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  • Treating Overcontrol

    A Clinician's Guide to Evidence-Based Therapy for Emotional Constriction, Rigid Self-Control, and Treatment-Resistant Disorders

    by Miles Malcolm Williams ...
    Why do some clients do everything right and never improve?They follow every rule. They maintain rigid self-discipline. They suppress emotion, avoid conflict, and present a controlled exterior to the world. Yet beneath the surface, they experience profound loneliness, emotional numbness, and social disconnection that standard therapy cannot reach.Traditional cognitive-behavioral approaches and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Herbert Marcuse

    An Aesthetics of Liberation

    by Malcolm Miles ...
    Series series Modern European Thinkers
    When capitalism is clearly catastrophically out of control and its excesses cannot be sustained socially or ecologically, the ideas of Herbert Marcuse become as relevant as they were in the 1960s. This is the first English introduction to Marcuse to be published for decades, and deals specifically with his aesthetic theories and their relation to a critical theory of society.Although Marcuse is ... Read more

    $35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Limits to Culture

    Urban Regeneration vs. Dissident Art

    by Malcolm Miles ...
    How can we unmask the vested interests behind capital's 'cultural' urban agenda? Limits to Culture pits grass-roots cultural dissent against capital's continuing project of control via urban planning.In the 1980s, notions of the 'creative class' were expressed though a cultural turn in urban policy towards the 'creative city'. De-industrialisation created a shift away from how people understood ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Art Rebellion

    The Aesthetics of Social Transformation

    by Malcolm Miles ...
    Art has always been central to moments of great social change. From the avant-garde to the ages of revolution, the act of rebellious creation has been crucial to bringing people and ideas together. However, in an increasingly fractured world characterised by upheaval and crisis, what role can art play in ushering in transformation?Malcolm Miles offers a guide to contemporary art and activism, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Paradoxical Urbanism

    Anti-Urban Currents in Modern Urbanism

    by Malcolm Miles ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Modernist urbanism seems progressive, even Utopian: design for a better world through a democratic and humane built environment. But two currents undermine this vision from within: an Arcadianism which turns to a rural idyll as retreat from change and the effects of industrialization; and an instrumentalism by which the humane vision becomes prescriptive and anti-democratic. Malcolm Miles argues ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Interventions

    Edited by Malcolm Miles, Tim Hall ...
    Series series Advances in Art and Urban Futures
    Interventions is a contribution to current considerations of how cultural initiatives and interventions affect the development of cities. It draws together policies and projects for cultural urban interventions, from the UK, Lithuania, India, and North America. The authors include artists, arts managers, academics in cultural and geographical fields, and policy makers. The book has three sections: ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Art and Theory After Socialism

    Edited by Mel Jordan, Malcolm Miles ...
    Art, theory, and criticism faced radical new challenges after the end of the cold war. Art and Theory After Socialism investigates what happens when theories of art from the former East and the former West collide, parsing the work of former Soviet bloc artists alongside that of their western counterparts. Mel Jordan and Malcolm Miles conclude that the dreams promised by capitalism have not been ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Eco-Aesthetics

    Art, Literature and Architecture in a Period of Climate Change

    by Malcolm Miles ...
    Series series Radical Aesthetics-Radical Art
    By moving beyond traditional aesthetic categories (beauty, the sublime, the religious), Eco-Aesthetics takes an inter-disciplinary approach bridging the arts, humanities and social sciences and explores what aesthetics might mean in the 21st century. It is one in a series of new, radical aesthetics promoting debate, confronting convention and formulating alternative ways of thinking about art ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Cities and Literature

    by Malcolm Miles ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
    This book offers a critical introduction to the relation between cities and literature (fiction, poetry and literary criticism) from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It examines examples of writing from Europe, North America and post-colonial countries, juxtaposed with key ideas from urban cultural and critical theories.Cities and Literature shows how literature frames real and ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Art, Space and the City

    by Malcolm Miles ...
    Public art - the making, management and mediation of art outside its conventional location in museums and galleries, and the livable city - a concept involving user-centred strategies for urban planning and design, are both socially produced but have emerged from different fields and tend to be discussed in isolation. This book applies a range of critical perspectives which have emerged from ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Urban Futures

    Critical Commentaries on shaping Cities

    Edited by Tim Hall, Malcolm Miles ...
    Urban Futures brings together commentaries from a wide range of contemporary disciplines and fields relevant to urban culture, form and society. The book concerns cities in the broadest sense, not just as buildings and spaces, but also as processes and events or sites of occupation, in which meanings are constructed in many ways. The contributors draw on their specialist areas of research to ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • New Practices - New Pedagogies

    A Reader

    Edited by Malcolm Miles ...
    Series series Innovations in Art and Design
    With radical changes happening in arts over the past two decades, this book brings us up to date with the social and economic contexts in which the arts are produced. Influential and knowledgable leaders in the field debate how arts education - particularly in visual art - has changed to meet new needs or shape new futures for its production and reception.Opening up areas of thought previously ... Read more

    $39.99 USD