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A Concordance to Conrad's Victory

A Concordance to Conrad's Victory

Originally published in 1979 The Concordance to Conrad’s Victory is intended to provide access to certain information on the text of the novel in a manner convenient to Conrad scholars. To this end the authors have included an alphabetical list of word frequencies and a type/token ratio table as well as a list of word frequencies in rank order. In the concordance itself each specific word in the text is listed in alphabetical order along with an identifier number and a context for the word. This volume is part of a series which produced verbal indexes concordances and related data for all of Conrad’s works. | A Concordance to Conrad's Victory

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The Failure of Political Reform in Venezuela

The Failure of Political Reform in Venezuela

This title was first published in 2001. The victory of former lieutenant colonel Hugo Chavez in the Venezuelan presidential elections of 1998 was criticized as a blow against the country's deep-seated democratic tradition. It is claimed that this simplistic argument fails to recognize the extent of democratic deterioration in the country and the limitations imposed by discredited political actors on a meaningful democratic reform process. The book aims to break new ground in providing unseen evidence of electoral fraud and offers a fresh perspective on the nature of democratic development. | The Failure of Political Reform in Venezuela

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Memory Place and Identity Commemoration and remembrance of war and conflict

Memory Place and Identity Commemoration and remembrance of war and conflict

This book bridges theoretical gaps that exist between the meta-concepts of memory place and identity by positioning its lens on the emplaced practices of commemoration and the remembrance of war and conflict. This book examines how diverse publics relate to their wartime histories through engagements with everyday collective memories in differing places. Specifically addressing questions of place-making displacement and identity contributions shed new light on the processes of commemoration of war in everyday urban façades and within generations of families and national communities. Contributions seek to clarify how we connect with memories and places of war and conflict. The spatial and narrative manifestations of attempts to contextualise wartime memories of loss trauma conflict victory and suffering are refracted through the roles played by emotion and identity construction in the shaping of post-war remembrances. This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective with insights from history memory studies social psychology cultural and urban geography to contextualise memories of war and their ‘use’ by national governments perpetrators victims and in family histories. | Memory Place and Identity Commemoration and remembrance of war and conflict

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London Jewry and London Politics 1889-1986

London Jewry and London Politics 1889-1986

First Published in 1989 London Jewry and London Politics 1889-1986 is a study of the relationship between the London Jewish community the London County Council and the Greater London Council. Geoffrey Alderman draws on a wealth of primary and secondary material to illuminate a dialogue that began a hundred years ago in a mood of great optimism and co-operation but which ended in the early 1980s in a welter of insults and antagonisms. Alderman adopts a chronological approach looking first at the Jewish involvement in London government prior to the establishment of the London County Council in 1889. He then analyses the contribution made by London Jewry to the periods of progressive control and conservative rule. With the arrival of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe the nature of the Jewish electorate underwent considerable change and Alderman describes how the government exploited prejudice against the Jewish community causing LCC to adopt blatantly antisemitic policies. The Labour victory of 1934 was in part due to the Jewish vote but the period of Labour rule was a disappointment and an anticlimax. This illuminating account of hundred years is an essential read for scholars and researchers of British history.

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The Russo-Japanese War and its Shaping of the Twentieth Century

The Russo-Japanese War and its Shaping of the Twentieth Century

The Russo-Japanese War was in essence a colonial conflict between the expanding interests of Russia and Japan in East Asia. However while appearing regional the war itself in fact had a major global impact. The conflict and Japanese victory stimulated the Russian revolutionary movement in 1905 and hence the Russian Revolution of 1917. In addition the Peace Treaty of Portsmouth created a tension between the United States and Japan that would establish the starting point for the road directly leading to Pearl Harbor in 1941. Eventually the war had a major impact on Germany whose diplomats wanted to use the war to bind St Petersburg to Berlin and whose military planners closely observed the events to prepare themselves for the next possible conflict. This book makes a strong argument for the consideration of initially minor events in the analysis of global history. By describing and analyzing the interrelationship between the events in East Asia and the major developments in Europe and the United States it shows the significance of the Russo-Japanese War as a key factor in determining the most momentous historical events of the twentieth century: The First World War the Second World War and the Cold War. | The Russo-Japanese War and its Shaping of the Twentieth Century

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Sustainable Retrofits Post War Residential Towers in Britain

Sustainable Retrofits Post War Residential Towers in Britain

Presenting the state-of-the-art in sustainable retrofits in post war residential towers this book captures and re-informs the current intense refurbishing process that is taking place in Britain which is part of a global phenomenon happening all over the world as cities upgrade their building stock in an attempt to comply with governmental emission reduction targets. The authors present inspections of 20 sustainably retrofitted social housing towers analysing their aesthetic and technical modifications as well as the shifts occurring in their social structure. The authors use over 200 full colour plans elevations photographs maps and illustrations to beautifully support the statistical and analytical information collected. Finally they include interviews with some of the architects who designed the retrofits residents and key stakeholders to inform the conclusions. | Sustainable Retrofits Post War Residential Towers in Britain

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The Chronicle of a People's War: The Military and Strategic History of the Cambodian Civil War 1979–1991

The Chronicle of a People's War: The Military and Strategic History of the Cambodian Civil War 1979–1991

The Chronicle of a People's War: The Military and Strategic History of the Cambodian Civil War 1979–1991 narrates the military and strategic history of the Cambodian Civil War especially the People’s Republic of Kampuchea (PRK) from when it deposed the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in 1979 until the political settlement in 1991. The PRK survived in the face of a fierce insurgency due to three factors: an appealing and reasonably well-implemented political program extensive political indoctrination and the use of a hybrid army. In this hybrid organization the PRK relied on both its professional conventional army and the militia-like territorial army. This latter type was lightly equipped and most soldiers were not professional. Yet the militia made up for these weaknesses with its intimate knowledge of the local terrain and its political affinity with the local people. These two advantages are keys to victory in the context of counterinsurgency warfare. The narrative and critical analysis is driven by extensive interviews and primary source archives that have never been accessed before by any scholar including interviews with former veterans (battalion commanders brigade commanders division commanders commanders of provincial military commands commanders of military regions and deputy chiefs of staff) articles in the People’s Army from 1979 to 1991 battlefield footage battlefield video reports newsreel propaganda video and official publications of the Cambodian Institute of Military History.

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Modeling and Forecasting Primary Commodity Prices

Modeling and Forecasting Primary Commodity Prices

Recent economic growth in China and other Asian countries has led to increased commodity demand which has caused price rises and accompanying price fluctuations not only for crude oil but also for the many other raw materials. Such trends mean that world commodity markets are once again under intense scrutiny. This book provides new insights into the modeling and forecasting of primary commodity prices by featuring comprehensive applications of the most recent methods of statistical time series analysis. The latter utilize econometric methods concerned with structural breaks unobserved components chaotic discovery long memory heteroskedasticity wavelet estimation and fractional integration. Relevant tests employed include neural networks correlation dimensions Lyapunov exponents fractional integration and rescaled range. The price forecasting involves structural time series trend plus cycle and cyclical trend models. Practical applications focus on the price behaviour of more than twenty international commodity markets. | Modeling and Forecasting Primary Commodity Prices

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Still a Western World? Continuity and Change in Global Order

Still a Western World? Continuity and Change in Global Order

Today the debate on world order is intense. As is always the case in times of transition the global restructuring of international affairs is generating a deep reflection on how the world is and how it should be reorganized. After the long frozen period of the cold war and the subsequent years marked by US unipolarism the world has begun the new millennium with profound shifts. The relative decline of the USA the crisis in the European Union the consolidation of the BRIC emerging economies and the diffusion of the power to non-state actors all constitute significant elements that demand a new conceptualization of the rules of the global game. In this pluralist and changing context a number of different narratives are presented by the key actors in the international system. This book analyses these narratives in comparative terms by putting them in the wider framework of the transformation in global governance. | Still a Western World? Continuity and Change in Global Order

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Israeli Masculinity Sex Work and Consumerism Heteronormativity and Sexual Repertoires

Israeli Masculinity Sex Work and Consumerism Heteronormativity and Sexual Repertoires

Israeli Masculinity Sex Work and Consumerism: Heteronormativity and Sexual Repertoires explores the inner world of Israeli sex work consumers and their use of digital technologies on which intense feelings of social togetherness and belonging create a localized form of homosociality and brotherhood. The first of its kind to offer an in-depth analysis of masculine sexual repertoires in the field of sex consumption this book uses extensive data and observations of online ethnography among a community of Israeli sex consumers operating online. It elucidates the economics of demand in the field of sexual consumption and highlights how the rise of the thriving online communities of sex consumers can function as a platform on which power relations between men themselves are publicly displayed and are constantly challenged. Israeli Masculinity Sex Work and Consumerism: Heteronormativity and Sexual Repertoires will be suitable for researchers in Gender and Sexuality Studies Sociology Anthropology and Criminology. | Israeli Masculinity Sex Work and Consumerism Heteronormativity and Sexual Repertoires

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Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Environmental Organizations and Development

Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Environmental Organizations and Development

The Amazon region is the focus of intense conflict between conservationists concerned with deforestation and advocates of agro-industrial development. This book focuses on the contributions of environmental organizations to the preservation of Brazilian Amazonia. It reveals how environmental organizations such as Greenpeace Friends of the Earth WWF and others have fought fiercely to stop deforestation in the region. It documents how the history of frontier expansion and environmental struggle in the region is linked to Brazil’s position in an evolving capitalist world-economy. It is shown how Brazil’s effort to become a developed country has led successive Brazilian governments to devise development projects for Amazonia. The author analyses how globalization has led to the expansion of international commodity chains in the region particularly for mineral ores soybeans and beef. He shows how environmental organizations have politicized these commodity chains as weapons of conservation through boycotting certain products while other pro-development groups within Brazil claim that such organizations threaten Brazil's sovereignty over its own resources. | Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Environmental Organizations and Development

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Women Peace and Security in Nepal From Civil War to Post-Conflict Reconstruction

Women Peace and Security in Nepal From Civil War to Post-Conflict Reconstruction

This book sheds new light on the important but diverse roles of women in the civil war in Nepal (1996-2006) and the post-conflict reconstruction period (2006-2016). Engaging critically with the women peace and security literature Women Peace and Security in Nepal questions the potential of peace processes to become a window of opportunity for women’s empowerment while insisting on the vital importance of a gender perspective in the study of conflict security and peace. After the signing of the 2006 Comprehensive Peace Accord Nepal experienced a huge leap in women’s political representation in the subsequent Constituent Assembly often portrayed as a landmark victory for women’s empowerment in the context of South Asia. Nepali women’s mobilization played a key role in this success story though similar mobilization has failed to produce the same outcomes elsewhere in South Asia. How does Nepal differ from the other cases? Presenting studies of war-time and post-conflict Nepal through a gender lens this book critically assesses the argument that war and peacebuilding can add momentum to the transformation of gender roles. Contributing new knowledge on women’s disempowerment and empowerment in conflict and peacebuilding the book also offers insights for contemporary debate on gender and political change in conflict-affected societies. This book will be of great interest to students of peace and conflict studies gender security South Asia and international relations in general as well as policy-makers and NGOs. | Women Peace and Security in Nepal From Civil War to Post-Conflict Reconstruction

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Urban Governance Under the Ottomans Between Cosmopolitanism and Conflict

Urban Governance Under the Ottomans Between Cosmopolitanism and Conflict

Urban Governance Under the Ottomans focuses on one of the most pressing topics in this field namely the question why cities formerly known for their multiethnic and multi- religious composition became increasingly marked by conflict in the 19th century. This collection of essays represents the result of an intense process of discussion among many of the authors who have been invited to combine theoretical considerations on the question sketched above with concrete case studies based upon original archival research. From Istanbul to Aleppo and from the Balkans to Jerusalem what emerges from the book is a renewed image of the imperial and local mechanisms of coexistence and of their limits and occasional dissolution in times of change and crisis. Raising questions of governance and changes therein as well as epistemological questions regarding what has often been termed 'cosmopolitanism' this book calls for a closer investigation of incidents of both peaceful coexistence as well as episodes of violence and conflict. A useful addition to existing literature this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers in the fields of Urban Studies History and Middle Eastern Studies. | Urban Governance Under the Ottomans Between Cosmopolitanism and Conflict

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Anticipatory Policymaking When Government Acts to Prevent Problems and Why It Is So Difficult

Anticipatory Policymaking When Government Acts to Prevent Problems and Why It Is So Difficult

Public policy analysts and political pundits alike tend to describe the policymaking process as a reactive sequence in which government develops solutions for clearly evident and identifiable problems. While this depiction holds true in many cases it fails to account for instances in which public policy is enacted in anticipation of a potential future problem. Whereas traditional policy concerns manifest themselves through ongoing harms anticipatory problems are projected to occur sometime in the future and it is the prospect of their potentially catastrophic impact that generates intense speculation and concern in the present. Anticipatory Policymaking: When Government Acts to Prevent Problems and Why It Is So Difficult provides an in depth examination of the complex process through which United States government institutions anticipate emerging threats. Using contemporary debates over the risks associated with nanotechnology pandemic influenza and global warming as case study material Rob A. DeLeo highlights the distinctive features of proactive governance. By challenging the pervasive assumption of reactive policymaking DeLeo provides a dynamic approach for conceptualizing the political dimensions of anticipatory policy change. | Anticipatory Policymaking When Government Acts to Prevent Problems and Why It Is So Difficult

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Cléo de Mérode and the Rise of Modern Celebrity Culture

Cléo de Mérode and the Rise of Modern Celebrity Culture

The first English-language monograph on the French dancer and model Cléo de Mérode and the Rise of Modern Celebrity Culture explores the haunting legacy of this intriguing and glamorous figure an international celebrity at the dawn of modern celebrity culture. Situating Mérode at a pivotal moment in the history of fame and visual culture this study analyzes how technological and societal changes led to our star-struck modernity. Mérode was one of the earliest examples of fame born from mass visual culture as newly available postcards circulated her image around the globe. Through Mérode Michael D. Garval illuminates broader trends of the Belle ‰poque: persistent statue fetishism within a vibrant monumental culture rampant exoticism amid unprecedented colonial expansion the rapid growth of the illustrated press the rise of female show business personalities the advent of cinema and x-rays and a burgeoning sense of new visual possibilities. The volume examines how Mérode heralded modern celebrity icons; problematizes the status of women and women's bodies under intense public scrutiny; and exposes the paradoxes of a society captivated by a mass media-driven dream of intimacy from afar. Cléo de Mérode and the Rise of Modern Celebrity Culture probes the neglected prehistory of a visual culture obsessed with celebrities and their images.

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The Chinese Journals of L.K. Little 1943–54 An Eyewitness Account of War and Revolution Volume III

The Chinese Journals of L.K. Little 1943–54 An Eyewitness Account of War and Revolution Volume III

Lester Knox Little kept a detailed journal of his time in China and Taiwan. Covering the years 1943 to 1954 it provides important new insights about some of the most dramatic episodes in China’s mid-twentieth century history: Sino-Japanese military and economic competition China’s domestic political struggle between the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) and the Chinese Communist Party and the post-war/Cold War balance of power in Southeast and East Asia. It also contains rich first-hand materials for understanding conditions in Chongqing and post-war Shanghai the last years of the Republic of China on the Chinese mainland and its early years in Taiwan and a new inner history of his beloved Chinese Maritime Customs Service. Little’s account with his insightful comments and explicit descriptions provides us with a continuous record from the viewpoint of a capable American citizen in Chinese employ who felt responsible for his Chinese and foreign colleagues and for the modernisation of ‘Free China’ as well as allowing a unique insight into the heart of government during a time of intense social and political change. In addition to the original texts this edition includes extensive explanatory notes providing detailed contextual information regarding the people and places mentioned. | The Chinese Journals of L. K. Little 1943–54 An Eyewitness Account of War and Revolution Volume III

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American Graffiti George Lucas the New Hollywood and the Baby Boom Generation

American Graffiti George Lucas the New Hollywood and the Baby Boom Generation

Combining a detailed film analysis with archival research and social science approaches this book examines how American Graffiti (1973) a low-budget and star-less teen comedy by a filmmaker whose only previous feature had been a box office flop became one of the highest grossing and most highly acclaimed films of all time in the United States and one of the key expressions of the nostalgia wave washing over the country in the 1970s. American Graffiti: George Lucas the New Hollywood and the Baby Boom Generation explores the origins and development of the film its form and themes as well as its marketing reception audiences and impact. It does so by considering the life and career of the film’s co-writer and director George Lucas; the development and impact of the baby boom generation to which he many of his collaborators and the vast majority of the film’s audience belonged; the transformation of the American film industry in the late 1960s and 1970s; and broader changes in American society which gave rise to an intense sense of crisis and growing pessimism across the population. This book is ideal for students scholars and those with an interest in youth cinema the New Hollywood and George Lucas as well as both Film and American Studies more broadly. | American Graffiti George Lucas the New Hollywood and the Baby Boom Generation

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Travellers and Cosmographers Studies in the History of Early Modern Travel and Ethnology

Travellers and Cosmographers Studies in the History of Early Modern Travel and Ethnology

Joan-Pau Rubiés brings together here eleven studies published between 1991 and 2005 that illuminate the impact of travel writing on the transformation of early modern European culture. The new worlds that European navigation opened up at the turn of the 16th century elicited a great deal of curiosity and were the subject of a vast range of writings much of them with an empirical basis albeit often subtly fictionalized. In the context of intense literary and intellectual activity that characterized the Renaissance the encounters generated by European colonial activities in fact produced a remarkable variety of images of human diversity. Some of these images were conditioned by the actual dynamics of cross-cultural encounters overseas but many others were elaborated in Europe by cosmographers historians and philosophers pursuing their own moral and political agendas. As the studies included here show the combined effect was in the long term dramatic: interacting with the impact of humanism and of insurmountable religious divisions travel writing decisively contributed to the transformation of European culture towards the concerns of the Enlightenment. The essays illuminate this process through a combination of general discussions and the contextual analysis of particular texts and debates ranging form the earliest ethnographies produced by merchants travelling to Asia with Vasco da Gama to the writings of Jesuit missionaries researching idolatry in India and China or thinkers like Hugo Grotius seeking to explain the origin of the American Indians. | Travellers and Cosmographers Studies in the History of Early Modern Travel and Ethnology

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The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English this two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is the definitive record of post WWII slang. Containing over 60 000 entries this new edition of the authoritative work on slang details the slang and unconventional English of the English-speaking world since 1945 and through the first decade of the new millennium with the same thorough intense and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge's own work. Unique exciting and at times hilariously shocking key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English with equal prominence given to American and British English slang and entries included from Australia New Zealand Canada India South Africa Ireland and the Caribbean emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English published sources given for each entry often including an early or significant example of the term’s use in print. hundreds of thousands of citations from popular literature newspapers magazines movies and songs illustrating usage of the headwords dating information for each headword in the tradition of Partridge commentary on the term’s origins and meaning New to this edition: A new preface noting slang trends of the last five years Over 1 000 new entries from the US UK and Australia New terms from the language of social networking Many entries now revised to include new dating new citations from written sources and new glosses The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude it’s delightful and it’s a prize for anyone with a love of language.

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Collision of Empires Italy's Invasion of Ethiopia and its International Impact

Collision of Empires Italy's Invasion of Ethiopia and its International Impact

Italy's invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 marked a turning point in interwar Europe. The last great European colonial conquest in Africa the conflict represented an enormous gamble for the Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. He faced a challenge not only from a stout Ethiopian defence but also from difficult logistics made worse by the League of Nations' half-hearted sanctions. Mussolini faced down this opposition and Italian troops aided by air superiority and liberal use of yprite gas conquered Addis Ababa within eight months a victory that shocked many military observers of the time with its speed and suddenness. The invasion had enormous repercussions on European international relations. In the midst of a national election campaign the British National Government had felt constrained to support the League despite fears that sanctions through the League could lead to war with Italy. The concentration of the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean Sea alienated Mussolini and placed the French government on the horns of dilemma; should France support its military partner Italy or its more important potential ally Great Britain? French attempts to mark out a middle ground did little to placate the Duce and the crisis seemed to develop a deep rift between Fascist Italy and the Anglo-French democracies while at the same time creating a crisis in Anglo-French relations. Mussolini turned towards Nazi Germany in an attempt to end his diplomatic isolation during the sanctions episode although Hitler considered the Duce's friendship a mixed blessing. The question of American adherence to sanctions increased ill will between British politicians and the Roosevelt administration in Washington as each tended to blame the other for the failure of oil sanctions and the collapse of collective security. The international crisis posed similarly thorny problems for the smaller powers of Europe and for Japan and the Soviet Union. The crisis impeded common defence against Fascist expansionism while giving impetus to claims of the revisionist powers. Despite the tremendous importance of the international crisis however little new work on the subject has appeared in recent decades. In this volume an international cast of contributors take a fresh look at the crisis through the lens of new evidence and new approaches to international relations history to provide the most comprehensive coverage of the crisis currently possible and their work provides new frames of reference for exploring imperialism collective security and genocide. | Collision of Empires Italy's Invasion of Ethiopia and its International Impact

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Leadership in the Construction Industry Developing Authentic Leaders in a Dynamic World

Leadership in the Construction Industry Developing Authentic Leaders in a Dynamic World

This book presents a new framework for leadership in the construction industry which draws from the authentic leadership construct. The framework has three major themes: self-leadership self-transcendent leadership and sustainable leadership. Despite its significance leadership has not been given due importance in the construction industry as focus is placed on managerial functionalism. At the project level even with the technological advances in the industry in recent years construction is realized in the form of people undertaking distinct interdependent activities which require effective leadership. The industry faces many challenges including: demanding client requirements and project parameters; more stringent regulations codes and systems; intense competition in the industry; and threats from disruptive enterprise. In such a complex environment technology-driven and tool-based project and corporate management is insufficient. It must be complemented by a strategic genuine stakeholder-focused and ethical leadership. Leadership in the Construction Industry is based on a study on authentic leadership and its development in Singapore. Leadership theories and concepts are reviewed; the importance of leadership in the construction industry is discussed; and the grounded theory approach which was applied in the study is explained. Many eminent construction professionals in Singapore were interviewed in the field study. Emerging from the experiences of the leaders documented in this book are three major themes: (1) self-leadership: how leaders engage in various self-related processes such as self-awareness self-regulation and role modeling. (2) self-transcendent leadership: how leaders go beyond leading themselves to leading others through servant leadership shared leadership spiritual leadership and socially-responsible leadership; and finally (3) sustainable leadership or the strategies leaders employ to make the impact of their leadership lasting. A synthesis of these themes and their implications for leadership development is presented before the book concludes with some recommendations for current and aspiring leaders about how they can engage with them. This book is essential reading for all construction practitioners from all backgrounds; and researchers on leadership and management in construction. | Leadership in the Construction Industry Developing Authentic Leaders in a Dynamic World

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German Façade Design Traditions of Screening from 1500 to Modernism

German Façade Design Traditions of Screening from 1500 to Modernism

German architecture prior to the modern period has received less systemic analytical study than that of Italy France and Britain. Scholarly discussion of broad traditions or continuities within Germanic or Central European façade design is even sparser. Baroque era studies of the region mostly devote themselves to isolated architects monuments or movements. Modernism's advent decisively changed this: Germanic architecture enjoyed sudden ascendancy. Yet even so study specifically of that region's façades still lagged – nothing compares to the dozens of treatments of Le Corbusier's façade systems for example and how these juxtapose with French neoclassical or Italian Renaissance methods. Given the paucity of multi-period studies one can be forgiven for believing Germany's effervescence of radical modern works seems unprecedented. This book takes up these multiple quandaries. It identifies and documents a previously unrecognized compositional tradition - characterized here as the 'screen façade' – and posits it as a counter-narrative critiquing the essentialist 'authentic' canon currently dominant in Western architectural history. By crossing evenly over the dividing line between the historical and modern periods it offers valuable insights on indigenous roots underlying some aspects of Germany's invigorating early twentieth-century architectural developments. The book chronologically examines 400 years of closely related facades concentrated in Germany but also found in Austria the Czech Republic German-speaking Switzerland and nearby areas of Central Europe. While nearly 75 buildings are mentioned and illustrated a dozen are given extensive analysis and the book focuses on the works of three architects – Schinkel Behrens and Mies. Relationships between examples of these three architects' façades far transcend mere homage amongst masters. Glimmers of the system they eventually codify are apparent as early as at Heidelberg Castle in 1559 and Nürnberg's Rathaus in 1622. The book argues that in Germany northern Gothic affinities for bisection intense repetition and rote aggregation intersected with southern Classical affinities for symmetry hierarchy and centrality thereby spawning a unique hybrid product – the screen. Instead of graphic formality this study is guided by on-site perceptions propositional contrasts means of approach interpretive conflicts and emotion and it relates the design of these façades to concepts proposed by contemporary philosophers including Novalis Hegel Nietzsche Freud Adorno and most importantly Gadamer on hermeneutics. | German Façade Design Traditions of Screening from 1500 to Modernism

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