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Music Business and the Experience Economy is the first book on the
music business in Australasia from an academic perspective. In a
cross-disciplinary approach, the contributions deal with a
wide-range of topics concerning the production, distribution and
consumption of music in the digital age. The interrelationship of
legal, aesthetic and economic aspects in the production of music in
Australasia is also highlighted as well as the emergence of new
business models, the role of P2P file sharing, and the live music
sector. In addition, the impact of the digital revolution on music
experience and valuation, the role of music for tourism and for
branding, and last but not least the developments of higher music
education, are discussed from different perspectives.
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Man Up (DVD)
Simon Pegg, Olivia Williams, Dean-Charles Chapman, Lake Bell, Rory Kinnear, …
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Ben Palmer directs this romantic comedy starring Simon Pegg and
Lake Bell. When 40-year-old divorcee Jack (Pegg) mistakenly
believes 34-year-old Nancy (Bell) to be his much younger blind date
she decides to go along with it, taking a chance in the hope of
finding the right man for her. The pair have a great, if chaotic,
time together until Jack discovers the truth about Nancy's
identity. Has she ruined her chance of a future with Jack? The cast
also includes Ophelia Lovibond, Olivia Williams, Rory Kinnear and
Ken Stott.
Supporting Disabled Students in Higher Education is a practical and
inclusive handbook designed to ensure disabled students are
supported in their journey through mainstream higher education.
Informed by case studies, this essential guide highlights how this
can be achieved through the adoption of practical, reasonable
adjustments. Coupled with recommendations for best practice across
higher education, this book outlines experiences and barriers to
inclusion and provides detailed guidance for inclusive practices
including: adjustments to accommodation, accessing physical and
virtual learning spaces, teaching activities, developing the
curriculum, and assessment. Written by an experienced dyslexia and
disability coordinator within higher education, chapters encourage
readers to develop a greater understanding of the impact that
disabilities may have on students' academic progress. Areas
explored include: Specific learning difficulties (SpLD) Mental
health conditions Visually impaired and blind students Deaf and
hearing-impaired students Physical impairments Long term medical
conditions This book lays out the step-by-step process to enable
effective communication between disability staff, academic staff
and students and is a crucial guide for anyone with an interest in
promoting and facilitating accessibility, inclusion and widening
participation in higher education.
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The Child In Time (DVD)
Benedict Cumberbatch, Kelly MacDonald, Stephen Campbell, Saskia Reeves
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Academy Award nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game, Sherlock) stars alongside Kelly Macdonald (Boardwalk Empire, Trainspotting), Stephen Campbell Moore (The History Boys, The Go-Between) and Saskia Reeves (Luther, Shetland) in Stephen Butchard's adaptation of Ian McEwan's award-winning novel, The Child In Time.
Set two years after his daughter went missing, The Child In Time follows Stephen Lewis, a children's author, as he struggles to find purpose in his life without her. His wife Julie has left him, and his best friends Charles and Thelma have retired to the countryside, battling demons of their own. With tenderness and insight, the movie explores the dark territory of a marriage devastated, the loss of childhood, the fluidity of time, grief, hope, and acceptance.
The Child In Time is a lyrical and heart-breaking exploration of love, loss, and the power of things unseen.
Supporting Disabled Students in Higher Education is a practical and
inclusive handbook designed to ensure disabled students are
supported in their journey through mainstream higher education.
Informed by case studies, this essential guide highlights how this
can be achieved through the adoption of practical, reasonable
adjustments. Coupled with recommendations for best practice across
higher education, this book outlines experiences and barriers to
inclusion and provides detailed guidance for inclusive practices
including: adjustments to accommodation, accessing physical and
virtual learning spaces, teaching activities, developing the
curriculum, and assessment. Written by an experienced dyslexia and
disability coordinator within higher education, chapters encourage
readers to develop a greater understanding of the impact that
disabilities may have on students' academic progress. Areas
explored include: Specific learning difficulties (SpLD) Mental
health conditions Visually impaired and blind students Deaf and
hearing-impaired students Physical impairments Long term medical
conditions This book lays out the step-by-step process to enable
effective communication between disability staff, academic staff
and students and is a crucial guide for anyone with an interest in
promoting and facilitating accessibility, inclusion and widening
participation in higher education.
Music Business and the Experience Economy is the first book on the
music business in Australasia from an academic perspective. In a
cross-disciplinary approach, the contributions deal with a
wide-range of topics concerning the production, distribution and
consumption of music in the digital age. The interrelationship of
legal, aesthetic and economic aspects in the production of music in
Australasia is also highlighted as well as the emergence of new
business models, the role of P2P file sharing, and the live music
sector. In addition, the impact of the digital revolution on music
experience and valuation, the role of music for tourism and for
branding, and last but not least the developments of higher music
education, are discussed from different perspectives.
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The Soils of Oregon (1st ed. 2022)
Thor Thorson, Chad McGrath, Dean Moberg, Matthew Fillmore, Steven Campbell, …
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This book is the only comprehensive summary of natural resources of
Oregon and adds to World Soil Book Series state-level collection.
Due to broad latitudinal and elevation differences, Oregon has an
exceptionally diverse climate, which exerts a major influence on
soil formation. The mean annual temperature in Oregon ranges from
0°C in the Wallowa and Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon to 13
°C in south-central Oregon. The mean annual precipitation ranges
from 175 mm in southeastern Oregon to over 5,000 mm at higher
elevations in the Coast Range. The dominant vegetation type in
Oregon is temperate shrublands, followed by forests dominated by
lodgepole pine, Douglas-fir, and mixed conifers, grasslands,
subalpine forests, maritime Sitka spruce-western hemlock forests,
and ponderosa pine-dominated forests. Oregon is divided into
17 Major Land Resource Areas, the largest of which include the
Malheur High Plateau, the Cascade Mountains, the Blue Mountain
Foothills, and Blue Mountains. The single most important geologic
event in Oregon was the deposition of Mazama ash 7,700 years by the
explosion of Mt. Mazama. Oregon has soil series representative of
10 orders, 40 suborders, 114 great groups, 389 subgroups, over
1,000 families, and over 1,700 soil series. Mollisols are the
dominant order in Oregon, followed by Aridisols, Inceptisols,
Andisols, Ultisols, and Alfisols. Soils in Oregon are used
primarily for forest products, livestock grazing, agricultural
crops, and wildlife management. Key land use issues in Oregon are
climate change; wetland loss; flooding; landslides; volcanoes,
earthquakes, and tsunamis; coastal erosion; and wildfires.
In recent years anthropologists have focused on informal, unfree,
and other nonnormative labor arrangements and labeled them as
"noncapitalist." In Along the Integral Margin, Stephen Campbell
pushes back against this idea and shows that these labor
arrangements are, in fact, important aspects of capitalist
development and that the erroneous "noncapitalist" label
contributes to obscuring current capitalist relations. Through
powerful, intimate ethnographic narratives of the lives and
struggles of residents of a squatter settlement in Myanmar,
Campbell challenges narrow conceptions of capitalism and asserts
that nonnormative labor is not marginal but rather centrally
important to Myanmar's economic development. Campbell's narrative
approach brings individuals who are often marginalized in accounts
of contemporary Myanmar to the forefront and raises questions about
the diversity of work in capitalism.
This volume encompasses prototypical, innovative and emerging
examples and benchmarks of Differential-Algebraic Equations (DAEs)
and their applications, such as electrical networks, chemical
reactors, multibody systems, and multiphysics models, to name but a
few. Each article begins with an exposition of modelling,
explaining whether the model is prototypical and for which
applications it is used. This is followed by a mathematical
analysis, and if appropriate, a discussion of the numerical aspects
including simulation. Additionally, benchmark examples are included
throughout the text. Mathematicians, engineers, and other
scientists, working in both academia and industry either on
differential-algebraic equations and systems or on problems where
the tools and insight provided by differential-algebraic equations
could be useful, would find this book resourceful.
This book is the only comprehensive summary of natural resources of
Oregon and adds to World Soil Book Series state-level collection.
Due to broad latitudinal and elevation differences, Oregon has an
exceptionally diverse climate, which exerts a major influence on
soil formation. The mean annual temperature in Oregon ranges from 0
DegreesC in the Wallowa and Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon
to 13 DegreesC in south-central Oregon. The mean annual
precipitation ranges from 175 mm in southeastern Oregon to over
5,000 mm at higher elevations in the Coast Range. The dominant
vegetation type in Oregon is temperate shrublands, followed by
forests dominated by lodgepole pine, Douglas-fir, and mixed
conifers, grasslands, subalpine forests, maritime Sitka
spruce-western hemlock forests, and ponderosa pine-dominated
forests. Oregon is divided into 17 Major Land Resource Areas, the
largest of which include the Malheur High Plateau, the Cascade
Mountains, the Blue Mountain Foothills, and Blue Mountains. The
single most important geologic event in Oregon was the deposition
of Mazama ash 7,700 years by the explosion of Mt. Mazama. Oregon
has soil series representative of 10 orders, 40 suborders, 114
great groups, 389 subgroups, over 1,000 families, and over 1,700
soil series. Mollisols are the dominant order in Oregon, followed
by Aridisols, Inceptisols, Andisols, Ultisols, and Alfisols. Soils
in Oregon are used primarily for forest products, livestock
grazing, agricultural crops, and wildlife management. Key land use
issues in Oregon are climate change; wetland loss; flooding;
landslides; volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis; coastal erosion;
and wildfires.
Hank was a dying breed on the space station Belvaille. The criminal
gangs that had once made their homes there were forced out by the
corporations that had taken over since the facility became an
Independent Protectorate. Instead of the gentlemanly gang wars that
had once dominated the scene, and made Hank's services prized as a
negotiator, the city was now plagued by the clash of corporate
armies using heavy weapons. Even tanks roamed the streets
regularly. Most everyone from the olden days had either fled the
station or was killed due to the organizational changes. Changes
that Hank personally brought about when he had negotiated
Belvaille's status with the Navy. As Hank contemplates whether he
can survive in this increasingly hostile environment, he realizes
that things aren't as bad as they seem--they are quite a bit worse.
The constant power plays among corporations might have further
reach than just the alleys of a backwater space station at the edge
of the galaxy.
Border Capitalism, Disrupted presents an insightful ethnography of
migrant labor regulation at the Mae Sot Special Border Economic
Zone on the Myanmar border in northwest Thailand. By bringing a new
deployment of workerist and autonomist theory to bear on his
fieldwork, Stephen Campbell highlights the ways in which workers'
struggles have catalyzed transformations in labor regulation at the
frontiers of capital in the global south. Looking outwards from Mae
Sot, Campbell engages extant scholarship on flexibilization and
precarious labor, which, typically, is based on the development
experiences of the global north. Campbell emphasizes the everyday
practices of migrants, the police, employers, NGOs, and private
passport brokers to understand the "politics of precarity" and the
new forms of worker organization and resistance that are emerging
in Asian industrial zones. Focusing, in particular, on the uses and
effects of borders as technologies of rule, Campbell argues that
geographies of labor regulation can be read as the contested and
fragile outcomes of prior and ongoing working-class struggles.
Border Capitalism, Disrupted concludes that with the weakened
influence of formal unions, understanding the role of these
alternative forms of working-class organizations in labor-capital
relations becomes critical. With a broad data set gleaned from
almost two years of fieldwork, Border Capitalism, Disrupted will
appeal directly to those in anthropology, labor studies, political
economy, and geography, as well as Southeast Asian studies.
President Andrew Jackson's conflict with the Second Bank of the
United States was one of the most consequential political struggles
in the early nineteenth century. A fight over the bank's
reauthorization, the Bank War, provoked fundamental disagreements
over the role of money in politics, competing constitutional
interpretations, equal opportunity in the face of a
state-sanctioned monopoly, and the importance of financial
regulation-all of which cemented emerging differences between
Jacksonian Democrats and Whigs. As Stephen W. Campbell argues here,
both sides in the Bank War engaged interregional communications
networks funded by public and private money. The first reappraisal
of this political turning point in US history in almost fifty
years, The Bank War and the Partisan Press advances a new
interpretation by focusing on the funding and dissemination of the
party press.Drawing on insights from the fields of political
history, the history of journalism, and financial history, The Bank
War and the Partisan Press brings to light a revolving cast of
newspaper editors, financiers, and postal workers who appropriated
the financial resources of preexisting political institutions-and
even created new ones-to enrich themselves and further their
careers. The bank propagated favorable media and tracked public
opinion through its system of branch offices while the Jacksonians
did the same by harnessing the patronage networks of the Post
Office. Campbell's work contextualizes the Bank War within larger
political and economic developments at the national and
international levels. Its focus on the newspaper business documents
the transition from a seemingly simple question of renewing the
bank's charter to a multisided, nationwide sensation that sorted
the US public into ideologically polarized political parties. In
doing so, The Bank War and the Partisan Press shows how the
conflict played out on the ground level in various states-in riots,
duels, raucous public meetings, politically orchestrated bank runs,
arson, and assassination attempts. The resulting narrative moves
beyond the traditional boxing match between Jackson and bank
president Nicholas Biddle, balancing political institutions with
individual actors, and business practices with party attitudes.
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