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Australian Overseas Aid

Australian Overseas Aid

Originally published in 1986 this book evaluated the review of the Australian Overseas Aid Program (the 1984 Jackson Report) and discusses the significance of Australia’s contribution to overseas aid for the future. The book focusses on the overall context of the Jackson report; discusses the geographical distribution of aid proposed by the report and examines aid administration in its more specific bureaucratic context and with broader questions of community participation in developmental processes.

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Black Men in Law School Unmatched or Mismatched

Black Men in Law School Unmatched or Mismatched

Grounded in Critical Race Theory (CRT) Black Men in Law School refutes the claim that when African American law students are mismatched with more selective law schools the result is lower levels of achievement and success. Presenting personal narratives and counter-stories Jackson demonstrates the inadequacy of the mismatch theory and deconstructs the ways race is constructed within American public law schools. Calling for a replacement to mismatch theory Jackson offers an alternative theory that considers marginalized student perspectives and crystallizes the nuances and impact that historically exclusionary institutions and systems have on African American law school students. To further the debate on affirmative action this book shows that experiences and voices of African American law school students are a crucial ingredient in the debate on race and how it functions in law schools. | Black Men in Law School Unmatched or Mismatched

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Studying Medieval Rulers and Their Subjects Central Europe and Beyond

Studying Medieval Rulers and Their Subjects Central Europe and Beyond

This selection of articles published for the 50th anniversary of the author's doctorate at G¶ttingen opens with studies on his teacher Percy Ernst Schramm and his contribution to the study of the medieval state and continues with examples of state symbology from Central Europe. Questions of legitimization and representation of kings and queens through texts and Herrschaftszeichen as well as the development of 'coronation studies' are addressed in a comparative framework. The second part contains articles on social and political history mainly of the kingdom of Hungary in the fifteenth century also attempting to place the issues into a wider context. Finally two pieces present and discuss the 'use' or 'abuse' of the Middle Ages in the political discourse and display of our times. | Studying Medieval Rulers and Their Subjects Central Europe and Beyond

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Shelley: Selected Poems

Shelley: Selected Poems

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) was one of the major Romantic poets and wrote what is critically recognised as some of the finest lyric poetry in the English Language. In this volume the editors have selected the most popular significant and frequently taught poems from the six-volume Longman Annotated edition of Shelley’s poems. Each poem is fully annotated explained and contextualised along with a comprehensive list of abbreviations an inclusive bibliography of material relating to the text and interpretation of Shelley’s poetry plus an extensive chronology of Shelley’s life and works. Headnotes and footnotes furnish the personal literary historical and scientific information necessary for an informed reading of Shelley’s richly varied and densely allusive verse making this an ideal anthology for students classroom use and anyone approaching Shelley’s poetry for the first time; however the level and extent of commentary and annotation will also be of great value for researchers and critics. | Shelley: Selected Poems

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Biocentrism and Modernism

Biocentrism and Modernism

Examining the complex intersections between art and scientific approaches to the natural world Biocentrism and Modernism reveals another side to the development of Modernism. While many historians have framed this movement as being mechanistic and against nature the essays in this collection illuminate the role that nature-centric ideologies played in late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth-century Modernism. The essays in Biocentrism and Modernism contend that it is no accident that Modernism arose at the same time as the field of modern biology. From nineteenth-century discoveries to the emergence of the current environmentalist movement during the 1960s artists architects and urban planners have responded to currents in the scientific world. Sections of the volume treat both philosophic worldviews and their applications in theory historiography and urban design. This collection also features specific case studies of individual artists including Raymond Duchamp-Villon Paul Klee Wassily Kandinsky and Jackson Pollock.

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Grainger the Modernist

Grainger the Modernist

Unaccountably Percy Grainger has remained on the margins of both American music history and twentieth-century modernism. This volume reveals the well-known composer of popular gems to be a self-described ’hyper-modernist’ who composed works of uncompromising dissonance challenged the conventions of folk song collection and adaptation re-visioned the modern orchestra experimented with ’ego-less’ composition and designed electronic machines intended to supersede human application. Grainger was far from being a self-sufficient maverick working in isolation. Through contact with innovators such as Ferrucio Busoni Léon Theremin and Henry Cowell; promotion of the music of modern French and Spanish schools; appreciation of vernacular jazz and folk musics; as well as with the study and transcription of non-Western music; he contested received ideas and proposed many radical new approaches. By reappraising Grainger’s social and historical connectedness and exploring the variety of aspects of modernity seen in his activities in the British American and Australian contexts the authors create a profile of a composer propagandist and visionary whose modernist aesthetic paralleled that of the most advanced composers of his day and in some cases anticipated their practical experiments. | Grainger the Modernist

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After Effects for Designers Graphic and Interactive Design in Motion

After Effects for Designers Graphic and Interactive Design in Motion

After Effects for Designers teaches design students artists and web graphic and interactive designers how to design develop and deploy motion design projects using Adobe After Effects. Author Chris Jackson balances fundamental aspects of time-based design with related techniques and explores the principles of animation; composition and layout; visual hierarchy; typography; cinematic storytelling; 3D modelling; compositing and more. Each chapter contains unique step-by-step project exercises that offer timesaving practical tips and hands-on design techniques teaching readers how to effectively use the tools at their disposal in order to conceptualize and visualize creative solutions to their own motion design work. Readers will build professional-world examples in every chapter and as a result learn how to both design effectively using After Effects and practically apply these skills in client-based work. An accompanying companion website includes complete project files for the book's chapter exercises and additional video tutorials. | After Effects for Designers Graphic and Interactive Design in Motion

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Decadent Romanticism: 1780-1914

Decadent Romanticism: 1780-1914

For Decadent authors Romanticism was a source of powerful imaginative revisionism perversion transition and partial negation. But for all these strong Decadent reactions against the period the cultural phenomenon of Decadence shared with Romanticism a mutual distrust of the philosophy of utilitarianism and the aesthetics of neo-Classicism. Reflecting on the interstices between Romantic and Decadent literature Decadent Romanticism reassesses the diverse and creative reactions of Decadent authors to Romanticism between 1780 and 1914 while also remaining alert to the prescience of the Romantic imagination to envisage its own distorted darker perverted other self. Creative pairings include William Blake and his Decadent critics the recurring figure of the sphinx in the work of Thomas De Quincey and Decadent writers and Percy Shelley with both Mathilde Blind and Swinburne. Not surprisingly John Keats’s works are a particular focus in essays that explore Keats’s literary and visual legacies and his resonance for writers who considered him an icon of art for art’s sake. Crucial to this critical reassessment are the shared obsessions of Romanticism and Decadence with subjectivity isolation addiction fragmentation representation romance and voyeurism as well as a poetics of desire and anxieties over the purpose of aestheticism. | Decadent Romanticism: 1780-1914

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British Romanticism and the Reception of Italian Old Master Art 1793-1840

British Romanticism and the Reception of Italian Old Master Art 1793-1840

As a result of Napoleon’s campaigns in Italy Old Master art flooded into Britain and its acquisition became an index of national prestige. Maureen McCue argues that their responses to these works informed the writing of Romantic period authors enabling them to forge often surprising connections between Italian art the imagination and the period’s political social and commercial realities. Dr McCue examines poetry plays novels travel writing exhibition catalogues early guidebooks and private experiences recorded in letters and diaries by canonical and noncanonical authors including Felicia Hemans William Buchanan Henry Sass Pierce Egan William Hazlitt Percy Shelley Lord Byron Anna Jameson Maria Graham Callcott and Samuel Rogers. Her exploration of the idea of connoisseurship shows the ways in which a knowledge of Italian art became a key marker of cultural standing that was no longer limited to artists and aristocrats while her chapter on the literary production of post-Waterloo Britain traces the development of a critical vocabulary equally applicable to the visual arts and literature. In offering cultural historical and literary readings of the responses to Italian art by early nineteenth-century writers Dr McCue illuminates the important role they played in shaping the themes that are central to our understanding of Romanticism. | British Romanticism and the Reception of Italian Old Master Art 1793-1840

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Sexual Privatism in British Romantic Writing A Public of One

Sexual Privatism in British Romantic Writing A Public of One

The Romantic age though often associated with free erotic expression was ambivalent about what if anything sex had to do with the public sphere. Late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century British texts often repressed the very sexual energies they claimed to be bringing into the open. The delineation of what could and could not be said and done in the name of physical pleasure was of a piece with the capitalist consecration of the social trust to the individual profit-motive. Both these practices moreover presupposed a determinate self with sovereignty over its own interests. Writings from and about some nominally public institutions were thus characterized by privatism—a sexual economic and ontological withdrawal from otherness. Sexual Privatism in British Romantic Writing: A Public of One explores how this threefold ideology was both propagated and resisted wittingly and unwittingly successfully and unsuccessfully in such Romantic publics as rape-law sodomy-law adultery-law high-profile scandals the population debates and club-culture. It includes readings of imaginative literature by William Beckford William Blake Erasmus Darwin Mary Hays Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft; works of political economy by Jeremy Bentham William Cobbett William Godwin William Hazlitt and Thomas Robert Malthus; as well as contemporary legal treatises popular journalism and satirical pamphlets. | Sexual Privatism in British Romantic Writing A Public of One

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The Ongoing End: On the Limits of Apocalyptic Narrative

The Ongoing End: On the Limits of Apocalyptic Narrative

The world keeps turning to apocalypticism. Time is imagined as proceeding ineluctably to a catastrophic perhaps revelatory conclusion. Even when evacuated of distinctly religious content a broadly ecclesial structure persists in conceptions of our precarious life and our collective journey to an inevitable fate—the extinction of the human species. It is commonly believed that we are propelled along this course by human turpitude myopia hubris or ignorance and by the irreparable damage we have wrought to the world we inhabit. Yet this apprehension is insidious. Such teleological convictions and crises-laden narratives lead us to undervalue contingent hesitant and provisional forms of experience and knowledge. The essays comprising this volume concern a range of writers’ engagements with apocalyptic reasoning. Extending from a reading of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ‘Triumph of Life’ to critiques of contemporary American novels they examine the ways in which ‘end times’ reasoning can inhibit imaginative reflection blunt political advocacy or – more positively – provide a repertoire for the critique of complacency. By gathering essays concerning a wide range of periods and literary dispositions this volume makes an important contribution to thinking about apocalypticism in literature but also as a social and political discourse. This book was originally published as a special issue of Studia Neophilologica. | The Ongoing End: On the Limits of Apocalyptic Narrative

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Motivating Ministers to Morality

Motivating Ministers to Morality

This book discusses the most prominent subjects - and occasional victims - of the ethics debate: government ministers. Political ethics is a rapidly growing field in disciplines such as political science philosophy applied ethics and public policy and it has become a major topic in current affairs’ reporting of politics. It is the first major work to discuss institutional reforms around the world that target ministerial morality and asks: how are these reforms influencing the motivation and conduct of the most powerful of our politicians? The book provides unique insights into ministerial behaviour and the changing role of institutions in influencing the ethics of the executive with analyses from around the world. Contributors to the volume include international high-profile players in political ethics. They include Lord Nolan the first Chairman of Britain's Joint Parliamentary Committee on Standards in Public Life; Professor Robert J. Jackson a leading Canadian political scientist instrumental in establishing the Canadian Office of the Ethics Counsellor; and Associate Professor Noel Preston the leading commentator on ethics in Australian politics who has been involved in developing a number of its ethical regimes. | Motivating Ministers to Morality

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Concert Design The Road The Craft The Industry

Concert Design The Road The Craft The Industry

Concert Design: The Road The Craft The Industry offers an exceptional journey though the world of concert design exploring not only its unique design attributes but also the industry that has grown around it and how to make a career of ‘the road’. Concert designer Seth Jackson analyzes how the industry has changed over the last three decades – from its early days of ‘no rules’ and ‘cowboys’ to a thriving and growing industry with countless career opportunities. Drawing on 25 years of experience and clients ranging from Carrie Underwood to Don Henley he explores design techniques working with Artists and directors the rigors of concert touring and navigating a career path through a challenging industry. The book also includes stories from numerous industry luminaries such as Steve Cohen Jeff Ravitz Eric Loader Howard Ungerleider and Jim Lenahan along with Jackson’s own experiences. Written for aspiring concert lighting designers and students of Concert Lighting and Theatre Lighting courses Concert Design is an excellent resource for anyone who has ever wondered what backstage life is really all about. | Concert Design The Road The Craft The Industry

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China’s Regional Relations in Comparative Perspective From Harmonious Neighbors to Strategic Partners

China’s Regional Relations in Comparative Perspective From Harmonious Neighbors to Strategic Partners

China’s relations with its neighbors have evolved since 1949 and in the 21st century many scholars argue that China’s rising power has led it to be increasingly domineering over those smaller countries in Northeast Southeast Central and South Asia. The evolution of China’s regional relations needs to be examined comprehensively since China counts twenty-seven countries as its neighbors large and small. While China’s official policy toward all of these countries is to treat them as good neighbors and partners some of these relationships have been spectacularly deteriorating while others have been quietly improving over the last two decades. Jackson takes a comparative foreign policy approach and compares China’s status as a regional hegemon with the United States Russia India Brazil South Africa and Nigeria. The result is a broader theory as to why regional powers are sometimes intimidating and at other times accommodating. An important contribution to studies on China this book will prove useful to scholars and students in Chinese and Asian foreign policy comparative foreign policy and international relations. | China’s Regional Relations in Comparative Perspective From Harmonious Neighbors to Strategic Partners

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The Difficult Triangle Mexico Central America And The United States

The Difficult Triangle Mexico Central America And The United States

Although relations with Central America dominated U. S. foreign policy with its southern neighbors during the 1980s relations with Mexico will likely shape U. S. foreign policy in the next decade. This book examines the troubled nature of the triangular link between Mexico Central America and the United States in order to understand the implications of U. S. policy for peace and development in the Western Hemisphere. The book begins with an analysis of Mexico's foreign policy and its historical role in seeking diplomatic solutions to volatile situations in Central America. The authors then assess the probable impact on the region of increased economic integration particularly the U. S. Mexico free trade agreement especially important in light of Mexico's enormous debt and immigration issues. Special attention is also given to diplomatic aspects of the relationship with a focus on the process of negotiations to resolve conflicts in Central America. A lengthy epilogue offers critical commentary on key issues discussed in the text by such prominent figures as Jesse Jackson Carlos Vilas David Ibarra and Guadalupe Gonzales. | The Difficult Triangle Mexico Central America And The United States

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Commercial Dance An Essential Guide

Commercial Dance An Essential Guide

This is an exploration of the vital and rapidly evolving world of Commercial Dance tracing the evolution and merging of Hip-Hop Club and Jazz dance styles from the music videos of the early 1980s to today's huge influence on pop music and dance in a multi-media culture. Chapters including ‘Iconic Moments’ and ‘Main Movers’ contextualise and analyse culturally significant works and choreographers. With direct contributions from an international array of industry leading dancers choreographers and creatives - including JaQuel Knight (Beyonce’s choreographer) Rich + Tone Talauega (Madonna & Michael Jackson collaborators) Rebbi Rosie (Rihanna’s dancer) Dean Lee (Janet Jackson’s choreographer) and Kiel Tutin (BLACKPINK’s choreographer) - this book shines a light on the creatives in the Commercial Dance industry who have made significant impacts not just on the world of dance but on popular culture itself. Chapters discussing dance history copyright law inclusivity and dance class culture as well as additional contributions from dance scholars enable this book to give credence to Commercial Dance as a legitimate academic area of study. This is a complete and comprehensive textbook for all dance students at any level of study on college university or conservatory courses. | Commercial Dance An Essential Guide

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A Short History of British Psychology 1840-1940

A Short History of British Psychology 1840-1940

Originally published in 1964 the story of the development of psychology in Great Britain had never been told. In the 1840s when John Stuart Mill wrote about ‘Psychology’ in his treatise on Logic the word was hardly known to the British public. Today the subject is taught in nearly every university and psychologists are professionally employed by many public bodies. The British contribution to the dramatic rise of psychology was an exceptionally important one and had been shamefully neglected not only by the public but by British psychologists themselves. The tendency at the time to regard the subject through American spectacles distorted the role of British pioneers. Significant British contributions had been almost completely forgotten – those of Carpenter Lewes Spalding and Lubbock for example – and the work of men such as Hughlings Jackson and Romanes had been greatly undervalued. Not the least important feature of the book is its reassessment of the work of many individuals. In relating the rise of psychology and its application to concomitant developments in medicine physiology biology sociology anthropology and statistics and to changes in the prevailing philosophic climate the author shows psychology to be an integral part of the scientific intellectual and social history of the past century. | A Short History of British Psychology 1840-1940

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Contemporary Theories of Learning Learning Theorists ... In Their Own Words

Contemporary Theories of Learning Learning Theorists ... In Their Own Words

This tenth anniversary edition of Knud Illeris’s classic 2008 text is an updated and definitive collection of today’s most influential learning theorists now containing additional chapters from John Hattie and Gregory Donoghue Sharan Merriam Gert Biesta and Carolyn Jackson. This book brings together world-renowned experts who each present their understanding of what learning is and how human learning takes place addressing the social psychological and emotional contexts of learning. In this clear and coherent overview Professor Knud Illeris has collated chapters that explain both the complex frameworks in which learning takes place and the specific facets of learning. Each international expert provides either a seminal text or an entirely new précis of the conceptual framework they have developed over a lifetime of study such as adult learning theory learning strategies and the cultural and social nature of learning processes. Elucidating the key concepts of learning Contemporary Theories of Learning provides both the perfect desk reference and an ideal introduction for students; it is an invaluable resource for all researchers and academics involved in the study of learning and provides a detailed synthesis of current learning theories… all in the words of the theorists themselves. | Contemporary Theories of Learning Learning Theorists … In Their Own Words

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The Poems of Shelley: Volume One 1804-1817

The Poems of Shelley: Volume One 1804-1817

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major Romantic poets and wrote what is critically recognised as some of the finest lyric poetry in the English language. This is the first volume of the five-volume The Poems of Shelley which presents all of Shelley’s poems in chronological order and with full annotation. Date and circumstances of composition are provided for each poem and all manuscript and printed sources relevant to establishing an authoritative text are freshly examined and assessed. Headnotes and footnotes supply the personal literary historical and scientific information necessary to an informed reading of Shelley’s varied and allusive verse. The present volume includes the 'Esdaile' poems which only entered the public domain in the 1950s printed in chronological order and integrated with the rest of Shelley's early output and Queen Mab the first of Shelley’s major poems together with its extensive prose notes. The seminal Alastor volume is placed in the detailed context of Shelley’s overall poetic development. The ‘Scrope Davies’ notebook only discovered in 1976 furnishes two otherwise unknown sonnets as well as alternative versions of ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’ and ‘Mont Blanc’ which significantly influence our understanding of these important poems. This first volume contains new datings and makes numerous corrections to long-established errors and misunderstandings in the transmission of Shelley's work. Its annotations and headnotes provide new perspectives on Shelley's literary philosophical and political development The volumes of The Poems of Shelley form the most comprehensive edition of Shelley's poetry available to students and scholars. | The Poems of Shelley: Volume One 1804-1817

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Between Art Practice and Psychoanalysis Mid-Twentieth Century Anton Ehrenzweig in Context

Between Art Practice and Psychoanalysis Mid-Twentieth Century Anton Ehrenzweig in Context

The work of mid-twentieth century art theorist Anton Ehrenzweig is explored in this original and timely study. An analysis of the dynamic and invigorating intellectual influences institutional framework and legacy of his work Between Art Practice and Psychoanalysis reveals the context within which Ehrenzweig worked how that influenced him and those artists with whom he worked closely. Beth Williamson looks to the writing of Melanie Klein Marion Milner Adrian Stokes and others to elaborate Ehrenzweig’s theory of art a theory that extends beyond the visual arts to music. In this first full-length study on his work including an inventory of his library previously unexamined archival material and unseen artworks sit at the heart of a book that examines Ehrenzweig’s working relationships with important British artists such as Bridget Riley Eduardo Paolozzi and other members of the Independent Group in London in the 1950s and 1960s. In Ehrenzweig’s second book The Hidden Order of Art (1967) his thinking on Jackson Pollock is important too. It was this book that inspired American artists Robert Smithson and Robert Morris when they deployed his concept of ’dedifferentiation’. Here Williamson offers new readings of process art c. 1970 showing how Ehrenzweig’s aesthetic retains relevance beyond the immediate post-war era. | Between Art Practice and Psychoanalysis Mid-Twentieth Century Anton Ehrenzweig in Context

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The Poems of Shelley: Volume Two 1817 - 1819

The Poems of Shelley: Volume Two 1817 - 1819

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major Romantic poets and wrote what is critically recognised as some of the finest lyric poetry in the English language. This is the second volume of the five-volume The Poems of Shelley which presents all of Shelley’s poems in chronological order and with full annotation. Date and circumstances of composition are provided for each poem and all manuscript and printed sources relevant to establishing an authoritative text are freshly examined and assessed. Headnotes and footnotes furnish the personal literary historical and scientific information necessary to an informed reading of Shelley’s varied and allusive verse. This volume makes extensive use of the Shelley manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and draws on the substantial recent research which has appeared on Shelley's text and contexts and on members of his circle such as Mary Shelley Byron Godwin and others. It offers significant new datings and contextual exposition of major works including Prometheus Unbound Laon and Cythna 'Julian and Maddalo' The Cenci and Shelley's translations from the Greek notably his highly original translation of Euripides' The Cyclops. There are also comprehensive treatments of some of Shelley's best known shorter poems such as 'Lines written among the Euganean Hills' and 'Ozymandias'. The annotation demonstrates the extraordinary range and richness of Shelley's literary intelligence and situates his work in the revolutionary politics and social upheavals of the early nineteenth century. The text and annotation are supported by an extensive bibliography a chronology indexes and appendices which include a detailed examination of the history of the Cenci story. The volumes of The Poems of Shelley form the most comprehensive edition of Shelley's poetry available to students and scholars. | The Poems of Shelley: Volume Two 1817 - 1819

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Advances in the Psychobiology of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms

Advances in the Psychobiology of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms

Advances in the Psychobiology of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms features international experts from the fields of psychobiology sleep research and chronobiology to address and review cutting-edge scientific literature concerning recent advances in the psychobiology of sleep sleep disorders such as sleep apnoea and insomnia and circadian rhythms across the lifespan. In this illuminating volume Melinda L. Jackson and Sean P. A. Drummond bring together leading international researchers to review cross-cutting issues in the field including sleep and pain sleep and dementia risk and sleep issues in paediatric populations as well as the interaction between sleep and health conditions in different populations. The chapters offer coverage of the major explanatory models which underpin the empirical work as well as a discussion of the relevant theoretical and conceptual models on issues arising with specific psychiatric and medical disorders including depression dementia posttraumatic stress disorder and pain. They also address new research in the area of chronobiology and circadian impacts on health and diseases. The chapters also discuss important methodological and ethical issues arising in research and include sections addressing implications for public policy and practitioner interventions in the context of different social and cultural environments. This volume will be a crucial resource for professionals practitioners and researchers engaged in the field as well as for postgraduate and upper-level undergraduate students undertaking research in areas related to psychobiology neuropsychology health psychology and other disciplines such as biology physiology and psychopharmacology.

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Animism and Shamanism in Twentieth-Century Art Kandinsky Ernst Pollock Beuys

Animism and Shamanism in Twentieth-Century Art Kandinsky Ernst Pollock Beuys

Wassily Kandinsky Max Ernst Jackson Pollock and Joseph Beuys were the leading artists of their generations to recognize the rich possibilities that animism and shamanism offered. While each of these artists' connection with shamanism has been written about separately Evan Firestone brings the four together in order to compare their individual approaches to anthropological materials and to define similarities and differences between them. The author's close readings of their works and examination of the relevant texts available to them reveal fresh insights and new perspectives. The importance of indigenous beliefs in animism for Kandinsky's philosophy of art and practice especially the animism of inanimate objects is analyzed for the first time in conjunction with his well-known enthusiasms for Symbolism and Theosophy. Ernst's collage novel La femme 100 tetes (1929) previously found to have significant alchemical content also is shown to extensively utilize shamanism thereby merging different branches of the occult that prove to have remarkable similarities. The in-depth examination of Pollock's works both known and overlooked for shamanic content identifies textual sources that heretofore have escaped notice. Firestone also demonstrates how shamanism was employed by this artist to express his desire for healing and transformation. The author further argues that the German edition of Mircea Eliade's Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (1957) helped to revitalize Beuys's life and art and that his ecological campaigns reflected a new consciousness later termed ecoanimism. | Animism and Shamanism in Twentieth-Century Art Kandinsky Ernst Pollock Beuys

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Aquaculture Landscapes Fish Farms and the Public Realm

Aquaculture Landscapes Fish Farms and the Public Realm

Aquaculture Landscapes explores the landscape architecture of farms reefs parks and cities that are designed to entwine the lives of fish and humans. In the twenty-first century aquaculture’s contribution to the supply of fish for human consumption exceeds that of wild-caught fish for the first time in history. Aquaculture has emerged as the fastest growing food production sector in the world but aquaculture has agency beyond simply converting fish to food. Aquaculture Landscapes recovers aquaculture as a practice with a deep history of constructing extraordinary landscapes. These landscapes are characterized and enriched by multispecies interdependency performative ecologies collaborative practices and aesthetic experiences between humans and fish. Aquaculture Landscapes presents over thirty contemporary and historical landscapes spanning six continents with incisive diagrams and vivid photographs. Within this expansive scope is a focus on urban aquaculture projects by leading designers—including Turenscape James Corner Field Operations and SCAPE—that employ mutually beneficial strategies for fish and humans to address urban coastal resiliency wastewater management and other contemporary urban challenges. Michael Ezban delivers a compelling account of the coalitions of fish and humans that shape the form function and identity of cities and he offers a forward-thinking theorization of landscape as the preeminent medium for the design of ichthyological urbanism in the Anthropocene. With over two hundred evocative images including ninety original drawings by the author Aquaculture Landscapes is a richly illustrated portrayal of aquaculture seen through the disciplinary lens of landscape architecture. As the first book devoted to this topic Aquaculture Landscapes is an original and essential resource for landscape architects urbanists animal geographers aquaculturists and all who seek and value multispecies cohabitation of a shared public realm. Winner of the 2020 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize! | Aquaculture Landscapes Fish Farms and the Public Realm

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