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Book SynopsisThis book analyzes and provokes thoughtful discussion about the ways in which the collapse of the American economy in 1929 and 1930 contributed to the onset of a global depression that caused widespread suffering, political instability, and grassroots organizing.In the United States, the decade-long Great Depression called into question the viability of capitalism and strained democratic institutions as tens of millions of Americans sank into an abyss of poverty. On top of this catastrophe was a severe drought that turned much of the American Southwest and Midwest into a barren Dust Bowl. Throughout this trying decade, Americans sought to define themselves across regions and as citizens while engaging in debates over the meaning of democracy, the efficacy of capitalism, and the relationship of these two systems to one another. This volume tells the stories of the ordinary and extraordinary people who engaged in those debates. It explains the causes and consequences of the Great Depression, with attention to the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt and emergence of a New Deal; social and cultural movements on the left and the right; and foreign affairs. Exploring the circulation of transformative policies, ideas, and forces that continue to reverberate in the present day, this tightly presented narrative will be of interest to students of American history, and particularly to undergraduate readers desiring a concise and engaging overview of the decade.
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Book SynopsisThis volume charts the history of transnational and transatlantic fascism in East Central and Southeastern Europe, a lesser-known phenomenon that occurred throughout the twentieth century into the present.Organizations and individuals in this part of the continent, under the influences of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, conceptualized their own forms of fascism in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Due to the heterogenous nature of East Central Europe, fascism took various forms in the territories that prior to 1918 had belonged to the Habsburg, German, Russian, and Ottoman Empires. As a result, East Central Europe became a mosaic of fascist parties, organizations, and movements. During World War II, East Central and Southeastern European fascisms substantially contributed to collaboration with the Nazis and the genocide of the Jews. During the Cold War, East Central and Southeastern European fascists underwent multifaced aesthetic and ideological transformations in the Soviet Union and its satellites as well as in exile in the West. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the legacy of fascism re-emerged in the region, informing parts of the ideologies of various neo-fascist, radical nationalist, antisemitic, and national conservative parties and movements, as well as motivating communal politicians to erect monuments to fascists, war criminals, and antisemites.With comprehensive coverage through a range of essays, this book is a helpful resource to scholars in European history, political history, and the study of fascism.
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Book SynopsisAs the first volume of a two-volume set that studies the ancient Chinese academy from a socio-cultural perspective, this title explores the history of the academy and its relationship with the development of Confucianism in the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties. Inaugurated in the Tang dynasty and eventually abolished in the late Qing dynasty, the academy, as a unique cultural and educational organization in Chinese history, exerted extensive and profound influences on ancient Chinese culture, politics, and social life. The book first revisits the inception and development of the academy by anaylzing the socio-cultural context and different driving forces including social mentality, print culture, education systems, and so on. It then examines the reciprocity and thriving relationships between the academy and Neo-Confucianism in the Song and Yuan dynasties and Yangming School of Mind in the Ming dynasty.The title will be a useful reference for scholars, students, and gene
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Book SynopsisPlanning With Young People presents educators, urban planners, and designers with an alternative vision of how to build cities for young people, challenging readers to imagine cities that truly serve their youngest inhabitants. This book argues that great cities can only emerge when they are good for all members, especially young people under 25, who are often marginalized in urban design. The first half of the book explores the competing, sometimes conflicting, and often incomplete visions and agendas of the city that have historically failed to include or prioritize young people. The final chapters highlight structures, systems, policy frameworks, and practices from the fields of education and planning that can be employed to plan for and with young people. Written in an accessible style, Planning With Young People is a valuable interdisciplinary resource for planning students, urban planners, or educators seeking a vision for inclusive planning practices, and civic leaders committed to building more equitable urban spaces.
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Book SynopsisIn this comprehensive book, Rakefet Efrat Holzer explores the concept of the negative from psychoanalytic, linguistic and philosophical perspectives.Efrat Holzer provides a thorough exploration of how negation operates in psychoanalysis and beyond through a systematic examination of its philosophical origins with Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel through Sigmund Freud's foundational insights to Andrà Green's theoretical framework. The book illuminates both destructive and creative dimensions of the negative, exploring concepts such as negative capability, transitional objects and negative hallucination. By weaving together philosophy, psychoanalysis, linguistics, poetry and literature, Efrat Holzer delivers theoretical insights alongside clinical applications, demonstrating how the negative can shape human development, thought processes and therapeutic practice.This book is essential reading for psychoanalysts, practitioners and trainees in psychiatry, psychotherapy and social work as well as students and researchers interested in psychoanalytic theory.
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Book SynopsisAs the second volume of a two-volume set that studies the ancient Chinese academy from a socio-cultural perspective, this title investigates the multifaceted roles and political and cultural significance of the academy.Inaugurated in the Tang dynasty and eventually abolished in the late Qing dynasty, the academy, as a unique cultural and educational organization in the Chinese history, exerted extensive and profound influence on the ancient Chinese culture, politics, and social life. This title first discusses the state control of the academy and how it functions in social governance, then examines the sacrificial ritual of the academy and its influence on education, enculturation, Confucian orthodoxy, and intellectual ethos, and finally elaborates on the academy''s role in enriching the regional cultures in terms of local cultural undertakings and talent cultivation.The title will be a useful reference for scholars, students, and general readers interes
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Book SynopsisExploring Reproduction: Anthropological Perspectives introduces students to the dynamic field of the anthropology of reproduction, examining how human reproduction is shaped by cultural, historical, and political forces.This textbook engages with key issues such as fertility, infertility, assisted reproductive technologies, childbirth, contraception, reproductive governance, genetics, and justice. Drawing on foundational anthropological conceptsâlike personhood, stratified reproduction, and biopoliticsâit introduces students to the various ways in which reproduction intersects with gender, sexuality, kinship, and social institutions. Through case studies and theoretical insights, the book showcases the relevance of anthropological approaches to understanding reproductive health, rights, and policy across diverse contexts.Exploring Reproduction: Anthropological Perspectives is ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in anthropology, sociology, public health, allied medicine, biology, and related fields exploring reproduction, identity, and power.
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Book SynopsisThis book asks what it means to decolonize museums in theory and practice. It explores recent calls by activists and artists for social change in and through museums, and how museums have responded to these calls and interventions.The point of departure for this volume are the burgeoning global debates around racism that have compelled many museums and public institutions to confront their complicity in colonialism, both past and present. Building on interviews with curators, cultural practitioners, artists and activists, as well as the authors' ongoing involvement with movements aimed at decolonising museums, this volume explores how anti-racist activism and artivism have transformed museums, as well as the broader social and political significance of these transformations. The book focuses on the practices, approaches, and strategies that are being adopted in efforts to decolonize museums and cultural institutions; where they succeed and fail; and the similarities and differences between these initiatives. It discusses specific exhibitions and whether they represent colonialism as past phenomenon or as enduring racial logics forcefully shaping the present. It analyzes both mainstream European museums as well as grassroots, museum-like initiatives that aim to reckon with colonialism and race in different contexts. Core to the argument is the issue of how memory, heritage and museum studies, the disciplines that explore, explain and staff museums, have engaged or not with race.Decolonizing the Museum will be valuable for those studying or researching in the fields of Museum Studies, Heritage, Memory and Art Studies, Decolonial theory, Postcolonialism, Race and Racism, and Cultural Politics. Providing an important window into the political role of curators, the politics of race in transforming museums, it will also be beneficial to museum practitioners as well as activists and artists with a stake in these institutions.
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Book SynopsisAn Introduction to Embodied Mind: Thinking Outside the Head offers readers a valuable gateway to understanding one of the most exciting ideas in philosophy and cognitive science: that minds are not confined to the brain but extend into the body and environment. Written in a clear, engaging style, the book guides readers through competing views of embodiment and shows how they matter for everyday life.The book is divided into three parts. Part One begins with familiar ideas about mindâbody separation and gradually leads readers toward embodied perspectives, distinguishing between âœweakâ and âœstrongâ versions of embodiment. Part Two develops two influential approaches to embodied cognition and highlights their strengths as well as their challenges. Part Three explores how these theories make a difference in practice, with applications to free will, ethics, technology, and cultural life.Each chapter includes accessible overviews, exercises in âœOttoâs Workbookâ that encourage active reflection, and âœSidequestsâ and âœThe More You Knowâ boxes that invite readers to dig deeper. Examples are drawn from popular culture, psychology, and everyday experience, making the material approachable for students and general readers alike.With its blend of rigorous philosophy, practical exercises, and lively examplesâas well as a helpful glossaryâAn Introduction to Embodied Mind: Thinking Outside the Head provides an engaging exploration of embodiment for anyone curious about how minds really work.
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Book SynopsisThis text is the first of its kind and provides counselor educators and supervisors, who teach university level practicum and internship courses in counselor preparation programs, with a comprehensive exploration and in-depth understanding of all the facets that govern and influence university supervision courses.Readers will learn how supervision theory infuses into group settings, along with a thorough understanding of how group dynamics impact the group supervision experience for fieldwork students. Topics covered include legal and ethical issues that university supervisors, site supervisors, and interns encounter and need to competent in addressing. Culturally responsive supervision is covered to prepare the university supervisor to employ cultural capacity when working with students and supervisors. Procedures and practices for assessment and evaluation of students holistically, as well as suggested best practices for designing and coordinating fieldwork experiences for students in diverse counseling identity areas are covered.Counselor educators and supervisors will find this book offers a comprehensive foundation for coordinating and teaching university supervision experiences and courses.
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Book SynopsisThis book uses a multidisciplinary approach to explore the links between ethnicity, inequality, and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa.The book shows how ethnic identity influences all aspects of life in African societies, defining access to political institutions and economic resources, resulting in horizontal or structural inequalities. It demonstrates that ethnicity operates both directly and indirectly through political and economic institutions in which the dynamics of ethnic engagement serve as a basis for resource allocation. Drawing on a blend of micro and macro perspectives, the book assesses the economic, cultural, legal, and sociological connections among ethnicity, inequality, and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Chapters provide a critical framework that grounds ethnic fragmentation as a central agency of underdevelopment and principally focus on three key areas:â The origins and dynamics of ethnicity in Sub-Saharan Africaâ Socio-economic inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa and its link to ethnic identityâ The relationship between governance networks and ethnic identityA distinctive contribution to development literature, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Economics, Development Studies, Geography, Anthropology, Political Science, Sociology, and African Studies.
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Book SynopsisThis book provides a shortform definitive reference text on death and funeral practices in Norway as of the 2020s.The volume begins with a short introduction and historical overview, followed by a description of the demographics and legal framework, before featuring a range of chapters on governance and the funeral industry. Both religious and non-religious funeral practices are examined, and the three major funeral practices in Norwayâfunerals conducted by the Church of Norway, humanist funerals organised by The Norwegian Humanist Association, and open-faith funeralsâare described. The chapters cover a broad range of topics including typical funerals and cost breakdowns, the cemetery, various grave types including coffins, urns, named memorial gardens and columbaria, and the practice of re-using graves. In addition, a chapter devoted to cremation, the rise in its use and current cremation technologies also examines the practice of ash scattering which has been legal in Norway since 1997. The masonry industry and public memorials are also discussed in a chapter on commemoration, and the last chapter, on funerary heritage, focuses on war cemeteries and epidemic cemeteries.This comprehensive volume will be valuable reading for scholars and reflective practitioners interested in death studies and the funeral industry, with particular interest in insights from Norway and their potential for informing wider research and practice.
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Book SynopsisDoing Gender in Media, Art, and Culture provides a critical introduction to recent developments in cultural gender studies. Focusing primarily on the fields of art, culture, and media, it encompasses literary, historical, film, performance, and indigenous studies, as well as the digital humanities.Gender studies currently find themselves at the heart of a deeply troubling socio-political landscape. The eighteen chapters in this volume aim to provide knowledge on how to understand the current backlash against feminism and how to navigate the increasingly polarised debates surrounding systemic racism and sexism, anti-trans violence, and non-binary gender identifications. It teaches its readers how to address epistemic inequalities in knowledge production and how to make sense of the role of gender in thinking about racism, climate change, and armed conflict. Analysing the mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion is a core task of feminist scholarship and, consequently, motivates the intersectional and gender-sensitive research methods that are brought to the fore in this book.This vibrant and wide-ranging collection of essays is essential reading for anyone seeking an accessible yet sophisticated guide to the foundational issues, concepts and debates within gender studies.
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Book SynopsisThis book presents a comprehensive guide for Early childhood practitioners and students to integrated working in the early childhood sector. It explores the significant role that integrated working plays in supporting young children to realise their potential, and the value of this way of working for professionals.Outlining the current context and practice reforms which guide Early Childhood providers, the book considers how professionals working across early childhood services can work together more effectively to provide an inclusive environment that supports children and their families. Including a wide range of examples to illustrate good practice the chapters cover:â An introduction to the different professions and roles involved in supporting children and familiesâ Supporting families and safeguarding childrenâ Inclusion and integrated workingâ Tackling poverty and social exclusionâ Giving children a voiceâ Education and policy context for integrated workingâ Working with care experienced childrenâ Leadership, management and collaborationThrough case studies, reflective activities, and practitioner accounts, this book explains what can be done to maximize the potential of integrated working. It is an essential text for students on Early Years Foundation Degrees and Early Childhood Studies, as well as early years professionals wishing to explore the potential for integrated working to support children and families in Early Childhood.
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Book SynopsisThis book provides a âhow toâ guide to studying eleventh-century Norman charters, to enable readers to develop a confident command of this material, inviting them to explore the possibilities these documents have for their historical studies.The first part introduces these documents and how they developed, including the different types of charters. It describes the sub-disciplines used to examine and analyse charters, how these specialties have developed, with modern technology transforming the level of knowledge that can be gained. The second part takes readers through two case studies showing how charter information can be used to study society from local community level and regional level spatial perspectives. The case studies are designed to demonstrate how charters can be analysed to show the interconnectedness of people and places, from the elite to the local dimension of everyday small community life, bringing to light multi-layered connections, networks and unexpected associations to make sense of the past.Approaching Norman Charters stands as an essential reference point for students and scholars of medieval Norman history, particularly those working with original charter material/archival sources from this period for the first time.
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Book SynopsisHow do you bring a centuries-old theatrical tradition to life for contemporary students who may have never seen or heard of it before? Combining comprehensive written guidance with accompanying video demonstrations, this essential resource provides teachers and practitioners with everything needed to make Commedia dell'Arte accessible, engaging, and relevant in today's classrooms and performance spaces.Beginning with essential historical context, the book moves swiftly to practical application through step-by-step instructions for character embodiment, safe stage combat, multilingual performance techniques, and structured improvisation. Video content supports every element, showing real classroom applications that demonstrate successful translation from page to stage. The book's innovative three-dimensional approach (3-DA) framework, authenticity to genre, time, and place, guides educators in creating original scenarios that resonate with modern audiences whilst maintaining the archetypal integrity that defines this dynamic theatrical form. From detailed canovaccio development to cutting-edge digital integration possibilities, readers discover how to transform traditional techniques into contemporary practice that speaks directly to today's students. Rather than demanding historical recreation, this approach liberates teachers to embrace Commedia dell'Arte's adaptive spirit. Practical strategies throughout demonstrate how to honour essential characteristics while ensuring cultural responsiveness and contemporary relevance.Whether introducing archetypes to reluctant learners or developing full productions with experienced performers, this resource provides the confidence and concrete tools needed to make Commedia dell'Arte alive and thriving for contemporary and future practice.
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Book SynopsisThis book presents salient examples of architectural projects and practices in South Africa since 1994 that collectively subscribe to the paradigm shift towards Public Interest Design. Despite radical political transformation in the country, the people of South Africa remain adversely affected by the socio-spatial legacies of a segregated urban landscape. The contributions by architects to address these challenges go largely unnoticed and remain a marginalised practice, even within the mainstream profession.Kimâs (2018) Conceptual Taxonomy, along with relevant themes of Spatial Agency (Awan et al 2011) are unpacked in terms of the South African context, learning from a selection of local architectural examples. Projects include the Warwick Markets in eThekwini, the Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrade programme in Cape Town, projects undertaken by Carin Smuts of CS Studios, as well as a collection of smaller but impactful interventions across the country. The selection illustrates the deliberate and necessary shift from a culture of segregation, fortification and private interest, to one of intense collaboration, democratic engagement and responsive design thinking.Serving as a microcosm of the challenges to integration and democracy faced by society globally, this book will be of great interest not only to scholars and students of architecture, urban planning, and development studies in South Africa, but also internationally.
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Book SynopsisIntroducing and engaging with womanist frameworks to center the lives of Global South women who live under colonial oppressions, this collection centers the consciousness, spirituality, philosophy, wisdom, community institutions, and ecologies found in a variety of Global South regions and diasporas.Diasporic Womanist Sociology offers a decolonial approach to critical research, interpretive frameworks, pedagogy, mentorship, activism, and building academia-community collectives of solidarity, presenting womanism as a practical framework for personal and professional development for sociologists and scholars in other fields. With contributors from South Asia, Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, and North America, this book draws on tenets of womanism to shape their practice and engagement with students, scholars, and activists, especially those of the Global South and its diasporas.This volume makes critical contributions to fields ranging from Gender and Women Studies, Race and Ethnic Studies, and Decolonial and Postcolonial Theory, and can be assigned to undergraduate and graduate students to explore the foundational work of Black Feminism and gender non-conforming people of color and an inclusive framework of identity, spirituality, and pursuit of social justice.
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Book SynopsisDesigners seek moments of creative bliss when everything aligns, stress dissolves, and decisions flow effortlessly. These âin the zoneâ experiences keep creatives inspired. This book uncovers the dynamic nature of the design process, shedding light on the various modes of thinking that shape creative work.The design process is often taught through a linear framework: define the problem, do the research, generate ideas, prototype, test, and refine. This structure offers a shared language across disciplinesâfrom architecture to fashion designâproviding a roadmap for clarity and progress. However, as any practicing designer knows, the real process is far more fluid. With time and experience, designers learn to embrace the nonlinear nature of their work. Iteration becomes second nature, and space is made for unexpected, creative leapsâspontaneous breakthroughs where new connections emerge. These moments arise from the intersection of conscious and unconscious thought, resulting in surprising and powerful ideas. Within this intersection, the âbeautiful messâ of the designerâs natural state emerges. This mess isnât disorderâitâs the dynamic interplay between structured methods and spontaneous inspiration, revealing the fascinating tangle of creative thinking.This book celebrates that vibrant, messy process. Through rich photography of everyday studios and thoughtful conversations with artists, designers, and makers from across disciplines, it offers an intimate glimpse into how ideas are formed and refined. Whether you're a student, an emerging creative, or an experienced practitioner, this book invites you to recognizeâand embraceâthe unique nature of your own design journey, and find inspiration in the glorious chaos of making.
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Book SynopsisIn this fascinating and innovative book, Rina Dudai looks at Holocaust trauma through the lens of poetic testimony: the act of writing poetry and prose to both relay and process traumatic events.Dudai begins with a study of both factual testimony and the act of bearing witness in the aftermath of trauma. She uses these as the foundations for her exploration of poetic testimony, and the benefits the creator will find over and above other forms of testimony. Showing how this method avoids the additional trauma often brought about by making survivors directly address their experience, Dudai offers a new toolkit to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists working with patients experiencing trauma. Through an analysis of the works of three writers who survived the Holocaust - Primo Levi, Ka-Tzetnik, and Aharon Appelfeld - Dudai establishes a conceptual framework for discussing this mode of testimony and the poetic language through which it speaks. By comparing the work of these writers, Dudai identifies the distinct qualities of this form of poetic language while establishing a foundation for discourse of other literary works that deal with trauma.Through close textual analysis and the incorporation of therapeutic concepts like âacting outâ and âworking throughâ, Psychoanalysis, Poetic Testimony and the Trauma of the Holocaust is an invaluable resource to psychoanalysts and other mental health professionals working with trauma patients, as well as students and scholars of literature and 20th century history.
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Book SynopsisWhat can sport do to produce positive social change in our world today? Now in a fully revised, updated and expanded fourth edition, this critical, challenging and comprehensive textbook introduces the study of sport, culture and society. International in scope, the book challenges the reader to activate an audacious spirit of activism in and through sport. Full of contemporary examples, it places sport at the heart of the analysis and introduces the reader to every core topic and emerging area in the study of sport and society, including the history and politics of sport, gender, disability and advocacy, race and racism, violence and crime, health and wellbeing, media and digital communication, the environment, religion, poverty, and sport for development and peace. This edition features new material on sportswashing, sports management, debates around the inclusion/exclusion of transgender people in sport, and the Black Lives Matter movement. It also features a wider geographical range of examples and case studies, including from Latin America, China, India and Africa. Each chapter offers a wealth of useful features, such as âSport in Focusâ case studies, chapter summaries, guides to further reading, revision questions, practical projects, definitions of key concepts, and weblinks. At its heart Sport, Culture and Society is an invitation to make a difference. This is a broad-ranging, in-depth and thoughtful introduction to the sociocultural analysis of sport and sets a new agenda for the discipline. It is essential reading for all students with an interest in sport. Additional, updated online teaching and learning resources are available, including a testbank, resource list and glossary.
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Book SynopsisMigration is a politically sensitive topic and an important aspect of contentious debates about social and cultural diversity, economic stability, terrorism, globalization, and nationalism. Global Migration: The Basics, Second Edition provides an accessible and balanced introduction to this important area of study, presenting a detailed examination of current scholarship, demographic patterns, and public policy debates to discuss:â the history and geography of global migrationâ the role of migrants in societyâ the impact of migrants on the economy and the political systemâ the policy challenges that need to be addressed in a rapidly changing and increasingly conflictual worldWith a series of engaging case studies, a glossary of key terminology and suggestions for further reading, Global Migration: The Basics, Second Edition exposes readers to the underlying causes and consequences of migration. Fully revised and updated, this second edition is an essential read for students and scholars alike wishing to look beyond the rhetoric and consider the facts about migration.
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Book SynopsisFoundations of Counseling Psychology is the first textbook written and designed for undergraduate students, offering a comprehensive introduction to the field of counseling psychology in a reader-friendly, practical, and dynamic tone.With the goal of sparking excitement about the wide range of work that counseling psychologists do, each chapter highlights at least one counseling psychologist and describes their work and setting. Each chapter also lays out self-reflection prompts for students to consider and offers what would you do? questions that focus on compelling ethical issues and other dilemmas.This textbook is essential to undergraduate students aspiring to be counseling psychologists. It will be useful to educators, students, and scholars specializing in counseling psychology worldwide.
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Book SynopsisA Practical Guide to Teaching Music in the Primary School is an inspiring guide to delivering high-quality music education in the classroom and across the whole school. Packed full of actionable guidance and insights, the book showcases straightforward and creative approaches to engaging children during lessons and developing their passion for music education.This book explores how music can be taught both as a discrete subject and as part of a cross-curricular approach, engaging children in their learning through simple yet creative ideas. Each chapter demonstrates the different ways music lessons can incorporate singing, composing, listening, and movement, offering a variety of strategies and examples designed to inspire pupils. It empowers teachers to make informed decisions about how to teach music, regardless of their prior experience, by building on their own skills, knowledge, and understanding. Basic music theory is explained in an accessible way to enhance subject knowledge, while a straightforward guide to reading standard notation boosts confidence in supporting pupil learning and progression across all abilities.This book is an invaluable resource for educators of all experience levels who wish to enhance the joy of teaching and learning music in primary schools.
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Book SynopsisIslamic Thought is a comprehensive introduction to the philosophies, thought and doctrines of Islam. Abdullah Saeed, a distinguished Muslim scholar, traces the development of religious knowledge from the pre-modern period to the present day. This book examines how Muslim thought has evolved, exploring the production, transmission, and interpretation of religious knowledge, and the trends, schools, and movements that have shaped it. Key topics in Islamic culture and thought are discussed, including the development of the Islamic intellectual tradition, the Qurâan and hadith, legal and theological thought, mystical traditions, Islamic art, philosophy, political thought, and contemporary renewal, reform, and rethinking.This thoroughly revised new edition offers expanded coverage of ShiÊi and other non-Sunni perspectives, alongside the significant emphasis on the Sunni tradition covered in the first edition. Through this rich and varied discussion, Saeed offers a compelling portrayal of the workings of Islamic thought, both in the past and in the present. Islamic Thought is essential reading for students approaching the study of Islam for the first time and anyone interested in learning more about one of the worldâs great religions.
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Book SynopsisThis book explains how property valuation is undertaken for the purposes of taxing land and determining compensation for compulsory acquisition in Australia, known as statutory valuation, together with how property valuation is undertaken for financial reporting purposes, or regulatory valuation. Through an analysis of relevant concepts of value, statutes, standards and valuation methods, this book provides the framework within which statutory valuation is undertaken, being an easy guide to follow to the complex and often arcane world of statutory valuation and the globally applicable requirements of regulatory valuation.For statutory valuation for taxation purposes, the role of mass appraisal valuation approaches for land valuation is considered together with the future role of automated valuation models, and the impact of climate change (through increased incidence of bushfires and floods) and systemic shocks such as the COVID19 pandemic. For statutory valuation for compulsory acquisition compensation purposes, key concepts are considered, with a detailed review of compensation for market value, special value, severance, injurious affection and betterment/worsement. Complex and detailed legislation and case law for the payment of disturbance compensation and indigenous cultural loss compensation are reviewed and applied together with consideration of compensation for non-freehold interests such as leaseholds, easements, strata and substratum.For regulatory valuation purposes, the interrelated roles of international accounting standards and international valuation standards together with international financial reporting standards are considered, together with an outline of the relevant valuation methods for the assessment of fair value for financial reporting purposes.An essential textbook for students undertaking property valuation courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, this book is also a useful reference for practitioners in banking, accounting, law and other professions dealing with property taxation, compulsory acquisition and financial reporting.
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Book SynopsisThis Handbook presents a definitive, state-of-the-art overview of the leading research and scholarship on teachersâ beliefs and their influence on studentsâ learning and classroom environments. Given the education sectorâs amplified sociocultural charge, teachersâ beliefs are likely to influence more than just the delivery and assessment of subject areas. Teachersâ beliefs affect their instruction and context of schooling and thus are deserving of further study. This comprehensive volume addresses current research and theory from global perspectives, including new and promising focus areas for scholars and faculty of educational psychology, school psychology, teacher education, education measurement, school counseling, and beyond. It provides both novices and experts alike a foundational understanding of key conceptual frameworks and methodologies for studying teachersâ beliefs, as well as reviews of the literature on teachersâ beliefs about students, subject matter, instruction, assessment, motivation, and learning. This substantively revised second edition retains and deepens the first editionâs attention to theoretical and empirical foundations and pedagogical and domain-oriented beliefs while expanding into individual differences and student identity.Its numerous applications for education make this handbook an invaluable companion for researchers in education and psychology, with a special focus on K-12 schooling.
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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1966, Latin Historians gives an account of some of the most important Latin historians. There are chapters on Caesar, Sallust, Livy and Ammianus Marcellinus, together with an account of earlier historians, and on Polybius, the Greek who had much influence on the Roman World. Bede, the earliest of the great Christian historians in England, is also discussed. This book will be of interest to students of history, literature and classical studies.
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Book SynopsisAfrican Oral Literature: An Introduction guides us from the very beginnings of African oral traditions, through the whole range of theories and contexts, and right up to the modern technological age.This comprehensive and engaging textbook covers the key concepts and methodologies behind the history, formation, delivery, and performance of oral literature. Folktales, proverbs, rhetoric, jokes, poetry, and theatre are explored in turn, before looking at compositional techniques, artistry, education, characterisation, and cosmology. The final part of the book investigates the interplay between oral traditions and technology such as social media in the twenty-first century. Drawing on traditional African pedagogy, the book weaves in African metaphors, rhetorical styles and performance modes, aiming for readers to imbibe African orality rhetoric page by page.With key questions, exercises and further reading helping to guide readers at the end of each chapter, this book is the perfect introduction to the study of African oral literature.
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Book SynopsisIn a concrete classroom, two hands meet in a welcome handshake. One belongs to a professor who has never seen the inside of a cell, the other to a graffiti artist whose decade behind bars taught him to read power like fault lines in stone. Eleven years later, that handshake has transformed into Critical Prison Theory and Literature: Palimpsest.The authors put themselves, stories, and theory about prison in conversation, following five metaphors through mass incarceration: retribution as code, isolation as cell, trauma as wound, creativity as graffiti tag, restorative justice as kitchen table. Pairing texts across centuriesâMoby Dick with Batman comics, Hamlet with The House on Mango Streetâthis book represents their part of that larger conversation.
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Book SynopsisGlobal Gender Politics analyzes the gender(ed) divisions of power, violence, labor, and resources that contribute to the global crises of representation, insecurity, and sustainability.This new edition of a foundational contribution to the field of Feminist International Relations, co-authored with a new generation of feminist global politics scholars, continues to examine long-standing and new challenges for placing inequalities and resisting injustices at the center of global politics scholarship and practice through intersectional and transnational feminist lenses that challenge the power of gender. Accessible and student friendly, the book emphasizes how hard-won attention to reducing gender and other inequalities to stem global crises is now jeopardized by the consolidation of new and old anti-equality authoritarianisms, arising from the deprivations of neoliberal capitalism undermining human and planetary welfare, and creating conditions and desires for reassertions of patriarchal rule and relations. In the context of this shift in world order and the centrality of gender to that shift, analyses of gendered global governance, global security, and global political economy are updated and expanded, finding that gender equality norms are being rolled back, gendered insecurities are being heightened by increased war and militarization (including the rise of cyberviolence), and gendered injustices, laid bare by the COVID pandemic, are growing with the rise of oligarchic corporate power, the increased informalization of labor and extraction of resources, and the further breakdowns in social reproduction and denials of reproductive justice. But the book also finds promise in ongoing feminist struggles for democracy and social justice, providing new case studies of transnational and translocal feminist organizing for democratization, nonviolence, and sustainable human and planetary life.To provide support to instructors and readers, this edition includes new questions for discussion, suggested readings, and illustrative boxes, and an accompanying e-resource containing web resources, sample quizzes, and a recorded conversation among the co-authors.Global Gender Politics will be of great use to students of Politics, International Relations, Gender Studies, and those working on Global Governance, Security, Political Economy, and Justice. It will also be of interest to scholars who have followed the previous editions.
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Book SynopsisThe third edition of the Handbook of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) for Educators addresses the concept and implementation of technological pedagogical content knowledge. One of the most highly cited and widely recognized frameworks in educational technology, the TPACK construct provides teachers with the knowledge and skills they need to meaningfully integrate technology into teaching in specific content areas. This thorough, substantive revision explores the emerging theoretical developments, empirical efforts, digital technologies, and diverse contextual factors that impact TPACKâs evolution and enactment around the world. Critical perspectives on TPACK, research on its deployment across specific content areas, and integration into teacher education and professional development frame a variety of new and updated chapters covering research methods, contextual knowledge, artificial intelligence, and more. The Handbook of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) for Educators is simultaneously a mandate and a manifesto on engagement with technology in todayâs classrooms.
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Book SynopsisThe Political Economy of Alternative Media provides in-depth insights into media practices used by grassroots projects to organize, produce, and distribute the media that supports and reports on social movements.The book is based on five years of participatory research with intersectional media activist projects. Mapping out the rich and varied textures of the political economy of media activist projects from small to large and from simple to complex, the book considers structures, funding models, media labour, and intersectional power, foregrounding the voices of global media activists. It reflects on the changes wrought by shifts to digital media ecologies and economies in the contemporary alternative new media space.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Politics and Communication Studies interested in the political economy of media, social movements, digital media, alternative media, radical media, critical media, and alternative journalism. It will also appeal to media activists and journalists, providing a roadmap for crucial considerations when developing organizational structures in new independent media projects.
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Book SynopsisThis book functions as an introductory guide to experimental filmmaking and the motion picture camera. This new and updated second edition surveys the latest practical methods of experimental film production, as well as the history, theory, and aesthetics of experimental approaches.Author Joel Schlemowitz explains the basic mechanism of the camera before going on to discuss slow and fast motion filming, single-frame time-lapse, the long take, camera movement, workings of the lens, and the use of in-camera effects such as double exposure. A comprehensive guide to using the 16mm Bolex camera is provided, and taking exposure readings with the Sekonic light meter is also covered in this edition. Strategies for making films edited in-camera are covered, as well as a range of equipment beyond the basic non-sync camera, with comparison of the features and capabilities of a variety of 16mm film cameras. The movie diary and film portrait are examined, along with the work of a range of experimental filmmakers including Stan Brakhage, Rudy Burckhardt, Paul Clipson, Christopher Harris, Peter Hutton, Takahiko Iimura, Marie Losier, Rose Lowder, Jonas Mekas, Marie Menken, Margaret Rorison, Guy Sherwin, and Tomonari Nishikawa.This is the ideal book for students interested in experimental and alternative modes of filmmaking. It provides invaluable insight into the history, methods, and concepts inherent to experimental uses of the camera, while providing students with a solid foundation of techniques and practices to foster their development as filmmakers.Supplemental material - including links to films cited in the book - can be found at www.experimentalfilmmaking.com.
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Book SynopsisSystems Thinking and Action Research for Innovation introduces the Process Oriented Holonic (PrOH) Modelling Methodology, a novel systems thinking methodology, combining academic rigor with practical guidance for conducting action research in organisations. It equips readers to conduct high-impact research and drive systemic transformation.Readers will gain a comprehensive understanding of systems thinking and action research, with a focus on the innovative PrOH Modelling Methodology. This book provides detailed practical rules and guidelines, enabling readers to apply the PrOH Modelling Methodology effectively in action research projects. Engaging exercises and mini tests throughout the text help reinforce learning, while visually striking diagrams illustrate key concepts in an accessible manner. Real-world case studies from industries such as manufacturing, supply chain, legal and public services demonstrate the practical application of PrOH Models, offering insights into systemic success factors, process improvements and innovations. Reflections on theory link practice to foundational principles, ensuring readers develop theoretical, methodological and practical expertise. Additionally, the book explores advanced topics such as building holarchies, gamification, and the future of holonic thinking, making it a definitive systems thinking and action research guide for academics and practitioners alike.This book is intended for postgraduate students, doctoral researchers, and management consultants specializing in organisational change, technical innovation and process improvement.Additional resources are available from an author-maintained companion website dedicated to PrOH Modelling: https://prohmodel.org/
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Book SynopsisThis book looks at the impact of multigenerational trauma, severe psychopathology, and ethical struggles through the lens of Ukrainian psychoanalysts working amidst the Russian invasion.The contribution examines psychoanalytic responses to Russiaâs aggression against Ukraine, including via lived experiences of Ukrainian psychoanalysts who practice under conditions of continued threat. The book offers analytic observations and exploration of psychoanalytically informed care with Ukrainians who are experiencing profound distress and war trauma. Contributors describe their work with diverse Ukrainian groups, including children and adolescents, war refugees, individuals experiencing severe physical and psychological crises, Ukrainian Jewish community, and Ukrainian diaspora.This will be a valuable resource for readers interested in understanding and responding to impact of wars, specifically genocidal wars. They are invited to witness the profound challenges, creativity, courage, human and professional dilemmas, and pain that are witnessed and responded to by psychoanalytically informed practitioners.
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Book SynopsisThis book is a series of interviews with nine Laplanche scholars who expand our understanding of his work and highlight its contemporary importance and applications in psychoanalytic theory and practice.Much of Jean Laplancheâs work remains untranslated into English, but his ideas are increasingly influential in the Anglophone psychoanalytic world, especially the US. His groundbreaking work on gender and sexuality leads the way in terms of psychoanalytic understanding of the current social and cultural developments in these areas. This work shows the ways in which his concepts migrate and transform into a global perspective through the lenses of epistemology, clinical practice, theory, culture and linguistics. With contributions from current members of the Scientific Committee of the Laplanche Foundation and prominent Laplanche scholars, this book aims to stand alongside Laplancheâs theoretical work as an example of the complexity of the relationship between theory and clinical practice.Enriched with clinical vignettes of child and adult analysands, this book gives psychoanalysts and psychotherapists an excellent introduction to the key tenets of Laplancheâs work and its application to classic and current clinical issues.
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Book SynopsisFood and Gender: Making the Modern World places food and gender at the center of the human experience and through this creates a new periodization for modern world history. In focusing on food and gender, and the connections between them, the books shows that a shift in the markers of modernity is needed, away from the traditional perspectives organizing this history that emphasize war, political states, and the global economy which often exclude and marginalize women and trivialize the study of foodways.Instead, it places emphasis on the changes in household organization, female labor, family, the informal sector, personal technology, urban literacy and education, enfranchisement, sexuality, and childrearing/cultural/social reproduction as among the most powerful forces at the heart of modern history. It then recovers a narrative that considers feminist perspectives and traces the impact of masculinities, while fully integrating women, both aiming to restore female agency to the âœfood in world historyâ narrative. Chapters trace themes that focus on the embodied history of foodways, including the role of accumulation, exchange, power, revolution, conflict, migration, technology, and difference. Together these thematic explorations show how contemporary patterns of abundance and scarcity have been created. The relationships between gender and food also serve as markers of cultural, racial, social, national, and sexual identities and thus reflect the differences and disparities that have shaped our history.This book explores the major themes of world history: the environment, cultural developments and interactions, governance, economic systems, social interactions and organization, ideas and power, and technology and innovation, but puts women, gender, and foodways at its center.
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Book SynopsisThis book explores the overlooked role of smell in architecture, design, and urban life, positioning olfaction as a powerful medium for shaping place, atmosphere, and experience. Beginning with the concept of the âœscentsphere,â it establishes how smells carry cultural memory, therapeutic potential, and behavioural influence, reframing them as active agents in how environments are felt and understood. Building on this foundation, the text introduces a framework for creating smell-spatial narratives, a step-by-step manifesto for creatives to integrate smells into their spatial practices.Smells are conceptualised as spatial design materials and it shifts the paradigm of smells from the intangible to the tangible with new concepts of âœscentabilityâ, âœscentographyâ and âœscentonicsâ. Case studies from art, architecture, and urban design illustrate practical interventions, from scented materials to landscapes and devices, showing how olfactory design operates across scales and durations. Concluding with a futurist outlook, the book situates smellscape ecology within climate change and inclusive, life-centred design, introducing âœolfactory diversityâ as a guiding principle.This book is essential reading for spatial designers in interior architecture and design, architecture, stage design, situated practice, art practice, curation, event design and management.
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Book SynopsisNow in its fourth edition, Electricity for the Entertainment Electrician and Technician is a comprehensive, practical study guide for aspiring and working professionals in live event production.The book begins with basic electrical principles and circuits, then progresses to advanced topics such as 3-phase power, power calculations, harmonics, grounding/earthing and bonding, generators, and battery power. Throughout, it bridges the gap between theory and practical application, emphasizing electrical safety at every step. With ample photographs and illustrations, practice problems and solutions, and real-world examples from experience and first-hand accounts, it provides readers with the knowledge to safely design, set up, and monitor power distribution systems. The fourth edition includes updated technology throughout, new and expanded information on safety, DC systems, and clean energy technology, more graphics and end-of-chapter quiz questions, all with an emphasis on diversity and inclusion. Also new to this edition are appendices containing US to UK terminology and imperial to metric conversions.Covering topics that are listed in the content outline for the ETCP Entertainment Electrician Certification exam as well as the ETCP Portable Power Distribution Technician Certification exam, this book supports students and practicing technicians and provides new technicians the assistance they need for a successful career in the entertainment industry.Additional resources, including conversion tables, voltage drop spreadsheets, articles from Lighting & Sound International, Lighting & Sound America, and Protocol, and animations and illustrations depicting electricity and electric power distribution developed for the authorâs workshops, can be found on the companion website www.electrics.tech.
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Book SynopsisThis book, by an architect and a sociologist, addresses the disconnect between the design of the built environment and social life and lays out a pathway for interdisciplinary engagement.Through this scholarly collaboration, the authors create a new interdisciplinary orientation and methodology, termed SOCIOARC, that recognizes the relationship of the built form and aesthetics to social experience. Shifting between the architectural and sociological imaginations, it provides a strategy for rethinking the nature of the âobjectivesâ of the research enterprise and the âobjectsâ that designers create. This approach opens up the possibilities for design and sociology to together inform new and more just ways of making, being and occupying space. The first part of the book examines the methodologies and conceptual lenses of architecture and sociology in parallel. The authors then tether together complementary approaches to offer a new transdisciplinary practice for researching and
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Book SynopsisDesigning Eurovision is the first book-length study of the visual and design elements of the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC).As a unique visual phenomenon and commonly associated with spectacle performances, the scenography of Eurovision is in reality far more nuanced and layered, balancing acts of national identity-building with host country branding, visual tourism and cross-cultural aesthetics. The event demonstrates how ideological spaces are built across Europe and the wider world, highlighting the function of performance scenography in socio-political nation-building. Although the importance of the visual elements of Eurovision are widely acknowledged, this is the first volume to put ESC design front and centre, discussing the critical and practical aspects of creating performance scenography for this international stage. In addition, the volume highlights the significance of Eurovision in the development of performance technologies, frequently functioning as a test-bed for technological innovations in stage design for broadcast arena events. It also explores the visual design-led elements of the contest (set, costume, lighting and projection) and addresses the broader spatial dynamics of the ESC, exploring the socio-political elements of Eurovision performance space. The fluid relationship between the ESC as live performance and as Europeâs largest televised cultural event opens up additional discussions in the book related to the role of liveness in scenographic practice.This volume brings a unique focus on the materiality of the Eurovision stage, addressing multipronged topics including the history of ESC technologies, ESC scenography and national identity, ESC aesthetics and design, and the ESC host city as stage. It also incorporates interviews with practitioners who have worked on design elements for the ESC, giving practical perspectives on design at the contest. It will be of interest to researchers and scholars of theatre and performance, scenography, the Eurovision Song Contest, popular performance, and media and cultural studies, among others.
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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Introduction to Feminisms in Canadian Literature introduces readers to the shifting historical contexts, theoretical approaches, and literary works that have shaped the relationship between feminist movements and literatures written in Canada. Organized around key themes such as work, violence, collaboration, and motherhood, the chapters provide concepts and case study readings that demonstrate various modes of feminist literary analysis. In doing so, the volume illuminates not only how feminists have read and written literature in Canada, but also how students may engage in feminist critique from multiple anti-essentialist and intersectional angles. The book emphasizes the plurality of feminisms in which writers in Canada have participated and underlines the connections between literature and activism, particularly throughout the twentieth century and up to the present.
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Book SynopsisEarthâs oceans are vital for sustaining life on our planet. Oceanography is an intrinsically multidisciplinary science that explores how the ocean does this. The author uses plankton as a focus for the book, drawing together the physics of the ocean circulation, the chemistry of nutrients and carbon, and the biology of the plankton.The book begins by describing the major ocean currents and tides, and the importance of stratification, or layers, in the ocean. It explains how microscopic plants and animals, the plankton, are fundamental to ocean food chains and Earthâs climate, and shows how ocean currents and mixing control the global distribution of plankton. Contrasts are explored between the open ocean and the shallow coastal seas, to help understand why the shallow seas are so productive. Case studies illustrate how the ocean supports fish, including upwelling of deep nutrients, the links between plankton and fish, and how ocean currents provide vital transport routes for fish eggs and larvae. The author explores the importance of the ocean in Earthâs carbon cycle and climate. A final chapter describes some of the core techniques used to observe the ocean.Oceanography: The Basics is an essential introduction to the field for undergraduates, and includes further resources and short, quantitative diversions for students who want to take the concepts further.
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Book SynopsisBeauty: The Body as Artefact traces the history of physical beauty in Western art and thought from antiquity to the eighteenth century. Bringing together foundational texts and newly translated works accompanied by scholarly commentaries, this volume explores how the human body was understood as both a product of nature and an artistic creation.Examining the intersections of aesthetics, art theory, medical practices and cosmetics, it reveals how ideals of beauty and beautification shaped conceptions of gender, the body and artistic creation. The book focuses on the early modern period, when the cosmetic transformation of the body became closely associated with artistic imagery and techniques. Drawing on art-historical, philosophical, and cultural perspectives, the volume presents key writings by figures from Cicero and Alberti to Behn and Hogarth, highlighting shifting notions of imitation, ornament, and naturalness.Suitable for undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars in art history, cultural history, and gender studies, Beauty: The Body as Artefact offers a framework for understanding physical beauty as a historical and artistic category at the intersection of image, body, and knowledge.
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