Abbas Kiarostami and Film-Philosophy
- Authors: Abbott, Mathew
- Date: 2017
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- Description: Mathew Abbott presents a powerful new film-philosophy through the cinema of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. Mathew Abbott argues that Kiarostami's films carry out cinematic thinking: they do not just illustrate pre-existing philosophical ideas, but do real philosophical work. Crossing the divide between analytic and continental philosophy, he draws on Ludwig Wittgenstein, Stanley Cavell, John McDowell, Alice Crary, Noel Carroll, Giorgio Agamben, and Martin Heidegger, bringing out the thinking at work in Kiarostami's most recent films: Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us, ABC Africa, Ten, Five, Shirin, Certified Copy, and Like Someone in Love.
The figure of this world : Agamben and the question of political ontology
- Authors: Abbott, Mathew , Watkin, Christopher
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Book
- Relation: Crosscurrents
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- Description: A fundamental re-reading of Agamben that defends and develops his philosophy as post-Heideggerian political ontology. What if we've been wrong when reading Agamben? Mathew Abbott argues that Agamben's thought is misunderstood when read in terms of critical theory or traditional political philosophy. He shows instead that it engages in political ontology: studying the political stakes of the question of being. Abbott demonstrates the crucial influence of Martin Heidegger on Agamben's work, locating it in the post-Heideggerian tradition of the critique of metaphysics. He also positions it in relation to the thought of Benjamin, Nietzsche, Levinas, Nancy, and Wittgenstein. As he clarifies it, Abbott links Agamben's philosophy with Wittgenstein's picture theory and Heidegger's concept of the world-picture, showing the importance of this for understanding - and potentially overcoming - the forms of alienation characteristic of the society of the spectacle. © Mathew Abbott, 2014.
Michael Fried and philosophy : Modernism, intention, and theatricality
- Authors: Abbott, Mathew
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Book
- Relation: Routledge Research in Aesthetics series Vol. 1
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- Description: This volume brings philosophers, art historians, intellectual historians, and literary scholars together to argue for the philosophical significance of Michael Fried’s art history and criticism. It demonstrates that Fried’s work on modernism, artistic intention, the ontology of art, theatricality, and anti-theatricality can throw new light on problems in and beyond philosophical aesthetics. Featuring an essay by Fried and articles from world-leading scholars, this collection engages with philosophical themes from Fried’s texts, and clarifies the relevance to his work of philosophers such as Ludwig Wittgenstein, Stanley Cavell, Morris Weitz, Elizabeth Anscombe, Arthur Danto, George Dickie, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schiller, G. W. F. Hegel, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Denis Diderot, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Roland Barthes, Jacques Rancière, and Søren Kierkegaard. As it makes a case for the importance of Fried for philosophy, this volume contributes to current debates in analytic and continental aesthetics, philosophy of action, philosophy of history, political philosophy, modernism studies, literary studies, and art theory.
Handbook of Psychocardiology
- Authors: Alvarenga, Marlies , Byrne, Don
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Book
- Relation: Springer Nature Living Reference
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- Description: This handbook brings togetherthe full weight of contemporary evidence bearing on what is now commonly termed "psycho-cardiology". It focuses on the role of psycho-social factors in the genesis and clinical management of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The book constitutes a critically reviewed compendium of current knowledge in the area, coupled with guides to evidence-based best practice in the field of psycho-cardiology. The following categories are covered:Social/demographic risk for CVD, Personality and CVD risk, Stress and CVD risk, Psychopathology (particularly affective disorders) and CVD risk, The psychological management of those with clinical CVD, Psychology in the prevention of CVD. The book integrates the evidence into a compelling argument that clinicians, researchers and those in public health will discount the role of psychological factors in regard to CVD at their own peril. And importantly for clinicians charged with the care of patients with CVD, the bookposes the argument that failure to recognize the links between psychological factors and CVD may well be at the considerable peril of those patients under their care.
Exporting in the Asian Century; The Dynamics of Success
- Authors: Amarasena, Anura , Colombage, Sisira
- Date: 2017
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The road to nursing
- Authors: Arnott, Nick , Paliadelis, Penny , Cuickshank, Mary
- Date: 2019
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- Description: Commencing a nursing qualification can be an exciting yet daunting prospect. The Road to Nursing empowers nursing students to become effective practitioners by providing an in-depth foundational knowledge of the key concepts and skills that will underpin their entire nursing journey. Written by an expert team of academics and practising nurses, this text emphasises the importance of meaning-making, supporting students to critically engage with key knowledge that informs their ongoing learning, development and professional identity. Each chapter supports learning through pedagogical features including case studies, nursing perspectives, reflections, key terms, review questions and research topics, The additional activities accessed through the VitalSource eBook reaffirm comprehension and encourage critical thinking. The Road to Nursing is written in an accessible narrative style, providing a friendly guiding voice that will support students from the classroom into practice.
Teaching higher education courses in further education colleges
- Authors: Atkins, Liz
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Book
- Relation: Achieving QTLS series
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- Description: As the number of higher education (HE) courses offered in further education (FE) settings increases, so does the need for teachers and trainee teachers to develop their teaching skills. This text is written for all teachers and trainee teachers in FE. It considers what it means to teach HE in FE and how an HE environment can be created in an FE setting. The text covers day-to-day aspects of teaching including planning and assessment, giving guidance on the unique needs of HE students. Chapters on research and quality assurance support the reader in developing some advanced teaching skills. This is a practical guide for FE teachers and trainee teachers as the sector adapts to the needs of education today
VFR travel research : International perspectives
- Authors: Backer, Elisa , King, Brian
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Book
- Relation: Aspects of Tourism No. 69
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- Description: This is the first book to explore research on visiting friends and relatives (VFR). In many countries VFR is the largest single travel-related market and for some regional economies accounts for over half of all tourism flows. In assembling an international collection of quality VFR-related research the editors present the profiles, characteristics, opportunities and behaviours of VFR travel for the benefit of researchers, industry practitioners and educators. This holistic and international approach to understanding VFR travel provides a state of the art understanding of the context, dynamics and implications of VFR travel and will be an essential resource for postgraduate students, researchers and also practitioners.
Gender, power and management: A cross-cultural analysis of higher education
- Authors: Bagilhole, Barbara , White, Kate
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Book
- Relation: Gender, Power and Management: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Higher Education
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- Description: Women are now part of senior management in higher education (HE) to varying degrees in most countries and actively contribute to the vision and strategic direction of universities. This book attempts to analyse their impact and potential impact on both organisational growth and culture. © Barbara Bagilhole and Kate White 2011. Individual chapters, the contributors 2011. All rights reserved.
Generation and gender in academia
- Authors: Bagilhole, Barbara , White, Kate
- Date: 2013
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- Description: The first cross-cultural analysis of the differences in career trajectories and experiences between a senior group of women academics and a younger group who are at early and mid-career stages. Major themes in the autobiographical stories of these women were national context; organisational context; family, class and location; and agency. © Barbara Bagilhole and Kate White 2013. Individual chapters, Respective authors 2013. All rights reserved.
Introduction to Nonsmooth Optimization : Theory, practice and software
- Authors: Bagirov, Adil , Karmitsa, Napsu , Makela, Marko
- Date: 2014
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- Description: This book is the first easy-to-read text on nonsmooth optimization (NSO, not necessarily differentiable optimization). Soving these kinds of problems plays a critical role in many industrial applications and real-world modeling systems, for example in the context of image denoising, optimal control, neural network training, data mining, ecomonics, and computational chemistry and physics. The book covers both the theory and the numerical methods used in NSO, and provides an overview of different problems arising in the field. It is organized into three parts: 1. convex and nonconvex analysis and the theory of NSO; 2. test problems and practical applications; 3. a guide to NSO software. The book is ideal for anyone teaching or attending NSO courses. As an accessible introduction to the field, it is also well suited as an independent learning guide for practitioners already familiar with the basics of optimization.
Police, picket-lines and fatalities : Lessons from the past
- Authors: Baker, David
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Book
- Relation: Palgrave Pivot
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- Description: Police, picket-lines and fatalities
Steam turbine : Performance and condition monitoring
- Authors: Beebe, Raymond
- Date: 2012
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Eureka revisited : Contest of memory
- Authors: Beggs-Sunter, Anne
- Date: 2004
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- Description: 2003003926
Not for self but for all : a history of the Art Gallery of Ballarat Association
- Authors: Beggs-Sunter, Anne
- Date: 2018
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Physiology of characean cells
- Authors: Beilby, Mary , Casanova, Michelle
- Date: 2013
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Management and practice in health and human service organisations
- Authors: Berends, Lynda , Crinall, Karen
- Date: 2014
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Public sector organizations and cultural change
- Authors: Bilney, Chris , Pillay, Soma
- Date: 2015
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- Description: Public sector oganizations and cultural change uses a long-term perspective on privatization to explore trends in culture change within the public sector.
Etching my initials
- Authors: Blaiklok, Bronwyn
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Book
- Relation: Union Poets Series Chapbooks No. 23
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- Description: "In 'Etching My Initials'Blaiklock invites us to 'listen on a lean' to poems of Alice Springs, the goldfields and her chain-smoking guitar teacher. Here is a voice both tender and tough, of sound bombs and balance; so bend an ear to Bronwyn Blaiklock - leaning in, she might just knock you over". --Nathan Curnow--; "This collection is quiet and potent. It tiptoes into your mind like a reverse theif that leaves little treasure parcels in the imagination". --Emilie Zoey Baker-- (From back cover)
The Liberator's Birthday
- Authors: Blee, Jillian
- Date: 2002
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- Description: A1
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