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Ferren blames Dorelle for destroying his life. Now he plots his revenge. In the action-packed final installment of The Cloud Lands Saga, Dorelle and Debesh have to come to terms with their exile. Little do they know that their arch-enemy Ferren has followed them on their flight and discovered their secret hideaway. The former Wing Commander is determined to kill Dorelle, no matter what it takes. And he is not above turning to the enemies of the Western Kingdom for help. Can Dorelle, Debesh and their dragons thwart Ferren’s murderous plans? ★★★★★ "Betrayal" is the final book in a complete series about the adventures of Dorelle and Mashira, her dragon, The Cloud Lands Saga. Watch them battle for their lives, fight Kraken and reveal a terrible conspiracy. Watch how their sworn enemy Ferren descends into delusion and madness. Explore the Cloud Lands with them and wonder whether Dorelle can regain love and happiness. Read in this order: Dorelle's Journey Kraken War Dragon Court Betrayal Borderline (a short story)
Hort der Vergangenheit oder moderner Publikumsmagnet? Das Handbuch stellt die Gedächtnisinstitution Museum in der Theorie und in ihrem Selbstverständnis vor und geht auf die Aufgaben ein: Sammeln, Dokumentieren, Konservieren, Erforschen, Ausstellen und Vermitteln. Nach einem historischen Überblick greift der Band die gegenwärtige Praxis und die Diskurse der verschiedenen Museumstypen auf. Dabei wird das Museumswesen aus wirtschafts- und sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive dargestellt von Qualitätsmanagement bis zu Museen als Werbemedien, von Publikumsstrukturen bis zu Museen als öffentliche Bauaufgabe.
An essential exploration of video game aesthetic that decenters the human player and challenges what it means to play. Do we play video games or do video games play us? Is nonhuman play a mere paradox or the future of gaming? And what do video games have to do with quantum theory? In Playing at a Distance, Sonia Fizek engages with these and many more daunting questions, forging new ways to think and talk about games and play that decenter the human player and explore a variety of play formats and practices that require surprisingly little human action. Idling in clicker games, wandering in walking simulators, automating gameplay with bots, or simply watching games rather than playing them—...
The internationally focused Dictionary of Museology reflects the diversity of cultural and disciplinary approaches to theory and practice in the museum field today. The museum world is changing rapidly, and the characteristics and social roles of the world’s approximately 100,000 existing museums are constantly evolving. In addition to their traditional functions of preservation, research and communication, museums are increasingly addressing issues related to social inclusion, human rights, sustainable development and finances, all of which are explored in this dictionary. Drawing on the support of an international editorial committee, including influential figures from the US, Canada, Br...
In Economics Imperialism and Interdisciplinarity: The Watershed and After, Ben Fine selects and adds to his key articles tracking economics imperialism through three phases, focusing on the last decade of the third phase – anything goes as with freakonomics. Each article is accompanied by a preamble setting the context in which it appeared, with a new overall introduction and literature survey drawing out the overall significance for contemporary scholarship. Ranging over mainstream and heterodox economics, the disputes between them, the relationship between economics and other disciplines, and authors such as Lazear, Stiglitz and Akerlof, the accelerating presence of economics imperialism is documented alongside its perverse, critical neglect. The volume is imperative for those engaging in political economy across the social sciences.
The Manual of Museum Management, Third Edition presents a comprehensive and detailed analysis of: the principles of museum organization, the ways in which people work together to accomplish museum objectives, and the ways in which museums, large and small, can function most effectively. This new edition offers updated information on the key aspects of museum practice that dominate today – everything from “flatter” organizational models, shared leadership, the efflorescence of digital practice and complexity in the field, museums and social justice, the hard work and positive rewards of community engagement and partnership, platform “balance” to alternative revenue models. All new contemporary “snapshots” provided by practitioners and drawn from museums and galleries around the world bring the principles to life and digitally-accessed links and resources (in the e-book) round out the relevance and usefulness of this third edition.
Living History – die ganzheitliche Nachgestaltung (alltags-)historischer Situationen – erfreut sich seit einigen Jahren auch in Europa in vielen Museen zunehmender Beliebtheit. Aber was versteht man eigentlich unter Living History. Und sollten es Museen überhaupt in ihr Programm aufnehmen? Ist es nicht einfach nur „Show“ oder überwiegen doch die positiven Effekte? Dieser Band präsentiert die Referate der Arbeitstagung der Volkskundlichen Kommission für Westfalen vom 19./20. Oktober 2007 im Niedersächsischen Freilichtmuseum Cloppenburg, auf der diese und auch weitere Fragen durchaus kontrovers diskutiert wurden. Dabei wird Living History im Museum sowohl unter museologischen Aspekten analysiert als auch in der konkreten Museumsarbeit in dänischen, deutschen, niederländischen und US-amerikanischen Museen vorgestellt. In zwei Beiträgen kommen zudem Akteure zu Wort, die in Living-History-Agenturen mit Museen zusammenarbeiten.
Injury is a leading cause of death, hospitalisation and disability world-wide. The World Health Organization predicts that unintentional injuries arising from road traffic incidents will rise to take third place in the rank order of international disease burden by the year 2030. Although these statistics and the associated economic costs are staggering, the effect of unintentional injury and death from trauma is more apparent, and more disturbing, when seen personally. By a young age, nearly everyone in the world, regardless of region, wealth or education, has had a relative or someone that they know killed or disabled in an "accident". The quality of life and financial effects on the injure...
The 2004 World Health Day is dedicated to the theme of road safety by the World Health Organization (WHO) due mostly to the enormous socio economic costs attributed to trafik accidents. More than 140,000 people are injured, 3,000 killed, and 15,000 disabled for life everyday on the world's roads. The field of trauma biomechanics, or injury biomechanics, uses the principles of mechanics to study the response and tolerance level of biological tissues under extreme loading conditions. Through an understanding of mechanical factors that influence the function and structure of human tissues, countermeasures can be developed to alleviate or even eliminate such injuries. This book, Trauma-Biomechan...
This well-established book on injury biomechanics has been extensively revised and expanded for this new edition. It now includes a fundamental treatment of the mechanics at a cellular level, written by the new coauthor Prof. Barclay Morrison III from Columbia University. Furthermore, considerably more attention is paid to computer modeling, and in particular modeling the human body. The book addresses a wide range of topics in injury biomechanics, including anatomy, injury classification, injury mechanisms, and injury criteria. Further, it provides essential information on regional injury reference values, or injury criteria, that are either currently in use or proposed by both US and European communities. Although the book is intended as an introduction for doctors and engineers who are newcomers to the field of injury biomechanics, sufficient references are provided for those who wish to conduct further research, and even established researchers will find it useful as a reference guide to the biomechanical background of each proposed injury mechanism and injury criterion.