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A History of Contemporary Stage Combat 1969 - Today

A History of Contemporary Stage Combat 1969 - Today

A History of Contemporary Stage Combat chronicles the development of stage combat from the origins of the Society of British Fight Directors in 1969 to the modern day. Featuring interviews with some of the pioneers of this art form the book analyzes how stage combat developed in response to the needs of the industry and the changing social mores in the United States United Kingdom Canada the European Continent Australia and New Zealand. It also explores the quality of theatrical weaponry as well as outcropping of stage combat such as intimacy design and theatrical jousting. A History of Contemporary Stage Combat is an excellent resource for actors directors stage combatants theatre historians and anyone with a love of action on stage and film. | A History of Contemporary Stage Combat 1969 - Today

GBP 35.99
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The Screen Combat Handbook A Practical Guide for Filmmakers

The Screen Combat Handbook A Practical Guide for Filmmakers

The Screen Combat Handbook is an essential guide to navigating the unique challenges of putting combat on screen. Explore the process from the early stages of preproduction planning all the way through to editing and sound design and everything in-between. This book uses practical instruction examples interviews and illustrations to show how to plan shoot and assemble safe and effective fight sequences. It includes sections on thoughtful and practical design choices in set wardrobe props and effects preproduction planning on-set protocol fight choreography and coordination shot planning and technical tricks acting choices effective cinematography and impactful editing and sound design. It provides an invaluable resource for all those involved including directors fight coordinators actors and stunt players and any filmmaker attempting to shoot an exciting action scene safely. Whether working on a no-budget indie production or on a professional set this is your ultimate guide to screen combat and fight choreography. | The Screen Combat Handbook A Practical Guide for Filmmakers

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David Braham The American Offenbach

David Braham The American Offenbach

David Braham (1834-1905) was the musical director for the famous vaudeville team of Harrigan and Hart writing music for many of their comic songs including The Mulligan Guards Paddie Duffy's Cart and many more. His long career as a theatrical composer in New York helped establish a new style of Broadway musical. He came from a family well-entrenched in the music and theater worlds and his story touches upon nearly all aspects of the history of American musical theater of this era. | David Braham The American Offenbach

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The Military Balance 2013

The Military Balance 2013

The Military Balance 2013 is the annual assessment of the military capabilities and defence economics of 171 countries world-wide. New features of the 2013 edition include: reorganised and expanded analytical essays. New sections on trends in contemporary armed conflicts in Afghanistan and Syria as well as trends in defence capability areas with a focus on equipment technological or doctrinal developments. There is also an essay on trends in defence economics and procurement one on European defence industries and another on anti-access/area denial detailed analysis of regional and national defence policy and economic issues for selected states updated graphics feature on comparative defence statistics with focus on defence economics and major land sea and air capability concerns tables graphics and analysis of defence economics issues additional national capability summaries additional data on land forces: combat support and combat service support new graphics and maps on defence capability issues additional data on cyber capabilities.

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Terrorism and the US Drone Attacks in Pakistan Killing First

Terrorism and the US Drone Attacks in Pakistan Killing First

This book analyses the US drone attacks against terrorists in Pakistan to assess whether the ‘pre-emptive’ use of combat drones to kill terrorists is ever legally justified. Exploring the doctrinal discourse of pre-emption vis-à-vis the US drone attacks against terrorists in Pakistan the book shows that the debate surrounding this discourse encapsulates crucial tensions between the permission and limits of the right of self-defence. Drawing from the long history of God-given and man-made laws of war this book employs positivism as a legal frame to explore and explain the doctrine of pre-emption and analyses the doctrine of the state’s rights to self-defence as it stretches into pre-emptive or preventive use of force. The book investigates why the US chose the recourse to pre-emption through the use of combat drones in the ‘war on terror’ and whether there is a potential future for the pre-emption of terrorism through combat drones. The author argues that the policy to ‘kill first’ is easy to adopt; however any disregard for the web of legal requirements surrounding the policy has the potential to undercut the legal claims of an armed act. The book enables the framing and analysis of such controversies in legal terms as opposed to a choice between law and policy. An examination of the legal dilemma concerning drone warfare this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of international relations Asian politics South Asian studies and security studies in particular global security law new wars and emerging technologies of warfare. | Terrorism and the US Drone Attacks in Pakistan Killing First

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Accountability of Policing

Accountability of Policing

Accountability of Policing provides a contemporary and wide-ranging examination of the accountability and governance of ‘police’ and ‘policing’. Debates about ‘who guards the guards’ are among the oldest and most protracted in the history of democracy but over the last decade we have witnessed important changes in how policing and security agencies are governed regulated and held to account. Against a backdrop of increasing complexity in the local national and transnational landscapes of ‘policing’ political legal administrative and technological developments have served to alter regimes of accountability. The extent and pace of these changes raises a pressing need for ongoing academic research analysis and debate. Bringing together contributions from a range of leading scholars this book offers an authoritative and comprehensive analysis of the shifting themes of accountability within policing. The contributions explore questions of accountability across a range of dimensions including those ‘individuals’ and ‘institutions’ responsible for its delivery within and between the ‘public’ and ‘private’ sectors and at ‘local’ ‘national’ and ‘transnational’ scales of jurisdiction. They also engage with the concept of ‘accountability’ in a broad sense bringing to the surface the various meanings that have become associated with it and demonstrating how it is invoked and interpreted in different contexts. Accountability of Policing is essential reading for academics and students involved in the study of policing criminal justice and criminology and will also be of great interest to practitioners and policymakers.

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The Philosophy of Mixed Martial Arts Squaring the Octagon

The Philosophy of Mixed Martial Arts Squaring the Octagon

Mixed martial arts (MMA)—unarmed fighting games permitting techniques derived from a variety of martial arts and combat sports— has exploded from the fringes of sport into a worldwide phenomenon a sport as controversial as it is compelling. This is the first book to pay MMA the serious philosophical attention it deserves. With contributions from leading international scholars of the philosophy of sport and martial arts the book explores topics such as whether MMA qualifies as a martial art the differences between MMA and the traditional martial arts the aesthetic dimensions of MMA the limits of consent and choice in MMA and whether MMA can promote moral virtues. It also explores cutting-edge practical and ethical topics including the role of gender in MMA and the question of whether trans athletes should be allowed to compete in the women’s divisions. The contributors to this anthology take down ground and pound and submit many essential questions about this fascinating recent development in the culture of sport and spectacle. This is important reading for anybody with an interest in combat sports martial arts or the philosophy sociology culture or history of sport. | The Philosophy of Mixed Martial Arts Squaring the Octagon

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International Investment and Climate Change Energy Technologies for Developing Countries

International Investment and Climate Change Energy Technologies for Developing Countries

This study based on fieldwork and case studies of southeast Asian countries shows how privatization investment and new energy technologies can be integrated to combat climate change and provide the maximum return for investors. The author explains what incentives and regulatory structures are needed that do not damage local competitiveness. Asserting that technology transfer is fundamental to effective policies for climate change and for economic development the text examines how the benefits can be maximized. | International Investment and Climate Change Energy Technologies for Developing Countries

GBP 120.00
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A Philosophy in Outline (Routledge Revivals)

A Philosophy in Outline (Routledge Revivals)

First published in 1931 this book provides a brief overview of the essentials of philosophy. It aims to combat the notion of the inaccessibility of philosophy by providing an introduction to its history and what the author believes to a ‘minimum dose…of incontrovertible philosophical truth’. The book merely assumes an ordinary level of adult education and offers an outline of the key areas of philosophy — consciousness reality experience Life God love aesthetics conduct logic — and as such will be of interest as a very useful starting point for anyone wishing to undertake further studies. | A Philosophy in Outline (Routledge Revivals)

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Landscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise Innovative Global Solutions

Landscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise Innovative Global Solutions

This book assesses and illustrates innovative and practical world-wide measures for combating sea level rise from the profession of landscape architecture. The work explores how the appropriate mixture of integrated multi-scalar flood protection mechanisms can reduce risks associated with flood events including sea level rise. Because sea level rise is a global issue illustrative case studies performed from the United States Korea Australia New Zealand Thailand Japan China and the Netherlands identify the structural (engineered) non-structural (nature-based) and hybrid mechanisms (mixed) used to combat sea level rise and increase flood resilience. The alternative flood risk reduction mechanisms are extracted and analyzed from each case study to develop and explain a set of design-based typologies to combat sea level rise which can then be applied to help proctor new and existing communities. It is important for those located within the current or future floodplain considering sea level rise and those responsible for land use developmental and population-related activities within these areas to strategically implement a series of integrated constructed and green infrastructure-based flood risk reduction mechanisms to adequately protect threatened areas. As a result this book is beneficial to both academics and practitioners related to multiple design professions such as urban designers urban planners architects real estate developers and landscape architects. | Landscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise Innovative Global Solutions

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Human Resource Perspectives on Workplace Bullying in Higher Education Understanding Vulnerable Employees' Experiences

Human Resource Perspectives on Workplace Bullying in Higher Education Understanding Vulnerable Employees' Experiences

This analytical volume uses qualitative data quantitative data and direct employee experiences to aid understanding of why workplace bullying occurs in universities throughout the US. To address higher education workplace bullying this text offers data-driven interventions for human resource staff and departments to effectively tackle this destructive phenomenon. Drawing on Hollis’ first-hand research which is supported by findings from a 2019 Human Resources data collection this text identifies populations which are most vulnerable to discrimination within academia. The data shows how human resource departments executive leadership and faculty might proactively intervene to prevent workplace bullying. Divided into two parts the book offers empirical analysis of structural interventions for human resource efforts to combat workplace bullying in higher education. Second the book puts forth solutions based on empirical findings for organizations and human resources to combat workplace aggression and civility which hurts higher education. Further the author examines the specific effect of workplace harassment and cyberbullying on women of color junior faculty women and the LGBTQ community. This text will benefit researchers doctoral students and conducting higher education research. Additionally the book focusses on structural issues which interfere with multicultural education more broadly. Those interested in Human Resource Management the sociology of education and gender and sexuality studies and will also enjoy this volume. | Human Resource Perspectives on Workplace Bullying in Higher Education Understanding Vulnerable Employees' Experiences

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An International Perspective An International Perspective

An International Perspective An International Perspective

While the health effects of many aspects of life from diet to marital status have been extensively explored little study has been made of the health effects of work. Covering such topics as on-the-job dangers the role of unions in worker protection and occupational health in both developed and developing countries this collection of articles conclusively demonstrates the negative impact that neglect of citizens' working lives has on pubic health. With more Americans dying each year from job-related causes than were killed in a decade of combat in Vietnam Health and Work Under Capitalism is a long-overdue and unusually significant book. | An International Perspective An International Perspective

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Latina Bilingual Education Teachers Examining Structural Racism in Schools

Latina Bilingual Education Teachers Examining Structural Racism in Schools

Using critical race theory and whiteness studies as theoretical frameworks this book traces two Latina bilingual education teachers in three different professional phases: as paraprofessionals teacher candidates and certified teachers. Grounded in a longitudinal case study this book sheds light on the effects of institutional racism when Latina/o educational professionals attempt inclusion in white dominant organizations such as schools. Revealing and analyzing the structural racism present in schools and the obstacles it creates for professionals of color the author exposes the racist practices that are hidden from view and offer practical solutions to combat them. | Latina Bilingual Education Teachers Examining Structural Racism in Schools

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Combating Long-Term Unemployment Local/ E.C. Relations

Combating Long-Term Unemployment Local/ E.C. Relations

First published in 1989 Combating Long-Term Unemployment follows on from and is a companion to Local Authorities and New Technologies. The book seeks to inform debate by analysing policy responses to the problem of long-term unemployment and by focusing on the role of local initiatives in a European context. Long-term unemployment in Europe is a complicated and multifaceted problem the policy responses to which need to be studied against various contexts. It is designed to appeal to all those interested in policies to combat long-term unemployment: local and central government officials private sector organizations whose work is relevant to locally based initiatives and interested academics. | Combating Long-Term Unemployment Local/ E. C. Relations

GBP 90.00
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Long Day at Shiloh

Long Day at Shiloh

Originally published in 1981 Long Day at Shiloh recreates the first twenty-four hours of one of the crucial battles of the American Civil War: the Battle of Shiloh. In a series of short cinematic takes the book transports readers to Pittsburg Landing and into the lives of the men in the Union camp. It provides close views into the imagined thoughts and actions of individual soldiers on the eve of battle and depicts their attack by Confederate troops on April 6 1862. Long Day at Shiloh is a detailed historical novel offering insight into the events trials losses frustrations and exhilarations of combat during the Battle of Shiloh as the author has imagined them.

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Unsettled Voices Beyond Free Speech in the Late Liberal Era

Unsettled Voices Beyond Free Speech in the Late Liberal Era

From resurgent racisms to longstanding Islamophobia from settler colonial refusals of First Nations voices to border politics and migration debates ‘free speech’ has been weaponised to target racialized communities and bolster authoritarian rule. Unsettled Voices identifies the severe limitations and the violent consequences of ‘free speech debates’ typical of contemporary cultural politics and explores the possibilities to combat racism when liberal values underpin emboldened white supremacy. What kind of everyday racially motivated speech is protected by such an interpretation of liberal ideology? How do everyday forms of social expression that vilify and intimidate find shelter through an inflation of the notion of freedom of speech? Furthermore how do such forms refuse the idea that language can be a performative act from which harm can be derived? Racialized speech has conjured and shaped the subjectivities of multiple intersecting participants reproducing new and problematic forms of precarity. These vulnerabilities have been experienced from the sound of rubber bullets in the Occupied Palestinian Territories to UK hate speech legislation to the spontaneous performace of a First Nations war dance on the Australian Rules football pitch. This book identifies the deep limitations and the violent consequences of the longstanding and constantly developing ‘free speech debates’ typical of so many contexts in the West and explores the possibilities to combat racism when liberal values are ‘weaponized’ to target racialized communities. This book was originally published as a special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. | Unsettled Voices Beyond Free Speech in the Late Liberal Era

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Rising Fascism in America It Can Happen Here

Rising Fascism in America It Can Happen Here

Rising Fascism in America: It Can Happen Here explores how rising fascism has infiltrated U. S. politics—and how the media and academia failed to spot its earlier rise. Anthony R. DiMaggio spotlights the development of rightwing polarization of the media Trump’s political ascendance and the prominence of extremist activists including in Congress. Fascism has long bubbled under the surface until the coup attempt of January 6th 2021. This book offers tactics to combat fascism exploring social movements such as Antifa and Black Lives Matter in mobilizing the public. When so little scholarship engages the question of fascism Anthony R. DiMaggio combines the rigor of academic analysis with an accessible style that appeals to student and general readers. | Rising Fascism in America It Can Happen Here

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Migration Security and Resistance Global and Local Perspectives

Migration Security and Resistance Global and Local Perspectives

This volume explores the digitization privatization and spatial displacement of border security and the effects these have on political accountability and migrant rights. The governance of security and migration is unfolding in new political spaces. Cooperation and competition among immigration officials border guards transnational security corporations IT companies local police and international organizations has decoupled migration governance from national political structures. The chapters in the volume examine how these dynamics affect the deployment and constraint of sovereign power in the United States Canada the United Kingdom and the EU. Contributors trace this process from the disciplinary perspectives of law political science sociology criminology and geography. Part I of the book explores the reconfiguration of security and migration governance through historical processes of privatization digitization and the rescaling of border control technologies to local and global spaces. Part II explores how migrant rights actors have responded by rescaling resistance to global and local levels. This book will be of much interest to students of critical security studies global governance migration studies and international relations. | Migration Security and Resistance Global and Local Perspectives

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A History of Chinese Martial Arts

A History of Chinese Martial Arts

Chinese martial arts have a long meaningful history and deep cultural roots. They blend the physical components of combat with strategy philosophy and tradition distinguishing them from Western sports. A History of Chinese Martial Arts is the most authoritative study ever written on this topic featuring contributions from leading Chinese scholars and practitioners. The book provides a comprehensive overview of all types of Chinese martial arts from the Pre-Qin Period (before 222 BC) right up to the present day in the People’s Republic of China with each chapter covering a different period in Chinese history. Including numerous illustrations of artefacts weaponry and historical drawings and documents this book offers unparalleled insight into the origins development and contemporary significance of martial arts in China. This is a fascinating read for researchers and students working in sports history Chinese sport and Chinese Studies.

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White Supremacy Racism and the Coloniality of Anti-Trafficking

White Supremacy Racism and the Coloniality of Anti-Trafficking

Global efforts to combat human trafficking are ubiquitous and reference particular ideas about unfreedoms suffering and rescue. The discourse has however a distinct racialized legacy that is lodged specifically in fears about white slavery women in prostitution and migration and the defilement of white womanhood by the criminal and racialized Other. White Supremacy Racism and the Coloniality of Anti-Trafficking centers the legacies of race and racism in contemporary anti-trafficking work and examines them in greater detail. A number of recent arguments have suggested that race and racism are not only visible but vital to the success of contemporary anti- trafficking discourses and movements. The contributors offer recent scholarship grounded in critical anti- racist perspectives that reveal the historical and contemporary racial working of anti- trafficking discourses and practices globally—and how these intersect with gender citizenship sexuality caste and class formations and the global political economy.

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