Second Skin: Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface

Through the figure of Josephine Baker, Second Skin tells the story of an unexpected yet enduring intimacy between the invention of a modernist style and the theatricalization of black skin at the turn of the twentieth century. Stepping outside of the platitudes surrounding this iconic figure, Anne A. Cheng argues that Baker's famous nakedness must be understood within larger philosophic and aesthetic debates about, and desire for, 'pure surface' that crystallized at the convergence of modern art, architecture, machinery, and philosophy. Through Cheng's analysis, Baker emerges as a central artist whose work engages with and impacts various modes of modernist display such as film, photography, art, and even the modern house.

Second Skin

Arts & Photography

CHENG

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

Adv Acctg Earnings Per Share

FISCHER

TAYLOR

International Thomson Publishing

This book documents the evolution of modern Chinese banking, from the establishment in 1897 of the first Chinese bank (along a Western model), to the abrupt interruption in 1937 of professional banking by the Japanese invasion. Drawing from original documents of major Chinese banks, Linsun Cheng explains how the banks were able to grow into viable and self-sustaining institutions in China, despite a succession of foreign and domestic crises. Rich with historical details, this book presents a comprehensive narrative of the origins and growth of professional banks.

Banking in Modern China (Cambridge Modern China Series)

Business & Money

Economics

Cambridge University Press

Science communication, as a multidisciplinary field, has developed remarkably in recent years. It is now a distinct and exceedingly dynamic science that melds theoretical approaches with practical experience. Formerly well-established theoretical models now seem out of step with the social reality of the sciences, and the previously clear-cut delineations and interacting domains between cultural fields have blurred. Communicating Science in Social Contexts examines that shift, which itself depicts a profound recomposition of knowledge fields, activities and dissemination practices, and the value accorded to science and technology. Communicating Science in Social Contexts is the product of long-term effort that would not have been possible without the research and expertise of the Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) Network and the editors. For nearly 20 years, this informal, international network has been organizing events and forums for discussion of the public communication of science.

Communicating Science in Social Contexts

Springer

Postponement Strategies in Supply Chain Management (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 143)

Postponement strategy is one of the major supply chain management (SCM) pr- tices that has a discernible impact on rms’ competitive advantage and organi- tional performance. Postponement is a mass customization strategy that captures the advantages of both mass production and mass customization. Recent research studies have identi ed four common postponement strategies, namely pull, logistics, form and price postponement. The former three postponement strategies are linked to production and manufacturing, while the last one is a pure pricing strategy. They aim at balancing the costs and bene ts of mass production and mass customization. Practical examples of postponement can be found in the high-tech industry, food industry and other industries that require high differentiation. However, empirical studies have found that postponement may not be an evident SCM practice compared to the other practices. In addition, postponement has both positive and negative impacts on a supply chain. The advantages include following the JIT principles, reducing end-product inventory, making forecasting easier and pooling risk. The high cost of designing and manufacturing generic components is the main drawback of postponement. Thus, the evaluation of postponement strategy is an important research issue and there have been many qualitative and quantitative models for analyzing postponement under different scenarios.

Management & Leadership

EXPLORING JAVA 9: BUILD MODULARIZED APPLICATIONS IN JAVA [Paperback] Cheng

Apress

L'ETERNITE N'EST PAS DE TROP (French Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

FERYANE

Through published works and in the classroom, Irene Winter served as a mentor for the latest generation of scholars of Mesopotamian visual culture. The contributions to this volume in her honor represent a cross section of the state of scholarship today.

Ancient Near Eastern Art in Context: Studies in Honor of Irene J. Winter by Her Students (Culture & History of the Ancient Near East, 26)

M.ED.

FELDMAN

J. (ed.)

Brill Academic Pub

The demand for better and more convenient communication requires development of a variety of new services as quickly as possible. As the number of services becomes larger, however, feature interactions create incompatibilities between the various functions needed to implement them. In developing telecommunication systems, a large amount of time is spent on software modifications and testing whenever a new function is added. Much of this time is spent detecting and eliminating problems arising from feature interaction. As more services are offered, feature interactions will, it is suggested, become a major bottleneck in the development of software for telecommunications systems. This volume presents opinions on the technical problems involved in feature interactions in telecommunications systems.

Feature Interactions in Telecommunications III

Ohta

Science & Math

IOS Press

Fundamentos de Electromagnetismo Para Ingenieria (Spanish Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Universidad Autónoma de México

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