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not silly.......2004-02-06
"Revisioning Italy" is a collection of essays exploring contemporary Italian culture, including literature, cinema, the media, and other such cultural elements. A book like this might be called "cultural criticism," and while that might not be everyone's cup of tea, the open-minded will find this book to be a long-awaited treasure trove of ideas and theories about contemporary Italy. The articles themselves are well-researched and well-written. The previous reviewer describes this book as "silly." Really the only "silly" thing is his easy dismissal of this interesting book, and especially his seemingly arbitrary assertion that the selections by Italian writers are better when there are so many interesting contributions from non-italian academics here.
Silly.......2000-03-12
This book is silly nonsense. Honestly, I approached it with some skepticism because of the jargony title. I wasn't disappppointed. It's even worse. The best items are those by italian writers. All are substandard, most are junk. This is the opposite of a must-read. A must-pass.
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Revisioning the Civil War: Historians on Counterfactual Scenarios
Keith E. (FWD) Gibson
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What if Douglas instead of Lincoln had won the presidential election of 1860? What if the Confederates had pushed their advantage and advanced on Washington following their victory at Bull Run? What if Lincoln had not been assassinated? Questions like these help historians answer other broader queries such as: Was the Civil War inevitable? Could the South really have won the war? This book examines key events and decisions of the Civil War, giving some of the subjects foremost experts a chance to reflect on the actualities of what could have (and what could not have) happened. Each of the chronologically arranged sections briefly introduces a topic, poses a counter-historical question and presents the responses of several leading scholars, and synthesizes and recaps these often divergent opinions. The work concludes with survey results from the panel of experts regarding several all-encompassing Civil War topics.
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In Revisioning History thirteen historians from around the world look at the historical film on its own terms, not as it compares to written history but as a unique way of recounting the past. How does film construct a historical world? What are the rules, codes, and strategies by which it brings the past to life? What does that historical construction mean to us? In grappling with these questions, each contributor looks at an example of New History cinema. Different from Hollywood costume dramas or documentary films, these films are serious efforts to come to grips with the past; they have often grown out of nations engaged in an intense quest for historical connections, such as India, Cuba, Japan, and Germany.
The volume begins with an introduction by Robert Rosenstone. Part I, "Contesting History," comprises essays by Geoff Eley (on the film Distant Voices, Still Lives), Nicholas B. Dirks (The Home and the World), Thomas Kierstead and Deidre Lynch (Eijanaika), and Pierre Sorlin (Night of the Shooting Stars). Contributing to Part II, "Visioning History," are Michael S. Roth (Hiroshima Mon Amour), John Mraz (Memories of Underdevelopment), Min Soo Kang (The Moderns) and Clayton R. Koppes (Radio Bikini). Part III, "Revisioning History" contains essays by Denise J. Youngblood (Repentance), Rudy Koshar (Hitler: A Film from Germany), Rosenstone (Walker), Sumiko Higashi (Walker and Mississippi Burning), and Daniel Sipe (From the Pole to the Equator).
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Making Space: Revisioning the World, 1475-1600 (Space, Place, and Society)
John Rennie Short
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How Maps made the world a commodity.......2004-05-21
Making Space: Revisioning the World, 1475-1600 by John Rennie Short (Space, Place, and Society: Syracuse University Press) In his newest work, John Rennie Short continues to explore how the spatial discourses of the sixteenth century formed a remarkable revolution that changed the way the world was represented. The cosmos was bound in a sphere. The world was gridded and plotted, the seas navigated, and the land was surveyed. Spatial practices were codified, a spatial sensitivity was created, and a cartographic literacy was established through the increasing use of maps and the creation of a cartographic language for new map-pings of the world, state, and city.
Short establishes that such spatial revisioning is connected to the promotion of commercial and national interests. Developments in navigation, for example, were often encouraged and promoted by both the state and merchant companies. Surveying was closely connected to the rising cost of land and the increasing commodification of agriculture. The long price rise of land in the sixteenth century was an important factor in developing the spatial practices of map-ping and surveying. In addition, Short highlights the role of occult practices in the new spatial sciences. The cosmographers of the sixteenth century encompassed a wide arc of intellectual endeavors.
Excerpt: Modern space-the space the modern world inhabits and `sees'-was created in Europe between 1475 and 1600. It was produced using a variety of means, including the use of the grid to plot the world; the use of the cosmographical sphere as the starting point for the mathematically derived practices of navigation and surveying; the increasing use of maps; and the creation of a cartographic language for new mappings of the world, states, and cities. In this new spatial practice, the world was enmeshed in a grid, laced with compass lines and seen through the lens of the theodolite, back-staff, and cross-staff. New techniques of spatial surveillance were employed by the state, private companies, and powerful individuals in acts of land commodification and colonial appropriation.
The space in which most of the contemporary world is viewed, a gridded space empty of history yet full of promise, was constructed in Europe between 1475 and 1600. This period marks a transition zone between two differing views of space. The first view saw space and time as being deeply intertwined, with history as well as geography forming an important part of geographical representation. The second view, however, began to visualize a space more independent of history. These views do not constitute a simple dichotomy between an easily demarcated "before" and "after." The medieval period was not an unchanging block, and the Renaissance was deeply marked by a medieval heritage. How-ever, it is possible to discern the construction of a modern space of the grid, the map, and the survey. Plotted on the grid of latitude and longitude, this new world was produced on maps and negotiated in new methods in navigation and surveying that allowed the world to be not only seen but also explored and appropriated.
Mapping was never politically neutral or socially indeterminate. The Renaissance introduced a new way of seeing the world, describing the world, and mapping the world that anticipated both the Enlightenment and colonialism. Maps of the Renaissance reflect and embody new forms of scientific understanding and new techniques of territorial appropriation.
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Continental Divides: Revisioning American Literature
Anne Goldman
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This book calls for a new iconography of region that unseats New England’s status as cultural center of the United States and originary metaphor for national identity. No single territorial or political axis can adequately describe the complex regional relationships that comprise the nation, Anne Goldman argues. Goldman's arguments question critical sectionalism as extensively as they do regional divisions, by blurring generic distinctions, by reading across literary periods, and by juxtaposing writers who explore the same set of social issues during the same historical moment, but who are conventionally located in separate literary traditions: sentimental literature, the African American novel, literary modernism, early Mexican fiction.
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This book calls for a new iconography of region that unseats New England's status as cultural center of the United States and originary metaphor for national identity. No single territorial or political axis can adequately describe the complex regional relationships that comprise the nation, Anne Goldman argues.
Goldman's arguments question critical sectionalism as extensively as they do regional divisions, by blurring generic distinctions, by reading across literary periods, and by juxtaposing writers who explore the same set of social issues during the same historical moment, but who are conventionally located in separate literary traditions: sentimental literature, the African American novel, literary modernism, early Mexican fiction.
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well researched, but slanted from start to finish.......2005-03-26
Being a veteran, a defense contractor, and a Hawaii resident, I was eager to read this book. I had incorrectly assumed that it was historical and anecdotal. Instead, the authors (both liberal arts professors at UH) have produced a multidimensional criticism of the military and everything about it in Hawaii. They seem to be annoyed by JROTC instructor's salaries, freeway signs that mention military bases, the sight of Navy boats offshore, military dependents that consume local resources, and in general, citizenship defined by loyalty to a culture they paint as sexist, racist, and violent. The book is, in fact, very well researched. There are several footnotes on every page. But some references are so obscure, I can't help but think they were overreaching for evidence to support a claim (that the original Hawaiian name for Punchbowl Cemetery, for example, was more thoughtful and appropriate than "punchbowl", the name given by so-called white, ignorant colonialists).
There were some interesting facts about Hawaii and the US military, but I found myself skipping over sections that were just openly anti-military (criticizing Abe Lincoln quotes from the Civil War; beating the dead liberal horse about how the military is sexist and racist; the repeated demand for "critical thinking" - which, I guess means being a liberal; nothing new there).
I suppose this book will appeal to those who already think this way. There was no attempt at persuading those who disagree. I gave the book some time, hoping for a well-structured argument. But the viewpoints are written matter-of-factly; often simply stating, `the military is in Hawaii', with the implication that it's obviously a bad thing.
This is the sort of book I'd expect to see on the reading list of an undergraduate political science class taught by an angry Bush-hater.
Oh, Say, Can You See?.......2001-02-02
Ferguson and Turnbull have provided both academia and Hawai'i with a book that can be compared to none. They use semiotic and Foucauldean analyses to "unearth" the military's strategies of power in Hawai'i along with colonialism's reconstruction of the Native body among others. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Hawai'i, the military, the military in Hawai'i, or the politics of Hawai'i.
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Caliban's Curse: George Lamming and the Revisioning of History
Supriya Nair
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Ever present in the work of contemporary Barbadian novelist George Lamming, author of In the Castle of My Skin, Natives of My Person, The Emigrants, and The Pleasures of Exile, are the subjects of history and revolution. In Caliban's Curse, Supriya M. Nair traces these themes and situates Lamming's work within the ongoing discourses of nationalism and identity. Retracing the history of colonial intervention in the anglophone Caribbean and seeking connections among Africa, the Caribbean, and England, Caliban's Curse moves beyond the popular perception of the archipelago as an ahistorical tourist paradise and presents the islands as a space populated by the tragic and triumphant cultures of the black diaspora.
Caliban's Curse draws upon a range of theories--postcolonial, Marxist, and feminist--to contextualize the black diaspora of the modern Caribbean through one of its primary anglophone novelists. Putting George Lamming in conversation with such contemporaries as C.L.R. James, Derek Walcott, and Wilson Harris, Nair argues that Lamming's works expand the protest of Shakespeare's Caliban to articulate a reinvention of Caribbean cultures. Both cursed by and cursing the weight of colonial history, Lamming works against the paralysis induced by such an encounter; his work serves to rewrite canonical icons and to reimagine popular cultures.
"Supriya Nair writes about the problems of history and social revolution with passion and clarity and an amazing range of critical and cultural reference. . . . She brings to existing studies of Lamming a wide and sustained knowledge of the forces that have shaped the West Indian novel, and the wider postcolonial debates in which these novels are read and discussed." --Simon Gikandi, University of Michigan
Supriya Nair is Associate Professor of English, Tulane University.
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America is a nation founded on ideals — liberty, justice, and tolerance chief among them — and in A Call to Heroism, Peter Gibbon argues that the heroes we honor are the embodiment of these ideals. Because the very concept of heroism has come under threat in our cynical media age, Gibbon believes that we must forge a new understanding of what it means to be a hero in order to fortify our ideals as we engage our present challenges and face those that lie ahead. In a series of essays, Gibbon examines the types of heroes that we have celebrated throughout our history. Along the way, he contemplates the meanings of seven monuments and works of art dedicated to heroes (for instance, Mount Rushmore) to examine what these places and things say about the America of their time — and what they mean for Americans today. Full of insight and inspiration, A Call to Heroism is a provocative look at a timeless subject that has never been more important.
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The great need for today........2007-09-27
This book is not only written well but gives great stories of true heroes we have unfortunately forgotten about. This is a must read for adults and teenagers. Get a true vision of real Heroes again.
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Great book to start with.......2003-01-22
Showing the best of the game, the Angelic players guide gives so many ideas on playing a truly angelic character. But, you really need the core rules book, and the Infernal Players guide. Its also a good idea to have Liber Canticorum, the book of songs. Otherwise your character will only have the few powers in the Angelic Player's Guide. So, while its a good book, you need more than just the book to successfully play In Nomine.
the best In Nomine book ever.......1999-09-24
that's right, i said "ever". this is the most captivating, best illustrated, and most useful book for In Nomine that i have seen. not only does it really let players and GMs figure out angelic life, trials, and tribulations, but it makes anyone wonder what those demons are talkin' 'bout. personally, it made me turn from a GM who never really thought about playing, into a psycho-smart GM who would kill for the chance to use my Ofanite of Creation (in service to Yves, of course). the only other book that has even close to this much to offer to IN enthusiasts is Revelations II: The Marches, for its Sorcerer rules and its Marches info (buy both!).
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5-D Leadership celebrates the knowledge that there is more than one way to be an effective leader, delivering a dynamic process to help current and aspiring leaders alike discover and strengthen their innate abilities and master the realities of today's complex business challenges. They set out the concrete actions required for each approach adn describe in detail how leaders can leverage the strengths they already possess to lead effectively, whatever the situation.
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A GREAT GUIDE FOR DEVELOPING LEADERSHIP SKILLS........2005-11-19
This book stands out among the many on the subject of leadership by providing a clear framework of 5 dimensions (tools), each with strategic objectives and appropriate contexts for their application. The dimensions are further made applicable by specific core building blocks (actions to take), made more meaningful by distinguishing between the intention behind the action and the manner in which it is carried out. Numerous tools are provided to help the reader develop leadership competencies, flexibly using the 5 dimension framework. Central to the authors' approach is the use of dimensions to suit specific situations; chapter 8 provides an overview of seven common business contexts and their appropriate leadership dimensions. The book also helps you identify the size of the gaps between leadership dimensions you have and those your current context requires; the next chapter offers a four-step process for overcoming large gaps. The authors also explore ways to apply your strengths in unique ways that fit the demands of your business/organizational context. This is a highly valuable book that is well written and organized. It may be extremely useful not only for those who want to strengthen their leadership skills, but for those who train and coach others in the art of effective leadership. Very highly recommended.
Practical and Uuseful Leadership Model.......2005-11-14
5D Leadership demonstrates the value of each of the 5 leadership styles and the importance of flexing styles based on the situation or context. This book reinforced my beliefs about leadership and put those beliefs in a model that makes sense and is useful.
A valuable tool for practicing and prospective managers to hone their skills.......2005-11-05
Internationally recognized consultant Scott Campbell and leadership development specialist Ellen Samiec, cofounders and directors of the Toronto-based leadership development and coaching consortium 5-D Leadership, present 5-D Leadership: Key Dimensions For Leading In The Real World, a self-instructional resource for improving one's capabilities in the five dimensions of leadership: Commanding/Taking Charge, Visioning/Pointing the Way, Enrolling/Getting Buy-In, Relating/Creating Harmony, and Coaching/Devel-oping People. Chapters cover the importance of knowing oneself and one's abilities inside and out, identifying contextual dynamics, leveraging one's strengths, and more. Written in no-nonsense language with an abundance of examples taken from everyday events, 5-D Leadership is a valuable tool for practicing and prospective managers to hone their skills.
Inspirational and practical.......2005-10-21
Having spent many years in a management type roll, and
only recently finding myself needing more leadership
skills, I found 5-D Leadership not only easy to follow
and informative, but incredibly inspiring at the same time.
I have finished the book feeling able to tackle situations
that I was potentially dreading in my line of work.
Scott Campbell and Ellen Samiec have written a book that is
to the point yet wittily written. It includes a wide
range of practical techniques that are all given with real
life examples making 5-D Leadership a must read for leaders
at every level of the game.
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