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  • Consilience

    Learning About Ourselves by Applying Indigenous Traditions to Western Music and Technology

    Edición de Ann-Perry Witmer, Jess Mingee, Bernhard D. Scully ...
    Series series Synthesis Collection of Technology (R0)
    This series of essays, written by scholars and practitioners of engineering and music after visits to indigenous communities in Bolivia and Sierra Leone, illustrate the experiences, conversations, and insights that arose from consilient research. As the authors and contributors dive more deeply into each other’s Western traditions of expertise, a surprising commonality emerges between music and ... Leer más

    $161.99 USD

  • Contextual Engineering

    Translating User Voice Into Design

    de Ann-Perry Witmer ...
    Series series eBColl Synthesis Collection 11
    This book shows readers a new way of thinking about the engineering design process, as well as how to expand their understanding of the role of technical designers in society, whether working with international communities or user populations from their own hometown. As readers build an understanding of Contextual Engineering, this book will challenge them to think about the applicability of the ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

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  • Ethnomusicology

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Timothy Rice ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Ethnomusicologists believe that all humans, not just those we call musicians, are musical, and that musicality is one of the essential touchstones of the human experience. This insight raises big questions about the nature of music and the nature of humankind, and ethnomusicologists argue that to properly address these questions, we must study music in all its geographical and historical diversity ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Design for a Better World

    Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered

    de Donald A. Norman ...
    How human behavior brought our world to the brink, and how human behavior can save us.The world is a mess. Our dire predicament, from collapsing social structures to the climate crisis, has been millennia in the making and can be traced back to the erroneous belief that the earth’s resources are infinite. The key to change, says Don Norman, is human behavior, covered in the book’s three major ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Aid on the Edge of Chaos

    Rethinking International Cooperation in a Complex World

    de Ben Ramalingam ...
    It is widely recognised that the foreign aid system - which today involves every country in the world - is in need of drastic change. But there are conflicting opinions as to what is needed. Some call for dramatic increases in resources, to meet long-overdue commitments, and to scale up what is already being done around the world. Others point to the flaws in aid, and bang the drum for cutting it ... Leer más

    $21.89 USD

  • Performance

    de Diana Taylor ...
    "Performance" has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social behaviors. In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores many of its uses and iterations: artistic, economic, sexual, political, and technological performance; the performance of everyday life; and the gendered, sexed, and racialized performance of bodies. This book ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Pursuing Sustainability

    A Guide to the Science and Practice

    de Pamela Matson, William C. Clark, Krister Par Andersson ...
    An essential guide to sustainable development for students and practitionersSustainability is a global imperative and a scientific challenge like no other. This concise guide provides students and practitioners with a strategic framework for linking knowledge with action in the pursuit of sustainable development, and serves as an invaluable companion to more narrowly focused courses dealing with ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Art as Social Action

    An Introduction to the Principles and Practices of Teaching Social Practice Art

    Edición de Gregory Sholette, Chloë Bass, Social Practice Queens ...
    "Art as Social Action . . . is an essential guide to deepening social art practices and teaching them to students." —Laura Raicovich, president and executive director, Queens MuseumArt as Social Action is both a general introduction to and an illustrated, practical textbook for the field of social practice, an art medium that has been gaining popularity in the public sphere. With content arranged ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Thrive

    The Purpose of Schools in a Changing World

    de Valerie Hannon, Amelia Peterson ...
    Every generation faces challenges, but never before have young people been so aware of theirs. Whether due to school strikes for climate change, civil war, or pandemic lockdowns, almost every child in the world has experienced the interruption of their schooling by outside forces. When the world we have taken for granted proves so unstable, it gives rise to the question: what is schooling for? ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Say Anything to Anyone, Anywhere

    5 Keys To Successful Cross-Cultural Communication

    de Gayle Cotton ...
    The five steps to successful selling, negotiating, and managing multi-culturallySay Anything to Anyone, Anywhere gives readers five simple key guidelines to create rapport and organize strategies for success across different cultures. This book teaches to be proactive, not reactive, in your cross-cultural communications and shows how to use simple rapport tools to create trust with the cultures ... Leer más

    $14.00 USD

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  • Transformative Pathways to Sustainability

    Learning Across Disciplines, Cultures and Contexts

    Edición de Adrian Ely ...
    Transformations to sustainability are increasingly the focus of research and policy discussions around the Sustainable Development Goals. However, the different roles played by transdisciplinary research in contributing to social transformations across diverse settings have been neglected in the literature. Transformative Pathways to Sustainability responds to this gap by presenting a set of ... Leer más

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  • Arts for Change

    Teaching Outside the Frame

    de Beverly Naidus ...
    Beverly Naidus shares her passion and strategies for teaching socially engaged art, offering, as well, a short history of the field and the candid views of more than thirty colleagues.A provocative, personal look at the motivations and challenges of teaching socially engaged arts, Arts for Change overturns conventional arts pedagogy with an activist's passion for creating art that matters.How can ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD