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The Routledge Handbook of Audio Description

The Routledge Handbook of Audio Description

The American Council of the Blind (ACB) Recipient of the 2022 Dr. Margaret Pfanstiehl Audio Description Achievement Award for Research and Development This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the expanding field of audio description the practice of rendering the visual elements of a multimodal product such as a film painting or live performance in the spoken mode for the benefit principally of the blind and visually impaired community. This volume brings together scholars researchers practitioners and service providers such as broadcasters from all over the world to cover as thoroughly as possible all the theoretical and practical aspects of this discipline. In 38 chapters the expert authors chart how the discipline has become established both as an important professional service and as a valid academic subject how it has evolved and how it has come to play such an important role in media accessibility. From the early history of the subject through to the challenges represented by ever-changing technology the Handbook covers the approaches and methodologies adopted to analyse the “multimodal” text in the constant search for the optimum selection of the elements to describe. This is the essential guide and companion for advanced students researchers and audio description professionals within the more general spheres of translation studies and media accessibility. | The Routledge Handbook of Audio Description

GBP 205.00
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The Game Audio Tutorial A Practical Guide to Sound and Music for Interactive Games

The Game Audio Tutorial A Practical Guide to Sound and Music for Interactive Games

Design and implement video game sound from beginning to end with this hands-on course in game audio. Music and sound effects speak to players on a deep level and this book will show you how to design and implement powerful interactive sound that measurably improves gameplay. If you are a sound designer or composer and want to do more than just create audio elements and hand them over to someone else for insertion into the game this book is for you. You'll understand the game development process and implement vital audio experiences-not just create music loops or one-off sound effects. The Game Audio Tutorial isn't just a book-you also get a powerful website (www. thegameaudiotutorial. com) which includes: | The Game Audio Tutorial A Practical Guide to Sound and Music for Interactive Games

GBP 180.00
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The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface

The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface

The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface provides a ground-breaking investigation into media-specific spaces where Shakespeare is experienced. While such operations may be largely invisible to the average reader or viewer the interface properties of books screens and stages profoundly mediate our cognitive engagement with Shakespeare. This volume considers contemporary debates and questions including how mobile devices mediate the experience of Shakespeare; the impact of rapidly evolving virtual reality technologies and the interface architectures which condition Shakespearean plays; and how design elements of hypertext menus and screen navigation operate within internet Shakespeare spaces. Charting new frontiers this diverse collection delivers fresh insight into human–computer interaction and user-experience theory cognitive ecology and critical approaches such as historical phenomenology. This volume also highlights the application of media and interface design theory to questions related to the medium of the play and its crucial interface with the body and mind.

GBP 205.00
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Family Rights and Religion

Family Rights and Religion

The interaction between individual rights which are often seen in secular terms and religion is becoming an important and complex topic not only for academic study but for practical policy. This volume collects a range of writings from journals edited collections and individual books which deal with different aspects of the interaction within the context of family life and which appear with their original pagination. These studies have been selected because they throw a sharp light on central elements of the role of religion in determining the structure of the rights of family members in relation to one another both from an historical and contemporary perspective. While many of the writings are focused on US and European systems selected writings covering other systems illustrate the universal nature of the topic. The studies are accompanied by a reflective commentary from the editor which sets the writings in a broad context of social constitutional and philosophical thought with the aim of stimulating critical thought and discussion. | Family Rights and Religion

GBP 250.00
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Resale Price Maintenance and the Law The Future of Vertical Restraints

Resale Price Maintenance and the Law The Future of Vertical Restraints

The question of how to properly enforce against RPM has been a contentious debate for decades on both sides of the Atlantic. The catalyst is the acceptance that RPM can generate both anti-competitive effects and pro-competitive efficiencies that need to be properly balanced to ensure against Type I/Type II errors and to create viable legislation. Part I focuses on 100 years of US origins and the current legal approach to VR enforcement which reveals the precedent responsible for the transition between per se illegality and the rule of reason thresholds at the federal level. Nine anti-competitive and 19 pro-competitive theoretical models are also introduced to clearly demonstrate the true nonconsensus existent between economists as to whether RPM is deleterious enough to justify a stringent approach to RPM regulation. Part II closely examines the EU origins and current legal structure where RPM has maintained its hardcore by-object designation pursuant to Art. 101(1) TFEU with the consequence of having no safe harbours no applicability of the De Minimus Doctrine an onerous negative rebuttable presumption non-severability of the agreement and almost no chance of obtaining an exemption under Art. 101(3). This is exacerbated by the EC’s lack of guidance on how to prove all conditions necessary for an Art. 101(3) exemption and when a vertical arrangement actually escapes Art. 101(1) applicability. The aim of this book is to examine the economic models historical origins and legal structures of the US/EU regimes to develop proposals on how to modify the EU’s current legal structure to ensure proper enforcement of RPM behaviour that actually enhances legal certainty through a more aligned approach at the national level. Part III proposes five solutions which scrutinise the concepts of appreciability hardcore and by-object restraints to implement modifications to EU’s current legal framework to ensure RPM receives reasonable and equitable treatment in line with economic theory. | Resale Price Maintenance and the Law The Future of Vertical Restraints

GBP 180.00
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Lexicografía hispánica / The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Lexicography

Lexicografía hispánica / The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Lexicography

Lexicografía hispánica/The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Lexicography presenta una panorámica integrada de la lexicografía del español. Supone un informe del estado actual y una prospectiva de futuro de la lexicografía de esta lengua bajo las posibilidades que hoy ofrece su tratamiento informático. Principales características: Capítulos dedicados a los aspectos semánticos sintácticos morfológicos fonéticos pragmáticos y ortográficos que recogen y permiten los diccionarios Análisis de rasgos ideológicos y antropológicos y atención a las consultas de los usuarios en busca de información Revisión sobre las tecnologías y los métodos actuales para la elaboración de diccionarios Estado de la cuestión sobre la investigación lexicográfica en la actualidad Análisis detallado de diccionarios generales especializados y bilingües Lexicografía hispánica/The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Lexicography es una obra pensada para tener una visión global de la realidad de las posibilidades y de las necesidades actuales en un sector vital de la lingüística aplicada y el procesamiento del español. Se trata de un recurso fundamental tanto para profesores como para estudiantes de lexicografía del español y de lingüística. Lexicografía hispánica / The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Lexicography offers an integrated perspective on the lexicography of Spanish. It presents a report on the current state and insight on the future of the lexicography of Spanish relying on the possibilities that computer processing provides. Main features: Chapters that cover the semantic syntactic morphological phonetic pragmatic and orthographic aspects that are considered in dictionaries. Analyses of ideological and anthropological traits and a focus on the queries of users when searching for information. A revision of the current technology and methods for creating dictionaries. Current state of the art research on lexicography. A detailed analysis of general specialized and bilingual dictionaries. Lexicografía hispánica / The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Lexicography proposes a global overview of the reality the possibilities and the needs of today in an essential branch of applied linguistics and the treatment of Spanish. This is an essential resource for instructors and students of Spanish lexicography and of linguistics.

GBP 205.00
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The Public Productivity and Performance Handbook

The Public Productivity and Performance Handbook

A productive society is dependent upon high-performing government. This third edition of The Public Performance and Productivity Handbook includes chapters from leading scholars consultants and practitioners to explore all of the core elements of improvement. Completely revised and focused on best practice the handbook comprehensively explores managing for high performance measurement and analysis costs and finances human resources and cutting-edge organizational tools. Its coverage of new and systematic management approaches and well-defined measurement systems provides guidance for organizations of all sizes to improve productivity and performance. The contributors discuss such topics as accountability organizational effectiveness after budget cuts the complementary roles of human capital and “big data ” and how to teach performance management in the classroom and in public organizations. The handbook is accompanied by an online companion volume providing examples of performance measurement and improvement manuals across a wide variety of public organizations. The Public Performance and Productivity Handbook Third Edition is required reading for all public administration practitioners as well as for students and scholars interested in the state of the public performance and productivity field. | The Public Productivity and Performance Handbook

GBP 230.00
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Q&A Company Law

Q&A Company Law

Routledge QandAs give you the tools to practice and refine your exam technique showing you how to apply your knowledge to maximum effect in assessment. Each book contains essay and problem-based questions on the most commonly examined topics complete with expert guidance and model answers that help you to: Plan your revision and know what examiners are looking for: Introducing how best to approach revision in each subject Identifying and explaining the main elements of each question and providing marker annotation to show how examiners will read your answer Understand and remember the law: Using memorable diagram overviews for each answer to demonstrate how the law fits together and how best to structure your answer Gain marks and understand areas of debate Providing revision tips and advice to help you aim higher in essays and exams Highlighting areas that are contentious and on which you will need to form an opinion Avoid common errors: Identifying common pitfalls students encounter in class and in assessment The series is supported by an online resource that allows you to test your progress during the run-up to exams. Features include: multiple choice questions bonus QandAs and podcasts. | Q&A Company Law

GBP 180.00
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Lingüística de corpus en español / The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Corpus Linguistics

Lingüística de corpus en español / The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Corpus Linguistics

Lingüística de corpus en español/The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Corpus Linguistics muestra el modo en que ha cambiado el panorama de la denominada lingüística de corpus en español y cómo en la actualidad ha llegado a concitar un espacio disciplinar independiente y al mismo tiempo integrar estos conocimientos en cualquier programa de estudios investigación o diseño curricular en educación superior. Este volumen lo componen 36 capítulos que ofrecen un panorama amplio diverso y comprehensivo de los avances en lingüística de corpus de y en español abarcando un vasto repertorio de conceptos esenciales y de aspectos teóricos y metodológicos desde una conceptualización de la lingüística contemporánea tanto inter como transdisciplinaria. Los ámbitos que se cubren no son ni estancos ni definitivos ni mucho menos los únicos. Son perfectamente susceptibles de revisión de mejora y/o de cambio. El objetivo último de esta obra no es el limitar o fijar sino todo lo contrario es el de motivar y provocar a los lectores y lectoras para que no cesen las avenidas de propuestas innovadoras en el ámbito de la lingüística de corpus del español y seguir así profundizando en el conocimiento de esta lengua. Lingüística de corpus en español / The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Corpus Linguistics shows how the landscape of corpus linguistics in Spanish has changed and how it has become an independent discipline while incorporating this knowledge into any syllabus research or curriculum design in higher education. This volume comprises 36 chapters that provide a broad diverse and comprehensive overview of advances in corpus linguistics of and in Spanish covering a vast repertoire of essential concepts as well as theoretical and methodological aspects from a conceptualization of contemporary linguistics that is both inter- and transdisciplinary. The fields covered are not definitive or even the only ones. They are entirely open to revision improvement and/or change. The goal of this work is not to fix or limit these topics. On the contrary it is intended to motivate and provoke the readers to continue exploring new avenues of innovative proposals in the field of Spanish corpus linguistics and thus deepen their knowledge of this language.

GBP 205.00
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The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion shows how the affective turn in the humanities applies to literary studies. Deftly combining the scientific elements with the literary the book provides a theoretical and topical introduction to reading literature and emotion. Looking at a variety of formats including novels drama film graphic fiction and lyric poetry the book also includes focus on specific authors such as Shakespeare Chaucer Jane Austen Virginia Woolf and Viet Thanh Nguyen. The volume introduces the theoretical groundwork covering such categories as affect theory affective neuroscience cognitive science evolution and history of emotions. It examines the range of emotions that play a special role in literature including happiness fear aesthetic delight empathy and sympathy as well as aspects of literature (style narrative voice and others) that bear on emotional response. Finally it explores ethical and political concerns that are often intertwined with emotional response including racism colonialism disability ecology gender sexuality and trauma. This is a crucial guide to the ways in which new interdisciplinary understandings of emotion and affect—in fields from neuroscience to social theory—are changing the study of literature and of the ways those new understandings are impacted by work on literature also.

GBP 205.00
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Basic Interviewing A Practical Guide for Counselors and Clinicians

Basic Interviewing A Practical Guide for Counselors and Clinicians

This book offers clear and direct answers to the questions most frequently asked by students and trainees learning how to talk to clients and extract critical data from them. Its development reflects the old adage that necessity is the mother of invention. For many years the editors taught beginning level mental health clinicians. They found however no text to be satisfactory-including a number that they themselves were involved in producing. Some were too difficult; some were too simplistic; some were too doctrinaire; still others had missing elements. Written in a reader-friendly how-to style the chapters in Basic Interviewing are not weighed down by references. Rather each contributor suggests readings for students and instructors who wish to pursue questions further. After the initial overview chapter there are 12 chapters addressing the nuts-and-bolts concerns of all clinicians that can be particularly vexing for neophytes. They cover a variety of issues from the most specific-like how to begin and end interviews-to the more general-like how to build rapport and identify targets for treatment. Throughout rich clinical illustrations facilitate the pragmatic application of fundamental principles. Beginning graduate students in counseling and clinical psychology social work and other allied mental health fields as well as psychiatric trainees will find this text to be an indispensable companion. | Basic Interviewing A Practical Guide for Counselors and Clinicians

GBP 180.00
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Filming the Fantastic A Guide to Visual Effects Cinematography

Filming the Fantastic A Guide to Visual Effects Cinematography

Don't waste valuable time and budget fixing your footage in post! Shoot the effects you want effectively and creatively the first time. This full-color step-by step guide to visual effects cinematography empowers you to plan out and execute visual effects shots on a budget without falling into the common pitfall of using high-end computer graphics to fix it in post which can be an expensive drawn out process. Instead learn how to put your shots together before you start shooting-whether you're working in digital or film. Learn how to effectively photograph and create miniatures matte paintings green screen set ups crowd replication digital rear projection and so much more to create elements that will composite together flawlessly. The main purpose of effects is to promote the story not just to wow an audience with amazing tricks created digitally. This book describes methods for creating seamless effects that don't call attention to themselves but enhance the scene as a whole. The technical foundations of film and digital capture are given in the introductory chapters of the book and you are presented with real world scenarios that illustrate these basic concepts in a practical sense. Step-by-step illustrations of photographic element creation empower you to learn how to effectively pre-plan and execute your own visual effects challenges. | Filming the Fantastic A Guide to Visual Effects Cinematography

GBP 180.00
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Phonics for Pupils with Special Educational Needs Set

Phonics for Pupils with Special Educational Needs Set

Phonics for Pupils with Special Educational Needs is a complete structured multisensory programme for teaching reading and spelling making it fun and accessible for all. This fantastic seven-part resource offers a refreshingly simple approach to the teaching of phonics alongside activities to develop auditory and visual perceptual skills. Specifically designed to meet the needs of pupils with special educational needs of any age the books break down phonics into manageable core elements and provide a huge wealth of resources to support teachers in teaching reading and spelling. Each book in the series gradually builds on children’s understanding of sounds and letters and provides scaffolded support for children to learn about every sound in the English language. Offering tried and tested material which can be photocopied for each of use this is an invaluable resource to simplify phonics teaching for teachers and teaching assistants and provide fun new ways of learning phonics for all children. This set is accompanied by a companion resource 'Phonics for Pupils with Complex SEND ' to be used alongside the Phonics for Pupils with Special Educational Needs programme. The activities from Books 1-6 of the programme are adapted to be accessible for non-verbal pupils including AAC users and those with physical disabilities. | Phonics for Pupils with Special Educational Needs Set

GBP 290.00
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Estudios del discurso / The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Language Discourse Studies

Estudios del discurso / The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Language Discourse Studies

Estudios del discurso / The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Language Discourse Studies es un manual internacional que ofrece un panorama abarcador de los Estudios del discurso con acento en las áreas más relevantes actuales y de proyección futura en el mundo hispanohablante. Participan en él académicos que son referentes del campo en España América Latina y Estados Unidos. Esta obra es también ú nica por su extensión y cobertura: contiene 36 cap í tulos organizados en cinco partes que cubren los métodos y teorías de los Estudios del discurso su relación con otras disciplinas los vínculos entre discurso sociedad y cultura en los diversos países hispanohablantes cuestiones de discurso y comunicación y estudios aplicados del discurso. Este volumen constituye una obra de referencia que refleja el dinamismo y la productividad de los Estudios del discurso en lengua española. Así pues es un recurso incomparable para quienes se ocupan del discurso en su actividad académica o profesional. Gracias a la ejemplificación con casos analizados es útil para estudiantes universitarios y docentes de grado y posgrado. Por su parte los investigadores de diversas ramas de las Humanidades y las Ciencias Sociales encuentran una estupenda puesta al día sobre los avances y debates en este campo. Estudios del discurso / The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Language Discourse Studies is an international handbook which offers an encompassing panorama of Discourse Studies with an emphasis on the most relevant up-to-date and promising areas in the Spanish-speaking world. The contributors are leading scholars in the field in Spain Latin America and the United States. This book is also unique in its scope: Its 36 chapters are organized in five parts which deal with the methods and theories of Discourse Studies its relationship with other disciplines the links between discourse society and culture in the various Spanish-speaking countries issues of discourse and communication and applied studies of discourse. This volume constitutes an inescapable reference that reflects the dynamism and the productivity of Discourse Studies in Spanish. For this reason it is an incomparable resource for those with academic or professional interests in discourse. Thanks to the illustration with analysed cases it is useful for undergraduate and graduate students and teachers. In addition researchers in various branches of the Humanities and the Social Sciences find here a vibrant update on the advances and debates in this field.

GBP 205.00
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Chopin

Chopin

This anthology brings together representative examples of the most significant and engaging scholarly writing on Chopin by a wide range of authors. The essays selected for the volume portray a rounded picture of Chopin as composer pianist and teacher of his music and of his overall achievement and legacy. Historical perspectives are offered on Chopin’s biography ’as cultural discourse’ on the evolution and origins of his style and on the contexts of given works. A fascinating contemporary overview of Chopin’s oeuvre is also provided. Seven source studies assess the status and role of Chopin’s notational practices as well as some enigmatic sketch material. Essays in the field of performance studies scrutinise the ’cultural work’ carried out by Chopin’s performances and discuss his playing style along with that of his contemporaries and students. This paves the way for a body of essays on analysis aesthetics and reception considering aspects of genre and including an overview of analytical approaches to select works. The remaining essays address Chopin’s handling of form rhythm and other musical elements as well as the ’meaning’ of his msuic. The collection as a whole underscores one of the most important aspects of Chopin’s legacy namely the paradoxical manner in which he drew from the past - in particular certain eighteenth-century traditions - while stretching inherited conventions and practices to such an extent that a highly original ’music of the future’ was heralded.

GBP 250.00
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Routledge Handbook of Strategic Culture

Routledge Handbook of Strategic Culture

This handbook offers a collection of cutting-edge essays on all aspects of strategic culture by a mix of international scholars consultants military officers and policymakers. The volume explicitly addresses the analytical conundrums faced by scholars who wish to employ or generate strategic cultural insights with substantive commentary on defining and scoping strategic culture analytic frameworks and approaches levels of analysis sources of strategic culture and modalities of change in strategic culture. The chapters engage strategic culture at the civilizational regional supra-national national non-state actor and organizational levels. The volume is divided into five thematic parts which will appeal to both students who are new to the subject and scholars who wish to incorporate strategic culture into their toolbox of analytical techniques. Part I assesses the evolving theoretical strengths and weaknesses of the field. Part II lays out elements of the theoretical and methodological foundations of the field including sources and components of strategic culture. Part III presents a number of national strategic cultural profiles representing the state of contemporary strategic culture scholarship. Part IV addresses the utility of strategic culture for practitioners and scholars. Part V summarizes the key theoretical and practical insights offered by the volume’s contributors. This handbook will be of much interest to students of strategic studies defense studies security studies and international relations in general as well as to professional practitioners. | Routledge Handbook of Strategic Culture

GBP 205.00
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The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Economic Systems

The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Economic Systems

The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Economic Systems examines the institutional bases of economies and the different ways in which economic activity can function be organized and governed. It examines the complexity of this academic and research field assessing the place of comparative economic studies within economics paying due attention to future perspectives and presenting critically important questions analytical methods and relative approaches. This complements the recent revival of the systemic view of economic governance which was accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic and likely even more the renewed East-West clash epitomized by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the West’s reaction to it. The Handbook is divided into five parts. Each part deals with an issue of relevance for the discipline. The first and second parts look at the subject content and approach of the discipline and its comparative method. The third part looks at the idiosyncratic nature of different economic systems and their constituent elements. The fourth part considers the outcomes that different economic systems generate and how these outcomes change following the evolution and transformation of economic systems. The last part takes stock and looks ahead at the challenges from a theoretical and applied perspective and the exogenous and endogenous factors promoting the advancement of the discipline including the interaction between and competition among varied approaches and opposing paradigms. The Handbook brings together leading international contributors to reflect on the relevant debates and case or country studies provides a balanced overview of the results achieved and current knowledge as well as evolving issues and new fields of research. The book provides researchers students and analysts with a complete critical and forward-looking presentation and analysis of the content development challenges and perspectives of comparative economic studies. Chapters 4 and 22 of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www. routledge. com. Chapter 4 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4. 0 license and Chapter 22 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license.

GBP 190.00
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