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Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS/1000D Focal Digital Camera Guides

Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS/1000D Focal Digital Camera Guides

Just bought a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS/1000D and looking to combine practical know-how with inspiration? This one-stop easy-to-read guide covers all the basic functions of the camera and everything beyond. Inside you'll find detailed explanations of every control and every feature including full-color illustrations showing how changing each setting will affect your photos. But this book's greatest strength isn't its focus on the camera; it's the detailed easy-to-follow instruction it offers on using your camera to take superior photographs. The lens the subject matter the light-all these variables are covered in depth and always in the context of the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS/1000D. Written by a widely acclaimed photographer and teacher Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS/1000D shows you how to get the shots you can see in your head but have never been able to capture with a camera. . Get up and running in five minutes with the quick start guide. Master your camera's many features and controls. Profit from dozens of tips and tricks . See first-hand how different settings affect your photos. Refine and manage your photos using the Canon software. Be inspired by hundreds of gorgeous full color photographs and learn how to get the same effects in your own shots | Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS/1000D Focal Digital Camera Guides

GBP 130.00
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Cold Mountain Poems Text Travel and Canon Construction

Cold Mountain Poems Text Travel and Canon Construction

This book unveils the legendary life and the mystic poems of the iconic Chinese Tang poet Han-shan (known by his pen name “Cold Mountain”) and investigates the dissemination and reception of the Cold Mountain Poems (CMPs) attributed to him. Han-shan and the CMPs are amongst the most legendary literary landscapes and cultural memories in the history of world scholarly exchange. The maniac poet recluse hidden in the Cold Mountains the delicate poetic realms of Confucianism Buddhism Zen and Taoism contained in the Cold Mountain Poems and the incredible pervasiveness of its text travel and canon construction worldwide as well as the profound impact of CMPs on comparative literature world literature and Chinese studies provide the perfect lens to learn about Chinese language literature culture and society. This book is thus intended to investigate CMPs in a coherent global context. Considering the vertical studies of the Chinese literature polysystem it highlights the horizontal influence of CMPs literarily or non-literarily. Furthermore it addresses the making and developing of the Han-shan phenomenon and its implications for translation studies travel writing canon construction and literary historiography. This book is for scholars researchers and students in literary history and East Asian Studies focusing on Chinese literature and culture and those interested in the history of poetry in general. | Cold Mountain Poems Text Travel and Canon Construction

GBP 130.00
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Commonplace Reading and Writing in Early Modern England and Beyond

Commonplace Reading and Writing in Early Modern England and Beyond

Approaching from bibliographical literary cultural and intercultural perspectives this book establishes the importance of Hesperides or the Muses’ Garden a largely unexplored manuscript commonplace book to early modern English literature and culture in general. Hesperides or the Muses’ Garden is a seventeenth-century manuscript commonplace book known primarily for its Shakespearean connections which extracts works by dozens of early modern English authors including Shakespeare Bacon Ben Jonson and Milton. This book sheds light on the broader significance of Hesperides that refashions our full knowledge of early modern authorship and plagiarism composition reading practice and canon formation. Following two introductory chapters are three topical chapters which respectively discuss plagiarism and early modern English writing early modern English reading practice and early modern English canon formation. The final chapter further expands the field to ancient China comparing commonplace books with Chinese leishu exploring Matteo Ricci’s cross-cultural commonplace writing and re-reading Shakespeare’s sonnets in light of Ricci’s On Friendship. The solid book will serve as a must read for scholars and students of early modern English literature manuscript study commonplace books history of the book and intercultural study. | Commonplace Reading and Writing in Early Modern England and Beyond

GBP 130.00
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Speedlights & Speedlites Creative Flash Photography at Lightspeed Second Edition

Speedlights & Speedlites Creative Flash Photography at Lightspeed Second Edition

Canon Speedlites and Nikon Speedlights are small off-camera flashguns that can provide big results - if you know how to use them properly. Acclaimed Boston photographers Lou Jones Bob Keenan and Steve Ostrowski guide you through the technical and creative aspects of how to get the most out of these powerful tools in this indispensable guide packed full of inspirational images and comprehensive diagrams of the lighting set ups used to capture them. They are significantly more advanced lighter and considerably cheaper than a standard flashgun and have many advantages. They are small (and cheap) enough that a number can be carried in your kit and they can be used in combination triggered wirelessly. They use through-the-lens (TTL) metering which allows you to use the in-camera LCD and histograms to calculate the required power/direction rather than havng to use a light meter or trial and error. They use proprietary dedicated technology (from Canon and Nikon) that means there are no compatability issues. Getting the most out of them however remains a mystery - most photographers still just use their speedlights in the same way as a standard flash gun. This is where this book comes in. | Speedlights & Speedlites Creative Flash Photography at Lightspeed Second Edition

GBP 175.00
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Nineteenth-Century Interiors Volume II: Styles of Decoration and Design

Nineteenth-Century Interiors Volume II: Styles of Decoration and Design

This volume of primary source materials documents the nineteenth-century search for a representative style and the alternating fashions for interiors that demonstrated the consumerism of the period. Although in some senses every interior is unique so that a style canon may seem to be meaningless there have been important historical trends or styles that have influenced individual interiors and these have formed the groundwork from which other styles and tastes have developed and changed. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of art history. | Nineteenth-Century Interiors Volume II: Styles of Decoration and Design

GBP 110.00
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The Inequality Reader Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race Class and Gender

The Inequality Reader Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race Class and Gender

Oriented toward the introductory student The Inequality Reader is the essential textbook for today's undergraduate courses. The editors David B. Grusky and Szonja Szelenyi have assembled the most important classic and contemporary readings about how poverty and inequality are generated and how they might be reduced. With thirty new readings the second edition provides new materials on anti-poverty policies as well as new qualitative readings that make the scholarship more alive more accessible and more relevant. Now more than ever The Inequality Reader is the one-stop compendium of all the must-read pieces simply the best available introduction to the stratifi cation canon. | The Inequality Reader Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race Class and Gender

GBP 130.00
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Women Philosophers Genre And The Boundaries Of Philosophy

Women Philosophers Genre And The Boundaries Of Philosophy

Long considered ?non-philosophical ? the letters and novels of women like Catharine Macaulay Mary Wollstonecraft and George Eliot have often been omitted from the canon of the Western philosophical tradition. This unfortunate omission is corrected here through Catherine Villanueva Gardner's thorough discussion of the philosophical importance of their work. Gardner also looks carefully at why letters and novels have been considered this way since they are so prevalent in the work of women in general. Gardner argues that the devaluation or exclusion of certain forms of writing is connected to the biases that underpin the Western ethical tradition. This book is critical reading for courses in introductory philosophy and women's studies. | Women Philosophers Genre And The Boundaries Of Philosophy

GBP 130.00
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Hybrid Documentary and Beyond

Hybrid Documentary and Beyond

Hybrid Documentary and Beyond explores the theories production techniques ethics and impact of hybrid documentaries. Often described as simply a blend of fact and fiction the author challenges this definition of hybrid documentary through an interrogative examination of not only why and how they are made but also of their real-world impact upon subjects filmmakers and audiences. Combining theoretical analysis withe real-world case studies and interviews with luminaries in the field she effectively demonstrates that hybrid documentaries can be creatively liberating for all involved and why their appeal and impact are growing globally. Offering a fresh and bold perspective on hybrid documentary filmmaking that goes far beyond the existing canon on the subject this book will be an essential resource for practitioners scholars and students working in the areas of media arts and production film studies and documentary.

GBP 130.00
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Discipline by Mary Brunton

Discipline by Mary Brunton

Discipline the second novel by the Scottish writer Mary Brunton (1778-1818) was published in 1814. While less well known than its predecessor Self-Control (1811) it is nonetheless equally deserving of a central place in the canon of Romantic-era fiction. A wide-ranging novel it shares many themes with contemporary fiction such as women’s difficulties in earning money and the horror of being falsely imprisoned in an insane asylum. However it is Discipline’s innovative attempt at psychological realism that sets it apart from its contemporaries. Through the moral growth of its heroine Ellen Percy Discipline insists on women’s self-determination and their ability to become rational agents in a world that treats them as objects merely of desire or contempt. This edition is edited by Olivia Murphy who has added careful editorial notes and an insightful new introduction to the text. | Discipline by Mary Brunton

GBP 125.00
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Religious Authority in South Asia Generating the Guru

Religious Authority in South Asia Generating the Guru

This book focuses on genealogies of religious authority in South Asia examining the figure of the guru in narrative texts polemical tracts hagiographies histories in contemporary devotional communities New Age spiritual movements and global guru organizations. Experts in the field present reflections on historically specific contexts in which a guru comes into being becomes part of a community is venerated challenged or repudiated generates a new canon remains unique with no clear succession or establishes a succession in which charisma is routinized. The guru emerges and is sustained and routinized from the nexus of guruship narratives performances and community. The contributors to the book examine this nexus at specific historical moments with all their elements of change and contingency. The book will be of interest to scholars in the field of South Asian studies the study of religions and cultural studies. | Religious Authority in South Asia Generating the Guru

GBP 130.00
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Failed Methods and Ideology in Canonical Interpretation of Biblical Texts Changing Perspectives 9

Failed Methods and Ideology in Canonical Interpretation of Biblical Texts Changing Perspectives 9

This volume by the late Bernd J. Diebner presents an anthology of studies previously published only in German from 1971 to 2020 on a wide range of topics in biblical studies. The 18 essays in this collection offer profound insight into the works of German scholarship which have strongly influenced biblical studies and related research in the 20th century. Being an important but lesser recognized ‘member’ of the Copenhagen school Diebner voiced serious criticism of contemporary biblical scholarship which is discussed in the first seven chapters. The remaining chapters offer challenging new perspectives on well-known themes narratives and compositions related to history ideology and archaeology on the one hand and text and canon on the other as alternatives to traditional historical–critical approaches. Now published in English for the first time this volume makes these essays available to Anglophone students and scholars of biblical and ancient Near Eastern studies. | Failed Methods and Ideology in Canonical Interpretation of Biblical Texts Changing Perspectives 9

GBP 130.00
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Music Fundamentals A Balanced Approach

Music Fundamentals A Balanced Approach

Music Fundamentals: A Balanced Approach Third Edition combines a textbook and integrated workbook with an interactive website for those who want to learn the basics of reading music. Intended for students with little or no prior knowledge of music theory it offers a patient approach to understanding and mastering the building blocks of musical practice and structure. Musical examples range from Elvis Presley songs to Filipino ballads to Beethoven symphonies offering a balanced mixture of global classical and popular music. The new edition includes: Additional vocabulary features and review exercises Additional musical selections and 1- 2- or 3-hand rhythmic exercises The addition of guitar tablature A revised text design that more clearly designates the different types of exercises and makes the Workbook pages easier to write on An improved companion website with added mobile functionality The author’s balanced approach to beginning music theory engages student interest while demonstrating how music theory concepts apply not only to the Western classical canon but also to popular and world music. With the beginner student in mind Music Fundamentals: A Balanced Approach Third Edition is a comprehensive text for understanding the foundations of music theory. | Music Fundamentals A Balanced Approach

GBP 94.99
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The Road to Antioch and Jerusalem The Crusader Pilgrimage of the Monte Cassino Chronicle

The Road to Antioch and Jerusalem The Crusader Pilgrimage of the Monte Cassino Chronicle

This is the first translation of the Hystoria de via or ‘Monte Cassino Chronicle ’ one of the few surviving crusader sources from Southern Italy where it was probably compiled (partly from known sources) between the 1130s and 1140s. The chronicle’s original sections offer new and fresh insight on the knowledge and reception of the First Crusade in Southern Italy and the devotional and pilgrimage practices which surrounded it. The introduction contextualises the chronicle in the environment which produced it discussing the historiographical tradition at Montecassino the likely sources for the Hystoria and its significance as an original source. The introduction also comments extensively on the theological framework of the Hystoria which offers an intensely religious view of the crusade as pilgrimage and insists particularly on the primacy of violence in its vision of Christian devotional practice and the crusade as continuous movement through suffering for the pilgrims. The translation which is both faithful to the text and highly readable is accompanied by detailed references and a full commentary. The volume makes an important addition to the canon of crusader sources and provides a little-known example for specialists of the literature of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages. | The Road to Antioch and Jerusalem The Crusader Pilgrimage of the Monte Cassino Chronicle

GBP 130.00
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Early Sound Recordings Academic Research and Practice

Early Sound Recordings Academic Research and Practice

The use of historical recordings as primary sources is relatively well established in both musicology and performance studies and has demonstrated how early recording technologies transformed the ways in which musicians and audiences engaged with music. This edited volume offers a timely snapshot of a wide range of contemporary research in the area of performance practice and performance histories inviting readers to consider the wide range of research methods that are used in this ever-expanding area of scholarship. The volume brings together a diverse team of researchers who all use early recordings as their primary source to research performance in its broadest sense in a wide range of repertoires within and on the margins of the classical canon – from the analysis of specific performing practices and parameters in certain repertoires to broader contextual issues that call attention to the relationship between recorded performance and topics such as analysis notation and composition. Including a range of accessible music examples which allow readers to experience the music under discussion this book is designed to engage with academic and non-academic readers alike being an ideal research aid for students scholars and performers as well as an interesting read for early sound recording enthusiasts. | Early Sound Recordings Academic Research and Practice

GBP 120.00
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Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum

Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum

Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum investigates the art museum as a space where the contemporary is staged – in exhibitions collecting practices communication and policies. Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum traces the art museum back to the postwar era. Including contributions by established and emerging art historians academics and curators the book proposes that the art museum is engaged in the contemporary in a double sense: it (re)presents contemporary art while the contemporary condition itself also has a significant impact on art and the museum that houses it. Presenting a diverse range of international cases of exhibitions and curatorial practices which hail primarily from Europe and Scandinavia the essays examine the politics of staging “national” “international” and “global” framings of modernism as well as the new public spaces shaped in digital practices and changing political frameworks. The book investigates both the seminal and the unknown exhibitions and institutions that created contemporary art as we know it today. Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum provides a historical perspective on the museum of contemporary art. It constitutes a step towards differencing the canon of modernist and contemporary art and a more complex understanding of the politics of curating the contemporary in the art museum why it will be of interest to academics and students engaged in the study of museums curating exhibitions and art history.

GBP 120.00
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The Novelist in the Novel Gender and Genius in Fictional Representations of Authorship 1850–1949

The Novelist in the Novel Gender and Genius in Fictional Representations of Authorship 1850–1949

Why do writers so often write about writers? This book offers the first comprehensive account of the phenomenon of the fictional novelist as a character in literature arguing that our notions of literary genius – and what it means to be an author – are implicitly shaped by and explicitly challenged in novels about novelists a genre that has been critically underexamined. Employing both close and distant reading techniques to analyse a large corpus of author-stories The Novelist in the Novel explores the forms and functions of author-stories and the characters within them offering a new theory that frames these works as textual sites at which questions of literary value and the cultural conceptions around authorship are constantly being negotiated and revised in a form of covert criticism aimed directly at readers. While nineteenth-century novels about novelists reveal a pervasive frustration with the market – a starving artist vs. commercial sell-out dichotomy – modernist examples of the genre focus on the development of the individual author-as-artist entirely aloof from the marketplace and from the literary sphere at large. Yet each of these dynamics is gendered with women denigrated to commercial producers and men elevated to artists and while the canon has largely supported the male view of authorship a closer look at the work of women writers from this period reveals concerted attempts to counteract it. Silly Lady Novelists are pitted against serious male modernists in a battle to define what it means to be a literary genius. | The Novelist in the Novel Gender and Genius in Fictional Representations of Authorship 1850–1949

GBP 130.00
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Nursing Theory Postmodernism Post-structuralism and Foucault

Nursing Theory Postmodernism Post-structuralism and Foucault

Nursing Theory Postmodernism Post-structuralism and Foucault critiques mainstream American nursing theory and its use of post-structural theory comparing and contrasting how postmodern and post-structural ideas have been used fruitfully in nursing research and theorizing elsewhere. In the late 1980s references to post-structuralism and Michel Foucault started to appear in nursing journals. Since then hundreds of nursing publications have cited postmodernism and key post-structural ideas such as power/knowledge discourse and de-centring the human subject. In Nursing Theory Postmodernism Post-structuralism and Foucault Olga Petrovskaya argues that the application of these ideas is markedly different in American nursing theory scholarship compared to nursing theoretical scholarship generated outside the canon of unique nursing theory. Analysing relevant literature from the late 1980s through 2010s she demonstrates this difference arguing that American nursing theory calcified into a matrix of dogmas built on logical positivism wary of borrowed theory and loyal to a unique nursing science. Post-structural ideas that fit the matrix such as criticism of medicine are sanctioned whereas ideas sceptical of humanistic agendas including those that challenge American nursing theory are rendered meaningless. In contrast other nurse scholars from Britain Australia Canada and what the author calls the American enclave group engaged with postmodern and post-structural perspectives to enrich their research and invite readers to rethink nursing practice. The book showcases examples of their intelligent creative theorizing. Arguing that American nursing theory enervated nursing theorizing Petrovskaya calls for opening this matrix to theoretical and methodological creativity less rigid categories of scholarship and healthy self-examination. Making the case that post-structural ideas are vital for nurses’ ability to critically reflect on their discipline and profession this is a necessary read for all those interested in nursing theory philosophy and praxis. Chapter 1 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www. routledge. com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license.

GBP 130.00
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Philosophic Classics: Ancient Philosophy Volume I

Philosophic Classics: Ancient Philosophy Volume I

This seventh edition of Philosophic Classics Volume I: Ancient Philosophy includes essential writings of the most important Greek philosophers along with selections from some of their Roman followers. In updating this edition editor Forrest E. Baird has continued to follow the same criteria established by the late Walter Kaufmann when the Philosophic Classics series was first established: (1) to use complete works or where more appropriate complete sections of works (2) in clear translations (3) of texts central to the thinker’s philosophy or widely accepted as part of the canon. To make the works more accessible to students most footnotes treating textual matters (variant readings etc. ) have been omitted and important Greek words have been transliterated and put in angle brackets. In addition each thinker is introduced by a brief essay composed of three sections: (1) biographical (a glimpse of the life) (2) philosophical (a résumé of the philosopher’s thought) and (3) bibliographical (suggestions for further reading). New to this seventh edition: Changes in translations: New translations of Plato’s Apology and Phaedo and Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics and Politics from the acclaimed Focus Philosophical Library Series. New translations of Plato’s Euthyphro and Crito. New translations of Epicurus’s Letter to Herodotus Letter to Menoeceus and Principal Doctrines. New translation of the Parmenides fragments. Additional material: Gorgias’s model oration Encomium on Helen which gives a defense of Helen of Troy. A selection from Plato’s Gorgias on nature versus convention or law . Additional material from the opening of Plato’s Symposium to contextualize the dialogue. Additional material from Plato’s Republic (Book IX) on the tri-partite soul. Additional material from Aristotle’s Metaphysics (Book IV 1-4 7) on the nature of being and the so-called three rules of thought. A brief selection from Porphyry’s Life of Plotinus giving a sense of the person. Updated and reorganized bibliographies. To allow for all these changes a section of Book V from Plato’s Republic has been dropped. Those who use this first volume in a one-term course in ancient philosophy will find more material here than can easily fit a normal semester. But this embarrassment of riches gives teachers some choice and for those who offer the same course year after year an opportunity to change the menu. | Philosophic Classics: Ancient Philosophy Volume I

GBP 115.00
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