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Collins Cambridge IGCSE (R) PE is the only published course to
offer comprehensive coverage of the Cambridge IGCSE (R) PE
syllabus. Consisting of a clear, colourful Student Book, a
supportive Teacher's Guide and a digital component for
reinforcement of key syllabus topics, the course enables students
to deepen their understanding and build confidence. Exam Board:
Cambridge Assessment International Education First teaching: 2017
First examination: 2019 Using the Student Book enables learners to
* deepen knowledge and understanding through the clear and concise
explanations given and the contexts selected * learn a range of
skills, such as how to build self-awareness and how to reflect on
their performance * review, record and evaluate their work *
monitor their learning using the 'Learning Log' and 'Check your
Progress' features This title is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment
International Education.
In this comprehensive textbook, editors Matthew J. Brown, Randy
Duncan, and Matthew J. Smith offer students a deeper understanding
of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and
graphic novels by introducing key theories and critical methods for
analyzing comics. Each chapter explains and then demonstrates a
critical method or approach, which students can then apply to
interrogate and critique the meanings and forms of comic books,
graphic novels, and other sequential art. Contributors introduce a
wide range of critical perspectives on comics, including disability
studies, parasocial relationships, scientific humanities, queer
theory, linguistics, critical geography, philosophical aesthetics,
historiography, and much more. As a companion to the acclaimed
Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods, this second
volume features 19 fresh perspectives and serves as a stand-alone
textbook in its own right. More Critical Approaches to Comics is a
compelling classroom or research text for students and scholars
interested in Comics Studies, Critical Theory, the Humanities, and
beyond.
The first book to examine the transformation of sporting cultures
in South America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Â
Sports in South America follows the transformation of sporting
cultures in South America leading up to Uruguay’s hosting of the
first FIFA Men’s World Cup in 1930. Matthew Brown shows how South
American soccer culture, envied worldwide, sprang out of societies
that were already playing and watching games well before British
sportsmen arrived to teach “the beautiful game.†These vibrant
and distinct sporting traditions, including cycling, boxing,
cockfighting, bullfighting, cricket, baseball, and horse racing,
were marked by South American societies’ Indigenous and colonial
pasts and by their leaders’ desire to participate in what they
saw as a global movement toward human progress. Drawing on a wealth
of original archival research, Brown debunks legends, highlights
the stories of forgotten sportswomen and Indigenous sports, and
unpacks the social and cultural connections within South America
and with the rest of the world.
In this comprehensive textbook, editors Matthew J. Brown, Randy
Duncan, and Matthew J. Smith offer students a deeper understanding
of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and
graphic novels by introducing key theories and critical methods for
analyzing comics. Each chapter explains and then demonstrates a
critical method or approach, which students can then apply to
interrogate and critique the meanings and forms of comic books,
graphic novels, and other sequential art. Contributors introduce a
wide range of critical perspectives on comics, including disability
studies, parasocial relationships, scientific humanities, queer
theory, linguistics, critical geography, philosophical aesthetics,
historiography, and much more. As a companion to the acclaimed
Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods, this second
volume features 19 fresh perspectives and serves as a stand-alone
textbook in its own right. More Critical Approaches to Comics is a
compelling classroom or research text for students and scholars
interested in Comics Studies, Critical Theory, the Humanities, and
beyond.
Collins Cambridge IGCSE (R) PE is the only published course to
offer comprehensive coverage of the Cambridge IGCSE (R) PE
syllabus. Consisting of a clear, colourful Student Book, a
supportive Teacher's Guide and a digital component for
reinforcement of key syllabus topics, the course enables students
to deepen their understanding and build confidence. Exam Board:
Cambridge Assessment International Education First teaching: 2017
First examination: 2019 The comprehensive Teacher's Book contains:
* learning sequences to support teachers in using the Student's
Book in class. * options for how to adapt the Student's Book to
suit the specific needs of students * 30 photocopiable handouts to
help students consolidate their learning. Handouts include diagrams
of cardio and respiratory systems, skeletal structure and muscle
groups, graphs and charts to support practical activities This
title is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education.
The idea that science is or should be value-free, and that values
are or should be formed independently of science, has been under
fire by philosophers of science for decades. Science and Moral
Imagination directly challenges the idea that science and values
cannot and should not influence each other. Matthew J. Brown argues
that science and values mutually influence and implicate one
another, that the influence of values on science is pervasive and
must be responsibly managed, and that science can and should have
an influence on our values. This interplay, he explains, must be
guided by accounts of scientific inquiry and value judgment that
are sensitive to the complexities of their interactions. Brown
presents scientific inquiry and value judgment as types of
problem-solving practices and provides a new framework for thinking
about how we might ethically evaluate episodes and decisions in
science, while offering guidance for scientific practitioners and
institutions about how they can incorporate value judgments into
their work. His framework, dubbed "the ideal of moral imagination,"
emphasizes the role of imagination in value judgment and the
positive role that value judgment plays in science.
A defense of Schenkerian analysis of tonality in music. A wide
range of music -- from Bach to Mozart and Brahms -- is marked by
its use of some form of what is generally called "tonality": the
tendency of music to focus melodically on some stable pitch or
tonic and for its harmony to use functional triads. Yet few terms
in music theory are more enigmatic than that seemingly simple word
"tonality." Matthew Brown's Explaining Tonality: Schenkerian Theory
and Beyond considers a number of disparate ways in which functional
tonality has been understood. In particular, it focuses on the
comprehensive theory developed by Heinrich Schenker in his
monumental three-part treatise Neue musikalische Theorien und
Phantasien [1906-1935]. Schenker systematically investigated the
ways in which lines and chords behave both locally within
individual tonal phrases and globally across entire compositions.
Explaining Tonality shows why Schenker was able to elucidate tonal
relationships so successfully and the many advantages that his
explanations have over those of his rivals. In addition, it
proposes some ways in which Schenker's approach can be extended to
tonal features in works from before Bach [such as Monteverdi] and
after Brahms [such as Debussy, Stravinsky, and much popular music
of today]. Along the way, the book explores six methodological
criteria that help in building, testing, and evaluatinga plausible
theory of tonality or, indeed, any other musical phenomenon:
accuracy, scope, fruitfulness, consistency, simplicity, and
coherence. It reveals how understanding the tonality of a piece can
shed light on other aspects of musical composition. And, in
conclusion, it describes some ways in which Schenkerian theory
might fruitfully develop in the future. Matthew Brown is Professor
of Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music, Universityof
Rochester, and author of Debussy's "Iberia" [Oxford University
Press].
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