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Book A Sense of Shifting

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  • Author : Coco Romack
  • Publisher : Chronicle Books
  • Release : 2024-06-04
  • ISBN : 1797224077
  • Pages : 275 pages

Download or read book A Sense of Shifting written by Coco Romack and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the groundbreaking world of queer dance in this gorgeous collection of stories and photographs. Two women hold each other tight as they dance the two-step. A fierce-eyed man in a long red dress performs flamenco. A dancer improvises in a blooming garden, blending diverse influences into a style all their own. This book showcases twelve individual artists and dance companies who are reclaiming traditional genres and building inclusive dance communities. Whether professionals or amateurs, ballerinas or experimental performers, pole dancers or line dancers, these artists embody the queer experience in unique ways. Photographer Yael Malka invites us into an intimate, visceral experience of rehearsals and performances, and writer Coco Romack offers wide-ranging reflections on the creative process drawn from in-depth interviews with the dancers. This beautiful book documents the rise of a new generation of artists and will inspire dance lovers, LGBTQIA+ creators, and anyone who delights in the power of the human body in motion. INSPIRING STORIES: The stories in this book represent a distinctive slice of the LGBTQIA+ experience. For dancers, whose art form is inseparable from their bodies, gender expression entwines with creative expression in challenging and liberating ways. The artists featured here generously explore their journeys in the interviews, while the photographs show the joy to be found in the queer dance community. BEAUTIFUL PRIDE GIFT: This collection is the perfect gift for anyone interested in the intersections of art, identity, and activism. With a deluxe art-book treatment and stunning photographs, the book can be proudly displayed on your coffee table or presented to the creative activist in your life. INCLUSIVE AND INTERSECTIONAL: This collection highlights a truly diverse array of experiences. The stories delve into the experiences of dancing in a wheelchair, navigating the intersections of gender and race, engaging with cultural inheritance on one's own terms, and even striving to make non-activist art when simply existing as a queer person can be a political action. The various dance styles and body types featured emphasize this book's welcoming, inclusive tone. Whether you love to dance or watch from the audience, identify as LGBTQIA+ or as an ally, this book is for you. Perfect for: Dancers and dance enthusiasts People interested in contemporary dance styles and dance companies Fans of portrait and performance photography LGBTQIA+ artists, activists, and allies Readers seeking inspiring art and stories Fans of portrait anthologies and storytelling projects like Humans of New York Fans of LGBTQIA+ photobooks like Loving: a Photographic History of Men In Love 1850s–1950s, We Are Everywhere, and Queer Love In Color

Book Shifting Sense

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  • Author : Edward Hulsbergen
  • Publisher : Purdue University Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9789085940043
  • Pages : 403 pages

Download or read book Shifting Sense written by Edward Hulsbergen and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shifting Sense in Spatial Planning provides a clear and integrated view of possible regional and urban futures set within the contesting contexts of globalization and an ever more intense search for local identity. Although the inherent contradiction of greater localism in a globalizing world may, at a superficial glance, appear to be symptomatic of a confused analysis, the reality is that place and places are constant elements that provide social cohesion and offer a basis for planned transition. In emphasising the importance of the spatial, and by setting this assessment within specific socio-economic contexts, the various chapters of Shifting Sense in Spatial Planning offer valuable insights into the challenges facing both academics and society as a whole.

Book Shifting Borders

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  • Author : Jean-François Bélisle
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2021-02-19
  • ISBN : 152756648X
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book Shifting Borders written by Jean-François Bélisle and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shifting Borders brings together new research on visual culture by scholars located across North America. This compilation of essays explores the notion of borders in a range of domains including art history, architecture, art theory, video games, performance art, artistic creation, and photography. The authors seek to address contemporary concerns affecting larger society through the lens of visual culture. The world is becoming increasingly globalized, as nations and multilateral organizations advocate freer international trade, the sharing of technological and political ideas, and multiculturalism. Yet, despite a rhetorical attachment to the message of lower national barriers, there has been a concomitant rise in veiled borders. These barriers promise to maintain cultural exclusion and economic hegemony. The essays in this volume share a desire to re-examine inherited knowledge systems, to redefine the terms of debate, and create spaces that more accurately reflect a just reality. While this is not the unique purview of Postmodern ethics, what is novel here is the willingness of the authors of these essays, and the artists they investigate, to identify with, dwell in, and expand upon the margins of their particular subject matter. The essays presented in Shifting Borders have the force to open up new forms and understandings of cultural difference and initiate new perspectives in and beyond their respective domains.

Book Changing Senses of Place

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  • Author : Christopher M. Raymond
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2021-08-05
  • ISBN : 1108856926
  • Pages : 501 pages

Download or read book Changing Senses of Place written by Christopher M. Raymond and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global challenges ranging from climate change and ecological regime shifts to refugee crises and post-national territorial claims are rapidly moving ecosystem thresholds and altering the social fabric of societies worldwide. This book addresses the vital question of how to navigate the contested forces of stability and change in a world shaped by multiple interconnected global challenges. It proposes that senses of place is a vital concept for supporting individual and social processes for navigating these contested forces and encourages scholars to rethink how to theorise and conceptualise changes in senses of place in the face of global challenges. It also makes the case that our concepts of sense of place need to be revisited, given that our experiences of place are changing. This book is essential reading for those seeking a new understanding of the multiple and shifting experiences of place.

Book Shifting the Blame

Download or read book Shifting the Blame written by Nan Goodman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on legal cases, legal debates, and fiction including works by James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, and Charles Chesnutt, Nan Goodman investigates changing notions of responsibility and agency in nineteenth-century America. By looking at accidents and accident law in the industrializing society, Goodman shows how courts moved away from the doctrine of strict liability to a new notion of liability that emphasized fault and negligence. Shifting the Blame reveals the pervasive impact of this radically new theory of responsibility in understandings of industrial hazards, in manufacturing dangers, and in the stories that were told and retold about accidents. In exciting tales of the actions of "good Samaritans" or of sea, steamboat, or railroad accidents, features of risk that might otherwise escape our attention--such as the suddenness of impact, the encounter between strangers, and the debates over blame and responsibility--were reconstructed in a manner that revealed both imagined and actual solutions to one of the most difficult philosophical and social conflicts in the nineteenth-century United States. Through literary and legal stories of accidents, Goodman suggests, we learn a great deal about what Americans thought about blame, injury, and individual responsibility in one of the most formative periods of our history.

Book Shifting Ground

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  • Author : Bonnie. COSTELLO
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-06-30
  • ISBN : 0674029879
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book Shifting Ground written by Bonnie. COSTELLO and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as the look of the American landscape has changed since the nineteenth century, so has our idea of landscape. Here Bonnie Costello reads six twentieth-century American poets who have reflected and shaped this transformation and in the process renovated landscape by drawing new images from the natural world and creating new forms for imagining the earth and our relation to it.

Book The Reality Shifting Handbook

Download or read book The Reality Shifting Handbook written by Mari Sei and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master the popular internet sensation with this reference packed with everything you need to know to get started on journeying to your desired reality. You’ve probably heard about reality shifting on TikTok or Facebook, but what is it really and how can you try it? The Reality Shifting Handbook will introduce you to the world of reality shifting and provide you with the resources you need to get started on your shifting journey. This practical guide is packed with helpful information, activities, and routines you can incorporate into daily life to master the power of your subconscious mind and make your shifting journey as fun and easy as possible, including: The origins of reality shifting Various methods for shifting to your desired reality Customizable scripting templates Affirmations for activating your subconscious mind And much more! Perfect for both beginners and those experienced with shifting, The Reality Shifting Handbook is the trusted companion you need to have the best reality shifting journey possible!

Book The Psychology of Social Influence

Download or read book The Psychology of Social Influence written by Gordon Sammut and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theoretically different modalities of social influence are set out and a blueprint for the study of socio-political dynamics is delivered.

Book Shifting Practices

Download or read book Shifting Practices written by Giovan Francesco Lanzara and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-03-18 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How disruptions and discontinuities caused by the introduction of new technologies often reveal aspects of practice not previously observed. What happens in an established practice or work setting when a novel artifact or tool for doing work changes the familiar work routines? Any unexpected event, or change, or technological innovation creates a discontinuity; organizations and individuals must reframe taken-for-granted assumptions and practices and reposition themselves. To study innovation as a phenomenon, then, we must search for situations of discontinuity and rupture and explore them in depth. In Shifting Practices, Giovan Francesco Lanzara does just that, and discovers that disruptions and discontinuities caused by the introduction of new technologies often reveal aspects of practice not previously observed. After discussing methodological and research issues, Lanzara presents two in-depth studies focusing on processes of design and innovation in two different practice settings: music education and criminal justice. In the first, he works with the music department of a major American university to develop Music LOGO, a computer system that allows students to explore musical structures with simple, composition-like exercises and experiments. In the second, he works with the Italian court system in the design and use of video technology for criminal trials. In both cases, drawing on anecdotes and examples as well as theory and analysis, he traces the new systems from design through implementation and adoption. Finally, Lanzara considers the researcher's role, and the relationship—encompassing empathy, vulnerability, and temporality—between the reflective researcher and actors in the practice setting.

Book Shifting Ground

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  • Author : Naomi Scheman
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2011-10-01
  • ISBN : 0199745633
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Shifting Ground written by Naomi Scheman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays by Naomi Scheman brings together her views on epistemic and socio-political issues, views that draw on a critical reading of Wittgenstein as well as on liberatory movements and theories, all in the service of a fundamental reorientation of epistemology. For some theorists, epistemology is an essentially foundationalist and hence discredited enterprise; for others-particularly analytic epistemologists--it remains rigorously segregated from political concerns. Scheman makes a compelling case for the necessity of thinking epistemologically in fundamentally altered ways. Arguing that it is an illusion of privilege to think that we can do without usable articulations of concepts such as truth, reality, and objectivity, she maintains (as in the title of one of her essays) that epistemology needs to be "resuscitated" as an explicitly political endeavor, with trustworthiness at its heart. While each essay contributes to a specific conversation, taken together they argue for addressing theoretical questions as they arise concretely. Truth, reality, objectivity, and other concepts that problematically rest on shifting ground are more than philosophical toys, and the ground-shifting these essays enact is a move away from abstruse theorizing-analytic and post-structuralist alike. Following Wittgenstein's injunctions to just look, to attend to the "rough ground" of everyday practices, Scheman argues for finding philosophical insight in such acts of attention and in the difficulties that beset them. These essays are an attempt to grasp something in particular, to get a handle on a set of problems, and collectively they represent a fresh model of passionate philosophical engagement.

Book Shifting the Balance  Grades K 2

Download or read book Shifting the Balance Grades K 2 written by Jan Burkins and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current emphasis on the body of research known as the "Science of Reading" has renewed the reading wars and raised challenging questions for balanced literacy teachers about the best way to teach reading. Instead of fueling the debate, Dr. Jan Burkins and Kari Yates immersed themselves in the research and produced Shifting the Balance, Grades K-2: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balanced Literacy Classroom. This best-selling guide is concise and practical, integrating effective reading strategies from each perspective. Every chapter of Shifting the Balance, Grades K-2 focuses on one of the six simple and scientifically sound shifts reading teachers can make to strengthen their approach to early reading instruction in these areas: Reading Comprehension Phonemic Awareness Phonics High-Frequency Words Cueing Systems Text Selection Practical Instruction for Primary Grades: Whether your students are just learning to read or building more advanced reading comprehensive skills, Shifting the Balance, K-2 is designed to help teachers meet the instructional needs of K-2 students. Six Manageable Shifts: Each chapter focuses on a key shift that helps educators understand common misconceptions and adjust their thinking around some common instructional practices that teachers have been using for decades. Evidence-Based Instruction: Burkins and Yates offer busy educators a blueprint for integrating finding from brain research, cognitive science, and child development into their daily instruction, while keeping meaningful experiences with books a priority. Classroom Applications: Shifting the Balance, K-2 is full of sample activities and classroom vignettes that paint a picture of what these shifts look like in action with roomful of learners. The book has already helped countless educators by taking the guesswork out of how to blend best practices with the latest research while keeping students at the forefront of reading instruction. We've written this book to support you in making sound decisions anchored in the best of science, the truth of responsiveness, and a relentless focus on providing all children learning experiences saturated with meaning, the authors write.

Book Shifting the Paradigm

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  • Author : Paolo C. Biondi
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2014-05-26
  • ISBN : 3110347776
  • Pages : 544 pages

Download or read book Shifting the Paradigm written by Paolo C. Biondi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-05-26 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Induction, which involves a leap from the particular to the universal, has always been a puzzling phenomenon for those attempting to investigate the origins of knowledge. Although traditionally accepted as the engine of first principles, the authority of inductive reasoning has been undermined in the modern age by empiricist criticisms that derive notably from Hume, who insisted that induction is an invalid line of reasoning that ends in unreliable future predictions. The present volume challenges this Humean orthodoxy. It begins with a thorough consideration of Hume’s original position and continues with a series of state-of-the-art essays that critique the received view while offering positive alternatives. The experts assembled here draw on a perennial historical tradition that stretches as far back as Socrates and extends through such luminaries as Aristotle, Aquinas, Whewell, Goethe, Lonergan, and Rescher. They inquire into the creative moment of intellectual insight that makes induction possible, consider relevant episodes from the history of science, advance scholarly exegeses of historical interpretations of inductive reasoning, and reflect critically on the scientific and logical ramifications of epistemological and metaphysical realism.

Book Limanora

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  • Author : John Macmillan Brown
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1903
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 732 pages

Download or read book Limanora written by John Macmillan Brown and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Limanora

Download or read book Limanora written by Godfrey Sweven and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Work  Mama  Life

Download or read book Work Mama Life written by Ali Young and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-04-04 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embrace the joys of motherhood without losing yourself Motherhood is an amazing journey. It’s a time of chaos and calm, joy and frustration, overwhelming stress and incredible fun. But as mamas strive to juggle the health of their children, their home and work lives, and their relationships, they can often put themselves last, risking physical and emotional burnout. Work. Mama. Life. is for all those mamas trying to achieve a better balance. Through a combination of evidence-based research, first-hand mothering experience, and easy-to-follow exercises, this guidebook will show mamas everywhere how to rediscover their joy, self and health in the face of the intense challenges working motherhood brings. In Work. Mama. Life, health and motherhood expert Ali Young delivers an expertly balanced combination of evidence-based research, clinical experience, and personal familiarity to help mums everywhere reclaim their lives and reset their health. Learn how to: understand matrescence and your ‘mother brain’ identify early signs of stress and burnout find and embrace your village reinvigorate yourself and ditch fatigue bring lightness and brightness to yourself and others. A real book by a real mum filled with real tools for the real world, Work. Mama. Life is a practical, evidence-based, and authoritative resource for every mother who’s sick of feeling overwhelmed, stressed, and burned out. Work. Mama. Life. will help every current, aspiring, or expecting mother to navigate their experience of motherhood and reclaim their life with calm and good health.

Book Shifting Concepts

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  • Author : Teresa Marques
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2020-09-03
  • ISBN : 019252495X
  • Pages : 271 pages

Download or read book Shifting Concepts written by Teresa Marques and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concepts stand at the centre of human cognition. We use concepts in categorizing objects and events in the world, in reasoning and action, and in social interaction. It is therefore not surprising that the study of concepts constitutes a central area of research in philosophy and psychology, yet only recently have the two disciplines developed greater interaction. Recent experiments in psychology that test the role of concepts in categorizing and reasoning have found a great deal of variation, across individuals and cultures, in categorization behaviour. Meanwhile, philosophers of language and mind have investigated the semantic properties of concepts, and how concepts are related to linguistic meaning and linguistic communication. A key motivation behind this was the idea that concepts must be shared across individuals and cultures. With the dawn of experimental philosophy, the proposal that the experimental data from psychology lacks relevance to semantics is increasingly difficult to defend. This volume brings together leading psychologists and philosophers to advance the interdisciplinary debate on the role of concepts in categorizing and reasoning, the relationship between concepts and linguistic meaning and communication, the challenges conceptual variation poses to communication, and the social and political effects of conceptual change.

Book Shifting the Balance  Grades 3 5

Download or read book Shifting the Balance Grades 3 5 written by Katie Cunningham and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this much anticipated follow-up to their groundbreaking book, Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balanced Literacy Classroom, authors Jan Burkins and Kari Yates, together with co-author Katie Cunningham, extend the conversation in Shifting the Balance, Grades 3-5: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Upper Elementary Classroom. This new text is built in mind specifically for grades 3-5 teachers around best practices for the intermediate classroom. Shifting the Balance, Grades 3-5 introduces six more shifts across individual chapters that: Zoom in on a common (but not-as helpful-as-we-had-hoped) practice to reconsider Untangle a number of “misunderstandings” that have likely contributed to the use of the common practice Propose a more science-aligned shift to the current practice Provide solid scientific research to support the revised practice Offer a collection of high-leverage, easy-to-implement instructional routines to support the shift to more brain-friendly instruction The authors offer a refreshing approach that is respectful, accessible, and practical – grounded in an earnest commitment to building a bridge between research and classroom practice. As with the first Shifting the Balance, they aim to keep students at the forefront of reading instruction.