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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
Playframes: how do we know we are playing?
An exploration of how we know we're playing and what happens when we don't. Playframes builds on the work of Gregory Bateson and Erving Goffman to take a deep dive into Bateson's primary question: How do we know we're playing? In this book, Celia Pearce addresses this question by building a comprehensive theory of the specific mechanisms that metacommunicate the message “this is play.” T…
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- 9780262381239
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- xiii, 324 p.,
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- -
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- 155.418 CEL p
Early modern German Shakespeare : and, The taming of the shrew : Tito Androni…
This open access book provides translations of early German versions of Titus Andronicus and The Taming of the Shrew. The introductory material situates these plays in their German context and discusses the insights they offer into the original English texts. English itinerant players toured in northern Continental Europe from the 1580s. Their repertories initially consisted of plays from the L…
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- 4
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- 9781350094765
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- xvi, 472p.
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- -
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- 822.33 EAR s
The altering eye : contemporary international cinema
The Altering Eye covers a "golden age" of international cinema from the end of WWII through to the New German Cinema of the 1970s. Combining historical, political, and textual analysis, Kolker develops a pattern of cinematic invention and experimentation from neorealism through the modernist interventions of Jean-Luc Godard and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, focusing along the way on such major figu…
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- ed.1
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- 9781906924058
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- xvii, 326p.: black and white, ill.
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- -
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- 791.4309046 THE k
Cultures and traditions of wordplay and wordplay research
This volume focuses on realisations of wordplay in different cultures and social and historical contexts, and brings together various research traditions of approaching wordplay. Together with the volume DWP 7, it assembles selected papers presented at the interdisciplinary conference The Dynamics of Wordplay / La dynamique du jeu de mots (Trier, 2016) and stresses the inherent dynamicity of wo…
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- 9783110586374
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- VI, 294 p.
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- The Dynamics of Wordplay, 6
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- 401.41 CUL c
Users' needs report on play for children with disabilities : parents' and chi…
The needs of children and parents about play when the child has a disability are explored by mean on surveys to disability associations and families were collected during 2016 in 30 countries by members of the EU COST LUDI network Play for children with disability.The users' needs concerning play for children with disabilities are also explored by mean of case studies at a country level, based …
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- 9783110537482
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- VIII, 128 p.
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- -
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- 370 ALL u
Barriers to play and recreation for children and young people with disabiliti…
This report reviews international research into the barriers to play for children with disabilities. The authors come from different disciplinary backgrounds, in Sociology, Social Policy, Anthropology, Occupational Health and Education and bring different concerns to this review. They are united, however, in their adoption of a rights-based perspective. The UNCRC and UNCRPD emphasise the right …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783110526042
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- 50 p.
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- -
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- 305.231087 BAR b
Young children’s play practices with digital tablets : playful literacy
This book focuses on how young children play and have fun while indulging in digital worlds, discovering and problem-solving with a variety of narratives and interfaces encountered on these digital playgrounds. These playful encounters are richer experiences than one might expect. Through engaging with digital interfaces, children expand their visual and verbal vocabulary, plus develop an embod…
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- 9781787567061
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- XIX, 133 p.
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- -
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- 004.083 FRO y
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