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Features a new section on the institutional settings of German
Jewish Studies, a Film Forum on Shahar Rozen's 1998 documentary
Liebe Perla, and interviews with Paul Mendes-Flohr and Barbara
Honigmann, among other contributions. Nexus is the official
publication of the biennial German Jewish Studies Workshop at the
University of Notre Dame. Together, Nexus and the Workshop
constitute the first ongoing German Jewish Studies forum in North
America. Because the locus of scholarship is never incidental,
Nexus 6 introduces a new section, "Contexts," to examine, in this
case, what it means to pursue German Jewish Studies at a Catholic
university, Notre Dame. And because research is never static, it
inaugurates a series in which scholars revisit their own prior
scholarly publications. Robert Smith launches this initiative by
revising his view of Dietrich Bonhoeffer as a source for
post-Holocaust Christian-Jewish dialogue. The volume also offers
conversations with the legendary Paul Mendes-Flohr on his
understanding of the German Jewish "legacy" and with Barbara
Honigmann on her distinctive prose style and what it means to her
to practice Judaism. The popular Film Forum section returns, this
time focusing on Shahar Rozen's 1998 documentary Liebe Perla. Nexus
6 also presents new scholarship on Babi Yar Holocaust memorials,
Freud's famous Moses essay, Primo Levi's translation of Kafka, and
an introduction to and first English translation of the
18th-century philosopher Salomon Maimon's understudied essay
History of His Philosophical Authorship in Dialogues.
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The Merchant of Venice (Paperback, Ed)
William Shakespeare; Introduction by Peter Holland; Revised by Peter Holland
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'The man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the
largest and most comprehensive soul' John Dryden Antonio, a
Venetian merchant, wishes to help his friend get money to impress a
rich heiress. But he is forced to borrow the sum from a cynical,
abused Jewish moneylender, Shylock, and signs a chilling contract
to honour the debt with a pound of his own flesh. An ambiguous,
complex and controversial comedy, The Merchant of Venice explores
prejudice, marriage, money and the true nature of justice in an
unforgiving world. Used and Recommended by the National Theatre
General Editor Stanley Wells Edited by W. Moelwyn Merchant
Introduction by Peter Holland
Whilst only in the second decade of the 21st century, we have seen
significant and fundamental change in the way we work, where we
work, how we work and the conditions of work. The continued
advancements of (smart) technology and artificial intelligence,
globalisation and deregulation can provide a 'sleek' view of the
world of work. This paradigm can deliver the opportunity to both
control work and provide new challenges in this emerging virtual
and global workplace with 24/7 connectivity, as the boundaries of
the traditional organisation 'melt' away. Throughout the developed
world the notions of work and employment are becoming increasingly
separated and for some this will provide new opportunities in
entrepreneurial and self-managed work. However, the alternate or
'bleak' perspectives is a world of work where globalisation and
technology work together to eliminate or minimise employment,
underpinning standardised employment with less and less stable or
secure work, typified by the rise of the 'gig' economy and creating
more extreme work, in terms of working hours, conditions and
rewards. These aspects of work are likely to have a significant
negative impact on the workforce in these environments. These
transformations are creating renewed interest in how work and the
workforce is organised and managed and its relationship to
employment in a period when all predictions are that the pace of
change will only accelerate.
John Stockwell directs this tense action drama documenting the
covert mission undertaken by a US Navy Seal team to capture or kill
Osama Bin Laden. After receiving intelligence that their quarry is
hiding out in a compound in Pakistan, the CIA mobilise crack US
Navy Seal Team 6 to train for a daring night-time raid. After
arriving at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, and being put through
punishingly intensive training for their mission, the team learn
that their target is Osama Bin Laden, codename: Geronimo. As they
set out on the deadliest mission of their lives, the unit must come
together in one final, all or nothing attempt to take down
America's most wanted terrorist.
Whilst only in the second decade of the 21st century, we have seen
significant and fundamental change in the way we work, where we
work, how we work and the conditions of work. The continued
advancements of (smart) technology and artificial intelligence,
globalisation and deregulation can provide a 'sleek' view of the
world of work. This paradigm can deliver the opportunity to both
control work and provide new challenges in this emerging virtual
and global workplace with 24/7 connectivity, as the boundaries of
the traditional organisation 'melt' away. Throughout the developed
world the notions of work and employment are becoming increasingly
separated and for some this will provide new opportunities in
entrepreneurial and self-managed work. However, the alternate or
'bleak' perspectives is a world of work where globalisation and
technology work together to eliminate or minimise employment,
underpinning standardised employment with less and less stable or
secure work, typified by the rise of the 'gig' economy and creating
more extreme work, in terms of working hours, conditions and
rewards. These aspects of work are likely to have a significant
negative impact on the workforce in these environments. These
transformations are creating renewed interest in how work and the
workforce is organised and managed and its relationship to
employment in a period when all predictions are that the pace of
change will only accelerate.
Over half of all people working on behalf of any given organization
are typically not their own employees. Some are freelance
contractors working in their own right. A significant proportion is
employed to provide these services by another firm, under agency or
outsourcing service agreements. The services they perform under
these agreements are often vital in supporting the organization's
customer relationships, reputation and brand identity. Yet,
remarkably, little attention has been paid to how
thesenon-employees are managed, motivated and meaningfully engaged.
Management protocol generally sees them as outside the
organization's remit or control. The law paints them as victims.
This ground-breaking book challenges both these assumptions.
Through a combination of pioneering legal analysis and rigorous
case-study research, it demonstrates that non-employees are often
the organization's most important hidden resource. Patricia
Leighton and her collaborators highlight the limited good practice
that is available, based on examples in large corporations, public
sector organizations and smaller firms in a variety of countries.
More importantly she clearly sets out the issues and imperatives
employers should address, supported by new management concepts and
models of effective practice developed specifically for the book.
Far from being victims, she argues, non-employees often choose
flexible working patterns for their own intrinsic ends and have
ambitions, career aspirations and workplace needs that can be
responded to and exploited by forward-looking employers.Looking at
the role they now play, these people are no longer marginal,
atypical or peripheral as they are still termed and regarded by
both legal and management practitioners. They are, however, still
in the shadows in terms of the literature available on how best to
de
This book focuses on new developments in employment in Asia. The
context for this discussion is provided by the processes of
globalisation, and the associated debate on labour standards.
Individual chapters focus on issues such as the role of NGOs as
surrogate unions, employment regulation in export processing zones,
social protection, and the impact of political reform on the
employment relationship.
This volume was previously published as a special issue of the
journal Asia Pacific Business Review.
A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakepeare's
plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a
wood outside Athens, and from there the enchantment begins. Simple
and engaging on the surface, it is none the less a highly original
and sophisticated work, remarkable for both its literary and its
theatrical mastery. It is one of the very few of Shakespeare's
plays which do not draw on narrative sources, which suggests that
it reflects his deepest imaginative concerns to an unusual degree.
In his introduction Peter Holland pays particular attention to
dreams and dreamers, and to Shakespeare's construction of a world
of night and shadows. Both here and in his commentary he explores
the play's extensive performance history to illustrate the wide
range of interpretations of which it is capable. ABOUT THE SERIES:
For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the
widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable
volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the
most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features,
including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful
notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further
study, and much more.
What does it signify when a Shakespearean character forgets
something or when Hamlet determines to 'wipe away all trivial fond
records'? How might forgetting be an act to be performed, or be
linked to forgiveness, such as when in The Winter's Tale Cleomenes
encourages Leontes to 'forget your evil. / With them, forgive
yourself'? And what do we as readers and audiences forget of
Shakespeare's works and of the performances we watch? This is the
first book devoted to a broad consideration of how Shakespeare
explores the concept of forgetting and how forgetting functions in
performance. A wide-ranging study of how Shakespeare dramatizes
forgetting, it offers close readings of Shakespeare's plays,
considering what Shakespeare forgot and what we forget about
Shakespeare. The book touches on an equally broad range of
forgetting theory from antiquity through to the present day, of
forgetting in recent novels and films, and of creative ways of
making sense of how our world constructs the cultural meaning of
and anxiety about forgetting. Drawing on dozens of productions
across the history of Shakespeare on stage and film, the book
explores Shakespeare's dramaturgy, from characters who forget what
they were about to say, to characters who leave the stage never to
return, from real forgetting to performed forgetting, from the mad
to the powerful, from playgoers to Shakespeare himself.
This book brings together theatre historians to identify and
exemplify a variety of productive new approaches to the
investigation of plays, players, playwrights, playhouses and other
aspects of theatre in the long eighteenth century. Their inquiries
range from stage censorship and anti-theatricalism to the political
resonances of adultery comedy.
This innovative collection brings together a group of leading
theatre historians to identify and exemplify a variety of
productive new approaches to the investigation of plays, players,
playwrights, playhouses and other aspects of theatre in the long
eighteenth century. Their inquiries are multi-faceted, ranging from
stage censorship and anti-theatricalism to the investigation of
playhouse finances, from the performance representation of Othello
and Oroonoko to the political resonances of adultery comedy, and
from Garrick's vocal art to the interpretation of contemporary
paintings of actors and actresses.
From fantasy and sci-fi to graphic novels, from boy scouts to board
games, from blockbuster films to the cult of theatre, Shakespeare
is everywhere in popular culture. Where there is popular culture
there are fans and nerds and geeks. The essays in this collection
on Shakespeare and Geek Culture take an innovative approach to the
study of Shakespeare's cultural presences, situating his works, his
image and his brand to locate and explore the nature of that
geekiness that, the authors argue, is a vital but unrecognized
feature of the world of those who enjoy and are obsessed by
Shakespeare, whether they are scholars, film fans, theatre-goers or
members of legions of other groupings in which Shakespeare plays
his part. Working at the intersections of a wide range of fields -
including fan studies and film analysis, cultural studies and
fantasy/sci-fi theory - the authors demonstrate how the
particularities of the connection between Shakespeare and geek
culture generate new insights into the plays, poems and their
larger cultural legacy in the 21st century.
This Roman play is one of Shakespeare's last tragedies, best
known for its political and military themes. Its hero, Coriolanus,
is a proud General who does not hesitate to show his arrogant and
outspoken contempt of the Roman rabble. The Tribunes banish him and
he raises an army to take his revenge on Rome. He finally concedes
to the pleas of his mother to spare the city and leaves only to be
publicly killed by his former allies.
Peter Holland is a former Director of the Shakespeare Institute
in Stratford-upon-Avon and President of the Shakespeare Association
of America. He is a pre-eminent international scholar. His
comprehensive introduction and commentary notes open up the
language, themes and ideas in this complex yet richly rewarding
play for the student and teacher. The play is discussed in its
historical and critical contexts and its theatrical history is
analysed too.
Technology advancement and the widespread impacts of the COVID-19
pandemic have had a major impact on both the contours and terrain
of work, employment, and the management of people. Understanding
these complex developments requires fresh perspectives on the
nature and context of the management of people and human resources.
The expanding fourth industrial revolution has been underpinned by
new technological platforms and AI, as well as new worker
motivations, making essential that researchers seek to explore the
field of HRM in a new way. The Emerald Handbook of Work,
Workplaces, and Disruptive Issues in HRM reflects these complex
changes in the way work, employment and people currently are and
will continue to be managed across the globe. Considering these
changes, a multidisciplinary range of voices illustrate just how
fundamental recent developments will be in reshaping work and
employment as in any previous revolution. The Handbook is
structured into three sections: Human Resource Management, Human
Resource Development, and Emerging Issues, each exploring key
themes and the emergence of ground-breaking new perspectives. These
themes are central issues for debate and discussion in the
workplaces across the globe and the work presents innovative and
provocative assessments of changes and challenges in rapidly
evolving local and global environments.
Contemporary HRM Issues in the 21st Century is an illuminating
textbook for postgraduate students and active managers wanting to
develop their understanding of issues and challenges emerging in
the 21st century workplace from a HRM perspective. This edited
collection, with contributions from experts in the field of HR
policy development, is split into four sections. Section One
explores the contemporary workforce and critical elements of
managing HRM in a knowledge-based economy. Section Two focuses on
psychological concerns for the individual at work, career
management and emotional labour to better understand how to manage
an increasingly diverse workforce. Section Three looks at managing
HR issues in the workplace, such as crisis management, mental
health and violence in the workplace. The final section of this
book looks at current and emerging debates surrounding HRM,
including: sustainable HRM; cyber-vetting; biological monitoring
and surveillance; codes and conduct; job-design in the age of
technology; and, Artificial Intelligence (AI). All of these are
vital and often contentious areas within HRM policy-making and
practice. This book sets out these debates and issues to engage
both students and managers working in the fields of Global HRM and
Human Resource policy-making.
The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new
series design The Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative
and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by
renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the
theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction to the
individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by
general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these
easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare
scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred
Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967. With stunning new covers
designed by Manuja Waldia, definitive texts, and illuminating
essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for
students, teachers, and theater professionals for many years to
come. This edition of Much Ado About Nothing is edited with an
introduction by Peter Holland. For more than seventy years, Penguin
has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the
English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin
Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout
history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series
to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes
by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as
up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Sherry Olson has almost always worked with others, inspiring them
to ground their research in an empathetic understanding of the
human condition. Through this team work, she has made signal
contributions in fields as diverse as environmental, social, urban,
and women's histories, as well as public health, demography, and
geographic information systems (GIS). In this volume, a critical
assessment of her life's work is complemented by original pieces
advancing our knowledge in these remarkably diverse fields. From
the environmental impact of colonial settlement in New Zealand to
racial segregation in Chicago, from the demography of the Mauricie
and marriage patterns of Quebec City to the inns, gay spaces, and
landladies of Montreal, this collection demonstrates the complexity
of sharing space in the past and its centrality to any critical
understandings of the global challenges we face in the present.
This book is published in English. - Sherry Olson a presque
toujours travaille en equipe, incitant ses collegues a ancrer leurs
recherches dans une comprehension empathique de la condition
humaine. Cela lui a permis d'offrir des contributions majeures dans
un large eventail de domaines, notamment l'histoire de
l'environnement, des relations sociales, de la vie urbaine et des
femmes, la sante publique, la demographie et les systemes
d'information geographique. Dans cet ouvrage, des etudes originales
viennent s'ajouter a l'evaluation critique qui est faite de
l'oeuvre de sa vie, permettant ainsi d'approfondir nos
connaissances dans ces domaines. En abordant des sujets allant de
l'impact environnemental de la colonisation en Nouvelle-Zelande a
la segregation raciale a Chicago, en passant par la demographie de
la region de la Mauricie, les modeles matrimoniaux de Quebec et les
auberges, les quartiers gais et les logeuses de Montreal, ce
recueil demontre toute la complexite du partage de l'espace dans le
passe et son importance cruciale pour une comprehension critique
des defis globaux de notre epoque. Ce livre est publie en anglais.
During the nineteenth century European settlers transformed the
environment of New Zealand's South Island. They diverted streams
and drained marshes, burned native vegetation and planted hedges
and grasses, stocked farms with sheep and cattle and poured on
fertiliser. In Home in the Howling Wilderness Peter Holland
undertakes a deep history of that settlement to answer key
questions about New Zealand's ecological transformation. Did the
settlers pursue farming regardless of the ecological consequences?
Did they impose European plants, animals and farming methods on a
very different environment? And did their efforts lead to the
erosion, rabbit plagues and declining soil fertility of the late
nineteenth century? Drawing on letter books and ledgers, diaries
and journals, Peter Holland reveals how the first European settlers
learned about their new environment: talking to Maori and other
Pakeha, observing weather patterns and the shifting populations of
rabbits, reading newspapers and going to lectures at the Mechanics'
Institute. Examining the knowledge they built up by these routes,
Holland lays out how the settlers grappled with droughts and
floods, worked out which plants and animals made sense, and worked
out how to beat erosion and rabbits. As the New Zealand environment
threw up surprise after surprise, the settlers who succeeded in
farming were those who listened closely to the environment. They
learned to predict weather more accurately, to farm differently
with different soil types, to use different techniques of land
management. In its depth and breadth of research, and with a visual
component of 16 photographs and 22 figures, Home in the Howling
Wilderness is a major new account of Pakeha and the land in New
Zealand.
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Richard III (Paperback, Annotated edition)
William Shakespeare; Edited by Peter Holland; Introduction by Peter Holland; Series edited by Stephen Orgel, A. R. Braunmuller
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The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edition of Richard III
edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel. The legendary
Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously
researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned
Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world
of Shakespeare's time, an introduction to the individual play, and
a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors
Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions
incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken
since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared
between 1956 and 1967. With definitive texts and illuminating
essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for
students, teachers, and theater professionals for many years to
come. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading
publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With
more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global
bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres
and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative
texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars
and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by
award-winning translators.
The animal world is immensely diverse, and our understanding of it
has been greatly enhanced by molecular biology and the study of
evolution and development ("evo-devo"). Moreover, groundbreaking
research on genes, and especially key families of genes such as the
Homeobox genes which control the development of body plans, has led
to radical changes in the classification of animals. In this Very
Short Introduction, Peter Holland presents a cutting-edge tour of
the animal kingdom, providing an authoritative summary of the
modern view of animal life, its origins, and the new classification
resulting from DNA studies. Beginning with the definition of
animals (not obvious in biological terms), Holland takes the reader
through the revolutionary new high-level groupings of animals
(phyla) based on evolutionary relationships and ancestry. Ranging
from corals and sponges to nematodes, sea squirts, and vertebrates,
and illuminating many key topics in zoology, this fascinating,
brief overview will be of great value to all students of the life
sciences as well as providing a concise summary for the interested
lay reader.
What does it signify when a Shakespearean character forgets
something or when Hamlet determines to 'wipe away all trivial fond
records'? How might forgetting be an act to be performed, or be
linked to forgiveness, such as when in The Winter's Tale Cleomenes
encourages Leontes to 'forget your evil. / With them, forgive
yourself'? And what do we as readers and audiences forget of
Shakespeare's works and of the performances we watch? This is the
first book devoted to a broad consideration of how Shakespeare
explores the concept of forgetting and how forgetting functions in
performance. A wide-ranging study of how Shakespeare dramatizes
forgetting, it offers close readings of Shakespeare's plays,
considering what Shakespeare forgot and what we forget about
Shakespeare. The book touches on an equally broad range of
forgetting theory from antiquity through to the present day, of
forgetting in recent novels and films, and of creative ways of
making sense of how our world constructs the cultural meaning of
and anxiety about forgetting. Drawing on dozens of productions
across the history of Shakespeare on stage and film, the book
explores Shakespeare's dramaturgy, from characters who forget what
they were about to say, to characters who leave the stage never to
return, from real forgetting to performed forgetting, from the mad
to the powerful, from playgoers to Shakespeare himself.
Micro-economic reform was a response to the declining economic
competitiveness of the Australian economy. A central pillar in this
was the deregulation of the labour market to develop more efficient
and effective work practices. The Williamstown Naval Dockyard was
the federal government's premier dockyard. It had gained a
reputation for inefficiency and industrial unrest. Variously
described as Australia's worst worksite, the dockyard had gained
the nickname of the 'Iron Lung'. The federal government used the
dockyard to demonstrate its willingness to employ its micro-
economic reform agenda. On January 1 1988, the dockyard was the
first public utility sold by an Australian federal government. This
book documents the reforms undertaken at the dockyard, in
particular the influence of new patterns of work and industrial
relations reforms on enhancing performance. The results of this
research indicate that an integrative approach across a broad range
of work patterns and practices combined with a high level of
management commitment and a new industrial relations agenda can
provide a significant contribution to organisational performance.
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