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Clark Kerr's University of California Leadership Diversity and Planning in Higher Education

Clark Kerr's University of California Leadership Diversity and Planning in Higher Education

This volume provides an intellectual history of Kerr's vision of the multiversity as expressed in his most famous work The Uses of the University and in his greatest administrative accomplishment the California Master Plan for Higher Education. Building upon Kerr's use of the visionary hedgehog/shrewd fox dichotomy the book explains the rise of the University of California as due to the articulation and implementation of the hedgehog concept of systemic excellence that underpins the master plan. Arguing that the university's recent problems flow from a fox culture characterized by a free-for-all approach to management including excessive executive compensation this is a call for a new vision for the university and for public higher education in general. In particular it advocates re-funding and re-democratizing public higher education and renewing its leadership through thoughtful succession planning with a special emphasis on diversity. Gonzalez's work follows the ups and downs of women and minorities in higher education showing that university advances often have resulted in the further marginalization of these groups. Clark Kerr's University of California is about American public higher education at the crossroads and will be of interest to those concerned with the future of the public university as an institution as well as those interested in issues relating to leadership diversity and succession planning. | Clark Kerr's University of California Leadership Diversity and Planning in Higher Education

GBP 51.99
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Virtual Reality Filmmaking Techniques & Best Practices for VR Filmmakers

Virtual Reality Filmmaking Techniques & Best Practices for VR Filmmakers

Virtual Reality Filmmaking presents a comprehensive guide to the use of virtual reality in filmmaking including narrative documentary live event production and more. Written by Celine Tricart a filmmaker and an expert in new technologies the book provides a hands-on guide to creative filmmaking in this exciting new medium and includes coverage on how to make a film in VR from start to finish. Topics covered include: The history of VR; VR cameras; Game engines and interactive VR; The foundations of VR storytelling; Techniques for shooting in live action VR; VR postproduction and visual effects; VR distribution; Interviews with experts in the field including the Emmy-winning studios Felix & Paul and Oculus Story Studio Wevr Viacom Fox Sports Sundance’s New Frontier and more. | Virtual Reality Filmmaking Techniques & Best Practices for VR Filmmakers

GBP 46.99
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Documentary Media History Theory Practice

Documentary Media History Theory Practice

In a digital moment where both the democratizing and totalitarian possibilities of media are unprecedented the need for complex ethical and imaginative documentary media—for you the reader of this book to think question and create—is vital. Whether you are an aspiring or seasoned practitioner an activist or community leader a student or scholar or simply a curious audience member author Broderick Fox opens up documentary media its changing forms and diversifying social functions to readers in a manner that is at once rigorous absorbing and practical. This new edition updates and further explores the various histories ideas and cultural debates that surround and shape documentary practice today. Each chapter engages readers by challenging traditional assumptions posing critical and creative questions and offering up innovative historical and contemporary examples. Additionally each chapter closes with an Into Practice section that provides analysis and development exercises and hands-on projects that will assist you in generating a full project prospectus promotional trailer and web presence for your own documentary. | Documentary Media History Theory Practice

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Naval Presence and the Interwar US Navy and Marine Corps Forward Deployment Crisis Response and the Tyranny of History

Naval Presence and the Interwar US Navy and Marine Corps Forward Deployment Crisis Response and the Tyranny of History

This book examines the US Navy and Marine Corps during the interwar years from a new perspective. Rather than focusing on the technologies developed the wargames conducted or the results of the now famous Fleet Problems this work analyzes the global deployments of the rest of the US fleet. By examining the annual reports of the Secretary of the Navy the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps over 20 years the book traces the US ships squadrons and fleets conducting naval diplomacy and humanitarian missions maritime security patrols and deployments for deterrent effect across the world’s oceans. Despite the common label of the interwar years as isolationist the deployments of the US Navy and Marine Corps in that period were anything but isolated. The majority of the literature on the era has a narrow focus on preparation for combat and wartime which provides an incomplete view of the history of US naval power and also establishes a misleading set of precedents and historical context for naval thinkers and strategists in the contemporary world. Offering a wider and more complete understanding of the history of the U. S. Navy and Marine Corps from 1920 to 1939 this book demonstrates the tension between the execution of peacetime missions and the preparation for the next war while also offering a broader understanding of American naval forces and their role in American and global history. This book will be of much interest to students of naval and military history sea power and International History. | Naval Presence and the Interwar US Navy and Marine Corps Forward Deployment Crisis Response and the Tyranny of History

GBP 48.99
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British Nuclear Weapons and the Test Ban 1954–1973 Britain the United States Weapons Policies and Nuclear Testing: Tensions and Contradictions

British Nuclear Weapons and the Test Ban 1954–1973 Britain the United States Weapons Policies and Nuclear Testing: Tensions and Contradictions

In 1962 Dean Acheson famously described Britain as having lost an Empire but not yet found a role. Perhaps nowhere is this more apparent than in the realms of nuclear weapons. An increasingly marginal world power successive post-war British governments felt that an independent nuclear deterrent was essential if the country was to remain at the top table of world diplomacy. Focusing on a key twenty-year period this study explores Britain's role in efforts to bring about a nuclear test ban treaty between 1954 and 1973. Taking a broadly chronological approach it examines the nature of defence planning the scientific goals that nuclear tests were designed to secure Anglo-American relationships the efficacy of British diplomacy and its contribution to arms control and disarmament. A key theme of the study is to show how the UK managed to balance the conflicting pressures created by its determination to remain a credible nuclear power whilst wanting to pursue disarmament objectives and how these pressures shifted over the period in question. Based on a wealth of primary sources this book opens up the largely ignored subject of the impact of arms control on the UK nuclear weapons programme. Its appraisal of the relationship between the requirements and developments of the UK nuclear weapons programme against international and domestic pressures for a test ban treaty will be of interest to anyone studying post-war British defence and foreign policy history of science arms control disarmament and non-proliferation and international relations. It also provides important background information on current events involving nuclear proliferation and disarmament. | British Nuclear Weapons and the Test Ban 1954–1973 Britain the United States Weapons Policies and Nuclear Testing: Tensions and Contradictions

GBP 44.99
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Pakistan's Nuclear Policy A Minimum Credible Deterrence

Pakistan's Nuclear Policy A Minimum Credible Deterrence

In May 1998 in reaction to India’s nuclear weapons tests Pakistan tested six nuclear weapons. Following this the country opted for a policy of minimum deterrence and within a year Pakistan had altered its policy stance by adding the modifier of minimum ‘credible’ deterrence. This book looks at how this seemingly innocuous shift seriously impacted on Pakistan’s nuclear policy direction and whether the concept of minimum has lost its significance in the South Asian region’s changed/changing strategic environment. After providing a brief historical background exploring why and how Pakistan carried out the nuclear development program the book questions why Pakistan could not sustain the minimum deterrence that it had conceptualized in the immediate aftermath of the 1998 test. It examines the conceptual theoretical framework of the essentials of minimum deterrence in order to question whether Pakistan’s nuclear policy remained consistent with this as well as to discover the rudimentary factors that are responsible for the inconsistencies with regard to minimum deterrence conceived in this study. The book goes on to look at the policy options that Pakistan had after acquiring the nuclear capability and what the rationale was for selecting minimum deterrence. The book not only highlights Pakistan deterrent force building but also analyzes closely Pakistan’s doctrinal posture of first use option. Furthermore it examines the policy towards arms control and disarmament and discusses whether these individual policy orientations are consistent with the minimum deterrence. Conceptually providing a deeper understanding of Pakistan’s post-1998 nuclear policy this book critically examines whether the minimum deterrence conceived could be sustained both at the theoretical and operational levels. It will be a useful contribution in the field of Nuclear Policy Security Studies Asian Politics Proliferation/Non-Proliferation Studies and Peace Studies. This book will be of interest to policy makers scholars and students of nuclear policy nuclear proliferation and arms control related research. | Pakistan's Nuclear Policy A Minimum Credible Deterrence

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