accountability representations problem-solving twentieth-century

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The Burden of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories
John Tagg

University of Minnesota Press, 1993

Hollywood Representation Directory, 35th Edition (Hollywood Representation Directory)

1 review

Hollywood Creative Directories, 2008

very helpful - a great tool
Provides great information - not only contact information, but a description of what type of people each agency represents and works with, and what guilds they are affiliated with. It even has worksheets to help you keep track of who you have contacted. Provides phone numbers, addresses, websites, and names of employees and their titles. It has been very helpful and an essential tool for anyone ...

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Artificial Intelligence) (The Morgan ...

3 reviews
Ronald Brachman, Hector Levesque

Morgan Kaufmann, 2004

This book is an Eye-Opener!
I love this book- It is a comprehensive introduction into knowledge representation, with enough detail to create your own knowledge representation programs. Are you a programmer who wonders what it really means when an object *IS* another object, in the form of inheritance found in object-oriented systems? Ever confused by the nuances of multiple inheritance? Ever wonder what XML or OOP or ...

Introduction to Lie Algebras and Representation Theory (Graduate Texts in Mathematics)

4 reviews
James E. Humphreys

Springer, 1994

Excellent Introduction to Lie Algebras
Humphreys' book on Lie algebras is rightly considered the standard text. Very thorough, covering the essential classical algebras, basic results on nilpotent and solvable Lie algebras, classification, etc. up to and including representations. Don't let the relatively small number of pages fool you; the book is quite dense, and so even covering the first 30 pages is a nice accomplishment for ...

Redistricting and Representation: Why Competitive Elections are Bad for America (Controversies in Electoral ...

2 reviews
Thomas Brunell

Routledge, 2008

Provocative, but has a fatal flaw
I would summarize the thesis as stating that congressional districts should be as homogenous as possible, so most of the voters get the representative they want rather than being outvoted by a slim majority of other voters in their district with the opposite inclination. As the country's politics change over time, this rule would lead to redistricting every census so the balance of the congress ...

Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices (Culture, Media and Identities Series)

2 reviews

Sage Publications & Open University, 1997

learning about yourself and others
I read this text for an intro class to Cultural Studies, and I really enjoyed it. Hall discusses the issues of race, gender, and class in our society in many interpretations within this text. He shows how all these three are interconnected, and does so in a fascinating way. The question of how did we become the way we are in society is addressed in various ways through different ...

The World As Will and Representation (2-Volume Set)

29 reviews
Arthur Schopenhauer

Peter Smith Publisher Inc, 1969

Philosophy for independent thinkers
Schopenhauer's magnum opus towers high above the silly word games of the analysts. This book is philosophy at its very best- a book that no educated person should miss for Schopenhauer wrote primarily for the layman. Like Nietzsche, he was highly skeptical of the "professionals" of his time. One thing that immediately strikes the reader is Schopenhauer's clear and crisp command of the written ...

Black Looks: Race and Representation

5 reviews
bell hooks

South End Press, 1999

fabulous first full encounter with bell hooks
Until now I have only read excerpts from bell hooks' works. Then I recently saw a C-Span program in which bell hooks led a discussion with a college audience. Reminded of the intriguing excerpts I had read, I chose Black Looks as my first full encounter with this intriguing woman's thoughts. I did not examine the readers' comments on Black Looks until completing the book, but I too would like to ...

Groups and Representations (Graduate Texts in Mathematics)

1 review
J.L. Alperin, Rowen B. Bell

Springer, 1995

An excellent supplement or a wonderful continuation
I used this book as a 2nd year grad student with a little more than a year of graduate algebra. It worked very well as tool to solidifying my knowledge of group theory. i think it would also work as a great book to read while taking a first year algebra course. The idea of the book is to teach theory grounded in examples. In particular, Alperin uses the matrix groups as the main example for the ...

Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures

12 reviews
Edward W. Said

Vintage, 1996

Excellent essay on the role of the thorns in society's side
My personal favorite of Said's books. For those who feel ambivalent about Said's specific political views, this book touches on them minimally. (Though, obviously, his thinking is informed by those views throughout.) The general question is: What is the role of a true thinker in our times? If you believe the "authorities" (i.e., the New York Times, or Charlie Rose, etc.) they are just scholars ...

The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation
Hayden White

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990

"[White] has clearly made significant advances in laying a foundation for a better understanding of the intricate interaction between narrative representation and what it purports to represent in both history and literature." -- American Historical Review.

The Concept of Representation

1 review
Hanna F. Pitkin

University of California Press, 1972

Review of Pitkin's The Concept of Representation
This book arises out of Hannah Pitkin's doctoral dissertation and is considered by political scientists to be the gold standard in terms of a philosophical treatment of the subject. Pitkin covers the historical evolution of thinking about representation from the Greeks through the founding of the American republic highlighting diverse thinkers and politicians like Edmund Burke, Jeremy Bentham, ...

Representation Theory: A First Course (Graduate Texts in Mathematics / Readings in Mathematics)

3 reviews
William Fulton, Joe Harris

Springer, 1999

A beautiful exposition
This is an absolutely delightful introduction to the theory of Lie groups and their representations. The style is informal but informative, with some of the important proofs hidden in the appendex or even omitted (i.e. existance of the finite dimensional representations for all lie algebras). However, this is a fully rigorous text, and all the important theorems are stated, and most are ...

Mediation Representation: Advocating in a Problem-Solving Process
Harold I. Abramson

National Institute for Trial Advocacy, 2004

Recipient of 2004 Book Award of the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution. Surprisingly little has been written on how to represent clients in mediation as a problem-solving forum. In this groundbreaking book, Hal Abramson offers a bold, new methodology for problem-solving advocacy—the skills that lawyers are most likely to need in their legal practice. During mediation, Abramson says, you should negotiate using a creative ...

The Paradox of Representation
David Lublin

Princeton University Press, 1999

In The Paradox of Representation David Lublin offers an unprecedented analysis of a vast range of rigorous, empirical evidence that exposes the central paradox of racial representation: Racial redistricting remains vital to the election of African Americans and Latinos but makes Congress less likely to adopt policies favored by blacks. Lublin's evidence, together with policy recommendations for improving minority representation, will make ...

Democracy, Accountability, and Representation (Cambridge Studies in the Theory of Democracy)

Cambridge University Press, 1999

This book examines whether mechanisms of accountability characteristic of democratic systems are sufficient to induce the representatives to act in the best interest of the represented. The first part of the volume focuses on the role of elections, distinguishing different ways in which they may cause representation. The second part is devoted to the role of checks and balances, between the government and the parliament as well as between the ...

Contested Representations: Revisiting Into the Heart of Africa
Shelley Ruth Butler

Broadview Press, 2007

Contested Representations examines the controversy surrounding the "Into the Heart of Africa" exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto in 1989-90. The exhibit was meant to travel throughout the US and Canada but four major museums cancelled their contracts due to its controversial nature. With this richly textured account of the ways in which the exhibit became the site of an expansive--and explosive--discussion of ...

Subalternity and Representation: Arguments in Cultural Theory (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
John Beverley

Duke University Press, 1999

The term “subalternity” refers to a condition of subordination brought about by colonization or other forms of economic, social, racial, linguistic, and/or cultural dominance. Subaltern studies is, therefore, a study of power. Who has it and who does not. Who is gaining it and who is losing it. Power is intimately related to questions of representation—to which representations have cognitive authority and can secure hegemony and ...

Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art (Ideologies of Desire)

9 reviews
Richard Meyer

Oxford University Press, USA, 2002

Brilliant, ground-breaking work
This is an amazing book, rich in detail and images, but also exploring with passion and intensity a border between queer studies, art history, and cultural studies. It demonstrates an astonishing command of the social and political history of the period it covers, along with theoretical depth and great sophistication in the reading and analysis of visual materials. I was mesmerized. Written ...

Six Stories from the End of Representation: Images in Painting, Photography, Astronomy, Microscopy, Particle ...
James Elkins

Stanford University Press, 2008

James Elkins has shaped the discussion about how we—as artists, as art historians, or as outsiders—view art. He has not only revolutionized our thinking about the purpose of teaching art, but has also blazed trails in creating a means of communication between scientists, artists, and humanities scholars. In Six Stories from the End of Representation , Elkins weaves stories about recent images from painting, photography, physics, ...

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