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The Philosophy of Mixed Martial Arts Squaring the Octagon

The Philosophy of Mixed Martial Arts Squaring the Octagon

Mixed martial arts (MMA)—unarmed fighting games permitting techniques derived from a variety of martial arts and combat sports— has exploded from the fringes of sport into a worldwide phenomenon a sport as controversial as it is compelling. This is the first book to pay MMA the serious philosophical attention it deserves. With contributions from leading international scholars of the philosophy of sport and martial arts the book explores topics such as whether MMA qualifies as a martial art the differences between MMA and the traditional martial arts the aesthetic dimensions of MMA the limits of consent and choice in MMA and whether MMA can promote moral virtues. It also explores cutting-edge practical and ethical topics including the role of gender in MMA and the question of whether trans athletes should be allowed to compete in the women’s divisions. The contributors to this anthology take down ground and pound and submit many essential questions about this fascinating recent development in the culture of sport and spectacle. This is important reading for anybody with an interest in combat sports martial arts or the philosophy sociology culture or history of sport. | The Philosophy of Mixed Martial Arts Squaring the Octagon

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Anti-Bias Education in the Early Childhood Classroom Hand in Hand Step by Step

Anti-Bias Education in the Early Childhood Classroom Hand in Hand Step by Step

Anti-Bias Education in the Early Childhood Classroom provides a useful clearly outlined guide for implementing anti-bias and anti-oppression practices in early childhood education settings. Throughout the book you’ll find: Stories from the field Strategies for keeping teaching practices in touch with growing social justice movements Tasks and questions to spark your professional growth in this important area Katie Kissinger uses her personal experience as a longtime educator to highlight both the challenges and the potential for transformative learning in the anti-bias classroom and gives other teachers the tools they need to create classrooms that welcome all students and families. | Anti-Bias Education in the Early Childhood Classroom Hand in Hand Step by Step

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Drawing the Line Technical Hand Drafting for Film and Television

Drawing the Line Technical Hand Drafting for Film and Television

This is the definitive guide for all aspects of scenic hand drafting for film and television now comprehensively updated and revised for its second edition. Author David McHenry utilizes 45 years of experience as a Designer Art Director Storyboard Artist and Draftsman to provide readers with an accessible step-by-step guide of professional techniques tools and workflows. Readers will discover how to draw the iconic scroll of a classical column or learn the difference between Flemish and English bond brickwork as well as all four types of drafting projection in detail: isometric oblique orthographic and axonometric. Also included is hard-to-find information on lens angles and their calculation for different screen aspect ratios how to create a lens projection image of a set with a given lens height and aspect ratio and how to create forced perspective. Beautifully illustrated with carefully crafted hand-drawn illustrations on every page this thoroughly revised text has been updated to include new examples and exercises and a revised glossary making it the ideal step-by-step guide to hand drafting for film and television. This is an essential resource for students of drafting for film and television scenic design and art direction courses. It will also hugely benefit professionals studying or working in film and television design. | Drawing the Line Technical Hand Drafting for Film and Television

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Drawing the Line: Technical Hand Drafting for Film and Television

Drawing the Line: Technical Hand Drafting for Film and Television

Drawing the Line: Technical Hand Drafting for Film and Television is the essential resource for students and aspiring professionals studying and working in film and television design. The book covers all aspects of scenic drafting by hand – a technique still used in film and television because of its unparalleled emotive and aesthetic qualities. Discover how to draw the iconic scroll of a classical column or learn the difference between Flemish bond and English bond brickwork – it is all here! Other key features include the following: Beautifully illustrated approachable step-by-step instructions for every aspect of scenic drafting – specific to film and television; Illustrated explanations of camera lenses including calculating aspect ratios and projections; Coverage of the four types of drafting projection: isometric oblique orthographic and axonometric; A comprehensive glossary of terms including an illustration of each entry. This beautiful book is clear accessible and a must-have for any student aspiring to work in film and television design.

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Deindustrialization and Casinos A Winning Hand?

Deindustrialization and Casinos A Winning Hand?

As governments increasingly legalize and expand the availability of casinos hoping to offset the impacts of manufacturing decline through the advancement of gambling commerce this book examines what casinos do—and do not do—for host communities in terms of economic growth. Examining the case generally made by those seeking to establish casino developments—that they offer benefits for the public good—the author draws on a case study of Canada’s automotive capital (Windsor Ontario) which was a pilot site for potential further casino development in the region. The author asks whether casinos do in fact offer good jobs revenue generation and economic diversification. A study of the benefits of casino developments that considers the question of whether they constitute a ready answer to the problems of industrial and economic decline this volume will appeal to scholars of sociology and urban studies with interests in the gambling industry economic sociology the sociology of work and urban regeneration. | Deindustrialization and Casinos A Winning Hand?

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Drafting Fundamentals for the Entertainment Classroom A Process-Based Introduction Integrating Hand Drafting Vectorworks and SketchUp

Drafting Fundamentals for the Entertainment Classroom A Process-Based Introduction Integrating Hand Drafting Vectorworks and SketchUp

Drafting Fundamentals for the Entertainment Classroom: A Process-Based Introduction to Hand Drafting Vectorworks and SketchUp guides students through a syllabus-formatted semester of integrated drafting concepts and skills. This book links beginner visualization practices with fundamental software knowledge through step-by-step exercises and examples. By presenting hand drafting and Vectorworks through incremental exercises students not only gain an understanding of the tools used in drafting but also learn why the tools practices and standards exist in the first place. SketchUp a user-friendly 3D modeling program is integrated into the various exercises to help readers visualize concepts and begin modeling their own ideas. By the end of the book students will understand drawing construction techniques United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT)-recommended graphic standards and the typical drawings created for entertainment design preparing them to dive more deeply into the further complexities and opportunities of Vectorworks and SketchUp. Drafting Fundamentals for the Entertainment Classroom is written to complement a 14- or 15-week semester of an Entertainment Drafting course. The book’s format also provides structure for independent and self-directed study. | Drafting Fundamentals for the Entertainment Classroom A Process-Based Introduction Integrating Hand Drafting Vectorworks and SketchUp

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A History of Russian Literature Comprising 'A History of Russian Literature' and 'Contemporary Russian Literature'

A History of Russian Literature Comprising 'A History of Russian Literature' and 'Contemporary Russian Literature'

This book first published in 1949 is an abridged version of Mirsky’s classic two texts on Russian literature updated with a postscript by the editor assessing the development of Soviet literature. Beautifully written Mirsky’s analyses of Russian writers and literature go hand in hand with his takes on Russian history. From the birth of Russian literature to its Soviet form this book is a lively and comprehensive examination by one of its leading scholars. | A History of Russian Literature Comprising 'A History of Russian Literature' and 'Contemporary Russian Literature'

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Reading to Write: A Textbook of Advanced Chinese

Reading to Write: A Textbook of Advanced Chinese

Traditionally reading and writing are believed to be separate but related language processes and teachers follow the conventional wisdom of teaching in-depth reading with writing as a tag-on issue. Therefore there exists an increasingly urgent call for a well-rounded reading-writing curriculum and a theoretically-informed empirically-based student-centered advanced textbook that aims to develop the synergy between reading and writing. Reading to Write: A Textbook of Advanced Chinese is intended to fill this significant gap. It treats reading and writing as integrative parts and interactive skills in Chinese language teaching putting them hand-in-hand supplementing each other.

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The Meat Business Devouring a Hungry Planet

The Meat Business Devouring a Hungry Planet

Originally published in 1999. The theme running through this collection of essays is that food quality and human health the welfare of animals and the methods of farming and the quality of the environment go hand-in-hand. This theme continues along the lines that the present system is harmful to them all and to our ability to generate enough good food for the whole world. The contributors to the volume offer alternatives - for more humane and moderate methods of farming which produce enough nourishing food without damaging the environment it depends on. | The Meat Business Devouring a Hungry Planet

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How Do I Get Them to Write? Explore the Reading-Writing Connection Using Freewriting and Mentor Texts to Motivate and Empower Students

How Do I Get Them to Write? Explore the Reading-Writing Connection Using Freewriting and Mentor Texts to Motivate and Empower Students

Committed to the premise that all students can learn to write with appropriate teaching modelling and practice How Do I Get Them To Write? argues that reading and writing go hand in hand. Through reading writing and the inevitable discussions that follow students learn from the experiences of others open their minds to many possibilities gain a glimpse into worlds unknown to them make connections to their own lives and reflect on their own choices and learning. An ideal resource for teachers who love writing as well as those who find it challenging. | How Do I Get Them to Write? Explore the Reading-Writing Connection Using Freewriting and Mentor Texts to Motivate and Empower Students

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Export Dependence versus the New Protectionism Constraints on Trade Policy in the Industrial World

Export Dependence versus the New Protectionism Constraints on Trade Policy in the Industrial World

In an international political economy characterised both by constancy and change this study first published in 1996 links together one seemingly incongruous continuity in international trade relations with an increasingly dramatic development in the economies of industrial countries. On the one hand industrialised countries have become progressively dependent upon one another. On the other hand the liberal international trade regime has yet to falter. These two points are tied together by seeking to explain the maintenance of liberal trade relations in terms of the mutual economic dependence of industrial countries. In particular the study examines what may be a fundamental constraint on trade protectionism today: the reliance of industrialised countries on external trade relations and especially on markets within the industrial world. | Export Dependence versus the New Protectionism Constraints on Trade Policy in the Industrial World

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The Monarch of Wit An Analytical and Comparative Study of the Poetry of John Donne

The Monarch of Wit An Analytical and Comparative Study of the Poetry of John Donne

First Published in 1951 The Monarch of Wit presents John Donne’s poetry in its proper context. The chief purpose of the book is to enable the reader to approach Donne’s poetry without preconceptions of what ‘metaphysical’ poetry is or ought to be. Some of the questions which the author constantly has in mind are these: What are the main resemblances and differences on the one hand between Donne’s poetry and Ben Jonson’s and on the other hand between Donne’s poetry and that of poets who are commonly regarded as his disciples? How much of Donne’s poetry may be appropriately described as metaphysical as personal or autobiographical or as the expression of what has been called a unified sensibility? This book is a must read for scholars and researchers of English poetry English literature and European literature. | The Monarch of Wit An Analytical and Comparative Study of the Poetry of John Donne

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Being Spiritual but Not Religious Past Present Future(s)

Being Spiritual but Not Religious Past Present Future(s)

In its most general sense the term Spiritual but Not Religious denotes those who on the one hand are disillusioned with traditional institutional religion and on the other hand feel that those same traditions contain deep wisdom about the human condition. This edited collection speaks to what national surveys agree is a growing social phenomenon referred to as the Spiritual but Not Religious Movement (SBNRM). Each essay of the volume engages the past present and future(s) of the SBNRM. Their collective contribution is analytic descriptive and prescriptive taking stock of not only the various analyses of the SBNRM to date but also the establishment of a new ground upon which the continued academic discussion can take place. This volume is a watershed in the growing academic and public interest in the SBNRM. As such it will vital reading for any academic involved in Religious Studies Spirituality and Sociology. | Being Spiritual but Not Religious Past Present Future(s)

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The Operas of Rameau Genesis Staging Reception

The Operas of Rameau Genesis Staging Reception

In recent years interest in Rameau’s operas has grown enormously. These works are no longer regarded as peripheral by performers and audiences but are increasingly staged in the world’s major opera houses and festivals while the production of first-rate recordings on CD and DVD continues to flourish. Such welcome developments have gone hand in hand with an upsurge in research on Rameau and his period. The present volume devoted solely to the composer’s operas reflects this scholarly activity. It brings together a substantial group of essays by an international team of scholars on a wide range of aspects of Rameau’s operas. The individual essays are informed by a variety of disciplines or sub-disciplines including literature archival studies musical analysis gender studies ballet and choreography dramaturgy and staging. The contents are addressed to a wide readership including not only scholars but also practical musicians stage directors dancers and choreographers. | The Operas of Rameau Genesis Staging Reception

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The Toyota Mindset The Ten Commandments of Taiichi Ohno

The Toyota Mindset The Ten Commandments of Taiichi Ohno

From the brilliant mind of a legend in the Lean Manufacturing world comes the reasoning behind the importance of using your intellect challenging your workers and why continuous improvement is not only a helpful tool but a necessity on the shop floor. Mr. Wakamatsu recounts captivating first hand experiences with the man who changed the way the world looks at manufacturing. | The Toyota Mindset The Ten Commandments of Taiichi Ohno

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Three Victorian Travellers Burton Blunt Doughty

Three Victorian Travellers Burton Blunt Doughty

First published in 1964. This book is concerned with impressions of Arabic culture on the British before the First World War. More particularly it is concerned with three Victorian travellers all of whom knew Arabic culture first hand through their travels in the Middle and Near East and especially in Arabia Arabic North Africa and the seaboard of the eastern Mediterranean. This title will be of interest to students of history. | Three Victorian Travellers Burton Blunt Doughty

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China Africa and Responsible International Engagement

China Africa and Responsible International Engagement

China’s increasing involvement in Africa is a controversial and hotly debated issue. On the one hand China has brought significant economic and political opportunities to the continent with large amounts of investment and infrastructure. On the other hand however China’s interests in Africa - including international strategy for multipolarity a boom in China-Africa trade and a strategic focus on energy – have been challenged as a form of neo-colonialism with claims that support for authoritarian governments has come at the expense of human rights the environment and good governance. This book analyses China’s responsibility in Africa through the lens of good governance China’s African policy policy implementation feedback from host countries and feedback from international society. Arguing for a new framework for evaluating China-Africa engagement it looks at four countries – Sudan (South Sudan) Nigeria South Africa and Ethiopia all of which represent typical features of China-Africa relations – to test China’s impact on the country and to analyse the factors in Africa that affect China’s ability to shoulder responsibility. It proves that China’s responsibility in Africa is affected by both the Chinese and African environments and that China’s positive or negative impacts on the host African countries are largely constrained by the political and economic situation within the host state. Containing information from first-hand interviews with African officials officials from China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs employees from Chinese State-owned enterprises who have been assigned to Africa and Chinese self-employers in Africa and using fieldwork from three African countries this book will be of significant interest to students and scholars of African and Chinese Politics International Relations and Development. | China Africa and Responsible International Engagement

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Understanding Young Chinese Backpackers The Pursuit of Freedom and Its Risks

Understanding Young Chinese Backpackers The Pursuit of Freedom and Its Risks

An activity that originated in Western societies backpacking has gained increasing popularity among Chinese millennials. In a spirit of the ‘search for self’ young Chinese backpackers have sought to display their pursuit of freedom independence and responsibility within an increasingly individualised society through backpacking. This volume investigates contemporary young Chinese persons’ views on backpacking culture and backpackers. A group of Chinese backpackers are studied using interview and participant observation and focus groups are conducted to study young professionals’ and university students’ attitudes towards backpacking. The results indicate a profound cultural change along with a degree of division. On the one hand the backpackers often begin their journey due to a desire to pursue freedom and use the pursuit as a process of reflexive awareness; on the other hand the risks of pursuing a freewheeling lifestyle within an individualised society drive the majority of them to return home. The author concludes that this phenomenon is a kind of ‘staged individualism’ describing how Chinese millennials strike a balance between individual interests and wider social obligations. Students and scholars of sociology tourism and youth culture will be interested in this volume. | Understanding Young Chinese Backpackers The Pursuit of Freedom and Its Risks

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Cambodia’s China Strategy Security Dilemmas of Embracing the Dragon

Cambodia’s China Strategy Security Dilemmas of Embracing the Dragon

This book explores the tensions within Cambodia’s foreign policy between a tight alignment with China on the one hand and Cambodia’s commitment to the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as well as its delicate foreign policy diversification towards other major powers on the other hand. It traces the long history of Cambodia’s quest for survival from its bigger and historically antagonistic neighbours – the Thai and the Vietnamese – and its struggle for security and independence from the two neighbours and external major powers particularly the United States and China. It discusses Cambodia’s geopolitical predicaments deriving from its location of being sandwiched between powerful neighbours and limited strategic options available for the Kingdom. The book also assesses recent developments in Cambodia’s relations with its neighbours and their implications for Cambodia’s increasingly tight alignment with China in recent years. It considers the extent to which the ruling regime in Cambodia depends on strong relations with China for its legitimacy and survival and argues that there are risks and danger for Cambodia in moving towards an increasingly tight alignment with China. | Cambodia’s China Strategy Security Dilemmas of Embracing the Dragon

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World Dance Cultures From Ritual to Spectacle

World Dance Cultures From Ritual to Spectacle

From healing fertility and religious rituals through theatrical entertainment to death ceremonies and ancestor worship World Dance Cultures introduces an extraordinary variety of dance forms practiced around the world. This highly illustrated textbook draws on wide-ranging historical documentation and first-hand accounts taking in India Bali Java Cambodia China Japan Hawai’i New Zealand Papua New Guinea Africa Turkey Spain Native America South America and the Caribbean. Each chapter covers a certain region’s distinctive dances pinpoints key issues and trends from the form’s development to its modern iteration and offers a wealth of study features including: Case Studies – zooming in on key details of a dance form’s cultural historical and religious contexts ‘Explorations’ – first-hand descriptions of dances from scholars anthropologists and practitioners ‘Think About’ – provocations to encourage critical analysis of dance forms and the ways in which they’re understood Discussion Questions – starting points for group work classroom seminars or individual study Further Study Tips – listing essential books essays and video material. Offering a comprehensive overview of each dance form covered with over 100 full color photos World Dance Cultures is an essential introductory resource for students and instructors alike. | World Dance Cultures From Ritual to Spectacle

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The Routledge Handbook to the Political Economy and Governance of the Americas

The Routledge Handbook to the Political Economy and Governance of the Americas

This handbook explores the political economy and governance of the Americas placing particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences. Forty-six chapters cover a range of Inter-American key concepts and dynamics. The flow of peoples goods resources knowledge and finances have on the one hand promoted interdependence and integration that cut across borders and link the countries of North and South America (including the Caribbean) together. On the other hand they have contributed to profound asymmetries between different places. The nature of this transversally related and multiply interconnected hemispheric region can only be captured through a transnational multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach. This handbook examines the direct and indirect political interventions geopolitical imaginaries inequalities interlinked economic developments and the forms of appropriation of the vast natural resources in the Americas. Expert contributors give a comprehensive overview of the theories practices and geographies that have shaped the economic dynamics of the region and their impact on both the political and natural landscape. This multidisciplinary approach will be of interest to a broad array of academic scholars and students in history sociology geography economics and political science as well as cultural postcolonial environmental and globalization studies. | The Routledge Handbook to the Political Economy and Governance of the Americas

GBP 42.99
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Cooperation in Chinese Communities Morality and Practice

Cooperation in Chinese Communities Morality and Practice

When humans cooperate what are the social and psychological mechanisms that enable them to do so successfully? Is cooperativeness something natural for humans built in to our species over the course of evolution or rather something that depends on cultural learning and social interaction? This book addresses these central questions concerning human nature and the nature of cooperation. The editors present a wide range of vivid anthropological case-studies focused on everyday cooperation in Chinese communities for example between children in Nanjing playing a ballgame; parents in Edinburgh organising a community school; villagers in Yunnan dealing with “common pool” resource problems; and families in Kinmen in Taiwan worshipping their dead together. On the one hand these case studies illustrate some uniquely Chinese cultural factors such as those related to kinship ideals and institutions that shape the experience and practice of cooperation. They also illustrate on the other hand how China’s recent history not least the rise and fall of collectivism in various forms continues to shape the experience of cooperation for ordinary people in China today. Finally they show that in spite of the cultural and historical particularity of Chinese cooperation it does share some underlying features that would be familiar to people coming from radically different backgrounds. | Cooperation in Chinese Communities Morality and Practice

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Peace or Democracy? Peacebuilding Dilemmas to Transition from Civil Wars

Peace or Democracy? Peacebuilding Dilemmas to Transition from Civil Wars

Contrary to the common belief that peace and democracy go hand in hand after a civil war Pereira Watts argues they are in fact at a crossroads. Offering an innovative framework based on Philosophical Actors and Tactical considerations Pereira Watts identifies 14 dynamic dilemmas in democratic peacebuilding with respective trade-offs. She focuses on explaining the contradictions in modern post-conflict recovery the challenges facing interim governments and the international community’s role. Based on an analysis of more than 40 countries between 1989 and 2022 and more than 60 UN peace operations she presents critical issues that commonly need to be addressed in such scenarios: Elections and Political Parties; the Constitution; Checks Balances and Power-sharing; Transitional Justice; Human Rights Amnesty Truth Commissions and War Crimes Tribunals; Disarmament Demobilization and Reintegration; and Media Reform and Civil Society. Solving any of these dilemmas leads to others that shape a complex apparatus for restoring peace and installing a new political regime. An essential resource for decision-takers policymakers international analysts and practitioners in the field of peacebuilding that will also be of great value to students of International Relations and Peace Studies as well as anyone interested in peacekeeping democracy-building and state-building. | Peace or Democracy? Peacebuilding Dilemmas to Transition from Civil Wars

GBP 34.99
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