In early 2011, while browsing the internet, I accidentally came across the online versionof aNewYorkTimesarticle titled “Is Hysteria Real? Brain Images Say Yes.”1At that point,I too held the view that continues to dominate the humanities literature. According tothis view,hysteria was“written out of current medicine”during the twentieth century.2Itthushadno“placeintheseriousreachesofco…
Movement, mobility &elasticity: Weft knitted fabrics are constructed by the interloping of yarns, which produces fabrics with considerable elongation. Knitted fabrics tend to mold and fit easily to body shapes without binding. Allowing freedom of body movement without permanent fabric deformation. These fabrics are soft and usually light weight. Recovery from wrinkling: knitted fabrics recover…
This guide is written for young people who are learning to knit while in the hospital, and who want to improve their skills independently, whether still in the hospital (and a Project Knitwell volunteer is not available) or after they’re discharged. The guide has also been found to be useful for all beginner knitters, regardless of age, who have been recipients of Project Knitwell services, …
The zombies came in, and he was polite to them, and failed to understand what they wanted, and sometimes real people came in and bought candy or cigarettes or beer. The zombies were never around when the real people were around, and Charley never showed up when the zombies were there. Charley looked like someone from a Greek play, Electra, or Cassandra. She looked like someone had just set her…
The document set entitled “The Main Olympic Topics” is reference material that can be used by any teacher researching information or preparing class work on the Olympic Games and their by-products. The set covers five themes, containing simple and practical information on the Summer and Winter Olympic Games - their history, their ancient origins and their meaning. The texts are illustrated …
A warm-up period is the first part of every training session or preparation for competition. The warm-up starts slowly and gradually involves all muscles and body parts. In addition to preparing the athlete mentally, warming up also has several physiological benefits.The importance of a warm-up prior to exercise cannot be overstressed. This is true even for a sport like athletics. Warming up ra…
The second step in the registration process is to determine what model of hockey you would like your child to play. Each season typically begins in September and wraps up in March. Refer to your team specific page for more approximate dates. All games are played on cross ice/half ice for U7 and U9 participants. These games include 4 on 4 game play and there is typically one ice session per week…
We know swimming! Think of us as your expert resource. We’ll give you the secrets you need to improve your technique, swim farther, and increase your cardiovascular fitness starting with one of the most common strokes, Freestyle. Master this one and you’ve got it made. We recognize that you can’t do this alone, which is why we’re here to support you both in and out of the water. U.S. Ma…
Buku ini membahas drama dalam dimensi seni pertunjukan. Terkait dengan hal itu, ada dua aspek yang disajikan, yaitu: (1) aspek tata usaha, dan (2) aspek tata kesenian. Kedua aspek tersebut didukung oleh deskripsi indikator yang dapat digunakan untuk telaah drama dalam dimensi seni pertunjukan.
Film dokumenter merupakan film yang menceritakan kembali sebuah kejadian atas realita menggunakan fakta dan data. Terfokus pada subjek-subjek seperti sejarah, ilmu pengetahuan, sosial dan lingkungan, film ini bertujuan dasar untuk memberikan pencerahan informasi, pendidikan, melakukan persuasi, dan memberikan wawasan. Film dokumenter juga memiliki berbagai macam jenis.
Kemampuan membaca dan mendengar adalah modal utama untuk mempelajari teori musik. Kedua kemampuan ini saling terkait dengan materi pembelajaran musik lainnya karena sifatnya saling mendukung. Bermain alat musik akan sulit tanpa mendengar, selain itu kemampuan membaca berguna berkomunikasi, memahami, dan merekam setiap simbol dalam bentuk notasi musik. Setiap bunyi yang tertulis harus dituliskan…
Ingin mengutarakan seluruh perasaan untuk kru dan pemain yang menaruh segenap hatinya pada Sore. Isi dari buku ini adalah wajah-wajah yang akan kekal abadi. Selamanya, setiap kali mengunjungi halaman demi halaman buku ini, merekalah yang menjadikan Sore ada. Buku ini adalah tribute untuk kru dan pemain yang kami sayangi.
Buku ini mengeksplorasi hubungan antara musik dan pendidikan melalui pendekatan ontologis, membahas keberadaan dan esensi musik sebagai bagian penting dalam pembelajaran manusia. Istilah ontologi sering digunakan dalam filsafat untuk memahami sifat dasar realitas dan eksistensi. Dalam ilmu sosial, ontologi digunakan untuk menjelaskan bagaimana konsep-konsep sosial dikonstruksikan dan dipahami.
Buku ini mengungkap beberapa teknik atau metode latihan keterampilan mental yang harus dikuasai oleh atlet, agar atlet mampu mengatasi masalah-masalah emosi dan mental lainnya. Teknik atau metode latihan keterampilan mental tersebut adalah: "motivasi, kesadaran diri (self awareness), goal-setting, self confidence, relaksasi,
Isi buku dirancang untuk menyajikan materi-materi atau pengertian-pengertian dasar mengenai kajian ilmu arsitektur lingkungan dan perilaku, metode dan teknik-teknik penelitian di bidang ini, serta kemungkinan aplikasi bagi masyarakat banyak. Buku ini diharapkan dapat menjadi referensi dasar bagi para pemula yang berminat mendalami kajian ilmu arsitektur, lingkungan, dan perilaku.
Bahasan utama dalam buku ini adalah perilaku manusia pada desain interior, proses desain interior dan inovasinya, faktor manusia dan peluang, penemuan inovasi pada desain interiror, riset desain interior, serta pengalaman bagi pengunjung interior. Masing-masing bahasan akan diuaraikan melalui sub bahasan yang mendalam dari berbagai faktor penting di bidangnya.
Ingin terjun ke dunia film, khususnya penjadi penulis skenario? tetapi bingung mulai dari mana? jawabanyya ada pada buku ini, menawarkan berbagai metode penulisan skenario yang komprehensif dan mendalam mulai dari bagaimana cara memunculkan ide hingga mengetes apakah ide Anda cukup menarik atau tidak
Psychology of Music is a flourishing area of research in the Western Balkans. However, much of its findings and insights have remained relatively unknown outside the region. Psychological Perspectives on Musical Experiences and Skills features recent research from the Western Balkans, foregrounding its specific topics, methods, and influences, and bringing it into productive conversation with c…
In any discussion of color, a great place to start is with the challenges we face in communicating color. Here is an example that demonstrates color communication challenges. How would you describe the color of this rose? Would you say it’s yellow, sort of lemon yellow or maybe a bright canary yellow? Ask the same question of a couple of your colleagues and compare notes. The perception and i…
What is ‘the good’ of the film experience? And how does the budding field of ‘film as philosophy’ answer this question? Charting new routes for film ethics, Martin P. Rossouw develops a critical account of the transformational ethics at work within the ‘film as philosophy’ debate. Whenever philosophers claim that films can do philosophy, they also persistently put forward edifying p…
Drama originates from religious rituals. It was connected, already from the start, with the cult of Dionysus.Drama performances took place during the festivities in honor of Dionysus, bound to their religious origin.
In the popular imagination, zombies are scary, decomposing corpses hunting down the living. But since the 1930s, there have also been other zombies shambling across the panels of comic books—zombies that aren’t quite what most people think zombies should be. There have been zombie slaves, zombie henchmen, talking zombies, beautiful zombies, and even zombie heroes. Using archival research in…
Digital Art History has often aligned itself with the practical concerns of digital technology and the responsibilities of art institutions and associated institutional roles such as collection managers, information specialists, curators, and conservators. This emphasis on practicalities and implementation, while undeniably important, has often meant that there is little room for critical exami…
The Olympic Village is today a key element in the organisation and success of the Games. It brings together the world’s athletes in a unique location, and offers them an accommodation solution adapted to their needs during the final phase of their preparation. It is the fruit of an evolution process inseparably linked to that of the Olympic Games. Already in Antiquity, in order to take part i…
The 2020 Summer Olympics, branded as Tokyo 2020 was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 08 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 07 September 2013. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 09 August 2020, the event was postponed…
This book is the first comprehensive introduction to the comics culture of Taiwan. Under martial law (1949–87), Taiwan’s comics culture was shaped by an intriguing mix: mainland Chinese traditions of political cartoons (manhua) and popular “picture books” (lianhuanhua) existed side by side with pirated and often obscured Japanese manga. Triangulating the sociology of culture, media hist…
The glamorous style of Versace Home Collectionis today represented by the sophisticated shapes and innovative materials that live in a “now mood” contexts offering a total home design that highlight “The ver y Versace way”. The collection is inspired by an imaginar y that puts the emphasis on Versace’s energy and it is a homage to the most iconic elements of Versace’s World.
By exploring diagrams, diagramming and the diagrammatic across a range of disciplines and arts-led practices, this open access book addresses the gap between diagrams as a widely valued mode of visual representation and their under-examined status within arts and art education Informed by Charles Sanders Peirce’s understanding of a diagram as an analogy of relations, Drawing Analogies draws o…
Between 1919 and 1961, pioneering Chinese American actress Anna May Wong established an enduring legacy that encompassed cinema, theater, radio, and American television. Born in Los Angeles and growing up amid the suspicion and scrutiny epitomized by the Chinese Exclusion Act, Wong—a defiant misfit—innovated nuanced performances to subvert the racism and sexism that beset her life and caree…
The story of sporting communities and individuals at the University of Westminster over 150 years is the second book to explore the institution's diverse history including its role as a pioneer of women's sports. Drawing upon the University's extensive archives this richly illustrated book celebrates its unique, ground-breaking sports heritage.
This textbook describes theory and practice in analog role-playing game (RPG) design that encourage specific transformative impacts in participants, including tabletop, live action role-playing (larp), and Nordic and American freeform. We describe three types of transformative RPGs: transformative leisure, therapeutic, and educational. We present our model of nano-game design, offering recommen…
Growing up, my sister and I listened to the soundtrack of the musical Pip-pin (1972) so frequently, with such verve, that a permanent skip formed in the middle of “War Is a Science.” (We eventually bought a replacement record.) I don’t recall her ever expressing interest in any other musical, but she LOVEDPippin. She was a particular fan of Ben Vereen, who received a Tony Award for Best A…
This book shines a light on the value and effectiveness of football clubs’ community engagement work, the cultural value of sport and the position sport plays within people’s daily lives. The book considers the deep historical roots that many football clubs have as charitable institutions within their civic locales. Including original research carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic, the b…
Which kind of music do I listen to and which not? Can I go to a classical music concert if I have never been to one? Can I, as a pop music fan, attend a heavy metal concert? Which music do I talk about with my friends? How do I communicate my preferences? And what does it even mean to be a jazz fan? In light of the fundamentally social function of music, this book tries to answer the question o…
Four days after the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, the Los Angeles Police Department established O.J. Simpson as their prime suspect. Inconsistencies in his statements to law officials and first DNA testing results constituted grounds for an arrest warrant, and Simpson was subsequently ordered to turn himself in; a rare privilege in a homicide investigation that immediately…
grew up without television. My parents believed that television was a badthing; it cost too much, would take attention away from other activities,would lead to passivity and obstruct family life. This was in Norway in the1960s and my parents’beliefs resonated with the dominant misgivingsabout television at the time.As a child, I was proud of our TV-free life. But the resistance did notstick. …
While a larger history of medieval Indian theatre, comprehensively accounting for its different literary, theoretical, and performative strands, still needs to be written, the ambition of the present study is to explore the emergence of an original debate on the nature of dance and dramatic acting in the Abhinavabh?rat?, Abhinavagupta’s eleventh-century commentary on Bharata’s N??ya??stra. …
Strolling through the streets of Paris at the end of the nineteenth century, an urban observer happens on an advertisement for the Folies-Bergère, a music hall and revue theater (fig. 1). Illustrated on this poster is a slim, captivating woman; her posterior is exposed, and she is on her tiptoes in heels, coyly look-ing back at the spectator. Her flowing hair creates the impression that she is…
It was the last day of October 2015 when I attended Rootlessroot’s (2015) performance Europium [The end of the world will be better this year]1 at the Onassis Stegi in Athens, Greece. Europium, the chemical element, is known for its volatile and unpredictable nature, much like the narratives circulating internationally about Greeks during the Greek financial crisis. …
Funk and disco era California dancing demonstrates a dynamic fluidity of stylistic boundaries, reflective of dancers’ travels within and across neigh-borhoods, cities, and regions. By way of everyday people’s movements of migration and dislocation, physical and imaginative wandering, vernacular dances trace circuitous routes, emerge from multiple centers, and prolifer ate in re…
By the time a child is ready to leave primary school they should be able to swim, know how to get out of trouble if they fall into water, know the dangers of water and understand how to stay safe when playing in and around it. It is part of the national curriculum PE programme of study for England, so all local authority-maintained primary schools must provide swimming and water safety instruct…
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) is the governing body of the game of tennis and its duties and responsibilities include protecting the integrity of the game through determination of the Rules of Tennis. To assist the ITF in carrying out this responsibility, the ITF has appointed a Rules of Tennis Committee which continually monitors the game and its rules, and when considered necessar…
To achieve this, we need to break down barriers to entry and grow the game by bringing new and different audiences into our sport. Indeed, one of our key strategies is to find new ways to grow participation, and padel is a fantastic example of that. It’s an innovative format of tennis that’s fun, sociable and easy to play. It can be played in groups of mixed ages and abilities due to it not…
Paragliding does not only look easy and safe – it actually is. Thanks to the Papillon standards for safe paragliding, almost anyone can experience the great adventure of flying today. However, paragliding can quickly become an extreme sport; for example when out of ignorance or carelessness a too sophisticated glider is flown in meteorologically challenging conditions.This pilot handbook teac…
In this quotation, Sharon draws together two concepts key to understanding The Industry’s vision of “opera for everyone”: the operatic genre’s historical elitism, and the role performance space plays in mediating this generic exclu-sivity. Sharon’s words highlight another juxtaposition as well, that between the site-specific spectacles created by The Industry and the fourth-w…
Although the standard which you will be expected to reach will be the same in every school, the actual training programme and methods may vary. This is because they are determined by the craft (hang glider or paraglider), the type of launch method (hill or tow), the site, and the weather on the day. Once you have mastered controlling the glider on the ground (‘ground handling’) – which i…
Pengetahuan tentang sejarah tari menjadi penting bagi siapapun yang menekuni dunia seni ini. Buku ini memuat berbagai pengetahuan tentang tari di Indonesia dan sejarahnya dengan alur periodisasi. Bagaimana sebuah tari traditional bertahan hingga kini- dan tetap didukung oleh masyarakat pada masa sekarang hingga masa mendatang. Bagaimana sebuah tarian bisa berkembang menjadi karya baru yang kon…
Istilah drama berasal dari drame, sebuah kata Perancis yang diambil oleh Diderot dan Beaumarchaid untuk menjelaskan lakon-lakon mereka tentang kehidupan kelas menengah. Drama adalah lakon serius yang menggarap satu masalah yang punya arti penting tapi tidak bertujuan mengagungkan tragika. Dalam jagat modern, istilah drama sering diperluas sehingga mencakup semua lakon serius, termasuk di dalamn…
The Martial Arts of Indonesia is heavily illustrated and carefully researched work form renowed martial arts cholar and teacher Donn F. Draeger offers an expert perpective on the story of Indonesia's martial culture, providing a comprehensive introduction to the sopisticated forms of empy-hand combat that characterize acrobatic Indonesian fighting styles like Pencak Silat and Kuntao as well as …