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Taking Control of Writing Your Thesis
A Guide to Get You to the End
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Taking Control of Writing Your Thesis offers a clear account of the how, what, why and who of working together so that you can produce, finish and submit a successful thesis. Guccione is a Thesis Coach and Thesis Mentoring Programme Designer and is currently researching the barriers to thesis completion;...
Transforming Schools
Creativity, Critical Reflection, Communication, Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Transforming Schools demonstrates how transformation is no longer an option in teaching and learning - it has become a necessity. Changes in the way we work and the challenges of issues such as climate change, poverty and migration mean that teaching and learning need to alter to incorporate capacities...
Critical Craft
Technology, Globalization, and Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
From Oaxacan wood carvings to dessert kitchens in provincial France, Critical Craft presents thirteen ethnographies which examine what defines and makes 'craft' in a wide variety of practices from around the world.
Challenging the conventional understanding of craft as a survival, a revival,...
Urban Design Thinking
A Conceptual Toolkit
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Urban Design Thinking provides a conceptual toolkit for urban design. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, it shows how the design of our cities and urban spaces can be interpreted and informed through contemporary theories of urbanism, architecture and spatial analysis.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
In recent years, the study of textiles and culture has become a dynamic field of scholarship, reflecting new global, material and technological possibilities. This is the first handbook of specially commissioned essays to provide a guide to the major strands of critical work around textiles past and...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
From products we use to clothes we wear, and spaces we inhabit, we rely on colour to provide visual appeal, data codes and meaning. Color and Design addresses how we understand and experience colour, and through specific examples explores how colour is used in a spectrum of design-based disciplines...
Dancing with the Nation
Courtesans in Bombay Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Indian cinema is the only body of world cinema that depicts courtesans as important characters. In early films courtesan characters transmitted Indian classical dance, music and aesthetics to large audiences. They represent the nation's past, tracing their heritage to the fourth-century Kamasutra...
Sketching for Animation
Developing Ideas, Characters and Layouts in Your Sketchbook
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Drawing and sketching are central to the art of animation and can be crucial tools in designing and developing original stories, characters and layouts. Sketching for Animation offers a wealth of examples, exercises and tips from an army of professional animators to help you develop essential sketching,...
Fashion Media
Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The fashion media is in the midst of deep social and technological change. Including a broad range of case studies, from fashion plates to fashion films, and from fashion magazines to fashion blogs, this ground-breaking book provides an up-to-date examination of the role and significance of this field.
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The Trendmakers
Behind the Scenes of the Global Fashion Industry
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Numerous tastemakers exist in and between fashion production and consumption, from designers and stylists to trend forecasters, buyers, and journalists. How and why are each of these players bound up in the creation and dispersion of trends? In what ways are consumers' relations to trends constructed...
Fashioning Bollywood
The Making and Meaning of Hindi Film Costume
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The Hindi film industry, among the most prolific in the world, has delighted audiences for decades with its colourful, exquisite and sometimes startling costumes. But are costumes more than just a source of pleasure? This book, the first in-depth exploration of Hindi film costume, contends that they...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The last 20 years have seen a burgeoning of social scientific and historical research on food. The field has drawn in experts to investigate topics such as: the way globalisation affects the food supply; what cookery books can (and cannot) tell us; changing understandings of famine; the social meanings...
Design Anthropology
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Design is a key site of cultural production and change in contemporary society. Anthropologists have been involved in design projects for several decades but only recently a new field of inquiry has emerged which aims to integrate the strengths of design thinking and anthropological research.
This...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
A major contribution to the field, this ground-breaking book explores design anthropology's focus on futures and future-making. Examining what design anthropology is and what it is becoming, the authors push the frontiers of the discipline and reveal both the challenges for and the potential of this...