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Can music make you sick? : measuring the price of musical ambition
“Musicians often pay a high price for sharing their art with us. Underneath the glow of success can often lie loneliness and exhaustion, not to mention the basic struggles of paying the rent or buying food. Sally Anne Gross and George Musgrave raise important questions – and we need to listen to what the musicians have to tell us about their working conditions and their mental health.” Em…
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- 9781912656615
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- XI, 186 p.
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- 781.59 ANN c
The demography of disasters : impacts for population and place
This open access book provides worldwide examples demonstrating the importance of the interplay between demography and disasters in regions and spatially. It marks an advance in practical and theoretical insights for understanding the role of demography in planning for and mitigating impacts from disasters in developed nations. Both slow onset (like the of loss polar ice from climate change)…
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- 9783030499204
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- xvii, 268p. : ill.
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- 363.34 DEM d
Assessment strategies for online learning: engagement and authenticity
For many learners, assessment conjures up visions of red pens scrawling percentages in the top right-hand corner of exams and feelings of stress, inadequacy, and failure. Although learners sometimes respond negatively to evaluation, assessments have provided educational institutions with important information about learning outcomes and the quality of education for many decades. But how accurat…
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- 9781771992336
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- xiii, 203 p.; 22 cm.
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- 371.26 CON a
Disruption in the arts : textual, visual, and perfomative strategies for anal…
The volume examines from a comparative perspective the phenomenon of aesthetic disruption within the various arts in contemporary culture. It assumes that the political potential of contemporary art is not solely derived from presenting its audiences with openly political content, but rather from creating a space of perception and interaction using formal means: a space that makes hegemonic str…
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- 9783110580082
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- XVI, 382 p.
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- Culture & Conflict, 11
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- 700.103 DIS d
Child’s play multi-sensory histories of children and childhood in Japan
Few things make Japanese adults feel quite as anxious today as the phenomenon called the “child crisis.” Various media teem with intense debates about bullying in schools, child poverty, child suicides, violent crimes committed by children, the rise of socially withdrawn youngsters, and forceful moves by the government to introduce a more conservative educational curriculum. These issues ha…
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- 9780520968844
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- 314 p.; 22 cm.
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- 305.230952 CHI c
Digital material : tracing new media in everyday life and technology
Three decades of societal and cultural alignment of new media have yielded a host of innovations, trials, and problems, accompanied by versatile popular and academic discourse. New Media Studies crystallized internationally into an established academic discipline, and this begs the question: where do we stand now? Which new questions are emerging now that new media are being taken for granted, …
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- 9789089640680
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- 303 p.
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- 070.4 DIG d
Screen space reconfigured
Screen Space Reconfigured is the first edited volume that critically and theoretically examines the many novel renderings of space brought to us by 21st century screens. Exploring key cases such as post-perspectival space, 3D, vertical framing, haptics, and layering, this volume takes stock of emerging forms of screen space and spatialities as they move from the margins to the centre of contemp…
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- 9789048529056
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- 332 p.
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- MediaMatters,
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- 791 SCE s
Fifty shades of grey : exploring the dark sides of leadership and followership
The scientific field of leadership and followership is fast evolving and has seen several interesting developments over recent years. The early heroic views of leadership are slowly turning into more nuanced perspectives, including the understanding that leadership and followership are mutually dependent on each other. Likewise, there is a growing awareness that the focus on the positive side o…
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- 9782889456956
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- 139 p.
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- Frontiers Research Topics
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- 658.4092 BRA f
Discourses we live by: narratives of educational and social endeavour
What are the influences that govern how people view their worlds? What are the embedded values and practices that underpin the ways people think and act? Discourses We Live By approaches these questions through narrative research, in a process that uses words, images, activities or artefacts to ask people – either individually or collectively within social groupings – to examine, discuss, p…
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- 9781783748549
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- 234 p.; 22 cm.
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- 370.307 DIS d
Communication and materiality. Written and unwritten communication in pre-mod…
This volume reconsiders literacy and communication in pre-modern societies, focusing especially on how material form affects the way textual artefacts are understood and interpreted. By bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines such as archaeology, medieval studies, and Islamic studies, this volume provides the specialist and non-specialist with insights on how humans express themselv…
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- 9783110371758
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- v, 133 p.; 22 cm.
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- Materiale Textkulturen ; Vol. 8
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- 302.230935 COM c
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