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Colmena Editores is an independent Peruvian publishing house based in Lima and founded in 2012. Since its inception, it has prioritized the publication of classic authors.
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The ArtsJanuary 2019Coline Serreau
by Brigitte Rollet
Coline Serreau became famous in 1985 when her third film, Trois hommes et un couffin (Three Men and a Baby), the most successful French film of the 1980s. She was already known in France for her major contribution to feminist documentaries with the acclaimed Mais qu'est-ce qu'elles veulent?, a series of interviews with French women made between 1975 and 1977. She is now a key figure in French cinema and drama, with international hits including Romuald et Juliette (1989) and La Crise (1992). This appraisal of her work situates her films within the social, cultural and political context of France since May 1968, and assesses th emajor impact of the women's movement on French society and culture. Politics and sexual politics, two key aspects of Serreau's films and plays, are thoroughly examined. This book also considers the cultural influences of her work, and provides an overview of her films and filmic skills. Special attention is given to comedy, the cinematographic genre favoured by Serreau and the French audience, which is apprehended from a historical and gendered perspective. The clarity of the style and the wide-ranging analysis of Serreau's films and filming techniques make this book relevant both to students of film and film enthusiasts.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2020In the shadow of Enoch Powell
Race, locality and resistance
by Shirin Hirsch, John Solomos
Fifty years ago Enoch Powell made national headlines with his 'Rivers of Blood' speech, warning of an immigrant invasion in the once respectable streets of Wolverhampton. This local fixation brought the Black Country town into the national spotlight, yet Powell's unstable relationship with Wolverhampton has since been overlooked. Drawing from interviews and archival material, this book offers a rich local history through which to investigate the speech, bringing to life the racialised dynamics of space during a critical moment in British history. What was going on beneath the surface in Wolverhampton and how did Powell's constituents respond to this dramatic moment? The research traces the ways in which Powell's words reinvented the town and uncovers highly contested local responses. While Powell left Wolverhampton in 1974, the book returns to the city to explore the collective memories of the speech which continue to reverberate. In a contemporary period of new crisis and national divisions, revisiting the shadow of Powell allows us to reflect on racism and resistance from 1968 to today.
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April 2021Postdemokratie revisited
by Colin Crouch, Frank Jakubzik
Mit seinem Buch Postdemokratie sorgte Colin Crouch 2008 in Deutschland für Furore. In seiner so pointierten wie scharfsinnigen Analyse konstatiert er, dass die Demokratie in den westlichen Gesellschaften im Begriff sei, zur bloßen Hülle zu werden: demokratische Wahlen und Institutionen würden zwar aufrechterhalten, politische Entscheidungen jedoch de facto in den Chefetagen der Wirtschaft getroffen. Das Buch wurde zum Überraschungserfolg. Colin Crouch hatte eine Debatte um den Verfall der repräsentativen Demokratie losgetreten und ihr mit ›Postdemokratie‹ einen Namen gegeben.Jetzt legt Crouch eine Bestandsaufnahme seiner Thesen vor: Wie gut haben verschiedene Demokratien die Corona-Pandemie bewältigt? Wie hat der Aufstieg des Rechtspopulismus demokratische Erosionsprozesse beeinflusst? Und welche Rolle spielen feministische Forderungen im Kampf gegen die Postdemokratie?
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 1995The Surname Detective
Investigating surname distribution in England since 1086
by Colin Rogers
From the author of The Family Tree Detective, this guide provides the amateur genealogist or family historian with the skills to research the distribution and history of a surname. Colin Rogers uses a sample of 100 names, many of them common, to follow the migration of people through the centuries. Each of the 100 names is mapped since the Doomsday book in 1086. For those whose name is not among the sample, the book shows how to find out where namesakes live now, how they moved around the country through time, and how the name originated from a placename, a nickname or an occupation. Colin Rogers finishes this work by showing how the distribution of surnames can be studied irrespective of the size of the surrounding population, and reaches some interesting conclusions about which names are more reliable guides to migration since the 14th century. ;
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September 2019Gig Economy
Prekäre Arbeit im Zeitalter von Uber, Minijobs & Co.
by Colin Crouch
Ob Foodora, Deliveroo oder Uber – die Unternehmen der Plattformökonomie bieten denen, die für sie arbeiten, oft das Schlechteste aus beiden Welten: die Unfreiheit von Angestellten gepaart mit der Unsicherheit von Freelancern. Die sogenannte Gig Economy ist allerdings nur die Spitze des Eisbergs. Längst ist auch das Standard-Beschäftigungsmodell in die Krise geraten: Minijobs und aufgeweichter Kündigungsschutz, unfreiwillige Teilzeit und Zeitarbeit sind allesamt Facetten einer Entwicklung, die den Arbeitsmarkt des globalen Nordens seit den späten siebziger Jahren erschüttert. Colin Crouch liefert eine differenzierte Analyse und bietet Vorschläge für zeitgemäße Reformen, mit denen die Unsicherheiten auf dem Arbeitsmarkt abgefedert werden könnten.
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October 2018Ist der Neoliberalismus noch zu retten?
by Colin Crouch
Dass es den Neoliberalismus gar nicht gibt, dass es sich dabei nur um einen »Kampfbegriff« handelt, ist zu einem Hauptargument (dem letzten?) seiner Verteidiger geworden. Kaum ein Autor hat dabei so viel zum Verständnis dieses Konzepts beigetragen wie Colin Crouch. Angesichts des rechtspopulistischen Widerstands gegen die marktradikale Form der Globalisierung, angesichts von wachsender Ungleichheit und von Tragödien wie der Brandkatastrophe im Londoner Grenfell Tower stellt Crouch nun die Frage, ob der Neoliberalismus noch zu retten ist. Jenseits polemischer »Dämonologie« und ohne das Kind mit dem Bade auszuschütten, analysiert er die Schwachpunkte dieses Ansatzes. Mit der ihm eigenen Blindheit für seine sozialen Nebenfolgen ist der, so Crouch, Neoliberalismus endgültig selbstzerstörerisch geworden. Werden die Konzerne und Individuen, die bislang von ihm profitieren, das einsehen und endlich umsteuern?
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September 2019Gig Economy
Prekäre Arbeit im Zeitalter von Uber, Minijobs & Co.
by Colin Crouch, Frank Jakubzik
Ob Foodora, Deliveroo oder Uber – die Unternehmen der Plattformökonomie bieten denen, die für sie arbeiten, oft das Schlechteste aus beiden Welten: die Unfreiheit von Angestellten gepaart mit der Unsicherheit von Freelancern. Die sogenannte Gig Economy ist allerdings nur die Spitze des Eisbergs. Längst ist auch das Standard-Beschäftigungsmodell in die Krise geraten: Minijobs und aufgeweichter Kündigungsschutz, unfreiwillige Teilzeit und Zeitarbeit sind allesamt Facetten einer Entwicklung, die den Arbeitsmarkt des globalen Nordens seit den späten siebziger Jahren erschüttert. Colin Crouch liefert eine differenzierte Analyse und bietet Vorschläge für zeitgemäße Reformen, mit denen die Unsicherheiten auf dem Arbeitsmarkt abgefedert werden könnten.
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October 2018Ist der Neoliberalismus noch zu retten?
by Colin Crouch, Frank Jakubzik
Dass es den Neoliberalismus gar nicht gibt, dass es sich dabei nur um einen »Kampfbegriff« handelt, ist zu einem Hauptargument (dem letzten?) seiner Verteidiger geworden. Kaum ein Autor hat dabei so viel zum Verständnis dieses Konzepts beigetragen wie Colin Crouch. Angesichts des rechtspopulistischen Widerstands gegen die marktradikale Form der Globalisierung, angesichts von wachsender Ungleichheit und von Tragödien wie der Brandkatastrophe im Londoner Grenfell Tower stellt Crouch nun die Frage, ob der Neoliberalismus noch zu retten ist. Jenseits polemischer »Dämonologie« und ohne das Kind mit dem Bade auszuschütten, analysiert er die Schwachpunkte dieses Ansatzes. Mit der ihm eigenen Blindheit für seine sozialen Nebenfolgen ist der, so Crouch, Neoliberalismus endgültig selbstzerstörerisch geworden. Werden die Konzerne und Individuen, die bislang von ihm profitieren, das einsehen und endlich umsteuern?
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2005Britain in the European Union Today
Third edition
by Duncan Watts, Bill Jones, Colin Pilkington
Duncan Watts, the author of three previous books on the European Union and Britain's relationship with it, has produced a new account of this 'uneasy partnership'. This edition is based on the original by Colin Pilkington and provides a review of how European Unity has been handled by British governments and politics. The contents has been updated to include all new developments including the proposed new consititution and the euro-elections of 2004. Additional material aslo considers the role of pressure groups within the Union and the approach adopted by British Lobbyists. As an up-to-date edition of a well established text, this book will be essential reading for students and teachers interested in the relationship between Britain and Europe. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2008The family tree detective
Tracing your ancestors in England and Wales
by Colin Rogers
The long-awaited fourth edition of this best-selling manual continues to offer up-to-date guidance both to newcomers and to the more experienced, on how to make best use of the labyrinth of genealogical sources in England and Wales. It takes into account recent, and even some future, changes to the civil registration system, and incorporates many of the vast sources newly available on the internet. There is also a substantial bibliography for those who discover that their ancestors migrated from other countries. New appendices provide research into underregistration of birth and death, and hitherto unpublished details from the 1915 and 1939 National Registers. The family tree detective remains an indispensible source of information on how to locate births, marriages and deaths, and alternative strategies if those searches fail. Dr Colin D. Rogers is a Fellow of the Society of Genealogists, a member of AGRA (the Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives), and was for thirty years the Hon. General Editor of the Lancashire Parish Register Society. He runs a consultancy helping banks and solicitors to identify and locate beneficiaries. ;
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October 2011Über das befremdliche Überleben des Neoliberalismus
Postdemokratie II
by Colin Crouch, Frank Jakubzik
Spätestens als Lehman Brothers im September 2008 Insolvenz anmelden mußte, hatte es für einen kurzen Moment den Anschein, als habe die letzte Stunde des Neoliberalismus geschlagen: Nachdem das Mantra vom Markt und von der Privatisierung seit den siebziger Jahren in aller Munde war, sollten nun die Regierungen eingreifen, um systemrelevante Banken zu retten. Die Kompetenz der Wirtschaftsführer stand massiv in Frage. Heute, nur drei Jahre später, bekommen die Manager wieder riesige Boni. Zur Refinanzierung der Rettungspakete werden Sozialleistungen gekürzt. Die Logik des radikalen Wettbewerbs und des unternehmerischen Selbst prägt nach wie vor unsere Mentalität. Wie ist das möglich? Diese Frage stellt Colin Crouch in seinem großen neuen Essay. Der Autor des vielbeachteten Bestsellers »Postdemokratie« zeichnet die Ideengeschichte des Neoliberalismus nach und betont, daß der Konflikt Staat vs. Markt zu kurz greift: Es sind die gigantischen transnationalen Konzerne, unter denen die Demokratie »und« das Marktmodell leiden. Doch wir können uns wehren, indem wir uns auf unsere Werte und unsere Macht als Verbraucher besinnen. Das ist Crouchs optimistische Vision einer sozialen und demokratischen Marktwirtschaft.
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PsychologyOctober 2022Don't Believe Everything You Think
How to stop making decisions that let you down, lead you astray and keep you from success
by Colin J Browne
When it comes to making great decisions, the way you think about things is usually a lot more influential than what you actually think. If you ever hired a person who ‘looks the part’, dated someone who ‘gives you a good feeling’, voted for the party that ‘speaks the most sense’ or got into an investment that ‘cannot be missed’, only to realise you made a horrible mistake, you might have wondered how you ever talked yourself into it. Yet, still bearing the bruises, you’re likely to make exactly the same decision the next time. The beliefs that guide your ideas and the instincts that drive your actions, are all informed by your unconscious biases (and literally every single one of us has them), which irrationally tell us one thing is good and another is bad; one thing is absolutely true and another is utterly false; and make you act less smartly than you should. But the good news is that you can learn to see them, to manage them and ultimately overcome them. In Don’t Believe Everything You Think, Colin J Browne shows you how biases work, why they matter, and how to reframe your thinking to make well-founded decisions about life and work, relationships and investing, and much else in between, to vastly improve your chances of success.
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MedicineJune 2016Climate Change and Global Health
by Colin Butler
There is increasing understanding, globally, that climate change will have profound and mostly harmful effects on human health. This authoritative book brings together international experts to describe both direct (such as heat waves) and indirect (such as vector-borne disease incidence) impacts of climate change, set in a broad, international, economic, political and environmental context. This unique book also expands on these issues to address a third category of potential longer-term impacts on global health: famine, population dislocation, and conflict. This lively yet scholarly resource explores these issues fully, linking them to health in urban and rural settings in developed and developing countries. The book finishes with a practical discussion of action that health professionals can yet take. Now with added chapter updating key changes affecting climate change and health through 2015, culminating with UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon's hopeful comment "What was once unthinkable is now unstoppable". Climate change, now clearly worsening, is triggering a powerful social and technological response. Will this response be sufficient to avert its potentially catastrophic "tertiary" health effects? ; In this authoritative book, international experts examine long-recognised areas of health concern for populations vulnerable to climate change, describing effects that are both direct, such as heat waves, and indirect, such as via vector-borne diseases. ; a: Contributorsb: Acronymsc: Acknowledgementsd: Dedication - Colin D. Butlere: Foreword - Sir Andy HainesPart I: Introduction1: The Anthropocene: A Planet Under Pressure2: Climate Change and Global HealthPart II: Primary Effects3: Heat-related and Cold-related Mortality and Morbidity4: Occupational Heat Effects: A Global Health and Economic Threat Due to Climate Change5: Measuring and Estimating Occupational Heat Exposure and Effects in Relation to Climate Change: ‘Hothaps’ Tools for Impact Assessments and Prevention Approaches6: Climate Extremes, Disasters and HealthPart III: Secondary Effects7: Global Warming and Malaria in Tropical Highlands – An Estimation of Ethiopia’s ‘Unmitigated’ Annual Malaria Burden in the 21st Century8: Dengue: Distribution and Transmission Dynamics with Climate Change9: Lyme Disease and Climate Change10: Climate Change and Human Parasitic Disease11: Impacts of Climate Change on Allergens and Allergic Diseases: Knowledge and Highlights from Two Decades of Research12: Wildfires, Air Pollution, Climate Change and HealthPart IV: Tertiary Effects13: Famine, Hunger, Society and Climate Change14: Moving to a Better Life? Climate, Migration and Population Health15: Unholy Trinity: Climate Change, Conflict and Ill HealthPart V: Regional Issues16: Climate Change and Health in East Asia: A Food in Health Security Perspective17: Climate Change and Health in South Asian Countries18: Climate Change and Global Health: A Latin American Perspective19: S mall Island States – Canaries in the Coal Mine of Climate Change and Health20: Climate Change Adaptation to Infectious Diseases in Europe21: Climate Change and Health in the Arctic22: Climate Change and Health in Africa23: Zoonotic Diseases and Their Drivers in AfricaPart VI: Cross-Cutting Issues24: Climate Change, Food and Energy: Politics and Co-benefits25: Death of a Mwana: Biomass Fuels, Poverty, Gender and Climate Change26: Mental Health, Cognition and the Challenge of Climate Change27: Climate Change, Housing and Public Health28: Health in New Socio-economic Pathways for Climate Change ResearchPart VII: Transformation29: Health Activism and the Challenge of Climate Change30: Climate Change and Health: From Adaptation Towards a Solution32: Index31: From Paris towards 1.5 degrees C (Paperback Edition Only)
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The ArtsJuly 2006Hollywood romantic comedy
States of Union, 1934–1965
by Kathrina Glitre
This book explores the changing representation of the couple, focusing on themes of marriage, equality and desire. Kathrina Glitre moves beyond the usual screwball territory to consider cycles of production from 1934-65. The central concern with the representation of the couple is distinctive and includes discussion of three star couples: Myrna Loy and William Powell, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, and Doris Day and Rock Hudson. Glitre offers explanations of genre, as well as detailed analysis of screwball comedy, career woman comedy and sex comedy. Each cycle is placed into context to analyse cultural discourses around heterosexuality, gender, romance and love. This structure also enables a more sophisticated understanding of such conventions as masquerade, gender inversion and the happy ending. The book will appeal to university students and academics working on genre, gender, culture and representation, and anyone with a keen interest in Hollywood romantic comedy. ;
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Films, cinemaMay 2015The continental connection
German–speaking émigrés and British cinema, 1927–45
by Tobias Hochscherf
Now available in paperback, this study is a major appraisal of the contributions of German-speaking émigrés to British cinema from the late 1920s to the end of World War II. Through a series of film analyses and case studies, it challenges notions of a self-sufficient British national cinema by advancing the assumption that filmmakers from Berlin, Munich and Vienna had a major influence on aesthetics, themes and narratives, technical innovation, the organisation of work and the introduction of apprenticeship schemes. Whether they came voluntarily or as refugees, their contributions and expertise helped to consolidate the studio system and ultimately made possible the establishment of a viable British film industry. Hochscherf talks about such figures as Ewald André Dupont, Alfred Junge, Oscar Werndorff, Mutz Greenbaum and Werner Brandes, and such companies as Korda's London Film Productions, Powell and Pressburger's The Archers and Michael Balcon's Gaumont-British.
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