columbia university press aug 2008 (7 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The path to a permanent academic position is as challenging and competitive as ever. In this incisive book Steven M. Cahn, professor of philosophy, former provost, and advisor to countless graduate students, provides aspiring academics with the strategies and savvy to negotiate the complexities of professorial life.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This brings the instruments and experimental techniques of the laboratory into the kitchen. Making use of recent research in the biology, chemistry, and physics of food, the author challenges traditional ideas about cooking and eating.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - With its unparalleled capacity for realism, cinema seems uniquely positioned to bring history to life for a mass audience. Whether retelling stories about past events or reflecting more contemporary issues, cinema has been arguably the primary source of historical knowledge for many people from its earliest years right up to the present. This volume examines some of the key historical issues raised by popular film, including what film might tell us about the past, the reliability of movies as sources of historical knowledge, and how film might compare to more 'serious' works of history.Combining historical methods with insights from linguistics and film studies, Cinema and History discusses the historical resonance of films such as Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Gangs of New York (2002) and United 93 (2006), andinvestigates the parameters and limitations of fiction film as a way to access history.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The city is one of the greatest unsung heroes in cinema -- a modernist inspiration for silent classics such as Metropolis (1926) and a dense urban jungle in The Matrix (1999) -- yet there have been few attempts to grasp the cultural and aesthetic nature of its role in film. This volume is an ambitious collection of writings and photo-essays discussing this complex yet enduring relationship, and how early cinema, digital technology and changing urban geographies have all impacted upon notions and representations of the modern city. Amongst the films discussed are Peeping Tom (1960), Performance (1970), Sans Soleil (1983) and Amores perros (2000). Contributions come from the fields of film studies, cultural theory, architecture and design, as well as filmmakers Patrick Keiller and Chris Petit.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In October 1964, Ronald Reagan gave a televised speech in support of Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater. 'The Speech,' as it has come to be known, helped launch Ronald Reagan as a leading force in the American conservative movement. However, less than twenty years earlier, Reagan was a prominent Hollywood liberal, the president of the Screen Actors Guild, and a fervent supporter of FDR and Harry Truman. While many agree that Reagan's anticommunism grew out of his experiences with the Hollywood communists of the late 1940s, the origins of his conservative ideology have remained obscure.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life offers a bold new assessment of the role of the domestic sphere in modernist literature, architecture, and design. Elegantly synthesizing modernist literature with architectural plans, room designs, and decorative art, Victoria Rosner's work explores the collaborations among modern British writers, interior designers, and architects in redefining the form, function, and meaning of middle-class private life. Drawing on a host of previously unexamined archival sources and works by figures such as E. M. Forster, Roger Fry, Oscar Wilde, James McNeill Whistler, and Virginia Woolf, Rosner highlights the participation of modernist literature in the creation of an experimental, embodied, and unstructured private life, which we continue to characterize as 'modern.'.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Is sustainable development a workable solution for today's environmental problems Is it scientifically defensible Best known for applying ecological theory to the engineering problems of everyday life, the late scholar James J. Kay was a leader in the study of social and ecological complexity and the thermodynamics of ecosystems. Drawing from his immensely important work, as well as the research of his students and colleagues, The Ecosystem Approach is a guide to the aspects of complex systems theories relevant to social-ecological management.