The Modernist Anthropocene examines how modernist writers forged new and innovative ways of responding to rapidly changing planetary conditions and emergent ideas about nonhuman life, environmental ...change and the human species. Drawing on ecocritical analysis, posthumanist theory, archival research and environmental history, this book resituates key works of modernist fiction within the ecological moment of the early twentieth century, a period in which new configurations of the relationship between human life and the natural world were migrating between the sciences, philosophy and literary culture. The author makes the case that the early twentieth century is pivotal in our understanding of the Anthropocene both as a planetary epoch and a critical concept. In doing so, he positions James Joyce, Djuna Barnes and Virginia Woolf as theorists of the modernist Anthropocene, showing how their oeuvres are shaped by, and actively respond to, changing ideas about the nonhuman that continue to reverberate today.
Martha Ullman West illustrates how American ballet developed
over the course of the twentieth century from an aesthetic
originating in the courts of Europe into a stylistically diverse
expression of ...a democratic culture. West places at center stage two
artists who were instrumental to this story: Todd Bolender and
Janet Reed.
Lifelong friends, Bolender (1914-2006) and Reed (1916-2000) were
part of a generation of dancers who navigated the Great Depression,
World War II, and the vibrant cultural scene of postwar New York
City. They danced in the works of choreographers Lew and Willam
Christensen, Eugene Loring, Agnes de Mille, Catherine Littlefield,
Ruthanna Boris, and others who West argues were just as responsible
for the direction of American ballet as the legendary George
Balanchine and Jerome Robbins.
The stories of Bolender, Reed, and their contemporaries also
demonstrate that the flowering of American ballet was not simply a
New York phenomenon. West includes little-known details about how
Bolender and Reed laid the foundations for Seattle's Pacific
Northwest Ballet in the 1970s and how Bolender transformed the
Kansas City Ballet into a highly respected professional company
soon after.
Passionate in their desire to dance and create dances, Bolender
and Reed committed their lives to passing along their hard-won
knowledge, training, and work. This book celebrates two unsung
trailblazers who were pivotal to the establishment of ballet in
America from one coast to the other.
What does it mean to say that the European Union has a constitution—theoretically, but more importantly, practically? What sort of possibilities such assertion opens for various actors—politicians, ...legal professionals, or the general public? And what is the role of constitutional thinkers in establishing constitutional discourse as the dominant way in which European law is (or was) conceived after 1989? This volume seeks to answer such questions, with a special emphasis on the last one. ‘European Constitutional Imaginaries’ are the central focus of the book. These are sets of ideas and beliefs that help to motivate and at the same time justify the practice of government and collective self-rule established by the constitution (written or unwritten). Such imaginaries are as important as institutions and office-holders. They provide political action with an overarching sense and purpose recognized by those governed as legitimate. The book brings together reflections by lawyers, philosophers, sociologists, or political economists, who shed light on various constitutional imaginaries of Europe. They provide critical intellectual histories of particular legal approaches to European integration, and look behind the language of law to reach deeper insights into the contested history and political economy of Europe. They ask us to think about European law differently.
Motivated by the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) data, a semiparametric latent variable model with a Dirichlet process (DP) mixtures prior on the latent variable is proposed to jointly ...analyse mixed binary and continuous responses. Non-ignorable missing covariates are considered through a selection model framework where a missing covariate model and a missing data mechanism model are included. The logarithm of the pseudo-marginal likelihood (LPML) is applied for selecting the priors, and the deviance information criterion measure focusing on the missing data mechanism model only is used for selecting different missing data mechanisms. A Bayesian index of local sensitivity to non-ignorability (ISNI) is extended to explore the local sensitivity of the parameters in our model. A simulation study is carried out to examine the empirical performance of the proposed methodology. Finally, the proposed model and the ISNI index are applied to analyse the CHNS data in the motivating example.
The library catalog uses authority control to gather topics and works relevant to the search query for improving the accuracy and completeness rate of retrieval results. The personal name is often ...faced with the situation where one person has more than one names or many people have common names. The library uses personal name authority control to help users identify each person entity. With the advent of the Internet generation, users not only search library catalog but also expand their search target to thesis, periodicals or institutional collections. Libraries try to use identity management on personal name authority control - using identifiers to gather all the works of a specific author. This article starts from personal name authority control and identity management including comparing of both. Then introduce the development and application of three types of identifiers, including ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier), ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID), and Wikidata.
The work of the Council of Europe in plurilingual and intercultural education is highly influential in Europe and beyond and has been so for many years. The "Common European Framework of Reference" ...and its "Companion Volume," and related instruments, provide ways in which to implement policies and a broader vision of providing quality and equity in education across the curriculum, a vision which incorporates the core values of the Council of Europe and which educates children and young people to be plurilingual, intercultural and democratic citizens. This book presents this educational vision, demonstrates how it can be realised through the application of Council of Europe instruments in practice, and does so in a way which is easily and quickly accessible to teachers of all subjects and in all educational institutions, as well as to other educationists, including policymakers.
Are you unique? Have you got your ISNI? D. Getliher; A. Knežević Cerovski
Kemija u industriji; časopis kemičara i tehnologa Jugoslavije,
03/2015, Letnik:
64, Številka:
3-4
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