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The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved
queer utopian text written by Larry Mitchell with lush
illustrations by Ned Asta, published by Calamus Press in 1977.
Part-fable, part-manifesto, the book takes place in Ramrod, an
empire in decline, and introduces us to the communities of the
faggots, the women, the queens, the queer men, and the women who
love women who are surviving the ways and world of men. Cherished
by many over the four decades since its publication, The Faggots
and Their Friends Between Revolutions offers a trenchant critique
of capitalism, assimilation, and patriarchy that is deeply relevant
today. This new edition will feature essays from performance artist
Morgan Bassichis, who adapted the book to music with TM Davy in
2017 for a performance at the New Museum, and activist filmmaker
Tourmaline.
The Open Access version of this book, available at
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351049139, has been made
available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license. This volume offers an exhaustive look at
the latest research on metacognition in language learning and
teaching. While other works have explored certain notions of
metacognition in language learning and teaching, this book, divided
into theoretical and empirical chapters, looks at metacognition
from a variety of perspectives, including metalinguistic and
multilingual awareness, and language learning and teaching in L2
and L3 settings, and explores a range of studies from around the
world. This allows the volume to highlight a diverse set of
methodological approaches, including blogging, screen recording
software, automatic translation programs, language corpora,
classroom interventions, and interviews, and subsequently, to
demonstrate the value of metacognition research and how insights
from such findings can contribute to a greater understanding of
language learning and language teaching processes more generally.
This innovative collection is an essential resource for students
and scholars in language teaching pedagogy, and applied
linguistics.
The years 1978 and 1979 were dramatic throughout south and western Asia. In Iran, the Pahlavi dynasty was toppled by an Islamic revolution. In Pakistan, Zulfigar Ali Bhutto was hanged by the military regime that toppled him and which then proceeded to implement an Islamization programme. Between the two lay Afghanistan whose "Saur Revolution" of April 1978 soon developed into a full scale civil war and Soviet intervention. The military struggle that followed was largely influenced by Soviet-US rivalry but the ideological struggle followed a dynamic of its own.;Drawing on a wide range of sources, including such previously unused archival material as British Intelligence reports, this is a detailed study of the Afghan debate on the role of Islam in politics from the formation of the modern Afghan state around 1800 to the present day.
This book presents the comprehensive investigation of critical
thinking in higher education from the perspectives of the study and
labor market. It looks for an answer to the vibrant question of
what and to whom critical thinking is. The study brings together
findings from systematic literature review, analysis of
descriptions of higher education study programs and study subjects,
phenomenographical research and survey and supplements the existing
perceptions of critical thinking with novel data-driven insights.
The book reveals how critical thinking manifests itself in the
contexts of higher education and the labor market and advocates for
the significance of the critical thinking at personal,
interpersonal, and social levels.
Climate Change and Sustainable Development: Mitigation and
Adaptation focuses on the link between climate change threats and
sustainable development goals. This book analyzes the polices of
climate change mitigation and adaptation from an economic point of
view by addressing globalization, international trade, and business
opportunities and challenges. Based on extended research on energy,
transportation, agriculture, and more, the case studies included in
this book present business opportunities linked to mitigation and
adaptation actions; from European Union greenhouse gas emission
trading to climate change adaptation policies in developing
countries. It presents a framework for the harmonization of climate
and sustainable development policies and their mutual outcomes.
Specific features: The first book to address main scientific
aspects of climate change mitigation and sustainable development
and how to deal with these main challenges in a harmonized way
Provides practical examples of policies and business development
opportunities linked with climate change mitigation and adaptation
Analyses climate change challenges and provides implications for
business development and good practice case studies from Europe
Discusses issues of climate change at different scales ranging from
macro to micro level Highlights the importance of climate change
adaptation for developing countries, migration trends, city
developments and agriculture As the threat of climate change grows
ever more present, resources like this book, that provide and
discuss necessary solutions and frameworks for ways to deal with
and mitigate that threat become ever more essential. This book is a
vital resource for academics, students, and professionals in any
field seeking to deal with the threats from climate change, and
particularly those relating to environmental and climate sciences,
as well as those in political and economic fields.
This book aims to develop a framework for the assessment of
population 'preferences in climate change mitigation policies by
applying a Willingness to Pay (WTP) approach and presents the
results from several case studies in Lithuania on renewable energy
generation and renovation in different households. These analyses
of climate change mitigation policies and measures, based on the
assessment of their effectiveness, provide recommendations for
developing innovative measures in other countries. Since public
preferences are variable, climate change mitigation policies can
change these preferences and allow to form new ones. Features:
Analyses social benefits of climate change mitigation measures and
their integration methods based on assessment of public
preferences. Presents several practical case studies on energy
needs where the Willingness to Pay framework was applied. Discusses
climate change mitigation barriers in energy sector and the
effectiveness of climate change mitigation policies to overcome
them. Provides a novel approach for climate change mitigation
policies development in households. Includes useful information for
evaluating and planning policies related to renewable energy
investment. This book is a useful reference for those in the
academic, research, and business communities, policy makers,
graduate students, and professionals involved with climate change
mitigation projects.
The Open Access version of this book, available at
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351049139, has been made
available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license. This volume offers an exhaustive look at
the latest research on metacognition in language learning and
teaching. While other works have explored certain notions of
metacognition in language learning and teaching, this book, divided
into theoretical and empirical chapters, looks at metacognition
from a variety of perspectives, including metalinguistic and
multilingual awareness, and language learning and teaching in L2
and L3 settings, and explores a range of studies from around the
world. This allows the volume to highlight a diverse set of
methodological approaches, including blogging, screen recording
software, automatic translation programs, language corpora,
classroom interventions, and interviews, and subsequently, to
demonstrate the value of metacognition research and how insights
from such findings can contribute to a greater understanding of
language learning and language teaching processes more generally.
This innovative collection is an essential resource for students
and scholars in language teaching pedagogy, and applied
linguistics.
The reform of the EU public procurement framework and recently
adopted new public procurement rules in Lithuania were indisputably
the most significant revisions of this regime since 2004. The aim
of this thesis is to provide a critical examination of the EU
Directive 2014/24/EU and its transposition into the national law
systems of Lithuania and Germany. The author will discuss in more
detail the advantages of transposition and disadvantages of
Lithuanian national law system, and provide comparison analysis
with German national law system. Further analysis will be provided
on peculiarities of public procurement disputes in Germany and
Lithuania. Through this examination, the thesis also aims to
contribute toward a sound future development of public procurement
rules, both at the EU level and national law and practice.
Embodied Family Choreography documents the lived and embodied
practices employed to establish, maintain, and negotiate intimate
social relationships in the family, examining forms of control,
care, and creativity. Making use of the extensive video archives of
family interaction in the US and Sweden, it presents the first
investigation of how touch and interaction between bodies, in
conjunction with talk, constitute a primary means of orchestrating
activities through directives, thus creating rich relationships
through supportive interchanges, and engaging in playful
explorations of the world. Through close investigation of the
sequential and simultaneous engagement of bodies interacting with
other bodies, this book makes visible the important role touch
plays in the context of contemporary Western middle class family
life and is pioneering in its analysis of how the visual, aural,
and haptic senses (usually analysed separately) mutually elaborate
one another. As such, Embodied Family Choreography will appeal to
scholars of child development, the sociology of the family and
ethnomethodology and conversation analysis.
This book deals with the main challenges of sustainable development
and the role of sustainable business and corporate social
responsibility in implementing these challenges through sustainable
leadership and innovations. It includes the economic, social, and
environmental dimensions of sustainability and emphasizes the
importance of achieving a socio-environmental balance in society.
The theoretical frameworks and insights from sustainable
development implementations on macro and micro levels, as well as
the practical examples and case studies provided to introduce the
concept of sustainable leadership and its impact on sustainable
business development, are a scientific novelty in the field of
sustainability. The book is comprised of six interconnected
chapters that sequentially reveal the principal provisions of
sustainable development, corporate social responsibility, and
sustainable leadership, together with their correlations. Features:
* Provides cutting-edge examples and case studies of sustainable
leadership, viewed as the most significant means for the creation
of sustainable organizational culture * Includes case studies on
the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of
sustainability * Addresses scientific aspects of sustainable
development and its challenges * Discusses issues of sustainable
development at different scales, ranging from macro to mirco levels
* Provides policy implications for sustainable business development
The theoretical framework and practical case studies presented in
Sustainable Development, Leadership, and Innovations make it an
invaluable resource and guide to both the academic and business
communities. Business leaders, policy makers, and other
professionals, as well as academics and graduate students, will all
benefit greatly from this text.
Understanding project endings is a significant part of project
management, yet there is relatively little work published in this
important area. This book addresses the gap, focusing on the
successful management of project endings, showing how to plan for
the ending of a project, how to create ending competencies, and in
particular, how to successfully manage relations with different
stakeholders of a project as it is coming to an end. Havila and
Salmi use a real-life case in the airline industry to show how the
successful ending project was achieved and in doing so portray
ideas and experiences not typically considered in the field.
Through the case discussion, the complexity of the process is
unveiled and the achievement of success for all parties is
explained. The book portrays three key success factors: ending
competencies, to be developed both at the organizational and
individual levels; efficient management of the business network
around the ending project; and involvement at the strategic
managerial level. It concludes that project endings are often
complex and have far-reaching effects, and therefore, call for
close managerial attention.
Embodied Family Choreography documents the lived and embodied
practices employed to establish, maintain, and negotiate intimate
social relationships in the family, examining forms of control,
care, and creativity. Making use of the extensive video archives of
family interaction in the US and Sweden, it presents the first
investigation of how touch and interaction between bodies, in
conjunction with talk, constitute a primary means of orchestrating
activities through directives, thus creating rich relationships
through supportive interchanges, and engaging in playful
explorations of the world. Through close investigation of the
sequential and simultaneous engagement of bodies interacting with
other bodies, this book makes visible the important role touch
plays in the context of contemporary Western middle class family
life and is pioneering in its analysis of how the visual, aural,
and haptic senses (usually analysed separately) mutually elaborate
one another. As such, Embodied Family Choreography will appeal to
scholars of child development, the sociology of the family and
ethnomethodology and conversation analysis.
On 8 November 1639, Willem Leyel left Denmark as commander of the
ship Christianshavn bound for the Danish colony of Tranquebar with
its fortress Dansborg, where he was to take charge of all trading
operations of the first Danish East India Company. The voyage,
however, became a seemingly endless nightmare of difficulties and
disasters. When Leyel finally reached Tranquebar almost four years
later, he found the fortress in a state of complete disrepair --
with the former governor having run off with everything of value.
But despite having only a few men in his service, barely any
capital and almost no possibility of communicating with the
managers of the Company in Copenhagen, Leyel managed to turn things
around -- befriending local princes and establishing a profitable
trade with their kingdoms, at times even resorting to piracy in
order to preserve Tranquebar on Danish hands. Drawing on Leyel's
own letters and papers located in The National Archives in
Copenhagen, Asta Bredsdorff ingeniously weaves together the rich
narrative strains in order to produce a moving and memorable
account of Leyel's exploits in the East Indies. The source material
even allows for a reconstruction of several dramatic episodes down
to the last detail. This book offers a fascinating account of
personal fortitude, courage and determination as well as a unique
and fantastic glimpse of the conditions in Tranquebar at the time,
of life at sea during the dangerous voyages and of Danish history
in general.
Rooted in multimodal conversation analysis and based on video
recordings of naturally occurring social interactions, this book
presents a novel analytical perspective for the study of touch. The
authors focus on how different forms of touch are interactionally
organized in everyday, institutional, and professional practices,
showing how touch is multimodally achieved in social interaction,
how it acquires its significance, how it is embedded in the current
activity and in its social context, and how it is systematically
intertwined with talk, facial expressions, and body posture.
Including work by a wide range of renowned researchers, this volume
provides rich visual illustrations of situations featuring touch as
a social and intersubjective practice. The studies make a
compelling contribution to the field by clearly examining and
demonstrating the social meaning of touch for the participants in
social interaction in a broad range of contexts. Presenting a new
methodology for the study of touch, this is key reading for all
researchers and scholars working in conversation analysis,
multimodality, and related areas.
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The memoirs of the pioneering Danish silent film star Asta Nielsen
in English translation for the first time, with scholarly
introduction and annotations. From her explosive screen debut in
The Abyss (1910) through her "scandalous" fourth marriage at age
89, the Danish actress Asta Nielsen (1881-1972) was a darling of
fans and the press, a global star without parallel in the silent
era. So famous in Germany that she was known simply as "die Asta,"
during her two decades of active filmmaking Nielsen also published
about her career, her impoverished childhood, her breakthrough into
film, the price of fame, and her interactions with the German film
industry. In 1938 Nielsen returned to Denmark, where she published
her memoirs in two volumes in 1945-46, expanding on her earlier
writings. This carefully crafted, colorful text offers eyewitness
insights into early European film, Nielsen's star persona, and the
challenges of stardom in Germany in the tumultuous period before
World War II. Yet although they have appeared in multiple Danish,
German, and Russian editions, the memoirs have never been published
in English until now. Nielsen's work has enduring value for
transnational film history, and the recent growth of interest in
women's contributions to early film makes the time ripe for this
translation. Julie K. Allen accompanies the text with a scholarly
introduction and annotations, and a foreword by leading early film
scholar Jennifer M. Bean frames the volume.
Saliva as a unique sample for health assessment is gaining
attention among researchers of different fields in the last 20
years; being reflected in an impressive increase in the number of
papers published studying saliva from different biological aspects
in human and veterinary species. Once deemed merely a digestive
juice is now considered a biological fluid capable of communicating
information about physiopathological processes occurring in
organisms, since saliva has been shown to contain molecular and
bacterial compounds that can change in response to local and
systemic pathologies. Furthermore, the interest of saliva as a
diagnostic, prognostic and monitoring biofluid is forced by its
non-invasive nature being of easy and inexpensive sampling,
involving only minimal discomfort and allowing the collection of
multiple/repeated specimens at anytime, anywhere and without need
for specialized staff. In this contributed volume, the authors
bring together, summarize and reflect the generated knowledge about
saliva as a source of biomarkers for health and welfare evaluation
in humans and animal models. This volume also highlights the
importance of confounding factors, such as sampling methods, flow,
total protein content, contamination, or storage. This book will
serve as a manual for graduates, practitioners and researchers by
providing general ideas about the possibilities and utilities of
saliva in clinical practice or investigation, and indicating the
main cautions each should have in mind before saliva usage.
Rooted in multimodal conversation analysis and based on video
recordings of naturally occurring social interactions, this book
presents a novel analytical perspective for the study of touch. The
authors focus on how different forms of touch are interactionally
organized in everyday, institutional, and professional practices,
showing how touch is multimodally achieved in social interaction,
how it acquires its significance, how it is embedded in the current
activity and in its social context, and how it is systematically
intertwined with talk, facial expressions, and body posture.
Including work by a wide range of renowned researchers, this volume
provides rich visual illustrations of situations featuring touch as
a social and intersubjective practice. The studies make a
compelling contribution to the field by clearly examining and
demonstrating the social meaning of touch for the participants in
social interaction in a broad range of contexts. Presenting a new
methodology for the study of touch, this is key reading for all
researchers and scholars working in conversation analysis,
multimodality, and related areas.
Saliva as a unique sample for health assessment is gaining
attention among researchers of different fields in the last 20
years; being reflected in an impressive increase in the number of
papers published studying saliva from different biological aspects
in human and veterinary species. Once deemed merely a digestive
juice is now considered a biological fluid capable of communicating
information about physiopathological processes occurring in
organisms, since saliva has been shown to contain molecular and
bacterial compounds that can change in response to local and
systemic pathologies. Furthermore, the interest of saliva as a
diagnostic, prognostic and monitoring biofluid is forced by its
non-invasive nature being of easy and inexpensive sampling,
involving only minimal discomfort and allowing the collection of
multiple/repeated specimens at anytime, anywhere and without need
for specialized staff. In this contributed volume, the authors
bring together, summarize and reflect the generated knowledge about
saliva as a source of biomarkers for health and welfare evaluation
in humans and animal models. This volume also highlights the
importance of confounding factors, such as sampling methods, flow,
total protein content, contamination, or storage. This book will
serve as a manual for graduates, practitioners and researchers by
providing general ideas about the possibilities and utilities of
saliva in clinical practice or investigation, and indicating the
main cautions each should have in mind before saliva usage.
This book explores the issue of consumer financial education,
responding to increased interest in, and calls to improve peoples'
financial literacy skills and abilities to understand and manage
their money. New conceptual frameworks introduced in the book offer
academic audiences an innovative way of thinking about the project
on financial literacy education. Using the concepts of
'edu-regulation' and 'financial knowledge democratisation' to
analyse the financial education project in the UK, the book exposes
serious, and often ignored, limitations to using information and
education as tools for consumer protection. It challenges the
mainstream representation of financial literacy education as a
viable solution to consumer financial exclusion and poverty.
Instead, it argues that the project on financial literacy education
fails to acknowledge important dependences between consumer
financial behaviour and the socio-economic, political, and cultural
context within which consumers live. Finally, it reveals how these
international and national calls for ever greater financial
education oversimplify and underestimate the complexity of consumer
financial decision-making in our modern times.
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