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Playing with Forms

Author : Eduardo Duran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1695220854

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With a backpack, a young engineer travels the world seeking to enhance his education and gain insight into the world at large and the human condition. His quest for knowledge takes him beyond the visible world and into a world of quantum connections, non-physical beings, and a story of history that isn't teachable in the classroom. Working with spiritual leaders and channelers as a source of knowledge, he weaves the story of his travels into the story of the source and nature of humanity, of Earth, and the cosmos. Eduardo left everything he had and started to travel the world alone, using only a backpack, and staying with local people. In some parts of the world, he traveled without using any money at all. After visiting almost every country of the world and talking to many people, he discovered the nature of humanity and a hidden, ancient history of the world. He met people who shared this knowledge. After several spiritual experiences, he met higher dimensional beings who helped him to deepen his understanding. He describes what he found in simple, straightforward language, making it easy to understand. You will find interesting stories from all over the world, impressive information from ancient civilizations, religions, history, psychology, physics, medicine, politics, and how it's all related to our modern world. But most importantly, how to use it in your daily life. He explains how powerful our thoughts are, and how we experience our reality through mental images that he calls forms.

The Play of Forms

Author : Hans van der Laan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047408246

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This book analyses the analogical relationships between the created forms of nature, the man-made forms of culture and the forms used in religious ritual, in order to explores the genesis of liturgical form.

Smart Cities at Play: Technology and Emerging Forms of Playfulness

Author : Konstantinos Papangelis,Michael Saker,Catherine Jones
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781003807551

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Smart Cities at Play: Technology and Emerging Forms of Playfulness by Konstantinos Papangelis,Michael Saker,Catherine Jones Pdf

This book explores how smart cities enable new and playful ways for citizens to experience, inhabit and socialise within urban environments. It examines how the functionality of digital technologies within municipal settings can extend beyond environmental pragmatism and socio-economic concerns, to include playful approaches to urban spaces that co-constitute and reinvigorate the experience of place through location-based applications and games. Chapters highlight the varied ways the city, as both a conceptual and lived space, is changing because of this confluence of technologies. The book also considers the extent to which these transformations form an armature upon which more playful approaches to the urban domain are emerging, while exploring what effect these ludic formations might have on related understandings of sociability. Smart Cities at Play: Technology and Emerging Forms of Playfulness will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of information technology, urban planning and design, games and interactive media, human-centred and user-centred design, human centred interaction, digital geography and sociology. This book was originally published as a special issue of Behaviour & Information Technology.

Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s >Metamorphoses

Author : José Manuel Blanco Mayor
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110490282

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Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s >Metamorphoses by José Manuel Blanco Mayor Pdf

Conceived as a necessary reconsideration of the pristine "elegiac question" in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, this book intends to offer an analysis of the function of elegiac discourse within Ovid’s magnum opus from the perspective of metapoetics. To that end, the author undertakes, in the first section, a close re-reading of some relevant passages of Latin love elegy. From a prism that takes into account the characteristically elegiac multivocality, the genre reveals itself as an agonistic discourse in which the poet dramatises his metaliterary power-relation with the puella, who is unveiled as the synthesis of the distinct sub-products of his poetic activity. Thereupon, the author proceeds to scrutinise how elegiac elements are assimilated and transformed as they become integrated within the framework of Ovid’s poem of changing forms. Far from being a mere stylistic ornament, the presence of an elegiac register in many erotic passages tells us about Ovid’s stance towards love as a metapoetic trope. By reworking elegiac tradition to the point of transforming it into a novum corpus, the poet ultimately substantiates the mutability of generic categories.

Olivia Forms a Band

Author : Ian Falconer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780857073471

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Olivia Forms a Band by Ian Falconer Pdf

Olivia is back! She has decided to form a band: a one-pig band, to be exact. And, as we all know, Olivia is certainly capable of making enough noise to sound like an entire orchestra . . . Featuring gatefold flaps, fireworks, experiments with lipstick an a very cross mummy, the fourth Oliviabook is simply and hilariously told and gorgeously rendered - sure to delight Olivia fans of all ages!!

The Play of Forms

Author : Hendrikus Laan
Publisher : Brill Academic Publishers
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000102060104

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This book analyses the analogical relationships between the created forms of nature, the man-made forms of culture and the forms used in religious ritual, in order to explores the genesis of liturgical form.

Re-playing Shakespeare in Asia

Author : Poonam Trivedi,Minami Ryuta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135272241

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Re-playing Shakespeare in Asia by Poonam Trivedi,Minami Ryuta Pdf

In this critical volume, leading scholars in the field examine the performance of Shakespeare in Asia. Emerging out of the view that it is in "play" or performance, and particularly in intercultural / multicultural performance, that the cutting edge of Shakespeare studies is to be found, the essays in this volume pay close attention to the modes of transference of the language of the text into the alternative languages of Asian theatres; to the history and politics of the performance of Shakespeare in key locations in Asia; to the new Asian experimentation with indigenous forms via Shakespeare and the consequent revitalizing and revising of the traditional boundaries of genre and gender; and to Shakespeare as a cultural capital world wide. Focusing specifically on the work of major directors in the central and emerging areas of Asia – Japan, China, India, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines - the chapters in this volume encompass a broader and more representative swath of Asian performances and locations in one book than has been attempted till now.

Families at Play

Author : Sinem Siyahhan,Elisabeth Gee
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780262344586

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Families at Play by Sinem Siyahhan,Elisabeth Gee Pdf

How family video game play promotes intergenerational communication, connection, and learning. Video games have a bad reputation in the mainstream media. They are blamed for encouraging social isolation, promoting violence, and creating tensions between parents and children. In this book, Sinem Siyahhan and Elisabeth Gee offer another view. They show that video games can be a tool for connection, not isolation, creating opportunities for families to communicate and learn together. Like smartphones, Skype, and social media, games help families stay connected. Siyahhan and Gee offer examples: One family treats video game playing as a regular and valued activity, and bonds over Halo. A father tries to pass on his enthusiasm for Star Wars by playing Lego Star Wars with his young son. Families express their feelings and share their experiences and understanding of the world through playing video games like The Sims, Civilization, and Minecraft. Some video games are designed specifically to support family conversations around such real-world issues and sensitive topics as bullying and peer pressure. Siyahhan and Gee draw on a decade of research to look at how learning and teaching take place when families play video games together. With video games, they argue, the parents are not necessarily the teachers and experts; all family members can be both teachers and learners. They suggest video games can help families form, develop, and sustain their learning culture as well as develop skills that are valued in the twenty-first century workplace. Educators and game designers should take note.

Playing with Form

Author : Alexander Alland
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Art
ISBN : 0231056095

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The development of the child's ability to draw is an inherently fascinating and complex subject. Many theories have been proposed to explain this development, but until now o on has undertaken a cross-cultural, controlled study of children in the act of drawing. "Playing with Form" is the first empirical study of children drawing in diverse cultures. Alexander Alland, Jr. spent eight months observing and filming children six cultures - Japan, Bali, Taiwan, Ponape, France, and the U.S. - as they drew. Attempting to determine the accuracy of current generalizations about the development of drawing skills as well as to understand the step-by step process of drawing, Alland amassed 240 drawings (100 of which are reproduced here) by children ranging from two to eight years old. The author uses this wealth of primary material to dispute much current thinking about children's drawing, particular theories about specific universal stages of development. While he does suggest some general rules which underlie the process of drawing, Alland argues that cultural differences reflect rules which are specific to the culture in which children' "play with form". An invaluable first step toward understanding the exact role culture plays in the development of style in children's drawing, "Playing with Form" will be of fundamental interest to anthropologists, developmental psychologists, art historians, and elementary school teachers. -- back cover

An Integrated Play-based Curriculum for Young Children

Author : Olivia N. Saracho
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136842108

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An Integrated Play-based Curriculum for Young Children by Olivia N. Saracho Pdf

Play provides young children with the opportunity to express their ideas, symbolize, and test their knowledge of the world. It provides the basis for inquiry in literacy, science, social studies, mathematics, art, music, and movement. Through play, young children become active learners engaged in explorations about themselves, their community, and their personal-social world. An Integrated Play-Based Curriculum for Young Children offers the theoretical framework for understanding the origins of an early childhood play-based curriculum and how young children learn and understand concepts in a social and physical environment. Distinguished author Olivia N. Saracho then explores how play fits into various curriculum areas in order to help teachers develop their early childhood curriculum using developmentally and culturally appropriate practice. Through this integrated approach, young children are able to actively engage in meaningful and functional experiences in their natural context. Special Features Include: Vignettes of children’s conversations and actions in the classroom Suggestions for activities and classroom materials Practical examples and guidelines End-of-chapter summaries to enhance and extend the reader’s understanding of young children By presenting appropriate theoretical practices for designing and implementing a play-based curriculum, An Integrated Play-Based Curriculum for Young Children offers pre-service teachers the foundational knowledge about the field, about the work that practitioners do with young children, and how to best assume a teacher’s role effectively.

The Shell Game

Author : Kim Adrian
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781496206275

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Within the recent explosion of creative nonfiction, a new type of form is quietly emerging, what Brenda Miller calls "hermit crab essays." The Shell Game is an anthology of these intriguing essays that borrow their structures from ordinary, everyday sources: a recipe, a crossword puzzle, a Craig's List ad. Like their zoological namesake, these essays do not simply wear their borrowed "shells" but inhabit them so perfectly that the borrowed structures are wholly integral rather than contrived, both shaping the work and illuminating and exemplifying its subject. The Shell Game contains a carefully chosen selection of beautifully written, thought-provoking hybrid essays tackling a broad range of subjects, including the secrets of the human genome, the intractable pain of growing up black in America, and the gorgeous glow residing at the edges of the autism spectrum. Surprising, delightful, and lyric, these essays are destined to become classics of this new and increasingly popular hybrid form.

The Routledge Research Companion to Media Geography

Author : Paul C. Adams,Jim Craine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317042822

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The Routledge Research Companion to Media Geography by Paul C. Adams,Jim Craine Pdf

This Companion provides an authoritative source for scholars and students of the nascent field of media geography. While it has deep roots in the wider discipline, the consolidation of media geography has started only in the past decade, with the creation of media geography’s first dedicated journal, Aether, as well as the publication of the sub-discipline’s first textbook. However, at present there is no other work which provides a comprehensive overview and grounding. By indicating the sub-discipline’s evolution and hinting at its future, this volume not only serves to encapsulate what geographers have learned about media but also will help to set the agenda for expanding this type of interdisciplinary exploration. The contributors-leading scholars in this field, including Stuart Aitken, Deborah Dixon, Derek McCormack, Barney Warf, and Matthew Zook-not only review the existing literature within the remit of their chapters, but also articulate arguments about where the future might take media geography scholarship. The volume is not simply a collection of individual offerings, but has afforded an opportunity to exchange ideas about media geography, with contributors making connections between chapters and developing common themes.

Rational Interaction

Author : Reinhard Selten
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783662096642

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The unifying theme of the 23 contributions to this book is the social interaction of rational individuals. The work of John C. Harsanyi on game theory, social choice, and the philosophy of science finds an echo in these essays. Contributions by well known game theorists and economists present a great variety of stimulating theoretical investigations. Part I contains six papers on non-cooperative game theory written by Maschler, Owen, Myerson, Peleg, Rosenmüller, Hart and Mas-Collel. Part II with three contributions by Kalei, Samet, van Damme, d'Aspremont, and Gérard-Varet is devoted to the use of non-cooperative game theory in the analysis of problems of mechanism design. Basic questions of non-cooperative game theory are discussed in three essays by Güth, Hardin, and Sugden in Part III. Applied game models are discussed in three papers by Friedman, Selten, and Shubik in Part IV. Problems of social choice are investigated in Part V which deals with utilitarianism and related topics in five contributions by Hammond, Binmore, Arrow, Roemer, and Broome. Finally, Part VI contains three papers: an interdisciplinary comparison of physics and economics by Samuelson, a methodological essay by Brock, and an appraisal of the work of John C. Harsanyi.

Gaming Cultures and Place in Asia-Pacific

Author : Larissa Hjorth,Dean Chan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781135843175

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Gaming Cultures and Place in Asia-Pacific by Larissa Hjorth,Dean Chan Pdf

This collection explores the politics of game play and its cultural context by focusing on the Asia-Pacific region. Drawing from micro ethnographic studies to macro political economy analysis of techno-nationalisms and transcultural flows of cultural capital, it provides an interdisciplinary model for thinking through the politics of gaming.

The Order of Forms

Author : Anna Kornbluh
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226653341

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In literary studies today, debates about the purpose of literary criticism and about the place of formalism within it continue to simmer across periods and approaches. Anna Kornbluh contributes to—and substantially shifts—that conversation in The Order of Forms by offering an exciting new category, political formalism, which she articulates through the co-emergence of aesthetic and mathematical formalisms in the nineteenth century. Within this framework, criticism can be understood as more affirmative and constructive, articulating commitments to aesthetic expression and social collectivity. Kornbluh offers a powerful argument that political formalism, by valuing forms of sociability like the city and the state in and of themselves, provides a better understanding of literary form and its political possibilities than approaches that view form as a constraint. To make this argument, she takes up the case of literary realism, showing how novels by Dickens, Brontë, Hardy, and Carroll engage mathematical formalism as part of their political imagining. Realism, she shows, is best understood as an exercise in social modeling—more like formalist mathematics than social documentation. By modeling society, the realist novel focuses on what it considers the most elementary features of social relations and generates unique political insights. Proposing both this new theory of realism and the idea of political formalism, this inspired, eye-opening book will have far-reaching implications in literary studies.