A Companion to Latin American Film (Monografías A) By Stephen M. Hart
Publisher: Tamesis Books 2004 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 1855661063 | PDF | 1.2 MB
This Companion to Latin-American Film is a new, up-to-date introduction to the best twenty-five films of the region. It is designed for the general reader who wants to know the basic facts, figures and ideas about the movies in Latin America. The introductory essay traces the history of Latin-American cinema from its humble beginnings in the mid- 1890s until the smash hits of recent years: Like Water for Chocolate (1993), Central Station (1998), Love’s a Bitch (2000), And your Mother Too (2001), City of God (2002).

The early period when Latin-American cinema was dominated by foreign film makers or foreign models (such as Hollywood), as well as the 1960s when as a genre it finally found its feet (the New Latin-American Cinema movement) - are also covered in depth. Each film chapter contains all the information you need — cast and crew, awards, plot — as well as a detailed analysis of the themes and techniques which make the film tick. There is a Guide to Further Reading which offers the reader advice on what to read next (all the important books, articles and Internet sites), as well as a Select Bibliography and an extensive index for ease of reference.

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Paolo Acquaviva, “Lexical Plurals: A Morphosemantic Approach (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics)”
Oxford University Press, USA | 2008-05-15 | ISBN: 0199534225 | 312 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB

This book explores the wide variety of cases in which the plural of nouns is lexical. When a plural is lexicalized it becomes part of what it is to know a certain word: pence, for example, is lexical because it means a plurality of a certain kind - a multiple value, not a set of physical objects like pennies - and knowing this reading is knowing the word. Languages exhibit countless examples of similar word-dependent irregularities in the form and meaning of plural, but these have never been analyzed in depth from a unified perspective.

Dr. Acquaviva aims to do just that, using analytic tools from formal semantics and theoretical morphology to shed light on the relation between grammar and the lexicon. After an introduction setting out his approach he divides the book into two parts. The first gives a structured description of the ways plurality can be lexicalized with an emphasis on description and categorization. The second analyzes in depth different types of lexical plurals in Italian, Irish, Arabic and Breton. A final chapter spells out the theoretical consequences for the analysis of the lexicon. The book is unusual in combining a broad typological classification with a unified morphological and semantic analysis based on a formal framework.
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Committee on Identification of Promising Naval Aviation Science and Technology Opportunities, National Research Council, “Identification of Promising Naval Aviation Science and Technology Opportunities”
National Academies Press | 2006-03-09 | ISBN: 0309097290 | 112 pages | PDF | 1 MB

The Department of Defense is developing the means to transform the nation’s armed forces to meet future military challenges. For the Navy and Marine Corps, this vision is encompassed in Naval Power 21. Many new war-fighting concepts will be needed to implement this vision, and the ONR has requested the NRC to identify new science and technology opportunities for new naval aviation capabilities to support those concepts.

This report presents an assessment of what they imply for naval aviation, an analysis of some capabilities that, if developed, would make a significant contribution to realizing those concepts, and an identification of key technologies in which ONR could invest to achieve those capabilities. In particular, the report focuses on seven key capabilities: multispectral defense, unmanned air operations, hypersonic weapons delivery, fast-kill weapons, heavy-lift air transport, intelligent combat information management, and omniscient intelligence.
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Virginia Berridge, “Marketing Health: Smoking and the Discourse of Public Health in Britain, 1945-2000”
Oxford University Press, USA | 2007-08-30 | ISBN: 0199260303 | 260 pages | PDF | 1,65 MB

The post war history of public health and the role of smoking within that history epitomises the tensions which surround taking health to the public. Public health history has largely concentrated on the nineteenth century sanitary period or on the years before the Second World War, often focussing on the environmental advances, or on the professional and occupational history of public health as an activity. This book has a different focus: it deals with the change in the outlook of public health post war.

From a focus on services, vaccination, and dealing with health issues at the local level, public health had developed new discourse. Centring on chronic disease, it became concerned with the concept of “risk” and targeted individual behaviour. The mass media and centralised campaigning directed at the whole population replaced local campaigns, and politicians changed their mind about speaking directly to the public on health matters. Their early worries about the ‘nanny state’ gave place to a desire to inculcate new norms of behaviour, and it was debated how change was to be achieved.
Identifying debates between those believing in “systematic gradualism” and those who advocated a more coercive approach, Virginia Berridge uses smoking as a model. Such debates brought into play tensions over the relationships between public health and industrial interests. Health campaigning by new style pressure groups like ASH, which were part state funded, was an important motive force behind the change.
In the 1980s and 1990s, public health changed again. Passive smoking and HIV/AIDS brought environmental concerns back into public health, which had disappeared after the 1950s. The “rise of addiction” for smoking demonstrated the power of pharmaceutical interests to define a new “pharmaceutical public health” in which treatment and “magic bullets” were also tactics for prevention. In the early 21st century, public health was play to complex tensions and conflicting impetuses. This book shows that those tensions were nothing new and outlines their development over the last half century.
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Mauch Peter, Yoneyuki Sugita, John Van Sant, “Historical Dictionary of United States-Japan Relations”
The Scarecrow Press, Inc. | 2007-01-28 | ISBN: 0810856085 | 344 pages | PDF | 3,4 MB

The Japanese started arriving in America as castaway sailors in the 1840s. By 1853 President Millard Fillmore responded with a commodore, escorted by the biggest battleships in the world, to negotiate trade relationships in Japan.
Thus began the complex relationship that developed between the US and Japan, partially based upon “gentlemen’s agreemen

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Robert F. Gorman, “Historical Dictionary of Human Rights and Humanitarian Organizations”
The Scarecrow Press, Inc. | 2007-03-28 | ISBN: 0810855488 | 488 pages | PDF | 3,3 MB

A unique one-stop source for vital information on the background and history of human rights theory and practice in the international arena, the “Historical Dictionary of Human Rights and Humanitarian Organizations” provides extensive background on the creation and ideals of these important organizations.

The authors begin their study by giving a chronology of important events in the history of human rights and introducing their readers to the ancient Hebrew and Roman philosophies that inspired the beginnings of these protective organizations. Alphabetical entries give brief synopses of each organization and list treaties, founding members, related organizations, and addresses. Also included are entries describing pertinent human rights terminology, treaties, and individuals who have played important roles in the development of international human rights. With bibliography, lists of acronyms and abbreviations, and appendixes containing full listings of many international human rights documents. Essential for all law, sociology, international relations, or policy study collections.

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Restoring Natural Capital: Science, Business, and Practice (The Science and Practice of Ecological Restoration Series)
By Peter H. Raven, James Aronson, Suzanne J. Milton, James N. Blignaut
Publisher: Island Press 2007 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 1597260762 | PDF | 2.9 MB
How can environmental degradation be stopped? How can it be reversed? And how can the damage already done be repaired? The authors of this volume argue that a two-pronged approach is needed: reducing demand for ecosystem goods and services and better management of them, coupled with an increase in supply through environmental restoration.

Restoring Natural Capital brings together economists and ecologists, theoreticians, practitioners, policy makers, and scientists from the developed and developing worlds to consider the costs and benefits of repairing ecosystem goods and services in natural and socioecological systems. It examines the business and practice of restoring natural capital, and seeks to establish common ground between economists and ecologists with respect to the restoration of degraded ecosystems and landscapes and the still broader task of restoring natural capital. The book focuses on developing strategies that can achieve the best outcomes in the shortest amount of time as it:

• considers conceptual and theoretical issues from both an economic
and ecological perspective
• examines specific strategies to foster the restoration of natural
capital and offers a synthesis and a vision of the way forward

Nineteen case studies from around the world illustrate challenges and achievements in setting targets, refining approaches to finding and implementing restoration projects, and using restoration of natural capital as an economic opportunity. Throughout, contributors make the case that the restoration of natural capital requires close collaboration among scientists from across disciplines as well as local people, and when successfully executed represents a practical, realistic, and essential tool for achieving lasting sustainable development.

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Irene Scobbie, “Historical Dictionary of Sweden”
The Scarecrow Press, Inc | 2006-08-28 | ISBN: 0810853752 | 368 pages | PDF | 3 MB

For centuries Sweden was a rather backward, relatively unknown country. It burst onto the world scene during the Viking Age, and then under the warrior kings Gustavus Adolphus and Charles XII in the 17th and 18th centuries, only to withdraw into isolation again. In this century, however, the country has been transformed and hailed as a model welfare state.

The over 240 entries in this volume range from the Viking Age to the present day, but the emphasis is on personalities and events of the 20th century and Sweden’s rapid social and economic evolution. Sweden’s internal affairs are reflected in articles on economics, politicians and political parties, newspapers, parliament, trade unions, social welfare, education, religion, and the status of women. Foreign affairs are covered in such articles as Sweden and Finland, Union with Norway, Estonia, Nordic Council, the two World Wars, Neutrality, the United Nations, and the European Union. Cultural entries include Swedish theater, music, visual arts, literature and language, libraries, and cinema. Several Swedes of international fame have been included (e.g., Linneaus, Kreuger, Nobel, Palme, St. Birgitta, and Raoul Wallenberg). The dictionary is preceded by a chronology and an introduction which give the reader an overview of Swedish history. There is, finally, a substantial bibliography to assist further reading.

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Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, Shabd S. Acharya, Benjamin Davis, “Food Security: Indicators, Measurement, and the Impact of Trade Openness”
Oxford University Press, USA | 2008-02-25 | ISBN: 0199236550 | 352 pages | PDF | 1,6 MB

What are the implications of the WTO’s Agreement on Agriculture for food security in poor countries? Are economic reforms and high growth rates in some countries protecting the well-being of the poor by improving the status of nutrition? Are we measuring hunger adequately? Do we need new tools and indicators? Does women’s socio-economic status matter for child-health? Are targeted programmes successful in identifying and helping the truly needy?

Despite the scale of human suffering inflicted by malnutrition, the fight against world hunger has recently been overshadowed by the campaign to end poverty. The emergence of the WTO and the freeing of agricultural trade, for example, have serious implications for hunger and food security in many countries, yet this is an area that is relatively understudied. This book aims to fill this gap by providing a significant collection of essays from mainstream academia and prominent international organizations working for food security. Examining food security across regions, the book tackles food security at three distinct levels-national, household, and individual. Other topics included are: attempts to improve measurement tools; the applications of existing tools for empirical analysis using household data, and; the impact of trade openness on national food security.
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The British Navy and the State in the Eighteenth Century By Clive Wilkinson
Publisher: Boydell Press 2004 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 1843830426 | PDF | 1.6 MB
The Royal Navy, prominent in building Britain’s maritime empire in the eighteenth century, also had a significant impact on politics, public finance and the administrative and bureaucratic development of the British state throughout the century. The Navy was the most expensive branch of the state and its effective funding and maintenance was a problem that taxed the ingenuity of a succession of politicians, naval officers and bureaucrats.

By the middle of the century the difficulties its growth created had become critical, and the challenge this presented was taken up by Admiralty Boards led by Anson, Egmont, Hawke and Sandwich. Resolving these problems introduced reform in the navy’s administration and in public finance (often pre-figuring later bureaucratic development), but there was a political price to pay when the management of the Navy and its apparent unpreparedness for the War of American Independence made the Earl of Sandwich and the Navy a focus for political opposition to an unpopular government and a disappointing war.BR> Published in association with the National Maritime Museum. CLIVE WILKINSON is a research officer with the Climatological Database of the World’s Oceans 1750-1850, University of Sunderland.

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Christine Helmer, Christof Landmesser, “One Scripture or Many?: Canon from Biblical, Theological, and Philosophical Perspectives”
Oxford University Press, USA | 2004-08-05 | ISBN: 0199258635 | 264 pages | PDF | 1,5 MB

This new approach to biblical theology addresses the unity of the canon from an interdisciplinary perspective. The canon’s unity is discussed as constituted both by an interpreted subjective unity “in front of” the text and by the subject matter “behind” the text.

The volume includes Jewish and Christian contributions by scholars of the Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the New Testament, philosophy, and theology.
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Peter L. Hahn, “Historical Dictionary of United States-Middle East Relations”
The Scarecrow Press, Inc | 2007-02-28 | ISBN: 0810855496 | 248 pages | PDF | 2,7 MB
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College-level collections strong on U.S. and Middle East politics as well as many an advanced high school library needs Historical Dictionary of United States-Middle East Relations, a primer covering the history of U.S. and Middle East involvements, especially since relationships ramped up after World War II.

From a chronology of events to a history of diplomatic relations, a bibliography, photos, and hundreds of cross-referenced entries on countries and significant events, Historical Dictionary of United States-Middle East Relations is a fine reference.

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In the Middle of the Middle Ages: Integrating Content Standards and the Arts By Mary Wheeler, Jill Terlep
Publisher: Teacher Ideas Press, an imprint of Libraries Unlimited 2006-11 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 1591584175 | PDF | 2.1 MB

Students revisit Europe during the Middle Ages through guided practice activities, poems, songs, and an educational play packaged into a unique teacher resource book. This title integrates creative arts, innovative activities, and original music. Content is selected to coordinate with national standards in art, history and language arts. Two other important components of the book are a musical play and a pantomime. While entertaining students, it develops varied educational concepts and expands critical thinking skills. Students may: Stage the musical for an audience; act it out in class; or read it silently.
All lyrics can be used as songs or read as poetry. Everything is reproducible. Grade 4-8.

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Cordelia Beattie, “Medieval Single Women: The Politics of Social Classification in Late Medieval England”
Oxford University Press, USA | 2007-10-25 | ISBN: 0199283419 | 200 pages | PDF | 1,35 MB

The single woman is a troubling and disruptive category. Does it denote all unmarried women, therefore creating a group which every female was part of at some stage in her life? Or, were the categories “maiden” and “widow” so culturally significant in late medieval England that “single woman” was a residual category for women seen as anomalous? Was the category “single man” used in an equivalent way and, if not, why? This study offers a way into the complex process of social classification in late medieval England.
All societies use classifications in order to understand and impose order. In this book, Cordelia Beattie views classification as a political act, an act of power: those classifying must make choices about which divisions are most important or about who falls into which category, and such choices have repercussions. Defining how a group or an individual should be labelled, means variables such as social status, gender, or age, are prioritized. Rather than isolate gender as a variable, this book examines how it relates to other social cleavages. Using a variety of approaches, from social and cultural history, to gender history, and medieval studies, its original methodology offers an innovative approach to a range of historical texts, from pastoral manuals to tax returns, and guild registers.
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