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Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy Speaking Truth to Power

Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy Speaking Truth to Power

Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy explores the new forms voices and venues of stand-up comedy in different parts of the world and its potential role as a counterhegemonic tool for satire commentary and expression of identity especially for the disempowered or marginalised. The title brings together essays and perspectives on stand-up and satire from different cultural and political contexts across the world which raise pertinent issues regarding its role in contemporary times especially with the increased presence of OTT platforms and internet penetration that allows for easy access to this art form. It examines the theoretical understanding of the different aspects of the humour aesthetics and politics of stand-up comedy as well as the exploration of race gender politics and conflicts urban culture and LGBTQ+ identities in countries such as Indonesia Finland France Iran Italy Morocco India and the USA. It also asks the question whether along with contesting and destabilising existing discursive frameworks and identities a stand-up comic can open up a space for envisaging a new social cultural and political order? This book will appeal to people interested in performance studies media popular culture digital culture sociology digital sociology and anthropology and English literature. Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons (CC-BY) 4. 0 license. Funded by the University of Helsinki. | Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy Speaking Truth to Power

GBP 34.99
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Studying for an Early Childhood Degree Using Inspirations from the Pen Green Students to Achieve Outstanding Results

Studying for an Early Childhood Degree Using Inspirations from the Pen Green Students to Achieve Outstanding Results

Studying for an Early Childhood Degree based on the practices of The Pen Green Centre for children and families exemplifies how student-practitioners can foster strong communities of learners and create student-teacher connections that remain long after studies are complete. The Pen Green Integrated Centre in Corby UK has developed a unique approach to adult education. Highly qualified tutors with their wide-ranging experiences have written Studying for an Early Childhood Degree in collaboration with current and former students. It illustrates different ways to complete assignments providing 20 case-studies of work that achieved an excellent grade from students of different professional geographical ethnic educational and socio-economic backgrounds; it also explores the rationale behind what contributed to these excellent final grades. Each chapter linked to the key themes of the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) Early Childhood Studies degree includes discussions reflections commentary and extracts from students’ works through Levels 4-7 as well as suggestions for further reading. Studying for an Early Childhood Degree is an essential read for learners as well as educators and practitioners. It will be a key resource for students having varied learning needs professional heritages writing styles and interests. Further it will also support other educators to consider the unique and often competing demands of being an adult in higher education. | Studying for an Early Childhood Degree Using Inspirations from the Pen Green Students to Achieve Outstanding Results

GBP 24.99
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A Pen and Paper Introduction to Statistics

A Pen and Paper Introduction to Statistics

Statistics is central in the biosciences social sciences and other disciplines yet many students often struggle to learn how to perform statistical tests and to understand how and why statistical tests work. Although there are many approaches to teaching statistics a common framework exists between them: starting with probability and distributions then sampling from distribution and descriptive statistics and later introducing both simple and complex statistical tests typically ending with regression analysis (linear models). This book proposes to reverse the way statistics is taught by starting with the introduction of linear models. Today many statisticians know that the one unifying principle of statistical tests is that most of them are instances of linear models. This teaching method has two advantages: all statistical tests in a course can be presented under the same unifying framework simplifying things; second linear models can be expressed as lines over squared paper replacing any equation with a drawing. This book explains how and why statistics works without using a single equation just lines and squares over grid paper. The reader will have the opportunity to work through the examples and compute sums of squares by just drawing and counting and finally evaluating whether observed differences are statistically significant by using the tables provided. Intended for students scientists and those with little prior knowledge of statistics this book is for all with simple and clear examples computations and drawings helping the reader to not only do statistical tests but also understand statistics. | A Pen and Paper Introduction to Statistics

GBP 31.99
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Upgrade Your Italian

Freewriting With Purpose Simple classroom techniques to help students make connections think critically and construct meaning

Freshwater Aquaculture A Functional Approach

The Siege and the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 Historiography Topography and Military Studies

Writing in Psychoanalysis

An Introduction to Scientific Computing with MATLAB and Python Tutorials

A Soviet Theatre Sketch Book

Designing Quality Authentic Assessments

Designing Quality Authentic Assessments

This book examines the principles and practice of authentic assessment. It seeks to answer the following questions. What is authentic assessment? How is authentic assessment different from 'performance assessment' or 'alternative assessment'? How can authentic assessment support learner-centred education especially when a performance-oriented culture favours pen-and-paper examinations? The book is structured into two major parts. The first 'Principles of authentic assessment design' provides readers with a conceptual explanation of authenticity; the principles for designing quality authentic assessments for valid evidence of student learning; and guidance about how to develop quality rubrics to structure assessment tasks. The second part of the book 'Theory into practice' provides examples developed by teachers to demonstrate an understanding of authentic assessment. The subject areas covered include humanities languages mathematics sciences character and citizenship. Two case studies are discussed to demonstrate how authentic assessment can be used to comprehensively address key learning objectives in a variety of curriculum contexts. This book provides practitioners with concrete examples on how to develop authentic assessment to suit their context and also enhance their students’ learning. The book will also enable teachers to face assessment challenges present in our changing world. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com

GBP 36.99
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Cultural Organizations Networks and Mediators in Contemporary Ibero-America

Cultural Organizations Networks and Mediators in Contemporary Ibero-America

This book proposes an innovative conceptual framework to explore cultural organizations at a multilateral level and cultural mediators as key figures in cultural and institutionalization processes. Specifically it analyzes the role of Ibero-American mediators in the institutionalization of Hispanic and Lusophone cultures in the first half of the 20th century by means of two institutional networks: PEN (the non-governmental writer’s association) and the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation (predecessor to UNESCO). Attempting to combine cultural and global history sociology and literary studies the book uses an analytical focus on intercultural networks and cultural transfer to investigate the multiple activities and roles that these mediators and cultural organizations set in motion. Literature has traditionally studied major figures and important centers of cultural production but other regions and localities also played a crucial role in the development of intellectual cooperation. This book reappraises the place of Ibero-America in international cultural relations and retrieves the lost history of key secondary actors. The book will appeal to scholars from international relations global and cultural history sociology postcolonial Studies world and comparative literature and New Hispanisms. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com/books/e/9780429299407 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Cultural Organizations Networks and Mediators in Contemporary Ibero-America

GBP 26.99
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Cold Mountain Poems Text Travel and Canon Construction

Cold Mountain Poems Text Travel and Canon Construction

This book unveils the legendary life and the mystic poems of the iconic Chinese Tang poet Han-shan (known by his pen name “Cold Mountain”) and investigates the dissemination and reception of the Cold Mountain Poems (CMPs) attributed to him. Han-shan and the CMPs are amongst the most legendary literary landscapes and cultural memories in the history of world scholarly exchange. The maniac poet recluse hidden in the Cold Mountains the delicate poetic realms of Confucianism Buddhism Zen and Taoism contained in the Cold Mountain Poems and the incredible pervasiveness of its text travel and canon construction worldwide as well as the profound impact of CMPs on comparative literature world literature and Chinese studies provide the perfect lens to learn about Chinese language literature culture and society. This book is thus intended to investigate CMPs in a coherent global context. Considering the vertical studies of the Chinese literature polysystem it highlights the horizontal influence of CMPs literarily or non-literarily. Furthermore it addresses the making and developing of the Han-shan phenomenon and its implications for translation studies travel writing canon construction and literary historiography. This book is for scholars researchers and students in literary history and East Asian Studies focusing on Chinese literature and culture and those interested in the history of poetry in general. | Cold Mountain Poems Text Travel and Canon Construction

GBP 130.00
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The Combination Products Handbook A Practical Guide for Combination Products and Other Combined Use Systems

The Combination Products Handbook A Practical Guide for Combination Products and Other Combined Use Systems

Combination products are therapeutic and diagnostic products that combine drugs devices and/or biological products. According to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) “a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and a device; a biological product and a device; a drug and a biological product; or a drug device and a biological product. ” Examples include prefilled syringes pen injectors autoinjectors inhalers transdermal delivery systems drug-eluting stents and kits containing drug administration devices co-packaged with drugs and/or biological products. This handbook provides the most up-to-date information on the development of combination products from the technology involved to successful delivery to market. The authors present important and up-to-the-minute pre- and post-market reviews of international combination product regulations guidance considerations and best practices. This handbook: Brings clarity of understanding for global combination products guidance and regulations Reviews the current state-of-the-art considerations and best practices spanning the combination product lifecycle pre-market through post-market Reviews medical product classification and assignment issues faced by global regulatory authorities and industry The editor is a recognized international Combination Products and Medical Device expert with over 35 years of industry experience and has an outstanding team of contributors. Endorsed by AAMI – Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation. | The Combination Products Handbook A Practical Guide for Combination Products and Other Combined Use Systems

GBP 140.00
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Writing for Wellbeing Theory Research and Practice

Writing for Wellbeing Theory Research and Practice

Writing can support our wellbeing even under the most difficult life circumstances helping us to adapt to significant change make sense of loss improve our physical and emotional resilience and foster personal growth. Numerous studies of Expressive Writing have confirmed this and there are other established methodologies for practice. However to date few accounts have offered detailed descriptions showing how and why putting pen to paper can be so beneficial. This book delves deeply into the landscape of Writing-for-wellbeing and demonstrates the transformative power of writing in a wide range of contexts. Topics include personal trauma narratives within the Humanities; a participatory Writing-for-wellbeing study that demonstrates the effectiveness of writing in the context of grief and loss; surprise as the hidden mainspring of poetry's therapeutic potency; the empowerment and healing potential offered by Black women’s blogs; playwriting positioning LGBTQIA+ identities as positive through stories of belonging; how writing workshops have helped newly literate Indigenous adults and other participants in the Australian outback; and how the smuggled writings of Behrouz Boochani have enabled global witnessing of the stories of refugees held in offshore detention. This resource sets out the theory and research at the foundation of Writing-for-wellbeing in close relation to full and engaging accounts of practice. It aims to make the topic accessible and affirms its place as an effective reconstructive practice alongside other expressive arts therapies providing a holistic and inspiring resource for anyone wishing to practice teach or research Writing-for-wellbeing. | Writing for Wellbeing Theory Research and Practice

GBP 35.99
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The Architecture Drawing Book: RIBA Collections

The Architecture Drawing Book: RIBA Collections

A club house in a castle in the West End of London complete with battlements and turrets from 1882. A design for the post-war reconstruction of the City of London in 1945. A fantasy landscape featuring Le Corbusier’s Capriccio of Notre-Dame du Haut in ruins. A section of a 19th-century townhouse showing a slice of the staircase wallpaper winding from deep navy on the ground floor to pale sky blue at the top. This is a treasury of architectural drawing from the 16th century to the present day. Exploring both how and why architects draw it offers a rich visual history from Palladio Inigo Jones and Augustus Pugin to contemporaries such as Richard Rogers Foster Associates and Zaha Hadid via Sir Christopher Wren George Gilbert Scott and Erno Goldfinger and everything else in between. From back-of-envelope concept sketches to painstaking pen and ink perspectives exploded axonometrics and born-digital drawings this book celebrates the full gamut of architectural representation. With over 200 lush full-colour reproductions this is a window into soul of architectural drawing over the past five hundred years. Includes newly digitised never-seen-before material from the RIBA Collections one of the largest architectural archives in the world. Explores rare drawings and designs from John Nash Sir Edwin Lutyens Frank Lloyd Wright and many more. Insightful commentary alongside each drawing ensures that they are as accessible and engaging as possible. Wide-ranging in scope this book will both inspire and inform. | The Architecture Drawing Book: RIBA Collections

GBP 45.00
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Android Security Attacks and Defenses

Android Security Attacks and Defenses

Android Security: Attacks and Defenses is for anyone interested in learning about the strengths and weaknesses of the Android platform from a security perspective. Starting with an introduction to Android OS architecture and application programming it will help readers get up to speed on the basics of the Android platform and its security issues. Explaining the Android security model and architecture the book describes Android permissions including Manifest permissions to help readers analyze applications and understand permission requirements. It also rates the Android permissions based on security implications and covers JEB Decompiler. The authors describe how to write Android bots in JAVA and how to use reversing tools to decompile any Android application. They also cover the Android file system including import directories and files so readers can perform basic forensic analysis on file system and SD cards. The book includes access to a wealth of resources on its website: www. androidinsecurity. com. It explains how to crack SecureApp. apk discussed in the text and also makes the application available on its site. The book includes coverage of advanced topics such as reverse engineering and forensics mobile device pen-testing methodology malware analysis secure coding and hardening guidelines for Android. It also explains how to analyze security implications for Android mobile devices/applications and incorporate them into enterprise SDLC processes. The book’s site includes a resource section where readers can access downloads for applications tools created by users and sample applications created by the authors under the Resource section. Readers can easily download the files and use them in conjunction with the text wherever needed. Visit www. androidinsecurity. com for more information. | Android Security Attacks and Defenses

GBP 56.99
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Lean Daily Management for Healthcare A Strategic Guide to Implementing Lean for Hospital Leaders

Lean Daily Management for Healthcare A Strategic Guide to Implementing Lean for Hospital Leaders

You likely don‘t need any more tools programs or workshops to improve your hospital. What you need is a simple and consistent approach to manage problem-solving. Filling this need this book presents a Lean management system that can help break down barriers between staff directors and administration and empower front-line staff to resolve their own problems. Lean Daily Management for Healthcare: A Strategic Guide to Implementing Lean for Hospital Leaders provides practical step-by-step guidance on how to roll out Lean daily management in a hospital setting. Ideal for leaders that may feel lost in the transition process the book supplies a roadmap to help you identify where your hospital currently is in its Lean process where it‘s headed and how your role will change as you evolve into a Lean leader. Illustrating the entire process of implementing Lean daily management the book breaks down the cultural progression of units into discreet objectively measurable phases. It identifies what leaders at all levels of the organization must do to progress units into the next phase of development. Complete with case studies from different service areas in the hospital the book explains how to link problem-solving boards together to achieve meaningful and measurable improvements in: the emergency department the operating room discharge times clinics quality and patient satisfaction. After reading this book you will understand how consistent rounding a few whiteboards pen-and-paper data and a focused effort on working the Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle can help you build a common problem-solving bench strength throughout your organization establishing the framework upon which future improvement can be built. | Lean Daily Management for Healthcare A Strategic Guide to Implementing Lean for Hospital Leaders

GBP 170.00
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Descriptosaurus A Language Toolkit and Support for Creative Writing Ages 9 to 12

Descriptosaurus A Language Toolkit and Support for Creative Writing Ages 9 to 12

Now in its fully updated fourth edition the bestselling Descriptosaurus is the first book for creative writing that is a thematic expansion of a dictionary and a thesaurus; it provides students with a language toolkit with which to expand their descriptive vocabulary experiment with language and sentence structure and build up narratives based around settings characters and creatures. Descriptosaurus positions the word zooms in on it to examine the meaning expands it into phrases and then provides alternatives in words phrases and sentences; the model was created and refined over a number of years as a result of feedback from students inside and outside the classroom as to the resources they required to inspire and assist them with their writing. For reluctant writers or those faced with blank page syndrome it provides essential starting points to encourage putting pen to paper not only inspiring students but also building their confidence encouraging them to use apply and create using the correct grammatical structures and adding colour to their writing through evaluation and experimentation. New features for this expanded edition include: Additional vocabulary including technical vocabulary for non-fiction topics such as volcanoes mountains and caves An additional chapter to cover the popular primary topic of cold climates and polar exploration How to use word clines to expand vocabulary and explore shades of meaning Guidelines resources and models to scaffold learning about grammar Sentences that have been expanded and reworked to provide modelled sentences for DFI (Detail Flow and Impact) Guidelines resources exercises and models to support the teaching of sentence construction using imitation combining and expansion techniques Accompanied by Instructor and Student Resources containing all the games planning sheets and vocabulary builders from the book this is an ideal resource to dramatically improve students' creative writing confidence and facility with sentence construction for all primary and secondary English teachers literacy coordinators and parents. It would also make an excellent classroom book for PGCE students particularly Primary PGCE with English specialism. | Descriptosaurus A Language Toolkit and Support for Creative Writing Ages 9 to 12

GBP 29.99
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Selected Letters of Vernon Lee 1856–1935 Volume II - 1885-1889

Selected Letters of Vernon Lee 1856–1935 Volume II - 1885-1889

Vernon Lee was the pen name of Violet Paget (1856–1935) – a prolific author best known for her supernatural fiction and her radical polemics. She was also an active letter writer whose correspondents include many well-known figures in fin de siècle intellectual circles across Europe. However until now no attempt has been made to make these letters widely available in their complete form. This multi-volume scholarly edition presents a comprehensive selection of her English French Italian and German correspondence — compiled from more than 30 archives worldwide — that reflect her wide variety of interests and occupations as a Woman of Letters and contributor to scholarship and political activism. Letters written in a language other than English have been expertly translated by scholars Sophie Geoffroy (from the French) Crystal Hall (from the Italian) and Christa Zorn (from the German). The edition focuses on those letters concerning the writing ideas and aesthetics that influenced Lee’s articles books and stories. Full transcriptions of some 500 letters covering the years 1856-1935 are arranged in chronological order along with newly written introductions that explain their context and identifies the recipients friends and colleagues mentioned. Since scholarship on Lee’s critical and creative output is still in the beginning stages these letters will serve a purpose to students and researchers in a number of academic fields. In this second volume covering the years 1885–1889 the 421 assembled letters follow Violet Paget-Vernon Lee in her early thirties. Recovering from the stinging reception of her first novel and from Annie Meyer’s death she turns to essay writing on aesthetics and ethics and ghost stories. After Mary Robinson’s engagement to marry French orientalist Prof. Darmesteter she travels to Spain Gibraltar and Tangiers and briefly falls under the spell of the Orient. She also takes a liking to Scotland and many of her close friends are Scottish -Alice Callander Lady Archie (Janey Sevilla Archibald Campbell)—and so is her future partner Clementina Anstruther-Thomson. The letters reflect the expansion of her subject matter from cultural studies art history and aesthetic philosophy. Her charity work in hospitals in Florence and her readings in Political Economy lead her thinking towards social reform and political issues. Her brother’s mental illness and her own breakdown bring about an awareness of body and mind balance and a taste for outdoor pursuits (mountaineering; bicycling; horse riding; swimming) and for experimental psychology (rotating mirrors; hypnosis) and therapies (hydrotherapy). The Pagets move away from the city center of Florence into the Villa Il Palmerino then in the countryside where both Eugene and Vernon recover. Correspondents include Lee’s parents Matilda and Henry Ferguson Paget; her step-brother poet Eugene Lee-Hamilton; English poetess Mary Robinson; English poet Robert Browning; British novelist and journalist Ellen Mary Abdy-Williams; British social reform activist and editor Percy William Bunting; Irish journalist and activist Frances Power Cobbe; Irish scholar and novelist Bella Duffy; British eugenicist Karl Pearson; British publisher William Blackwood; Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson; American novelist Henry James; American connoisseur and arts patron Isabella Stuart Gardner; French translator and critic Marie-Thérèse Blanc (Th. Bentzon); Lady Louisa Wolseley; Irish historian and activist Alice Stopford-Green; Italian Countess Angelica (Pasolini) Rasponi; Italian poet writer and critic Enrico Nencioni; Italian novelist essayist and critic Mario Pratesi; Italian editor and man of letters Francesco Protonotari; Italian painter Telemaco Signorini. | Selected Letters of Vernon Lee 1856–1935 Volume II - 1885-1889

GBP 115.00
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