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Contemporary Thinking on Transdisciplinary Knowledge

What Those Who Know, Know

By: Paul Gibbs,Alison Beavis

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Contemporary Thinking on Transdisciplinary Knowledge

What Those Who Know, Know

By: Paul Gibbs,Alison Beavis

How can we understand what a transdisciplinary (TD) approach might actually comprise of, given its complex and various uses? This book asks the question of leading practitioners in the field of higher education and transdisciplinarity. The emergence of transdisciplinarity has been a response to the often-failed closed-system, discipline-based approaches to solving complex social problems (various reports and definitions may be found in projects reported by the OECD, UNESCO and EU). These failures are often contingent upon disaggregated notions of epistemology and the compounding failures of ontological incongruities that are evident in these discipline-based approaches. Such approaches are not necessarily confined to large, seemingly insurmountable social problems, but apply equally well to issues in educational institutions as workplaces. Transdisciplinary knowledge is in the liberation of new and imaginative understanding of the structured reality of open social systems. It gives rise to generative mechanisms, which are central to relationships of agency and structure.

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Springer Nature

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3030397858

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Chainsaws, Slackers, and Spy Kids

Thirty Years of Filmmaking in Austin, Texas

By: Alison Macor

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Chainsaws, Slackers, and Spy Kids

Thirty Years of Filmmaking in Austin, Texas

By: Alison Macor

During the 1990s, Austin achieved “overnight” success and celebrity as a vital place for independent filmmaking. Directors Richard Linklater and Robert Rodriguez proved that locally made films with regional themes such as Slacker and El Mariachi could capture a national audience. Their success helped transform Austin’s homegrown film community into a professional film industry staffed with talented, experienced filmmakers and equipped with state-of-the art-production facilities. Today, Austin struggles to balance the growth and expansion of its film community with an ongoing commitment to nurture the next generation of independent filmmakers. Chainsaws, Slackers, and Spy Kids chronicles the evolution of this struggle by re-creating Austin’s colorful movie history. Based on revealing interviews with Richard Linklater, Robert Rodriguez, Mike Judge, Quentin Tarantino, Matthew McConaughey, George Lucas, and more than one hundred other players in the local and national film industries, Alison Macor explores how Austin has become a proving ground for contemporary independent cinema. She begins in the early 1970s with Tobe Hooper’s horror classic, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and follows the development of the Austin film scene through 2001 with the production and release of Rodriguez’s $100-million blockbuster, Spy Kids. Each chapter explores the behind-the-scenes story of a specific movie, such as Linklater’s Dazed and Confused and Judge’s Office Space, against the backdrop of Austin’s ever-expanding film community.

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393

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University of Texas Press

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0292722435

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9780292722439

SCM Core Text: The Bible and Literature

By: Alison Jack

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SCM Core Text: The Bible and Literature

By: Alison Jack

The first textbook to engage with the crossover between the Bible and literature, covering all the key methods of literary criticism and presenting a truly inter-disciplinary approach.

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191

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SCM Press

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033404894X

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9780334048947

Between the Pigeonholes

Gerald Heard, 1889-1971

By: Alison Falby

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Between the Pigeonholes

Gerald Heard, 1889-1971

By: Alison Falby

Aldous Huxley described Gerald Heard as “that rare being—a learned man who [made] his mental home on the vacant spaces between the pigeonholes.” Heard’s off-beat interests made him a cultural and intellectual pioneer on both sides of the Atlantic in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Despite accolades from such figures as E.M. Forster, who characterized him as “one of the most penetrating minds in England,” and Christopher Isherwood, who described him upon his death as one of the “few great magic mythmakers and revealers of life’s wonder,” Heard is largely unknown today. Between the Pigeonholes is the first published full-length study of Gerald Heard. Alison Falby examines Heard’s ideas and contexts in interwar Britain and postwar America, demonstrating his significance in several important twentieth-century movements. These movements include popular science and psychology, psychical research, Eastern spirituality, pacifism, cooperativism, and Californian counter-culture. All of Heard’s involvements expressed his desire to convey religious ideas in the modern languages of biological, social, and physical science. Falby also traces Heard’s shifting political leanings from left-liberal in the early-1930s to libertarian in the early-1960s. She finds that his modernist theological approach, conventionally associated with liberal religion and politics, provided spiritual fodder for those on both the Left and the Right: Isherwood and W.H. Auden on the one hand, and Clare Boothe Luce and Spiritual Mobilization on the other. Using Heard as a prism through which to examine popular ideas, Falby shows that the twentieth century contained much political and religious heterogeneity. This heterogeneity illustrates the diverse and overlapping roots of both liberal religion and conservative politics in the twenty-first century.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527563774

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Gender, Age, and Digital Games in the Domestic Context

By: Alison Harvey

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Gender, Age, and Digital Games in the Domestic Context

By: Alison Harvey

Western digital game play has shifted in important ways over the last decade, with a plethora of personal devices affording a range of increasingly diverse play experiences. Despite the celebration of a more inclusive environment of digital game play, very little grounded research has been devoted to the examination of familial play and the domestication of digital games, as opposed to evolving public and educational contexts. This book is the first study to provide a situated investigation of the site of family play— the shared spaces and private places of gameplay within the domestic sphere. It carries out an empirically grounded and critical analysis of what marketing and sales discourses about shifts in the digital games audience actually look like in the space of the home, as well as the social and cultural role these ludic technologies take in the everyday practices of the family in the domestic context. It examines the material realities of video game technologies in the home; including time management and spatial organization, as well as the discursive role these devices play in discussions of technological competence and its complex relationship to age, generational differences, and gender performance. Harvey’s interdisciplinary approach and innovative methodology will hold great critical appeal for those studying digital culture, children’s media, and feminist studies of new media, as well as critical theories of technology and leisure and sport theory.

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182

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Routledge

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1317632982

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Culture and Identity

By: Warren Kidd,Alison Teagle

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Culture and Identity

By: Warren Kidd,Alison Teagle

An understanding of culture and identity is essential for new sociologists. This student-focused text explains the themes and theories behind these core ideas. With up-to-date discussion of 'chavs', masculinity and social networking, skills-based activities and practice exam questions, this is invaluable reading for anyone new to this topic.

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280

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137272511

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When I Was a Girl

By: Alison Pollet

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When I Was a Girl

By: Alison Pollet

Discover the defining moments and fondest memories of some of the world's most celebrated women! Based on the popular WE: Women's Entertainment television series and featuring an introduction by famed television journalist and author Linda Ellerbee, When I Was a Girl presents a collection of timeless girlhood tales. Extraordinary women from the worlds of politics, sports, entertainment, literature, music, and beyond relive the early moments that shaped them: the first friendships and academic pitfalls, the consuming crushes and favorite outfits. These are some of the remarkable women who offer a glimpse into what inspired them when they were girls: Gillian Anderson India.Arie Candice Bergen Ellen Burstyn Candace Bushnell Ann Curry Ellen DeGeneres Illeana Douglas Marian Wright Edelman Melissa Etheridge Edie Falco Fionnula Flanagan Sue Grafton Denyce Graves Melanie Griffith Cherry Jones Gladys Knight Lisa Leslie Susan Lucci Wendie Malick Rita Moreno Dee Dee Myers Cynthia Nixon Elizabeth Perkins Kelly Preston Anna Quindlen Sally Ride Michelle Rodriguez Amy Sedaris Jamie-Lynn Sigler Mary Steenburgen Lee Ann Womack And many more! Here are cherished memories, evocative and insightful, for every woman who recalls fondly what she was like...when she was a girl. For more information on WE: Women's Entertainment and the series When I Was a Girl log on to www.we.tv.

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260

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Simon and Schuster

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1439104700

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9781439104705

Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings

By: Walter T. Grondzik,Alison G. Kwok

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Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings

By: Walter T. Grondzik,Alison G. Kwok

The definitive guide to the design of environmental control systems for buildings—now updated in its 13th Edition Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings is the most widely used text on the design of environmental control systems for buildings—helping students of architecture, architectural engineering, and construction understand what they need to know about building systems and controlling a building's environment. With over 2,200 drawings and photographs, this 13th Edition covers basic theory, preliminary building design guidelines, and detailed design procedure for buildings of all sizes. It also provides information on the latest technologies, emerging design trends, and updated codes. Presented in nine parts, Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings, Thirteenth Edition offers readers comprehensive coverage of: environmental resources; air quality; thermal, visual, and acoustic comfort; passive heating and cooling; water design and supply; daylighting and electric lighting; liquid and solid waste; and building noise control. This book also presents the latest information on fire protection, electrical systems; and elevator and escalator systems. This Thirteenth Edition features: Over 2,200 illustrations, with 200 new photographs and illustrations All-new coverage of high-performance building design Thoroughly revised references to codes and standards: ASHRAE, IES, USGBC (LEED), Living Building Challenge, WELL Building Standard, and more Updated offering of best-in-class ancillary materials for students and instructors available via the book’s companion website Architect Registration Examination® (ARE®) style study questions available in the instructor’s manual and student guide Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings, has been the industry standard reference that comprehensively covers all aspects of building systems for over 80 years. This Thirteenth Edition has evolved to reflect the ever-growing complexities of building design, and has maintained its relevance by allowing for the conversation to include ”why” as well as “how to.”

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119492645

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9781119492641

Ionization Methods in Organic Mass Spectrometry

By: Alison E Ashcroft

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Ionization Methods in Organic Mass Spectrometry

By: Alison E Ashcroft

Ionization Methods in Organic Mass Spectrometry is a basic practical guide for scientists of all disciplines who wish to analyse samples by organic mass spectrometry. Concentrating on instrumental operation, this book gives step-by-step instructions on how to set up, and how to achieve the best results, using a range of ionization methods, including atmospheric pressure chemical ionization, electrospray ionization and matrix assisted laser desorption ionization. Ionization Methods in Organic Mass Spectrometry will enable a beginner, or practitioner with limited experience, to choose the most appropriate ionization technique in application areas such as biomolecules, drugs and metabolites, pesticides, polymers and many other organic compounds. It will be a valuable practical guide for technicians, graduates, students or researchers - or indeed anyone new to practical organic mass spectrometry.

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Royal Society of Chemistry

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184755119X

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Schooling Indifference

Reimagining RE in multi-cultural and gendered spaces

By: John I'Anson,Alison Jasper

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Schooling Indifference

Reimagining RE in multi-cultural and gendered spaces

By: John I'Anson,Alison Jasper

This book is concerned with re-imagining Religious Education (RE) as this is practiced in schools, colleges and universities throughout the UK and in a wide variety of international educational contexts. On the basis of a critical analysis of current theory and practice in RE the authors argue that this educational framing is no longer plausible in the light of new theoretical developments within the academy. A new educational approach to RE is outlined that challenges students to think and practice differently. This includes a ‘becoming ethnographer’ approach that can acknowledge socio-material relations and engage the broader literacies necessary for such study. Part One examines how RE has been constructed as a discipline in historical and spatial terms that abstract its study from material concerns. Part Two offers some new starting points: Spinoza, Foucault and feminist theory that differently foreground context and relationality, and 'Islam' read as a discursive, located tradition rather than as 'world view'. Finally, Part Three proposes a new trajectory for research and practice in RE, with the aim of re-engaging schools, colleges and universities in a dialogue that promotes thinking and practice that – as educational - is continually in touch with the need to be critical, open-ended and ethically justifiable.

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Routledge

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1351654748

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Web 2.0 for Schools

Learning and Social Participation

By: Julia Alison Davies,Guy Merchant

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Web 2.0 for Schools

Learning and Social Participation

By: Julia Alison Davies,Guy Merchant

In the last five years, Web 2.0 applications - vast virtual worlds, multiplayer online games, social networking, and file sharing among them - have inspired new notions of what it might mean to be literate in the twenty-first century. While previous scholarship on Web 2.0 has focused on its social and recreational uses, this book explores its ability to enrich and transform the educational experience of children and young people. It discusses the opportunities and risks presented by this large-scale shift in popular engagement with new media, and uses illustrative vignettes to document the work of innovative educators who construct new ways of thinking and being around Web 2.0.

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Peter Lang

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1433102633

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Edmonton, 1995. Six strangers at a coffee shop are caught in an earthquake, but soon learn that no one else in the city seems to have felt it. Over the next few days, they experience strange, inexplicable, and unsettling events. The six soon realize they’ll need to seek each other out again if they want to get any answers. But when they meet, it’s just the beginning of the journey they’re about to take together: a journey into a world parallel to their own, but with startling—maybe even sinister—differences. The longer they spend in this other world, the more they start to wonder if they will ever find their way home again . . . . . . And what will happen if they don’t.

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FriesenPress

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1039126537

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9781039126534

Shining Garment of the Text

Gendered Readings of John's Prologue

By: Alison Jasper

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Shining Garment of the Text

Gendered Readings of John's Prologue

By: Alison Jasper

Taking the prologue of John's Gospel as a case-study in feminist biblical criticism, the author engages with a persistent view that the biblical text is seriously compromised by its association with patriarchal values. Close analysis of five interpretations by Augustine, Hildegard von Bingen, Martin Luther, Adrienne von Speyr and Rudolf Bultmann shows how, unavoidably, interpretation clothes the biblical text with the varied and dazzling patterns of the patriarchal reading context. But in a second turn, drawing on the techniques of both structuralist criticism and deconstruction, and offering three further inventive readings of this powerful passage, Jasper reflects woman and the feminine in the shining garment of her own contextualized reading.

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1850758891

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Chainsaws, Slackers, and Spy Kids

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SCM Core Text: The Bible and Literature

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Between the Pigeonholes

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Gender, Age, and Digital Games in the Domestic Context

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Culture and Identity

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When I Was a Girl

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Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings

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Schooling Indifference

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