<p><strong>The unforgettable story, decades before <em>Ted Lasso</em>, of the real-life Watford Football Team, transformed into a powerhouse by coach Graham Taylor and owner Elton John.</strong></p> <p>Nothing has brought English soccer more immediately into the American mainstream than <em>Ted Lasso</em>, which captivated the nation in thirty-four episodes over three seasons. But before there was Jason Sudeikis’s lovable and, at first, hapless AFC Richmond, there was Watford Football Club, a team from the outskirts of London with barely enough fans to fill its standsーand which, in the mid-1970s, was languishing in 92nd place at the bottom of the last division of the English Football League. That is, until rock superstar Elton Johnーwho, with his dad, had followed the team as a boyーbought the lowly franchise and, with legendary manager Graham Taylor, transformed the luckless football club into a top-seeded Premier League team. Inspiring, funny, and ultimately heartbreaking, <em>Watford Forever</em> recalls the improbably tender relationship between Elton John and Taylor, a straight-talking former fullback, who together beat the odds and their personal demons to save a club and a struggling community.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p><strong>A landmark volume of essays from “Ireland’s leading feminist poet” (<em>New York Times Book Review</em>) that celebrates a transformative vision of womanhood, nation, and poetry.</strong></p> <p>Eavan Boland was a trailblazing poet, critic, teacher, and essayist. Carving a path for the next generation, she broke open the male-dominated canon of Irish literature and mapped her poetic journey through the contours of life as a mother, daughter, and citizen. This generous and wise volume contains essays selected from <em>Object Lessons</em> (1995) and <em>A Journey with Two Maps</em> (2011); later writings addressing the changing nature of poetry; and a draft of a reflective memoir called “Daughter,” on which Boland was working at the time of her death.</p> <p>A compelling blend of memoir, analysis, and argument, <em>Citizen Poet</em> traces the arc of Boland’s pioneering view of nationhood through the lens of womanhood.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p><strong>The Pulitzer Prize?winning art critic’s gripping account of the “Terrible Year” in Paris and its monumental impact on the rise of Impressionism.</strong></p> <p>From the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871, famously dubbed the “Terrible Year” by Victor Hugo, Paris and its people were besieged, starved, and forced into surrender by Germansーthen imperiled again as radical republicans established a breakaway Commune, ultimately crushed by the French Army after bloody street battles and the burning of central Paris. As renowned art critic Sebastian Smee shows, it was against the backdrop of these tumultuous times that the Impressionist movement was bornーin response to violence, civil war, and political intrigue.</p> <p>In stirring and exceptionally vivid prose, Smee tells the story of those dramatic days through the eyes of great figures of Impressionism. ?douard Manet, Berthe Morisot, and Edgar Degas were trapped in Paris during the siege and deeply enmeshed in its politics. Others, including Pierre-August Renoir and Fr?d?ric Bazille, joined regiments outside of the capital, while Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro fled the country just in time. In the aftermath, these artists developed a newfound sense of the fragility of life. That feeling for transienceーreflected in Impressionism’s emphasis on fugitive light, shifting seasons, glimpsed street scenes, and the impermanence of all thingsーbecame the movement’s great contribution to the history of art.</p> <p>At the heart of it all is a love story; that of Manet, by all accounts the father of Impressionism, and Morisot, the only woman to play a central role in the movement from the start. Smee poignantly depicts their complex relationship, their tangled effect on each other, and their great legacy, while bringing overdue attention to the woman at the heart of Impressionism.</p> <p>Incisive and absorbing, <em>Paris in Ruins</em> captures the shifting passions and politics of the art world, revealing how the pressures of the siege and the chaos of the Commune had a profound impact on modern art, and how artistic genius can emerge from darkness and catastrophe.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p>Im vorliegenden Buch steht die Thematik der Vaterlosigkeit im Fokus. Das Hauptanliegen besteht darin, anhand der literarischen Werke der deutschsprachigen Autoren Wolfgang Koeppen und Thomas Bernhard zu untersuchen, inwieweit dieser schicksalhafte Umstand Unbilden und Kr?nkungen hinterlassen hat. Die Abhandlung zielt darauf ab, die Auswirkungen der Vaterentbehrung auf die Pers?nlichkeitsentwicklung der Schriftsteller zu beleuchten und wie sich diese in ihren Romanen und literarischen Werken in mehr oder weniger subtiler Weise manifestieren. Dabei sollen die beiden Facetten der Vaterlosigkeit miteinander in Beziehung gesetzt und verglichen werden. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei nicht auf den Autoren selbst oder ihren Lebensgeschichten, sondern vielmehr auf den fiktiven Figuren in den Werken der ausgew?hlten Schriftsteller, die den zentralen Untersuchungsgegenstand darstellen.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p><strong>Neuroscientist and <em>New York Times</em> best-selling author of <em>This Is Your Brain on Music</em> Daniel J. Levitin reveals the deep connections between music and healing.</strong></p> <p>Music is one of humanity’s oldest medicines. From the Far East to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and the pre-colonial Americas, many cultures have developed their own rich traditions for using sound and rhythm to ease suffering, promote healing, and calm the mind.</p> <p>In his latest work, neuroscientist and <em>New York Times</em> best-selling author Daniel J. Levitin (<em>This Is Your Brain on Music</em>) explores the curative powers of music, showing us how and why it is one of the most potent therapies today. He brings together, for the first time, the results of numerous studies on music and the brain, demonstrating how music can contribute to the treatment of a host of ailments, from neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, to cognitive injury, depression, and pain.</p> <p>Levitin is not your typical scientistーhe is also an award-winning musician and composer, and through lively interviews with some of today’s most celebrated musicians, from Sting to Kent Nagano and Mari Kodama, he shares their observations as to why music might be an effective therapy, in addition to plumbing scientific case studies, music theory, and music history. The result is a work of dazzling ideas, cutting-edge research, and jubilant celebration. <em>I Heard There Was a Secret Chord</em> highlights the critical role music has played in human biology, illuminating the neuroscience of music and its profound benefits for those both young and old.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p>The Performance of Viking Identity in Museums explores the representations and uses of Vikings in museums across Iceland, British Isles and Norway.</p> <p>Drawing on theories from history, philosophy, museology, and sociology, the book analyses how the Viking myth is used by visitors to make sense of present-day society, culture, and politics and the role of museums in this meaning-making process. Demonstrating that the Viking myth is present in collective memory and plays an important role in the construction and modification of collective, national, and personal identities, the book analyses this process through the framework of museums and their visitors. Identifying museums as places where heritage, identity and social norms are affirmed and reflected upon, Whitehead demonstrates that all countries use their Viking heritage to define their identity on a local and international level - through tourist attractions such as museums and other Viking-related monuments and merchandise.</p> <p>Providing readers with an insight into Vikings and their social relevance today, <em>The Performance of Viking Identity in Museums</em> will be of great interest to academics and researchers across the social and human sciences. It should also be essential reading for museum professionals working in museums around the world.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p><em>Town and Country Planning in the UK</em> provides one of the most authoritative and comprehensive accounts of British planning history, institutions, legislation, policies, processes and practices. This 16th edition has been substantially revised and re-organised to provide an up-to-date overview of the planning systems in the four nations of the UK, supported by analyses, interpretations, illustrations and examples from planning practice.</p> <p>The new edition features:</p> <ul> <li>details of the legislative and policy changes since 2015 and discussion of their implications, including the early stages of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act, 2023</li> <li>discussion of environmental policies and programmes and the impact of Brexit on environmental regulatory landscape in Britain</li> <li>changes to climate change and resilience policies, notably the government’s ‘Net Zero’ agenda and their implications for planning</li> <li>updates to the substantive issues in plan-making, especially the responses to the shortage of affordable housing and the development of major infrastructure</li> <li>changes to the processes involved in plan-making and development management</li> <li>an expanded and revised chapter on design to include the growing significance of public health in the built environment</li> <li>major revisions to the chapter on rural planning</li> <li>revisions of the text on planning theory especially in relation to management of conflicts over the use and development of land</li> <li>extended discussion of politics, professionalism and participation in planning</li> </ul> <p>The 16th edition of <em>Town and Country Planning in the UK</em> is an ideal starting point for those who are studying or working in the planning field, and for other professionals who need to locate their work in the planning context.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p>There is a need to reduce energy consumption for space cooling and heating via energy efficient solutions/technologies for implementation in the buildings. Thermal energy storage regulates indoor temperature, shifting the peak load to the off-peak hours and reducing the energy need for space cooling and heating. This book presents the most recent advances related to the thermal energy storage system design and integration in buildings. Additionally, modelling, application, synthetization, and characterization of energy efficient building materials are also considered.</p> <p><strong>Features:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Provides a deep understanding of thermal energy storage technology and summarizes its utility and feasibility that can be commercially implemented worldwide</li> <li>Covers recent advancements related to thermal energy storage system design and integration in buildings</li> <li>Discusses modelling, application, synthetization, and characterization of energy-efficient building materials</li> <li>Details novel and emerging heat storage materials and their application to energy and environmental processes</li> <li>Highlights the need for future research on building comfort in cooling, heating, and ventilation through a green energy perspective</li> </ul> <p>This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in mechanical, renewable energy, and HVAC engineering.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p>This book is an ambitious and expansive examination of the visual language of self-injury in performance art from the 1960s to the present.</p> <p>Inspired by the gendered nature of discussion around self-harm, the book challenges established readings of risk-taking and self-injury in global performance practice. The interdisciplinary methodology draws from art history and sociology to provide a new critical analysis of the relationship between masculinity and self-inflicted injury. Based upon interviews with a range of artists around the world, it offers an innovative understanding of the diverse meanings behind self-injury in performance, and delves into the gendered coding of self-harming bodies. Individual chapters examine the work of Ron Athey, G?nter Brus, Wafaa Bilal, Franko B, Andr? Stitt, Pyotr Pavlensky, and Yang Zhichao, offering a new perspective on the forms and functions of self-injury in performance art.</p> <p>The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, performance studies, gender studies, and cultural studies.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p>This book excavates the depths of creative purpose and meaning-making and the extent to which artist autonomy and authenticity in art is a struggle against psychological conditioning, controlling cultural institutions and markets, key to which is representation.</p> <p>The chapters are underpinned by examples from the arts, and the narrative weaves a trail through a range of conceptualizations that are applied to various aspects of visual culture from mainstream canonical arts to avant-garde, community and public art; social and political art to commercial art; and ethereal art to the popular, edgy and kitsch. The book is wide-ranging and employs various aesthetic, cultural, philosophical, political, psycho-social and sociological debates to highlight the problems and contradictions that an encounter with the arts and creativity engenders.</p> <p>The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, museum studies, arts management, cultural policy, cultural studies and cultural theory.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p>The fateful year 2020 brought dramatic challenges to American cities. The COVID-19 pandemic and the civil unrest caused by the killing of George Floyd led to a cascade of negative media stories about cities, often politically motivated. It seemed possible that the economic and demographic gains cities had achieved over the last few decades could be lost. In fact, there has been measurable population loss in larger cities caused by changing work/life patterns and changing public perceptions about the costs and benefits of urban living. Faced with these challenges, advocates for cities must make a vigorous case for cities and show how they aren’t the cause of America’s social, environmental, economic, and public health problems but, in fact, are the places where the solutions to those problems will be found. The 38 chapters in <em>The Case for Cities</em> draw on the expertise of contributors from the academic, professional, and civic sectors to explore the creative tension between the two great values on which the vigor of cities depends??that they should be "Cities of Choice" (places where people who have choice want to live) and "Cities of Justice" (places that welcome and support people with limited choices). The book’s underlying perspective is that these two values are symbiotic and that promoting both is what leads to viable, sustainable urban resurgence. This book will be of keen interest to students and practitioners in urban planning, urban design, real estate, architecture, and landscape architecture and to urban advocates and civic leaders.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p><em>A Beginner’s Guide to Special Makeup Effects, Volume 2</em> builds on the foundations covered in <em>A Beginner's Guide to Special Makeup Effects: Monsters, Maniacs and More</em>, introducing more professional-level materials and techniques and preparing readers for the next steps in their career.</p> <p>This book is divided into two sections: <em>Paint and Buildups</em> and <em>Prosthetics</em>. The first section shows a variety of characters created using two-dimensional painting techniques and materials that can be built up right on the skin, while the second section teaches how to apply a variety of store-bought prosthetics. Foam latex, silicone and prosthetic transfers are all covered. Each character is introduced with a full-page photograph of the finished makeup and illustrated with full-color, step-by-step photographs. The makeup tutorials in this book are designed to build on the lessons learned in the previous chapters, allowing readers to gradually expand on their skill set. The book also includes instruction on airbrushing, applying fake tattoos, making bald caps, PAX paint, wig application and a variety of other materials and skills. Five appendices cover topics including building a makeup kit, photographing your work and getting jobs as a makeup artist.</p> <p>This is practical, easy-to-follow makeup book is suited for students of stage makeup courses, as well as for the theatre technician working and training on their own.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p>Grounded in contemporary landscape architecture theory and practice*, Cybernetics and the Constructed Environment* blends examples from art, design, and engineering with concepts from cybernetics and posthumanism, offering a transdisciplinary examination of the ramifications of cybernetics on the constructed environment. Cybernetics, or the study of communication and control in animals and machines, has grown increasingly relevant nearly 80 years after its inception. Cyber-physical systems, sensing networks, and spatial computingーalgorithms and intelligent machinesーcreate endless feedback loops with human and non-human actors, co-producing a cybernetic environment. Yet, when an ecosystem is meticulously managed by intelligent machines, can we still call it wild nature? Posthumanism ideas, such as new materialism, actor-network theory, and object-oriented ontology, have become increasingly popular among design disciplines, including landscape architecture, and may have provided transformative frameworks to understand this entangled reality. However, design still entails a sense of intentionality and an urge to control. How do we, then, address the tension between the designer’s intentionality and the co-produced reality of more-than-human agents in the cybernetic environment? Is posthumanism enough to develop a framework to think beyond our all-too-human ways of thinking? For researchers, scholars, practitioners, and students in environmental design and engineering disciplines, this book maps out a paradigm of environmentalism and ecological design rooted in non-communication and uncontrollability, and puts a speculative turn on cybernetics.</p> <p>Chapters 8 and 9 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p>With large amounts of revenue at stake, process industries are focusing more on turnaround management as they strive to lengthen the interval between turnarounds. This book outlines a strategy to execute optimized shutdown and turnaround by changing plant operating conditions and inspection techniques. Because shutdown cost for a petroleum refinery is normally 30 percent higher than annual maintenance costs, this book details how to manage the more favorable turnaround option. The author explores different aspects, including philosophy, planning and scheduling, estimation, contractor management, and execution.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p>In May 2019, the United Nations released the <em>Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services</em> which warned that human activities will drive nearly one million species to extinction in a few decades. The primary reasons for this are habitat loss and biodiversity demise caused by changing climate, pollution, introducing nonindigenous species, clearing land, over population, and consumption. Given this situation, humans must change course as both human wellbeing and the wellbeing of other-than-human species are imbricated in one another. One way humanity can accomplish the needed transformation is to move beyond an anthropocentric view of life by embracing a transpecies approach that is premised upon interconnected flourishing.</p> <p>Transpecies design, as outlined in this book, offers a new approach to regenerating the natural environment while honoring biodiversity. Rather than presenting the human experience as the goal of design, transpecies design takes the inextricable linkages connecting living things as both its starting point and end goal. As such, it moves beyond human experience serving as the fundamental ingredient for making better design processes and decisions.</p> <p>This book is essential reading for artists, designers, and architects, as well as students of architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture, art, product design, urban design, planning, environmental philosophy, and cultural studies.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p>Tracing its roots back to World War II, operations research (OR) has become a vital tool in military and defense strategy. The second edition of the <em>Handbook of Military and Defense Operations Research</em> highlights this evolution, showcasing how OR integrates with cutting-edge areas like artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and big data analytics.</p> <p>This volume is more than a historical account; it is a practical guide. The volume features expert voices and offers insights into OR applications in modern security challenges. Readers will discover a blend of theory and real-world case studies, making it an essential resource for both newcomers and seasoned defense analysis professionals.</p> <p>Dive into this handbook to explore the rich, dynamic field of military and defense operations research, a discipline at the heart of global security and strategic decision-making.</p> <p>New to the second edition:</p> <ul> <li>Reorganized into a three-part structure</li> <li>Extensive revisions throughout</li> <li>Numerous new exercises, examples, and case studies</li> <li>Several new chapters</li> </ul>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p>Step into the world of contemporary existence, a profound collection of 100 poems delving into the nuances of everyday life.</p> <p>Seamlessly weaving from one subject to the next, these verses touch upon the mundane and the profound alike, inviting readers to reflect, reminisce, and find inspiration within its pages.</p> <p>Organized into ten thought-provoking topics, each accompanied by ten evocative poems, Living… offers a candid exploration of challenges, life, loyalty, and more.</p> <p>There are no hidden agendas hereーjust open, honest reflections shared with those who seek insight and connection through verse.</p> <p>So, dive in, and let the artistry of words accompany you on your journey of self-discovery and appreciation for the world around you.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p><strong>A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by Pulitzer Prize?winning critic Wesley Morris.</strong></p> <p>Wesley Morris, Pulitzer Prize?winning journalist and acclaimed <em>New York Times</em> critic, selects twenty-two essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
<p><strong>A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by Pulitzer Prize?winning critic Wesley Morris.</strong></p> <p>Wesley Morris, Pulitzer Prize?winning journalist and acclaimed <em>New York Times</em> critic, selects twenty-two essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。