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The Novels of Simone de Beauvoir

The Novels of Simone de Beauvoir

First published in 1988 The Novels of Simone de Beauvoir concentrates specifically on the novels of the famous 20th Century French writer Simone de Beauvoir. Her novels are popular with both the students and general readers of literature and philosophy and they will welcome this authoritative introduction to Beauvoir’s fiction. The author examines Beauvoir’s choice of narrative strategies and interprets them both in relation to the sexual politics of writing and in relation to the place which the constraints of history class and gender increasingly play in the texts. All quotations are translated.

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A Genlis Education and Enlightenment Values Mrs Chinnery (1766–1840) and her Children

A Genlis Education and Enlightenment Values Mrs Chinnery (1766–1840) and her Children

Offering a unique approach to the study of late eighteenth-century/early nineteenth-century education this book explores the life and motivations of a strong-minded self-educated and enlightened English gentlewoman Mrs Margaret Chinnery who put Madame de Genlis’s educational ideas into practice with marked success. Beginning with a brief outline of Margaret’s own childhood and her adolescent efforts to educate herself drawing largely on readings recommended by Genlis the book continues through to her marriage her children’s early and adolescent education and ends with the benefits that the children gained in adulthood from their education. This book is not limited to a biography as each section on the daily business of education is interspersed with a discussion and comparison of contemporary education authors and other writers the values they espoused which ones Margaret followed and why. It also draws on valuable surviving Chinnery documents which trace the Chinnery children’s education Margaret’s correspondence with Genlis and a comprehensive catalogue of the Chinnery library. The book offers a unique opportunity to follow a real family from cradle to grave and provides an intriguing illustration at an individual level of a female-crafted education embedded in Enlightenment values. This book will be of great interest to postgraduate students and scholars researching the history and philosophy of education as well as women in the Enlightenment. | A Genlis Education and Enlightenment Values Mrs Chinnery (1766–1840) and her Children

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What is this Professor Freud Like? A Diary of an Analysis with Historical Comments

What is this Professor Freud Like? A Diary of an Analysis with Historical Comments

In 1921 a young female doctor started analysis with Sigmund Freud. In a diary she recorded what moved her. The present volume not only contains a full translation of these records but also collects four essays by two psychoanalysts and two analytical historians who take their cue from the young doctor's notes to think about Freud and his methods. The discovery of the diary marks a small sensation for the history of social science. Three factors make the document unique: first it records not a training analysis but the analysis of an actual patient second the analysis took place before Freud fell ill with cancer and third the analysand obviously noted down what was said in the practice word by word. | What is this Professor Freud Like? A Diary of an Analysis with Historical Comments

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A Theory of De Facto States Classical Realism and Exceptional Polities

A Theory of De Facto States Classical Realism and Exceptional Polities

A Theory of De Facto States offers a new perspective on the phenomenon of de facto states — political communities that manifest forms of statehood in international politics but lack international legal recognition — zooming in on two prominent examples Somaliland and Kosovo. Employing a thorough understanding of classical realist theories of international relations this book provides a fresh critique of the common ways in which existing research tends to identify the ostensible state features of these communities. In contrast to the prevalent portrayals of such features in terms of international legal discursive and/or everyday logics this book argues that de facto states can be most fundamentally characterised as exceptional polities in international relations. Showcasing how the statehood and sovereignty of de facto states is based in international political crises this book concludes that these entities function as recurring disruptions of any supposed international political order. A Theory of De Facto States will therefore be of interest to researchers of secession de facto statehood and International Relations theory alike. | A Theory of De Facto States Classical Realism and Exceptional Polities

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5S para todos 5 pilares de la fabrica visual

5S para todos 5 pilares de la fabrica visual

Las 5S son el lugar de comienzo para cualquier actividad o programa de mejora en su lugar de trabajo. Aqui esta la clave del exito para cualquier proceso de cambio que quiera usted implementar en la fabricaci?n. Este libro le ayuda a ensenarle a sus operarios las bases de las 5S: organizar ordenar asear limpieza rutinaria y disciplina. Incluye ilustraciones gu?as de pgina resumenes preguntas y respuestas para asegurar asimilacion de los conceptos. | 5S para todos 5 pilares de la fabrica visual

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Contemporary Feminist Theatres To Each Her Own

Contemporary Feminist Theatres To Each Her Own

Contemporary Feminist Theatres is a major evaluation of the forms feminism has taken in the theatre since 1968. Lizbeth Goodman provides a provocative and interdisciplinary study of the development of feminist theatres in Britain. She examines the treatment of key issues such as gender race sexuality language and power in performance. Based on original research and fresh data Contemporary Feminist Theatres is a fully comprehensive and admirably clear analysis of a flourishing field of practice and inquiry. | Contemporary Feminist Theatres To Each Her Own

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Rome and her Empire

Rome and her Empire

The name of Rome excites a picture of power and organisation as do the widely-spread ruins that Roman civilization left behind. Yet Rome grew out of a collection of small villages and major developments such as the growth of Empire were unplanned and completely unprepared for. Influenced by a small number of self-interested aristocrats who lacked a broader vision Rome was often threatened by their intrigues. Brought to the ground on a number of occasions its leaders were able to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. How did Rome survive for nearly 1000 years ruling over millions of people with few instances of internal rebellion? David Shotter argues that the key was the way Rome managed to adapt to new circumstances without at the same time discarding too many of its cherished traditions. | Rome and her Empire

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Responsibility Collapses Why Moral Responsibility is Impossible

Responsibility Collapses Why Moral Responsibility is Impossible

Our worldview assumes that people are morally responsible. Our emotions beliefs and values assume that a person is responsible for what she thinks and does and that this is a good thing. This book argues that this worldview is false. It provides four arguments for this conclusion that build on the free will and responsibility literatures in original and insightful ways: Foundation: No one is responsible because there is no foundation for responsibility. A foundation for responsibility is something for which a person is responsible but not by being responsible for something else Epistemic Condition: No one is responsible because no one fulfills the epistemic condition necessary for blameworthiness Internalism: If a person were responsible then she would be responsible for and only for what goes on in her head. Most of the evidence for responsibility says the opposite Amount: No one is responsible because we cannot make sense of what makes a person more or less praiseworthy (or blameworthy) There is no other book that argues against moral responsibility based on foundationalism the epistemic condition and internalism and shows that these arguments cohere. The book’s arguments for internalism and quantifying responsibility are new to the literature. Ultimately the book’s conclusions undermine our commonsense view of the world and the most common philosophical understanding of God morality and relationships. Responsibility Collapses: Why Moral Responsibility Is Impossible is essential reading for scholars and advanced students in philosophy religious studies and political science who are interested in debates about agency free will and moral responsibility. | Responsibility Collapses Why Moral Responsibility is Impossible

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Small Large and Median Groups The Work of Patrick de Mare

Small Large and Median Groups The Work of Patrick de Mare

This book is a remarkable tribute to the memory of Pat de Mare. You will find in these pages a selection of his work that represents his new and different understanding of groups both large and small that has not only had a significant impact on the practice of group therapy in his lifetime but also a potential for revolutionizing current thinking both now and in the future. The editors are owed a great debt of gratitude for putting so much important work together. They have organized the book around three sections on the small median and large groups. What is particularly moving is that each section is introduced by some of Pat's closest friends and colleagues. These introductions are not only invaluable preparation for reading the articles by Pat that follow but are also a poignant tribute to the writers' lives work their thinking and much happiness that came from their close relationship with Pat. | Small Large and Median Groups The Work of Patrick de Mare

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Pierre Teilhard De Chardin on People and Planet

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin on People and Planet

Humanity's relationship to nature is central to the work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin an influential priest and scientist of the twentieth century. Teilhard believed that spiritual development must be viewed alongside material development and that evolutionary theory lies at the heart of humanity's understanding of its place in the world. 'Pierre Teilhard de Chardin on People and Planet' argues that Teilhard's cosmic mysticism and intense interest in both cosmological and evolutionary sciences are highly relevant to current debates about how best to construct a meaningful spirituality. The book offers a critical revision of Teilhard's thought in the light of current debates in evolutionary science eco-theology and environmental ethics. The essays present fresh interpretations of Teilhard's work and point to the significance of his thought in the contemporary study of science and religion.

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Learning is a Verb The Psychology of Teaching and Learning

Learning is a Verb The Psychology of Teaching and Learning

This book explores a new way of thinking about teaching and learning. Its central goal is to help us understand how we think and learn; it will also help teachers understand children and offers a new and helpful perspective on the role of teaching. The book provides an orientation or way of thinking about the psychological dimensions of teaching and learning. This orientation is discussed in relation to cultural shifts that have influenced all fields of study; in education and psychology the shift is reflected in the works of such scholars as Piaget Vygotsky Bruner and others. Their work marks a change from a mechanical view of learning to a view of learning as dynamic transformation. In Learning Is a Verb Sherrie Reynolds discusses how thinking about teaching and learning must change so that we can create conditions that help children think and interact with one another in helpful healthy ways. Her engaging conversational style together with many examples and observations will lead readers from reflection on their experiences to a deeper understanding of the changes needed in our educational system. | Learning is a Verb The Psychology of Teaching and Learning

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Translating Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex Transnational Framing Interpretation and Impact

Translating Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex Transnational Framing Interpretation and Impact

This collection offers insights into the transnational and translingual implications of Simone de Beauvoir’s Le Deuxième Sexe (The Second Sex) a text that has served as foundational for feminisms worldwide since its publication in 1949. Little scholarly attention has been devoted to how the original French-language source text made its way into languages other than English. This is a shocking omission given that many (but by no means all) other translations were based on the 1953 English translation by Howard M. Parshley which has been widely criticized by Beauvoir scholars for its omissions and careless attention to its philosophical implications. This volume seeks to fill this gap in scholarship with an innovative collection of essays that interrogate the ways that Beauvoir’s essay has shifted in meaning and significance as it has travelled across the globe. This volume brings together for the first time scholars from Translation Studies Literary Studies and Philosophical Studies and over half of it is dedicated to non-Western European engagements with Le Deuxième Sexe (including chapters on the Chinese Japanese Arabic Hungarian and Polish translations). As such this collection will be essential to any scholar of Beauvoir’s philosophy and its contributions to feminist discourses. | Translating Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex Transnational Framing Interpretation and Impact

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Syria As It Is

Syria As It Is

First published in 1939 Syria As It Is provides a comprehensive overview of the political history of Syria. It covers themes like the great Lebanon; the oldest city of the world; Druzes of Lebanon; stronghold of Islam; means of salvation; government of the Djebel Druze; Easter at Hama and Homs; disunited Syria; Republic of Syria till 1922; government of Latakia; and cedars of Lebanon. Rich in archival sources maps and images this book is an essential read for students and scholars of Middle East history Syrian history and history in general.

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De Facto States in the Post-Soviet Area Mechanisms of Formation Operation and Survival

De Facto States in the Post-Soviet Area Mechanisms of Formation Operation and Survival

This book provides an insightful analysis and holistic account of the process of the formation of de facto states in the post-Soviet area. Looking beyond the stereotype of mere puppet subjects the author explores the contemporary operation of separatist regions in Abkhazia and South Ossetia Transnistria Nagorno-Karabakh and Donbas to understand the motives and mechanisms for their emergence and their instrumentalization in the politics of great powers. Using policy documents quantitative data and political statements she explores the historical origins of the area and its operation during the Soviet era armed separatist conflicts and their implications and the actions of the United Nations the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe the European Union the Commonwealth of Independent States and the role of powers such as the Russian Federation and the US. The research contributes to the debate on the significance of de facto states for regional security and their potential for national identity building. It will be of interest to scholars and students of Russia and the Post-Soviet Area in International Relations and Nation-Building. | De Facto States in the Post-Soviet Area Mechanisms of Formation Operation and Survival

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What is Thinking? And Other Philosophical Reflections

What is Thinking? And Other Philosophical Reflections

The philosophical essays of this collection argue each time from a singular perspective that the task of thinking is to release the element of the unconditional from various closures and thus to make it manifest as the true and the essential task of our individual and social existence. Naming this unconditional element as the messianic the book displays the profound ethico-political significance of messianic thought for our contemporary world. This book is co-published with Aakar Books New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the print versions of this book in India Pakistan Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. | What is Thinking? And Other Philosophical Reflections

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Catherine de'Medici

Catherine de'Medici

Catherine de' Medici (1519-89) was the wife of one king of France and the mother of three more - the last sorry representatives of the Valois who had ruled France since 1328. She herself is of preeminent importance to French history and one of the most controversial of all historical figures. Despised until she was powerful enough to be hated she was in her own lifetime and since the subject of a Black Legend that has made her a favourite subject of historical novelists (most notably Alexandre Dumas whose Reine Margot has recently had new currency on film). Yet there is no recent biography of her in English. This new study by a leading scholar of Renaissance France is a major event. Catherine a neglected and insignificant member of the Florentine Medici entered French history in 1533 when she married the son of Francis I for short-lived political reasons: her uncle was pope Clement VII who died the following year. Now of no diplomatic value Catherine was treated with contempt at the French court even after her husband's accession as Henry II in 1547. Even so she gave him ten children before he was killed in a tournament in 1559. She was left with three young boys who succeeded to the throne as Francis II (1559-60) Charles IX (1560-74) and Henry III (1574-89). As regent and queen-mother a woman and with no natural power-base of her own she faced impossible odds. France was accelerating into chaos with political faction at court and religious conflict throughout the land. As the country disintegrated Catherine's overriding concern was for the interests of her children. She was tireless in her efforts to protect her sons' inheritance and to settle her daughters in advantageous marriages. But France needed more. Catherine herself was both peace-loving and in an age of frenzied religious hatred unbigoted. She tried to use the Huguenots to counterbalance the growing power of the ultra-Catholic Guises but extremism on all sides frustrated her. She was drawn into the violence. Her name is ineradicably associated with its culmination the Massacre of St Bartholomew (24 August 1572) when thousands of Huguenots were slaughtered in Paris and elsewhere. To this day no-one knows for certain whether Catherine instigated the massacre or not but here Robert Knecht explores the probabilities in a notably level-headed fashion. His book is a gripping narrative in its own right. It offers both a lucid exposition of immensely complex events (with their profound imact on the future of France) and also a convincing portrait of its enigmatic central character. In going behind the familiar Black Legend Professor Knecht does not make the mistake of whitewashing Catherine; but he shows how intractable was her world and how shifty or intransigent the people with whom she had to deal. For all her flaws she emerges as a more sympathetic - and in her pragmatism more modern - figure than most of her leading contemporaries. | Catherine de'Medici

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What is Theatre? An Introduction and Exploration

What is Theatre? An Introduction and Exploration

This major introductory textbook is from one of the leading educators working in theatre today. What Is Theatre? will make its reader a better playgoer responding more fully to performance with a keener appreciation of all the resources of theatre-acting design direction organization theatre buildings and audiences. By focusing on the best professional practice and the most helpful learning processes Dr. Brown shows how to read a play-text and to see and hear its potential for performance. Throughout this book suggestions are given for student essays and class discussions to help both instructor and reader to clarify their thoughts on all aspects of theatre-going. While the main focus is on present-day theatre in North America history is used to illuminate current practice. Theatres in Europe and Asia also feature in the discussion. A view is given of all contributors to performance with special emphasis placed on actors and the plays they perform. This textbook is not tied to a few specific play-texts but designed to be effective regardless of which play a student sees or reads. In Part Two leading practitioners of different generations and cultural backgrounds describe their own work providing a variety of perspectives on the contemporary theatre. All this is supplemented by nearly 100 black and white and color illustrations from productions working drawings and plans. This new text engages its readers in the realities of the theatre; it is up-to-date comprehensive and packed with practical advice for understanding how theatre works and how plays come alive in performance. John Russell Brown is professor of Theatre at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor and has taught at a variety of colleges including New York and Stanford Universities. For 15 years he was an associate director of the National Theatre in London and he has directed plays in many other theatres including Cincinnati Playhouse. | What is Theatre? An Introduction and Exploration

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Selected Letters of Vernon Lee 1856–1935 1890-1896

Selected Letters of Vernon Lee 1856–1935 1890-1896

Vernon Lee was the chosen name of Violet Paget (1856–1935) a prolific author best known for her supernatural fiction and her radical polemics. She was also an active letter writer whose correspondents include many well-known figures in fin de siècle intellectual circles across Europe. This multi-volume scholarly edition presents a comprehensive selection of her English French Italian and German correspondence — compiled from more than 30 archives worldwide — that reflect her wide variety of interests and occupations as a Woman of Letters philosopher psychologist and political activist. Letters written in a language other than English have been expertly translated by scholars Sophie Geoffroy (from the French) Crystal Hall (from the Italian) and Christa Zorn (from the German). Full transcriptions of some 2000 letters are arranged in chronological order along with introductions biographical notes and detailed footnotes that explain their context and identify the recipients friends and colleagues mentioned. In this third volume covering the years 1890-1896 the 429 assembled letters follow Violet Paget-Vernon Lee from the age of thirty-four when she lives with her parents and half-brother the poet and invalid Eugene Lee-Hamilton at Villa Il Palmerino (Florence) to the ripe age of forty when both her parents died and her brother recovered from his illness and decided to leave home. As Lee copes with Eugene’s invalidism and her own physical and psychological ailments we get a view of the practice and teaching of medicine and nursing in Europe in the late 1890s. Lee sponsors her friend’s Amy Turton’s convalescent home and nurses’ training. Mental sciences are at the forefront from experimental psychology psychiatry and neurology to neurophysiology; and in August 1892 Vernon Lee and Clementina Anstruther-Thomson attend the Psychological Congress in Paris with speakers Hermann von Helmholtz James Sully Alexander Bain Francis Galton G. Stanley Hall and Amboise-Auguste Liebeault. Lee came to consider herself as a psychologist as much as a philosopher of art and delved more deeply into experimental psychology; and with her partner Clementina Anstruther-Thomson she refined a theory of aesthetic empathy and inner mimicry. According to this theory a viewer’s response to a work of art can be measured through his or her physiognomy breathing heartbeats and eye and muscular movements thus providing a scientific basis for an innate appreciation of aesthetic value. They published a synthesis of their work: “Beauty and Ugliness” (The Contemporary Review October-November 1897). While travelling Lee continues to write her travel essays (e. g. Genius Loci: Notes on Places 1899) and her popular supernatural tales. She starts lecturing emulating Eugénie Sellers’s British Museum lectures and her method for attribution and connoisseurship. Her interest in socialism and political economy intensify as her circle widens beyond an aristocratic and society milieux to working-class districts and her collection Althea (1894) shows her interest in ethics moral duties and free-thinking. She indicts the proponents of art for art’s sake. Her discussions about contracts copyright and royalties pirated editions and money matters are intertwined with educational ethics and a concern for the fair recognition of women’s higher education and careers. She becomes involved in the university extension program by giving her first lectures on ancient art and aesthetics in the East End and at Toynbee Hall and her experience of lecturing in London Cambridge Oxford and Rome allows her to meet other intellectuals: Eugénie Sellers Mrs Arthur Strong etc. and new audiences. In 1894 the Affaire Dreyfus (1894–1906) begins revealing the rise of anti-Semitism targeting many of Lee’s close friends also defenders of Dreyfus such as James Darmesteter. After he died Darmesteter’s wife Mary (Robinson) and Lee once again became close to one another. By the time she turned forty Vernon Lee experienced several emotional blows: her friend and mentor Walter Pater died on 30 July 1894. That same year four months later on 14 November 1894 her father died from complications related to asthma Eugene Lee-Hamilton started to recover from chronic illness soon after his stepfather’s death. Eighteen months | Selected Letters of Vernon Lee 1856–1935 1890-1896

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Selected Letters of Vernon Lee 1856–1935 Volume II - 1885-1889

Selected Letters of Vernon Lee 1856–1935 Volume II - 1885-1889

Vernon Lee was the pen name of Violet Paget (1856–1935) – a prolific author best known for her supernatural fiction and her radical polemics. She was also an active letter writer whose correspondents include many well-known figures in fin de siècle intellectual circles across Europe. However until now no attempt has been made to make these letters widely available in their complete form. This multi-volume scholarly edition presents a comprehensive selection of her English French Italian and German correspondence — compiled from more than 30 archives worldwide — that reflect her wide variety of interests and occupations as a Woman of Letters and contributor to scholarship and political activism. Letters written in a language other than English have been expertly translated by scholars Sophie Geoffroy (from the French) Crystal Hall (from the Italian) and Christa Zorn (from the German). The edition focuses on those letters concerning the writing ideas and aesthetics that influenced Lee’s articles books and stories. Full transcriptions of some 500 letters covering the years 1856-1935 are arranged in chronological order along with newly written introductions that explain their context and identifies the recipients friends and colleagues mentioned. Since scholarship on Lee’s critical and creative output is still in the beginning stages these letters will serve a purpose to students and researchers in a number of academic fields. In this second volume covering the years 1885–1889 the 421 assembled letters follow Violet Paget-Vernon Lee in her early thirties. Recovering from the stinging reception of her first novel and from Annie Meyer’s death she turns to essay writing on aesthetics and ethics and ghost stories. After Mary Robinson’s engagement to marry French orientalist Prof. Darmesteter she travels to Spain Gibraltar and Tangiers and briefly falls under the spell of the Orient. She also takes a liking to Scotland and many of her close friends are Scottish -Alice Callander Lady Archie (Janey Sevilla Archibald Campbell)—and so is her future partner Clementina Anstruther-Thomson. The letters reflect the expansion of her subject matter from cultural studies art history and aesthetic philosophy. Her charity work in hospitals in Florence and her readings in Political Economy lead her thinking towards social reform and political issues. Her brother’s mental illness and her own breakdown bring about an awareness of body and mind balance and a taste for outdoor pursuits (mountaineering; bicycling; horse riding; swimming) and for experimental psychology (rotating mirrors; hypnosis) and therapies (hydrotherapy). The Pagets move away from the city center of Florence into the Villa Il Palmerino then in the countryside where both Eugene and Vernon recover. Correspondents include Lee’s parents Matilda and Henry Ferguson Paget; her step-brother poet Eugene Lee-Hamilton; English poetess Mary Robinson; English poet Robert Browning; British novelist and journalist Ellen Mary Abdy-Williams; British social reform activist and editor Percy William Bunting; Irish journalist and activist Frances Power Cobbe; Irish scholar and novelist Bella Duffy; British eugenicist Karl Pearson; British publisher William Blackwood; Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson; American novelist Henry James; American connoisseur and arts patron Isabella Stuart Gardner; French translator and critic Marie-Thérèse Blanc (Th. Bentzon); Lady Louisa Wolseley; Irish historian and activist Alice Stopford-Green; Italian Countess Angelica (Pasolini) Rasponi; Italian poet writer and critic Enrico Nencioni; Italian novelist essayist and critic Mario Pratesi; Italian editor and man of letters Francesco Protonotari; Italian painter Telemaco Signorini. | Selected Letters of Vernon Lee 1856–1935 Volume II - 1885-1889

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Mary Pickford Hollywood and the New Woman

Mary Pickford Hollywood and the New Woman

On screen and off movie star Mary Pickford personified the 'New Woman' of the early 1900s a moniker given to women who began to demand more autonomy inside and outside the home. Well educated and career-minded these women also embraced the new mass culture in which consumption and leisure were seen to play a pivotal role in securing happiness. Mary Pickford: Hollywood and the New Woman examines Pickford's role in the rise of industrial capitalism and consumer culture and uses her life and unprecedented career as a wildly popular actress and savvy film mogul to illustrate the opportunities and obstacles faced by American women during this time. Following Pickford's life from her childhood on stage to her rise as a powerful studio executive this book gives an overview of her enduring contribution to American film and mass culture. It also explores her struggles to surpass her confining public film persona as 'America's Sweetheart' with her creative and business achievements mirroring how women both then and today must reconcile domestic life with professional aspirations and work. About the Lives of American Women series: Selected and edited by renowned women's historian Carol Berkin these brief biographies are designed for use in undergraduate courses. Rather than a comprehensive approach each biography focuses instead on a particular aspect of a woman's life that is emblematic of her time or which made her a pivotal figure in the era. The emphasis is on a 'good read' featuring accessible writing and compelling narratives without sacrificing sound scholarship and academic integrity. Primary sources at the end of each biography reveal the subject's perspective in her own words. Study questions and an annotated bibliography support the student reader. | Mary Pickford Hollywood and the New Woman

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Lillian Gilbreth Redefining Domesticity

Lillian Gilbreth Redefining Domesticity

Lillian Gilbreth is a stunning example of female ingenuity in the early twentieth century. At a time when women were standard fixtures in the home and barely accepted in many professions Gilbreth excelled in both spheres concurrently winning honors as 'Engineer of the Year' and 'Mother of the Year'. This accessible engaging introduction to the life of Lillian Gilbreth examines her pivotal role in establishing the discipline of industrial psychology her work as an engineer of domestic management and home economics and her role as mother of twelve children - made famous by the book and later movie Cheaper by the Dozen. This book examines the life of an exceptional woman who was able to negotiate the divide between the public and domestic spheres and define it on her terms. About the Lives of American Women series: selected and edited by renowned women's historian Carol Berkin these brief biographies are designed for use in undergraduate courses. Rather than a comprehensive approach each biography focuses instead on a particular aspect of a women's life that is emblematic of her time or which made her a pivotal figure in the era. The emphasis is on a 'good read' featuring accessible writing and compelling narratives without sacrificing sound scholarship and academic integrity. Primary sources at the end of each biography reveal the subject's perspective in her own words. Study questions and an annotated bibliography support the student reader. | Lillian Gilbreth Redefining Domesticity

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Kanban Y JUST-IN-TIME EN TOYOTA

Kanban Y JUST-IN-TIME EN TOYOTA

Este libro ofrece una introducci?n clara y completa al Just-in-Time y sigue siendo uno de nuestros ?xitos de mayor venta. El texto esta basado en seminarios dictados por Taichi Ohno creador del Just-in-Time para entrenar a los suplidores de Toyota. La verdad que descubrio el Sr. Ohno es que la mejora nunca se detiene - un concepto basado en la tradicion samurai en la cual un guerrero (gerente) nunca deja de perfeccionar su estilo (su habilidad de administrar) y nunca deja de pulir su espada (mejorar el proceso y el producto). Al leer este libro usted vera claramente la magia del sistema Toyota. Los conceptos aqui expuestos se pueden aplicar a fabricaci?n repetitiva industrias de procesos a casi todo tipo de empresa de fabricaci?n e inclusive a oficinas. (Esta edicion incluye material adicional preparado por Yasuhiro Monden una autoridad en cuanto al sistema de producci?n de Toyota. ) | Kanban Y JUST-IN-TIME EN TOYOTA

GBP 170.00
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Orphaned by the Colour of My Skin A Stolen Generation Story

Orphaned by the Colour of My Skin A Stolen Generation Story

In an invasive paternalistic federal public policy environment for Indigenous communities this book provides an in-depth account of one person's experiences as a 'Stolen Generation' Aboriginal Australian. Told from the heart the book speaks in the raw voice of a grandmother reflecting on her life focusing on her childhood experiences subsequent perceptions and life stories. The book presents a rare autobiographical journaling of the psychological impact of institutionalisation on an Indigenous woman her search for family community and identity her psychological breakdown and her personal reconstruction through telling her story in a supportive educational environment. As an Appendix the author provides us with a critical analysis and autoethnography - using her story as a case study - that provides deep insights into the personal experience of dealing with forced institutionalisation and social engineering to assimilate Aboriginal people. | Orphaned by the Colour of My Skin A Stolen Generation Story

GBP 175.00
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