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Modern Engineered Bamboo Structures Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Modern Bamboo Structures (ICBS 2018) June 25-27 2

Modern Engineered Bamboo Structures Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Modern Bamboo Structures (ICBS 2018) June 25-27 2

Fast-growing and local to some of the poorest communities in the tropics and subtropics bamboo holds huge potential for climate change mitigation innovative construction and job creation but the material is rarely used for more than simple construction and household use. Modern Engineered Bamboo Structures collects the papers presented at the third International Conference on Modern Bamboo Structures (ICBS2018 Beijing China 25-27 June 2018). The overarching theme of the book is ��Enhancing Cooperation for Green Development through Bamboo��s Contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals��. The contributions focus on how to realize bamboo��s huge potential in a number of areas: sustainable commodity production disaster-resilient construction poverty alleviation climate change mitigation and adaptation land restoration and biodiversity protection. Modern Engineered Bamboo Structures recognizes bamboo��s various benefits and aims at ministers policymakers and representatives from research institutes development organizations NGOs or UN bodies and the private sector. | Modern Engineered Bamboo Structures Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Modern Bamboo Structures (ICBS 2018) June 25-27 2

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The Art of Knife Fighting for Stage and Screen An Actor’s and Director’s Guide to Staged Violence

The Art of Knife Fighting for Stage and Screen An Actor’s and Director’s Guide to Staged Violence

The Art of Knife Fighting for Stage and Screen: An Actor’s and Director’s Guide to Staged Violence provides detailed information for the safe use of knives and daggers in a theatrical setting and an in-depth understanding of safe theatrical weapons. The book starts with an extensive safety review then moves on to the basic techniques of dagger fighting starting with grip and body postures. Readers will then learn about the basic actions of cuts parries blocks and disarms. During this process they will explore the connection between body and weapon and start learning the elements of storytelling through choreography. Special attention is given to suicides threats and murder and how directors choreographers performers teachers and students can approach these techniques in a way that is physically and mentally safe. The book also covers the use of throwing knives knife flips and other tricks to help add a little flair to your fight. The Art of Knife Fighting for Stage and Screen teaches the safe theatrical use of the knife for directors performers educators and students of stage combat. | The Art of Knife Fighting for Stage and Screen An Actor’s and Director’s Guide to Staged Violence

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Women and Martial Art in Japan

Women and Martial Art in Japan

This book based on extensive original research examines the practice by women in a university sport setting of kendo the Japanese martial art which using bamboo swords as well as protective armour and descended from traditional swordsmanship instils in its practitioners besides physical skills societal values of etiquette and resilience as well connecting them to a “traditional” outlook which includes a gendered cultural identity. The book therefore illustrates an unexplored example of identity construction in Japan one which legitimises women’s sport experiences within a male-centric physical culture unpacks the notion of “tradition” in kendo and unravels its stultifying control over women’s kendo participation and discusses the androgenicity of women’s participation to highlight its subversive potential to develop women as leaders in sport politics and other fields which continue to be very male dominated in Japan. | Women and Martial Art in Japan

GBP 120.00
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A Study of Chinese Characters and Excavated Documents in China

A Study of Chinese Characters and Excavated Documents in China

This two-volume set is a collection of the author’s scholarly articles on Chinese ancient characters and unearthed literature. The first volume focuses on the evolution of Chinese characters analyzing the composition system and its transformation the motivation and mechanisms behind the evolution as well as the methodology of ancient characters studies. It also offers a novel understanding of the core issues related to Shuowen Jiezi a significant work in the tradition of Chinese paleography. The second volume scrutinizes manuscripts unearthed from archaeological findings including silk books and bamboo slips discovered in ancient tombs that date back to the Warring States period and the Qin and Han dynasties as well as Turfan manuscripts. Through textual analysis of these newly excavated documents the author reinterprets the texts and resolves some knotty problems in Chinese paleography. The set will appeal to students and scholars of sinology Chinese philology and paleography and also Chinese characters and unearthed manuscripts. | A Study of Chinese Characters and Excavated Documents in China

GBP 260.00
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Building from Tradition Local Materials and Methods in Contemporary Architecture

Building from Tradition Local Materials and Methods in Contemporary Architecture

Building from Tradition examines the recent resurgence of interest in the handmade building and the use of local and renewable materials in contemporary construction. In the past raw materials were shaped to provide shelter and to accommodate the cultural social and economic needs of individuals and communities. This is still true today as architects engineers and builders turn once again to local resources and methods not simply for constructing buildings but also as a strategy for supporting social engagement sustainable development and cultural continuity. Building from Tradition features global case studies that allow readers to understand how building practices—developed and refined by previous generations—continue to be adapted to suit a broad range of cultural and environmental contexts. The book provides: • a survey of historical and technical information about geologic and plant-based materials such as: stone earth reed and grass wood and bamboo; • 24 detailed case studies examining the disadvantages and benefits to using traditional materials and methods and how they are currently being integrated with contemporary construction practices. | Building from Tradition Local Materials and Methods in Contemporary Architecture

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Miscanthus for Bioenergy Production Crop Production Utilization and Climate Change Mitigation

Miscanthus for Bioenergy Production Crop Production Utilization and Climate Change Mitigation

Miscanthus has been enthusiastically promoted as a second generation biomass crop and this book provides a comprehensive review of this knowledge. Miscanthus also known as elephant grass is a high yielding grass crop that grows over three metres tall resembles bamboo and produces a crop every year without the need for replanting or fertiliser application . The rapid growth low mineral content and high biomass yield of Miscanthus increasingly make it a favourite choice as a biofuel outperforming switchgrass and other alternatives. There is over 20 years of research evidence to support its promotion as a second generation biomass crop. The author reviews many field measurements of yields as well as the physiology of the crop and why it is so productive while at the same time requiring low inputs to grow it. It also shows how as a key biofuel crop it can contribute to mitigating climate change and how uptake of the adoption of Miscanthus production can be promoted particularly in Europe and North America. The book will be key reading for students taking courses in the areas of Environmental Science and Engineering Climate Change Impacts Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation. It will also be of interest to researchers of second generation biomass crops and policy developers working in biofuel production and utilization. | Miscanthus for Bioenergy Production Crop Production Utilization and Climate Change Mitigation

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African Industrial Development and European Union Co-operation Prospects for a reengineered partnership

African Industrial Development and European Union Co-operation Prospects for a reengineered partnership

Of the 54African states only South Africa is categorised by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) amongst industrialised countries. The economic activities in Africa are still dominated by the production and trade of agricultural and mineral commodities. This situation is in spite of the longstanding Africa-European Union (EU) co-operation which intends among other things to support Africa’s industrialisation endeavours. Imperatively a long road to substantive levels of industrialisation still lies ahead of most African countries. This raises the question as to what role the international community could and should play in the twenty-first century to provide the support needed to expedite Africa’s industrial transformation. This book argues that to supplement the initiatives of each African country international partnerships of both a ‘North–South’ and ‘South–South’ nature will serve better purposes if they are leveraged to develop productive capacities in African economies. In order to enable the African countries to leverage their traditional partnership with the EU for industrialisation a paradigm shift is obligatory. A feasible model should emulate the Japanese-led ‘flying geese’ model and the Chinese-led ‘bamboo capitalism’ model. | African Industrial Development and European Union Co-operation Prospects for a reengineered partnership

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Bisexual and Pansexual Identities Exploring and Challenging Invisibility and Invalidation

Bisexual and Pansexual Identities Exploring and Challenging Invisibility and Invalidation

This book explores the invisibility and invalidation of bisexuality from the past to the present and is unique in extending the discussion to focus on contemporary and emerging identities. Nikki Hayfield draws on research from psychology and the social sciences to offer a detailed and in-depth exploration of the invisibility and invalidation of bisexuality pansexuality and asexuality. The book discusses how early sexologists’ understood gender and sexuality within a binary model and how this provided the underpinnings of bisexual invisibility. The existing research on biphobia and bisexual marginalisation is synthesised to explore how bisexuality has often been invisible or invalidated. Hayfield then evidences clear examples of the invisibility and invalidation of bisexuality pansexuality and asexuality within education employment mainstream mass media and the wider culture. Throughout the book there is consideration of the impact that this invisibility and invalidation has on people’s sense of identity and on their health and wellbeing. It concludes with a discussion of how bisexuality pansexuality and asexuality have become somewhat more visible than in the past and the potential that visibility holds for recognition and representation. This is fascinating reading for students and academics interested in in bisexuality pansexuality and asexual spectrum identities and for those who have a personal interest in bisexuality pansexuality and asexuality. | Bisexual and Pansexual Identities Exploring and Challenging Invisibility and Invalidation

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Sound and Recording Applications and Theory

Sound and Recording Applications and Theory

Providing vital reading for audio students and trainee engineers Sound and Recording is the essential guide for anyone who wants a solid grounding in both theory and industry practices in audio sound and recording. This updated and comprehensively restructured edition includes new content on DAW configuration effects processing 3D/immersive audio systems object-based audio and VR audio technology. This bestselling book introduces you to the principles of sound perception audio technology and systems. Sound and Recording is the ideal audio engineering text for students an accessible reference for professionals and a comprehensive introduction for hobbyists. | Sound and Recording Applications and Theory

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Revolution and Constitutionalism in Britain and the U.S. Burke and Madison and Their Contemporary Legacies

Revolution and Constitutionalism in Britain and the U.S. Burke and Madison and Their Contemporary Legacies

In Revolution and Constitutionalism in Britain and the U. S. : Burke and Madison and Their Contemporary Legacies David A. J. Richards offers an investigative comparison of two central figures in late eighteenth-century constitutionalism Edmund Burke and James Madison at a time when two great constitutional experiments were in play: the Constitution of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the U. S. Constitution of 1787. Richards assesses how much as liberal Lockean constitutionalists Burke and Madison shared and yet differed regarding violent revolution offering three pathbreaking and original contributions about Burke’s importance. First the book defends Burke as a central figure in the development and understanding of liberal constitutionalism; second it explores the psychology that led to his liberal voice including Burke’s own long-term loving relationship to another man; and third it shows how Burke’s understanding of the political psychology of the violence of “political religions” is an enduring contribution to understanding fascist threats to political liberalism from the eighteenth-century onwards including the contemporary constitutional crises in the U. S. and U. K. deriving from populist movements. Mixing thorough research with personal experiences this book will be an invaluable resource to scholars of political science and theory constitutional law history political psychology and LGBTQ+ issues. | Revolution and Constitutionalism in Britain and the U. S. Burke and Madison and Their Contemporary Legacies

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Culture And Self Philosophical And Religious Perspectives East And West

Culture And Self Philosophical And Religious Perspectives East And West

Traditional scholars of philosophy and religion both East and West often place a major emphasis on analyzing the nature of ?the self. ? In recent decades there has been a renewed interest in analyzing self but most scholars have not claimed knowledge of an ahistorical objective essential self free from all cultural determinants. The contributo | Culture And Self Philosophical And Religious Perspectives East And West

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Globalization and Politics Promises and Dangers

Globalization and Politics Promises and Dangers

Globalization and Politics brings together vision and imaginative insight to the analysis of the evolution of inter-state politics to produce a clear comprehensive and coherent sense of how globalization works and how it might work better. The study looks upon globalization as a distinct set of phenomena - energy economy environment and politics - all of which interact. Presenting opportunities for interdependency and governance globalization offers both dangers and promises which explains why it is equally feared and praised. Globalization is an economic trend with strong spillovers and as such has become a political trend with cultural implications. This volume is an invaluable highly readable new text for graduate and undergraduate courses. It sets out the key challenges for globalization in the 21st century and looks at the challenges responses and risks of globalization. It is required reading for analysts students and professionals who want to understand what's at stake in the globalization debate. | Globalization and Politics Promises and Dangers

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Small and Medium Enterprises Law and Business Uncertainty and Justice

Small and Medium Enterprises Law and Business Uncertainty and Justice

The law plays an ambiguous role in running business. While legal tools can be used to tame uncertainties for example by concluding contracts to safeguard enforcement of future claims they can also generate uncertainty. These secondary uncertainties like ones stemming from vague rights and obligations may be counterbalanced by using different resources and strategies including acting informally modifying business plans or accepting the losses from unpaid dues. This book discusses how small and medium enterprises use the law abstain from using the law and use alternative pathways to manage business uncertainties. Examining these topics through the lenses of an extensive qualitative and quantitative empirical study on justiciable issues access to justice and legal uncertainty among SMEs in Poland it implements and expands upon the paradigmatic paths to justice methodology which has been successfully used to study conflict resolution access to justice and utilisation of the law by individuals in more than 30 jurisdictions. It argues that the grand promise of modern law - that it is a certainty-providing neutral and democratic device to resolve problems and conflicts - is not fully delivered. It reveals how the conditions of a freshly developed capitalism combined with the rule of law backsliding contribute to universal structural problems with access to justice meaning that accessing justice is a resource-hungry process which incentivises small businesses to settle for their legal problems and engage in informal and alternative strategies. | Small and Medium Enterprises Law and Business Uncertainty and Justice

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Practicum and Internship Textbook and Resource Guide for Counseling and Psychotherapy

Practicum and Internship Textbook and Resource Guide for Counseling and Psychotherapy

Completely revised and updated the sixth edition of Practicum and Internship is a practical resource that provides students and supervisors with thorough coverage of all stages and aspects of the practicum and internship process. New to this edition are: Downloadable customizable online forms contracts and other materials Across-the-board updates that reflect 2016 CACREP standards Incorporation of contemporary research and literature that addresses recommended practices and ethical considerations regarding the use of technology in counseling New information on preparing students to run their first counseling and therapy groups A review of ethical standards and current perspectives on working with culturally diverse clients Current perspectives on managing self-care during practicum and internship and beyond A thoughtful presentation of trauma-informed approaches to counseling A revised final chapter including guidelines for preparing for licensure exams and for longevity in the profession With comprehensive information that spans across therapeutic approaches concerns and topics this remains an essential foundational text for counseling and psychotherapy students and their supervisors. | Practicum and Internship Textbook and Resource Guide for Counseling and Psychotherapy

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Parks and Recreation and Economics

Parks and Recreation and Economics

This book provides an in-depth look at the primary foundations of economics explored through the lens of the Pawnee Department of Parks and Recreation. Each episode of the hit television series Parks and Recreation includes material to help an eager learner understand the basics of one of the most fascinating fields of study. Whether you’ve wondered how economists determine specialization or why fast-food restaurants continue to pop up around your neighborhood the same situations have occurred in Pawnee. Each chapter highlights key scenes or major episodes that demonstrate how the characters experience economics in exactly the same way the rest of us do. This text primarily builds on the debates that take place between Leslie Ron and their co-workers while also exploring key questions such as whether governments should try to help people through direct intervention or sell off all the swings to private corporations and let businesses handle day-to-day decisions. Learn how incentives can make Jerry appear to be a more productive employee short-term but end up causing chaos. Do you wonder what it would be like to live in the early 1800s? Thankfully Leslie has already done that for us. This book is a must-read for anyone looking for a fun way to learn the principles of economics including as a supplementary text and for all fans of Parks and Recreation. Take the advice of Tom and Donna and treat yo’ self to this key read. | Parks and Recreation and Economics

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Memory Place and Identity Commemoration and remembrance of war and conflict

Memory Place and Identity Commemoration and remembrance of war and conflict

This book bridges theoretical gaps that exist between the meta-concepts of memory place and identity by positioning its lens on the emplaced practices of commemoration and the remembrance of war and conflict. This book examines how diverse publics relate to their wartime histories through engagements with everyday collective memories in differing places. Specifically addressing questions of place-making displacement and identity contributions shed new light on the processes of commemoration of war in everyday urban façades and within generations of families and national communities. Contributions seek to clarify how we connect with memories and places of war and conflict. The spatial and narrative manifestations of attempts to contextualise wartime memories of loss trauma conflict victory and suffering are refracted through the roles played by emotion and identity construction in the shaping of post-war remembrances. This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective with insights from history memory studies social psychology cultural and urban geography to contextualise memories of war and their ‘use’ by national governments perpetrators victims and in family histories. | Memory Place and Identity Commemoration and remembrance of war and conflict

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Theory and Practice in Heritage and Sustainability Between past and future

Theory and Practice in Heritage and Sustainability Between past and future

This book explores cultural sustainability and its relationships to heritage from a wide interdisciplinary perspective. By examining the interactions between people and communities in the places where they live it exemplifies the diverse ways in which a people-centred heritage builds identities and supports individual and collective memories. It encourages a view of heritage as a process that contributes through cultural sustainability to human well-being and socially- and culturally-sensitive policy. With theoretically-informed case studies from leading researchers the book addresses both concepts and practice in a range of places and contexts including landscape townscape museums industrial sites every day heritage ‘ordinary’ places and the local scene and even UNESCO-designated sites. The contributors most of whom like the editors were members of the COST Action ‘Investigating Cultural Sustainability’ demonstrate in a cohesive way how the cultural values that people attach to place are enmeshed with issues of memory identity and aspiration and how they therefore stand at the centre of sustainability discourse and practice. The cases are drawn from many parts of Europe but notably from the Baltic and central and south-eastern Europe regions with distinctive recent histories and cultural approaches and heritage discourses that offer less well-known but transferable insights. They all illustrate the contribution that dealing with the inheritance of the past can make to a full cultural engagement with sustainable development. The book provides an introductory framework to guide readers and a concluding section that draws on the case studies to emphasise their transferability and specificity and to outline the potential contribution of the examples to future research practice and policy in cultural sustainability. This is a unique offering for postgraduate students researchers and professionals interested in heritage management governance and community participation and cultural sustainability. | Theory and Practice in Heritage and Sustainability Between past and future

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Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs and Substances Issues Influences and Impacts

Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs and Substances Issues Influences and Impacts

In the pursuit of more muscle enhanced strength sustained endurance and idealised physiques an increasing number of elite athletes recreational sport enthusiasts and body-conscious gym-users are turning to performance and image enhancing drugs and substances (PIEDS). In many instances such use occurs with little regard for the health social and economic consequences. This book presents a nuanced evidence-based examination of PIEDS. It provides a classification of PIEDS types physical impacts rates of use user profiles legal and sporting status and remedial program interventions covering both elite and recreational use. It offers the perfect guide to assist students government policy makers and sport managers in understanding the complex issues surrounding PIEDS consumption. | Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs and Substances Issues Influences and Impacts

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Managing and Improving School Attendance and Behaviour New Approaches and Initiatives

Managing and Improving School Attendance and Behaviour New Approaches and Initiatives

This new book on school attendance and behaviour brings an international flavour to the field with contributions on some of the latest empirical research and thinking from around the world. It includes contributions from Canada and the USA Hong Kong Europe the United Kingdom and Ireland. Some of the interesting wide-ranging and often unique topics covered in the book include: truancy and well-being disaffection pupil absenteeism social mediation aggression in primary schools bullying emotional barriers to learning behaviour management training exclusion reintegration the role of educational psychologists and ethnic diversity and classroom disruption in the context of migration policies. The book should prove both helpful and useful for a wide range of professionals students and academics across a wide range of educational care and social policy disciplines. This book was originally published as a special issue of Educational Studies. | Managing and Improving School Attendance and Behaviour New Approaches and Initiatives

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Campaigns and Elections Players and Processes

Campaigns and Elections Players and Processes

Stephen K. Medvic’s Campaigns and Elections is a comprehensive yet compact core text that addresses two distinct but related aspects of American electoral democracy: the processes that constitute campaigns and elections and the players who are involved. In addition to balanced coverage of process and actors it gives equal billing to both campaigns and elections and covers contests for legislative and executive positions at the national state and local levels including issue-oriented campaigns of note. The book opens by providing students with the conceptual distinctions between what happens in an election and the campaigning that precedes it. Significant attention is devoted to setting up the context for these campaigns and elections by covering the rules of the game in the American electoral system as well as aspects of election administration and the funding of elections. Then the book systematically covers the actors at every level—candidates and their organizations parties interest groups the media and voters—and the macro-level aspects of campaigns such as campaign strategy and determinants of election outcomes. The book concludes with a big-picture assessment of campaign ethics and implications of the permanent campaign. New to the Fourth Edition: • Fully updated through the 2020 elections looking ahead to the 2022 midterms • Covers the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the 2020 election as well as the January 6 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol • Adds new sections in Chapter 3 on election integrity and the assessment of election administration • Reviews recent Supreme Court cases on gerrymandering and faithless electors • Expands coverage of social media as a source of news of the increasingly partisan nature of the media and of the role of media fact-checking in campaigns and elections • Reorganizes the chapters on the various actors so that the chapter on candidates leads directly to the chapter on campaigns • Fully updates the resources listed at the end of each chapter | Campaigns and Elections Players and Processes

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Economics and Alcohol Consumption and Controls

Economics and Alcohol Consumption and Controls

During the 1950s 1960s and 1970s general levels of alcohol consumption had risen considerably in all parts of the world. In association with this there was a proliferation of alcohol-related problems such as liver disease drunkenness offences marital disharmony and employment difficulties. Many factors influence the probability of alcohol addiction and the habits of drinking; they include age sex race occupation and income. Economic aspects of the use and misuse of alcohol had been attracting increasing attention during the early 1980s. Politicians and scholars alike had drawn attention to the benefits of a vigorous alcohol industry on the one hand and on the other the costs of providing medical social and educational services for those suffering from alcohol-related problems. Originally published in 1983 the real nature of the relationship between economics and alcohol is explored in detail for the first time in this book. It argues for increased participation by economists in the processes of social policy decision-making and considers the key issues of cost-benefit analyses control policies taxation and programme efficiency. No easy solutions are provided but a host of unjustified assumptions about this subject are clarified. This book paved the way for substantial future collaboration between economists and those involved in alcohol studies. | Economics and Alcohol Consumption and Controls

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Translation and Ideology Encounters and Clashes

Translation and Ideology Encounters and Clashes

Ideology has become increasingly central to work in translation studies. To date however most studies have focused on literary and religious texts thus limiting wider understanding of how ideological clashes and encounters pervade any context where power inequalities are present. This special edition of The Translator deliberately focuses on ideology in the translation of a rich variety of lesser-studied genres namely academic writing cultural journals legal and scientific texts political interviews advertisements language policy and European Parliament discourse in all of which translation as a social practice can be seen to shape maintain and at times also resist and challenge the asymmetrical nature of exchanges between parties engaged in or subjected to hegemonic practices. The volume opens with two ground-breaking papers that investigate the nature and representation of truth and knowledge in the translation of the sciences followed by two contributions which approach the issue of shifts in the translation of ideology from the standpoint of critical linguistics and critical discourse analysis using data from political speeches and interviews and from English and Korean versions of Newsweek. Other contributions discuss the role that translation scholars can play in raising public awareness of the manipulative devices used in advertising; the way in which potentially competing institutional and individual ideologies are negotiated in the context of interpreting in the European Union; the role translation plays in shaping the politics of a multilingual nation state with reference to Belgium; and the extent to which the concepts of norms and polysystems may be productive in investigating the link between translation and ideology with reference to Chinese data. | Translation and Ideology Encounters and Clashes

GBP 175.00
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Transformation and Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe Challenges and prospects

Transformation and Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe Challenges and prospects

The global financial crisis has provided an important opportunity to revisit debates about post-socialist transition and the relative success of different reform paths. Post-communist Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs) in particular show resilience in the wake of the international crisis with a diverse range of economic transformations. Transformation and Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe offers an in depth analysis of a diverse range of countries including Poland Hungary Russia Ukraine Czech Republic and Slovakia. This volume assesses each country’s institutional transformations geopolitical policies and local adaptations that have led them down divergent post-communist paths. Chapters take the reader systematically through the evolution of former communist national economic systems before ending with lessons and conclusions for the future. Subsequent chapters demonstrate that economic performance crucially depends on achieving a sustainable balance between sound institutional design and policies on one hand and localization on the other. This new volume from a prestigious group of academics offers a fascinating and timely study which will be of interest to all scholars and policy makers with an interest in European Economics Russian and East European Studies Transition Economies Political Economy and the post-2008 world more generally. | Transformation and Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe Challenges and prospects

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Editing and Montage in International Film and Video Theory and Technique

Editing and Montage in International Film and Video Theory and Technique

Editing and Montage in International Film and Video presents a theoretical and practical approach to the art of editing. In this book Luís Fernando Morales Morante explores the international history technology theory practical techniques psychology and cognitive effects of editing across a range of media from around the world featuring case studies from film dramatic television news media music videos commercials and mobile-delivered formats from the films of Sergei Eisenstein to Michael Jackson’s Thriller to coverage of the 2012 U. S. presidential elections. The book includes self-study exercises throughout to help readers put theory into practice. | Editing and Montage in International Film and Video Theory and Technique

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Secessionism and Terrorism Bombs Blood and Independence in Europe and Eurasia

Secessionism and Terrorism Bombs Blood and Independence in Europe and Eurasia

This book examines secessionist terrorism in a comparative context across Europe and Eurasia. The volume seeks to uncover comparative linkages between terrorism and secessionism; specifically examining terrorist organizations that also have a political goal of independence. It examines a wide range of case studies including the IRA in Northern Ireland ETA in the Basque Country FLNC in Corsica and ARD in Brittany KLA in Kosovo PKK and TAK in Turkish Kurdistan and IK in Chechnya. In doing so the book shows the linkages in terrorist tactics and demands as well as when and how ceasefires come into place. Ultimately none of the terrorist organizations studied here has obtained their maximalist goal of gaining independence but each has caused significant bloodshed and has contributed to the debate on the future of governance in Europe and Eurasia. The major strength of this format is to glean wider lessons on ethno-nationalism as well as the causes and outcomes of terrorist actions. Each case study also updates the literature on the individual cases to provide the most recent account of events in these countries. This book will be of much interest to students of terrorism and political violence ethnic conflict nationalism European politics and International Relations in general. | Secessionism and Terrorism Bombs Blood and Independence in Europe and Eurasia

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