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As shopping has been transformed from a chore into a major source
of hedonistic pleasure, a specifically Russian consumer culture has
begun to emerge that is unlike any other. This book examines the
many different facets of consumption in today's Russia, including
retailing, advertising and social networking. Throughout, emphasis
is placed on the inherently visual - not to say spectacular -
nature both of consumption generally, and of Russian consumer
culture in particular. Particular attention is paid to the ways in
which brands, both Russian and foreign, construct categories of
identity in order to claim legitimacy for themselves. What emerges
is a fascinating picture of how consumer culture is being
reinvented in Russia today, in a society which has one, nostalgic
eye turned towards the past, and the other, utopian eye, set firmly
on the future. Borrowing concepts from both marketing and cultural
studies, the approach throughout is interdisciplinary, and will be
of considerable interest, to researchers, students and
practitioners wishing to gain invaluable insights into one of the
most lucrative, and exciting, of today's emerging markets.
Selling is a skill that should not be limited to sales staff.
Customer service, or other support staff, could all benefit from
developing an awareness of and an ability to sell to customers.
Also, the opportunity for developing those skills should not be
limited to sales training workshops. Here, at last, is a mix of
over 80 games, exercises and ideas that can be used to develop
sales, customer service and other staff. They range from simple
'skill boosters' for coaching sessions or team meetings, through
icebreakers, energizers and selling quizzes to full blown role
plays and case studies. The principle at the heart of all the
material is that games and exercises should be generic -
transferable across different organizations and sales situations -
and that they should use an 'open content' approach. This means
that participants must supply their own examples and experiences,
to make the material immediately and completely relevant. This
collection of games and exercises will enable sales managers or
trainers to: c develop their people with confidence, secure in the
knowledge that all of the material has been thoroughly road-tested
on courses and seminars; c ensure a flexible approach, varying
their pace or style in response to the subject matter and their
audience; c reinforce the learning, using different formats of
exercise to cover the same learning points; c train (rather than
talk), using the material to encourage people to start using what
they already know.
Improving Foreign Language Teaching provides teachers and teacher
trainers with a research-based structure for the effective teaching
and assessment of second languages. As well as outlining a model
for teacher development, the book identifies and exemplifies eight
key principles for effective language learning, which can be used
to guide curriculum design and decisions about classroom pedagogy.
Improving Foreign Language Teaching also presents practical
activities, related materials, and guidance on how student progress
can be monitored and recorded. Based on the research of the authors
and other international experts, together with the work of a
consortium established by the authors and teachers in a range of
secondary schools, the book focusses on the development of language
skills and communicative competence. It also proposes an assessment
system which better reflects how learners progress in language
learning than current models. Taking as its starting point the
challenge of a curriculum in flux and complex pedagogical
approaches, this book offers clear research-informed guidance for
effective planning, teaching and learning. It will be essential
reading for all those concerned with the improvement of language
learning and teaching in the secondary classroom.
All 39 episodes of Gerry Anderson's cult Supermarionation series.
The programme follows the adventures of the World Aquanaut Security
Patrol and their flagship vessel, the technologically advanced
combat submarine Stingray. Operating out of Marineville in 2065,
the crew of Stingray encounter a number of undersea enemies
including the aquatic warriors the Aquaphibians, who operate under
the command of the tyrannical King Titan (voice of Ray Barrett).
The episodes are: 'Stingray', 'Emergency Marineville', 'The Ghost
Ship', 'Subterranean Sea', 'Loch Ness Monster', 'Set Sail for
Adventure', 'The Man from the Navy', 'An Echo of Danger', 'Raptures
of the Deep', 'Titan Goes Pop', 'In Search of the Tajmanon', 'A
Christmas to Remember', 'Tune of Danger', 'The Ghost of the Sea',
'Rescue from the Skies', 'The Lighthouse Dwellers', 'The Big Gun',
'The Cool Cave Man', 'Deep Heat', 'Star of the East', 'Invisible
Enemy', 'Tom Thumb Tempest', 'Eastern Eclipse', 'Treasure Down
Below', 'Stand By for Action', 'Pink Ice', 'The Disappearing
Ships', 'Secret of the Giant Oyster', 'The Invaders', 'A Nut for
Marineville', 'Trapped in the Depths', 'Count Down', 'Sea of Oil',
'Plant of Doom', 'The Master Plan', 'The Golden Sea', 'Hostages of
the Deep', 'Marineville Traitor' and 'Aquanaut of the Year'.
Selling is a skill that should not be limited to sales staff.
Customer service, or other support staff, could all benefit from
developing an awareness of and an ability to sell to customers.
Also, the opportunity for developing those skills should not be
limited to sales training workshops. Here, at last, is a mix of
over 80 games, exercises and ideas that can be used to develop
sales, customer service and other staff. They range from simple
'skill boosters' for coaching sessions or team meetings, through
icebreakers, energizers and selling quizzes to full blown role
plays and case studies. The principle at the heart of all the
material is that games and exercises should be generic -
transferable across different organizations and sales situations -
and that they should use an 'open content' approach. This means
that participants must supply their own examples and experiences,
to make the material immediately and completely relevant. This
collection of games and exercises will enable sales managers or
trainers to: c develop their people with confidence, secure in the
knowledge that all of the material has been thoroughly road-tested
on courses and seminars; c ensure a flexible approach, varying
their pace or style in response to the subject matter and their
audience; c reinforce the learning, using different formats of
exercise to cover the same learning points; c train (rather than
talk), using the material to encourage people to start using what
they already know.
A Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Autumn 2022. [To] The
Last [Be] Human collects four extraordinary poetry books-Sea
Change, PLACE, fast, and Runaway-by Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie
Graham. From the introduction by Robert Macfarlane: The earliest of
the poems in this tetralogy were written at 373 parts per million
of atmospheric CO2, and the most recent at 414 parts per million;
that is to say, in the old calendar, 2002 and 2020 respectively.
The body of work gathered here stands as an extraordinary lyric
record of those eighteen calamitous years: a glittering, teeming
Anthropocene journal, rife with hope and raw with loss, lush and
sparse, hard to parse and hugely powerful to experience. Graham's
poems are turned to face our planet's deep-time future, and their
shadows are cast by the long light of the will-have-been. But they
are made of more durable materials than granite and concrete, and
their tasks are of record as well as warning: to preserve what it
has felt like to be a human in these accelerated years when "the
future / takes shape / too quickly", when we are entering "a time /
beyond belief". They know, these poems, and what they tell is
precise to their form... Sometimes they are made of ragged,
hurting, hurtling, and body-fleeing language; other times they
celebrate the sheer, shocking, heart-stopping gift of the given
world, seeing light, tree, sea, skin, and star as a "whirling robe
humming with firstness". To read these four twenty-first-century
books together in a single volume is to experience vastly complex
patterns forming and reforming in mind, eye, and ear. These poems
sing within themselves, between one another, and across
collections, and the song that joins them all is uttered simply in
the first lines of the last poem of the last book: The earth said
remember me. The earth said don't let go, said it one day when I
was accidentally listening
As a child, Bill Graham fled Europe to escape Hitler's armies. He
grew up on the streets of New York and in the dining rooms of the
hotels in the Catskills. After failing as an actor, he headed for
San Francisco right before the Summer of Love where he founded the
Fillmore and launched the rock icons of a generation--Janis Joplin,
Otis Redding, Jefferson Airplane, Cream, the Grateful Dead, and
more. He was a complex, caring, compassionate whirlwind of energy
who rock stars either loved--or hated.In his own voice and those of
the people who knew him--Jerry Garcia, Keith Richards, Grace Slick,
Ken Kesey, Eric Clapton, Pete Townshend, and Carlos Santana--we
hear Bill's story as well as the scoop on the major events in rock
for more than three decades, ending with his tragic death in a 1991
helicopter crash. Gritty, moving, funny, and always fascinating,
"Bill Graham Presents" is the inside story of the explosive and
unforgettable man who created the business of rock.
As shopping has been transformed from a chore into a major source
of hedonistic pleasure, a specifically Russian consumer culture has
begun to emerge that is unlike any other. This book examines the
many different facets of consumption in today's Russia, including
retailing, advertising and social networking. Throughout, emphasis
is placed on the inherently visual - not to say spectacular -
nature both of consumption generally, and of Russian consumer
culture in particular. Particular attention is paid to the ways in
which brands, both Russian and foreign, construct categories of
identity in order to claim legitimacy for themselves. What emerges
is a fascinating picture of how consumer culture is being
reinvented in Russia today, in a society which has one, nostalgic
eye turned towards the past, and the other, utopian eye, set firmly
on the future. Borrowing concepts from both marketing and cultural
studies, the approach throughout is interdisciplinary, and will be
of considerable interest, to researchers, students and
practitioners wishing to gain invaluable insights into one of the
most lucrative, and exciting, of today's emerging markets.
This is an account of Soviet documentary output during the years
between the "Great October Socialist Revolution" and the "Great
Patriotic War". Graeme Roberts re-views the examples of Soviet, and
world, non-fiction cinema, like "The Man With the Movie Camera" and
"The Fall of the Romanovs", and uncovers many intriguing films. He
discusses the careers of the men and women who made them, including
Vertov, Shub, Medvedkin and Karmen, and investigates the problems
of analysis and context, offering insights into that context. The
text demonstrates how, through looking as the history of Soviet
non-fiction film, it becomes possible to gain insight into the
agencies that shaped Soviet culture and history under Stalinist
regime into and beyond the 1930s.
Depression is one of the most common mental health problems facing
older people, and it is often unrecognised and usually
under-treated. Integrated Management of Depression in the Elderly
provides an entirely new approach to understanding late-life
depression, by using a series of case studies with commentaries
from practitioners internationally. The book covers the
epidemiology, presentation and diagnosis of depression in older
people and outlines current evidence for effective management
drawing on recently published work. The substantive part of the
book presents ten case studies of increasing complexity, each case
has a commentary from a primary care clinician and a health or
social care professional, to outline how professionals should work
together to manage the patient within their community.
Contributions from world experts give the book an international
appeal. It will appeal to a wide audience of health and social care
professionals together with psychiatrists-in-training.
This is a comprehensive study of a group of avant-garde Soviet
writers active in Leningrad in the 1920s and 1930s who styled
themselves OBERIU, 'The Association for Real Art'. Graham Roberts
re-examines commonly held assumptions about OBERIU, its identity as
a group, its aesthetics and its place within the Russian and
European literary traditions. He focuses on the prose and drama of
group members Daniil Kharms, Aleksandr Vvedensky, and Konstantin
Vaginov; he also considers work by Nikolay Zabolotsky and Igor
Bakhterev, as well as the group's most important
'fellow-traveller', Nikolay Oleinikov. He places OBERIU in the
context of the aesthetic theories of the Russian formalists and the
Bakhtin circle. Roberts concludes by showing how the self-conscious
literature of OBERIU - its metafiction - occupies an important
transitional space between modernism and postmodernism.
This is a comprehensive study of a group of avant-garde Soviet
writers active in Leningrad in the 1920s and 1930s who styled
themselves OBERIU, 'The Association for Real Art'. Graham Roberts
re-examines commonly held assumptions about OBERIU, its identity as
a group, its aesthetics and its place within the Russian and
European literary traditions. He focuses on the prose and drama of
group members Daniil Kharms, Aleksandr Vvedensky, and Konstantin
Vaginov; he also considers work by Nikolay Zabolotsky and Igor
Bakhterev, as well as the group's most important
'fellow-traveller', Nikolay Oleinikov. He places OBERIU in the
context of the aesthetic theories of the Russian formalists and the
Bakhtin circle. Roberts concludes by showing how the self-conscious
literature of OBERIU - its metafiction - occupies an important
transitional space between modernism and postmodernism.
European Cinemas in the Television Age is a radical attempt to
rethink the post-war history of European cinemas. The authors
approach the subject from the perspective of television's impact on
the culture of cinema's production, distribution, consumption and
reception. Thus they indicate a new direction for the debate about
the future of cinema in Europe. In every European country
television has transformed economic, technological and aesthetic
terms in which the process of cinema production had been conducted.
Television's growing popularity has drastically reshaped cinema's
audiences and forced governments to introduce policies to regulate
the interaction between cinema and television in the changing and
dynamic audio-visual environment. It is cinematic criticism, which
was slowest in coming to terms with the presence of television and
therefore most instrumental in perpetuating the view of cinema as
an isolated object of aesthetic, critical and academic inquiry. The
recognition of the impact of television upon European cinemas
offers a more authentic and richer picture of cinemas in Europe,
which are part of the complex audiovisual matrix including
television and new media. Features *Contains detailed case studies
of Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Poland, Italy and Denmark.
*Includes contributions from leading scholars in the fields of
cinema and television studies: Pierre Sorlin, Luisa Cignoetti,
Valeria Camporesi, Gunhild Agger, Magrit Grieb, Malgorzata
Radkiewicz and Will Lehman. *Will appeal to students and
researchers in a wide range of fields, including cinema,
television, media and communication studies.
Improving Foreign Language Teaching provides teachers and teacher
trainers with a research-based structure for the effective teaching
and assessment of second languages. As well as outlining a model
for teacher development, the book identifies and exemplifies eight
key principles for effective language learning, which can be used
to guide curriculum design and decisions about classroom pedagogy.
Improving Foreign Language Teaching also presents practical
activities, related materials, and guidance on how student progress
can be monitored and recorded. Based on the research of the authors
and other international experts, together with the work of a
consortium established by the authors and teachers in a range of
secondary schools, the book focusses on the development of language
skills and communicative competence. It also proposes an assessment
system which better reflects how learners progress in language
learning than current models. Taking as its starting point the
challenge of a curriculum in flux and complex pedagogical
approaches, this book offers clear research-informed guidance for
effective planning, teaching and learning. It will be essential
reading for all those concerned with the improvement of language
learning and teaching in the secondary classroom.
In Roman religion, Terminus was an agrarian god who protected
boundary markers. Stones were often used to provide an effective
means for marking these boundaries, although a stump or a tree
sometimes served to demarcate adjacent properties. The need to
demarcate boundaries and define ends continues to shape our way of
thinking at the most fundamental level. The articles in this book
investigate, among other things, developments in literature, film,
historiography, and new digital entertainment, to see how they
reflect cultural anxieties about 'the end' and/or how they are
determined by the need to mark boundaries. The contributions are
organized so that they reflect thematic, national, and
chronological perspectives. But, they also show that it is possible
to identify several threads of continuity in the way that 'the end'
has been conceptualized. By examining ideas of culmination,
conclusion, closure, finale, and termination - from the perspective
of a number of various genres, cultural formations, and historical
contexts - these essays on 'terminus' show how endings are carriers
of meaning in social and cultural contexts. (Series:
Interdisciplinaere Kulturstudier / Interdisciplinary Cultural
Studies - Vol. 5)
This inspirational book provides a refreshing approach to making
the decisions that affect both your business and personal life and
your level of success. Working Smarter is more than just a time
management philosophy or system it's a way of structuring your
life, your work and your goals that is more sustainable, more
enjoyable and less stressful than any other method.
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'Enchanting...lovely.....a really charming tale' Losing a pet,
especially a dog, can be an extremely traumatic time for a child.
For many children this may be their first experience of death at
close hand, and coming to terms with pet grief and pet loss, can
take a long time. When it's the death of a dog and dog loss it can
be even more traumatic. For parents it is also a particularly
difficult time. There are lots of questions to answer when there is
the loss of the family dog and one of the most common and urgent
seems to be 'do we get a replacement, and if so, how soon'? Pippy
and Beth is the upbeat and charming story of how one young girl,
Beth, saw such an event. It is hoped that this charming tale will
comfort bereaved children, while giving parents the opportunity to
talk about this sensitive subject with their child, in a
constructive way. Pippy and Beth is a delightful tale, despite the
subject being the emotive subject of pet loss. A book to help your
child deal with family dog loss and pet grief in a positive and
sometimes even amusing way. In the story Beth finds a way to handle
the death of her beloved dog, Pippy. Her dog loss and pet grief is
supported with the help of an assortment of friends. A good read
for both adults and children and those who enjoy a good family dog
story.
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