1,114 research outputs found
Portrait of Rolf Edberg
No full textThis is a portrait of Rolf Edberg, Swedish author and environmental activist, in 1970
Geschichten von Onkel Remus
No full textForty-four stories and an afterword, with perhaps a dozen indifferent black-and-white line sketches and perhaps a dozen good colored pictures, generally a full page in size. The afterword goes out of its way twice to mention that the successors of the white masters still repress the Blacks today. It opens with a great quotation from Uncle Remus: if these stories were nothing but fun, the stuff of laughter, he would not have troubled himself with them. The binding and covers of this book are curiously flexible.Language note: GermanJoel Chandler Harris and Rolf F. Mülle
Quando as fileiras se reduzem... Rolf Meyersohn (1926-2022)
No full textThe text pays tribute to Rolf Meyersohn, an important author in the sociological study of leisure between the 1950s and 1970s. His great contribution was to analyze leisure as a social challenge and not as a permanent promise.El texto rinde homenaje a Rolf Meyersohn, un autor importante en el estudio sociológico del ocio entre las décadas de 1950 y 1970. Su gran aportación fue analizar el ocio como un reto social y no como una promesa permanente.O texto faz uma homenagem a Rolf Meyersohn, importante autor no estudo sociológico do lazer entres as décadas de 1950 a 1970. Sua grande contribuição foi analisar o lazer como um desafio social e não como uma promessa permanente
Chas. White, author of Story of Australian bushranging ; Dr. Pechey, present at Keightly episode ... [picture] /
No full textIncludes portrait of Captain Starlight from: Robbery under arms / by Rolf Boldrewood.; Exhibited: "Bushrangers and Bandits", National Museum of Australia, June 2002 - June 2003.; Exhibited: "In the Line of Duty: Policing in Australia 1788 - 2006", Old Parliament House, August 2006 - February 2007. AuCNL. Portraits and inscriptions (top L to R): Chas. White author of Story of Australian bushranging; Dr. Pechey present at Keightly episode; Hipkiss gave Ben Hall first death wound at Billabong 5th May -65; Ver. Rev. Dr. Gibney heroic rescue at Glenrowen [Glenrowan]; Superintnt Hare author of Last of the bushrangers; Ben Hall; Lowry; Starlight; T. Clarke; Rutherford; Martin Cash Tasmanian outlaw after sentence lived a respected farmer; Const. Bracken escaped from Kellys Glenrowen [Glenrowan]; Insr Stephenson daring capture & shooting of Lowry; McKinley [McKinlay?], Burns & Day daring shooting & capture of Angel & Thurston; J. Hawthorne now a squatter Wee Waa daring capture of Dunne
Aural auteur : sound in the films of Rolf de Heer
No full textAn interpretative methodology for understanding meaning in cinema since the 1950s, auteur analysis is an approach to film studies in which an individual, usually the director, is studied as the author of her or his films. The principal argument of this thesis is that proponents of auteurism have privileged examination of the visual components in a film-maker’s body of work, neglecting the potentially significant role played by sound. \ud
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The thesis seeks to address this problematic imbalance by interrogating the creative use of sound in the films written and directed by Rolf de Heer, asking the question, “Does his use of sound make Rolf de Heer an aural auteur?” In so far as the term ‘aural’ encompasses everything in the film that is heard by the audience, the analysis seeks to discover if de Heer has, as Peter Wollen suggests of the auteur and her or his directing of the visual components (1968, 1972 and 1998), unconsciously left a detectable aural signature on his films.\ud
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The thesis delivers an innovative outcome by demonstrating that auteur analysis that goes beyond the mise-en-scène (i.e. visuals) is productive and worthwhile as an interpretive response to film. De Heer’s use of the aural point of view and binaural sound recording, his interest in providing a ‘voice’ for marginalised people, his self-penned song lyrics, his close and early collaboration with composer Graham Tardif and sound designer Jim Currie, his ‘hands-on’ approach to sound recording and sound editing and his predilection for making films about sound are all shown to be examples of de Heer’s aural auteurism.\ud
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As well as the three published (or accepted for publication) interviews with de Heer, Tardif and Currie, the dissertation consists of seven papers refereed and published (or accepted for publication) in journals and international conference proceedings, a literature review and a unifying essay. The papers presented are close textual analyses of de Heer’s films which, when considered as a whole, support the thesis’ overall argument and serve as a comprehensive auteur analysis, the first such sustained study of his work, and the first with an emphasis on the aural
The contextual database of the generations and gender program in Bulgaria: conceptual framework and an overview of the Bulgarian context concerning the central database topics
No full textThis paper outlines the concept and content of the Contextual Database of the international Generations and Gender Program and gives an overview of the context of demographic behavior in Bulgaria. The Contextual Database provides an instrument that together with the Generations and Gender Survey allows studying how differences in context shape demographic processes. The database offers the opportunity to analyze in a comparative way the interaction between the micro and macro dimension. Bulgaria is among the first countries fielding the Generations and Gender Survey and that is engaged in contextual data collection within this comparative framework. While both micro- and contextual data for Bulgaria will become available in the course of the year 2005, we present in this paper a text contribution that provides an overview of the Bulgarian context and introduces the list of variables that make up the database.Bulgaria, data collection
The Mediterranean Metaphor in Early Geopolitical Writings
No full textThe article focuses on the view of the Mediterranean in early geopolitical writings. Through this lens, it looks at the space metaphors and imaginative geographies that defined the core meanings of the Middle Sea over the last 200 years. The author discusses the role that the Enlightenment philosophy of history had in the shaping of classical geography. Moving on similar grounds, early geopolitical writers believed in the ‘force of history’ as a
generator of spatial order. They used episodes of the Mediterranean past as a parable for
the spatial articulation of contact, conflict and power in the overall ‘process of cvivilization’, and transformed the Middle Sea into a metaphor for the universal mission of Europe
L’allegoria dell’Occidente
No full textThe unsigned polychrome print Les mortels sont égaux, most probably engraved in 1791, may be considered one of the numerous pieces of visual and textual propaganda disseminated during the days of the French Revolution. This paper argues that the print nevertheless stands out for an unequaled capacity to condense the core meanings of secularized eschatology and the West’s self-attributed apostolate, in a single allegory. The iconological analysis focuses on the divinized figures of Nature and Reason, and the attributes of the white man and the black man that the image contains. The author also focuses on the analysis of the text placed under the image, in particular on Voltaire’s distich, which gave the image its title
Engineers in Western Europe: Ascent - and Decline? : A Profession Torn Between Technology and Economy, 1850-1990, with Outlooks to the Present
No full textIn his book, pending between history and sociology, on engineers in thirteen countries of the western part of Europe, Professor Rolf Torstendahl approaches the development from around 1850 up to the present situation from different angles.- One examines the educational patterns and the author shows how widely different types of formation of engineers existed in Britain, France and Germany in the early period. They were paradigmatic for other countries. Differences remain but patterns have gradually become similar.- From another angle the author makes professional organisations of engineers a main object of study, and they vary from alumni associations to powerful lobby organisations.- A third approach in the book is to examine engineers versus sociological theories of professionalism on the one hand and theories of managerialism on the other. In the last chapter the author also discusses topics like technocracy and the responsibility of engineers. </p
Hydrophiloidea Latreille, 1802
No full textSince the first of three Coleoptera volumes of the Hand-book of Zoology series was published in 2005, the progress in the investigation of the most species-rich insect order has been remarkable. The exploration of the biodiversity of this extremely successful group of organisms has been dynamic, with valuable contributions made by individual naturalists, but also by organized research teams conducting large-scale biodiversity expeditions in different parts of the world. These efforts have yielded a remarkable increase in species numbers in different groups, as for instance in Hydrophiloidea from ca. 2,800 in 2005 (1stedition) to 3,335 in 2015 (1?12), or in Staphylinidae from 47,744 in 2005 to 55,224 in 2015 (1?14.7), the later of which is also related to advances in classification. Moreover, a considerable number of new genera were described as well as two new families of Adephaga, which were not included in the 1stedition of Volume 1 (included in Volume 2 of 2010). The biodiversity explorations were accompanied by intensive taxonomic work conducted not only by professional researchers but also highly competent amateurs. Even though taxonomic research may not be greatly appreciated in parts of the scientific community, or governments, it is essential for the understanding of a highly complex and immensely diverse group like Coleoptera and generally for the development of stable classifications. An updated classification for the all Coleoptera is presented in Chapters 1?2. Important changes adopted here are the placement of Scirtoidea at the base of Polyphaga, and a new concept of Hydrophiloidea with subfamilies ranked as families (Chapters 1?12).With remarkable technical innovations in insect anatomy in the last decade, the study of the morphology of Coleoptera has also intensified. Recently, as part of the Beetle Tree of Life project (funded by the United States National Science Foundation), an impressive morphological contribution was made by John Lawrence, Adam Ślipiński (CSIRO), and coworkers. This team of experts compiled, documented, and analyzed a comprehensive set of 516 characters representing 314 families and subfamilies of Coleoptera plus outgroups. New and detailed morphological data are available for species of many groups (e.g. cephalic and thoracic morphology of Archostemata, head morphology of Lepiceridae, Dascillidae, and Glaresidae, genital morphology of Ommatidae, Chapters 1?5.4), and larvae of several groups were described for the 1sttime (Lepiceridae, 1?6.1, Meruidae, 1?7.8) or treated in detail morphologically, including complete 3D.reconstructions of external and internal structures (e.g. 1stinstar larvae of TenomergaNeboiss [Cupedidae], 1?5.2). The remarkable development of molecular systematics in the last decade had also a strong impact on beetle phylogenetics and evolutionary biology. A completely new chapter on molecular systematics is presented in this volume (1?3). One major achievement was the unambiguous systematic placement of Coleoptera as sistergroup to the highly specialized ectoparasitic Strepsiptera, both combined as Coleopterida, which in turn form the sistergroup to a clade containing the three neuropteroid orders. Another breakthrough was the identification of the scirtoid families and Derodontidae as basal lineages of the megadiverse Polyphaga.The composition of the authors for this revised Volume 1 has changed slightly. Chuck Bellamy, regrettably passed away prior to the formulation of this new edition, and Buprestidae (1?18) were revised with the assistance of Mark Volkovitsch (Institute of Zoology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Peterburg). Some authors were unavailable or were substituted by authors more recently active in the taxonomy of particular families. Duane McKenna (University of Memphis) is co-author of Systematic position and early evolution (1?1) and new author of Molecular systematics of Coleoptera; (1?3), Lars Hendrich (Zoologische Staatssammlung München) as new co-author of Dytiscidae (1?7.6), Pawel Jaloszynski (Museum of Natural History, University of Wrocław) and as new author of Scydmaeninae; (1?14.5), and Crystal Maier (Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago) as leading author of Byrrhidae (1?19.1).Not only are great strides being made to document beetle diversity and morphology, the investigation of beetle phylogeny is also presently progressing with great momentum. The phylogeny of the entire Coleoptera was addressed in the BTOL project and is presently investigated based on transcriptomes in a subproject of the 1KITE consortium (www.1KITE.org/, funded by Beijing Genomics Institute). This and other ongoing molecular investigations underway by teams of researchers combined with new morphological findings and an intensified exploration of rich fossil material, will likely lead to a deeper understanding of beetle evolution and new classifications in the near future. The updated information compiled in this volume may facilitate and inspire ongoing research efforts, and new phylogenetic and evolutionary insights may eventually lead to new contributions in the Handbook of Zoology series.Fil: Archangelsky, Miguel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Patagonia Norte. Centro de Investigación Esquel de Montaña y Estepa Patagóica. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia "San Juan Bosco". Facultad de Ciencias Naturales - Sede Esquel. Centro de Investigación Esquel de Montaña y Estepa Patagónica; ArgentinaFil: Beutel, Rolf Georg. Universitat Jena; AlemaniaFil: Komarek, Albrecht. Natural History Museum Vienna; Alemani
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