The Possible Someone (Complexity and Characterization for Advanced Actors)

The Possible Someone (Complexity and Characterization for Advanced Actors)
Author: David Scott
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2014-05-20
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1304962237

David Scott's third book on Acting, Actor Training and Theatre and FIlm Arts. The Possible Someone examines advanced and sophisticated pathways to characterization and immersive acting in both theatre and film formats, broaching some controversial topics. David's ongoing studio explorations with the finest actors and acting students in Ireland continues to reveal new and exciting approaches to acting as a high art.

Proceedings of the First Advanced Course in Operator Theory and Complex Analysis

Proceedings of the First Advanced Course in Operator Theory and Complex Analysis
Author: Alfonso Montes Rodríguez
Publisher: Universidad de Sevilla
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2006
Genre: Functions of complex variables
ISBN: 9788447210244

Topics of the Advanced Course in Operator Theory and Complex Analysis held in Seville in June 2004 ranged from determining the conformal type of Riemann surfaces, to concrete classical operators acting on classical spaces of analytic functions, passing through how the behaviour of the powers of the classical shift operator determines whether every function in a given space of analytic functions on the disk has non-tangential limits almost everywhere, and lattices of jointly invariant subspaces for two translations semigroup.

Dynamic Acting through Active Analysis

Dynamic Acting through Active Analysis
Author: Sharon Marie Carnicke
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2022-12-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1350205206

In the 21st century, actors face radical changes in plays and performance styles, as they move from stage to screen and grapple with new technologies that present their art to ever-expanding audiences. Active Analysis offers the flexibility of mind, body, and spirit now urgently needed in acting. Dynamic Acting through Active Analysis brings to light this timely legacy, born during the worst era of Soviet repression and hidden for decades from public view. Part I unfolds like a mystery novel through letters, memoirs, and transcripts of Konstantin Stanislavsky's last classes. Far from the authoritarian director of his youth, he reveals himself as a generous mentor, who empowers actors with a brand new collaborative approach to rehearsals. His assistant, Maria Knebel, first bears witness to his forward-looking ideas and then builds the bridge to new plays in new styles through her directing and influential teaching. Part II follows a 21st century company of diverse actors as they experience the joy of applying Active Analysis to their own creative and professional work.

Complexities 2

Complexities 2
Author: Jean-Pierre Briffaut
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2024-07-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1786308762

Awareness of complexity in science and technology dates back to the 1970s. However, all social systems tend to develop structures that become more complex over time, be it within families, tribes, cities, states, or societal and economic organizations. Complexities 2 covers a broad array of fields, from justice and linguistics to education and organizational management. The aim of this book is to show, without aiming to provide a comprehensive overview, the diversity of approaches and behaviors towards the obstacle of complexity in understanding and achieving human actions. When we see complexity as the incompleteness of knowledge and the uncertainty of the future, we realize that simplifying is not an adequate approach to complexity, even in the humanities and social sciences. This book explores the relationship between order and disorder in this field of knowledge.

Politics and Social Theory

Politics and Social Theory
Author: Peter Lassman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2013-09-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136658971

First published in 1989, this Routledge Revival is a major collection of essays on the competing traditions of social and political theory. The contributions, by international scholars, reflect the re-examination of the boundaries between the ‘political’ and the ‘social’, the ‘public’ and ‘private’, and ‘state’ and ‘society’. The reissue will be of great value to students in both sociology and political science. Bringing new arguments to bear on the debate about the place of political theory in social science, the contributors discuss such issues as the different languages used by sociologists to describe the state; Marxist and socialist theory; class analysis; the welfare state; feminist political theory; and the impact of post-modernity on contemporary social thought.

Managing Complex, High Risk Projects

Managing Complex, High Risk Projects
Author: Franck Marle
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2015-12-18
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1447167872

Maximizing reader insights into project management and handling complexity-driven risks, this book explores propagation effects, non-linear consequences, loops, and the emergence of positive properties that may occur over the course of a project. This book presents an introduction to project management and analysis of traditional project management approaches and their limits regarding complexity. It also includes overviews of recent research works about project complexity modelling and management as well as project complexity-driven issues. Moreover, the authors propose their own new approaches, new methodologies and new tools which may be used by project managers and/or researchers and/or students in the management of their projects. These new elements include project complexity definitions and frameworks, multi-criteria approaches for project complexity measurement, advanced methodologies for project management (propagation studies to anticipate potential behaviour of the project, and clustering approaches to improve coordination between project actors) and industrial case studies (automotive industry, civil engineering, railroad industry, performing arts,...) and exercises (with their solutions) which will allow readers to improve and strengthen their knowledge and skills in the management of complex and (thus) risky projects.

Algebraic Analysis of Social Networks

Algebraic Analysis of Social Networks
Author: J. Antonio R. Ostoic
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2021-02-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1119250382

Presented in a comprehensive manner, this book provides a comprehensive foundation in algebraic approaches for the analysis of different types of social networks such as multiple, signed, and affiliation networks. The study of such configurations corresponds to the structural analysis within the social sciences, and the methods applied for the analysis are in the areas of abstract algebra, combinatorics, and graph theory. Current research in social networks has moved toward the examination of more realistic but also more complex social relations by which agents or actors are connected in multiple ways. Addressing this trend, this book offers hands-on training of the algebraic procedures presented along with the computer package multiplex, written by the book’s author specifically to perform analyses of multiple social networks. An introductory section on both complex networks and for R will feature, however the subjects themselves correspond to advanced courses on social network analysis with the specialization on algebraic models and methods.

Managing Complex Networks

Managing Complex Networks
Author: Walter J M Kickert
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 225
Release: 1997-06-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0857021990

Although the concept of policy networks is now well-established in the field, most research has to content itself with description and analysis of their contribution to policy failure. This book goes further. It accepts policy networks as a fundamental characteristic of modern societies and presents an overview of the strategies for the management of these networks, as well as illustrating the various strategies for intervention.

Routledge Handbook of Comparative Policy Analysis

Routledge Handbook of Comparative Policy Analysis
Author: Marleen Brans
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2017-04-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317337468

This Handbook presents the first comprehensive study of policy analytical practices in comparative perspective. It explores emerging developments and innovations in the field and advances knowledge of the nature and quality of policy analysis across different countries and at different levels of government by all relevant actors, both inside and outside government, who contribute to the diagnosis of problems and the search for policy solutions. Handbook chapters examine all aspects of the science, art and craft of policy analysis. They do so both at the often-studied national level, and also at the less well-known level of sub-national and local governments. In addition to studying governments, the Handbook also examines for the first time the practices and policy work of a range of non-governmental actors, including think tanks, interest groups, business actors, labour groups, media, political parties and non-profits. Bringing together a rich collection of cases and a renowned group of scholars, the Handbook constitutes a landmark study in the field.

Policy Analysis in Spain

Policy Analysis in Spain
Author: Laura Chaqués-Bonafont
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2022-04-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1447353773

This book is the first systematic study of policy analysis activities in Spain. It provides a comprehensive overview of how policy actors, including politicians, think tanks, researchers, interest groups and experts, generate information for the policy-making process. The book explores how executive and legislative actors participate in the production of policy analysis and how all actors elaborate and disseminate information on policy analysis. Contributors consider the ways different policy actors are involved in the production of data and information about policy problems, the resources used to produce policy analysis and the type of analysis produced over time in different policy areas.