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Sport Gender and Power The Rise of Roller Derby

Sport Gender and Power The Rise of Roller Derby

As a new breed of lifestyle sport enthusiasts ’derby grrrls’ are pushing the boundaries of gender as they negotiate the nexus of pleasure pain and power relations. Offering a socio-cultural analysis of the rise and reinvention of roller derby as both a new globalized women’s sport and an everyday creative leisure space this book explores the manner in which roller derby has emerged as a gendered space for self-transformation belonging and embodied contest in which women are invited to experience their emotions differently embrace pain and overcome limits. Sport Gender and Power: The Rise of Roller Derby presents detailed interview ethnographic and autoethnographic material together with a range of media texts to shed new light on the complex relationships of power experienced by women in derby as a sport culture whilst also examining the darker relationships that characterise the sport including those of inclusion and exclusion difference and identity and competition and participation. A contemporary feminist study of empowerment sexual difference gender and affect this book will appeal to scholars of gender and sexuality embodiment feminist thought and the sociology of sport and leisure. | Sport Gender and Power The Rise of Roller Derby

GBP 38.99
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Gender Sport and the Role of Alter Ego in Roller Derby

Gender Sport and the Role of Alter Ego in Roller Derby

Gender Sport and the Role of the Alter Ego in Roller Derby focuses on the resurgence of roller derby by examining the appeal and dedication to a sport that combines the masculine aggression and physicality of sport with a more feminine or alternative style of organizing and community building. No longer a scripted sport filled with fake fighting and hair pulling derby though still dangerous has nevertheless exploded in popularity around the world. Drawing on data from in-depth interviews with women players Colleen Arendt reveals how derby has come to serve as a site of gender rebellion and emancipation that empowers participants. She demonstrates how players find roller derby a place to build friendships and support networks while giving back to their community. The book also analyzes the adoption of derby personas or alter egos which many players use. While many players derive joy and other benefits from their derby personas others argue that personas and alter egos detract from the athleticism and legitimacy of the sport. Finally by considering the relationship between gender sport society and power this book tries to answer the question: Why derby? Why now? | Gender Sport and the Role of Alter Ego in Roller Derby

GBP 18.99
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Microneedling in Clinical Practice

Microneedling in Clinical Practice

Microneedles provide an artificial pathway across the skin barrier for medical and cosmetic applications. This technology has seen a significant increase in popularity over the past years; as an example the use of multiple small needles mounted on a roller to pierce the skin prompting it to stimulate collagen production has undergone a resurgence of interest as an adjunctive procedure for a number of skin disorders. This monograph draws together what is known about how to integrate microneedle technology into clinical dermatologic practice. | Microneedling in Clinical Practice

GBP 66.99
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Mentoring Teachers in the Primary School A Practical Guide

Mentoring Teachers in the Primary School A Practical Guide

Mentoring Teachers in the Primary School helps mentors of trainee and newly qualified primary school teachers to both develop their own mentoring skills and provide the essential guidance their beginning teachers need as they navigate the roller-coaster of the first years in the classroom. Offering tried and tested strategies based on the best research it covers the knowledge skills and understanding every mentor needs. Together with tools for self-evaluation this book is a vital source of support and inspiration for all those involved in developing the next generation of outstanding teachers. Key topics for primary mentors include: the role of the mentor mentoring relationships mentoring in specialist areas mentoring development. Filled with guidance to support mentors’ own development as well as the development of beginning primary teachers Mentoring Teachers in the Primary School is a vital guide for mentors of primary school teachers both trainee and newly qualified with ready-to-use strategies that support and inspire mentors. | Mentoring Teachers in the Primary School A Practical Guide

GBP 27.99
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Human-Centred Autonomous Shipping

Human-Centred Autonomous Shipping

Tracing the development of autonomous and automated shipping from a hype of unmanned ships to a more realistic use of automation to augment humans in maritime operations this book shows why human factors and human-centred design are essential to the endeavour. Themes addressed in the book include technology and cybersecurity regulation and classification and competence and skills. It combines commentary and insight from experts across the industry as well as academia and describes a roller-coaster ride from conceptual idea via a period of hype where technologists and engineers enthusiastically advocated a rapid development as many others in the maritime industry felt compelled but struggled to follow and finally to a more measured view as cumulative experience started to show the limitations risks and the lack of a generic business case. This book is intended for anyone working in researching in or simply interested in shipping and the maritime domain and the evolution of autonomous shipping. The target audience includes regulators educators researchers engineers and manufacturers. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license | Human-Centred Autonomous Shipping

GBP 82.99
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Conveyors Application Selection and Integration

Conveyors Application Selection and Integration

This new edition continues on its journey of being an introduction to the wide variety of conveyor types and application methods available. It discusses conveyor and system design and in its new edition expands on information about sorters and motorized roller conveyors new information on robotic interfaces as well as some of the trade-offs made when conveyor design rules are intentionally broken. Each chapter now also includes questions and problems to help reinforce the material covered. Conveyors: Application Selection and Integration includes a pictorial of various installations of conveyors in detail that the reader can model after. It presents common application mistakes made and discusses how the reader can avoid them in the future during the integration process. The book focuses on conveyor application information that is offered in just this book and discusses the effect that extreme temperatures have while providing real-life examples of conveyor system design that may at times break common design rules. This book is a resource for engineers managers and executives who want to gain a better understanding of conveyors and their application. It is also for colleges and universities that offer industrial and/or manufacturing engineering curricula. | Conveyors Application Selection and Integration

GBP 74.99
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Advanced Concepts of Bearing Technology Rolling Bearing Analysis Fifth Edition

Advanced Concepts of Bearing Technology Rolling Bearing Analysis Fifth Edition

For the last four decades Tedric Harris' Rolling Bearing Analysis has been the bible for engineers involved in rolling bearing technology. Why do so many students and practicing engineers rely on this book? The answer is simple: because of its complete coverage from low- to high-speed applications and full derivations of the underlying mathematics from a leader in the field. The fifth edition of this classic reference is divided conveniently into two volumes each focused on a specialized area of bearing technology. This option allows you to select the coverage that is best suited to your needs. The second of two books Advanced Concepts of Bearing Technology steps up the level to more dynamic and complex loading more extreme operating conditions and higher-speed applications. The authors examine several topics that are unique to the book including mathematical relationships for internal load distribution under conditions of high speed combined radial axial and moment loading as well as the effects of raceway and roller profiling. They also delve into the mathematical development of rolling element-raceway lubricant film thickness and contact friction the stress-life method for calculating bearing fatigue endurance and the effects of shaft and supporting structure flexure on bearing loading and deflection. Advanced Concepts of Bearing Technology is the perfect aid for analyzing complex performance and fatigue-life phenomena in advanced applications. | Advanced Concepts of Bearing Technology Rolling Bearing Analysis Fifth Edition

GBP 63.99
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The Geographical Guide of Ptolemy of Alexandria An Analysis

The Geographical Guide of Ptolemy of Alexandria An Analysis

This volume offers a detailed study of Ptolemy of Alexandria’s Geographical Guide whose eight books contain a wealth of geographical information unavailable elsewhere and represent the culmination of the Greco-Roman discipline of geography. Written near the middle of the second century ad the Geographical Guide is the most anomalous of the surviving works of ancient geographical scholarship but offers a vivid record of the expansion of geographical knowledge in antiquity. Roller examines this peculiar text which offers unique data about explorations in the far reaches of the inhabited world from Thoule and Hibernia in the northwest to Kattigara in the southeast and from Serike in northeastern Asia southwest into central Africa. He positions the Guide within the tradition of ancient geography and gives close attention to the reason why Ptolemy wrote the guide and how it contributes to the genre of geographical scholarship. There is also an emphasis on the topographic and ethnic material within the Guide that is new or unique especially explorations in sub-Saharan Africa and knowledge of the world beyond India. Because the Guide was written over half a century after the previous extant geographical work—the first books of Pliny’s Natural History—the book also assesses how knowledge of geography changed during this period. This work is an essential text for students and scholars of ancient geography and is also of interest to anyone working on the cultural history of the Roman Empire during this period. | The Geographical Guide of Ptolemy of Alexandria An Analysis

GBP 130.00
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Subcultures: The Basics

Subcultures: The Basics

Subcultures: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to subcultures in a global context. This fully revised new edition adds new case studies and an additional chapter on the digital lives of subculturists as well as reflections on the relationships between subcultures and globalisation and the resurgence of the far-right. Blending theory and practice this text examines a varied range of subcultures including hip hop graffiti writing heavy metal punk gamers burlesque parkour riot grrrl straight edge roller derby steampunk b-boying/b-girling body modification and skateboarding. Subcultures: The Basics answers the key questions posed by those new to the subject including: What is a subculture? What are the significant theories of subculture? How do subcultures emerge who participates and why? How do subcultural identities interact with other aspects of self such as social class race gender and sexual identity? What is the relationship between deviance resistance and the ‘mainstream’? How have both progressive and reactionary subculturists contributed to social change? How does society react to different subcultures? How have subcultures spread around the world? In what ways do digital technologies and social media influence subcultures? What happens when subculturists age? Tracing the history and development of subcultural theory to the present day this text is essential reading for all those studying subcultures in the contexts of sociology cultural studies history media studies anthropology musicology and criminology. It pushes the field forward with cutting-edge theories of resistance and social change place and space critical race and queer studies virtual participation and ageing and participation across the life course. Key terms and concepts are highlighted throughout the text whilst each chapter includes boxed case studies and signposts students to further reading and resources.

GBP 16.99
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