Clare Boothe Luce: American Renaissance Woman, Nash Philip
Автор: Nash, Philip (penn State Shenango, Usa) Название: Clare boothe luce ISBN: 0367407337 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367407339 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5817.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Clare Boothe Luce: American Renaissance Woman is a concise and highly readable political biography that examines the life of one of the most accomplished American women of the 20th century.Wife and mother, author, editor, playwright, political activist, war journalist, Congresswoman, ambassador, pundit, and feminist—Luce did it all. Carefully placing Luce in a series of shifting historical contexts, this book offers the reader an insight into mid-century American political, cultural, gender, and foreign relations history. Eleven primary sources follow the text, including excerpts from Luce’s diary, letters, speeches, and published works, as well as a TV talk-show appearance and a critic’s diary entry describing an evening with her, helping readers to understand her fascinating life. Together, the narrative and documents afford readers a brief yet in-depth look at Luce with all her complications: glamorous intellectual, acid-tongued diplomat, and feminist conservative, she was a deeply flawed high-achiever who repeatedly challenged the entrenched sexism of her age to become a significant actor in the rise of the “American Century.”Addressing the neglect suffered by women in foreign relations history, this will be of interest to students and scholars of US foreign relations, 20th-century US history, and US women’s history.
God Said Let There Be Light And There Was "LLUMO" is an autobiographical book about the author when he was a 22-year old college graduate forced, by way of the draft, to transition from working as a Protocol Officer at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston to serving in an Army mechanized infantry unit in Vietnam and Cambodia. A synopsis of that experience and dealing with it follows:
Ray W. Luce spent three years working in the U. S. space program during the Gemini and Apollo programs, culminating with Luce being present in NASA's Mission Control Center in Houston when Apollo 11 made man's first landing on the lunar surface July 20, 1969. Additionally, during Apollo 11, Luce was drafted and seven months later was carrying an M16 in a mechanized infantry unit fighting in Vietnam and Cambodia. This book is the result of Luce's desire to reconcile the disorienting mental juxtaposition of experiencing these immediately successive and disparate events, one the ultimate manifestation of man's unquenchable drive to explore and his endless technical abilities, and the other a reminder of man's destructive nature and the resulting brutality.
During 2016, after forty-six years of dealing with the mental dissonance resulting from these spiritually-opposite indelible experiences, Luce returned to Vietnam and Cambodia. There he found closure. Following is a passage from Luce's recount of that experience. "Imagine that a long time ago you were reading the only copy of the most vivid novel you ever read. And just as you got to the last chapter you lost the book. For the next 46 years you've wondered how the story ended. Then one day you find the book and read that last chapter. And it's the best ending you could possibly have imagined. With a peaceful sense of satisfaction, you close the book and put it back on the shelf."
Автор: Stone Название: Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference ISBN: 0521118107 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521118101 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4435.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Alison Stone offers a feminist defence of the idea that sexual difference is natural. Providing a novel interpretation of the later philosophy of Luce Irigaray, she defends Irigaray`s unique form of essentialism and her rethinking of the relationship between nature and culture.
Examines the efforts to bring political order to the English empire through projects of environmental improvement
When Charles II ascended the English throne in 1660 after two decades of civil war, he was confronted with domestic disarray and a sprawling empire in chaos. His government sought to assert control and affirm the King’s sovereignty by touting his stewardship of both England’s land and the improvement of his subjects’ health. By initiating ambitious projects of environmental engineering, including fen and marshland drainage, forest rehabilitation, urban reconstruction, and garden transplantation schemes, agents of the English Restoration government aimed to transform both places and people in service of establishing order. Merchants, colonial officials, and members of the Royal Society encouraged royal intervention in places deemed unhealthy, unproductive, or poorly managed. Their multiple schemes reflected an enduring belief in the complex relationships between the health of individual bodies, personal and communal character, and the landscapes they inhabited.
In this deeply researched work, Kate Mulry highlights a period of innovation during which officials reassessed the purpose of colonies, weighed their benefits and drawbacks, and engineered and instituted a range of activities in relation to subjects’ bodies and material environments. These wide-ranging actions offer insights about how restoration officials envisioned authority within a changing English empire. An Empire Transformed is an interdisciplinary work addressing a series of interlocking issues concerning ideas about the environment, governance, and public health in the early modern English Atlantic empire.
God Said Let There Be Light And There Was "LLUMO" is an autobiographical book about the author when he was a 22-year old college graduate forced, by way of the draft, to transition from working as a Protocol Officer at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston to serving in an Army mechanized infantry unit in Vietnam and Cambodia. A synopsis of that experience and dealing with it follows:
Ray W. Luce spent three years working in the U. S. space program during the Gemini and Apollo programs, culminating with Luce being present in NASA's Mission Control Center in Houston when Apollo 11 made man's first landing on the lunar surface July 20, 1969. Additionally, during Apollo 11, Luce was drafted and seven months later was carrying an M16 in a mechanized infantry unit fighting in Vietnam and Cambodia. This book is the result of Luce's desire to reconcile the disorienting mental juxtaposition of experiencing these immediately successive and disparate events, one the ultimate manifestation of man's unquenchable drive to explore and his endless technical abilities, and the other a reminder of man's destructive nature and the resulting brutality.
During 2016, after forty-six years of dealing with the mental dissonance resulting from these spiritually-opposite indelible experiences, Luce returned to Vietnam and Cambodia. There he found closure. Following is a passage from Luce's recount of that experience. "Imagine that a long time ago you were reading the only copy of the most vivid novel you ever read. And just as you got to the last chapter you lost the book. For the next 46 years you've wondered how the story ended. Then one day you find the book and read that last chapter. And it's the best ending you could possibly have imagined. With a peaceful sense of satisfaction, you close the book and put it back on the shelf."
Описание: The book will be of interest to scholars in international law, human rights, socio-legal studies, political science and international relations, as well as to national and international policy makers. It also represents a valuable resource for postgraduate and advanced-level graduate classes, particularly in international law and human rights.
Eug?nie Luce was a French schoolteacher who fled her husband and abandoned her family, migrating to Algeria in the early 1830s. By the mid-1840s she had become a major figure in debates around educational policies, insisting that women were a critical dimension of the French effort to effect a fusion of the races. To aid this fusion, she founded the first French school for Muslim girls in Algiers in 1845, which thrived until authorities cut off her funding in 1861. At this point, she switched from teaching spelling, grammar, and sewing, to embroidery—an endeavor that attracted the attention of prominent British feminists and gave her school a celebrated reputation for generations.
The portrait of this remarkable woman reveals the role of women and girls in the imperial projects of the time and sheds light on why they have disappeared from the historical record since then.
Автор: Targoff Ramie Название: Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna ISBN: 0374140944 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374140946 Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS Рейтинг: Цена: 4138.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Dit boek gaat over organisaties die stappen willen zetten om teams meer autonomiete geven door besluitvorming decentraal neer te leggen en managementlagen enmanagers weg te halen om de teams zelf-organiserend te laten optreden.Daartoe komen in dit boek verschillende agile frameworks aan bod die het opschalenvan agile teams ondersteunen. In het eerste deel komen een aantal agile-aanpakkenvan het eerste uur aan bod. Dit betreft agile-aanpakken op team-niveau die zowelbinnen IT als niet-IT toepasbaar zijn. Als eerste worden Scrum, Kanban en Scrumbansummier beschreven. Omdat Lean in vele agile-aanpakken een belangrijke rol vervult,wordt ook de essentie van Lean beschreven. Daarnaast komt aan de orde wat hetbetekent als er meerdere teams met elkaar moeten samenwerken.Aansluitend op het opschalen van een agile team naar meerdere agile teamswordt beschreven wat dat betekent voor het wel of niet nodig hebben van eenprojectorganisatie en welke rol permanente en tijdelijke PMO`s hierbij spelen.Daarmee wordt ook duidelijk hoe de rol van de meer traditionele projectmanagerzich kan ontwikkelen in situaties waarbij steeds meer agile teams geimplementeerdworden en anderzijds welke nieuwe rollen er ontstaan waarvoor de projectmanagerzich mogelijk kan kwalificeren.Het boek biedt een overzicht van de huidige stand van zaken met betrekking totschaalbare agile frameworks. Allereerst de meest gebruikte schaalbare frameworks zoalsSAFe, LeSS, Nexus, Disciplined Agile en Spotify en daarnaast meer hybride schaalbaremethoden zoals PRINCE2 Agile en Agile Project Management. Van deze frameworkswordt een aantal kenmerken beschreven zodat onderlinge vergelijking mogelijk wordt.Aansluitend wordt bij de beschrijving van enkele minder bekende frameworks vooralingezoomd op onderscheidende aspecten en technieken die eventueel ook binnenandere frameworks gebruikt kunnen worden.Naast de schaalbare agile frameworks krijgt u ook een overzicht van frameworksdie helpen bij het creeren van een agile cultuur of mindset, waaronder AgileSHIFT,Open space Agility en Agile Fluency. Van eminent belang bij implementeren van eenschaalbaar agile framework waar u ook een eerste opzet inclusief valkuilen van krijgt.Kortom, dit boek is een onmisbare wegwijzer bij het vinden van uw pad naar een meerwendbare organisatie.
Автор: Jacob Ornstein Название: Luis de Lucena Repeticion de Amores ISBN: 0807890235 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807890233 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4990.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Luis de Lucena (1465-1530) was a Spanish writer whose Repeticion de Amores y Arte de Ajedrez con 101 Juegos de Partido is the oldest surviving book on the game of chess. Jacob Ornstein provides an annotated introduction in two parts that gives a general overview of the text and its author, and discusses the work in relation to the Feminist debates.
"Not of woman born, the Fortunate, the Unborn"—the terms designating those born by Caesarean section in medieval and Renaissance Europe were mysterious and ambiguous. Examining representations of Caesarean birth in legend and art and tracing its history in medical writing, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski addresses the web of religious, ethical, and cultural questions concerning abdominal delivery in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Not of Woman Born increases our understanding of the history of the medical profession, of medical iconography, and of ideas surrounding "unnatural" childbirth.
Blumenfeld-Kosinski compares texts and visual images in order to trace the evolution of Caesarean birth as it was perceived by the main actors involved—pregnant women, medical practitioners, and artistic or literary interpreters. Bringing together medical treatises and texts as well as hitherto unexplored primary sources such as manuscript illuminations, she provides a fresh perspective on attitudes toward pregnancy and birth in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance; the meaning and consequences of medieval medicine for women as both patients and practitioners, and the professionalization of medicine. She discusses writings on Caesarean birth from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, when Church Councils ordered midwives to perform the operation if a mother died during childbirth in order that the child might be baptized; to the fourteenth century, when the first medical text, Bernard of Gordon's Lilium medicinae, mentioned the operation; up to the gradual replacement of midwives by male surgeons in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Not of Woman Born offers the first close analysis of Frarnois Rousset's 1581 treatise on the operation as an example of sixteenth-century medical discourse. It also considers the ambiguous nature of Caesarean birth, drawing on accounts of such miraculous examples as the birth of the Antichrist. An appendix reviews the complex etymological history of the term "Caesarean section."
Richly interdisciplinary, Not of Woman Born will enliven discussions of the controversial issues surrounding Caesarean delivery today. Medical, social, and cultural historians interested in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, historians, literary scholars, midwives, obstetricians, nurses, and others concerned with women's history will want to read it.
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