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Cultural Policy

Management, Value & Modernity in the Creative Industries

by Dave O'Brien ...

Contemporary society is complex; governed and administered by a range of contradictory policies, practices and techniques. Nowhere are these contradictions more keenly felt than in cultural policy. This book uses insights from a range of disciplines to aid the reader in understanding contemporary cultural policy.Drawing on a range of case studies, including analysis of the reality of work in the ... Read more

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Contemporary society is complex; governed and administered by a range of contradictory policies, practices and techniques. Nowhere are these contradictions more keenly felt than in cultural policy. This book uses insights from a range of disciplines to aid the reader in understanding contemporary cultural policy.Drawing on a range of case studies, including analysis of the reality of work in the
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Culture is bad for you

Inequality in the cultural and creative industries

by Orian Brook, Dave O'Brien, Mark Taylor ...

Culture will keep you fit and healthy. Culture will bring communities together. Culture will improve your education. This is the message from governments and arts organisations across the country; however, this book explains why we need to be cautious about culture. Offering a powerful call to transform the cultural and creative industries, Culture is bad for you examines the intersections between ... Read more

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Culture will keep you fit and healthy. Culture will bring communities together. Culture will improve your education. This is the message from governments and arts organisations across the country; however, this book explains why we need to be cautious about culture. Offering a powerful call to transform the cultural and creative industries, Culture is bad for you examines the intersections between
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After Urban Regeneration

Communities, Policy and Place

Edited by Dave O'Brien, Peter Matthews ...

Series series Connected Communities
After Urban Regeneration is a comprehensive study of contemporary trends in urban policy and planning. Leading scholars come together to create a key contribution to the literature on gentrification, with a focus on the history and theory of community in urban policy. Engaging with debates as to how urban policy has changed, and continues to change, following the financial crash of 2008, the book ... Read more

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After Urban Regeneration is a comprehensive study of contemporary trends in urban policy and planning. Leading scholars come together to create a key contribution to the literature on gentrification, with a focus on the history and theory of community in urban policy. Engaging with debates as to how urban policy has changed, and continues to change, following the financial crash of 2008, the book
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The Routledge Handbook of Global Cultural Policy

Edited by Victoria Durrer, Toby Miller, Dave O'Brien ...

Series series Routledge International Handbooks
Cultural policy intersects with political, economic, and socio-cultural dynamics at all levels of society, placing high and often contradictory expectations on the capabilities and capacities of the media, the fine, performing, and folk arts, and cultural heritage. These expectations are articulated, mobilised and contested at – and across – a global scale. As a result, the study of cultural ... Read more

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Cultural policy intersects with political, economic, and socio-cultural dynamics at all levels of society, placing high and often contradictory expectations on the capabilities and capacities of the media, the fine, performing, and folk arts, and cultural heritage. These expectations are articulated, mobilised and contested at – and across – a global scale. As a result, the study of cultural
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Cultural Intermediaries Connecting Communities

Revisiting Approaches to Cultural Engagement

by Arshad Isakjee, Saskia Warren, Lisa De Propris, Yvette Vaughan Jones, Laura Ager, Saadia Kiyani, Jessica Symons, Mark Taylor, Dave O'Brien, Orian Brook ...

Series series Connected Communities
Based on a four-year research project which highlights the important role of community organisations as intermediaries between community and culture, this book analyses the role played by cultural intermediaries who seek to mitigate the worst effects of social exclusion through engaging communities with different forms of cultural consumption and production. The authors challenge policymakers who ... Read more

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Based on a four-year research project which highlights the important role of community organisations as intermediaries between community and culture, this book analyses the role played by cultural intermediaries who seek to mitigate the worst effects of social exclusion through engaging communities with different forms of cultural consumption and production. The authors challenge policymakers who
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Culture is bad for you

Inequality in the cultural and creative industries

by Orian Brook, Dave O'Brien, Mark Taylor ...

Narrated by Nneka Okoye, Christina Orman, Stephen Perring ...

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7 hours 47 min

Culture will keep you fit and healthy. Culture will bring communities together. Culture will improve your education. This is the message from governments and arts organisations across the country; however, this book explains why we need to be cautious about culture. Offering a powerful call to transform the cultural and creative industries, Culture is bad for you examines the intersections between ... Read more

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Culture will keep you fit and healthy. Culture will bring communities together. Culture will improve your education. This is the message from governments and arts organisations across the country; however, this book explains why we need to be cautious about culture. Offering a powerful call to transform the cultural and creative industries, Culture is bad for you examines the intersections between
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Valuing Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research

Beyond Impact

by Andrew Power, Karen Smyth, Robert Rutherfoord, Liz Richardson, Peter Matthews, Catherine Durose, Dave Vanderhoven, Colin Shepherd, Helen Graham, Oliver Davis, Elizabeth Curtis, Jo Vergunst, Amanda Ravetz, Steve Pool, Kimberley Marwood, Hugh Escott, Deborah James, Martin Phillips, Mihaela Kelemen, Rachael Turner, Martin Swan, John Stanley, David Robinson, Paul Manners, Rebecca Madgin, John Lawson, Alex Hale, Paul Furness, Kathy Cremin, Richard A. Courtney, Danny Callaghan, Peter Brown, Karen Brookfield, Richard Brigham, Lianne Brigham, Tim Boon, Mike Benson, Martin Bashforth, Colin Foskett, Justine Gaubert, Gemma Burford, Katerina Alexiou, Theodore Zamenopoulos, Ann Light, Andy Dearden, Sophia De Sousa, Paula Graham, Marie Harder, Elona Hoover, Julian Brigstocke, Dave O'Brien, Steve Connelly, Laura Brown, Julie Brown, Janice Astbury, Kim Aumann, Sophie Duncan ...

Series series Connected Communities
Universities are increasingly being asked to take an active role as research collaborators with citizens, public bodies, and community organisations, which, it is claimed, makes them more accountable, creates better research outcomes, and enhances the knowledge base. Yet many of these research collaborators, as well as their funders and institutions, have not yet developed the methods to ‘account ... Read more

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Universities are increasingly being asked to take an active role as research collaborators with citizens, public bodies, and community organisations, which, it is claimed, makes them more accountable, creates better research outcomes, and enhances the knowledge base. Yet many of these research collaborators, as well as their funders and institutions, have not yet developed the methods to ‘account
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Assassination Vacation

by Sarah Vowell ...

Narrated by Jon Stewart, Conan O'Brien, Stephen King, Dave Eggers ...

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7 hours 20 min

New York Times bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates and contributor to NPR’s This American Life Sarah Vowell embarks on a road trip to sites of political violence, from Washington DC to Alaska, to better understand our nation’s ever-evolving political system and history.Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of ... Read more

$26.99 CAD

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New York Times bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates and contributor to NPR’s This American Life Sarah Vowell embarks on a road trip to sites of political violence, from Washington DC to Alaska, to better understand our nation’s ever-evolving political system and history.Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of
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The Partly Cloudy Patriot

by Sarah Vowell ...

Narrated by Conan O'Brien, Seth Green, Stephen Colbert, Paul Begala, Michael Chabon, Norman Lear, They Might Be Giants ...

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5 hours 16 min

From This American Life contributor and self-described “history nerd” Sarah Vowell comes a collection of humorous and personal essays investigating American history, pop culture, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell travels through the American past and in doing so ponders a number of curious questions: Why is she happiest when visiting ... Read more

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From This American Life contributor and self-described “history nerd” Sarah Vowell comes a collection of humorous and personal essays investigating American history, pop culture, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell travels through the American past and in doing so ponders a number of curious questions: Why is she happiest when visiting
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The Wordy Shipmates

by Sarah Vowell ...

Narrated by Sarah Vowell ...

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7 hours 15 min

New York Times bestselling author Sarah Vowell explores the Puritans and their journey to America in The Wordy Shipmates. Even today, America views itself as a Puritan nation, but Vowell investigates what that means -- and what it should mean. What was this great political enterprise all about? Who were these people who are considered the philosophical, spiritual, and moral ancestors of our nation ... Read more

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New York Times bestselling author Sarah Vowell explores the Puritans and their journey to America in The Wordy Shipmates. Even today, America views itself as a Puritan nation, but Vowell investigates what that means -- and what it should mean. What was this great political enterprise all about? Who were these people who are considered the philosophical, spiritual, and moral ancestors of our nation
... Read more

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Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

by Sarah Vowell ...

Narrated by Sarah Vowell, Alexis Denisof, John Slattery, Patton Oswalt, Fred Armisen, John Hodgman, Stephanie March, Nick Offerman, Bobby Cannavale ...

Unabridged

8 hours 7 min

From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and Unfamiliar Fishes, a humorous account of the Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette—the one Frenchman we could all agree on—and an insightful portrait of a nation's idealism and its reality.On August 16, 1824, an elderly French gentlemen sailed into New York Harbor and giddy Americans were there to welcome him. Or, rather, to welcome ... Read more

$33.99 CAD

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From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and Unfamiliar Fishes, a humorous account of the Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette—the one Frenchman we could all agree on—and an insightful portrait of a nation's idealism and its reality.On August 16, 1824, an elderly French gentlemen sailed into New York Harbor and giddy Americans were there to welcome him. Or, rather, to welcome
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The First Congress

How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government

by Fergus M. Bordewich ...

Narrated by Sean Runnette ...

Unabridged

12 hours 59 min

The First Congress was the most important in U.S. history, says prizewinning author and historian Fergus Bordewich, because it established how our government would actually function. Had it failed—as many at the time feared it would—it's possible that the United States as we know it would not exist today.The Constitution was a broad set of principles. It was left to the members of the First ... Read more

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The First Congress was the most important in U.S. history, says prizewinning author and historian Fergus Bordewich, because it established how our government would actually function. Had it failed—as many at the time feared it would—it's possible that the United States as we know it would not exist today.The Constitution was a broad set of principles. It was left to the members of the First
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