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With On Screen Acting, director Edward Dmytryk and actress Jean
Porter Dmytryk offer a lively dialogue between director and actress
about the principles and practice of screen acting for film and
television. Informal and anecdotal in style, the book spans
auditioning, casting, rehearsal, and on-set techniques, and will be
of interest to both aspiring and working actors and directors.
Originally published in 1984, this reissue of Dmytryk's classic
acting book includes a new critical introduction by Paul Thompson,
as well as chapter lessons, discussion questions, and exercises.
The ultimate guide to the birds of Bangladesh Despite being one of
the most densely populated countries on Earth, Bangladesh boasts a
diverse range of natural habitats, including forests, wetlands and
grasslands, and supports a wide range of species including a number
of sought after regional specialities. Birds of Bangladesh is the
definitive field guide to the rich avifauna of this fascinating and
beautiful country. - Covers all 705 species that occur in
Bangladesh, including vagrants - 103 superb colour plates, with
text on facing pages for quick and easy reference - Concise species
accounts describe key identification features, voice, habitats,
distribution and status
This first academic collection dedicated to popular music in
Leeds -Â developed from the work of interdisciplinary
scholars, drawn from a major public museum exhibition
“Sounds of Our City†and built upon contemporary
research. Leeds has rich musical histories and heritage, a
long tradition of vibrant music venues, nightclubs, dance
halls, pubs and other sites of musical entertainment. The
city has spawned crooners, folk singers, punks,
post-Â punks, Goths, DJs, popstars, rappers and
indie rockers, yet – with a few exceptions - Leeds
has not been studied for its scenes in ways that other UK
cities have. In ways that the chapters explore, Leeds’
popular music exemplifies and informs understandings of
broader cultural and urban changes – both in Britain and
across wider global contexts – of the social and historical
significance of music as mass media; music and
migration;Â music, racialisation and social equity;
industrial decline, de-industrialisation, neoliberalism and
the rise of the 24-hour city. Charting moments of
stark musical politicisation and de-politicisation,
while concomitantly tracing arguments
about “heritagising†popular music within
discussions about music’s “place†in museums and in
the urban economy, this book contributes to
debates about why music matters, has mattered,
and continues to matter in Leeds, and beyond. Â
This first academic collection dedicated to popular music in
Leeds -Â developed from the work of interdisciplinary
scholars, drawn from a major public museum exhibition
“Sounds of Our City†and built upon contemporary
research. Leeds has rich musical histories and heritage, a
long tradition of vibrant music venues, nightclubs, dance
halls, pubs and other sites of musical entertainment. The
city has spawned crooners, folk singers, punks,
post-Â punks, Goths, DJs, popstars, rappers and
indie rockers, yet – with a few exceptions - Leeds
has not been studied for its scenes in ways that other UK
cities have. In ways that the chapters explore, Leeds’
popular music exemplifies and informs understandings of
broader cultural and urban changes – both in Britain and
across wider global contexts – of the social and historical
significance of music as mass media; music and
migration;Â music, racialisation and social equity;
industrial decline, de-industrialisation, neoliberalism and
the rise of the 24-hour city. Charting moments of
stark musical politicisation and de-politicisation,
while concomitantly tracing arguments
about “heritagising†popular music within
discussions about music’s “place†in museums and in
the urban economy, this book contributes to
debates about why music matters, has mattered,
and continues to matter in Leeds, and beyond. Â
The Illustrated guide to the Anglo-Zulu War is a guide to the
famous clash in 1879 between the British Empire and the Zulu
Kingdom. The title describes and explains the origins of the
conflict, the Zulu, British and colonial military systems, the
combatants’ tactics and strategies. It includes a narrative of
the course of the campaign accompanied by maps of military
operations, descriptions of the fortifications with detailed
diagrams, and accounts with maps of all the major battles and
several lesser engagements. All the campaign, battle and sector
maps are in full colour, as are many of the pictures which enliven
the text. The aim is to lead the reader through the history of the
campaign and to guide them to the actual sites of the ware, while
at the same time providing a sense of the human and social context
in which military and civilian commentators of a previous century
experienced the violence of invasion and war. In all its aspects
this title is the essential guide to a full understanding of the
Zululand campaign of 1879.
Labour in Transition (1992) examines the massive transformations
undertaken by state socialist regimes at the end of the 1980s. It
traces developments in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and China,
in particular the impact of changes in the labour process and
broader political economy. Detailed empirical analysis of reform
processes is effectively combined with a broader comparative
examination of capitalism, socialism and the process of transition
to new social formations.
Discusses the significance of oral history to the history of the
development of health and welfare provisions. By focusing on
individual experiences, as revealed through oral history
approaches, the human dimensions of the history of medicine is
explored. Oral history reveals the personal stories of innovation,
policy shifts, training and treatment over a 60-year period of
development, characterized by both continuity and change. This book
includes discussion on: the end of the workhouse; professional
education and training of midwives; HIV and AIDS; birth control;
the role of the community pharmacist; pioneers of geriatric
medicine; oral history; and the history of learning disability.
Agriculture is facing unprecedented scrutiny for its social and
environmental impacts. Many of the key choices it must make are
fundamentally about ethics. Key issues in agricultural ethics
explores key ethical debates surrounding agriculture and agri-food
supply chains. These include issues such as animal welfare, use of
labour, the effects of new technologies and the overall impact of
agriculture on the environment. It considers the ways these ethical
dilemmas may be better understood and potentially resolved. Edited
by a leading researcher in the field, Key issues in agricultural
ethics will be a standard reference for researchers in agriculture
and environmental science, government and other private sector
agencies responsible for monitoring good agricultural practice, as
well as researchers involved in the social sciences with a focus on
ethics.
"Geography Matters" is a Key Stage 3 course created for pupils of
all abilities. It provides an exact match to the requirement of the
revised National Curriculum, and to the units of the Key Stage 3
Scheme of Work. The pupil textbooks for each year are parallel in
their content coverage but are set at different levels, Foundation
and Higher, to provide material at the right level and pace for
both less able and more able pupils. Pupil books emphasize
investigation skills, and integrated geographical skills such as
map work and data analysis. The activities are linked to literacy
and numeracy and have integrated ICT skills. Regular tasks provide
feedback on progress and extention activities. There is a teacher
resource pack to cover each full year at Key S tage 3. Each pack
offers differentiated photocopiable worksheets and teacher's notes
for the activity sheets. Matrices show how the scheme covers the
new National Curriculum and links with the Scheme of Work, and
there are teaching plants for each chapter. Guidance is included on
differentiation, literacy and numeracy. Other photocopiable
resources include outline maps, diagrams and writing frames.
This two-volume Campus Talk set delivers a wide range of skills and
strategies which students can actively apply in everyday social
communication in both academic and non-academic environments on
campus. It encourages an 'interactional' rather than a 'speaker
focused' language development approach. Drawing on corpus data, it
exposes students to the most salient and widely used vocabulary and
grammar, illustrates the most effective conversation maintenance
and communication strategies and draws attention to the
socio-cultural aspects of communication. Campus Talk comprises two
textbooks. Each textbook contains four instructional units and each
unit is based on situations and conversations that students will
come across in their everyday lives on campus. Part 1, comprising
units 1-4 covers areas such as striking up a conversation, sharing
and responding to news, making small talk, managing group
communication, expressing and reacting to opinions, expressing,
responding and talking about feelings and making and responding to
requests. Each unit includes: Enabling, input-based and
interactional tasks and activities Usage-informed vocabulary list
Main production task Self-assessment With a variety of challenging
tasks and activities and plenty of opportunities to practice and
engage in self-reflection and self-assessment, students using these
books will grow their confidence and enhance their abilities to
express themselves clearly, appropriately and effectively. The
workbooks are aimed at upper-intermediate and advanced learners of
English (CEFR B1-C2) to promote interactional language awareness
and develop active listening skills.
Interdisciplinary Research Discourse: Corpus Investigations into
Environment Journals provides cutting-edge insights into the nature
of communication in interdisciplinary research domains. Using a
corpus of nearly 12,000 articles taken from 11 journals, this book
addresses the key questions that surround writing for an
interdisciplinary audience. This books also explores: the ways in
which writers write if they are writing for an interdisciplinary
audience as well as for a specialist disciplinary audience; the
different natures and instances of the term 'interdisciplinarity';
and whether an analysis of the rhetorical contexts in which
research is relayed to interdisciplinary audiences is critical to
understanding interdisciplinary research activities and
communications. Written by two leading figures in the field of
Corpus Linguistics, this is an essential text for researchers and
upper-level undergraduates working in the areas of Corpus
Linguistics, Discourse Analysis and Linguistics in areas of
interdisciplinary communication.
Presenting the landmark Pioneers life stories project, this
one-of-a-kind book documents how modern social research in the UK
was shaped. It sheds new light on the lives, methods and
motivations of men and women who helped develop a new world of
research methodology, pioneered feminist research, and first
confronted the issues of race and ethnicity. It combines a
fascinating history of the generations who built outstanding and
influential social research with a valuable resource for future
research and teaching on methods.
Calling for a broader, new approach to social mobility research,
Pathways to Social Class: A Qualitative Approach to Social Mobility
moves beyond pure statistics to use qualitative techniques-such as
life stories and family case studies-to examine more closely the
dynamics of mobility and address more fundamental sociological
questions.
Between Generations concerns powerful memories that continue to
shape the present, but in this case in almost all families
throughout the world. What is it that parents pass down to their
children? How can we understand the mixture of conscious and
unconscious models, myths, and material inheritance that are
intertwined in both family and individual life stories? These
questions turn out to be unexpectedly complicated, and answering
them has suggested how a life-story approach can provide a new key
to research on the dynamics of the family and on social change.
Because culture is the essence of what makes individual humans into
a group, the core of human social identity, its continuity is
vital. Cultures are always changing, but the stability of
languages, religions, and cultural habits can be astonishing. In
contrast to the claims of culture to represent tradition over
centuries, stands the sheer brevity of individual human life.
Hence, the universal necessity for transmission between generations
exists. This paperback edition in the Memory and Narrative series,
brings together, contributions from the Americas and Asia as well
as from Western and Eastern Europe. They combine the techniques of
life story research with the insights of family therapy.
Interdisciplinary and intellectually stimulating, the volume will
appeal to students in many areas, including history, sociology,
literature, psychology, and anthropology.
Everyone who lived during the reign of Edward VII was an Edwardian,
not merely the rich, the literary or the scandalous. In this
classic work, Paul Thompson records the life stories of some five
hundred Edwardians born between 1872 and 1906 in a pioneering use
of oral history, which captures a unique record of their times.
Domestics, labourers, skilled and semi-skilled workers,
professionals and high society men and women describe their work,
their families, their politics and their leisure. The Edwardians
establishes and describes the most important dimensions of social
change in the early twentieth century: class structure, gender
distinctions, age distinctions - urban and rural - and regional
differences. It also evaluates the forces for social change in the
period: economic pressures, religious and political conviction,
feminism and socialism, patriotism and the war, to reveal how near
and how far Edwardian society was to revolution in this time of
critical social change. By giving a voice to the contribution and
experience of ordinary people, Paul Thompson brings the Edwardian
era vividly to life. This new edition, is substantially revised and
includes a new chapter on Identity and Power, to take into account
major historiographical and social changes since its publication in
1975. It has new photographs and an up-to-date bibliography.
For a period of over seventy years after the 1917 revolutions in
Russia, talking about the past, either political or personal,
became dangerous. The new policy of glasnost at the end of the
1980s resulted in a flood of reminiscence, almost nightly on
television and more formally collected by new Russian oral history
groups and western researchers. This book is a fascinating
collection of life stories and family history interview material
collected by the editors and two Russian groups of interviewers.
Oral History, Health and Welfare discusses the significance of oral
history to the history of the development of health and welfare
provisions. It includes discussion on: * the end of the workhouse *
professional education and training of midwives * HIV and Aids *
birth control * the role of the community pharmacist * pioneers of
geriatric medicine * oral history and the history of learning
disability.
Sacred Cows and Hot Potatoes challenges many of the assumptions of
current agricultural policies-such as equating "farm" with "rural,"
high farm prices with high farm incomes, or farm programs with food
programs-and examines the agrarian roots of these policies. From
the origins of agrarian myths to the latest controversies over
farming and the environment, this book provides an overview of the
use and abuse of agrarian values in policymaking. Illustrated with
pictures, cartoons, and graphs, the book will appeal to a broad
audience, including policymakers, rural sociologists, agricultural
economists, political scientists, ethicists, and the interested
public.
This book examines the roots of contemporary environmental
consciousness and action in terms of both popular experience and
tradition. A wide range of geographical and thematic case-studies
explore the myth, tradition and collective memory that shape our
environmental thought. Containing a wealth of empirical source
material, this book will be invaluable for sociologists and
historians alike.
New computer and communications technologies have acted as the
catalyst for a revolution in the way goods are produced and
services delivered, leading to profound changes in the way work is
organized and the way jobs are designed. This important book
examines the nature, setting and impact of new technologies on
work, organization and management. Conventional debates about new
technology often invoke optimistic visions of enhanced democracy,
rising skills and economic abundance; others predict darker
scenarios such as the destruction of jobs through
labour-eliminating devices. This book proposes an alternative
perspective, arguing that technology can be powerful, but in and of
itself has no independent causal powers. It considers the impact of
new technologies on manufacturing, clerical, administrative and
call centre employment, in both managerial and professional arenas,
and introduces the growing phenomena of telework. The book also
assesses the important political and economic forces that restrict
or facilitate the flow of new technologies on national and global
levels. New Technology @ Work is an illuminating and
thought-provoking text that will prove invaluable to all serious
students of business, management and technology.
New computer and communications technologies have acted as the
catalyst for a revolution in the way goods are produced and
services delivered, leading to profound changes in the way work is
organized and the way jobs are designed. This important book
examines the nature, setting and impact of new technologies on
work, organization and management. Conventional debates about new
technology often invoke optimistic visions of enhanced democracy,
rising skills and economic abundance; others predict darker
scenarios such as the destruction of jobs through
labour-eliminating devices. This book proposes an alternative
perspective, arguing that technology can be powerful, but in and of
itself has no independent causal powers. It considers the impact of
new technologies on manufacturing, clerical, administrative and
call centre employment, in both managerial and professional arenas,
and introduces the growing phenomena of telework. The book also
assesses the important political and economic forces that restrict
or facilitate the flow of new technologies on national and global
levels. New Technology @ Work is an illuminating and
thought-provoking text that will prove invaluable to all serious
students of business, management and technology.
This two-volume Campus Talk set delivers a wide range of skills and
strategies which students can actively apply in everyday social
communication in both academic and non-academic environments on
campus. It encourages an 'interactional' rather than a 'speaker
focused' language development approach. Drawing on corpus data, it
exposes students to the most salient and widely used vocabulary and
grammar, illustrates the most effective conversation maintenance
and communication strategies and draws attention to the
socio-cultural aspects of communication. Campus Talk comprises two
textbooks. Each textbook contains four instructional units and each
unit is based on situations and conversations that students will
come across in their everyday lives on campus. In this volume,
units 5-8 cover areas such as sharing, delivering and engaging in a
conversation story, making and responding to a complaints and
apologies, building rapport and managing interacting with an
audience, keeping your audience focused, making and responding to
an invitation and to compliments and understanding and responding
to humor. Each unit includes: Enabling, input-based and
interactional tasks and activities Usage-informed vocabulary list
Main production task Self-assessment With a variety of challenging
tasks and activities and plenty of opportunities to practice and
engage in self-reflection and self-assessment, students using these
books will grow their confidence and enhance their abilities to
express themselves clearly, appropriately and effectively. The
workbooks are aimed at upper-intermediate and advanced learners of
English (CEFR B1-C2) to promote interactional language awareness
and develop active listening skills.
Sacred Cows and Hot Potatoes challenges many of the assumptions of
current agricultural policies-such as equating "farm" with "rural,"
high farm prices with high farm incomes, or farm programs with food
programs-and examines the agrarian roots of these policies. From
the origins of agrarian myths to the latest controversies over
farming and the environment, this book provides an overview of the
use and abuse of agrarian values in policymaking. Illustrated with
pictures, cartoons, and graphs, the book will appeal to a broad
audience, including policymakers, rural sociologists, agricultural
economists, political scientists, ethicists, and the interested
public.
Any life story, whether a written autobiography or an oral
testimony, is shaped not only by the reworkings of experience
through memory and re-evaluation, but also by art. Any
communication has to use shared conventions not only of language
itself, but also the more complex expectations of "genre," the
forms expected within a given context and type of communication.
This collection of essays by international academics draws on a
wide range of disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities
to examine how far the expectations and forms of genre shape
different kinds of autobiography and influence what messages they
can convey. After investigating the problem of genre definition,
and tracing the evolution of genre as a concept, contributors
explore such issues as: How far can we argue that what people
narrate in their autobiographical stories is selected and shaped by
the repertoire of genre available to them? To what extent is oral
autobiography shaped by its social and cultural context? What is
the relationship between autobiographical sources and the
ethnographer? "Narrative and Genre" presents exciting new debates
in an emerging field and will encourage international and
interdisciplinary discussion. Its authors and contributors are
scholars from the fields of anthropology, cultural studies,
literary analysis, psychology, psychoanalysis, social history, and
sociology. Mary Chamberlain is professor of modern social history
at Oxford Brookes University. Paul Thompson is research professor
at the University of Essex; senior research fellow, Institute of
Community Studies; founder, National Life Story Collection, British
Library National Sound Archive.
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