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Robert Wilson

Robert Wilson

Robert Wilson is an American–European director who is also a performer installation artist writer designer of light and much more besides – a crossover polymath who dissolves both generic and geographical boundaries and is a precursor of globalisation in the arts. This second edition of Robert Wilson combines: an analysis of his main productions situated in their American and European socio-cultural and political contexts a focused detailed study of Wilson’s pathbreaking Einstein on the Beach a study of Pushkin's Fairy Tales as the foremost example of his folk-rock music theatre in the twenty-first century an exploration of his ‘visual book’ workshop and rehearsal methods and collaborative procedures a study of his aesthetic principles and the elements of composition that distinguish his directorial approach a series of practical exercises for students and practitioners highlighting Wilson’s technique. As a first step towards critical understanding and as an initial exploration before going on to further primary research Routledge Performance Practitioners offer unbeatable value for today’s student.

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Woodrow Wilson The First World War and Modern Internationalism

Woodrow Wilson The First World War and Modern Internationalism

This volume contributes to the Routledge Seminar Studies history series by providing a concise narrative overview of the ideas and foreign policy of Woodrow Wilson. It focuses on Wilson’s response to the First World War and his efforts to formulate a new international system while also outlining Wilson’s policies toward different parts of the world. The book shows how Wilson shaped the direction of the 20th century in areas such as global governance nationalism decolonization and international relations theory. In doing so the book introduces the reader to the many debates over Wilsonian foreign policy. With a target audience of college undergraduates and non-experts readers will gain a better understanding of Wilson’s vision for the world his administration’s approaches to foreign policy particularly during the First World War and the global impact of his program. | Woodrow Wilson The First World War and Modern Internationalism

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Microtonality and the Tuning Systems of Erv Wilson

Microtonality and the Tuning Systems of Erv Wilson

This book explores the emerging area of microtonality through an examination of the tuning theories of Erv Wilson. It is the first publication to offer a broad discussion of this influential theorist whose innovations have far-reaching ramifications for microtonal tuning systems. This study addresses the breadth and complexity of Wilson’s work by focusing on his microtonal keyboard designs as a means to investigate his tuning concepts and their practical applications. Narushima examines materials ranging from historical and experimental tunings to instrument design as well as musical applications of mathematical theories and multidimensional geometry. The volume provides an analysis of some of Wilson’s most significant theoretical ideas including the Scale Tree Moments of Symmetry Constant Structures and Combination-Product Sets. These theories offer ways to conceptualize musical scales as patterns with structural integrity and whose shapes can be altered to produce infinitely varying forms. The book shows how these structural properties can be used to map scales onto a microtonal keyboard by providing step-by-step guidelines and clearly illustrated examples. Most importantly it brings together theoretical and practical methods of tuning to enable composers performers and instrument designers to explore previously uncharted areas of microtonality making a significant contribution to the fields of music theory composition and music technology. | Microtonality and the Tuning Systems of Erv Wilson

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The New Black Sociologists Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

The New Black Sociologists Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

The New Black Sociologists follows in the footsteps of 1974’s pioneering text Black Sociologists: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives by tracing the organization of its forbearer in key thematic ways. This new collection of essays revisit the legacies of significant Black scholars including James E. Blackwell William Julius Wilson Joyce Ladner and Mary Pattillo but also extends coverage to include overlooked figures like Audre Lorde Ida B. Wells James Baldwin and August Wilson - whose lives and work have inspired new generations of Black sociologists on contemporary issues of racial segregation feminism religiosity class inequality and urban studies. | The New Black Sociologists Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

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Neoliberalism

Neoliberalism

Thanks to the rise of neoliberalism over the past several decades we live in an era of rampant anxiety insecurity and inequality. While neoliberalism has become somewhat of an academic buzzword in recent years this book offers a rich and multilayered introduction to what is arguably the most pressing issue of our times. Engaging with prominent scholarship in media and cultural studies as well as geography sociology economic history and political theory author Julie Wilson pushes against easy understandings of neoliberalism as market fundamentalism rampant consumerism and/or hyper-individualism. Instead Wilson invites readers to interrogate neoliberalism in true cultural studies fashion at once as history theory practice policy culture identity politics and lived experience. Indeed the book’s primary aim is to introduce neoliberalism in all of its social complexity so that readers can see how neoliberalism shapes their own lives as well as our political horizons and thereby start to imagine and build alternative worlds.

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Lion's Share

Lion's Share

First published in 1991 Lion’s Share traces the journey made by Ralph Ketner his brother Brown and their friend Wilson Smith as they progressed from opening their first supermarket Food Town to running more than 800 stores as part of the Food Lion supermarket chain. The book explores the growth of Food Lion and the reasons for its success using interviews with the company’s founders and top executives both those present at the time of publication and previous position holders to provide a detailed account of its history and development. | Lion's Share

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A Question Of Interest The Paralysis Of Saudi Banking

A Question Of Interest The Paralysis Of Saudi Banking

In Saudi Arabia today a classic confrontation between Islamic fundamentalism and modernism has brought the Saudi banking system virtually to a state of paralysis. The debate is between those upholding the traditional Islamic prohibition against charging interest on loans and those who wish to see a modern banking system capable of generating credit to support economic development. Drawing on personal experience interviews and unpublished primary sources Peter Wilson tells a dramatic story of powerful personalities clashing cultures and often mysterious institutions with a journalists’ eye for the telling anecdote as well as for the statistical evidence. | A Question Of Interest The Paralysis Of Saudi Banking

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Essentials of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

Essentials of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

For people with disabilities caused by nonprogressive brain injury challenges in everyday living can be multifaceted and overwhelming. This book presents key principles of holistic neuropsychological rehabilitation helping practitioners stay on track through complex terrain. Leading authorities Barbara A. Wilson and Shai Betteridge provide a framework for effective intervention based on a collaborative understanding of clients' strengths and needs. They describe essential strategies for assessing and remediating the impact of cognitive and psychosocial problems in everyday life. Detailed case examples illustrate the process of building partnerships with families setting meaningful goals developing skills and supports and addressing emotional and mental health concerns. Innovative uses of technology are highlighted. Several reproducible clinical tools can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. | Essentials of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

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Key Thinkers on the Environment

Key Thinkers on the Environment

Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Joy A. Palmer Cooper and David E. Cooper themselves distinguished authors on environmental matters have assembled a team of expert contributors to summarize and analyse the thinking of diverse and stimulating figures from around the world and from ancient times to the present day. Among those included are: philosophers such as Rousseau Kant Spinoza and Heidegger activists such as Chico Mendes and Wangari Maathai literary giants such as Virgil Goethe and Wordsworth major religious and spiritual figures such as Buddha and St Francis of Assissi eminent scientists such as Darwin Lovelock and E. O. Wilson. Lucid scholarly and informative the essays contained within this volume offer a fascinating overview of humankind’s view and understanding of the natural world.

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Julian Abele Architect and the Beaux Arts

Julian Abele Architect and the Beaux Arts

Julian Abele Architect and the Beaux Arts uncovers the life of one of the first beaux arts trained African American architects. Overcoming racial segregation at the beginning of the twentieth century Abele received his architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1902. Wilson traces Abele’s progress as he went on to become the most formally educated architect in America at that time. Abele later contributed to the architectural history of America by designing over 200 buildings throughout his career including the Widener Memorial Library (1913) at Harvard University and the Free Library of Philadelphia (1917). Architectural history is a valuable resource for those studying architecture. As such this book is beneficial for academics and students of architecture and architectural historians with a particular interest in minority discussions.

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Roots Music

Roots Music

When we talk about roots music what do we mean and what is at stake? Ethnomusicologist Mark F. DeWitt delves into these questions in an introductory bibliographic essay and selects twenty-one articles published between 1974 and 2010 that have advanced our knowledge and insight about this topic. The collection focuses on the nexus between popular musics in North America and Europe and the traditional musics that have been their foundation on both the real and imagined connections between the present and past: Olly Wilson and Gerhard Kubik on African American music Aaron Fox on country music Eric Lott on blackface minstrelsy Barry Shank on the elusive Bob Dylan. Works by Sara Cohen Beverley Diamond Peter Manuel Svanibor Pettan and others range on subjects from the accordion balladry and blues to Bulgarian folk orchestras flamenco gospel Irish sessions Native American women musicians the Roma Tex-Mex music and zydeco.

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From the Minds of Jazz Musicians Conversations with the Creative and Inspired

From the Minds of Jazz Musicians Conversations with the Creative and Inspired

From the Minds of Jazz Musicians: Conversations with the Creative and Inspired celebrates contemporary jazz artists who have toiled struggled and succeeded in finding their creative space. The volume was developed through transcribing and editing selected interviews with 35 jazz artists conducted by the author between 2009 and 2012 in New York City with a historical essay on each artist to provide context. The interviews feature musicians from a broad range of musical styles and experiences ranging from Gerald Wilson born in 1918 to Chris Potter born in 1971. Topics range from biographical life histories to artists’ descriptions of mentor relationships revealing the important life lessons they learned along the way. With the goal to discover the person behind the persona the author elicits conversations that speak volumes on the creative process mining the individualistic perspectives of seminal artists who witnessed history in the making. The interviews present the artists’ candid and direct opinions on music and how they have succeeded in pursuing their unique and creative lives. | From the Minds of Jazz Musicians Conversations with the Creative and Inspired

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Winter Passages Reflections on Theatre and Society

Winter Passages Reflections on Theatre and Society

Winter Passages is Robert Brustein's nineteenth book of criticism. It includes his considerations of culture and politics over the past four years of American life demonstrating how the imperfections of the government and economy have plunged the country into an artistic winter in which there is a troubling lack of support for and understanding of America's arts and artists. In a section on Cultural Passages Brustein includes chapters on compromised theatre institutions auteur productions the American musical generational idiosyncrasies and China's growing theatre culture which contrasts with American culture. The second section Dramatic Passages addresses twenty-seven great playwrights from Aeschylus to August Wilson and demonstrates how they have influenced our sense of history and human character. In Laudatory Passages Brustein discusses great American artists living and dead who continue to influence our sense of self as a nation and as individuals. Brustein concludes that we will be judged like all cultures by the quality of our arts and artists and by our willingness to allow their insights to influence our behavior. | Winter Passages Reflections on Theatre and Society

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The Espionage and Sedition Acts World War I and the Image of Civil Liberties

The Espionage and Sedition Acts World War I and the Image of Civil Liberties

The Espionage and Sedition Acts of 1917-1918 mark one of the most controversial moments in American history. Even as President Woodrow Wilson justified US entry into World War I on the grounds that it would make the world safe for democracy the act curtailed civil liberties at home by making it illegal to speak out against the US participation in the conflict. Supporters of the Acts argued that these measures were necessary to protect national security and keep in check the perceived threat of radical activities while opponents considered them an unjustifiable breach of the Bill of Rights. The conflict between government powers and civil liberties concretized by the Acts continues to resonate today. The Espionage and Sedition Acts introduces students to this controversial set of laws the cultural and political context in which they were passed and their historical ramifications. In a concise narrative supplemented by primary sources including court cases newspaper articles and personal papers Mitchell C. Newton-Matza gives students of history and politics a nuanced understanding of this key event. | The Espionage and Sedition Acts World War I and the Image of Civil Liberties

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Self-Reflection for the Opaque Mind An Essay in Neo-Sellarsian Philosophy

Self-Reflection for the Opaque Mind An Essay in Neo-Sellarsian Philosophy

This volume attempts to solve a grave problem about critical self-reflection. The worry is that we critical thinkers are all in epistemic bad faith in light of what psychology tells us. After all the research shows not merely that we are bad at detecting ego-threatening thoughts à la Freud. It also indicates that we are ignorant of even our ordinary thoughts—e. g. reasons for our moral judgments of others (Haidt 2001) and even mundane reasons for buying one pair of stockings over another! (Nisbett & Wilson 1977) However reflection on one’s thoughts requires knowing what those thoughts are in the first place. So if ignorance is the norm why attempt self-reflection? The activity would just display naivety about psychology. Yet while respecting all the data this book argues that remarkably we are sometimes infallible in our self-discerning judgments. Even so infallibility does not imply indubitability and there is no Cartesian ambition to provide a foundation for empirical knowledge. The point is rather to explain how self-reflection as a rational activity is possible. | Self-Reflection for the Opaque Mind An Essay in Neo-Sellarsian Philosophy

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An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

Sociolinguistics is the study of the interaction between language and society. In this classic introductory work Janet Holmes and Nick Wilson examine the role of language in a variety of social contexts considering both how language works and how it can be used to signal and interpret various aspects of social identity. Divided into three parts this book explains basic sociolinguistic concepts in the light of classic approaches as well as introducing more recent research. This sixth edition has been revised and updated throughout using key concepts and examples to guide the reader through this fascinating area including: • New material on gender social media and online use of language codeswitching and language policy • An updated companion website that is fully cross- referenced within this book and features video and audio materials and links to useful websites • Revised examples and exercises that include new material from Asia and South America • Fully updated further reading and references sections An Introduction to Sociolinguistics is an essential introductory text for all students of sociolinguistics and a splendid point of reference for students of English language studies linguistics and applied linguistics.

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Designing the Purposeful World The Sustainable Development Goals as a Blueprint for Humanity

Designing the Purposeful World The Sustainable Development Goals as a Blueprint for Humanity

In September 2015 at the United Nations world leaders agreed on seventeen Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs. This book extrapolates the SDGs into the idea of a purposeful world. In this context the purpose for humanity is to thrive sustainably alongside other life forms and to consciously celebrate the process. The SDGs serve as a powerful vision time-stamped at the 2030 time horizon not just for world leaders but for us all. However faced with the challenges of implementing the SDGs we (including business leaders government leaders and anyone wishing to make a difference) can feel overwhelmed. Wilson takes the reader on a journey of thought and invites them to work out their personal role in sustainability as well as their collaborative role alongside others in their communities and organisations. Written in a very accessible style the book celebrates some of the many achievements made by ordinary people as a catalyst for hope sets out a number of achievable goals and provides exercises to enable the reader to adopt practices that help to make a difference. It is the perfect book to help turn the SDGs into action at every level – governmental organisational and personal. | Designing the Purposeful World The Sustainable Development Goals as a Blueprint for Humanity

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The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016 A Political and Economic History

The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016 A Political and Economic History

The Reinvention of Britain 1960–2016 explores the transformation of contemporary Britain tracing its evolution from the welfare state of the post-1945 era to social democracy in the 1960s and 1970s and the liberal market society of 1979 onwards. Focusing primarily on political and economic change it aims to identify which elements of State policy led to the crucial strategy changes that shaped British history over the past six decades. This book argues that since 1960 there have been two reinventions of the political economy of the United Kingdom: a social-democratic shift initiated by the Conservative government of Harold Macmillan and developed by Labour under Harold Wilson and a subsequent change of direction towards a free market model attempted by the Conservatives under Margaret Thatcher. Structured around these two key policy reinventions of the late twentieth century chapters are organized chronologically from the development of social democracy in the early 1960s to the coalition government of the early 2010s the Conservative election win that followed and the ‘Brexit’ referendum of 2016. Providing a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the political and economic history of this period The Reinvention of Britain 1960–2016 is essential reading for all students of contemporary British history. | The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016 A Political and Economic History

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Goldratt's Rules of Flow

Goldratt's Rules of Flow

Marc Wilson is not giving up. He is determined to turn around the struggling family company and keep it despite his father’s decision to sell. The problem is that they are late on more and more projects and their customers won’t tolerate it anymore. Marc is looking everywhere for a solution when in one of his MBA classes he comes across a unique approach that views operations in terms of flow. The concept of flow is straightforward. It’s easy to visualize the stream of projects going through the system and understand that if something clogs the flow the projects pile up; the lead time gets longer and as a result the reliability of due dates suffers. What is not so easy is to uncover the specific obstacles that obstruct the flow and figure out how to remove them. Goldratt’s Rules of Flow is the book that the great Eli Goldratt author of The Goal wanted to write about his later developments in the field of project management. As he passed away before accomplishing it his daughter Efrat Goldratt a brilliant author in her own right has picked up the mantle. Whether you’re a manager in engineering IT service or sales this book will help you gain much better predictability and significantly improve your delivery. | Goldratt's Rules of Flow

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The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales Volume II: Institution-Building

The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales Volume II: Institution-Building

Volume II of The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales traces for the first time the genesis and early evolution of two principal institutions in the criminal justice system the Crown Court and the Crown Prosecution Service. This volume examines the origins and shaping of two critical institutions: the Crown Court which rose from the ashes of the Courts of Assize and Quarter Sessions; and the Crown Prosecution Service which replaced a rather haphazard system of police prosecuting solicitors. The 1971 Courts Act and the 1985 Prosecution of Offences Act were to reconfigure the architecture of criminal justice transforming the procedures by which people were charged prosecuted and in the weightier cases demanding a judge and jury tried in the criminal courts of England and Wales. One stemmed from a crisis in a medieval system of travelling justices that tried people in the wrong places and for inadequate lengths of time. The other was precipitated by a scandal in which three men were wrongly convicted for the murder of a bisexual prostitute. Theirs is an as yet untold history that can be explored in depth because it is recent enough in the words of Harold Wilson to have been ‘written while the official records could still be supplemented by reference to the personal recollections of the public men who were involved’. This book will be of much interest to students of criminology and British history politics and law. | The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales Volume II: Institution-Building

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The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent Volume II: The Labour Government and the Polaris Programme 1964-1970

The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent Volume II: The Labour Government and the Polaris Programme 1964-1970

Volume II of The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent provides an authoritative and in-depth examination of the British government’s strategic nuclear policy from 1964 to 1970. Written with full access to the UK documentary record Volume II examines the controversies that developed over nuclear policy following the arrival in office of a Labour government led by Harold Wilson in October 1964 that openly questioned the independence of the deterrent. Having decided to preserve the Polaris programme Labour ministers were nevertheless committed not to develop another generation of nuclear weapons beyond those in the pipeline placing major doubts over the long-term future of the nuclear programme and collaboration with the United States. Defence planners also became increasingly concerned that the deployment of Soviet anti-ballistic missile (ABM) defences around Moscow threatened to undermine the ability of Polaris to fulfil its role as a national strategic nuclear deterrent. During 1967 under heavy pressures to control defence spending a protracted debate was conducted within Whitehall over the future of Polaris and how to respond to the evolving ABM challenge. The volume concludes with Labour’s defeat at the general election of June 1970 by which time the Royal Navy had assumed the nuclear deterrent role from the RAF and plans had already been formulated for a UK project to improve Polaris which could both ensure its continuing credibility and rejuvenate the Anglo-American nuclear relationship. This book will be of much interest to students of British politics Cold War history nuclear proliferation and international relations. | The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent Volume II: The Labour Government and the Polaris Programme 1964-1970

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Einstein on the Beach: Opera beyond Drama

Einstein on the Beach: Opera beyond Drama

Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s most celebrated collaboration the landmark opera Einstein on the Beach had its premiere at the Avignon Festival in 1976. During its initial European tour Metropolitan Opera premiere and revivals in 1984 and 1992 Einstein provoked opposed reactions from both audiences and critics. Today Einstein is well on the way itself to becoming a canonized avant-garde work and it is widely acknowledged as a profoundly significant moment in the history of opera or musical theater. Einstein created waves that for many years crashed against the shores of traditional thinking concerning the nature and creative potential of audiovisual expression. Reaching beyond opera its influence was felt in audiovisual culture in general: in contemporary avant-garde music performance art avant-garde cinema popular film popular music advertising dance theater and many other expressive commercial and cultural spheres. Inspired by the 2012–2015 series of performances that re-contextualized this unique work as part of the present-day nexus of theoretical political and social concerns the editors and contributors of this book take these new performances as a pretext for far-reaching interdisciplinary reflection and dialogue. Essays range from those that focus on the human scale and agencies involved in productions to the mechanical and post-human character of the opera’s expressive substance. A further valuable dimension is the inclusion of material taken from several recent interviews with creative collaborators Philip Glass Robert Wilson and Lucinda Childs each of these sections comprising knee plays or short intermezzo sections resembling those found in the opera Einstein on the Beach itself. The book additionally features a foreword written by the influential musicologist and cultural theorist Susan McClary and an interview with film and theater luminary Peter Greenaway as well as a short chapter of reminiscences written by the singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega. | Einstein on the Beach: Opera beyond Drama

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Joinery Joists and Gender A History of Woodworking for the 21st Century

Joinery Joists and Gender A History of Woodworking for the 21st Century

Joinery Joists and Gender: A History of Woodworking for the 21st Century is the first publication of its kind to survey the long and rich histories of women and gender non-conforming persons who work in wood. Written for craft practitioners design students and readers interested in the intersections of gender and labor history—with 200 full-color images both historical and contemporary—this book provides an accessible and insightful entry into the histories practices and lived experiences of women and nonbinary makers in woodworking. In the first half the author presents a woodworking history primarily in Europe and the United States that highlights the practical and philosophical issues that have marked women’s participation in the field. Research focuses on a diverse range of practitioners from Lady Yun to Adina White. This is followed by sixteen in-depth profiles of contemporary woodworkers all of whom identify fine woodworking as their principal vocation. Through studio visits interviews and photographs of space and process the book uncovers the varied practices and contributions these diverse artisans make to the understanding of wood as a medium to engage spatial material aesthetic and even existential challenges. Beautifully illustrated profiles include Wendy Maruyama one of the first women to earn an MFA in woodworking in the US; Sarah Marriage founder of Baltimore’s A Workshop of Our Own a woodshop and educational space specifically for women and gender non-conforming makers; Yuri Kobayashi whose sublime work blurs boundaries between the worlds of art and craft sculpture and furniture; and Folayemi Wilson whose work draws equally on African American history and Afrofuturism to explore and illuminate the ways that furniture and wood traditions shape social relations. | Joinery Joists and Gender A History of Woodworking for the 21st Century

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Politics of the Lesser Evil

Politics of the Lesser Evil

In his pathbreaking book Leadership James MacGregor Burns defines a kind of leadership with an indistinguishable personal impact on society. He calls this transformal leadership and sees it as more than routine and calculable responses to demands. In fact he argues the more stable a liberal democracy the less freedom of action for transformal leadership. Anton Pelinka uses a wellspring of historical fact to argue that politics always means having to choose between the lesser of two evils and that democracy reduces any possibility of personal leadership. According to Pelinka Jaruzelski's politics of democratization in Poland in the 1980s (which led to the first free and competitive elections in a communist system) illustrate personal leadership hampered by democracy. Jaruzelski initiated the roundtable process that transformed Poland into a democracy; yet this process ultimately ended with his abdication. Pelinka further emphasizes contradictions between transformal leadership and democracy by comparing the leadership styles of Hitler Stalin and Mao. He de-. scribes collaboration resistance and tensions between domestic and international leadership using the American examples of Presidents Wilson Roosevelt Kennedy Johnson and Nixon and the European examples of Petain and Churchill. Pelinka then turns to the tragic fate of the Judenrate under the Nazi regime to illustrate the lesser-evil approach. He closes with a discussion of moral leadership and how abstaining from office just as Gandhi and King did may be particularly suited to stable democracies. Pelinka's unique use of rich empirical evidence from twentieth-century history is this volume's hallmark. He is critical of mainstream political theory and its neglect of deviant examples of democracies - such as Switzerland Italy and Japan where there is traditionally much less emphasis placed on leadership. Pelinka's noteworthy study will be essential reading for political scientists and theorists political philosophers and political sociologists with special interest in political ethics and contemporary historians. | Politics of the Lesser Evil

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The Economics and Finance of Professional Team Sports

The Economics and Finance of Professional Team Sports

This book takes an in-depth look at the economics and finance of professional team sports with a strong focus on applied analysis and performance measurement to enable students researchers and practitioners to develop their professional knowledge of contemporary sport business. It examines the key themes that define professional team sports today including the unique features of the team sport market place the operation of leagues competitive balance salary caps draft systems income from broadcasting rights the role of agents and governance and financial regulation. It analyses the functional aspects of sport finance including where the money flows in and out how to measure performance holistically and how to interpret the financial performance of professional sport teams. It also covers emerging and disruptive forces that may shape the market in the future. It includes real- world cases and data in every chapter including sports from football to Formula 1 and the NFL to the NBA covering both established and emerging markets around the world. No other book offers such an up-to-date and practical guide to the most important sector of international sport business. This book is essential reading for courses in sport finance and economics sport business sport media and marketing international business or the economics of service and entertainment industries and invaluable reading for any sport business professional looking to improve their professional skills. Daniel Plumley is Principal Lecturer in Sport Finance in the Department of Finance Accounting and Business Systems in the Sheffield Business School at Sheffield Hallam University UK. His research interests include performance measurement in professional team sports the economics and finance of professional team sports and competitive balance in professional team sports. Rob Wilson is Head of Department in Sheffield Business School’s Department of Finance Accounting and Business Systems and member of the Social and Economic Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University UK specialising in the finance and economics of the sport business industry.

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