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Grim Phantasms Fear in Poe's Short Fiction

Grim Phantasms Fear in Poe's Short Fiction

This title originally published in 1992 presents an assessment of Poe’s short stories that treat horror and more specifically how he manipulated the conventions of that horror to register subtly on the fears and phobias of his reading audiences. Short-stories examined include The Black Cat Hop-Frog and Morella. This title also explores the theories of Stephen King and Benjamin Rush on the horror genre. This title will be of great interest to students of American Literature. | Grim Phantasms Fear in Poe's Short Fiction

GBP 31.99
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Alternative Scriptwriting Contemporary Storytelling for the Screen

Alternative Scriptwriting Contemporary Storytelling for the Screen

The three-act structure is so last century! Unlike other screenwriting books this unique storytelling guide pushes you to break free of tired formulaic writing by bending or breaking the rules of storytelling as we know them. This new edition dives into all the key aspects of scriptwriting including structure genre character form and tone. Authors Ken Dancyger Jessie Keyt and Jeff Rush explore myriad alternatives to the traditional three-act story structure going beyond teaching you how to tell a story by teaching you how to write against conventional formulas to produce original exciting material. Fully revised and updated the book includes new examples from contemporary and classic cinema and episodic series as well as additional content on strategies for plot character and genre; an exploration of theatrical devices in film; and approaches to scriptwriting with case studies of prolific storytellers such as Billy Wilder Kelly Reichardt Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Kathryn Bigelow. Ideal for students of screenwriting and professional screenwriters wishing to develop their craft and write original scripts. | Alternative Scriptwriting Contemporary Storytelling for the Screen

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Transforming the Irvine Ranch Joan Irvine William Pereira Ray Watson and the Big Plan

Transforming the Irvine Ranch Joan Irvine William Pereira Ray Watson and the Big Plan

From citrus trees to spring breakers Transforming the Irvine Ranch tells the story of Orange County’s metamorphosis from 93 000 acres of farmland into an iconic Southern California landscape of beaches and modernist architecture. Drawing on decades of archival research and their own years at the famed Irvine Company the authors bring a collection of colorful characters responsible for the transformation to life including: Ray Watson whose nearly century-long life took him from an Oakland boarding house to the Irvine and Walt Disney Company boardrooms Joan Irvine Smith a much-married heiress who waged war against the US government and the Irvine Foundation's reactionary board and won William Pereira the visionary architect whose work became synonymous with the LA cityscape. Spanning the history of modern California from its Gold Rush past to the late 1970s Transforming the Irvine Ranch chronicles a storied family’s largely successful attempts to remake the vast Irvine Ranch in its own image. | Transforming the Irvine Ranch Joan Irvine William Pereira Ray Watson and the Big Plan

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The Case Against the Global Economy And for a Turn Towards Localization

The Case Against the Global Economy And for a Turn Towards Localization

The greatest political debate of our time is about the blind rush towards a single global economy its consequences for jobs democracy human well-being and cultural diversity and its impact on the natural world that sustains us. Its effects will be profound and irreversible but globalization itself is not inevitable. In The Case Against the Global Economy 24 leading economic agricultural cultural and environmental authorities drawn from across the world argue that free trade and economic globalization are producing exactly the opposite results to those promised. From a detailed analysis of the new global economy its structures and its full social and ecological implications they show how it is undermining our liberty our security and our well-being and is devastating the planet. First published in the USA in 1996 in an edition focused on North America the book won the American Political Science Association award for the Best Book in Ecological and Transformational Politics. This completely revised and updated international edition presents a passionate and persuasive case for the need to reverse course away from globalization and towards a revitalized democracy local self-sufficiency and ecological health. | The Case Against the Global Economy And for a Turn Towards Localization

GBP 180.00
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Financing California Real Estate Spanish Missions to subprime mortgages

Financing California Real Estate Spanish Missions to subprime mortgages

California was at the epicentre of the collapse of the real estate market in 2008 which had a devastating effect on the world economy. Taking this diverse and powerful state as a case study this book presents a financial history of the property business from the time Spanish Missions were established to the Great Recession. Financing California Real Estate provides the history of expansions and contractions in the real estate market and describes factors in the state and nation which may have triggered changes in the direction of growth in real estate lending. It explores how financial institutions which provided funding for building and buying homes changed over time from the establishment of Spanish Missions in 1769 to the Gold Rush to rail transportation all the way through to the real estate bubble that peaked in 2005. Using detailed information on financial institutions to explain the changing nature of the real estate market this book ultimately suggests an alternative theory for what led to the Great Recession. This book will be of interest to researchers working in the area of real estate cycles in the economy historians interested in the economy of California and financial historians. | Financing California Real Estate Spanish Missions to subprime mortgages

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Parent-Infant Psychotherapy for Sleep Problems Through the Night

Parent-Infant Psychotherapy for Sleep Problems Through the Night

Sleep problems are among the most common urgent and undermining troubles parents meet. This book describes Dilys Daws' pioneering method of therapy for sleep problems honed over 40 years of work with families: brief psychoanalytic therapy with parents and infants together. Offering tried and tested ways of helping parents work things out better with their babies when such problems arise this new edition of Dilys Daws’ classic work updated with expert help from Sarah Sutton frees professionals from the burden of feeling they need to rush to give advice to families showing instead how to begin the challenging journey of discovering new emotions that every baby brings. It sheds light on the sleep problem in the context of a whole range of aspects of the early world: the regulation of babies’ physiological states; dreams and nightmares; the development of separateness; separation and attachment problems; and connections with feeding and weaning. This much-needed compassionate and well-informed guide to helping parents and babies with sleep problems draws on twenty-first century development research and rich clinical wisdom to offer ways of understanding sleep problems in each individual family context with all its particular pressures and possibilities. It will be treasured by new parents struggling with sleeplessness and is enormously valuable for anyone working with parents and their babies. | Parent-Infant Psychotherapy for Sleep Problems Through the Night

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Communicating Fashion Brands Theoretical and Practical Perspectives

Communicating Fashion Brands Theoretical and Practical Perspectives

This book demonstrates how fashion brands communicate why the practice is significant within wider society and how it can be perceived as culturally meaningful. Enabling readers to connect the tools and techniques of communication with their theoretical underpinnings and historical antecedents the book shows how these methods can be applied in practice. The authors utilise social consumer and cultural theory and frameworks rooted in psychology sociology and economics as mechanisms to analyse and deconstruct current communication strategies used by fashion brands. The book presents insights and strategies for communicating authentic values conveying a clearly defined aesthetic and visual language and generating shareable content that resonates with audiences. With insights into strategies used by brands including Burberry Gucci Dior COS Rapha Warby Parker and Maryam Nassir Zadeh each chapter outlines ways of maintaining relevant and consistent brand narratives in the 21st century. From how to sustain a dialogue with a brand’s community to the use of brand collaboration co-creative storytelling and fashion spaces the book aims to develop reflective communication practitioners who have a deep understanding of the cultural landscape brand strategy and industry innovation. Written for scholars and practitioners this book is a valuable blend of theory and practice across the fields of fashion communication and branding. | Communicating Fashion Brands Theoretical and Practical Perspectives

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Arab Oil Policies in the 1970s Opportunity and Responsibility

Arab Oil Policies in the 1970s Opportunity and Responsibility

Until 1973 few people either in the advanced industrial countries or in the developing countries of the Third World thought seriously on the issues and complexities involved in the production and marketing of the oil on which they relied. It was only with the sudden steep increases in oil prices that the oil industry became a matter of general discussion and the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) became a front page topic for analysis and comment. However real understanding of the organisation and its policies did not accompany this rush of interest and much confusion has followed. In particular the Arab exporters have received the weight of the criticism although they have only a share in the market and not a monopoly. This book attempts to instil a greater mutual understanding between oil exporters and importers although it is not a wholesale endorsement of Arab policies by outlining the major policy areas in this field. It looks at new policy options and their implications in exploration marketing and pricing and at downstream operations such as the petrochemical and gas industries. In conclusion this study identifies the wide-ranging opportunities that the new oil policies have opened up for the Arab countries in the national regional and international context and assesses and clarifies the responsibilities which accompany this success. First published in 1983. | Arab Oil Policies in the 1970s Opportunity and Responsibility

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Drylands Facing Change Interventions Investments and Identities

Drylands Facing Change Interventions Investments and Identities

This edited volume examines the changes that arise from the entanglement of global interests and narratives with the local struggles that have always existed in the drylands of Africa the Middle East and Central Asia/Inner Asia. Changes in drylands are happening in an overwhelming manner. Climate change growing political instability and increasing enclosures of large expanses of often common land are some of the changes with far-reaching consequences for those who make their living in the drylands. At the same time powerful narratives about the drylands as ‘wastelands’ and their ‘backward’ inhabitants continue to hold sway legitimizing interventions for development security and conservation informing re-emerging frontiers of investment (for agriculture extraction infrastructure) and shaping new dryland identities. The chapters in this volume discuss the politics of change triggered by forces as diverse as the global land and resource rush the expansion of new Information and Communication Technologies urbanization the COVID-19 pandemic and the spread of violent extremism. While recognizing that changes are co-produced by differently positioned actors from within and outside the drylands this volume presents the dryland’s point of view. It therefore takes the views experiences and agencies of dryland dwellers as the point of departure to not only understand the changes that are transforming their lives livelihoods and future aspirations but also to highlight the unexpected spaces of contestation and innovation that have hitherto remained understudied. This edited volume will be of much interest to students researchers and scholars of natural resource management land and resource grabbing political ecology sustainable development and drylands in general. The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Drylands Facing Change Interventions Investments and Identities

GBP 120.00
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The Fair Reader An Extra Review Of Press And Politics In The '90s

The Fair Reader An Extra Review Of Press And Politics In The '90s

Why did major news outlets virtually ignore the only cost-effective plan for universal health care coverage—even though polls showed the plan had majority support? Why did leading journalists go out of their way to attack Bill Clinton’s rivals in the 1992 Democratic primary—while focusing unprecedented attention on Clinton’s personal life? Why do establishment media consider falling unemployment to be bad news? In the tradition of I. F. Stone and George Seldes the contributors to The FAIR Reader probe the often mysterious connections between press and politics in the 1990s. The essays are filled with startling information about the critical issues of our time—from the Gulf War and the Clarence Thomas hearings to the debates over health care reform and NAFTA—documenting the deceptive one-sided mainstream reporting that leaves the public in the dark. Particular attention is paid to the election of 1992 and the Clinton administration showing how the media promoted undercut and finally shaped Clinton to fit a media agenda the book demonstrates that systematic media bias poses a threat to the democratic process and the free flow of information to the U. S. citizenry. FAIR founded in 1986 is the national media watch group dedicated to the principle that independent aggressive and critical media are essential to an informed democracy. In the nine years since FAIR was launched it has gained national recognition for its well-documented studies of media bias its challenge to powerful media figures like Rush Limbaugh and its award-winning journal of media criticism and politics Extra!. The FAIR Reader collects Extra!’s most incisive reporting on journalism and politics in the ‘90s. It will be invaluable to anyone interested in decoding the media agenda behind the daily news. | The Fair Reader An Extra Review Of Press And Politics In The '90s

GBP 39.99
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The Third Voyage of Martin Frobisher to Baffin Island 1578

The Third Voyage of Martin Frobisher to Baffin Island 1578

Martin Frobisher's third (1578) voyage to Baffin island was the consequence of flawed logic and excessive optimism on the part of the adventurers of the ephemeral 'Company of Cathay'. Their original intention - to find a north-western route to the Far East - had been largely forgotten following the imagined discovery of gold - and silver-bearing ore in Meta Incognita (the Unknown Limits) as Elizabeth I had named the forbidding and icy landscape which Frobisher and seventeen mariners had first sighted two years earlier. This was to be the English nation's first experience of a 'gold-rush' and if many refused to be swayed by the promise of an empire to rival that of Spain others including the Queen herself and many of her Privy Councillors allowed their cupidity to override all caution. As the likelihood of future profits was downgraded in successive assays of the mineral samples the adventurers accepted that a much larger expedition would be required to extract sufficient ore to provide an adequate return upon monies already spent. The result - a fleet of fifteen ships crewed by almost five hundred men - remains the largest fleet ever to have visited Baffin Island. Their travails in arctic seas near-comic failures of navigation and the backbreaking task of mining the largest possible amount of mineral ore in the time allowed by the brief arctic summer were recorded in an unsurpassed body of eyewitness reports all of which for the first time have been assembled in a single volume. Supplemented by extremely detailed and opprobrious (though substantially accurate) accusations regarding Frobisher's role in this enterprise by his ex-partner the merchant Michael Lok these records provide a graphic poignant and often humorous picture of a voyage which foreshadowed the glorious failures of a later age of English empire-building. | The Third Voyage of Martin Frobisher to Baffin Island 1578

GBP 38.99
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Evidence-Based Decision-Making How to Leverage Available Data and Avoid Cognitive Biases

Evidence-Based Decision-Making How to Leverage Available Data and Avoid Cognitive Biases

Evidence-Based Decision-Making: How to Leverage Available Data and Avoid Cognitive Biases examines how a wide range of factual evidence primarily derived from a variety of data available to organizations can be used to improve the quality of business decision-making by helping decision makers circumvent the various cognitive biases that adversely impact how we all think. The book is built on the following premise: During the past decade the new ‘data world’ emerged in which the rush to develop competencies around business analytics and data science can be characterized as nothing less than the new commercial arms race. The ever-expanding volume and variety of data are well known as are the great advances in data processing/analytics data visualization and related information production-focused capabilities. Yet comparatively little effort has been devoted to how the informational products of business analytics and data science are ‘consumed’ or used in the organizational decision-making processes as the available evidence shows that only some of that information is used to drive some business decisions some of the time. Evidence-Based Decision-Making details an explicit process describing how the universe of available and applicable evidence which includes organizational and other data industry benchmarks scientific studies and professional experience can be assessed amalgamated and funneled into an objective driver of key business decisions. Introducing key concepts in relation to data and evidence and the history of evidence-based management this new and extremely topical book will be essential reading for researchers and students of data analytics as well as those working in the private and public sectors and in the voluntary sector. | Evidence-Based Decision-Making How to Leverage Available Data and Avoid Cognitive Biases

GBP 36.99
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