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  • The Gospel of the Hold Steady

    How a Resurrection Really Feels

    An oral history (with photographs) of the greatest American bar band of the twenty-first century."Plenty of rock bands treat their fans like congregants. But, not many shine a light on the arrangement. Fewer still go as far as The Hold Steady, whose lead vocalist and lyricist, Craig Finn, has a disarming way of combining humility and exultation." — New York TimesOn January 22, 2003, four men ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stripes, Grids and Checks

    by Michael Hann ...
    Stripes, Grids and Checks considers the nature of lines and assemblies of lines, including stripes and grids, as well as related phenomena such as checks, tilings and patterns, regular and irregular, repeating and non-repeating. A wide range of examples are drawn from urban and rural environments, at the macro and micro levels, in land- and cityscapes, buildings, and other designed constructions, ... Read more

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  • Structure and Form in Design

    Critical Ideas for Creative Practice

    by Michael Hann ...
    This book provides a critical examination of structure and form in design, covering a range of topics of great value to students and practitioners engaged in any of the specialist decorative arts and design disciplines. The complexities of two-dimensional phenomena are explained and illustrated in detail, while various three-dimensional forms are also discussed.In the context of the decorative ... Read more

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  • The Grammar of Pattern

    by Michael Hann ...
    Series series Textile Institute Professional Publications
    The Grammar of Pattern describes characteristics of textile and other surface patterns, and identifies, illustrates, and reviews a wide range of pattern types including spotted, striped, checked, tessellating and other types of all-over patterns with original drawings and images.This book includes original black-and-white line drawings and color images. The modular nature of patterns is explored, ... Read more

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  • Symbol, Pattern and Symmetry

    The Cultural Significance of Structure

    by Michael Hann ...
    Symbol, Pattern and Symmetry: The Cultural Significance of Structure investigates how pattern and symbol has functioned in visual arts, exploring how connections and comparisons in geometrical pattern can be made across different cultures and how the significance of these designs has influenced craft throughout history.The book features illustrative examples of symbol and pattern from a wide range ... Read more

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  • Textile Design

    Products and Processes

    by Michael Hann ...
    Series series Textile Institute Professional Publications
    This book includes fundamentals of textile processing technology with explanation of craft techniques, various stages of processing fibres and yarns with useful, readily understandable, line drawings. Fibrous types, dyes, yarns and cloths have been explained and material is supported by glossary and explanation of processing stages from fibre to finished cloth. Further, the considerations of ... Read more

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  • Narrative and Metaphor in the Law

    It has long been recognized that court trials in the common law system, both criminal and civil, operate around pairs of competing narratives told by opposing advocates. In recent years, however, it has increasingly been argued that narrative flows in many directions and through every form of legal theory and practice. Interest in the part played by metaphor in the law, including metaphors for the ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    The Gospel of the Hold Steady

    How a Resurrection Really Feels

    Unabridged

    6 hours 46 min

    On January 22, 2003, four men stepped onto a stage in Brooklyn and did something no one else was doing at that time, in that place. They played rock 'n' roll: old-fashioned rock 'n' roll with skyscraping riffs and sloppy solos, topped with extraordinary lyrics about an out-of-focus America, blurred by pills and powders, of crime and fear and desperation and redemption. Twenty years later, The Hold ... Read more

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  • Surgical Hip Dislocation

    A Comprehensive Approach to Modern Hip Surgery

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book sheds new light and comprehensively discusses all aspects of surgical hip dislocation (SHD), a surgical technique which has indeed granted access to areas not accessible with standard procedures, thus allowing intra-articular osteotomies.Filling a gap in literature, this book combines detailed anatomical knowledge – as a prerequisite to avoid iatrogenic complications – and practical ... Read more

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  • Narrative and Metaphor in Education

    Look Both Ways

    Edited by Michael Hanne, Anna A. Kaal ...
    Human beings rely equally on narrative (or storytelling) and metaphor (or analogy) for making sense of the world. Narrative and Metaphor in Education integrates the two perspectives of narrative and metaphor in educational theory and practice at every level from pre-school to lifelong civic education. Bringing together outstanding educational researchers, the book interweaves for the first time ... Read more

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  • Agile Learning and Management in a Digital Age

    Dialogic Leadership

    Series series Perspectives on Education in the Digital Age
    This book offers a detailed theoretical analysis of the fields of learning and management in the digital age. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it opens a dialogue between agile management theory and agile learning theory.The book argues that there is a tension between participative and action-orientated approaches on the one hand and neoliberal enclosure of the actor on the other hand. It ... Read more

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  • Warring with Words

    Narrative and Metaphor in Politics

    Series series Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology Series
    Scholars in many of the disciplines surrounding politics explicitly utilize either a narrative perspective or a metaphor perspective (though rarely the two in combination) to analyze issues -- theoretical and practical, domestic and international -- in the broad field of politics. Among the topics they have studied are:competing metaphors for the state or nation which have been coined over the ... Read more

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