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The Rise and Fall of the Amazon Rubber Industry An Historical Anthropology

The Rise and Fall of the Amazon Rubber Industry An Historical Anthropology

In this engaging book Stephen Nugent offers an in-depth historical anthropology of a widely recognised feature of the Amazon region examining the dramatic rise and fall of the rubber industry. He considers rubber in the Amazon from the perspective of a long-term extractive industry that linked remote forest tappers to technical innovations central to the industrial transformation of Europe and North America emphasizing the links between the social landscape of Amazonia and the global economy. Through a critical examination focused on the rubber industry Nugent addresses myths that continue to influence perceptions of Amazonia. The book challenges widely held assumptions about the hyper-naturalism of the ‘lost world’ of the Amazon where ‘the challenge of the tropics’ is still to be faced and the ‘frontiers of development’ are still to be settled. It is relevant for students and scholars of anthropology Latin American studies history political ecology geography and development studies. | The Rise and Fall of the Amazon Rubber Industry An Historical Anthropology

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Development Banks and Sustainability in the Andean Amazon

Development Banks and Sustainability in the Andean Amazon

This book explores what development banks governments and communities have learned in the last decade of careful negotiation between social and environmental protections in the Andean Amazon and the pressures of a surging infrastructure and development boom. While mega-dams highways and ports are filling up the pipelines of planners the national governments of Andean and Amazon-basin countries and major development banks have enacted ambitious social and environmental protections. The book traces the development of social and environmental protections after years of struggle by affected communities going beyond official policies to discover how these reforms work in practice and ultimately whether they are enough to stem the risks of infrastructure mega-projects. As Chinese public banks play an increasingly important role in the region the book also demonstrates that there is a risk of governments undercutting their own standards. By contrast this book shows that making infrastructure work for everyone involved requires mutually reinforcing networks of support and accountability among communities governments and development banks. This book led by an expert multi-disciplinary international team will be of considerable interest to researchers in the fields of development and development economics geography anthropology and ecology as well as practitioners in development banks and in government regulatory and foreign aid agencies. | Development Banks and Sustainability in the Andean Amazon

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Remaking Indigeneity in the Amazon Christianity Colonization and the State

Remaking Indigeneity in the Amazon Christianity Colonization and the State

Drawing on archival and ethnographic work this book analyzes how indigeneity Christianity and state-making became intertwined in the Colombian Amazon throughout the 20th century. At the end of the 19th century the state gave Catholic missionaries tutelage over Indigenous groups and their territories but in the case of the Colombian Amazon this tutelage was challenged by evangelical missionaries that arrived in the region in the 1940s with different ideas of civilization and social change. Indigenous conversion to evangelical Christianity caused frictions with other actors while Indigenous groups perceived conversion as way of leverage with settlers. This book shows how evangelical Christianity shaped new forms of indigeneity that did not coincide entirely with the ideas of civilization or development that Catholic missionaries and the state promoted in the region. Since the 1960s the state adapted development policies and programs to Indigenous realities and practices while Indigenous societies appropriated evangelical Christianity in order to navigate the changes brought on by colonization modernity and state-formation. This study demonstrates that not all projects of civilization were the same in Amazonia nor was missionization of Indigenous groups always subordinate to the state or resource extraction. | Remaking Indigeneity in the Amazon Christianity Colonization and the State

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Da A Practical Guide to Russian Grammar

Da A Practical Guide to Russian Grammar

This fully revised second edition of Da! A Practical Guide to Russian Grammar is a concise and contemporary reference grammar and workbook for intermediate-level students. The book contains clear explanations of the core areas of Russian grammar. Each point is illustrated with examples of contemporary language usage showing you how grammar works in practice while at the same time enhancing your vocabulary and cultural knowledge. Every chapter ends with a variety of exercises to test your progress and consolidate your understanding. Now revised with more exercises and enhanced e-resources. Suitable for intermediate-level students Da! A Practical Guide to Russian Grammar is an invaluable resource for both classroom and self-study. | Da A Practical Guide to Russian Grammar

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Brazil and Climate Change Beyond the Amazon

Brazil and Climate Change Beyond the Amazon

Climate change is increasingly a part of the human experience. As the problem worsens the cooperative dilemma that the issue carries has become evident: climate change is a complex problem that systematically gets insufficient answers from the international system. This book offers an assessment of Brazil’s role in the global political economy of climate change. The authors Eduardo Viola and Matías Franchini expertly review and answer the most common and widely cited questions on whether and in which way Brazil is aggravating or mitigating the climate crisis including: Is it the benign cooperative environmental power that the Brazilian government claims it is? Why was it possible to dramatically reduce deforestation in the Amazon (2005-2010) and more recently was there a partial reversion? The book provides an accessible—and much needed—introduction to all those studying the challenges of the international system in the Anthropocene. Through a thorough analysis of Brazil in perspective vis a vis other emerging countries this book provides an engaging introduction and up to date assessment of the climate reality of Brazil and a framework to analyze the climate performance of major economies both on emission trajectory and policy profile: the climate commitment approach. Brazil and Climate Change is essential reading for all students of Environmental Studies Latin American Studies International Relations and Comparative Politics. | Brazil and Climate Change Beyond the Amazon

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Manual de fonética e fonologia da língua portuguesa

Manual de fonética e fonologia da língua portuguesa

Escrito inteiramente em português o Manual de fonética e fonologia da língua portuguesa é uma obra que abrange todos os aspectos fonéticos e fonológicos desse idioma inclusive as questões de fonética acústica e auditiva fonotática e traços suprassegmentais que a maioria dos livros didáticos não aborda. Neste livro o estudante encontrará uma introdução detalhada e exata mas acessível à fonética e à fonologia da língua portuguesa. Inclui capítulos introdutórios que contextualizam essas disciplinas no campo geral da linguística e salientam o papel dos sons e sua representação na comunicação humana. Principais características: ● Escrito por fonetistas qualificados e versados nas questões atuais da ciência fonética. ● Não é preciso já saber linguística pois o livro expõe todos os termos e conceitos linguísticos necessários. ● Cada capítulo conta com um resumo uma lista de conceitos e termos perguntas de revisão e exercícios de pronúncia relevantes destinados à prática dos conselhos e sugestões específicos do capítulo. ● Os capítulos que abordam a produção física dos sons contêm seções de Dicas Pedagógicas Conselhos Práticos e Exercícios de Pronúncia que ligam a teoria aos aspectos práticos da boa pronúncia. ● Uma característica exclusiva deste livro é a exposição da fonética e fonologia das três principais normas cultas da língua portuguesa: a de São Paulo e do Rio de Janeiro para o português brasileiro (PB) e a de Lisboa para o português europeu (PE). ● Numerosas imagens gráficos e tabelas para ilustrar claramente cada conceito. ● Recursos eletrônicos disponíveis online nos materiais de eResource com a pronúncia dos sons frases e exercícios do livro. O Manual de fonética e fonologia da língua portuguesa é uma introdução abrangente a esses campos escrita de modo a ser clara e acessível aos estudantes de português em nível avançado para ajudá-los a entender como melhorar a própria pronúncia. O livro é excelente também tanto para alunos de pós-graduação como para professores linguistas e profissionais de letras. Written entirely in Portuguese Manual de fonética e fonologia da língua portuguesa presents an accurate yet accessible introduction to Portuguese phonetics and phonology. The book covers all phonetic and phonological aspects of the language including those often missing from other textbooks such as acoustic and auditory phonetics phonotactics and suprasegmentals. The book maintains a careful balance between the theoretical and practical aspects of the topic and is designed to help learners improve their pronunciation through an understanding of the linguistic principles of phonetics and phonology combined with the application of these principles through exercises and practice. Additional pronunciation resources are available online at www. routledge. com/9780367179915. Written in a clear and accessible manner the book is ideal for advanced students of Portuguese with no prior knowledge of linguistics.

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Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Environmental Organizations and Development

Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Environmental Organizations and Development

The Amazon region is the focus of intense conflict between conservationists concerned with deforestation and advocates of agro-industrial development. This book focuses on the contributions of environmental organizations to the preservation of Brazilian Amazonia. It reveals how environmental organizations such as Greenpeace Friends of the Earth WWF and others have fought fiercely to stop deforestation in the region. It documents how the history of frontier expansion and environmental struggle in the region is linked to Brazil’s position in an evolving capitalist world-economy. It is shown how Brazil’s effort to become a developed country has led successive Brazilian governments to devise development projects for Amazonia. The author analyses how globalization has led to the expansion of international commodity chains in the region particularly for mineral ores soybeans and beef. He shows how environmental organizations have politicized these commodity chains as weapons of conservation through boycotting certain products while other pro-development groups within Brazil claim that such organizations threaten Brazil's sovereignty over its own resources. | Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Environmental Organizations and Development

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The Viola da Gamba

The Viola da Gamba

The viola da gamba was a central instrument in European music from the late 15th century well into the late 18th. In this comprehensive study Bettina Hoffmann offers both an introduction to the instrument - its construction technique and history - for the non-specialist interweaving this information with a wealth of original archival scholarship that experts will relish. The book begins with a description of the instrument and here Hoffmann grapples with the complexity of various names applied to this and related instruments. Following two chapters on the instrument's construction and ancestry the core of the book is given to a historical and geographical survey of the instrument from its origins into the classical period. The book closes with a look at the revival of interest in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Brazil after Bolsonaro The Comeback of Lula da Silva

Brazil after Bolsonaro The Comeback of Lula da Silva

Brazil after Bolsonaro captures and presents the voices of a wide range of stakeholders including academics and journalists in Brazil and abroad to produce the first systematic engagement with Lula’s latest presidency. Providing fair and balanced perspectives on Lula the authors examine the legacy of Lula’s previous presidency; what happened in the interim in the eras of Rousseff Temer and Bolsonaro; and what are the challenges facing a new Lula administration. This book is divided into three main sections (Background to change Context and issues and Foreign policy) and chapters detail the political social and economic dimensions of change in Brazil and its wider repercussions. A fourth section sees Luís Guillermo Solís Rivera President of Costa Rica from 2014 to 2018 offer reflections on Lula from the perspective of a fellow president. Assuming no prior knowledge and written in an accessible style this book is ideal for those seeking to further their understanding of contemporary politics in Brazil and to learn the context and consequences of the transfer of power from Jair Bolsonaro to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. | Brazil after Bolsonaro The Comeback of Lula da Silva

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Attacks on Linking Revisited A New Look at Bion's Classic Work

Attacks on Linking Revisited A New Look at Bion's Classic Work

This book aims at providing further contributions inspired by Bion's paper Attacks on Linking (1959) by a distinguinshed group of scholars who have focused on different aspects of his propositions. Contributors: Christine Anzieu-Premmereur Rachel B. Blass Ronald Britton Catalina Bronstein Elias Mallet da Rocha Barros Elizabeth Lima da Rocha Barros Antonino Ferro Jay Greenberg Monica Horovitz Clara Nemas Edna O'Shaughnessy Rudi Vermote | Attacks on Linking Revisited A New Look at Bion's Classic Work

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International Dimensions Of The Environmental Crisis

International Dimensions Of The Environmental Crisis

This volume is a collection of seventeen essays offering in-depth and comparative studies of areas faced with environmental crisis. Arranged in five sections that include practical and philosophical problems; Latin America; Europe; Asia and Africa. With focus on the problems faced in the Sahara Desert the Amazon the Punjab and a comparative study of Ethiopia and Nigeria; highlighting the seriousness of certain environmental trends and the action of governments. | International Dimensions Of The Environmental Crisis

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Platform Strategy How to Unlock the Power of Communities and Networks to Grow Your Business

Platform Strategy How to Unlock the Power of Communities and Networks to Grow Your Business

During the last decade platform businesses such as Uber Airbnb Amazon and eBay have been taking over the world. In almost every sector traditional businesses are under attack from digital disrupters that are effectively harnessing the power of communities. But what exactly is a platform business and why is it different? In Platform Strategy Laure Claire Reillier and Benoit Reillier provide a practical guide for students digital entrepreneurs and executives to understand what platforms are how they work and how you can build one successfully. Using their own rocket model and original case studies (including Google Apple Amazon) they explain how designing igniting and scaling a platform business requires learning a whole new set of management rules. Platform Strategy also offers many fascinating insights into the future of platforms their regulation and governance as well as how they can be combined with other business models. Benoit Reillier and Laure Claire Reillier are co-founders of Launchworks a leading advisory firm focused on helping organizations develop and scale innovative business models. | Platform Strategy How to Unlock the Power of Communities and Networks to Grow Your Business

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The Spectacle of Clouds 1439–1650 Italian Art and Theatre

The Spectacle of Clouds 1439–1650 Italian Art and Theatre

The studies in which history of art and theatre are considered together are few and none to date investigate the evolution of the representation of clouds from the early Renaissance to the Baroque period. This book reconsiders the origin of Italian Renaissance and Baroque cloud compositions while including the theatrical tradition as one of their most important sources. By examining visual sources such as paintings frescos and stage designs together with letters guild-ledgers descriptions of performances and relevant treatises a new methodology to approach the development of this early modern visuality is offered. The result is an historical reconstruction where multiple factors are seen as facets of a single process which led to the development of Italy’s visual culture. The book also offers new insights into Leonardo da Vinci’s theatrical works Raphael’s Disputa Vasari’s Lives and Pietro da Cortona’s fresco paintings. The Spectacle of Clouds 1439-1650 examines the different ways Heaven has been conceived imagined and represented from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century crossing over into the fields of history religion and philosophy. | The Spectacle of Clouds 1439–1650 Italian Art and Theatre

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The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni

The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni

The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni offers an original reading of Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s opera Don Giovanni using as a lens the portrayal of the title role by its creator the baritone Luigi Bassi (1766–1825). Although Bassi was coached in the role by the composer himself his portrayal has never been studied in depth before and this book presents a large number of new sources (first- and second-hand accounts) which allows us to reconstruct his performance scene by scene. The book confronts Bassi’s portrayal with a study of the opera’s early German reception and performance history demonstrating how Don Giovanni as we know it today was not only created by Mozart Da Ponte and Luigi Bassi but also by the early German adapters translators critics and performers who turned the title character into the arrogant and violent villain we still encounter in most of today’s stage productions. Incorporating discussion of dramaturgical thinking of the late Enlightenment and the difficult moral problems that the opera raises this is an important study for scholars and researchers from opera studies theatre and performance studies music history as well as conductors directors and singers.

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The Business of Media Distribution Monetizing Film TV and Video Content in an Online World

The Business of Media Distribution Monetizing Film TV and Video Content in an Online World

In this updated edition of the industry staple veteran media executive Jeff Ulin relates business theory and practice across key global market segments—film television and online/digital—providing you with an insider’s perspective that can't be found anywhere else. Learn how an idea moves from concept to profit and how distribution dominates the bottom line: Hollywood stars may make the headlines but marketing and distribution are the behind-the-scenes drivers converting content into cash. The third edition: Includes perspectives from key industry executives at studios networks agencies and online leaders including Fox Paramount Lucasfilm Endeavor Tencent MPAA YouTube Amazon and many more; Explores the explosive growth of the Chinese market including box office trends participation in financing Hollywood feature films and the surge in online usage; Illustrates how online streaming leaders like Netflix Amazon Apple YouTube Hulu and Facebook are changing the way TV content is distributed and consumed and in cases how these services are moving into theatrical markets; Analyzes online influences and disruption throughout the distribution chain and explains the risks and impact stemming from changing access points (e. g. stand-alone apps) delivery methods (over-the-top) and consumption patterns (e. g. binge watching); Breaks down historical film windows the economic drivers behind them and how online and digital delivery applications are changing the landscape. Ulin provides the virtual apprenticeship you need to demystify and manage the complicated media markets understand how digital distribution has impacted the ecosystem and glimpse into the future of how film and television content will be financed distributed and watched. An online eResource contains further discussion on topics presented in the book. | The Business of Media Distribution Monetizing Film TV and Video Content in an Online World

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Mano a Mano: Português para Falantes de Espanhol Volume 1 – Básico

Mano a Mano: Português para Falantes de Espanhol Volume 1 – Básico

Mano a Mano: Português para Falantes de Espanhol vem preencher uma importante lacuna no mercado editorial: a carência de livros didáticos que considerando as necessidades específicas de falantes de espanhol favoreçam um desenvolvimento mais rápido de sua proficiência em português. A coleção reúne uma série de características favoráveis à aprendizagem do português em diferentes contextos (ensino médio universidades cursos livres): Convida o(a) aluno(a) a desenvolver sua proficiência em português ao mesmo tempo que forma uma imagem multifacetada do Brasil em diálogo com suas próprias construções culturais desconstruindo discursos estabilizados e ampliando seus horizontes; Favorece o trnsito por múltiplas práticas de letramento em que circulam diferentes gêneros discursivos oferecendo oportunidades para que o(a) estudante aprimore suas capacidades de linguagem em contextos reais ou próximos a situações autênticas de interação; Sensibiliza o(a) aluno(a) para diferentes variedades da língua portuguesa; Permite ao(à) estudante desenvolver suas capacidades léxico-gramaticais e fonético-fonológicas de maneira reflexiva e contextualizada levando em consideração necessidades específicas de falantes de espanhol; Propõe tarefas semelhantes às encontradas no Certificado de Proficiência em Língua Portuguesa para Estrangeiros (Celpe-Bras) do Ministério da Educação brasileiro; É acompanhado por dois cadernos complementares integrados com explicações detalhadas referentes a recursos léxico-gramaticais e fonético-fonológicos além de uma série de atividades; Disponibiliza online os vídeos e áudios de tarefas de compreensão oral e de atividades de pronúncia. Preparado para o desenvolvimento de um curso de até 60 horas em contexto de imersão ou 90 horas de não-imersão Mano a Mano Volume 1 – Básico permite levar falantes de espanhol (como língua materna ou estrangeira/adicional) que nunca tiveram contato significativo prévio com o português até o início do nível Intermediário do Celpe-Bras do B1 do Quadro Europeu Comum de Referência para as Línguas ou do Intermediário Médio do American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. | Mano a Mano: Português para Falantes de Espanhol Volume 1 – Básico

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The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization

The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization

The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization is the first comprehensive overview of the language revitalization movement from the Arctic to the Amazon and across continents. Featuring 47 contributions from a global range of top scholars in the field the handbook is divided into two parts the first of which expands on language revitalization issues of theory and practice while the second covers regional perspectives in an effort to globalize and decolonize the field. The collection examines critical issues in language revitalization including:language rights language and well-being and language policy;language in educational institutions and in the home;new methodologies and venues for language learning;and the roles of documentation literacies and the internet. The volume also contains chapters on the kinds of language that are less often researched such as the revitalization of music of whistled languages and sign languages and how languages change when they are being revitalized. The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization is the ideal resource for graduate students and researchers working in linguistic anthropology and language revitalization and endangerment.

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The Portuguese in India and Other Studies 1500-1700

The Portuguese in India and Other Studies 1500-1700

The studies brought together in this volume were published over the last thirty years and are concerned directly or indirectly with the Portuguese presence in India between about 1500 and 1650. They have been arranged into four groups of which the first 'The Portuguese in India' includes pieces on the changing character of the empire in India Goa in the 17th century the Portuguese India Company of 1628-33 smugglers the great famine of the early 1630s and the ceremonial induction process for new viceroys. A second group focuses on the life career and background of the count of Linhares before during and after his term as viceroy at Goa. The third group consists of studies on travel and communications between India and Portugal both by sea and by land. The collection concludes with studies under the heading of 'historiography and problems of interpretation' on Charles Boxer as a biographer and on Vasco da Gama's reputation for violence. | The Portuguese in India and Other Studies 1500-1700

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Doing Survey Research A Guide to Quantitative Methods

Doing Survey Research A Guide to Quantitative Methods

Each day we are faced with continuing claims made by media pundits politicians teachers and friends often quoting research. Consider also the numerous comments and posts on Internet blogs Twitter and Facebook that illustrate the confusion between opinion and factual data. How do we learn to interpret the research we hear about and read to distinguish opinions from scientific facts and to use this knowledge to conduct our own studies to answer the questions faced in everyday situations? Understanding the components that go into scientific research and learning how to do research make decisions about which statistics to use and analyze statistical findings are goals for everyone in today's research-oriented world. Questions about the reliability and validity of data from a study or public opinion poll come up routinely and need critical review. This book contributes to achieving these objectives. Doing Survey Research is intended for people who want to learn how to conduct quantitative studies for a project in an undergraduate course a graduate-level thesis or a survey that an employer may want completed. This brief practical textbook prepares beginners to conduct their own survey research and write up the results as well as read and interpret other people's research. It combines survey design with data analysis and interpretation. And it is for those who need to understand and critically interpret survey research found in scholarly journals reports distributed in the workplace and social scientific findings presented online in the media on a blog or in social media postings. Essential new updates to this edition include coverage of Big Data Meta-Analysis and A/B testing methodology—methods used by scholars as well as businesses like Netflix and Amazon. New to this Fourth Edition Each chapter and its exercises feature updated data and illustrations from current academic and popular articles relevant to today’s web-oriented students including studies focused on topics related to social media. Update web site http://doingsurveyresearch. wordpress. com/ New Coverage of Big Data (used by popular web sites like Amazon and Netflix) and the ethical issues which emerge not only about privacy but also how it relates to the methods discussed in this book about sampling probability and research design. New coverage of meta-data and the increasingly popular method in many professional and other settings. | Doing Survey Research A Guide to Quantitative Methods

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Fatimid History and Ismaili Doctrine

Fatimid History and Ismaili Doctrine

The thirteen studies in this volume explore critical problems in Fatimid history and historiography many specifically focused on the content of doctrinal writings produced by the Ismaili supporters and agents of this caliphate who worked on behalf of the dynasty both within the empire and outside. Several concern issues in disputes that separated the various factions of Medieval Islam and served to distinguish the Ismailis from the rest often branding the Fatimids with the charge of heterodoxy. Others deal with the consequence of Shiite rule over a largely non-Shiite populace. Yet others involve the relationship between religious ideology and the administration of government. Among the themes featured in this collection there are separate investigations of institutions of learning of succession to the imamate the da`wa the judiciary relations with the Byzantines and with the Abbasids and works on heresiography doctrines of time and the accusation that the Ismailis upheld the metempsychosis of the human soul. The latter topics help to situate the Ismailis and hence the Fatimids within the broader context of Islamic thought. | Fatimid History and Ismaili Doctrine

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Understanding the Business of Media Entertainment The Legal and Business Essentials All Filmmakers Should Know

Understanding the Business of Media Entertainment The Legal and Business Essentials All Filmmakers Should Know

This revised edition of Understanding the Business of Media Entertainment is an indispensable guide to the business aspects of the entertainment industry providing the information you need to break in and to succeed. Written in a clear and engaging tone the second edition of this book covers the essential topics in a thorough but reader-friendly manner and includes plenty of real-world examples that bring business and legal concepts to life such as the growing clout of digital companies and the rise of streaming providers like Netflix and Amazon the transformation of independent film development and distribution and changes to the media ownership landscape. Award-winning screenwriter and entertainment attorney Gregory Bernstein gives an insider's look at the filmmaking business from copyright law and government media regulation to development distribution revenue the role of agents managers and unions entertainment contracts and more. Other topics covered include: Hollywood's growth and the current conglomerates that own most of the traditional media. How specific entertainment companies operate including facts about particular studios and employee tasks. How studios develop projects and engage in marketing and distribution. The kinds of revenues studios earn and how they account for these revenues. | Understanding the Business of Media Entertainment The Legal and Business Essentials All Filmmakers Should Know

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The Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions Strategies for Investigating Anthropogenic Landscapes Dynamic Environments and Climate C

The Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions Strategies for Investigating Anthropogenic Landscapes Dynamic Environments and Climate C

The impacts of climate change on human societies and the roles those societies themselves play in altering their environments appear in headlines more and more as concern over modern global climate change intensifies. Increasingly archaeologists and paleoenvironmental scientists are looking to evidence from the human past to shed light on the processes which link environmental and cultural change. Establishing clear contemporaneity and correlation and then moving beyond correlation to causation remains as much a theoretical task as a methodological one. This book addresses this challenge by exploring new approaches to human-environment dynamics and confronting the key task of constructing arguments that can link the two in concrete and detailed ways. The contributors include researchers working in a wide variety of regions and time periods including Mesoamerica Mongolia East Africa the Amazon Basin and the Island Pacific among others. Using methodological vignettes from their own research the contributors explore diverse approaches to human-environment dynamics illustrating the manifold nature of the subject and suggesting a wide variety of strategies for approaching it. This book will be of interest to researchers and scholars in Archaeology Paleoenvironmental Science Ecology and Geology. | The Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions Strategies for Investigating Anthropogenic Landscapes Dynamic Environments and Climate C

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Loyalty Management From Loyalty Programs to Omnichannel Customer Experiences

Loyalty Management From Loyalty Programs to Omnichannel Customer Experiences

In this insightful new text Cristina Ziliani and Marco Ieva trace the evolution of thinking and practice in loyalty management. From trading stamps to Amazon Prime and Alibaba 88 Membership they present a fresh take on the tools strategies and skills that underpin its key significance in marketing today. Loyalty management is increasingly identified with the design and management of a quality customer experience on the journey across the many touchpoints that connect the customer with the brand. Evaluating the research on best practice and offering concrete examples from industry the authors argue that existing schemes and systems are not just things of the past but should be the optimal starting point for companies needing to foster customer loyalty in an omnichannel world. Drawing on 20 years of experience in research consulting and teaching the authors have compiled a unique research-based practice-oriented text. It will guide marketers business leaders and students through the changes in marketing thought and practice on loyalty management as well as offering practical guidance on the skills and capabilities that companies need if they want to be successful at delivering essential loyalty-driving customer experiences. | Loyalty Management From Loyalty Programs to Omnichannel Customer Experiences

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