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Classic American Films: Conversations with the Screenwriters
by William BaerClassic American Films explores the origin and development of many of the most influential and revered films in cinema history, and does so with the aid and insight of the people who actually wrote the screenplays. These lively, candid, in-depth interviews are filled with fascinating new material (details, anecdotes, judgments, and opinions) about the creative and collaborative processes that went into the making of these extraordinary films. In the past, Hollywood screenwriters—the original artists—have often been overlooked. This book is a special tribute to the invaluable contributions of these cinematic visionaries, many of whom are considered among the greatest screenwriters in American film history. As Orson Welles once said, In my opinion, the writer should have the first and last word in filmmaking. This book allows them to have that exciting opportunity.Some of the highlights from these interviews include: Betty Comden and Adolph Green's explaining how a nightclub skit became the premise for Singin' in the Rain; Ernest Lehman's description of how, while in conversation with Hitchcock, his unconscious suddenly solved the plot problems in North by Northwest; Carl Gottlieb's remembrance of the terrible pressure involved with writing the script for Jaws while shooting was already underway; and Sylvester Stallone's account of how he received final approval to star in Rocky from studio executives who thought he was just another actor.
Coping with Distances: Producing Nordic Atlantic Societies
by Jørgen Ole BærenholdtThe Nordic Atlantic area has seen remarkable examples of social formations in areas that many would perceive as too remote to allow the construction of functioning communities. But through innovations, networking and the formation of identities people have coped with distances, thus continuously rebuilding societies in Northern Norway, Iceland, the Faroes, and Greenland. Living conditions in the Nordic Atlantic are so extreme that one might ask whether the notion of society is applicable under these circumstances. The author argues that, yes, there is a meaningful way of comprehending these social formations, which is through the spatial and temporal practices that produce, reproduce, stabilize, destabilize and change them. He introduces the concept of coping, which means neither mastering nor adapting but relates to in-between strategies and tactics reflected in practices of securing people’s way of life under conditions that are never totally under their control.
"Das Kind in meinem Leib": Sittlichkeitsdelikte und Kindsmord in Sachsen-Weimar Eisenach unter Carl August. Eine Quellenedition 1777-1786
by René Jacques BaerlocherStrafverfolgung und Sittlichkeit im Zeichen der Aufklärung. Ein neues Licht auf das vernachlässigte Thema werfen jüngste Archivfunde in Weimar. Zu diesen zählt vor allem die komplett erhaltene Akte zum Prozess gegen die Kindsmörderin Johanna Höhn. Anhand der edierten Quellen werden rechtliche und soziale Positionen in Bezug gesetzt zur weimarische Staatsmodernisierung während der Regierungszeit Herzog Carl Augusts. Mit einem Nachwort von René Jacques Baerlocher.
Intersecting Interregionalism: Regions, Global Governance and the EU (United Nations University Series on Regionalism #7)
by Francis Baert Tiziana Scaramagli Fredrik SöderbaumThis book has two mutually reinforcing aims/parts. The first aim is to contribute to a more productive debate between different theoretical standpoints. There is surprisingly little theoretical and conceptual debate in this burgeoning field, which is one major reason for the failure to fully grasp the diversity of today’s interregionalism. Too often theorists speak past each other, without really engaging with alternative theoretical perspectives or competing research results. Indeed, this book constitutes the first systematic attempt to bring together leading theories and theorists of interregionalism. Leading scholars from around the world develop their own distinctive theoretical perspectives on interregionalism, with a particular emphasis on the dynamic relationship between regionalism and interregionalism. These highly acclaimed theorists have all been associated over the years with a variety of disciplines, institutions, schools and debates and so bring a rich set of insights and connections to this pioneering project. The second part of the book ‘unpacks’ and problematises the region, the driving actors and institutions that are engaged in interregional relations. There is a strong tendency in the field to treat regions as coherent units actors in an interregional relationship, and such simplified notions about ‘regions’ and ‘regional organisations’ necessarily result in superficial and misleading understandings of interregionalism. This part of the book connects the theoretical discussion in the first part with a manageable empirical object.
Social Theory In The Twentieth Century And Beyond: (pdf)
by Patrick Baert Filipe Carreira da SilvaThis second edition of Patrick Baert’s widely acclaimed Social Theory in the Twentieth Century has been brought right up-to-date to offer an easy-to-read but provocative account of the key figures and classic schools central to the development of social theory, up to the cutting-edge developments in social theory today.
Die große Hoffnung für das 21. Jahrhundert?: Perspektiven und Strategien für die Entwicklung der Dienstleistungsbeschäftigung
by Martin Baethge
Jugend: Lebensperpektiven und Interresenorientierungen von Jugendlichen
by Martin BaethgeAnders als Demoskopie und landläufige Meinung uns lange Zeit glauben machen wollten, hat die Jugend die Erwerbsarbeit inner lich nicht abgeschrieben. Im Gegenteil: Für die Mehrheit gilt, daß sie Arbeit und Beruf bei ihrer Suche nach Identität einen hohen, häufig einen zentralen Stellenwert zuspricht. Wenn wir auf der Ba sis mehrjähriger empirischer Forschung dem kulturkritischen Trend, eine ganze Generation in ihrem subjektiven Verhältnis zur Arbeit krankzuschreiben, nicht folgen, so bedeutet das nicht, die traditionelle Arbeitsmoral zu bestätigen und für in Ordnung zu er klären. Denn tatsächlich hat sich vieles zwischen der Jugend und der Arbeit verändert, was uns neue Probleme aufgibt. Unser zentrales Ergebnis läßt sich in einem Widerspruch zuspit zen: In den persönlichen Identitätsentwürfen hat die Erwerbsarbeit für die Mehrheit der Jugendlichen einen hohen Stellenwert, gleich zeitig aber scheint sie für immer weniger Jugendliche den Kristalli sationspunkt für kollektive Erfahrungen und die Basis für soziale und politische Identitätsbildung abzugeben. Was ein derartig indivi dualistisches Verhältnis zur Arbeit politisch bedeutet, wagen wir heute nicht zu entscheiden. Hierüber bedarf es einer breiten Dis kussion, in der auch unsere Interpretationen zur Disposition stehen.
Jugend: Lebensperspektiven und Interessenorientierungen von Jugendlichen Eine Studie des Soziologischen Forschungsinstituts Göttingen (SOFI)
by Martin Baethge
Computer Science 2: Research and Applications (pdf) (The\language Of Science Ser. #96)
by Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Computer Science: Research and Applications (pdf) (The\language Of Science Ser. #941)
by Ricardo Baeza-Yates U. Manber
Emerging Capitalism in Central Europe and Southeast Asia: A Comparison of Political Economies (The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy)
by F. BafoilThis book examines the emergence of different forms of capitalism in Central-Eastern states in Europe and Mekong states within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). All of them (but Thailand) have historically disappeared from the regional maps for long periods of time due to colonial or imperial rule. Most of them were previously members of a soviet-type economy, and they all joined ASEAN or the European Union in the 1990s or in the 2000s. These states are characterized by a strong urge toward feelings of national sovereignty due to their experiences with colonialism and imperialism. But, due to the regional economic pressures and the globalization dynamic, these states cannot articulate protectionist policies. They are forced to open their economies in order to attract Foreign Direct Investments. This results in less regulated and more political forms of capitalism than in some more developed capitalist countries. This book analyzes forms of capitalism as the arising from a combination of three conditions: the legacy of the foreign occupations, the national construction process of the sovereign state, and lastly, the dynamics of regional integration. These states' claims to national sovereignty and the manner in which they developed suggests a causative link between the forms of political domination that have presided over these transformations and the forms of capitalism that have resulted.
The Nature of Children's Well-being: Theory and Practice (PDF) (Children's Well-being: Indicators and Research Ser. #9)
by Alexander Bagattini Colin MacleodThis book presents new findings that deal with different facets of the well-being of children and their relevance to the proper treatment of children. The well-being of children is considered against the background of a wide variety of legal, political, medical, educational and familial perspectives. The book addresses diverse issues from a range of disciplinary perspectives using a variety of methods. It has three major sections with the essays in each section loosely organized about a common general theme. The first section focuses on issues concerning the relation between children’s well-being and autonomy or agency. The second section deals with child well-being insofar as the limits of parental authority are concerned. The third section has a more applied orientation and addresses a variety of public policy controversies involving the interpretation of children’s well-being.
The Nature of Children's Well-being: Theory and Practice (Children's Well-being: Indicators and Research Ser. #9)
by Alexander Bagattini Colin MacleodThis book presents new findings that deal with different facets of the well-being of children and their relevance to the proper treatment of children. The well-being of children is considered against the background of a wide variety of legal, political, medical, educational and familial perspectives. The book addresses diverse issues from a range of disciplinary perspectives using a variety of methods. It has three major sections with the essays in each section loosely organized about a common general theme. The first section focuses on issues concerning the relation between children’s well-being and autonomy or agency. The second section deals with child well-being insofar as the limits of parental authority are concerned. The third section has a more applied orientation and addresses a variety of public policy controversies involving the interpretation of children’s well-being.
Democracy and Development (International Economic Association Series)
by A. BagchiThe relationship between economic development and political systems is of major importance in today's rapidly changing world. This is the issue addressed in this volume by an international team of academics drawn from the social sciences. The chapters range from a theoretical exploration of the measurement of development and collective well-being under both democracy and dictatorship to case studies of the workings of different political regimes around the world. Of particular interest are models of political and economic equilibrium in procedural democracies and the detailed exploration of the working of economic systems that have operated as formal democracies for some time. Specialists in comparative analysis will find the chapters on the prospects for democracy and development in countries such as China, South Africa and eastern Europe of special interest.
Merchants and Colonialism: Freedom, Resistance, and Statelessness in Upland Northeast India
by Amiya Kumar BagchiAmiya Kumar Bagchi’s Merchants and Colonialism is a landmark work in economic history and sociology. The author shows us how colonial rule put traders and manufacturers under immense pressure, forcing them to look for survival strategies in a changed economic environment. This resulted in long-term de-industrialization and irreversible damage to traditional modes of production, which had far-reaching economic consequences for India after Independence.
Marxism: With and Beyond Marx
by Amiya Kumar Bagchi Amita ChatterjeeThis book offers a unique re-conceptualization of Marxism in bringing together leading scholars across disciplines — history, philosophy, economics, politics, sociology, and literary and culture studies — into one comprehensive corpus. It demonstrates the engaging relevance of the perspectives and techniques of the analyses adopted by Karl Marx, Frederich Engels and contemporary Marxists, and will be immensely useful to scholars and researchers across social sciences as well as general readers interested in Marxism.
Marxism: With and Beyond Marx
by Amiya Kumar Bagchi Amita ChatterjeeThis book offers a unique re-conceptualization of Marxism in bringing together leading scholars across disciplines — history, philosophy, economics, politics, sociology, and literary and culture studies — into one comprehensive corpus. It demonstrates the engaging relevance of the perspectives and techniques of the analyses adopted by Karl Marx, Frederich Engels and contemporary Marxists, and will be immensely useful to scholars and researchers across social sciences as well as general readers interested in Marxism.
Healthcare in Post-Independence India: Kolkata and the Crisis of Private Healthcare Services (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series)
by Amrita BagchiThis book analyses the development of private healthcare in post-Independence Kolkata, India, and the rapid expansion of private nursing homes and hospitals from a historical and sociological perspective. It offers an examination of the changing pattern of the entire health care sector, which over recent decades has transformed itself to a profit-making commodity. The book explores the complexities of the health care services in Kolkata with special emphasis on the emergence, growth, role and the changing pattern of private health care organisations and the decline or degeneration of the services of public hospitals. Post-1947 India experienced the implementation of new developments in public health services, amongst others vertical programmes, primary health centers, family planning welfare programmes and community health volunteers. Examining the challenges in establishing a comprehensive health service system and the process of market forces in health care, the author investigates its linkages with policies of the welfare state. This book will be of interest to academics in the field of medical sociology, history of medicine and health and development studies and South Asian Studies.
Healthcare in Post-Independence India: Kolkata and the Crisis of Private Healthcare Services (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series)
by Amrita BagchiThis book analyses the development of private healthcare in post-Independence Kolkata, India, and the rapid expansion of private nursing homes and hospitals from a historical and sociological perspective. It offers an examination of the changing pattern of the entire health care sector, which over recent decades has transformed itself to a profit-making commodity. The book explores the complexities of the health care services in Kolkata with special emphasis on the emergence, growth, role and the changing pattern of private health care organisations and the decline or degeneration of the services of public hospitals. Post-1947 India experienced the implementation of new developments in public health services, amongst others vertical programmes, primary health centers, family planning welfare programmes and community health volunteers. Examining the challenges in establishing a comprehensive health service system and the process of market forces in health care, the author investigates its linkages with policies of the welfare state. This book will be of interest to academics in the field of medical sociology, history of medicine and health and development studies and South Asian Studies.
Sanctuary City: A Suspended State (Mobility & Politics)
by J. BagelmanThis book traces the ancient concept of sanctuary. It examines how the contemporary sanctuary city movement contributes to a hostile asylum regime by holding asylum seekers in a suspended state where rights are indefinitely deferred. At the same time, it explores myriad subversive practices challenging this waiting state.
Enjoying Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods Research
by Sofie Bager-Charleson Alistair McBeathThis textbook provides a guide to the development of a rigorous and creative research-supported practice for students, practitioners, and researchers in counselling and psychotherapy. With an emphasis on critical thinking and “research mindedness”, it introduces practical research skills and links them to self-awareness and critical reflection. Learning how to creatively and effectively use oneself in the treatment process is an essential component in therapy training and this level of self-awareness has long been a neglected area in research – until now. With examples ranging from private therapeutic practice to psychiatric related research, each chapter combines ‘how-to-do-it’ advice with illustrative real-life examples. The authors outline the use of a broad range of research methods, embracing Arts- as well as RCT-based research, and covering qualitative, quantitative, pluralistic and mixed methods approaches. Whether you are engaging with research for the first time or already developing your own research projects, if you are a student at diploma level or taking a Postgraduate research course for counsellors, psychotherapists and counselling psychotherapists, this is essential reading for anyone looking for a book that combines self-awareness with analytical and practical skills.
Identity Revisited and Reimagined: Empirical and Theoretical Contributions on Embodied Communication Across Time and Space
by Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta Aase Lyngvær Hansen Julie FeilbergIn contrast to other studies on identity, this book takes its point of departure in the complexities that characterize and shape both individuals and societies – past and present. Its chapters challenge demarcated fields of study and conceptions of identity as gender, identity as functional disability, identity as race, and identity as, or based upon language groupings. The contributions take a social practices perspective in their exploration of the performance, living and doing of identity positions across time and space. Many of the contributions take an intersectional stance and the majority report upon empirically driven studies that examine the ways in which micro-level analyses of naturally occurring human communication contribute to our understanding of identification processes. Specifically, they study the ways in which more recent dialogical and social theoretical-analytical frameworks allow for attending to the complexity and dynamics of identity processes; the ways in which institutional settings, media settings, community of practices and affinity spaces provide affordances and obstacles for different types of identity positions; and the ways in which shifts in identity positions can be traced across time and space.
Social Theory: A Textbook
by Carsten Bagge Laustsen Lars Thorup Larsen Mathias Wullum Nielsen Tine Ravn Mads P. SørensenThis textbook offers a new approach to understanding social theory. Framed around paired theoretical perspectives on a series of sociological problems, the book shows how distinctive viewpoints shed light on different facets of social phenomena. The book includes sociology’s "founding fathers", major 20th-century thinkers and recent voices such as Butler and Zizek. Philosophically grounded and focused on interpretation and analysis, the book provides a clear understanding of theory’s scope while developing students’ skills in evaluating, applying and comparing theories.
Social Theory: A Textbook
by Carsten Bagge Laustsen Lars Thorup Larsen Mathias Wullum Nielsen Tine Ravn Mads P. SørensenThis textbook offers a new approach to understanding social theory. Framed around paired theoretical perspectives on a series of sociological problems, the book shows how distinctive viewpoints shed light on different facets of social phenomena. The book includes sociology’s "founding fathers", major 20th-century thinkers and recent voices such as Butler and Zizek. Philosophically grounded and focused on interpretation and analysis, the book provides a clear understanding of theory’s scope while developing students’ skills in evaluating, applying and comparing theories.
Making No Compromise: Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, and the "Little Review"
by Holly A. BaggettMaking No Compromise is the first book-length account of the lives and editorial careers of Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, the women who founded the avant-garde journal the Little Review in Chicago in 1914. Born in the nineteenth-century Midwest, Anderson and Heap grew up to be iconoclastic rebels, living openly as lesbians, and advocating causes from anarchy to feminism and free love. Their lives and work shattered cultural, social, and sexual norms. As their paths crisscrossed Chicago, New York, Paris, and Europe; two World Wars; and a parade of the most celebrated artists of their time, they transformed themselves and their journal into major forces for shifting perspectives on literature and art. Imagism, Dada, surrealism, and Machine Age aesthetics were among the radical trends the Little Review promoted and introduced to US audiences. Anderson and Heap published the early work of the "men of 1914"—Ezra Pound, James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, and T. S. Eliot—and promoted women writers such as Djuna Barnes, May Sinclair, Dorothy Richardson, Mina Loy, Mary Butts, and the inimitable Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. In the mid-1920s Anderson and Heap became adherents of George I. Gurdjieff, a Russian mystic, and in 1929 ceased publication of the Little Review.Holly A. Baggett examines the roles of radical politics, sexuality, modernism, and spirituality and suggests that Anderson and Heap's interest in esoteric questions was evident from the early days of the Little Review. Making No Compromise tells the story of two women who played an important role in shaping modernism.