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The economics of music
The second edition of this popular introduction to the economic workings of the music business explores the impact of the pandemic at every level of the sector and considers how the business model may need to change going forward as different stakeholder positions shift.
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Elinor ostrom and the bloomington school
This collection of essays offers a critical assessment of Elinor Ostrom’s legacy, the establishment of the Bloomington School, and the value of interdisciplinary methods within economics and the social sciences.
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Learning and sustainability in dangerous times
Stephen Sterling is a pioneer in sustainability education. This collection of his essential writings is freshly curated by the author and offers a new overview and chapter by chapter introductions that link together his thinking to inform the growing and urgent debate on the role and nature of ed...
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Social preferences
An introdution to one of the key areas of behavioural economics – social preferences – which explains in clear, untechnical language how experimental research in this area has provided economists with much greater understanding of economic behaviour.
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Ignorance
Sally Tomlinson traces our trajectory from the ignorance of the early twentieth century to the dangers that current educational approaches pose for our future citizens.
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Financialization
An unrivalled analysis of the pervasive forms that financialization has taken, its rise as a global phenomenon, its impact on economic growth, its transformative effect on businesses and the costs that we pay as consumers. Has finance become a burden to growth and what, if anything, can be done t...
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Race and the undeserving poor
A major new work that charts the historical development of a postcolonial settlement that has given rise to a racialized distintion between the "deserving" and "undeserving" poor, the latest incarnation of which is a distinction between a deserving, neglected white working class and "others" who ...
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Quantitative easing
A thorough and perspicacious analysis of auantitative easing (QE), what has become a recovery method of last resort, that will be essential reading for anyone wanting to understand central banking’s role in the national economy.
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In defence of philanthropy
An impassioned defence of the role of philanthropy in society.
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Financial inclusion
Employs a range of case studies to examine the success and failure of financial inclusion policy implementations and considers the social impact and efficacy of such economic intervention.
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How to save the city
Paul Chatterton engages, inspires and empowers the reader to take action to make cities more sustainable, liveable and safer places. He guides the reader through a sequence of challenges, strategies, players, moves and practical tactics of how to save their city.
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Politicians and economic experts
In recent years politics has seen an increasing role in economic policy-making for a technocracy of experts. How do politicians feel about this and how do they balance their political and ethical aims with economic expertise?
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The money laundering market
An international team of contributors explores the challenges of money laundering in the digital age and how best to regulate it in a globalized world.
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New york
A comprehensive analysis of the political, economic and social dynamics that have made New York a megacity today.
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The economics of arms
An authoritative, non-technical introduction to the economics of the arms industry by one of the world's leading defence economists.
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The russian economy
A new introduction to the modern Russian economy, one that explores Russia's continued tentative and inconsistent use of the market and the microfoundations and leadership norms of Russia's "sistema" that continue to inhibit liberalization.
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Conservatism
An account of British conservativism which avoids the usual confusion between the ideology and the stated principles of a party which prides itself on an ability to change its views according to circumstances.
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The economics of construction
Contributing around 10 per cent of world GDP, the construction sector is one of the biggest industries in the world. Stephen Gruneberg and Noble Francis, two of the UK’s leading construction economists, present an up-to-date analysis of the construction industry’s business model and the challenge...
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The economics of airlines
This updated and expanded new edition explains the economic realities of the airline industry and the challenges that the sector now faces after the seismic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Populism
This volume contributes a Latin American perspective to the global debate on populism. It argues that Latin America in its rich and early experience of populism is a valuable laboratory to take our understanding forward and to address the question of whether populism goes beyond the dichotomy of ...
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Xiconomics
This concise and incisive analysis unpicks the likely practical implications for the international community of China's announced reorientation of its economy towards protecting its domestic market.
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Mexico city
Mexico City is the second largest city on the American continent, the most populous Spanish-speaking city in the world and the richest city, in terms of GFP, in Latin America. The authors explore the political structures, demography, economy, social issues and public administration that make this...
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Driving change
A critical overview of transport in the UK, which offers recommendations on how policy-makers might approach technological advancements in modern transportation systems.
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Supercharge me
Almost everyone agrees on the need to transition the global economy to net zero. But how do we do it? And how do we do it faster? This book provides answers – and ones that don’t involve punishing lifestyle changes, the end of capitalism, or a much higher tax bill.
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Care
Caring is a central aspect of our being. It anchors us to the world and to one another. And yet, understanding what caring is and how it operates in our lives is a challenge. This fascinating book meets that challenge, by canvassing various approaches to care and offering an overview of the key r...
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The cultural infrastructure of cities
This collection of essays offers a fresh perspective on infrastructure, inviting readers to (re)consider the ways that culture is produced and expressed within cities by examining the geographies of its spaces, venues, performances and embodiments.
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What matters most
This collection of philosophical conversations invite us to think anew about the complexities and challenges involved in living a good life in a world characterized by uncertainty and change.
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The mexican economy
A concise and up to date analysis of Mexico’s economic development and the country’s political economy suitable for a range of courses in Latin American studies and Development Studies.
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Divided they fell
Examines the failures of mainstream politics, and in particular the inability of the centre-left – the UK Labour Party and France's Parti Socialiste – to respond to the Great Recession more effectively.
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Language of tomorrow
A comprehensive guide to the history, evolution and current forms of pictographic communication, from Mesopotamian writing systems to emojis. It also discusses the future of communication and the possibility of developing a standardized universal pictographic language. 73 b/w 37 col. illus.
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World film locations: los angeles
World Film Locations: Los Angeles Volume 2 is an engaging and highly visual city-wide tour of both well known and slightly lesser known films shot on location in one of the birthplaces of cinema and the ‘screen spectacle’. It pairs 50 synopses of carefully chosen film scenes with evocative full-c...
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Heavy metal and disability
A groundbreaking collection that examines the relationship between heavy metal and disability. The authors, some of whom define themselves as disabled, discuss a wide range of issues, including how people with disabilities engage with metal as musicians, fans, and how heavy metal constructs the d...
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New queer television
This edited volume draws attention to a dynamic field in which a wide variety of queer identities can be put on display and consumed by audiences rather than framed as marginal. Cementing a foundational understanding of queerness that is at odds with current shifts in media production, contributo...
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Applied arts and health
Edited collection presents diverse approaches in creative arts engagement, with emphasis on creativity and wellbeing in education and community development. Focussing on applied arts and health practice, research, scholarship, expressive arts therapy, community and education, it advances integrat...
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Watch this space
Watch This Space is a collection of insightful essays on the interconnectedness of urban design, architecture and moving image studies. 82 b&w illus.
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Dystopian and utopian impulses in art making
Explores a variety of artistic responses to contemporary global crises including climate emergency, global and local inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic. Focuses on how artistic production is adapting and offers a series of artistic, curatorial considerations and pedagogical proposals for the ...
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Life
Explores nature, cognition and society as an interwoven tapestry across disciplinary boundaries, examining how information and communication are instrumental in and for living systems. Integrates a fuller and richer account through the physical, life, cognitive, social sciences and the arts. 51 b...
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Following the score
This book is a critical frame for a body of devised work that toured extensively nationally and internationally, The Ravel Trilogy. The three performances, Bolero (2014), Concerto (2016) and Solo (2018), set out to explore the dramaturgy of music and the musicality of drama. The playtexts are fra...
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Dancing to transform
Uses original studies of four dance companies to examine the religious lives of American Christians who are also professional dancers. Explores how practices of dancing and Christianity, and experience and performance contexts influence and shape approaches to creating, transforming and performin...
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The bitter landscapes of palestine
Through an interplay of words and images, this book documents the life of Palestinian communities of shepherds and farmers under Israeli occupation that threatens their very survival. Years of human rights activism in Palestine have guided the authors in crafting this unique visual and verbal rec...
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Music making and civic imagination
This book explores the idea of music making (musicing) - the ‘performance’ of human relationships through music - as a resource for imagining possible futures. Through practical examples, it highlights the value of musicing as a resource for human evolution and sustainable development, through th...
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The future of humanity (second edition)
Additional Prefaces from Theodore Jay Gordon, Hazel Henderson, Randeep Sudan, and new original material in each chapter. Considers impact of Covid-19 and influence beyond health and hygiene, impact on economic, social and geopolitical affairs, and the need to change established behaviour patterns...
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Hip-hop archives
Explores multiple aspects of hip-hop archives in a global context, including methods of accumulation, curation, preservation, and digitization. This collection critically analyzes institutional power, geopolitical influences and the ideological implications associated with hip-hop culture’s tensi...
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(re)viewing creative, critical and commercial practices in contemporary spanish cinema
This volume is a reassessment of contemporary Spanish cinema from 1992 to 2012, bringing leading academics from a broad range of disciplinary and geographical backgrounds into dialogue with critically and commercially successful practitioners to suggest the need to redefine the parameters of one ...
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Spectacle, entertainment, and recreation in late ottoman and early turkish republican cities
An analysis of entertainment, spectacle and recreation activities and spaces of late Ottoman and early Turkish cities, discussing their evolution, and significance for the urban life as well as their interaction with society’s modernization processes, through contributions of numerous authors por...
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Art from your core
A holistic guide to finding and cultivating the art that you alone were born to make. Through a series of exercises, artists peel away the cultural and psychological obstacles to building a resonant life, and dig deeply into their own unique identities and experiences to unearth and intensify the...
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Propositions for museum education
Examines the ways international art educators are engaging with twenty-first-century challenges in museum education. Organized into five sections, this collection reconceptualizes the role of museums via new technologies, socially just practices, accessibility, differences in lived experiences, a...
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Cultural industries in shanghai
This volume gathers articles by Chinese scholars dealing with developments in Shanghai’s cultural industries over the past thirty years. Like many cities in China and elsewhere, Shanghai has explicitly stated that fostering the creative economy is its top economic and political priority over the ...
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The urban refugee
This collection focuses on the spatial forms and urban consequences of forced migration. The chapters shed light on the multiple dimensions of the refugees’ urban experiences from the scale of the interiors to inner city neighborhoods and informal settlements, and from personal accounts to the fo...
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Modelling international collaborations in art education
Explores online and in-person collaboration as a means of international experience for university art students. Based on a decade of experience, pedagogical and methodological topics are illustrated with student projects, inspiring reflection on teaching and artmaking strategies in online spaces,...
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Wild renaissance
Offers a new and original way of understanding the current ecological turmoil through the lens of art, philosophy and ecology. Draws on a new concept of renaissance and proposes a 360° vision on how to dwell on Earth. The role of art and design appear of paramount importance and play a crucial ro...
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Applied theatre, third edition
Applied Theatre is recognized as the key text in the field of applied theatre and has been adopted by teaching programs around the world. Recipient of the Distinguished Book Award from the American Alliance for Theatre Education in 2010. Third edition includes refreshed case studies, providing ex...
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Living metal
This collection of thirteen essays is an exploration of metal scenes throughout the world, from Dayton to Hull, from Copenhagen to Osaka. Unique portrayal of how these scenes developed, are experienced by fans, and are influenced by the contexts in which they are embedded. Foreword by Henkka Sepp...
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Provoking the field
Provoking the Field invites debate on, and provides an essential resource for, transnational arts-based scholars engaged in critical analyses of international visual arts education and its enquiry in doctoral research. The book encompasses creative research practices in the visual arts, and advan...
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Art education in canadian museums
Surveys how art educators are engaging with a new range of approaches to museum education, responding to modern challenges in ways that are uniquely Canadian. Organized into three sections, this collection reconceptualizes museums to consider accessibility, differences in lived experiences, and h...
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Walking in art education
This edited collection highlights ways that arts-educators have taken up important questions around environmental sustainability and land stewardship through walking practices across spatial, temporal and cultural differences. 42 b&w illus.
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Digital experience design
Although the dot-com bubble burst long ago, the interactive media industry is still flush with fresh talent, new ideas and financial success. Digital Experience Design chronicles the diverse histories and perspectives of people working in the dot-com world alongside an account of the current issu...
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Imagining antiquity in islamic societies
Long before the Taliban, ISIS and other iconoclasts, Muslims imagined localities of antiquity as places imbued with didactic, historical and moral power. In thirteen articles by leading scholars covering the eighth century to the present, this book explores diverse ways Muslims have valued the ma...
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Islamic architecture today and tomorrow
Scholars and practitioners from the realm of 'Islamic architecture’ consider its changing nature and continued significance. Reflective essays address the meaning of ‘Islamic’ in built environments, and the geographical, chronological, disciplinary diversity of a dynamic field of study encompassi...
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Beijing film academy yearbook 2017
The annual Beijing Film Academy Yearbook continues to showcase the best academic debates, discussions and research published in the prestigious Journal of Beijing Film Academy from the previous year. This volume brings together specially selected articles, covering the most up-to-date topics in C...
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Media materialities
Brings together a breadth of perspectives addressing media materialities, and their significance to the study of media, culture, and society. Offers new thinking and perspectives on media materialities, including work that explores media materiality, and the past, physical and digital tensions an...
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Australian post-war documentary film
The postwar period in Australian history was rife with critical debate over notions of nation-building, multiculturalism and internationalization. Australian Post-War Documentary Film tackles these issues in a considered, wide-ranging analysis of three types of documentaries: governmental, instit...
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Beijing film academy 2020
The Beijing Film Academy Yearbook highlights the best academic debates, discussions and research, as published in the highly prestigious Journal of Beijing Film Academy in 2020. This volume brings together specially selected articles, appearing in English for the first time, to bridge the gap in ...
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Infrastructure in dystopian and post-apocalyptic film, 1968-2021
Changes to infrastructure allow us to see imagined worlds better, and we can look to dystopian and post-apocalyptic movies from 1968 to 2021 for a sense of where we might begin to re-design and retrofit our current world to face the dystopias and possible apocalypses of our own making. 31 b&w...
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Queer contemporary art of southwest asia north africa
Presents new perspectives on queer visual culture in the Southwest Asia North Africa region from artists and scholars. The volume focuses on artworks produced in the contemporary era while recognizing historical and contextual connections to regional and Islamic art and culture. 48 b&w illus....
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The cultural meaning of aleppo
A documentation of the cultural meaning of the urban landscape of the Ancient City of Aleppo though the urban structures and characteristic courtyard houses, this is both a theoretical and practical handbook for architects, urban planners and restorers alike. 70 b/w illus. Free sample: Introduc...
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