Mobility cultures
(2013)
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An analysis of the potential to utilize virtual worlds to enhance edutainment and improve the wellbeing of the ageing population (2013)
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The contribution of this paper identifies the importance of developing and designing tailored virtual places which older members of society can utilize easily and safely within this context; with a focused application of addressing social isolation,... Read More about An analysis of the potential to utilize virtual worlds to enhance edutainment and improve the wellbeing of the ageing population.
A Strategic Framework for Rainwater Harvesting (2013)
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© 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems facilitate the collection, filtration and storage of runoff, usually from roof catchments. The stored rainwater is then either gravity-fed or pumped to supply non-potable points of u... Read More about A Strategic Framework for Rainwater Harvesting.
Simulation games (2013)
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This chapter outlines the conventions and pleasures of simulation games as a category, and explores the complicated and contested term simulation. This concept goes to the heart of what computer games and video games are, and the ways in which they a... Read More about Simulation games.
Psychological Contracts in the Age of Social Networks (2013)
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Smoothing the wrinkles: Hollywood, “successful aging” and the new visibility of older female stars (2013)
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Following Simone de Beauvoir (1972) and Germaine Greer who similarly lamented the cultural invisibility of older women, the current proliferation of Hollywood films with older women protagonists, and the increased visibility of older female stars mig... Read More about Smoothing the wrinkles: Hollywood, “successful aging” and the new visibility of older female stars.
Database narrative, spatial montage, and the cultural transmission of memory: An anthropological perspective (2013)
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This chapter discusses ways in which the database narrative techniques of virtual media can be used to explore the relationship between real-world oral storytelling and embodied performance in the cultural transmission of memory. It is based on an on... Read More about Database narrative, spatial montage, and the cultural transmission of memory: An anthropological perspective.
Seneca’s philosophical predecessors and contemporaries (2013)
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Kierkegaard and vulnerability (2013)
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Recognition beyond the state (2013)
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An architectural gleaning (2013)
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Carless takes on the notion of ‘gleaning’, the activity of searching through debris to find things that can be re-used and incorporated into anything new – in her case, primarily architectural renovations. …
She does this by basing her ideas on Agne... Read More about An architectural gleaning.
The emerging adult: Facilitating transition from child to adult services (2013)
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Pain and fatigue (2013)
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Labouring under false pretences? The emotional labour of authentic leadership (2013)
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Tolkien and worldbuilding (2013)
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The feelings of an officer: John Stedman in Suriname (2013)
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