Films, cinema Books

Book SynopsisIn the often dreary landscape of Hollywood's blockbuster era, the cinema of Joe Dante has always stood out as a rare beacon of fearless originality. Blending humor with terror and trenchant political satire with sincere tributes to the moviegoing act itself, the "Dante touch" is best described as a free-for-all orgy of movies, memories and mischief. For the first time, this colourful universe—from Hollywood Boulevard to Gremlins to Small Soldiers and beyond—is comprehensively explored in an English language volume featuring a career-encompassing interview, new essays by Michael Almereyda, Jim Hoberman, Christoph Huber, Gabe Klinger, Violeta Kovacsics, Bill Krohn, Dušan Rebolj, John Sayles, and Mark Cotta Vaz, as well as a treasure trove of never-before-seen documents and illustrations.Trade ReviewThe pleasure of reading a book such as this lies in its built-in appeal both to fans and newcomers... Absorbing... * Cineaste *Baskar and Klinger's volume is especially triumphant in light of Joe Dante's continued disreputability within the world of serious film discourse... It can only be hoped that there will be many more publications like it to follow. * Film Matters *Joe Dante makes a convincing case that its subject, despite never taking screenplay credit, has through his choice and interpretation of materials – and what he's done with projects which have landed in his lap – managed to maintain a clear authorial voice while compiling a varied corpus. The volume is, therefore, not only paradise for Dante acolytes, but an excellent choice for anyone wondering how talented practitioners can carve a career in a purgatorial medium which for more than a century has thrown art and commerce together as perhaps the most infernally stormy of bedfellows. -- Tribune MagazineA glance at the contents page suggests that this is primarily a collection of essays, although these only tape up 100 pages in the mid-section. Bookending them are a lenghty, delightfully candid conversation with Dante conducted by co-editor Gabe Klinger that's the closest we currently have to a full-blown autobiography, a detailed timeline of his life and career, and a comprehensive annotated filmography. In short, it does an admirable job as a single-volume overview. -- Sight & Sound

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Book SynopsisThis is a three-volume set about the founding, the 50-year history, and the collections of the Austrian Film Museum. Volume 1 (in German) is a work of historical research, describing in detail the establishment and development of the institution—from postwar Viennese film culture and its protagonists to the tenth anniversary of the Film Museum in 1974. Volume 2 (in German, with some parts in English) extends the time-frame to the year 2014 and offers a richly illustrated anthology of essays, documents, memoirs, and correspondence. It highlights the major retrospectives staged by the Film Museum over a period of 50 years and celebrates many of the visiting artists as well as the writers who contributed to the museum's international recognition and to its curatorial positions. Volume 3 (in German) focuses on the museum's holdings by picturing and describing 50 objects from various subfields of the collectionVand suggesting a non-dogmatic reading of film history.Table of ContentsRobert Beavers, Eileen Bowser, Paolo Cherchi Usai, Eve Heller, Ken Jacobs, Chuck Jones, Len Lye, Gregory J. Markopoulos, Groucho Marx, Paul Sharits, Don Siegel, P. Adams Sitney (contributions in English); Herbert Achternbusch, Gabi Adébisi-Schuster, Alejandro Bachmann, Ruth Beckermann, Dietmar Brehm, Christine Bruck, Ildiko Brunner, Paolo Caneppele, Serge Daney, Werner Duetsch, Helmut Färber, Harun Farocki, Roland Fischer-Briand, Friedrich Geyrhofer, Michael Glawogger, Fritz Göttler, Frieda Grafe, Erika Gregor, Ulrich Gregor, Friedl vom Gröller, Peter Hajek, Franz Hammerbacher, Oliver Hanley, Adelheid Heftberger, Fritz Herrmann, Peter Huemer, Daniéle Huillet, Eszter Kondor, Vlado Kristl, Peter Kubelka, Friedrich Kurrent, Hans-Christian Leitich, Matteo Lepore, Michael Loebenstein, Franz Manola, Michael Omasta, Marcel Ophuls, Enno Patalas, Claus Philipp, Reinhard Priessnitz, Bert Rebhandl, Martin Reinhart, Eric Rohmer, Hanna Schimek, Regina Schlagnitweit, Gottfried Schlemmer, Raoul Schmidt, Ulrich Seidl, Dominik Steiger, Elisabeth Streit, Ingeborg Strobl, Sissi Tax, Harry Tomicek, Peter Tscherkassky, Georg Wasner, Hans Winge, Florian Wrobel, Ingo Zechner (contributions in German)

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Book SynopsisA richly illustrated anthology of memories, documents and essays on the 50-year history of the Austrian Film Museum, founded in 1964. The book highlights the major retrospectives staged over the past five decades and celebrates many of the visiting artists as well as the writers who contributed to the Museum's international recognition – or to its curatorial positions. The newly commissioned pieces range from literary texts and brief flashes of remembrance to extended discussions of certain aspects of film culture. A decade-by-decade, year-by year, month-by-month chronicle of all programs also runs through the book.Table of ContentsRobert Beavers, Eileen Bowser, Paolo Cherchi Usai, Eve Heller, Ken Jacobs, Chuck Jones, Len Lye, Gregory J. Markopoulos, Groucho Marx, Paul Sharits, Don Siegel, P. Adams Sitney (contributions in English); Herbert Achternbusch, Ruth Beckermann, Dietmar Brehm, Paolo Caneppele, Serge Daney, Werner Duetsch, Helmut Färber, Harun Farocki, Friedrich Geyrhofer, Michael Glawogger, Fritz Göttler, Frieda Grafe, Erika Gregor, Ulrich Gregor, Friedl vom Gröller, Peter Hajek, Franz Hammerbacher, Fritz Herrmann, Peter Huemer, Daniéle Huillet, Vlado Kristl, Peter Kubelka, Friedrich Kurrent, Hans-Christian Leitich, Michael Loebenstein, Franz Manola, Michael Omasta, Marcel Ophuls, Enno Patalas, Claus Philipp, Reinhard Priessnitz, Bert Rebhandl, Eric Rohmer, Gottfried Schlemmer, Raoul Schmidt, Ulrich Seidl, Dominik Steiger, Ingeborg Strobl, Sissi Tax, Harry Tomicek, Peter Tscherkassky, Hans Winge, Ingo Zechner (contributions in German)

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Book SynopsisThe collections of the Austrian Film Museum feature a wide range of artworks, objects, apparatus and historical documents. Picturing and describing 50 artifacts from these collections, the book suggests a non-dogmatic reading of film history. The 50 selected items represent a rough timeline, from the pre-cinematic moving image arts to pixelized film grain, tracing a material culture deeply entangled with the history of the 20th century – and far from the reductive idea of cinematic "glamour" that is so often associated with movie memorabilia. The images and texts describe a territory where private lives and politics, art and terror, famous and marginalized films, and desired and despised objects, all engage in conversation with each other. This picture book in 50 chapters begins with a cinema and ends with a cactus (or vice versa).Table of ContentsGabi Adébisi-Schuster, Alejandro Bachmann, Christine Bruck, Ildiko Brunner, Paolo Caneppele, Roland Fischer-Briand, Oliver Hanley, Adelheid Heftberger, Matteo Lepore, Michael Omasta, Martin Reinhart, Hanna Schimek, Regina Schlagnitweit, Raoul Schmidt, Elisabeth Streit, Georg Wasner, Florian Wrobel

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Book SynopsisIn a career spanning five decades, Robert Beavers has distinguished himself as one of the most important American avant-garde filmmakers. From My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure, his cycle of 18 films made across Europe since 1967, to Pitcher of Colored Light (2007) and The Suppliant (2010), intimate portraits shot in the U.S., Beavers has produced a deeply original film language framed by his use of colored filters and mattes. His investigations of the handwork of anonymous artisans complement his dialogues with Ruskin, Leonardo, and Borromini in Ruskin (1975/1997), From the Notebook of… (1971/1998), and The Hedge Theater (1986/2002). This volume contains critical investigations of Beavers' most important films and a collection of the filmmaker's own writings. Occupying a unique space between poetry and philosophy, his aphoristic meditations vivify his own work and generously illuminate the art of film.

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Book SynopsisThis extensive reference writes a modern history of forestry in Japan, Indonesia, the Solomon Islands, and other Asian countries, reflecting industrial and colonial exploitation, periods of excessive deforestation, and the alienation of local residents from natural resources. Drawing on their experience as "participant observers" in local practice, the authors suggest new, "inclusive" approaches to forestry governance that support sustainable development, environmental preservation, and productive collaboration by various stakeholders.The mismatched interests of local citizens and outsiders has split the development of Asia's natural and cultural resources. Taking this complexity into account, the essays in this volume advance a definition of effective governance that achieves more than the successful execution of resource management. It pursues a new vision of society in which all stakeholders collaborate to govern the use of certain resources. This volume outlines two key conditions for effective resource management: sharing and commitment (or graduated membership), which transcend mere material issues to determine the social and cultural value of a resource.Table of ContentsChapter 1 - Historical Typology of Collaborative Governance: Modern Forest Policy in Japan (Hiroaki KAKIZAWA)Chapter 2 - Endogenous Development and Collaborative Governance in Japanese Mountain Villages (Hironori OKUDA and Makoto INOUE)Chapter 3 - Collaborative Forest Governance in Mass Private Tree Plantation Management: Company-Community Forestry Partnership System in Java, Indonesia (PHBM) (Yasuhiro YOKOTA, Kazuhiro HARADA, ROHMAN, and Nur Oktalina SILVI, WIYONO)Chapter 4 - Legitimacy for "Great Happiness": The Communal Resource Utilization in Biche Village, Marovo Lagoon in the Solomon Islands (Motomu TANAKA)Chapter 5 - Task-sharing, to the Degree Possible: Collaboration Between Out-Migrants and Remaining Residents of a Mountain Community Experiencing Rural Depopulation (Mika OKUBO)Chapter 6 - Collaborative Governance for Planted Forest Resources: Japanese Experiences (Noriko SATO, Takahiro FUJIWARA, and Vinh Quang NGUYEN)Chapter 7 - Forest Resources and Actor Relationships: A Study of Changes Caused by Plantations in Lao PDR (Kimihiko HYAKUMURA)Chapter 8 - Whom to Share With? Dynamics of the Food Sharing System of the Shipibo in Peruvian Amazon (Mariko OHASHI)Chapter 9 - Providing Regional Information for Collaborative Governance: Case Study Regarding Green Tourism at Kaneyama Town, Yamagata, Japan (Nobuhiko TANAKA)Chapter 10 - Simulating Future Land-Cover Change: A Probabilistic Cellular Automata Model Approach (Arief DARMAWAN and Satoshi TSUYUKI)Chapter 11 - Potential of the Effective Utilization of New Woody Biomass Resources in the Melak City area of West Kutai Regency in the Province of East Kalimantan (Masatoshi SATO)

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Book SynopsisThis book is about reading. Throughout the book, the author explains the complexity of the dual-language involvement of FL/L2 reading by showing how L1 and FL/L2 factors interplay in FL/L2 reading. The main aim of the book is to explore reading in English in the foreign/second language context as a cross-linguistic phenomenon and to present the results of a think-aloud study which investigated reading in Polish as the L1 and English as the FL of Polish learners of English. The project consisted of six stages, each focussing on a different aspect of reading. Thus, the following was explored: reading strategies, problems and solutions, the way the subjects constructed their representations of the texts, the students' individual patterns of developing comprehension and effectiveness in identifying the main ideas. The findings revealed both differences and similarities between the subjects' reading in Polish and their reading in English. The book offers implications for further research and elucidates the usefulness of think-aloud protocols in foreign language instruction.

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Book SynopsisChina at the beginning of the 21st century intrigues many researchers around the world. No different was the enthusiasm widely shared among the participants of the students' conference China at the beginning of the 21st century organized by the Institute of Middle and Far East Studies of Jagiellonian University in Kraków in April 2010. Research enthusiasm and inquisitive attitude of presenters and discussants observed during the conference inspired to go beyond the university walls and put this publication together. The problems discussed within this volume provide the readers with a background of most vital issues in modern China. They are related to the challenges of the Chinese society and state's international skirmishes. Each article is separately concluded by the author's findings, which is highly admirable, since the authors are young, but promising adepts in the field. At the same time, being open for criticism, the authors invite us to take a long hard look at China's modern challenges.Trade ReviewIn the 1980s and 1990s, China went through an intensive process of liberalization of social and cultural life, as well as economic reforms. As a result, China strengthened its position of the leading player of the globalized world, being quickly westernized at the same time. On the other hand, China is also one of the oldest civilizational centres, with a different and rich musical, theatrical, literary, philosophical, historical, and scientific tradition. That is why it is natural that various aspects concerning the present and the history of China arouse the interest of scientists that represent various areas of science. (…) The collective work China at the Beginning of the 21st Century edited by Lukasz Gacek, PhD, and Ewa Trojnar, PhD, is a sign of this natural curiosity. (…) All texts run in this book are on a proper factual and scientific level. The entirety describes and explains the reader the chosen, interesting areas of the Chinese reality at the beginning of the 21st century concerning cultural studies, international relations, as well as military and energy safety. -- Professor Dr. hab. Hubert Królikowski, Jagiellonian University

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Book SynopsisLifelong Learning Today is the result of cooperation between the scientists of the University of Ljubljana and the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. The aim of the authors and editors was not to create a compendium of knowledge about the current state of the development of education in the field of lifelong learning. The creation of a publication that would present a comprehensive, "photographic" image of the state of research and practices in the field of lifelong learning would be so laborious and long-term that it would not keep up with the constant changes which appear in reality. The authors decided to present a compilation of examples illustrating areas worth considering, contexts and practices, as well as certain problems and dilemmas.The image of the reality outlined in this book is very selective, but "spatial" to such an extent that it enables for the grasping of its size and dynamism of development. It encompasses not only significant issues from the standpoint of economy in the scope of key competences, but also concepts related to the social, cultural, scientific, artistic and common schooling, leading to more comprehensive personal development and to raising the quality of life.Trade ReviewThe book Lifelong Learning Today: New Areas, Contexts, Practices is the result of cooperation between individuals from two well-known centres of pedagogical thought and the adult learning theory: University of Ljubljana and Jagiellonian University in Kraków. The authors of the texts constituting the volume have a contemporary and essentially correct understanding of the concept and idea of lifelong learning as a continuing process which begins in early childhood and goes on until the grand old age, formally divided into time periods requiring defined pedagogical strategies. The authors pointed out the areas and contexts of education not used so far in their respective countries and unanimously formulated suggestions on improving the worrying situation. Considering the process of lifelong learning in a vertical dimension, they demonstrated the achievements and shortcomings of education and educating people at its various stages, including adult education. They pointed out, how the effects and shortcomings of education in a given period of life affect the educational efforts in the subsequent periods and how to use positive organisational and methodical experiences from earlier stages of education in its later stages.The book contains numerous timeless supranational generalisations, which often lead to unambiguous suggestions regarding the optimisation of the practices associated with education and educating people at various stages in their lives.It is due to those attributes that the book will be of interest not only to theorists but also practitioners committed to furthering lifelong education. -- Prof. dr hab. Tadeusz Aleksander, Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University

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Book SynopsisMass media play a significant role in the production and reproduction of identities and lifestyles, values and world-views. They also convey information about the world we live in, as they reflect elements of the broader context within which they come into being. This volume, the first on this topic to be published in Poland, brings together eleven essays that offer a complex approach to both media in the PRC and the way China and the Chinese are presented in the media of other countries. Individual chapters discuss images constructed, persuasive techniques employed, political undertakings and official stances reflected, as well as popular feeling expressed in the Chinese official and popular press, information websites, Internet forums, mainstream Western press, Polish and Italian media, Zambian Internet forums, and Indonesian cinema. Media in China, China in the Media. Processes, Strategies, Images, Identities will be stimulating reading for students and scholars of media and mass communication, political studies, cultural and gender studies, interested in the following topics: the Chinese media discourse, transparency as to government activities, Chinese nationalism, the Chinese diaspora, Sino-African relations.

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Book Synopsis1914–1918: An Anatomy of Global Conflict recounts a history of the First World War from an anthropological perspective. It shares the stories of individual participants, which include soldiers, civilians, and women. The study revisits the events of the war through the lens of everyday life, economic affairs, migration, invasion, military occupation, the role of civilian infrastructure, and the impact of the national question; and it undertakes a clinical analysis of various models of ground warfare.Trade ReviewChwalba's concise account adopts an anthropological approach set within the framework of an innovative layout designed by the author and announced in the title of his book… This is a highly recommendable book, and its quality is determined above all by its structuralist approach to the discourse. -- Professor Tomasz Schramm * Institute of History, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan *

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Book Synopsis"Klimkiewicz shows how the EU attempts to balance social, political, technological, and economic demands in creating media policy while making it applicable to a broad range of media systems and media cultures in member states and why its struggles to do so have produced uneven results."—Robert G. Picard, Reuters Institute, University of Oxford"This meticulously researched book studies EU enlargement and conditionality and examines the EU's impact on new member states in Central and Eastern Europe, insightfully exploring such themes as content regulation and the promotion of European works, media ownership and media pluralism, the independence of regulatory agencies, and public-service media. Building on a state-of-the-art review of media and communications-policy scholarship and offering its own perspective on comparative approaches to the subject, the book makes an original and informed contribution to theory building and empirical research."—Peter Humphreys, University of ManchesterTrade ReviewThis book may be read in many ways. It makes quite an outstanding, well-composed compendium on the process of European media policy formed during the last few decades. In its other dimension, it is an efficient demonstration of the way the media should be examined nowadays: multidimensionally and progressively, as an elemental force intermingled with social, political, financial, and cultural systems. Being aware of these complexities, and presenting a high level of competence, Beata Klimkiewicz takes the floor in the discussion on media policies in contemporary Europe. Her voice is eloquent and convincing. -- Jacek H. Kolodziej, Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University

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Book SynopsisThis volume shows the panorama of the contemporary studies of the Polish Renaissance, presented here in the Italian and transalpine context, taking into consideration its characteristics. An important aspect of this volume is the specification of the research needs and the definition of new directions of studies and their methodology. A large, multiethnic and multireligious state, which was Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth (Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodów) shaped its modern identity in the sixteenth century. This period gave rise to the flowering of literature and art, creating the Golden Age of Polish culture. The ideas of Renaissance humanism proved to be vitally attractive for the domestic elites and contributed to the creation of the foundations of the political system of the Commonwealth, becoming its pride—a republic with an elected king, where both passive and active electoral rights were vested in the entire Gentry Nation. The Latin Culture of the Renaissance became also an integrating factor for this multilingual state organism, and Latin, together with Polish was the main medium of communication among nobility (who accounted for about 10 percent of the inhabitants of the Republic).The disintegration of this commonwealth, the loss of independence for more than a century (1795-1918), and then loss of sovereignty for another half of a century (1939-1989) and then isolation between Poland and the West resulted in the fact that the culture of this area was not included in the studies of the European Renaissance, which were commenced in the nineteenth century. This gap has been seen until today in the Western course books and more general overviews. The purpose of this volume is, at least to a limited degree, to fill in the lack of scientific analyses of the Polish Renaissance in western languages and also to invite foreign scholars to a debate about Polish humanistic literature.Particular chapters concentrate on the following issues: From the History of the Renaissance Idea; The State of Research on the Renaissance Humanism: Poland Case; Editing of Primary Sources; Old and Contemporary Translation Studies; The Renaissance Genres (Theory and Practice).Trade ReviewThis volume will be welcome; distinguished specialists on the Polish Renaissance, together with their foreign colleagues, enlarge the current perspective of European Renaissance studies. -- Miroslawa Hanusiewicz-Lavallee, Catholic University of Lublin

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Book SynopsisU.S. – Latin American Relations is the next volume in Basic American Documents. It presents a collections of primary sources related to U.S. relations with the Latin American and Caribbean region. The selection of texts and documents seek to demonstrate a more modern and complicated history. There are, of course, several texts documenting the American domination over Latin American and Caribbean States. Of particular note are those outlining recent differences between the United States and its southern neighbors over anti-drug policy and attitudes toward economic development. The works of Simón Bolivar and Jose Marti have provided eloquent testimony of how American governments have historically sought to dominate its southern neighbors. Mexico, Cuba, and most of Central American and Caribbean States have especially painful memories of American imperialism. But there are also significant documents that demonstrate how the United States and the Latin American and Caribbean states have established significant forms of regional cooperation. In the past these agreements have helped to ease an otherwise conflicting sets of interests, values, and objectives. The pan-American movement in the 1920s and 1930s is perhaps the best example of this cooperation that at the time was historically unique in international affairs.Trade ReviewIn this volume, one can find the most important documents capturing two hundred years of U.S.–Latin American relations, with sources relating to both politics and economics. There are also primary sources relating to contemporary problems, such as the antidrug war and regional cooperation, each preceded by a comprehensive introduction. -- Jadwiga Kiwerska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznn

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Book SynopsisKamil Stachowski examines partial interfixed reduplications in standard Turkic languages. Generally no longer productive, this type of reduplication serves primarily to intensify adjectives and adverbs. Unlike previous texts, his book considers the phenomenon comparatively across twenty modern languages and is based on complete collections of examples. It approaches the subject from a diachronic perspective, combining etymological, historical-comparative, and quantitative methodology.Trade ReviewStachowski presents the basic semantics of Turkic reduplications, from the expected intensification to other interesting features. His work has a clear and logical structure, and he displays an excellent understanding of the material, presenting the phenomenon of reduplication against a wider and not just Turkic background. Numerous tables, graphs, and maps substantially facilitate comprehension." -- Rafal Molencki, University of Silesia, Katowice

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Book SynopsisHistory, memory and trauma as well as their complex interrelations have been lying at the centre of interdisciplinary academic debates since the end of the previous century. These are also themes with which contemporary writers and other artists are increasingly preoccupied in their work. History, Memory, Trauma in Contemporary British and Irish Fiction is an attempt at analysing the relationship between history, memory and trauma in the selected novels of Pat Barker, Sebastian Barry, Kazuo Ishiguro and John Banville. The author examines the notion of memory in a variety of contexts: collective memory in the historical novels of Barker and Barry, individual memory as a foundation of the sense of self in the novels of Banville and Ishiguro, and traumatic memory in the novels of Barry and Ishiguro. By applying the theoretical framework of trauma studies to the work of those renowned writers, History, Memory, Trauma offers new interpretations of their novels. The author demonstrates that contemporary fiction moves beyond mere representation of trauma and engages the reader in the role of co-witness who enables the process of working through trauma.

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Book SynopsisThe contemporary Chinese engagement in Africa dates back to the 1950's, and it has gained momentum in the last two decades. The Chinese presence in African countries has been getting more and more visible; not only the number of Chinese investments in the area and international agreements has been increasing, but also the size of the Chinese diaspora in the region has grown. China has been looking for new sources of natural resources and markets on which the 'made in China' goods would be welcomed, therefore it spares no efforts to establish and maintain possibly good relationships with Africa, especially with political elites of African countries. At first, the Chinese expansion was supported by the country's image of an older brother, a co-victim of the Western domination, and a example to be followed on the the path leading to development. This image, however, has started to be covered with some spots and shadows, caused by various Chinese activities. In this book we aimed to sketch the image of China and the Chinese in Zambia and Angola, presented by textual media and citizens of these countries, and to trace the most important factors influencing it. Moreover, we brought up some possible consequences of the prevalence of a particular – positive or negative – image for the future development of the Chinese expansion in the region.To obtain the possibly detailed image, we decided to combine quantitative and qualitative analysis of media content with results of our field work conducted in Africa.Trade ReviewThe study is focused on the extraordinarily important topical problem of the Chinese expansion in Africa. Both the applied innovative methodology and the new approach towards the Sino-African relations, focused on the perception of the Chinese presence in the region, are the factors that distinguish this work. […] As the authors themselves state, in the summary they try to avoid drawing generalising conclusions; rather, they focus on pointing out the differences in the perception of China and the Chinese between Angola and Zambia. Acknowledging the increasing importance of the perception of China and the Chinese in Africa as an important factor influencing Sino-African relations constitutes the most valuable conclusion of the study. -- Prof. Dominik Mierzejewski, University of Lodz

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Book SynopsisPapers published in this volume are dealing with different aspects of relations between politics and religion in the Mediterranean world in period from IV c. B.C. to III c. A.D. In individual papers are discussed and interpreted various examples of interference of politics, philosophy, and religion. Four papers are focused on Greece and the Hellenistic world, seven on republican and imperial Rome. Papers are published in English (6), German (3) and Italian.

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Book SynopsisThe present book entitled Cereals of antiquity and early Byzantine times. Wheat and barley in medical sources (second to seventh centuries AD), penned by Maciej Kokoszko, Krzysztof Jagusiak and Zofia Rzeznicka, aims at a detailed analysis of the evolution of dietetic doctrines and an assessment of the value of medical sources for historians of food. In order to achieve the goal, the authors have analysed select medical sources composed between the 2nd and the 7th centuries AD, i.e., treatises published from the moment of canonizing dietetic doctrine by Galen up to the composition of the medical encyclopaedia compiled by Paul of Aegina and the publication of the anonymous work entitled De cibis. Within this timeframe, there appeared a number of works which, following the assumptions of the Hippocratic school, contain a cohesive discourse devoted to the role of food in maintaining and restoring human health, thus allowing us to trace the development of diets during the period in question.In order to conduct their research, the authors have selected a food group, namely cereals and cereal products, starting with common and durum wheat (and including in the research hulled wheats, i.e. einkorn, emmer and spelt) and finishing with barley, since all the above-mentioned crops constituted the basis of diet of the majority of peoples inhabiting the Mediterranean. The researches have shown the history of the said cereals in the area around the Mediterranean Sea, singled out the most important products obtained therefrom, demonstrated their dietetic evaluations as presented in the sources, determined the place of cereals in cuisine and outlined their role in medical procedures.The final result of the analyses proves stability of the dietetic doctrines throughout the researched period, explains intricacies of the conceptual system developed by the medical doctors to describe cereal and other foodstuffs, defines recipes, methods and technologies profited from in food processing and outlines the place of cereal substances (both as independent medicinal agents or as ingredients included in composed medicaments) in popular medical treatment methods.Trade ReviewThe book was preceded by multi-faceted analytical research, whose results were successively presented both in numerous academic papers and lectures as well as at national and international conferences. These, and especially the interdisciplinary international symposia, formed opportunity to gather enough critical feedback, commentaries and evaluations of the project to introduce required modifications in the research. Thereby the concept of the book resulted from a polemic interaction, which necessarily improved the final output. As a result a synthetic volume has been composed, which constitutes a comprehensive presentation of the issues which have not been subject to such a manifold exposition so far. It should be noted that the book has been written by three authors, each specializing in the field for a long time, and thereby having acquired much expertise. -- Piotr Kochanek, KUL

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Book Synopsis?This book follows multiple threads. It discusses the concept of gender, which is an essential category of analysis in the social sciences. It then focuses on women's and men's professional, political, and social circumstances, such as the workplace and time management and their activities in the research and development and patent sectors. These categories delineate the scope of "innovative gender" as a critical tool of analysis through which we can appreciate with greater depth the role of gender in the innovation process.Trade ReviewThis book initiates a novel approach to a widely discussed concept in the literature. It integrates multilevel and interdisciplinary research exploring differences in the statistical profiles of women and men and their effects on innovation for national economies within the European Union. -- Pawel Kawalec, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin

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Book SynopsisWhether adventure, comedy, action or fantasy, the films of the 80s (late 70s and early 90s included) are simply magical. It doesn't matter if some have aged better than others, films like The Goonies, Indiana Jones, Ghostbusters, Rocky, etc. were created not only for financial gain, but also with tremendous passion, conveying a mystique that is difficult to describe, and which only those who lived through that period can fully appreciate. When We Were Young does not include all of them (that would be impossible), but it does offer a carefully chosen and representative selection. And if you were terrified by the Gremlins, if you learned from Mr. Miyagi, if you cried when little Elliot said goodbye to E.T. or when Thelma & Louise started flying in their convertible, we invite you to embark on this nostalgic tour of superb illustrations and alternative posters by world-class artists, accompanied by curiosities and legendary quotes from the best movies of a wonderful era. AUTHOR: Anna Minguet is a creative based in Barcelona.

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Book SynopsisThe acclaimed "Clown Prince of Crime," Joker. A character with a physical appearance characterised by a disfigured face, white skin, green dyed hair, and red lips. A psychopathic genius with a sadistic and twisted humour. A lover of weapons to which he always gives a comic touch; his jack-in-the-boxes and cigarette shaped explosives are a classic in his craziest plans with deadly results. Joker has had countless scriptwriters and cartoonists who have shaped his personality and appearance. Much of the fame achieved by this villain comes from the actors who have played him on the big screen. Each actor who has given life to the character has taken a different path, and each of them is remembered by the character's followers for different reasons. Without a doubt, thanks to them, the character is more popular than ever. Worthy of mention is the voice over in the animated series by the incomparable Mark Hamill, while on television he was brought to life by César Romero (1966-1968), and in the cinema by Jack Nicholson (1989), Heath Ledger (2008), Jared Leto (2016), and finally the extraordinary Joaquin Phoenix (2019). AUTHOR: Eva Minguet is a creative based in Barcelona and author of several books including the popular Women's Club, Wes Anderson Tribute, Tarantino, Stranger Things, and Twin Peaks.

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Book SynopsisDanish director Lars von Trier has produced more than 20 films since his first appearance with The Elements of Crime in 1984. One of the most acknowledged – and most controversial – film directors of our time, Trier’s films often escape the representational production of meaning.In Lars von Trier’s Renewal of Film 1984-2014. Signal, Pixel, Diagram scholar Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen offers a comprehensive discussion of Lars von Trier’s collected works. Examining Trier’s experiments with narrative forms, genre, camera usage, light, and colour tones, she shows how Trier’s unique ethically involving style activates the viewer’s entire perception apparatus. In understanding this affective involvement, the author frames the discussion around concepts from Gilles Deleuze, Alois Riegl, Brian Massumi and others on the haptic image, the diagram, affect and the signaletic material.

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Book SynopsisA pioneering study of the startlingly original films by Chinese filmmakers of the 1980s, such as Judou, Raise the Red Lantern, and Farewell My Concubine. These films bring into vivid relief changes in Chinese society over several decades, drawing on interviews with directors including Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and Tian Zhuangzhuang.Paul Clark's Chinese Cinema: Culture and Politics since 1949 was a groundbreaking book, and in Reinventing China, Clark continues his exploration of the changes in Chinese society and culture since the 1960s.Trade ReviewAn indispensable close-up of Chinese cinema from the 1980s to the present.... [T]his book incorporates an unbeatable combination of close contact with Chinese filmmakers over two decades, the author's personal experience of living in and visiting China since the 1970s, and a historian's perspective on contemporary politics and culture. This very readable account of key directors and their works adds a fine critical judgment to the author's passion for cinema. - Bonnie S. McDougall Chair Professor of Chinese, University of Edinburgh

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