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The Medium Format Advantage

The Medium Format Advantage

Learn the advantages and capabilities of medium-format cameras and examine all aspects of medium-format operations including SLR twin lens panoramic rangefinder wide angle press and view cameras. Also explained and illustrated are lenses and their accessories motor drives films flashes filters slides and slide projectors and more. Includes black and white and color photographs and drawings to illustrate proper use of equipment and various techniques effects and possibilities that produce successful photographs with the best possible image quality. The medium format is truly the format in the middle. It combines many of the benefits of 35 mm photography with those of the large format making a medium format system an excellent choice for almost all types of photography from candid action with a hand-held camera to critical studio work from a tripod. Special chapters are devoted to these different applications and the type of equipment that most likely meets your photography needs. This book explains clearly the medium format's benefits advantages and disadvantages and provides a comparison of the medium format to other formats so you can decide whether it is right for you and your photography. | The Medium Format Advantage

GBP 175.00
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Medium-Sized Cities in the Age of Globalisation

Medium-Sized Cities in the Age of Globalisation

Medium-Sized Cities in the Age of Globalisation provides a brand-new perspective on academic discussions of globalisation through exploring urban development outside of select global cities including Paris Tokyo and London and instead focuses on medium-sized cities in the context of a globalising world. Combining the author’s expertise with extensive research this book fills a gap in the scholarly debate on globalisation and urban development with chapters of the book giving detailed insight on urban governance and economy local identity and urban representation. Through a range of visual sources including maps tables and graphs the book is applicable and accessible and offers a specialised analysis of medium-sized cities through assessing urban regeneration policies as well as promotional activities and their role in promoting positive change in an era of great inter-urban competition. This book contains valuable historical insights and is excellent specialised material for scholars and postgraduate students in the disciplines of Urban History Urban Studies and Geography as well as being a significant source for professionals working in urban planning and place promotion

GBP 130.00
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Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics Building and Investigating an English as a Medium of Instruction Corpus

Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics Building and Investigating an English as a Medium of Instruction Corpus

Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics: Building and Investigating an English as a Medium of Instruction Corpus offers a model for building a corpus of oral EMI seminars. It demonstrates how incorporating metaphor to the process of corpus building affords a more comprehensive description of the role of metaphor in discourse. EMI is the specific context outlined in this volume and as such it will be of particular interest to researchers in this area though the design and model can be easily generalised and applied to other corpora focusing on metaphor. Alejo-González argues for the need to build such a corpus given the scarcity of corpora being tagged for metaphor as well as the shortage of those dealing with the EMI phenomenon. This book will be of practical use and interest to those researchers of corpus linguistics or related areas looking to explore metaphor through their corpus studies. | Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics Building and Investigating an English as a Medium of Instruction Corpus

GBP 130.00
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Small and Medium Enterprises Law and Business Uncertainty and Justice

Small and Medium Enterprises Law and Business Uncertainty and Justice

The law plays an ambiguous role in running business. While legal tools can be used to tame uncertainties for example by concluding contracts to safeguard enforcement of future claims they can also generate uncertainty. These secondary uncertainties like ones stemming from vague rights and obligations may be counterbalanced by using different resources and strategies including acting informally modifying business plans or accepting the losses from unpaid dues. This book discusses how small and medium enterprises use the law abstain from using the law and use alternative pathways to manage business uncertainties. Examining these topics through the lenses of an extensive qualitative and quantitative empirical study on justiciable issues access to justice and legal uncertainty among SMEs in Poland it implements and expands upon the paradigmatic paths to justice methodology which has been successfully used to study conflict resolution access to justice and utilisation of the law by individuals in more than 30 jurisdictions. It argues that the grand promise of modern law - that it is a certainty-providing neutral and democratic device to resolve problems and conflicts - is not fully delivered. It reveals how the conditions of a freshly developed capitalism combined with the rule of law backsliding contribute to universal structural problems with access to justice meaning that accessing justice is a resource-hungry process which incentivises small businesses to settle for their legal problems and engage in informal and alternative strategies. | Small and Medium Enterprises Law and Business Uncertainty and Justice

GBP 120.00
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Broadcasting and Society 1918–1939

Broadcasting and Society 1918–1939

Broadcasting and Society (1983) examines the power of radio broadcasting as a medium of instant communication and entertainment. It is a detailed and critical examination of the social changes brought about by radio broadcasting in the crucial and formative stages between 1918 and 1939 – whether broadcasting was successful in keeping people better informed in introducing wider interests and its influence on social behaviour. | Broadcasting and Society 1918–1939

GBP 90.00
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Global Television How to Create Effective Television for the Future

Global Television How to Create Effective Television for the Future

Global Television (1993) looks at how satellites fibre optics compressed digital transmission and interactive and high-definition television have converged with computer technology to revolutionise TV and film production TV sets and even the smart home in which TV is viewed. Its provides valuable insight into how new technologies and viewer demands have combined to transform television into a truly global medium. | Global Television How to Create Effective Television for the Future

GBP 105.00
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EMI Classroom Communication A Corpus-Based Approach

EMI Classroom Communication A Corpus-Based Approach

Examining English medium instruction (EMI) through a corpus-based approach this volume offers a critical inquiry into the use of different linguistic and pedagogical strategies in the EMI classroom. It explores aspects of content lecturers’ language use pedagogy and intercultural communicative competence by drawing on the findings obtained from EMI lecture corpus analysis and post-observation interviews with EMI lecturers from five universities in Croatia Denmark Italy the Netherlands and Spain. The book also offers insights into lecturers’ engagement with students in English which is their second language as well as their perception of differences between EMI and first-language-medium instruction (L1MI). Finally the volume provides readers with corpus-based analysis of teachers’ oral ability profiles as a basis for the identification of communicational challenges and provision of language support. The book will be of interest to scholars interested in EMI in higher education and postgraduate students in applied linguistics and TESOL programs. It will also be relevant to teachers who are involved in EMI provision teacher trainers who design support programs for EMI teachers and policymakers who establish language-in-education policies for EMI. | EMI Classroom Communication A Corpus-Based Approach

GBP 130.00
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Korean Film and History

Korean Film and History

Cinema has become a battleground upon which history is made—a major mass medium of the twentieth century dealing with history. The re-enactments of historical events in film straddle reality and fantasy documentary and fiction representation and performance entertainment and education. This interdisciplinary book examines the relationship between film and history and the links between historical research and filmic (re-)presentations of history with special reference to South Korean cinema. As with all national film industries Korean cinema functions as a medium of inventing national history and identity and also establishing their legitimacy—in both forgetting the past and remembering history. Korean films also play a part in forging cultural collective memory. Korea as a colonised and divided nation clearly adopted different approaches to the filmic depiction of history compared to colonial powers such as Western or Japanese cinema. The Colonial Period (1910–1945) and Korean War (1950–1953) draw particular attention as they have been major topics shaping the narrative of nation in North and South Korean films. Exploring the changing modes impacts and functions of screen images dealing with history in Korean cinema this book will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Korean history film media and cultural studies. | Korean Film and History

GBP 130.00
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The Evolution of EMI Research in European Higher Education

The Evolution of EMI Research in European Higher Education

This book presents state-of-the-art research into English-medium instruction (EMI) in European higher education over the last 20 years offering a comprehensive comparative analysis toward identifying gaps in our understanding of relevant theories research and practice. Molino Dimova Kling and Larsen argue for the need to take stock of the progression of EMI research in European higher education in order to consolidate scholarship and better inform EMI implementation in new contexts. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of EMI implementation including policies attitudes language use assessment training learning outcomes identity and intercultural communication across five different countries: Denmark Croatia Italy the Netherlands and Spain. The book brings together the authors' collective work on an annotated database of over 200 resources featuring a range of publications of varying format type and language as well as information on relevant research questions methodologies and findings. This detailed approach allows in-depth discussions on the most widely researched areas in EMI as well as those under-explored toward outlining a way forward for future research in both the European higher education context and on a global scale. This book will be key reading for scholars working in English-medium instruction world Englishes English as an international language English as a lingua franca and applied linguistics. | The Evolution of EMI Research in European Higher Education

GBP 130.00
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Visual Alchemy: The Fine Art of Digital Montage

Visual Alchemy: The Fine Art of Digital Montage

Catherine McIntyre like many fine artists created traditional art for decades before encountering the versatility of digital imaging technology. Free of her Rotring pens and scalpel she now uses Photoshop to create her montages. Visual Alchemy explores McIntyre‘s sources of inspiration as well as her methods offering an aesthetic guide to composition color texture and all of the other means of communication that artists have at their disposal. While these concepts and techniques make use of Photoshop they will apply to any digital imaging program and indeed to any medium whether traditional or digital. Featuring McIntyre‘s own art as well as that of artists around the globe Visual Alchemy is an invitation to discover the artistic possibilities of picture making through digital montage. | Visual Alchemy: The Fine Art of Digital Montage

GBP 175.00
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Dangerous Patients A Psychodynamic Approach to Risk Assessment and Management

Dangerous Patients A Psychodynamic Approach to Risk Assessment and Management

This thought-provoking new collection - the fourth volume in the Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph Series - investigates the inherent difficulties in risk assessment. We have all read the lurid headlines when things go wrong but what is it like for the professional who has to make such vital decisions? Ronald Doctor has assembled an impressive group of clinicians who specialise in various aspects of forensic psychiatry and psychotherapy to present their experiences and theories on this formidable subject. The book begins with a general overview of current psychodynamic approaches and covers various mental health settings including medium- and high-security units general medical hospitals and psychiatric wards. This collection will prove to be an indispensable guide to any healthcare professional and a fascinating insight for all into this highly-pressured environment. | Dangerous Patients A Psychodynamic Approach to Risk Assessment and Management

GBP 130.00
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3D TV and 3D Cinema Tools and Processes for Creative Stereoscopy

3D TV and 3D Cinema Tools and Processes for Creative Stereoscopy

Learn how to adapt your cinematography and production skills to this growing medium and be part of the movement. Master the unique technical requirements of shooting 3D stereoscopic images. 3DTV and 3D Cinema defines the concept of a professional 3D camera system and describes what features are required to make a successful unit to keep your production on schedule and on budget. You will learn how to work with the complex hardware and software systems with a section dedicated to the specific requirements of shooting for 3D cinema. 3D conversions keying and CG processes are analyzed as well as the essential staging lighting set dressing framing and camera movement techniques. The theoretical knowledge is complemented with real-world examples of 3D TV and cinema productions that are analyzed by crew members or producers. | 3D TV and 3D Cinema Tools and Processes for Creative Stereoscopy

GBP 175.00
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Comprehensive Land Consolidation in China

Comprehensive Land Consolidation in China

This book systematically investigates the strategy and practice of comprehensive land consolidation in China by assessing the objective of the program and its implementation. In the first part of the book the authors first review the development and historical policy of land consolidation and land rehabilitation with a focus on initiatives inaugurated in China since the 1980s. The following three chapters analyze different modes approaches and measures of land consolidation. The second part focuses on planning patterns designed and implemented in different territorial and geographical regions in China including urban and rural areas ecological function zones mining areas and coastal regions and islands. It also looks into the institutional basis supportive measures and mechanisms for the coordinated regional implementation of land consolidation at the macro medium and micro levels. Based on their findings the authors advance ten actionable policy suggestions on the promotion of China’s land consolidation. The title will appeal to scholars students and policy makers interested in economic management land planning and natural resources management.

GBP 130.00
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Explaining Post-Soviet Patchworks: v. 2: Pathways from the Past to the Global

Explaining Post-Soviet Patchworks: v. 2: Pathways from the Past to the Global

This title was first published in 2001. Based on extensive research this trilogy provides new insights into Post-Soviet transformations without taking refuge in the traditional assumption that Russia is unique. Using powerful analytical tools this trilogy marks the re-integration of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) into the main current of political science. An invaluable resource for all those interested in Russia and the Post-Soviet states. This second volume is concerned with institutions. It considers markets property rights networks the information technology revolution and Russia's future and migration. The contributors take an original approach putting the developments of the Post-Soviet states during the last ten years into a medium term context elevating the debate above normal political speculation. A substantial and unique text this book is relevant for students researchers journalists and decision-makers interested in the politics international relations economics social policy and sociology of the FSU. | Explaining Post-Soviet Patchworks: v. 2: Pathways from the Past to the Global

GBP 120.00
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The Experimental Book Object Materiality Media Design

The Experimental Book Object Materiality Media Design

The Experimental Book Object shows why and how books matter in the 21st century. Digital and audio platforms are commonplace and other fields of art beyond literature have increasingly embraced books and publication as their medium of choice. Nevertheless the manifold book object persists and continues to inspire various types of experimentation. This volume sets forth an unprecedented approach where literary and media theory are entangled with design practitioners’ artistic research and process descriptions. By probing the paradigm of the codex this collection of essays focuses on historical and contemporary experimentation that has challenged what books are and could be from the perspectives of materiality mediation and visual and typographic design. Investigations into less-studied areas and cases of performativity demonstrate what experimental books do by interacting with their systemic and cultural environments. The volume offers a multifaceted and multidisciplinary view of the book object the book design and publishing processes and their significance in the digital age. | The Experimental Book Object Materiality Media Design

GBP 130.00
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Entrepreneurship Innovation and Crisis SME Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Entrepreneurship Innovation and Crisis SME Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Entrepreneurship Innovation and Crisis: SME Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic aims to address the conditions for the operations of SMEs during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the governmental support for entrepreneurs in such industries as tourism manufacturing recycling education and printing as well as the creative industry. Through the presentation of various strategies for the functioning and development of companies under crisis conditions along with new management approaches for coping with them this book discusses the conditions for the operations of SMEs during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the support for entrepreneurs that has been offered by the governments of different countries. This approach will allow our results to be useful for a wide audience – making it especially valuable to researchers academics policymakers and advanced students who are interested in crises entrepreneurship small and medium-sized enterprises and strategic management. | Entrepreneurship Innovation and Crisis SME Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

GBP 130.00
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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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Head's Broadcasting in America A Survey of Electronic Media

Head's Broadcasting in America A Survey of Electronic Media

After fifty years of market prominence and incredible demand from loyal users Heads Broadcasting in America‘s tenth edition returns as the celebrated market leader in its field with its renowned treatment of electronic media as a social force and with a distinguished new author team from Sydney Head's legacy school the University of Miami. Heads Broadcasting in America distinguishes itself by presenting electronic media both as products of contemporary social forces and as social forces in their own right. This text will introduce you to the exciting changes taking place in electronic media. It will help you examine the emerging information infrastructure and the accelerating convergence of various electronic media forms. It will also help you explore the role electronic media plays in many academic areas ranging from economics to law from history to social science. You will find this industry more accessible as you experience broadcasting dually through the people and the products that have shaped the history of this medium and through your own experiences with broadcasting in your daily life. | Head's Broadcasting in America A Survey of Electronic Media

GBP 175.00
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Students Who Are Exceptional and Writing Disabilities Prevention Practice Intervention and Assessment:a Special Issue of exceptionality

Students Who Are Exceptional and Writing Disabilities Prevention Practice Intervention and Assessment:a Special Issue of exceptionality

This special issue examines four critical aspects of writing instruction for students with disabilities: prevention classroom practice instruction and assessment. The first article addresses writing strategy instruction for young students at risk for long-term writing difficulties. Next special and general education middle school educators' epistemology is explored regarding writing development and instruction their self-reported teaching practices and the challenges they faced as they strive to teach middle school students how to effectively use writing as a communicative medium and learning tool. The third article reviews and critiques state writing standards and describes an instructional plan to help students with disabilities and other struggling writers master composing strategies and processes that may equip them to meet state standards in writing. Finally a review is presented of the extant research on various methods of writing assessment including holistic primary trait and analytic scoring methods with particular emphasis on Curriculum-Based Measurement-an assessment technique well suited for children and youth in special education. | Students Who Are Exceptional and Writing Disabilities Prevention Practice Intervention and Assessment:a Special Issue of exceptionality

GBP 175.00
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Animated Life A Lifetime of tips tricks techniques and stories from an animation Legend

Animated Life A Lifetime of tips tricks techniques and stories from an animation Legend

Since Steamboat Mickey animators have been creating characters and films that are charming warm and humorous allowing people to connect with the animated medium. Animation fans love the characters for a lifetime. This is the legacy of the countless animators and artists who created the classic characters and fun stories and it is the legacy of Disney Legend Floyd Norman. Written with wit and verve Animated Life is a guided tour through an entire lifetime of techniques practical hands-on advice and insight into an entire industry. This is a vital tutorial in animation's past present and future for students who are now poised to be part of another new generation in the art form. Apply artistic magic to your own projects and garner valuable insight and inspiration from a True Disney legend. Animated Life is a classic in the making with completely relevant techniques and tools for the contemporary animation or fine arts professional. | Animated Life A Lifetime of tips tricks techniques and stories from an animation Legend

GBP 175.00
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The Manual of Photography

The Manual of Photography

The tenth edition of The Manual of Photography is an indispensable textbook for anyone who is serious about photography. It is ideal if you want to gain insight into the underlying scientific principles of photography and digital imaging whether you are a professional photographer lab technician researcher or student in the field or simply an enthusiastic amateur. This comprehensive guide takes you from capture to output in both digital and film media with sections on lens use darkroom techniques digital cameras and scanners image editing techniques and processes workflow digital file formats and image archiving. This iconic text was first published in 1890 and has aided many thousands of photographers in developing their own techniques and understanding of the medium. Now in full colour The Manual of Photography still retains its clear reader-friendly style and is filled with images and illustrations demonstrating the key principles. Not only giving you the skills and know-how to take stunning photographs but will also allowing you to fully understand the science behind the creation of great images.

GBP 175.00
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Lockdown Leisure

Lockdown Leisure

This book examines the concept of ‘lockdown leisure’ as closely related to the Covid-19 pandemic. Through a range of inter-disciplinary chapters the volume unpacks leisure life in lockdown contexts through a range of empirical conceptual and theoretical contributions. In many countries a key response to the global Covid-19 pandemic was the implementation of national regional or local lockdowns. Focusing on the diverse medium and long-term socio-cultural impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic this book examining how various forms of lockdowns impacted leisure activities industries cultures and spaces across a variety of transnational contexts. It contains original chapters on topics including but not limited to physical activity cultural participation recreation and green spaces technology and social exclusion. And so it shows how Covid-19 lockdowns transformed existing and produced new leisure activities. This book is a fascinating reading for students and researchers of leisure studies sociology media and cultural studies youth studies and educational studies. The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Leisure Studies.

GBP 130.00
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Post-Covid Transformations

Post-Covid Transformations

This volume explores the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for the sustainability of the present global political and economic system and the extent to which that system may as a result be undergoing transformation. Towards this aim the contributing authors raise a number of key questions. First what is likely to be the impact of the pandemic on the current global order based on neoliberal hyper-globalization? Second what insights do earlier pandemics along with other inter-related crises such as those of climate inequality social reproduction and continued fallout of the global financial crisis offer for understanding the medium- to long-term implications of COVID-19? Third to what extent might the COVID pandemic lead to progressive political transformations? Towards this latter goal the contributors to this volume also offer a number of suggestions as to what a post-COVID-19 world might look like and how post-COVID transformations might be channeled in a direction more conducive towards social justice and equality. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Globalizations.

GBP 120.00
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The Multivalence of an Epic Retelling the Rāmāyaṇa in South India and Southeast Asia

The Multivalence of an Epic Retelling the Rāmāyaṇa in South India and Southeast Asia

This volume examines The Rāmāyaṇa traditions of South India and Southeast Asia. Bringing together 19 well-known scholars in Rāmāyaṇa studies from Cambodia Canada France India Indonesia Malaysia Singapore Thailand UK and USA this thought-provoking and elegantly illustrated volume engages with the inherent plurality diversity and adaptability of the Rāmāyaṇa in changing socio-political religious and cultural contexts. The journey and localization of the Rāmāyaṇa is explored in its manifold expressions – from classical to folk from temples and palaces to theatres and by-lanes in cities and villages and from ancient to modern times. Regional Rāmāyaṇas from different parts of South India and Southeast Asia are placed in deliberate juxtaposition to enable a historically informed discussion of their connected pasts across land and seas. The three parts of this volume organized as visual literary and performance cultures discuss the sculpted painted inscribed written recited and performed Rāmāyaṇas. A related emphasis is on the way boundaries of medium and genre have been crossed in the visual literary and performed representations of the Rāmāyaṇa. | The Multivalence of an Epic Retelling the Rāmāyaṇa in South India and Southeast Asia

GBP 130.00
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