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Le Corbusier in the Antipodes Art Architecture and Urbanism

Le Corbusier in the Antipodes Art Architecture and Urbanism

This book considers the architect Le Corbusier’s encounters with Australia and New Zealand as a two-way exchange showing the impact of his ideas and projects on architects of the region whilst also revealing counterinfluences on Le Corbusier in his post-war career that were activated by his contacts. Compiled from detailed archival research undertaken at the Fondation Le Corbusier Paris and nationally based archives Le Corbusier in the Antipodes brings together a set of episodes placing them in context with the history of modern art architecture and urbanism in 20th century Australia and New Zealand. Key exchanges between Le Corbusier and others never before described are presented and analyzed including Le Corbusier’s contact with Australian architect Harry Seidler at Chandigarh Le Corbusier’s drawing of the plan of Adelaide in 1950 and his creative collaboration with Jorn Utzon on art for the Sydney Opera House. This book also includes analysis of previously unseen Le Corbusier artworks which formed part of the Utzon family collection. In reading these personal and contingent moments of encounter the book puts forward new ways of understanding the dissemination and mediation of Le Corbusier’s ideas and their effects in post-war Australia and New Zealand. These antipodean contacts are set against the broader story of Le Corbusier’s career questioning received interpretations of his design methods and current assumptions about the influence of his work in national contexts beyond Europe. | Le Corbusier in the Antipodes Art Architecture and Urbanism

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e-Research y español LE/L2 Investigar en la era digital

e-Research y español LE/L2 Investigar en la era digital

e-Research y español LE/L2: Investigar en la era digital es el primer volumen que aborda de manera conjunta las aportaciones al español LE/L2 de la lingüística de corpus la biblioteconomía y la edición digital. Es excelente para mejorar las técnicas de investigación a la vez que se toma conciencia sobre el uso de las tecnologías en los estudios sobre el español LE/L2. Características principales: visión interdisciplinar e internacional a partir del trabajo de expertos que ejercen su actividad docente investigadora y profesional en diferentes ámbitos y en distintos países; planteamiento teórico-práctico mediante la exposición de una reflexión teórica y la descripción de casos prácticos; sólido marco teórico que se presenta en los dos primeros capítulos; estructura homogénea dividida en útiles apartados (necesidades cómo ayudan las tecnologías y casos concretos) para que el lector pueda localizar los contenidos con facilidad; lectura del volumen que puede ser lineal (capítulo tras capítulo) o transversal (por ejemplo los casos prácticos que se presentan en cada capítulo); materiales complementarios en línea como por ejemplo glosario hipertextual y enlaces a los corpus y programas mencionados en los capítulos. Escrito en español de manera clara y accesible y con abundantes ejemplos e ilustraciones e-Research y español LE/L2: Investigar en la era digital es ideal para todas aquellas personas vinculadas con la investigación en torno al español LE/L2: estudiantes de máster y doctorado directores de tesis (PhD o máster) y profesores. e-Research y español LE/L2: Investigar en la era digital is the first volume that jointly addresses the contributions of corpus linguistics librarianship and digital publishing to Spanish as a second or foreign language (LE/L2). It is excellent for improving research techniques while raising awareness about the use of technologies in studies of Spanish LE/L2. Main features: interdisciplinary and international vision based on the work of experts who carry out their teaching research and professional activities in different fields and in different countries; theoretical-practical approach through the presentation of a theoretical reflection and the description of practical cases; solid theoretical framework which is presented in the first two chapters; each chapter is divided into three useful sections (needs how technologies help and specific cases) so that the reader can easily locate the contents; reading can be linear (chapter by chapter) or transversal (for example the practical cases presented in each chapter); supplementary online materials include a hypertext glossary and links to the corpus and programs mentioned in the chapters. Written in Spanish in a clear and accessible way and with abundant examples and illustrations e-Research y español LE/L2: Investigar en la era digital is ideal for all those involved in research on Spanish LE/L2 master's and doctoral students thesis supervisors and professors. | e-Research y español LE/L2 Investigar en la era digital

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Teoría sociocultural y español LE/L2

Teoría sociocultural y español LE/L2

Teoría sociocultural y español LE/L2 es una introducción académica a conceptos clave de la teoría sociocultural aplicada a la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de español como segunda lengua y lengua extranjera. Los capítulos han sido escritos por expertos de todo el mundo tanto por investigadores y profesores de larga trayectoria como por nuevos investigadores. La obra ofrece una revisión detallada del impacto de las ideas socioculturales en la enseñanza y aprendizaje de español. Es el primer libro que se publica en español con este enfoque. En sus páginas se documenta la transformación que el enfoque sociocultural está produciendo en la enseñanza-aprendizaje de segundas lenguas en su investigación y evaluación y en la formación docente. La obra concibe el aprendizaje y el desarrollo como actividades socioculturales e interpersonales y destaca el objetivo de la evaluación y de la investigación como herramientas de intervención dinámica para el aprendizaje y crecimiento y finalmente cómo un enfoque sociocultural ilumina la importancia de la mediación en los procesos de aprendizaje y desarrollo de la persona. El volumen tiene las siguientes características: Incluye una entrevista con James P. Lantolf uno de los investigadores más prominentes de la teoría sociocultural aplicada a las segundas lenguas Un uso consistente de la terminología de la teoría sociocultural en español a lo largo de toda la obra Cada capítulo tiene una estructura homogénea lo cual facilita su consulta No reproduce la literatura existente en inglés sino que desarrolla propuestas teóricas y de investigación propias y novedosas Incluye un glosario disponible en línea de términos relevantes en la teoría sociocultural con breves definiciones Diseñado y pensado para aquellos sin conocimientos previos de la teoría Teoría sociocultural y español LE/L2 ofrece explicaciones claras y accesibles sobre la TSC acompañadas de ejemplos concretos y aplicaciones prácticas para la clase de lenguas. Es un recurso esencial para cualquiera que enseñe español LE/L2 así como para quienes investiguen su adquisición. Teoría sociocultural y español LE/L2 introduces the key concepts of sociocultural theory (SCT) as they apply to the teaching and acquisition of Spanish as a second and foreign language. Contributions from leading experts from across the globe both well-established and emerging scholars offer an in-depth view of how a sociocultural approach can impact the teaching and learning of Spanish. The first book on this subject to be written in Spanish this unique volume examines the transformation that sociocultural ideas are producing and conceives learning and development as sociocultural and interpersonal activities. It highlights the objective of evaluation and research as dynamic intervention tools for learning and growth the active role learners must play and how a sociocultural approach illuminates the importance of mediation in the learning and development processes of the individual. Key features include: An interview with James P. Lantolf one of the most prominent researchers in SCT applied to second languages A consistent use of sociocultural theory terminology in Spanish throughout A homogeneous chapter structure which makes it easy to consult Its own newly developed theoretical and research proposals An online glossary of relevant terms in sociocultural theory with brief definitions Designed for those with no prior knowledge of the subject area Teoría sociocultural y español LE/L2 provides straightforward and accessible explanations of SCT accompanied by specific and practical applications for the language classroom. It is an essential resource for anyone teaching or studying to teach Spanish as well as researchers in Spanish second language acquisition.

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Writings by Pre-Revolutionary French Women From Marie de France to Elizabeth Vige-Le Brun

Writings by Pre-Revolutionary French Women From Marie de France to Elizabeth Vige-Le Brun

The present volume covers 30 Pre-Revolutionary French women providing a representative sampling of their manifold and varied contributions to intellectual and cultural history. This volume is unique in its grouping of essentially French writers from the Pre-Revolutionary period. The authors included here range from those prominent because of their social position or literary fame to those slowly becoming part of a new canon of Old Regime women writers - authors whose works were known to their contemporaries but who have slipped into near invisibility in the following centuries until their recent rediscovery and reassessment. | Writings by Pre-Revolutionary French Women From Marie de France to Elizabeth Vige-Le Brun

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Aprender a aprender en la era digital Tecnopedagogía crítica para la enseñanza del español LE/L2

Aprender a aprender en la era digital Tecnopedagogía crítica para la enseñanza del español LE/L2

Aprender a aprender en la era digital provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art account that empowers readers to leverage learning technologies to promote second language learner autonomy. Written entirely in Spanish the book covers a breadth of innovative topics in the teaching of Spanish via and with technology such as emerging pedagogies autonomous and participatory learning learner agency and identity teacher development and post-communicative curriculum design. Key features: a novel and unique approach combining the latest research on learning autonomy and instructional technologies in language learning; an emphasis on the connections between theory and practice with concrete suggestions for using technology in the classroom; an extensive selection of curricular and pedagogical tools that can be easily adapted to various teaching and learning environments and needs; a broad selection of bibliographical references for further reading and research; a bilingual glossary of key techno-pedagogical terms; a catalogue with over 250 tools for second language learning and teaching with contextualized examples of their practical application; a comprehensive eResource with a wealth of additional materials including access to a database of technological tools and best practices in teaching Spanish with technology. Written in a clear and accessible manner Aprender a aprender en la era digital is ideal for instructors of Spanish at all educational levels. The book will also be of great interest to teachers of languages other than Spanish as well as graduate students pursuing a degree in Spanish Educational Technology or Language Education. | Aprender a aprender en la era digital Tecnopedagogía crítica para la enseñanza del español LE/L2

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Sensing the World An Anthropology of the Senses

Sensing the World An Anthropology of the Senses

Sensing the World: An Anthropology of the Senses is a highly original and comprehensive overview of the anthropology and sociology of the body and the senses. Discussing each sense in turn – seeing hearing touch smell and taste – Le Breton has written a truly monumental work vast in scope and deeply engaging in style. Among other pioneering moves he gives equal attention to light and darkness sound and silence and his disputation of taste explores aspects of disgust and revulsion. Part phenomenological part historical this is above all a cultural account of perception which returns the body and the senses to the center of social life. Le Breton is the leading authority on the anthropology of the body and the senses in French academia. With a repute comparable to the late Pierre Bourdieu his 30+ books have been translated into numerous languages. This is the first of his works to be made available in English. This sensuously nuanced translation of La Saveur du monde is accompanied by a spicy preface from series editor David Howes who introduces Le Breton's work to an English-speaking audience and highlights its implications for the disciplines of anthropology sociology and the cross-disciplinary field of sensory studies. | Sensing the World An Anthropology of the Senses

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Modern Women Artists in the Nordic Countries 1900–1960

Modern Women Artists in the Nordic Countries 1900–1960

This transnational volume examines innovative women artists who were from or worked in Denmark Finland Greenland Iceland Norway Sápmi and Sweden from the emergence of modernism until the feminist movement took shape in the 1960s. The book addresses the culturally specific conditions that shaped Nordic artists’ contributions brings the latest methodological and feminist approaches to bear on Nordic art history and engages a wide international audience through the contributors’ subject matter and analysis. Rather than introducing a new history of rediscovered women artists the book is more concerned with understanding the mechanisms and structures that affected women artists and their work while suggesting alternative ways of constructing women’s art histories. Artists covered include Else Alfelt Pia Arke Franciska Clausen Jessie Kleemann Hilma af Klint Sonja Ferlov Mancoba Greta Knutson Aase Texmon Rygh Hannah Ryggen Júlíana Sveinsdóttir Ellen Thesleff and Astri Aasen. The target audience includes scholars working in art history cultural studies feminist studies gender studies curatorial studies Nordic studies postcolonial studies and visual studies. | Modern Women Artists in the Nordic Countries 1900–1960

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Les sources du plain-chant et de la musique médiévale

Les sources du plain-chant et de la musique médiévale

The origin and development of Western plainchant and of the genres of liturgical book in which it is recorded have occupied Michel Huglo throughout his long career which has taken him to libraries in every corner of Europe and the United States. This volume the first in a set of four to appear in the Variorum series brings together analyses of manuscripts dating from the 9th to the 13th century including Huglo's pathbreaking studies of the antiphoner of Compiègne the first troper-prosers and of alleluia lists as clues to place of origin. The consequences of the Treaty of Verdun (843) for the diffusion of the plainchant repertory research in medieval musicology in the 20th century the utility of codicology for musicological manuscript studies and the critical edition of the Gregorian antiphoner are addressed in other studies included here. Les origines et le développement du plain-chant en Occident et l'étude des genres de livres liturgiques qui le contiennent ont occupé Michel Huglo durant sa longue carrière et l'ont conduit visiter des bibliothèques partout en Europe et aux Etats-Unis. Ce volume le premier d'une série de quatre dans la collection Variorum comprend des analyses de manuscrits du neuvième au treizième siècle notamment des études novatrices relan§ant les recherches sur l'antiphonaire de Compiègne les premiers tropaires-prosaires et les listes d'alleluias comme moyen d'identification des manuscrits de chant. Les conséquences du traité de Verdun (843) pour la diffusion du répertoire de plain-chant les recherches en musicologie médiévale au XXe siècle l'application des méthodes de la codicologie l'étude des manuscrits notés et l'édition critique de l'Antiphonaire grégorien forment les sujets d'autres études réunies dans ce volume. | Les sources du plain-chant et de la musique médiévale

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French Grammar in Context

French Grammar in Context

Now in its fifth edition French Grammar in Context presents a unique and exciting approach to learning grammar. Authentic texts from a rich variety of sources literary and journalistic are used as the starting point for the illustration and explanation of key areas of French grammar. Each point is consolidated with a wide range of written and spoken exercises. Grammar is presented not as an end in itself but as a tool essential to enjoying French understanding native speakers and communicating effectively with them. Literary texts and poems are taken from renowned French authors such as Albert Camus Émile Zola André Malraux Alain Robbe-Grillet Stendhal and Jacques Prévert. News sources include Libération Le Point Marianne and Le Monde Diplomatique in addition to articles from regional papers such as Ouest-France and La Voix du Nord. Lifestyle articles are included from magazines such as Elle. This fifth edition has been updated to include new texts for Chapters 24 and 25 and two new revision texts. In addition this new edition is supported by a revised and extended companion website that offers a wealth of additional interactive exercises to practise and reinforce the material covered. French Grammar in Context is aimed at intermediate and advanced students and is ideal for both independent and class-based study.

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Teaching Climate Change for Grades 6–12 Empowering Science Teachers to Take on the Climate Crisis Through NGSS

Teaching Climate Change for Grades 6–12 Empowering Science Teachers to Take on the Climate Crisis Through NGSS

Looking to tackle climate change and climate science in your classroom? This timely and insightful book supports and enables secondary science teachers to develop effective curricula ready to meet the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) by grounding their instruction on the climate crisis. Nearly one-third of the secondary science standards relate to climate science but teachers need design and implementation support to create empowering learning experiences centered around the climate crisis. Experienced science educator instructional coach and educational leader Dr. Kelley T. Le offers this support providing an overview of the teaching shifts needed for NGSS and to support climate literacy for students via urgent topics in climate science and environmental justice – from the COVID-19 pandemic to global warming rising sea temperatures deforestation and mass extinction. You’ll also learn how to engage the complexity of climate change by exploring social racial and environmental injustices stemming from the climate crisis that directly impact students. By anchoring instruction around the climate crisis Dr. Le offers guidance on how to empower students to be the agents of change needed in their own communities. A range of additional teacher resources are also available at www. empoweredscienceteachers. com. | Teaching Climate Change for Grades 6–12 Empowering Science Teachers to Take on the Climate Crisis Through NGSS

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Bulgarian Harmony In Village Wedding and Choral Music of the Last Century

Bulgarian Harmony In Village Wedding and Choral Music of the Last Century

An in-depth study of the Bulgarian harmonic system is long overdue. More than two decades since the Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares choir was awarded a Grammy (1990) there is no scholarly study of the captivating sounds of Bulgarian vertical sonorities. Kalin Kirilov traces the gradual formation of a unique harmonic system that developed in three styles of Bulgarian music: village music from the 1930s to the 1990s wedding music from the 1970s to 2000 and choral arrangements (obrabotki) - creations of the socialist period (1944-1989) popularized by Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares. Kirilov classifies the different approaches to harmony and situates them in their historical and cultural contexts establishing new systems for analysis. In the process he introduces a new system for the categorization of scales. Kirilov argues that the ready-made concepts that are frequently forced onto Bulgarian music - ‘westernization’ ‘socialist’ or ‘Middle Eastern influence’ are not only outdated but also too vague to be of use in understanding the sophisticated modal and harmonic systems found in Bulgarian music. As an insider who has performed composed and arranged this music for 30 years Kirilov is uniquely qualified to interpret it for an international audience. | Bulgarian Harmony In Village Wedding and Choral Music of the Last Century

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Medieval Narbonne A City at the Heart of the Troubadour World

Medieval Narbonne A City at the Heart of the Troubadour World

This volume presents a series of studies by Jacqueline Caille acknowledged as the leading expert on medieval Narbonne which chart the development and history of the city from its Roman origins to its decline in the late Middle Ages. They focus on the period of Narbonne's heyday from the mid-11th to the mid-14th centuries and a central place is held by Ermengarde viscountess for half the 12th century and celebrated figure in the 'world of the troubadours'. The book opens with an important new introductory survey in English setting the context for the detailed studies which follow several of which also appear in English for the first time and all being updated with additional notes. These articles cover the physical growth of the great medieval centre the relations and conflicts between its secular and ecclesiastical lords its administrative and religious life and its political and commercial connections with the areas around. Ce volume regroupe une série d'études de Jacqueline Caille spécialiste reconnue de l'histoire de Narbonne au Moyen Age. L'antique cité y est présentée depuis ses origines romaines jusqu' la fin du XVe siècle en insistant particulièrement sur la période la plus brillante des siècles médiévaux du milieu du XIe au milieu du XIVe siècle. Le recueil s'ouvre par un long survol historique inédit en anglais brossant le contexte général o¹ s'insèrent les études spécialisées qui suivent réactualisées par des notes additionnelles. Les principaux thèmes pouvant ªtre dégagés des ces articles concernent le développement topographique de cette grande ville médiévale les relations et les conflits entre les seigneurs qui la dirigent (archevªques et vicomtes) la vie administrative et religieuse de l'agglomération ainsi que ses relations politiques et commerciales avec les régions environnantes. Enfin une place de choix est faite l'une des éminentes figures du monde des troubadours la victomtesse | Medieval Narbonne A City at the Heart of the Troubadour World

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Cultural History in France Local Debates Global Perspectives

Cultural History in France Local Debates Global Perspectives

This volume which gathers contributions presented at the annual conferences of l'Association pour le développement de l'histoire culturelle (ADHC) questions the subjects and boundaries of cultural history in France – with regard to neighboring approaches such as cultural studies media studies and gender studies – to elaborate a social history of representations. Historians philosophers and sociologists address a large variety of topics and methodological proposals. Definitions objects and actors memories and cultural transfers: this book depicts the major questions that underlie the historical debate at the beginning of the 21st century. | Cultural History in France Local Debates Global Perspectives

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Building Theories Architecture as the Art of Building

Building Theories Architecture as the Art of Building

Building Theories speaks to the value of words in architecture. It addresses the author’s fascination with the voices of architects engineers builders and craftspeople whose ideas about building have been captured in text. It discusses the content of treatises essays articles and letters by those who have been throughout history committed to the art of building. In this Building Theories argues for the return of a practice of architectural theory that is set amongst building buildings and builders. This journey of close reading reinterprets the words of Vitruvius Alberti de L’Orme Le Camus de Mézières Boullée Laugier Rondelet Semper Viollet-le-Duc Hübsch Bötticher Berlage Muthesius Wagner Behrendt Gropius and Arup. With chapters dedicated to texts from antiquity the Renaissance and the nineteenth century and with a critical eye on architectural theory popularized in the Anglo-Saxon world post-1968 readers are introduced to a wider more inclusive definition of architectural ideas. Building Theories considers how contemporary scholarship has steered away from the topic of building in its reluctance to admit that both design and construction are central to its concerns. In response it argues for a realignment of architecture with the concept of techné with a dual commitment to fabrica e ratio with a productive return to l’art de bien bastir with the accurate translation of the term Baukunst and with an appeal to the architect’s ‘composite mind. ’ Students practitioners and educators will identify in Building Theories ways of thinking that strive for the integration of design with construction; reject the supposed primacy of the former over the latter; recognize how aesthetics are an insufficient scaffold for subtending the subject of architectural ethics; and accept without reservation that material transformations have always been at the origins of built form. | Building Theories Architecture as the Art of Building

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Revival: Genre and Void (2003) Looking Back at Sartre and Beauvoir

Revival: Genre and Void (2003) Looking Back at Sartre and Beauvoir

This book was first published in 2003: Developing a reading of some of Beauvoir's and Sartre's most influential writings in philosophy Max Deutscher explores contemporary philosophy in the light of the phenomenological tradition within which Being and Nothingness and The Second Sex occurred as striking events operating on the border of the modern and the post-modern. Deutscher traces the shifts of genre that produce their gendered philosophies and responds in terms of contemporary experience to the mood and the arguments of their works. Drawing upon the writings of two contemporary critics in particular - Michele Le D“uff and Luce Irigaray - Deutscher reworks this part of philosophy's history in order to advance thinking in contemporary philosophy generate renewed philosophical reflection on consciousness freedom and one's relation to others and to return a look still cast in our direction from an earlier time. | Revival: Genre and Void (2003) Looking Back at Sartre and Beauvoir

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El mundo hispanohablante en textos / Reading the Spanish-Speaking World

El mundo hispanohablante en textos / Reading the Spanish-Speaking World

El mundo hispanohablante en textos / Reading the Spanish-Speaking World es un libro de texto para estudiantes de español de nivel intermedio y avanzado. Recoge textos auténticos que acercarán al estudiante al mundo hispanohablante y le permitirán desarrollar su dominio de la lengua española y reflexionar críticamente sobre temas de actualidad. Cada capítulo gira en torno a un texto escrito por un autor contemporáneo. Las actividades fomentan la reflexión sobre el tema abordado así como el desarrollo de las destrezas receptivas y de producción del estudiante ampliando en el proceso su vocabulario y conocimientos gramaticales. El estudiante podrá observar y trabajar con diversos registros y estilos de escritura; a través de las actividades se le invita a investigar y responder a temas políticos culturales y sociales muchos de los cuales son específicos al mundo hispanohablante. Se incluyen además un extenso glosario de palabras así como explicaciones detalladas de aspectos gramaticales; estos recursos proporcionan un valioso material de referencia. Este es el libro ideal para cualquier curso de lengua española de niveles B2 y C1. Se puede usar dentro y fuera del aula. El mundo hispanohablante en textos / Reading the Spanish-Speaking World is a content-based textbook written in Spanish which aims to develop command of the Spanish language and critical thinking skills through response to a series of texts originating from a number of different Spanish-speaking countries. The nineteen chapters all including texts by contemporary authors cover a range of themes of up-to-date interest. Users are encouraged to engage with these topical works through a selection of activities which will develop reading writing and speaking skills together with a wider command of vocabulary and grammatical structures. Users will also learn about different styles and registers of writing and be able to respond to a variety of contemporary political cultural and social issues most of which are specific to the Spanish-speaking world. Additionally the inclusion of an extensive word glossary and detailed explanations of grammatical points provides valuable reference material for users. This is the ideal textbook to accompany any course in Spanish language at B2 and C1 level and can be used both within and outside the classroom.

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The Archetypal Artist Reimagining Creativity and the Call to Create

The Archetypal Artist Reimagining Creativity and the Call to Create

In this thoughtful and revelatory book Wood explores enduring and powerful theories on art creativity and what Jung called the creative spirit in order to illuminate how artists can truly understand what it means to be a creator. By bringing together insights on creativity from some of depth psychology’s most iconic thinkers such as C. G. Jung James Hillman and Joseph Campbell as well as featuring a selection of creators who have been influenced by these ideas such as Martha Graham Mary Oliver Stanley Kunitz and Ursula K. Le Guin this book explores archetypal thought and the role of the artist in society. This unique approach emphasizes the foundational need to understand and work with the unconscious forces that underpin a creative calling deepening our understanding of the transformational power of creativity and the vital role of the artist in the modern world. Acting as a touchstone for inquiries into the nature of creativity and of the soul this enlightening book is perfect for artists and creators of all types as well as Jungian analysts and therapists and academics interested in the arts humanities and depth psychology. | The Archetypal Artist Reimagining Creativity and the Call to Create

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International Investment Arbitration Lessons from Developments in the MENA Region

International Investment Arbitration Lessons from Developments in the MENA Region

Arbitration is the most common mechanism for disputes' settlement in developing countries. Following the move to free market economies arbitration will play an increasingly fundamental role in order to protect foreign investors in the Middle East and North African Region (MENA). This book examines the pulse and dynamics of international investment arbitration and the new era of mediation in state contracts in the region. The author explores the harmonization of international arbitration and the sensitive issue of le Contrat Administratif in Middle East civil law countries. The volume also discusses the pivotal role of international organizations such as UNCTAD and ICSID in codifying fair and prompt mechanisms for dispute settlement. Using Latin American countries as a prime example of how international legislative instruments serve international investment law principles and comparing Latin American experiences where appropriate the book demonstrates how lessons can be learned in respect of alternative dispute resolution international commercial arbitration and investor-states arbitration. It provides suggestions and recommendations for the future and includes useful appendices detailing recent worldwide trends regional and international instruments in the arbitration world. | International Investment Arbitration Lessons from Developments in the MENA Region

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Humour and Humanism in the Renaissance

Humour and Humanism in the Renaissance

Of the articles in this volume eight concern a world-famous author (Fran§ois Rabelais); the others are studies of little-known authors (Cortesi Corrozet Mercier) or genres (the joke the apophthegm). The common theme in all but one is humour: how it was defined and how used by orators and humanists but also by court jesters princes peasants and housewives. Though neglected by historians this subject was of crucial importance to writers as different as Luther Erasmus Thomas More and Fran§ois Rabelais. The book is divided into four sections. 'Humanist Wit' concerns the large and multi-lingual corpus of Renaissance facetiae. The second and third parts focus on French humanist humour Rabelais in particular while the last section is titled 'Serious Humanists' because humour is by no means absent from it. For the Renaissance as Erasmus and Rabelais amply demonstrate and as the 'minor' authors studied here confirm wit whether affectionate or bitingly satirical can coexist with and indeed be inseparable from serious purpose. Rabelais as so often said it best: 'Rire est le propre de l'homme. ' | Humour and Humanism in the Renaissance

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Contemporary Circus

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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Jung on Astrology

Jung on Astrology

Jung on Astrology brings together C. G. Jung’s thoughts on astrology in a single volume for the first time significantly adding to our understanding of Jung’s work. Jung’s Collected Works seminars and letters contain numerous discussions of this ancient divinatory system and Jung himself used astrological horoscopes as a diagnostic tool in his analytic practice. Understood in terms of his own psychology as a symbolic representation of the archetypes of the collective unconscious Jung found in astrology a wealth of spiritual and psychological meaning and suggested it represents the sum of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity. The selections and editorial introductions by Safron Rossi and Keiron Le Grice address topics that were of critical importance to Jung—such as the archetypal symbolism in astrology the precession of the equinoxes and astrological ages astrology as a form of synchronicity and acausal correspondence the qualitative nature of time and the experience of astrological fate—allowing readers to assess astrology’s place within the larger corpus of Jung’s work and its value as a source of symbolic meaning for our time. The book will be of great interest to analytical psychologists Jungian psychotherapists and academics and students of depth psychology Jungian and post-Jungian studies as well as to astrologers and therapists of other orientations especially transpersonal.

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Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh explores the life of this globally important twentieth-century figure and offers new insights into his lengthy career including his often-forgotten involvement with British intermediaries in 1945–46 and with the United States in 1944–45. Ho was the father of his nation a major protagonist in the Cold War and anti-colonial struggle and the promoter of a distinctive Vietnamese form of communism. This biography charts his life from his early years and education in Europe to his establishment of the revolutionary pro-communist movement the Viet Minh and his subsequent rise to power. Placing important emphasis on his role as a military organizer while stressing his preference for diplomatic solutions this book contains detailed analysis of the complex talks with France and failure to prevent the Franco-Viet Minh war in 1946. It also follows Ho’s complex relationships with America China France and Russia and explores the Vietnam War and his legacy. In addition to providing extensive coverage of the 1954 Geneva Conference the rivalry between Ho and First Secretary Le Duan and the 1968 Tet Offensive Ho Chi Minh is also the first English-language biography of Ho to pay close attention to his attitude to women and their role within the communist party. It is the perfect introduction for students of Vietnamese history and twentieth-century history more broadly.

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The Gaullist Phenomenon The Gaullist Movement in the Fifth Republic

The Gaullist Phenomenon The Gaullist Movement in the Fifth Republic

Books on gaullism – or more precisely books on General de Gaulle – are not uncommon. Originally published in English in 1971 this claimed to be the first book of this sort on gaullism as a political force within the French political system. Since the publication of his work on the Union pour la nouvelle République Jean Charlot had become known as one of the few objective experts on gaullism. His knowledge of the British political system had helped him to appreciate the nature of the gaullist party which he saw from the first not as a transient party linked to the political career of General de Gaulle but as a major modern right-wing party comparable to the Conservative Party in Britain. In this book he demonstrates how the gaullist movement is a ‘voter-oriented’ party the first that France had really ever known. The strength of gaullism lies in the electorate which had fully accepted gaullist economic policies the institutional changes introduced under the Republic and the party’s foreign policy. This voter-oriented party had fundamentally changed the French party system. A majority party since 1962 the gaullist movement would force the left to regroup within a left-wing voter-oriented party if it did not want to face political sterility. Jean Charlot was one of the few specialists to publish an article just after the referendum (Le Monde May 2 1969) forecasting that the departure of General de Gaulle did not foreshadow the end of gaullism as a major political force. | The Gaullist Phenomenon The Gaullist Movement in the Fifth Republic

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