Architectural Origami
description: MIT 6.849 Geometric Folding Algorithms: Linkages, Origami, Polyhedra, Fall 2012 View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/6-849F12 Input by : Dian Islamiati Instructor: Erik Demaine This class begins with a folding exercise and demonstration involving Origamizer. A high-level overview of the mathematical constraints for Freeform and Rigid software are presented, followed by examples of origami robots and current open problems. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at http://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at http://ocw.mit.edu
source: http://youtu.be/PHy7iaX7rJU
publisher: MIT OpenCourseWare published via YouTube.com
date: 2014-08-26T13:24:00.000Z
contributor: Dian Islamiati
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Understanding Music: Past and Present
subject: Music
subject: Art
subject: Art and Music
description: Music moves through time; it is not static. In order to appreciate music we must remember what sounds happened, and anticipate what sounds might come next. Most of us would agree that not all sounds are music! Examples of sounds not typically thought of as music include noises such as alarm sirens, dogs barking, coughing, the rumble of heating and cooling systems, and the like. But, why? One might say that these noises lack many of the qualities that we typically associate with music.
creator: N. Alan Clark, PhD
creator: Thomas Heflin, PhD
creator: Jeffrey Kluball, PhD
creator: Elizabeth Kramer, PhD
source: https://web.ung.edu/media/university-press/Understanding%20Music-Past%20and%20Present-082817.pdf
publisher: University of North Georgia Press
contributor: Rahmah Agustira
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Fabricate
subject: The arts
subject: Architectural structure and design
description: Bringing together pioneers in design and making within architecture, construction, engineering, manufacturing, materials technology and computation, Fabricate is a triennial international conference, now in its third year (ICD, University of Stuttgart, April 2017). Each year it produces a supporting publication, to date the only one of its kind specialising in Digital Fabrication. The 2017 edition features 32 illustrated articles on built projects and works in progress from academia and practice, including contributions from leading practices such as Foster + Partners, Zaha Hadid Architects, Arup, and Ron Arad, and from world-renowned institutions including ICD Stuttgart, Harvard, Yale, MIT, Princeton University, The Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) and the Architectural Association.
creator: Achim Menges
creator: Bob Chail
creator: Riairi Glynn
creator: Marilena Skavara
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: UCL Press, London
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Tetxbooks

Architecture in the Anthropocene
subject: Architecture
subject: The arts,
description: Research regarding the significance and consequence of anthropogenic transformations of the earth’s land, oceans, biosphere and climate have demonstrated that, from a wide variety of perspectives, it is very likely that humans have initiated a new geological epoch, their own. First labeled the Anthropocene by the chemist Paul Crutzen, the consideration of the merits of the Anthropocene thesis by the International Commission on Stratigraphy and the International Union of Geological Sciences has also garnered the attention of philosophers, historians, and legal scholars, as well as an increasing number of researchers from a range of scientific backgrounds. Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy intensifies the potential of this multidisciplinary discourse by bringing together essays, conversations, and design proposals that respond to the “geological imperative” for contemporary architecture scholarship and practice. Contributors include Nabil Ahmed, Meghan Archer, Adam Bobbette, Emily Cheng, Heather Davis, Sara Dean, Seth Denizen, Mark Dorrian, Elizabeth Grosz, Lisa Hirmer, Jane Hutton, Eleanor Kaufman, Amy Catania Kulper, Clinton Langevin, Michael C.C. Lin, Amy Norris, John Palmesino, Chester Rennie, François Roche, Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, Isabelle Stengers, Paulo Tavares, Etienne Turpin, Eyal Weizman, Jane Wolff, Guy Zimmerman.
creator: Etienne Turpin,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Open Humanities Press
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Understanding Basic Music Theory
subject: Music Theory
creator: Chaterina Schmit-Jones
publisher: Connexions
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

The Basic Elements of Music
subject: Basic Elements of Music
creator: Catherine Schmidt-Jones
publisher: Connexions
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Instruments for New Music: Sound, Technology, and Modernism
subject: Music
description: At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s new open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Player pianos, radio-electric circuits, gramophone records, and optical sound film—these were the cutting-edge acoustic technologies of the early twentieth century, and for many musicians and artists of the time, these devices were also the implements of a musical revolution. Instruments for New Music traces a diffuse network of cultural agents who shared the belief that a truly modern music could be attained only through a radical challenge to the technological foundations of the art. Centered in Germany during the 1920s and 1930s, the movement to create new instruments encompassed a broad spectrum of experiments, from the exploration of microtonal tunings and exotic tone colors to the ability to compose directly for automatic musical machines. This movement comprised composers, inventors, and visual artists, including Paul Hindemith, Ernst Toch, Jörg Mager, Friedrich Trautwein, László Moholy-Nagy, Walter Ruttmann, and Oskar Fischinger. Patteson’s fascinating study combines an artifact-oriented history of new music in the early twentieth century with an astute revisiting of still-relevant debates about the relationship between technology and the arts
creator: Thomas Patteson
publisher: University of California Press
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Music Appreciation: Its Language, History and Culture
subject: Music
creator: Douglas Cohen
creator: Emily Fairey
creator: Miriam Deutch
publisher: OpenStax-CNX
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Religious Architecture: Anthropological Perspectives
subject: Religious
subject: Architecture
subject: Anthropological
description: Borrowing from a range of theories on spacemaking and material religion, and with contributions from anthropologists working in the United Kingdom, Mali, Brazil, Spain, and Italy, this fascinating and comprehensive study develops an anthropological perspective on modern religious architecture including mosques, churches, and synagogues. Religious Architecture examines how religious buildings take their place in opposition to their secular surroundings and, in so doing, function not only as community centers in urban daily life, but also as evocations of the sublime that help believers to move beyond the boundaries of modern subjectivity.
publisher: Amsterdam University Press
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Doing the Right Thing : A Value Based Economy
subject: The arts
description: "This book is for all those who are seeking a human perspective on economic and organizational processes. It lays the foundations for a value based approach to the economy. The key questions are: “What is important to you or your organization?” “What is this action or that organization good for?” The book is directed at the prevalence of instrumentalist thinking in the current economy and responds to the calls for another economy. Another economy demands another economics. The value based approach is another economics; it focuses on values and on the most important goods such as families, homes, communities, knowledge, and art. It places economic processes in their cultural context. What does it take to do the right thing, as a person, as an organization, as a society? What is the good to strive for? This book gives directions for the answers. The value based approach restores the ancient idea that quality of life and of society is what the economy is all about. It advocates shifting the focus from quantities (“how much?”) to qualities (“what is important?”).
creator: Arjo Klamer
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Ubiquity Press, London
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Platonic Occasions: Dialogues on Literature, Art and Culture
subject: Art
subject: Culture
description: In Platonic Occasions, Richard Begam and James Soderholm reflect upon a wide range of thinkers, writers and ideas from Plato, Descartes and Nietzsche to Shakespeare, the Romantics and the Moderns—from Evil, Love and Death to Art, Memory and Mimesis. The dialogues suggest that Percy Shelley was right when he claimed “We are all Greeks,” and yet what have we learned about the initiatives of culture and literature since our classical predecessors? Begam and Soderholm’s ten dialogues function as a series of dual-meditations that take Plato as an intellectual godfather while presenting a new form of dialogic knowledge based on the friction and frisson of two minds contending, inventing and improvising. The authors discuss not only what is healthy and vigorous about Western culture but also consider where that culture is in retreat, as they seek to understand the legacy of the Enlightenment and its relation to the contemporary moment.Platonic Occasionsis an experiment in criticism that enjoins the reader to imagine what the dialogic imagination can do when inspired by Platonic inquiry, but not bound by a single master and the singular mind. Beyond Socratic maieutics and Cartesian meditation is a form of intellectual interplay where it is impossible not to be of two minds.
creator: Richard Begam
creator: James Soderholm
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Stockholm University Press, Stockholm
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Actors and the Art of Performance : Under Exposure
subject: the Art
subject: Performance
description: Acting on stage is a mode of performing an action, in the context of which the bodily aspects implicitly at work in acting reveal their own significance and power. This event can actualize a wound incarnated in human beings, because the actor acts and does not act at the same time and hence the concept of being ‘the doer’ unmasks itself as being illusionary. One could call it a kind of ‘symbolic death’ (Mueller), an ‘anthropological mutation’ (Agamben)––an event of great interest because of its highly ethical call.The book “Actors and the Art of Performance. Under Exposure” opens with a cascade of contradictory motives for becoming an actor. But, if theatre is no longer understood as a theatre of representation, then what takes place on stage is a transformation at play with truth, in which ethics are realized by the aesthetic. Insofar the book summarizes the attempt to explore and map guidelines of acting as being under the perspective of be-coming. That may sound fairly harmless in theory, but it feels anything but harmless when you experience it on your own body. For example, for being physical under exposure actors have to learn that there exists no fundamental dualism between mind and matter. Furthermore, actors are espoused to a dynamic shifting ground in the name of creativity. They have to carry the burden that the self is no sovereign identity as we generally suppose, but rather a threshold of permanent be-coming. One could call it the outstanding gift of acting. In the German language, gift means “poison”, in German ears the word has the double meaning of poison and present, thus expressing the fact that a gift is disturbing and blessing at the same time. Loaded with fear and joy as the crucial point of acting, which attacks and attracts actors and spectators most.
creator: Susanne Valerie
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, London
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Music and the Child
subject: Music
subject: Child
description: Children are inherently musical. They respond to music and learn through music. Music expresses children’s identity and heritage, teaches them to belong to a culture, and develops their cognitive well-being and inner self worth. As professional instructors, childcare workers, or students looking forward to a career working with children, we should continuously search for ways to tap into children’s natural reservoir of enthusiasm for singing, moving and experimenting with instruments. But how, you might ask? What music is appropriate for the children I’m working with? How can music help inspire a well-rounded child? How do I reach and teach children musically? Most importantly perhaps, how can I incorporate music into a curriculum that marginalizes the arts? This book explores a holistic, artistic, and integrated approach to understanding the developmental connections between music and children. This book guides professionals to work through music, harnessing the processes that underlie music learning, and outlining developmentally appropriate methods to understand the role of music in children’s lives through play, games, creativity, and movement. Additionally, the book explores ways of applying music-making to benefit the whole child, i.e., socially, emotionally, physically, cognitively, and linguistically.
creator: Natalie Sarrazin
publisher: Open SUNY Textbooks
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Sound Reasoning
subject: Sound
description: Sound Reasoning is designed to help you listen. This course encourages you to be self-reliant--to get up close to the music, without mediation or interference. Too often, listeners may feel that they need pre-concert lectures, program notes and other verbal explanations to fully appreciate a musical work. These certainly may enhance and supplement one's enjoyment. But, ideally, a musical performance is a direct conversation between performers and listeners. No matter what your knowledge or training, you should be able to enjoy music with the fullness of your thoughts, should be able to explore and interpret it with confidence. The fundamental premise of this course is that, if you listen attentively and think constructively about what you are hearing, your awareness will prosper and your direct connection to the music will thrive. The course assumes little or no prior musical background. The ability to read music is not required. A minimum of musical terminology will be invoked. When it is necessary, all terms are defined in a glossary easily accessible by hyper-link. Most importantly, musical examples are interpolated directly into the text, making it easy to evaluate all the concepts that are introduced. Music's sounds lack literal or fixed meanings: as such, the experience of a musical work is a very subjective one. This course will not teach what to think. It will show how to think, to arrive at your own balanced and carefully considered opinions. A subjective perspective is strongest when it is built upon objectively verifiable observations. You will learn to develop a concrete understanding of the music's progress. The poetry and conviction of your interpretation will grow out of this concentrated hearing. You will also have the confidence to test others' views against your own perceptions. Our musical awareness now stretches further back historically and wider geographically than ever before. It is important to be prepared for music both familiar and unfamili…
creator: Anthony Brandt
creator: Robert McClure
publisher: Connexions
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Sound, Physics and Music
subject: Sound
subject: Physics
subject: Music
creator: Catherine Schmidt-Jones
publisher: Connexions
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Theatrical Worlds
subject: Theatrical
description: From the University of Florida College of Fine Arts, Charlie Mitchell and distinguished colleagues from across America present an introductory text for theatre and theoretical production. This book seeks to give insight into the people and processes that create theater. It does not strip away the feeling of magic but to add wonder for the artistry that make a production work well.
publisher: University Press of Florida
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture
subject: Architecture
subject: Art
description: In The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture specialists in various fields of art history, from Early Christian times to the present, discuss in depth a series of Western artworks, artefacts, and buildings, which question the visualization of Jerusalem.
creator: Jeroen﻿ Goudeau
creator: Mariëtte﻿ Verhoeven
creator: Wouter﻿ Weijers
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Brill
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Imaging Identity: Media, memory and portraiture in the digital age
subject: Media,
description: Imaging Identity presents potent reflections on the human condition through the prism of portraiture. Taking digital imaging technologies and the dynamic and precarious dimensions of contemporary identity as critical reference points, these essays consider why portraits continue to have such galvanising appeal and perform fundamental work across so many social settings. This multidisciplinary enquiry brings together artists, art historians, art theorists and anthropologists working with a variety of media. Authors look beyond conventional ideas of the portrait to the wider cultural contexts, governmental practices and intimate experiences that shape relationships between persons and pictures. Their shared purpose centres on a commitment to understanding the power of images to draw people into their worlds. Imaging Identity tracks a fundamental symbiosis — to grapple with the workings of images is to understand something vital of what it is to be human.
creator: Melinda Hinkson,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: ANU Press
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: textbooks

Popular Music in Southeast Asia
subject: Music
description: From the 1920s on, popular music in Southeast Asia was a mass-audience phenomenon that drew new connections between indigenous musical styles and contemporary genres from elsewhere to create new, hybrid forms. This book presents a cultural history of modern Southeast Asia from the vantage point of popular music, considering not just singers and musicians but their fans as well, showing how the music was intrinsically bound up with modern life and the societal changes that came with it. Reaching new audiences across national borders, popular music of the period helped push social change, and at times served as a medium for expressions of social or political discontent.
creator: Bart Barendregt,
creator: Peter Keppy,
creator: Henk Schulte Nordholt
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Amsterdam University Press
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Trxtbooks

Music Inquiry
subject: Music
subject: Arts
description: An inquiry based approach to learning about music provides flexible lessons that deepen and broaden learners' understanding of music while engaging with their current musical interests, preferences, and goals. This hands-on experience with inquiry in a subject area that appeals to most learners also provides practice in selfdirected learning that can be applied in any area of life-long learning.
creator: Catherine Schmidt-Jones
publisher: Connexions, Rice University, Houston, Texas
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Flowering Light: Kabbalistic Mysticism and the Art of Elliot R. Wolfson
subject: Flowering Light
subject: Art
creator: Marcia Brennan
creator: Jeffrey Kripal
publisher: Connexions
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Houston Reﬂections Art in the City, 1950s, 60s and 70s
subject: Art
creator: Sarah Reynolds
publisher: Connexions
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Framing French Culture
subject: Culture
description: Throughout this book, the concept of framing is used to look at art, photography, scientific drawings and cinema as visually constituted, spatially bounded productions. The way these genres relate to that which exists beyond the frame, by means of plastic, chemically transposed, pencil-sketched or moving images allows us to decipher the particular language of the visual and at the same time circumscribe the dialectic between presence and absence that is proper to all visual media. Yet, these kinds of re-framing owe their existence to the ruptures and upheavals that marked the demise of certain discursive systems in the past, announcing the emergence of others that were in turn overturned.
creator: Natalie Edwards
creator: Ben McCann
creator: Peter Poiana,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: University of Adelaide Press, Adelaide
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Music Appreciation (Georgia Gwinnett College)
subject: Music
description: "The author of this text has intentionally kept it general in nature in order to create a platform for those who want to expand content into more in depth studies of the mentioned concepts and traditions. I believe that appreciation of any subject comes from open-minded exposure to that topic. With the arts this generally must happen at a moment when the message and meaning of the work resonates naturally with the appreciator. Each instructor of music appreciation brings a unique expertise in differing genres. I encourage you to utilize this text along with musical examples of your choice. The music appreciation specific goals (found in the syllabus) vary between individual classes as the instructors see fit. These goals will be achieved by those who have competently met all of the requirements of the course. For the course that this text accompanies the goals for each student are: To gain basic exposure to the elements of music and their treatment in music To learn historical and cultural signifiers in a diverse body of music • To approach listening to music actively/analytically and to reflect on the experience To understand the factors that contribute to musical style in their own music and music presented in the course To gain knowledge about differing musical aesthetics and trends To become more knowledgeable and sensitive to varied human expression through music If we endeavor together to reach these course goals the successful student will be able to: Describe elements of music that s/he hears, employing correct musical terminology Place music into an appropriate historical and cultural context Listen critically and discuss a wide variety of musical styles Analyze the stylistic features of a diverse group of musical styles Identify nationalistic tendencies in musical expression Identify musical diversity and aspects of our global society"
creator: Todd Mueller
creator: Elizabeth Whittenburg Ozment
creator: Catherine Kilroe-Smith
creator: Irina Escalante-Chernova
creator: Marc Gilley
publisher: University System of Georgia
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Burning Bright: Essays in Honour of David Bindman
description: This book celebrates the work and career of the internationally renowned art historian, David Bindman, on the occasion of his 75th birthday, and is above all a tribute to him from his former students and colleagues. With essays on sculpture, drawings, watercolours and prints, the volume reflects the extraordinary range of Bindman’s knowledge of works of art and his impact through his teaching and research on the understanding of British and European artistic developments from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. The essays cast light on questions of technique and stylistic change, patronage, collecting and iconography, and engage with issues such as the representation of race, gender, sexuality, political violence and propaganda, exile, and notions of the canon. The artists discussed here include Hogarth, Blake, Roubiliac, Thorvaldsen and Canova, all subjects of books by David Bindman, as well as Morland, Rowlandson, Gillray, Millais, Munch, Nevinson, and Heartfield.
creator: Diana Dethloff,
creator: Tessa Murdoch
creator: Kim Sloan,
creator: Caroline Elam
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: UCL Press
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Art of Fugue
subject: Art
description: Fugue for J. S. Bach was a natural language; he wrote fugues in organ toccatas and voluntaries, in masses and motets, in orchestral and chamber music, and even in his sonatas for violin solo. The more intimate fugues he wrote for keyboard are among the greatest, most influential, and best-loved works in all of Western music. They have long been the foundation of the keyboard repertory, played by beginning students and world-famous virtuosi alike. In a series of elegantly written essays, eminent musicologist Joseph Kerman discusses his favorite Bach keyboard fugues—some of them among the best-known fugues and others much less familiar. Kerman skillfully, at times playfully, reveals the inner workings of these pieces, linking the form of the fugues with their many different characters and expressive qualities, and illuminating what makes them particularly beautiful, powerful, and moving.
creator: Joseph Kerman,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: University of California Press, Oakland, California
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Facing Forward. Art and Theory from a Future Perspective
subject: Perspective
description: This spirited exploration of the interfaces between art and theory in the 21st century brings together a multidisciplinary range of viewpoints on their future. The authors examine contemporary visual culture based on speculative predictions and creative scientific arguments. Focusing on seven themes - Future Tech, Future Image, Future Museum, Future City, Future Freedom, Future History, and Future Future - the book shows how our sense of the future is shaped by a visual rhetoric of acceleration, progression, excess and destruction. The essays reflect collaborative work between the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, De Appel Arts Centre, W139–Space for Contemporary Art, and the art magazine Metropolis M. Discussing provocative themes like future history and future freedom, ‘Facing Forward’ is an energetic look at how our visions of the future affect how we depict the world around us.
creator: Hendrik Folkerts,
creator: Cristoph Lindner,
creator: Margriet Schavemaker,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Amsterdam University Press
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Tetxbooks

The Conscience of Cinema
subject: Cinema
description: The Conscience of Cinema is not only a history of a rich and varied personal oeuvre by a prolific documentary maker who worked on every continent and through seven decades, from the 1920s to the 1980s. It is also the history of the aspiration to use documentary film to change the world by a committed leftist, as well as a microcosmic history of documentary form, technology and culture, and its place within world cinema as a whole throughout the twentieth century. Ivens worked in almost every genre of documentary, including the essay, compilation, hybrid dramatization, direct cinema, social observation, the solidarity film, socialist realism, agitprop activism. In this book, detailed filmic analysis is enriched by a profound historical understanding of the contexts in which Ivens carried out his vision, from his native Netherlands to the Soviet bloc, USA, France, Latin America, Vietnam and finally China. Everywhere, Joris Ivens left an indelible artistic and political mark, critically relevant to a twenty-first century where documentary has reclaimed its cultural and political centrality. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.
creator: Thomas Waugh,
source: http://www.oapen.org/search
publisher: Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

An Introduction to Technical Theatre
subject: Technical Theatre
description: An Introduction to Technical Theatre draws on the author’s experience in both the theatre and the classroom over the last 30 years. Intended as a resource for both secondary and post-secondary theatre courses, this text provides a comprehensive overview of technical theatre, including terminology and general practices. Introduction to Technical Theatre’s accessible format is ideal for students at all levels, including those studying technical theatre as an elective part of their education. The text’s modular format is also intended to assist teachers approach the subject at their own pace and structure, a necessity for those who may regularly rearrange their syllabi around productions and space scheduling.
creator: Tal Sanders
source: https://open.umn.edu
publisher: Tualatin Books
date: 2018
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbook

Exploring Movie Construction & Production: What’s so exciting about movies
subject: Movie Construction, Production
description: What is it about watching movies that makes it one of our favorite pastimes? Is it the star of the movie? Is it the hype about the movie? Is it because it is an action movie or thriller? Do you like comedies so you can laugh? Most people do. Genesee Community College students made the following comments about the joy of watching comedy movies. “(I like) being able to watch a movie and relieving any sadness and negativity (in me) by laughing and realizing things are not so bad.” “I enjoy a movie because it takes me away from my problems in my life for a short period of time.” “I can escape life a little bit. I can just laugh and not think about work or school or any other stresses in life.” “I like to watch (a) comedy on a sad day because I can smile and laugh about it later.” “I like comedy movies because I love to laugh. Most comedies deal with real life things, which make me enjoy watching them.” Movies offer much more. Do you like suspense in a movie? How much of a movie do you remember two weeks after seeing it? Have you ever wanted to keep your adrenalin up after watching a suspenseful movie or keep your euphoric mood up after watching a comedy?
creator: John Reich
source: https://textbooks.opensuny.org/tag/movie-production/
publisher: Open SUNY Textbooks
date: 2017
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbook

Music Theory
subject: Music
description: The manner in which music theory has been traditionally taught is now in a state of flux. Originally, the study of music theory was designed to acquaint the music student or knowledgeable amateur with the composer’s working materials in “Classical” music roughly spanning the 17th- through the 19th Centuries. The role of music theory has expanded far beyond this mandate: theory training now incorporates greater or lesser explanations of music after 1900, music before 1600, idiomatic Jazz practices, elements of World Music, and Popular Song idioms. Such an expansion of means and methods in learning and teaching the fundamental language of music presents a formidable and almost daunting challenge: what to teach, how to teach it, and in what sequence
creator: Mark Andrew Cook
source: https://2012books.lardbucket.org/pdfs/music-theory
publisher: -
date: 2012
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbook

Exploring Movie Construction & Production: What’s so exciting about movies
subject: Movie
description: This book is designed in this manner because, as a college film instructor at a community college for 18 years, I have found that the biggest difficulty students have with a film course is the textbook. Other textbooks give examples from numerous movies to demonstrate a particular term. Most of the movies used in other textbooks, the students have not seen, resulting in the students not comprehending the technical film terms and rendering the textbook useless. A book on film should be about film terminology and the understanding of it. Movies then become more appreciated when watched, resulting in better understanding of the movie and the terminology.
creator: John Reich
source: https://textbooks.opensuny.org/exploring-movie-construction-production
publisher: http//:opensuny.org
date: 2017
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbook

Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning
subject: Art, Design, Context
description: We live in a rapidly changing world in which images play an important, even central, role. With widespread use of personal electronics, we instantaneously deliver and receive sound, video, and text messages. Corporations and governments worldwide recognize the power of advertising. Art museums worldwide are putting large parts of their collections online. Today we are seeing theater-quality movies made with inexpensive equipment that was unavailable ten years ago. Selfies, personal video, and memes are everywhere. In 1968, artist Andy Warhol (1928-1967, USA) said, “In the future everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes.” (Self Portrait, Andy Warhol: http://art.newcity.com/wp- content/uploads/2011/05/Warhol_SelfPortrait.jpg) We are seeing that prediction come true with the advent of personal electronics that rival the sophistication of the most advanced professional studios of only twenty years ago. We are surrounded by images, but, for all of our clever technical abilities, the fundamental dynamics of visual art remain the same.
creator: Pamela Sachant, Peggy Blood
source: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/
publisher: University of North Georgia Press
date: 2016
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbook

Instruments for New Music : Sound, Technology, and Modernism
subject: Instruments, Music
description: Player pianos, radio-electric circuits, gramophone records, and optical sound film—these were the cutting-edge acoustic technologies of the early twentieth century, and for many musicians and artists of the time, these devices were also the implements of a musical revolution. Instruments for New Music traces a diffuse network of cultural agents who shared the belief that a truly modern music could be attained only through a radical challenge to the technological foundations of the art. Centered in Germany during the 1920s and 1930s, the movement to create new instruments encompassed a broad spectrum of experiments, from the exploration of microtonal tunings and exotic tone colors to the ability to compose directly for automatic musical machines. This movement comprised composers, inventors, and visual artists, including Paul Hindemith, Ernst Toch, Jörg Mager, Friedrich Trautwein, László Moholy-Nagy, Walter Ruttmann, and Oskar Fischinger.
creator: Thomas Patteson
source: https://www.luminosoa.org/site/books/10.1525/luminos.7/read/
publisher: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
date: 2016
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: Ebooks
language: English
type: Textbook

Snow Sports Trauma and Safety: Conference Proceedings of the International Society for Skiing Safety: 21st Volume
subject: Sports Science
description: This book covers the latest in snow sport epidemiology, snow sport injuries and treatment, and biomechanical/mechanical engineering related to snow sports injuries (mechanisms of injury, injury prevention by equipment design, injury prevention by design of resort features, and more). It brings together a collection of papers from the International Congress on Ski Trauma and Safety (the biennal meeting of the International Society for Skiing Safety) and presents the latest research on the effectiveness of winter sports equipment, the behavior of winter sports participants, and the epidemiology and biomechanics of winter sports injuries.
creator: Irving S. Scher --- Richard M. Greenwald --- Nicola Petrone
source: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-52755-0.pdf
publisher: Springer
date: 2017
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Technical Theatre Practicum - Version 1
subject: Theatre Practicum
description: Welcome to the exciting world of technical theatre. Studying this topic can lead to many different careers in several different sectors of the economy. The general skills needed for any of the careers or sectors have many things in common. Workers need to be dead-line oriented, as most productions have firm timelines that cannot be altered. Critical thinking and analysis are much needed skills. Almost every project in the field is unique and technicians and designers alike must discover the best way of reaching a project’s goal. Creative problem solving is trait successful practitioners have in common. With every project being unique, there are no guaranteed solutions to the problems that are presented. Technicians draw on their vast experience of what worked in the past that can be adapted to be a solution to the current problems. Clear communication and collaboration round out the necessary skills. No technical theatre project is ever handled by one person on their own. Collaboration with many people is the norm, and successful collaboration requires clear written and verbal communication skills.
creator: Christopher R Boltz,
source: https://www.canyons.edu/_resources/documents/academics/onlineeducation/TechnicalTheatrePracticumV1.pdf
publisher: College of the Canyons
date: 2019
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Ambisonics
subject: Music
description: This open access book provides a concise explanation of the fundamentals and background of the surround sound recording and playback technology Ambisonics. It equips readers with the psychoacoustical, signal processing, acoustical, and mathematical knowledge needed to understand the inner workings of modern processing utilities, special equipment for recording, manipulation, and reproduction in the higher-order Ambisonic format. The book comes with various practical examples based on free software tools and open scientific data for reproducible research.
creator: Zotter, Franz --- Frank, Matthias
source: -
publisher: Springer Nature
date: 2019
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Bio-based Building Skin
subject: Agriculture (General)
description: This book provides a compendium of material properties, demonstrates several successful examples of bio-based materials’ application in building facades, and offers ideas for new designs and novel solutions. It features a state-of-the-art review, addresses the latest trends in material selection, assembling systems, and innovative functions of facades in detail. Selected case studies on buildings from diverse locations are subsequently presented to demonstrate the successful implementation of various biomaterial solutions, which defines unique architectural styles and building functions.
creator: Sandak, Anna --- Sandak, Jakub --- Brzezicki, Marcin --- Kutnar, Andreja
source: -
publisher: Springer Nature
date: 2020
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Creating Healthy and Sustainable Buildings
subject: Architecture
description: The open access book discusses human health and wellbeing within the context of built environments. It provides a comprehensive overview of relevant sources of literature and user complaints that clearly demonstrate the consequences of lack of attention to health in current building design and planning. Current designing of energy-efficient buildings is mainly focused on looking at energy problems and not on addressing health. Therefore, even green buildings that place environmental aspects above health issues can be uncomfortable and unhealthy, and can lead to public health problems. The authors identify many health risk factors and their parameters, and the interactions among risk factors and building design elements.
creator: Dovjak, Mateja --- Kukec, Andreja
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/80625103-d9db-449e-a3d1-6e47636bbc83/1007288.pdf
publisher: Springer Nature
date: 2020
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

A Practical Approach to Understanding Music Theory - 1st
subject: Music-Theory
description: A Practical Approach to Understanding Music Theory is a textbook designed for the non-music performance major or music business/audio engineer who needs to professionally interface with musicians without needing to write or compose music. The material is designed around a spiral learning model in which a very simple straightforward concept is introduced, defined and explained. From this point and forward the book adds one element of music theory after another until a broad base of musical understanding and application is achieved
creator: Charles Brooks
source: https://una.pressbooks.pub/music-theory
publisher: University of North Alabama
date: 2022
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Tewxtbooks

Foundational Sight Singing
subject: Singing commercials--Production and direction
description: Sight reading music can be a daunting endeavor for aspiring, and even experienced, musicians. Foundational Sight Singing was created to provide a systematic approach to learn to read, hear and perform music. The ordered presentation of both melodies and rhythms in this text helps students develop accuracy and fluency in sight singing which is a fundamental skill for all musicians. It is a text for developing proficiency in reading and sight singing that can be used in a variety of contexts from individual practice to choral or instrumental ensemble rehearsals to college ear training courses. Multiple exercises are provided for drilling and practice at each level throughout the text to grow the students’ fluency and proficiency in reading and performing pitch and rhythm.
creator: Tobin Stewart
source: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/foundational-sight-singing
publisher: TRAILS
date: 2022
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Theatre Appreciation
subject: Arts
description: TheatreAppreciation is a textbook for introductory level lecture classes such as Theatre Appreciation and Introduction to Theatre. It provides insight about the art and craft of theatre, a brief exploration of theatre history, and discussion about the styles and forms of theatre along with an overview of professions in the field.
creator: Kiara Pipino
source: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/theatreappreciation
publisher: SUNY Oneonta
date: 2022
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Foundations of Aural Skills
subject: Music
description: is a research-based, accessible, relevant, creative, inclusive, empowering textbook for teaching introductory aural skills. The first seven chapters provide thorough instruction in aural fundamentals, allowing students to build their foundations from a variety of starting points. The following chapters address the traditional tasks of sight-reading and dictation, but also improvisation, mimicking music you hear (“playback”), transcription, and ensemble skills. The final two chapters add some basic form- and chord-listening skills. Every section includes creative activities that learners can try out on their own or do in class. Embedded playlists for practicing listening skills include a diverse range of music that will connect with students’ preferences and allow them to experience music they haven’t worked with before. While the text is primarily designed for a first semester or year of instruction, it also includes some instruction on modulation, chromaticism, and mixed meter, and future additions/development will make these advanced applications more robust.
creator: Timothy Chenette
source: https://uen.pressbooks.pub/auralskills/
publisher: Utah Education Network Digital Press with Pressbooks
date: 2022
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Arts, Religion, and the Environment
subject: The arts: general issues
description: Exploring Nature’s Texture brings together a collection of internationally-known group of artists, theologians, anthropologists and philosophers to look at the imaginative possibilities of using the visual arts to address the breakdown of the human relationship with the environment. ; Readership: Scholars and students in theology/religious studies, art history, artists and curators, environmental humanities, environmental studies, philosophy, anthropology, environmental arts, architecture, sociology.
creator: Bergmann, Sigurd (editor) Clingerman, Forrest (editor)
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/53852/1/9789004358980.pdf
publisher: BRIIL
date: 2018
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Adaptive Urban Transformation
subject: Landscape art & architecture
description: This open access book provides a cross-sectoral, integrative and multi-scale design and planning approach for adaptive urban transformation of fast urbanising deltas, taking the Pearl River Delta (China) as a case study. Deltaic areas are among the most promising regions in the world. Their strategic location and superior quality of their soils are core factors supporting both human development and the rise of these regions as global economic hubs. At the same time, however, deltas are extremely vulnerable to multiple threats from both climate change and urbanisation. These include an increased flood risk combined with the resulting loss of ecological and social-cultural values. To ensure a more sustainable future for these areas, spatial strategies are needed to strengthen resilience, i.e. help the systems to cope with their vulnerabilities as well as enhance their capacity to overcome natural and artificial threats.
creator: Nijhuis, Steffen (editor) Sun, Yimin (editor) Lange, Eckart (editor)
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/63959/1/978-3-030-89828-1.pdf
publisher: Springer Nature
date: 2023
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Comprehensive Musicianship, A Practical Resource
subject: Musicianship
description: This OER presents an integrated suite of learning resources developed for the core music theory and musicianship curriculum at the University of Northern Iowa School of Music. It provides a more comprehensive symbiosis of musicianship and music theory learning than can be found in existing textbooks, including engaging and progressive video demonstrations and interactive listening and vocal exercises that integrate musical knowledge with foundational musical skills.
creator: Randall Harlow, Heather Peyton, Jonathan Clarke Schwabe,
source: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/comprehensive-musicianship-a-practical-resource
publisher: Iowa State University Digital Press
date: 2023
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Interior Materiality
subject: Interior
description: The knowledge of materials and finishes is the bridge that links conceptual design to real-world application. It is among the core content of virtually all interior architecture/design curricula, moreover, access to up-to-date information on emerging technologies and trends is a key exigency for the contemporary designer. Accordingly, this book is authored to form a comprehensive resource for the “hows” and “whys” surrounding the functional and aesthetic contributions of a wide selection of materials and finishes used in multiple spatial design contexts. The knowledge base presented here is not only useful in shaping spatial experience, ensuring occupant well-being, and employing sustainable thinking but also beneficial in managing budget and schedule while enabling the delivery of top-quality work
creator: Kutay Guler
source: https://newprairiepress.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi
publisher: New Prairie Press
date: 2021
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Sports Marketing: An Australian Perspective
subject: Sports marketing
description: Sports marketing refers to promoting goods and services through sporting events and the endorsement of athletes and sports teams. For any sports organisation, it is imperative to have an effective sports marketing strategy in place to build brand awareness, enhance customer loyalty and generate revenue. Companies in sports use marketing strategies to fulfil their goals, such as attracting more junior players, involving parents, increasing the company's public profile, entertaining spectators, acquiring sponsorships, and securing broadcasting rights deals.
creator: Jessica Richards
source: https://westernsydney.pressbooks.pub/sportmarketing/
publisher: Western Sydney University
date: 2024
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Building Information Modeling using Revit for Architects and Engineers
subject: Architects and Engineers
description: This book offers a web-based multimedia platform to enable students in Architecture, Civil Engineering, and Construction Engineering to learn fundamentals of BIM using Revit and be able to create building architectural, mechanical and structural models, develop construction documentation and analyze building performance. The platform include: book chapters on detailed Revit instructions and videos.
creator: Atefe Makhmalbaf
source: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/building-information-modeling-using-revit-for-architects-and-engineers
publisher: Mavs Open Press
date: 2022
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Archival Film Curatorship
subject: Films
description: The book’s introduction places the phenomenon of film’s museumification within the context of the digital turn and the debates about its impact on the medium’s specificity, its historicization, the circulation of archival footage, and archival workflows. Building on previous readings of Jean-Louis Baudry’s notion of dispositif, the chapter examines the curatorial discourses and historical narratives that shape our understanding of early and silent cinema today, positioning film museums at the intersection of film archiving and film historiography. Against the limits of poststructuralist conceptualizations of the archive, this introduction theorizes archival film curatorship as a space of temporal and historical mediation within the framework of Hayden White’s metahistory and Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics.
creator: Ingravalle, Grazia
source: https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/132241
publisher: Amsterdam University Press
date: 2024
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Teaching Artistic Strategies : Playing with Materiality, Aesthetics and Ambiguity
subject: Art
description: Artistic strategies have a great transformative potential to improving research, teaching, and artistic expression. The contributors to this volume show how to unleash this potential by presenting a variety of epistemological experiments at the intersection of artistic research, pedagogy, and innovative practices in art and design education. The diversity of contributions demonstrates the non-exhaustive space for experimental phenomenological adventures. This collection strengthens new communities of educators and researchers in arts and design, whose practices are built on the concept of care as empathetic knowledge production.
creator: Kargin, Fatma (editor), King, Dorothée (editor),Savic, Selena (editor)
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/93019/9783839473344.pdf
publisher: transcript Verlag
date: 2024
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Martial Arts and Well-being
subject: Sports psychology Health psychology
description: Martial Arts and Well-Being explores how martial arts as a source of learning can contribute in important ways to health and well-being, as well as provide other broader social benefits. Using psychological and sociological theory related to behaviour, ritual, perception and reality construction, the book seeks to illustrate, with empirical data, how individuals make sense of and perceive the value of martial arts in their lives.
creator: Carol Fuller Viki Lloyd
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/102161/9781315448077.pdf
publisher: Taylor & Francis
date: 2019
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Assessment of Physical Fitness and Training Effect in Individual Sports
subject: Lifestyle growth; physical fitness
description: Physical fitness is the basis for the success of players in sports, and its monitoring makes it possible to assess the effectiveness of training and identify possible errors. During training, thanks to the use of control results, these activities are modified, which better prepares players for competition.
creator: Tadeusz Ambrozy, Mariusz Ozimek, et.al.
source: https://mdpi-res.com/bookfiles/book/6605/Assessment_of_Physical_Fitness_and_Training_Effect_in_Individual_Sports.pdf
publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
date: 2023
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Sports or/and Special Populations: Training Physiology in Health and Sports Performance
subject: Sports Medicine
description: Several factors have been identified as interfering with the success, rehabilitation, and fitness of athletes from childhood to adulthood, as well as in para-sport, and special populations, according to research. The performance and health of this population are affected by the relationships between stress, maturation, training load, and recovery. Environmental approaches aim to increase efficiency and physiological adaptations in this sense.
creator: Felipe Aidar
source: https://mdpi-res.com/bookfiles/book/8169/Sports_orand_Special_Populations_Training_Physiology_in_Health_and_Sports_Performance.pdf
publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
date: 2023
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Digital Technologies: Applications, Window of Opportunity and Challenges in Exercise, Health and Sports
subject: Public health Sports
description: Digital technology is opening unique opportunities for exercise, health, and sports development. Experience in these areas is growing fast due to advances in digital technologies. From the use of software and wearable devices to advanced data analysis approaches, there is a great range of possibilities and improvements to come from using digital technologies.
creator: Rodrigo Zacca, Flávio Antônio de Souza Castro
source: https://mdpi-res.com/bookfiles/book/9790/Digital_Technologies_Applications_Window_of_Opportunity_and_Challenges_in_Exercise_Health_and_Sports.pdf
publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
date: 2024
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Sport, Leadership, and Social Inclusion
subject: Sports management Sociology
description: This book considers how sport organizations can create inclusive practices to strengthen social progress, focusing on the importance of leadership in fostering positive change. Drawing on original research, and adopting a meso-level, multi-disciplinary approach that includes perspectives from sport management, the sociology of sport and organizational psychology, the book considers the evidence for sport as a vector of social progress.
creator: Hans Erik Næss, Mari Svendsen.
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/102195/9781040396940.pdf
publisher: Taylor & Francis
date: 2025
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Participatory Research in Sport and Physical Activity
subject: Sport science Sport Physical Activity
description: This is the first book to focus on participatory research in the context of sport and physical activity. It explores the transformative potential of participatory research methods and provides an introduction to the practicalities of doing participatory research in sport and physical activity. The book is structured around phases of the research process, covering research design, data collection, data analysis, and knowledge mobilization and translation. Chapters cover research design topics such as building research partnerships, reflexivity and ethical issues; methods such as social photo-elicitation, go-along interviews, and biographical mapping; analytical approaches such as collective memory work and collaborative analysis; and knowledge mobilization and translation topics such as podcasting, digital tools, and peer review.
creator: Kyle A. Rich, Robyn Smith, Audrey R. Giles.
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/104216/9781040043714.pdf
publisher: Taylor & Francis
date: 2024
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Bridging Behavioral Sciences and Sports Sciences
subject: Theatre studies Music
description: This Special Issue features innovative research exploring the interdisciplinary nexus used to enhance sports sciences, optimizing athletic performance, health and well-being. Highlighted studies include Taveira et al.'s investigation into older adults' continuance intentions for online exercise classes, revealing psychological motivators and barriers. Koybulan et al. examine smartphone addiction among athletes, identifying behavioural and environmental correlates and their impact on performance and mental health. Deng et al. contribute a systematic review on motor imagery training, elucidating its benefits for tennis players.
creator: José Eduardo Teixeira, Luís Branquinho, Ricardo Ferraz.
source: https://mdpi-res.com/bookfiles/book/9832/Bridging_Behavioral_Sciences_and_Sports_Sciences.pdf
publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
date: 2024
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Athletes Performance and Analysis in Combat Sports and Martial Arts
subject: Sport Martial Arts
description: This reprint, originally published as a Special Issue of Applied Sciences, focuses on the performance and analysis of athletes in combat sports and martial arts. The volume takes an interdisciplinary approach, exploring physiological, biomechanical, psychological, and tactical aspects of athlete performance. The collected articles include empirical research, reviews, and innovative applications of technology in the assessment of competitive bouts.
creator: Łukasz Rydzik, Tadeusz Ambrozy, Wojciech Cynarski, Wojciech Czarny, Wiesław Błach
source: https://mdpi-res.com/bookfiles/book/10943/Athletes_Performance_and_Analysis_in_Combat_Sports_and_Martial_Arts.pdf
publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
date: 2025
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Sport and Exercise for Health and Performance
subject: Sport Lifestyle
description: This reprint aims to make a significant contribution to the field by exploring a broad spectrum of interconnected areas that can directly influence the safety and effectiveness of training regimens. Another key focus is the role of relational coordination between individuals, trainers, administrators, health personnel, clubs, and other stakeholders. Effective communication and coordination across these entities are critical to ensuring a safe environment for all participants.
creator: Shaher A.I. Shalfawi
source: https://mdpi-res.com/bookfiles/book/10753/Sport_and_Exercise_for_Health_and_Performance.pdf
publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
date: 2025
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Delivering Effective Adventure Therapy
subject: Psychotherapy Sport science
description: Delivering Effective Adventure Therapy: A Therapist’s Guide to Producing Transformative Change for Clients provides effective interventions for enriching therapeutic techniques using experiential methodology infused with metaphor. Therapists continuously search for effective therapeutic interventions to engage clients in treatment and promote positive change. Adventure therapy overcomes the barriers of traditional therapeutic interventions such as, passivity, lack of input, and increased levels of resistance from clients.
creator: Michael A. Gass
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/102911/9781040122228.pdf
publisher: Taylor & Francis
date: 2024
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Interrogating Integration
subject: Sport Sociology European history
description: Interrogating Integration explores how international sporting spectacles, media campaigns, and public debates construct racialized national identity in an era of rising right-wing nationalism. Across Europe, “integration” has emerged as a guiding concept to regulate cultural differences, particularly in Germany, where integration became a watchword after the introduction of birthright citizenship in 2000. The legal expansion of German citizenship threatened the homogeneous definition of the nation and spurred increased scrutiny of immigrants and Germans of color, primarily Muslim and Black Germans.
creator: Kate Zambon
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/100579/9780472904983.pdf
publisher: University of Michigan Press
date: 2025
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: reative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Efficiency in Kinesiology
subject: Sports Lifestyle
description: This Special Issue delves into cutting-edge methodologies and research in kinesiology aimed at optimizing motor skills and enhancing athletic performance. Building upon the success of the first edition, this updated collection presents a range of innovative approaches that bridge the gap between theory and practice in sports science. Topics include neuromuscular adaptations, biomechanics, motor learning strategies, and technological advancements in training and assessment.
creator: Diego Minciacchi
source: https://mdpi-res.com/bookfiles/book/9929/Efficiency_in_Kinesiology_Innovative_Approaches_in_Enhancing_Motor_Skills_for_Athletic_Performance_20.pdf
publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
date: 2024
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Technology in Sports
subject: Biomedical engineering
description: Explore the dynamic intersection of technology and sports in Technology in Sports - Recent Advances, New Perspectives, and Application. This comprehensive volume covers a wide array of topics, from the biomedical and legal aspects of nutrition for athletes to cutting-edge developments in sports analytics and talent identification. Discover how computer simulations are revolutionizing training strategies and delve into the role of ECG in athlete health assessment.
creator: Thomas Wojda
source: https://intech-files.s3.amazonaws.com/a043Y00000zXAzLQAW/0015158_Authors_Book%20%282024-05-09%2012%3A22%3A46%29.pdf
publisher: IntechOpen
date: 2024
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Focus on Exercise Physiology and Sports Performance
subject: Sports Lifestyle
description: The fields of exercise physiology and sports performance explore the intricate relationship between physical activity, the body's physiological responses, and athletic performance. Within this context, the study of how the body functions during exercise is essential. The goal of this Special Issue is to synthesize the latest research that demonstrates how the body adapts to exercise and provides insights into how training can enhance performance and optimize athlete's capabilities.
creator: Laikang Yu
source: https://mdpi-res.com/bookfiles/book/10778/Focus_on_Exercise_Physiology_and_Sports_Performance.pdf
publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
date: 2025
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commont
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Maximising Triathlon Health and Performance
subject: Sports Lifestyle
description: This Special Issue presents some of the latest findings at the cutting edge of triathlon health and performance. The idea for this issue arose from round table discussions on how to optimise training and performance between Dr Veronica Vleck, Professor Maria Francesca Piacentini, and some of the best coaches, medics, sports physiologists, researchers, and athletes in the sport.
creator: Veronica Vleck Maria Francesca Piacentini
source: https://mdpi-res.com/bookfiles/book/10692/Maximising_Triathlon_Health_and_Performance.pdf
publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
date: 2025
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Risk in Sports and Challenges for Sports Organizations
subject: Sports Economics Management
description: Success, injuries, future career opportunities of athletes, and the societal gains of participating in sports and organizing (mega) sports events are all related to individual risk-taking behavior. Although the sports economics and management literature has broadly addressed these issues, it is surprising that less attention has been paid to the implications of risk-taking on the organization of sports in general and, more particularly, on the design and behavior of sports organization members.
creator: Hannes Winner, Michael Barth, Martin Schnitzer
source: https://mdpi-res.com/bookfiles/book/6558/Risk_in_Sports_and_Challenges_for_Sports_Organizations.pdf
publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
date: 2023
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Applied Biomechanics in Sports Performance, Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation
subject: Sports Lifestyle
description: I am pleased to present this Special Issue on applied biomechanics in sports performance, injury prevention, and rehabilitation. Advances in modern technological devices have allowed sports scientists to gather increasingly detailed information about the sports field and movement performance analysis. The availability of a wide range of kinetic and kinematic parameters has led to significant improvements in our ability to analyze various aspects of sports performance. Additionally, biomechanical studies have facilitated the development of efficient movement patterns, proper postural habits, and energy conservation through the economy of movement.
creator: Alfonso Penichet-Tomás
source: https://mdpi-res.com/bookfiles/book/10677/Applied_Biomechanics_in_Sports_Performance_Injury_Prevention_and_Rehabilitation.pdf
publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
date: 2025
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Wearable and Portable Devices in Sport Biomechanics and Training Science
subject: Sports Mathematics and Science Biology
description: Sport biomechanics and training have been traditionally tested under laboratory conditions, requiring both specific conditions and expensive equipment. The novel use of wearable devices aims to fulfill the lack of ecology for such measures and provides an affordable and easy-to-use option to perform biomechanics. Lately, wearable sensors have allowed for the quantification of performance and workload by providing mechanical and physiological parameters and their popularity has grown exponentially.
creator: Felipe García-Pinillos, Alejandro Pérez-Castilla, Diego Jaén-Carrillo
source: https://mdpi-res.com/bookfiles/book/9648/Wearable_and_Portable_Devices_in_Sport_Biomechanics_and_Training_Science.pdf
publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
date: 2024
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Personalized Management in Orthopedics and Traumatology
subject: Sports Biology
description: Sports Medicine and Injury Prevention: The shift towards personalized approaches in sports medicine optimizes athlete care by considering unique biomechanics, medical history, and performance goals. This Special Issue highlights personalized medicine's impact on injury prevention, rehabilitation, and performance management. Kopf et al. investigated painkiller use in amateur football, revealing that 36.2% of players used painkillers for pain relief. While 74% of coaches opposed their use in competition, 56.2% admitted to using them, indicating a need for preventive measures.
creator: Markus Gesslein, Eduard Kurz
source: https://mdpi-res.com/bookfiles/book/10607/Personalized_Management_in_Orthopedics_and_Traumatology.pdf
publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
date: 2025
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Governance, Regulation and Management of Global Sport Organisations
subject: Sports management International institutions
description: This book is a bold and ambitious analysis of the challenges facing global sport in the 21st century and how those challenges can be met through good governance, management and regulation. Connecting the political and managerial dimensions of sport, from international governing bodies such as the International Olympic Committee through to national governing bodies, leagues and professional sport organisations, the book offers a new way of thinking about the trajectory of contemporary sport.
creator: Emmanuel Bayle
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/102967/9781040164723.pdf
publisher: Taylor & Francis
date: 2024
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

The Contested Terrain of Sport
subject: Sport Lifestyle
description: This anthology brings together a set of 10 critical analyses of the intersection of sociology, politics, and policy within the contested terrain of sport. The concept of contested terrain is used to capture the uniqueness and complexity of sport as a site for discussion, debate, negotiation, and conflict involving diverse interest groups with varying levels of resources and contrasting, competing sets of ideas and beliefs. The contested terrain of sport includes the politics of recognition and legitimacy for new sports, as witnessed by the entry of breakdancing into the 2024 Paris Olympics and the increasing pressure to include e-sports.
creator: Steve Jackson, Michael Sam
source: https://mdpi-res.com/bookfiles/book/11060/The_Contested_Terrain_of_Sport.pdf
publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
date: 2025
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Gender, Class, and Respectability in Leisure
subject: Sports Sociology
description: This book interrogates the role of gender and class in shaping women’s everyday leisure practices. Drawing on empirical research in urban Turkey, the book explores how leisure is perceived and practised by women within their communities. The book examines the relationship of women’s leisure to their labour, women’s access to and uses of public leisure spaces, and the dynamics of their everyday sociability within their neighbourhoods. It is the first book to apply Skegg’s concept of ‘respectability’ – socially recognised judgments and standards which label the ‘right’ practices, that hold morality and power in a given context – as a theoretical tool with which to understand leisure in a country in which modernisation and Westernisation have been a central dynamic shaping political, social, and cultural life.
creator: Gökben Demirbaş
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/102879/9781040118184.pdf
publisher: Taylor & Francis
date: 2024
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Healthy, Digital and Sustainable Buildings and Cities
subject: Technology Architecture
description: The following Special Issue on Healthy, Digital, and Sustainable Buildings and Cities features 16 papers that collectively explore enhancing built and urban environments through a focus on health, technology, and sustainability. Topics include biophilic design, strategies to reduce indoor air pollution, and the Smart Readiness Indicator's application in educational buildings. The included studies also address thermal comfort in sports halls, trends in sustainability research, and project management methodologies for construction projects.
creator: Lina Šeduikytė, Jakub Kolarik
source: https://mdpi-res.com/bookfiles/book/10509/Healthy_Digital_and_Sustainable_Buildings_and_Cities.pdf
publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
date: 2025
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Sol-Gel
subject: Ceramic Art Ceramic Materials
description: The sol-gel method is a powerful and versatile wet chemical process for synthesizing advanced materials, particularly oxide-based nanostructures. Its ability to produce materials in various forms, such as powders, thin films, fibers, and aerogels, makes it a valuable tool in fields ranging from electronics and energy to medicine and environmental science. This book provides a comprehensive overview of sol-gel technology, highlighting its cost-effectiveness, flexibility, and precise control over material properties. Special attention is given to developing sustainable sol-gel processes in response to increasing environmental concerns.
creator: Susana Devesa, Sílvia Soreto.
source: https://intech-files.s3.amazonaws.com/a043Y000011YPulQAG/0015965_Authors_Book%20%282025-06-26%2009%3A10%3A12%29.pdf
publisher: IntechOpen
date: 2025
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks