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The Interrelation of Phenomenology, Social Sciences and the Arts
This book features papers written by renowned international scholars that analyze the interdependence of art, phenomenology, and social science. The papers show how the analysis of the production as well as the perception and interpretation of art work needs to take into consideration the subjective viewpoint of the artist in addition to that of the interpreter. Phenomenology allows a description of the subjectively centered life-world of the individual actor—artist or interpreter—and the objective structures of literature, music, and the aesthetic domain in general. The perspective of social science serves to reconstruct the socio-historical structure involved in the creation and recept...
The Heir
"Grace Burrowes is terrific." —Julia Quinn, NYT bestselling author of the Bridgerton series An earl who can't be bribed A lady who can't be protected A blooming romance that can't be denied. Gayle Windham, Earl of Westhaven, is the dutiful heir to the Duke of Moreland. Tired of the price of nobility and his father's unrelenting pressure to marry, he escapes to his London townhouse for the summer, where he finds himself intrigued by the secretive ways of his beautiful housekeeper. Anna Seaton is a talented, educated woman...so what is she doing here? As the two begin to lose their hearts, Anna's secrets threaten to bring the earl's orderly life crashing down—and he doesn't know how he's g...
Occupy Tokyo: SEALDs, the Forgotten Movement
Japanese youth, like everywhere else, are trying to build their future despite the crises that are shaking their world, the latest being the triple disaster of Fukushima. Often considered to be more focused on a personal or even hedonistic life, they surprised the media when a student movement took the floor to criticize the Abe government's security and Self-Defense Forces bills in 2015. The so-called SEALDs movement (Student Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy) was formed some time after the Indigenous or Occupy Wall Street movements, but it shares similar concerns. Understanding the SEALDs' experience from the perspective of John Dewey's philosophy allows us to highlight once again the dangers that digital technology poses to individuals, the collective and their values.
Contestatory Visions
George Astalos has remained a contestatory visionary, a playwright and poet who offers critiques of Eastern bloc tyranny and Western moral bankruptcy. At once absurdist and political, brutally colloquial and intensely lyrical, Astalos's theater is a comic and popular one of ideas, in which the poet and the satirist find equal voice.
Ada
Play about Ada Lovelace, the first computer and Artificial Intelligence today. Suitable for schools, colleges and youth groups.Offers good roles for girls/women to perform relating to STEM subjects. “You may turn the handle, and I will whirr and calculate without error!” Decades before the first computers are built, Ada imagines machines that can do anything, even compose beautiful pieces of music. Far beyond Ada’s future, a learning machine called Ginny breaks free of her routine and tests the boundaries of what ought to be possible.ADA is an intricate re-telling of the life and legacy of Ada Lovelace, pioneer of computing, paralleling her history with a contemporary story about the potential of artificial intelligence.
Three Great Russian Plays
The most famous Russian authors Chekhov, Gogol, Tolstoy wrote not only voluminous novels (or short stories) but also plays for theater. Most of them retain their relevance and are staged the world over to this day. This book contains Three Classic Russian Plays you need to read: The Three Sisters, The Inspector-General, The Power of Darkness.
Childhood
Childhood: Services and Provision for Children provides an important and timely contribution to the field of Childhood and Youth Studies. This cutting-edge text brings together, within a critical framework, an understanding and discussion of a broad range of services, ideas and themes, and debates the impact of them on children’s lives. The text takes a truly multi-disciplinary perspective, reflecting the wide-ranging experience and backgrounds of the authors and contributors. The wealth of real case study material and reflective activities within each chapter helps develop the evaluative tools and critical skills essential for an understanding of the complex social, political and environmental issues surrounding childhood today and thus makes this an essential text for those studying in this field.
Cinderella
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Across the Atlantic
In 1845, after Emily’s parents passed away, she suddenly realizes she has no family. As she travels to Ireland, she finds happiness when she meets an Irish woman, her young daughter, and a man who would become the love of her life, Patrick O’Rilley. Several months after living in Ireland with her new family, she soon had to leave to return to America, but without Patrick. After arriving in America, Emily meets John and David, Irish friends of Patrick. From then, they become the family they all had been longing for. What awaits them in the future will engross readers as the wonderful story unfolds its inspiring end.
