Tag: Mixed

January 5, 2024

Unleashing Manhood in the Cage Masculinity and Mixed Martial Arts

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Free Download Christian Vaccaro, "Unleashing Manhood in the Cage: Masculinity and Mixed Martial Arts"
English | ISBN: 1498523765 | 2015 | 140 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Unleashing Manhood in the Cage: Masculinity and Mixed Martial Arts addresses the question "Why do mixed martial arts participants endure grueling workouts and suffer through injury, with little or no pay, just to compete?" The answer is because the participants enjoy a form of idolization from their supporters, each other, and culture more generally, which is linked to masculinity. In fact, MMA organizers, from the very beginning, purposefully created elements of the sport that are linked to dominant narratives about manhood. In this context, men don thin open-fingered gloves, lock themselves in a caged enclosure, and slug it out in a fight with few rules to see who comes out on top. This all occurs while "ring girls" in high-heels and skin-tight shirts and shorts stride around outside the cage holding signs and peddling t-shirts. The sum of these elements is the creation of a type of a publicly accessible and consumable form of masculinity. The sport of mixed martial arts is a rich and intriguing space where the construction of gender can be explored through a sociological and ethnographic lens.

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January 4, 2024

Nature Inspired Mixed-Media Techniques for Gathering, Sketching, Painting, Journaling, and Assemblage

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Free Download Tracie Lyn Huskamp, "Nature Inspired: Mixed-Media Techniques for Gathering, Sketching, Painting, Journaling, and Assemblage"
English | 2009 | pages: 116 | ISBN: 1592535364 | PDF | 98,2 mb
A lovely nature-inspired art and journaling book featuring the distinctive artwork, projects, journal pages, and unique techniques of artist Tracie Lyn Huskamp. Along with hints and tips for photographing nature, collecting, and preserving natural elements, the book discusses ways to capture moments and create memories through simple sketches from photographs, painting on fabric, creating journals and journal art, as well as with shadowbox assemblages to display and highlight particular found objects. The artist will share handwritten notes, drawings, poetry, and detailed techniques.

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December 29, 2023

Mixed-Method Evaluation of Watershed Management Practices from Kushk-Abad Basin, Iran

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Free Download Bahram Mohammadi Golrang, "Mixed-Method Evaluation of Watershed Management: Practices from Kushk-Abad Basin, Iran"
English | 2017 | pages: 187 | ISBN: 3319521462 | EPUB | 3,5 mb
This volume evaluates technical and social aspects of a watershed management program in the Kush-Abad Watershed Basin in Iran. Author Bahram Mohammadi Golrang offers a way forward for a more integrated means to evaluate large scale rural environmental management projects, their effects on the physical environment, how to engage the public in such projects, and how nearby communities interact with them and perceive their effects.

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December 25, 2023

Mixed Reality for Education

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Free Download Mixed Reality for Education
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9819949572 | 690 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 77 MB
This book consists of chapters that present the state-of-the-art research on mixed reality, simulation and serious games with applications in four main educational topics: (1) K-12 STEAM Education; (2) Tertiary/Professional Education; (3) Special Needs Education; and (4) Cultural, Social & Museum Education. The chapters of the book present a multi-facet view on different approaches to deal with challenges that surround the uptake of educational applications of mixed reality, simulations and serious games in various practices. The different approaches highlight challenges and potential solutions and provide future directions for mixed reality, simulation and serious games research, for the design of learning material and for implementation. By doing so, the book is a useful resource for both students and scholars interested in research in this field, for designers of learning material and for practitioners that want to embrace mixed reality, simulation and/or serious games in their education.

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