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Seriously Therapeutic Play with LEGO The Guidebook for Helping Professionals

Seriously Therapeutic Play with LEGO The Guidebook for Helping Professionals

LEGO® bricks are a staple in many child and play therapists’ offices and Seriously Therapeutic Play with LEGO® shows therapists and counselors how to integrate LEGO® in a therapeutically valuable way. This book presents a therapeutic approach based in biological psychological and social research one that supports participants as they build models that represent their thoughts emotions experiences and reflections. Using a variety of evidence-based intervention techniques chapters show clinicians how to incorporate the model and associated metaphors to help clients and they do so in a way that is compatible with any number of therapeutic orientations or perspectives. Though based in current research Seriously Therapeutic Play with LEGO® is designed for psychologists social workers school counselors occupational therapists clinical educators and supervisors coaches support workers and other health care providers across the lifespan who wish to use play therapeutically. | Seriously Therapeutic Play with LEGO® The Guidebook for Helping Professionals

GBP 28.99
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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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Les Bira et les Peuplades Limitrophes Central Africa Belgian Congo Part II

Les Bira et les Peuplades Limitrophes Central Africa Belgian Congo Part II

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series published between 1950 and 1977 brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples. Concise critical and (for its time) accurate the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows: Physical Environment Linguistic Data Demography History & Traditions of Origin Nomenclature Grouping Cultural Features: Religion Witchcraft Birth Initiation Burial Social & Political Organization: Kinship Marriage Inheritance Slavery Land Tenure Warfare & Justice Economy & Trade Domestic Architecture Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa North-Eastern Africa Southern Africa West Central Africa Western Africa and Central Africa Belgian Congo. The volumes are supplemented with maps available to view on routledge. com or available as a pdf from the publishers. | Les Bira et les Peuplades Limitrophes Central Africa Belgian Congo Part II

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Les Tribus Ba-Kuba et les Peuplades Apparentées Central Africa Belgian Congo Part I

Les Tribus Ba-Kuba et les Peuplades Apparentées Central Africa Belgian Congo Part I

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series published between 1950 and 1977 brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples. Concise critical and (for its time) accurate the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows: Physical Environment Linguistic Data Demography History & Traditions of Origin Nomenclature Grouping Cultural Features: Religion Witchcraft Birth Initiation Burial Social & Political Organization: Kinship Marriage Inheritance Slavery Land Tenure Warfare & Justice Economy & Trade Domestic Architecture Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa North-Eastern Africa Southern Africa West Central Africa Western Africa and Central Africa Belgian Congo. The volumes are supplemented with maps available to view on routledge. com or available as a pdf from the publishers. | Les Tribus Ba-Kuba et les Peuplades Apparentées Central Africa Belgian Congo Part I

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Les Bali et les Peuplades Apparentées (Ndaka-Mbo-Beke-Lika-Budu-Nyari) Central Africa Belgian Congo Part V

Les Bali et les Peuplades Apparentées (Ndaka-Mbo-Beke-Lika-Budu-Nyari) Central Africa Belgian Congo Part V

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series published between 1950 and 1977 brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples. Concise critical and (for its time) accurate the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows: Physical Environment Linguistic Data Demography History & Traditions of Origin Nomenclature Grouping Cultural Features: Religion Witchcraft Birth Initiation Burial Social & Political Organization: Kinship Marriage Inheritance Slavery Land Tenure Warfare & Justice Economy & Trade Domestic Architecture Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa North-Eastern Africa Southern Africa West Central Africa Western Africa and Central Africa Belgian Congo. The volumes are supplemented with maps available to view on routledge. com or available as a pdf from the publishers. | Les Bali et les Peuplades Apparentées (Ndaka-Mbo-Beke-Lika-Budu-Nyari) Central Africa Belgian Congo Part V

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Les Peuplades de L'Entre Congo-Ubangi (Ngbandi Ngbaka Mbandja Ngombe et Gens D'Eau) Central Africa Belgian Congo Part IV

Les Peuplades de L'Entre Congo-Ubangi (Ngbandi Ngbaka Mbandja Ngombe et Gens D'Eau) Central Africa Belgian Congo Part IV

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series published between 1950 and 1977 brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples. Concise critical and (for its time) accurate the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows: Physical Environment Linguistic Data Demography History & Traditions of Origin Nomenclature Grouping Cultural Features: Religion Witchcraft Birth Initiation Burial Social & Political Organization: Kinship Marriage Inheritance Slavery Land Tenure Warfare & Justice Economy & Trade Domestic Architecture Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa North-Eastern Africa Southern Africa West Central Africa Western Africa and Central Africa Belgian Congo. The volumes are supplemented with maps available to view on routledge. com or available as a pdf from the publishers. | Les Peuplades de L'Entre Congo-Ubangi (Ngbandi Ngbaka Mbandja Ngombe et Gens D'Eau) Central Africa Belgian Congo Part IV

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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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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

GBP 130.00
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Angela Carter and Surrealism 'A Feminist Libertarian Aesthetic'

Angela Carter and Surrealism 'A Feminist Libertarian Aesthetic'

In 1972 Angela Carter translated Xavière Gauthier’s ground-breaking feminist critique of the surrealist movement Surréalisme et sexualité (1971). Although the translation was never published the project at once confirmed and consolidated Carter’s previous interest in surrealism representation gender and desire and aided her formulation of a new surrealist-feminist aesthetic. Carter’s sustained engagement with surrealist aesthetics and politics as well as surrealist scholarship aptly demonstrates what is at stake for feminism at the intersection of avant-garde aesthetics and the representation of women and female desire. Drawing on previously unexplored archival material such as typescripts journals and letters Anna Watz’s study is the first to trace the full extent to which Carter’s writing was influenced by the surrealist movement and its critical heritage. Watz’s book is an important contribution to scholarship on Angela Carter as well as to contemporary feminist debates on surrealism and will appeal to scholars across the fields of contemporary British fiction feminism and literary and visual surrealism. | Angela Carter and Surrealism 'A Feminist Libertarian Aesthetic'

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Applying Body Mapping in Research An Arts-Based Method

Applying Body Mapping in Research An Arts-Based Method

This book provides an overview of the innovative arts-based research method of body mapping and offers a snapshot of the field. The review of body mapping projects by Boydell et al. confirms the potential research and therapeutic benefits associated with body mapping. The book describes a series of body mapping research projects that focus on populations marginalised by disability mental health status and other vulnerable identities. Chapters focus on summarising the current state of the art and its application with marginalised groups; analytic strategies for body mapping; highlighting body mapping as a creation and a dissemination process; emerging body mapping techniques including web-based virtual reality and wearable technology applications; and measuring the impact of body maps on planning practice and behaviour. Contributors and editors include interdisciplinary experts from the fields of psychology sociology anthropology and beyond. Offering innovative ways of engaging in body mapping research which result in real-world impact this book is an essential resource for postgraduate students and researchers. | Applying Body Mapping in Research An Arts-Based Method

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Female Composers Conductors Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France 1919-1939

Female Composers Conductors Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France 1919-1939

Drawing upon extensive archival research interview material and musical analysis Female Composers Conductors Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France 1919–1939 presents an innovative study of women working as professional musicians in France between the two World Wars. Hamer positions the activities achievements and reception of women composers conductors and performers against a contemporary socio-political climate that was largely hostile to female professionalism. The musical styles and techniques of Marguerite Canal Jeanne Leleu Germaine Tailleferre Yvonne Desportes Elsa Barraine and Claude Arrieu are discussed with reference to significant works dating from the interwar period. Hamer highlights the activities of Jane Evrard and her Orchestre féminin de Paris as well as the reception of the Orchestra of the Union des Femmes Professeurs et Compositeurs de Musique a contemporary pro-suffrage organisation that was dedicated to defending the collective interests of musiciennes and campaigning for their employment rights. Beyond women composers and conductors Hamer also sheds light on female performers and their contribution to the interwar early music revival. | Female Composers Conductors Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France 1919-1939

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Designing for Longevity Expert Strategies for Creating Long-Lasting Products

Designing for Longevity Expert Strategies for Creating Long-Lasting Products

Product longevity is one of the cornerstones in the transition towards a more sustainable society and a key driver for the circular economy model. This book provides designers developers and creators with five distinctive expert strategies detailed case studies action guides and worksheets that support both beginning and advanced design practitioners in creating new product concepts with long-lasting strategic fits. Designing for Longevity shows how expert design teams create original and long-lasting product concepts from the early development phase. It focuses on integrating business knowledge market conditions company capabilities technical possibilities and user needs into product concepts to make better strategic decisions. It demonstrates how for products to be durable designers must create a long-lasting strategic fit for the customer company and market. Key case studies of products such as Bang & Olufsen’s A9 LEGO Ninjago and Friends and Coloplasts’ Sensura Mio among others offer readers inspiration guidance and real-world insights from design teams showing how the strategies can be applied in practice. Action guidelines and worksheets encourage broad analytical problem-solving to identify and think through challenges at the early concept stage. Beautifully designed and illustrated in full colour throughout this book combines original research and the hands-on tools and strategies that design practitioners need to create useful sustainable products. | Designing for Longevity Expert Strategies for Creating Long-Lasting Products

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In Dialogue with Reggio Emilia Listening Researching and Learning

In Dialogue with Reggio Emilia Listening Researching and Learning

Reggio Emilia’s educational services for 0-6 year olds are widely acclaimed as one of the best systems in the world. Now in an updated second edition In Dialogue with Reggio Emilia offers a collection of the most important articles lectures and interviews given by Carlina Rinaldi who was President of Reggio Children for a decade and pedagogical director of the Reggio Emilia Infant-toddler Centres and Preschools after working closely with Loris Malaguzzi Reggio Children founder and inspirer of the Reggio Emilia Approach. She is currently President of Fondazione Reggio Children – Centro Loris Malaguzzi. With a full introduction contextualising each piece of work it offers a unique insight into many of the themes that characterise the early childhood curriculum of Reggio Emilia: participation documentation and assessment; professional development; organisation; research; creativity; spaces and environments in education and more. This second edition includes brand new chapters exploring the role of the Loris Malaguzzi International Centre; the natural complexity of becoming children; Rinaldi’s speech on receiving the LEGO prize; and Jerome Bruner’s friendship with the schools of Reggio Emilia and the author. A deeply personal book this is an invaluable resource for practising teachers students and researchers. It is essential reading for anybody looking to further their understanding of the Reggio Emilia philosophy and pedagogical practice. | In Dialogue with Reggio Emilia Listening Researching and Learning

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Académie Royale A History in Portraits

Académie Royale A History in Portraits

From its establishment in 1648 until its disbanding in 1793 after the French Revolution the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture was the centre of the Parisian art world. Taking the reader behind the scenes of this elite bastion of French art theory education and practice this engaging study uncovers the fascinating histories - official and unofficial - of that artistic community. Through an innovative approach to portraits - their values functions and lives as objects - this book explores two faces of the Académie. Official portraits grant us insider access to institutional hierarchies ideologies rituals customs and everyday experiences in the Académie's Louvre apartments. Unofficial portraits in turn reveal hidden histories of artists' personal relationships: family networks intimate friendships and bitter rivalries. Drawing on both art-historical and anthropological frames of analysis this book offers insightful interpretations of portraits read through and against documentary evidence from the archives to create a rich story of people places and objects. Theoretically informed rigorously researched and historically grounded this book sheds new light on the inner workings of the Académie. Its discoveries and compelling narrative make an invaluable and accessible contribution to our understanding of this pre-eminent European institution and the social lives of artists in early modern Paris. | Académie Royale A History in Portraits

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Communication for Successful Aging Empowering Individuals Across the Lifespan

Communication for Successful Aging Empowering Individuals Across the Lifespan

This essential volume explores the vital role of communication in the aging process and how this varies for different social groups and cultural communities. It reveals how communication can empower people in the process of aging and that how we communicate about age is critically important to – and is at the heart of – aging successfully. Giles et al. confront the uncertainty and negativity surrounding aging – a process with which we all have to cope – by expertly placing communication at the core of the process. They address the need to avoid negative language discuss the lifespan as an evolving adventure and introduce a new theory of successful aging – the communication ecology model of successful aging (CEMSA). They explore the research on key topics including: age stereotypes age identities and messages of ageism; the role of culture gender ethnicity and being a member of marginalized groups; the ingredients of intergenerational communication; depiction of aging and youth in the media; and how and why talk about death and dying can be instrumental in promoting control over life’s demands. Communication for Successful Aging is essential reading for graduate students of psychology human development gerontology and communication scholars in the social sciences and all of us concerned with this complex academic and highly personal topic. | Communication for Successful Aging Empowering Individuals Across the Lifespan

GBP 44.99
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Singapore Inc.: A Century of Business Success in Global Markets Strategies Innovations and Insights from Singapore's Top Corporations

Singapore Inc.: A Century of Business Success in Global Markets Strategies Innovations and Insights from Singapore's Top Corporations

This book features 100 local case studies examining the experiences of leading Singaporean companies across different sectors including aviation logistics banking and real estate. They offer valuable insights into how companies adapted to evolving market dynamics expanded their business portfolios ventured into global markets prioritised sustainability and leveraged innovation and technology to maintain competitiveness. Through case studies readers gain practical knowledge that can be applied to their own enterprises a unique perspective into Singapore’s dynamic and competitive business landscape and the successes and challenges faced by Singaporean companies. The book is divided into different sections exploring specific themes such as business strategy and transformation diversification and expansion sustainability innovation and technology financial performance and risk management. It scrutinises how companies responded to shifting market conditions competition regulations customer preferences and global events. Additionally it sheds light on the obstacles companies encountered in terms of sustainable practices financial performance risk management talent retention and technological advancements. By presenting cases across industries and companies in Singapore Choong et al. highlight their triumphs setbacks and valuable lessons learned. This book can be rendered as a practical and essential resource for business professionals entrepreneurs and students interested in understanding effective business strategies. | Singapore Inc. : A Century of Business Success in Global Markets Strategies Innovations and Insights from Singapore's Top Corporations

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Global Marketing Strategy Practice and Cases

Global Marketing Strategy Practice and Cases

Global Marketing 3rd edition provides students with a truly international treatment of the key principles that every marketing manager should grasp. International markets present different challenges that require a marketer to think strategically and apply tools and techniques creatively in order to respond decisively within a fiercely competitive environment. Alon et al. provide students with everything they need to rise to the challenge: Coverage of small and medium enterprises as well as multinational corporations where much of the growth in international trade and global marketing has occurred; A shift toward greater consideration of services marketing as more companies move away from manufacturing; A shift from developed markets to emerging markets with more dynamic environments; A focus on emerging markets to equip students with the skills necessary to take advantage of the opportunities that these rapidly growing regions present; Chapters on social media innovation and technology teaching students how to incorporate these new tools into their marketing strategy; New material on sustainability ethics and corporate social responsibility—key values for any modern business; Short and long cases and examples throughout the text show students how these principles and techniques are applied in the real world. Covering key topics not found in competing books Global Marketing will equip today’s students with the knowledge and confidence they need to become leading marketing managers. A companion website features an instructor’s manual with test questions as well as additional exercises and examples for in-class use. | Global Marketing Strategy Practice and Cases

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Parental Engagement and Early Childhood Education Around the World

Parental Engagement and Early Childhood Education Around the World

Exploring the importance of parental engagement in early childhood education this book delves into research and practices in 25 countries to bring students researchers teachers and policy-makers insights into working families around the world. The incorporation and consideration of parental engagement and involvement in early childhood education are a new phenomenon to many countries. Yet increasing research recognises the importance of parental engagement and involvement in early childhood education services and the role both parents and teachers play to support children’s learning and development. Using a range of materials from curriculum to policy documents Garvis et al. demonstrate differences in practices and terminologies pertaining to the topic and provide an international perspective on the importance of parental involvement and engagement in early childhood education services. The content covers a range of countries as well as countries beyond an ‘Anglo-Saxon’ perspective. The different policy settings across these countries highlight how countries work with and involve parents differently which is useful for jurisdictions where early childhood education is a developing aspect of a country’s education system. Looking at cultural influences partnership approaches parental collaboration institutional dominance and child involvement in parent meetings the content offers readers real understanding of parental engagement and involvement in different settings. The readership includes students in early childhood education and researchers teachers policy makers and general members of the public interested in parental engagement or involvement in early childhood education across the globe. | Parental Engagement and Early Childhood Education Around the World

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The Question of Limits A Historical Perspective on the Environmental Crisis

The Question of Limits A Historical Perspective on the Environmental Crisis

We have forgotten how to think about limits. Most philosophical approaches to the environment have focused primarily on the value of the natural world the status of anthropocentrism and the Anthropocene and the largely ethical questions of our impact on the world. While fully acknowledging these concerns this book emphasizes the centrality of the confrontation between the imperative of growth that has been present since the Enlightenment and our belated rediscovery of limits. The expression Limits to Growth the title of a famous book from 1972 by Donella H. Meadows et al. may have passed into a common discourse yet the notion of limits itself remains insufficiently theorized or even reflected upon in the current movement of environmental advocacy. Sometimes it even seems as if there is an effort to avoid it. This book argues that on the contrary we can only resolve the present global challenges by confronting the question of limits and making it central to our reflection. This entails discussing the long history of thinking about limits in which Malthus is the most infamous figure but which also includes such major participants as John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx. Ultimately The Question of Limits contends that the value of embracing limits extends beyond the environment and offers the potential to become a transformative social good. The Question of Limits will be of great interest to students and scholars working at the intersection of environmental studies economics intellectual history and philosophy. | The Question of Limits A Historical Perspective on the Environmental Crisis

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Dramaturgies of Love in Romeo and Juliet Word Music and Dance

Dramaturgies of Love in Romeo and Juliet Word Music and Dance

Bringing together current intermedial discourses on Shakespeare music and dance with the affective turn in the humanities Dramaturgies of Love in Romeo and Juliet offers a unique and highly innovative transdisciplinary discussion of unspeakable love in one of the most famous love stories in literary history: the tragic romance of Romeo and Juliet. Through in-depth case studies and historical contextualisation this book showcases how the woes that no words can sound of Shakespeare’s iconic lovers nevertheless have found expression not only in his verbal poetry but also in non-verbal adaptations of the play in 19th-century symphonic music and 20th- and 21st-century theatre dance. Combining methodological approaches from diverse disciplines including affect theory musicology and dance studies this study opens up a new perspective onto the artistic representation of love defining amorous emotion as a generically transformative constellation of dialogic performativity. To explore how this constellation has become manifest across the arts this book analyses and compares dramatic musical and choreographic dramatisations of love in William Shakespeare’s early modern tragedy French composer Hector Berlioz’s dramatic symphony Roméo et Juliette (1839) and the staging of Berlioz’s symphony by German contemporary choreographer Sasha Waltz for the Paris Opera Ballet (2007). Chapters 1 and 4 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Dramaturgies of Love in Romeo and Juliet Word Music and Dance

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Multilingual Learning: Assessment Ideologies and Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa

Multilingual Learning: Assessment Ideologies and Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa

This edited volume provides the follow up to Erling et al. ’s (2021) Multilingual Learning and Language Supportive Pedagogies in Sub-Saharan Africa. The strategies put forward in Volume 1 included multilingual pedagogies that allow students to draw on their full linguistic repertoires translanguaging and other language-supportive pedagogies. While there is great traction in the pedagogical strategies proposed in Volume 1 limited progress has been made in terms of multilingual education in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Thus the main focus of this follow-up volume is to explore the question of why former colonial languages and monolingual approaches continue to be used as the dominant languages of education even when we have multilingual pedagogies and materials that could and do work and despite substantial evidence that learners have difficulties when taught in a language they do not understand. This book offers perspectives to answer this question through focusing on the internal and external pressures which impact the capacity for implementing multilingual strategies in educational contexts at regional national and community levels. Chapters provide insights into how to better understand and work within these contemporary constraints and challenge dominant monoglossic discourses which inhibit the implementation of multilingual education in SSA. The volume focuses on three main areas which have proven to be stumbling blocks to the effective implementation of multilingual education to date namely: assessment ideology and policy. An insightful collection that will be of great interest to academics researchers and practitioners in the fields of language education language-in-education policy and educational assessments in the wide range of multilingual contexts in Africa. | Multilingual Learning: Assessment Ideologies and Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Being and Nothingness An Essay in Phenomenological Ontology

Being and Nothingness An Essay in Phenomenological Ontology

First published in French in 1943 Jean-Paul Sartre’s L’Être et le Néant is one of the greatest philosophical works of the twentieth century. In it Sartre offers nothing less than a brilliant and radical account of the human condition. The English philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch wrote to a friend of the excitement – I remember nothing like it since the days of discovering Keats and Shelley and Coleridge. This new translation the first for over sixty years makes this classic work of philosophy available to a new generation of readers. What gives our lives significance Sartre argues in Being and Nothingness is not pre-established for us by God or nature but is something for which we ourselves are responsible. At the heart of this view are Sartre’s radical conceptions of consciousness and freedom. Far from being an internal passive container for our thoughts and experiences human consciousness is constantly projecting itself into the outside world and imbuing it with meaning. Combining this with the unsettling view that human existence is characterized by radical freedom and the inescapability of choice Sartre introduces us to a cast of ideas and characters that are part of philosophical legend: anguish; the bad faith of the memorable waiter in the café; sexual desire; and the look of the Other brought to life by Sartre’s famous description of someone looking through a keyhole. Above all by arguing that we alone create our values and that human relationships are characterized by hopeless conflict Sartre paints a stark and controversial picture of our moral universe and one that resonates strongly today. This new translation includes a helpful Translator’s Introduction a comprehensive Index and a Foreword by Richard Moran Brian D. Young Professor of Philosophy Harvard University USA. Translated by Sarah Richmond University College London UK. | Being and Nothingness An Essay in Phenomenological Ontology

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The Dollfuss/Schuschnigg Era in Austria A Reassessment

The Dollfuss/Schuschnigg Era in Austria A Reassessment

The years of Chancellors Dollfuss and Schuschnigg's authoritarian governments (1933/34-1938) have been denounced as Austrofascism from the left or defended as a Christian corporate state (Stondestaat) from the right. During this period Austria was in a desperate struggle to maintain its national independence vis-o-vis Hitler's Germany a struggle that ultimately failed. In the end the Nazis invaded and annexed Austria (Anschluss). Volume 11 of the Contemporary Austrian Studies series stays away from these heated historiographical debates and looks at economic domestic and international politics sine ira et studio. Timothy Kirk opens with an assessment of Austrofascism in light of recent discourse on interwar European fascism. Three scholars from the Economics University of Vienna analyze the macroeconomic climate of the 1930s: Hansjrg Klausinger the Vienna School's theoretical contributions to end the Great Depression; Gerhard Senft the economic policies of the Stondestaat; and Peter Berger the financial aid from the League of Nations. Jens Wessels delves into the microeconomic arena and presents case studies of leading Austrian businesses and their performance during the depression. Jim Miller looks at Dollfuss the agrarian reformer. Alexander Lassner and Erwin Schmidl deal with the context of the international arena and Austria's desperate search for protection against Nazi Anschluss-pressure and military preparedness against foreign aggression. In a comparativist essay Megan Greene compares the policies of Austria's Haider and Italy's Berlusconi and recent EU responses to threats from the Right. The FORUM looks at various recent historical commissions in Austria dealing with Holocaust-era assets and their efforts to provide restitution to victims of Nazism. Two review essays by Evan Burr Bukey and Hermann Freudenberger survey recent scholarly literature on Austria(ns) during World War II. This addition to the Contemporary Austrian Studies series will be welcomed by political scientists historians and scholars with a strong interest in European affairs. | The Dollfuss/Schuschnigg Era in Austria A Reassessment

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