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The Rival Sirens - Suzanne Aspden - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Rival Sirens - Suzanne Aspden - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

The tale of the onstage fight between prima donnas Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni is notorious, appearing in music histories to this day, but it is a fiction. Starting from this misunderstanding, The Rival Sirens suggests that the rivalry fostered between the singers in 1720s London was in large part a social construction, one conditioned by local theatrical context and audience expectations, and heightened by manipulations of plot and music. This book offers readings of operas by Handel and Bononcini as performance events, inflected by the audience''s perceptions of singer persona and contemporary theatrical and cultural contexts. Through examining the case of these two women, Suzanne Aspden demonstrates that the personae of star performers, as well as their voices, were of crucial importance in determining the shape of an opera during the early part of the eighteenth century.

DKK 348.00
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The Surprise Rival - - Bog - Monash University Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Surprise Rival - - Bog - Monash University Publishing - Plusbog.dk

In 1987 the Times Educational Supplement reported that a UK wide survey of Faculties of Education found that ‘Monash University in Australia was the surprise rival to Stanford and Harvard’. The former school headmaster Richard Selby Smith, as the first Professor and Dean, had established the Faculty of Education in 1964 with a handful of staff and students. The Monash graduate Diploma in Education soon developed a fine reputation but then the Faculty extended its activity into postgraduate courses for teachers first at Bachelor of Education and then Master of Education level, catering too for specialist studies in Special Education, Psychology and Educational Administration. The Faculty soon developed an international reputation for its work in many fields, including science education, mathematics education, educational history, philosophy, sociology of education, special education, social psychology, multiculturalism, learning theory, the education of women, languages and literacy, and social education. Fifty years on, the Faculty was spread across campuses at Clayton, Gippsland, Peninsula and Berwick, but retained its reputation for excellence, with a ranking of sixth best in the world. This history tells the story of how the Faculty of Education at Monash developed from its modest beginnings to a position of international eminence.

DKK 279.00
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Hitler's Rival - Russel Lemmons - Bog - The University Press of Kentucky - Plusbog.dk

Hitler's Rival - Russel Lemmons - Bog - The University Press of Kentucky - Plusbog.dk

Throughout the 1920s, German politician and activist Ernst Thalmann (1886--1944) was the leader of the largest Communist Party organization outside the Soviet Union. Thalmann was the most prominent left-wing politician in the country's 1932 election and ran third in the presidential race after Hitler and von Hindenberg. After the Nazi Party's victory in that contest, he was imprisoned and held in solitary confinement for eleven years before being executed at Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944 under the Fuhrer's direct orders. Hitler's Rival examines how the Communist Party gradually transformed Thalmann into a fallen mythic hero, building a cult that became one of their most important propaganda tools in central Europe. Author Russel Lemmons analyzes the party intelligentsia's methods, demonstrating how they used various media to manipulate public memory and exploring the surprising ways in which they incorporated Christian themes into their messages. Examining the facts as well as the propaganda, this unique volume separates the intriguing true biography of the cult figure from the fantastic myth that was created around him.

DKK 314.00
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Rival Capitalists - Jeffrey A. Hart - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

Rival Capitalists - Jeffrey A. Hart - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

Nowhere can the cataclysmic reversals in international competitiveness since the Second World War be traced more clearly than in the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, and Japan. Surveying the development of the steel, automobile, and semiconductor industries in each of these countries, Jeffrey A. Hart illuminates the role of national policy in a changing world. Hart describes the global structure of production and consumption in the five major capitalist countries and offers a rich comparative history of their industrial policymaking. He concludes that variations in statesocietal arrangements—and the impact these differences have on the creation and diffusion of new technologies—provide the best explanation for divergences in international competitiveness. In Japan, state and business are allied, but labor is marginalized, whereas in Germany, labor and business are allied, and the state is decentralized. Yet both countries have become increasingly competitive because they have developed institutional mechanisms for technology diffusion. France''s state-led system, in contrast, is linked with only moderate competitiveness. The decline of competitiveness in the United States and Britain, Hart concludes, may be attributed to state-societal arrangements that have allowed one actor-labor in Britain, business in the United States-to dominate policymaking. Rival Capitalists will be an invaluable source for policymakers and business analysts as well as scholars and students of political economy, international relations, industrial organization, industrial sociology, and comparative politics.

DKK 371.00
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Darwin's Rival: Alfred Russel Wallace and the Search for Evolution - Christiane Dorion - Bog - Walker Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Darwin's Rival: Alfred Russel Wallace and the Search for Evolution - Christiane Dorion - Bog - Walker Books Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Follow Victorian naturalist and explorer Alfred Russel Wallace on his intrepid journeys across the globe and find out how he developed his own theory of evolution in this beautiful illustrated gift hardback. In 1858, Alfred Russel Wallace’s travels in the Amazon Basin and Malay Archipelago led him to discover natural selection independently of Charles Darwin. Darwin''s Rival traces Wallace’s life from his childhood in the Welsh countryside to his rise to prominence among the scientific community, via dense tropical jungles and perilous journeys – and shines a light on one of the most important contributors to the theory of evolution. With evocative illustrations by Harry Tennant, this stunning gift book will appeal to children and adults alike, and is the perfect introduction to the man so often eclipsed by his contemporary and friend Charles Darwin.

DKK 155.00
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