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Cultural perspectives on aging : a different approach to old age and aging
The societal significance of old age and ageing are increasing due to demographic developments. Age(ing) is not only a biological and social fact, but also a cultural one. This book reveals the importance of cultural factors in order to build a framework for analyzing and understanding cultural constructions of ageing, bringing together scholarly discourses from the arts and humanities as well …
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- 3
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- 9783110683042
- Collation
- 172 p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 900 HUL c
Touch in the time of corona : Reflections on love, care, and vulnerability in…
The COVID-19 pandemic has hooked us all into digital networks as our access to cities, work and social gatherings is restricted and reconfigured. Weaving together cultural history, aesthetics, and urban and digital studies, this short volume reflects on how the possibilities for touch, touching and being touched, both physically and affectively, are reconfigured by the pandemic.
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- -
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- 9783110744767
- Collation
- 131 p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 362.1962414 STE t
Scale : discourse and dimensions of social life
"Wherever we turn, we see diverse things scaled for us, from cities to economies, from history to love. We know scale by many names and through many familiar antinomies: local and global, micro and macro events. Even the most critical among us often proceed with our analysis as if such scales were the ready-made platforms of social life, rather than asking how, why, and to what effect are scala…
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- 15
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780520965430
- Collation
- xi, 277 p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 300.72 LEM s
From darkness to light: writers in museums 1798-1898
Written by an array of international experts, these collected essays gather perspectives from a diverse range of cultural sensibilities. From sensitive discussions of Tintoretto’s unique approach to the play of light and darkness as exhibited in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice, to the development of museum lighting as part of Japanese artistic self-fashioning, via the story of an epi…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781783745517
- Collation
- xviii, 371 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- -
- Call Number
- 729.28 FRO f
A people passing rude: British responses to Russian culture
Described by the sixteenth-century English poet George Turbervile as "a people passing rude, to vices vile inclin’d", the Russians waited some three centuries before their subsequent cultural achievements—in music, art and particularly literature—achieved widespread recognition in Britain. The essays in this stimulating collection attest to the scope and variety of Russia’s influence…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781909254121
- Collation
- xvi, 331 p.: illustrations
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- -
- Call Number
- 947.084 CRO a
Dangerous science: science policy and risk analysis for scientists and enggin…
The public is generally enthusiastic about the latest science and technology, but sometimes research threatens the physical safety or ethical norms of society. When this happens, scientists and engineers can find themselves unprepared in the midst of an intense science policy debate. In the absence of convincing evidence, technological optimists and skeptics struggle to build consensus. In thes…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781911529897
- Collation
- xiii, 151p.: ill.
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- 501.51 ROZ d
Music technology in education: channeling and challenging perspectives
This anthology presents research projects that examine the intersection between music, technology and education from a variety of perspectives. The contributors are from a range of educational programs within traditional pre-, primary and lower secondary school education, as well as music performance and technology educational programs. Data for the studies stems from primary and lower secondar…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9788202652258
- Collation
- 285p.: ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 780.7 MUS m
Being a presence for students : teaching as a lived defense of liberal education
This book offers a lived defense of liberal education. How does a college professor, on a daily basis, help students feel the value of liberal education and get the most from that education? We answer this question, as professors, each day in the classroom. John William Miller, a philosophy professor at Williams College from 1924-1960 and someone noted for his exceptional teaching, developed on…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781643150086
- Collation
- VIII, 135 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 370.112 FRA b
Distributed energy resources management 2018
The Special Issue Distributed Energy Resources Management 2018 includes 13 papers, and is a continuation of the Special Issue Distributed Energy Resources Management. The success of the previous edition shows the unquestionable relevance of distributed energy resources in the operation of power and energy systems at both the distribution level and at the wider power system level. Improving the …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783039281701
- Collation
- 286 p.; 22 cm.
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- -
- Call Number
- 624 DIS d
Museums in a Digital Culture
The experience of engaging with art and history has been utterly transformed by information and communications technology in recent decades. We now have virtual, mediated access to countless heritage collections and assemblages of artworks, which we intuitively browse and navigate in a way that wasn't possible until very recently. This collection of essays takes up the question of the cultural …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789089646613
- Collation
- 143p.: ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 069.0285 VAN m
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