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Sexually Explicit Art Feminist Theory and Gender in the 1970s

Sexually Explicit Art Feminist Theory and Gender in the 1970s

Structured around sexual desire as the central analytical category this monograph systematically approaches a heterogeneous array of artworks to purposefully examine the entanglements of art feminist theory gender and sexuality. This book considers the potential of sexually explicit art to challenge a socially constructed conception of sexuality as well as gender and explores the sexually explicit as a means to (re-)claim agency for marginalized subjectivities and to emancipate desire from within the patriarchal and heteronormative system. In distinct case studies the author focuses on works by four US-American artists – Robert Mapplethorpe Joan Semmel Betty Tompkins and Tee A. Corinne – and situates them in relation to contemporaneous debates associated with the insurgent Sexual Liberation Movements of the 1970s. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history visual culture and gender and sexuality studies. | Sexually Explicit Art Feminist Theory and Gender in the 1970s

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Poland and European East-West Cooperation in the 1970s The Opening Up

Poland and European East-West Cooperation in the 1970s The Opening Up

This book offers an international reading of the Polish socialist regime’s history in the 1970s and its opening up to the West. It bridges Poland’s socialist domestic history with critical developments of the global and European 1970s including détente in the Cold War western European integration and globalisation. In this period of international transformations socialist Poland under Edward Gierek's leadership multiplied its economic and political contacts with capitalist countries especially western Europe and became a leader of East-West cooperation among Council for Mutual Economic Assistance and Warsaw Pact members. Relying on sources from public and corporate archives in five different European states the book demonstrates both that the global political and economic transformations of that period were critical for the decision-making process in Poland and moreover that the national socialist elites participated in shaping these transformations. By looking at the goals and expectations of the Polish socialist elites and their practices of political and economic exchanges with western Europe the book explains the logic which drove the socialist regime into entanglement with the West. As is shown here this entanglement proved inextricable and critical for the socialist regime's failure and Poland’s political and economic future. This book will be of much interest to students of European history cold war studies socialism studies and International Relations. | Poland and European East-West Cooperation in the 1970s The Opening Up

GBP 130.00
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Beyond Transnationalism Mapping the Spatial Contours of Political Activism in Europe’s Long 1970s

Beyond Transnationalism Mapping the Spatial Contours of Political Activism in Europe’s Long 1970s

This book is a collection of case studies that provides fresh insights into the history of political activism in Europe’s long 1970s. It covers the full spectrum of such groups from the far left to the neofascist right and from the various parts of Europe including East and West. The chapters in this book push the boundaries of our knowledge with regard to transnational spaces. For many political activists at the time identifying with a ‘transnational’ or ‘global’ protest movement provided both legitimacy for their claims and stood for the promise of sweeping change. Existing research has often reproduced such perceptions. This book goes beyond such an approach by distinguishing between different forms of transnational spaces. More specifically it recognizes important differences between imagined spaces of solidarity and belonging spaces of knowledge circulation and spaces of social experience and political action. Each chapter uses this new framework and analyses the interrelationship and significance of each of these three spaces. Beyond Transnationalism will be of particular interest to historians political scientists and educators. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of European Review of History. | Beyond Transnationalism Mapping the Spatial Contours of Political Activism in Europe’s Long 1970s

GBP 120.00
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Pattern in Music

Pattern in Music

This book presents analyses of pattern in music from different computational and mathematical perspectives. A central purpose of music analysis is to represent discover and evaluate repeated structures within single pieces or within larger corpora of related pieces. In the chapters of this book music corpora are structured as monophonic melodies polyphony or chord sequences. Patterns are represented either extensionally as locations of pattern occurrences in the music or intensionally as sequences of pitch or chord features rhythmic profiles geometric point sets and logical expressions. The chapters cover both deductive analysis where music is queried for occurrences of a known pattern and inductive analysis where patterns are found using pattern discovery algorithms. Results are evaluated using a variety of methods including visualization contrasting corpus analysis and reference to known and expected patterns. Pattern in Music will be a key resource for academics researchers and advanced students of music musicology music analyses mathematical music theory computational musicology and music informatics. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Mathematics and Music.

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Incest A Family Pattern

Incest A Family Pattern

In the early 1980s incest was ceasing to be a taboo subject. In Britain there was much conjecture but little knowledge about it although some estimates suggested that as many as one child in ten would experience some form of sexual abuse within the family. Originally published in 1982 Jean Renvoize had travelled around the USA where considerable attention had been paid to incest in the previous few years meeting professionals ranging through paediatricians policemen university researchers social workers lawyers and – more important – victims and abusers themselves. This knowledge added to the sparser British research opened up a hitherto closed subject bringing a wide range of controversial information to an audience composed of the general public as well as professionals involved in this field at the time. The author’s clear and easy style which characterised her earlier books on related subjects – Children in Danger and Web of Violence – makes this a work of general as well as specialist interest. | Incest A Family Pattern

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Spatial Pattern Dynamics in Aquatic Ecosystem Modelling UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis

Spatial Pattern Dynamics in Aquatic Ecosystem Modelling UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis

In this work several modelling approaches are explored to represent spatial pattern dynamics of aquatic populations in aquatic ecosystems by the combination of models knowledge and data in different scales. It is shown that including spatially distributed inputs retrieved from Remote Sensing images a conventional physically-based Harmful Algal Bloom model can be enhanced. Also Cellular Automata based models using high resolution photographs prove to be good in representing aquatic plant growth. Multi-Agent Systems can capture well the spatial patterns exhibited in GIS density maps. A synthesis modelling framework was developed to include biological/ecological growth and diffusive processes and local effects in conventional modelling framework. The results of the complementary modelling paradigms investigated in this research can be of help in achieving a sustainable environmental management strategy. | Spatial Pattern Dynamics in Aquatic Ecosystem Modelling UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis

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A Notebook of Dermatopathology Mastering the Basics Pattern Recognition and Key Pathologic Findings

A Notebook of Dermatopathology Mastering the Basics Pattern Recognition and Key Pathologic Findings

This is an invaluable collection of information designed to help residents fellows and students - as well as any already qualified medical professional interested in revising the essentials of skin conditions – to master the basics of skin pathology. Using the principle of pattern recognition it simplifies the multitude of dermatopathologic signs by using easy-to-memorize images of what the key features look like - photomnemonics. There are also helpful sections on the technical aspects of dermatopathology and on the key findings at each level of the skin. Organized simply and abundantly illustrated this text will be an indispensable guide to revision for all its readers. | A Notebook of Dermatopathology Mastering the Basics Pattern Recognition and Key Pathologic Findings

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Culture Technology and Development In Memory of Jan Hawkins:a Special Issue of mind Culture and Activity

Culture Technology and Development In Memory of Jan Hawkins:a Special Issue of mind Culture and Activity

This special issue provides a set of articles written by former colleagues and friends of Jan Hawkins-a member of a talented group of graduate students who participated in the weekly seminars held in what was then referred to as the Institute for Comparative Development during the mid-1970s. The single theme that brought together this diverse group of scholars and that dominates the papers in this issue is the belief in the value of human diversity not only as a resource for understanding human nature but as a necessity for continued human development. The articles and commentaries testify that the ideas practices and values that Jan Hawkins helped to create in the mid-1970s are now found around the world. | Culture Technology and Development In Memory of Jan Hawkins:a Special Issue of mind Culture and Activity

GBP 175.00
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The Chinese Defense Establishment Continuity And Change In The 1980s

The Chinese Defense Establishment Continuity And Change In The 1980s

Complex issues of national security and defense modernization continue to be a major preoccupation of the PRC leadership. In the 1970s especially during the second half of that crucial decade critical decisions were made that led to Beijing's alignment with the West against the USSR and a revitalization of its armed forces. This book looks at Chi | The Chinese Defense Establishment Continuity And Change In The 1980s

GBP 125.00
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The Soviet Union in World Politics

The Soviet Union in World Politics

The Soviet Union in World Politics first published in 1980 looks at the change in direction of Soviet foreign policy away from world revolution in the 1970s. Examining the impact of Soviet policies and actions on key nations and regions throughout the world and highlighting their significance as agents for change in the international arena the authors present an overview of world politics as well as an in-depth study of Soviet international behaviour.

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Process and Pattern in Culture Essays in Honor of Julian H. Steward

Process and Pattern in Culture Essays in Honor of Julian H. Steward

This festschrift commemorates Julian H. Steward. The essays were contributed by former students colleagues and other anthropologists whose research or thinking has been influenced by him. There was no preconceived attempt to give the volume any greater sense of unity or to impose upon the contributors any restrictions as to subject matter. On the contrary each author was urged to write on an anthropological topic of greatest current interest to himself. Many of the essays could be placed just as handily within a division other than the one to which they have arbitrarily been assigned in the book. This kind of interchangeability may reflect in some measure the interrelatedness of Steward's contributions to anthropological theory. The broad relevance of all the selections to Steward's work could reflect also the extent to which his interests continue to be reflected in the work of anthropologists influenced by him. It could also reflect a parallelism of theoretical concerns within the profession that stem from the cultural ambience that produced Steward himself. Parallelisms and convergence are aspects of the kind of cultural determinism which has claimed Steward's attention during the many years that he fought a fairly lonely battle to establish the respectability of evolutionism in anthropology. Now that respectability has been achieved-with an almost bandwagon fervor-it is clear that Steward as much as anyone else in anthropology was responsible for the change. The essays in this collection are at once a vindication of his patience an evidence of the high status he enjoys among anthropologists and a testimony to the impact of his unusual creativity on his colleagues. | Process and Pattern in Culture Essays in Honor of Julian H. Steward

GBP 130.00
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A History of Competitive Gaming

A History of Competitive Gaming

Competitive gaming or esports – referring to competitive tournaments of video games among both casual gamers and professional players – began in the early 1970s with small competitions like the one held at Stanford University in October 1972 where some 20 researchers and students attended. By 2022 the estimated revenue of the global esports industry is in excess of $947 million with over 200 million viewers worldwide. Regardless of views held about competitive gaming esports have become a modern economic and cultural phenomenon. This book studies the full history of competitive gaming from the 1970s to the 2010s against the background of the arrival of the electronic and computer age. It investigates how competitive gaming has grown into a new form of entertainment a sport-like competition a lucrative business and a unique cultural sensation. It also explores the role of competitive gaming in the development of the video game industry making a distinctive contribution to our knowledge and understanding of the history of video games. A History of Competitive Gaming will appeal to all those interested in the business and culture of gaming as well as those studying modern technological culture.

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The Governance of Financialization in Latin America and East Asia Empowering Expertise

The Governance of Financialization in Latin America and East Asia Empowering Expertise

The Governance of Financialization in Latin America and East Asia analyses how states in these areas have adopted different monetary financial and foreign exchange policies to govern financialization which have induced varying levels of state control over financial markets. The book analyzes the puzzling observation of policy divergence by investigating how countries have reacted differently to major financial crises since the 1970s. It shows how Argentina and Japan selected a governance approach to financialization that followed Western prescriptions by propelling unregulated financialization; but also how Chile and South Korea by contrast crafted policies to reduce the negative effects of financialization on economic development and financial stability. The book identifies variegated expertise in central banks ministries of finance expert commissions and research institutions that has informed policymaking across Argentina Chile Japan and South Korea since the 1970s. It then demonstrates how governments have used experts to achieve diverse political objectives and explains how governments can use experts to enhance state agency to counter globalization pressures. This book will appeal to scholars of International Political Economy comparative politics economics sociology development studies and Latin American and East Asian history. It will also be of interest to economists and policymakers who want to safeguard financial stability and promote economic growth. | The Governance of Financialization in Latin America and East Asia Empowering Expertise

GBP 130.00
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Orientalism

Orientalism

At a crucial moment in the history of relations of East and West Orient and Occident Christianity and Islam Orientalism provides a timely account of the subject and the debate. In the 1960s and 1970s a powerful assault was launched on 'orientalism' led by Edward Said. The debate ranged far beyond the traditional limits of 'dry-as-dust' orientalism involving questions concerning the nature of identity the nature of imperialism Islamophobia myth Arabism racialism intercultural relations and feminism. Charting the history of the vigorous debate about the nature of orientalism this timely account revisits the arguments and surveys the case studies inspired by that debate.

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Difficulties in the Analytic Encounter

Difficulties in the Analytic Encounter

This book represents an odyssey through the career of a thoughtful and serious psychoanalyst. John Klauber a strong and articulate member of the middle or independent group of the British Institute of Psycho-Analysis was President of the British Psycho-Analytical Society at his untimely death in August 1981. This volume which he fortunately lived to see published turns out to be a legacy of his psychoanalytic and personal thinking and feeling and contains ten papers spanning the tewnty years of the 1960s and 1970s. It conveys in a fashion which compels reading the mind of the author which was the essence of the man. | Difficulties in the Analytic Encounter

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Data Mining for Co-location Patterns Principles and Applications

Data Mining for Co-location Patterns Principles and Applications

Co-location pattern mining detects sets of features frequently located in close proximity to each other. This book focuses on data mining for co-location pattern a valid method for identifying patterns from all types of data and applying them in business intelligence and analytics. It explains the fundamentals of co-location pattern mining co-location decision tree and maximal instance co-location pattern mining along with an in-depth overview of data mining machine learning and statistics. This arrangement of chapters helps readers understand the methods of co-location pattern mining step-by-step and their applications in pavement management image classification geospatial buffer analysis etc. | Data Mining for Co-location Patterns Principles and Applications

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Postcolonial Transition and Global Business History British Multinational Companies in Ghana and Nigeria

Postcolonial Transition and Global Business History British Multinational Companies in Ghana and Nigeria

British multinationals faced unprecedented challenges to their organizational legitimacy in the middle of the twentieth century as the European colonial empires were dismantled and institutional transformations changed colonial relationships in Africa and other parts of the world. This book investigates the political networking and internal organizational changes in five British multinationals (United Africa Company John Holt & Co. Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Bank of West Africa and Barclays Bank DCO). These firms were forced to adapt their strategies and operations to changing institutional environments in two English-speaking West African countries Ghana (formerly the Gold Coast) and Nigeria from the late 1940s to the late 1970s. Decolonization meant that formerly imperial businesses needed to develop new political networks and change their internal organization and staffing to promote more Africans to managerial roles. This postcolonial transition culminated in indigenization programmes (and targeted nationalizations) which forced foreign companies to sell equity and assets to domestic investors in the 1970s. Postcolonial Transition and Global Business History is the first in-depth historical study on how British firms sought to adapt over several decades to rapid political and economic transformation in West Africa. Exploring both postcolonial transitions and development discourse this book addresses the topics with regard to business and economic history and will be of interest to researchers academics and students in the fields of organizational change political economy African studies and globalization. | Postcolonial Transition and Global Business History British Multinational Companies in Ghana and Nigeria

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The Determinants of Small Firm Growth An Inter-Regional Study in the United Kingdom 1986-90

The Determinants of Small Firm Growth An Inter-Regional Study in the United Kingdom 1986-90

One of the most striking trends in economic development since the 1970s has been the rising importance of the small firm. Focusing on the issues of enterprise development and the regional dimensions of small-firm growth this book explores the literature of this area. Moving from an analysis of measures of growth to the effects of both internal and external variables - arguing that the owner-manager has a key role in the growth performance of the firm - the authors explore regional disparities in and constraints on growth and make significant advances in the policy debate on understanding how faster growth can be achieved. | The Determinants of Small Firm Growth An Inter-Regional Study in the United Kingdom 1986-90

GBP 175.00
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Evidence for Hope The Search for Sustainable Development

Evidence for Hope The Search for Sustainable Development

Since the Stockholm Environment Conference in 1972 and the Rio Summit in 1992 there has been unprecedented public concern for the future of the planet and a growing awareness that development needs to be sustainable. This text charts the growth of these ideas by beginning with a visionary piece written by Barbara Ward in the 1970s and ends with a chapter looking ahead another 30 years into the future. Two generations of thinkers and activists have helped to shape environment and development policy and increase local level power in environmental management. In celebration of their 30th anniversary the IIED's most influential writers provide in this volume a perspective on three decades of development and green debates. | Evidence for Hope The Search for Sustainable Development

GBP 160.00
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Feminist Art Criticism An Anthology

Feminist Art Criticism An Anthology

From the Preface:The essays in Feminist Art Criticism are theoretical and we selected them for several reasons. First they show a diversity of concerns. These include spirituality sexuality the representation of women in art the necessary inter-relationship of theory and action women as artmakers ethnicity language itself so-called postfeminism and critiques of hte art world the discipline of art history and the practice of art criticism. Second the contributors' work has not been either widely disseminated or readily available. Third the essays especially arranged as they are (chronologically) demonstrate a continuous feminist discourse in art from the early 1970s through the present a discourse that is neither monolithic nor intellectually trendy but that rather exhibits many elements the polemical Marxist lyrical and poststructuralist being only a few. | Feminist Art Criticism An Anthology

GBP 130.00
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Finland's National Theatre 1974–1991 The Two Decades of Generational Contests Cultural Upheavals and International Cold War Politics

Finland's National Theatre 1974–1991 The Two Decades of Generational Contests Cultural Upheavals and International Cold War Politics

This study analyses the Finnish National Theatre’s activities throughout the decades during which the post-war generation with its new societal and theatrical views was rising to power and during which Europe divided by the Iron Curtain was maturing to break the boundaries dividing it. Pirkko Koski summarizes the activities of the Finnish National Theatre as a cultural factor and as a part of the Finnish theatre field during 1970s and 1980s. Alongside this he examines the general requirements resources and structures for activity including artists places geographical position performances and the analysis on the societal conditions. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students of European theatre and history. | Finland's National Theatre 1974–1991 The Two Decades of Generational Contests Cultural Upheavals and International Cold War Politics

GBP 130.00
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