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Contingent Encounters Improvisation in Music and Everyday Life
Contingent Encounters offers a sustained comparative study of improvisation as it appears between music and everyday life. Drawing on work in musicology, cultural studies, and critical improvisation studies, as well as his own performing experience, Dan DiPiero argues that comparing improvisation across domains calls into question how improvisation is typically recognized. By comparing the musi…
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- 9780472903115
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Bioresource and Stress Management
This book is a compilation of recent global measures to conserve bio-resources and manage biotic and abiotic stresses. It highlights emerging issues related to agriculture, abiotic and biotic stress factors, ethnic knowledge, climate change and global warming, as well as natural resources and their sustainable management. It also focuses on the consolidated efforts of scientists and academics e…
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- 978-981-10-0995-2
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- XV, 276
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- 150.6
Handbook of Vocational Rehabilitation and Disability Evaluation :Application …
This book presents the state of the art in the application and implementation of the WHO's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) in the areas of vocational rehabilitation as a primary topic and disability evaluation as a secondary topic. Application of the ICF and implementation strategies toward a holistic and comprehensive approach to work disability and voc…
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- 978-3-319-08824-2
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- XI, 571
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- Handbooks in Health, Work, and Disability
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- 150 HAN
AiKiDô: The Trinity of Conflict Transformation
In this volume, nine renowned experts delineate their theoretical or methodological approach of Aikidô in potentiating constructive handling of social conflicts. The authors depict the contribution of the Japanese self-defensive art Aikidô to the theory and practice of conflict transformation. The concept of Elicitive Conflict Transformation (Lederach, Dietrich) necessarily calls for a revise…
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- 978-3-658-10166-4
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- VIII, 237
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- Elicitiva – Friedensforschung und Humanistische Psychologie
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- 150 AIK a
Excavations at Portchester Castle Vol. V: Post Medieval 1609–1819
In the fifth and final report on the excavations at Portchester Castle, the last stage of the castle’s useful life is considered in full. The excavations undertaken between 1961 and 1979 brough to light structural evidence of the various buildings erected during the period 1609–1819, together with a large collection of varied artefacts. This evidence is presented against the backgrounds of …
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- 9780854312641
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Grate-Fired Energy Crop Conversion Experiences with Brassica Carinata and Po…
This book provides important insights into the combustion behavior of novel energy crops and agricultural fuels. It describes a new experimental approach to combustion evaluation, involving fundamental, bench-scale and commercial-scale studies. The studies presented were conducted on two representative biomass energy crops: a woody biomass poplar (Populus sp. or poplar) and an herbaceous biomas…
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- 978-3-319-20758-2
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- XX, 194
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- 621 DIA g
Media and Education in the Digital Age : Concepts, Assessments, Subversions
This book is an invitation to informed and critical participation in the current debate on the role of digital technology in education and a comprehensive introduction to the most relevant issues in this debate. After an early wave of enthusiasm about the emancipative opportunities of the digital «revolution» in education, recent contributions invite caution, if not scepticism. This colle…
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- 9783631651544
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- 366 halaman
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- 370 MED
Derailed Organizational Interventions for Stress and Well-Being: Confessions …
Providing an overview of researchers' and practitioners’ “confessions” on the fascinating phenomenon of failed or derailed organizational health and well-being interventions and contextualizing these confessions is the aim of this innovative volume. Organizational intervention failures, paradoxes and unexpected consequences can offer a lot of rich and extremely useful practical lessons on…
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- 9789401798679
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- XXIV, 286
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- 158.72
Absolute Clauses in English from the Systemic Functional Perspective: A Corpu…
This book focuses on the structural diversity, semantic variability, case choice, stylistic characteristics and diachronic distribution of English absolute clauses. The syntactic roles assumed by absolute clauses in the traditional sense can be categorized into clausal adjuncts, attendant circumstances and appositives. These three types of function correspond to the three hypotactic expansions …
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- 978-3-662-46367-3
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- XX, 178
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- The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series
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- 400 HEQ a
Early Greek Alphabetic Writing : A Linguistic Approach
Despite the flourishing of epichoric studies on the Archaic Greek scripts in the 1960s, embodied by archaeologists Lilian Hamilton Jeffery and Margherita Guarducci, most scholarship on early alphabetic writing in Greece has focused on questions around the origin of ‘the Greek alphabet’ instead of acknowledging the diversity of alphabetic systems that emerged in Geometric and Archaic times. …
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- 9780000000845
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- 411 AST e
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