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Entertainment Weekly The Ultimate Guide to Toy Story
by The Editors of Entertainment WeeklyThe editors of Entertainment Weekly Magazine present Toy Story 4.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY The Ultimate Guide to Wonder Woman
by The Editors of Entertainment WeeklyAt 75, DC Comics's Amazonian princess is finally getting her own movie, and EW is celebrating with a gorgeously illustrated issue devoted entirely to Wonder Woman-from her groundbreaking girl-power comic book debut to the beloved 1970s TV show starring Lynda Carter to Gal Gadot's action-star spin on the first superheroine. Inside:The making of the new film Wonder Woman, with behind-the-scenes photos and interviews with stars Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Robin Wright and Connie Nielsen and director Patty JenkinsLynda Carter talks about her pioneering TV role and the meaning of Wonder WomanThe evolution of Wonder Woman's look, from prim skirts to go-go boots to modern-day armorThe surprising story of Wonder Woman's creator-the man who dreamed up her Golden Lasso of Truth also invented the lie-detector test!Plus: The most memorable WW plots of all time
The Enthusiast: Anatomy of the Fanatic in Seventeenth-Century British Culture
by William Cook MillerThe Enthusiast tells the story of a character type that was developed in early modern Britain to discredit radical prophets during an era that witnessed the dismantling of the Church of England's traditional means for punishing heresy. As William Cook Miller shows, the caricature of fanaticism here called the Enthusiast began as propaganda against religious dissenters, especially working-class upstarts, but was adopted by a range of writers as a literary vehicle for exploring profound problems of spirit, soul, and body and as a persona for the ironic expression of their own prophetic illuminations. Taking shape through the public and private writings of some of the most insightful authors of seventeenth-century Britain—Henry More, John Locke, the Third Earl of Shaftesbury, Mary Astell, and Jonathan Swift, among others—the Enthusiast appeared in various guises and literary modes. By attending to this literary being and its animators, The Enthusiast establishes the figure of the fanatic as a bridge between the Reformation and the Enlightenment, showing how an incipient secular modernity was informed by not the rejection of religion but the transformation of the prophet into something sparkling, witty, ironic, and new.
Entitled: Discriminating Tastes and the Expansion of the Arts
by Jennifer C. LenaAn in-depth look at how democratic values have widened the American arts scene, even as it remains elite and cosmopolitanTwo centuries ago, wealthy entrepreneurs founded the American cathedrals of culture—museums, theater companies, and symphony orchestras—to mirror European art. But today’s American arts scene has widened to embrace multitudes: photography, design, comics, graffiti, jazz, and many other forms of folk, vernacular, and popular culture. What led to this dramatic expansion? In Entitled, Jennifer Lena shows how organizational transformations in the American art world—amid a shifting political, economic, technological, and social landscape—made such change possible.By chronicling the development of American art from its earliest days to the present, Lena demonstrates that while the American arts may be more open, they are still unequal. She examines key historical moments, such as the creation of the Museum of Primitive Art and the funneling of federal and state subsidies during the New Deal to support the production and display of culture. Charting the efforts to define American genres, styles, creators, and audiences, Lena looks at the ways democratic values helped legitimate folk, vernacular, and commercial art, which was viewed as nonelite. Yet, even as art lovers have acquired an appreciation for more diverse culture, they carefully select and curate works that reflect their cosmopolitan, elite, and moral tastes.
Entourage: A Lifestyle Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
by Tim SwansonGet the inside scoop on the HBO hit comedy, Entourage, and learn what really happens when you make it big in Hollywood. If you don't know whether the following statements are true or false you need this book. 1) Vince spends $2,500 per month for Drama's vitamin supplements. (See page 76) 2) Ari Gold addressed this advice to Eric: "Be a man, or as much as a man as you can possibly be, for God f---ing sakes." (See page 103) 3) It is very easy to find a "ridiculously hot girl" in Los Angeles. (See page 129) Filled with exclusive interviews, fashion profiles of the main characters, listings of the real-life L.A. hotspots where the show has been filmed, and more than one hundred hilarious and previously unpublished images from Entourage's first four seasons. This book is an all-access guide to the glamorous world of Vince, E, Drama, Turtle, and Ari.
Entr�acte
by Jordan GeigerGenerally taking place in front of closed curtains during set changes between acts, the entr'acte delivers a fleeting new purpose and event to the otherwise sometimes inert space between stage and pit. This collection employs the entr'acte as a model for conceptualizing emerging formations of publics and of public space.
Entrances and Exits
by Michael RichardsThe man who brought the kavorka to the Seinfeld show through one of the most remarkable and beloved television characters ever invented, Kramer, shares the extraordinary life of a comedy genius—the way he came into himself as an artist, the ups and downs as a human being, the road he has traveled in search of understanding. <P><P> “The hair, so essential, symbolizes the irrational that was and is and always will be the underlying feature not only of Kramer but of comedy itself. This seemingly senseless spirit has been coursing through me since childhood. I’ve been under its almighty influence since the day I came into this world. I felt it all within myself, especially the physical comedy, the body movements, so freakish and undignified, where I bumped into things, knocked stuff down, messed up situations, and often ended up on my ass. <P><P> “This book is a hymn to the irrational, the senseless spirit that breaks the whole into pieces, a reflection on the seemingly absurd difficulties that intrude upon us all. It’s Harpo Marx turning us about, shaking up my plans, throwing me for a loop. Upset and turmoil is with us all the time. It’s at the basis of comedy. It’s the pratfall we all take. It’s the unavoidable mistake we didn’t expect. It’s everywhere I go. It’s in the way that I am, both light and dark, good and not-so-good. It’s my life.” <P> —Michael Richards, from Entrances and Exits <p> <b>New York Times Bestseller</b>
Entre Buenos Aires y Madrid: Diálogos
by Juan José Sebreli Blas MatamoroDos intelectuales y viejos amigos, Sebreli en Buenos Aires y Matamoro en Madrid, se juntan por Zoom durante los sábados de cinco meses pandémicos para reflexionar sobre el presente a la luz del pasado, creando un testimonio único sobre cine, teatro, música, literatura, vida cotidiana, sexualidad, política y filosofía de los últimos setenta años. Dos intelectuales formados en una cultura universal y cosmopolita cuyas condiciones de posibilidad han desaparecido, también pioneros en la defensa de la igualdad de las disidencias sexuales y viejos amigos, que a sus noventa y ochenta años se reconocen sobrevivientes de una generación que ya casi no existe, dialogan para reflexionar sobre el presente a la luz del pasado. El recorrido que hacen por los grandes temas que han atravesado sus vidas, lejos del recuerdo nostálgico o el ejercicio melancólico, se convierte en poderoso y lúcido testimonio histórico en tiempos en que la historia es abandonada al olvido como cosa inútil. Juan José Sebreli y Blas Matamoro se reunieron vía Zoom todos los sábados por la tarde porteña y la noche de Madrid durante cinco meses pandémicos. El resultado de esos encuentros terminó configurando el conjunto exquisito de diálogos que reúne este libro, testigo inapelable de aspectos de la historia social, política e intelectual que de otro modo se perderían para siempre. Cine, teatro, música, literatura, vida cotidiana, sexualidad, política y filosofía son apenas los tópicos disparadores de este verdadero catálogo razonado de la cultura de los últimos setenta años que se propone conservar el pasado sino aportar a realizar sus esperanzas.
Entre lujurias y represión: Serú Girán: la banda que lo cambió todo
by Mariano Del MazoLa historia mítica de la banda más importante y disruptiva de la historia del rock nacional. En 1978, en las playas brasileñas de Buzios un tsunami transformó el rock argentino. En una casa cercana al mar, Charly García y David Lebón comenzaron a componer. Pronto se les sumarían Oscar Moro y Pedro Aznar. La combinación fue alquímica y se llamó Serú Girán. Su irrupción puso fin a toda una época. Había en cada disco, en cada concierto en vivo, canciones que registraban la angustia de la ciudad y la desolación del individuo lo colectivo, lo personal , temas que conducían a callejones sin salida al tiempo que invitaban a la fiesta. Sus canciones eran delicadas, líricas, crípticas, bufas, rabiosas y melancólicas: siempre emotivas, vibrantes y sensuales. Con apenas cuatro discos en el período original Serú Girán, La grasa de las capitales, Bicicleta y Peperina , grabados en un lapso de cuatro años, cambiaron para siempre la sensibilidad del público y la concepción del espectáculo, alcanzando estándares de una profesionalización inédita. Entre lujurias y represión, de Mariano del Mazo quien a lo largo de su carrera entrevistó decenas de veces a los protagonistas , retrata no solo el anecdotario de una experiencia artística irrepetible. También reporta la intimidad de un grupo con personalidades descollantes y analiza los alcances de la revolución musical más sólida y lúcida del rock argentino desde sus inicios a orillas del mar hasta el decadente reencuentro en River Plate en 1992, cuando los dólares ardieron en la hoguera de las vanidades. «Estudié, me hice periodista, realicé decenas de entrevistas a Charly García y siempre o casi siempre, de alguna u otra manera, terminábamos hablando de Serú Girán. De su música y sus símbolos, de la alquimia y de la historia, esta historia. La de un tiempo horrible perforado por la belleza y la clarividencia. Una historia que late como una larga y única canción que pervive en los pliegues más profundos del corazón popular». «La historia de los primeros cuatro años de Serú Girán es también, en esencia, la historia de la capacidad de cambio de Charly García. Un mutante vocacional que dinamitó los puentes que fue construyendo, para siempre apuntar a un poco más allá. Cambió no solo para sobrevivir, sino para imponer pautas. Desde el preciosismo algo glacial del disco debut a la despedida de 1982 existe la misma distancia que media entre el hermetismo de la palabra 'Gisofanía' y la puerilidad de la palabra 'Popotitos'. Si en 1978 Charly era un músico tímido que apenas se despegaba del piano, a comienzos de los 80 era un nervioso y afectado performer».
Entrenamiento de perros: La guía definitiva para adiestrar a tu perro con educación obediente
by Sharon LetishaEste libro está escrito para proporcionarte conocimientos y consejos sobre cómo criar y entrenar la obediencia de tu perro, cómo educar tu cachorro, trucos y juegos. También aprenderás sobre problemas comunes con las razas de perros y cómo cuidarlos con métodos comprobados paso a paso. No lo dejes todo al azar o al ensayo y error. Si no tienes ni idea de cómo críar adecuadament a tu perro, es probable que termines frustrado y tu amigo se sienta no deseado. ¡Has de tu viaje juntos una aventura significativa!
Entrepreneurial Cosplay: Creating Identity, Building Identity, Brand and Business Acumen (Routledge Studies in Media and Cultural Industries)
by Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols Amy C. Lewis Dave TomczykEntrepreneurial Cosplay takes a comprehensive and insightful look at the business of cosplay, exploring the ways that artists and fans engage in entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial practices to gain personal and professional success. Centered around the concept of entrepreneurship and the newly emerging concept of intrapreneurship – using entrepreneurial principles to enhance or further an existing concept, organization or product – the book showcases the ways in which cosplayers create new ideas, new ways of working and new ways of doing things, exploiting their knowledge to create new opportunities. By analyzing the numerous motivations driving cosplay behavior (self-expression, external recognition and financial gain), this volume provides a unique view of current cosplay practice and its relationship to economic activity. Offering important insight into this emerging area, this book will be of interest to scholars seeking to learn how entrepreneurial and economic models may be used to understand the emerging field of cosplay studies, as well as students and scholars working in the fields of Entrepreneurship, Business, Fan Studies, Visual Art Studies and Gender Studies.
Entrepreneurial Music Education: Professional Learning in Schools and the Industry
by Kristina KelmanThis book addresses the gap between formal music education curricula and the knowledge and skills necessary to enter the professional music industry. It uses extensive data from a long-running research project where high school students were invited to start their own business venture, Youth Music Industries. Not only did this act as a business venture, but it also functioned as a learning environment informed by the concepts of Communities of Practice and social capital. Exploring how entrepreneurial qualities were developed, their learning was subsequently captured and distilled into a set of design principles: in this way, a pedagogical approach was developed that can be transferred across the creative industries more broadly. This book will be of interest and value to scholars of music education, as well as those preparing students for the creative industries.
Entrepreneurial Vernacular: Developers' Subdivisions in the 1920s (Creating the North American Landscape)
by Carolyn S. LoebDuring the 1920s, enterprising realtors, housing professionals, and builders developed the models that became the inspiration for the subdivision tract housing now commonplace in the U.S.Originally published in 2001. Suburban subdivisions of individual family homes are so familiar a part of the American landscape that it is hard to imagine a time when they were not common in the U. S. The shift to large-scale speculative subdivisions is usually attributed to the period after World War II. In Entrepreneurial Vernacular: Developers' Subdivisions in the 1920s, Carolyn S. Loeb shows that the precedents for this change in single-family home design were the result of concerted efforts by entrepreneurial realtors and other housing professionals during the 1920s. In her discussion of the historical and structural forces that propelled this change, Loeb focuses on three typical speculative subdivisions of the 1920s and on the realtors, architects, and building-craftsmen who designed and constructed them. These examples highlight the "shared set of planning and design concerns" that animated realtors (whom Loeb sees as having played the "key role" in this process) and the network of housing experts with whom they associated. Decentralized and loosely coordinated, this network promoted home ownership through flexible strategies of design, planning, financing, and construction which the author describes as a new and "entrepreneurial" vernacular.
Entrepreneurship for the Creative and Cultural Industries
by Bonita KolbArtists, musicians, actors, singers, designers and other creative individuals need to understand basic business concepts if they are to successfully pursue their chosen artistic profession. These skills have historically not been taught to creative students, which leaves them unprepared to make a living from their artistic efforts. Entrepreneurship for the Creative and Cultural Industries will teach the basics of business in a way that is relevant to the challenges of running a small business marketing a creative product. Whether it is understanding the basics of business language, appreciating the crucial importance of finance, or using social media marketing, this innovative textbook covers the entrepreneurial skills required to succeed in the creative sector. Including advice from artists who have turned their idea in to a profitable business and worksheets that can be combined into a simple business plan, Kolb helps non-business minded creatives to understand everything they need to succeed in the increasingly competitive creative economy. This textbook is essential reading for non-business students who are looking to understand the business side of the creative sector whilst its practical style will also suit recent graduates in these industries
Entrepreneurship for the Creative and Cultural Industries (Mastering Management in the Creative and Cultural Industries)
by Bonita KolbArtists, musicians, actors, singers, designers and other creative individuals need to understand basic business concepts if they are to successfully pursue their chosen artistic profession. These skills have historically not been taught to creative students, which leaves them unprepared to make a living from their artistic efforts. Entrepreneurship for the Creative and Cultural Industries will teach the basics of business in a way that is relevant to the challenges of running a small business marketing a creative product. Whether it is understanding the basics of business language, appreciating the crucial importance of finance, or using social media marketing, this innovative textbook covers the entrepreneurial skills required to succeed in the creative sector. Including advice from artists who have turned their idea into a profitable business and worksheets that can be combined into a simple business plan, Kolb helps non-business-minded creatives to understand everything they need to succeed in the increasingly competitive creative economy. This textbook is essential reading for non-business students who are looking to understand the business side of the creative sector, while its practical style will also suit recent graduates in these industries.
Entrepreneurship in the Arts (Discovering the Creative Industries)
by Bonita M. KolbThe need for artists, musicians, actors, singers, designers and other creative individuals to understand basic business concepts so they can successfully pursue their chosen creative profession has only grown since the publication of this textbook, now in its third edition. This popular book teaches business concepts in a way that is relevant to the way that creative students learn.Providing an understanding of the fundamental skills of entrepreneurship, this book enables creatives to launch new businesses, run for‑profit creative industries or manage nonprofit cultural organizations. The book leads the student through the entrepreneurial process starting with finding the right customers to pricing, distribution and promotion. This latest edition has been updated to account for significant changes in the creative industries that have been accelerated by the use of AI in the production of creative products, the challenge of pricing products within a range acceptable to consumers while accounting for the rising cost of production and the increasing need to use social listening skills and technology as a basis of consumer research.Weaving practical advice from successful creatives with pedagogical features such as "Questions to Consider," "Tasks to Complete" and "Visualization Exercises," this textbook continues to be essential reading for creative students.
Entretenimientos y Pasatiempos (Como hacer... #55)
by Owen JonesEntretenimientos y Pasatiempos Hola y gracias por comprar este libro electronico llamado, "Entretenimientos y Pasatiempos". Espero que encuentre la informacion util y rentable. La informacion de este libro electronico sobre varios aspectos de entretenimientos, pasatiempos y temas relacionados, esta organizada en 16 capitulos de aproximadamente 500-600 palabras cada uno. Espero que les interese a quienes les gusta estar haciendo algo en sus tiempos libres. Como beneficio adicional, le doy permiso para usar el contenido en su propio sitio web o en sus blogs y boletines informativos, aunque es mejor si lo reescriben con sus propias palabras primero. Tambien puede dividir el libro y revender los articulos. De hecho, el unico derecho que no tiene es revender o regalar el libro tal como se entrego. Si tiene algun comentario, dejelo en la compañia donde compro este libro. Gracias de nuevo por comprar este libro electronico. Saludos, Owen Jones
Entretien de la Voiture: guide, liste de contrôle, astuces et réparation pour toutes les voitures dans votre garage
by Hiddenstuff Entertainment- Vous cherchez à garder votre voiture en parfait état? - Voulez-vous économiser de l'argent sur les factures et les réparations automobiles? - Voulez-vous éviter des réparations coûteuses? Si vous avez répondu oui à l'une de ces questions, alors ce guide est pour vous! Apprenez les trucs et astuces pour entretenir votre voiture ou votre camion. Simple et facile à lire les instructions sont pour les débutants et les professionnels. Assurez-vous de ne pas manquer vos intervalles de maintenance et évitez les réparations coûteuses. Laissez votre voiture en marche sur des milliers de kilomètres supplémentaires et payez moins pour les réparations et l’entretien. -> Faites défiler vers le haut de la page et cliquez sur Ajouter au panier pour acheter instantanément <- Avertissement: Cet auteur et / ou le (s) titulaire (s) des droits ne font aucune réclamation, promesse ou garantie en ce qui concerne l'exactitude, la complétude ou l'adéquation du contenu de ce livre. Ce produit est à usage de référence seulement. S'il vous plaît consulter un professionnel avant de prendre des mesures sur l'un des contenus trouvés à l'intérieur du livre.
Entry Points: The Vera List Center Field Guide on Art and Social Justice No. 1
by Carin Kuoni Chelsea HainesProviding a lively snapshot of the state of art and social justice today on a global level, Entry Points accompanies the inaugural Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics, launched at The New School on the occasion of the center’s twentieth anniversary. This book captures some of the most significant worldwide examples of art and social justice and introduces an interested audience of artists, policy makers, scholars, and writers to new ways of thinking about how justice is defined, advanced, and practiced through the arts. In so doing, it assembles some of the latest scholarship in this field while refining our vocabulary for speaking about social justice, social engagement, community enhancement, empowerment, and even art itself. The book's first half contains three essays by Thomas Keenan, João Ribas, and Sharon Sliwinski that map the field of art and social justice. These essays are accompanied by more than twenty profiles of recent artist projects that consist of brief essays and artist pages. This curated and carefully considered map of artists and projects identifies key moments in art and social justice. The book's second half consists of an in-depth analysis of Theaster Gates's The Dorchester Projects, which won the inaugural Vera List Prize for Art and Politics. Produced to complement the project’s exhibition at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons School of Design in September 2013, this analysis illuminates Gates's rich, complex, and exemplary work. This section includes an interview between Gates and Vera List Center director Carin Kuoni; essays by Horace D. Ballard Jr., Romi N. Crawford, Shannon Jackson, and Mabel O. Wilson; and a number of responses to The Dorchester Projects by faculty in departments across The New School.Published by Duke University Press and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School
Entwined: Sisters and Secrets in the Silent World of Artist Judith Scott
by Joyce Wallace ScottThe remarkable story of "outsider" artist Judith Scott, who was institutionalized for more than thirty years before being reunited with her sisterFrom birth, fraternal twins Judith and Joyce Scott lived as if they were one person in two bodies, understanding instinctively what the other wanted and felt, despite the fact that Judy had Down syndrome, profound deafness, and never learned to speak or sign. But this idyllic childhood of color, texture, and feeling ended abruptly when, at age seven, Judy was taken from their shared bed while Joyce slept, not knowing that the wholeness they had known was being shattered.For the next three decades, Joyce is left without her other half and must grieve unexpected loss while navigating her relationship with an emotionally distant mother--alone. Even so, her life parallels her twin's in surprising ways. While in college, Joyce too is sent away, pressured to relinquish the secret daughter she bore in hiding to adoption.Decades later, Joyce resolves to reunite with her sister and fill their remaining years with joy. After winning the struggle to become Judy's legal guardian, she enrolls her in an art center for adults with disabilities in Oakland, California. Judy is hesitant at first, but after two years of uninterested painting and drawing, her untapped creativity suddenly ignites when she is introduced to fiber art, and she begins carefully and intentionally winding yarn and other materials around found objects. With unflagging intensity, Judy works five days a week for the next eighteen years, producing more than two-hundred astoundingly diverse fiber sculptures. Unconcerned with her growing fame, she remains fully immersed in her artistic vision until her death in 2005. Today, Judith Scott's work is displayed in museums and galleries around the world, in some of the most prestigious collections of contemporary art.Entwined is a penetrating personal narrative that explores a complex world of disability, loss, reunion, and the resiliency of the human spirit. Part memoir, part biography, it's a poignant and astonishing story about the art of embracing life.From the Hardcover edition.
Envelope Poems
by Emily Dickinson Jen Bervin Marta WernerAnother gorgeous copublication with the Christine Burgin Gallery, Emily Dickinson's Envelope Poems is a compact clothbound gift book, a full-color selection from The Gorgeous Nothings. Although a very prolific poet—and arguably America’s greatest—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) published fewer than a dozen of her eighteen hundred poems. Instead, she created at home small handmade books. When, in her later years, she stopped producing these, she was still writing a great deal, and at her death she left behind many poems, drafts, and letters. It is among the makeshift and fragile manuscripts of Dickinson’s later writings that we find the envelope poems gathered here. These manuscripts on envelopes (recycled by the poet with marked New England thrift) were written with the full powers of her late, most radical period. Intensely alive, these envelope poems are charged with a special poignancy—addressed to no one and everyone at once. Full-color facsimiles are accompanied by Marta L. Werner and Jen Bervin’s pioneering transcriptions of Dickinson’s handwriting. Their transcriptions allow us to read the texts, while the facsimiles let us see exactly what Dickinson wrote (the variant words, crossings-out, dashes, directional fields, spaces, columns, and overlapping planes). This fixed-layout ebook is an exact replica of the print edition, and requires a color screen to properly display the high-resolution images it contains. For this reason, Envelope Poems is not available on devices with e-ink screens, such as Kindle Paperwhite. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Environment and Belief Systems (Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies)
by G. N. DevyPart of the series Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies, this book focuses on the concepts that recur in any discussion of nature, culture and society among the indigenous. The book, the first in a five-volume series, deals with the two crucial concepts of environment and belief systems of indigenous peoples from all the continents of the world. With contributions from renowned scholars, activists and experts from around the globe, it presents a salient picture of the environments of indigenous peoples and discusses the essential features of their belief systems. It explores indigenous perspectives related to religion, ritual and cultural practice, art and design, and natural resources, as well as climate change impacts among such communities in Latin and North America, Oceania (Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific Islands), India, Brazil, Southeast Asia and Africa. Bringing together academic insights and experiences from the ground, this unique book's wide coverage will serve as a comprehensive guide for students, teachers and scholars of indigenous studies. It will be essential reading for those in anthropology, social anthropology, sociology and social exclusion studies, religion and theology, and cultural studies, as well as activists working with indigenous communities.
Environment and Children
by Christopher Day Anita MidbjerHow does the built environment affect children - their health, their behaviour, education and development? To support them, what do we need to consider and what do we need to do? Can our surroundings foster environmental and social awareness and responsibility?Based on Christopher Day's experiences designing schools and early childhood centres in the United States and Britain, this groundbreaking book sets out to answer these questions and to offer solutions. Children all too often find themselves living in alien surroundings designed with the needs of adults in mind, cut off not just from the natural environment but also childhood itself. Society's reaction - to cocoon children from the outside world or to resort to drugs to control behaviour - fails to address the fundamental causes of problems which lie in the environment not the children themselves.One of the world's leading thinkers on the impact of buildings on people, Christopher Day's insights offer new light on one of the most important issues for today's society.
Environment-Behavior Studies for Healthcare Design
by Suining DingEnvironment-Behavior Studies for Healthcare Design explains how environment-behavior (EB) studies can contribute to healthcare design research and explores how evidence-based theories can be applied and integrated into the healthcare design practice. Drawing on EB theories and the latest research in environment-behavior studies, this book shows how the healthcare environment can positively impact patients' and caregivers' well-being and healthcare organization's efficiency by modifying environmental attributes, such as space configuration, color, lighting, signage, acoustics, and artwork. It addresses a range of healthcare facilities including children's hospitals, long-term care, acute care and outpatient care facilities, and uses a range of evidence-based design research methods, such as interviews, focus groups, observations, surveys and space syntax. The author also explains how research evidence and evidence-based design can be integrated into healthcare design more cohesively in a redefined design process. This book provides a solid conceptual structure that informs a clear map for understanding the EB theories and their applications in healthcare design. This research guide for healthcare design helps students, academics, designers and architects reconsider how to create environments that support patients’ healing and well-being whilst considering efficiency and safety.
The Environment of Compassion: Ecology, Religion, and Embodied Story (Routledge Studies in Religion)
by Cia SautterThe Environment of Compassion explores questions of what it means to be in relationship to nature, if and how it is a religious experience, and how understanding humans as part of nature alters theology. The book offers a performance perspective that looks at ritual, dance, and theatre as a means of presenting discussion of sacred values in the public realm. The premise is that performance may serve as an effective means for developing human sacred values that recognize the more-than-human world, as it increases intersubjective awareness to address issues of social and environmental justice. The author investigates religion and theatre as a means of better understanding how eco-consciousness requires an aesthetic of the sacred. Rather than separate religion, culture, and nature, the book presents an aesthetic looking at the relationship between them. It considers how an embodied theatrical story might develop an inclusive community of compassion. Weaving the chapters together is an account of The Garden: A Refuge, an eco-centered play based on the biblical book of Job. Ecotheology, aesthetics, and embodiment theories are examined throughout, with scholarship and examples drawn largely from the Jewish tradition. The book is relevant to scholars of religion and theology, particularly those with an interest in the environment, as well as theatre, dance, and performance studies.