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In Communication Yearbook 11 major contributions from leading
scholars in a variety of communication fields are presented and
then critiqued by other authorities (often representing
complementary or competing schools of thought). Topics addressed
and commented on include the mass media audience, the theory of
mediation, effective policy for health care communication and
feminist criticism of television.
The Communication Yearbook 13 includes chapters on the following
topics: Interaction goals in negotiation, an analysis of
ethnographic narrative, the role of the news media in international
relations, Japan as an information exporter, group decision making,
new models for mass communication research.
Under the impact of accelerated globalization, transnational
integration and international security concerns, the geopolitics of
Europe's borders and border regions has become an area of critical
interest. The progressive enlargement of the EU has positioned its
borders at the heart of recent discussions on the changing nature
of the EU, the meaning of 'Europe' and what constitutional shape a
more politically unified Europe might take. With enlargement, the
EU must elaborate strategies to contend with a fiercely competitive
world - and to build fortress-like defences against perceived
tensions arising from greater cultural mixing and threats such as
terrorism. The authors build up an integral picture of the EU's
internal and external borders and borderlands to reveal the
processes of re-bordering and social change currently taking place
in Europe. They explore issues such as security, immigration,
economic development and changing social and political attitudes,
as well as the EU's relations with the Islamic world and other
world powers. The book embraces an array of disciplinary,
ideological and theoretical perspectives, offering detailed case
studies of different border regions and the concerns of the local
inhabitants, while engaging in broader discussions of developments
across Europe, state policies and the EU's relations with
neighbouring states. Geopolitics of European Union Enlargement will
be of key interest to students and researchers in the fields of
European politics, geography, international studies, sociology and
anthropology.
Under the impact of accelerated globalization, transnational
integration and international security concerns, the geopolitics of
Europe's borders and border regions has become an area of critical
interest. The progressive enlargement of the EU has positioned its
borders at the heart of recent discussions on the changing nature
of the EU, the meaning of 'Europe' and what constitutional shape a
more politically unified Europe might take.
With enlargement, the EU must elaborate strategies to contend with
a fiercely competitive world - and to build fortress-like defences
against perceived tensions arising from greater cultural mixing and
threats such as terrorism. The authors build up an integral picture
of the EU's internal and external borders and borderlands to reveal
the processes of re-bordering and social change currently taking
place in Europe. They explore issues such as security, immigration,
economic development and changing social and political attitudes,
as well as the EU's relations with the Islamic world and other
world powers. The book embraces an array of disciplinary,
ideological and theoretical perspectives, offering detailed case
studies of different border regions and the concerns of the local
inhabitants, while engaging in broader discussions of developments
across Europe, state policies and the EU's relations with
neighbouring states.
Geopolitics of European Union Enlargement will be of key interest
to students and researchers in the fields of European politics,
geography, international studies, sociology and anthropology.
Contemporary globalisation both challenges conventional forms of democracy and is opening up new needs and possibilities for democratisation beyond the territoriality of national states. These issues are explored by an international and multidisciplinary array of experts who focus on federalism, multi-cultural societies, the European Union and potential agents for the democratisation of global institutions.
In contemporary Norwegian fiction Tomas Espedal's work stands
out as uniquely personal; it can be difficult to separate the
fiction from Espedal's own experiences. In that vein, his novel
"Against Art" is not just the story of a boy growing up to be a
writer, but it is also the story of writing. Specifically, it is
about the profession of writing--the routines, responsibility, and
obstacles. Yet, "Against Art "is also about being a father, a son,
and a grandson; about a family and a family's tales, and about how
preceding generations mark their successors. It is at once about
choices and changes, about motion and rest, about moving to a new
place, and about living." ""Praise for the Norwegian Edition""One
of the most beautiful, most important books I've read for
years."--"Klassekampen" "Espedal has written an amazingly rich
novel, which will assuredly stand out as one of the year's best and
will also further fortify the quality of Norwegian literature
abroad."--" Adresseavisen" ""Against Art" attacks literature while
at the same time being intensely literary. Our greatest sorrows and
torments, the individual experiences often so anemic in art, find a
voice of their own."--"Morgenbladet" ""Against Art" moves me with
its maternal history and proves yet again that Tomas Espedal writes
great novels."--"Dag og Tid"
First published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
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Love (Hardcover)
Tomas Espedal, James Anderson
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R448
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A novel of intersecting historical threads. Love narrates
celebrated Norwegian writer Tomas Espedal's search for death. The
decision blossoms within I-the I-person-"like some interior bloom,
black and beautiful" on a warm spring day in May, and it is this
resolution that fills his self-imposed final year with meaning:
Death. It can be so beautiful. One must create this beauty for
oneself. One must submit to this naturalness, one must choose it,
like pulling the duvet over oneself in bed or jumping off a bridge.
But almost immediately life deals I a wildcard: a new love affair
brings some of the best days he's ever known and threatens his pact
with death. Will he be able to leave Aka and the child she's
carrying? He has put an endpoint on his life to intensify
experience but is he sure that disappearing from their lives,
becoming an absent father, is the best thing for all of them? Set
against Espedal's constant reference, the ebb and flow of the
seasons, something close to ecstasy propels this most introspective
of narratives towards a universal truth.
Borders increasingly capture the attention of policy-makers and
scholars across Europe. The deepening and widening of the European
Union, the spread of Euroregions, and the creation of new states in
eastern Europe since the early 1990s have thrown the changing
internal and external borders of the EU into sharp relief.
Globalization has brought more widespread and fundamental changes,
with increased cross-border flows of goods, capital, information
and people.
Contemporary globalisation both challenges conventional forms of democracy and is opening up new needs and possibilities for democratisation beyond the territoriality of national states. These issues are explored by an international and multidisciplinary array of experts who focus on federalism, multicultural societies, the European Union and potential agents for the democratisation of global institutions.
In contemporary Norwegian fiction, Tomas Espedal's work stands out
as uniquely bound up with the author's personal experiences. His
first book, Tramp, introduced us to the wanderer Tomas; Against Art
told us how a boy approaches art and eventually becomes a writer;
Against Nature examined love's labor-the job of writing; and in
Bergerners, he is torn between his love for his home town and what
lies beyond. Now, in The Year, we encounter the author's struggle
to reconcile his inner life with the external world, and the myriad
forms of love, hate, loss, and death-both personal and
literary-with the immutable pattern of time and the seasons. It is
the journal of a year, a diary like no other. And suffusing it all
are questions Petrarch asked: How do you live when the one you love
is gone? And when your life force shifts from spring to autumn, how
do you find the good death? Written as a long poem, The Year is
Espedal's riveting stream of consciousness-profound, edgy,
sometimes manic, but always intensely intimate.
The year is 323 bce. King Alexander of Macedonia--Alexander the
Great--lies paralyzed by poison in his palace in Babylon. He is
thirty-two years old, had Aristotle as a mentor, and is the
greatest military commander the world has ever seen. At the other
end of the palace, Phyllis, a cook for Alexander's army, sits
locked in a room, arrested on suspicion of being the poisoner. All
of her adult life she has lived in the field--and for a long period
of time was Alexander's lover. Who has poisoned the king? Phyllis
is allowed to live as long as she writes down everything she knows
about Alexander. She tells a brutal story of the violent daily life
in the war, about the planning of the expansion into the Arabian
Peninsula, about an invisible library containing marvelous
manuscripts and discoveries, and about the passion between a cook
and a king. With The Invisible Library, Thorvald Steen interweaves
known and unknown, relying on facts until they run out, then
building his story on what is probable, to tell the story of a
little-known period in the life of one of the most renowned figures
in history. The result is an existential and inspired novel that
goes to the heart of the human experience--who are we in war, in
love, during the final days of life?
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Lionheart (Paperback)
Thorvald Steen; Translated by James Anderson
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R551
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Richard I (1157-99) was king of England from 1189 until his death,
but he is best known as a soldier, not a monarch. He earned his
moniker Richard the Lionheart as a knight and military leader, and
his revolt against his father Henry II and his conquest of Cyprus
as part of the Crusades helped to solidify his historical legend.
In Lionheart, Norwegian author Thorvald Steen, celebrated for his
historical novels, brings his characteristic accuracy and artistic
vision to the life of Richard I. Lionheart is the story of a man
living in the shadow of his own myth, also a fanatic general who
wants to conquer the world's greatest sanctum and a king that is
suddenly vulnerable. At the age of fifteen he leads an army against
his father. Fourteen years later he is the Pope's obvious choice to
lead the third Crusade. But the Richard of Steen's novel is less
sure of himself and his role--is it true that he is God's chosen
one, like his mother says? Built on extensive research, Steen
paints a dark and conflicted, yet credible and convincing, portrait
of a man who has engrossed historians, poets, novelists and readers
for centuries. "Thorvald Steen's new novel Lionheart is a
fascinating read. . . . Steen manages to give flesh and blood to a
historical icon, and creates a story with energy, dressed in sober
yet sublime language."--Dagsavisen, on the Norwegian edition
Lord Burford had some serious misgivings about hosting yet another
house party at Alderley. After all, the previous two could, at
best, be described as disastrous. But with family members
travelling down for the funeral of an elderly relative, the Earl
really had no choice but to offer accommodation. It did not take
long for things to go wrong even before a body was found. For
readers who want the twist in the tale to be as elegant as a
well-tied cravat, it would be criminal to miss The Affair of the
Thirty-Nine Cufflinks.
The Earl of Burford cannot believe his luck. Rex Ransom, his
favourite film star, and a hot-shot producer want to film their
next feature at Alderley, the family's seventeenth-century country
estate. Somewhat less enthusiastic are the Countess and poor
Merryweather, the family's butler, who suddenly find themselves
hosting the incoming Hollywood crowd. And that's before there's a
murder in the dead of night. Paying homage to Golden Age crime
fiction in which even the red herrings are impeccably turned out,
The Affair of the Mutilated Mink is a must-read for armchair
sleuths.
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Bergeners (Hardcover)
Tomas Espedal; Translated by James Anderson
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R541
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Bergeners is a love letter to a writer's hometown. The book opens
in New York City at the swanky Standard Hotel and closes in Berlin
at Askanischer Hof, a hotel that has seen better days. But between
these two global metropolises we find Bergen, Norway its streets
and buildings and the people who walk those streets and live in
those buildings. Using James Joyce's Dubliners as a discrete guide,
celebrated Norwegian writer Tomas Espedal wanders the streets of
his hometown. On the journey, he takes notes, reflects, writes a
diary, and draws portraits of the city and its inhabitants. Espedal
writes tales and short stories, meets fellow writers, and listens
to their anecdotes. In the way that anyone from a small town can
relate to, he is drawn away from Bergen but at the same time he
can't seem to stay away. Espedal's Bergeners is a book not just
about Bergen, but about life in a way no one else could have
captured.
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes
over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American
and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists,
including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames
Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal
Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books,
works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works
of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value
to researchers of domestic and international law, government and
politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and
much more.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School
LibraryCTRG96-B1414Title page printed in red and black. Includes
legislation. Includes index.Edinburgh: W. Green & Sons, 1912.
cxxiv, 798 p.: forms; 26 cm
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James Anderson
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The companion volume to Espedal's Against Art, written in his
characteristic poetic prose. In contemporary Norwegian fiction
Tomas Espedal's work stands out as uniquely personal; it can be
difficult to separate the fiction from Espedal's own experiences.
Against Nature, a companion volume to Espedal's earlier Against
Art, is an examination of factory work, love's labor, and the work
of writing. Espedal dwells on the notion that working is required
in order to live in compliance with society, but is this natural?
And how can it be natural when he is drawn toward impossible
things-impossible love, books, myths, and taboos? He is drawn into
the stories of Abelard and Heloise, of young Marguerite Duras and
her Chinese lover, and soon realizes that he, too, is turning into
a person who must choose to live against nature. "A masterpiece of
literary understatement. Everybody who has recently been thirsting
for a new, unexhausted realism, like water in the desert, will love
this book."-Die Zeit, on the Norwegian edition
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