As the continued success of Dancing with the Stars and Strictly Come Dancing reveals, the appetite for ballroom remains insatiable around the world. Ballroom Dance and Glamour offers a fascinating window into the global phenomenon of competitive dance. Including vibrant photographs and commentary, this book showcases the extraordinary costumes, glamorous dancers and elegance of the sport.Based on years of research at international competitions, esteemed a...

Competitive ballroom is much more than a style of dance. Rather, it is a continually evolving and increasingly global social and cultural arena: of fashion, performance, art, sport, gender and more.Ballroom explores the intersection of dance cultures, dress and the body. Presenting the author's experiences at an international range of dance events in Europe, the US and UK, as well as featuring the views of individual dancers, the book shows how dancing influences mind and ...

Lauren Miller Griffith and Jonathan S. Marion introduce the concept of apprenticeship pilgrimage to help explain why performers travel to places both near and far in an attempt to increase both their skill and their legitimacy within various genres of art and activity. What happens when your skill-level surpasses local training opportunities, whether in dance, martial arts, or other skills and practices? Apprenticeship Pilgrimage provides a new and exciting model of apprenticeship pilgrima...

Visual Research: A Concise Introduction to Thinking Visually, Second Edition, provides an accessible introduction to doing visual research in the social sciences. Beginning with ethical considerations, this book highlights the importance of thinking visually before engaging in visual research. Further themes involve creating, organizing, and using images and are presented so as to help readers think about and work with their own visual data.This fully updated second edition include...

Le 7 avril 2004, à Saint-Brevin-les-Pins, Jonathan Coulom, dix ans, disparaît en pleine nuit d’un dortoir de colonie de vacances. Fugue ? Enlèvement ? Les hypothèses se succèdent, se contredisent, s’effondrent. Six semaines plus tard, le corps du petit garçon est retrouvé dans un étang de Guérande.Vingt-deux ans après les faits, une vérité semble enfin émerger.Arrêté en Allemagne, celui qu’on appelle « l’homme en noir », déjà condamné pour des crimes d’une glaçante similari...

In 1968, the world experienced a brand-new kind of terror with the debut of George A. Romero’s landmark movie Night of the Living Dead. The newly dead rose to attack the living. Not as vampires or werewolves. This was something new . . . and terrifying. Since then, zombies have invaded every aspect of popular culture.But it all started on that dreadful night in a remote farmhouse. . . .Nights of the Living Dead returns to that night, to the outbreak, to wh...

Der erste psychologische Ratgeber zur Geh-Therapie – Gehen in der Natur als Mittel der Heilung bei Krisen, Stress und Burnout.Geh-Therapeut Jonathan Hoban initiiert eine neue Therapieform zur Selbstanwendung für alle: die Geh-Therapie. Das Gehirn arbeitet erwiesenermaßen besser, wenn man geht oder läuft. Bewusstes, zügiges Gehen in der Natur fördert die Intuition und die Bereitschaft, ehrlich sich selbst zuzuhören. Stress und Krisen mit belastenden Emotionen können so gezielt abgeba...

La pair-aidance permet aux personnes qui font face à des troubles psychiques de bénéficier de l'aide et de l'expérience de celles qui s'en sont rétablies. La formation des pairs-aidants, qu'ils soient professionnels ou bénévoles, leur permet de valoriser leur vécu et de disposer d'outils concrets pour accompagner le processus de rétablissement. La pair-aidance favorise l'engagement dans les soins et l'acceptation des troubles. Elle permet aussi de mettre en valeur et de renforcer les compé...

"Highly relevant today as prosecutors deal with the aftermath of State Capture. Fascinating from the first page to the last." - Albie Sachs, Former Justice, Constitutional Court Courageous, yet contested, Bulelani Ngcuka has always stood up for what he believes in. His decision in 2003 as National Director of Public Prosecutions not to prosecute then deputy president, Jacob Zuma, is a decision he still stands by to this day. In this sweeping biography, based on many hours of interviews wit...

Stroke is the most common cause of adult disability and is of increasing importance within ageing populations.This brand new title in the ABC series covers the entire patient journey, from prevention through to long-term support. It includes primary prevention and management of risk factors for stroke and secondary prevention including pharmaceutical, lifestyle and surgical intervention. The general principles of stroke rehabilitation are also addressed as well as mobility...

The essays in this volume address the displacement of natural and cultural heritage caused by disasters, whether they be dramatic natural impacts or terrible events unleashed by humankind, including holocaust and genocide. Disasters can be natural or human-made, rapid or slow, great or small, yet the impact is effectively the same; nature, people and cultural heritage are displaced or lost. Yet while heritage and place are at risk from disasters, in time,sites of suffering are sometimes re...

This edited collection demonstrates how discourses and practices associated with marketisation, differentiation and equality are manifested in UK higher education today. Uniting leading scholars in higher education and equality in England, the contributors and editors expose the contradictions arising from the tension between aims for increased equality and an increasingly marketised higher education. As the authors seek to reveal both the intended and unintended consequences of the intens...