Kathryn Kaspar's Books

Data and AI Driving Smart Cities

By: Pedro Ponce,Therese Peffer,Juana Isabel Mendez Garduno,Ursula Eicker,Arturo Molina,Troy McDaniel,Edgard D. Musafiri Mimo,Ramanunni Parakkal Menon,Kathryn Kaspar,Sadam Hussain

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Data and AI Driving Smart Cities

By: Pedro Ponce,Therese Peffer,Juana Isabel Mendez Garduno,Ursula Eicker,Arturo Molina,Troy McDaniel,Edgard D. Musafiri Mimo,Ramanunni Parakkal Menon,Kathryn Kaspar,Sadam Hussain

This book illustrates how the advanced technology developed for smart cities requires increasing interaction with citizens to motivate and incentive them. Megacities' needs have been encouraging for the creation of smart cities in which the needs of inhabitants are collected using virtualization and digitalization systems. On the other hand, machine learning algorithms have been implemented to provide better solutions for diverse areas in smart cities, such as transportation and health. Besides, conventional electric grids have transformed into smart grids, improving energy quality. Gamification, serious games, machine learning, dynamic interfaces, and social networks are some elements integrated holistically to provide novel solutions to design and develop smart cities. Also, this book presents in a friendly way the concept of social devices that are incorporated into smart homes and buildings. This book is used to understand and design smart cities where citizens are strongly interconnected so the demand response time can be reduced.

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Springer Nature

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3031328280

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Collective Creation in Contemporary Performance

By: Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva

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Collective Creation in Contemporary Performance

By: Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva

This edited volume situates its contemporary practice in the tradition which emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century. Collective Creation in Contemporary Performance examines collective and devised theatre practices internationally and demonstrates the prevalence, breadth, and significance of modern collective creation.

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Springer

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1137331275

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The Lively Arts of the London Stage, 1675–1725

By: Professor Kathryn Lowerre

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The Lively Arts of the London Stage, 1675–1725

By: Professor Kathryn Lowerre

Reflecting the myriad options available to London audiences at the turn of the eighteenth century, this volume offers readers a portrait of the interrelated music, drama and dance productions that characterized this rich period. By bringing together work by scholars in different fields, this cross-disciplinary collection illuminates the interconnecting strands that shaped a vibrant theatrical world.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409455335

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U.S. Inspectors General

Truth Tellers in Turbulent Times

By: Charles A. Johnson,Kathryn E. Newcomer

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U.S. Inspectors General

Truth Tellers in Turbulent Times

By: Charles A. Johnson,Kathryn E. Newcomer

A 2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title How officials reporting to both executive officials and congressional representatives work to keep the government honest, efficient, and effective. Inspectors general are important players in the federal government, and their work often draws considerable public attention when one of them uncovers serious misdeeds or mismanagement that make the headlines. This book by two experts in public policy provides a comprehensive, up-to-date examination of how inspectors general have operated in the four decades since Congress established the offices to investigate waste, fraud, and mismanagement at federal agencies and to promote efficiency and effectiveness in government programs. Unique among federal officials, inspectors general are independent of the agencies they monitor, and they report to the executive and legislative branches of government. One key factor in their independence is that they are expected to be non-partisan and carry out their work without regard to partisan interests. The authors of U.S. Inspectors General: Truth Tellers in Turbulent Times emphasize the “strategic environment” in which inspectors general work and interact with a variety of stakeholders, inside and outside the government. Their new book is based on in-depth case studies, a survey of inspectors general, and a review of public documents related to the work of inspectors general. It will be of interest to scholars and students of public policy and public management, journalists, and ordinary citizens interested in how the government works—or doesn’t work—on their behalf.

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290

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Brookings Institution Press

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0815737785

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9780815737780

World Heritage and tourism in a changing climate

By: Markham, Adam,Osipova, Elena,Lafrenz Samuels, Kathryn,Caldas, Astrid

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World Heritage and tourism in a changing climate

By: Markham, Adam,Osipova, Elena,Lafrenz Samuels, Kathryn,Caldas, Astrid

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UNESCO Publishing

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9231001523

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9789231001529

Hidden Texts, Hidden Nation

(Re)Discoveries of Wales in Travel Writing in French and German (1780-2018)

By: Kathryn N Jones,Carol Tully,Heather Williams

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Hidden Texts, Hidden Nation

(Re)Discoveries of Wales in Travel Writing in French and German (1780-2018)

By: Kathryn N Jones,Carol Tully,Heather Williams

This book offers a fresh and timely ‘European’ perspective on Wales and Welshness. Uncovering rare travel texts in French and German from 1780 to now it provides a valuable case-study of a culture that is often minoritized, and demonstrates the value of multilingual research and a transnational approach.

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Liverpool University Press

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178962732X

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Taken

A Lament for a Lost Ethnicity

By: Kathryn Schaeffer Pabst

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Taken

A Lament for a Lost Ethnicity

By: Kathryn Schaeffer Pabst

The Donauschwaben, a mostly unknown ethnic group of Germans, migrated to Yugoslavia in the late 1700s. Endless boundary conflicts varyingly defined their land as Hungary, Yugoslavia, or Serbia. During World War II their ethnicity unfairly marked them as Nazi sympathizers despite their noncombatant status. They found themselves on the wrong side of every border as a wave of anti-German resentment legitimized their persecution and eradication. TAKEN: A Lament for a Lost Ethnicity relates the intimate memoirs of Joseph Schaeffer, an ethnic Donauschwaben. Joseph's childhood is stolen the day the Russians march into town. He is captured and taken from his land and family to a slave labor camp of endless suffering and years of imprisonment. Hope is restored after a courageous escape and eventual immigration to the United States. This enduring tale of survival eventually reunites the Schaeffer family and life begins anew. "TAKEN is a testament to one man's tenacity and courage and an affirmation of hope and life in a world full of despair and death. The plight of refugees in post-war central Europe is an important, yet neglected story. Joseph Schaeffer's life and memories bring poignancy and immediacy to that story. Kathryn Schaeffer Pabst ably crafts the memoir and deserves our appreciation for bringing her father's story of survival to us."-Eugene Edward Beiriger, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, DePaul University

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iUniverse

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0595384900

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9780595384907

Dreaming Red

Creating ArtPace

By: Linda Pace,Jan Jarboe Russell,Eleanor Heartney,Kathryn Kanjo

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Dreaming Red

Creating ArtPace

By: Linda Pace,Jan Jarboe Russell,Eleanor Heartney,Kathryn Kanjo

Since its founding in 1993 by the late Pace Foods heiress Linda Pace, Artpace has become one of the premiere foundations for contemporary art. An artist residency program based in San Antonio, Texas, Artpace's goal is to give artists time and space in which to imagine new ways to work. Each year, nine artists (three from Texas, three from other areas of the United States and three from abroad) are invited to the foundation to create new work. Selected by guest curators the likes of Robert Storr and Okwui Enwezor, the list of artists who have undertaken residencies at ArtPace is impressive, prescient and diverse, including Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Annette Messager, Tracey Moffatt, Xu Bing, Nancy Rubins, Cornelia Parker, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Glenn Ligon, Kendell Geers, Carolee Schneemann, Mona Hatoum, Isaac Julien, Arturo Herrera, and Christian Jankowski. Dreaming Red includes illustrations of all the works created at ArtPace since its inception, an essay by art historian Eleanor Heartney, short essays on selected artists by the guest curators, including Cuauhtémoc Medina, Lynne Cooke, Chrissie Iles and Judith Russi Kirshner, and a lengthy essay on the personal history of the foundation and its founder.

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Trinity University Press

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1595341978

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9781595341976

Cumulative Index to Kierkegaard's Writings

The Works of Søren Kierkegaard

By: Nathaniel J. Hong,Kathryn Hong,Regine Prenzel-Guthrie

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Cumulative Index to Kierkegaard's Writings

The Works of Søren Kierkegaard

By: Nathaniel J. Hong,Kathryn Hong,Regine Prenzel-Guthrie

The final volume of Princeton's Kierkegaard's Writings series, the Cumulative Index provides wide-ranging navigation to the preceding twenty-five volumes. Composed of over 90,000 entries, the Cumulative Index offers access to Kierkegaard's complex authorship and the extraordinary range of subjects he addressed in his writing. Covering the series' historical introductions, primary works, supplementary material (journal entries), and footnotes, the Cumulative Index provides a comprehensive entryway to more than 11,000 pages of text. Readers are able to survey via extended entries Kierkegaard's dual authorship, pseudonymous and signed; his numerous biblical allusions; his references to Christianity, God, and love; and his frequent use of analogies. A cumulative collation of the extensive supplementary material is also included, giving researchers and avid readers the opportunity to cross-reference Kierkegaard's Writings with his journals and papers published elsewhere in both English and Danish.

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Princeton University Press

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0691032254

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9780691032252

Figuring Transcendence in Les Miserables

Hugo's Romantic Sublime

By: Kathryn M. Grossman

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Figuring Transcendence in Les Miserables

Hugo's Romantic Sublime

By: Kathryn M. Grossman

The intricate interweaving of characters, plot, subplots, themes, imagery, topography, and digressions in Hugo's prose masterpiece results in a completely integrated metaphorical system. Superficial chaos, Grossman argues, is deeply ordered by repeating patterns that produce a kind of literary fractal, a multilayered verbal network.

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SIU Press

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080931889X

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Open Hand, Closed Fist

Practices of Undocumented Organizing in a Hostile State

By: Kathryn Abrams

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Open Hand, Closed Fist

Practices of Undocumented Organizing in a Hostile State

By: Kathryn Abrams

How does a group that lacks legal status organize its members to become effective political activists? In the early 2000s, Arizona's campaign of "attrition through enforcement" aimed to make life so miserable for undocumented immigrants that they would "self-deport." Undocumented activists resisted hostile legislation, registered thousands of new Latino voters, and joined a national movement to advance justice for immigrants. Drawing on five years of observation and interviews with activists in Phoenix, Arizona, Kathryn Abrams explains how the practices of storytelling, emotion cultures, and performative citizenship fueled this grassroots movement. Together these practices produced both the "open hand" (the affective bonds among participants) and the "closed fist" (the pragmatic strategies of resistance) that have allowed the movement to mobilize and sustain itself over time.

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Univ of California Press

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0520384431

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9780520384439

Families and Frontiers

Re-creating Communities and Boundaries in the Early Modern Burgundies

By: Kathryn Edwards

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Families and Frontiers

Re-creating Communities and Boundaries in the Early Modern Burgundies

By: Kathryn Edwards

As put forth by Edwards, the eastern duchy and the western county of Burgundy constituted a frontier society from the death of Charles the Bold in 1477 until 1540. Through detailed case studies and family reconstructions of elites from the Saône River valley, specifically the cities of Dijon, Dole, and Besançon, this book examines the social, cultural, political, and economic relationships of the Burgundians on a local level. Edwards successfully challenges the national models still frequently used in modern historiography and offers a provocative alternative to better understand this anomalous area and the creation of pre-modern regional identity.

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BRILL

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900447577X

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9789004475779

Why Modern Manuscripts Matter

By: Kathryn Sutherland

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Why Modern Manuscripts Matter

By: Kathryn Sutherland

This is a study of the politics, the commerce, and the aesthetics of heritage culture in the shape of authors' manuscripts. Draft or working manuscripts survive in quantity from the eighteenth century when, with the rise of print, readers learnt to value 'the hand' as an index of individuality and the blotted page, criss-crossed by deletion and revision, as a sign of genius. Since then, collectors have fought over manuscripts, libraries have curated them, the rich have stashed them away in investment portfolios, students have squeezed meaning from them, and we have all stared at them behind exhibition glass. Why do we trade them, conserve them, and covet them? Most, after all, are just the stuff left over after the novel or book of poetry goes into print. Poised on the boundary where precious treasure becomes abject waste, litter, and mess, modern literary manuscripts hover between riches and rubbish. In a series of case studies, this book explores manuscript's expressive agency and its capacity to provoke passion--a capacity ever more to the fore in the twenty-first century now that books are assembled via word-processing software and authors no longer leave in such quantity those paper trails behind them. It considers manuscripts as residues of meaning that print is unable to capture: manuscript as fragment art, as property, as waste paper. It asks what it might mean to re-read print in the shadow of manuscript. Case studies of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Walter Scott, Frances Burney, and Jane Austen--writers from the first great period of manuscript survival--are interspersed with discussions of William Godwin's record keeping, the Cairo genizah, Katie Paterson's 'Future Library' project, Andy Warhol's and Muriel Spark's self-archiving, Cornelia Parker's reclamation art, and more.

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Oxford University Press

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0192856510

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9780192856517

Security, Identity, and British Counterterrorism Policy

By: Kathryn Marie Fisher

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Security, Identity, and British Counterterrorism Policy

By: Kathryn Marie Fisher

Counterterrorism laws and policies have become a normalized fixture of security agendas across the globe. How do 'us/them' identity constructions contribute to the legitimizing strategies surrounding this development? The British case provides a historically-situated illustration which is of ongoing significance for security and insecurity today.

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Springer

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1137524227

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9781137524225

How to Read Portraits

By: Kathryn Calley Galitz

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How to Read Portraits

By: Kathryn Calley Galitz

Portraiture goes far beyond capturing a likeness. This intimate genre sheds light on the subjects’ and makers’ politics, relationships, aspirations, and insecurities. Featuring more than fifty works across time and cultures, from the lifelike Faiyum funerary masks of ancient Roman Egypt to Pablo Picasso’s and Marsden Hartley’s abstractions to likenesses imagined by contemporary artists, this publication probes the notion of what constitutes a portrait, beyond mere verisimilitude. Bestselling author Kathryn Calley Galitz illuminates how artists through the ages have exploited the genre to reveal character and convey power and status; how artists as varied as Rembrandt and Cindy Sherman embraced artifice and roleplaying to explore identity; and how the term “portraiture” encompasses a wider variety of works than typically thought. This reexamination of a deceptively familiar genre provides fascinating ideas about what these images can tell us about the sitter, the artist, the culture in which they lived, and ourselves.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588397645

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The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land

Reception from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance

By: Kathryn Blair Moore

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The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land

Reception from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance

By: Kathryn Blair Moore

In the absence of the bodies of Christ and Mary, architecture took on a special representational role during the Christian Middle Ages, marking out sites associated with the bodily presence of the dominant figures of the religion. Throughout this period, buildings were reinterpreted in relation to the mediating role of textual and pictorial representations that shaped the pilgrimage experience across expansive geographies. In this study, Kathryn Blair Moore challenges fundamental ideas within architectural history regarding the origins and significance of European recreations of buildings in Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Nazareth. From these conceptual foundations, she traces and re-interprets the significance of the architecture of the Holy Land within changing religious and political contexts, from the First Crusade and the emergence of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land to the anti-Islamic crusade movements of the Renaissance, as well as the Reformation.

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