Search Results - "Modernity

East Asian Pop Culture Analysing the Korean Wave

Table of Contents: “…ntroduction: East Asian TV dramas: identifications, sentiments and effects / Chua Beng Huat and Koichi Iwabuchi -- The growth of Korean cultural industries and the Korean wave / Doobo Shim -- Renting East Asian popular culture for local television: regional networks of cultural production / Tania Lim -- Mediating nationalism and modernity: the transnationalization of Korean dramas on Chinese (satellite) TV / Lisa Leung -- Structure of identification and distancing in watching East Asian television drama / Chua Beng Huat -- Re-imagining a cosmopolitan 'Asian Us': Korean media flows and imaginaries of Asian modern femininities / Angel Lin and Avin Tong -- Winter sonata and cultural practices of active fans in Japan: considering middle-aged women as cultural agents / Yoshitaka Mōri -- Touring 'dramatic Korea': Japanese women as viewers of Hanryu dramas and tourists on Hanryu tours / Yukie Hirata -- Popular cultural capital and cultural identity: young Korean women's cultural appropriation of Japanese TV dramas / Dong-Hoo Lee -- Mapping out the cultural politics of "the Korean wave" in contemporary South Korea / Keehyeung Lee - - Rap(p)ing Korean wave: national identity in question / Fang-chih Irene Yang -- Existing in the age of innocence: pop stars, publics, and politics in Asia / Eva Tsai -- When the Korean wave meets resident Koreans in Japan: intersections of the transnational, the postcolonial and the multicultural / Koichi Iwabuchi…”
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Medicine and Shariah a dialogue in Islamic bioethics

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Encyclopedia of world women

Table of Contents: “…V. 1 - Greek women, v.2 - Women of early Christianity, v.3 - Women of the romance countries, v.4 - Women of America, v.5 - Women of Mediaval France, v.6 - Women of Modern France, v.7 Oriental women, v.8 - Roman women, v.9 - The women of the Teutonic Nations, v.10 - Women of England…”
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Interpreting art in museums and galleries by Whitehead, Christopher 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Interpretive frames : historical figurative art -- Interpretive frames : modern, contemporary and non-figurative art -- Case studies : institutional approaches to historical art -- Case studies : institutional approaches to contemporary art -- Interpretive futures.…”
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Home and Community Lessons from a Modernist Housing Scheme by Costa Santos, Sandra, Bertolino, Nadia, Hicks, Stephen, Lewis, Camilla, May, Vanessa

Table of Contents: “…Home and community: Issues of public concern at the turn of the 1960s in Scotland -- Claremont Court housing scheme: Home and community design -- Spatial home-making in Claremont Court: negotiating the ideal modern home -- Exploring the construction of atmospheres in Claremont Court housing scheme -- Belonging at Claremont Court: The relational, material and temporal dimensions of 'community' -- Home and community: Lessons from Claremont Court.…”
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The Cambridge history of literary criticism

Table of Contents: “…Nisbet and Claude Rawson -- v. 7. Modernism and the New Criticism / edited by A. Walton Litz, Louis Menand, and Lawrence Rainey -- v. 8. …”
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The humanities culture, continuity & change by Sayre, Henry M. 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Romanticism, realism, and empire : 1800 to 1900 -- bk. 6. Modernism and the globalization of cultures : 1900 to the present.…”
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Suburban form an international perspective

Table of Contents: “…Introduction. Community, modernity, and urban change in Japan and the USA : Toyokawa and Cupertino in the late twentieth century / Piper Gaubatz. …”
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100 IDEAS THAT CHANGED ARCHITECTURE by Weston, Richard 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Fireplace -- Floor -- Wall -- Column and beam -- Door -- Window -- Brick -- Staircase -- Classical orders -- Arch -- Vault -- Dome -- Arcade -- Courtyard -- Atrium -- Platform -- Basilica --- Humanism -- Proportion -- Form -- Ornament -- Ideal -- Module -- Grid -- Symmetry -- Commodity, firmness, and delight -- Particularity -- Architect -- Orthographic projection -- Perspective projection -- Composition -- Utopia -- Style -- Palladianism -- Corridor -- Primitive hut -- Genius loci -- Scenography -- Picturesque -- Gothic revival -- Beaux-arts -- Iron -- Steel -- Glass -- Roof lighting -- Structural frame -- Central heating -- Electric lighting -- The elevator -- Reinforced concrete -- Art of building -- Tectonic form -- Polychromy -- Conservation -- Empathy -- Air conditioning -- Form follows function -- Zeitgeist -- Space -- Modernity -- In the nature of materials -- Cladding -- Organic architecture -- Ornament is crime -- Free plan -- Architectural promenade -- Five points of a new architecture -- Abstraction -- Transparency -- Axonometric projection -- Collage -- Layering -- International style -- Less is more -- Regionalism -- Flexibility -- Beton brut -- Morphology -- Additive composition -- Servant and served spaces -- Postmodernism -- Complexity and contradiction -- Shed -- Type -- Context -- Place -- Phenomenology -- Skin -- Computer-aided design -- Rainscreen cladding -- Community architecture -- Universal design -- Design and build -- Passive design -- Sustainability -- Deconstruction -- Bigness -- Fold -- Parametric design -- Everyday…”
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Yodel-ay-ee-oooo the secret history of yodeling around the world by Plantenga, Bart

Table of Contents: “…-- Who duh lay hee who : Swiss yodeling -- Germany and Austria : velvet throats & leather pants -- Where yodels are jodeled beyond the Alps -- From India to Down Under -- Africa beyond the rainforest -- Transmission and transition -- The hillbillies are alive with yodeling -- A cowboy's yip to a yodel -- Modern epiglottal frontiers -- Be on your avant garde, yodelers…”
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The healing paradox a revolutionary approach to treating and curing physical and mental illness by Goldsmith, Steven 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Questioning reality -- The hair of the dog -- Good/bad -- Resistance and the side effect -- Putting resistance on the couch -- Modern medicine : a health report -- Psychotherapeutic paradox -- Loops -- Dialectics -- Paradox within the home -- The staying-with-it principle -- Immunization and immunotherapy -- A little poison is good for you -- The strange obsession of Dr. …”
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The humanities culture, continuity & change by Sayre, Henry M. 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Romanticism, realism, and empire : 1800 to 1900 -- bk. 6. Modernism and the globalization of cultures : 1900 to the present…”
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The Story of Western Architecture by Risebero, Bill 1938-

Table of Contents: “…The background to the story Europe in the 5th century -- Barbarian Christianity 500-1000AD -- The triumph of Christian feudalism the 11th and 12th centuries -- The greatest of centuries the 13th Century -- The growth of capitalism the 14th and 15th centuries -- The age of discovery the 16th and 17th centuries -- The dual revolution the 18th century -- the age of iron 1815-1850 -- Tradition and progress 1850-1914 -- The modern world 1914 to the present day and beyond.…”
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An introduction to Buddhism teachings, history and practices by Harvey, Peter Brian Peter

Table of Contents: “…The Buddha and his Indian context -- Early Buddhist teachings : rebirth and karma -- Early Buddhist teachings : the four true realities for the spiritually ennobled -- Early developments in Buddhism -- Mahåayåana philosophies : the varieties of emptiness -- Mahåayåana holy beings, and Tantric Buddhism -- The later history and spread of Buddhism -- Buddhist practice : devotion -- Buddhist practice : ethics -- Buddhist practice : the Saçngha -- Buddhist practice : meditation and cultivation of experience-based wisdom -- The modern history of Buddhism in Asia -- Buddhism beyond Asia…”
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The power of oratory in the medieval Muslim world by Jones, Linda G.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Laying the foundations -- The Khuòtba: the 'central jewel' of medieval Arab-Islamic prose -- Rhetorical and discursive strategies of persuasion in the Khuòtba -- Part 1: Putting it all together: texts, contexts, and performances -- Canonical orations: Friday sermons and wedding orations -- Thematic and occasional orations: political oratory and sermons and jihad -- Homiletic exhortation and storytelling: challenging the 'popular' -- Part 2: The preacher and the audience -- 'The good eloquent speaker': profiles of pre-modern Muslim preachers -- The audience responds: participation, reception, contestation -- Conclusion…”
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Understanding Art Markets Inside the world of art and business by Robertson, Iain

Table of Contents: “…Epigraph -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Technical and structural mechanisms -- The structure of art commodity markets -- Art, religion, history and money -- Legal and ethical issues -- The markets for art -- The modern and impressionist market : the politics of success -- International contemporary art : an art world explanation of its value -- Chinese taste for chinese art -- Old masters : a gradual change in values -- External factors -- Art valuation and investment -- The public cultural domain : the state, museums and the built environment -- The evolution of craft into art.…”
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Malaysian Maverick Mahathir Mohamad in Turbulent Times by Wain, Barry

Table of Contents: “…The making of a Malay champion -- Politicized by war and peace -- An early introduction to brutal politics -- Prime minister for life, almost -- From outcast to presidential premier -- The vision of a modern nation -- A volatile mix of business and politics -- Scandal, what scandal? …”
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WORLD RELIGIONS TODAY by Esposito, John L., Fasching, Darrell J. 1944-II, Lewis, Todd

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WORLD RELIGIONS TODAY by Esposito, John L., Fasching, Darrell J. 1944-, Lewis, Todd Thornton 1952-

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Jacques Lecoq and the British theatr

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Franc Chamberlain and Ralph Yarrow -- Tout Bouge : Jacques Lecoq, modern mime and the zero body : a pedagogy for the creative actor / Simon Murray -- The well of possibilities : theoretical and practical uses / Bim Mason -- The theatrewhich does not exist : neutrality to interculturalism / John Martin -- The masks of Jacques Lecoq / John Wright -- "Amusez-vous, merde!" …”
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