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Epic romantic drama based on Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer-winning
novel set during the American Civil War. Southern belle Scarlett
O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) often uses men to get what she wants, but is
unable to get the one man she truly desires, Ashley Wilkes (Leslie
Howard). She soon meets her match in the roguish Captain Rhett
Butler (Clark Gable) and in the war itself which destroys the
genteel way of life she has always known. With determination she
rebuilds her life from the shattered remains the Union Army leaves
behind. Despite its sometimes troubled production (director George
Cukor was replaced by Victor Fleming, with Sam Wood brought in when
Fleming's health failed), the film won ten Oscars, including Best
Picture, Best Director and Best Actress.
The globalization of American style higher education is a field of
study that is undergoing a significant phase with the current
expansion of American branch campuses and curricula around the
world. This volume contributes to the scholarship on the project of
implementing and expanding U.S. influenced curricula in the Middle
East and Asia. Many of the branch campus projects are only a few
decades old making this a liminal moment in the translation and
development of higher education worldwide that needs to be
captured. What are the challenges, opportunities, and
considerations faculty encounter in classrooms in the Middle East,
Eastern Europe and Asia? How do faculty translate western higher
educational principles in new contexts? Projects like the
multiversity international branch campuses of Education City, in
Doha, Qatar, demonstrate the interest of foreign governments in
western education and training. Other collaborations, like the Yale
National University of Singapore College, demonstrate a
nationalistic approach, where the nation's premiere university
maintains as high a profile as the invited collaborator. Such a
wide range in mission and matriculation of students deserves
further study. We open the conversation about the complex teaching
and learning environment of American style education in a global
context. Contributions include case studies, pedagogical
interventions, and reflections. This volume features chapters by
faculty teaching at international branch campuses (IBCs) or
institutions using western curricula, such as the worldwide,
privatized American University system
In Professor Zhang Yibing's Lenin Revisited we find loyalty to
Marxism, as well as a firm grasp of all the traditions,
psychoanalytical theories, and textual analytical theories of
Western Marxism; such a combination is extremely rare in this day.
Zhang Yibing's interpretation of Philosophical Notebooks is
developed from a textual fact that has long been ignored despite
its truth. This is that Philosophical Notebooks are not a "book,"
but rather a random collection of notes and outlines collected
after the death of the author. Therefore, Lenin's Philosophical
Notebooks should be interpreted as a series of documents that
reflect the theoretical and political conflicts of the time (among
these documents is included a good deal of backtracking and aimless
wandering). These documents are a series of windows opening on the
particular social and political circumstances of Lenin's day (such
as the collapse of the European Social Democratic Party in 1914).
This line of interpretation reveals to us, in a truly miraculous
fashion that has never before been duplicated, a Lenin who survives
the existential test, who is interpreted with the newest
philosophical experiments. This man, a contemporary of Adorno,
Foucault, and Lacan, extends to us the invitation to continue his
critical line of thought. For us today, the words "Lenin revisited"
actually mean to step into the future in the company of this great
historical thinker. Professor Zhang Yibing's newest work is not
merely important in China: it is vital for everyone who wishes to
restore the work of communism with the depth of philosophy. Slavoj
Zizek Replicating the phenomenal research found in Marx Revisited,
Professor Zhang Yibing has forwarded the study of Marxist
philosophy using meticulous textual interpretation. This method,
familiar to Western scholars, means that Zhang Yibing begins from
the context of the modern political - scholarly - debate in
researching the historical developmental process of Marxist
philosophy. Furthermore, unlike many commentators of Marxist theory
in both the East and the West, he has not assumed a dogmatic
necessity for orthodoxy or science at the beginning of his theory.
In his new work Lenin Revisited, Zhang Yibing begins with a broad,
global scholarly scope in revealing that Lenin's Philosophical
Notebooks are really a scholarly "mixture" that has been subjected
to editing and refining. He goes on to conduct careful analysis of
each constitutive element by unifying the dominant textual form and
the editing expectations. This is doubtless a direct contribution
to the furthering of interpretive theory. Zhang Yibing refers to
this as "field work"; he has also learned much from this process.
Building on the work of Roland Barthes, Zhang Yibing again
demonstrates that textual interpretation is not a simple "return"
to the "author himself" in a bookish sense; rather, it is a
creative, productive thought experience shared by the researcher
and the reader. Terrell Carver, Department of Politics University
of Bristol Professor Zhang Yibing's important interpretation of
Lenin's thought from a new perspective is based on the following
theoretical premises. In 1914, with the outbreak of the First World
War, Lenin systematically studied Hegel's Science of Logic; Marxist
research conducted in the former Soviet Union ignored the highly
significant philosophical shift experienced by Lenin during this
time. Zhang Yibing extracts his research from the traditional
dogmatic interpretive scope used to examine Lenin, Marx, and the
dialectic method. Proceeding from the modern French perspective of
literary criticism, Professor Zhang conducts an extraordinary
interpretation of Lenin's philosophical notebooks on Hegel. Kevin
B. Anderson, Purdue University, author of Lenin, Hegel, and Western
Marxism
Thomas Mitchell's essays on how to live well were completed in
1913, and reflect a clear mind and a good education, but also
confidence about the world and society that were about to be
shattered. No doubt some thoughts he expressed would have been
impossible to reaffirm five years later. As we commemorate the
centenary of terrible and unprecedented conflict, his intelligent
voice from the past gives us an insight into how people thought
before it and what was lost. This does not mean that Mitchell's
ideas are not also an individual's, but it is now the combination
of freshness and distance in this previously unpublished prose that
makes it so compelling. His style also says much about the
education system in Scotland and rural Aberdeenshire in particular,
and his background was very similar to that of Lewis Grassic
Gibbon. Though they undoubtedly had different politics, they would
both have agreed on the importance of society.
INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OFFICIAL SECRETS FEATURING
A NEW INTRODUCTION In January 2003, 28-year-old GCHQ translator
Katharine Gun received an email from the US National Security
Agency that would turn her world upside down. The message requested
Katharine's assistance in co-ordinating an illegal US-UK spy
operation which would secure UN authorisation for the Iraq
invasion. Horrified, she decided to leak the information to the
British press. Katharine's decision would change her life forever,
as she was arrested under the Official Secrets Act whilst becoming
a cause celebre for political activists. The Spy Who Tried to Stop
a War is the definitive account of a whistleblower case that reads
like a thriller, and will ask you the same question that was asked
of Katharine that cold January day - where do your true loyalties
lie?
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