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Toy theory: technology and imagination in play
A novel interpretation of the history and theory of technology from the perspective of toys, play, and play objects. Toy Theory addresses the relationships between toys and technology in two distinct but overlapping ways: first, as underexamined cultural artifacts and behaviors with significant technical attributes and, second, as playful and toylike dimensions of technology at large. Seth G…
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- -
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- 9780262379014
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- viii, 278 p., ill,;
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- -
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- 790.133 SET t
The Conflict of the Faculties: Perspectives on Artistic Research and Academia
Artistic research is an endeavour in which the artistic and the academic are connected. In this emerging field of research artistic practices contribute as research to what we know and understand, and academia opens its mind to forms of knowledge and understanding that are entwined with artistic practices. Henk Borgdorff also addresses how we comment on such issues, and how the things we say ca…
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- 19
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- 9789087281670
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- x, 277 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 707
Post-digital, post-internet art and education : the future is all-over
This open access edited volume provides theoretical, practical, and historical perspectives on art and education in a post-digital, post-internet era. Recently, these terms have been attached to artworks, artists, exhibitions, and educational practices that deal with the relationships between online and offline, digital and physical, and material and immaterial. By taking the current socio-tech…
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- 13
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- 9783030737702
- Collation
- 300 p
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures,
- Call Number
- 707 KEV p
Sport Policy in Canada
The first and most comprehensive analysis of the new Canadian Sport Policy adopted in 2012.
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- -
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- 9780776621265
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- xiii,434 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 796.069 ULT S
Athanasius Raczyński (1788–1874). Aristocrat, diplomat, and patron of the …
This book depicts the long rich life and wide ranging work of Count Athanasius Raczyński (1788–1874). By exploring his complex personality, his processes of thought and his accomplishments, it reveals a man at once a wealthy aristocrat, a Pole in the Prussian diplomatic service, an active participant in and perceptive observer and critical commentator on political life, a connoisseur and art…
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- -
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- 9789004508453
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- 571 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 709.2 MEN a
Musicality of a Literary Work
This book represents an attempt to capture different links between modern literature and music. The author examines strict intertextual correlations, the phenomena of musicality and musicality of literary works, the musical structure in literature, so-called musical literary texts. He focuses on the novel Le Cœur absolu by Philippe Sollers, the poem Todesfuge by Paul Celan, the Preludio e Fugh…
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- Volume 57
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- 9783653047769
- Collation
- 244p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 780.08 AND m
Sport Policy in Canada
The first and most comprehensive analysis of the new Canadian Sport Policy adopted in 2012.
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- -
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- 9780776621265
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- -
- Series Title
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- Call Number
- 796.069 ULT S
Himalayan dreaming : Australian mountaineering in the great ranges of Asia, 1…
How did climbers from the world’s flattest, hottest continent become world-class Himalayan mountaineers, the equal of any elite mountaineer from countries with long climbing traditions and home ranges that make Australia’s highest summit look like a suburban hill? This book tells the story of Australian mountaineering in the great ranges of Asia, from the exploits of a brash, young colonial…
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- -
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- 9781921666162
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- 593 hlm
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- -
- Call Number
- 796.522095496
Queer-feminist punk : an anti-social history
This history makes use of anti-social theory to take a broad and multifaceted look at queer-feminist punk—from its origins in the 1980s to its contemporary influences on the Occupy movement and Pussy Riot activism. Auf der Grundlage anti-sozialer Theorien stellt diese Studie eine umfassende und vielschichtige Analyse von queer-feministischem Punk an – von seinen Anfängen in den 1980er-…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783902902276
- Collation
- 432p
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- -
- Call Number
- 780 WEI
Musical Gentrification : Popular Music, Distincion and Social Mobility
Musical Gentrification is an exploration of the role of popular music in processes of socio-cultural inclusion and exclusion in a variety of contexts. Twelve chapters by international scholars reveal how cultural objects of relatively lower status, in this case popular musics, are made objects of acquisition by subjects or institutions of higher social status, thereby playing an important role …
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- -
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- 9780429325076
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- x, 185p
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- -
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- 780 MUS m
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