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Athlete Activism: Contemporary Perspectives
This book examines the phenomenon of athlete activism across all levels of sport, from elite and international sport, to collegiate and semi-pro, and asks what this tells us about the relationship between sport and wider society.With contributions from scholars around the world, the book presents a series of fascinating case studies, including the activism of world-famous athletes such as Seren…
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- 9780367690700
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- 796
The Making of the Wandering Earth : a Film Production Handbook
The Wandering Earth, Chinese science fiction, VFX-heavy science fiction films
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- 9781032036519
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- 778.53
Hong Kong Architecture 1945-2015: from Colonial to Global
This book focuses on the transformation from colonial to global – the formation, mechanism, events, works and people related to urban architecture. The book reveals hardships the city encountered in the 1950s and the glamour enjoyed in the 1980s. It depicts the public and private developments, and especially the public housing which has sheltered millions of residents. The author identifies t…
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- 978-981-10-1003-3
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- XXIX, 337
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- 700
Ostrannenie. on "Strangeness" and the Moving Image. the History, Reception, a…
Ostrannenie (‘making it strange’) has become one of the central concepts of modern artistic practice, ranging over movements including Dada, postmodernism, epic theatre, and science fiction, as well as our response to arts. Coined by the ‘Russian Formalist’ Viktor Shklovsky in 1917, ostrannenie has come to resonate deeply in Film Studies, where it entered into dialogue with the Brechtia…
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- 9789089640796
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- 791.43 OEV o
31 the End of a Golden Era of British Music?
The creative industries, and particularly our UK Music industry, are perceived as healthy, resilient and strong. However, with the ongoing policy changes in secondary and higher education, as well as the continued cuts to council budgets and the ongoing lack of commitment to wealth distribution and even investment in the whole nation, this golden era of the creative industries in the UK may not…
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- 9781138498198
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Global Metal Music and Culture: current directions in metal studies
This book defines the key ideas, scholarly debates, and research activities that have contributed to the formation of the international and interdisciplinary field of Metal Studies. Drawing on insights from a wide range of disciplines including popular music, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and ethics, this volume offers new and innovative research on metal musicology, gl…
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- 9781317587248
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- 780
On Style : An Atelier
Scholarship in medieval studies of the past 20 or so years has offered some provocative experiments in, and elegant exempla of, style. Scholars such as Anne Clark Bartlett, Kathleen Biddick, Catherine Brown, Brantley Bryant, Michael Camille, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Carolyn Dinshaw, James Earl, L.O. Aranye Fradenburg, Roberta Frank, Amy Hollywood, Cary Howie, C. Stephen Jaeger, Eileen Joy, Anna Kl…
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- 9780615934020
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- 700 STY
Noise Thinks the Anthropocene: An Experiment in Noise Poetics
In an increasingly technologized and connected world, it seems as if noise must be increasing. Noise, however, is a complicated term with a complicated history. Noise can be traced through structures of power, theories of knowledge, communication, and scientific practice, as well as through questions of art, sound, and music. Thus, rather than assume that it must be increasing, this work has fo…
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- 9781950192052
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- 780
Suite on "Spiritus Silvestre" For Symphony
Charles D. Keeling, climate science, oceanography, music
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- 9780615747101
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- 780
Squatters in the Capitalist City :Housing, Justice, and Urban Politics
To date, there has been no comprehensive analysis of the disperse research on the squatters’ movement in Europe. In Squatters in the Capitalist City, Miguel A. Martínez López presents a critical review of the current research on squatting and of the historical development of the movements in European cities according to their major social, political and spatial dimensions. Comparing citi…
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- 9781317514749, 1317514742
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- 720
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