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This book explores the role of place names in the formation and
maintenance of individual and group identities in multilingual and
multi-ethnic situations. Using examples from Austria and Czechia as
case studies, the authors examine the power of place names through
an interdisciplinary and multi-methods approach that draws from the
fields of anthropology, geography, sociolinguistics and
toponomastics. The book contextualises both places within their
social and political histories, and probes recent debates in the
social sciences relating to place names, identity and power. It
will be of interest to scholars and students focusing on place
names and naming practices, minority communities and languages, and
linguistic landscapes.
The Venetian Origins of the Commedia dell'Arte is a striking new
enquiry into the late-Renaissance stirrings of professional secular
comedy in Venice, and their connection to the development of what
came to be known as the Commedia dell'Arte. The book contends that
through a symbiotic collaboration between patrician amateurs and
plebeian professionals, innovative forms of comedy developed in the
Venice region, fusing 'high' and 'low' culture in a provocative mix
that had a truly mass appeal. Rich with anecdotes, diary entries
and literary - often ribald - comic passages, Peter Jordan's
central argument has important implications for the study of
Venetian art, popular theatre and European cultural history.
The Venetian Origins of the Commedia dell'Arte is a striking new
enquiry into the late-Renaissance stirrings of professional secular
comedy in Venice, and their connection to the development of what
came to be known as the Commedia dell'Arte. The book contends that
through a symbiotic collaboration between patrician amateurs and
plebeian professionals, innovative forms of comedy developed in the
Venice region, fusing 'high' and 'low' culture in a provocative mix
that had a truly mass appeal. Rich with anecdotes, diary entries
and literary - often ribald - comic passages, Peter Jordan's
central argument has important implications for the study of
Venetian art, popular theatre and European cultural history.
A long-overdue advancement in ceramic studies, this volume sheds
new light on the adoption and dispersal of pottery by
non-agricultural societies of prehistoric Eurasia. Major
contributions from Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Asia make
this a truly international work that brings together different
theories and material for the first time. Researchers and scholars
studying the origins and dispersal of pottery, the prehistoric
peoples or Eurasia, and flow of ancient technologies will all
benefit from this book.
A long-overdue advancement in ceramic studies, this volume sheds
new light on the adoption and dispersal of pottery by
non-agricultural societies of prehistoric Eurasia. Major
contributions from Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Asia make
this a truly international work that brings together different
theories and material for the first time. Researchers and scholars
studying the origins and dispersal of pottery, the prehistoric
peoples or Eurasia, and flow of ancient technologies will all
benefit from this book.
This unique volume aims to break down the lingering linguistic
boundaries that continue to divide up the circumpolar world, to
move beyond ethnographic 'thick description' to integrate the study
of northern Eurasian hunting and herding societies more effectively
by encouraging increased international collaboration between
archaeologists, ethnographers and historians, and to open new
directions for archaeological investigation of spirituality and
northern landscape traditions. Authors examine the life-ways and
beliefs of the indigenous peoples of northern Eurasia; chapters
contribute ethnographic, ethnohistoric and archaeological
case-studies stretching from Fennoscandia, through Siberia, and
into Chukotka and the Russian Far East.
This unique volume aims to break down the lingering linguistic
boundaries that continue to divide up the circumpolar world, to
move beyond ethnographic 'thick description' to integrate the study
of northern Eurasian hunting and herding societies more effectively
by encouraging increased international collaboration between
archaeologists, ethnographers and historians, and to open new
directions for archaeological investigation of spirituality and
northern landscape traditions. Authors examine the life-ways and
beliefs of the indigenous peoples of northern Eurasia; chapters
contribute ethnographic, ethnohistoric and archaeological
case-studies stretching from Fennoscandia, through Siberia, and
into Chukotka and the Russian Far East.
The many recent changes in higher and further education mean that
it is more important than ever to analyse the needs of academic
library users, and both promote and provide the service they
require. This constructive book, pervaded throughout by the impact
of IT on the learning environment, surveys the influences on
today's academic library, and explains how to increase user
satisfaction through quality management. The author focuses
particularly on users' behaviour in the library, the problems they
cause or encounter, and how libraries cope. The book examines the
varying needs of undergraduate and graduate, mature and part-time
students, overseas students, franchised students, distance learners
and other groups with special needs, explaining ways in which these
needs can be identified and the service evaluated. One chapter is
devoted to research and researchers' information demands. The
particular requirements of subject communities and their
consequences for academic libraries are also investigated, as well
as the requirements of teaching staff and ways in which the library
can work with them. The author emphasizes the importance of user
education programmes and explains how to promote the library
effectively with limited resources. For librarians, heads of
services and senior library managers in further and higher
education, and those, such as subject librarians, responsible for
specific student groups, this book provides a comprehensive and
realistic guide to providing and promoting a quality service.
Students of librarianship and information management will gain
valuable insight from this book into user analysis and improving
the performance of information provision.
This book began as a program of self-education. While teaching
under graduate physical chemistry, I became progressively more
dissatisfied with my approach to chemical kinetics. The solution to
my problem was to write a detailed set of lecture notes which
covered more material, in greater depth, than could be presented in
undergraduate physical chemistry. These notes are the foundation
upon which this book is built. My background led me to view
chemical kinetics as closely related to transport phenomena. While
the relationship of these topics is well known, it is often
ignored, except for brief discussions of irreversible thermody
namics. In fact, the physics underlying such apparently dissimilar
processes as reaction and energy transfer is not so very different.
The intermolecular potential is to transport what the
potential-energy surface is to reactivity. Instead of beginning the
sections devoted to chemical kinetics with a discussion of various
theories, I have chosen to treat phenomenology and mechanism first.
In this way the essential unity of kinetic arguments, whether
applied to gas-phase or solution-phase reaction, can be emphasized.
Theories of rate constants and of chemical dynamics are treated
last, so that their strengths and weaknesses may be more clearly
highlighted. The book is designed for students in their senior year
or first year of graduate school. A year of undergraduate physical
chemistry is essential preparation. While further exposure to
chemical thermodynamics, statistical thermodynamics, or molecular
spectroscopy is an asset, it is not necessary."
This study provides a concrete example of how foraging societies
enculturate and transform the natural environment and, through the
use of material objects, create sacred spaces and sites. Using
ethnographic and ethnohistorical information about the Khanty of
Siberia, Jordan shows the shortcomings of both interpretive and
materialist anthropological theorizing about hunters and gatherers.
He focuses on the rich and complex relationship between the
symbolism of the Khanty, their material culture, and the bringing
of meaning to physical places. His examination looks at the topic
in both historical and contemporary contexts, and in scales from
the core-periphery model of Russian colonialism to the portrait of
a single yurt community. Jordan's work will be of importance to
those studying cultural anthropology, archaeology, and comparative
religion.
This standard text has been fully revised and updated for its
fourth edition to reflect continuing technological changes, as well
as issues such as social inclusion, lifelong learning and European
employment legislation. Chapter 1 on the working environment has
been completely rewritten. The present environment brings problems
of staff motivation, de-professionalization and the loss of
control: Chapter 2 reminds readers of basic motivation theories,
now presented in a more logical sequence, and how to deal with such
problems. Chapter 3 on workforce planning has been retitled Human
Resource Planning and revised to take into account the modes of
staffing appropriate for today's turbulent environment. Effective
human resource planning requires excellent selection and
recruitment procedures: best practice and developments in this area
are explored in Chapters 4, Job Descriptions and Person
Specifications, and 5, Recruitment and Selection of Staff. In
Chapter 6 on staff appraisal more attention has been given to
multi-rating approaches, such as 360A Degrees whereby different
aspects of work can be assessed by different groups of people, and
to appraisal of junior by senior staff. The last decade has seen
increased emphasis on training and development to deliver high
quality services in a climate of constant change. Chapter 7 has
therefore been reordered and expanded in order to reflect new
approaches and changes in this area. In Chapter 8, Staff
Supervision and Interpersonal Skills, recent emphasis on leadership
and counselling skills are reflected, as is the growing need to do
more with less through enhanced time management and stress
management techniques. With this new edition, this core guide
brings professionals involved in managing library and information
staff up to date with how to cope with the most pressing problems
and challenges in today's fast-changing environment.
This book explores the role of place names in the formation and
maintenance of individual and group identities in multilingual and
multi-ethnic situations. Using examples from Austria and Czechia as
case studies, the authors examine the power of place names through
an interdisciplinary and multi-methods approach that draws from the
fields of anthropology, geography, sociolinguistics and
toponomastics. The book contextualises both places within their
social and political histories, and probes recent debates in the
social sciences relating to place names, identity and power. It
will be of interest to scholars and students focusing on place
names and naming practices, minority communities and languages, and
linguistic landscapes.
The many recent changes in higher and further education mean that
it is more important than ever to analyse the needs of academic
library users, and both promote and provide the service they
require. This constructive book, pervaded throughout by the impact
of IT on the learning environment, surveys the influences on
today's academic library, and explains how to increase user
satisfaction through quality management. The author focuses
particularly on users' behaviour in the library, the problems they
cause or encounter, and how libraries cope. The book examines the
varying needs of undergraduate and graduate, mature and part-time
students, overseas students, franchised students, distance learners
and other groups with special needs, explaining ways in which these
needs can be identified and the service evaluated. One chapter is
devoted to research and researchers' information demands. The
particular requirements of subject communities and their
consequences for academic libraries are also investigated, as well
as the requirements of teaching staff and ways in which the library
can work with them. The author emphasizes the importance of user
education programmes and explains how to promote the library
effectively with limited resources. For librarians, heads of
services and senior library managers in further and higher
education, and those, such as subject librarians, responsible for
specific student groups, this book provides a comprehensive and
realistic guide to providing and promoting a quality service.
Students of librarianship and information management will gain
valuable insight from this book into user analysis and improving
the performance of information provision.
The Atlantic Walrus: Multidisciplinary insights into human-animal
interactions addresses the key dimensions of long-term human walrus
interactions across the Atlantic Arctic and subarctic regions, over
the past millennia. This book brings together research from across
the social and natural sciences to explore walrus biology, human
culture, environmental conditions and their reciprocal effects.
Together, 13 chapters of this book reconstruct the early evolution
of walruses, walrus biology, the cultural significance and
ecological impact of prehistoric and indigenous hunting practices,
as well as the effects of commercial hunting and international
trade. This book also examines historic and ongoing management
strategies and, the importance of new research methodologies in
revealing hitherto unknown details of the past, and concludes by
discussing the future for Atlantic walruses in the face of climate
change and increased human activities in the Arctic. This volume is
an ideal resource for those who are seeking to understand an iconic
Arctic species and its long and complex relationship with humans.
This includes individuals and researchers with a personal or
professional connection to walruses or the Arctic, as well as
marine biologists, zoologists, conservationists, paleontologists,
archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, indigenous
communities, natural resource managers and government agencies.
Discover a meditative journey through confusion, delusion and
revelation. Enter the account of this obscured character: the
spiritual and the carnal, the Heaven and the Hades. Consider the
absolute truth. Learn about an apostasy. Live free.
On August 10, 1792, Louis XVI of France abandoned his Paris
chateau, walked across the Tuileries gardens, and surrendered his
crown. In the tumultuous months that followed, he was tried, found
guilty, and sent to the guillotine. When originally published,
David Jordan's riveting account of that turbulent time identified
key issues, focused attention on a matter once considered only an
episode of French history, and reframed the academic debate on the
meaning of the most significant trial in French history. His new
preface considers the scholarship of the past twenty-five years and
places "The King's Trial "in the current context.
Throughout prehistory the Circumpolar World was inhabited by
hunter-gatherers. Pottery-making would have been extremely
difficult in these cold, northern environments, and the craft
should never have been able to disperse into this region. However,
archaeologists are now aware that pottery traditions were adopted
widely across the Northern World and went on to play a key role in
subsistence and social life. This book sheds light on the human
motivations that lay behind the adoption of pottery, the challenges
that had to be overcome in order to produce it, and the solutions
that emerged. Including essays by an international team of
scholars, the volume offers a compelling portrait of the role that
pottery cooking technologies played in northern lifeways, both in
the prehistoric past and in more recent ethnographic times.
An awareness of one's own ethical assumptions and how these inform
everyday practice is crucial for all student social workers. Social
workers who genuinely wish to do the right thing by their services
users have no alternative but to constantly think and rethink the
principles and assumptions that inform their actions, and this book
supports them on their journey to do just that. This third edition
is set out in two parts: Part I deals with broad ideas about values
and ethics in general, looking at philosophy, religion and
politics, as well as the duty of realism. Part II takes the
discussion further, looking at how these general principles are
relevant to everyday practice, with chapters on the use and misuse
of power, the idea of self-determination, and the challenges of
working with people whose experience and outlook are different to
one's own.
This standard text has been fully revised and updated for its
fourth edition to reflect continuing technological changes, as well
as issues such as social inclusion, lifelong learning and European
employment legislation. Chapter 1 on the working environment has
been completely rewritten. The present environment brings problems
of staff motivation, de-professionalization and the loss of
control: Chapter 2 reminds readers of basic motivation theories,
now presented in a more logical sequence, and how to deal with such
problems. Chapter 3 on workforce planning has been retitled Human
Resource Planning and revised to take into account the modes of
staffing appropriate for today's turbulent environment. Effective
human resource planning requires excellent selection and
recruitment procedures: best practice and developments in this area
are explored in Chapters 4, Job Descriptions and Person
Specifications, and 5, Recruitment and Selection of Staff. In
Chapter 6 on staff appraisal more attention has been given to
multi-rating approaches, such as 360A Degrees whereby different
aspects of work can be assessed by different groups of people, and
to appraisal of junior by senior staff. The last decade has seen
increased emphasis on training and development to deliver high
quality services in a climate of constant change. Chapter 7 has
therefore been reordered and expanded in order to reflect new
approaches and changes in this area. In Chapter 8, Staff
Supervision and Interpersonal Skills, recent emphasis on leadership
and counselling skills are reflected, as is the growing need to do
more with less through enhanced time management and stress
management techniques. With this new edition, this core guide
brings professionals involved in managing library and information
staff up to date with how to cope with the most pressing problems
and challenges in today's fast-changing environment.
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