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  • Sound Play

    Video Games and the Musical Imagination

    by William Cheng ...
    Series series Oxford Music / Media
    Video games open portals to fantastical worlds where imaginative play and enchantment prevail. These virtual settings afford us considerable freedom to act out with relative impunity. Or do they? Sound Play explores the aesthetic, ethical, and sociopolitical stakes of people's creative engagements with gaming's audio phenomena-from sonorous violence to synthesized operas, from democratic music ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Queering the Field

    Sounding Out Ethnomusicology

    Edited by Gregory Barz, William Cheng ...
    Drawing on ethnographic research and often deeply personal experiences with musical cultures, Queering the Field: Sounding out Ethnomusicology unpacks a history of sentiment that veils the treatment of queer music and identity within the field of ethnomusicology. The thematic structure of the volume reflects a deliberate cartography of queer spaces in the discipline-spaces that are strongly ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Loving Music Till It Hurts

    by William Cheng ...
    Can music feel pain? Do songs possess dignity? Do symphonies have rights? Of course not, you might say. Yet think of how we anthropomorphize music, not least when we believe it has been somehow mistreated. A singer butchered or mangled the "Star-Spangled Banner" at the Super Bowl. An underrehearsed cover band made a mockery of Led Zeppelin's classics. An orchestra didn't quite do justice to Mozart ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Handbook of Developmental Neurotoxicology

    Edited by Merle G. Paule, Cheng Wang, William Slikker Jr. ...
    Handbook of Developmental Neurotoxicology, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive view of the fundamental aspects of neurodevelopment, the pathways and agents that affect them, relevant clinical syndromes, and risk assessment procedures for developmental neurotoxicants. The editors and chapter authors are internationally recognized experts whose collaboration heralds a remarkable advance in the ... Read more

    $202.99 USD

  • Developmental Neurotoxicology Research

    Principles, Models, Techniques, Strategies, and Mechanisms

    Edited by Cheng Wang, William Slikker Jr ...
    This book describes how systems biology, pharmacogenomic and behavioral approaches, as applied to neurodevelopmental toxicology, provide a structure to arrange information in a biological model. Authors review and discuss approaches that can be used as effective tools to dissect mechanisms underlying pharmacological and toxicological phenomena associated with the exposure to drugs or environmental ... Read more

    $168.00 USD

  • Neural Cell Biology

    Edited by Cheng Wang, William Slikker, Jr. ...
    This book delineates how systems biology, pharmacogenomic, and behavioral approaches, as applied to neurodevelopmental toxicology, provide a structure to arrange information in a biological model. The text reviews and discusses approaches that can be used as effective tools to dissect mechanisms underlying pharmacological and toxicological phenomena associated with the exposure to drugs or ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Priced Out

    The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care

    by Uwe E. Reinhardt ...
    From a giant of health care policy, an engaging and enlightening account of why American health care is so expensive—and why it doesn't have to beUwe Reinhardt was a towering figure and moral conscience of health care policy in the United States and beyond. Famously bipartisan, he advised presidents and Congress on health reform and originated central features of the Affordable Care Act. In Priced ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Making Healthy Places

    Designing and Building for Health, Well-being, and Sustainability

    by Emil Malizia, Arthur Wendel, James Sallis, Rachel A. Millstein, Jordan A. Carlson, Carolyn Cannuscio, Karen Glanz, Jonathan Samet, David A. Sleet, Rebecca B. Naumann, Lorraine Backer, William C. Sullivan, Chun-Yen Cheng, Caitlin Eicher, Ichiro Kawachi, Chirs S. Kochtitzky, James Krieger, David E. Jacobs, Paul Schulte, Matt Gillen, Liz York, Kenneth M. Wallingford, Greg Wagner, Craig Zimring, Jennifer DuBose, Jared Fox, Reid Ewing, Gail Meakins, Grace Bjarnson, Holly Hilton, Colin Quinn-Hurst, Timothy Beatley, Margaret Schneider, Lisa M. Feldstein, Manal Aboelata, Leah Ersoylu, Larry Cohen, Nisha Botchwey, Matthew J. Trowbridge, Jennifer C. Johnson, Sandro Galea, Anthony G. Capon, Susan Thompson, Robin F. Abrams, Rose A. Rudd, Donna S. Heidel, L. C. Chosewood ...
    The environment that we construct affects both humans and our natural world in myriad ways. There is a pressing need to create healthy places and to reduce the health threats inherent in places already built. However, there has been little awareness of the adverse effects of what we have constructed-or the positive benefits of well designed built environments.This book provides a far-reaching ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Sound Pedagogy

    Radical Care in Music

    by Colleen Renihan, John Spilker, Trudi Wright, Molly M Breckling, William Everett, Kate Galloway, Sara Haefeli0, Eric Hung1, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton2, Mark Katz3, Nathan A Langfitt4, Matteo Magarotto5, Mary Natvig6, Frederick A Peterbark7, Laura Moore Pruett8, Amanda Christina Soto9, Reba A Wissner0 ...
    Series series Music in American Life
    Music education today requires an approach rooted in care and kindness that coexists alongside the dismantling of systems that fail to serve our communities in higher education. But, as the essayists in Sound Pedagogy show, the structural aspects of music study in higher education present obstacles to caring and kindness like the entrenched master-student model, a neoliberal individualist and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD