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  • Coding and Representation from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

    Scrambled Messages

    Edited by Anne Chapman, Natalie Hume ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    An exploration of trends and cultures connected to electrical telegraphy and recent digital communications, this collection emerges from the research project Scrambled Messages: The Telegraphic Imaginary 1866–1900, which investigated cultural phenomena relating to the 1866 transatlantic telegraph. It interrogates the ways in which society, politics, literature and art are imbricated with changing ... Read more

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  • To the Ends of the Earth

    Northern Soul and Southern Nights in Western Australia

    Northern Soul is a cultural phenomenon twice removed from its original source in Britain in the late 1960s. Rooted in gospel and rhythm and blues music, with pounding “four-to-the floor” beats, it is often accompanied by swirling strings, vibraphone flourishes, and infectious clapping. Since the 1960s Northern Soul has spread globally, via the Internet and migration, to such unlikely places as ... Read more

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  • Enhancing Quality in Transnational Higher Education

    Experiences of Teaching and Learning in Australian Offshore Programs

    Enhancing Quality in Transnational Higher Education explores issues and questions concerning the provision of quality teaching and learning in university programs delivered ‘offshore’. The focus of the book is on what makes for a good and successful education in the context of transnational programs of Australian universities. The book traces research by the authors into the ‘lived experiences’ of ... Read more

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  • Democratizing Technology

    Risk, Responsibility and the Regulation of Chemicals

    by Anne Chapman ...
    Series series The Earthscan Science in Society Series
    Democratizing Technology provides a much-needed fresh perspective on the regulation of chemicals, and an important contribution to green thinking about technology.Caroline Lucas, Green Party MEP. This book is an excellent critique of the current risk-based approach to technology. By exploring the philosophical underpinnings and the practical applications of current policy on science and technology ... Read more

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    Edited by David Morley, Philip Neilsen ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Creative writing has become a highly professionalised academic discipline, with popular courses and prestigious degree programmes worldwide. This book is a must for all students and teachers of creative writing, indeed for anyone who aspires to be a published writer. It engages with a complex art in an accessible manner, addressing concepts important to the rapidly growing field of creative ... Read more

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  • History Beyond the Text

    A Student’s Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources

    Series series Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources
    Historians are increasingly looking beyond the traditional, and turning to visual, oral, aural, and virtual sources to inform their work. The challenges these sources pose require new skills of interpretation and require historians to consider alternative theoretical and practical approaches.In order to help historians successfully move beyond traditional text, Sarah Barber and Corinna Peniston ... Read more

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  • Digital Culture

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    by Charlie Gere ...
    From our bank accounts to supermarket checkouts to the movies we watch, strings of ones and zeroes suffuse our world. Digital technology has defined modern society in numerous ways, and the vibrant digital culture that has now resulted is the subject of Charlie Gere’s engaging volume.In this revised and expanded second edition, taking account of new developments such as Facebook and the iPhone, ... Read more

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  • Architecture

    The Subject is Matter

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    The aim of this book is to expand the subject and matter of architecture, and to explore their interdependence. There are now many architectures. This book acknowledges architecture far beyond the familiar boundaries of the discipline and reassesses the object at its centre: the building. Architectural matter is not always physical or building fabric. It is whatever architecture is made of, ... Read more

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  • Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism

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  • Walking Inside Out

    Contemporary British Psychogeography

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    Walking Inside Out is the first text that attempts to merge the work of literary and artist practitioners with academics to critically explore the state of psychogeography today. The collection explores contemporary psychogeographical practices, shows how a critical form of walking can highlight easily overlooked urban phenomenon, and examines the impact that everyday life in the city has on the ... Read more

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  • Lineages and Advancements in Material Culture Studies

    Perspectives from UCL Anthropology

    This volume comprises a curated conversation between members of the Material Culture Section of University College London Anthropology. In laying out the state of play in the field, it challenges how the anthropology of material culture is being done and argues for new directions of enquiry and new methods of investigation. The contributors consider the ramifications of specific research methods ... Read more

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