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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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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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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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Concise Textbook of Small Animal Handling A Practical Handbook

Concise Textbook of Small Animal Handling A Practical Handbook

This instructional pocket reference condenses the most important aspects of small animal handling. It provides a portable durable means of learning 'on the ground' as well as a convenient way to refresh on how to strive for safety and efficacy in animal handling techniques. Spiralbound for practical use at the animal’s side during veterinary placements in a clinic or laboratory the text covers: Handler safety Animal safety Sanitation Approach and capture Routine handling and release procedures Handling for medical procedures Use and supply sources of restraint equipment A Companion Website provides additional self-assessment questions and answers to aid learning. Important reading for undergraduate veterinary students as well as practicing technicians nurses and assistants the book instructs on safe and humane handling of species encountered in both small animal practice and laboratory settings. | Concise Textbook of Small Animal Handling A Practical Handbook

GBP 31.99
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Concise Textbook of Large Animal Handling A Practical Handbook

Concise Textbook of Large Animal Handling A Practical Handbook

This concise instructional guide condenses the most important aspects of large animal handling. It provides a portable durable beside-the-animal means of learning as well as a convenient way to refresh on how to strive for safety and efficacy in animal handling techniques. It is ideal for use during veterinary placements in all settings from farm to laboratory to riding school. The text covers: Handler safety Animal safety Sanitation Approach and capture Routine handling and release procedures Handling for medical procedures Use and supply sources of restraint equipment A Companion Website provides additional self-assessment questions and answers to aid learning. Important reading for undergraduate veterinary students on EMS rotations as well as practicing veterinarians technicians and assistants the book covers species encountered in farm equine and laboratory settings. | Concise Textbook of Large Animal Handling A Practical Handbook

GBP 38.99
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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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Musculoskeletal Injections and Alternative Options A practical guide to 'what when and how?'

Musculoskeletal Injections and Alternative Options A practical guide to 'what when and how?'

Musculoskeletal injections for joint or tendon problems are performed commonly and their use which can result in a marked improvement in acute symptoms as well as delay or postpone surgery is on the rise. Key features: Provides concise current and portable information Covers the latest treatment options supported by scientific evidence and guidelines Discusses alternative injections non-injection measures and novel treatment modalities Text supported by illustrations and video of injection procedures and physiotherapy Ideal for both the non-specialist seeking an introduction to the subject and the more experienced practitioner This accessible guide helps doctors from various disciplines including orthopaedics sports medicine rheumatology radiology and primary care as well as allied health care professionals understand the indications and local anatomy to safely perform injections with complication avoidance. In addition the book provides useful information regarding other alternatives including physiotherapy and novel modalities. The content is supported by current evidence guidelines and companion videos. | Musculoskeletal Injections and Alternative Options A practical guide to 'what when and how?'

GBP 31.99
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Pocket Essential Medical Equipment

Pocket Essential Medical Equipment

This genuinely pocket-sized guide to essential medical equipment is ideal for medical students newly qualified junior doctors and other healthcare professionals seeking a convenient and concise handbook to refer to in busy clinical settings including emergency departments. Clear concise and systematic it provides a visual guide to enable readers to identify correctly common medical equipment and use it appropriately without overwhelming or extraneous information. Key Features: Convenient – everything at your fingertips for speedy access in the emergency department on the ward and in the clinic Portable – actually fits in a pocket    Illustrated – plentiful photographs and explanatory line diagrams support and enhance the text Tailored – written specifically with the less experienced practitioner in mind Providing guidance and answering questions when senior help is not readily available with this book as your indispensable companion you will be equipped to identify and use equipment with confidence in order to provide safe and effective care for patients. | Pocket Essential Medical Equipment

GBP 18.99
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Surgical and Anaesthetic Instruments for OSCEs A Practical Study Guide

Surgical and Anaesthetic Instruments for OSCEs A Practical Study Guide

This book provides an exam-focused revision guide to both anaesthetic and surgical instruments. This is a comprehensive guide to passing an exam station and includes commonly tested knowledge. The Anaesthetic section includes airway breathing circulation and analgesia equipment. Surgical instruments include those used in cardiothoracic surgery ENT general surgery orthopaedics and urology. Each instrument entry follows a standard format – description indications for use contraindications and complications. The standard format ensures that learning about each instrument and when to use it is faster and easier thus optimising exam recall. Fully illustrated with all the core anaesthetic and surgical instruments Concise easy-to-remember text Portable and practical Suitable for a wide range of health professionals The instrument syllabus is a small yet significant part of many exams and this concise study guide will benefit a wide range of medical and surgical trainees including those sitting the FRCA and MRCS examinations. Healthcare professionals including nurses (ward or theatre) operating department practitioners and physician assistants (PAs) will also find the content useful as an on-the-job aide. About the Author: Dr Kelvin Yan MRCP AICSM is an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow University of Oxford and an Honorary Clinical Research Fellow Imperial College London. | Surgical and Anaesthetic Instruments for OSCEs A Practical Study Guide

GBP 27.99
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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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