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Author: Emma Widdis Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300092911 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 271
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This book shows how Soviet cinema encouraged popular support of state initiatives in the years up to the Second World War, helping to create a new Russian identity & territory, an 'imaginary geography' of Sovietness.
Author: Emma Widdis Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300092911 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 271
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This book shows how Soviet cinema encouraged popular support of state initiatives in the years up to the Second World War, helping to create a new Russian identity & territory, an 'imaginary geography' of Sovietness.
Author: Vanessa Pupavac Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN: 1538144948 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 312
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Goethe’s 1832 poem Faust offers a vision of humanity realising freedom and prosperity through transcending natural adversity. Changing European Visions of Disaster and Development returns to Faust as a way of exploring the rise and fall of European humanist aspirations to build free and prosperous national political communities protected from natural disasters. Faust stories emerged in early modern Europe linked to the shaking of the traditional religious and political order, and the pursuit of new areas of human knowledge and activity which led to a shift from viewing disasters as acts of God to acts of nature. Faust’s dam building and land reclamation project in Goethe’s poem was inspired by Dutch hydro-engineering and in turn inspired others. Faustian dreams of an engineered future were pursued by the American Yugoslav inventor Nikola Tesla and the country of his birth towards establishing its national independence and escaping the fate of being a borderland. Faust remains a compelling reference point to explore European visions of disaster and development. If Faust captured the European spirit of earlier centuries, what is today’s outlook? Ambitious Faustian development visions to eradicate natural disasters have been replaced by anti-Faustian risk cosmopolitanism sceptical towards human activity in ways counter to building collective protection from disaster. Tesla’s country of birth fears returning to being an insecure borderland of Europe. This powerful and timely book calls for a rekindling of European humanism and Faust’s vision of ‘free people standing on free land’.
Author: Bill Poole Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0787988022 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 163
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If You're Not Leading Change, It Will Lead You In today's fast-paced business environment, change has become "business as usual." Change is constant. Change is relentless. It's no surprise then that the success or failure of an organization often depends on your ability as a leader, to respond to change. While most leaders realize the importance of facing change head-on, far too few are equipped to handle the journey that ensues. The Journey to Newland Participant Workbook provides workshop participants with a road map for navigating the change journey from start to finish. This comprehensive framework—with its easy-to-follow process, memorable methodologies, and practical tools—enables participants to explore and eventually master the skills that are most crucial to transformational change—leading change, building teams, valuing differences, and optimizing communication. Using this handy Workbook, in conjunction with a workshop, will help leaders simplify complex issues and bring intangible concepts down to earth. Participants will meet and become familiar with a cast of memorable characters, engage in a captivating story, and learn a common language to deal with emotionally sensitive issues.
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Publisher: The Stationery Office ISBN: 9780215034212 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 254
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Incorporating HCP 1250, session 2005-06, not previously published
Author: Bill Poole Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1118774981 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 72
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With an animated fable, the Journey to Newland storybook provides readers with a cast of memorable characters, a captivating story, and a common language to deal with difficult and often emotionally sensitive issues in negotiating change within their organizations. The allegory follows a group of animal characters through uncharted territory, from Oldland to Newland. Each animal represents a different type of work personality; navigating such metaphorical places as Nostalgia Desert, Transition Valley, and Leverage Lake, the team—comprised of Eagle, Owl, Lion, Dolphin, and Ant—finds a way to survive, even thrive, by leading change.
Author: Robert L. Dorman Publisher: University of Arizona Press ISBN: 0816599432 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 272
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The American West has taken on a rich and evocative array of regional identities since the late nineteenth century. Wilderness wonderland, Hispanic borderland, homesteader’s frontier, cattle kingdom, urban dynamo, Native American homeland. Hell of a Vision explores the evolution of these diverse identities during the twentieth century, revealing how Western regionalism has been defined by generations of people seeking to understand the West’s vast landscapes and varied cultures. Focusing on the American West from the 1890s up to the present, Dorman provides us with a wide-ranging view of the impact of regionalist ideas in pop culture and diverse fields such as geography, land-use planning, anthropology, journalism, and environmental policy-making. Going well beyond the realm of literature, Dorman broadens the discussion by examining a unique mix of texts. He looks at major novelists such as Cather, Steinbeck, and Stegner, as well as leading Native American writers. But he also analyzes a variety of nonliterary sources in his book, such as government reports, planning documents, and environmental impact studies. Hell of a Vision is a compelling journey through the modern history of the American West—a key region in the nation of regions known as the United States.
Author: Richard Chadbourne Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press ISBN: 088920862X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 170
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The essays in this volume were originally presented at a workshop held at the University of Calgary on August 1–5, 1977 and sponsored by the Calgary Institute for the Humanities. The phrase “the new land” underwent careful scrutiny and reassessment during the course of the conference, and the insights that resulted from the readings and discussions were of considerable value to participants and observers alike. Chronologically and thematically the essays cover a wide range: from La Nouvelle France as seen by the early missionaries and by the French Romantic writer Chateaubriand to variations on the new land theme in present-day Qußbec; from the Prairies as seen by an early homesteader-novelist from France, Constantin-Weyer, to the Manitoba of Gabrielle Roy, which in turn is contrasted to the Nebraska of Willa Cather; from a historical recreation of the Saskatchewan landscape and history by a gifted contemporary novelist Rudy Wiebe, to a paradisal celebration of British Columbia reflected in the later works of Malcolm Lowry. What emerged from all of this, among other things, was the articulation of a mythology about the new land that was far more complex and expansive than the one derived originally through an old–world perspective.
Author: Emma Widdis
Author: Emma Widdis
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Author: Vanessa Pupavac
Author: Bill Poole
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
Author: Jim Dale Vickery
Author: Bill Poole
Author: Robert L. Dorman
Author: DANTE ALIGHIERI
Author: Richard Chadbourne