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Gamification in Education and Business
This book is dedicated to applied gamification in the areas of education and business, while also covering pitfalls to avoid and guidelines needed to successfully implement for a project. Using different theoretical backgrounds from various areas including behavioral economics, game theory, and complex adaptive systems, the contributors aim to help readers avoid common problems and difficulties…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-10207-8
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- LIV, 710
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- 794
Musical Composition in the Context of Globalization: New Perspectives on Musi…
Since the early transformation of European music practice and theory in the cultural centers of Asia, Latin America, and Africa around 1900, it has become necessary for music history to be conceived globally - a challenge that musicology has hardly faced yet. This book discusses the effects of cultural globalization on processes of composition and distribution of art music in the 20th and 21st …
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- 1
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- 9783839450956
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- 780 UTZ m
Music - Media - History: Re-Thinking Musicology in an Age of Digital Media
Music and sound shape the emotional content of audio-visual media and carry different meanings. This volume considers audio-visual material as a primary source for historiography. By analyzing how the same sounds are used in different media contexts at different times, the contributors intend to challenge the linear perspective of (music) history based on canonic authority. The book discusses A…
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- 1
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- 9783839451458
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- 780 MUS m
German Operetta on Broadway and in the West End, 1900-1940
Academic attention has focused on America’s influence on European stage works, and yet dozens of operettas from Austria and Germany were produced on Broadway and in the West End, and their impact on the musical life of the early twentieth century is undeniable.
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- 9781108614306
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- 782.12. SCO g
Documentary film festivals : Transformative learning, community building & so…
Documentary film festivals do more than provide a venue for watching films: they have the potential to foster critical thinking, especially toward mainstream media. The film festivals discussed in this book also help build a sense of community locally, as well as promote solidarity with people involved in struggles for social justice and ecological integrity around the world. Documentaries by i…
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- 1
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- 9789463004800
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- -
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- Transgressions
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- 791.45
Discrete optimization in architecture : architectural & urban layout
This book presents three projects that demonstrate the fundamental problems of architectural design and urban composition - the layout design, evaluation and optimization. Part I describes the functional layout design of a residential building, and an evaluation of the quality of a town square (plaza). The algorithm for the functional layout design is based on backtracking using a constraint sa…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789811011061
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- XIV, 105
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Architectural Design and Technology
- Call Number
- 720
Digital Painting Techniques Using Corel Painter 2016
Digital Painting Fundamentals covers concepts central to digital painting using the Inkscape 0.91 open source software package as well as the Corel Painter 2016 professional digital painting software package. What You Will Learn? The Terminology of Digital Painting? What Comprises a Digital Painting 2D Modeling and Rendering Pipeline? Concepts and Principles behind Digital Painting Content Prod…
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- 1
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- 9781484217368
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- XX, 215
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- Call Number
- 700
Digital Holography and Wavefront Sensing Principles, Techniques and Applications
This highly practical and self-contained guidebook explains the principles and major applications of digital hologram recording and numerical reconstruction (Digital Holography).
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- 2
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- 9783662446928
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- XI, 226
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- Call Number
- 774
Digital Electronics for Musicians
Digital Electronics for Musicians is the perfect book for musicians who want to dive into the world of computer music and physical computing. This book is aimed at adventurous musicians who want to learn about music programming with Arduino, sensors, and Pure Data, and how to make new interfaces and even new instruments with that knowledge.You’ll learn the basics of the Pure Data and Arduino …
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- 1
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- 9781484215845
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- XXI, 490
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- 786.7
Breakthrough! : 100 Astronomical Images That Changed the World
This unique volume by two renowned astrophotographers unveils the science and history behind 100 of the most significant astronomical images of all time. The authors have carefully selected their list of images from across time and technology to bring to the reader the most relevant photographic images spanning all eras of modern astronomical history. Based on scientific evidence today we have …
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-36035-5
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- -
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- -
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- 770
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