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Shadow Banking Scope Origins and Theories

Shadow Banking Scope Origins and Theories

Shadow banking – a system of credit creation outside traditional banks – lies at the very heart of the global economy. It accounts for over half of global banking assets and represents a third of the global financial system. Although the term ‘shadow banking’ only entered public discourse in 2007 the importance and scope of this system is now widely recognised by the international policy-makers. There is however much less consensus on the origins of the shadow banking system what role it plays in global political economy and the optimal approach to regulating this complex segment of finance. This volume addresses these questions. Shadow Banking is the first study to bring together the insights from financial regulators practitioners and academics from across the social sciences. The first part traces the evolution and ongoing confusion about the meaning of ‘shadow banking’. The second section draws major lessons about shadow banking as posed by the financial crisis of 2007–09 providing comparative analyses in the US and Europe and attempts to establish why shadow banking has emerged and matured to the level of a de facto parallel financial system. Finally the third part goes beyond current regulatory concerns about shadow banking and explains why it is ‘here to stay’. This volume is of great importance to political economy banking and international political economy. | Shadow Banking Scope Origins and Theories

GBP 42.99
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Enser’s Filmed Books and Plays A List of Books and Plays from which Films have been Made 1928-2001

Enser’s Filmed Books and Plays A List of Books and Plays from which Films have been Made 1928-2001

This title was first published in 2003. The sixth edition of this compendium of film and television adaptations of books and plays includes several thousand new listings that cover the period from 1992 to December 2001. There are 8000 main entries covering 70 years of film history including some foreign language material. | Enser’s Filmed Books and Plays A List of Books and Plays from which Films have been Made 1928-2001

GBP 66.99
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Theorizing Shadow Education and Academic Success in East Asia Understanding the Meaning Value and Use of Shadow Education by East Asian Students

Theorizing Shadow Education and Academic Success in East Asia Understanding the Meaning Value and Use of Shadow Education by East Asian Students

This volume tackles perceived myths surrounding the academic excellence of East Asian students and moves beyond Western understanding to offer in-depth analysis of the crucial role that shadow education plays in students’ academic success. Featuring a broad range of contributions from countries including Japan China Taiwan and Singapore chapters draw on rich qualitative research to place in the foreground the lived experiences of students teachers and parents in East Asian countries. In doing so the text provides indigenous insights into the uses values and meanings of shadow education and highlights unknown cultural and regional aspects as well as related phenomena including trans-boundary learning culture nomadic learning individualized learning and the post-schooling era. Ultimately challenging the previously dominating Western perspective on shadow education the volume offers innovative theorization to highlight shadow education as a phenomenon which cannot be overlooked in broader discussion of East Asian educational performance systems and policy. Offering pioneering insights into the growing phenomenon of shadow education this text will benefit researchers academics and educators with an interest in international and comparative education curriculum studies and East Asian educational practices and policy. Those interested in the sociology of education and educational policy will also benefit from this book. | Theorizing Shadow Education and Academic Success in East Asia Understanding the Meaning Value and Use of Shadow Education by East Asian Students

GBP 36.99
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Jung's Shadow Concept The Hidden Light and Darkness within Ourselves

Jung's Shadow Concept The Hidden Light and Darkness within Ourselves

This insightful volume is designed as a series of invitations towards living attentiveness examining how we all make the “other” through “projection” (blaming and shaming the other outside ourselves) our enemy with whom we prefer not to dialogue. All of us are faced daily with individual and collective manifestations of the Shadow – all that we fear despise and makes us feel ashamed. Carl Jung’s concept of the Shadow emerging as it did from his personal confrontation with the realms of his unconscious self is one of the most important contributions he made to the understanding of humanity and to depth psychology that realm where the focus is on unconscious processes. The contributors to this book reframe his concept in the context of contemporary Jungian thinking exploring how the Shadow develops in an individual’s infancy and adolescence and its culmination where collective manifestations of the Shadow are addressed. The book offers a voyage through a series of fundamental Shadow concepts and themes including couples relationships disease organizations Evil fundamentalism ecology and boundary violation before ending with a chapter designed to help us integrate the Shadow and hold contra-positions with patience and a tilt towards mutual understanding rather than being locked in polarities. This fascinating new book will be of considerable interest to the general public Jungian analysts trainees scholars and therapists both in training and practice with an interest in the inner world. | Jung's Shadow Concept The Hidden Light and Darkness within Ourselves

GBP 32.99
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Conservation of Books

Conservation of Books

Conservation of Books is the highly anticipated reference work on global book structures and their conservation offering the first modern comprehensive overview on this subject. The volume takes an international approach to its subject. Written by over 70 specialists in conservation and conservation science based in 19 countries its 26 chapters cover traditional book structures from around the world the materials from which they are made and how they degrade and how to preserve and conserve them. It also examines the theoretical underpinnings of conservation: what and how to treat and the ethical cultural and economic implications of treatment. Technical drawings and photographs illustrate the structures and treatments examined throughout the book. Ultimately readers gain an in-depth understanding of the materiality of books in numerous global contexts and reflect on the practical considerations involved in their analysis and treatment. Conservation of Books is a quintessential reference work for book conservators and anyone working with books such as collection managers librarians curators dealers collectors historians and related professionals. It is also an indispensable text for students to complement hands-on training in this field.

GBP 190.00
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Reading Picture Books with Infants and Toddlers Learning Through Language

Reading Picture Books with Infants and Toddlers Learning Through Language

Reading picture books with infants and toddlers facilitates their early language development with far-reaching benefits for their later reading abilities and academic achievement. While the importance of reading books with children aged from 3 to 5 years is widely recognised the benefits of reading with much younger children from 0 to 3 years who are still engaged in learning their first language are less well understood. This book will explore the seemingly simple practice of reading picture books with infants and toddlers aged 0–3 years from a range of perspectives. Not only do book-focused adult–child interactions support language and early literacy development in multiple ways such interactions can also at the same time foster intellectual social emotional and spiritual growth. By weaving together in an accessible manner the insights from several different discipline areas this book will explain how and why reading with infants and toddlers has such power to enrich their lives. Providing an evidence-based theoretically informed account Reading Picture Books with Infants and Toddlers supports educators parents and caregivers with the knowledge skills and motivation to provide frequent enjoyable and language-rich reading experiences with infants and toddlers. | Reading Picture Books with Infants and Toddlers Learning Through Language

GBP 22.99
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The Shadow Cabinet in British Politics

The Shadow Cabinet in British Politics

First published in 1969 The Shadow Cabinet in British Politics attempts to trace and examine the history growth and development of the body popularly known as the ‘Shadow Cabinet’ in Britain. This body is concerned with power and aspirations of power. The personnel of Shadow Cabinets are or at least should be constantly prepared to assume the mantle of government. The book discusses important themes like the origins of the idea of the Shadow Cabinet; Sir William Harcourt and the Shadow Cabinet; Balfour and the Conservative Party; from MacDonald to Churchill; the difference between formally and informally elected Opposition Front Benches; and the relationship between Opposition responsibilities and ministerial appointments. This comprehensive short book is a must read for students of British politics and political science.

GBP 85.00
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Interactive Books Playful Media before Pop-Ups

Interactive Books Playful Media before Pop-Ups

Movable books are an innovative area of children’s publishing. Commonly equated with spectacular pop-ups movable books have a little-known history as interactive narrative media. Since they are hybrid artifacts consisting of words images and movable components they cross the borders between story toy and game. Interactive Books is a historical and comparative study of early movable books in relation to the children who engage with them. Jacqueline Reid-Walsh focuses on the period movable books became connected with children from the mid-17th to the early-19th centuries. In particular she examines turn-up books paper doll books and related hybrid experiments like toy theaters and paignion (or domestic play set) produced between 1650 and 1830. Despite being popular in their own time these artifacts are little known today. This study draws attention to a gap in our knowledge of children’s print culture by showing how these artifacts are important in their own right. Reid-Walsh combines archival research with children’s literature studies book history and juvenilia studies. By examining commercially produced and homemade examples she explores the interrelations among children interactive media and historical participatory culture. By drawing on both Enlightenment thinkers and contemporary digital media theorists Interactive Books enables us to think critically about children’s media texts paper and digital past and present. | Interactive Books Playful Media before Pop-Ups

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Literature for Young Adults Books (and More) for Contemporary Readers

Literature for Young Adults Books (and More) for Contemporary Readers

Now in its second edition this book explores a great variety of genres and formats of young adult literature while placing special emphasis on contemporary works with nontraditional themes protagonists and literary conventions that are well suited to young adult readers. It looks at the ways in which contemporary readers can access literature and share the works they're reading and it shows teachers the resources that are available especially online for choosing and using good literature in the classroom and for recommending books for their students’ personal reading. In addition to traditional genre chapters this book includes chapters on literary nonfiction; poetry short stories and drama; and film. Graphic novels diversity issues and uses of technology are also included throughout the text. The book's discussion of literary language—including traditional elements as well as metafictive terms—enables readers to share in a literary conversation with their peers (and others) when communicating about books. This book is an essential resource for preservice educators to help young adults understand and appreciate the excellent literature that is available to them. New to the second edition: New popular authors books and movies with a greater focus on diversity of literature Updated coverage of new trends such as metafiction a renewed focus on nonfiction and retellings of canonical works Increased attention to graphic novels and multimodal texts throughout the book eResources with downloadable materials including book lists awards lists and Focus Questions | Literature for Young Adults Books (and More) for Contemporary Readers

GBP 48.99
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Sex Guides Books and Films about Sexuality for Young Adults

Sex Guides Books and Films about Sexuality for Young Adults

The history of the sex guide for adolescents documents the quite unconscious movement of Western culture’s ideas about sex and youth revealing the heritage of our own sexual beliefs and codes of behaviour. The first section of this book first published in 1986 traces the development of the sex guide examining 400 books from 1892 to the 1980s. The second section comprises a detailed analysis of the patterns content and usefulness of all the contemporary manifestations of the genre. The history of the teen sex manual is a fascinating revelation of American attitudes towards adolescent sexuality. | Sex Guides Books and Films about Sexuality for Young Adults

GBP 24.99
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Contemporary Publishing and the Culture of Books

Contemporary Publishing and the Culture of Books

Contemporary Publishing and the Culture of Books is a comprehensive resource that builds bridges between the traditional focus and methodologies of literary studies and the actualities of modern and contemporary literature including the realities of professional writing the conventions and practicalities of the publishing world and its connections between literary publishing and other media. Focusing on the relationship between modern literature and the publishing industry the volume enables students and academics to extend the text-based framework of modules on contemporary writing into detailed expositions of the culture and industry which bring these texts into existence; it brings economic considerations into line alongside creative issues and examines how employing marketing strategies are utilized to promote and sell books. Sections cover: The standard university-course specifications of contemporary writing offering an extensive picture of the social economic and cultural contexts of these literary genres The impact and status of non-literary writing and how this compares with certain literary genres as an index to contemporary culture and a reflection of the state of the publishing industry The practicalities and conventions of the publishing industry Contextual aspects of literary culture and the book industry visiting the broader spheres of publishing promotion bookselling and literary culture Carefully linked chapters allow readers to tie key elements of the publishing industry to the particular demands and features of contemporary literary genres and writing offering a detailed guide to the ways in which the three core areas of culture economics and pragmatics intersect in the world of publishing. Further to being a valuable resource for those studying English or Creative Writing the volume is a key text for degrees in which Publishing is a component and is relevant to those aspects of Media Studies that look at interactions between the media and literature/publishing.

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Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Shadow of the Parent Mythology History Politics and Art

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Shadow of the Parent Mythology History Politics and Art

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Shadow of the Parent explores the psychological challenges faced by the offspring of either famous or notorious parents. Beginning with parental legacies found in mythology and the Bible the book presents a series of case studies drawn from a range of narrative contexts selecting personalities drawn from history politics psychoanalysis and literature all viewed from an analytic perspective. The concluding section focuses on the manifestation of this parental shadow within the field of fine art as written by artists themselves. This is a lively and varied collection from a fascinating range of contributors. It provides readers with a new understanding of family history trauma and reckoning screened through a psychoanalytic perspective and will appeal to psychoanalysts psychotherapists counsellors and anyone interested in the dynamics of the family. | Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Shadow of the Parent Mythology History Politics and Art

GBP 36.99
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5 Kinds of Nonfiction Enriching Reading and Writing Instruction with Children's Books

5 Kinds of Nonfiction Enriching Reading and Writing Instruction with Children's Books

Once upon a time. children's nonfiction books were stodgy concise and not very kid friendly. Most were text heavy with just a few scattered images decorating the content and meaning rather than enhancing it. Over the last 20 years children's nonfiction has evolved into a new breed of visually dynamic and engaging texts. In 5 Kinds of Nonfiction: Enriching Reading and Writing Instruction with Children's Books Melissa Stewart and Dr. Marlene Correia present a new way to sort nonfiction into five major categories and show how doing so can help teachers and librarians build stronger readers and writers. Along the way they: Introduce the 5 kinds of nonfiction: Active Browseable Traditional Expository Literature and Narrative -;and explore each category through discussions classroom examples and insights from leading children's book authorsOffer tips for building strong diverse classroom texts and library collectionsProvide more than 20 activities to enhance literacy instructionInclude innovative strategies for sharing and celebrating nonfiction with students. With more than 150 exemplary nonfiction book recommendations and Stewart and Correia's extensive knowledge of literacy instruction 5 Kinds of Nonfiction will elevate your understanding of nonfiction in ways that speak specifically to the info-kids in your classrooms but will inspire all readers and writers. | 5 Kinds of Nonfiction Enriching Reading and Writing Instruction with Children's Books

GBP 28.99
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Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments The Destruction and Reconstruction of Medieval Books

Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments The Destruction and Reconstruction of Medieval Books

Much of what is known about the past often rests upon the chance survival of objects and texts. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the fragments of medieval manuscripts re-used as bookbindings in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Such fragments provide a tantalizing yet often problematic glimpse into the manuscript culture of the Middle Ages. Exploring the opportunities and difficulties such documents provide this volume concentrates on the c. 50 000 fragments of medieval Latin manuscripts stored in archives across the five Nordic countries of Denmark Finland Iceland Norway and Sweden. This large collection of fragments (mostly from liturgical works) provides rich evidence about European Latin book culture both in general and in specific relation to the far north of Europe one of the last areas of Europe to be converted to Christianity. As the essays in this volume reveal individual and groups of fragments can play a key role in increasing and advancing knowledge about the acquisition and production of medieval books and in helping to distinguish locally made books from imported ones. Taking an imaginative approach to the source material the volume goes beyond a strictly medieval context to integrate early modern perspectives that help illuminate the pattern of survival and loss of Latin manuscripts through post-Reformation practices concerning reuse of parchment. In so doing it demonstrates how the use of what might at first appear to be unpromising source material can offer unexpected and rewarding insights into diverse areas of European history and the history of the medieval book. | Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments The Destruction and Reconstruction of Medieval Books

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Aristotle’s Political Philosophy in its Historical Context A New Translation and Commentary on Politics Books 5 and 6

Aristotle’s Political Philosophy in its Historical Context A New Translation and Commentary on Politics Books 5 and 6

This book offers new translations of Aristotle’s Politics 5 and 6 accompanied by an introduction and commentary targeted at historians and those who like to read political science in the context in which it was produced. Philosophical analysis remains essential and there is no intention to detract from the books as political theory but the focus of this volume is the text as a crucial element in the discourse of fourth-century Greece and the conflict throughout the Greek world between democracy oligarchy and the rise of the Macedonian monarchy. | Aristotle’s Political Philosophy in its Historical Context A New Translation and Commentary on Politics Books 5 and 6

GBP 38.99
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Music Books and Theatre in Eighteenth-Century Exton A Context for Handel's ‘Comus’

Music Books and Theatre in Eighteenth-Century Exton A Context for Handel's ‘Comus’

This book establishes the cultural background to the productions of Milton’s Comus that were staged in the 1740s by Baptist Noel 4th Earl of Gainsborough at Exton Hall his country seat in the East Midlands of England. The author reveals that Handel’s visit in 1745 occurred in a richer and fuller context of cultural interests among the Noel family. Most of the music at Exton was selected from existing works by Handel but the four movements of the finale were new written by the composer specifically for the occasion. The study is based on receipted bills and other documents in an archival collection of Noel family papers that provide evidence of the Earl’s purchase of books and music and of the musical and theatrical activities undertaken on his Exton estate. The author discusses the Earl’s interests in music books and theatre indicating a belief in performance as a valuable and enjoyable experience and as a vehicle for the education of the young. In addition to creating a context for Comus this book sheds light on cultural life in a mid-eighteenth-century English country house and how the Earl’s productions made a significant contribution to the cultural life of the East Midlands. The book will be of great value to cultural musicologists historians and Handelians as the documentation sheds a huge amount of light on a variety of cultural practices in eighteenth-century England. | Music Books and Theatre in Eighteenth-Century Exton A Context for Handel's ‘Comus’

GBP 48.99
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How to Market Books

How to Market Books

Over five editions How to Market Books has established itself as the standard text on marketing for both the publishing industry and the wider creative economy. Industry professionals and students of Publishing Studies rely on the techniques and tactics in this invaluable book. With the publishing industry changing fast and the marketing and selling of content now delivered worldwide through technology this much needed guide highlights the critical role of the marketeer and the strategies and techniques at their disposal. The book’s approach is logical and calming; beginning with marketing theory and moving into how this works in practice. Readers benefit from a blend of practical advice on how to organise and deliver marketing plans – and an objectivity which supports their future management of issues not yet on the horizon. Thoroughly updated this 6th edition maintains the book’s popular accessible and supportive style and now offers: A fully international perspective for today’s global industry New case studies to illustrate changing industry issues and application Completely updated coverage of digital and social marketing and GDPR Topical updates more case studies and tips on getting work in publishing on a companion website Detailed coverage of individual market segments bringing relevance to every area of publishing

GBP 44.99
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The Rise of the Modernist Bookshop Books and the Commerce of Culture in the Twentieth Century

The Rise of the Modernist Bookshop Books and the Commerce of Culture in the Twentieth Century

The trade in books has always been and remains an ambiguous commercial activity associated as it is with literature and the exchange of ideas. This collection is concerned with the cultural and economic roles of independent bookstores and it considers how eight shops founded during the modernist era provided distinctive spaces of literary production that exceeded and yet never escaped their commercial functions. As the contributors show these booksellers were essential institutional players in literary networks. When the eight shops examined first opened their doors their relevance to literary and commercial life was taken for granted. In our current context of box stores online shopping and ebooks we no longer encounter the book as we did as recently as twenty years ago. By contributing to our understanding of bookshops as unique social spaces on the thresholds of commerce and culture this volume helps to lay the groundwork for comprehending how our relationship to books and literature has been and will be affected by the physical changes to the reading experience taking place in the twenty-first century. | The Rise of the Modernist Bookshop Books and the Commerce of Culture in the Twentieth Century

GBP 38.99
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Speech Bubbles 2 (Picture Books and Guide) Supporting Speech Sound Development in Children

Speech Bubbles 2 (Picture Books and Guide) Supporting Speech Sound Development in Children

Speech Bubbles 2 is the second set in a series of picture books designed to be used by those working with children who have delayed or disordered speech sound development children receiving speech therapy or those wanting to provide sound awareness activities for children. The set includes 12 beautifully illustrated storybooks each targeting a different speech sound in different positions within words and a user guide with notes on each individual story. Designed to be read aloud to the child in a therapy classroom or home setting the stories create a fun and engaging activity that can be returned to again and again. The full set includes: Twelve bright and engaging stories targeting the following early developing sounds and sounds frequently targeted in speech therapy: /v/ /z/ /sh/ /ch/ /h/ /y/ /j/ /r/ /l/ /w/ /r/ blends and /l/ blends. A user guide supporting the use of the stories with individual notes on each. Perfect not just for therapy but also for encouraging early sound awareness and development this is an engaging and invaluable resource for speech and language therapists and pathologists parents and caregivers and teachers working with children aged 2– 8 years. | Speech Bubbles 2 (Picture Books and Guide) Supporting Speech Sound Development in Children

GBP 52.99
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Paradoxes in Nurses’ Identity Culture and Image The Shadow Side of Nursing

Paradoxes in Nurses’ Identity Culture and Image The Shadow Side of Nursing

This book examines some of the more disturbing representations of nurses in popular culture to understand nursing’s complex identities challenges and future directions. It critically analyses disquieting representations of nurses who don’t care who kill who inspire fear or who do not comply with laws and policies. Also addressed are stories about how power is used as well as supernatural experiences in nursing. Using a series of examples taken from popular culture ranging from film television and novels to memoirs and true crime podcasts it interrogates the meaning of the shadow side of nursing and the underlying paradoxes that influence professional identity. Iconic nursing figures are still powerful today. Decades after they were first created Ratched and Annie Wilkes continue to make readers and viewers shudder at the prospect of ever being ill. Modern storytelling modes are bringing to audiences the grim reality that some nurses are members of the working poor like Cath Hardacre in Trust Me and others can be dangerous con artists like the nurse in Dirty John. This book is important reading for all those interested in understanding the links between nursing’s image and the profession’s potential as an agent for change. | Paradoxes in Nurses’ Identity Culture and Image The Shadow Side of Nursing

GBP 38.99
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U.S. Relations With South Africa An Annotated Bibliography-volume 1: Books Documents Reports And Monographs

U.S. Relations With South Africa An Annotated Bibliography-volume 1: Books Documents Reports And Monographs

Relations between the United States and South Africa - or the parts of the world these nations now occupy - go nearly as far back as the very beginning of their inception as permanent European colonial intrusions. This book is a critical overview of these relations from the late seventeenth century to the present. Unprecedented in its scope - and s | U. S. Relations With South Africa An Annotated Bibliography-volume 1: Books Documents Reports And Monographs

GBP 39.99
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Moving On: Activity Books and Guide to Support Children Relocating to a New Country

Moving On: Activity Books and Guide to Support Children Relocating to a New Country

Written to help children aged 6-12 move between countries this set contains two children’s activity books and a practical guide for the supporting adult. Based on the latest relocation and transition research it includes valuable strategies and fun activities to boost the child’s confidence and wellbeing through departure arrival and settling in. Top tips example responses and the theory behind the activities will equip teachers practitioners and parents to respond effectively to common questions and support children on the move to leave and arrive well. The set includes: Leaving Well Activity Book helps kids to reflect on how they feel about the move to remember other moves and understand that change is a part of life. Arriving Well Activity Book can be used on its own or following on from Leaving Well and continues to move through this process helping the child to settle when they have arrived in their new country Moving On Facilitator’s Guide offers guidance notes and prompts to help bring out the best experience for the child and is designed to help the adult feel confident in their delivery and in responding to any questions. It contains key points to consider examples of ‘what you could say’ as well as explains the theory behind the activities. | Moving On: Activity Books and Guide to Support Children Relocating to a New Country

GBP 39.99
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Lighting Dance A Study of Technical Philosophical and Psychological Shadows

Lighting Dance A Study of Technical Philosophical and Psychological Shadows

Lighting Dance pioneers the discussion of the ability of lighting design to foreground shadow in dance performances. Through a series of experiments integrating light shadow and improvised dance movement it highlights and analyses what it advances as an innovative expression of shadow in dance as an alternative to more conventional approaches to lighting design. Different art forms such as painting film and dance pieces from Loie Fuller the Russell Maliphant Dance Company Elevenplay Pilobolus and the Tao Dance Theater served to inspire and contextualise the study. From lighting to psychology from reviews to academic books shadows are examined as a symbolic and manipulative entity. The book also presents the dance solo Sombreiro which was created to echo the experiments with light shadow and movement aligned to an interpretation of cultural shadow (Jung 1954 in Samuels Shorter and Plaut 1986; Casement 2006; Ramos 2004; Stein 2004; and others). The historical development of lighting within dance practices is also outlined providing a valuable resource for lighting designers dance practitioners and theatre goers interested in the visuality of dance performances. | Lighting Dance A Study of Technical Philosophical and Psychological Shadows

GBP 36.99
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