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Thirteen original chapters by major scholars examine different
aspects of the ICU's record in the 1920s and 1930s, assessing its
achievements and its failures in relation to the post-apartheid
present. In its syndicalist One Big Union approach to protecting
workers' rights; its emphasis on economic freedoms; its
internationalism; and its robust protection of women and migrant
workers, the ICU challenged fundamentally the axioms, tactics, and
programmes of rival organisations like the African National
Congress. More than simply an exercise in excavating a crucial
chapter in struggle history, this volume demonstrates that the
traditions and legacies of the ICU are of great relevance to
contemporary Southern Africa.
Here is the result of over ten years of hands-on clinical
experience by two experts wha have worked with the elderly. The
authors explore the contributions of the creative arts therapies,
specifically movement and drama therapy, to the individual and
communal welfare of residents in nursing homes. Waiting at the
Gate: Creativity and Hope in the Nursing Home eloquently
demonstrates how movement and drama therapy facilitate the
preservation of life, of meaning, and of hope by seeking the
beautiful and playful aspects of the self, and valuing humor,
flexibility, and spontaneity in relationships with others. The
authors show how these values challenge the "waiting to die"
phenomenon of the custodial nursing home and offer lively
alternatives to the resident in the new institution of the 1990s.
This book is intended to address both the quantitative and
qualitative issues of programmable controllers for factory
automation. It is helpful for both the newcomer to the field and
the experienced control engineer requiring a fresh perspective.
Here is the result of over ten years of hands-on clinical
experience by two experts wha have worked with the elderly. The
authors explore the contributions of the creative arts therapies,
specifically movement and drama therapy, to the individual and
communal welfare of residents in nursing homes. Waiting at the
Gate: Creativity and Hope in the Nursing Home eloquently
demonstrates how movement and drama therapy facilitate the
preservation of life, of meaning, and of hope by seeking the
beautiful and playful aspects of the self, and valuing humor,
flexibility, and spontaneity in relationships with others. The
authors show how these values challenge the "waiting to die"
phenomenon of the custodial nursing home and offer lively
alternatives to the resident in the new institution of the 1990s.
Examining the role of symbolic innovations in higher education
institutions, this book distinguishes between the real, material
changes universities undergo and the ways universities present them
and symbolic changes to outside and internal stakeholders. By
defining symbolic innovations and their general role in
organizations, this book provides a thorough view of innovations in
university contexts and the underlying factors that motivate and
generate them. This volume addresses ethical concerns about the
impact of symbolic innovations and how they relate to traditional
and current views of academic leadership.
This book is intended to address both the quantitative and
qualitative issues of programmable controllers for factory
automation. It is helpful for both the newcomer to the field and
the experienced control engineer requiring a fresh perspective.
As the Regional Plan Association embarks on a Fourth Regional Plan,
there can be no better time for a paperback edition of David
Johnson's critically acclaimed assessment of the 1929 Regional Plan
of New York and Its Environs. As he says in his preface to this
edition, the questions faced by the regional planners of today are
little changed from those their predecessors faced in the 1920s.
Derided by some, accused by others of being the root cause of New
York City's relative economic and physical decline, the 1929 Plan
was in reality an important source of ideas for many projects built
during the New Deal era of the 1930s. In his detailed examination
of the Plan, Johnson traces its origins to Progressive era and
Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago. He describes the making of
the Plan under the direction of Scotsman Thomas Adams, its
reception in the New York Region, and its partial realization. The
story he tells has important lessons for planners, decision-makers
and citizens facing an increasingly urban future where the physical
plan approach may again have a critical role to play.
Economics of the International Financial System offers an
illuminating, engaging and lucid account of the working of
21st-century global political economy. From a macroeconomic
perspective, it explores how major capitalist economies are closely
integrated with each other in that none can remain unaffected by
economic events around the globe. The book is one of the first in
its genre to examine: the origin and relevance of international
money as a concept and phenomenon; the structure of various money
markets; the nature and functioning of major international
financial institutions such as the World Bank, International
Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development (IBRD); and the dynamics of the new world financial
system that emerged after the demise of Bretton Woods system. This
will form an essential reading for students and scholars of
international monetary economics, international corporate finance,
researchers, policymakers, bankers and financial executives.
This critical reader is the essential companion to any course in
twentieth-century literature. Drawing upon the work of a wide range
of key writers and critics, the selected extracts provide:
*a literary-historical overview of the twentieth century
*insight into theoretical discussions around the purpose, value and
form of literature which dominated the century
*closer examination of representative texts from the period, around
which key critical issues might be debated.
Clearly conveying the excitement generated by twentieth-century
literary texts and by the provocative critical ideas and arguments
that surrounded them, this reader can be used alongside the two
volumes of "Debating Twentieth-Century Literature" or as a core
text for any module on the literature of the last century.
Texts examined in detail include: Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard,"
Mansfield's "Short Stories," poetry of the 1930s, Gibbon's "Sunset
Song," Eliot's "Prufrock," Brecht's "Galileo," Woolf's "Orlando,"
Okigbo's "Selected Poems," du Maurier's "Rebecca," poetry by
Ginsburg and O'Hara, Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,"
Puig's "Kiss" "of the Spiderwoman," Beckett's "Waiting for Godot,"
Heaney's "New Selected Poems 1966-1987," Gurnah's "Paradise" and
Barker's "The Ghost Road."
This critical reader is the essential companion to any course in
twentieth-century literature. Drawing upon the work of a wide range
of key writers and critics, the selected extracts provide:
*a literary-historical overview of the twentieth century
*insight into theoretical discussions around the purpose, value and
form of literature which dominated the century
*closer examination of representative texts from the period, around
which key critical issues might be debated.
Clearly conveying the excitement generated by twentieth-century
literary texts and by the provocative critical ideas and arguments
that surrounded them, this reader can be used alongside the two
volumes of "Debating Twentieth-Century Literature" or as a core
text for any module on the literature of the last century.
Texts examined in detail include: Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard,"
Mansfield's "Short Stories," poetry of the 1930s, Gibbon's "Sunset
Song," Eliot's "Prufrock," Brecht's "Galileo," Woolf's "Orlando,"
Okigbo's "Selected Poems," du Maurier's "Rebecca," poetry by
Ginsburg and O'Hara, Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,"
Puig's "Kiss" "of the Spiderwoman," Beckett's "Waiting for Godot,"
Heaney's "New Selected Poems 1966-1987," Gurnah's "Paradise" and
Barker's "The Ghost Road."
Examining the role of symbolic innovations in higher education
institutions, this book distinguishes between the real, material
changes universities undergo and the ways universities present them
and symbolic changes to outside and internal stakeholders. By
defining symbolic innovations and their general role in
organizations, this book provides a thorough view of innovations in
university contexts and the underlying factors that motivate and
generate them. This volume addresses ethical concerns about the
impact of symbolic innovations and how they relate to traditional
and current views of academic leadership.
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and
Francis, an informa company.
For fifty years, music fans, hippies, artists, and songwriters have
converged each spring on Quiet Valley Ranch in the Texas Hill
Country. They are drawn by the thousands to the annual Kerrville
Folk Festival, a weeks-long gathering of musical greats and
ordinary people living in an intentional community marked by
radical acceptance and the love of song. At the festival, David
Johnson is known as Photo Dave, the guy who lugs around a
large-format camera and captures the moments that make Kerrville
special. It Can Be This Way Always collects eighty images from the
past decade. Portraits of attendees and volunteers accompany scenes
of stage performances, campfire jam sessions, and vans repurposed
into coffee stands. In these images we see the temporary, makeshift
world that festivalgoers create, a place where eccentricities are
the norm and music is the foundation of friendship and unity. "It
can be this way always" is a popular saying at Kerrville:
simultaneously optimistic and wistful like a good folk song-or a
photograph from your best life.
The Omnibus Edition of Tucker's Way and For Tucker After enduring a
childhood of horrific abuse and crushing poverty, Tucker seeks
refuge in her rural Tennessee home. The three grandchildren she is
raising are her only connection to the outside, and her demeanor is
purposefully rough. But her world is turned upside down when a new
neighbor, Ella, moves into the old McDaniel place next door. Ella
seeks solace on the same country road after overcoming cancer.
Although she is Tucker's peer agewise, she was raised in a world of
privilege and opportunity. Still, Ella shares a tragic part of
Tucker's experience-she also suffered abuse. Hers was at the hands
of her husband, a prominent judge in the community and Tucker's
sworn enemy. When Tucker finds herself at risk of losing custody of
her beloved youngest grandchild and worse, the child's mother is
murdered, she draws support and strength from her new friendship
with Ella. These two women from disparate backgrounds form a fierce
bond, and they weather life's storms together with faith, love, and
determination.
Assembles for the first time the many different texts imagining the
future after the end of apartheid Explores the history of how the
future in South Africa after the end of apartheid was imagined
Provides the first literary-cultural history of South African
speculative fiction Studies the literary-political cultures of the
five major traditions of South African anti-colonial/
anti-segregationist/ anti-apartheid thought Focusing on well-known
and obscure literary texts from the 1880s to the 1970s, as well as
the many manifestos and programmes setting out visions of the
future, this book charts the dreams of freedom of five major
traditions of anti-colonial and anti-apartheid resistance: the
African National Congress, the Industrial and Commercial Workers
Union, the Communist Party of South Africa, the Non-European Unity
Movement and the Pan-Africanist Congress. More than an exercise in
historical excavation, Dreaming of Freedom in South Africa raises
challenging questions for the post-apartheid present.
Symposium B, 'Thermoelectric Materials Research and Device
Development for Power Conversion and Refrigeration', held from
November 26-30 at the 2012 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston,
Massachusetts, was the tenth in a series of symposia on
state-of-the-art materials and technologies for direct
thermal-to-electric energy conversion that produced proceedings
with primary focus on material and technological advances of
thermoelectrics and thermionics (see MRS Proceedings volumes 234,
478, 545, 626, 691, 793, 886, 1044 and 1166). In this symposium
there were 263 contributed presentations, the largest by far at the
MRS, including 10 invited talks and 168 poster presentations. These
presentations were given from researchers from academia, national
laboratories, and industry in the United States, Asia and Europe.
The symposia covered a broad range of topics in the areas of
materials, measurement techniques, and device development. This
volume provides an overview of the exciting recent developments in
the field.
The information context of the modern organization is rapidly
evolving in the face of intense global competition. Information
technologies, including databases, new telecommunications systems,
and software for synthesizing information, make a vast array of
information available to an ever expanding number of organizational
members. Management's exclusive control over knowledge is steadily
declining, in part because of the downsizing of organizations and
the decline of the number of layers in an organizational hierarchy.
These trends, as well as issues surrounding the Web 2.0 and social
networking, mean that it is increasingly important that we
understand how informal knowledge networks impact the generation,
capturing, storing, dissemination, and application of knowledge.
This innovative book provides a thorough analysis of knowledge
networks, focusing on how relationships contribute to the creation
of knowledge, its distribution within organizations, how it is
diffused and transferred, and how people find it and share it
collaboratively.
The information context of the modern organization is rapidly
evolving in the face of intense global competition. Information
technologies, including databases, new telecommunications systems,
and software for synthesizing information, make a vast array of
information available to an ever expanding number of organizational
members. Management's exclusive control over knowledge is steadily
declining, in part because of the downsizing of organizations and
the decline of the number of layers in an organizational hierarchy.
These trends, as well as issues surrounding the Web 2.0 and social
networking, mean that it is increasingly important that we
understand how informal knowledge networks impact the generation,
capturing, storing, dissemination, and application of knowledge.
This innovative book provides a thorough analysis of knowledge
networks, focusing on how relationships contribute to the creation
of knowledge, its distribution within organizations, how it is
diffused and transferred, and how people find it and share it
collaboratively.
All the Way with LBJ mines an extraordinarily rich but
underutilized source - the full range of LBJ tapes - to analyze the
1964 presidential campaign and the political culture of the
mid-1960s. The president achieved a smashing victory over a divided
Republican Party, which initially considered Henry Cabot Lodge II,
then U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam, before nominating Barry
Goldwater, who used many of the themes that later worked for
Republicans - a Southern strategy, portraying the Democrats as soft
on defense, raising issues such as crime and personal ethics.
Johnson countered with what he called a "frontlash" strategy,
appealing to moderate and liberal GOP suburbanites, but he failed
to create a new, permanent Democratic majority for the post-civil
rights era. The work's themes - the impact of race on the political
process, the question of politicians' personal and political
ethics, and the tensions between politics and public policy -
continue to resonate.
All the Way with LBJ mines an extraordinarily rich but
underutilized source - the full range of LBJ tapes - to analyze the
1964 presidential campaign and the political culture of the
mid-1960s. The president achieved a smashing victory over a divided
Republican Party, which initially considered Henry Cabot Lodge II,
then US ambassador to South Vietnam, before nominating Barry
Goldwater, who used many of the themes that later worked for
Republicans - a Southern strategy, portraying the Democrats as soft
on defence, raising issues such as crime and personal ethics.
Johnson countered with what he called a 'frontlash' strategy,
appealing to moderate and liberal GOP suburbanites, but he failed
to create a new, permanent Democratic majority for the post-civil
rights era. The work's themes - the impact of race on the political
process, the question of politicians' personal and political
ethics, and the tensions between politics and public policy -
continue to resonate.
The first historical interpretation of the congressional response
to the entire Cold War. Using a wide variety of sources, including
several manuscript collections opened specifically for this study,
the book challenges the popular and scholarly image of a weak Cold
War Congress, in which the unbalanced relationship between the
legislative and executive branches culminated in the escalation of
the U.S. commitment in Vietnam, which in turn paved the way for a
congressional resurgence best symbolized by the passage of the War
Powers Act in 1973. Instead, understanding the congressional
response to the Cold War requires a more flexible conception of the
congressional role in foreign policy, focused on three facets of
legislative power: the use of spending measures; the internal
workings of a Congress increasingly dominated by subcommittees; and
the ability of individual legislators to affect foreign affairs by
changing the way that policymakers and the public considered
international questions.
The world-wide reform movement has now been in process for thirty
years and it is therefore perhaps an appropriate point to consider
its implications for the work of teachers thus far and to ponder on
the future. It would be widely agreed that the reform movement in
general, and in relation to teachers' work in particular, has
brought advantages and disadvantages. It has stimulated teacher
development and increased the accountability of teachers to clients
- including the state as client. On the other hand, it has led to
the intensification of teachers' work and to the
deprofessionalisation as well as professionalisation of teachers.
Moreover, it has increased the power of managerialism over the
influence of professionalism.This book addresses these issues from
different perspectives and in relation to different contexts.
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