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  • Music and Sound in Silent Film

    From the Nickelodeon to The Artist

    Edited by Ruth Barton, Simon Trezise ...
    Series series Routledge Music and Screen Media Series
    Despite their name, the silent films of the early cinematic era were frequently accompanied by music and other sound elements of many kinds, including mechanical instruments, live performers, and audience sing-alongs. The 12 chapters in this concise book explore the multitude of functions filled by music in the rapidly changing context of the silent film era, as the concept of cinema itself ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Bad Rhymes, No Reason

    by Simon Barton ...
    "Bad Rhymes No Reason" details Simon Charles Barton's post-stroke journey over an 8-10-year period through a series of quite random, risible, rhyming reflections. Simon chronicles his ultimate pursuit for the discovery of a new self and life-purpose, taking readers on a light-hearted and self-poking examination of the joy's and pitfalls of the healing process. Featuring more than 50 original poems ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Not so Green as Cabbage Looking

    Recovering from a Stroke with a Little Gallows Humor Along the Way

    by Simon Barton ...
    Despite the title, the brain injury to the right side of Simon’s brain did not make him a vegetable, this story is about his (four and a half year) struggle of coming to terms with and poking fun at the Stroke Recovery process and through acceptance and reinvention, how he eventually makes it through to contentment ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Visual Devices in Contemporary Prose Fiction

    Gaps, Gestures, Images

    by Simon Barton ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book acknowledges that the reader of a novel looks at and sees the page before they begin to read any text placed upon it. Thus, any disruptions to how a traditional page 'should look' can have a large impact on the reading process. The book critically engages with the visual appearance of graphically innovative contemporary prose fiction. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Conquerors, Brides, and Concubines

    Interfaith Relations and Social Power in Medieval Iberia

    by Simon Barton ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Conquerors, Brides, and Concubines investigates the political and cultural significance of marriages and other sexual encounters between Christians and Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula, from the Islamic conquest in the early eighth century to the end of Muslim rule in 1492. Interfaith liaisons carried powerful resonances, as such unions could function as a tool of diplomacy, the catalyst for ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Conquerors, Brides, and Concubines

    Interfaith Relations and Social Power in Medieval Iberia

    by Simon Barton ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Conquerors, Brides, and Concubines investigates the political and cultural significance of marriages and other sexual encounters between Christians and Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula, from the Islamic conquest in the early eighth century to the end of Muslim rule in 1492. Interfaith liaisons carried powerful resonances, as such unions could function as a tool of diplomacy, the catalyst for ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Dependable Computing - EDCC 2021 Workshops

    DREAMS, DSOGRI, SERENE 2021, Munich, Germany, September 13, 2021, Proceedings

    Edited by Rasmus Adler, Amel Bennaceur, Simon Burton, Amleto Di Salle, Nicola Nostro, Rasmus Løvenstein Olsen, Selma Saidi, Philipp Schleiss, Daniel Schneider, Hans-Peter Schwefel ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the Workshops of the 17th European Dependable Computing Conference, EDCC: Second Worskhop on Dynamic Risk Management for Autonomous Systems, DREAMS 2021, Third Workshop on Dependable Solutions for Intelligent Electricity Distribution Grids, DSOGRI 2021, 13th Workshop on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems, SERENE 2021, held in September 2021. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Abraham and the Secular

    Fracture and Composition

    Edited by Simone Raudino, Uzma Ashraf Barton ...
    Series series Interreligious Studies in Theory and Practice
    This volume offers both theoretical approaches and case studies on the relationship between religion and the secular world. Bringing together contributions from seasoned authors, religious leaders, and brilliant new scholars, it frames the long-standing debate on how to structure a comparative representation of any religion on the one side, and the secular world on the other. Often, the very act ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Energy-efficient Office Refurbishment

    Designing for Comfort

    Edited by Simon Burton ...
    Little has been published on the subject of energy-efficient refurbishment of offices, despite the growing need to refurbish older office building stock throughout Europe, and the global requirement to conserve energy.The book suggests the most energy efficient and environmentally friendly way to refurbish offices using examples of real buildings and designs wherever possible. Each case study ... Read more

    $166.99 USD

  • Sustainable Retrofitting of Commercial Buildings

    Cool Climates

    Edited by Simon Burton ...
    Whilst sustainability is already an important driver in the new building sector, this book explores how those involved in refurbishment of commercial building are moving this agenda forward. It includes chapters by developers, surveyors, cost consultants, architects, building physicists and other players, on the role they each can play in enabling refurbishment to be commercially, environmentally ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS

    by David Daniels, Richard J. Hillman, Simon E. Barton, David Goldmeier ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS covers all aspects of these diseases with extensive inclusion of dermatological conditions. The multiple choice questions and answers have been compiled by a highly experienced group of clinicians and researchers from two major STD/AIDS centres in the UK. These MCQs aim to help readers learn in an easy, effective and enjoyable way. The book is intended to ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Emancipatory and Participatory Research for Emerging Educational Researchers

    Theory and Case Studies of Research in Disabled Communities

    by Joe Barton, Simon Hayhoe ...
    Series series Qualitative and Visual Methodologies in Educational Research
    Emancipatory and Participatory Research for Emerging Educational Researchers is a concise fundamental guide on two related models of education research—emancipatory and participatory.In addition to providing an introduction to these research models, this book also studies them through the lens of critical practice as well as pure research and provides case studies as examples. It highlights a ... Read more

    $28.99 USD