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Alun Hoddinott is the most important living Welsh composer and one of the most distinguished composers of his generation internationally. This Source Book lists all Hoddinott's compositions from 1946 to 2005, almost 60 years of phenomenal output, and shows he has achieved a mastery of composition which embraces almost every musical medium.
This Sourcebook documents the works of Alan Bush, the English composer, conductor and pianist (many of which reflect his Communist sympathies) and the arrangements of music by other composers; including printed scores, bibliographical material and manuscript scores, the majority of which have been deposited in the British Library by the Bush family
The author examines some of the issues arising from the recent introduction of contemporary English language into Anglican worship, especially in the authorised liturgy of England and New Zealand. Three key questions are addressed. Are there criteria for worship which are satisfactorily fulfilled by contemporary language?
The implications of population ageing have long concerned politicians, policy makers and governmental and non-governmental organizations in the welfare states of Europe
Age Matters provides a comprehensive, innovative and positive approach to recent changes in the regulations and in demography, explaining the advantages and disadvantages of the 2006 legislation and its effect on current retirement practices. Use this book to understand the implications of demographic change and the employment law issues it raises.
The essays collected in Aesthetics and Environment comprise a set of variations on art and culture guided by the theme of environment
Delivering a concise account of Adorno's response to the modern question of freedom; Hearfield sets into critical relief other modern philosophies of freedom from Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault and Habermas. Presenting perspectives concerning the question of freedom, drawing out the contrasting and superior merit of Adorno's response.
Accelerating Business and IT Change is essential reading for anyone seeking to define the nature and value of what they expect from their projects, set realistic implementation schedules and then ensure that all the intended benefits are realized.
Weber examined the rules of the moral economy in the financial markets, and this volume sheds light on his contribution to the subject. The book formulates two models of business relations which are derived from Weber and Simmel's writings and which represent alternative examples of the moral economy.
Conservationists assume a set of underlying values which guide their decision-making and action
Emerging genomic, epigenomic, sensing and image technologies will produce massive, dimensional genomic, epigenomic, physiological, image and clinical data. The book is designed to introduce the currently developed statistical methods and software for big genomic and epigenomic data analysis.
This book provides the only comprehensive overview of contemporary planning practice in the UK. Drawing on contributions from leading researchers in the field, it examines the tools, contexts and outcomes of planning practice.
Published in 1975, A Constant Burden was truly ground-breaking in the field of medical sociology as a study of families with a disabled child; based on an analysis of interviews with parents on the effects of their child's disability on their family life. Over thirty years later this revised edition gives new life to this important work.
This book provides the only comprehensive overview of contemporary planning practice in the UK. Drawing on contributions from leading researchers in the field, it examines the tools, contexts and outcomes of planning practice.
Presenting a unique, data-driven model of literacy, play, and innovation taking the maker movement beyond STEM education, this book helps readers understand literacy learning through making and the creative approaches embedded in early literacy classroom practices.
This book summarizes Michel Foucault's last lectures - ranging from Socrates to the Cynics -- as they pertain to the study and practice of leadership, emphasizing the role of ethics and truth-telling as a check on power. It then presents several other contexts where these same lessons can be seen in practice, including in the life of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whose career as a writer epitomized speaking truth to power, and somewhat surprisingly in the United States military, in response to its twenty-first century mission of counterinsurgency.
Bringing together theory and research, this volume describes the various ways in which learning science in informal settings has been conceptualized as well as empirical evidence to illustrate the role of informal science environments in supporting learning.
Challenging the theory of induction in teacher education, this book proposes a knowledge-building framework based on the critical rationalism of philosopher of science, Karl Popper. The Objective Knowledge Growth Framework developed in this book is designed to be an effective critical analysis framework for empowering teachers and schools to build and share professional knowledge. This book is essential reading for educational scholars, researchers, professionals, policymakers, and all those interested in exploring the application of Popperian philosophy to the field of education and re-envisioning educational practice. 
This interdisciplinary volume applies theories from Media, Cultural, and Literary Studies to investigate how undocumented immigrant youth in the United States have claimed a public voice by publishing their video narratives on YouTube.
First published in 2002, this work invests the post-Shakespearean history plays of the Jacobean era with new significance by recognizing the role they played in popularizing and re-appropriating Foxe's "Book of Martyrs", one of the most formative and culturally significant Reformation texts.
This book uses an art historical and feminist methodology to engage with Emma Hamilton, an eighteenth century celebrity who appeared in many works of art by important artists including Angelica Kauffmann, George Romney and Elisabeth Vigee-Le Brun.
Actionable Research for Educational Equity and Social Justice advances a unique, engaged approach to promoting educational equity and social justice in higher education across China and beyond. Developed as a joint venture of senior and junior scholars in China and the United States, this book documents Chinese, Latin American, U.S., and European examples of engaged scholarship supporting the development of strategies for expanding educational opportunities for low-income families. Drawing from collaborative research, workshops, and field investigations, chapter authors propose and test new methods and practices for reducing educational inequality and provide examples of successful practices that have improved access for low-income students across the globe.
This book offers an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to Pop art scholarship through a recuperation of popular music into art historical understandings of the movement.
This book presents a carefully constructed framework for teaching and learning informed by philosophical and empirical foundations of phenomenology.
Emotion, Affective Practices and the Past in the Present explores the ways emotion is embroiled and used in contemporary engagements with the past, particularly in contexts such as heritage sites, museums, commemorations, political rhetoric and ideology, debates over issues of social memory and touristic uses of heritage sites. Including contributions from academics and practitioners in a range of countries, the book reviews significant and conflicting academic debates on the nature and expression of affect and emotion and, through the use of case studies, draws out their implications for theory and practice within heritage and museum studies.
This book extends current research around mentoring and learning theory, illustrating how mentoring creates, enacts, and sustains multidisciplinary learning in a variety of school, work, and community contexts. It uses mentoring as a way to reimagine value-added approaches to research and teaching practices in Rhetoric and Composition.
In this cutting-edge volume, scholars from around the world connect affect theory to the field of literacy studies, and unpack the role and influence of this emerging area of scholarship on literacy education.
In this cutting-edge volume, scholars from around the world connect affect theory to the field of literacy studies, and unpack the role and influence of this emerging area of scholarship on literacy education.
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