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Benjamin Markovits Critical Essays

Benjamin Markovits Critical Essays

Benjamin Markovits is a leading Anglo-American novelist with a varied and ambitious body of work ranging from a trilogy of historical fictions on the life of Lord Byron (Imposture 2007; A Quiet Adjustment 2008; Childish Loves 2011) to an award-winning portrayal of a gentrification project in Obama-era Detroit (You Don’t Have to Live Like This 2015) to intimate studies of contemporary family life (A Weekend in New York 2018; Christmas in Austin 2019). Prolific and unpredictable Markovits is one of the most interesting realist writers working today. Featuring contributions from emerging and established scholars this collection provides fresh perspectives on Markovits’s place in the contemporary literary field as well as offering a detailed survey of his work to date. The collection begins with Markovits’s early ‘campus novel’ The Syme Papers (2004) before exploring his celebrated ‘Byron Trilogy’ and the 2005 story cycle Either Side of Winter. Contributors consider Markovits’s best-known book You Don’t Have to Live Like This which won the James Tait Memorial Prize as well as his more recent fictions focusing on the trials and tribulations of the Essinger family. Taken together this authoritative collection brings to light the many preoccupations of Markovits’s singular oeuvre—from Byron to basketball from race relations to real estate. It also includes a frank and wide-ranging interview with the author. The collection will be a first port of call for students and scholars in search of a comprehensive introduction to the work of one of our most exciting contemporary novelists. | Benjamin Markovits Critical Essays

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Benjamin Britten and Montagu Slater's Peter Grimes

Benjamin Britten and Montagu Slater's Peter Grimes

‘Who can turn skies back and begin again?’ -Peter This book contends that Peter Grimes widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential operas of the 20th century is also one of the British theatre’s finest ‘lost’ plays. Seeking to liberate Britten and Slater’s work from the blinkered traditions of theatre and opera criticism Sam Kinchin-Smith poses two questions: If an opera was created like a play and can be staged as a play is it a play? If a portion of its success and influence is the product of this newly identified theatrical engine is it then a great play? The answers involve Wagner and W. G. Sebald George Crabbe and Complicité Akenfield and Twin Peaks. Challenging long-established narratives of post-war theatre history this book makes a compelling case for why practitioners and scholars of performance ought to pay more attention to Britten and Slater’s achievement – a milestone of unconventional English modernism – and perhaps to other operatic masterpieces too. | Benjamin Britten and Montagu Slater's Peter Grimes

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Illusion and Fetishism in Critical Theory A study of Nietzsche Benjamin Castoriadis and the Situationists

Illusion and Fetishism in Critical Theory A study of Nietzsche Benjamin Castoriadis and the Situationists

Through the negative dialectics of Theodore Adorno Illusion and Fetishism in Critical Theory offers an examination of Nietzsche Benjamin Castoriadis and the Situationists who put the concept of illusion at the forefront of their philosophical thought. Vasilis Grollios argues that these political philosophers except Castoriadis have up to now been wrongly considered by many scholars to be far from the line of thinking of negative dialectics Critical Theory and the early Frankfurt School/Open Marxist tradition. He illustrates how these thinkers focused on the illusions of capitalism and attempted to show how capitalism by its innate rationale creates social forms that are presented as unavoidable and universal yet are historically specific and of dubious sustainability. Providing a unique overview of concepts including illusion totality fetishization contradiction identity thinking and dialectics Grollios expertly reveals how their understanding of critique can help us open cracks in capitalism and radicalize democratic social practice today. Illusion and Fetishism in Critical Theory is a must read for scholars of political theory and political philosophy critical theory the Frankfurt School sociology and democratic theory. | Illusion and Fetishism in Critical Theory A study of Nietzsche Benjamin Castoriadis and the Situationists

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An Analysis of Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

An Analysis of Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction combats traditional art criticism’s treatment of artworks as fixed unchanging mystical objects. For Walter Benjamin the consequences of addressing a work of art in this manner have a wider resonance: closed off from any active visual or tactile engagement the work of art becomes an object of passive contemplation and a potential tool of oppression. Benjamin argues that technology has fundamentally altered the way art is experienced. Potentially open to interpretation and accessible to many art in the age of mechanical reproduction has the potential to be mobilized for radical purposes. While ostensibly addressing the artistic consequences of technical reproducibility on art Benjamin also addresses the wider political consequences of this shift. | An Analysis of Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

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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

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The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint

The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint

First Published in 2003. The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint is an introductory text to the analysis and composition of tonal counterpoint. Using examples from the music of J. S. Bach - the master of this style - the author takes students through a series of carefully graded cumulative exercises that stress both analysis and writing. Benjamin covers chromaticism and fugal writing in exceptional detail. The exercises cover a wide range of formats including error detection linear pitch reduction analysis and composition. The book also incorporates a 100-page anthology of scores effective for analysis in-class performance and compositional models.

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The Photography Reader History and Theory

The Photography Reader History and Theory

Following on from its hugely successful first edition The Photography Reader: History and Theory provides deeper insight into the critical discussions around photography – its production its uses and its effects. Presenting both the historical ideas and the continuing theoretical debates within photography and photographic study this second edition contains essays by photographers including Edward Weston and László Moholy-Nagy and key thinkers such as Walter Benjamin Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag. Along with its companion text – The Photography Cultures Reader: Representation Agency and Identity – this is the most comprehensive introduction to photography and photographic criticism. This new edition features: • Over 50 additional photographs • New essays from photographers and academics • Revised introductions setting ideas and debates in their historical and theoretical context • Sections on Art photography Documentary and Photomedia. Includes essays by: Jan Baetens Roland Barthes Geoffrey Batchen David Bate André Bazin Walter Benjamin Lynn Berger Matthew Biro Osip Brik Victor Burgin Hubert Damisch Edmundo Desnoes Umberto Eco Elizabeth Edwards Steve Edwards Andy Grundberg Lisa Henderson Estelle Jussim Sarah Kember Siegfried Kracauer Rosalind Krauss Martin Lister Lev Manovich Christian Metz W. J. T. Mitchell Tina Modotti László Moholy-Nagy Wright Morris Darren Newbury Daniel Palmer Marjorie Perloff Fred Ritchin Martha Rosler Steven Skopik Abigail Solomon-Godeau Susan Sontag Lucy Soutter John Szarkowski John Tagg Hilde Van Gelder Ian Walker Liz Wells Edward Weston Peter Wollen. | The Photography Reader History and Theory

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Financial Conditions and Macroeconomic Performance Essays in Honor of Hyman P.Minsky

Financial Conditions and Macroeconomic Performance Essays in Honor of Hyman P.Minsky

This collection of papers on financial instability and its impact on macroeconomic performance honours Hyman P. Minsky and his lifelong work. It is based on a conference at Washington University St. Louis in 1990 and includes among the authors Benjamin M. Friedman Charles P. Kindleberger Jan Kregel and Steven Fazzari. These papers consider Minsky's definitive analysis that yields such a clear and disturbing sequence of financial events: booms government intervention to prevent debt contraction and new booms that cause a progressive buildup of new debt eventually leaving the economy much more fragile financially. | Financial Conditions and Macroeconomic Performance Essays in Honor of Hyman P. Minsky

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The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy Volume 21 Special Issue 2023: Aesthetics Art Heidegger French Philosophy

The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy Volume 21 Special Issue 2023: Aesthetics Art Heidegger French Philosophy

Volume XXI Special Issue 2023 Part 1: Phenomenological Perspectives on Aesthetics and Art Part 2: Heidegger and Contemporary French Philosophy Aim and Scope: The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy provides an annual international forum for phenomenological research in the spirit of Husserl’s groundbreaking work and the extension of this work by such figures as Reinach Scheler Stein Heidegger Sartre Levinas Merleau-Ponty and Gadamer. Contributors: Liliana Albertazzi Dimitris Apostolopoulos Gabriele Baratelli Anna Irene Baka Irene Breuer John Brough Peer Bundgaard Justin Clemens Richard Colledge Bryan Cooke Françoise Dastur Ivo De Gennaro Natalie Depraz Helena De Preester Daniele De Santis Madalina Diaconu Arto Haapala Robyn Horner Erik Kuravsky Donald Landes Elisa Magri Michelle Maiese Regina-Nino Mion Brian O’Connor Costas Pagondiotis Knox Peden Constantinos Picolas Hans Reiner Sepp Jack Reynolds Jon Roffe Claude Romano Maxine Sheets-Johnstone Michela Summa Panos Theodorou Fotini Vassiliou and Sanem Yazicioglu. Submissions: Manuscripts prepared for blind review should be submitted to the Editors (burt-crowell. hopkins@univ-lille3. fr and daniele. desantis@ff. cuni. cz) electronically via e-mail attachments. | The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy Volume 21 Special Issue 2023: Aesthetics Art Heidegger French Philosophy

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Practising Spanish Grammar

Practising Spanish Grammar

Practising Spanish Grammar can be used independently or as the ideal companion to the sixth edition of the widely acclaimed A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish (Butt Benjamin and Moreira Rodríguez). Thoroughly updated this fourth edition of the workbook features an improved organization which closely mirrors that of A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish sixth edition. The selection of exercises has been fully revised and expanded with new exercises on a variety of topics including possessives conditional future and past tenses and polite requests. Designed to stimulate and engage even the most grammar-shy students this is an ideal resource for Spanish learners at CEFR Level B2–C1 ACFTL Intermediate-High to Advanced.

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The Dark Side of Politics Essays on the Unpleasant Realities of Political Life

The Dark Side of Politics Essays on the Unpleasant Realities of Political Life

This series of scholarly chapters explores the unpleasant realities of modern politics – and American politics in particular – by examining how self- interest war violence deception and institutional failure continue to characterize the political landscape. Author Benjamin Ginsberg argues that the political world in which we like to think we live – the world of civic engagement representative government and principled political discourse – is fleeting and fragile resting uneasily upon the foundation of a harsh and dark reality. Making a fundamental contribution to our understandings of politics this book is an important read for students and scholars of American Politics and Government. | The Dark Side of Politics Essays on the Unpleasant Realities of Political Life

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Israel Under Netanyahu Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy

Israel Under Netanyahu Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy

Examining Benjamin Netanyahu’s more than a decade-long period as Israel’s Prime Minister this important book evaluates the domestic politics and foreign policy of Israel from 2009-2019. This comprehensive study assesses Israel’s main political parties highlights the special position in Israel of Israel’s Arab Russian and religious communities appraises Netanyahu’s stewardship of Israel’s economy and analyzes Israel’s foreign relations. The scholars contributing to the volume are leading experts from both Israel and the United States and represent a broad spectrum of viewpoints on Israeli politics and foreign policy. The case studies cover the Likud party the non-religious opposition parties such as Labor Meretz and Yesh Atid the Arab parties the religious parties and the Russian-based Yisrael B’Aliyah party and present analyses of the ups and downs of Israel’s relations with the United States the American Jewish Community Iran Europe the Palestinians the Arab World Russia China India and Turkey as well as Israel’s challenges in dealing with terrorism. Another highlight of the book is an assessment of Netanyahu’s leadership of the Likud party which seeks to answer the question as to whether Netanyahu is a pragmatist interested in a peace deal with the Palestinians or an ideologue who wants Israel to hold on to the West Bank as well as all of Jerusalem. This volume will be of interest to readers who wish to understand the dynamics of Israel during Benjamin Netanyahu’s time as Prime Minister and are interested in the history and politics of Israel and the Middle East. | Israel Under Netanyahu Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy

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Beyond Doer and Done to Recognition Theory Intersubjectivity and the Third

Beyond Doer and Done to Recognition Theory Intersubjectivity and the Third

In Beyond Doer and Done To Jessica Benjamin author of the path-breaking Bonds of Love expands her theory of mutual recognition and its breakdown into the complementarity of doer and done to. Her innovative theory charts the growth of the Third in early development through the movement between recognition and breakdown and shows how it parallels the enactments in the psychoanalytic relationship. Benjamin’s recognition theory illuminates the radical potential of acknowledgment in healing both individual and social trauma in creating relational repair in the transformational space of thirdness. Benjamin’s unique formulations of intersubjectivity make essential reading for both psychoanalytic therapists and theorists in the humanities and social sciences. | Beyond Doer and Done to Recognition Theory Intersubjectivity and the Third

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The Bonds of Love Revisited

The Bonds of Love Revisited

Jessica Benjamin is one of the most important and influential psychoanalysts of the last 4 decades. She is one of the founders of relational psychoanalysis a movement that has by now expanded over the globe and was also one of the first to introduce feminism and gender studies into psychoanalytic thought. Jessica Benjamin is the most known and quoted representative of these two movements within world psychoanalysis and beyond in philosophy gender/women’s studies and cultural studies department everywhere. The publication of her book Bonds of Love (1989) was nothing short of a revolution. Psychoanalysis was until then a field immune to a changing world to the unrest of the 60s to the feminist and queer liberation movements to the new philosophies of the Frankfurt School in Germany and post-structuralism in France. The book was a game changer. It called psychoanalysis to doubt its most basic premises on the human condition. It read Freud through a feminist framework and through Hegel forever tipping our perspective on infancy gender and the interplay of power and dependence that drives human relationships from the start. This volume marks the 25th anniversary of Benjamin’s work. Pulling together 15 international scholars it looks back on the book's first impact as well as on its continued relevance to psychoanalysis and gender studies today. Chapters offer theoretical deliberations and elaborations of the book's original themes as well as reflecting on it from more intimate angles as a source of personal and professional inspiration for feminists and clinicians around the world. This book was originally published as a special issue of Studies in Gender and Sexuality. | The Bonds of Love Revisited

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Tragedy

Tragedy

Tragedy is one of the oldest and most resilient forms of narrative. Considering texts from ancient Greece to the present day this comprehensive introduction shows how tragedy has been re-imagined and redefined throughout Western cultural history. Tragedy offers a concise history of tragedy tracing its evolution through key plays prose poetry and philosophical dimensions. John Drakakis examines a wealth of popular plays including works from the ancient Greeks Shakespeare Bertolt Brecht Sarah Kane and Tom Stoppard. He also considers the rewriting and appropriating of ancient drama though a wide range of authors such as Chaucer George Eliot Ted Hughes and Colm Tóibín. Drakakis also demystifies complex philosophical interpretations of tragedy including those of Hegel Kierkegaard Nietzsche and Benjamin. This accessible resource is an invaluable guide for anyone studying tragedy in literature or theatre studies.

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remixthecontext

remixthecontext

remixthecontext is a cunning and satirical collection of theoretical fictions composed by artist novelist and media theorist Mark Amerika. A compelling riff on the classic Platonic dialogue Amerika's remixthecontext features Walt Whitman Benjamin a Professor of Creative Urgency who intellectually jams with an assemblage of characters that resemble the actual artists poets and scholars who populate the university café culture depicted in the book. Each chapter is enlivened by Amerika's provocative mash-up of literary metafiction new media rhetoric and witty repartee setting the stage for a series of freewheeling exchanges that playfully investigate a multitude of themes including remix culture psychic automatism gender fluidity social media dystopia MOOCs as performance art and the challenges presented by cutting-edge digital arts and humanities curricula within a sclerotic academic environment.

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The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School

The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School

The portentous terms and phrases associated with the first decades of the Frankfurt School – exile the dominance of capitalism fascism – seem as salient today as they were in the early twentieth century. The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School addresses the many early concerns of critical theory and brings those concerns into direct engagement with our shared world today. In this volume a distinguished group of international scholars from a variety of disciplines revisits the philosophical and political contributions of Theodor W. Adorno Walter Benjamin Max Horkheimer Herbert Marcuse Jürgen Habermas Axel Honneth and others. Throughout the Companion’s focus is on the major ideas that have made the Frankfurt School such a consequential and enduring movement. It offers a crucial resource for those who are trying to make sense of the global and cultural crisis that has now seized our contemporary world.

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Crusades Volume 20

Crusades Volume 20

Crusades covers the seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology law literature art numismatics and economic social political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources - narrative homiletic and documentary - but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades also incorporates the Society's Bulletin. The editors are Professor Benjamin Z. Kedar Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel; Professor Jonathan Phillips Royal Holloway University of London UK; Nikolaos G. Chrissis Democritus University of Thrace Greece; and Iris Shagrir The Open University of Israel. | Crusades Volume 20

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Interpreting Susan Sontag’s Essays Radical Contemplative

Interpreting Susan Sontag’s Essays Radical Contemplative

Interpreting Susan Sontag’s Essays: Radical Contemplative offers its readers a scholarly examination of her essays within the context of philosophy and aesthetic theory. This study sets up a dialogue between her works and their philosophical counterparts in France and Germany including the works of Hannah Arendt Jacques Derrida Roland Barthes and Walter Benjamin. Artists and concepts discussed in relation to Sontag’s essays include the works of Andy Warhol Pop Art French New Wave Cinema the music of John Cage and the cinematic art of Robert Bresson Leni Riefenstahl Ingmar Bergman and Jean-Luc Godard. Her aesthetic formalism is compared with Harold Bloom and this is the first volume to examine her late works and their position within the American events of 9/11/01 and the War on Terror(ism). | Interpreting Susan Sontag’s Essays Radical Contemplative

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The World to Come Writings on Ethics and Politics

The World to Come Writings on Ethics and Politics

At the heart of the messianic thinking lies an unconditional idea of redemption. The messianic idea of unconditionality is based upon a qualitative distinction between the unredeemed world and the world to come. It is fundamental to this messianic idea that this distinction can't be grasped as transition or mediation. Taking his inspiration from thinkers like Jacques Derrida Emmanuel Lévinas Walter Benjamin and Franz Rosenzweig Saitya Brata Das renews here this task of the unconditional the task of thinking “the advent of pure future that is always to come unenclosed in the bounds of law or in the cages of the “worldly”. He thereby draws profound ethico-political implications from such a thought that opens up the infinitude of the future from the heart of our finitude and shows that such thinking is the very task of our time. | The World to Come Writings on Ethics and Politics

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Mimesis and Alterity A Particular History of the Senses

Mimesis and Alterity A Particular History of the Senses

In this ambitious and accomplished work Taussig explores the complex and interwoven concepts of mimesis the practice of imitation and alterity the opposition of Self and Other. The book moves from the nineteenth-century invention of mimetically capacious machines such as the camera to the fable of colonial ‘first contact’ and the alleged mimetic power of ‘primitives’. Twenty years after the original publication Taussig revisits the work in a new preface which contextualises the impact of Mimesis and Alterity. Drawing on the ideas of Benjamin Adorno and Horckheimer and ethnographic accounts of the Cuna Taussig demonstrates how the history of mimesis is deeply tied to colonialism and the idea of alterity has become increasingly unstable. Vigorous and unorthodox this cross-cultural discussion continues to deepen our understanding of the relationship between ethnography racism and society. | Mimesis and Alterity A Particular History of the Senses

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The Political Economy Of European Monetary Unification

The Political Economy Of European Monetary Unification

The first edition of this book was published in 1994 as the future of monetary unification in Europe was very much in doubt. With Economic and Monetary Union now in place it is appropriate to bring the scholarship on the topic up to date for the students of international political economics. To this effect essayists Jeffry Frieden Geoffrey Garrett Lisa L. Martin Benjamin J. Cohen revised four of the original chapters to reflect new conditions. Editors Barry Eichengreen and Frieden completely rewrote the introductory essay. Three new chapters by Matthew Gabel Charles Engel and Paul De Grauwe et al cover public support for EMU local currency pricing and whether Europe is now better off? The updated volume's purpose remains that of bringing the latest in scholarship in Economics and Political Science to bear on the European monetary integration | The Political Economy Of European Monetary Unification

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American Sports From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of the Internet

American Sports From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of the Internet

American Sports is a comprehensive analytical introduction to the history of American sports from the colonial era to the present. Pamela Grundy and Benjamin Rader outline the complex relationships between sports and class gender race religion and region in the United States. Building on changes in the previous edition which expanded the attention paid to women African Americans Native Americans and Latinos this edition adds numerous sidebars that examine subjects such as the Black Sox scandal the worldwide influence of Jack Johnson the significance of softball for lesbian athletes and the influence of the point spread on sports gambling. Insightful thorough and highly readable the new edition of American Sports remains the finest available introduction to the myriad ways in which sports have reinforced or challenged the values and behaviors of Americans as well as the structure of American society. | American Sports From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of the Internet

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Teaching Gender and Sexuality at School Letters to Teachers

Teaching Gender and Sexuality at School Letters to Teachers

In a set of compelling letters to teachers Tara Goldstein addresses a full range of issues facing lesbian gay bisexual transgender and queer (LGBTQ) students and families at elementary and secondary school. Goldstein talks to teachers about how they can support LGBTQ students and families by normalizing LGBTQ lives in the curriculum challenging homophobic and transphobic ideas and building an inclusive school culture that both expects and welcomes LGBTQ students and their families. Moving and energizing Teaching Gender and Sexuality at School provides readers with the knowledge and resources they need to create safer and more positive classrooms and discusses what it takes to build authentic trusting relationships with LGBTQ students and families. Includes The Unicorn Glossary by benjamin lee hicks the performed ethnography Snakes and Ladders by Tara Goldstein and the verbatim play Out at School by Tara Goldstein Jenny Salisbury and Pam Baer. | Teaching Gender and Sexuality at School Letters to Teachers

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A Practical Guide to Understanding Managing and Reviewing Environmental Risk Assessment Reports

A Practical Guide to Understanding Managing and Reviewing Environmental Risk Assessment Reports

A Practical Guide to Understanding Managing and Reviewing Environmental Risk Assessment Reports provides team leaders and team members with a strategy for developing the elements of risk assessment into a readable and beneficial report. The authors believe that successful management of the risk assessment team is a key factor is quality reports. Leadership first clarifies the roles of each participant and the unique technical factors of their respective disciplines. Teamwork is achieved through an emphasis on common language and procedures. Belluck and Benjamin explore a variety of techniques for creating accurate and useful reports. An example is Proactive Risk Assessment which breaks a project into discrete parts to be delivered on an interim basis. This method based on iterative review drastically increases the chance of detecting errors while they can still be corrected. The authors emphasize rigorous standards by which reports are audited evaluated and critiqued. The goal is to create reports that are accurate useful and adaptable on an industry-wide basis.

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