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Eargle's The Microphone Book From Mono to Stereo to Surround - A Guide to Microphone Design and Application

Eargle's The Microphone Book From Mono to Stereo to Surround - A Guide to Microphone Design and Application

Eargle's Microphone Book is the only guide you will ever need for the latest in microphone technology application and technique. This new edition features more on microphone arrays and wireless microphones new material on digital models; the latest developments in surround; expanded advice on studio set up recording and mic selection. Ray A. Rayburn provides detailed analysis of the different types of microphones available and addresses their application through practical examples of actual recording sessions and studio operations. The book takes you into the studio or concert hall to see how performers are positioned and how the best microphone array is determined. Problem areas such as reflections studio leakage and isolation are analyzed from practical viewpoints. Creative solutions to stereo sound staging perspective and balance are covered in detail. Eargle's Microphone Book is an invaluable resource for learning the 'why' as well as the 'how' of choosing and placing a microphone for any situation. | Eargle's The Microphone Book From Mono to Stereo to Surround - A Guide to Microphone Design and Application

GBP 180.00
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The VES Handbook of Visual Effects Industry Standard VFX Practices and Procedures

The VES Handbook of Visual Effects Industry Standard VFX Practices and Procedures

The award-winning VES Handbook of Visual Effects remains the most complete guide to visual effects techniques and best practices available today. This new edition has been updated to include the latest industry-standard techniques technologies and workflows for the ever-evolving fast paced world of visual effects. The Visual Effects Society (VES) tasked the original authors to update their areas of expertise such as AR/VR Moviemaking Color Management Cameras VFX Editorial Stereoscopic and the Digital Intermediate as well as provide detailed chapters on interactive games and full animation. Additionally 56 contributors share their best methods tips tricks and shortcuts developed through decades of trial and error and real-world hands-on experience. This third edition has been expanded to feature lessons on 2. 5D/3D Compositing; 3D Scanning; Digital Cinematography; Editorial Workflow in Animated and Visual Effects Features; Gaming updates; General Geometry Instancing; Lens Mapping for VFX; Native Stereo; Real-Time VFX and Camera Tracking; Shot/Element Pulls and Delivery to VFX; Techvis; VFX Elements and Stereo; Virtual Production; and VR/AR (Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality). A must-have for anyone working in or aspiring to work in visual effects The VES Handbook of Visual Effects Third Edition covers essential techniques and solutions for all VFX artists producers and supervisors from pre-production to digital character creation compositing of both live-action and CG elements photorealistic techniques and much more. With subjects and techniques clearly and definitively presented in beautiful four-color this handbook is a vital resource for any serious VFX artist. | The VES Handbook of Visual Effects Industry Standard VFX Practices and Procedures

GBP 54.99
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Immersive Sound The Art and Science of Binaural and Multi-Channel Audio

Immersive Sound The Art and Science of Binaural and Multi-Channel Audio

Immersive Sound: The Art and Science of Binaural and Multi-Channel Audio provides a comprehensive guide to multi-channel sound. With contributions from leading recording engineers researchers and industry experts Immersive Sound includes an in-depth description of the physics and psychoacoustics of spatial audio as well as practical applications. Chapters include the history of 3D sound binaural reproduction over headphones and loudspeakers stereo surround sound height channels object-based audio soundfield (ambisonics) wavefield synthesis and multi-channel mixing techniques. Knowledge of the development theory and practice of spatial and multi-channel sound is essential to those advancing the research and applications in the rapidly evolving fields of 3D sound recording augmented and virtual reality gaming film sound music production and post-production. | Immersive Sound The Art and Science of Binaural and Multi-Channel Audio

GBP 82.99
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Sound Reproduction The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms

Sound Reproduction The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms

Sound Reproduction: The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms Third Edition explains the physical and perceptual processes that are involved in sound reproduction and demonstrates how to use the processes to create high-quality listening experiences in stereo and multichannel formats. Understanding the principles of sound production is necessary to achieve the goals of sound reproduction in spaces ranging from recording control rooms and home listening rooms to large cinemas. This revision brings new science-based perspectives on the performance of loudspeakers room acoustics measurements and equalization all of which need to be appropriately used to ensure the accurate delivery of music and movie sound tracks from creators to listeners. The robust website (www. routledge. com/cw/toole) is the perfect companion to this necessary resource. | Sound Reproduction The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms

GBP 56.99
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Pro Tools for Film and Video

Pro Tools for Film and Video

This step-by-step guide for editing sound to picture using Pro Tools starts by explaining the Pro Tools systems and covers all key audio topics including equipment sound music effects output and mixing tools to give users the skills needed to work on any project from big budget feature film to amateur DV video in mono stereo or surround sound. Clearly set out and thorough in coverage the book takes a practical real world approach a live 35mm film project runs through the chapters illustrating how different functions are added to a film providing the real detail of how to apply it to an edit. Extensively illustrated in color and packed with time-saving hints and tips the companion website http://www. focalpress. com/cw/angell-9780240520773/ . contains the various Pro Tools sessions of the project film as it moves through audio editing ADR mixing and final 35mm release prints. | Pro Tools for Film and Video

GBP 175.00
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Seeing Opera Anew A Cultural and Biological Perspective

Seeing Opera Anew A Cultural and Biological Perspective

What people ultimately want from opera audience research suggests is to be absorbed in a story that engages their feelings even moves them deeply and that may lead them to insights about life and perhaps themselves. How and why can this combination of music and drama do that? What causes people to be moved by opera? How is it that people may become more informed about living and their own lives? Seeing Opera Anew addresses these fundamental questions. Most approaches to opera present information solely from the humanities providing musical literary and historical interpretations but this book offers a “stereo” perspective adding insights from the sciences closely related to human life including evolutionary biology psychology anthropology and neuroscience. It can be hoped that academic specialists less familiar with the science will find points of interest in this book’s novel approach and that open-minded students and inquisitive opera-goers will be stimulated by its “cultural and biological perspective. ” | Seeing Opera Anew A Cultural and Biological Perspective

GBP 35.99
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The Management Thought of Louis R. Pondy Reclaiming the Enthinkment Path

The Management Thought of Louis R. Pondy Reclaiming the Enthinkment Path

Louis R. Pondy was a leading management and organizational studies scholar whose work on open systems helped launch and define the future of the field. This book offers an assessment of Pondy’s contribution through critical reflection on what happened to the relationship between conflict theory and “beyond open systems. ” Exploring the ways in which Louis R. Pondy theorizes conflict and systems and how he challenged the status quo paradigms this book offers a historical analysis on Pondy’s work and the relation to contemporary management theory. The author develops a Triple Loop framework building on Pondy’s theories as well as the work of Gregory Batesom to demonstrate a beyond-open-systems approach and existing single- or double-loop systems. Demonstrating the value and legacy of Louis R. Pondy this book will have international appeal to researchers academics and students across management disciplines and organizational studies including systems thinking and conflict resolution. | The Management Thought of Louis R. Pondy Reclaiming the Enthinkment Path

GBP 130.00
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Children and Work Study of Socialization

Children and Work Study of Socialization

What do children know about work careers and related topics? What is the pattern of growth in values attitudes beliefs and knowledge? Using quantitative and anecdotal evidence gathered from interviewing over 900 grade-school students in five New Jersey communities the authors analyze childhood socialization to the concept of work. Existing literature on this topic focuses on the critical years of oc-cupational choice. But Goldstein and Oldham strongly suggest that much of the child's work-related development has already occurred prior to entry into secondary school and that career educa-tion must receive increased em-phasis during the elementary years. Their evidence corroborates the pattern of rapid progress to-ward childhood awareness of im-portant social phenomena such as war politics race gender roles and economics. By the seventh grade children have an awareness in these areas that approximates that of adults. Traditional stereo-types concerning appropriate work roles for women continue to exist at the elementary school level. This work is a comprehensive empirical treatment of childhood socialization to work fitting neat-ly into the growing body of litera-ture on the socialization of the child into various political eco-nomic and social roles. Children and Work is in the sociological tradition but the findings are pre-sented in the context of a growing body of social science research on early socialization. | Children and Work Study of Socialization

GBP 38.99
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Integrating the Individual and the Organization

Integrating the Individual and the Organization

The emphasis on organizational change in the corporate life of recent years-including job redesign autonomous groups high performance work systems and the redesign of control systems-owes a great deal to the pioneering work of Chris Argyris. This book examines how individuals in organizations can become more effective in turn making organizations more effective. It explores the conventional pyramidal structure of organizations in which there is top-down control by managers over workers and examines their negative consequences. These include organizational injustice and eventually irrational decision-making. Argyris also discusses the characteristic learning system of the modern organization which he describes as single-loop in character. This system he argues is only adequeate enough to permit the organization to implement existing policies. It does not permit the more difficult and comprehensive task of questioning underlying goals and assumptions which he terms doubt loop learning. In this kind of learning the organization is able to confront the more difficult problems that affect organizations in a time of transition. In his new introduction Argyris reviews the strengths and limitations of the argument advanced in Integrating the Individual and the Organization. He describes why the pyramidal structure endures and why creating a self-learning organization is an even more challenging task than he has imagined. The book will be of interest to professionals with a long-standing interest in organizational development as well as those just entering the field managers confronting the challenge of organization change and researchers in organizational behavior and theory.

GBP 130.00
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Planning Chicago

Planning Chicago

In this volume the authors tell the real stories of the planners politicians and everyday people who shaped contemporary Chicago starting in 1958 early in the Richard J. Daley era. Over the ensuing decades planning did much to develop the Loop protect Chicago’s famous lakefront and encourage industrial growth and neighborhood development in the face of national trends that savaged other cities. But planning also failed some of Chicago’s communities and did too little for others. The Second City is no longer defined by its past and its myths but by the nature of its emerging postindustrial future. This volume looks beyond Burnham’s giant shadow to see the sprawl and scramble of a city always on the make. This isn’t the way other history books tell the story. But it’s the Chicago way. | Planning Chicago

GBP 145.00
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Mic It Microphones Microphone Techniques and Their Impact on the Final Mix

Mic It Microphones Microphone Techniques and Their Impact on the Final Mix

Capture great sound in the first place and spend less time fixing it in the mix with Ian Corbett’s Mic It! With this updated and expanded second edition you’ll quickly understand essential audio concepts as they relate to microphones and mic techniques and learn how to apply them to your recording situation. Mic It! gives you the background to explore discover and design your own solutions enabling you to record great source tracks that can be developed into anything from ultra-clean mixes to massive organic soundscapes. Beginning with essential audio theory and a discussion of the desirable characteristics of good sound Mic It! covers microphones mono and stereo mic techniques the effect of the recording space or room and large classical and jazz ensemble recording. This second edition also features new chapters on immersive audio immersive recording concepts drum tuning and recording techniques for audio for video. Mic It! provides in-depth information on how different mic techniques can be used modified and fine-tuned to capture not only the best sound but the best sound for the mix as well as how to approach and set up the recording session prepare for mixing and avoid common recording and mixing mistakes. • Train your ears with practical audio examples on the companion website. • Develop and test your knowledge as you learn with concise applicable exercises and examples that cover the concepts presented. • Record the best sound possible in any situation with Mic It! Corbett’s expert advice ranges from vital knowledge no novice should be without to advanced techniques that more experienced engineers can explore to benefit and vary the sound of their recordings. Whether you only ever buy one microphone are equipping a studio on a budget or have a vast selection of great mics to use with Mic It! you’ll learn how to make the most of the tools you have. | Mic It Microphones Microphone Techniques and Their Impact on the Final Mix

GBP 35.99
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Fashion Ethics

Fashion Ethics

Fashion Ethics provides a comprehensive overview of the ethical issues in the fashion industry from collection design concept to upcycling and closed loop production. This book answers an urgent need for a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental ethics of the fashion industry. Sue Thomas goes beyond the usual contentious issues of environmental impact and human rights taking the reader deeper into the endemic issues including sizeism ageism animal rights and the lack of diversity in models and in the media. The book lays out the significant ethical issues within the fashion supply chain by mapping the lifecycle of a garment and exploring key topics such as deep ecology cultural copyright speciesism the role of the customer and technology in future ethics. It also features current international industry information and industry-relevant case studies from brands media and mobile technology and NGOs including Oxfam (UK) Redress (Hong Kong) Nimany (US) Labor Link (US) People Tree (UK) and Peppermint (Australia). Fashion Ethics provides much-needed information for fashion students industry professionals and customers.

GBP 36.99
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Quality Service Management A Guide to Improving Business Processes

Quality Service Management A Guide to Improving Business Processes

Providing clear guidance for anyone servicing internal or external customers this book offers a framework for analyzing and managing quality using a comprehensive closed-loop approach. This book cuts through the complexities of the mantra ‘better cheaper faster’ (BCF) and offers procedures for the evaluation of customer needs the determination of performance metrics and the design of effective customer satisfaction surveys. It details basic statistical techniques and packages the framework procedures and methods into a management construct that includes external quality certification systems and internal performance management systems. Importantly the book also describes how these systems can be implemented in a virtual workplace. This quality management book will be essential to service-oriented firms (financial government healthcare hospitality etc. ) as well as any firm with internal customer service processes such as human resource management purchasing and accounting. Professionals at all levels corporate trainers and students will welcome this book’s common set of principles and tools accompanied by many case studies that illustrate how they are applied in various environments. | Quality Service Management A Guide to Improving Business Processes

GBP 31.99
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The Play Cycle Theory Research and Application

The Play Cycle Theory Research and Application

Twenty years after Gordon Sturrock and the late Professor Perry Else’s 'Colorado Paper' introduced the Play Cycle this theory of play now supports professional playwork practice training and education. The Play Cycle: Theory Research and Application is the first book of its kind to explain the theoretical concept of the Play Cycle supported by recent research and how it can be used as an observational method for anyone who works with children in a play context. The book investigates the understandings of the Play Cycle within the playwork field over the last 20 years and its future application. It addresses each aspect of the Play Cycle (metalude play cue play return play frame loop and flow and annihilation) and combines the theoretical aspect of the Play Cycle with empirical research evidence. The book also provides an observational tool for people to observe and record play cycles. This book will appeal to playworkers teachers play therapists and professionals working in other contexts with children such as hospitals and prisons. It will support practitioners and students in learning about play and provide lecturers and trainers with a new innovative teaching and training aide. | The Play Cycle Theory Research and Application

GBP 21.99
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The Reflective Administrator A Leader-Centered Focus

The Reflective Administrator A Leader-Centered Focus

The Reflective Administrator takes the well-grounded theories of reflective thought out of the classroom setting and delivers them into the public sector workplace. The intentional practice of reflection is useful not only with regard to experiential learning in public administration education but also within the profession itself. The text dispels misconceptions about what reflective practice entails and offers the reader practical tools to implement in both the classroom and professional environments. The book begins by walking the reader through a foundational overview of reflective thought theory cultivates understanding of reflection in practice then closes the loop by helping the reader to conceptualize the ideas presented and offering applicable takeaways for both students and practitioners. Chapters utilize real-world case studies which detail work environment interactions planning and outcomes. These provide opportunities to examine and dissect individual and group dynamics using a reflective practice lens. The Reflective Administrator offers a fresh perspective on the utility of reflective thought in public service for professional growth and leadership development and it will be a key resource for students as well as public administration practitioners. | The Reflective Administrator A Leader-Centered Focus

GBP 35.99
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The Architecture of Waste Design for a Circular Economy

The Architecture of Waste Design for a Circular Economy

Global material crises are imminent. In the very near future recycling will no longer be a choice made by those concerned about the environment but a necessity for all. This means a paradigm shift in domestic behavior manufacturing construction and design is inevitable. The Architecture of Waste provides a hopeful outlook through examining current recycling practices rethinking initial manufacturing techniques and proposing design solutions for second lives of material-objects. The book touches on a variety of inescapable issues beyond our global waste crisis including cultural psyches politics economics manufacturing marketing and material science. A series of crucial perspectives from experts cover these topics and frames the research by providing a past present and future look at how we got here and where we go next: the historical the material and the design. Twelve design proposals look beyond the simple application of recycled and waste materials in architecture—an admirable endeavor but one that does not engage the urgent reality of a circular economy—by aiming to transform familiar yet flawed material-objects into closed-loop resources. Complete with over 150 color images and written for both professionals and students The Architecture of Waste is a necessary reference for rethinking the traditional role of the architect and challenging the discipline to address urgent material issues within the larger design process. | The Architecture of Waste Design for a Circular Economy

GBP 31.99
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Exploring Working Memory Selected works of Alan Baddeley

Exploring Working Memory Selected works of Alan Baddeley

In the World Library of Psychologists series international experts present themselves career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books key articles salient research findings and their major theoretical and practical contributions. Alan Baddeley has an international reputation as an eminent scholar and pioneer in the field of human memory and is principally known for the theory of working memory devised with Graham Hitch. This model continues to be valuable today in recognising the functions of short-term memory. This volume includes a specially written introduction by Alan Baddeley which gives an overview of the start of his career and his entry into the field of Psychology. Throughout the book he also provides introductions to the selection of works included and contextualises them in relation to changes in the field during this time. Exploring Working Memory includes the author’s most influential publications on topics including short-term memory the distinctions between short and long-term memory the theory of working memory the phonological loop the concept of the central executive and the episodic buffer. This exceptional selection concludes with an article giving a broad overview of the author’s current views on working memory and its relation to other theories in the field. Through his outstanding work Alan Baddeley has become known as a world-leading expert on human memory. Exploring Working Memory is a unique collection which will be of great interest to both students and researchers interested in human memory from psychology backgrounds. | Exploring Working Memory Selected works of Alan Baddeley

GBP 39.99
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Midcourse Correction for the College Classroom Putting Small Group Instructional Diagnosis to Work

Midcourse Correction for the College Classroom Putting Small Group Instructional Diagnosis to Work

This book is about using the Small Group Instructional Diagnosis (SGID) method to make improvements to the educational experience midcourse. The idea is to use this structured interview process to involve students in helping faculty improve a course while they are in it potentially making a difference for themselves as well as for future students. Faculty gain the opportunity to work on a course before it ends and can see what changes work without waiting for the next time the course is offered or the end of semester student evaluations. SGID is a consultation method developed to collect midsemester feedback from students using structured small and large group conversations involving four conversations between students a learned colleague the authors refer to as the SGID consultant and the instructor. First student talk with each other in small groups about the learning happening in a course under the guidance of a consultant (SGID Conversation #1- Student & Students). Then the SGID consultant engages the students in a conversation about how the feedback provided impacts the learning in the course (SGID Conversation #2 - Students & Consultant). Then there is a conversation between the consultant and the instructor where they discuss how the feedback provided by the students can best inform the pedagogical approaches and strategies used by the instructor (SGID Conversation #3 - Consultant & Instructor). Finally the instructor closes the feedback loop with a conversation with their students about what they learned and how best to move forward (SGID Conversation #4 - Instructor & Students). These conversations during the middle of the semester change the way students think about the teaching and learning endeavor the way instructors perceive the learning challenges of their courses and the quality of the institutional academic culture. Most importantly the SGID equips the instructor with the knowledge to make midsemester course corrections that can profoundly impact the ways students navigate the course communicate with the instructor and realize the ways effective teaching can enhance learning. | Midcourse Correction for the College Classroom Putting Small Group Instructional Diagnosis to Work

GBP 31.99
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