Performing Silence in World Cinemas considers the place of cinematic silence in the narrative construction of contemporary, globalized subjectivities and its implications in the study of aural and visual cultures. Providing an historical and critical analysis of internationally acclaimed directors like, among others, Ingmar Bergman, Marguerite Duras, Chantal Akerman, Béla Tarr, Pedro Costa, Ousmane Sémbene, Agnés Varda, Reha Erdem, Lisandro Alonso, this volume, for the first time in English, configures a theoretical framework to consider cinematic silence in sound film within a transcultural and transnational perspective. Along with an examination of specific films and contexts, Roberto Cavallini provides a timely examination of silence from a number of methodological perspectives - historical, cultural, philosophical and musical - and provides a framework to understand its aesthetic and epistemic implications for contemporary critical thought and cinema.

Written by thought leaders in Green Finance from a variety of backgrounds, The Green Finance Book aggregates diverse expertise into a single, informative volume. Key industry developments are explained in detail, and critical insights from cutting-edge practitioners offer first-hand information and lessons learned. Coverage includes:The definition of green finance and why it mattersThe drivers of change in green finance including regulation, governments , technology and the influence of consumers and investorsThe different categories of green financeRegional approaches and differencesKey Technology Opportunities, Challenges and TrendsThe future of Green Finance

Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1-6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary.

At the core of this book is a series of conversations with five British artist Black women who exhibited in both Lubaina Himid's 1985 The Thin Black Line and 2011 Thin Black Line(s) exhibitions: Sutapa Biswas, Sonia Boyce (OBE), Lubaina Himid (MBE, Turner Prize nominee), Claudette Johnson and Ingrid Pollard. The conversations explore their memories of art education and early careers, their experiences in the Black Arts Movement of the 1980s, and their responses to the exhibition Thin Black Line(s) at Tate Britain in 2011, a quarter of a century after the original installation at the ICA in 1985, to reflect upon the issues of race and gender over that period in terms of how Black artist women have collaborated, made art, organized and conversed despite the failure of the British art institutions to sustain, conserve and study their work. Specifically avoiding the classic form of the artist interview, this book draws on a methodology not used in art history before: Constructivist Grounded Theory, which arrives at new theories of how individuals experience the world and act in it through analysing discourse generated in informal but structured conversation that seeks to discover new knowledge, rather than to impose existing theoretical models or concepts on experience as delivered in speech. Voices of Art, Belonging and Resistance is an analysis of the structural racism of British art institutions as experienced by Black subjects, and it also inflects that larger issue specifically with issues of gender and sexuality. Avoiding the now much abused concept of intersectionality, the method allows the intricacies of race, class, gender and sexuality to be in play at all times across the accounts of life experience as artists of the subjects being interviewed and the analysis of the discourse thus generated and art historically and culturally analysed.

"A tender, spiky family saga about love in all its mysterious incarnations." -Lorrie Moore, author of A Gate at the Stairs and Birds of America"Absolutely luminous... Weaves the transience of suburbia between the highs and lows of a family saga. . . Shocks, awes, and delights." -Bryan Washington, author of MemorialFrom the outside, the Chengs seem like so-called model immigrants. Once Patty landed a tech job near Dallas, she and Liang grew secure enough to have a second child, and to send for their first from his grandparents back in China. Isn't this what they sacrificed so much for? But then little Annabel begins to sleepwalk at night, putting into motion a string of misunderstandings that not only threaten to set their community against them but force to the surface the secrets that have made them fear one another. How can a man make peace with the terrors of his past? How can a child regain trust in unconditional love? How can a family stop burying its history and forge a way through it, to a more honest intimacy?Nights When Nothing Happened is gripping storytelling immersed in the crosscurrents that have reshaped the American landscape, from a prodigious new literary talent.

The long-awaited autobiography from Formula Ones Double World Championship winner Fernando Alonso.

A comprehensive resource on environmental modelling that shows how to simplify complex environmental systemsThis unique guide gives an overview of environmental modelling with a focus on simplifying complex environmental systems. Written for students and practitioners in environmental science, engineering and ecology, the book reviews all of the current software, tools and techniques used for modelling environmental processes, and gives practical examples from a wide variety of disciplines, such as climatology, ecology, hydrology, geomorphology and civil engineering.To further aid in reader comprehension, a companion website provides colour images and links to resources and chapter support pages. The website also includes data sets relating to case studies, exercises, and model animations. Topics covered in the book include:* An overview of modelling and model building* Current and future approaches to environmental modelling* Models for environmental management* Modelling land-use change, ice sheet modelling* Using OpenSource data and AIThis book is suitable for final-year undergraduates and postgraduates in environmental modelling, environmental science, civil engineering, and biology who are already familiar with the subject and moving on to specialize in the field. It will also appeal to professionals interested in the environmental sciences, including environmental consultants, government employees, civil engineers, geographers, ecologists, meteorologists, and geochemists.

Examining Power Rangers, the long-running but frequently-maligned intellectual property, by treating it seriously and on its own terms, Ranger Reboot considers how forms of mediated nostalgia respond to, and are shaped by, such production-located issues as public service and/or commercial outlooks, scheduling decisions and target audience. The study argues in favor of rejecting a primarily sociological understanding of mediated forms of nostalgia, which would account for these by linking them to perceived periods of anxiety and crisis, by instead foregrounding how production-based concerns impact upon individual constructions of nostalgia. By addressing these issues, the chapters highlight how forms of nostalgia address multiple overlapping, and frequently contradictory, audience profiles. This introduces the neologism 'glacial transmedia', arguing that greater attention should be paid towards the temporality of industrial strategies for transmedia development by analysing the relationship between the Power Rangers on television and its main licensee (and later owner), the toy manufacturer Hasbro.

An unflinching new investigation into the crime will seek to finally secure justice for JonBenét Ramsey.

Michael of Ephesus' commentary on Aristotle's On the Generation of Animals is the earliest surviving, and perhaps first, commentary on this foundational zoological treatise. Composed in the 12th century as part of the Aristotelian revival which took place under the patronage of Constantinople's Anna Comnena, this commentary represents the state of the art of Byzantine and ancient scholarship on the philosophical questions concerning the origins and development of life. Translated here for the first time into a modern language, Michael's commentary on Books I-II of Aristotle's On the Generation of Animals focuses on Aristotle's core philosophical commitments concerning animal generation: the parts of animals responsible for reproduction, the contributions of males and females, the role of nature and the divine, the creation of different kinds of soul, and the stages of embryonic development. Throughout the commentary, Michael offers unique and insightful readings of Aristotle's text and records the opinions of his predecessors and contemporaries on questions of biology. The treatise is vital reading for those studying Aristotle's biology as well as the Byzantine renaissance of biological inquiry.

Building on his critically acclaimed Gifford Lectures (2018), N. T. Wright presents a richly nuanced case for a theology that is based on a renewed understanding of historical knowledge, and in particular of the historical Jesus.

Dr G is “A polymath doctor in aspecialized world. He once prescribed pills, but now prescribes stories as aform of medicine.”Dr G. is the founder of The WellHome, an interior wellness design clinic for people living with chronicillnesses. He’s also the founder of Well Played, anaward-winning, non-boring storytelling media studio prescribing stories as aform of medicine. Additionally, Dr. G is the Host & Award-Winning Producerof SUPERHUMANS, an audio docu-series that takes you deep into theunspoken intersection of health & humanity.As an innovation-focused executive for the past 20+ years,Dr. G has studied, interviewed, worked for, and advised forward-thinkingleaders from the worlds most recognized companies helping to transform mediocreprogress into breakthrough growth. Companies such as Marriott, Roche, Google,American Express, LG, Merck, Astellas, Johns Hopkins, and many more have soughtperspectives and ideas from Dr. G.Dr. G received his MD from The George Washington UniversitySchool of Medicine, his MPH from The George Washington University School ofPublic Health, and his MBA from Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. He teachesthe art of innovation at Johns Hopkins, Duke, and Singularity UniversitiesDr. G recently spoke at HLTH 2022 in Las Vegas. HLTH ishealthcare’s #1 innovation event. Co-host of HLTH Matters, a bi-weekly interview podcastseries dedicated to paving a better path forward for the future of health.

Anne Frank & Emmett Till Together is an effort to reveal how some of the people the author has known and the seminal events she experienced, enabled her to link together in an imaginary conversation, the seemingly disparate lives of Anne Frank and Emmett Till, two iconic figures who were murdered by societies that couldn¿t protect them.

The police killing of George Floyd in May 2020 triggered a wave of protests like no other in history. Millions took to the streets in over forty US cities and across the globe in a multiracial, militant, and mobile uprising, calling not only for justice for all Black victims but for vast and visionary changes to police and social structures. How did we get here? Conducting a historical autopsy, Robin Kelley approaches the lives and deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Eric Garner, Breonna Taylor, and so many others as a portal to the racist histories that strangled them and their communities. From the slave patrols and lynch law of the Deep South to segregated housing, the war on drugs, slum clearance, predatory lending, and extraction of wealth, Kelley draws a direct line from the "blood at the root"-the racial terror at the heart of the American social and economic order-to the latest casualties of that terror. This is also the story of Black resistance, of decades of organizing, political education, and movement building. The protesters who came out swinging, calling to defund the police, are part of a long line of combatants fighting to emancipate, democratize, and lay to rest the America as we know it so that a new world may be born.

A world expert on Jesus and the Gospels cuts through the controversy surrounding Mel Gibson's new movie about the resurrection of Jesus and his journey through Hell.