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Inert Cities

Globalization, Mobility and Suspension in Visual Culture

By: Stephanie Hemelryk Donald,Christoph Lindner

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Inert Cities

Globalization, Mobility and Suspension in Visual Culture

By: Stephanie Hemelryk Donald,Christoph Lindner

We usually associate contemporary urban life with movement and speed. But what about those instances when the forms of mobility associated with globalized cities - the flow of capital, people, labor and information - freeze, or decelerate? How can we assess the value of interruption in a city? What does valuing stillness mean in regards to the forward march of globalization? When does inertia presage decay - and when does it promise immanence and rebirth? Bringing together original contributions by international specialists from the fields of architecture, photography, film, sociology and cultural analysis, this cutting-edge book considers the poetics and politics of inertia in cities ranging from Amsterdam, Berlin, Beirut and Paris, to Beijing, New York, Sydney and Tokyo. Chapters explore what happens when photography, film, mixed media works, architecture and design intervene in public spaces and urban communities to disrupt speed and growth, both intellectually and/or practically; and question the degree to which mobility is aspirational or imaginary, absolute or transient. Together, they encourage a re-assessment of what it means to be urban in an unevenly globalizing world, to live in cities built around mythologies of perpetual progress.

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The Chemistry of Mycotoxins

By: Stefan Bräse,Franziska Gläser,Carsten Kramer,Stephanie Lindner,Anna M. Linsenmeier,Kye-Simeon Masters,Anne C. Meister,Bettina M. Ruff,Sabilla Zhong

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The Chemistry of Mycotoxins

By: Stefan Bräse,Franziska Gläser,Carsten Kramer,Stephanie Lindner,Anna M. Linsenmeier,Kye-Simeon Masters,Anne C. Meister,Bettina M. Ruff,Sabilla Zhong

The biological activity of mycotoxins ranges from weak and/or sometimes positive effects, such as antibacterial activity (see penicillin derivatives derived from Penicillium strains) to strong mutagenic (e. g. aflatoxins, patulin), carcinogenic (e. g. aflatoxins), teratogenic, neurotoxic (e. g. ochratoxins), nephrotoxic (e. g. fumonisins, citrinin), hepatotoxic, and immunotoxic (e. g. ochratoxins, diketopiperazines) activity. Nowadays, many laboratories around the world are specialized in the detection of mycotoxins in food products and contaminated material found in housing. In this volume, a focus on the most important classes of mycotoxins is provided and their chemistry of the last ten years is discussed. In each Section, the individual biological impact is outlined. Sections are arranged according to mycotoxin classes (e. g. aflatoxins) and/or structural classes (e. g. resorcinyl lactones, diketopiperazines). The biology of mycotoxins is also described.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3709113121

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There's No Place Like Home

The Migrant Child in World Cinema

By: Stephanie Hemelryk Donald

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There's No Place Like Home

The Migrant Child in World Cinema

By: Stephanie Hemelryk Donald

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2018 The Wizard of Oz brought many now-iconic tropes into popular culture: the yellow brick road, ruby slippers and Oz. But this book begins with Dorothy and her legacy as an archetypal touchstone in cinema for the child journeying far from home. In There's No Place Like Home, distinguished film scholar Stephanie Hemelryk Donald offers a fresh interpretation of the migrant child as a recurring figure in world cinema. Displaced or placeless children, and the idea of childhood itself, are vehicles to examine migration and cosmopolitanism in films such as Le Ballon Rouge, Little Moth and Le Havre. Surveying fictional and documentary film from the post-war years until today, the author shows how the child is a guide to themes of place, self and being in world cinema.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1838609695

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Listen!

By: Stephanie S. Tolan

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Listen!

By: Stephanie S. Tolan

Charley knows a lot about pain. She endures it when she walks on her newly shattered leg, she sees it when her father buries himself in an eighty-hour work week, and she runs from it when she sees photographs her mother took before her death. Then one day, Charley meets a wild, abused dog that knows as much about pain as she does, and, despite herself, she feels an immediate connection and vows to help him. But how will one heartbroken girl help mend the battered spirit of an untamable dog?

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Harper Collins

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0062213350

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The Other Philadelphia Story

How Local Congregations Support Quality of Life in Urban America

By: Ram A. Cnaan,Stephanie C. Boddie,Stephanie Boddie,Charlene C. McGrew,Jennifer Kang

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The Other Philadelphia Story

How Local Congregations Support Quality of Life in Urban America

By: Ram A. Cnaan,Stephanie C. Boddie,Stephanie Boddie,Charlene C. McGrew,Jennifer Kang

For people living in U.S. cities, social services come not only from the government but increasingly also from local religious communities. Ever since the Clinton administration's welfare reform, faith-based institutions, and especially congregations, have been allowed to bid for federal funds for their programs. In The Other Philadelphia Story, drawing on the first-ever census of congregations in any American city, Ram Cnaan and his colleagues provide an authoritative account of the functioning of congregations, their involvement in social services, and their support of other charitable organizations. An in-depth study of 1,392 congregations in Philadelphia, the book illuminates how these groups function as community hubs where members and neighbors alike gather throughout the week. Cnaan's findings show that almost every assembly of parishioners emphasizes caring for others, even if the help is modest. Thus American congregations uphold an implicit but strong norm of social responsibility and work to improve the quality of life for members and nonmembers alike. Many of the problems associated with urban life persist in the face of governmental inaction, and the burden of responsibility cannot be shouldered entirely by congregations. However, in a city such as Philadelphia, where half the residents are regular attenders of religious congregations, hopes for urban improvement are largely to be found in these local groups. Special focus is given in the book to kinds of care that often go unnoticed: volunteerism, provision of refuge, and informal assistance to community members in need. All told, Cnaan asserts, congregations are an essential component of Philadelphia's civil society. Without them, the quality of life would deteriorate immeasurably.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812201620

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9780812201628

Tourism and the Branded City

Film and Identity on the Pacific Rim

By: Stephanie Hemelryk Donald,John G. Gammack

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Tourism and the Branded City

Film and Identity on the Pacific Rim

By: Stephanie Hemelryk Donald,John G. Gammack

Comparing the major Pacific Rim cities of Sydney, Hong Kong and Shanghai, this book examines world city branding. Whilst all three cities compete on the world's stage for events, tourists and investment, they are also at the centre of distinct film traditions and their identities are thus strongly connected with a cinematic impression. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book not only analyses the city branding of these cities from the more widely researched perspectives of tourism, marketing and regional development, but also draws in cultural studies and psychology approaches which offer fresh and useful insights to place branding and marketing in general. The authors compare and contrast qualitative and quantitative original data as well as critically analyzing current texts and debates on city branding. In conclusion, they argue that city branding should contribute not only to regional development and identity, but also to sustainable economic well-being and public happiness.

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1317009649

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The Myth of the Born Criminal

Psychopathy, Neurobiology, and the Creation of the Modern Degenerate

By: Jarkko Jalava,Stephanie Griffiths,Michael Maraun

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The Myth of the Born Criminal

Psychopathy, Neurobiology, and the Creation of the Modern Degenerate

By: Jarkko Jalava,Stephanie Griffiths,Michael Maraun

[I]s psychopathy a brain disorder, as many scientists now claim? Or is it just a reflection of modern society's deepest fears? The Myth of the Born Criminal offers the first comprehensive critique of the concept of psychopathy from the eighteenth-century origins of the born-criminal theory to the latest neuroimaging, behavioural genetics, and statistical studies. Jarkko Jalava, Stephanie Griffiths, and Michael Maraun use their expertise in neuropsychology, psychometrics, and criminology to dispel the myth that psychopathy is a biologically-based condition. Deconstructing the emotive language with which both research scientists and reporters describe the psychopaths among us, they explain how the idea of psychopathy offers a comforting neurobiological solution to the mystery of evil"--Preliminary page.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442628367

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Histories of Dirt

Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos

By: Stephanie Newell

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Histories of Dirt

Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos

By: Stephanie Newell

In Histories of Dirt Stephanie Newell traces the ways in which urban spaces and urban dwellers come to be regarded as dirty, as exemplified in colonial and postcolonial Lagos. Newell conceives dirt as an interpretive category that facilitates moral, sanitary, economic, and aesthetic evaluations of other cultures under the rubric of uncleanliness. She examines a number of texts ranging from newspaper articles by elite Lagosians to colonial travel writing, public health films, and urban planning to show how understandings of dirt came to structure colonial governance. Seeing Lagosians as sources of contagion and dirt, British colonizers used racist ideologies and discourses of dirt to justify racial segregation and public health policies. Newell also explores possibilities for non-Eurocentric methods for identifying African urbanites’ own values and opinions by foregrounding the voices of contemporary Lagosians through interviews and focus groups in which their responses to public health issues reflect local aesthetic tastes and values. In excavating the shifting role of dirt in structuring social and political life in Lagos, Newell provides new understandings of colonial and postcolonial urban history in West Africa.

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Duke University Press

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1478007060

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Tribal Politics in Iran

Rural Conflict and the New State, 1921-1941

By: Stephanie Cronin

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Tribal Politics in Iran

Rural Conflict and the New State, 1921-1941

By: Stephanie Cronin

Placing Iran's 'tribal problem' in its historical context, this innovative and important work provides an overall assessment of tribal politics in the Riza Shah period, challenging conventional political and scholarly approaches to tribal politics.

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1134138016

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Daily Cornbread

365 Ingredients for a Healthy Mind, Body and Soul

By: Stephanie Stokes Oliver

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Daily Cornbread

365 Ingredients for a Healthy Mind, Body and Soul

By: Stephanie Stokes Oliver

Heart & Soul founding editor Stephanie Stokes Oliver shows African American women how to soothe the soul, satisfy the mind, and revive the body 365 days a year. Written in an affirming style that is prescriptive but never preachy, fun but not frivolous, Daily Cornbread is a day-by-day compendium of Oliver’s creative ideas for leading an enjoyable and fulfilling life. On January 2, for example, Oliver suggests taking time out to "get happy" (do something that makes you happy an hour a day); to schedule a personal retreat; and to develop a strategic plan for the upcoming year. Reminiscent of Sarah Ban Breathnach’s Simple Abundance and Iyanla Vanzant’s Acts of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Color, but with a special emphasis on nurturing the body as well as the mind, Daily Cornbread shows African American women how to make each day better.

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Crown

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030780626X

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9780307806260

Routledge Handbook of Applied Sport Psychology

A Comprehensive Guide for Students and Practitioners

By: Stephanie J. Hanrahan,Mark B. Andersen

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Routledge Handbook of Applied Sport Psychology

A Comprehensive Guide for Students and Practitioners

By: Stephanie J. Hanrahan,Mark B. Andersen

Now available in paperback, the Routledge Handbook of Applied Sport Psychology is a definitive guide to the theory and practice of applied sport psychology. It goes further than any other book in surveying the full variety of issues that practising sport psychologists will confront in their working lives. It introduces the most important tools and skills that psychologists will need to be truly helpful to their clients, and it also adopts a holistic definition of the role of the sport psychologist, explaining how effective counseling, assessment, and therapeutic models can add important extra dimensions to professional practice. The book is divided into seven thematic sections, addressing: counseling; assessment; theoretical and therapeutic models; issues for the individual athlete, from injury and overtraining to depression; issues for teams, from conflict resolution to travel; working with special populations; mental skills, such as imagery, goal setting, and concentration. Moving beyond the traditional tracks of clinical psychology and performance enhancement, the authors in this book argue convincingly that psychologists would benefit from attempting to understand athletes’ social and familial contexts, their health, happiness, and interpersonal dynamics in the broadest sense, if they are to serve their clients’ best interests. With contributions from many of the world’s leading sport psychologists, and with clear descriptions of best practice in each chapter, the Routledge Handbook of Applied Sport Psychology is essential reading for all serious students and practitioners of sport psychology, counseling, applied sport science, health psychology, and related fields.

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1136966676

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The Newer Deal

Social Work and Religion in Partnership

By: Ram A. Cnaan,Robert J. Wineburg,Stephanie C. Boddie

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The Newer Deal

Social Work and Religion in Partnership

By: Ram A. Cnaan,Robert J. Wineburg,Stephanie C. Boddie

Cnaan calls upon religious-based organizations and the social work-social service community to put aside their differences and forge a "limited partnership" focusing on joint care for those in need--with attention to services for people of color, gays and lesbians, women, and programs for community empowerment and economic development.

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Columbia University Press

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023111625X

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9780231116251

Marriage, a History

How Love Conquered Marriage

By: Stephanie Coontz

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Marriage, a History

How Love Conquered Marriage

By: Stephanie Coontz

Just when the clamor over "traditional" marriage couldn’t get any louder, along comes this groundbreaking book to ask, "What tradition?" In Marriage, a History, historian and marriage expert Stephanie Coontz takes readers from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the torments of Victorian lovers to demonstrate how recent the idea of marrying for love is—and how absurd it would have seemed to most of our ancestors. It was when marriage moved into the emotional sphere in the nineteenth century, she argues, that it suffered as an institution just as it began to thrive as a personal relationship. This enlightening and hugely entertaining book brings intelligence, perspective, and wit to today’s marital debate.

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Penguin

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1101118253

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USING THE CREATIVE THERAPIES TO COPE WITH GRIEF AND LOSS

By: Stephanie L. Brooke,Dorothy A. Miraglia

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USING THE CREATIVE THERAPIES TO COPE WITH GRIEF AND LOSS

By: Stephanie L. Brooke,Dorothy A. Miraglia

Using the Creative Therapies to Cope with Grief and Loss is a comprehensive and exciting work that illustrates the use of art, play, music, dance/movement, drama, and animals as creative approaches for helping clients cope with grief and loss issues. The editors’ primary purpose is to present an array of creative treatment approaches, which cover the broad spectrum of grief, more than just loss through death. Well renowned, well-credentialed, and professional creative arts therapists in the areas of art, play, music, dance/movement, drama, and animal-assisted therapies have contributed to this work. In addition, some of the chapters are complimented with photographs of client work in these areas. The reader is provided with a snapshot of how these various creative arts therapies are used to treat children and adults diagnosed struggling with loss or complicated grief. This informative book will be of special interest to educators, students, therapists as well as people working with families and children coping with loss.

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Charles C Thomas Publisher

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0398090785

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9780398090784

Learning how to Feel

Children's Literature and Emotional Socialization, 1870-1970

By: Ute Frevert,Pascal Eitler,Stephanie Olsen

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Learning how to Feel

Children's Literature and Emotional Socialization, 1870-1970

By: Ute Frevert,Pascal Eitler,Stephanie Olsen

This volume demonstrates how children, through their reading matter, were provided with learning tools to navigate their emotional lives, presenting this in the context of changing social, political, cultural, and gender agendas, the building of nations, subjects and citizens, and the forging of moral and religious values.

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Emotions in History

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0199684995

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9780199684991

Conducting Astronomy Education Research

A Primer

By: Janelle M. Bailey,Timothy F. Slater,Stephanie J. Slater

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Conducting Astronomy Education Research

A Primer

By: Janelle M. Bailey,Timothy F. Slater,Stephanie J. Slater

Tim Slater and Roger Freedman have worked to improve astronomy and overall science education for many years. Now, they’ve partnered to create a new textbook, a re-envisioning of the course, focused on conceptual understanding and inquiry-based learning. Investigating Astronomy: A Conceptual Approach to the Universe is a brief, 15-chapter text that employs a variety of activities and experiences to encourage students to think like a scientist.

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Macmillan

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1429264098

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Voodoo Diaries

By: Stephanie Bond,Elise Sax

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Voodoo Diaries

By: Stephanie Bond,Elise Sax

A humorous romantic mystery! Words can hurt… The town of Mojo is still reeling from the fallout of the dark shenanigans at the Instruments of Death and Voodoo Museum. One woman, Sheena Linder, is determined to rehab the town's reputation and her own reputation (as the town skank) by bringing a film crew to Mojo to tell the real story as told to her by her sister. Sheena has always kept a diary, so writing a screenplay can't be much different… right? And sometimes kill. The frustrated movie studio sends a script doctor to help Sheena. To her irritation, he's the biggest nerd ever and seems immune to her feminine charm. But the handsome egghead is starting to grow on her—especially when a new voodoo doll shows up and Sheena discovers a body… and all fingers point to her as the murderer. Will she live long enough to write her own happy ending? If you're looking for a book to make you laugh and sigh, check out VOODOO DIARIES! ___________________ The Mojo, Louisiana Humorous Mystery series so far: IN DEEP VOODOO VOODOO OR DIE VOODOO DIARIES

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Stephanie Bond, Inc.

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1963574052

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9781963574050

Gender and methodology in the ancient Near East: Approaches from Assyriology and beyond

By: Stephanie Lynn Budin,Megan Cifarelli,Agnès Garcia-Ventura,Adelina Millet Albà

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Gender and methodology in the ancient Near East: Approaches from Assyriology and beyond

By: Stephanie Lynn Budin,Megan Cifarelli,Agnès Garcia-Ventura,Adelina Millet Albà

This collection of 23 essays, presented in three sections, aims to discuss women’s studies as well as methodological and theoretical approaches to gender within the broad framework of ancient Near Eastern studies. The first section, comprising most of the contributions, is devoted to Assyriology and ancient Near Eastern archaeology. The second and third sections are devoted to Egyptology and to ancient Israel and biblical studies respectively, neighbouring fields of research included in the volume to enrich the debate and facilitate academic exchange. Altogether these essays offer a variety of sources and perspectives, from the textual to the archaeological, from bodies and sexuality to onomastics, to name just a few, making this a useful resource for all those interested in the study of women and gender in the past.

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Edicions Universitat Barcelona

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849168073X

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9788491680734

CREATING GREAT VISITOR EXPERIENCES

A GUIDE FOR MUSEUMS, PARKS, ZOOS, GARDENS & LIBRARIES

By: Stephanie Weaver

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CREATING GREAT VISITOR EXPERIENCES

A GUIDE FOR MUSEUMS, PARKS, ZOOS, GARDENS & LIBRARIES

By: Stephanie Weaver

Museum and other non-profit professionals have begun to realize that the complete visitor experience is the key to repeat attendance, successful fundraising, and building audience loyalty. Taking lessons learned by successful experience-shapers in the for-profit world, Stephanie Weaver distills this knowledge for museums and other organizations which depend on visitor satisfaction for success. Is your institution welcoming? Are the bathrooms clean? Does the staff communicate well? Are there enough places to sit? These practical matters may mean more to creating a loyal following than any exhibit or program the institution develops. Weaver breaks the visitor experience down to 8 steps and provides practical guidance to museums and related institutions on how to create optimal visitor experiences for each of them. In a workshop-like format, she uses multiple examples, exercises, and resource links to walk the reader through the process.

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Left Coast Press

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1611324661

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Risse im Alltag. Life is a Story - story.one

By: Stephanie Lindner

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Risse im Alltag. Life is a Story - story.one

By: Stephanie Lindner

Wie Risse ziehen sich die Kurgeschichten durch den Alltag und erlauben einen Blick hinter die Kulissen des normalen Wahnsinns.

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3710801117

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The Chemistry of Mycotoxins

By: Stefan Bräse,Franziska Gläser,Carsten Kramer,Stephanie Lindner,Anna M. Linsenmeier,Kye-Simeon Masters,Anne C. Meister,Bettina M. Ruff,Sabilla Zhong

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The Chemistry of Mycotoxins

By: Stefan Bräse,Franziska Gläser,Carsten Kramer,Stephanie Lindner,Anna M. Linsenmeier,Kye-Simeon Masters,Anne C. Meister,Bettina M. Ruff,Sabilla Zhong

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Inert Cities

Globalization, Mobility and Suspension in Visual Culture

By: Stephanie Hemelryk Donald,Christoph Lindner

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Inert Cities

Globalization, Mobility and Suspension in Visual Culture

By: Stephanie Hemelryk Donald,Christoph Lindner

We usually associate contemporary urban life with movement and speed. But what about those instances when the forms of mobility associated with globalized cities – the flow of capital, people, labour and information – freeze, or decelerate? How can we assess the value of interruption in a city? What does valuing stillness mean in regards to the forward march of globalization? When does inertia presage decay - and when does it promise immanence and rebirth? Bringing together original contributions by international specialists from the fields of architecture, photography, film, sociology and cultural analysis, this cutting-edge book considers the poetics and politics of inertia in cities ranging from Amsterdam, Berlin, Beirut and Paris, to Beijing, New York, Sydney and Tokyo. Chapters explore what happens when photography, film, mixed media works, architecture and design intervene in public spaces and urban communities to disrupt speed and growth, both intellectually and/or practically; and question the degree to which mobility is aspirational or imaginary, absolute or transient. Together, they encourage a re-assessment of what it means to be urban in an unevenly globalizing world, to live in cities built around mythologies of perpetual progress. These new analyses of visual culture's strategic interruptions in global cities allow a more in-depth understanding of the new forms of space, experience, and community that are emerging in today's rapidly transforming urban environments.

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