviews from its star
Greg Sestero. What a story indeed! A rollicking recollection of
experiences from the legendary "so bad it's good" film. This
comprehensively chronicled book offers a fascinating glimpse into
the cultural phenomenon that brings together die-hard fans and
newcomers alike. Everything you could have possibly wondered about
The Room all in one book! Take a look at Tommy Wiseau's infamous
2003 release through the eyes of the people who made it. Get the
low-down on bizarre audition calls, film set antics, and accounts
from the very first fans who experienced The Room at its earliest
screenings. Also including interviews focusing on the aftermath of
the movie: Sestero's The Disaster Artist, where are they now, and
its lasting legacy. Here you will get a glimpse of how it all
began, why it remains popular, and just what audiences still get
out of this unusual film that people love to hate.
A critical introduction to how the Nagasaki atomic bombing has been
remembered, especially in contrast to that of Hiroshima. In the
decades following the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945,
the city’s residents processed their trauma and formed narratives
of the destruction and reconstruction in ways that reflected their
regional history and social makeup. In doing so, they created a
multi-layered urban identity as an atomic-bombed city that differed
markedly from Hiroshima’s image. Shadows of Nagasaki traces how
Nagasaki’s trauma, history, and memory of the bombing manifested
through some of the city’s many post-atomic memoryscapes, such as
literature, religious discourse, art, historical landmarks,
commemorative spaces, and architecture. In addition, the book pays
particular attention to how the city’s history of international
culture, exemplified best perhaps by the region’s Christian
(especially Catholic) past, informed its response to the atomic
trauma and shaped its postwar urban identity. Key historical actors
in the volume’s chapters include writers, Japanese- Catholic
leaders, atomic-bombing survivors (known as hibakusha), municipal
officials, American occupation personnel, peace activists, artists,
and architects. The story of how these diverse groups of people
processed and participated in the discourse surrounding the
legacies of Nagasaki’s bombing shows how regional history,
culture, and politics—rather than national ones—become the most
influential factors shaping narratives of destruction and
reconstruction after mass trauma. In turn, and especially in the
case of urban destruction, new identities emerge and old ones are
rekindled, not to serve national politics or social interests but
to bolster narratives that reflect local circumstances.
American crime novelist Elmore Leonard (1925-2013) has a voice that
is original and immediately recognizable. This collection of
original interviews with fellow authors, filmmakers, collaborators
and critics covers all things Leonard, from analyses of
characterization and dialogue in his writing to his many screen
adaptations. What makes Leonard's work more cinematic than that of
other talented contemporaries is his deceptively simplistic method
of description that still manages to paint a vivid picture in the
reader's mind. The unique perspectives in this collection discuss
many of Leonard's 44 novels, including those that have been adapted
to television and motion pictures like Get Shorty, Out of Sight,
and Jackie Brown.
'The book contains a lot of examples, a lot of non-standard
material which is not included in many other books. At the same
time the authors manage to avoid numerous cumbersome calculations
... It is a great achievement that the authors found a
balance.'zbMATHThis book presents the study of symmetry groups in
Physics from a practical perspective, i.e. emphasising the explicit
methods and algorithms useful for the practitioner and profusely
illustrating by examples.The first half reviews the algebraic,
geometrical and topological notions underlying the theory of Lie
groups, with a review of the representation theory of finite
groups. The topic of Lie algebras is revisited from the perspective
of realizations, useful for explicit computations within these
groups. The second half is devoted to applications in physics,
divided into three main parts - the first deals with space-time
symmetries, the Wigner method for representations and applications
to relativistic wave equations. The study of kinematical algebras
and groups illustrates the properties and capabilities of the
notions of contractions, central extensions and projective
representations. Gauge symmetries and symmetries in Particle
Physics are studied in the context of the Standard Model, finishing
with a discussion on Grand-Unified Theories.
In the horrific conflict of 1914-1918 known first as "The Great
War" and later as World War I, Latin American nations were
peripheral players. Only after the U.S. entered the fighting in
1917 did eight of the twenty republics declare war. Five others
broke diplomatic relations with Germany, while seven maintained
strict neutrality. These diplomatic stances, even those of the two
actual belligerents-Brazil and Cuba-did little to tip the balance
of victory in favor of the allies, and perhaps that explains why
historians have paid scant attention to events in Latin America
related to the war. Nevertheless, it is still remarkable that Percy
Alvin Martin's classic account, Latin American and the War, first
published in 1925, remains the standard text on the topic. This
book attempts to redress this gap by taking a fresh look at
developments between 1914 and 1921 in one of the neutral
nations-Colombia. This period, which coincides with the presidency
of Jose Vicente Concha (1914-1918) and his successor, Marco Fidel
Suarez (1918-1921), is filled with momentous developments not only
in foreign policy, when Colombian diplomats pressured by German,
British and U.S. propaganda struggled to maintain strict
neutrality, but also on the domestic scene as the newly installed
Conservative regime faced political and economic crises that
sparked numerous and violent protests. Rausch's examination of the
administrations of Concha and Suarez supports Martin's assertion
that even those countries neutral in the Great War were not immune
from its effects.
In 1958, Gary Graver moved from his hometown of Portland, Oregon to
Los Angeles, California with dreams of an acting career in
Hollywood. Soon after his arrival, he caught a double bill in a
small theater on Hollywood Boulevard, the lower half of which was
the recently released Touch of Evil. Upon viewing the B classic,
Graver decided he wanted to be a director and spent many years
honing his craft, as both a cinematographer and a director, not to
mention writer, actor, and producer-much like his idol, Orson
Welles. In 1970, when Graver learned that Welles was in town, he
impulsively called up the director and offered him his services as
a cameraman. It was only the second time in Welles's career that he
had received such an offer from a cinematographer, the other being
from Gregg Toland, who worked on one of the greatest films ever,
Citizen Kane. In Making Movies with Orson Welles, Graver recounts
the highs and lows of the moviemaking business as he and one of the
most important and influential directors of all time struggled to
get films produced. The two men collaborated on more than a dozen
projects, including F for Fake, Filming Othello, and the
still-unreleased The Other Side of the Wind. Their close friendship
and creative filmmaking partnership would endure for 15 years,
until Welles' death in 1985. Also including a filmography of works
and 20 photos from Graver's personal collection, this fascinating
memoir recalls what it was like to work with the legendary Welles
and offers advice and tales of caution for future filmmakers.
"What is Hip-Hop?" In order to answer this question, author Andrew
J. Rausch interviewed 24 individuals whose creative expressions are
intimately associated with the world of hip-hop music and culture.
Those interviewed include emcees, DJs, producers, graffiti artists,
poets, and journalists. Topics of these conversations cover the
careers of each of these people and their
contributions/affiliations with hip-hop, as well as their views on
different trends within the music. Intended as a celebration of
hip-hop music and culture, this collection of interviews ranges
from the up-and-coming (Akrobatik, Rob Kelly) to the legendary
(Chuck D, Big Daddy Kane). Also interviewed are Eric B., Black
Sheep Dres, Chip Fu, Michael Cirelli, Daddy-O, DJ JS-1, dream
hampton, Kokane, Kool Keith, Kool Rock Ski, Keith Murray, 9th
Wonder, Paradime, R.A. the Rugged Man, Sadat X, Shock G, Special
Ed, Spinderella, Sticky Fingaz, and Young MC. Because many of these
artists worked and performed in the so-called "golden age" of
hip-hop, they offer insights on the merits and problems of what
hip-hop has grown into today. From their candid observations, the
reader will understand how each of these men and women have
contributed to the culture and how each, in his or her own way, can
rightly answer "I AM hip-hop."
On October 26, 1909, the Korean patriot An Chunggŭn assassinated
the Japanese statesman Itō Hirobumi in Harbin, China. More than a
century later, the ramifications of An’s daring act continue to
reverberate across East Asia and beyond. This volume explores the
abiding significance of An, his life, and his written work, most
notably On Peace in the East (Tongyang p’yŏnghwaron), from a
variety of perspectives, especially historical, legal, literary,
philosophical, and political. The ways in which An has been
understood and interpreted by contemporaries, by later generations,
and by scholars and thinkers even today shed light on a range of
significant issues including the intellectual and philosophical
underpinnings for both imperial expansion and resistance to it; the
ongoing debate concerning whether violence, or even terrorism, is
ever justified; and the possibilities for international cooperation
in today’s East Asia as a regional collective. Students and
scholars of East Asia will find much to engage with and learn from
in this volume.
UNESCO aims to tackle Africa's under-representation on its World
Heritage List by inscribing instances of nineteenth- and
twentieth-century modern architecture and urban planning there.
But, what is one to make of the utopias of progress and development
for which these buildings and sites stand? After all, concern for
'modern heritage' invariably-and paradoxically it seems-has to
reckon with those utopias as problematic futures of the past, a
circumstance complicating intentions to preserve a recent 'culture'
of modernization on the African continent. This book, a new title
in Routledge's Studies in Culture and Development series,
introduces the concept of 'global heritage assemblages' to analyse
that problem. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork, it
describes how various governmental, intergovernmental, and
non-governmental actors engage with colonial and post-colonial
built heritage found in Eritrea, Tanzania, Niger, and the Republic
of the Congo. Rausch argues that the global heritage assemblages
emerging from those examples produce problematizations of the
modern', which ultimately indicate a contemporary need to rescue
modernity from its dominant conception as an all-encompassing,
epochal, and spatial culture.
In 1973, early in their careers, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro
collaborated for the first time. Over the next few decades, they
worked together on seven more movies, many of which brought them
both acclaim and awards. And while successful director and actor
pairings have occurred throughout the history of film, few have
fashioned so many works of enduring value as these two artists. In
little more than two decades, Scorsese and De Niro produced eight
features, including the classics Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and
GoodFellas. In The Films of Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro,
Andrew J. Rausch examines the creative output of this remarkable
pair, from their initial offering, Mean Streets, to their most
recent film together, Casino. Rausch looks at their relationship as
individual artists who worked together to create cinematic magic,
as well as the friendship that was forged nearly 40 years ago.
Drawing upon interviews and other sources, Rausch goes behind the
scenes of their eight films, providing insight and analysis on all
their collaborations, including New York, New York, The King of
Comedy, and Cape Fear. A rare glimpse into the moviemaking process
of these two legends, The Films of Martin Scorsese and Robert De
Niro will appeal to both scholars and fans alike.
Although Villavicencio, the capital of the Department of Meta, is
located just 120 miles from Bogota, the mountains of the eastern
Andean Cordillera lies between the two cities. As a result, after
its founding in 1842, Villavicencio remained an isolated frontier
outpost for more than one hundred years even though "El Portal de
la Llanura" ("the Gateway to the Plains") provided the principal
access to Colombia's tropical plains (Llanos), a vast grassy region
cut by tributaries connecting with the Meta and Guaviare rivers and
eventually the Orinoco. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century
governments in Bogota regarded the Llanos as the "Eastern Lands of
Promise," underestimating the geographic and climatic obstacles to
their development. From Frontier Town to Metropolis recounts the
history of the town and explains how, by the twenty-first century,
it became a thriving metropolis with a population nearing three
hundred thousand. During the next sixty years, it became the
principal urban center of the Llanos despite the continual presence
of militant guerrillas, paramilitaries, and drug traffickers. This
book examines the developments that transformed Villavicencio,
drawing on data collected about the Colombian Llanos over a period
of forty years. Noted researcher Jane M. Rausch offers a detailed
treatment of the development of Villavicencio and the Department of
Meta as a microcosm of Colombia's eastern frontier. The book
incorporates a wealth of research published in Spanish by Colombian
scholars in the last twenty years and is the first history of
Villavicencio available to English-speaking scholars. It considers
the important topics of when a frontier is no longer a frontier and
the role played by frontier images in contemporary nationalism."
Dieser multidisziplinäre Band vereint Forschungsarbeiten zu
verschiedenen Aspekten der jüdisch-muslimischen Beziehungen, des
Austauschs und der Koexistenz im Laufe der Zeit, darunter das
Rätsel der abrahamitischen Tradition, Juden im Koran und im
Hadith, Ibn al-'Arabi und die Kabbala, vergleichende feministische
Theologie, Juden, Christen, Muslime und das Barnabas-Evangelium,
die Harmonisierung von Religion und Philosophie in Andalusien,
Juden und Muslime im christlichen Spanien des Mittelalters,
israelische Juden und muslimische und christliche Araber, die
jüdisch-muslimische Koexistenz auf Zypern, muslimisch-jüdische
Dialoge in Berlin und Barcelona, jüdisch-christlich-muslimische
Triloge und Teleologie, jüdische und muslimische Speisegesetze
sowie jüdische und muslimische Integration in der Schweiz und in
Deutschland.
In "Where Cultures Meet," editors Weber and Rausch have collected
twenty essays that explore how the frontier experience has helped
create Latin American national identities and institutions. Using
'frontier' to mean more than 'border, ' Weber and Rausch regard
frontiers as the geographic zones of interaction between distinct
cultures. Each essay in the volume illuminates the recipro-cal
influences of the 'pioneer' culture and the 'frontier' culture, as
they contend with each other and their physical environment.
The transformative power of frontiers gives them special
interest for historians and anthropologists. Delving into the
frontier experience below the Rio Grande, "Where Cultures Meet" is
an important collection for anyone seeking to understand fully
Latin American history and culture.
On October 26, 1909, the Korean patriot An Chunggun assassinated
the Japanese statesman Ito Hirobumi in Harbin, China. More than a
century later, the ramifications of An's daring act continue to
reverberate across East Asia and beyond. This volume explores the
abiding significance of An, his life, and his written work, most
notably On Peace in the East (Tongyang p'yonghwaron), from a
variety of perspectives, especially historical, legal, literary,
philosophical, and political. The ways in which An has been
understood and interpreted by contemporaries, by later generations,
and by scholars and thinkers even today shed light on a range of
significant issues including the intellectual and philosophical
underpinnings for both imperial expansion and resistance to it; the
ongoing debate concerning whether violence, or even terrorism, is
ever justified; and the possibilities for international cooperation
in today's East Asia as a regional collective. Students and
scholars of East Asia will find much to engage with and learn from
in this volume.
Japan is one of the world's most literate societies. Its national
newspapers are the most read newspapers in the world, and the
country also has a very vibrant local newspaper sector. This book
assesses the vital role local newspapers play in the development of
local communities, as well as examining their development, industry
structure and production conventions. The author employs the key
term, 'revitalization journalism', to explore in detail the many
techniques and conventions that local newspapers employ to engage
with, and make an impact in, their specific host regions. The book
concludes by comparing Japanese local newspapers to the current
state of newspapers worldwide, and assessing how Japanese local
newspapers are likely to develop in future.
Although Villavicencio, the capital of the Department of Meta, is
located just 120 miles from Bogota, the mountains of the eastern
Andean Cordillera lies between the two cities. As a result, after
its founding in 1842, Villavicencio remained an isolated frontier
outpost for more than one hundred years even though "El Portal de
la Llanura" ("the Gateway to the Plains") provided the principal
access to Colombia's tropical plains (Llanos), a vast grassy region
cut by tributaries connecting with the Meta and Guaviare rivers and
eventually the Orinoco. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century
governments in Bogota regarded the Llanos as the "Eastern Lands of
Promise," underestimating the geographic and climatic obstacles to
their development. From Frontier Town to Metropolis recounts the
history of the town and explains how, by the twenty-first century,
it became a thriving metropolis with a population nearing three
hundred thousand. During the next sixty years, it became the
principal urban center of the Llanos despite the continual presence
of militant guerrillas, paramilitaries, and drug traffickers. This
book examines the developments that transformed Villavicencio,
drawing on data collected about the Colombian Llanos over a period
of forty years. Noted researcher Jane M. Rausch offers a detailed
treatment of the development of Villavicencio and the Department of
Meta as a microcosm of Colombia's eastern frontier. The book
incorporates a wealth of research published in Spanish by Colombian
scholars in the last twenty years and is the first history of
Villavicencio available to English-speaking scholars. It considers
the important topics of when a frontier is no longer a frontier and
the role played by frontier images in contemporary nationalism."
Joan D. Koss-Chioino and Philip Hefner's new volume is unique in
exploring the meaning of spiritual transformation and healing with
new research from a scientific perspective. An interdisciplinary
group of contributors-anthropological, psychological, medical,
theological, and biological scientists-investigate the role of
religious communities and healing practitioners, with spiritual
transformation as their medium of healing. Individual authors
evaluate the meaning of spiritual transformations and the
consequences for those who experience it; the contributions of
indigenous healing systems; new frameworks for neurological and
physiological correlates of transformative religious experiences;
the support from neuroscience for the radical empathy and
intersubjective exchange that takes place in healing practices; and
evidence for universal elements of the healing process. This
exciting new book will be an invaluable resource for those
generally interested in the role of religion in society, across the
sciences, social sciences, and all religious traditions. With a
foreword by Solomon H. Katz.
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