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Global Metal Music and Culture Current Directions in Metal Studies

Global Metal Music and Culture Current Directions in Metal Studies

This book defines the key ideas scholarly debates and research activities that have contributed to the formation of the international and interdisciplinary field of Metal Studies. Drawing on insights from a wide range of disciplines including popular music cultural studies sociology anthropology philosophy and ethics this volume offers new and innovative research on metal musicology global/local scenes studies fandom gender and metal identity metal media and commerce. Offering a wide-ranging focus on bands scenes periods and sounds contributors explore topics such as the riff-based song writing of classic heavy metal bands and their modern equivalents and the musical-aesthetics of Grindcore Doom metal Death metal and Progressive metal. They interrogate production technologies sound engineering album artwork and band promotion logos and merchandising t-shirt and jewellery design and fan communities that define the global metal music economy and subcultural scene. The volume explores how the new academic discipline of metal studies was formed also looking forward to the future of metal music and its relationship to metal scholarship and fandom. With an international range of contributors this volume will appeal to scholars of popular music cultural studies and sociology as well as those interested in metal communities around the world. | Global Metal Music and Culture Current Directions in Metal Studies

GBP 44.99
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Heavy Metal at the Movies

Heavy Metal at the Movies

The chapters collected in this volume shed light on the areas of interaction between film studies and heavy metal research exploring how the audio-visual medium of film relates to builds on and shapes metal culture. At one end of the spectrum metal music serves as a form of ambient background in horror films that creates an intense and somewhat threatening atmosphere; at the other end the high level of performativity attached to the metal spectacle is emphasized. Alongside these tendencies the recent and ongoing wave of metal documentaries has taken off relying on either satire or hagiography. | Heavy Metal at the Movies

GBP 38.99
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Routledge Revivals: A Failed Strategy (1993) The Offshore Oil Industry's Development of the Outer Contintental Shelf

Routledge Revivals: A Failed Strategy (1993) The Offshore Oil Industry's Development of the Outer Contintental Shelf

First published in 1993 this book traces and analyses the changing policies of American offshore oil companies concerning the exploration and development of the Outer Continental Shelf in the period from 1970 to 1976 — covering environmental legislation the oil embargo presidential initiatives and proposed international laws. Where previous studies concerning the Outer Continental Shelf had only examined broad policy issues on an international level this study focuses on those American offshore companies who were major actors in ocean affairs especially in the exploration and development of the region. | Routledge Revivals: A Failed Strategy (1993) The Offshore Oil Industry's Development of the Outer Contintental Shelf

GBP 31.99
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Jeff Wall and the Concept of the Picture

Jeff Wall and the Concept of the Picture

This book grapples with fundamental questions about the evolving nature of pictorial representation and the role photography has played in this ongoing process. These issues are explored through a close analysis of key themes that underpin the photography practice of Canadian artist Jeff Wall and through examining important works that have defined his oeuvre. Wall’s strategic revival of ‘the picture’ has had a resounding influence on the development of contemporary art photography by expanding the conceptual and technical frameworks of the medium and introducing a self-reflexive criticality. Naomi Merritt brings a new and original contribution to the scholarship on one of the most significant figures to have shaped the course of contemporary art photography since the 1970s and shines a light on the multilayered connections between photography and art. This book will be of interest to scholars in the history of photography art and visual culture and contemporary art history. | Jeff Wall and the Concept of the Picture

GBP 130.00
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Metal Rap and Electro in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia A Fragile Underground

Metal Rap and Electro in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia A Fragile Underground

Metal Rap and Electro in Tunisia is a trip into the music scenes of Tunisia after the Arab Springs. Based on extensive field research the book explores the social life of heavy metal rap and electronic music in a North African country whose mass revolution of 2010/2011 led the way to a troubled and yet unique democracy. What is it like to be part of a music scene in a place affected by poverty and inequality? How do the many conflicted souls of Tunisian Islam shape local metal rap and electro? What are the social and cultural stakes for music in a nation constantly represented as a bridge between Europe and the Middle East? How do music scenes articulate the complex political scenario that followed the Tunisian revolution of 2011? Barone answers these questions by offering new theoretical reflections on youth cultures and popular music in a global perspective and thus pushing the debate on post-subcultures and scenes forward. At the same time the book offers a dense sociological analysis of youth and music in reality - the Tunisian one - whose society culture religion and politics are at stake in a historical transformation. | Metal Rap and Electro in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia A Fragile Underground

GBP 39.99
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The Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor An Environmental and Economic Critique

The Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor An Environmental and Economic Critique

In this book Thomas B. Cochran takes a critical look at the economic and environmental arguments which have been made in favour of an early introduction of the liquid metal fast breeder reactor (LMFBR) as a central component of the United States electrical energy system. First published in 1974 Cochran presents LMFBR as having no environmental advantage over light water reactors and the high temperature gas reactor and seriously questions the economic advantages. This title should be a useful for students interested in environment and sustainability studies and it is a valuable resource for discussions of future energy strategy. | The Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor An Environmental and Economic Critique

GBP 36.99
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Metal Music Manual Producing Engineering Mixing and Mastering Contemporary Heavy Music

Metal Music Manual Producing Engineering Mixing and Mastering Contemporary Heavy Music

Metal Music Manual shows you the creative and technical processes involved in producing contemporary heavy music for maximum sonic impact. From pre-production to final mastered product and fundamental concepts to advanced production techniques this book contains a world of invaluable practical information. Assisted by clear discussion of critical audio principles and theory and a comprehensive array of illustrations photos and screen grabs Metal Music Manual is the essential guide to achieving professional production standards. The extensive companion website features multi-track recordings final mixes processing examples audio stems etc. so you can download the relevant content and experiment with the techniques you read about. The website also features video interviews the author conducted with the following acclaimed producers who share their expertise experience and insight into the processes involved: Fredrik Nordström (Dimmu Borgir At The Gates In Flames) Matt Hyde (Slayer Parkway Drive Children of Bodom) Ross Robinson (Slipknot Sepultura Machine Head) Logan Mader (Gojira DevilDriver Fear Factory) Andy Sneap (Megadeth Killswitch Engage Testament) Jens Bogren (Opeth Kreator Arch Enemy) Daniel Bergstrand (Meshuggah Soilwork Behemoth) Nick Raskulinecz (Mastodon Death Angel Trivium) Quotes from these interviews are featured throughout Metal Music Manual with additional contributions from: Ross Drum Doctor Garfield (one of the world’s top drum sound specialists with Metallica and Slipknot amongst his credits) Andrew Scheps (Black Sabbath Linkin Park Metallica) Maor Appelbaum (Sepultura Faith No More Halford) | Metal Music Manual Producing Engineering Mixing and Mastering Contemporary Heavy Music

GBP 69.99
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Marketing Graffiti The Writing on the Wall

Marketing Graffiti The Writing on the Wall

Radical and unique in its approach and presentation Marketing Graffiti turns the traditional marketing introduction on its head by helping students to understand the part they already play as ‘consumers’ in the marketing process. Most marketing textbooks tackle the subject as a business function – i. e. how to do marketing in companies and other organizations. Marketing Graffiti shows how marketing is not just a business function but a part of our culture and one in which we are all active as part-time marketers. By rejecting managerially-driven structures in this way Saren's approach makes marketing immediate and instantly recognizable as a process and a phenomenon in which we are already complicit. It helps readers to become aware of what they already know. Critically examining a wide range of products businesses technologies information services ads packaging and branding Saren utilizes everyday images and phenomena to draw out the conceptual foundations of marketing from a social science and cultural studies perspective as something that we all experience in everyday life. This new edition of the first critical marketing textbook discusses the role new technologies (such as social media) play in marketing culture and how this can potentially place more power in the clicks of the consumer. It includes new updated or expanded sections on market exclusion the role of the consumer in innovation space and place pricing consumer communities collaborative consumption and social media marketing. Leading experts in these fields of research and marketing practice also contribute additional sections on these topics. This essential marketing guide is supported by a range of teaching support materials including the latest journal and online references guides to further reading teaching slides and test bank questions | Marketing Graffiti The Writing on the Wall

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Bricks in the Wall The Politics of Housing in Europe

Bricks in the Wall The Politics of Housing in Europe

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of how politics shape housing markets and vice-versa. It demonstrates how housing impacts a variety of social and political phenomenon including populist politics generational divides wealth inequality monetary policy and the welfare state. Housing and housing markets have important implications for economic stability public policy domestic politics and wealth inequality in Europe and beyond. Yet despite its importance housing has received relatively little attention in comparative politics scholarship. The contributions within this volume push the scholarship of housing into fresh innovative directions. The chapters focus on housing’s contribution to wealth inequality how housing constrains governments’ policy choices in welfare state reform and how it can strengthen governments’ hands in financial regulation. Other contributions reveal the impact of housing on central bankers’ motivations for implementing monetary expansion highlight the generational divide in gaining access to home-ownership demonstrate how housing-driven wealth inequality steers voters political preferences towards right-wing populism and explain how housing gradually shifted from being a social right to an object of investment in Europe even within its most egalitarian states. These contributions cover a diversity of cases in Western and Eastern Europe and theoretical paradigms that will appeal to scholars and policy makers alike. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of West European Politics. | Bricks in the Wall The Politics of Housing in Europe

GBP 38.99
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Critical Perspectives on Teaching in Prison Students and Instructors on Pedagogy Behind the Wall

Critical Perspectives on Teaching in Prison Students and Instructors on Pedagogy Behind the Wall

This volume makes a case for engaging critical approaches for teaching adults in prison higher education (or “college-in-prison”) programs. This book not only contextualizes pedagogy within the specialized and growing niche of prison instruction but also addresses prison abolition reentry and educational equity. Chapters are written by prison instructors currently incarcerated students and formerly incarcerated students providing a variety of perspectives on the many roadblocks and ambitions of teaching and learning in carceral settings. All unapologetic advocates of increasing access to higher education for people in prison contributors discuss the high stakes of teaching incarcerated individuals and address the dynamics conditions and challenges of doing such work. The type of instruction that contributors advocate is transferable beyond prisons to traditional campus settings. Hence the lessons of this volume will not only support readers in becoming more thoughtful prison educators and program administrators but also in becoming better teachers who can employ critical democratic pedagogy in a range of contexts. | Critical Perspectives on Teaching in Prison Students and Instructors on Pedagogy Behind the Wall

GBP 36.99
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Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration A Wall Rise Up

Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration A Wall Rise Up

Television shows that we might call ‘prestige television’ represent prison in ways that are sometimes reductive sometimes powerful and sometimes exceedingly complex. This book examines various programmes across the genres of drama comedy and horror that utilize prison or places of incarceration as a central theme or setting to show how they conform to or challenge the standard conversation about the prison industrial complex and the common understanding of prisons as violent spaces where we house the worst among us. Drawing on the work of Angela Davis Doran Larson Dylan Rodriguez Michelle Alexander and Lisa Guenther the author presents focused studies of Orange Is the New Black Rectify American Horror Story and The Walking Dead (along with briefer discussions of The 100 police procedurals and popular sitcoms) to explore the responsibility of television to represent prison in as authentic a fashion as possible the exploitation of the incarcerated in reductive representations of prison and the shifting nature of the national conversation about prison as it is depicted on screen. As such the book will appeal to scholars of cultural and media studies criminology and sociology with interests in incarceration and representations of prison in popular culture. | Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration A Wall Rise Up

GBP 39.99
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Modern Trends in Research on Steel Aluminium and Composite Structures PROCEEDINGS OF THE XIV INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON METAL STRUCTURES (

Modern Trends in Research on Steel Aluminium and Composite Structures PROCEEDINGS OF THE XIV INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON METAL STRUCTURES (

Modern Trends in Research on Steel Aluminium and Composite Structures includes papers presented at the 14th International Conference on Metal Structures 2021 (ICMS 2021 Poznań Poland 16-18 June 2021). The 14th ICMS summarised a few years’ theoretical numerical and experimental research on steel aluminium and composite structures and presented new concepts. This book contains six plenary lectures and all the individual papers presented during the Conference. Seven plenary lectures were presented at the Conference including Research developments on glass structures under extreme loads Parhp3D – The parallel MPI/openMPI implementation of the 3D hp-adaptive FE code Design of beam-to-column steel-concrete composite joints: from Eurocodes and beyond Stainless steel structures – research codification and practice Testing modelling and design of bolted joints – effect of size structural properties integrity and robustness Design of hybrid beam-to-column joints between RHS tubular columns and I-section beams and Selected aspects of designing the cold-formed steel structures. The individual contributions delivered by authors covered a wide variety of topics: – Advanced analysis and direct methods of design – Cold-formed elements and structures – Composite structures – Engineering structures – Joints and connections – Structural stability and integrity – Structural steel metallurgy durability and behaviour in fire. Modern Trends in Research on Steel Aluminium and Composite Structures is a useful reference source for academic researchers graduate students as well as designers and fabricators. | Modern Trends in Research on Steel Aluminium and Composite Structures PROCEEDINGS OF THE XIV INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON METAL STRUCTURES (

GBP 170.00
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Science Librarianship at America's Liberal Arts Colleges Working Librarians Tell Their Stories

Science Librarianship at America's Liberal Arts Colleges Working Librarians Tell Their Stories

In this book first published in 1992 science librarians analyse the life and times of small liberal arts college science libraries and the workday life of librarians serving scientists from a main campus library. They describe their efforts to defend expensive science collections in the face of tight budgets to singlehandedly monitor and select literature in all areas from astronomy through zoology and to compete with the humanities and social studies for library shelf space. | Science Librarianship at America's Liberal Arts Colleges Working Librarians Tell Their Stories

GBP 29.99
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Residential Surveying Matters and Building Terminology In Alphabetical Order

Residential Surveying Matters and Building Terminology In Alphabetical Order

This is an ideal reference book for students (undergraduates and postgraduates) studying Building Surveying Quantity Surveying or Architecture etc. It should also be of use to the Construction-related legal profession Property Managers and Letting Agents. Builders (and homeowners interested in identifying faults in their property) should also benefit from this book. Residential Surveying Matters and Building Terminology covers a wide range of new and old building terms techniques technologies and materials but much more extensively than the average dictionary. The alphabetical format makes it easy to check up on terms and subject-areas quickly – and the detailed coverage (including helpful drawings by the author) provides clear guidance to the reader. This book covers a multitude of subject-areas including condensation problems cellar rot wet rot and dry rot thermal cracks settlement cracks metal wall-tie corrosion-and-expansion cracks subsidence cracks roof-spread recognition bulging- and/or leaning-walls etc. Further subject areas include inspecting and analysing residential building-structures both internally and externally; appraising underground drainage systems; and personal commentary on survey report writing. | Residential Surveying Matters and Building Terminology In Alphabetical Order

GBP 48.99
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Sweet Dreams Erotic Plots

Sweet Dreams Erotic Plots

A previously unpublished work by the author. 'It was like discovering a previously unknown recording by the Beatles. On a 2007 visit to the author's widow Sybil she handed me a manuscript. The author's last book had been placed in a publishing queue by his retiring editor. After the author''s death Sybil was told that the publisher had discontinued psychoanalytic books. It languished on a home shelf in Los Angeles for sixteen years. I was holding the final work by psychoanalysis's most eloquent writer on sex. ' - From the Foreword by Dr Richard Green | Sweet Dreams Erotic Plots

GBP 120.00
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Museum Educator's Handbook

Museum Educator's Handbook

Described by GEM* as 'a very informative and practical book . worth having on any museum shelf' the Museum Educator's Handbook is a thorough and practical guide to setting up and running education services in all types of museum even the smallest in any geographical setting. This third edition has been comprehensively updated to reflect the increased emphasis on the role of museums at all levels of education from schools to further and higher education. There are new sections which deal with the importance of risk management and quality assurance as well as guidance on the prevalent use of policy documents and new marketing methods. *Group for Education in Museums

GBP 35.99
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After Globalization Crisis and Disintegration

After Globalization Crisis and Disintegration

In the 1980s U. S. officials adopted tax and monetary policies that channeled huge new resources into Wall Street which fueled a stock market boom. To increase profits and payouts to investors as stock prices soared corporate managers consolidated businesses outsourced manufacturing to low-wage countries and adopted new technologies to increase productivity. Government officials then facilitated mergers and negotiated free trade agreements to speed the process of globalization. Wall Street became an engine of capital accumulation and a force for global change. These developments resulted in massive job losses and stagnant wages for most Americans. Meanwhile tax cuts and the stock market boom created vast new wealth for the rich and the top 10 percent seized 50 percent of all income in the United States. The result was growing economic inequality. During the decades that followed globalization triggered regional economic crises toppled governments transformed societies galvanized economic development in China and created new forms of wealth and inequality around the world. Then in 2008 a financial crisis rooted in Wall Street triggered the Great Recession wrecked the legitimacy of globalization as a development strategy and unleashed populist or restrictionist social movements and political parties that challenged globalization and attacked its economic and political foundations. This book examines the origins of globalization in the 1980s the developments that triggered the Great Recession and the political and economic forces that contributed to the disintegration of globalization as a force for change in the modern world. After Globalization explains what happened—and what comes next. | After Globalization Crisis and Disintegration

GBP 29.99
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Contesting Public Spaces Social Lives of Urban Redevelopment in London

Contesting Public Spaces Social Lives of Urban Redevelopment in London

This book explores concerns for spatial justice as streets squares and neighbourhoods are continuously made and remade through planning processes political ambitions and everyday activities. By investigating three sites in London that have been the focus of masterplanning Ed Wall exposes conflicts between planning offices and private developers who direct large urban change and community groups market traders and residents whose public lives are inseparable from their neighbourhoods being reconfigured. The book uniquely brings sociological approaches to what are often considered architectural concerns revealing challenges as London's public spaces are designed regulated and lived. Through in-depth research Ed Wall identifies how uncertainty caused by large-scale urban strategies the realisation of visual priorities and uneven relations between private interests public organisations and daily lives determine the public realm of global cities. This work is intended for readers interested in how the urban spaces of their cities are continually produced in competing ways—from architecture and urban studies scholars to planners and politicians. | Contesting Public Spaces Social Lives of Urban Redevelopment in London

GBP 35.99
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The Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic 1945-1990

The Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic 1945-1990

This new book investigates communist rule in East Germany from its establishment as a sphere of Soviet influence after World War II to its rapid collapse after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Using newly available archive material the early chapters trace the emergence of the GDR out of the Soviet zone of occupation. Later chapters cover the dramatic episodes of the 1953 uprising against Soviet dominance and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961. The subsequent stabilisation of the GDR and the establishment of an uneasy compromise between the ruling elites and the population in the later 1960s and 1970s are explained with reference to a range of internal social economic and political factors. The disintegration of the regime in 1989 is explained in the light of : The chronic weakness of Gorbachev's Soviet Union. The bravery of the protestors. The enduring appeal of West Germany's social market economy. Political pluralism. This clear and comprehensive survey marshals secondary and original primary sources in order to give a unique insight into the GDR's struggles and achievements. | The Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic 1945-1990

GBP 130.00
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Becoming a Kink Aware Therapist

Becoming a Kink Aware Therapist

As a result of recent media interest the practice of BDSM has become more mainstream yet remains marginalized. Now more than ever greater numbers of heterosexual and LGBTQ couples are starting to explore some form of BDSM. However profound misunderstandings continue leading to unintentional physical and psychological harm. Drawing on current research and ethnographic narratives from the kink community this book seeks to provide psychotherapists with an introductory understanding of the culture and practice of BDSM and presents specific therapeutic concerns related to common misconceptions. This book strives to de-pathologize BDSM practices while also providing concrete ways to distinguish abuse from consent harmful codependency and more. Packed with practical suggestions and rich case studies this book belongs on the shelf of every therapist seeing BDSM and kink clients. | Becoming a Kink Aware Therapist

GBP 18.99
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