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Shifting Centres of Gravity in Human Rights Protection Rethinking Relations between the ECHR EU and National Legal Orders

This book brings together researchers from the fields of international human rights law EU law and constitutional law to reflect on the tug-of-war over the positioning of the centre of gravity of human rights protection in Europe. It addresses both the position of the Convention system vis-à-vis the Contracting States and its positioning with respect to fundamental rights protection in the European Union. The first part of the book focuses on interactions in this triangle from an institutional and constitutional point of view and reflects on how the key actors are trying to define their relationship with one another in a never-ending process. Having thus set the scene the second part takes a critical look at the tools that have been developed at European level for navigating these complex relationships in order to identify whether they are capable of responding effectively to the complexities of emerging realities in the triangular relationship between the EHCR EU law and national law. Chapter 10 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3. 0 license. https://s3-us-west-2. amazonaws. com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138121249_oachapter10. pdf | Shifting Centres of Gravity in Human Rights Protection Rethinking Relations between the ECHR EU and National Legal Orders

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Aerial Dance A Guide to Dance with Rope and Harness

Aerial Dance: A Guide to Dance with Rope and Harness provides an introduction for the beginning aerialist. It covers rigging equipment advice on optimal conditioning and a step-by-step guide to technique including anatomical references space and time considerations and elements of force when working with and against gravity. Specific movements and choreography are framed anatomically and together reflect the pattern and order of an aerial technique class. Challenges inherent to this type of dancing are discussed as well as wellness instruction and methods of altering these techniques for intermediate and advanced dancing. A companion website hosts video that corresponds with the technique and phrasing in the book. | Aerial Dance A Guide to Dance with Rope and Harness

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The Ashgate Handbook of Pesticides and Agricultural Chemicals

This title was first published in 2000: Pesticides and other agricultural chemicals are in use in virtually every country in the world. It is therefore useful and important to those involved with these chemicals to have a collection of data concerning the substances most commonly used for agricultural purposes. This Handbook includes data on over 1 800 substances including a number of mixtures which are important in agriculture. Almost all records describing pure chemicals carry the appropriate CAS Registry Number and the associated EINECS Number. All chemicals in this edition which also appear in the twelfth edition of the Merck Index have the Merck Index Number provided. Wherever possible the following information is also provided for each entry: definitions classifications chemical composition functions applications suppliers melting point boiling point density or specific gravity refractive index optical rotation ultraviolet absorption solubility and acute toxicity. | The Ashgate Handbook of Pesticides and Agricultural Chemicals

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Introduction to Screen Narrative Perspectives on Story Production and Comprehension

Bringing together the expertise of world-leading screenwriters and scholars this book offers a comprehensive overview of how screen narratives work. Exploring a variety of mediums including feature films television animation and video games the volume provides a contextual overview of the form and applies this to the practice of screenwriting. Featuring over 20 contributions the volume surveys the art of screen narrative and allows students and screenwriters to draw on crucial insights to further improve their screenwriting craft. Editors Paul Taberham and Catalina Iricinschi have curated a volume that spans a range of disciplines including screenwriting film theory philosophy and psychology with experience and expertise in storytelling modern blockbusters puzzle films and art cinema. Screenwriters interviewed include: Josh Weinstein (The Simpsons Gravity Falls) David Greenberg (Stomping Ground Used to Love Her) Evan Skolnick and Ioana Uricaru. Ideal for students of Screenwriting and Screen Narrative as well as aspiring screenwriters wanting to provide theoretical context to their craft. | Introduction to Screen Narrative Perspectives on Story Production and Comprehension

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Eco-Words The Ecology of Conversation

How many words do we use in a day? How many of them are actually necessary to convey the flow of our thoughts? And how many could we do without if we were to fast abstain from using words? This book examines the power of words. It explores the links between communication language and identity arguing for a certain gravity to the practice of speech for offering only meaningful words to the people we talk to. We are the words we hear and utter we are the words we think and Anna Lisa Tota invites us to use “eco-words” to change the world we live in: “This book is a proposal to myself and to you dear Reader an invitation to change together: while you read and while I write bridging the temporal and spatial gap that separates us and makes it impossible for us to help each other”. This volume will appeal to readers interested in the everyday practice of communication. It will also be useful to scholars and students of sociology emotion memory body studies philosophy aesthetics communication studies psychology and linguistics. | Eco-Words The Ecology of Conversation

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Psychoanalysis and Ecology The Unconscious and the Environment

Cosimo Schinaia and Psychoanalysis and Ecology are winners of the IPA Climate Award! This book presents the psychoanalyst with the question of how our enormously modified environmental conditions determine our subjective mental changes and vice versa. The gravity of the environmental crisis is amply clear and yet in the face of such incontrovertible evidence there is an emotional more than cognitive difficulty in comprehending the present reality and its future consequences. In understanding the collective imagination as permeating the individual one and vice versa this book investigates this relationship of mutual co-determination between the individual traumatic stories told and experienced in the consulting room and the positive or negative environmental attitudes exhibited by patients. The pairing of clinical vignettes with dispatches from the collective imagination sheds light on the confused affective investments and anxieties that propel pathological defenses such as negation suppression intellectualization displacement and disavowal. The final chapter concludes with notes on the role of hope in a damaged world and the importance of integrity within the psychoanalytic field and beyond. This book will be of great interest to psychoanalysts psychotherapists and psychiatrists as well as anthropologists environmentalists and ecologists. | Psychoanalysis and Ecology The Unconscious and the Environment

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Contemporary Circus

In this volume twenty-four creators come together with three scholars to discuss Contemporary Circus bridging the divide between practice and theory. Lavers Leroux and Burtt offer conversations across four key themes: Apparatus Politics Performers and New Work. Extensively illustrated with fifty photos of Contemporary Circus productions and extensively annotated Contemporary Circus thematically groups and contextualises extracts of conversations to provide a sophisticated and wide-ranging study supported by critical theory. Of interest to both practitioners and scholars Contemporary Circus uses the lens of ‘contestation ’ or calling things into question to provide a portal into ways of seeing today’s circus performance. Conversations with: Lachlan Binns and Jascha Boyce (Gravity and Other Myths) Tilde Björfors (Cirkus Cirkör) Kim ‘Busty Beatz’ Bowers (Hot Brown Honey) Shana Carroll (The 7 Fingers) David Clarkson (Stalker) Philippe Decouflé (Compagnie DCA) Fez Faanana (Briefs) Mike Finch (Circus Oz) Daniele Finzi Pasca (Compagnia Finzi Pasca) Sean Gandini (Gandini Juggling) Firenza Guidi (ElanFrantoio NoFit State Circus) Jo Lancaster and Simon Yates (Acrobat) Johann Le Guillerm (Cirque Ici) Yaron Lifschitz (Circa) Chelsea McGuffin (Company 2) Phia Ménard (Compagnie Non Nova) Jennifer Miller (Circus Amok) Adrien Mondot (Compagnie Adrien M and Claire B) Charlotte Mooney and Tina Koch (Ockham’s Razor) Philippe Petit (high wire artist) and Elizabeth Streb (STREB EXTREME ACTION).

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Sport in the Iberian Peninsula Management Economics and Policy

This is the first book in English to offer an overview of the development of the sport industry in Spain and Portugal examining the social economic cultural and political impact sport has had in this region and on world sport more broadly. Drawing on sources in Spanish and Portuguese the book presents important new perspectives and empirical material not previously available to English-speaking audiences. With a strong focus on management development economics governance and law set in a broader historical and socio-cultural context the book explains the unique characteristics of the sport industry in the Iberian Peninsula. It takes a deep dive into Spanish and Portuguese football - in many ways the centre of gravity of Iberian sport – and into sport tourism a hugely significant component of the broader economy of the region. The book also considers important emerging themes in Iberian sport from the development of women’s sport to the global profile of Cristiano Ronaldo and Rafael Nadal and considers the wider influence of Iberian sport across the wider Hispanic diaspora. This is fascinating and illuminating reading for anybody with an interest in sport business and management global sporting cultures international business or Hispanic or Latin American studies. | Sport in the Iberian Peninsula Management Economics and Policy

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Strategic Management During a Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic changed world dynamics working scenarios as well as professional and emotional dimensions. The virus has emerged as a significant threat for the continuity of business. Keeping the gravity of the problem in mind companies must understand the need for change and must now update their strategy to account for pandemics. The next pandemic may be more severe than the current one meaning that organizations need to devise mechanisms and business models to fight with these situations and maintain business continuity. They should not only look forward to saving plants machinery and infrastructure but also concentrate on employee welfare customer engagement and satisfaction during this crisis time. The book will not only present the evidence of various effective solutions to run a business in the time of a pandemic but also put forward the new models and practices of business being followed by people at the time of crisis. It aims to create a bridge between existing business models and proposed business solutions focusing on existing theories and most importantly case studies from recent happenings. This rich collection of chapters will provide insights regarding the business challenges opportunities and practices during pandemic situations like COVID-19 making it particularly valuable to researchers academics and students in the fields of strategic management leadership and disaster management. | Strategic Management During a Pandemic

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Foundation of Structural Geology

Since the first edition was published in 1983 this highly-regarded introductory textbook has been used by many generations of students worldwide. It is specifically tailored to the requirements of first or second year geology undergraduates. The third edition has been extensively revised and updated to include many new sections and over 50 new or redrawn illustrations. There are now over 220 illustrations many incorporating a second colour to highlight essential features. The format has been changed to enhance the visual attractiveness of the book. The tripartite organization of the first and second editions has been modified by combining the purely descriptive or factual aspects of fault and fold structure in the earlier chapters with a simple treatment of mechanisms leaving the more geometrically complex treatment until after the relevant sections on stress and strain as before. Some subjects are introduced for the first time e. g. inversion and orogen collapse and others have been extensively modified e. g. the chapter on gravity controlled structures now emphasises modern work on salt tectonics. The last third of the book is devoted to the wider context of geological structures and how they relate to plate tectonics. The final two chapters have been considerably expanded and give examples of various types of geological structures in their plate tectonic settings in both modern and ancient orogenic belts. | Foundation of Structural Geology

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The Renaissance and the Postmodern A Study in Comparative Critical Values

The Renaissance and the Postmodern reconsiders postmodern readings of Renaissance texts by engaging in a dialectics the authors call comparative critical values. Rather than concede the contemporary hierarchy of theory over literature the book takes the novel approach of consulting major Renaissance writers about the values at work in postmodern representations of early modern culture. As criticism seeks new directions and takes new forms insufficient attention has been paid to the literary and philosophical values won and lost in the exchanges. One result is that the way we understand the logical connections the literary textures and the philosophical impulses that make up the literature of writers like Spenser Shakespeare and Milton has fundamentally changed. Examining theoretical debates now in light of polemical controversies then the book goes beyond earlier studies in that it systematically examines the effects of these newer critical approaches across their materialist historicist deconstructive and psychoanalytic manifestations. Bringing gravity and focus to this question of critical continuities and discontinuities each chapter counterposes one major Renaissance voice with a postmodern one to probe these issues and with them the value of the cultural past. As voices on both sides of the historical divide illuminate key differences between the Renaissance and the Postmodern a critical model emerges from the book to re-engage this period’s humane literature in a contemporary context with intellectual rigor and a renewed sense of cultural enrichment. | The Renaissance and the Postmodern A Study in Comparative Critical Values

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Connecting Africa and Asia Afrasia as a Benign Community

By 2100 more than 80 per cent of the world’s population is expected to live in Afrasia (Africa and Asia). This book draws lessons from history provides a new cognitive map of the world and discusses multiple challenges global citizens will face in the age of Afrasia an emerging macro-region. The centre of gravity of the world is shifting. Whether the world can manage a soft landing into sustainable equilibrium depends on the nature of the dialogue people in Africa and Asia will organise. The author argues that a state of equilibrium between the two is achievable provided issues related to gender employment agriculture human–nature relationships and multicultural coexistence are simultaneously addressed. Can future Afrasia present itself as a community determined not to allow the return of predatory practice internally and externally? Will the fates of African and Asian peoples converge or diverge? How about the future relationships between Afrasia and the rest of the world? Exploring these questions using multiple disciplines this book will be of interest to professional researchers and graduate students in IR and Afro-Asian relations as well as Asian and African area studies demography geography history development economics anthropology language education and religious studies. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Connecting Africa and Asia Afrasia as a Benign Community

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Suspending Modernity: The Architecture of Franco Albini

Franco Albini’s works of architecture and design produced between 1930 and 1977 have enjoyed a recent revival but to date have received only sporadic scholarly attention from historians and critics of the Modern Movement. A chorus of Italian voices has sung his praises none more eloquently than his protégé Renzo Piano. Kay Bea Jones’ illuminating study of selected works by Studio Albini will reintroduce his contributions to one of the most productive periods in Italian design. Albini emerged from the ideology of Rationalism to produce some of Italy’s most coherent and poetic examples of modern design. He collaborated for over 25 years with Franca Helg and at a time when professional male-female partnerships were virtually unknown. His museums and installation motifs changed the way Italians displayed historic artifacts. He composed novel suspension structures for dwellings shops galleries and his signature INA pavilions where levity and gravity became symbolic devices for connoting his subjects. Albini clarified the vital role of tradition in modern architecture as he experimented with domestic space. His cohort defied CIAM ideologies to re-socialize postwar housing and speculate on ways of reviving Italian cities. He explored new fabrication technologies from the scale of furniture to wide-span steel structures yet he never abandoned the rigors of craft and detail in favor of mass-production. Suspending Modernity follows the evolution of Albini’s most important buildings and projects even as they reveal his apprehensive attitudes about the modern condition. Jones argues here that Albini’s masterful use of materials and architectural expression mark an epic paradigm shift in the modern period. | Suspending Modernity: The Architecture of Franco Albini

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The Future of Political Science

Harold D. Lasswell is arguably the quintessential face of political science to the larger public of the past century. However there is a side to Lasswell less well known but of special importance in this day and age: the place of the profession of politics as an academic activity. This book written at the start of the culture wars thirty years ago outlines the basic core position of political science practitioners. It helps to explain why the field kept its collective cool when other social science professionals veered to more extreme activist positions. The Future of Political Science grew out of the phenomenally rapid expansion of the study of government in the United States and elsewhere. The study of professionalism among physical scientists lawyers engineers etc. was not matched by such internal examination within the social sciences until much later. Lasswell's overview centered on developments in the United States. There unfettered study of government reached unprecedented heights in the final stage of the twentieth century. The key concept of this volume one that continues to inform discourse is the relationship of political science as a mechanism for the study and teaching of the political system to the field as a tool of the Establishment. This concern grew in the wake of a variety of scandals and secret support sponsored by both government and non-government organizations alike. The Future of Political Science covers areas ranging from membership size and disparities intervention scenarios in world events the nature of creativity in political research collaboration in projects with the other social sciences and the location of scientific centers of gravity in the study of politics. Because of Lasswell's works we have a field of the political science of knowledge as well as the sociology of knowledge. Harold D. Lasswell served as Ford Foundation Professor of the Social Sciences at Yale University Distinguished Professor of Policy Sciences at John Jay College of the City University of New York and as professor of political science at the University of Chicago. He was a past president of the American Political Science Association and author of many books covering the full range of political and policy research. Jay Stanley is professor emeritus of sociology at Towson State University. He is former editor of Armed Forces & Society and co-author of Challenges in Military Health Care.

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The Revolt Against the Masses And Other Essays on Politics and Public Policy

The author of this stunning set of essays on politics and public policy makes crystal clear the meaning of the title. The revolutionaries of contemporary America do not seek to redistribute privilege from those who have it to those who do not. These radicals wish to arrange a transfer of power from those elites who now exercise it to another elite namely themselves who do not. This aspiring elite is of the same race (white) the same class (upper middle and upper) and the same educational background (the best colleges and universities) as those they wish to displace. Wildavsky's bracing work takes a close look at these elites who probably make up little more than one percent of the population. He sees their common denominator as hostility toward the masses anti-American attitudes derision of authority and a belief in participatory rather than representative politics. The author carries through these themes in a variety of essays on black-white racial relations social work orientations and black militancy the politics of budgetary reform elite and mass trends in the political party system and the substitution of bureaucratic for democratic modes of advancing the policy process. This work is in short vintage Wildavsky: tough minded spirited and plain-spoken political analysis. In his new Introduction Irving Louis Horowitz examines what has changed and what continues to be salient in Wildavsky's line of analysis. Essentially the report card on The Revolt Against the Masses is that the situation described in these essays has changed somewhat in style but hardly at all in substance. The nuclear shield replaces the ABM treaty and Afghanistan replaces Vietnam as centers of political gravity-but the same coalition of forces across party and economy still dominate the American political process. The justifiably famous essay on The Two Presidencies shows how persistent is the gap between the conflict over domestic priorities and the consensus on foreign policy-and why. This is in short a classic text that continues to merit careful study by all those interested in political life. Aaron Wildavsky was until his death in 1993 professor of political science and public policy at the University of California in Berkeley. He was also director of its Survey Research Center. He served as director of the Russell-Sage Foundation was a president of the American Political Science Association and held a number of visiting professorships during his lifetime. Most recently Transaction has posthumously published Wildavsky's complete essays and papers in five volumes. Irving Louis Horowitz is Hannah Arendt distinguished university professor emeritus at Rutgers The State University and longtime friend and associate of Aaron Wildavsky. | The Revolt Against the Masses And Other Essays on Politics and Public Policy

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Shifting Centres of Gravity in Human Rights Protection Rethinking Relations between the ECHR EU and National Legal Orders

Aerial Dance A Guide to Dance with Rope and Harness

The Ashgate Handbook of Pesticides and Agricultural Chemicals

Introduction to Screen Narrative Perspectives on Story Production and Comprehension

Eco-Words The Ecology of Conversation

Psychoanalysis and Ecology The Unconscious and the Environment

Contemporary Circus

Sport in the Iberian Peninsula Management Economics and Policy

Strategic Management During a Pandemic

Foundation of Structural Geology

The Renaissance and the Postmodern A Study in Comparative Critical Values

Connecting Africa and Asia Afrasia as a Benign Community

Suspending Modernity: The Architecture of Franco Albini

The Future of Political Science

The Revolt Against the Masses And Other Essays on Politics and Public Policy

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