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Giving Voice to a Collective Silence
ISBN: 9783843359566 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book argues that the "collective silence" that was identified in Germany after the end of WWII was given a voice through the art of Joseph Beuys and Werner Herzog. Both artists works discussed here predate the labeling of "collective silence," yet Herzogs film and Beuyss installation speak within and to that silence. This book examines how "The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser" by Herzog and "Tram Stop" by Beuys function as secondary language systems, as defined by Jurji Lotman, embedded with historical and cultural referents. In the case of Herzog and Beuys, the disintegration of boundaries...
This book argues that the "collective silence" that was identified in Germany after the end of WWII was given a voice through the art of Joseph Beuys ...
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263,91 |
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Schooling, Earnings and Employment in the Labour Market for Conductors
ISBN: 9783843364218 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traditionally, schooling has been considered by cultural economists as a way of investing in human capital, therefore subject to cost-benefit analysis. However, due to the specificity of artists labour market, it was found that human capital applies only weakly to artists decisions of investing in formal education, mainly because of the role played by innate ability and the fact that the informal way of improving skills is still prevalent. Therefore, it was hypothesized that schooling has rather more social capital features than human capital. In this respect, when schooling was...
Traditionally, schooling has been considered by cultural economists as a way of investing in human capital, therefore subject to cost-benefit analys...
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219,18 |
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The Theatre and Envronmental Conservation
ISBN: 9783843386715 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the state of the worlds environment causes greater concern, various approaches are being enunciated to stem the tide of degradation. The emphasis has been on environmental education and it has become imperative that every professional, especially those involved in the creation of outlets of information, be stakeholders in environmental education. This work seeks to establish the role which the theatre artist should play in environmental sensitization. It undertakes the establishment of a theoretical basis for the theatre/environment symbiosis and enunciates playcreation strategies for...
As the state of the worlds environment causes greater concern, various approaches are being enunciated to stem the tide of degradation. The emphasis h...
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353,37 |
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Pakistan's Water
ISBN: 9783845416861 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book deals with climate change in terms of global warming and its resultant effects on the river flows of Pakistan. Climate change has been identified as the variation in climatic factors occurringfrom causes other than the natural ones. It has been defined world over as the phenomenon ofglobal warming. The impacts of the phenomenon are varied and cover a wide range includingbiological systems, health issues and climatological systems. Out of the various facets of the issue, the focus of study is on the impacts on river flow. How river flow is affected by climate changedepends upon the...
The book deals with climate change in terms of global warming and its resultant effects on the river flows of Pakistan. Climate change has been identi...
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219,18 |
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Shropshire: The Records and Editorial Apparatus
ISBN: 9780802006486 / Angielski / Twarda / 833 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Records of Early English Drama volumes make available historical transcripts that provide evidence of early English drama, music, ceremonial, dance, and other forms of communal public entertainment in Britain before 1642, together with the necessary interpretive introductions and notes to explicate the materials for the reader. Shropshire, in two volumes, is the eleventh publication in the series. In the introduction Alan Somerset surveys the social and economic history of each major borough and provides a commentary on the major issues raised in the documents. He discusses... The Records of Early English Drama volumes make available historical transcripts that provide evidence of early English drama, music, ceremonial, d... |
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871,79 |
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Welttheater Und Geschichtsprozeß: Zu Goethes «Faust»
ISBN: 9783631396599 / Angielski / Miękka / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Im Mittelpunkt der in diesem Band gesammelten Arbeiten stehen zwei verbundene Fragen: die nach der Darstellung geschichtlicher Prozesse in Goethes Faust und die nach der besonderen Theaterform, in der diese Darstellung erfolgt. Faust wird verstanden als tragikomisches Welttheater, dessen zentraler Gegenstand die burgerliche Gesellschaft in ihrer geschichtlichen Bildung ist, in einer zweiten Dimension der Prozess der europaischen Zivilisation von seinen archaischen Ursprungen bis in die historische Konstellation der Moderne. Die Hauptstudien werden von einer Reihe erganzender...
Im Mittelpunkt der in diesem Band gesammelten Arbeiten stehen zwei verbundene Fragen: die nach der Darstellung geschichtlicher Prozesse in Goethes ...
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378,40 |
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Mapping Cultural Identity in Contemporary Australian Performance
ISBN: 9789052019475 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is an important addition to the current body of scholarly material on contemporary performance and theatre as it provides both a detailed focus on a number of important performance works as well as developing a framework for the interpretation of contemporary performance.
Through a detailed critical reading of four key Australian performance pieces, Tiger Country, Ningali, The 7 Stages of Grieving and The Geography of Haunted Places the author demonstrates the myriad ways in which cultural identity can be represented and interpreted in performance. Grehan takes... This book is an important addition to the current body of scholarly material on contemporary performance and theatre as it provides both a detailed fo...
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285,83 |
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The Future of Beauty in Theatre, Literature and the Arts
ISBN: 9781904303596 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years, philosophical debate of the concept of beauty has seen a remarkable renaissance. The twelve essays presented in this book provide a broad basis for a thorough reassessment of the European traditions of beauty in the arts (fine arts, performing arts, media arts) and in literature and film, not as a return to some distant, and allegedly ideal past, but as a constructive means of realising the potential of the arts for the 21st century.
In recent years, philosophical debate of the concept of beauty has seen a remarkable renaissance. The twelve essays presented in this book provide a b...
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154,61 |
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Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain
ISBN: 9780754658597 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Blackface minstrelsy is associated particularly with popular culture in the United States and Britain, yet despite the continual two-way flow of performers, troupes and companies across the Atlantic, there is little in Britain to match the scholarship of blackface studies in the States. This book concentrates on the distinctively British trajectory of minstrelsy. The historical study and cultural analysis of minstrelsy is important because of the significant role it played in Britain as a form of song, music and theatrical entertainment. Minstrelsy had a marked impact on popular music, dance...
Blackface minstrelsy is associated particularly with popular culture in the United States and Britain, yet despite the continual two-way flow of perfo...
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734,66 |
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Live from Atlantic City
ISBN: 9780879725570 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A great American institution; the bane of feminist ideology; a cornucopia of corn few are neutral about the Miss America Pageant. Live from Atlantic City traces the pageant s history from its birth as pseudo-event in 1920 through its emergence as American popular culture icon.
A. R. Riverol takes the reader to times and places where no television camera has focused. Drawing upon (and sometimes debating with) primary and secondary sources, the author paints a vivid picture of life in Atlantic City during pageant week whether that week be in 1944 or 1984. More than just chronicling... A great American institution; the bane of feminist ideology; a cornucopia of corn few are neutral about the Miss America Pageant. Live from Atlanti...
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122,40 |
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No One Asked Me But... Volume 1 2007-2008
ISBN: 9781105188756 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of News columns that appeared in the Moapa Valley Progress 2007-2008.
A collection of News columns that appeared in the Moapa Valley Progress 2007-2008.
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67,71 |
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Overland from Canada to British Columbia: By Mr. Thomas McMicking of Queenston, Canada West
ISBN: 9780774803939 / Angielski / Miękka / 165 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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137,09 |
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Louisiana Called My Name
ISBN: 9781105066931 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Louisiana Called My Name by Colleen OBrien Arthur is an uplifting memoir about a woman who leaves San Francsico and moves to Louisiana. She falls in love with a lake, a man, and the Cajun culture. The book is full of her adventures from elk hunting in the Rockies to Scuba Diving in the Philippines. Her humor and passion for life will keep you turning the pages wanting more.
Louisiana Called My Name by Colleen OBrien Arthur is an uplifting memoir about a woman who leaves San Francsico and moves to Louisiana. She falls in l...
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68,79 |
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Mnemonic
ISBN: 9781468538090 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The political climate is laden with discord but in this political thriller, the subject intensifies when the United States President falls into the fierce grip of an unprecedented illness. Revolving around a President's battle with Alzheimer s, his talks with a drunkard and rash Russian president leaning towards war, and a corrupt U.S. Vice President eager to take charge, the plotline in this fictional screenplay follows President Jefferson Payne's White House staff as they scramble to hold together the political jigsaw puzzle that arises after the president undergoes brain surgery using a...
The political climate is laden with discord but in this political thriller, the subject intensifies when the United States President falls into the fi...
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98,54 |
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Mnemonic
ISBN: 9781468538106 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The political climate is laden with discord but in this political thriller, the subject intensifies when the United States President falls into the fierce grip of an unprecedented illness. Revolving around a President's battle with Alzheimer s, his talks with a drunkard and rash Russian president leaning towards war, and a corrupt U.S. Vice President eager to take charge, the plotline in this fictional screenplay follows President Jefferson Payne's White House staff as they scramble to hold together the political jigsaw puzzle that arises after the president undergoes brain surgery using a...
The political climate is laden with discord but in this political thriller, the subject intensifies when the United States President falls into the fi...
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50,40 |
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Morket - Hapet
ISBN: 9788299868129 / Norweski / Miękka / 163 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Den andre boken i Chand Svare Gheis tetralogi. Individets kamp om tilvaerelsen. Vi moter personer som ma handtere sine til na vanskeligste utfordring her i livet. I begynnelsen av boka sa moter vi en person som har vaert igjennom et eller annet av sa stotene karakter at personen ikke en gang husker hva som skjedde.(sjokk) Vi er innom temaer som opphav (foreldre), vennskap, kjaerlighet, utroskap, bevisets makt og kampen mot det etablerte. (...) forfatteren sparer ikke pa effektene, det vanker mye drikk, fyll, planlagt og tilfeldig sex ... og sa kommer ettertanken, meningen med livet? -...
Den andre boken i Chand Svare Gheis tetralogi. Individets kamp om tilvaerelsen. Vi moter personer som ma handtere sine til na vanskeligste utfordring ...
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64,74 |
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Life as Art: The Club 57 Story
ISBN: 9781440147524 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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65,32 |
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After The Beginning The Play: In The Garden
ISBN: 9780967260570 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No one knows what went on in the Garden of Eden after Adam and Eve were sent away forever. What happened to the animals? Who took care of them? It must have been a scary time. This is the first of a series of stories about the three animal friends. In this story they decide to go to a far away, forbidden place. There they meet a scary monster. Two escape and one is captured. Village friends must go to the rescue. We learn that we should not accept everything we see; and we must not listen to those who try to get us to do wrong. When we do it can lead to big trouble. We have to stay strong and...
No one knows what went on in the Garden of Eden after Adam and Eve were sent away forever. What happened to the animals? Who took care of them? It mus...
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Performing the US Latina & Latino Borderlands
ISBN: 9780253002952 / Angielski / Twarda / 522 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this interdisciplinary volume, contributors analyze the expression of Latina/o cultural identity through performance. With music, theater, dance, visual arts, body art, spoken word, performance activism, fashion, and street theater as points of entry, contributors discuss cultural practices and the fashoning of identity in Latino/a communities throughout the US. Examining the areas of crossover between Latin and American cultures gives new meaning to the notion of "borderlands." This volume features senior scholars and up-and-coming academics from cultural, visual, and performance... In this interdisciplinary volume, contributors analyze the expression of Latina/o cultural identity through performance. With music, theater, dance... |
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367,33 |
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Performing the Us Latina and Latino Borderlands
ISBN: 9780253005748 / Angielski / Miękka / 522 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this interdisciplinary volume, contributors analyze the expression of Latina/o cultural identity through performance. With music, theater, dance, visual arts, body art, spoken word, performance activism, fashion, and street theater as points of entry, contributors discuss cultural practices and the fashoning of identity in Latino/a communities throughout the US. Examining the areas of crossover between Latin and American cultures gives new meaning to the notion of "borderlands." This volume features senior scholars and up-and-coming academics from cultural, visual, and performance... In this interdisciplinary volume, contributors analyze the expression of Latina/o cultural identity through performance. With music, theater, dance... |
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137,09 |