Author: Lisa Kernan
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292705586
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Starting from the premise that movie trailers can be considered a film genre, this study explores conventions as features of the genre & offers a primer for reading the rhetoric of movie trailers.
Hope and Despair in the American City
Author: Gerald Grant
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674032942
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Reading the philosophy of Immanuel Levinas against postcolonial theories of difference, particularly those of Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Édouard Glissant, and Subcommandante Marcos, John E. Drabinski reconceives notions of difference, language, subjectivity, ethics, and politics and provides new perspectives on these important postcolonial theorists. He also underscores Levinas's relevance to related disciplines concerned with postcolonialism and ethics.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674032942
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Reading the philosophy of Immanuel Levinas against postcolonial theories of difference, particularly those of Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, Édouard Glissant, and Subcommandante Marcos, John E. Drabinski reconceives notions of difference, language, subjectivity, ethics, and politics and provides new perspectives on these important postcolonial theorists. He also underscores Levinas's relevance to related disciplines concerned with postcolonialism and ethics.
Finding Hope in Despair
Author: Marian Birch
Publisher: Ztt Press
ISBN: 9781934019252
Category : Child psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: Ztt Press
ISBN: 9781934019252
Category : Child psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Hope in the Dark
Author: Rebecca Solnit
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608465799
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
“[A] landmark book . . . Solnit illustrates how the uprisings that begin on the streets can upend the status quo and topple authoritarian regimes” (Vice). A book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me, her Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of activists at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories behind them—and the unimaginable changes soon to come. In it, she makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argues that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not always immediately seen, directly knowable, or even measurable, and that pessimism and despair rest on an unwarranted confidence about what is going to happen next. Now, with a moving new introduction explaining how the book came about and a new afterword that helps teach us how to hope and act in our unnerving world, she brings a new illumination to the darkness of our times in an unforgettable new edition of this classic book. “One of the best books of the 21st century.” —The Guardian “No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that’s marked this new millennium.” —Bill McKibben, New York Times–bestselling author of Falter “An elegant reminder that activist victories are easily forgotten, and that they often come in extremely unexpected, roundabout ways.” —The New Yorker
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608465799
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
“[A] landmark book . . . Solnit illustrates how the uprisings that begin on the streets can upend the status quo and topple authoritarian regimes” (Vice). A book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me, her Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of activists at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories behind them—and the unimaginable changes soon to come. In it, she makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argues that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not always immediately seen, directly knowable, or even measurable, and that pessimism and despair rest on an unwarranted confidence about what is going to happen next. Now, with a moving new introduction explaining how the book came about and a new afterword that helps teach us how to hope and act in our unnerving world, she brings a new illumination to the darkness of our times in an unforgettable new edition of this classic book. “One of the best books of the 21st century.” —The Guardian “No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that’s marked this new millennium.” —Bill McKibben, New York Times–bestselling author of Falter “An elegant reminder that activist victories are easily forgotten, and that they often come in extremely unexpected, roundabout ways.” —The New Yorker
Hope and Despair
Author: Roman Payne
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615186505
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
A feast of sensuality, Payne's third epic novel narrates the story of the beautiful young Nadja, and her brooding lover Nikolai, as the two come of age in a springtime garden. When their world of earthly delights fades with the dying season, the two are exiled from their pastoral romance into a fiery world of seedy urban haunts, intoxicated dreams and electric lights. When tragedy heralds the birth of a new day, light is shed on everyone's fate as the greatest adventure of all begins: a cunning swindler sets off on a heroic voyage to find the love of his youth. Through tears of hope and despair, the landscape of this novel unfolds before us in a vast panorama of poetic prose, delighting the senses and the imagination about what is possible, what is beautiful, and what is maddening about this world. ""Charged with passion, these pages sing to us their erotic melancholy; 'Hope and Despair' is both loving and frightening, a pleasure to read once and again!""
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615186505
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
A feast of sensuality, Payne's third epic novel narrates the story of the beautiful young Nadja, and her brooding lover Nikolai, as the two come of age in a springtime garden. When their world of earthly delights fades with the dying season, the two are exiled from their pastoral romance into a fiery world of seedy urban haunts, intoxicated dreams and electric lights. When tragedy heralds the birth of a new day, light is shed on everyone's fate as the greatest adventure of all begins: a cunning swindler sets off on a heroic voyage to find the love of his youth. Through tears of hope and despair, the landscape of this novel unfolds before us in a vast panorama of poetic prose, delighting the senses and the imagination about what is possible, what is beautiful, and what is maddening about this world. ""Charged with passion, these pages sing to us their erotic melancholy; 'Hope and Despair' is both loving and frightening, a pleasure to read once and again!""
The Battle for Room 314
Author: Ed Boland
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 145556060X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
In this insightfully honest and moving memoir about the realities of teaching in an inner-city school, Ed Boland "smashes the dangerous myth of the hero-teacher [and] shows us how high the stakes are for our most vulnerable students" (Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black). In a fit of idealism, Ed Boland left a twenty-year career as a non-profit executive to teach in a tough New York City public high school. But his hopes quickly collided headlong with the appalling reality of his students' lives and a hobbled education system unable to help them. Freddy runs a drug ring for his incarcerated brother; Nee-cole is homeschooled on the subway by her brilliant homeless mother; Byron's Ivy League dream is dashed because he is undocumented. In the end, Boland isn't hoisted on his students' shoulders and no one passes AP anything. This is no urban fairy tale of at-risk kids saved by a Hollywood hero, but a searing indictment of schools that claim to be progressive but still fail their students. Told with compassion, humor, and a keen eye, Boland's story is sure to ignite debate about the future of American education and attempts to reform it.
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 145556060X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
In this insightfully honest and moving memoir about the realities of teaching in an inner-city school, Ed Boland "smashes the dangerous myth of the hero-teacher [and] shows us how high the stakes are for our most vulnerable students" (Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black). In a fit of idealism, Ed Boland left a twenty-year career as a non-profit executive to teach in a tough New York City public high school. But his hopes quickly collided headlong with the appalling reality of his students' lives and a hobbled education system unable to help them. Freddy runs a drug ring for his incarcerated brother; Nee-cole is homeschooled on the subway by her brilliant homeless mother; Byron's Ivy League dream is dashed because he is undocumented. In the end, Boland isn't hoisted on his students' shoulders and no one passes AP anything. This is no urban fairy tale of at-risk kids saved by a Hollywood hero, but a searing indictment of schools that claim to be progressive but still fail their students. Told with compassion, humor, and a keen eye, Boland's story is sure to ignite debate about the future of American education and attempts to reform it.
Coming Attractions
Author: Lisa Kernan
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292705586
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Starting from the premise that movie trailers can be considered a film genre, this study explores conventions as features of the genre & offers a primer for reading the rhetoric of movie trailers.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292705586
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Starting from the premise that movie trailers can be considered a film genre, this study explores conventions as features of the genre & offers a primer for reading the rhetoric of movie trailers.
The City of Hope
Author: L. C. Jain
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN: 9788170227489
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Two Years After They Had Been Reseltted In Faridabad The 50,000 Refugees From Pakistan Were Driven To Near- Destitution When The Rehabilitation Ministry With Drew Relief Without First Creating Hand Account Of How This Challenge Was Met Through A Unique Experiment Of Labour Cooperatives, Which Turned Faridabad Into A Fledging Industrial Township With An Equally Unique System Of Social Health, A Non0Colonial And Worker-Owned Industrial Enterprises, Till The Resentment Of A Colonial Mind Establishment Pulled It Apart.
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN: 9788170227489
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Two Years After They Had Been Reseltted In Faridabad The 50,000 Refugees From Pakistan Were Driven To Near- Destitution When The Rehabilitation Ministry With Drew Relief Without First Creating Hand Account Of How This Challenge Was Met Through A Unique Experiment Of Labour Cooperatives, Which Turned Faridabad Into A Fledging Industrial Township With An Equally Unique System Of Social Health, A Non0Colonial And Worker-Owned Industrial Enterprises, Till The Resentment Of A Colonial Mind Establishment Pulled It Apart.
After the Shock City
Author: Tom Hulme
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 0861933494
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
A comparative and trans-national study of urban culture in Britain and the United States from the late nineteenth to the twentieth century
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 0861933494
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
A comparative and trans-national study of urban culture in Britain and the United States from the late nineteenth to the twentieth century
Battery Park City
Author: David L. A. Gordon
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136647600
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Battery Park City in Manhattan has been hailed as a triumph of urban design, and is considered to be one of the success stories of American urban redevelopment planning. The flood of praise for its design, however, can obscure the many lessons from the long struggle to develop the project. Nothing was built on the site for more than a decade after the first master plan was approved, and the redevelopment agency flirted with bankruptcy in 1979. Taking a practice-oriented approach, the book examines the role of planning and development agencies in implementing urban waterfront redevelopment. It focuses upon the experience of the central actor - the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) - and includes personal interviews with executives of the BPCA, former New York mayors John Lindsay and Ed Koch, key public officials, planners, and developers. Describing the political, financial, planning, and implementation issues faced by public agencies and private developers from 1962 to 1993, it is both a case study and history of one of the most ambitious examples of urban waterfront redevelopment.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136647600
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Battery Park City in Manhattan has been hailed as a triumph of urban design, and is considered to be one of the success stories of American urban redevelopment planning. The flood of praise for its design, however, can obscure the many lessons from the long struggle to develop the project. Nothing was built on the site for more than a decade after the first master plan was approved, and the redevelopment agency flirted with bankruptcy in 1979. Taking a practice-oriented approach, the book examines the role of planning and development agencies in implementing urban waterfront redevelopment. It focuses upon the experience of the central actor - the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) - and includes personal interviews with executives of the BPCA, former New York mayors John Lindsay and Ed Koch, key public officials, planners, and developers. Describing the political, financial, planning, and implementation issues faced by public agencies and private developers from 1962 to 1993, it is both a case study and history of one of the most ambitious examples of urban waterfront redevelopment.
The City, the Hope of Democracy
Author: Frederic C. Howe
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description