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The Portable Community Place and Displacement in Bluegrass Festival Life

The Portable Community Place and Displacement in Bluegrass Festival Life

This book explores the various ways in which individuals use music and culture to understand and respond to changes in their natural and built environments. Drawing on over 15 years of ethnographic fieldwork interviews and participant observation the author develops the thesis that the relationships networks and intimate forms of social interaction in the “portable” community cultivated at bluegrass festival events are significant cultural formations that shape participants’ relationships to their localities. With specific attention to the ways in which the strength of these relationships are translated into meaningful sites of community identity place and action following devastating local floods that destroyed homes and businesses displacing residents for years The Portable Community: Place and Displacement in Bluegrass Festival Life sheds light on the strength of such communities when tested and under external threat. A study of the central role of arts and music in grappling with social and environmental change including their role in facilitating disaster relief and recovery this volume will appeal to scholars of sociology with interests in symbolic interactionism the sociology of music culture and the sociology of disaster. | The Portable Community Place and Displacement in Bluegrass Festival Life

GBP 38.99
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PAT: Portable Appliance Testing In-Service Inspection and Testing of Electrical Equipment

PAT: Portable Appliance Testing In-Service Inspection and Testing of Electrical Equipment

Fully up-to-date with the relevant parts of the 17th Edition IET Wiring Regulations: Amendment 3 and the 2012 Code of Practice Provides all the required information on portable appliance testing in a user-friendly manner Expert advice from an engineering training consultant supported with colour diagrams examples and tables The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 requires any electrical system to be constructed maintained and used in such a manner as to prevent danger. This means that inspection and testing of systems including portable appliances is needed in order to determine if maintenance is required. This book explains in clear language what needs to be done and includes expert advice on legislation as well as actual testing. The book contains an appendix providing the electrical fundamentals needed by non-specialists and also has sample questions (with answers) for the CandG 2377 exam. It is also an ideal revision guide for the non-specialist such as maintenance staff and caretakers who carry out these tasks part-time alongside their many other duties. | PAT: Portable Appliance Testing In-Service Inspection and Testing of Electrical Equipment

GBP 175.00
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The Archaeology of Portable Art Southeast Asian Pacific and Australian Perspectives

The Archaeology of Portable Art Southeast Asian Pacific and Australian Perspectives

The development of complex cultural behaviour in our own species is perhaps the most significant research issue in modern archaeology. Until recently it was believed that our capacity for language and art only developed after some of our ancestors reached Europe around 40 000 years ago. Archaeological discoveries in Africa now show that modern humans were practicing symbolic behaviours prior to their dispersal from that continent and more recent discoveries in Indonesia and Australia are once again challenging ideas about human cultural development. Despite these significant discoveries and exciting potentials there is a curious absence of published information about Asia-Pacific region and consequently global narratives of our most celebrated cognitive accomplishment — art — has consistently underrepresented the contribution of Southeast Asia Australia and the Pacific Islands. This volume provides the first outline of what this region has to offer to the world of art in archaeology. Readers undertaking tertiary archaeology courses interested in the art of the Asia-Pacific region or human behavioural evolution along with anyone who is fascinated by the development of our modern ability to decorate ourselves and our world should find this book a good addition to their library. | The Archaeology of Portable Art Southeast Asian Pacific and Australian Perspectives

GBP 38.99
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Electricity for the Entertainment Electrician & Technician A Practical Guide for Power Distribution in Live Event Production

Electricity for the Entertainment Electrician & Technician A Practical Guide for Power Distribution in Live Event Production

Now in its third edition Electricity for the Entertainment Electrician & Technician is a comprehensive practical study guide for aspiring and working professionals in live event production. The book covers every aspect of power distribution from the fundamentals like basic circuits to 3-phase power power calculations grounding and bonding electrical safety portable power generators and battery power. With ample photographs and illustrations practice problems and solutions and real-world examples from experience and first-hand accounts it provides readers with the knowledge to safely design set up and monitor power distribution systems. The third edition expands on grounding and bonding portable power generators balanced and unbalanced 3-phase power calculations battery power and more. The last chapter walks readers through the process of prepping for a show setting up a portable power distribution system and monitoring every aspect of the system including voltage current and heat using an infrared camera explaining in detail best practices and the logic behind them. Covering topics that are listed in the content outline for the ETCP Entertainment Electrician Certification exam as well as the ETCP Portable Power Distribution Technician Certification exam this reference supports practicing technicians and provides new technicians the assistance they need for a successful career in the entertainment industry. Additional resources including conversion tables voltage spreadsheets articles from Lighting & Sound International Lighting & Sound America and Protocol and animations and illustrations depicting electricity and electric power distribution developed for the author’s workshops can be found on the companion website www. electrics. tech. | Electricity for the Entertainment Electrician & Technician A Practical Guide for Power Distribution in Live Event Production

GBP 44.99
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London's Contemporary Architecture An Explorer's Guide

London's Contemporary Architecture An Explorer's Guide

London is a living architectural exhibition. This tried and trusted portable guide will help you to find your way around one of the worlds most exciting cities offering architectural experiences and insights into London‘s finest contemporary architecture. features more than 400 buildings including key venues from the 2012 Olympic Park provides a superb full colour photographic record of the capital aids navigation of the city‘s greatest architectural sights with a clear map-based format considers each district in turn identifying the buildings most worthwhile visiting and providing essential information and insights into each includes a large scale portable lightweight map for use when walking the tours Jam packed with the author‘s intimate architectural experience and knowledge of London‘s buildings the accompanying commentary is both lively and entertaining providing all the information that any architectural explorer will need to appreciate and experience London‘s contemporary architecture. | London's Contemporary Architecture An Explorer's Guide

GBP 175.00
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Building Surveyor’s Pocket Book

Building Surveyor’s Pocket Book

This handy book brings together a wealth of useful information that building surveyors need on-site or in the office. It provides clear guidance and fundamental principles in key practice areas such as building pathology building performance and building forensics. The book is not overly bound by the regulation and legislation of one region and the principles can be applied internationally. Compact portable and easy to use the Building Surveyor’s Pocket Book helps surveyors anyone studying for their RICS APC and students get access to the basics fast.

GBP 24.99
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Functional Grammatics Re-conceptualizing Knowledge about Language and Image for School English

Functional Grammatics Re-conceptualizing Knowledge about Language and Image for School English

This book provides a re-conceptualization of grammar in a period of change in the communication landscape and widening disciplinary knowledge. Drawing on resources in systemic functional linguistics the book envisions a ‘functional grammatics’ relevant to disciplinary domains such as literary study rhetoric and multimodality. It re-imagines the possibilities of grammar for school English through Halliday’s notion of grammatics. Functional Grammatics is founded on decades of research inspired by systemic functional linguistics and includes studies of grammatical tools useful to teachers of English research into visual and multimodal literacies and studies of the genre–grammar connection. It aims to be useful to the interpretation and composition of texts in school English portable in design across texts and contexts and beneficial for language development. The book will be of interest to researchers and teacher educators as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students and practicing teachers committed to evidence-based professional development. | Functional Grammatics Re-conceptualizing Knowledge about Language and Image for School English

GBP 36.99
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Health and Safety at Work Revision Guide for the NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety

Health and Safety at Work Revision Guide for the NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety

This companion to the bestselling Introduction to Health and Safety at Work will help you prepare for the written assessments on the NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety (2019 specification). It provides complete coverage of the syllabus in bite-sized chunks and will help you learn and memorise the most important areas with links provided back to the main Introduction to Health and Safety at Work text to help you consolidate your learning. ● Small and portable making it ideal for use anywhere: at home in the classroom or on the move ● Includes specimen questions and answers based on recent examination papers ● Everything you need for productive revision in one handy reference source This revision guide is written by an experienced lecturer and former Vice Chairman of NEBOSH who has spent many years helping students become accredited by NEBOSH. | Health and Safety at Work Revision Guide for the NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety

GBP 26.99
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Introduction to Video Production Studio Field and Beyond

Introduction to Video Production Studio Field and Beyond

Written in a clear non-technical manner Introduction to Video Production focuses on the fundamental principles and aesthetics of video production and the technologies used in both studio and field environments. Ronald J. Compesi and Jaime S. Gomez cover each aspect of the process step by step from preproduction to lighting sound directing editing graphics and distribution. Taking into account the changes in workflow and production planning and distribution brought on by the advent of digital media this second edition has been updated throughout to account for the increasing popularity of DSLR cameras online distribution the rise of portable cameras and mobile video and much more. Key features include: a thorough overview of video production in studio and field environments without being overly technical allowing students to get the big picture of production; coverage of new digital production recording and editing technologies; over 300 photos and line art illustrating aesthetic elements technical issues and production planning; key words identified in boldface throughout the text and reinforced in a comprehensive glossary of terms. | Introduction to Video Production Studio Field and Beyond

GBP 56.99
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Health and Safety in Construction Revision Guide for the NEBOSH National Certificate in Construction Health and Safety

Health and Safety in Construction Revision Guide for the NEBOSH National Certificate in Construction Health and Safety

This companion to the bestselling Introduction to Health and Safety in Construction is an essential revision aid for students preparing for their written assessments on the NEBOSH National Certificate in Construction Health and Safety. Fully updated to the April 2015 specification the revision guide provides complete coverage of the syllabus in bite-sized chunks helping readers to learn and memorise the most important topics. Throughout the book the guide links back to the Introduction to Health and Safety in Construction textbook helping students to consolidate their learning. · Small and portable making it ideal for use anywhere: at home in the classroom or on the move · Suggests useful tips on study and examination technique · Includes practice questions and answers based on NEBOSH exam questions · Everything you need for productive revision in one handy reference The Health and Safety in Construction Revision Guide written by the renowned health and safety author and former NEBOSH Vice Chairman Ed Ferrett will be an invaluable tool for students as they prepare for their NEBOSH exam and for their subsequent health and safety work. | Health and Safety in Construction Revision Guide for the NEBOSH National Certificate in Construction Health and Safety

GBP 175.00
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Reality TV

Reality TV

From early first-wave programs such as Candid Camera An American Family and The Real World to the shows on our television screens and portable devices today reality television consistently takes us to cities—such as New York Los Angeles and Boston—to imagine the place of urbanity in American culture and society. Jon Kraszewski offers the first extended account of this phenomenon as he makes the politics of urban space the center of his history and theory of reality television. Kraszewski situates reality television in a larger economic transformation that started in the 1980s when America went from an industrial economy when cities were home to all classes to its post-industrial economy as cities became key points in a web of global financing expelling all economic classes except the elite and the poor. Reality television in the industrial era reworked social relationships based on class race and gender for liberatory purposes which resulted in an egalitarian ethos in the genre. However reality television of the post-industrial era attempts to convince viewers that cities still serve their interests even though most viewers find city life today economically untenable. Each chapter uses a key theoretical concept from spatial theory—such as power geometries diasporic nostalgia orientalism the imagination of social expulsions and the relationship between the country and the city—to illuminate the way reality television engages this larger transformation of urban space in America. | Reality TV

GBP 28.99
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A Story of Islamic Art

A Story of Islamic Art

Providing an introduction to the artistic and architectural traditions of the Islamic world A Story of Islamic Art explores fifty case studies taken from different regions of the Islamic world and from the seventh to the twenty-first centuries. The novel aspect of these case studies is that they are presented as fictional narratives allowing the reader to imagine art and architecture either in their original cultural settings or at some later point in their histories. These stories are supported by a scholarly framework that allows the reader to continue their exploration of the chosen artefacts and their historical context. The fifty case studies take the form of short stories each of which focuses on one or more object from the Islamic world. These encompass portable items in a wide variety of media book illustrations calligraphy photographs architectural decoration buildings and archaeological sites. The book also provides a detailed introduction maps timeline glossary and guides for further reading. This book offers accessible answers to key questions in the scholarship on Islamic art and architecture from its earliest times to the present. The issues dealt with in each of the stories include iconography attitudes towards representation the role of script the elaboration of geometric decoration the creation of sacred and secular spaces in architecture and the socio-cultural context of art production and consumption. Artistic interactions between the Islamic world and other regions including Europe and China are also discussed in this book. A Story of Islamic Art is an engaging and informative introduction for interested readers and students of Islamic art history and architecture.

GBP 35.99
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Trade and Traders in Early Indian Society

Trade and Traders in Early Indian Society

Highlighting diverse types of market places and merchants this book situates the commercial scenario of early India (up to c. ad 1300) in the overall agrarian material milieu of the subcontinent. The book questions the stereotypical narrative of early Indian trade as exchanges in small quantity exotic portable luxury items and strongly argues for the significance of trade in relatively inexpensive bulk commodities – including agrarian/floral products – at local and regional levels and also in long distance trade. That staple items had salience in the sea-borne trade of early India figures prominently in this book which points out that commercial exchanges touched the everyday life of a variety of people. A major feature of this work is the conspicuous thrust on and attention to the sea-borne commerce in the subcontinent. The history of Indic seafaring in the Indian Ocean finds a prominent place in this book pointing out the braided histories of overland and maritime networks in the subcontinent. In addition to three specific chapters on the maritime profile of early Bengal the third edition of Trade and Traders in Early Indian Society offers two new chapters (14 and 15) on the commercial scenario of Gujarat dealing respectively with an organization of merchants during the early sixth century ad and with the long-term linkages between money-circulation and overseas trade in Gujarat c. ad 500-1500). A new preface to the Third Edition discusses the emerging historiographical issues in the history of trade in early India. Rich in the interrogation of a wide variety of primary sources the book analyses the changing perspectives on early Indian trade by taking into account the current literature on the subject.

GBP 130.00
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