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Book SynopsisThe HIPAA Compliance Blueprint is a practical implementation-focused guide designed to bridge the gap between healthcare IT operations and compliance management.The book provides both technical and administrative pathways to achieving HIPAA compliance across small and mid-sized medical practices, hospitals, and business associates. Unlike traditional legal or policy-focused texts, this book takes a system-engineering approach, outlining actionable frameworks, workflows, and technical safeguards that can be directly applied within an organizationâs IT environment. It translates HIPAAâs complex regulatory language into clear, implementable steps using the same structure engineers and IT professionals use to build and secure systems. By integrating Zero-Trust principles, network engineering, and cybersecurity best practices with the required HIPAA administrative and physical safeguards, this book serves as both a training resource and a reference manual. Its structure enables healthcare IT professionals, compliance officers, and practice managers to understand not only what HIPAA requires but how to implement it effectively in real-world environments. For healthcare organizations, maintaining HIPAA compliance demonstrates commitment to patient privacy, builds trust with patients and partners, reduces legal and financial risks, and ensures operational continuity in an increasingly digital healthcare environment where data breaches and cyber threats are prevalent.
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Book SynopsisIn contrast to much of the current literature that treats Trumpâs authoritarianism as new and singular, this book shows that authoritarianism in the United States instead has a long history that explains the extent to which authoritarianism has been embraced by large sections of US voters.Wired for Authoritarianism combines historical analysis with an innovative conceptual analysis of the âœwiringâ of power, drawing on the study of the power elite developed by the sociologist C. Wright Mills and neo-Marxist literature. Connecting the social and political culture of the elite to the ideas of state and societal capture, as well as novel concepts of covert and overt wiring of power, this book argues that the Trump era has moved America from a long-standing, mainly covert authoritarian structure toward a more dominant and overt authoritarianism â from a position in which oligarchs exercise power from outside of official government positions, to one in which corporate oligarchs are directly in top government positions.This book offers original insights and sober hope for all those seeking deep and sustainable democracy in America, summarizing strategies drawn from history and current anti-authoritarian movements to defeat this new turn and create a new democratic wiring of America for the people. This book will be of interest to students, scholars and activists with an interest in political sociology, political economy, and social movements in the US.
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Book SynopsisEveryone talks about innovation, and we can all point to random examples of innovation inside of healthcare information technology, but few repeatable processes exist that make innovation more routine than happenstance.How do you create and sustain a culture of innovation? What are the best practices you can refine and embed as part of your organizationâs DNA? What are the potential outcomes for robust healthcare transformation when we get this innovation mystery solved? Through timely essays from leading experts, the Voices of Innovation for Healthcare series consisting of three books showcased the widely adopted healthcare innovation model from HIMSS and how providers and payers could leverage to increase their velocity of digital transformation. The most recent volume focused on how AI leverages the same framework and construct but zeroes in on artificial intelligence to include large language models, voice and robotic process automation. Now the time has come for Voices of Innovation - Europe. While the Voices series has included European voices, the contributions have been limited. In important ways, the European market is vastly different from the US-based market. The Payor and Government based care make their approach to tech enabled care different.Using the HIMSS model for innovation as the structural framework, Voices of Innovation â Europe will showcase the great innovations being implemented across their healthcare ecosystems. This structure will easily enable subsequent editions as advancements are made.
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Book SynopsisBenefit Morale: Social Attitudes to the Welfare State in Poland examines the complex relationship between citizens and welfare systems through the innovative concept of benefit morale.This pioneering study analyses how social attitudes influence the effectiveness of welfare programs, exploring both welfare abuse and non-take-up of benefits within the Polish context while developing a theoretical framework applicable to welfare states globally. The book presents original research through a comprehensive six-chapter structure: establishing a theoretical framework for benefit morale, reviewing existing welfare attitude research, detailing methodology, analysing Polish attitudes toward the welfare state, and examining attitudes toward both welfare abuse and non-take-up. This unique approach combines theoretical innovation with empirical evidence, offering valuable insights into the cultural and socioeconomic factors that shape welfare program effectiveness.Providing a foundation for international comparative research on benefit morale, this volume serves multiple audiences including policymakers seeking to improve social program effectiveness, researchers in sociology and social policy, and students studying welfare systems.
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Book SynopsisIn antiquity, selling pharmacological preparations and recipes could mean very big business indeed. The import and trade of exotic pharmacological ingredients, in particular those coming from India, has received some scholarly attention but the process whereby these ingredients were combined into desirable concoctions, advertised and sold has been more neglected. This monograph attempts to bridge the gap between ancient medical and socio-economic history, addressing an academic audience of both social and economic historians as well as historians of medicine and technology. It examines material from the fifth century BCE (the date of the first medical treatises included in the Hippocratic Corpus) to the seventh century (the century in which Paul of Aegina, the last of the early Byzantine medical authors, composed his work) with a particular focus on the period from the first century BCE to the third century CE.
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Book SynopsisTaking Michel Foucault's genealogical analysis of power and resistance as its starting point, the book asks, from below, is there something in the very nature of law that is, in its discursive and institutional dynamics, in its spatial, material, and temporal coordinates; in its own conceptual categories, claims, mechanisms, and processes that makes it something more than the mere instrument and armature of power? If those in power can utilize the devices of law and justice to achieve political ends, isn't there something about these devices that can accommodate fresh articulations? Contending that there are, indeed, discursive, spatial, and temporal resources that can be reconfigured and redeployed as a counter-power and counter-discourse against sovereignty, the book takes as its focus the judicial apparatus; and, more specifically, the concept of the political or show trial. Examining the landmark political trials of Nelson Mandela, Marwan Barghouti, and Bobby Seale, the politi
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Book SynopsisWhat If. . .Collected Thought Experiments in Philosophy is a brief collection of over 100 classic and contemporary thought experiments, each exploring an important philosophical argument. These thought experiments introduce students to the kind of disciplined thought required in philosophy, and awaken their intellectual curiosity. Featuring a clear and conversational writing style that doesn''t dilute the ideas, the value of the book is in its simplicityin both format and tone. Each thought experiment is accompanied by commentary from the author that explains its importance and provides thought-provoking questions, all encapsulated on two pages.
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Book SynopsisThis biography focuses on Anne of Cleves, fourth wife of King Henry VIII, most famous for being the wife that Henry divorced after only six months of marriage and allegedly no consummation. Popularly she is thought to be ugly and stupid, unable to keep the kingâs attention. This biography retells Anneâs early life, focusing on her time in England, and offering an overview of her legacy for the last 500 years.Re-evaluating many of the misconceptions around Anne, including her religion, the fateful week of her marriage, her life during Maryâs reign, and her legacy in history, the book brings together historiography and the most recent research on Anne, including her relationship to books and foreign reputation. Also, for the first time, it thoroughly investigates Anneâs relationship with Mary Tudor. Rather than being a traditional biography, the book combines a breakdown of events with chapters that are thematic in nature, examining the political landscape that led to her queenship, her culture and patronage, relationship with members of the Tudor court, and her image, lifestyle, and household both as queen and the Kingâs Sister. With its new interpretations, new sources, and engagement with historiography, and as the first academic, full-length biography of Anne, the book will be of great interest to students of Tudor History, Queenship, and Womenâs History, as well as by those who simply want to learn more about Anne of Cleves, as Henry VIII and his wives.
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Book SynopsisEarly Modern English Foodways: A Critical Sourcebook is the first anthology devoted to food-related writing in Renaissance England. Bringing together seventy passages from a two-hundred-year sweep of British history, the volume demonstrates how food connects all forms of life, in the most intimate and public ways.The sourcebook offers new insights into the early modern experience of sustenance â from introducing readers to the tribulations of the women who started a 1629 grain riot, and revealing the primacy of eating in Thomas More's Utopia, to explaining the function of the posset pot. The volume features familiar voices such as Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, and Milton alongside lesser-known texts and objects to illuminate broader questions of gender, body, hospitality, religion, medicine, social status, ecology, and empire. Drawing from an expansive range of sources â including recipe books, travel narratives, philosophical treatises and agricultural handbooks â these entries, many previously unpublished, have been expertly curated by leading scholars to map food's journey through early modern English culture.With modern spelling adaptations, contextual headnotes, and comprehensive glossaries of culinary terms, this sourcebook is an exceptionally accessible and engaging entry point for both in and outside the classroom. Its interdisciplinary focus makes this resource of value not only to students and scholars interested in food history but also cultural studies, art history, and literature.
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Book SynopsisThis book examines the history and current context of racism in housing and neighborhoods to understand how racism and white supremacy have hindered true equality. This book explores how Americans use various means - from racial intimidation to restrictive zoning - to continue to exclude entire races and classes of people from their neighborhoods and communities. We live in a society that claims to value diversity â of opinions; of religions; of perspectives; of race â but Tighe shows how spatial segregation and inequality present in society fails those values. It will be of interest to academics, researchers, policymakers, urban planners, lawyers, and advocates working in urban issues such as housing, race, and class.
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Book SynopsisIslamic archaeology is expanding rapidly and Islamic Archaeology in Global Perspective provides the first critical overview of the subject. No book has ever provided such a comprehensive review of Islamic Archaeology and it will set the research agenda for years to come.The book is divided into three sections with the first section, Origins and Dynasties, providing a chronological discussion of research on Islamic archaeological material from the origins of Islam in the early 7th century to the end of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century, and primarily focuses on the Levant, Arabian Peninsula, and Egypt. The second section, Conduits and Agents of Islamisation and Trade, examines the archaeology of Indian Ocean and land-based trade and pilgrimage routes. The third section, Regions, adopts a geographical approach in exploring North Africa, the Iberian Peninsula and Sicily, the sub-Saharan African regions of the West African Sahel and Sudan, and Ethiopia, South and Southeast Asia, and Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia.With extensive use of illustrations and box texts throughout to consider particular themes, technologies, and archaeological materials, such as types of ceramics, coins, and glass, this book will be indispensable for all students and researchers of Islamic Archaeology and Islamic Studies.
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Book SynopsisLaw in a World of Multiple Legal Orders offers a foundational understanding of what law is and how it operates, while acknowledging that contemporary law is unavoidably cross-border.Starting with the basic idea of law and its relationship with justice, the book introduces the main legal traditions, courts and constitutions, before moving on to civil procedure and litigation, legal borrowing between systems, international and supranational law - including European law - and the growing role of alternative dispute resolution, such as arbitration and mediation. Conceived as an international introduction to law that also serves as a natural gateway to international law, the book is designed to help students from different legal traditions understand the nature and functions of law, while giving them the conceptual tools needed to engage more deeply with the major fields of law, such as contract law (and the law of obligations more generally), criminal law, administrative law, corporate law, family law, and a multitude of others. It performs the conventional function of an introduction to law, laying the foundations for understanding the role of law and legal institutions in the contemporary world. By offering a modern and accessible introduction to law for the realities of a global and interconnected world, it helps students build a solid understanding of law across legal systems and brings together, in a single volume, what would normally take years to learn.This will be essential reading for introduction to law courses, as well as for courses in international, transnational and comparative law.
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Book SynopsisLatinx TV offers an accessible and critical guide to television both by and about Latinxs, tracing the representation of Latinxs from the 1950s through to the present day.At once comprehensive in coverage and detailed and specific in examples analyzed, Latinx TV provides key insights into the study of Latinx TV as shaped within historical, social, cultural, regional, and global contexts. Throughout the volume, award-winning scholar Frederick Luis Aldama summarizes, explains, and contextualizes key critical concepts, perspectives, developments, and debates in Latinx media studies. Numerous genres are covered, from comedy, animated cartoons, science fiction and fantasy, and drama, to reality TV. Analogue, digital, and internet technologies in television production and consumption are considered, including the way TikTok, YouTube, and FAST channels that have enabled Latinx creators to build their own serialized storyworlds without network permission. Thematic analyses are of contemporary relevance and focus on issues such as urbanization, immigration, family life, language, politics, gender, sexuality, class, race, and ethnicity.This book makes for an essential read for any media studies students and scholars who want to know more about the history of TVâs representation of US Latinxs.
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Book SynopsisThis volume examines the turn inwards, towards matters of the self, in an era characterised by suffering, destruction and death resulting from large-scale structural problems including global pandemics, economic inequality and climate change. As uncertainty on a large scale has begotten attempts at certainty on smaller ones, new social and cultural phenomena have emerged that can be understood and analyzed as new ways of crafting selfhood. With a particular focus on âpractices of styleâ that reflect both aesthetic as well as ethical qualities, the author considers practices stemming from growing interest in sustainability, the popularity of tidying up and the ideology of minimalism, digital detoxing, discourses around âself-careâ and the growing digital communities of menswear, style and wellness. An exploration of the trend towards constant reinvention of the self without the scaffolding scripts of religion and the state, Styling the Self will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology and social theory with interests in culture, consumption and lifestyle.
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Book SynopsisChildren and young peopleâs mental health is now recognized as one of societyâs most pressing challenges. Rates of distress and disorder have risen sharply while services struggle to keep pace. Long waiting lists and public concern highlight the growing gap between what children need and what professional systems can deliver. Yet there remains an expectation that therapy alone should provide the answer.This book argues that the mental health needs of children cannot be met by specialist services in isolation. Instead, it calls for a new approach that brings together parents, teachers, peers, and communities alongside mental health professionals, each playing an equal part in supporting childrenâs wellbeing. Drawing on research, policy, and practice experience, the book identifies six principles of effective help: the active involvement of parents and carers; the importance of listening to childrenâs own wishes; creating environments of psychological safety; recognising that help can come from many sources; embedding support within everyday community life; and building a culture where caring for childrenâs mental health becomes everyoneâs shared responsibility.Written by leading figures in child mental health, this book offers a powerful new framework for rethinking how society responds to young peopleâs distress. It speaks to professionals, educators, parents, and policymakers alike, showing how families, schools, and communities can work together to nurture resilience and belonging, reducing dependence on overstretched specialist services.
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Book SynopsisThis book analyzes the role of social work in the Americanization Movement. It asserts that the emerging field of social work played a significant role in both the execution of the movement and the development and promulgation of theories and processes that rationalized its determination of the borders of inclusion and exclusion from the American nation and its polity.While the Americanization movement as a national endeavor abated by the mid-20th century, its underlying assumptions still shape contemporary social work and the national discourses of belonging. As the first comprehensive historical study of social workâs role in the discourses of immigration, the book will fill a significant gap in social welfare history.This volume introduces an important new field of study for scholars of social work, as well as students and academics of social history, ethnic studies, and political science. It is suitable for courses on social welfare policy, social welfare history, and social work ethics, as well as those studying immigration and the history of ethnic minorities in the U.S.
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Book SynopsisLegitimation Code Theory or âLCTâ is having significant impact on research and practice, especially in education. Around the world, scholars and educators are using LCT to reveal the usually hidden ârules of the gameâ that underlie achievement in social arenas as varied as education, law and media. These âlegitimation codesâ are then taught and learned or mindfully changed to give access and success to more people. This book is the first ever introduction to LCT, written by its creator and based on thirty years of developing the framework in empirical research. It is the book for learning how to creatively enact this approach in your own work.Sociology of Possibility explains the theoretical toolkit of LCT, how its concepts fit together, the ways of thinking they support, and how the framework opens up more possibilities for research. The book carefully defines LCT tools and draws on empirical studies of a wide range of real-world problems to illustrate how they can help you explain more in your research. It shows how these studies embrace the endless diversity of the social world through a shared conceptual language that supports knowledge-building. Chapters also walk you through using the concepts in ways that embrace both qualitative and quantitative methods, both rich empirical description and sharp theoretical analysis, and in interdisciplinary collaborations with other approaches. Sociology of Possibility will open your eyes to the extraordinary empowering and explanatory potential of this innovative approach. If youâre looking for a sophisticated framework that will help you offer solutions to real-world problems, whether as a postgraduate student, teacher trainer, academic developer or educator, this book is where you should begin.
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Book Synopsis What are humans doing to our one and only planet? In an age of scepticism, division and rancour, whose claims and counter-claims about human impacts should we believe? What questions do we need to ask about global environmental change? How do we grope towards actionable answers in a disunited world?The scale, scope and magnitude of human impacts on the Earth are unprecedented. Geoscientists warn of a perilous future in which the Earth System has been forced out its interglacial Holocene state. But geoscience canât tell us what the root causes of anthropogenic planetary change are, nor how humanity should best respond to it. Itâs for others to do this analytical and normative work.What Future For the Earth? examines a growing landscape of thought ranged across the social sciences, humanities and the arts. Setting geoscience in its wider institutional and epistemological context, this multidisciplinary book addresses a set of key societal questions arising from escalating Earth System change. It offers an advanced introduction to concepts, arguments and propositions ventured by environmentally-minded historians, geographers, anthropologists, sociologists, political theorists and many others. Placing capitalism and âstrong anthropocentrismâ at the centre of analysis, What Future For The Earth? tackles a set of big issues, such as how we should think about time and future, about âenvironmental crisisâ and the moral status of the non-human world. The book lends shape to an urgent debate about the many profound implications of what people are doing to our one and only planet. Who gets to speak for the Earth and its inhabitants, how and to what ends? Who gets to identify causes, propose solutions and enact them? As the technological power of certain private firms and many national governments grows prodigiously, these questions focus our attention on how influential actors can be held accountable and a more just world be created.University students and instructors across a wide range of disciplines will find this book of interest, as will general readers concerned about climate change, biodiversity loss and related problems. This book identifies issues of common concern and outlines ways of addressing them in a world riven by conflict and dissent yet in need of urgent, cooperative action among otherwise different peoples.
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Book SynopsisThe hypermobility of the twenty-first century is fragile, arguably on the verge of momentous change. Public space is a particularly important locale of socio-technical innovation in mobile living. Based on studies of emerging mobility practices in and around public places, undertaken as part of experimental, interdisciplinary, collaborative design projects, the book addresses four dimensions of change: Mobilities in public spaces are ânaturallyâ changing. What are the key changes? Designers and policy-makers are intentionally changing mobility infrastructures, services, technologies and âbehavioursâ. How are aims, incentives, visions formulated, implemented, appropriated, and evaluated? What practices and processes drive innovation? How can mobilities research and mobile methods inform change better? BÃscher contends that as analysts and designers inspired by the mobilities turn move with the people, objects, and ideas involved, th
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Book SynopsisThe elderly population is growing and disabilities tend to increase with age. Professionals in the fields of human-computer interaction (HCI) are becoming increasingly aware of the needs of the elderly and people with disabilities. They also need to ensure that systems are designed for all, with specific consideration of these groups, not only computing systems but also other assistive and adaptive technologies such as information services and the use of smart cards, assistive robotics, systems for travellers, and home and environmental control systems.This book will help designers world-wide find relevant guidelines for the design of human-computer interaction and ensure that systems are designed for all, with specific consideration of people who are elderly and people with disabilities.Including reports from the International Federation of Information Processing's Working Group on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Disability. The book will be the first compendium of guiTable of ContentsPart I: Introduction 1. Why Inclusive Design Guidelines? Part II: General Issues in the Design Process 2. Training, Verification and Evaluation of Guidelines 3. Accessibility and Usability Requirements for ITCs for Disabled and Elderly People: A Functional Classification Approach 4. On the Validity of Design Guidelines and the Role of Standardisation 5. Markets and Regulations Part III: Tools for Accessing and Using Guidelines 6. Managing Accessibilty Guidelines During User Interface Design 7. Managing HCI Guidelines with Hypertext on the WWW 8. Bobby: A Validation Tool for Disability Access on the WWW Part 4: Existing Guidelines 9. Nordic Guidlines for Computer Accessibility 10. Guidelines for Web Accessibility 11. Userfit: User Centred Design in Assistive Technology 12. The ISO Approach to the Development of Ergonomics Standards for Accessibility Part 5: Guidelines for Specific Application Areas 13. Guidelines for Telecommunications 14. Public Access Terminals 15. Accessible Systems for Transport 16. Guidelines for the Development of Home Automation Products 17. User Friendly Software for Computer-Based Instruction and Learning Materials Part 6: The Future 18. Telecommunications- Accessibility and Future Directions
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Book SynopsisThese two volumes collect groundbreaking socio-legal research on lawyers and the legal profession. Studies in this area exhibit enormous diversity in the questions they pursue, the methodologies they adopt, and the spheres of professional activity they investigate. They are, however, all animated by an underlying preoccupation with the problem of professional power. During the last forty years, sociolegal scholarship on the legal profession has focused on the varied sites of organized and daily professional activity to investigate how power is produced, legitimated, and deployed by lawyers, and contested by competitors, clients, state actors, and third parties. The articles and essays collected in these volumes illuminate the varied dimensions of lawyers' power.
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Book SynopsisAs this lively new study effectively demonstrates, dictionaries serve as far more than just simple reference tools-they also offer a rich fund of information about people in society. Before now, the extent to which dictionaries encode social history, as opposed to merely relaying linguistic information, has gone almost entirely unnoticed. In this illuminating new book, Linda C. Mitchell analyzes the complex and changing relationship in the early modern period between authority and lexicographers: she identifies ways in which lexicographers constructed their authority, examines the link between the conservative and the subversive in dictionaries, and finally, charts the shift of linguistic authority from grammarians to lexicographers. In the introduction to this study, the author surveys the history of organization in dictionaries, including how their very order constructs authority. Subsequent chapters explore such intriguing topics as the role played by personalities in the construction of lexicographic authority; how the reader depended on dictionaries for travel information; the inclusion of history and mythology in dictionaries and what this kind of information meant to the reading public, including the extent to which historical accounts were biased. Mitchell explores the relative ease with which dictionaries evaded censorship, showing how some lexicographers used their dictionaries to promulgate their views on gender, religion, and politics. Finally, she discusses how far we have traveled from early dictionaries to the present state of lexicography, tracing the legacy of old dictionaries in modern-day electronic dictionaries. Broadly based on archival research in rare-book libraries, the study considers approximately 300 primary texts, including not only dictionaries, but also traditional grammars, encyclopedias, and other manuals (e.g., almanacs). Mitchell examines material which frames the systematic lexicographical presentations at any one time: prefaces, introductions, forewords, statements of intent, organization of materials, as well as definitions themselves.
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Book SynopsisBringing together contributors with backgrounds in ethnography, theatre, design, music, and sound, Polisonics: Collective Listening and the Politics of Sound demonstrates the importance of sound in design and how the sonic offers alternatives to dominant, singular, and technologically determined narratives.From sonic street interventions to rural field recording, water fountains to community listening sessions and Palestinian Hip-Hop to sound for VR, this book foregrounds participatory modes of making and collective engagement, particularly those rooted in musical cultures. Examining how relational approaches to sound can help reshape paradigms and challenge systemic inequalities, build communities and resist structural injustice.With chapters on areas including audio description, sound systems, and the use of machine listening as a tool for immigration control, Polisonics will be of interest to activists, academics, and musicians as well as those studying and working in sound design, ethnography, social justice and theatre.
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Book SynopsisThis book presents a comprehensive introduction to the broad and developing field of women, gender, and sexuality in the Holocaust. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach that incorporates global, gender fluid, and intersectional perspectives, it examines experiences of Nazi Germany, the Nazi-occupied territories, ghettos, camps, resistance and rescue, and partisan movements.Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Holocaust synthesises fresh approaches and frameworks in Holocaust and gender studies research, addressing topics including female perpetrators, sexual violence, masculinity, and queer experiences. Rose introduces readers to interpretations from a wide range of fields, from film and photography to law and psychology. Recognizing the importance of understanding the events of the Holocaust in their historical context, the text begins with an examination of gender roles prior to the rise of the Nazis and expands to include the aftermath and the legacy of the Holocaust through the lens of gender and sexuality.With timelines and definitions of key terminology, this is an essential and accessible resource for students and scholars of the Holocaust, gender studies, and genocide studies as well as all those seeking a better understanding of this evolving discipline.
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Book SynopsisThis book aims to provide readers with a systematic understanding of traditional visual effects production, covering both internal VFX studio operations and external collaborations.It is divided into six chapters covering a range of topics, from professional definitions of the subject to internal project collaboration, operating platforms, software usage, industry standards, and production pipelines and workflows. Additionally, it briefly explains the authorâs perception of recent technological advancements in the film and creative industries, such as the application of AI technology and virtual production. Lastly, to build a more confident demo reel and ensure a successful job application, the final chapter offers suggestions and advice on creating VFX-related demo reels for entry-level positions at visual effects facilities.To aid reader understanding, the book features hands-on exercises within specific projects, along with eight case studies including pre-recorded demonstration videos linking the theoretical knowledge described in the book to practical projects, following a simple-to-advanced progression.This essential guidebook is designed for VFX artists at various levels, aiming to enhance their professional knowledge of visual effects production, refine their skills, and make those skills applicable in real-world production environments.
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Book SynopsisThis book aims to provide readers with a systematic understanding of traditional visual effects production, covering both internal VFX studio operations and external collaborations.It is divided into six chapters covering a range of topics, from professional definitions of the subject to internal project collaboration, operating platforms, software usage, industry standards, and production pipelines and workflows. Additionally, it briefly explains the author?s perception of recent technological advancements in the film and creative industries, such as the application of AI technology and virtual production. Lastly, to build a more confident demo reel and ensure a successful job application, the final chapter offers suggestions and advice on creating VFX-related demo reels for entry-level positions at visual effects facilities.To aid reader understanding, the book features hands-on exercises within specific projects, along with eight case studies including pre-recorded demonstration videos linking the theoretical knowledge described in the book to practical projects, following a simple-to-advanced progression.This essential guidebook is designed for VFX artists at various levels, aiming to enhance their professional knowledge of visual effects production, refine their skills, and make those skills applicable in real-world production environments.
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Book SynopsisThis book explores the role of heritage in contemporary British visual culture through analysis of a selection of British factual television series.Despite being the most popular genre on British and American television since the late-2000s, factual entertainment is often dismissed for its triviality. As such, it has been left out of discussions concerned with visual depictions of British heritage onscreen, which are typically reserved for costume dramas. This book explores televisionâs relationship with contemporary nostalgic culture, examining Britainâs relationship with its past, its heritage, and its identity. Focusing on a cross-section of factual television programmes, from talent shows and cooking competitions, to childrenâs television and national live sporting events, the author argues that they not only explicitly reflect the socio-political context and nostalgic culture in Britain post-2008, but have been instrumental in shaping it.Proposing a new subgenre of factual entertainment âfactual heritage Televis0ion â this book will be a must-read for scholars and students in television studies, popular culture, history and heritage studies, cultural studies and media studies.
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Book SynopsisThe Affective Jacobâs Ladder Reading Comprehension Program uses a models approach to scaffold student learning and promote inquiry-based discussions of texts. This series of Jacobâs Ladder focuses specifically on supporting advanced studentsâ social-emotional needs through the discussion of reading selections in the following genres: short stories and media, poetry, and speeches, essays, and biographies.Each complete set includes the teacher's guide and 5 copies of each companion student workbook.
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