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  • Ten Drafts to Complete Your PhD

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    Starting a PhD is an important moment in our lives. Completing a PhD is an incredible achievement. Only 1% of the world's population holds a PhD. Attrition rates are high. In many nations, only 50% of the people that start a PhD finish it. Why? What is going wrong between admission and graduation?Ten drafts to complete your PhD provides concrete strategies to complete a doctorate. Structured ... Read more

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  • The Creative PhD

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    Series series Emerald Points
    Doctorates awarded based on artefact and exegeses, and enabled through creative-led research, are a minority enrolment which suffer from wildly diverse examination expectations and assumptions about quality. Widening the disciplinary parameters and currency of this kind of doctorate, The Creative PhD is the first book that challenges the standards, structure and value of this research. The authors ... Read more

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  • 12 Rules for (Academic) Life

    A Stroppy Feminist’s Guide through Teaching, Learning, Politics, and Jordan Peterson

    by Tara Brabazon ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    These are strange times. Climate crises. Health crises. Collapsing systems. Influencers. And yes - Jordan Peterson.We are currently living in a (Post) Peterson Paradigm. This book – 12 Rules for (Academic) Life - explores what has happened to teaching, learning and politics through this odd and chaotic intervention. Deploying feminism, this lens and theory offers a glass-sharpened view of this ... Read more

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  • How to Embrace Academic Failure

    Building a Career with Meaning, Integrity and Honesty

    by Tara Brabazon ...
    Series series How To Guides
    This compelling book explores current attitudes towards failure in academia. Tara Brabazon argues that success and failures are rarely linked and instead failure can be harnessed as both a diagnostic and a literacy to improve research integrity, authenticity, accountability and consciousness.Brabazon demonstrates how instances of failure can facilitate an awareness of asymmetrical power dynamics ... Read more

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  • Popular Music

    Topics, Trends & Trajectories

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    An incredibly wide-ranging critical account of popular music. The book is an essential resource for all staff and students in the field′ - John Storey, Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of SunderlandOrganized in accessible sections and covering the main themes of research and teaching it examines:• The key approaches to understanding popular music• The main settings of ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Enabling University

    Impairment, (Dis)ability and Social Justice in Higher Education

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    Series series Education (R0)
    This work takes the most recent, interdisciplinary research and demonstrates how to make higher education institutions open, accessible and socially just for staff and students with disabilities. Combining the scholarly fields of media platform management, information literacy, internet studies, mobility studies and disability studies, this book offers a guide and method to consider how students ... Read more

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  • Digital Dieting

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    Imagine if a student spent as much time managing information as celebrities doted on dieting? While eating too much food may be the basis of a moral panic about obesity, excessive information is rarely discussed as a crisis of a similar scale. Obviously, plentiful and high quality food is not a problem if eating is balanced with exercise. But without the skills of media and information literacy, ... Read more

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  • From Revolution to Revelation

    Generation X, Popular Memory and Cultural Studies

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    From Revolution to Revelation offers a new paradigm for Cultural Studies. Tara Brabazon explores our understanding of our own past and the collective past we share with others through popular culture. She investigates Generation X, the ’post-youth’ generation born between 1961 and 1981, and the popular cultural literacies that are the basis of this imagining community. She looks at the ways in ... Read more

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  • Trump Studies

    An Intellectual Guide to Why Citizens Vote Against Their Interests

    Series series Emerald Points
    Why do citizens vote against their own best interest?Trump Studies addresses this key question; probing the value of thinking, reading, writing and interpretation during times of economic, social and political uncertainty. With a compelling voice and academic rigour, the authors explore how and why xenophobia and sexism are the grammar of contemporary popular culture and politics.The Brexit result ... Read more

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  • Unique Urbanity?

    Rethinking Third Tier Cities, Degeneration, Regeneration and Mobility

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    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book investigates small cities - cities and towns that are not well known or internationally branded, but are facing structural economic and social issues after the Global Financial Crisis. They need to invent, develop and manage new reasons for their existence. The strengths and opportunities are often underplayed when compared to larger cities. These small cities do not have the profile of ... Read more

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  • Digital Wine

    How QR Codes Facilitate New Markets for Small Wine Industries

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book explores the way in which QR codes (Quick Response codes) can help the wine industry facilitate distribution and more effectively market and sell their product. It examines the interventions, invention and opportunities brought about by QR codes for the wine industry. It also investigates how QR codes can help enable regional development as well as information and knowledge about ... Read more

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