Before he became the father of cinematic special effects, George Méliès (1861-1938) was a maker of deluxe French footwear, an illusionist, and a caricaturist. Proceeding from these beginnings, ...Méliès Boots traces how the full trajectory of Georges Méliès' career during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, along with the larger cultural and historical contexts in which Méliès operated, shaped his cinematic oeuvre. Solomon examines Méliès' unpublished drawings and published caricatures, the role of laughter in his magic theater productions, and the constituent elements of what Méliès called "the new profession of the cinéaste." The book also reveals Méliès' connections to the Incohérents, a group of ephemeral artists from the 1880s, demonstrating the group's relevance for Méliès, early cinema, and modernity. By positioning Méliès in relation to the material culture of his time, Solomon demonstrates that Méliès' work was expressive of a distinctly modern, and modernist, sensibility that appeared in France during the 1880s in the wake of the Second Industrial Revolution.
Remembering Gene Cooper Roberts, Moss
Critical Asian studies,
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Of Brooklyn origin, charter member of the Columbia University Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS) in 1968 and later an advisory board member of Critical Asian Studies, Gene Cooper (born May ...18, 1947) died in late October 2015. Gene earned his PhD in Anthropology at Columbia while studying Chinese in the East Asian Languages Department, where he was my student in the summer 1969 third-year class. In 1980, he joined the faculty of the University of Southern California (USC) as a Professor of Anthropology. There he earned the respect and affection of colleagues and students in the course of a thirty-five-year career. A prolific scholar, Cooper’s last book was The Market and Temple Fairs of Rural China: Red Fire (Routledge, 2012), a study of market temple fairs in Jinhua municipality in Zhejiang province based on extensive fieldwork and research conducted during the 2006–2007 academic year at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton University in New Jersey.
A common assumption in the social stratification literature is that the lion’s share of people reaches occupational maturity quite early in working life, i.e., they end up in an occupation/class ...position and stay there. The conventional view is that career maturity is reached around the age of 35. By using Swedish longitudinal occupational biographies across six birth cohorts from 1925 to 1984, this study challenges this view. Our findings reveal substantial career transitions throughout working life, an increase across cohorts, and a wide variation in the age of the last class transition. This suggests that careers are not in general static positions from a certain age, but fluctuate over time. There are signs of a general slowing down of career transitions across working lives, but this comes later in life and to a smaller extent than expected. These findings suggest that research often based on cross sectional data, e.g. studies on intergenerational mobility and class differences in health, need to incorporate career mobility data. More research is needed to illuminate if the results of Sweden, in terms of a low and decreasing level of occupational maturity can be replicated in other countries.
This essay offers a brief biography of Paul Erdős and summarizes his approach to mathematics. This is further elucidated by a discussion of Erdős' simple proof of Bertrand's Postulate.
Bibliotherapy is consisted of a combination of the Greek “biblion (book)” and “therapeia (therapy-healing)” which have become popular since the 20th century as one of the alternative therapy methods. ...It is used to make individuals identify themselves with the works they read through works of high literary and aesthetic value and make them powerful individuals in the spiritual direction by producing solutions to the problems they experience in this way. In other words, bibliotherapy can also be defined as bringing the right books to the individual at the right time. That is, the history of accepting the idea that books are good for man is very old. In this study, the importance of using biographies will be explained in one of the important alternative therapy methods, bibliotherapy. There are some criteria in the selection of books because they are the most important materials that form the basis of bibliotherapy. As it is known, the process is three dimensions as the advisee, book preference and consultant. However, it is not possible to use every work in bibliotherapy. It is important to use the works that are high in reality dimension and keeping a mirror on the problems of the individual in bibliotherapy. This process includes the works that will develop the imaginary world of the individual, as well as the works suitable for real life. As is known, the common point in biographies is not only the success that the person who wrote the biography has achieved, but also this person's struggle for reaching his goal is his patience and perseverance. As a result, in the process of bibliotherapy, reading the biographies that will increase the morale and motivation of the individual and develop self-confidence will contribute positively to the person. Moreover, the preference of the biographies of the positive role-model in the society will be the example for the individual.
Changes to the Editorial Board Salahuddin, Sayeef
IEEE electron device letters,
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It is my pleasure to welcome Prof. Masaharu Kobayashi to the Editorial Board of IEEE Electron Device Letters. A biography and picture of Prof. Kobayashi can be found below. His subject areas are ...memory devices and technology, thin-film transistors, and silicon and column IV semiconductor devices
It's been said that Jann Arden can bring an audience to tears through song only to have them rolling in the aisles moments later with her off-the-cuff comedy. It's this juxtaposition, the poet's gift ...for poignant love songs paired with a comedian's timing and self-deprecating wit, that has earned Jann a legion of loyal fans on the stage as well as the page.
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