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Digital games are one of the most significant media interfaces of
contemporary life. Games today interweave with the social,
economic, material, and political complexities of living in a
digital age. But who makes games, who plays them, and what, how and
where do we play? This book explores the ways in which games and
game cultures can be understood. It investigates the sites, genres,
platforms, interfaces and contexts for games and gameplay, offering
a critical overview of the breadth of contemporary game studies. It
is an essential companion for students looking to understand games
and games cultures in our increasingly playful and 'gamified'
digital society.
This book directs critical attention to one of the most ubiquitous
and yet under-analyzed games, Minecraft. Drawing on three years of
ethnographic fieldwork into mobile games in Australian homes, the
authors seek to take Minecraft seriously as a cultural practice.
The book examines how Minecraft players engage in a form of
gameplay that is uniquely intergenerational, creative, and playful,
and which moves ambivalently throughout everyday life. At the
intersection of digital media, quotidian literacy, and ethnography,
the book situates interdisciplinary debates around mundane play
through the lens of Minecraft. Ultimately, Exploring Minecraft
seeks to coalesce the discussion between formal and informal
learning, fostering new forms of digital media creativity and
ethnographic innovation around the analysis of games in everyday
life.
This book directs critical attention to one of the most ubiquitous
and yet under-analyzed games, Minecraft. Drawing on three years of
ethnographic fieldwork into mobile games in Australian homes, the
authors seek to take Minecraft seriously as a cultural practice.
The book examines how Minecraft players engage in a form of
gameplay that is uniquely intergenerational, creative, and playful,
and which moves ambivalently throughout everyday life. At the
intersection of digital media, quotidian literacy, and ethnography,
the book situates interdisciplinary debates around mundane play
through the lens of Minecraft. Ultimately, Exploring Minecraft
seeks to coalesce the discussion between formal and informal
learning, fostering new forms of digital media creativity and
ethnographic innovation around the analysis of games in everyday
life.
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Francis Bacon: Shadows (Paperback)
Martin Harrison; Contributions by Christopher Bucklow, Amanda Harrison, Stefan Haus, Hugh Davies, …
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Francis Bacon: Shadows continues in the revelatory mode established
by Inside Francis Bacon. It comprises six essays on diverse topics,
interpretative as well as factual, which cumulatively present an
abundance of fresh ideas and information about Bacon. The
fundamental aim of the series – to rethink Bacon’s art from new
perspectives – is impressively fulfilled by the eminent authors.
Martin Harrison opens the book with some hitherto unseen
Bacon-related photographs and includes a tribute to the great Bacon
scholar, David Boxer (1946–2017). Christopher Bucklow turns his
attention to the contrast between Bacon's art and the art of our
own times, setting Bacon in the context of Romantic Modernism's
confidence in the unconscious as a source. Amanda Harrison’s
essay explores imagery in Bacon’s paintings that relates to
esoteric, mythological and alchemical themes, while Stefan Haus
draws on the ideas of philosophers from Plato to Hegel to consider
the impact of Bacon’s art. Hugh Davies’s unexpurgated 1973
Bacon Diaries are published here in their entirety for the first
time, revealing a more complete view of Bacon as both man and
artist. Sophie Pretorius examines Tate's Barry Joule Archive, a
collection of working materials and drawings attributed to Bacon.
Finally, Martin Harrison explores Francis Bacon's Lost Paintings
– works Bacon dubbed 'failures', but preserved by his Estate and
published here for the very first time. With 120 illustrations in
colour
Rethinking Hypermedia: The Microcosm Approach is essentially the
story of the Microcosm hypermedia research and development project
that started in the late 1980's and from which has emerged a
philosophy that re-examines the whole concept of hypermedia and its
role in the evolution of multimedia information systems. The book
presents the complete story of Microcosm to date. It sets the
development of Microcosm in the context of the history of the
subject from which it evolved, as well as the developments in the
wider world of technology over the last two decades including
personal computing, high-speed communications, and the growth of
the Internet. These all lead us towards a world of global
integrated information environments: the publishing revolution of
the 20th century, in principle making vast amounts of information
available to anybody anywhere in the world. Rethinking Hypermedia:
The Microcosm Approach explains the role that open hypermedia
systems and link services will play in the integrated information
environments of the future. It considers issues such as authoring,
legacy systems and data integrity issues, and looks beyond the
simple hypertext model provided in the World Wide Web and other
systems today to the world of intelligent information processing
agents that will help us deal with the problems of information
overload and maintenance. Rethinking Hypermedia: The Microcosm
Approach will be of interest to all those who are involved in
designing, implementing and maintaining hypermedia systems such as
the World Wide Web by setting the groundwork for producing a system
that is both easy to use and easy to maintain. Rethinking
Hypermedia: The Microcosm Approach is essential reading for anyone
involved in the provision of online information.
Digital games are one of the most significant media interfaces of
contemporary life. Games today interweave with the social,
economic, material, and political complexities of living in a
digital age. But who makes games, who plays them, and what, how and
where do we play? This book explores the ways in which games and
game cultures can be understood. It investigates the sites, genres,
platforms, interfaces and contexts for games and gameplay, offering
a critical overview of the breadth of contemporary game studies. It
is an essential companion for students looking to understand games
and games cultures in our increasingly playful and 'gamified'
digital society.
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Tort Law (Hardcover)
Timon Hughes-Davies, Nathan Tamblyn
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R4,172
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What happens if a driver carelessly crashes into another car? Or a
newspaper publishes a story which makes derogatory comments about
someone? Or if a resident plays loud music every night so that
their neighbour cannot get any sleep? Tort law is a collection of
such misbehaviours or misadventures where the law deems it
appropriate to intervene with civil remedies. This new textbook
addresses a range of the most prominent torts. The law is explained
with clear writing and an accessible approach, relating the subject
to everyday examples. There are key learning points to help anchor
the reader's basic understanding, and sections of analysis to guide
the reader to a more advanced critical engagement. Above all, tort
law is interesting, for it covers so much of our daily lives, and
is a constant source of evolving litigation. The Routledge
Spotlights series brings a modern, contemporary approach to the
core curriculum for the LLB and GDL, which will help students: move
beyond an understanding of the law; refine and develop the key
skills of problem-solving, evaluation and critical reasoning;
discover sources and suggestions for taking your study further. By
focusing on recent case law and real-world examples, Routledge
Spotlights will help you shed light on the law, understand how it
operates in practice, and gain a unique appreciation of the
contemporary context of the subject. This book is supported by a
range of online resources developed to aid your learning, keep you
up to date and help you prepare for assessments.
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Tort Law (Paperback)
Timon Hughes-Davies, Nathan Tamblyn
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R1,171
Discovery Miles 11 710
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What happens if a driver carelessly crashes into another car? Or a
newspaper publishes a story which makes derogatory comments about
someone? Or if a resident plays loud music every night so that
their neighbour cannot get any sleep? Tort law is a collection of
such misbehaviours or misadventures where the law deems it
appropriate to intervene with civil remedies. This new textbook
addresses a range of the most prominent torts. The law is explained
with clear writing and an accessible approach, relating the subject
to everyday examples. There are key learning points to help anchor
the reader's basic understanding, and sections of analysis to guide
the reader to a more advanced critical engagement. Above all, tort
law is interesting, for it covers so much of our daily lives, and
is a constant source of evolving litigation. The Routledge
Spotlights series brings a modern, contemporary approach to the
core curriculum for the LLB and GDL, which will help students: move
beyond an understanding of the law; refine and develop the key
skills of problem-solving, evaluation and critical reasoning;
discover sources and suggestions for taking your study further. By
focusing on recent case law and real-world examples, Routledge
Spotlights will help you shed light on the law, understand how it
operates in practice, and gain a unique appreciation of the
contemporary context of the subject. This book is supported by a
range of online resources developed to aid your learning, keep you
up to date and help you prepare for assessments.
Rethinking Hypermedia: The Microcosm Approach is essentially the
story of the Microcosm hypermedia research and development project
that started in the late 1980's and from which has emerged a
philosophy that re-examines the whole concept of hypermedia and its
role in the evolution of multimedia information systems. The book
presents the complete story of Microcosm to date. It sets the
development of Microcosm in the context of the history of the
subject from which it evolved, as well as the developments in the
wider world of technology over the last two decades including
personal computing, high-speed communications, and the growth of
the Internet. These all lead us towards a world of global
integrated information environments: the publishing revolution of
the 20th century, in principle making vast amounts of information
available to anybody anywhere in the world. Rethinking Hypermedia:
The Microcosm Approach explains the role that open hypermedia
systems and link services will play in the integrated information
environments of the future. It considers issues such as authoring,
legacy systems and data integrity issues, and looks beyond the
simple hypertext model provided in the World Wide Web and other
systems today to the world of intelligent information processing
agents that will help us deal with the problems of information
overload and maintenance. Rethinking Hypermedia: The Microcosm
Approach will be of interest to all those who are involved in
designing, implementing and maintaining hypermedia systems such as
the World Wide Web by setting the groundwork for producing a system
that is both easy to use and easy to maintain. Rethinking
Hypermedia: The Microcosm Approach is essential reading for anyone
involved in the provision of online information.
Originally published in 1975. This is a history of southern
political life since the New Deal and World War II, encompassing a
crucial epoch: an attempted Second Reconstruction of the South. The
authors focus on the electoral response to candidates and issues.
The authors contend that, despite the nationalizing and
homogenizing forces that eroded much of the South's distinctiveness
during the postwar years, the region's historical legacy
perpetuated its distinctive patterns of cultural and political
life. Further, the authors contend that despite the virtual
destruction of the South's four inherited institutions of political
sectionalism during the years of the Second
Reconstruction-disenfranchisement, malapportionment, a one-party
system, and de jure racial segregation-the new southern politics
maintained a deep racial division that has militated against class
coalitions, especially across racial lines, and has permitted
government by relatively insulated elites.
This volume offers a critical study of a representative selection
of Latin American women writers who have made major contributions
to all literary genres and represent a wide range of literary
perspectives and styles. This volume offers a critical study of a
representative selection of Latin American women writers who have
made major contributions to all literary genres and represent a
wide range of literary perspectives and styles. Many of these women
have attained the highest literary honours: Gabriela Mistral won
the Nobel Prize in 1945; Clarice Lispector attracted the critical
attention of theorists working mainly outside the Hispanic area;
others have made such telling contributions to particular strands
of literature that their names are immediately evocative of
specific currents or styles. Elena Poniatowska is associated with
testimonial writing; Isabel Allende and Laura Esquivel are known
for the magical realism of their texts; others, such as Juana de
Ibarbourou and Laura Restrepo remain relatively unknown despite
their contributions to erotic poetry and to postcolonial prose
fiction respectively. The distinctiveness of this volume lies in
its attention to writers from widely differing historical and
social contexts and to the diverse theoretical approaches adopted
by the authors. Brigida M. Pastor teaches Latin American literature
and film at the University of Glasgow . Her publications include
Fashioning Cuban Feminism and Beyond, El discurso de Gertrudis
Gomez de Avellaneda: Identidad Femenina y Otredad; and Discursos
Caribenhos: Historia, Literatura e Cinema Lloyd Hughes Davies
teaches Spanish American Literature at Swansea University. His
publications include Isabel Allende, La casa de los espiritus and
Projections of Peronism in Argentine Autobiography, Biography and
Fiction.
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Renaissance Papers 2000 (Hardcover, 2000)
T.H. Howard-Hill, Philip Rollinson; Contributions by Boyd M. Berry, Catherine I. Cox, George L. Geckle, …
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Renaissance Papers is a collection of the best scholarly essays
submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference.
Organized and sponsored in the early 1950s by Duke University and
the universities of South Carolina and North Carolina, the annual
meeting is now hosted by various colleges and universities across
the southeastern United States. The conference accepts papers on
all subjects relating to the Renaissance -- music, art, history,
literature, etc. -- from scholars all over North America and
Europe. This is the forty-seventh volume of Renaissance Papers. It
includes articles on 15th-c. Florentine wedding chests, called
cassoni, on Isabella Whitney, on Spenser's 'April' woodcut, on
Cervantes' El Trato del Argel, on Thomas Nashe's Christ's Tears
over Jerusalem, on the crone as type in English Renaissance drama,
on female speech and disempowerment in Marlowe's Tamberlane I, on
Shakespeare's Richard II and Marlowe's Edward II, on Chaucer's
contribution to The Tempest, and on echoes of Ovid in Donne's
elegies. T. H. HOWARD-HILL and PHILIP ROLLINSON are professors of
English at the University of South Carolina.
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Francis Bacon: France And Monaco (Hardcover)
Martin Harrison; Text written by Martin Harrison, Carol Jacobi, Catherine Howe, Darren Ambrose, …
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R1,140
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It was in Paris in 1927, at an exhibition dedicated to Picasso,
that Francis Bacon grasped his vocation as a painter. In 1946, he
moved to Monaco on the French Riviera where he lived for four
years, his time in the Principality marking a turning point in his
art; with his popes series, he became a painter of the human
figure. In Paris he befriended artists and intellectuals, such as
Giacometti and Leiris, whilst the city would become the setting for
the crystalisation of his reputation in 1971 with the retrospective
at the Grand Palais. In 1975, Bacon would take a studio in the
Marais district. This bilingual publication co-published by Albin
Michel and The Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation tells of Bacon s
deep ties with France and Monaco, and has been overseen by Martin
Harrison, author of Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonne and curator
of the coinciding exhibition Francis Bacon, Monaco et la culture
franc aise which runs at Grimaldi Forum, Monaco from 2 July 2016
until 4 September 2
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History of Gorham, Me.
Hugh D (Hugh Davis) 1805- McLellan; Katharine B Lewis
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History of Gorham, Me.
Hugh D (Hugh Davis) 1805- McLellan; Katharine B Lewis
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In the summer of 1936, writer James Agee and photographer Walker
Evans, on assignment
for "Fortune" magazine, went to central Alabama to document the
lives of three white
sharecropper families. Agee's editors killed the article, and
after a torturous five-year
struggle to do artistic justice to the material, the author
finally published it in book form
as "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," only to see it sink with barely
a ripple. The posthumous
revival of Agee's literary fortunes led to the work's reissue in
1960, its adoption as an unofficial
bible by civil rights workers, and its enshrinement as an American
classic. It has
remained in print ever since.
In this, the third volume in The Works of James Agee series,
editor Hugh Davis not
only offers a thoroughly annotated edition of the Agee-Evans
masterpiece, featuring invaluable
explanatory notes as well as notes comparing the published work to
extant copies of the
original manuscript, but also supplements that text with a wealth
of additional material: an
insightful critical essay, variant versions of key sections,
unused chapters, correspondence
between Agee and others involved in the book's publication
(notably Houghton Mifflin editor
Robert Linscott), generous selections from the author's notebooks,
and much more. This
volume opens with the original gallery of Evans's thirty-one
photographs from the 1941
edition and also includes, as part of the supplementary material,
the expanded gallery of
sixty-two photos that appeared in the 1960 edition. Here as well
is the text of the rejected
"Fortune" article, "Cotton Tenants," fully annotated for the first
time.
Informed by Agee's love of his subjects, his acute observational
skills, and his poetic,
passionate, raging voice--not to mention the stark artistry of
Evan's black and white photography
"Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" is a book that to this day defies
easy classification.
This volume recaptures the aesthetic impact of the original,
corrects errors from earlier
editions, and, most important, illuminates the difficult process
that spawned its creation.
There has been a strong interest in Roman roads in Britain for
centuries and a vast amount of information has been accumulated
from observation and excavation. For the first time this new study
analyses the data systematically and evaluates it from a highway
engineering viewpoint. Hugh Davies not only provides an up-to-date
account of the road system built by the Romans in Britain, he
examines whether this information matches up with what we would
expect of a transport system. Looking at the construction of the
roads - their width, surface and drainage - as well as at their
number, the author concludes that the Romans did indeed provide a
high-quality service suited to the needs of civilians and soldiers
alike. At the same time his study shows how the development of the
road system fitted in with the layout of town plans and with the
overall expansion of the province; on the whole the early military
roads were constructed of lighter materials and by the end of the
Roman period as many as ten layers of road surface can on occasions
be detected. This accessible work, which includes a Gazetteer of
some 400 Roman roads, will be welcomed by anyone interested in the
Romans in Britain.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
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original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
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Faunula Indica ... (Paperback)
John Latham, Hugh Davies; Created by Johann Reinhold Forster
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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