La face cachée du « low cost ».Tout le monde ne rêve pas d’être hôtesse de l’air. Mais lui, il y a toujours pensé. Un avion est une salle de spectacle : lubies des passagers, délires des commandants de bord qui se prennent parfois pour les rois du monde, équipages qui tentent de gérer au mieux les rotations de vol, les passagers incontrôlables, sans oublier… le nettoyage de l’avion. Oui, David Edelstein est steward sur une compagnie low cost. D’une...

Complete with behind-the-scenes diary entries from the set of Vachon's best-known fillms, Shooting to Kill offers all the satisfaction of an intimate memoir from the frontlines of independent filmmakins, from one of its most successful agent provocateurs -- and survivors. Hailed by the New York Times as the "godmother to the politically committed film" and by Interview as a true "auteur producer," Christine Vachon has made her name with such bold, controversial, and commercially successful...

A major empirical study of thirty-one British and fifty-one American national trade unions, this volume provides the background to a new, organizationally oriented theory of union democracy. Supported by in-depth studies of the political process in the British Mineworkers' Union and the Engineers' Union, the book develops and illustrates a general theory of how, in a country with democratic norms, formal organization itself can constrain a tendency toward oligarchy by stimulating union com...

Leading authorities analyze growing tensions in US-China relations and what this means for the futureThe US-China relationship is now defined by “strategic competition.” In Cold Rivals, a distinguished group of scholars from the United States and China examine the reasons for this deterioration and its implications for world politics.The two countries are now competitors locked in a long-term rivalry, but how volatile this rivalry will become is st...

More people are in psychotherapy than ever before. Yet most of them have no idea of the vast differences between the hundreds of various schools of therapy. Therapy Breakthrough is the first book to clearly explain the theories and practices of the two big camps: Psychodynamic or PD therapy and Cognitive-Behavioral or CB therapy. PD therapists believe that emotional problems are caused by hidden forces in our unconscious minds, forces that cannot be observed directly and that resi...

How do established powers react to growing competitors? The United States currently faces a dilemma with regard to China and others over whether to embrace competition and thus substantial present-day costs or collaborate with its rivals to garner short-term gains while letting them become more powerful. This problem lends considerable urgency to the lessons to be learned from Over the Horizon. David M. Edelstein analyzes past rising powers in his search for answe...

Few would contest that the U.S. occupation of Iraq is a clear example of just how fraught a military occupation can become. In Occupational Hazards, David M. Edelstein elucidates the occasional successes of military occupations and their more frequent failures. Edelstein has identified twenty-six cases since 1815 in which an outside power seized control of a territory where the occupying party had no long-term claim on sovereignty. In a book that has implications for prese...

Anymore, it seems the world is on a fast track, a wide and hectically flowing track. Everyone is rushing toward something, but many times we have no idea what that something is. We want to get where we're going now not later. Time is at a premium, but we want it in increasingly smaller increments: seconds not minutes. We want our communications, our information, and our very lives to happen ASAP.No longer can we wait to talk face to face with friends and loved ones. We grab some el...

An essential reference for confronting the challenges of revision surgery in otolaryngologyThieme congratulates David R. Edelstein on being chosen by New York magazine for its prestigious 'Best Doctors 2018' list.From simple revision adenoidectomy to the very complex revision rhinoplasty, revision tympanomastoidectomy, and revision pharyngectomy, this book is a comprehensive reference for revision surgery in all areas of otolaryngo...

Este livro cresceu da convicção de que as análises contemporâneas da agricultura e da mudança social rural alcançaram um impasse. Dentro da tradição marxista, o significado do desenvolvimento tecnológico foi continuamente distorcido na medida em que as categorias teóricas e ideológicas do marxismo clássico foram alargadas para incorporar as estruturas sociais rurais modernas. Por sua vez, as contribuições neoclássicas, embora levando em conta a questão crucial da inovação, reduziram-na ao ...