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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

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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

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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

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Laser-Based Additive Manufacturing of Metal Parts Modeling Optimization and Control of Mechanical Properties

Laser-Based Additive Manufacturing of Metal Parts Modeling Optimization and Control of Mechanical Properties

Laser-Based Additive Manufacturing (LBAM) technologies hailed by some as the third industrial revolution can increase product performance while reducing time-to-market and manufacturing costs. This book is a comprehensive look at new technologies in LBAM of metal parts covering topics such as mechanical properties microstructural features thermal behavior and solidification process parameters optimization and control uncertainty quantification and more. The book is aimed at addressing the needs of a diverse cross-section of engineers and professionals. | Laser-Based Additive Manufacturing of Metal Parts Modeling Optimization and Control of Mechanical Properties

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Transnational Crime European and Chinese Perspectives

Transnational Crime European and Chinese Perspectives

This volume offers a diverse set of perspectives on transnational crime. Providing a wide-ranging overview of the legal and policy issues that arise in connection with various forms of transnational crime the authors outline the criminal justice responses adopted across different jurisdictions. Including contributions from high profile Chinese and European academics and practitioners across a variety of disciplines and methodological backgrounds the authors address some of the hitherto underexplored issues related to transnational crime. These range from trafficking in cultural objects derived from illicit metal-detecting and metal-detecting tourism in China to the European approaches to criminalising the denial of historical truth. The central theme of the book is that useful lessons can be drawn from each other’s experiences and that a cross-fertilisation of domestic approaches to transnational crime is essential to effective cooperation. This book will be of use to students and academics of comparative criminal justice and anyone interested in transnational crime. | Transnational Crime European and Chinese Perspectives

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Learning from Failure in the Design Process Experimenting with Materials

Learning from Failure in the Design Process Experimenting with Materials

Learning from Failure in the Design Process shows you that design work builds on lessons learned from failures to help you relax your fear of making mistakes so that you’re not paralyzed when faced with a task outside of your comfort zone. Working hands-on with building materials such as concrete sheet metal and fabric you will understand behaviors processes methods of assembly and ways to evaluate your failures to achieve positive results. Through material and assembly strategies of stretching casting carving and stacking this book uncovers the issues problems and failures confronted in student material experiments and examines built projects that addressed these issues with innovative and intelligent strategies. Highlighting numerous professional practice case studies with over 250 color images this book will be ideal for students interested in materials and methods and students of architecture in design studios. | Learning from Failure in the Design Process Experimenting with Materials

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Rock: The Primary Text Developing a Musicology of Rock

Rock: The Primary Text Developing a Musicology of Rock

This thoroughly revised third edition of Allan F. Moore's ground-breaking book now co-authored with Remy Martin incorporates new material on rock music theory style change and the hermeneutic method developed in Moore’s Song Means (2012). An even larger array of musicians is discussed bringing the book right into the 21st century. Rock's 'primary text' – its sounds – is the focus of attention here. The authors argue for the development of a musicology particular to rock within the context of the background to the genres the beat and rhythm and blues styles of the early 1960s 'progressive' rock punk rock metal and subsequent styles. They also explore the fundamental issue of rock as a medium for self-expression and the relationship of this to changing musical styles. Rock: The Primary Text remains innovative in its exploration of an aesthetics of rock. | Rock: The Primary Text Developing a Musicology of Rock

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Aluminium in Building

Aluminium in Building

First published in 1992. Aluminium is a relatively new material first used on a commercial basis just over 100 years ago. Today it has taken its place alongside other traditional materials as an established building element. In this variable reference source John Lane discusses the history and development of aluminium usage in the building industry. Its characteristics of strength lightness and durability coupled with easy formability make it and ideal medium for this market. The first section of this book is a general discussion of the metal covering such areas as its properties alloys fabrication joining and finishing. The second part details the aspects of aluminium which are of particular importance in construction while the final section highlights some of its major uses in architecture and building. The text is amply illustrated with diagrams and photographs and the appendices provide the reader with comprehensive details of relevant standards and contact addresses. | Aluminium in Building

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Labour Relations in Central Europe The Impact of Multinationals' Money

Labour Relations in Central Europe The Impact of Multinationals' Money

Since 1990 foreign direct investment (FDI) has quickened economic modernization in Central Europe. State of the art management techniques and cutting edge technology have been introduced in many cases. Labour Relations is an essential factor in the organization of labour and production. At the start of the process industrial relations were characterized by the conditions existing under the previous planned economies or - as with greenfield investments - had to be entirely reconfigured. In the case of investments by West European companies this book reveals various emerging models of industrial relations but also a clear tendency towards company centralization. For the time being the European Works Council still plays a subordinate role despite its potential fundamental role as mediator between East and West. Empirically nine corporations from the metal/automotive industry the chemical energy and food processing industries (with their subsidiaries in Poland Czech Republic and Slovakia) are considered. | Labour Relations in Central Europe The Impact of Multinationals' Money

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Farmers and Agriculture in the Roman Economy

Farmers and Agriculture in the Roman Economy

Often viewed as self-sufficient Roman farmers actually depended on markets to supply them with a wide range of goods and services from metal tools to medical expertise. However the nature extent and implications of their market interactions remain unclear. This monograph uses literary and archaeological evidence to examine how farmers – from smallholders to the owners of large estates – bought and sold lent and borrowed and cooperated as well as competed in the Roman economy. A clearer picture of the relationship between farmers and markets allows us to gauge their collective impact on and exposure to macroeconomic phenomena such as monetization and changes in the level and nature of demand for goods and labor. After considering the demographic and environmental context of Italian agriculture the author explores three interrelated questions: what goods and services did farmers purchase; how did farmers acquire the money with which to make those purchases; and what factors drove farmers’ economic decisions? This book provides a portrait of the economic world of the Roman farmer in late Republican and early Imperial Italy. | Farmers and Agriculture in the Roman Economy

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Silverpoint and Metalpoint Drawing A Complete Guide to the Medium

Silverpoint and Metalpoint Drawing A Complete Guide to the Medium

Silverpoint and metalpoint more generally is the practice of marking with soft metal on a specifically prepared drawing surface. Practiced for centuries the artform is experiencing a resurgence in recent years with contemporary work exploring abstract as well as realist conceptual as well as traditional. Silverpoint and Metalpoint Drawing is the essential manual of metalpoint technique written by Susan Schwalb and Tom Mazzullo contemporary masters of the medium. This book is the first treatise on the subject for artists and art teachers with chapters on early history materials including grounds supports metals and tools techniques for working in metalpoint as well as mixed media and finally the care of metalpoint works. Not only beautifully illustrated this book also demonstrates how to photograph and exhibit metalpoint art. Featuring a gallery of drawings by contemporary artists along with their tips and insight Silverpoint and Metalpoint Drawing is a perfect introduction for students of the medium and an inspiration for those already more familiar with it. | Silverpoint and Metalpoint Drawing A Complete Guide to the Medium

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The World of the Oxus Civilization

The World of the Oxus Civilization

This collection of essays presents a synthesis of current research on the Oxus Civilization which rose and developed at the turn of the 3rd to 2nd millennia BC in Central Asia. First discovered in the 1970s the Oxus Civilization or the Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC) has engendered many different interpretations which are explored in this volume by an international group of archaeologists and researchers. Contributors cover all aspects of this fascinating Bronze Age culture: architecture; material culture; grave goods; religion; migrations; and trade and interactions with neighboring civilizations from Mesopotamia to the Indus and the Gulf to the northern steppes. Chapters also examine the Oxus Civilization’s roots in previous local cultures explore its environmental and chronological context or the possibly coveted metal sources and look into the reasons for its decline. The World of the Oxus Civilization offers a broad and fascinating examination of this society and provides an invaluable updated resource for anyone working on the culture history and archaeology of this region and on the multiple interactions at work at that time in the ancient Near East.

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Japanese Culture Through Videogames

Japanese Culture Through Videogames

Examining a wide range of Japanese videogames including arcade fighting games PC-based strategy games and console JRPGs this book assesses their cultural significance and shows how gameplay and context can be analyzed together to understand videogames as a dynamic mode of artistic expression. Well-known titles such as Final Fantasy Metal Gear Solid Street Fighter and Katamari Damacy are evaluated in detail showing how ideology and critique are conveyed through game narrative and character design as well as user interface cabinet art and peripherals. This book also considers how ‘Japan’ has been packaged for domestic and overseas consumers and how Japanese designers have used the medium to express ideas about home and nation nuclear energy war and historical memory social breakdown and bioethics. Placing each title in its historical context Hutchinson ultimately shows that videogames are a relatively recent but significant site where cultural identity is played out in modern Japan. Comparing Japanese videogames with their American counterparts as well as other media forms such as film manga and anime Japanese Culture Through Videogames will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese culture and society as well as Game Studies Media Studies and Japanese Studies more generally.

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Dyeing for Entertainment: Dyeing Painting Breakdown and Special Effects for Costumes

Dyeing for Entertainment: Dyeing Painting Breakdown and Special Effects for Costumes

Dyeing for Entertainment encompasses a wide range of methods of theatrical painting and dyeing to create beautiful artistic products for theatre film TV opera and themed entertainment. Featuring examples from renowned international artisans in the field this book provides a wealth of information on creating and changing colors prints and surface textures of fabric using traditional and nontraditional costume scenic fine-art and metal-smithing techniques. It also includes new safer materials and methods to minimize exposure to toxic materials and fumes. With more than 250 full-color images this technical manual is designed to guide and inspire new artists in the collaborative art of painting dyeing ageing and slinging blood and bling on costumes that is an essential part of creating characters for the entertainment industry. Written for undergraduate and graduate students of costume design and technology professional dyers and breakdown artists and cosplayers this book can be used as a reference and springboard to create your own magical processes custom fabrics and unforgettable costumes. To access the online materials including printable swatch sheets a collection of relevant safety data sheets and a source guide with links visit www. routledge. com/9780815352327. | Dyeing for Entertainment: Dyeing Painting Breakdown and Special Effects for Costumes

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Goth Music From Sound to Subculture

Goth Music From Sound to Subculture

Is goth music a genre and if so how does it relate to the goth subculture? The music played at goth club nights and festivals encompasses a broad range of musical substyles from gloomy Batcave reverberations to neo-medieval bagpipe drones and from the lush vocals of goth metal to the harsh distortion of goth industrial. Goth Music: From Sound to Subculture argues that within this variegated musical landscape a number of key consistencies exist. Not only do all these goth substyles share a number of musical and textual characteristics but more importantly these aspects of the music are constitutive of goth social reality. Drawing on their own experiences in the European and American goth scenes the authors explore the ways in which the sounds of goth inform the scene’s listening practices its fantasies of other worlds and its re-enchantment of their own world. Goth music this book asserts engenders a musical timespace of its own a musical chronotope that is driven by nostalgic yearning. Goth Music: From Sound to Subculture reorients goth subcultural studies onto music: goth music must be recognized not only as simultaneously diverse and consistent but also as the glue that holds together goth scenes from all over the world. It all starts with the music. | Goth Music From Sound to Subculture

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Structural Wood Design ASD/LRFD

Structural Wood Design ASD/LRFD

This text provides a concise and practical guide to timber design using both the Allowable Stress Design and the Load and Resistance Factor Design methods. It suits students in civil structural and construction engineering programs as well as engineering technology and architecture programs and also serves as a valuable resource for the practicing engineer. The examples based on real-world design problems reflect a holistic view of the design process that better equip the reader for timber design in practice. This new editionnow includes the LRFD method with some design examples using LRFD for joists girders and axially load members. is based on the 2015 NDS and 2015 IBC model code. includes a more in-depth discussion of framing and framing systems commonly used in practice such as metal plate connected trusses rafter and collar tie framing and pre-engineered framing. includes sample drawings drawing notes and specifications that might typically be used in practice. includes updated floor joist span charts that are more practical and are easy to use. includes a chapter on practical considerations covering topics like flitch beams wood poles used for footings reinforcement of existing structures and historical data on wood properties. includes a section on long span and high rise wood structuresincludes an enhanced student design project | Structural Wood Design ASD/LRFD

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