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Reassessing Lee Kuan Yew's Strategic Thought

Reassessing Lee Kuan Yew's Strategic Thought

Building on the author’s 2012 book Lee Kuan Yew’s Strategic Thought this new book presents a comprehensive overview of Lee Kuan Yew’s strategic thought over the course of his entire life. It analyses the factors underlying Lee Kuan Yew’s thinking discusses his own writings and speeches and shows how his thinking on foreign policy security and international relations evolved. It also appraises writing about Lee Kuan Yew and memorialisation of him assessing how views of his legacy have changed and continue to change. | Reassessing Lee Kuan Yew's Strategic Thought

GBP 120.00
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Selected Letters of Vernon Lee 1856–1935 1890-1896

Selected Letters of Vernon Lee 1856–1935 1890-1896

Vernon Lee was the chosen name of Violet Paget (1856–1935) a prolific author best known for her supernatural fiction and her radical polemics. She was also an active letter writer whose correspondents include many well-known figures in fin de siècle intellectual circles across Europe. This multi-volume scholarly edition presents a comprehensive selection of her English French Italian and German correspondence — compiled from more than 30 archives worldwide — that reflect her wide variety of interests and occupations as a Woman of Letters philosopher psychologist and political activist. Letters written in a language other than English have been expertly translated by scholars Sophie Geoffroy (from the French) Crystal Hall (from the Italian) and Christa Zorn (from the German). Full transcriptions of some 2000 letters are arranged in chronological order along with introductions biographical notes and detailed footnotes that explain their context and identify the recipients friends and colleagues mentioned. In this third volume covering the years 1890-1896 the 429 assembled letters follow Violet Paget-Vernon Lee from the age of thirty-four when she lives with her parents and half-brother the poet and invalid Eugene Lee-Hamilton at Villa Il Palmerino (Florence) to the ripe age of forty when both her parents died and her brother recovered from his illness and decided to leave home. As Lee copes with Eugene’s invalidism and her own physical and psychological ailments we get a view of the practice and teaching of medicine and nursing in Europe in the late 1890s. Lee sponsors her friend’s Amy Turton’s convalescent home and nurses’ training. Mental sciences are at the forefront from experimental psychology psychiatry and neurology to neurophysiology; and in August 1892 Vernon Lee and Clementina Anstruther-Thomson attend the Psychological Congress in Paris with speakers Hermann von Helmholtz James Sully Alexander Bain Francis Galton G. Stanley Hall and Amboise-Auguste Liebeault. Lee came to consider herself as a psychologist as much as a philosopher of art and delved more deeply into experimental psychology; and with her partner Clementina Anstruther-Thomson she refined a theory of aesthetic empathy and inner mimicry. According to this theory a viewer’s response to a work of art can be measured through his or her physiognomy breathing heartbeats and eye and muscular movements thus providing a scientific basis for an innate appreciation of aesthetic value. They published a synthesis of their work: “Beauty and Ugliness” (The Contemporary Review October-November 1897). While travelling Lee continues to write her travel essays (e. g. Genius Loci: Notes on Places 1899) and her popular supernatural tales. She starts lecturing emulating Eugénie Sellers’s British Museum lectures and her method for attribution and connoisseurship. Her interest in socialism and political economy intensify as her circle widens beyond an aristocratic and society milieux to working-class districts and her collection Althea (1894) shows her interest in ethics moral duties and free-thinking. She indicts the proponents of art for art’s sake. Her discussions about contracts copyright and royalties pirated editions and money matters are intertwined with educational ethics and a concern for the fair recognition of women’s higher education and careers. She becomes involved in the university extension program by giving her first lectures on ancient art and aesthetics in the East End and at Toynbee Hall and her experience of lecturing in London Cambridge Oxford and Rome allows her to meet other intellectuals: Eugénie Sellers Mrs Arthur Strong etc. and new audiences. In 1894 the Affaire Dreyfus (1894–1906) begins revealing the rise of anti-Semitism targeting many of Lee’s close friends also defenders of Dreyfus such as James Darmesteter. After he died Darmesteter’s wife Mary (Robinson) and Lee once again became close to one another. By the time she turned forty Vernon Lee experienced several emotional blows: her friend and mentor Walter Pater died on 30 July 1894. That same year four months later on 14 November 1894 her father died from complications related to asthma Eugene Lee-Hamilton started to recover from chronic illness soon after his stepfather’s death. Eighteen months | Selected Letters of Vernon Lee 1856–1935 1890-1896

GBP 110.00
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Lee Edelman and the Queer Study of Religion

Lee Edelman and the Queer Study of Religion

This book takes the groundbreaking work of Lee Edelman in queer theory and for the first time demonstrates its importance and relevance to contemporary theology biblical studies and religious studies. It argues that despite extensive interest in Edelman’s work we have barely begun to understand the significance of Edelman’s ideas both in their own right and with respect to the study of religion. Therefore it offers fresh approaches to Edelman’s work that necessarily complicate the established interpretations of his thinking. With essays by rising and established scholars as well as a response by Edelman himself it contends that by fully engaging Edelman scholars of religion will have to confront negativity and its consequences in ways that will contribute to reshaping the terrain of scholarship on religion race sexuality and social change. The insights provided in this book are new territory for much of the study of religion. As such it will be of keen interest to scholars of religious studies theology and Biblical studies as well as gender studies and queer feminist and critical race theory. | Lee Edelman and the Queer Study of Religion

GBP 130.00
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Selected Letters of Vernon Lee 1856–1935 Volume II - 1885-1889

Selected Letters of Vernon Lee 1856–1935 Volume II - 1885-1889

Vernon Lee was the pen name of Violet Paget (1856–1935) – a prolific author best known for her supernatural fiction and her radical polemics. She was also an active letter writer whose correspondents include many well-known figures in fin de siècle intellectual circles across Europe. However until now no attempt has been made to make these letters widely available in their complete form. This multi-volume scholarly edition presents a comprehensive selection of her English French Italian and German correspondence — compiled from more than 30 archives worldwide — that reflect her wide variety of interests and occupations as a Woman of Letters and contributor to scholarship and political activism. Letters written in a language other than English have been expertly translated by scholars Sophie Geoffroy (from the French) Crystal Hall (from the Italian) and Christa Zorn (from the German). The edition focuses on those letters concerning the writing ideas and aesthetics that influenced Lee’s articles books and stories. Full transcriptions of some 500 letters covering the years 1856-1935 are arranged in chronological order along with newly written introductions that explain their context and identifies the recipients friends and colleagues mentioned. Since scholarship on Lee’s critical and creative output is still in the beginning stages these letters will serve a purpose to students and researchers in a number of academic fields. In this second volume covering the years 1885–1889 the 421 assembled letters follow Violet Paget-Vernon Lee in her early thirties. Recovering from the stinging reception of her first novel and from Annie Meyer’s death she turns to essay writing on aesthetics and ethics and ghost stories. After Mary Robinson’s engagement to marry French orientalist Prof. Darmesteter she travels to Spain Gibraltar and Tangiers and briefly falls under the spell of the Orient. She also takes a liking to Scotland and many of her close friends are Scottish -Alice Callander Lady Archie (Janey Sevilla Archibald Campbell)—and so is her future partner Clementina Anstruther-Thomson. The letters reflect the expansion of her subject matter from cultural studies art history and aesthetic philosophy. Her charity work in hospitals in Florence and her readings in Political Economy lead her thinking towards social reform and political issues. Her brother’s mental illness and her own breakdown bring about an awareness of body and mind balance and a taste for outdoor pursuits (mountaineering; bicycling; horse riding; swimming) and for experimental psychology (rotating mirrors; hypnosis) and therapies (hydrotherapy). The Pagets move away from the city center of Florence into the Villa Il Palmerino then in the countryside where both Eugene and Vernon recover. Correspondents include Lee’s parents Matilda and Henry Ferguson Paget; her step-brother poet Eugene Lee-Hamilton; English poetess Mary Robinson; English poet Robert Browning; British novelist and journalist Ellen Mary Abdy-Williams; British social reform activist and editor Percy William Bunting; Irish journalist and activist Frances Power Cobbe; Irish scholar and novelist Bella Duffy; British eugenicist Karl Pearson; British publisher William Blackwood; Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson; American novelist Henry James; American connoisseur and arts patron Isabella Stuart Gardner; French translator and critic Marie-Thérèse Blanc (Th. Bentzon); Lady Louisa Wolseley; Irish historian and activist Alice Stopford-Green; Italian Countess Angelica (Pasolini) Rasponi; Italian poet writer and critic Enrico Nencioni; Italian novelist essayist and critic Mario Pratesi; Italian editor and man of letters Francesco Protonotari; Italian painter Telemaco Signorini. | Selected Letters of Vernon Lee 1856–1935 Volume II - 1885-1889

GBP 115.00
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Compositing Visual Effects in After Effects Essential Techniques

Compositing Visual Effects in After Effects Essential Techniques

Create vibrant visual effects with Adobe After Effects. Gain the tips tricks and applied knowledge you need to carry out essential visual effects tasks and bring your digital compositing to the next level. In Compositing Visual Effects in After Effects industry veteran Lee Lanier covers all the common After Effects techniques any serious visual effects artist needs to know combining the latest professionally-vetted studio practices and workflows with multi-chapter projects and hands-on lessons. Engaging full-color tutorials cover: Altering resolutions and frame rates Channel and color space manipulation Rotoscoping and masking Matchmoving and motion tracking Keying green screen Working in the 3D environment and integrating 3D render passes Particle simulation Color grading and distressing Expressions and project management The companion website (www. focalpress. com/cw/lanier) features video image sequences 3D renders matte paintings and other tutorial materials allowing you to immediately apply the techniques taught in the book. | Compositing Visual Effects in After Effects Essential Techniques

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Towards an Aisthetics of the Victorian Novel Senses and Sensations

Towards an Aisthetics of the Victorian Novel Senses and Sensations

Towards an Aisthetics of the Victorian Novel: Senses and Sensations establishes a new analytical method in the broader context of sensory studies in order to explain how the genre of the novel can impact on our perception of ourselves and our social contexts. Taking cultural literary studies ahead the book re-integrates aesthetics – a much fraught concept in cultural studies that long favoured ‘popular’ over ‘high culture’ – into cultural studies as aisthetics in the word’s root sense of ‘perception’. Zooming in on period shifts and changes in taste spanning realism sensation fiction and aestheticism aisthetics reveals how these shifts also pertain to new ways of perceiving in selected novels by George Eliot Wilkie Collins and Vernon Lee. Connecting Victorian and current literary theories aisthetics helps explore the way in which the novel can shape the way we perceive the world what remains excluded from the realm of the perceivable and how our conduct is consequently always also influenced by the dominant genres of our time. | Towards an Aisthetics of the Victorian Novel Senses and Sensations

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Extreme Sustainability Rhetoric and Sustainable Development

Extreme Sustainability Rhetoric and Sustainable Development

This book considers the nature causes and consequences of extreme pro- and anti-sustainability rhetoric exploring how and why the expressions of radical views on sustainability-related themes may prevent real sustainable development. Following a thorough introduction on sustainability rhetoric on dialogue and on the role played by ideologies in the building of environmental beliefs Fracarolli Nunes and Lee Park examine positions and statements expressed or made by individuals companies governments and NGOs in the last decades. The outcomes of these considerations lead to the classification of expressions in different categories of sustainability rhetoric laying the groundwork for the development of a ‘sustainability spectrum’: a metric for the level of radicalization of sustainability positions which ranges from apocalyptic views to ultimate denial. Through the combination of historical perspectives theoretical frameworks and conceptual developments this book provides a foundation for a more informed and productive dialogue between radically opposing views on sustainability issues. This volume will be of great interest to students scholars and practitioners researching and working in the areas of environmental communication and media environmental politics and sustainable development. | Extreme Sustainability Rhetoric and Sustainable Development

GBP 130.00
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Tearoom Trade Impersonal Sex in Public Places

Tearoom Trade Impersonal Sex in Public Places

From the time of its first publication 'Tearoom Trade' engendered controversy. It was also accorded an unusual amount of praise for a first book on a marginal intentionally self-effacing population by a previously unknown sociologist. The book was quickly recognized as an important imaginative and useful contribution to our understanding of deviant sexual activity. Describing impersonal anonymous sexual encounters in public restrooms—tearooms in the argot—the book explored the behavior of men whose closet homosexuality was kept from their families and neighbors. By posing as an initiate the author was able to engage in systematic observation of homosexual acts in public settings and later to develop a more complete picture of those involved by interviewing them in their homes again without revealing their unwitting participation in his study. This enlarged edition of 'Tearoom Trade' includes the original text together with a retrospect written by Nicholas von Hoffman Irving Louis Horowitz Lee Rainwater Donald P. Warwick and Myron Glazer. The material added includes a perspective on the social scientist at work and the ethical problems to which that work may give rise along with debate by the book's initial critics and proponents. Humphreys added a postscript and his views on the opinion expressed in the retrospect. | Tearoom Trade Impersonal Sex in Public Places

GBP 150.00
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Formation of Periodical Authorship in 1920s Korea Distant and Close Reading

Formation of Periodical Authorship in 1920s Korea Distant and Close Reading

Formation of Periodical Authorship in 1920s Korea argues that Korean authors who entered the literary scene during modern literature’s formative years were the subject mediated by periodicals. However it has been difficult to substantiate this statement because periodicals including magazines were open to different groups of writers; various social literary religious and cultural discourses; and dissimilar genres. The multi-level interactions between terms knowledge and writing styles in circulation unfolded at a larger scale at some times and at other times in such an ordinary manner that one can hardly identify and synthesize them to make any sense. Employing not only conventional close reading but also modes of distant reading developing out of cultural analytics Lee investigates the specific ways in which patterns of social semantic and stylistic interactions in Korea’s major magazines configured three kinds of authorship namely the “narcissistic author ” the “prophetic critic ” and the “everyday reviewer. ” He rereads artist stories leftist social discourses religious cosmology and joint reviews through quantitative analyses and offers an engaging account on the importance of repetitions in creating literary originality. This book extends periodical studies through cultural analytics and opens up a new horizon for the next generation of literary scholars seeking innovative experiments in a digital age. | Formation of Periodical Authorship in 1920s Korea Distant and Close Reading

GBP 120.00
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Robert Frost An Adventure in Poetry 1900-1918

Robert Frost An Adventure in Poetry 1900-1918

In this volume Lesley Lee Francis granddaughter of Robert Frost brings to life the Frost family's idyllic early years. Through their own words we enter the daily lives of Robert known as RF to his family and friends his wife Elinor and their four children Lesley Carol Irma and Marjorie. The result is a meticulously researched and beautifully written evocation of a fleeting chapter in the life of a literary family. Taught at home by their father and mother the Frost children received a remarkable education. Reared on poetry nurtured on the world of the imagination and instructed in the art of direct observation the children produced an exceptional body of writing and artwork in the years between 1905 and 1915. Drawing upon previously unexamined journals notebooks letters and the little magazine entitled The Bouquet produced by the Frost children and their friends Francis shows how the genius of Frost was enriched by his interactions with his children. Francis depicts her grandfather as a generous devoted and playful man with a striking ability to communicate with his children and grandchildren. She traces the family's adventures from their farm years in New Hampshire through their nearly three years in England. This enchanting evocation of the Frost family's life together makes more poignant the unforeseen personal tragedies that would befall its members in later years. | Robert Frost An Adventure in Poetry 1900-1918

GBP 130.00
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Exploring Intersemiotic Translation Models A Case Study of Ang Lee's Films

Exploring Intersemiotic Translation Models A Case Study of Ang Lee's Films

This volume sets out a new paradigm in intersemiotic translation research drawing on the films of Ang Lee to problematize the notion of films as the simple binary of transmission between the verbal and non-verbal. The book surveys existing research as a jumping-off point from which to consider the role of audiovisual dimensions going beyond the focus on the verbal as understood in Jakobsonian intersemiotic translation. The volume outlines a methodology comprising a system of various models which draw on both translation studies and film studies frameworks with each model illustrated with examples from Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon; Lust Caution; and Life of Pi. In situating the discussion within the work of a director whose own work straddles East and West and remediates between cultures and semiotic systems Zhang argues for an understanding of intersemiotic translation in which films are not simply determined by verbal source material but through the process of intersemiotic translators mediating non-verbal quality-determining materials into the final film. The volume looks ahead to implications for translation and film research more broadly as well as other audiovisual media. This book will appeal to scholars interested in translation studies film studies media studies and cultural studies in general. | Exploring Intersemiotic Translation Models A Case Study of Ang Lee's Films

GBP 130.00
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On Education

On Education

Jane Addams the founder of Hull House in Chicago may be best known as a social activist. She was also a brilliantly critical intellectual. Implicit in her many speeches articles and books is a view of education as a broad process of cultural transformation and renewal a view that remains as compelling today as when it was first presented. Addams sees education as the foundation of democracy the basis for the free expression of ideas. Addams's writings on education are interpreted in an enlightening bio-graphical introduction by Ellen Lagemann. After the initial publication of this work Barbara L. Jacquette of the Delta Group Inc. in Phoenix wrote Professor Lagemann has brought life and immediacy to Jane Addams's work. Better she has given us a context that shows us that some of our most pressing issues today are simply old problems in new guises problems for which some of the old solutions may still be of use. Gerald Lee Gutek of Loyola University of Chicago commented Lagemann's insightful and sensitive biography reveals Addams's transformation from a reserved graduate of a small women's college into the Progressive reformer and pioneer of the settlement house movement. The essays collected here span a significant portion of Jane Addams's life from the time she spent in college to her founding of Hull House and beyond. Addams's constant interest in education is reflected in her writings. This book also reveals the many influences on Addams's life including the philosopher and educator John Dewey. On Education is an important work for educators women's studies specialists social workers and historians.

GBP 130.00
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Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment 2022 Key Developments and Trends

Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment 2022 Key Developments and Trends

The Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment examines key regional security issues relevant to the policy-focused discussions of the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue Asia’s premier defence summit convened by the International Institute for Strategic Studies. It is published each year in association with the Dialogue and the issues analysed within its covers are central to discussions at the event. Among the topics explored are: US Indo-Pacific strategy alliances and security partnerships; Chinese perspectives on regional security; Taiwan’s security and the possibility of conflict; the continuing challenges posed by North Korea’s nuclear and missile programmes; the nuclear dynamics of Sino-American security relations; air and naval operations in the Asia-Pacific; Sino-American technology competition; Japan’s competition and cooperation with China; India’s role in the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad); the evolving regional security engagement of European states and the European Union; China’s role as an upstream state in the Mekong sub-region; and the climate crisis and Asia-Pacific security. As this volume goes to press the war in Ukraine overshadows the international security landscape and many chapters in this volume touch on the conflict’s ramifications for security in the Asia-Pacific. Authors include leading regional analysts and academics at the forefront of research and analysis: Aidan Foster-Carter James Crabtree Peter A. Dutton Brian Eyler Michael Green Sheryn Lee Jeffrey G. Lewis Tanvi Madan Jeffrey Mazo Ben Schreer Yun Sun Nicholas Szechenyi Brendan Taylor Ashley Townshend and Paul Triolo. | Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment 2022 Key Developments and Trends

GBP 94.99
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The Impact of Immigration on African Americans

The Impact of Immigration on African Americans

Immigration has significant consequences for all Americans but especially for African Americans. áThe sheer magnitude of immigration-it is the primary factor driving population growth-is so large that it directly or indirectly affects the economic political social and environmental circumstances of most Americans. áBut the geographic concentration of immigrants in urban areas and the economic concentration of immigrants in the low-wage sector of the labor market have special consequences for African Americans since they are especially likely to live in urban areas and to be low-wage workers. These effects can be both negative and positive. Immigration has sharply increased the supply of labor into the low-wage sector of the labor market which tends to reduce wages and employment opportunities for low-wage native workers. Employers may prefer hiring immigrants who are perceived to be hard working and uncomplaining to hiring African Americans. Immigrants can also increase the competition for scarce public services (especially education) on which African Americans depend. Yet immigration can also stimulate economic growth and urban revitalization which can increase job opportunities and spread an ideology of multiculturalism. Immigration can dilute the political power of African Americans but it can also strengthen the civil rights coalition. Immigration can benefit some groups while hurting others. This volume presents research and analysis that reflects and advances the debates about the economic and political consequences of immigration for African Americans. The contributors include Gerald Jaynes (Yale University) Vernon Briggs (Cornell University) Frank Bean and Jennifer Lee (University of California Irvine) Robert Cherry (Brooklyn College) Manuel Pastor (University of California Santa Cruz) and Enrique Marcelli (University of Massachusetts Boston) Steven Camarota (Center for Immigration Studies) Frank Morris (University of Texas Dallas) Steven Shulman (Colorado State University) and Hannes Johannsson (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) and Lisa Catanzarite (University of California Los Angeles). | The Impact of Immigration on African Americans

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Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies

Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies

Climate change is perhaps the greatest threat to humanity today and plays out as a cruel engine of myriad forms of injustice violence and destruction. The effects of climate change from human-made emissions of greenhouse gases are devastating and accelerating; yet are uncertain and uneven both in terms of geography and socio-economic impacts. Emerging from the dynamics of capitalism since the industrial revolution — as well as industrialisation under state-led socialism — the consequences of climate change are especially profound for the countryside and its inhabitants. The book interrogates the narratives and strategies that frame climate change and examines the institutionalised responses in agrarian settings highlighting what exclusions and inclusions result. It explores how different people — in relation to class and other co-constituted axes of social difference such as gender race ethnicity age and occupation — are affected by climate change as well as the climate adaptation and mitigation responses being implemented in rural areas. The book in turn explores how climate change – and the responses to it - affect processes of social differentiation trajectories of accumulation and in turn agrarian politics. Finally the book examines what strategies are required to confront climate change and the underlying political-economic dynamics that cause it reflecting on what this means for agrarian struggles across the world. The 26 chapters in this volume explore how the relationship between capitalism and climate change plays out in the rural world and in particular the way agrarian struggles connect with the huge challenge of climate change. Through a huge variety of case studies alongside more conceptual chapters the book makes the often-missing connection between climate change and critical agrarian studies. The book argues that making the connection between climate and agrarian justice is crucial. The chapters in this book were originally published in The Journal of Peasant Studies. The Open Access version of this book available at https://www. taylorfrancis. com/books/oa-edit/10. 4324/9781003467960/climate-change-critical-agrarian-studies-ian-scoones-saturnino-borras-jr-amita-baviskar-marc-edelman-nancy-lee-peluso-wendy-wolford has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4. 0 license. A version of the open access title is also available on the OAPEN platform https://library. oapen. org/handle/20. 500. 12657/85297 .

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