Bastard Culture!
Bastard Culture!

Author: Mirko Tobias Schäfer

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 9089642560

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The computer and particularly the Internet have been represented as enabling technologies, turning consumers into users and users into producers. The unfolding online cultural production by users has been framed enthusiastically as participatory culture. But while many studies of user activities and the use of the Internet tend to romanticize emerging media practices, this book steps beyond the usual framework and analyzes user participation in the context of accompanying popular and scholarly discourse, as well as the material aspects of design, and their relation to the practices of design and appropriation.

A Complete History of Music
A Complete History of Music

Author: W.J Baltzell

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2020-08-04

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 3752405325

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Reproduction of the original: A Complete History of Music by W.J Baltzell

Aramaic Papyri of the Fifth Century B.C.
Aramaic Papyri of the Fifth Century B.C.

Author: A. E. Cowley

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2005-09-14

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 1597523631

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The Aramaic papyri found on the island of Elephantine, Egypt (ancient Yeb, opposite Syene) come from the fifth century BC. They include letters, personal archives, public archives, the 'Words of Ahikar,' the Behistun inscription, accounts, and lists. Cowley provides here the Aramaic transcriptions and English translations for all the texts available to him. In this edition, an updated bibliography is provided.

In Search of Utopia
In Search of Utopia

Author: Jan van der Stock

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789462984073

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2016 marks exactly 500 years since the English humanist and statesman Thomas More published in the city Leuven his world-famous book Utopia. Leuven is celebrating this milestone with a major city festival featuring exhibitions, street art, film, music, theatre, dance, literature, lectures and city walks. The cornerstone is the international, art historical exhibition 'In Search of Utopia' at M - Museum Leuven. The festival will officially start on Monday, 26 September 2016 after a festive opening weekend on 24 and 25 September and will end on 17 January 2017. In the book 'In Search of Utopia' the reader is introduced to the world of More and his friends, with the ideals and dreams of the times. The desire of far-away horizons and the cobweb of new sciences that patiently layed upon the reality. Magnificent works of the 15th- and 16th Century artists: Quinten Metsijs, Hans Holbein, Jan Gossaert en Albrecht Dürer are being brought together in this exciting and intriguing story. It shows in an unexceeded way the imagination of an ideal world.

Translation and Meaning
Translation and Meaning

Author: Marcel Thelen

Publisher: Lodz Studies in Language

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783631663905

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This book presents new and innovative ideas on the didactics of translation and interpreting. They include assessment methods and criteria, assessment of competences, graduate employability, placements, skills labs, the perceived skills gap between training and profession, the teaching of terminology, and curriculum design.