wyszukanych pozycji: 23
Playing on the Periphery: Sport, Identity and Memory
ISBN: 9780415375610 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Part of the Sport in the Global Society series, this innovative and creative text explores collective history, memory, and sport culture, tracking the passage of sports away from England. The author investigates why 'elite' English sports - such as rugby and cricket - became national sports in New Zealand and Australia, and asks why 'working class' English sports - such as football - have travelled less well to these areas. Focusing on these sports, the author tracks narratives and myths, tracing the passage of colonial truths, behaviours and practices. Clearly... Part of the Sport in the Global Society series, this innovative and creative text explores collective history, memory, and sport culture, ... |
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914,71 zł |
12 Rules for (Academic) Life: A Stroppy Feminist's Guide Through Teaching, Learning, Politics, and Jordan Peterson
ISBN: 9789811692901 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. These are strange times. Climate crises. Health crises. Collapsing systems. Influencers. And yes - Jordan Peterson. We are currently living in a (Post) Peterson Paradigm. This book – 12 Rules for (Academic) Life - explores what has happened to teaching, learning and politics through this odd and chaotic intervention. Deploying feminism, this lens and theory offers a glass-sharpened view of this moment in international higher education. It is organized through twelve mantras for higher education in this interregnum, and offers new, radical, edgy and...
These are strange times. Climate crises. Health crises. Collapsing systems. Influencers. And yes - Jordan Peterson. We ...
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108,92 zł |
Digital Dialogues and Community 2.0 : After Avatars, Trolls and Puppets
ISBN: 9781843346951 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Digital Dialogue and Community 2.0: After avatars, trolls and puppets explores the communities that use digital platforms, portals, and applications from daily life to build relationships beyond geographical locality and family links. The book provides detailed analyses of how technology realigns the boundaries between connection, consciousness and community. This book reveals that alongside every engaged, nurturing and supportive group are those who are excluded, marginalised, ridiculed, or forgotten. It explores the argument that community is not an inevitable result of communication....
Digital Dialogue and Community 2.0: After avatars, trolls and puppets explores the communities that use digital platforms, portals, and applications f...
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274,42 zł |
Digital Dieting: From Information Obesity to Intellectual Fitness
ISBN: 9780815399445 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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193,35 zł |
Digital Dieting: From Information Obesity to Intellectual Fitness
ISBN: 9781472409379 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Imagine if a student spent as much time managing information as celebrities doted on dieting? While eating too much food may be the basis of a moral panic about obesity, excessive information is rarely discussed as a crisis of a similar scale. Obviously, plentiful and high quality food is not a problem if eating is balanced with exercise. But without the skills of media and information literacy, students and citizens wade through low quality online information that fills their day yet does not enable intellectual challenge, imagination and questioning. Digital Dieting: From Information...
Imagine if a student spent as much time managing information as celebrities doted on dieting? While eating too much food may be the basis of a moral p...
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705,63 zł |
Popular Music
ISBN: 9781847874368 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. An introductory textbook which uses short bite-sized snap shots to introduce the key debates & approaches, technologies and genres in popular music. Written by an internationally recognised authority it explores the 'ipodification' of popular music whilst providing clear social context for the field as a whole.
An introductory textbook which uses short bite-sized snap shots to introduce the key debates & approaches, technologies and genres in popular music. W...
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209,02 zł |
The University of Google: Education in the (Post) Information Age
ISBN: 9780754670971 / Twarda / 2007 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Looking at schools and universities, it is difficult to pinpoint when education, teaching and learning started to haemorrhage purpose, aspiration and function. Libraries and librarians have been starved of funding. Teachers cram their curriculum with 'skill development' and 'generic competencies' because knowledge, creativity and originality are too expensive to provide to unmotivated students and parents obsessed with league tables, not learning. Meanwhile, the internet offers a glut of information on everything-under-the-sun, a mere mouse-click away. Bored surfers fill their cursors and...
Looking at schools and universities, it is difficult to pinpoint when education, teaching and learning started to haemorrhage purpose, aspiration and ...
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757,90 zł |
Thinking Popular Culture: War, Terrorism and Writing
ISBN: 9781138260177 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book is about war and popular culture, and war in popular culture. Tara Brabazon summons, probes, questions and reclaims popular culture, challenging the assumptions of war, whiteness, Christianity, modernity and progress that have dominated our lives since September 11.A Addressing modes of thinking, design, music and visual media, Thinking Popular Culture offers a journey through courageous, interventionist and thoughtful ideas, performers and cultures. It welcomes those who ask difficult questions of those in power.A Addressing the lack of imagination and dissent that characterizes...
This book is about war and popular culture, and war in popular culture. Tara Brabazon summons, probes, questions and reclaims popular culture, challen...
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261,29 zł |
Popular Music: Topics, Trends & Trajectories
ISBN: 9781847874351 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. An introductory textbook which uses short bite-sized snap shots to introduce the key debates & approaches, technologies and genres in popular music. Written by an internationally recognised authority it explores the 'ipodification' of popular music whilst providing clear social context for the field as a whole.
An introductory textbook which uses short bite-sized snap shots to introduce the key debates & approaches, technologies and genres in popular music. W...
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689,96 zł |
Unique Urbanity?: Rethinking Third Tier Cities, Degeneration, Regeneration and Mobility
ISBN: 9789812872685 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 103 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book investigates small cities - cities and towns that are not well known or internationally branded, but are facing structural economic and social issues after the Global Financial Crisis. They need to invent, develop and manage new reasons for their existence. The strengths and opportunities are often underplayed when compared to larger cities. These small cities do not have the profile of New York, London, Tokyo or Cairo, or second-tier cities like San Francisco, Manchester, Osaka or Alexandria. This book traces the current state of the creative industries literature after the GFC,...
This book investigates small cities - cities and towns that are not well known or internationally branded, but are facing structural economic and soci...
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194,52 zł |
City Imaging: Regeneration, Renewal and Decay
ISBN: 9789400772342 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book examines the paradoxes, challenges, potential and problems of urban living. It understands cities as they are, rather than as they may be marketed or branded. All cities have much in common, yet the differences are important. They form the basis of both imaginative policy development and productive experiences of urban life. The phrase city imaging is often used in public discourse, but rarely defined. It refers to the ways that particular cities are branded and marketed. It is based on the assumption that urban representations can be transformed to develop tourism and... This book examines the paradoxes, challenges, potential and problems of urban living. It understands cities as they are, rather than as they may be... |
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389,09 zł |
From Revolution to Revelation: Generation X, Popular Memory and Cultural Studies
ISBN: 9780754643975 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From Revolution to Revelation offers a new paradigm for Cultural Studies. Tara Brabazon explores our understanding of our own past and the collective past we share with others through popular culture. She investigates Generation X, the a post-youtha generation born between 1961 and 1981, and the popular cultural literacies that are the basis of this imagining community. She looks at the ways in which popular culture offers a vehicle for memory, providing the building blocks of identity a the politics and passion of life captured in an unforgettable song, an amazing nightclub, or an unexpected...
From Revolution to Revelation offers a new paradigm for Cultural Studies. Tara Brabazon explores our understanding of our own past and the collective ...
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250,83 zł |
City Imaging: Regeneration, Renewal and Decay
ISBN: 9789402406993 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book examines the paradoxes, challenges, potential and problems of urban living. It understands cities as they are, rather than as they may be marketed or branded. All cities have much in common, yet the differences are important. They form the basis of both imaginative policy development and productive experiences of urban life. The phrase city imaging is often used in public discourse, but rarely defined. It refers to the ways that particular cities are branded and marketed. It is based on the assumption that urban representations can be transformed to develop tourism and... This book examines the paradoxes, challenges, potential and problems of urban living. It understands cities as they are, rather than as they may be... |
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389,09 zł |
Play: A Theory of Learning and Change
ISBN: 9783319255477 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. It studies the transformation of the positively labelled term `child's play', used to refer to our early years, into an aberrance or deviation from normal social relationships in later life, when we speak of playing up or playing around.
It studies the transformation of the positively labelled term `child's play', used to refer to our early years, into an aberrance or deviation from no...
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389,09 zł |
The Revoloution Will Not Be Downloaded: Dissent in the Digital Age
ISBN: 9781843344599 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. This book attacks the often implicit and damaging assumption that 'everyone' is online and that 'everyone' is using online resources within the specified parameters of employers, government and national laws. This book summons a critical Web Studies, asking not only who is using particular applications, but also how and why. This remedial work is required. The concept and label of 'Web 2.0' is part of a wide-ranging suite of assumptions that offer simple answers to difficult questions. The term captures a desire for online collaboration and the sharing of information, performed most visibly...
This book attacks the often implicit and damaging assumption that 'everyone' is online and that 'everyone' is using online resources within the specif...
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222,15 zł |
Enabling University: Impairment, (Dis)Ability and Social Justice in Higher Education
ISBN: 9783319128016 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 121 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This work takes the most recent, interdisciplinary research and demonstrates how to make higher education institutions open, accessible and socially just for staff and students with disabilities. Combining the scholarly fields of media platform management, information literacy, internet studies, mobility studies and disability studies, this book offers a guide and method to consider how students and staff with differing needs move through university processes, spaces and interfaces. It captures the challenges and potentials of both the online and offline university. The key concept of the...
This work takes the most recent, interdisciplinary research and demonstrates how to make higher education institutions open, accessible and socially j...
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233,44 zł |
Thinking Popular Culture: War, Terrorism and Writing
ISBN: 9780754675297 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book is about war and popular culture, and war in popular culture. Tara Brabazon summons, probes, questions and reclaims popular culture, challenging the assumptions of war, whiteness, Christianity, modernity and progress that have dominated our lives since September 11.A Addressing modes of thinking, design, music and visual media, Thinking Popular Culture offers a journey through courageous, interventionist and thoughtful ideas, performers and cultures. It welcomes those who ask difficult questions of those in power.A Addressing the lack of imagination and dissent that characterizes...
This book is about war and popular culture, and war in popular culture. Tara Brabazon summons, probes, questions and reclaims popular culture, challen...
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757,90 zł |
The University of Google: Education in the (Post) Information Age
ISBN: 9781138270688 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Looking at schools and universities, it is difficult to pinpoint when education, teaching and learning started to haemorrhage purpose, aspiration and function. Libraries and librarians have been starved of funding. Teachers cram their curriculum with 'skill development' and 'generic competencies' because knowledge, creativity and originality are too expensive to provide to unmotivated students and parents obsessed with league tables, not learning. Meanwhile, the internet offers a glut of information on everything-under-the-sun, a mere mouse-click away. Bored surfers fill their cursors and...
Looking at schools and universities, it is difficult to pinpoint when education, teaching and learning started to haemorrhage purpose, aspiration and ...
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261,29 zł |
Play: A Theory of Learning and Change
ISBN: 9783319798073 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book examines the question of why `play' is a happy and benevolent verb in childhood, yet a subjective label of behaviour in adulthood. It studies the transformation of the positively labelled term `child's play', used to refer to our early years, into an aberrance or deviation from normal social relationships in later life, when we speak of playing up or playing around. It answers the question by proposing play as a theory of learning, an ideology that circumscribes behaviour, and a way of thinking. Written by scholars of early childhood through to further and higher education, the book...
This book examines the question of why `play' is a happy and benevolent verb in childhood, yet a subjective label of behaviour in adulthood. It studie...
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389,09 zł |
Playing on the Periphery : Sport, Identity and Memory
ISBN: 9780415484923 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Investigates why elite English sports - such as rugby and cricket - became national sports in New Zealand and Australia, and asks why working class sports - such as football - have travelled less well to these areas. Focusing on these sports, the author tracks narratives and myths, tracing the passage of colonial truths, behaviours and practices.
Investigates why elite English sports - such as rugby and cricket - became national sports in New Zealand and Australia, and asks why working class sp...
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52,22 zł |