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The (Moving) Pictures Generation
The Cinematic Impulse in Downtown New York Art and Film
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Beginning in the late 1970s, a number of visual artists in downtown New York City returned to an exploration of the cinematic across mediums. Vera Dika considers their work within a greater cultural context and probes for a deeper understanding of the practice.
Beckett, Deleuze and the Televisual Event
Peephole Art
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
An expressive dialogue between Deleuze's philosophical writings on cinema and Beckett's innovative film and television work, the book explores the relationship between the birth of the event – itself a simultaneous invention and erasure - and Beckett's attempts to create an incommensurable space within the interstices of language as a (W)hole.
The Theatre of Naomi Wallace
Embodied Dialogues
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Naomi Wallace, an American playwright based in Britain, is one of the more original and provocative voices in contemporary theatre. Her poetic, erotically-charged, and politically engaged plays have been seen in London's West End, off-Broadway, at the Comédie-Française, in regional and provincial...
Imagining the Black Female Body
Reconciling Image in Print and Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
This volume explores issues of black female identity through the various "imaginings" of the black female body in print and visual culture. Contributions emphasize the ways in which the black female body is framed and how black women (and their allies) have sought to write themselves back into social discourses on their terms.
Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground
From Obscurity to Literary Icon
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
This critical study of the literary magazines, underground newspapers, and small press publications that had an impact on Charles Bukowski's early career, draws on archives, privately held unpublished Bukowski work, and interviews to shed new light on the ways in which Bukowski became an icon in the alternative literary scene in the 1960s.
Do Less Better
The Power of Strategic Sacrifice in a Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Do Less Better teaches leaders how to recognize the complexity and inefficiencies within their businesses and reveals how they can simplify and streamline through specialization and sacrifice. According to Bell, a company's willingness to focus on a particular vision or identity ensures viability and strengthens its competitive edge.
Contemporary Issues in Mining
Leading Practice in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Provides case studies, commentary and analysis on the mining sector from international experts in business, across the four key focus areas of strategic, operational, financial and disclosure perspectives on mining. Invaluable to executives, managers and advisers involved in the mining sector, including public and private mining companies.
Future Work
How Businesses Can Adapt and Thrive In The New World Of Work
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
The way we work is changing in the Internet age. The new majority of the workforce, women, Generation Y, the over-50s, as well as growing numbers of men share a need for greater control and choice about where, how and when they work. This is a guide to the skills you will need and the challenges you will face in the 21st century world of work.
Brand Breakout
How Emerging Market Brands Will Go Global
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Written by the world's leading thinkers on brand strategy, this book looks at what Asian and emerging market brands need to do to succeed in international markets and the challenges they face when competing with western brands.
Capital Returns
Investing Through the Capital Cycle: A Money Manager’s Reports 2002-15
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
We live in an age of serial asset bubbles and spectacular busts. Economists, policymakers, central bankers and most people in the financial world have been blindsided by these busts, while investors have lost trillions. Economists argue that bubbles can only be spotted after they burst and that market...
Vladimir Nabokov
A Literary Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
A clearly written, insightful study of Nabokov the novelist, providing an expert analysis of the 17 novels he wrote during a career spanning more than 50 years: one of the most impressive, challenging, and controversial literary achievements of our time.
by David Isaac, John O'Leary
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2011
Since the publication of the first edition of Property Investment almost 15 years ago, the property sector has undergone some significant shifts that investors must now factor into their investment choices. In this thoroughly updated second edition, the authors address the issues that have risen to prominence...
Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo
Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
This book examines a pivotal moment in the history of science and women’s place in it. Meredith Ray offers the first in-depth study and complete English translation of the fascinating correspondence between Margherita Sarrocchi (1560-1617), a natural philosopher and author of the epic poem, Scanderbeide...
Italian Masculinity as Queer Melodrama
Caravaggio, Puccini, Contemporary Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Offering queer analyses of paintings by Caravaggio and Puccini and films by Özpetek, Amelio, and Grimaldi, Champagne argues that Italian masculinity has often been articulated through melodrama. Wide in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, this much-needed study shows the vital role of affect for both Italian history and masculinity studies.