The Future of the Curriculum: School Knowledge in the Digital Age By Ben Williamson
2013 | 139 Pages | ISBN: 0262518821 | PDF | 3 MB
An examination of curriculum innovations that are shaped by new ideas about digital media and learning.Although ideas about digital media and learning have become an important area for educational research, little attention has been given to the practical and conceptual implications for the school curriculum. In this book, Ben Williamson examines a series of contemporary curriculum innovations in the United States, Great Britain, and Australia that reflect the social and technological changes of the digital age. Arguing that the curriculum is always both forward- and rearward-looking, Williamson considers how each of these innovations represents a certain way of understanding the past while also promoting a particular vision of the future.The curriculum initiatives are all examples of what Williamson calls "centrifugal schooling," expressing a vision of education and learning that is decentered, distributed, and dispersed, emphasizing networks and connections. In centrifugal schooling, a curriculum is actively assembled and improvised from a heterogeneous mix of people, groups, coalitions, and institutional structures. Participants in curriculum design and planning include local governments, corporations, foundations, charities, and nongovernmental organizations.Among the curriculum innovations Williamson examines are High Tech High, a charter school network in San Diego that integrates technical and academic education; Opening Minds, a "competence-based" curriculum used in 200 British secondary schools; and Quest to Learn, a "school for digital kids" in New York City (with a sister school in Chicago). He also describes two major partnerships: the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, which advocates for "21st century readiness" for American students; and the Whole Education Alliance in Britain, a network of "third sector" educational organizations.

The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information by Craig Robertson
2021 | ISBN: 1517909465, 1517909457 | English | 329 pages | PDF | 18 MB
The history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information

The Everyday Lives of Sovereignty: Political Imagination beyond the State by Rebecca Bryant, Madeleine Reeves
2021 | ISBN: 1501755730, 1501755749 | English | 276 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Around the world, border walls and nationalisms are on the rise as people express the desire to "take back" sovereignty. The contributors to this collection use ethnographic research in disputed and exceptional places to study sovereignty claims from the ground up. While it might immediately seem that citizens desire a stronger state, the cases of compromised, contested, or failed sovereignty in this volume point instead to political imaginations beyond the state form. Examples from Spain to Afghanistan and from Western Sahara to Taiwan show how calls to take back control or to bring back order are best understood as longings for sovereign agency. By paying close ethnographic attention to these desires and their consequences, The Everyday Lives of Sovereignty offers a new way to understand why these yearnings have such profound political resonance in a globally interconnected world.

The Dialectics of Music: Adorno, Benjamin, and Deleuze by Joseph Weiss
2021 | ISBN: 1350174963 | English | 208 pages | PDF | 13 MB
Combining the philosophy and musicology of T.W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Gilles Deleuze, alongside an exploration of the dialectical character of music production, Joseph Weiss exposes the unresolved contradictions of contemporary music.

English | 2021 | ISBN: 1503628213 | 221 pages | True PDF | 13.68 MB
Electricity is a quirky commodity: more often than not, it cannot be stored, easily transported, or imported from overseas. Before lighting up our homes, it changes hands through specialized electricity markets that rely on engineering expertise to trade competitively while respecting the physical requirements of the electric grid.The Current Economyis an ethnography of electricity markets in the United States that shows the heterogenous and technologically inflected nature of economic expertise today. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among market data analysts, electric grid engineers, and citizen activists, this book provides a deep dive into the convoluted economy of electricity and its reverberations throughout daily life.
Canay Özden-Schilling argues that many of the economic formations in everyday life come from work cultures rarely suspected of doing economic work: cultures of science, technology, and engineering that often do not have a claim to economic theory or practice, yet nonetheless dictate forms of economic activity. Contributing to economic anthropology, science and technology studies, energy studies, and the anthropology of expertise, this book is a map of the everyday infrastructures of economy and energy into which we are plugged as denizens of a technological world.

The Complexities of John Hejduk's Work: Exorcising Outlines, Apparitions and Angels (Routledge Research in Architecture) by J. Kevin Story
2020 | ISBN: 1138476498 | English | 256 pages | PDF | 12 MB
This book traces the development of John Hejduk's architectural career, using the idea of "exorcism" to uncover his thought process when examining architectural designs. His work encouraged profound questioning on what, why and how we build, which allowed for more open discourse and enhance the phenomenology found in architectural experiences.

The Complete Beginner's Guide to Digital Painting in Procreate: A Step by Step Tutorial to Creating Art on the iPad with Apple Pencil Using the Procreate App by Brian Garretsen
English | July 15, 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B099BYPYL5 | 148 pages | EPUB | 0.63 Mb
Procreateis a free and simple sketching app that is ideal for anyone who needs a creative kick or is stuck on an idea. What is truly unique about Procreate is that you don't need to worry about any technical jargon or complicated features. Instead, procreate just works.

English | 2021 | ISBN: 1649698054 | 122 pages | EPUB | 5.81 MB
Are you tired of "thinking about" growing your business, even making it a New Year's Resolution, but never making it actually happen?
Are you looking for a map that will take you from stressed and overwhelmed to confident and profitable as fast as possible... without the frustration, heartache, and the uncertainty?

The Business: Talking with thieves, gangsters and dealers by Dick Hobbs
English | October 22nd, 2021 | ISBN: 1789464145 | 320 pages | True EPUB | 0.50 MB
Professor Dick Hobbs is a leading commentator on the culture of crime and criminality. East End born and bred, he is a fascinating dichotomy of the criminal and the intellectual world, allowing him a unique insight into a subject that holds fascination for so many.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Dance and Philosophy by Rebecca L. Farinas, Julie Van Camp
2021 | ISBN: 1350103470 | English | 505 pages | PDF | 4 MB
An innovative examination of the ways in which dance and philosophy inform each other, Dance and Philosophy brings together authorities from a variety of disciplines to expand our understanding of dance and dance scholarship. Featuring an eclectic mix of materials from exposes to dance therapy sessions to demonstrations, Dance and Philosophy addresses centuries of scholarship, dance practice, the impacts of technological and social change, politics, cultural diversity and performance.