The Arts Books
CRC Press Adopting Artificial Intelligence Tools in Higher
Book SynopsisThis edited volume explores the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in higher education, specifically focusing on student assessment. It examines the integration of various AI tools within higher education, discussing the challenges and opportunities they present and the innovative solutions they offer.The chapters explore various issues surrounding the use of AI in higher education and propose potential solutions. The book begins with a systematic exploration of AI's potential, presenting innovative ways to ensure fair and accurate assessments that enhance the overall quality of education. It highlights the benefits of AI-powered grading systems that streamline assessment processes, provide timely feedback, and promote fair evaluations. The text discusses how machine learning algorithms can revolutionize assessment methods, allowing individualized, adaptive testing tailored to each student's unique needs. Furthermore, it examines Natural Language Processing (NLP)
£48.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Mastering Community Management
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£42.74
Unicorn Publishing Group William Alister Macdonald
Book SynopsisThe life of Scottish watercolourist William Alister Macdonald (1861-1956) contained more mystery and intrigue than a novel by the authors he knew as friends. Mid-life in the early 1900s he painted widely across Britain, Europe and North Africa. Aged sixty, abandoning his wife and son in London, he settled in Tahiti, where he befriended authors Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall and Zane Grey. Critical acclaim of his work peaked in 1935 with the discovery of over 120 watercolours capturing London streets and lost panoramas from the Thames, its river life and trade at the turn of the last century, now part of the Wakefield Collection at London's Guildhall. Yet in Tahiti his reputation has endured with appreciation of his timeless, exquisite landscapes and studies of paradise. This first fully illustrated biography of Macdonald's life provides a long-overdue opportunity for his European and Polynesian work to be reappraised and his story told.
£24.00
Top Publishers BV What Men Wear And Why
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£7.06
Unicorn Publishing Group Liotard: A Portrait of Eighteenth-Century Europe
Book SynopsisJean Etienne Liotard (1702-1789) was one of the most accomplished, idiosyncratic and witty artists of 18th-century Europe. Born in Geneva, he pursued a remarkable career, travelling across the continent and the Near East, portraying a riveting cross-section of society. Liotard worked in Paris, London, Amsterdam, Venice, Constantinople and Vienna and excelled as a specialist in the delicate art of pastel. He became renowned for the uncanny realism of his portraits as well as the beauty of his drawings, while also experimenting with watercolour, oil painting, printmaking and enamels. In Britain he enjoyed notoriety because of his exotic persona, and received commissions from royalty, aristocrats, grand tourists and celebrities. LIOTARD: A Portrait of Eighteenth-Century Europe plots the career and practice and reputation of an extraordinary artist who deserves to be better known. This new study throws light on the wider cultural environment he navigated, illuminating connected themes, including fashion history, orientalism and the promotion and display of portraits in the public and private spheres of Enlightenment Europe.
£24.00
Set Margins' publications Diagrammatic Writing
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£8.60
HarperCollins Publishers Live the Lizzo Way 100 That Book You Need
Book SynopsisA celebration of Lizzo's love and light. We all want a bit more Lizzo in our lives! A global superstar who has become a beacon of hope for the marginalised as well as the mainstream. Lizzo spreads messages of joy, self-love and self-acceptance every. single. day.Her playfully punchy lyrics and bold anthemic choruses give us the distinct feeling we can join her in conquering the world, and her positive energy encourages us to believe in our own abilities and dig deep to discover our own inner strength.With chapters on self-confidence, heartbreak and finding power in our emotions, Live the Lizzo Way will arm readers with the tips and tricks to empower them to be fearless and loving and to feel beautiful inside and out.
£9.49
University of Illinois Press Visual Alterity
Book SynopsisReconsidering the dynamics of perceptionUsing cinema to explore the visual aspects of alterity, Randall Halle analyzes how we become cognizant of each other and how we perceive and judge another person in a visual field. Halle draws on insights from philosophy and recent developments in cognitive and neuroscience to argue that there is no pure natural sight. We always see in a particular way, from a particular vantage point, and through a specific apparatus, and Halle shows how human beings have used cinema to experiment with the apparatus of seeing for over a century. Visual alterity goes beyond seeing difference to being conscious of how one sees difference. Investigating the process allows us to move from mere perception to apperception, or conscious perception. Innovative and insightful, Visual Alterity merges film theory with philosophy and cutting-edge science to propose new ways of perceiving and knowing.Trade Review"Visual Alterity offers a theoretically sophisticated and incisive analysis of seeing, apprehending difference and moving image technology that challenges long-established assumptions. Kaleidoscopic in scope and deft in argument, Randall Halle’s pathbreaking book makes an important contribution to the fields of visual and alterity studies."--Daniela Berghahn, author of Far-Flung Families in Film: The Diasporic Family in Contemporary European Cinema
£19.19
Dover Publications Inc. Egyptian Art 16 Art Stickers
Book SynopsisFaithful adaptations of ancient Egyptian artworks found in Egyptian tombs and temples: images of female musicians, portrait of a well-born lady, paintings from the Tomb of Nefertari, the burial chamber of Sennudem, more.
£6.24
University of California Press Sadakichi Hartmann Critical Modernist 1 Lannan Series
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£999.99
Sean Malloy Wings Upon Flames
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£999.99
Dossier Industries EUROPA
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£27.00
James Clarke & Co Ltd Ritual and Drama
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£999.99
James Clarke & Co Ltd The History of Morris Dancing 14581750
Book SynopsisMorris dancing, one of the more peculiar of the English folk customs, has been greatly misunderstood. In The History of Morris Dancing, 1458-1750 John Forrest analyses a wealth of evidence to show that Morris dancing does not, as is often assumed, have pagan or ancient origins. He examines early documentation to draw Morris traditions into the wide area of communal custom and public celebrations, showing the passage of dance ideas between groups previously considered folklorically distinct.Careful, detailed and encyclopaedic, The History of Morris Dancing, 1458-1750, is an essential reference work for specialists in English drama and social historians of the period, as well as offering fascinating insight for those who enjoy Morris dancing.
£999.99
Jargon Society Places of Departure Ergin CavuÅŸoÄŸlu
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£9.00
Film & Video Umbrella Pidgin Erika Tan
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£9.95
Journal of Jewish Studies The Image and Its Prohibition in Jewish Antiquity
Book SynopsisAgainst the commonly held opinion that ancient Judaism was an artless culture, this sumptuously illustrated book offers new ways of looking at art in Jewish antiquity. Leading experts, under the editorship of Sarah Pearce, skilfully explore different functions of images in relation to their prohibition by the Second of the Ten Commandments.Trade ReviewThe contributors are all specialist scholars, in a range of fields, and their essays represent the latest scholarship in English on this tantalising and complex subject. -- Standpoint Standpoint
£49.50
Kingfisher Reach Publishing My North East by its Famous Sons and Daughters
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£17.09
Arcadia Missa Publications Ecology of Secrets
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£10.91
La Vieux Four Publishing THE The Tail of George
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£999.99
HOME Publications Conflict and Compassion A Paradox of Difference
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£999.99
Small Press Two Kids One Grownup
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£999.99
Taylor & Francis Social Media and the Cultural Politics of Korean
Book SynopsisThis volume examines international engagement with Korean popular culture in East Asian online spaces, and how Asian identities are formed and perceived between nations within the region.In the context of global diversification and growing public participation in global issues, it builds up a new theoretical perspective in order to explain the emerging power of Asia in the global mediascape. With a focus on Korean media, touching upon K-pop and the phenomenon of Hallyu and anti-Hallyu, the author also looks at Japan, China, and Taiwan in this regional study. Combining theory with ethnographic audience studies in East Asian countries, the book elucidates East Asian media in a larger context of the changing global structure and media technology.This book will interest academics and students working on Asian popular culture and media, new media, East Asian studies, participatory media, and digital communication.
£37.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Dreaming a way of Life
Book SynopsisSince his debut in the 1980s, Lewis Klahr has built a mesmerizing and influential body of work, establishing himself as one of the foremost collage animatorsor, as he prefers, a re-animator. His films explore themes of identity, childhood, sexuality, Greek mythology, and capitalism.
£49.99
Taylor & Francis Now Media
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£68.39
CRC Press A Gamers Introduction to Programming with MonoGame
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£118.75
CRC Press Directing the Story
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£133.00
Taylor & Francis The Audio Circuits Cookbook
Book SynopsisThe Audio Circuits Cookbook is a comprehensive collection of high-quality audio circuit modules - âœbuilding blocksâ - that readers can arrange to create complete audio devices. More than 80 featured circuits cover every aspect of audio, from basics such as active rectifiers, peak followers, and oscillators, to complete professional quality devices including compressors, equalizers, preamps and an analog synthesizer.Offering a range of tutorial advice that covers capacitor selection, multi-layer PC Board design, and more, each circuit in this book is also provided as an LTspice file, ready to be copied into your projects. It includes detailed explanations of every type of active filter commonly used for audio, along with a spreadsheet that calculates their component values, as well as Ohmâs Law and Decibels spreadsheets.Providing practical explanations of both simple and sophisticated audio circuits using minimal math and theory, this is an ideal manual for inte
£43.99
Taylor & Francis The Audio Expert
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£52.99
CRC Press Raw Outrage
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£49.39
Taylor & Francis Revisiting Peace Journalism in the Kenyan News
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£47.49
CRC Press Game Design Deep Dive
Book SynopsisGame Design Critic and expert Josh Bycer is back with another entry in the Game Design Deep Dive series for a look at one of the most popular, and confusing, genres out there. Metroidvania is a genre of high-highs and low-lows, and Josh is taking up the task to explain what a metroidvania is, the very long history and variety of it, and what you need to do to create one yourself. A look at the history of metroidvania design A primer on 2D platforming UI/UX Explaining the design and specific elements that make a metroidvania, or could be applied to other genres Perfect for designers and students alike
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£51.29
CRC Press Designing the User Experience of Game Development Tools
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£999.99
CRC Press How Video Games Made the Metaverse
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Taylor & Francis Societies at an AI Crossroads
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£50.34
Indy Pub Growing Fruit
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£26.60
Indy Pub Where the Wild Blueberries Grow
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£14.96
Indy Pub Sleepy Sloth Journal
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£11.12
Palgrave Macmillan Masculinity Class and Music Education Boys
Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction: Making Masculinities Through Music.- Chapter 2. Gendering the Boy Voice.- Chapter 3. Venerating Angels.- Chapter 4. Thinking about Masculinity, Class and Music with Bordieu.- Chapter 5. Capitalising on Musical Mothering.- Chapter 6. Becoming Choirboys.- Chapter 7. Vocalising Gender and Class.- Chapter 8. Practising Virtuosity.- Chapter 9. Conclusion.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Making Masculinities Through Music Chapter 2. Gendering the Boy Voice Chapter 3. Venerating Angels Chapter 4. Thinking about Masculinity, Class and Music with Bordieu Chapter 5. Capitalising on Musical Mothering Chapter 6. Becoming Choirboys Chapter 7. Vocalising Gender and Class Chapter 8. Practising Virtuosity Chapter 9. Conclusion
£98.99
Palgrave Macmillan Creativity and Education
Book SynopsisThis book advances an environmental approach to enhancing creativity in schools, by interweaving educational creativity theory with creative industries environmental approaches.Table of ContentsPreface.- Chapter 1. Research.- Chapter 2. Find Patterns.- Chapter 3. Ideate.- Chapter 4. Prototype.- Chapter 5. Iterate.
£74.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bringing Forth the New
Book SynopsisBringing Forth the New provides a headlong introduction into the world of Chinese contemporary visual art, opening from the art world onto the political, technological and economic vectors of recent Chinese history. Each chapter reads an important facet of recent Chinese history through the work of a significant artist. From examining trade war and intellectual property through the work of political pop painters such as Yu Youhan, to the development of gendered constructs in China through the work of Cui Xuiwen.Trade ReviewIn a series of dazzling close readings, Bringing Forth The New offers a non-stop stream of brilliant insights and historical elaborations. It is comparative scholarship of the best kind—moving with grace and trenchant analysis across vast realms of visual experience. Forging connections at every turn, Maizels turns what might at first seem like an arbitrary series of visual examples into an impressive dance of analytic virtuosity, articulating the complexities of “East” and “West” as remediated in Chinese art during the past several decades. No matter where one is situated in relation to its many themes, one will inevitably learn a great deal from this book. * R. John Williams, Yale University, USA *Table of Contents1. Our Own Arrows 2. One Way Glass 3. Half of Heaven 4. Degrees of Separation 5. Muted Situations 6. Survival Robot
£18.99
Manchester University Press Creative Approaches to Wellbeing
Book SynopsisA compilation of case studies illustrating how arts, culture and other community assets were used by individuals and communities to cope during the Covid-19 pandemic. Focusing on experiences and voices of those marginalised during the pandemic, vital lessons are drawn out for policy and practice in the arts and provision of health and care. -- .
£38.00
Vintage Publishing Nightshade
Book Synopsis'Engrossing...I loved each and every brushstroke' Ian Rankin'Nightshade is a glorious novel... full of twisted sexuality, art and power' ObserverCould the creative urge be the most destructive - even the deadliest - impulse of all? Could it end in death?Eve Laing, once the muse of an infamous painter, is now - forty years later - an artist herself. But she has sacrificed her career for her family. She resents the global success of her old college roommate. She is slowly unravelling.When Eve embarks on her most ambitious work yet, she takes a wrecking ball to her comfortable life, jettisoning her marriage for a beautiful young lover who seems to share her single-minded creative vision. This timely novel explores sexual politics, asking if the true artist must relinquish the ordinary human need for love and connection to pave the way for desire and ambition, leading to a fatal awakening...Trade ReviewNightshade is a glorious novel... full of twisted sexuality, art and power, about what it means to commit yourself entirely to the artistic life. The book's ending is unforgettable. -- Alex Preston * Observer *Brilliant and biting. -- Harriet Fitch Little * Financial Times *The drama of creation, of impending triumph or failure, and the expert rendering of the artistic process, all lift the novel to a new level...McAfee’s prose is lyrical yet sharp… the novel fascinates…and Nightshade’s questions continue to intrigue. -- Joanna Briscoe * Guardian *McAfee’s engaging novel combines a dark plot with a zestful skewering of the contemporary art world. -- Anthony Gardner * Mail on Sunday *Eve is a fascinating, plausible creation, both alluring and monstrous in her all-consuming self-regard. * Metro *
£8.54
Bellissima Publishing What You See Is What You'll Get!
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£9.60
Bellissima Publishing You'll Never Know . . . If You Don't Try!
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£9.60
Cambria Press A History of Taiwan Literature
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£86.39
Buckman Publishing LLC The Right Tool: and Other Poor Choices
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£13.30
