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Sonic Rupture
A Practice-led Approach to Urban Soundscape Design
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Sonic Rupture applies a practitioner-led approach to urban soundscape design, which foregrounds the importance of creative encounters in global cities. This presents an alternative to those urban soundscape design approaches concerned with managing the negative health impacts of noise. Instead, urban...
Music as Multimodal Discourse
Semiotics, Power and Protest
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
We communicate multimodally. Everyday communication involves not only words, but gestures, images, videos, sounds and of course, music. Music has traditionally been viewed as a separate object that we can isolate, discuss, perform and listen to. However, much of music's power lies in its use as multimodal...
Cleopatra's Needles
The Lost Obelisks of Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
In the half-century between 1831 and 1881 three massive obelisks left Egypt for new lands. Prior to these journeys, the last large obelisk moved was the Vatican obelisk in 1586 – one of the great engineering achievements of the Renaissance. Roman emperors moved more than a dozen, but left no records...
Movie Stunts & Special Effects
A Comprehensive Guide to Planning and Execution
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Throughout film history, one of the fundamental fantasies portrayed on screen has been the kind of physical action few of us could ever experience in real life. The image of an 'every man' engaged in hand-to-hand, mortal combat, defending his family or even the world population against an overwhelming...
by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
When the Sony Walkman debuted in 1979, people were enthralled by the novel experience it offered: immersion in the music of their choice, anytime, anywhere. But the Walkman was also denounced...
Critical Design in Context
History, Theory, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Critical Design is becoming an increasingly influential discipline, affecting policy and practice in a range of fields. Matt Malpass's book is the first to introduce critical design as a field, providing a history of the discipline, outlining its key influences, theories and approaches, and explaining...
by Michael Hann
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Stripes, Grids and Checks considers the nature of lines and assemblies of lines, including stripes and grids, as well as related phenomena such as checks, tilings and patterns, regular and irregular, repeating and non-repeating. A wide range of examples are drawn from urban and rural environments,...
Authentic Reconstruction
Authenticity, Architecture and the Built Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Notions of authenticity lie at the heart of many questions about heritage and identity in the built environment. These questions are most pertinent when buildings have been destroyed in disaster or war, and the built fabric is being reconstructed to reinstate traditional or historic appearances in...
Enchanting David Bowie
Space/Time/Body/Memory
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
A longstanding, successful and frequently controversial career spanning more than four decades establishes David Bowie as charged with contemporary cultural relevance. That David Bowie has influenced many lives is undeniable to his fans. He requisitions and challenges his audiences, through frequently...
Interdisciplinary Research Journeys
Practical Strategies for Capturing Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
'Interdisciplinarity' has become a rallying cry among funders and leaders of research. Yet, while the creative potential of interdisciplinary research is great, it poses many challenges. If you don't have disciplinary boundaries, how do you decide what to include or leave out? And what are the parameters...
Geographers
Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 28
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
The Geographers Bio-bibliographical Series Volume 28 includes essays on Dick Chorley, the influential geomorphologist, Charles P. Daly, long-serving president of the American Geographical Society, Marion Newbigin, one of the leading women geographers of the early twentieth century and Peter Heyleyn, early modern humanist, historian and geographical author.
Geographers
Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 35
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 35 includes seven essays discussing the contribution made to geography by eleven geographers. The subjects include: three British figures, Francis Rennell Rodd (1895-1978) expert on the Sahara; David Harris (1930-2013), a geographer with archaeological...
Geographers
Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 33
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Volume 33 of Geographers Biobibliographical Studies adds significantly to the corpus of scholarship on geography's multiple histories and biographies with six essays on individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography in the twentieth century. This volume focuses on European...
Geographers
Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 31
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Volume thirty-one of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies brings together nine essays on leading geographers and their work. With its publication, the cumulative record of geographers' lives and works in GBS exceeds 460 essays. Here, the editors bring forward critical appraisals of six French geographers,...