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State-Led Privatization in China The Politics of Economic Reform

State-Led Privatization in China The Politics of Economic Reform

Large-scale privatization did not emerge spontaneously in China in the late 1990s. Rather the Chinese state led and carefully “planned” ownership transformation with timetables and measurable privatization quotas not for the purpose of extracting the state from the economy but in order to strengthen the rule of the Party. While it is widely believed that authoritarian regimes are better suited than democracies to carry out economic reform this book provides a more nuanced understanding of reform in China demonstrating that the Chinese state’s capacity to impose unpopular reform is contingent on its control over local state agents and its adaptability to societal demands. Building on rich fieldwork data gathered in three Chinese cities (Shenyang Shanghai and Xiamen) this book offers the first comparative study of China’s privatization processes at the local level. Instead of focusing solely on political elites Jin Zeng adopts a multi-level interaction approach to examine how the complex interplay of the central leadership grassroots officials and state-owned enterprise managers and workers shaped the contour of privatization in China. The book advances three central arguments. First local economic structure and cadre evaluation system mediated local officials’ incentives to initiate privatization. Second local officials relied on mobilization campaigns and various appeasement measures to implement privatization. Finally the dynamics of privatization were fundamentally driven by the central government’s reactions to social opposition and by the subsequent responses of local officials to the changed political-regulatory environment. As a detailed analysis of the dual transformation of the property regime and state–society relations in China this book will be invaluable to students and scholars of Chinese politics economic reform as well as those interested in comparative political economy and economic development more broadly. | State-Led Privatization in China The Politics of Economic Reform

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Public Administration in Hong Kong Dynamics of Reform and Executive-Led Public Policy

Public Administration in Hong Kong Dynamics of Reform and Executive-Led Public Policy

This book investigates the case of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) of People’s Republic of China mapping the changing patterns of political-administrative relations affected by the sovereignty change and structural reforms. It identifies the conditions that account for the varied political-administrative relations resulting from these changes and develops an analytical framework that integrates and adapts theories and models from Western contexts to explain varied political-administrative relations in Hong Kong policymaking. The book tests its hypotheses through a qualitative comparative analysis of 18 cases occurring during the period of 1997–2012. It also conducts a comparative case analysis which identified alternative causal conditions that were missing in the original framework. The book concludes that civil servants no longer dominate policymaking in Hong Kong after the regime change and structural reforms. While senior civil servants have sustained influence over policymaking processes through codified rules and political appointment some of them have adapted to the changes in political environment that require more proactive policy styles and more hierarchical loyalty to the Central People’s Government of China than before. The first-hand interview materials presented in the book provide insights about internal political-administrative dynamics rarely accessible from the public domain. These insights provide inside knowledge of the actors structure and processes of local policymaking in a context of post-colonial transition and will be of interest to public administration scholars. | Public Administration in Hong Kong Dynamics of Reform and Executive-Led Public Policy

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Macroeconomic Principles and Problems A Pluralist Introduction

Macroeconomic Principles and Problems A Pluralist Introduction

Macroeconomic Principles and Problems: A Pluralist Introduction offers a comprehensive overview of the major topics in modern macroeconomics from mainstream and heterodox perspectives. This textbook examines the key macroeconomic problems and policy debates facing contemporary society including economic crises sustainability fiscal and monetary policy government debt state-led vs. market-led approaches for growth and unregulated trade vs. protectionism. Written in an engaging style and focused on real-world examples this textbook brings macroeconomics to life. Multiple examples of how each economic model works coupled with critical analysis of the assumptions behind them enable students to develop a sophisticated understanding of the material. Digital supplements are also available for students and instructors. Macroeconomic Principles and Problems offers the most contemporary and complete package for any pluralist macroeconomics principles class. | Macroeconomic Principles and Problems A Pluralist Introduction

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Electrical Installation Work

Electrical Installation Work

This highly successful book is now updated in line with the Amendment 2-2022 of 18th Edition of the Wiring Regulations. It provides a topic-by-topic progression through the areas of electrical installations including how and why electrical installations are designed installed and tested. This tenth edition contains new material on batteries LED and ELV lighting data cabling and renewable electricity generation and distribution with some focus on medical locations and a glossary of terms. The guidance on tools used and safety legislation has also been brought up to date. Brian Scaddan’s subject-led approach makes this a valuable resource for professionals and students on both City & Guilds and EAL courses. This approach also makes it easy for those who are learning the topic from scratch to get to grips with it independently of any particular course. The book is widely used in education and training across the UK and has been published for almost 40 years. | Electrical Installation Work

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Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Environmental Organizations and Development

Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Environmental Organizations and Development

The Amazon region is the focus of intense conflict between conservationists concerned with deforestation and advocates of agro-industrial development. This book focuses on the contributions of environmental organizations to the preservation of Brazilian Amazonia. It reveals how environmental organizations such as Greenpeace Friends of the Earth WWF and others have fought fiercely to stop deforestation in the region. It documents how the history of frontier expansion and environmental struggle in the region is linked to Brazil’s position in an evolving capitalist world-economy. It is shown how Brazil’s effort to become a developed country has led successive Brazilian governments to devise development projects for Amazonia. The author analyses how globalization has led to the expansion of international commodity chains in the region particularly for mineral ores soybeans and beef. He shows how environmental organizations have politicized these commodity chains as weapons of conservation through boycotting certain products while other pro-development groups within Brazil claim that such organizations threaten Brazil's sovereignty over its own resources. | Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Environmental Organizations and Development

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Video Production Handbook

Video Production Handbook

This brand new edition walks students through the full video production process from inception of idea to final distribution. Concentrating on the techniques and concepts behind the latest equipment the book demonstrates the fundamental principles needed to create good video content on any kind of budget. Interviews with industry professionals provide insights into how the field really works and over 300 full color images of onsite work demonstrate how to achieve the techniques discussed. Ideal for students the new edition features fully updated information on the latest DSLR and cinema cameras LED lighting digital distribution and much more. | Video Production Handbook

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Swahili The Rise of a National Language

Swahili The Rise of a National Language

Originally published in 1969 this book examines the factors which at different historical periods led people to use one language (Swahili) rather than another or within a given period to use a particular language in one set of circumstances. The national language of Tanzania and much of East Africa Swahili is unique among African languages in its verse literature which dates back to the 18th Century and was written in the Arabic script. This book traces the remarkable expansion of Swahili which was linked with the expansion of trace missionary activities and the establishment of Colonial administrations and the development of education. | Swahili The Rise of a National Language

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Understanding Cultural Policy

Understanding Cultural Policy

Understanding Cultural Policy provides a practical comprehensive introduction to thinking about how and why governments intervene in the arts and culture. Cultural policy expert Carole Rosenstein examines the field through comparative historical and administrative lenses while engaging directly with the issues and tensions that plague policy-makers across the world including issues of censorship culture-led development cultural measurement and globalization. Several of the textbook’s chapters end with a ‘policy lab’ designed to help students tie theory and concepts to real world practical applications. This book will prove a new and valuable resource for all students of cultural policy cultural administration and arts management.

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Music Festivals and the Politics of Participation

Music Festivals and the Politics of Participation

The spread of UK music festivals has exploded since 2000. In this major contribution to cultural studies the lid is lifted on the contemporary festival scene. Gone are the days of a handful of formulaic large events dominating the market place. Across the country hundreds of ’boutique’ gatherings have popped up drawing hundreds of thousands of festival-goers into the fields. Why has this happened? What has led to this change? In her richly detailed study industry insider Dr Roxy Robinson uncovers the dynamics that have led to the formation and evolution of the modern festival scene. Tracing the history of the culture as far back as the fifties this book examines the tensions between authenticity and commerce as festivals grew into a widespread professionalized industry. Setting the scene as a fragmented yet highly competitive market Music Festivals and the Politics of Participation examines the emergence of key trends with a focus on surrealist production and popular theatricality. For the first time the transatlantic relationship between British promoters and the social experiment-come-festival Burning Man is documented uncovering its role in promoting a politics of participation that has dramatically altered the festival experience. Taking an in-depth approach to examining key events including the fastest growing independent music festival in recent years (Hampshire’s BoomTown Fair) the UK market is shown to have produced a scene that champions co-production and the democratization of festival space. This is a vital text for anyone interested in British culture.

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Analysis of Repeated Measures

Analysis of Repeated Measures

Repeated measures data arise when the same characteristic is measured on each case or subject at several times or under several conditions. There is a multitude of techniques available for analysing such data and in the past this has led to some confusion. This book describes the whole spectrum of approaches beginning with very simple and crude methods working through intermediate techniques commonly used by consultant statisticians and concluding with more recent and advanced methods. Those covered include multiple testing response feature analysis univariate analysis of variance approaches multivariate analysis of variance approaches regression models two-stage line models approaches to categorical data and techniques for analysing crossover designs. The theory is illustrated with examples using real data brought to the authors during their work as statistical consultants. | Analysis of Repeated Measures

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Empowering Song Music Education from the Margins

Empowering Song Music Education from the Margins

Empowering Song: Music Education from the Margins weaves together subversive pedagogy and theories of resistance with community music education and choral music inspiring professionals to revisit and reconsider their pedagogical practices and approaches. The authors’ unique insight into some of the most marginalized and justice-deprived contexts in the world — prisons refugee shelters detention facilities and migrant encampments — breeds evocative and compassionate enquiry laying the theoretical groundwork for pedagogical practices while detailing the many facets of equity-centered musical leadership. Presenting an orientation to healing informed by theory Empowering Song explores the ways in which music education might take on the challenging questions of cultural responsiveness within the context of justice seeking to change not only how choral music is led but also our conceptions of why it should matter to all. | Empowering Song Music Education from the Margins

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Business Innovation A Case Study Approach

Business Innovation A Case Study Approach

This book provides an understanding of innovation models and why they are important in the business context and considers sources of innovation and how to apply business frameworks using real-world examples of innovation-led businesses. After providing a solid background to the key concepts related to innovation models the book looks at why innovation takes place and where the sources of innovation lie from corporate research to crowd-sourced and government-funded initiatives. Innovation models across manufacturing services and government are explored as well as measuring innovation and the impact of design thinking and lean enterprise principles on innovation and sustainability-driven imperatives. Offering a truly comprehensive and global approach Business Innovation should be core or recommended reading for advanced undergraduate postgraduate MBA and Executive Education students studying Innovation Management Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship. | Business Innovation A Case Study Approach

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Modeling and Forecasting Primary Commodity Prices

Modeling and Forecasting Primary Commodity Prices

Recent economic growth in China and other Asian countries has led to increased commodity demand which has caused price rises and accompanying price fluctuations not only for crude oil but also for the many other raw materials. Such trends mean that world commodity markets are once again under intense scrutiny. This book provides new insights into the modeling and forecasting of primary commodity prices by featuring comprehensive applications of the most recent methods of statistical time series analysis. The latter utilize econometric methods concerned with structural breaks unobserved components chaotic discovery long memory heteroskedasticity wavelet estimation and fractional integration. Relevant tests employed include neural networks correlation dimensions Lyapunov exponents fractional integration and rescaled range. The price forecasting involves structural time series trend plus cycle and cyclical trend models. Practical applications focus on the price behaviour of more than twenty international commodity markets. | Modeling and Forecasting Primary Commodity Prices

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Ghana's First Republic 1960-1966 The Pursuit of the Political Kingdom

Ghana's First Republic 1960-1966 The Pursuit of the Political Kingdom

Originally published in 1976 this book describes one of the most important and colourful episodes in black Africa’s twentieth-century history. Kwame Nkrumah the dynamic leader who brought Ghana to independence in 1957 abandoned the Westminster model of representative government to which his country once seemed so well suited. He reached out towards the goals of Pan-Africanism and socialism emphasizing the primacy of political action to regenerate his people and their continent. But his vision of the ‘political kingdom’ led quickly to the destruction of his Republic and his hopes. Using the (then) latest evidence to examine political life parliament civil service farmers workers and army in Ghana’s first Republic the author argues that Nkrumah’s experiment failed because his rule was strong enough to distort traditional values but was unable to transform them. The result was a bizarre and paralysing mixture of despotism and anarchy which defied political analysis in conventional terms. | Ghana's First Republic 1960-1966 The Pursuit of the Political Kingdom

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The Uses of Obscurity The Fiction of Early Modernism

The Uses of Obscurity The Fiction of Early Modernism

Originally published in 1981 this book examines why and how textual difficulty became a norm of modernist literature and questions how we can begin to account for the forms of obscurity and difficulty which developed in the late 19th Century and which became so important to modernism. The author argues that the decline of realism entailed the growth of ‘symptomatic’ or ‘subtextual’ reading which tended to treat fiction as compromised autobiography. This kind of reading left the author dangerously isolated and exposed in the midst of a newly sophisticated public. Within this general cultural perspective the book traces the private anxieties that led George Meredith Joseph Conrad and Henry James to conceal themselves within their complex and resistant fictions. It discusses opacity in the texts themselves – embarrassment and shame in Meredith; ‘engimas’ in Conrad; and the fear of vulgarity and knowledge in Henry James. | The Uses of Obscurity The Fiction of Early Modernism

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US Foreign Policy and the Persian Gulf Safeguarding American Interests through Selective Multilateralism

US Foreign Policy and the Persian Gulf Safeguarding American Interests through Selective Multilateralism

Robert J. Pauly Jr examines the history of US foreign policy toward the Greater Middle East in general and focuses specifically on the fundamental economic military and political causes of the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf crisis. He investigates to what extent these causes were internal and external in origin looks at the principal actors in the crisis and determines whether and how these actors have continued to drive unfolding events in the Persian Gulf ever since. The volume explores in detail the role of American leaders since 1989 including how far the US should collaborate with Europe to pursue both American and collective Western economic military and political interests in the Gulf. It also considers the prospects for the future of American-led nation-building operations in Iraq and the outlook for the eventual liberal democratization of the Greater Middle East. | US Foreign Policy and the Persian Gulf Safeguarding American Interests through Selective Multilateralism

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Constructed Ecologies Critical Reflections on Ecology with Design

Constructed Ecologies Critical Reflections on Ecology with Design

Today designers are shifting the practice of landscape architecture towards the need for a more complex understanding of ecological science. Constructed Ecologies presents ecology as critical theory for design and provides major ideas for design that are supported with solid and imaginative science. In the questioning narrative of Constructed Ecologies the author discards many old and tired theories in landscape architecture. With detailed documentation she casts off the savannah theory critiques the search for universals reveals the needed role of designers in large-scale agriculture abandons the overlay technique of McHarg and introduces the ecological and urban health urgency of public night lighting. Margaret Grose presents wide-ranging new approaches and shows the importance of learning from science for design of going beyond assumptions of working in multiple rather than single issues of disrupting linear design thinking and of dealing with data. This book is written with a clear voice by an ecologist and landscape architect who has led design students into loving ecological science for the support it gives design. | Constructed Ecologies Critical Reflections on Ecology with Design

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Environmental Illness Myth & Reality

Environmental Illness Myth & Reality

Environmental illness: certain health professionals and clinical ecologists claim it impacts and inhibits 15 percent of the population. Its afflicted are led to believe environmental illness (EI) originates with food chemicals and other stimuli in their surroundings -as advocates call for drastic measures to remedy the situation. What if relief proves elusive-and the patient is sent on a course of ongoing costly and ineffective treatment?Several hundred individuals who believed they were suffering from EI have been evaluated or treated by Herman Staudenmayer since the 1970s. Staudenmayer believed the symptoms harming his patients actually had psychophysiological origins-based more in fear of a hostile world than any suspected toxins contained in the environment. Staudenmayer's years of research clinical work-and successful care-are now summarized in Environmental Illness: Myth & Reality. Dismissing much of the information that has attempted to defend EI and its culture of victimization Staudenmayer details the alternative diagnoses and treatments that have helped patients recognize their true conditions-and finally overcome them often after years of prolonged suffering. | Environmental Illness Myth & Reality

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The Klein Tradition Lines of Development—-Evolution of Theory and Practice over the Decades

The Klein Tradition Lines of Development—-Evolution of Theory and Practice over the Decades

Melanie Klein's extension of Freud's ideas - in particular her explorations into the world of the infant and her emphasis on the complex interactions between the infant's internal world of powerful primitive emotions of love and hate and the mothering that the infant receives - were greeted with skepticism but are now widely accepted as providing an invaluable way of understanding human cognitive and emotional development. Klein's insights shed light on persecuted states guilt the drive to create and to repair; they also provide the clinician with a theory of technique. Klein's work has inspired the work of psychoanalysts around the world. Her concept of projective identification with its implications for the understanding of countertransference made a significant impact on her followers and on psychoanalysts in other countries and from other schools of thought. Further exploration of these ideas has led to greater understanding of how change occurs in psychoanalysis and has inspired a large literature with a particular focus on technique. | The Klein Tradition Lines of Development—-Evolution of Theory and Practice over the Decades

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Special Makeup Effects for Stage and Screen Making and Applying Prosthetics

Special Makeup Effects for Stage and Screen Making and Applying Prosthetics

With this new edition of Special Makeup Effects for Stage and Screen author Todd Debreceni presents the latest techniques and special effects in what has become an industry bible. In addition to genre-specific considerations Debreceni covers the latest gear you will need and details how to maintain your kit how to take care of the actor's skin how to airbrush for HD and much more. With in-depth step-by-step tutorials learn how to sculpt and mold your own makeup prosthetics focusing on human anatomy to create the most realistic effects. This new and expanded edition features updated information on lifecasting prosthetics made using 3D printing advanced airbrushing techniques and new artist profiles and includes updated images and illustrations throughout. A companion website contains artist profiles that showcase some of the world’s top makeup effects artists including Ve Neill Matthew W. Mungle and many others. Also included are detailed tutorials led by experts in the field such as Matthew Mungle Adrian Rigby Stuart Bray and of course the author himself. | Special Makeup Effects for Stage and Screen Making and Applying Prosthetics

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The MDGs Capabilities and Human Rights The power of numbers to shape agendas

The MDGs Capabilities and Human Rights The power of numbers to shape agendas

Heralded as opening a new chapter in international development the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have led to the use of global goals and quantitative targets as a central instrument for defining global priorities. This book explores the implications of this new approach. How does target setting influence policy priorities of national governments bilateral donors multilateral agencies NGOs and other stakeholders? What are the intended and unintended consequences? Why is the use of numeric indicators effective? How does quantification reshape meanings of challenges such as women’s empowerment? Building on 11 case studies and a conceptual framework this book provides a goal-by-goal analysis by leading specialists in the relevant fields. These specialists analyse the choices made as well as the empirical and normative effects of the MDGs to offer insights for a more rigorous use of indicators and cautions on their limitations and perverse consequences. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. | The MDGs Capabilities and Human Rights The power of numbers to shape agendas

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Film Directing Fundamentals See Your Film Before Shooting

Film Directing Fundamentals See Your Film Before Shooting

Film Directing Fundamentals gives the novice director an organic methodology for realizing on-screen the full dramatic possibility of a screenplay. Unique among directing books Nicholas Proferes provides clear-cut ways to translate a script to the screen. Using the script as a blueprint the reader is led through specific techniques to analyze and translate its components into a visual story. A sample screenplay is included that explicates the techniques discussed. Written for both students and entry-level professionals the book assumes no knowledge and introduces basic concepts and terminology. Appropriate for screenwriters aspiring directors and filmmakers Film Directing Fundamentals helps filmmakers bring their story to life on screen. This fourth edition is updated with a new foreword by Student Academy Award-winner Jimmy Keyrouz who studied with author Nicholas Proferes as well as an enhanced companion website by Laura J. Medina available at www. routledge. com/cw/proferes which features new supplemental material for both instructors and students including two new analyses of contemporary films—Wendy and Lucy (2008) and Moonlight (2016)—study questions suggested assignments and exercises as well as the instructor’s manual written by Proferes in 2008. | Film Directing Fundamentals See Your Film Before Shooting

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The Spectacle of Clouds 1439–1650 Italian Art and Theatre

The Spectacle of Clouds 1439–1650 Italian Art and Theatre

The studies in which history of art and theatre are considered together are few and none to date investigate the evolution of the representation of clouds from the early Renaissance to the Baroque period. This book reconsiders the origin of Italian Renaissance and Baroque cloud compositions while including the theatrical tradition as one of their most important sources. By examining visual sources such as paintings frescos and stage designs together with letters guild-ledgers descriptions of performances and relevant treatises a new methodology to approach the development of this early modern visuality is offered. The result is an historical reconstruction where multiple factors are seen as facets of a single process which led to the development of Italy’s visual culture. The book also offers new insights into Leonardo da Vinci’s theatrical works Raphael’s Disputa Vasari’s Lives and Pietro da Cortona’s fresco paintings. The Spectacle of Clouds 1439-1650 examines the different ways Heaven has been conceived imagined and represented from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century crossing over into the fields of history religion and philosophy. | The Spectacle of Clouds 1439–1650 Italian Art and Theatre

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Corporate Entrepreneurship

Corporate Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is vital for companies’ success to allow them to adapt and grow in today’s interlinked and turbulent business environments. Yet as they grow in size and complexity many companies become less innovative and more rigid. The challenge of how to deal with these trends has led to the rise of the field of Corporate Entrepreneurship looking at the development of new business ideas and opportunities within established firms. This book provides an effective entry point to Corporate Entrepreneurship as an academic field and a management practice. Corporate Entrepreneurship leads readers through an overview of real-life Corporate Entrepreneurship; the aims organisational models implementation and results. Covering theoretical perspectives empirical findings and practical concerns the book also switches between the perspective of the individual and the organisation. Written by two specialists of the discipline the book includes a wealth of real-life case studies covering over three decades of Corporate Entrepreneurship practices by companies of all sizes geographies and sectors. With coverage of such topics as Internal Corporate Venturing and Participative Innovation this thoughtful text will be required reading for entrepreneurship students around the world.

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