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by Kristy Howells, Mrs Alison Carney, Mr Neil Castle
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Mastering Primary Physical Education introduces the primary physical education curriculum and helps trainees and teachers learn how to plan and teach inspiring lessons that make physical education irresistible.
Topics covered include:
· Current developments in physical education
· Physical...
State and Society
A Social and Political History of Britain since 1870
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
As a vigorous interpretation of political and social developments in Britain since the late-Victorian era, State and Society is one of the most respected and widely-read introductions to modern British history. Martin Pugh explores as his central theme the relationship between the British state and...
Revolutions in Communication
Media History from Gutenberg to the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Revolutions in Communication offers a new approach to media history, presenting an encyclopedic look at the way technological change has linked social and ideological communities. Using key figures in history to benchmark the chronology of technical innovation, Kovarik's exhaustive scholarship narrates...
by Professor Antonia Darder
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
This book serves as an important companion to Freire's seminal work, providing powerful insights into both a philosophically sound and politically inspired understanding of Freire's book, supporting application of his pedagogy in enacting emancipatory educational programs in the world today.
Antonia...
by Professor Darren Hudson Hick
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
'Place in garden, lawn, to beautify landscape.'
When Don Featherstone's plastic pink flamingos were first advertised in the 1957 Sears catalogue, these were the instructions. The flamingos are placed on the cover of this book for another reason: to start us asking questions. That's where philosophy...
The Art of Living
The Stoics on the Nature and Function of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Ancient philosophy was conceived as a way of life or an art of living, but if ancient philosophers did think that philosophy should transform an individual's way of life, then what conception of philosophy stands behind this claim? John Sellars explores this question through a detailed account of...
Hinduism and the 1960s
The Rise of a Counter-Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
The West has drawn upon Hinduism on a wide scale, from hatha yoga and meditation techniques, to popular culture in music and fashion, yet the contribution of Hinduism to the counter-culture of the 1960s has not been analysed in full.
Hinduism and the 1960s looks at the youth culture of the...
Designing the French Interior
The Modern Home and Mass Media
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Designing the French Interior traces France's central role in the development of the modern domestic interior, from the pre-revolutionary period to the 1970s, and addresses the importance of various media, including drawings, prints, pattern books, illustrated magazines, department store catalogs,...
by Kate Nelson Best
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
The History of Fashion Journalism is a uniquely comprehensive study of the development of the industry from its origins to the present day, and including professionals' such as Dylan Jones's vision of the future. Covering everything from early tailor's catalogues through to contemporary publications...
Poiret, Dior and Schiaparelli
Fashion, Femininity and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Through a highly original and detailed analysis of the memoirs, interviews and other life writings of Poiret, Dior and Schiaparelli, this book explores changing notions of femininity in the early decades of the twentieth century, when the democratization of fashion began.
Examining the idea...
A Cultural History of Fashion in the 20th and 21st Centuries
From Catwalk to Sidewalk
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
This new edition of a bestselling textbook is designed for students, scholars, and anyone interested in 20th century fashion history.
Accessibly written and well illustrated, the book outlines the social and cultural history of fashion thematically, and contains a wide range of global case...
Euro-Visions
Europe in Contemporary Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
European cinema not only occupies a dominant place in film history, it is also a field that has been raising more interest with the expanding work on the transnational. Euro-Visions asks what idea of Europe emerges, is represented and constructed by contemporary European film.
Adopting a broad...
The Cinema of Things
Globalization and the Posthuman Object
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
This book explores the border zones between life and non-life as represented in cinema from the end of the nineteenth century, when France led the global film industry, to the first decades of the twenty-first century, when world film markets are dominated by Hollywood. Informed by both the Internet...
The Architecture of Neoliberalism
How Contemporary Architecture Became an Instrument of Control and Compliance
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
The Architecture of Neoliberalism pursues an uncompromising critique of the neoliberal turn in contemporary architecture. This book reveals how a self-styled parametric and post-critical architecture serves mechanisms of control and compliance while promoting itself, at the same time, as progressive....