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Euro-Visions

Europe in Contemporary Cinema

By: Mariana Liz

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Euro-Visions

Europe in Contemporary Cinema

By: Mariana Liz

European cinema not only occupies a dominant place in film history, it is also a field that has been raising more interest with the expanding work on the transnational. Euro-Visions asks what idea of Europe emerges, is represented and constructed by contemporary European film. Adopting a broad and wide-ranging approach, Euro-Visions mixes political sources, historical documents and filmic texts and offers an integration of policy and economic contexts with textual analysis. Mariana Liz examines costume dramas, biopics and war films, mainstream co-productions and tales of 'Fortress Europe' by renowned auteurs, showing how films from different European nations depict and contribute to the formation of the idea of Europe. Case studies include Girl with a Pearl Earring, La Vie en Rose, Black Book, Good Bye Lenin!, Match Point and The Silence of Lorna.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1628922990

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9781628922998

The Making of Jorge Luis Borges as an Argentine Cultural Icon

By: Mariana Casale O’Ryan

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The Making of Jorge Luis Borges as an Argentine Cultural Icon

By: Mariana Casale O’Ryan

Jorge Luis Borges is, undeniably, Argentina's best-known and most influential writer. In addition to scholarly studies of his work, his emblematic figure continues to appear on book covers and carrier bags, in biographies, plaques and statues, photographs and interviews, as well as cartoons and city tours. The Making of Jorge Luis Borges as an Argentine Cultural Icon argues that the ideas and expectations that Argentine people have placed upon the author - thus constructing the icon - are also those that allow them to define their cultural identity. The book examines these intertwined processes by analysing the image of Borges in biographies, photographs, comic strips and urban spaces and the socio-political, historical and cultural contexts in which they were produced. The study seeks not to reveal a Borgesian essence but, rather, to expose the complexity of the ongoing mechanisms which construct Borges the icon. Despite the vast amount of biographical and critical work about the writer that has been produced in Argentina and abroad, The Making of Jorge Luis Borges as an Argentine Cultural Icon is the first in-depth, comprehensive examination of the construction of the author as an Argentine cultural icon.

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228

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MHRA

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1781880778

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9781781880777

Zero 3 Bravo

Solo Across America in a Small Plane

By: Mariana Gosnell

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Zero 3 Bravo

Solo Across America in a Small Plane

By: Mariana Gosnell

Mariana Gosnell takes the reader along on her extraordinary voyage across the U.S. in her single-engine Luscombe Silvaire, Zero Three Bravo. Enticed by the ribbon of sky that she could see from her Manhattan office window, she took a leave of absence from her job and made a three-month solo flight, navigating by use of landmarks and landing in America's little-known, back-country airports. She traveled south from her home airport of Spring Valley, New York, down to North Carolina and Georgia, west across Texas to Los Angeles and north to San Francisco, and then east over the Rockies, the plains, and the farms of the Midwest until she was back home.

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388

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Simon and Schuster

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0671892088

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9780671892081

Honing Your Knowledge Skills

By: Mariana Funes,Nancy Johnson

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Honing Your Knowledge Skills

By: Mariana Funes,Nancy Johnson

New technology and organizational structures are transforming the workplace, but management skills have not yet caught up. Harnessing knowledge and using it as a competitive advantage is one of the key priorities of organizations today. Honing Your Knowledge Skills looks at how to define knowledge working and identifies the practical skills of knowledge management needed by line managers. This book shows you how to *handle information overload *become an expert *harness new ideas *turn knowledge into action * keep knowledge skills fresh * understand IT resources and knowledge based systems The New Skills Portfolio is a groundbreaking new series, published in association with the Industrial Society, which re-defines the core management skills managers and team leaders need to be competitive. Each title is action-focused blending 20th century management initiatives/trends with a new flexible skills portfolio. The Industrial Society is one of the largest public training providers in the UK. It has over 10,000 member organisations and promotes best practice through its publishing, consultancy, training and advisory services. For more information contact their website on www.indsoc.co.uk

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218

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Routledge

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1136398430

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9781136398438

The Scientific Bases for Preservation of the Mariana Crow

By: National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Life Sciences,Committee on the Scientific Bases for the Preservation of the Mariana Crow

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The Scientific Bases for Preservation of the Mariana Crow

By: National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Life Sciences,Committee on the Scientific Bases for the Preservation of the Mariana Crow

This book, while focusing on current preservation challenges posed by the Aga, or Mariana crow, also reflects the larger issues and challenges of biodiversity conservation in all oceanic island ecosystems. It evaluates causes for the continuing decline of the Aga, which exists on only the two southernmost islands in the Mariana archipelago, Guam and Rota, and reviews actions to halt or reverse the decrease. This book reminds us of the importance and challenge of preserving the unique environmental heritage of islands of the Mariana archipelago, the need for increased knowledge to restore and maintain native species and habitats, and the compelling and lasting value of extensive public education to stimulate environmentally informed public policy development.

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103

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National Academies Press

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0309175240

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9780309175241

Carnalities

The Art of Living in Latinidad

By: Mariana Ortega

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Carnalities

The Art of Living in Latinidad

By: Mariana Ortega

In Carnalities, Mariana Ortega presents a phenomenological study of aesthetics grounded in the work of primarily Latinx artists. She introduces the idea of carnal aesthetics informed by carnalities, creative practices shaped by the self’s affective attunement to the material, cultural, historical, communal, and spiritual. For Ortega, carnal aesthetics offers a way to think about the affective and bodily experiences of racialized selves. Drawing on Gloria Anzaldúa, Chela Sandoval, José Esteban Muñoz, Alia Al-Saji, Helen Ngo, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Roland Barthes, and others, Ortega examines photographic works on Latinx subjects. She analyzes the photography of Laura Aguilar, Verónica Gabriela Cárdenas, and Susan Meiselas, among others, theorizing photography as a carnal, affective medium that is crucial for processes of self-formation, resistance, and mourning in Latinx life. She ends with an intimate reading of photography through a reflection of her own crossing from Nicaragua to the United States in 1979. Motivated by her experience of loss and exile, Ortega argues for the importance of carnal aesthetics in destabilizing and transforming normative, colonial, and decolonial subjects, imaginaries, and structures.

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Duke University Press

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1478060247

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9781478060246

Teachers Act Up! Creating Multicultural Learning Communities Through Theatre

Creating Multicultural Learning Communities Through Theatre

By: Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor,Mariana Souto-Manning

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Teachers Act Up! Creating Multicultural Learning Communities Through Theatre

Creating Multicultural Learning Communities Through Theatre

By: Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor,Mariana Souto-Manning

If teachers want to create positive change in the lives of their students, then they must first be able to create positive change in their own lives. This book describes a powerful professional development approach that merges the scholarship of critical pedagogy with the Theatre of the Oppressed. Participants "act up" in order to explore real-life scenarios and rehearse difficult conversations they are likely to have with colleagues, students, administrators, and parents. The authors have practiced the theatrical strategies presented here with pre- and in-service teachers in numerous contexts, including college courses, professional development seminars, and PreK–12 classrooms. They include step-by-step instructions with vivid photographs to help readers use these revolutionary theatre strategies in their own contexts for a truly unique learning experience.

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Teachers College Press

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0807770655

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9780807770658

Social Urbanism in Latin America

Cases and Instruments of Planning, Land Policy and Financing the City Transformation with Social Inclusion

By: Carlos Leite,Claudia Acosta,Fernanda Militelli,Guillermo Jajamovich,Mariana Wilderom,Nabil Bonduki,Nadia Somekh,Tereza Herling

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Social Urbanism in Latin America

Cases and Instruments of Planning, Land Policy and Financing the City Transformation with Social Inclusion

By: Carlos Leite,Claudia Acosta,Fernanda Militelli,Guillermo Jajamovich,Mariana Wilderom,Nabil Bonduki,Nadia Somekh,Tereza Herling

This book highlights current concepts of Social Urbanism, the contemporary set of multiple and interdisciplinary urban studies that have emerged mainly from the complex realities of Latin American cities. The discussion that follows places special emphasis on public land policy and the innovative urban instruments developed in that region to promote social and territorial inclusion. Critical reflections throughout the pages of this book shed light into the local context of each case-study in order to understand their specific set of challenges and opportunities. Relevant lessons are extracted from the three cities here analyzed, the medium-scale city of Medellin, the large-scale city of Bogota, and the megacity of Sao Paulo, as well as from local innovative experiences in Argentina and Uruguay. These cities underwent promising transformation processes over two decades, applying planning and financing instruments of land policy which have produced significant shifts in the urban development paradigm in the region. The quest for social inclusion has emerged as the common denominator in these cities, awakening growing interest across several fields of urban studies, from public policies and city management to urban law, city financing, urban development, and innovative community participation processes. The book brings implications on urban land policy for transition cities in the Global South. The question of social inclusion in Global South cities is however far from being solved; the analysis presented in this book shows advances and hope, besides a long path still ahead, which can only be faced through a continuous and challenging incremental process. May this book be an incremental step.

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Springer Nature

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3030160122

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9783030160128

The Invention of Public Space

Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay's New York

By: Mariana Mogilevich

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The Invention of Public Space

Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay's New York

By: Mariana Mogilevich

The interplay of psychology, design, and politics in experiments with urban open space As suburbanization, racial conflict, and the consequences of urban renewal threatened New York City with “urban crisis,” the administration of Mayor John V. Lindsay (1966–1973) experimented with a broad array of projects in open spaces to affirm the value of city life. Mariana Mogilevich provides a fascinating history of a watershed moment when designers, government administrators, and residents sought to remake the city in the image of a diverse, free, and democratic society. New pedestrian malls, residential plazas, playgrounds in vacant lots, and parks on postindustrial waterfronts promised everyday spaces for play, social interaction, and participation in the life of the city. Whereas designers had long created urban spaces for a broad amorphous public, Mogilevich demonstrates how political pressures and the influence of the psychological sciences led them to a new conception of public space that included diverse publics and encouraged individual flourishing. Drawing on extensive archival research, site work, interviews, and the analysis of film and photographs, The Invention of Public Space considers familiar figures, such as William H. Whyte and Jane Jacobs, in a new light and foregrounds the important work of landscape architects Paul Friedberg and Lawrence Halprin and the architects of New York City’s Urban Design Group. The Invention of Public Space brings together psychology, politics, and design to uncover a critical moment of transformation in our understanding of city life and reveals the emergence of a concept of public space that remains today a powerful, if unrealized, aspiration.

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317

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452963932

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9781452963938

The Assyrian Sacred Tree

A History of Interpretations

By: Mariana Giovino

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The Assyrian Sacred Tree

A History of Interpretations

By: Mariana Giovino

Revised thesis (doctoral) - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2004.

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Saint-Paul

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3525530285

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9783525530283

Euro-Visions

Europe in Contemporary Cinema

By: Mariana Liz

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Euro-Visions

Europe in Contemporary Cinema

By: Mariana Liz

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1628922974

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Euro-Visions

Euro-Visions

The Making of Jorge Luis Borges as an Argentine Cultural Icon

The Making of Jorge Luis Borges as an Argentine Cultural Icon

Zero 3 Bravo

Zero 3 Bravo

Honing Your Knowledge Skills

Honing Your Knowledge Skills

The Scientific Bases for Preservation of the Mariana Crow

The Scientific Bases for Preservation of the Mariana Crow

Carnalities

Carnalities

Teachers Act Up! Creating Multicultural Learning Communities Through Theatre

Teachers Act Up! Creating Multicultural Learning Communities Through Theatre

Social Urbanism in Latin America

Social Urbanism in Latin America

The Invention of Public Space

The Invention of Public Space

The Assyrian Sacred Tree

The Assyrian Sacred Tree

Euro-Visions

Euro-Visions

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