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Designing Audio Power Amplifiers

Designing Audio Power Amplifiers

This comprehensive book on audio power amplifier design will appeal to members of the professional audio engineering community as well as the student and enthusiast. Designing Audio Power Amplifiers begins with power amplifier design basics that a novice can understand and moves all the way through to in-depth design techniques for very sophisticated audiophiles and professional audio power amplifiers. This book is the single best source of knowledge for anyone who wishes to design audio power amplifiers. It also provides a detailed introduction to nearly all aspects of analog circuit design making it an effective educational text. Develop and hone your audio amplifier design skills with in-depth coverage of these and other topics: Basic and advanced audio power amplifier design Low-noise amplifier design Static and dynamic crossover distortion demystified Understanding negative feedback and the controversy surrounding it Advanced NFB compensation techniques including TPC and TMC Sophisticated DC servo design MOSFET power amplifiers and error correction Audio measurements and instrumentation Overlooked sources of distortion SPICE simulation for audio amplifiers including a tutorial on LTspice SPICE transistor modeling including the VDMOS model for power MOSFETs Thermal design and the use of ThermalTrak™ transistors Four chapters on class D amplifiers including measurement techniques Professional power amplifiers Switch-mode power supplies (SMPS).

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Cities and Power Worldwide Perspectives

Cities and Power Worldwide Perspectives

What do cities tell us about power? How does power shape cities? These are the main questions answered by a multidisciplinary set of eminent urban scholar in crisp articles on capital cities from around the world from Buenos Aires to Tokyo from Jakarta to Moscow. Focus is on contemporary cities and their manifestations and representations of power though often with a historical grounding and the collection also includes an example of archaeological urban analysis from northern Mesopotamia. Through its variety of approaches by leading scholars of the field and its variety of cities with their different histories and their diverse national contexts and political organization the book gives a uniquely insightful and easily accessible world overview of cities of power. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Urban Sciences. | Cities and Power Worldwide Perspectives

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Electricity for the Entertainment Electrician & Technician A Practical Guide for Power Distribution in Live Event Production

Electricity for the Entertainment Electrician & Technician A Practical Guide for Power Distribution in Live Event Production

Now in its third edition Electricity for the Entertainment Electrician & Technician is a comprehensive practical study guide for aspiring and working professionals in live event production. The book covers every aspect of power distribution from the fundamentals like basic circuits to 3-phase power power calculations grounding and bonding electrical safety portable power generators and battery power. With ample photographs and illustrations practice problems and solutions and real-world examples from experience and first-hand accounts it provides readers with the knowledge to safely design set up and monitor power distribution systems. The third edition expands on grounding and bonding portable power generators balanced and unbalanced 3-phase power calculations battery power and more. The last chapter walks readers through the process of prepping for a show setting up a portable power distribution system and monitoring every aspect of the system including voltage current and heat using an infrared camera explaining in detail best practices and the logic behind them. Covering topics that are listed in the content outline for the ETCP Entertainment Electrician Certification exam as well as the ETCP Portable Power Distribution Technician Certification exam this reference supports practicing technicians and provides new technicians the assistance they need for a successful career in the entertainment industry. Additional resources including conversion tables voltage spreadsheets articles from Lighting & Sound International Lighting & Sound America and Protocol and animations and illustrations depicting electricity and electric power distribution developed for the author’s workshops can be found on the companion website www. electrics. tech. | Electricity for the Entertainment Electrician & Technician A Practical Guide for Power Distribution in Live Event Production

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Power Politics and Society An Introduction to Political Sociology

Power Politics and Society An Introduction to Political Sociology

Power Politics and Society: An Introduction to Political Sociology discusses how sociologists have organized the study of politics into conceptual frameworks and how each of these frameworks foster a sociological perspective on power and politics in society. This includes discussing how these frameworks can be applied to understanding current issues and other real life aspects of politics. This second edition incorporates new material on cultural divides in American politics emerging roles for the state the ongoing effects of the Great Recession and recovery the 2016 election social media and the various policies introduced during the Trump administration and how they affect people’s lives. | Power Politics and Society An Introduction to Political Sociology

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Discourse Power Address The Politics of Public Communication

Discourse Power Address The Politics of Public Communication

'Discourse Power Address' identifies the existence of 'directive' address a form of strategic communication which is employed in a number of dominant practices including Advertising Politics Public Relations and Corporate representation. Stuart Price argues that the simulation of intimacy in authoritarian address masks a drive to power in which the creation of propositions by powerful social actors is based on the 'timeliness' of utterance rather than any real adherence to truth or genuine explanation. Election broadcasts political speeches TV commercials and corporate advertisements are all scrutinised in order to evaluate competing perspectives on the creation and circulation of meaning; particular reference is made to theories of discourse ideology and address. In the course of his argument the author proposes an original method for determining how authoritarian address attempts to make an impact on audiences. Providing a cross-disciplinary contribution to the fields of Communication Language Media and Political Studies this book provides an original clear-sighted contribution to the debate on language and power and will provide an essential resource for lecturers researchers students activists and policy-makers. | Discourse Power Address The Politics of Public Communication

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Shaping Education Policy Power and Process

Shaping Education Policy Power and Process

Shaping Education Policy is a comprehensive overview of education politics and policy which provides conceptual guideposts for future policy development and strategies for change. Leading scholars explore the interacting social processes and the dynamics of power politics as they intersect with democratic ideals and shape school performance. Chapters cover major themes that have influenced education including the Civil Rights Movement federal involvement the accountability movement family choice and development of nationalization and globalization. This edited collection examines how education policy in the United States has evolved over the last several decades and how the resulting policies are affecting schools and the children who attend them. This important book is a necessary resource for understanding the evolution current status and possibilities of educational policy and politics. | Shaping Education Policy Power and Process

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Indigenous Peoples and the Geographies of Power Mezcala’s Narratives of Neoliberal Governance

Indigenous Peoples and the Geographies of Power Mezcala’s Narratives of Neoliberal Governance

Tracing key trends of the global-regional-local interface of power Inés Durán Matute through the case of the indigenous community of Mezcala (Mexico) demonstrates how global political economic processes shape the lives spaces projects and identities of the most remote communities. Throughout the book in-depth interviews participant observations and text collection offer the reader insight into the functioning of neoliberal governance how it is sustained in networks of power and rhetorics deployed and how it is experienced. People as passively and actively participate in its courses of action are being enmeshed in these geographies of power seeking out survival strategies but also constructing autonomous projects that challenge such forms of governance. This book by bringing together the experience of a geopolitical locality and the literature from the Latin American Global South into the discussions within the Global Northern academia offers an original and timely transdisciplinary approach that challenges the interpretations of power and development while also prioritizing and respecting the local production of knowledge. | Indigenous Peoples and the Geographies of Power Mezcala’s Narratives of Neoliberal Governance

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Patterns of Power Grades 9-12 Teaching Grammar Through Reading and Writing

Patterns of Power Grades 9-12 Teaching Grammar Through Reading and Writing

Traditional grammar instruction often focuses too much on what’s right or what’s wrong hiding the true power of conventions—the creation of meaning purpose and effect. Instead of hammering high school students with the mistakes they should avoid Jeff Anderson Travis Leech and Holly Durham suggest exploring grammar through the celebration of author’s purpose and craft. In Patterns of Power Grades 9-12: Teaching Grammar Through Reading and Writing they invite you to create an environment in which writers thrive while studying and appreciating the beauty effects and meaning of grammar. Inside this book teachers will find a comprehensive explanation of the brain-based Patterns of Power invitational process as well as: 35 standards-aligned lesson sets built around practical engaging inquiry-based methods that take deeper dives into grammar and craft than any worksheet quiz or editing exercise ever could A variety of high-interest model texts from authentic and diverse sources including excerpts from classic and current novels memoirs plays graphic novels poems and media Real-life classroom examples and tips with suggestions for scaffolding new learning and ideas for how to use the lessons in AP courses Templates for extended application easy to locate printables and ready-to-go visuals Additional Models for Further Study for extension opportunities in every lesson set An entire chapter devoted to helping high school writers master citations in research With hundreds of teach-tomorrow resources and implementation supports such as quick-reference guides specific applications to reading instruction and soundtrack suggestions to infuse the joy of music into grammar instruction Patterns of Power Grades 9-12 gives you everything you need to inspire your high school writers to move beyond limitation and into the endless possibilities of what they can do as writers. The Patterns of Power series also includes Patterns of Power Grades 6-8: Inviting Adolescent Writers into the Conventions of Language; Patterns of Power Grades 1-5: Inviting Young Writers into the Conventions of Language; Patterns of Wonder Grades PreK-1: Inviting Emergent Writers to Play with the Conventions of Language; and Patterns of Power en Español Grades 1-5: Inviting Bilingual Writers into the Conventions of Spanish. | Patterns of Power Grades 9-12 Teaching Grammar Through Reading and Writing

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Statistical Power Analysis A Simple and General Model for Traditional and Modern Hypothesis Tests Fifth Edition

Statistical Power Analysis A Simple and General Model for Traditional and Modern Hypothesis Tests Fifth Edition

Statistical Power Analysis explains the key concepts in statistical power analysis and illustrates their application in both tests of traditional null hypotheses (that treatments or interventions have no effect in the population) and in tests of the minimum-effect hypotheses (that the population effects of treatments or interventions are so small that they can be safely treated as unimportant). It provides readers with the tools to understand and perform power analyses for virtually all the statistical methods used in the social and behavioral sciences. Brett Myors and Kevin Murphy apply the latest approaches of power analysis to both null hypothesis and minimum-effect testing using the same basic unified model. This book starts with a review of the key concepts that underly statistical power. It goes on to show how to perform and interpret power analyses and the ways to use them to diagnose and plan research. We discuss the uses of power analysis in correlation and regression in the analysis of experimental data and in multilevel studies. This edition includes new material and new power software. The programs used for power analysis in this book have been re-written in R a language that is widely used and freely available. The authors include R codes for all programs and we have also provided a web-based app that allows users who are not comfortable with R to perform a wide range of analyses using any computer or device that provides access to the web. Statistical Power Analysis helps readers design studies diagnose existing studies and understand why hypothesis tests come out the way they do. The fifth edition includes updates to all chapters to accommodate the most current scholarship as well as recalculations of all examples. This book is intended for graduate students and faculty in the behavioral and social sciences; researchers in other fields will find the concepts and methods laid out here valuable and applicable to studies in many domains. | Statistical Power Analysis A Simple and General Model for Traditional and Modern Hypothesis Tests Fifth Edition

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Patterns of Power Grades 6–8 Inviting Adolescent Writers into the Conventions of Language

Patterns of Power Grades 6–8 Inviting Adolescent Writers into the Conventions of Language

Authors Jeff Anderson Travis Leech and Melinda Clark lead a vibrant approach to grammar instruction in Patterns of Power Grades 6-8: Inviting Adolescent Writers into the Conventions of Language. Here young emergent writers are invited to notice the conventions of the English language and build off them in this inquiry-based approach to instructional grammar. The book comes with standards-aligned lessons that can be incorporated in just 10 minutes a day. Patterns of Power’s responsive invitational approach puts students in an involved role and has them explore and discuss the purpose and meaning of what they read. Students study short authentic texts and are asked to share their findings out loud engaging in rich conversations to make meaning. Inside you’ll find: Ready-to-use lesson plan sets that include excerpts from authentic and diverse mentor texts curated for grades 6-8 Real-life classroom examples tips and Power Notes gleaned from the authors’ experiences that can be applied to any level of writer Resources including a Patterns of Power Planning Guide and musical soundtracks to use in classroom instruction or as handouts for student literacy notebooks Patterns of Power Grades 6-8 provides a simple classroom routine that is structured in length and approach but provides teachers flexibility in choosing the texts allowing for numerous diverse voices in the classroom. The practice helps students build cognitive recognition and provides a formative assessment for teachers on student progress. With these short lessons students will gain confidence and move beyond limitation to produce effortless writing in your class and beyond. The Patterns of Power series also includes Patterns of Power Grades 1-5: Inviting Young Writers into the Conventions of Language; Patterns of Power en Español Grades 1-5: Inviting Bilingual Writers into the Conventions of Spanish; Patterns of Power Grades 9-12: Teaching Grammar Through Reading and Writing; and Patterns of Wonder Grades PreK-1: Inviting Emergent Writers to Play with the Conventions of Language. | Patterns of Power Grades 6–8 Inviting Adolescent Writers into the Conventions of Language

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Patterns of Power Grades 1-5 Inviting Young Writers into the Conventions of Language

Patterns of Power Grades 1-5 Inviting Young Writers into the Conventions of Language

Author Jeff Anderson and literacy coach Whitney La Rocca lead a vibrant approach to grammar instruction in Patterns of Power Grades 1-5: Inviting Young Writers into the Conventions of Language. Here young emergent writers are invited to notice the conventions of the English language and build off them in this inquiry-based approach to instructional grammar. The book comes with standards-aligned lessons that can be incorporated in 10 minutes a day. Patterns of Power’s responsive invitational approach puts students in an involved role and has them explore and discuss the purpose and meaning of what they read. Students study short authentic texts and are asked to share their findings out loud engaging in rich conversations to make meaning. Inside you’ll find: Ready-to-use lesson plan sets that include excerpts from authentic and diverse mentor texts curated for grades 1-5 and can be adapted over 5 grade levels Real-life classroom examples tips and Power Notes gleaned from the authors’ experiences that can be applied to any level of writer Resources including a Patterns of Power Planning Guide and musical soundtracks to use in classroom instruction or as handouts for student literacy notebooks Patterns of Power Grades 1-5 provides a simple classroom routine that is structured in length and approach but provides teachers flexibility in choosing the texts allowing for numerous diverse voices in the classroom. The practice helps students build cognitive recognition and provides a formative assessment for teachers on student progress. With these short lessons students will grow their confidence and move beyond limitation to produce effortless writing in your class and beyond. The Patterns of Power series also includes Patterns of Power Grades 6-8: Inviting Adolescent Writers into the Conventions of Language; Patterns of Power en Español Grades 1-5: Inviting Bilingual Writers into the Conventions of Spanish; Patterns of Power Grades 9-12: Teaching Grammar Through Reading and Writing and Patterns of Wonder Grades PreK-1: Inviting Emergent Writers to Play with the Conventions of Language. | Patterns of Power Grades 1-5 Inviting Young Writers into the Conventions of Language

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Power and Politics in Sustainable Consumption Research and Practice

Power and Politics in Sustainable Consumption Research and Practice

With growing awareness of environmental deterioration atmospheric pollution and resource depletion the last several decades have brought increased attention and scrutiny to global consumption levels. However there are significant and well documented limitations associated with current efforts to encourage more sustainable consumption patterns ranging from informational and time constraints to the highly individualizing effect of market-based participation. This volume featuring essays solicited from experts engaged in sustainable consumption research from around the world presents empirical and theoretical illustrations of the various means through which politics and power influence (un)sustainable consumption practices policies and perspectives. With chapters on compelling topics including collective action behaviour-change and the transition movement the authors discuss why current efforts have largely failed to meet environmental targets and explore promising directions for research policy and practice. Featuring contributions that will help the reader open up politics and power in ways that are accessible and productive and bridge the gaps with current approaches to sustainable consumption this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of sustainable consumption and the politics of sustainability. | Power and Politics in Sustainable Consumption Research and Practice

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Patterns of Power en español Grades 1-5 Inviting Bilingual Writers into the Conventions of Spanish

Patterns of Power en español Grades 1-5 Inviting Bilingual Writers into the Conventions of Spanish

Author Jeff Anderson and bilingual teacher and coach Caroline Sweet lead a vibrant approach to grammar instruction in Patterns of Power en español Grades 1-5: Inviting Bilingual Writers into the Conventions of Spanish. Here young emergent writers are invited to notice the conventions of the Spanish language and build off them in this inquiry-based approach to instructional grammar. The book comes with standards-aligned lessons that can be incorporated in just 10 minutes a day. Patterns of Power’s responsive invitational approach puts students in an involved role and has them explore and discuss the purpose and meaning of what they read. Students study short authentic texts and are asked to share their findings out loud engaging in rich conversations to make meaning. Inside you’ll find: Ready-to-use lesson plan sets that include excerpts from authentic and diverse Spanish mentor texts curated for grades 1-5 and can be adapted over 5 grade levels Real-life classroom examples tips and Power Notes gleaned from the authors’ experiences that can be applied to any level of writer Resources including a Patterns of Power Planning Guide adapted for Spanish to use in classroom instruction or as handouts for student literacy notebooks How to correlate to Spanish TEKS Common Core and other state standards Patterns of Power en español Grades 1-5 provides a simple classroom routine that is structured in length and approach but provides teachers flexibility in choosing the texts allowing for numerous diverse voices in the classroom. The practice helps students build cognitive recognition and provides a formative assessment for teachers on student progress. With these short lessons students will gain confidence and move beyond limitation to produce effortless writing in your class and beyond. The Patterns of Power series also includes Patterns of Power Grades 6-8: Inviting Adolescent Writers into the Conventions of Language; Patterns of Power Grades 1-5: Inviting Young Writers into the Conventions of Language; Patterns of Power Grades 9-12: Teaching Grammar Through Reading and Writing; and Patterns of Wonder Grades PreK-1: Inviting Emergent Writers to Play with the Conventions of Language. | Patterns of Power en español Grades 1-5 Inviting Bilingual Writers into the Conventions of Spanish

GBP 48.99
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Critical Geographies of Sport Space Power and Sport in Global Perspective

Critical Geographies of Sport Space Power and Sport in Global Perspective

Sport is a geographic phenomenon. The physical and organizational infrastructure of sport occupies a prominent place in our society. This important book takes an explicitly spatial approach to sport bringing together research in geography sport studies and related disciplines to articulate a critical approach to ‘sports geography’. Critical Geographies of Sport illustrates this approach by engaging directly with a variety of theoretical traditions as well as the latest research methods. Each chapter showcases the merits of a geographic approach to the study of sport – ranging from football to running horseracing and professional wrestling. Including cases from Asia Africa the Middle East Europe and the Americas the book highlights the ways that space and power are produced through sport and its concomitant infrastructures agencies and networks. Holding these power relations at the center of its analysis it considers sport as a unique lens onto our understanding of space. Truly global in its perspective it is fascinating reading for any student or scholar with an interest in sport and politics sport and society or human geography. | Critical Geographies of Sport Space Power and Sport in Global Perspective

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Treaty Ports in Modern China Law Land and Power

Treaty Ports in Modern China Law Land and Power

This book presents a wide range of new research on the Chinese treaty ports – the key strategic places on China’s coast where in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries various foreign powers controlled through unequal treaties whole cities or parts of cities outside the jurisdiction of the Chinese authorities. Topics covered include land and how it was acquired the flow of people good and information specific individuals and families who typify life in the treaty ports and technical advances exploration and innovation in government. | Treaty Ports in Modern China Law Land and Power

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Comparative Executive Clemency The Constitutional Pardon Power and the Prerogative of Mercy in Global Perspective

Comparative Executive Clemency The Constitutional Pardon Power and the Prerogative of Mercy in Global Perspective

Virtually every constitutional order in the common law world contains a provision for executive clemency or pardon in criminal cases. This facility for legal mercy is not limited to a single place in modern legal systems but is instead realized through various practices such as a law enforcement officer’s decision to arrest a prosecutor’s decision to prosecute and a judge’s decision to convict and sentence. Doubts about legal mercy in any form as unfair unguided or arbitrary are as ubiquitous as the exercise of mercy itself. This book presents a comparative analysis of the clemency and pardon power in the common law world. Andrew Novak compares the modern development organization and practice of constitutional and statutory schemes of clemency and pardon in the United Kingdom United States and Commonwealth jurisdictions. He asks whether the bureaucratization of the clemency power is in line with global trends and explores how innovations in legislative involvement judicial review and executive consultation have made the mercy and pardon procedure more transparent. The book concludes with a discussion on the future of the clemency and pardon power given the decline of the death penalty in the Commonwealth and the rise of the modern institution of parole. As a work concerned with the practice of mercy in the common law world this book will be of great interest to researchers and students of international and comparative criminal justice and international human rights law. | Comparative Executive Clemency The Constitutional Pardon Power and the Prerogative of Mercy in Global Perspective

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Knowledge Power and Participation in Environmental Policy Analysis

Knowledge Power and Participation in Environmental Policy Analysis

This volume probes practical dilemmas and competing re- search perspectives in environmental policy analysis. Scholars working in different fields research traditions societies and policy domains offer significant insights into the processes and consequences of environmental policy making. Part 1 Coping with Boundaries describes present-day conflict between experts and greater public participation in environmental policy. It shows that the institutionalization of increasingly complex environmental problems has led to a conflict between technocracy and democracy. Part 2 The Transnational Challenge examines modes of cooperation between grassroots movements scientists and regional authorities in the United States and Canada. These and other modes of cooperation laid the foundations for the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement increased the effectiveness of air pollution treaties and increased climate change. Part 3 Bio-Hazards: Policies and Paralysis deals with environmental prob-lems closest to the everyday concerns of the public at large because they have immediate implications for food safety and other values. Part 4 The Citizens' Perspective focuses on citizen vis-a-vis environmental policy noting that in order to make policies work citizens must be willing and able to participate in policy-making and cooperate in implementing environmental choices. Part 5 Confronting Ordinary and Expert Knowledge explores opportunities and constraints affecting public participation in evaluation of science. Part 6 Developments in Research Programming addresses such questions as whether scientists still have opportunities to do the research they want without being interrupted or disturbed by policy makers and other stakeholders. Part 7 Policy Sciences' Aspirations explores different avenues for improving environmental policy. Volume twelve in the PSRA series should inspire further investigations of the relations among knowledge power and participation in environmental policy. It will be of timely interest to environmentalists policy-makers scholars and the general public. | Knowledge Power and Participation in Environmental Policy Analysis

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Samsung Media Empire and Family A power web

Samsung Media Empire and Family A power web

This book analyses media conglomerates owning multiple media holdings under centralized ownership within and across media markets. It argues that Asian capitalists utilize both a market-oriented ideology and family connections to build their media empires thereby creating cultural conglomerates that exercise corporate censorship over media markets. It focuses on family-controlled media conglomerates in Korea specifically the international business giant Samsung and its related media companies Cheil Jedang and JoongAng Ilbo all of which are controlled by the single Lee family. Utilizing the theoretical approach of political economy of communication the book examines how and why the Lee family exercise corporate censorship over Korean society. Offering an essential take on Asia’s political economy of communication in order to understand the workings of Asian media empires this book will appeal to students and scholars of Korean Studies Korean Business and Mass Communications. | Samsung Media Empire and Family A power web

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Boccaccio's Heroines Power and Virtue in Renaissance Society

Boccaccio's Heroines Power and Virtue in Renaissance Society

In contrast to earlier scholars who have seen Boccaccio's Famous Women as incoherent and fractured Franklin argues that the text offers a remarkably consistent coherent and comprehensible treatise concerning the appropriate functioning of women in society. In this cross disciplinary study of a seminal work of literature and its broader cultural impact on Renaissance society Franklin shows that through both literature and the visual arts Famous Women was used to promote social ideologies in both Renaissance Tuscany and the dynastic courts of northern Italy. Speaking equally to scholars in medieval and early modern literature history and art history Franklin brings needed clarification to the text by demonstrating that the moral criteria Boccaccio used to judge the lives of legendary women - heroines and miscreants alike - were employed consistently to tackle the challenge that politically powerful women represented for the prevailing social order. Further the author brings to light the significant influence of Boccaccio's text on the representation of classical heroines in Renaissance art. By examining several paintings created in the republics and principalities of Renaissance Italy Franklin demonstrates that Famous Women was employed as a conceptual guide by patrons and artists to draw the teeth from the challenge of unconventionally powerful women by co-opting their stories into the service of contemporary Italian standards and mores. | Boccaccio's Heroines Power and Virtue in Renaissance Society

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Con Artists in Cinema Self-Knowledge Female Power and Love

Con Artists in Cinema Self-Knowledge Female Power and Love

This book examines the con artist film as a genre exploring its main features while also addressing variations within it. The volume explores three diverse themes of the con artist film: edification self-awareness and liberation through con games; the femme fatale as con artist; and romantic love as a plot point. Analyzing movies such as Matchstick Men (2003) House of Games (1987) Body Heat (1981) The Last Seduction (1994) Birthday Girl (2001) and The Game (1997) the book also explores their psychological investigation of the con artist figure the con artist’s mark and how the dynamic between these roles implicates us as the audience. It also addresses the con artist film genre’s close association with neo-noir especially through the femme fatale figure investigating and updating the rich tradition of noir film. Demonstrating the range and flexibility of this understudied genre this book will be of interest to scholars and students of film studies ethics and those studying the representation of women in film. . | Con Artists in Cinema Self-Knowledge Female Power and Love

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Political Communication and Leadership Mimetisation Hugo Chavez and the Construction of Power and Identity

Political Communication and Leadership Mimetisation Hugo Chavez and the Construction of Power and Identity

The long-lasting hegemonic rule of President Hugo Chávez not only involved significant rearrangements in the control of political power in Venezuela but also shifts in the way its citizens constructed connected and interacted with politics. In this book Elena Block explores the political communication style developed by Chávez to transmit his ideologies and engage with his publics — A style that unfolded incrementally between 1998 the year of his first presidential campaign and March 13th 2013 when his death was announced after a long struggle with cancer. What sort of political communication did Hugo Chávez develop to establish hegemony in Venezuela? What made him so popular? Block argues that Chávez’s political communication style can be better understood through the concept of mimetisation a systematic sequence of communicational events and practices whereby the Venezuelan President managed to build a bond with his constituents. Applying a mixed qualitative method of collection and analysis of relevant data this phenomenon is examined via the President’s emotional use of common cultural symbols; dramatized and informalised language; savvy use of communication and media and boost of inclusive compensatory and participatory practices in which his constituents not only felt mimetically mirrored but also endowed with an identity. Shedding new light on contemporary theories of populism from the perspective of political communication and identity construction the notion of mimetisation can be adjusted and applied to study the links of populist phenomena the mediatisation of politics and government cultural appeal and identity politics in other cultures and situations in contemporary times. | Political Communication and Leadership Mimetisation Hugo Chavez and the Construction of Power and Identity

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Party Hegemony and Entrepreneurial Power in China Institutional Change in the Film and Music Industries

Party Hegemony and Entrepreneurial Power in China Institutional Change in the Film and Music Industries

Economic liberalisation processes and the rapid development of the private sector are widely visible signs of over thirty years of reform policies in the People’s Republic of China. Nevertheless the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has managed to preserve the basic political institutions of the Leninist Party-state including its own unrestrained position of political power. Against this background this book investigates the interrelationship between processes of marketisation and commercialisation and the stability of the CCP regime. The aim of the book is to complement existing literature on adaptive governance in China and on the reasons for the CCP regime’s relative stability while providing new information about the relationship between the Chinese party-state and private entrepreneurs. Taking case studies from the film and music industries the book gives a detailed account of the political and economic history of these industries in China with special attention given to the role played by private production companies as intermediaries between artistic creation political and ideological constraints and the market. A historical institutionalist approach is employed to trace the effect of Chinese policies on popular culture and the institutions of administrative economic political and ideological control over the film and music industries back to the 1950s revealing the mechanisms and prospects of CCP hegemony in the cultural sector. Examining the effects of the marketisation and commercialisation processes on the communist regime and vice versa this book also offers a fresh perspective on the origins of today’s Chinese popular cultural mainstream. It will therefore be of great interest to students and scholars of Chinese politics Chinese culture and media and Chinese government-business relations. | Party Hegemony and Entrepreneurial Power in China Institutional Change in the Film and Music Industries

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The MDGs Capabilities and Human Rights The power of numbers to shape agendas

The MDGs Capabilities and Human Rights The power of numbers to shape agendas

Heralded as opening a new chapter in international development the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have led to the use of global goals and quantitative targets as a central instrument for defining global priorities. This book explores the implications of this new approach. How does target setting influence policy priorities of national governments bilateral donors multilateral agencies NGOs and other stakeholders? What are the intended and unintended consequences? Why is the use of numeric indicators effective? How does quantification reshape meanings of challenges such as women’s empowerment? Building on 11 case studies and a conceptual framework this book provides a goal-by-goal analysis by leading specialists in the relevant fields. These specialists analyse the choices made as well as the empirical and normative effects of the MDGs to offer insights for a more rigorous use of indicators and cautions on their limitations and perverse consequences. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. | The MDGs Capabilities and Human Rights The power of numbers to shape agendas

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Quantitative Research Methods in Communication The Power of Numbers for Social Justice

Quantitative Research Methods in Communication The Power of Numbers for Social Justice

This textbook is an advanced introduction to quantitative methods for students in communication and allied social science disciplines that focuses on why and how to conduct research that contributes to social justice. Today’s researchers are inspired by the potential for scholarship to make a difference for society to push toward more just and equitable ends and to engage in dialogue with members of the public so that they can make decisions about how to navigate the social cultural and political world equipped with accurate fair and up-to-date knowledge. This book illustrates the mechanics and the meaning behind quantitative research methods by illustrating each step in the research design process with research addressing questions of social justice. It provides practical guidance for researchers who wish to engage in the transformation of structures practices and understandings in society through community and civic engagement and policy formation. It contains step-by-step guidance in quantitative methods—from conceptualization through all the stages of execution of a study including providing a detailed guide for statistical analysis—and demonstrates how researchers can engage with social justice issues in systematic rigorous ethical and meaningful ways. This text serves as a core or supplementary textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in research methods for communication and social sciences and fills a gap for a methods text that is responsive to the desire of scholars to conduct socially impactful research. | Quantitative Research Methods in Communication The Power of Numbers for Social Justice

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