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  • Chinese Urban Shi-nema

    Cinematicity, Society and Millennial China

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book dives into the mise-en-scène of contemporary China to explore the “becoming cinema” of Chinese cities, societies, and subjectivities. Set in the wake of China’s radical and rapid period of urbanization and infrastructural transformation, and situating itself in the processual city of Ningbo, the book combines empirical, ficto-critical, and philosophical methods to generate a dynamic ... Read more

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  • Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care in Mental Health Settings

    This edited collection about good practice for mental health chaplains and other related professionals looks at how spirituality is viewed across mental health fields. It identifies what mental health chaplaincy is, how mental health chaplaincy interacts with other organisations like the NHS, and what good practice means with examples of positive and fulfilling experiences in mental health ... Read more

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  • Physics in Food Manufacturing

    Case studies in fundamental and applied research

    Series series IOP ebooks
    This book is the first authoritative text on the role that physicists play in solving the inherently multidisciplinary science and technology challenges in food manufacturing. Topics range from designing safe, nutritious and great-tasting foods to the process technology and manufacturing know-how needed to deliver compelling product innovation. The book provides a foundational resource for the ... Read more

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  • Dark Trophies

    Hunting and the Enemy Body in Modern War

    Many anthropological accounts of warfare in indigenous societies have described the taking of heads or other body parts as trophies. But almost nothing is known of the prevalence of trophy-taking of this sort in the armed forces of contemporary nation-states. This book is a history of this type of misconduct among military personnel over the past two centuries, exploring its close connections with ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Impulse to Gesture

    Where Language, Minds, and Bodies Intersect

    Gestures are central to the way people use language when they interact. This book places our impulse to gesture at the very heart of linguistic structure: grammar. Based on the phenomenon of negation - a linguistic universal with clear grammatical and gestural manifestations - Simon Harrison argues that linguistic concepts are fundamentally multi modal and shows how they lead to recurrent bindings ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Cross-Curricular Teaching and Learning in the Secondary School... Humanities

    History, Geography, Religious Studies and Citizenship

    Series series Cross-Curricular Teaching and Learning in...
    What is the role of the humanities in the modern school? Should geography, history, RE and Citizenship teachers remain faithful to long-standing subject cultures and pedagogies? Or is there another way to consider how the curriculum, and the notion of individual subjects and teachers’ pedagogy, could be constructed?Drawing on case studies taken from a range of innovative secondary schools, and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Last Days of Troy

    A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation

    Unabridged

    1 hour 53 min

    Lily Cole stars as Helen of Troy, ‘the face that launched a thousand ships’, in Simon Armitage’s vivid, visceral adaptation of Homer’s Iliad and Virgil’s AeneidFor ten years, the Greeks have been laying siege to Troy to win back their abducted queen, Helen. But as the war drags on, and the battlefields run scarlet with blood, the opposing forces are entrenched in a bitter stalemate. As Gods and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Portrait of a Lady

    Penguin Classics

    by Henry James ...
    Narrated by Simon Harrison ...

    Unabridged

    23 hours 14 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Simon Harrison, best known for his roles in Everest, Transformers: The Last Knight and London Has Fallen. This definitive edition includes an Introduction by Philip Horne.When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Advanced Influence: The Latest Psychological Strategies for Persuading and Inspiring

    Narrated by Digital Voice Morgan G ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 13 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Prepare to master the art of influence with "Advanced Influence: The Latest Psychological Strategies for Persuading and Inspiring." This cutting-edge guide unlocks the secrets of effective persuasion, empowering you to navigate interpersonal interactions with ease and leave a lasting impact on those around you.Drawing on the latest psychological ... Read more

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  • What Is History, Now?

    This groundbreaking new collection addresses the burning issue of how we interpret history today. What stories are told, and by whom, who should be celebrated, and what rewritten, are questions that have been asked recently not just within the history world, but by all of us. Featuring a diverse mix of writers, both bestselling names and emerging voices, this is the history book we need NOW.WHAT ... Read more

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  • Speculative Everything

    Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming

    How to use design as a tool to create not only things but ideas, to speculate about possible futures.Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose a kind of design that is used as a tool to create not only things but ideas. For them, design is a means of speculating about how things could be—to ... Read more

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