Most Popular Books by Goran

In Choreographing Agonism, author Goran Petrović Lotina offers new insight into the connections between politics and performance. Exploring the political and philosophical roots of a number of recent leftist civil movements, Petrović Lotina forcefully argues for a re-imagining of artistic performance as an instrument of democracy capable of contesting a dominant politics. Inspired by post-Marxist theories of discourse theory, hegemony, conflict, and pluralism, and using tension as a guiding philosophical, political, and artistic force, the book expands the politico-philosophical debate on theories of performance. It offers both scholars and practitioners of performance a thought-provoking analysis of the ways in which artistic performance can be viewed politically as ‘agonistic choreo-political practice,’ a powerful strategy for mobilising alternative ways of living together and invigorating democracy. Choreographing Agonism makes a bold and innovative contribution to the discussion of political and philosophical thought in the field of Performance Studies.

This book will help the reader to recognize, diagnose, and treat most of the acute abdominal disorders that may be encountered in the pregnant patient, whether associated with or incidental to the pregnancy. A wide range of conditions are addressed, including some which are very rare as well as those more frequently seen, such as acute appendicitis and acute cholecystitis. The principles underlying diagnosis and therapy are clearly explained. Particular features in the clinical presentation of pregnant patients are highlighted, and specific diagnostic and therapeutic algorithms and protocols, described. Attention is drawn to the diagnostic difficulties that may arise from atypical presentations and to restrictions on the use of certain diagnostic imaging studies. The book is designed to meet the needs of both the gynecologist and the general or abdominal surgeon, who together form the multidisciplinary team mandatory for effective treatment that will safeguard mother and baby.

A world more urban... The world is undergoing massive urbanization, and is projected to increase from three to over four billion city dwellers, mostly in the developing world, within 15 years. This historic shift is producing dramatic effects on human well-being and the environment. ...but less poor Unplanned shanty-towns without basic services are not an inevitable consequence of urbanization and slums are not explained by poverty alone. Urban misery also stems from misguided policies, inappropriate legal frameworks, dysfunctional markets, poor governance, and not least, lack of political will. Urbanization and economic development go hand-in-hand and the productivity of the urban economy can and should benefit everyone. Living conditions for the urban poor can be dramatically improved with proper solutions, backed by decisive, concerted action. More Urban - Less Poor brings order to the complex and important field of urban development in developing and transitional countries. Written in an accessible style, the book examines how cities grow, their economic development, urban poverty, housing and environmental problems. It also examines how to face these challenges through governance and management of urban growth, the finance and delivery of services, and finding a role for development cooperation. This is essential reading for development professionals, researchers, students and others working on any facet of urban development and management in our rapidly urbanizing world. Published with SIDA

Having a son is Warren’s biggest dream, which shatters when he finds out that his wife can’t have children. He meets a stripper, Gisele, who is luscious, fertile and open to Warren’s charms. Their friendship leads to them getting closer and opens the door to trouble in Warren’s marriage.

Collaborative manufacturing and management are a fundamental requirement in today’s digital age, to enable an innovative and sustainable development of companies. This is possible and highly recommended not just in the context of traditional companies, but further in cyber physical systems and in the context of extended, distributed, networked and virtual organizations. The book provides fundamental methodologies, models, methods, tools, and platforms about collaborative engineering, to support manufacturing and management processes and practices, aligned with the current requirements underlying Industry 4.0, and Society 5.0. It describes the application of collaborative management paradigms, about dynamic, distributed, integrated, intelligent, predictive, parallel, and real-time based approaches and tools to enable collaborating entities, including suppliers, business partners and other stakeholders, to develop projects and solve problems that are becoming increasingly more complex and challenging currently. Such collaborative processes and practices require companies and underlying stakeholders to be connected, and to further communicate, and share data, problems, and expertise, and other kind of resources, along with concerns, difficulties, and challenges, requiring co-learning, and the co-creation of knowledge, processes, methods, and systems to interactively support projects and problem solving. The book reviews the advances and provides case studies to assist scientists, practitioners and students in high standard manufacturing management processes and practices, to properly handle daily problems and challenges, with a special focus on the use of recent paradigms and tools to support manufacturing management decision making, through innovative methodologies and approaches for permitting researchers to learn, develop further work, and become advanced practitioners and promoters of collaborative management.

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this practical analysis of sports law in Serbia deals with the regulation of sports activity by both public authorities and private sports organizations. The growing internationalization of sports inevitably increases the weight of global regulation, yet each country maintains its own distinct regime of sports law and its own national and local sports organizations. Sports law at a national or organizational level thus gains a growing relevance in comparative law. The book describes and discusses both state-created rules and autonomous self-regulation regarding the variety of economic, social, commercial, cultural, and political aspects of sports activities. Self- regulation manifests itself in the form of by-laws, and encompasses organizational provisions, disciplinary rules, and rules of play. However, the trend towards more professionalism in sports and the growing economic, social and cultural relevance of sports have prompted an increasing reliance on legal rules adopted by public authorities. This form of regulation appears in a variety of legal areas, including criminal law, labour law, commercial law, tax law, competition law, and tort law, and may vary following a particular type or sector of sport. It is in this dual and overlapping context that such much-publicized aspects as doping, sponsoring and media, and responsibility for injuries are legally measured. This monograph fills a gap in the legal literature by giving academics, practitioners, sports organizations, and policy makers access to sports law at this specific level. Lawyers representing parties with interests in Serbia will welcome this very useful guide, and academics and researchers will appreciate its value in the study of comparative sports law.

Virtual Enterprise Integration: Technological and Organizational Perspectives addresses the emergent research and development issues for the most-advanced enterprise organizational paradigm of today''s world - the virtual enterprise paradigm. Virtual Enterprise Integration: Technological and Organizational Perspectives integrates the contributions by renowned international researchers and scientists and is virtually the first book focusing solely on the problem of virtual enterprise integration. This book is a guide that gives readers a broader perspective of VE integration requirements and raises their awareness on which technology and how technology can serve the needs of an expanding and increasingly competitive organizational model.

From the fourteenth-century Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to In Parenthesis – an epic poem written in 1937 by painter and poet David Jones – English writers have looked to romance as a resource and a strategy to expand the imaginary reach of their writing. Rethinking the resilience, purpose, and place of romance in English literature, Timely Voices discusses moments that have altered how we read and interpret this ever-changing form. Addressing the various ways in which romance has absorbed and been absorbed by drama, prose, and poetry, contributors to this volume demonstrate that romance texts do not produce something defined or confined by a static genre, but rather express a repository of creative possibilities. Covering writers including the anonymous author of Sir Orfeo, Jane Austen, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Lucy Hutchinson, William Morris, Philip Sidney, William Shakespeare, and Edmund Spenser, essays explore the magic and wonder of romance, Irish and Gaelic lore, how woodcuts in early books complement and extend printed text, how romance was dramatized, how it gives language to feminist politics and ideology, and how it becomes a counterpoint to finance in the fiction of the early Romantic period. A nuanced reinterpretation of romance in its own terms, Timely Voices inspires new appreciation of this form as a solution to textual, aesthetic, structural, ideological, and political problems in literature.

Knowledge and Technology Management in Virtual Organizations: Issues, Trends, Opportunities and Solutions presents a collection of the most recent contributions in the areas of organization, knowledge, and technology management in the context of virtual enterprises. This book contains important and in-depth information on four dimensions: semantic, managerial, technological, and social. The semantic dimensions covered in this book are ontological and organizational approaches, concepts, organizational models, and knowledge management models. In respect to managerial dimensions, this book covers process management, integration management, relationship management, process integration, knowledge management, technology integration management, and information integration. Knowledge and Technology Management in Virtual Organizations: Issues, Trends, Opportunities and Solutions presents the technological dimension by explaining the infrastructures and technologies to support technology and information integration standards and protocols. Lastly, this title highlights the social dimension, including human resources management, human resources integration, social issues, social impact, social requirements, and communities of knowledge.

Knights in Arms moves beyond the best-known examples of the genre, such as Philip Sidney''sArcadia, to consider the broad range of texts which featured the Eastern Mediterranean in this era.

This is a wartime love story of two young people, brought together by terror and destruction in Croatia. Their journey starts in 1991, as the war begins to spread across the land. From the nightmare and blood being spilt, a deep love was born. For a love so right, yet so wrong, the quest for survival begins. Can they survive against all odds? That year, the war was spreading across the expanse of the former Yugoslavia. It lasted onlyfor a short period in Slovenia, but it blazed up in its full force in Croatia. The agitators brought back from Serbia, manipulated with the local Serbian population and together with the Yugoslav National Army, triggered the beginning of destruction, devastation and murder of civil Croatian society. Croatia becomes productive territory for hundreds of newsreporters from all around the world, and from there they inform their homeland stations of the terror appearing before their eyes. One of them is an Australian reporter Suzane Goudin, from her mother''s side Croatian. She comes to Split, a town situated along the Adriatic Coast, where, right at the beginning of her journey meets a local newsreporter Mario Matovina. Up until then, Mario also wrote for an Australian newspaper whose owner was Suzane''s father. Although Mario was happily married father of three children and Suzane Goudin, a young widow with one child, between them, from the very first start, a chemistry and a strong sense of attraction existed. Mario''s father is the former general of Yugoslav''s National Army, and in the previous days of aggression within Croatia, he feels shame for all the things that same army is doing to Croatia. He puts his personal experience and places it to his country`s disposal whom he had loved so greatly and would sacrafice himself for.He has a stroke and becomes chained to his hospital bed. In those dramatic moments between life and death, Mario awaits in his fathers presence for the worst. Although he loves his wife, Mario has a hard time denying and resisting the feelings he feels towards Suzane. At the beginning, it was all sexual attraction, which has with time developed into something much more deeper. The terror and nightmare of the war had made them closer. A love was born. Is it possible to love two women at the same time? The southern sky of Dubrovnik was not covered in starts any longer, but by granades and mines. Death spread across the old Dubrovnik''s walls. During the artillery attack on Dubrovnik, Mario uses all his power, his body, his mind, his soul to protect Suzane. They go through hell, he is wounded, looses a part of his arm during the ongoing battle while Suzane looses her baby to him at Split''s hospital. Although she was pregnant, he didn''t know. Suzane departs for Australia, while wounded Mario goes back to his family. All over again, he starts experiencing love with his wife. In the year 1995, Suzane dies inFrankfurt form leukemia. She wished to die in Croatia, but death was quicker and beat her to it. She was buried in her native soil along the Adriatic Coast where her mother was from. Mario did not attend the funeral. He went the next day, when he could stay peacefully goodbye to his wartime love. The war in Croatia ended, right when this deeply moving love story did. The war had brought them together, but it also ripped them apart.

En 1971, la base militaire américaine Valley Forge au Vietnam est le théâtre du massacre de 700 hommes. Le Punisher naît des cendres du capitaine Frank Castle, l''unique survivant. Aujourd''hui, le passé ressurgit et avec lui un groupe de personnes chargées d''arrêter le Punisher. Et cette fois, il se pourrait bien que le héros perde la bataille... Au sommaire de cet album, le dernier récit complet du scénariste Garth Ennis dans la série du Punisher, Valley Forge, Valley Froge, mis en images par Goran Parlov.