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This book examines Irish society and politics from a class
perspective. It provides a wide-ranging introduction to the
involvement of the changing middle class in Irish political life
and the public sphere between the eighteenth and late twentieth
centuries. Sixteen historians trace the rise and consolidation of
middle-class political power, as well as significant conflicts
within this class during a period of considerable social and
political turmoil. The contributions comprise both analytical
surveys covering long periods and case/area studies that provide
new perspectives on crucial moments, movements and figures in Irish
history.
This book is the first ever collection of scholarly essays on the
history of the Irish working class. It provides a comprehensive
introduction to the involvement of Irish workers in political life
and movements between 1830 and 1945. Fourteen leading Irish and
international historians and political scientists trace the
politicization of Irish workers during a period of considerable
social and political turmoil. The contributions include both
surveys covering the entire period and case studies that provide
new perspectives on crucial historical movements and moments. This
volume is a milestone in Irish labour and political historiography
and an important contribution to the international literature on
politics and the working class.
In the last decade of his career, the French sociologist Pierre
Bourdieu became involved in a series of high-profile political
interventions, defending the cause of striking students and
workers, speaking out in the name of illegal immigrants, the
homeless and the unemployed, challenging the incursion of the
market into the field of artistic and intellectual production.
The first sustained analysis of Bourdieu's politics, this study
seeks to assess the validity of his claims as to the
distinctiveness and superiority of his own field theory as a tool
of political analysis.
Over recent decades concerns at the increased scarcity and
precarity of salaried employment have dominated political
struggles, theoretical debates and cultural representations in
France. This study argues that such concerns are evidence of a
profound shift in contemporary French economy, culture and society.
Engaging with work in political economy and sociology, the book
sketches a new interpretative framework, the better to understand
the nature and implications of these profound changes. It examines
the challenges such changes have posed to fundamental French
republican values, arguing they have opened up a rift between older
notions of French republican citizenship and the precarious forms
of subjectivity characteristic of post-Fordist labour. The book
traces the symptoms of this rift in a range of cinematic and
literary representations of the contemporary workplace, as these
depict the dilemmas faced, the trajectories followed, and the
geographical regions inhabited by French workers of different ages,
sexes, social classes, and ethnicities.
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Birds of Peru (Paperback)
Thomas S. Schulenberg, Daniel F. Lane, Douglas F. Stotz, John P. O'Neill, Theodore A. Parker III; Illustrated by …
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With over 1800 species, Peru has the second richest avifauna of any
country in the world. As a consequence it is one of the most
popular birding destinations in South America. This will be the
first comprehensive and fully illustrated field guide to the birds
of Peru. Text is arranged opposite the plates, in conventional
field guide manner. The combination of authoritative text and
superb artwork will set new standards for South American field
guides.
From Fanny Brice, Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern to Barbra
Streisand, Alan Menken and Stephen Sondheim, Jewish performers,
composers, lyricists, directors, choreographers and producers have
made an indelible mark on Broadway for more than a century. This
historical new edition captures the story of the Jewish emergence
from immigrants in ghettos staging Yiddish productions on New
York's lower east side to the stages of Broadway. There is over
thirty percent more information, photographs plus insight and
anecdotes from a life spent working with many of the Jewish legends
of American theater.
This book is the first ever collection of scholarly essays on the
history of the Irish working class. It provides a comprehensive
introduction to the involvement of Irish workers in political life
and movements between 1830 and 1945. Fourteen leading Irish and
international historians and political scientists trace the
politicization of Irish workers during a period of considerable
social and political turmoil. The contributions include both
surveys covering the entire period and case studies that provide
new perspectives on crucial historical movements and moments. This
volume is a milestone in Irish labour and political historiography
and an important contribution to the international literature on
politics and the working class.
Birds of Peru is the most complete and authoritative field guide to
this diverse, neotropical landscape. It features every one of
Peru's 1,817 bird species and shows the distinct plumages of each
in 307 superb, high-quality color plates. Concise descriptions and
color distribution maps are located opposite the plates, making
this book much easier to use in the field than standard neotropical
field guides. This fully revised paperback edition includes
twenty-five additional species. * A comprehensive guide to all
1,817 species found in Peru--one fifth of the world's birds--with
subspecies, sexes, age classes, and morphs fully illustrated *
Designed especially for field use, with vivid descriptive
information and helpful identification tips opposite color plates *
Detailed species accounts, including a full-color distribution map
* Includes 25 additional species not covered in the first edition *
Features 3 entirely new plates and more than 25 additional
illustrations
In the last decade of his career, the French sociologist Pierre
Bourdieu became involved in a series of high-profile political
interventions, defending the cause of striking students and
workers, speaking out in the name of illegal immigrants, the
homeless and the unemployed, challenging the incursion of the
market into the field of artistic and intellectual production. The
first sustained analysis of Bourdieu's politics, this study seeks
to assess the validity of his claims as to the distinctiveness and
superiority of his own field theory as a tool of political
analysis.
This dissertation describes work performed at the Palomar Testbed
Interferometer (PTI) during 1998-2002. Using PTI, we developed a
method to measure stellar angular diameters in the 1-3
milli-arcsecond range with a precision of better than 5%. Such
diameter measurements were used to measure the mass-radius
relations of several lower main sequence stars and hence verify
model predictions for these stars. In addition, by measuring the
changes in Cepheid angular diameters during the pulsational cycle
and applying a Baade-Wesselink analysis we are able to derive the
distances to two galactic Cepheids (h Aql & z Gem) with a
precision of 10%; such distance determinations provide an
independent calibration of the Cepheid period-luminosity relations
that underpin current estimates of cosmic distance scales.Second,
we used PTI and the adaptive optics facility at the Keck Telescope
on Mauna Kea to resolve the low mass binary systems BY Dra and GJ
569B, resulting in dynamical mass determinations for these systems.
GJ 569B most likely contains at least one sub-stellar component,
and as such represents the first dynamical mass determination of a
brown dwarf.Finally, a new observing technique, dual star phase
referencing, was developed and demonstrated at PTI. Phase
referencing allows interferometric observations of stars previously
too faint to observe, and is a prerequisite for large-scale
interferometric astrometry programs such as the one planned for the
Keck Interferometer; interferometric astrometry is a promising
technique for the study of extra-solar planetary systems,
particularly ones with long-period planets.
This study of the work of the influential French sociologist and
anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu places his work firmly in the
context of developments both in the French post-war intellectual
field an din post-war French society as a whole. Set against the
background of rapid change and upheaval that has characterised
post-war French society, culture and politics, Bourdieu's work can
be seen as offering a peculiarly perceptive analysis of France's
problematic transition to an era of late capitalism. Proceeding
thematically, this study traces the development of Bourdieu's
thought, elucidating the relationship between the anthropological
and sociological aspects of his work, examining his debt to Marx,
Weber, Durkheim, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty and Bachelard, and
highlighting his antagonistic relationship with a series of
contemporary intellectual figures and movements - Barthes,
Lefebvre, Touraine, Sartre, Fanon, Foucault, Derrida, structuralism
and post-structuralism.
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