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This book gives the fullest account so far of the origins, success and public impact of Walter Greenwood's Love on the Dole in all three of its ver...

Susan Laxton writes a new history of surrealism in which she traces the centrality of play to the movement and its ongoing legacy, showing how its ...

The United States Congress has been described as dysfunctional, gridlocked, polarized, hyperpartisan, chaotic, and do-nothing. In Changing Cultures...

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DescriptionThis agenda-setting volume on travel and drama in early modern England provides new insights into Renaissance stage practice, performanc...

This book is the first comparative study of media technologies in Japan and the two Koreas which illuminates the peculiar geopolitical relations be...

For scholars and students of Shakespeare Studies, Book History and Early Modern Drama, this book overturns how we understand the relationships betw...

Publisher: Sussex Academic PressNumber of pages: 300Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 159 x 234 x 22Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Sarah GambleRede...

This volume is the first detailed, book-length study of Middle English medical recipes in their literary, imaginative, social, and codicological co...

"Published for the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs (CUPPA) University of Illinois at Chicago."

The third edition of Play in the Early Years is a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of play for children from birth to 8 years ...

Uses new as well as previously under-appreciated documentary evidence to link the Cuban Missile Crisis to the Checkpoint Charlie tank standoff to a...

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Publisher: MIT Press LtdIllustration(s): 25 illus.; 25 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 960Collection: The MIT PressPublication date: 200...

Taking its impetus from remarkable fact that holy things were given to children as toys in the early modern period as a way of destroying their pow...

Reducere. Essays on the use of word play in the literature of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Ugarit, and Israel, and Medieval Hebrew and Arabic literature; incl...

Publisher: Southern Illinois University PressAuthor(s): Gordon SlethaugNumber of pages: 234Publication date: 1993Dimensions: 170 x 244 x 45Cover ty...

An impassioned look at games and game design that offers the most ambitious framework for understanding them to date.

In Theater of the Word: Selfhood in the English Morality Play, Julie Paulson sheds new light on medieval constructions of the self as they emerge f...

Collecting diverse critical perspectives on the topic of play - from dolls, bilboquets, and lotteries, to writing itself - this volume offers new i...

DescriptionPlay takes up much of the time budget of young children, and many animals, but its importance in development remains contested. This com...

Yoga isn't just the physical poses; intentional breathing (and therefore mindfulness) are an integral part of it. Yoga and Mindfulness for Young Ch...

Reducere. This practical book provides pre- and inservice teachers with an understanding of how math can be learned through play. The author helps teachers t...

This is a must-read book for all students studying early childhood at a range of levels and practitioners who are looking to deepen their understan...

Reducere. The 1980s saw the peak of a moral panic over fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons. A coalition of moral entrepreneurs that inclu...

Jazz stories have been entwined with cinema since the inception of jazz film genre in the 1920s, giving us origin tales and biopics, spectacles and...

Reducere. Chushingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers), also known as the story of the Forty-Six (or Forty-Seven) Ronin, is the most famous and perenially p...

Digital Playgrounds makes the argument that online games play a uniquely meaningful role in children's lives, with profound implications for childr...

Publisher: FAB PressAuthor(s): Kevin GrantIllustration(s): 64 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 222 x...

Demonstrates the importance of textual production to understanding the place of drama in the early modern public sphere. This collection of essays ...

Reducere. This now-classic text remains a cornerstone of continuing efforts to develop inclusive peer play programs for children on the autism spectrum. The ...

Reducere. Winner, Al Lowman Memorial Prize, Texas State Historical Association, 2014In 1939, a team of short, scrappy kids from a vocational school establish...

Reducere. J.C. and Stenson entered the world with everything against them. Runaways from opposite sides of the track. When you are abandoned, abused, poor an...

'The Whiteman' is one of the most powerful and pervasive symbols in contemporary American Indian cultures. Portraits of 'the Whiteman': linguistic ...

Contributor(s): Author: Brendan KeoghAn investigation of the embodied engagement between the playing body and the videogame: how player and game in...

In Extended Play, one of the country's most innovative music writers conducts a wide-ranging tour through the outer limits of contemporary music. O...

Reducere. Makerspaces is a first-to-market resource for early childhood professionals that focuses on how to cultivate the maker mind-set in the youngest lea...

Reducere. Play, academics, and standards can work together with the right strategies and support from educators. Take an active role in child-directed play t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Kyra D. Gaunt2007 Alan Merriam Prize presented by the Society for Ethnomusicology 2007 PEN/Beyond Margins Book Award Finali...

Reducere. Winner of the 2015 Brain Child Award from Tillywig & Toy Media Awards Use loose parts to spark children's creativity and innovation Loose parts are...

Reducere. "In Young Architects at Play Ann Gadzikowski skillfully blends research, practical insights, and a deep knowledge of facilitation to provide educat...

Reducere. In Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play, Jennifer DeVere Brody places punctuation at center stage. She illuminates the performative aspects of dots...

The aim of this text is to explore outdoor play in the early years focusing, in particular, on early years settings and young children aged 0 to 7 ...

Provides researchers and graduate students in sociolinguistics with a theory of landscape affect as a linguistic and semiotic phenomenon. It is als...

Shadow Play examines how members of the urban underclass in Indonesia seek to negotiate their rights to urban space in a country undergoing signifi...

When the Rogers Place arena opened in downtown Edmonton in September 2016, no amount of buzz could drown out the rumours of manipulation, secret de...

Reducere. The Play Prescription: Using Play to Support Internalizing Behaviors explores internalizing behaviors such as anxiety, depression, and social withd...

War, weapon and superhero play has been banned in many early childhood settings for over 30 years. This book explores the development and applicati...

DescriptionExploring sex--bodily capacities, appetites, orientations, and connections--in terms of play and playfulness.We all know that sex involv...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Ricardo AlvarezIllustration(s): 39 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2021Dimens...

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This book straightforwardly describes how adults can support children's free play, with a holistic, inclusive and practical approach.

Mary Zimmerman's The Secret in the Wings adapts a group of lesser-known fairy tales to create a theatrical work that sets their dark mystery agains...

Description"Zimmerman has powerfully captured the joy, danger, and fantasy of Stevenson's novel. . . Pure fun, a potent coming-of-age story, and a ...

This book, originally published in France in 2005, is an amazing achievement. The author has for many years been collecting and cataloging bridge h...

DescriptionForty original contributions on games and gaming culture What does Pok mon Go tell us about globalization? What does Tetris teach us abo...

The York Corpus Christi Play as we know it consists of 47 surviving individual plays or ""pageants"", 27 of which are included in this volume. In a...

The Fragrant Companions is the most significant work of literature that portrays female same-sex love in the entire premodern Chinese tradition. It...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Mark LevineIllustration(s): 31 b-w photosNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: ...

Along the way, he shows readers how technology enables the forms, equipment, and devices of play to evolve constantly, both reflecting consumer cho...

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Reducere. 867Waldorf Games Handbook for the Early Years; Games to Play & Sing with Children aged 3-7 is a handy guide to playing games with young children. T...

Reducere. DescriptionAn Innovative Play-Based Program Designed to Get Every Type of Learner Ready to Read According to the National Assessment of Educational...

DescriptionA look at the revolution in game live streaming and esports broadcastingEvery day thousands of people broadcast their gaming live to aud...

Reducere. In Homo Ludens, the classic evaluation of play that has become a "must-read" for those in game design, Dutch philosopher Johan Huizinga defines pla...

Acknowledging the difficulty for artists in the twenty-first century to effectively critique systems of power, Anna Watkins Fisher theorizes parasi...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Marcus CarterIllustration(s): 5 black and white photosNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 142 ...

Reducere. In Mexican American communities in the central United States, the modern tradition of playing fastpitch softball has been passed from generation to...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Denise GaskinsForeword by: Keith DevlinTransform your child's experience of mathFilled with stories and illustrations, Let'...

Reducere. Do you feel overloaded with advice about how to care for your baby?Are you finding that many parenting techniques contradict each other, while all ...