Palgrave Macmillan
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From a screenwriting perspective, Batty explores the idea that the protagonist's journey is comprised of two individual yet interwoven threads: the physical journey and the emotional journey. His analysis includes detailed case studies of the films Muriel's Wedding , Little Voice , Cars , Forgetting...
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The Palgrave Handbook of Screen Production
Collectif
- Palgrave macmillan
- 15 November 2019
- 9783030217440
This handbook is an essential creative, critical and practical guide for students and educators of screen production internationally. It covers all aspects of screen production-from conceptualizing ideas and developing them, to realizing and then distributing them-across all forms and formats, inclu...
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This book is a provocative, interdisciplinary, and critical appraisal of civil justice, property, and the laws that shape and command them within capitalism. Dr. Herian's book is both a complementary and countervailing narrative to many mainstream legal accounts, one that critiques core and influent...
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Nouv.
This book deals with a concern of how humanity performs toward itself and how it performs within the public realm, and where it must be in relation with others. Public life is not solely about politics but also the political, i.e., intellectual, moral, economic, religious, and collective habits-incl...
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The Latin American Road Movie
Verónica Garibotto; Jorge Pérez
- Palgrave macmillan
- 28 July 2016
- 9781137580931
This volume explores the ways films made by Latin American directors and/or co-produced in Latin American countries have employed the road movie genre to address the reconfiguration of the geographical, sociopolitical, economic, and cultural landscape of Latin America....
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Traditional "schools" of crime prevention, like the criminal justice model, social crime prevention or situational crime prevention, have proved to be too narrow and do not combine well with other approaches. However, each of these models provides important insights and contributions for reducing cr...
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Fungal Disease in Britain and the United States 1850-2000
A. Homei; M. Worboys
- Palgrave macmillan
- 11 November 2013
- 9781137377029
This book is open access under a CC BY license. The narrative of 20th-century medicine is the conquering of acute infectious diseases and the rise in chronic, degenerative diseases. The history of fungal infections does not fit this picture. This book charts the path of fungal infections from the mi...
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Isaiah's Vision of Peace in Biblical and Modern International Relations
R. Cohen; R. Westbrook
- Palgrave macmillan
- 23 September 2016
- 9781137104427
The aim of this volume is to try to account for Isaiah's revolutionary vision from two disciplinary perspectives: one approach is the historical study of the Ancient Near East and the Bible, and the other rests on the study of international relations from a comparative, conceptual perspective....
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Engendering Human Rights brings together distinguished scholars and feminist activists in a collection of essays on human rights in Africa. Contributors explore the formulating, monitoring, reporting, and implementation of human rights in Africa and the African Diaspora. The individual chapters exam...
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The Cultural Study of Yiddish in Early Modern Europe
J. Frakes
- Palgrave macmillan
- 19 October 2016
- 9781137046550
A unique analysis of the intensive interest in Jewish culture of early modern Christian Humanists as a part of their comprehensive program of study of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. The book focuses on how that interest was particularly manifested in a score of treatises on Sixteenth and Seventeenth Cent...
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book provides a profound insight into post-war Mostar, and the memories of three generations of this Bosnian-Herzegovinian city. Drawing on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, it offers a vivid account of how personal and collective memo...
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Cuban Film Media, Late Socialism, and the Public Sphere
Nicholas Balaisis
- Palgrave macmillan
- 7 December 2016
- 9781137584311
This book maps the aesthetic experience of late socialism through Cuban film and media practice. It shows how economic and material scarcity as well as political uncertainty is expressed aesthetically in films from the period following the collapse of the Soviet Union, a characteristic described...
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Multiculturalism and Conflict Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific
K. Shimizu; W. Bradley
- Palgrave macmillan
- 12 September 2014
- 9781137403605
This book is open access under a CC BY license. This edited collection focuses on theories, language and migration in relation to multiculturalism in Japan and the Asia-Pacific. Each chapter aims to provide alternative understandings to current conflicts that have arisen due to immigration and polic...
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Shhh . Did you know there is a secret Language of Leadership: a timeless set of cues and signals that still determines who reaches the top in politics and business today. The ancient Greeks were the first to study the art of communication 2,500 years ago. It is only now, with recent breakthroughs...
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Seeing Ourselves Through Technology
Jill W. Rettberg
- Palgrave macmillan
- 2 October 2014
- 9781137476661
This book is open access under a CC BY license. Selfies, blogs and lifelogging devices help us understand ourselves, building on long histories of written, visual and quantitative modes of self-representations. This book uses examples to explore the balance between using technology to see ourselves ...
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New Frontiers in Social Innovation Research
Julie SIMON; Alex Nicholls; Madeleine Gabriel; Christopher Whelan
- Palgrave macmillan
- 18 September 2015
- 9781137506801
This book is open access under a CC BY license. Interest in social innovation continues to rise, from governments setting up social innovation 'labs' to large corporations developing social innovation strategies. Yet theory lags behind practice, and this hampers our ability to understand social i...
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The Early Years
Norbert Schady; Inter-American Development Bank
- Palgrave macmillan
- 22 October 2015
- 9781137536495
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO license. The Early Years analyzes the development of Latin American and Caribbean children and makes a compelling case for government intervention in what is instinctively a family affair. Spending on effective programs for young children is an ...
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Making Medicines in Africa
Maureen Mackintosh; Geoffrey Banda; Watu Wamae; Paula Tibandebage
- Palgrave macmillan
- 3 February 2016
- 9781137546470
This book is open access under a CC-BY license. The importance of the pharmaceutical industry in Sub-Saharan Africa, its claim to policy priority, is rooted in the vast unmet health needs of the sub-continent. Making Medicines in Africa is a collective endeavour, by a group of contributors with a ...
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The Academic Book of the Future
Rebecca E. Lyons; Samantha Rayner
- Palgrave macmillan
- 13 November 2015
- 9781137595775
This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. Part of the AHRC/British Library Academic Book of the Future Project, this book interrogates current and emerging contexts of academic books from the perspectives of thirteen expert voices from the connected communities of publishing, academia, librari...
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. Presenting rigorous and original research, this volume offers key insights into the historical, cultural, social, economic and political forces at play in the creation of world-class ICT innovations in Kenya. Following the arrival of fiber-optic c...
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Sensationalism and the Genealogy of Modernity
Alberto Gabriele
- Palgrave macmillan
- 15 November 2016
- 9781137561480
This book maps out the temporal and geographic coordinates of the trope of sensationalism in the long nineteenth century through a comparative approach. Not only juxtaposing different geographical areas (Europe, Asia and Oceania), this volume also disperses its history over a longue durée, allowing ...
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The book investigates the dispersed emergence of the new visual regime associated with nineteenth-century pre-cinematic spectacles in the literary imagination of the previous centuries. Its comparative angle ranges from the Medieval and Baroque period to the visual and stylistic experimentations of ...
