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Book Critiqued

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christina Beard
  • Publisher : Peachpit Press
  • Release : 2013-10-18
  • ISBN : 0133260658
  • Pages : 493 pages

Download or read book Critiqued written by Christina Beard and published by Peachpit Press. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOREWORD BY ELLEN LUPTON Critiqued takes you on a journey with designer Christina Beard through an iterative design experiment. With her poster in tow, she meets with leading designers, writers, and curators. At each stop, the participant critiques the poster and talks about his or her own design process. Based on their conversation, Christina redesigns the poster before heading to the next critique — a process similar to the children’s game telephone. This book is not about learning new software or being told how to do something — it’s about exploring and discovering an approach to design that works for you. The experiment is presented as part memoir and part interview and gives readers insight into each designer’s process and personality. Each chapter features a design prompt for readers to explore 23 distinct approaches in design and to compare multiple perspectives. Visit the companion website for additional information: http://critiquedthebook.com/

Book Woman Critiqued

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  • Author : Rebecca L. Copeland
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2006-05-31
  • ISBN : 0824865626
  • Pages : 293 pages

Download or read book Woman Critiqued written by Rebecca L. Copeland and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-05-31 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Woman Critiqued will make us wonder why we thought we could grasp modern Japanese literature without concerted attention to what men and women had to say about women’s literary production. This remarkable collection is full of surprises, even where predictable arguments are being made. Careful translations of writings by the familiar and the obscure, together with thought-provoking introductions and supporting apparatus, make this an indispensable text for the study of modern Japanese culture and society." —Norma M. Field, University of Chicago Over the past thirty years translations of Japanese women’s writing and biographies of women writers have enriched and expanded our understanding of modern Japanese literature. But how have women writers been received and read in Japan? To appreciate the subterfuges, strategies, and choices that the modern Japanese woman writer has faced, readers must consider the criticisms leveled against her, the expectations and admonitions that have been whispered in her ear, and pay attention to the way she herself has responded. What did it mean to be a woman writer in twentieth-century Japan? How was she defined and how did this definition limit her artistic sphere? Woman Critiqued builds on existing scholarship by offering English-language readers access to some of the more salient critiques that have been directed at women writers, on the one hand, and reactions to these by women writers, on the other. The grouping of the essays into chapters organized by theme clarifies how the discussion in Japan has been framed by certain assumptions and how women have repeatedly tried to intervene by playing with, undercutting, or attempting to exceed these assumptions. Chapter introductions contextualize the translated essays historically and draw out aspects that warrant particular scrutiny or explication. Although the translators do not cover all aspects or genres identified with women’s literary endeavors in the twentieth-century, they provide a significant understanding of the evaluative systems under which Japanese women writers have worked. Woman Critiqued will be eagerly read by specialists in modern Japanese literature and those interested in comparative literature, women’s studies, gender studies, and history. Featured writers: Akitsu Ei, Akiyama Shun, Hara Shiro, Hasegawa Izumi, Kobayashi Hideo, Kora Rumiko, Matsuura Rieko, Mishima Yukio, Mitsuhashi Takajo, Mizuta Noriko, Miwata Masako, Oguri Fuyo, Okuno Takeo, Ooka Makoto, Saito Minako, Shibusawa Tatsuhiko, Setouchi Harumi, Takahara Eiri, Takahashi Junko, Takahashi Takako, Tanaka Miyoko, Tomioka Taeko, Tsujii Takashi, Tanizaki Jun’ichiro, Tsushima Yoko, Yosano Akiko. Translators: Tomoko Aoyama, Jan Bardsley, Janine Beichman, Rebecca L. Copeland, Mika Endo, Joan E. Ericson, Barbara Hartley, Maryellen Toman Mori, Yoshiko Nagaoka, Kathryn Pierce, Laurel Rasplica Rodd, Amanda Seaman, Eiji Sekine, Judy Wakabayashi.

Book Japanese Women Writers  Twentieth Century Short Fiction

Download or read book Japanese Women Writers Twentieth Century Short Fiction written by Noriko Mizuta Lippit and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection includes translated works by Japanese women writers that deal with the experiences of modern women. The work of these women represents current feminist perception, imagination and thought. "Here are Japanese women in infinite and fascinating variety -- ardent lovers, lonely single women, political activists, betrayed wives, loyal wives, protective mothers, embittered mothers, devoted daughters. ... a new sense of the richness of Japanese women's experience, a new appreciation for feelings too long submerged". -- The New York Times Book Review

Book Explaining Postmodernism

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  • Author : Stephen R. C. Hicks
  • Publisher : Scholargy Publishing, Inc.
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9781592476428
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book Explaining Postmodernism written by Stephen R. C. Hicks and published by Scholargy Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sartre and Adorno

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  • Author : David Sherman
  • Publisher : SUNY Press
  • Release : 2008-06-05
  • ISBN : 9780791471166
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Sartre and Adorno written by David Sherman and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2008-06-05 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Systematic comparison of Sartre and Adorno that focuses on their theories of the subject.

Book Discussing Design

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  • Author : Adam Connor
  • Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
  • Release : 2015-06-17
  • ISBN : 1491902361
  • Pages : 206 pages

Download or read book Discussing Design written by Adam Connor and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real critique has become a lost skill among collaborative teams today. Critique is intended to help teams strengthen their designs, products, and services, rather than be used to assert authority or push agendas under the guise of "feedback." In this practical guide, authors Adam Connor and Aaron Irizarry teach you techniques, tools, and a framework for helping members of your design team give and receive critique. Using firsthand stories and lessons from prominent figures in the design community, this book examines the good, the bad, and the ugly of feedback. You’ll come away with tips, actionable insights, activities, and a cheat sheet for practicing critique as a part of your collaborative process. This book covers: Best practices (and anti-patterns) for giving and receiving critique Cultural aspects that influence your ability to critique constructively When, how much, and how often to use critique in the creative process Facilitation techniques for making critiques timely and more effective Strategies for dealing with difficult people and challenging situations

Book Critique and Praxis

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  • Author : Bernard E. Harcourt
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2020-08-11
  • ISBN : 0231551452
  • Pages : 730 pages

Download or read book Critique and Praxis written by Bernard E. Harcourt and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical philosophy has always challenged the division between theory and practice. At its best, it aims to turn contemplation into emancipation, seeking to transform society in pursuit of equality, autonomy, and human flourishing. Yet today’s critical theory often seems to engage only in critique. These times of crisis demand more. Bernard E. Harcourt challenges us to move beyond decades of philosophical detours and to harness critical thought to the need for action. In a time of increasing awareness of economic and social inequality, Harcourt calls on us to make society more equal and just. Only critical theory can guide us toward a more self-reflexive pursuit of justice. Charting a vision for political action and social transformation, Harcourt argues that instead of posing the question, “What is to be done?” we must now turn it back onto ourselves and ask, and answer, “What more am I to do?” Critique and Praxis advocates for a new path forward that constantly challenges each and every one of us to ask what more we can do to realize a society based on equality and justice. Joining his decades of activism, social-justice litigation, and political engagement with his years of critical theory and philosophical work, Harcourt has written a magnum opus.

Book Cracking Old Testament Codes

Download or read book Cracking Old Testament Codes written by D. Brent Sandy and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 1995-06-06 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the various kinds of literature in the Old Testament-narrative, history, law, oracles, and more-and how to interpret them. Contributors include Eugene Merrill, Walt Kaiser, and Tremper Longman, III.

Book Woman Critiqued

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  • Author : Rebecca L. Copeland
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2006-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780824829582
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Woman Critiqued written by Rebecca L. Copeland and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Women Critiqued' offers English-language readers access to some of the salient critiques that have been directed at women writers, on the one hand, and reactions to these by women writers, on the other.

Book Cynical Theories

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  • Author : Helen Pluckrose
  • Publisher : Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA)
  • Release : 2020-05-05
  • ISBN : 1634312031
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book Cynical Theories written by Helen Pluckrose and published by Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA). This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller! Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn't practice yoga or cook Chinese food? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only white people can be racist? Are you confused by these ideas, and do you wonder how they have managed so quickly to challenge the very logic of Western society? In this probing and intrepid volume, Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay document the evolution of the dogma that informs these ideas, from its coarse origins in French postmodernism to its refinement within activist academic fields. Today this dogma is recognizable as much by its effects, such as cancel culture and social-media dogpiles, as by its tenets, which are all too often embraced as axiomatic in mainstream media: knowledge is a social construct; science and reason are tools of oppression; all human interactions are sites of oppressive power play; and language is dangerous. As Pluckrose and Lindsay warn, the unchecked proliferation of these anti-Enlightenment beliefs present a threat not only to liberal democracy but also to modernity itself. While acknowledging the need to challenge the complacency of those who think a just society has been fully achieved, Pluckrose and Lindsay break down how this often-radical activist scholarship does far more harm than good, not least to those marginalized communities it claims to champion. They also detail its alarmingly inconsistent and illiberal ethics. Only through a proper understanding of the evolution of these ideas, they conclude, can those who value science, reason, and consistently liberal ethics successfully challenge this harmful and authoritarian orthodoxy—in the academy, in culture, and beyond.

Book   tudes Critiques Sur L histoire de Charlemagne

Download or read book tudes Critiques Sur L histoire de Charlemagne written by Louis Halphen and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Punish and Critique

Download or read book Punish and Critique written by Adrian Howe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-10-27 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Political economies of punishment 2. 'New histories of punishment regimes 3. The Foucault Effect: from penology to penality 4. Feminist analytical approaches to women's imprisonment 5. Postmodern feminism and the question of penalty 6. Towards a postmodern penal politic? Bibliography

Book New Music and Institutional Critique

Download or read book New Music and Institutional Critique written by Christian Grüny and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-26 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While institutional critique has long been an important part of artistic practice and theoretical debate in the visual arts, it has long escaped attention in the field of music. This open access volume assembles for the first time an array of theoretical approaches and practical examples dealing with New Music’s institutions, their critique, and their transformations. For scholars, leaders, and practitioners alike, it offers an important overview of current developments as well as theoretical reflections about New Music and its institutions today. In this way, it provides a major contribution to the debate about the present and future of contemporary music.

Book Critiquing Postmodernism in Contemporary Discourses of Race

Download or read book Critiquing Postmodernism in Contemporary Discourses of Race written by S. Kim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critiquing Postmodernism in Contemporary Discourses of Race challenges the critical emphasis on otherness in treatments of race in literary and cultural studies. Sue J. Kim deftly argues that this treatment not only perpetuates narrow identity politics, but obscures the political and economic structures that shape issues of race in literary studies. Kim s revelatory book shows how reading authors through their identity ends up neglecting both complex historical contexts and aesthetic forms. This comparative study calls for a reconsideration of the bases for critical engagement and a reading ethics that melds the best of historicist and formalist approaches to literature.

Book The Word on College Reading and Writing

Download or read book The Word on College Reading and Writing written by Carol Burnell and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interactive, multimedia text that introduces students to reading and writing at the college level.

Book Automated Deduction   CADE 17

Download or read book Automated Deduction CADE 17 written by David McAllester and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-12-30 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past 25 years the CADE conference has been the major forum for the presentation of new results in automated deduction. This volume contains the papers and system descriptions selected for the 17th International Conference on Automated Deduction, CADE-17, held June 17-20, 2000,at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA). Fifty-three research papers and twenty system descriptions were submitted by researchers from ?fteen countries. Each submission was reviewed by at least three reviewers. Twenty-four research papers and ?fteen system descriptions were accepted. The accepted papers cover a variety of topics related to t- orem proving and its applications such as proof carrying code, cryptographic protocol veri?cation, model checking, cooperating decision procedures, program veri?cation, and resolution theorem proving. The program also included three invited lectures: “High-level veri?cation using theorem proving and formalized mathematics” by John Harrison, “Sc- able Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Systems” by Henry Kautz, and “Connecting Bits with Floating-Point Numbers: Model Checking and Theorem Proving in Practice” by Carl Seger. Abstracts or full papers of these talks are included in this volume.In addition to the accepted papers, system descriptions, andinvited talks, this volumecontains one page summaries of four tutorials and ?ve workshops held in conjunction with CADE-17.

Book A Critical Companion to Early Childhood

Download or read book A Critical Companion to Early Childhood written by Michael Reed and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this stimulating and provocative book the editors have drawn together a diverse and international range of respected authors, each of whom has taken a critical approach to the contentious question of how you define and achieve quality early childhood services. It is a book designed to provoke and promote critical dialogue and discourse amongst practitioners and students through critical engagement with the position of the authors within the text. I believe anyone who reads this book will be inspired and motivated to challenge and extend their thinking and professional practice, adopting the critical stance which lies at the heart of quality services for children and families. Professor Chris Pascal, Director of Centre for Research in Early Childhood (CREC) Early childhood is a complex and important area of study where it is important to develop your critical thinking and reflect upon key issues. This book will help do both. It explores interrelated topics such as: Child development Play Safeguarding Professionalism Curriculum and Policy Each chapter will not only engage with what you need to know but help you develop your academic skills. The book also comes with lots of online resources which can be found at https://study.sagepub.com/reedandwalker and include: Podcasts from the authors of each chapter so you can better understand the key concepts PowerPoints to help you revise the essential information Journal articles related to each chapter provide further reading Michael Reed and Rosie Walker are both Senior Lecturers in Early Childhood at the Institute of Education, University of Worcester.