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This collection analyzes the material practice behind the concept of mapping, a particular cognitive mode of gaining control over the world. Ranging widely across visual and textual artifacts implicated in the culture of mapping, from the literature of Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe and Jonson, to representations of body, city, nation and empire, it argues for a thorough reevaluation of the impact of cartography on the shaping of social and political identities in early modern Britain.
In this groundbreaking volume, one of Japan's most insightful
contemporary labor analysts assesses the ?light and shadow? of
Japanese-style management, explaining why Japanese employees have
stood apart from workers in other industrialized countries.
Kumazawa brings to life the intense combination of competition and
community within Japanese workpl
The early modern period inherited a deeply-ingrained culture of
Christian remembrance that proved a platform for creativity in a
remarkable variety of forms. From the literature of church ritual
to the construction of monuments; from portraiture to the
arrangement of domestic interiors; from the development of textual
rites to drama of the contemporary stage, the early modern world
practiced 'arts of remembrance' at every turn. The turmoils of the
Reformation and its aftermath transformed the habits of creating
through remembrance. Ritually observed and radically reinvented,
remembrance was a focal point of the early modern cultural
imagination for an age when beliefs both crossed and divided
communities of the faithful. The Arts of Remembrance in Early
Modern England maps the new terrain of remembrance in the
post-Reformation period, charting its negotiations with the
material, the textual and the performative.
The early modern period inherited a deeply-ingrained culture of
Christian remembrance that proved a platform for creativity in a
remarkable variety of forms. From the literature of church ritual
to the construction of monuments; from portraiture to the
arrangement of domestic interiors; from the development of textual
rites to drama of the contemporary stage, the early modern world
practiced 'arts of remembrance' at every turn. The turmoils of the
Reformation and its aftermath transformed the habits of creating
through remembrance. Ritually observed and radically reinvented,
remembrance was a focal point of the early modern cultural
imagination for an age when beliefs both crossed and divided
communities of the faithful. The Arts of Remembrance in Early
Modern England maps the new terrain of remembrance in the
post-Reformation period, charting its negotiations with the
material, the textual and the performative.
Agroforestry is a land use system that allows for the concurrent
production of trees and agricultural crops and/or animals from the
same piece of land. It has a rich history of development and has
been practised in some parts of the world for more than 6,000
years. In 1997, CABI published the seminal book on this subject,
Temperate Agroforestry Systems, which was a break from the norm as
almost all agroforestry texts up to that date were only relevant to
tropical areas. The book explored the development of temperate
agroforestry and agroforestry systems, concentrating on those areas
within temperate zones where the greatest advances, adoptions and
modifications had taken place up to that time: North and South
America, China, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. This second
fully-updated and expanded edition includes additional chapters on
India and Chile and, as a result of ongoing advances in the field,
separate chapters on the US, Canada, the UK and continental Europe.
Today's challenges of climate change, population growth and food
security, in concert with the ongoing global requirement for the
energy and water needed for a resilient agricultural paradigm, can
be met through the wide-scale adoption of agroforestry practices,
in both tropical regions and temperate zones. The 2nd edition
ofTemperate Agroforestry Systems brings together many examples of
temperate agroforestry and will make valuable reading for all those
working in this area as researchers, practitioners and policy
makers. The book is also of importance to students and teachers of
agriculture, ecology, environmental studies and forestry in
temperate regions.
ETAPS 2010 was the 13th instance of the European Joint Conferences
on T- oryand Practiceof Software. ETAPS is anannual
federatedconference that was
establishedin1998bycombininganumberofexistingandnewconferences.
This yearitcomprisedtheusual?vesisterconferences(CC, ESOP, FASE,
FOSSACS, TACAS), 19 satellite workshops (ACCAT, ARSPA-WITS,
Bytecode, CMCS, COCV, DCC, DICE, FBTC, FESCA, FOSS-AMA, GaLoP,
GT-VMT, LDTA, MBT, PLACES, QAPL, SafeCert, WGT, and WRLA) and seven
invited l- tures (excluding those that were speci?c to the
satellite events). The ?ve main conferences this year received 497
submissions (including 31 tool demonstration papers), 130 of which
were accepted (10 tool demos), giving an overall acc- tance rate of
26%, with most of the conferences at around 24%. Congratulations
thereforetoalltheauthorswhomadeittothe?nalprogramme Ihopethatmost
of the other authors will still have found a way of participating
in this exciting event, and that you will all continue submitting
to ETAPS and contributing to make of it the best conference on
software science and engineering. The events that comprise ETAPS
address various aspects of the system - velopment process,
including speci?cation, design, implementation, analysis and
improvement. The languages, methodologies and tools which support
these - tivities are all well within its scope. Di?erent blends of
theory and practice are represented,
withaninclinationtowardtheorywithapracticalmotivationonthe one hand
and soundly based practice on the other. Many of the issues
involved in software design apply to systems in general, including
hardware systems, and the emphasis on software is not intended to
be exclusive. ETAPS is a confederation in which each event retains
its own identity, with a separate Programme Committee and proceedi
In this groundbreaking volume, one of Japan's most insightful
contemporary labor analysts assesses the ?light and shadow? of
Japanese-style management, explaining why Japanese employees have
stood apart from workers in other industrialized countries.
Kumazawa brings to life the intense combination of competition and
community within Japanese workplaces. He highlights dilemmas facing
Japanese labor on the shop floor and in the labor movement. His
discussion ranges from the role of women to issues of quality
control and self-management. Highly critical of the hierarchical
and undemocratic nature of Japanese industry, he offers a
sympathetic view from the inside of the difficulties of surviving
in the workplaces of contemporary Japan.
Mapping has become a key term in current critical discourse,
describing a particular cognitive mode of gaining control over the
world, of synthesising cultural and geographical information, and
of successfully navigating both physical and mental space. In this
2001 collection, an international team of renaissance scholars
analyses the material practice behind this semiotic concept. By
examining map-driven changes in gender identities, body conception,
military practices, political structures, national imaginings and
imperial aspirations, the essays in this volume expose the
multi-layered investments of historical 'paper landscapes' in the
politics of space. Ranging widely across visual and textual
artifacts implicated in the culture of mapping, from the literature
of Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe and Jonson, to representations of
body, city, nation and empire, Literature, Mapping, and the
Politics of Space argues for a thorough re-evaluation of the impact
of cartography on the shaping of social and political identities in
early modern Britain.
In the past quarter-century, gender has emerged as a lively area of
inquiry for historians and other scholars, and gender analysis has
suggested important revisions of the "master narratives" of
national histories--the dominant, often celebratory tales of the
successes of a nation and its leaders. Although modern Japanese
history has not yet been restructured by a foregrounding of gender,
historians of Japan have begun to embrace gender as an analytic
category.
The sixteen chapters in this volume treat men as well as women,
theories of sexuality as well as gender prescriptions, and same-sex
as well as heterosexual relations in the period from 1868 to the
present. All of them take the position that history is gendered;
that is, historians invariably, perhaps unconsciously, construct a
gendered notion of past events, people, and ideas. Together, these
essays construct a history informed by the idea that gender matters
because it was part of the experience of people and because it
often has been a central feature in the construction of modern
ideologies, discourses, and institutions. Separately, each chapter
examines how Japanese have (en)gendered their ideas, institutions,
and society.
Winner of the Longman's History Today Book of the Year Award and
the inaugural Westminster Medal for Military Literature More than a
century had gone by since the Battle of Trafalgar. Generation after
generation of British naval captains had been dreaming ever since
of a 'new' Trafalgar - a cataclysmic encounter which would
decisively change a war's outcome. At last, in the summer of 1916,
they thought their moment had come... Andrew Gordon's
extraordinary, gripping book brilliantly recreates the atmosphere
of the British navy in the years leading up to Jutland and gives a
superb account of the battle itself and its bitterly acrimonious
aftermath.
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