Unlocking Social Theory with Popular Culture

This book demonstrates how pop culture examples can be used to demystify complex social theory. It provides tangible, metaphorical examples that shows how it is possible to "do philosophy" rather than subscribe to a theorist by showing that each theorist intersects and overlaps with others. The book is embedded in the literary theory that tapping into background knowledge is a key step in h…

Representing Place and Territorial Identities in Europe

This book provides insight into the topic of place and territorial identity, which involves both the dimension of collective belonging and the politics of territorial planning and enhancement. It considers the social, economic and political effects of territorial identity representations among others in terms of mystification, spatial fetishism, and the creation of place and territorial stereot…

Cultural Studies Methodology and Political Strategy

This book is an intervention into cultural studies' theoretical and methodological foundations. It addresses a crisis in conjunctural analysis: that there is no theorized method for conjunctural analysis as it pertains to recognizing a conjunctural shift or the emergence of an organic crisis. This crisis is connected to the belief that the definition of the conjuncture is ambiguous in Gramsciâ€â€¦

Domesticity on Display

This book examines postsocialist transformations reflected in urban middle-class domestic spaces and in museums dedicated to socialism in Romania. It focuses on the significance and circulation of porcelain and crystal sets and ornaments during late socialism and after 1989, following the experiences of consumers, workers in the glassware and porcelain industry, and artists. By tracing the valu…

Explosions in the Mind

This book explores how to compose sounds and visualisations that represent psychedelic hallucinations and experiences of synaesthesia. Through a detailed discussion regarding compositional methodologies and technical approaches, the book aims to educate students, practitioners, and researchers working in related areas. It weaves together sound, visual design, and code across a range of media, p…

Analyzing Digital Discourses

This book contributes to the scholarly debate on the forms and patterns of interaction and discourse in modern digital communication by probing some of the social functions that online communication has for its users. An array of experts and scholars in the field address a range of forms of social interaction and discourses expressed by users on social networks and in public media. Social funct…

The Culture and Communities Mapping Project

This book describes three years of work by the Culture and Communities Mapping Project, a research project based in Edinburgh that uses maps as an object of study and also a means to facilitate research. Taking a self-reflexive approach, the book draws on a variety of iterative mapping procedures and visual methodologies, from online virtual tours to photo elicitation, to capture the voices of …

Geographically Isolated and Peripheral Music Scenes

This book explores the influence of geographical isolation and peripherality on the functioning of music industries and scenes which operate within and from such locales. As is explored, these sites engage dynamic practices to offset challenges resulting from geographical isolation and peripherality.

International Handbook on Abortion

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0-313-23463-9

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xii, 520 p.; 24 cm.

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363.46 Int i

HANDBOOK OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS: VOLUME 2B AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD POLICY

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0-444-51079-6

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xxi, 2247 p. : ill. ; 24,5 cm

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Handbook in Economics 18

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338.1 Gar h

CROSS-BRODERING DYNAMICS IN EDUCATION AND LIFELONG LEARNING: A PERSPECTIVE FR…

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978-1-03-208514-2

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xi, 172 p. ; 23 cm

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371.04 Cro c

Schooling Around the World: DEBATES, CHALLENGES, AND PRACTICES

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1st

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0-205-45459-3

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384 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

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370.9 Maz s

methods for INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION RESEARCH, Volume VIII

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0-8039-2262-0

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248 p. ; 21 cm

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303.458 Met m

Bondi Beach

Bondi Beach is a history of an iconic place. It is a big history of geological origins, management by Aboriginal people, environmental despoliation by white Australians, and the formation of beach cultures. It is also a local history of the name Bondi, the origins of the Big Rock at Ben Buckler, the motives of early land holders, the tragedy known as Black Sunday, the hostilities between lifesa…

Adding English Cantonese French Punjabi Spanish Arabic Portuguese Tagalog: A …

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978-0-88751-095-3

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xxii, p : ill. ; 23 cm

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428 Coe a

INSIDE CENTRAL ASIA: A POLITICAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF UZBEKISTAN, TURKMENI…

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978-1-59020-333-0

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464 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

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320.56 Hir i

CROSS CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING

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iv, 191 p.; 28 cm.

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303.482 Leo c

The Return of the South Pole Sled Dogs

This book documents the return of the surviving sled dogs of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition of 1910–1912 from Antarctica, where they had helped Roald Amundsen become the first human to reach the South Pole. This book is the sequel to the highly acclaimed Roald Amundsen’s Sled Dogs: The Sledge Dogs Who Helped Discover the South Pole. It chronicles how the sled dogs were used internationa…

Multicultural Responsiveness in Counselling and Psychology

This textbook explores cultural responsiveness needed for working with diverse Australian communities in psychology and counselling settings, as well as in social science research. Key concepts essential for self-awareness and multicultural understanding are discussed in detail, encouraging readers to explore socialisation, discrimination and bias as well as effective principles for change. Top…

Narrative Inquiry into Reciprocal Learning Between Canada-China Sister Schools

This edited volume explores how Chinese school-based educators learn from others and attain awareness in dialogue with the world in an era of increasing globalization and information exchange. Minzhu Primary School in Shanghai, China, and Bay Street School in Toronto, Canada, have been connected as sister schools of cross-cultural exchange since 2008. Together, they have explored ways to recipr…

Teacher Education for Critical and Reflexive Interculturality

This book deals with the importance of interculturality in teacher education and training. It is mostly through the concept of intercultural competence that interculturality has been constructed and problematized for educators. However, different approaches and paradigms are available and differ and/or share similarities in terms of ideology, method, practice, theoretical frameworks, and ethica…

Diseases of Forest Trees and their Management

The book is intended to provide comprehensive introduction to the important aspects of the field of forest pathology and tree diseases. The book is arranged in two major parts. The fundamental chapters, present forest diseases, pathogens, epidemics, and management that is applicable to all forest trees. The applied chapters on the individual crops that are grouped alphabetically present informa…

Preservation and Reuse Design for Fragile Territories’ Settlements

This book reports on an architectural conservation and reuse project in Anipemza, an Armenian Soviet-era village on the Turkish border, just a few steps away from the important Yererouyk archaeological site. Based on current tourist trends, the book suggests the development of a social system and micro-economic reactivation model to endorse the territory’s numerous cultural resources and pres…

Global Perspectives on Dialogue in the Classroom

This book explores globally-informed, culturally-rooted approaches to dialogue in the classroom. It seeks to fill gaps in communication and education literature related to decolonizing dialogue and breaking binaries by decentering Eurocentric perspectives and providing space for dialogic practices grounded in cultural wealth of students and teachers. We first describe the book’s genesis, cont…

Data Analytics for Cultural Heritage

This book considers the challenges related to the effective implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies to the cultural heritage digitization process. Particular focus is placed on improvements to the data acquisition stage, as well as the data enrichment and curation stages, using advanced artificial intelligence techniques and tools. An emphasis is pl…

Intercultural Competence Past, Present and Future

This book explores the benefits of teaching reflection upon one’s own culture to develop intercultural competence and looks into the relationship between the proficiency level of the second language and the target culture. It introduces new debates on the concept of ‘critical cultural awareness’ in intercultural learning and teaching, for example the indiscriminate use of terminologies re…

New Developments of IT, IoT and ICT Applied to Agriculture

The proceedings publishes new research results of scholars from the First International Conference on Agriculture and Information (ICAIT2019) organized by IRNet International Academic Communication Center, held during November 22-24, 2019. The book covers works from active researchers who are working on collaboration of agriculture and various information technologies such as ICT (Information a…

MECHANICS OF CUTTING PLANT MATERIAL

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0-916150-86-0

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viii, 288 p. ; 23 cm

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631 Mec m

Cultural Landscape in Practice

This book approaches cultural landscape as a driver for societal challenges, economic development, social inclusion, place assessment and heritage conservation. It explores issues stemming from the relation between conservation and emergencies, and identifies descriptive tools for conveying knowledge and generating new expertise, heritage skills, seismic culture and social resilience. The do…

BIOFUELS from AGRICULTURAL WASTES and BYPRODUCTS

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978-0-8138-0252-7 A

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xi, 261 p. ; 23 cm

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662.88 Bla b