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Dissonance

Author : Erica O'Rourke
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442460261
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Dissonance written by Erica O'Rourke and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this inventive romantic thriller, Del has the power to navigate between alternate realities—and the power to save multiple worlds. Every time someone makes a choice, a new, parallel world is spun off the existing one. Eating breakfast or skipping it, turning left instead of right, sneaking out instead of staying in bed—all of these choices create alternate universes in which echo selves take the roads not traveled. Del knows this because she’s a Walker, someone who can navigate between the worlds, and whose job is to keep the dimensions in harmony. But Del’s decisions have consequences too. Even though she’s forbidden from Walking after a training session goes horribly wrong, she secretly starts to investigate other dissonant worlds. She’s particularly intrigued by the echo versions of Simon Lane, a guy who won’t give her the time of day in the main world, but whose alternate selves are uniquely interested. But falling for Simon draws Del closer to a truth that the Council of Walkers is trying to hide—a secret that threatens the fate of the entire multiverse. “O’Rourke brilliantly builds an intricate and complex alternate science-fiction universe that contains beautiful imagery and visualization. A definite page-turner.” —School Library Journal

A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance

Author : Leon Festinger
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804709118
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance written by Leon Festinger and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Evanston, Ill.: Row, Peterson, c1957.

Social Dissonance

Author : Mattin
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1913029867
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Social Dissonance written by Mattin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument that by amplifying alienation in performance, we can shift the emphasis from the sonic to the social. Work in sound studies continues to seek out sound "itself"--but, today, when the aesthetic can claim no autonomy and the agency of both artist and audience is socially constituted, why not explore the social mediation already present within our experience of the sonorous? In this work, artist, musician, performer, and theorist Mattin sets out an understanding of alienation as a constitutive part of subjectivity and as an enabling condition for exploring social dissonance--the discrepancy between our individual narcissism and our social capacity. Mattin's theoretical investigation is intertwined with documentation of a concrete experiment in the form of an instructional score (performed at documenta 14, 2017, in Athens and Kassel) which explores these conceptual connotations in practice, as players use members of the audience as instruments, who then hear themselves and reflect on their own conception and self-presentation. Social Dissonance claims that, by amplifying alienation in performance and participation in order to understand how we are constructed through various forms of mediation, we can shift the emphasis from the sonic to the social, and in doing so, discover for ourselves that social dissonance is the territory within which we already find ourselves, the condition we inhabit.

The Style of Palestrina and the Dissonance

Author : Knud Jeppesen
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486171620
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book The Style of Palestrina and the Dissonance written by Knud Jeppesen and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic study remains one of the foremost works on the music of Palestrina. Features a rigorous and valuable analysis of the composer's handling of rhythm, line, harmony, and dissonance.

The Dissonance of Democracy

Author : Susan Bickford
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501722204
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Dissonance of Democracy written by Susan Bickford and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the role of shared speech in political action has received much theoretical attention, too little thought has focused on the practice of listening in political interaction, according to Susan Bickford. Even in a formally democratic polity, political action occurs in a context of conflict and inequality; thus, the shared speech of citizenship differs significantly from the conversations of friendly associates. Bickford suggests that democratic politics requires a particular quality of attention, one not based on care or friendship. Analyzing specifically political listening is central to the development of democratic theory, she contends, and to envisioning democratic practices for contemporary society.Bickford's analysis draws on the work of Aristotle and of Hannah Arendt to establish the conflictual and contentious character of politics. To analyze the social forces that deflect attention from particular voices, Bickford mobilizes contemporary feminist theory, including Gloria Anzaldua's work on the connection between identity and politics. She develops a conception of citizen interaction characterized by adversarial communication in a context of inequality. Such a conception posits public identity—and hence public listening—as active and creative, and grounded in particular social and political contexts.

The Dissonance

Author : Shaun Hamill
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0593317262
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Dissonance written by Shaun Hamill and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of A Cosmology of Monsters ("I loved it" —Stephen King) comes an epic contemporary fantasy, a mixture of The Magicians and It: a story of dark magic, terrible mistakes, and second chances. "You can never go home again," the saying goes—but Hal, Athena, and Erin have to. In high school, the three were students of the eccentric Professor Marsh, trained in a secret system of magic known as the Dissonance, which is built around harnessing negative emotions: alienation, anger, pain. Then, twenty years ago, something happened that shattered their coven, scattering them across the country, stuck in mundane lives, alone. But now, terrifying signs and portents (not to mention a pointed Facebook invite) have summoned them back to Clegg, Texas. There, their paths will collide with that of Owen, a closeted teenager from Alabama whose aborted cemetery seance with his crush summoned something far worse: a murderous entity whose desperate, driving purpose includes kidnapping Owen to serve as its Renfield. As Owen tries to outwit his new master, and Hal, Athena, and Erin reckon with how the choices they made as teens might connect to the apocalyptic event unfurling over the Lone Star State, shocking alliances form, old and new romances brew, and three unsuccessful adults and one frightened teen are all that stand between reality and oblivion. From one of the boldest, most brilliant voices in modern fantastical horror, The Dissonance is a thrilling and beautifully written story of magic and monsters, forgiveness and friendship.

The Sense of Dissonance

Author : David Stark
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400831008
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Sense of Dissonance written by David Stark and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What counts? In work, as in other areas of life, it is not always clear what standards we are being judged by or how our worth is being determined. This can be disorienting and disconcerting. Because of this, many organizations devote considerable resources to limiting and clarifying the logics used for evaluating worth. But as David Stark argues, firms would often be better off, especially in managing change, if they allowed multiple logics of worth and did not necessarily discourage uncertainty. In fact, in many cases multiple orders of worth are unavoidable, so organizations and firms should learn to harness the benefits of such "heterarchy" rather than seeking to purge it. Stark makes this argument with ethnographic case studies of three companies attempting to cope with rapid change: a machine-tool company in late and postcommunist Hungary, a new-media startup in New York during and after the collapse of the Internet bubble, and a Wall Street investment bank whose trading room was destroyed on 9/11. In each case, the friction of competing criteria of worth promoted an organizational reflexivity that made it easier for the company to change and deal with market uncertainty. Drawing on John Dewey's notion that "perplexing situations" provide opportunities for innovative inquiry, Stark argues that the dissonance of diverse principles can lead to discovery.

Constructive Dissonance

Author : Juliane Brand
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520203143
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Constructive Dissonance written by Juliane Brand and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There cannot ever be too many good books about Schoenberg, and so it is a special pleasure to welcome Constructive Dissonance, which is far beyond just 'good.' These essays cover a generous range in style and idea. Many of them also are deeply moving, and nothing could be more appropriate for the composer of our century's most fiercely intense music."--Michael Steinberg, author of The Symphony: A Listener's Guide "Although much has been written about Schoenberg, no group of essays examines his life and work in such a broad context. Here we find Schoenberg's matrix: the social, cultural, political, and artistic currents that helped shape him, and to which he made his own extraordinary contribution."--Robert P. Morgan, author of Twentieth-Century Music "As we approach the turn of this century, it is clear that Arnold Schoenberg must becounted as one of the most important figures in Western art music during the last one hundred years. Schoenberg's influence on art-music culture has not only worked its effects through his music, but also through his thinking and writing about music. This collection makes a fitting tribute to Schoenberg and does an admirable job of presenting the many facets of Schoenberg the composer, music theorist, and thinker. These thought-provoking essays present a broad range of approaches to a rich variety of topics within Schoenberg scholarship, and readers will find both familiar and not-so-familiar issues arising during the course of the volume. Constructive Dissonance is certain to become an important book for those interested in twentieth-century art music and culture, and seminal reading for anyone interested in Arnold Schoenberg and his work."--John Covach, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Legal Dissonance

Author : Shaun Larcom
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782386491
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Legal Dissonance written by Shaun Larcom and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papua New Guinea’s two most powerful legal orders — customary law and state law —undermine one another in criminal matters. This phenomenon, called legal dissonance, partly explains the low level of personal security found in many parts of the country. This book demonstrates that a lack of coordination in the punishing of wrong behavior is both problematic for legal orders themselves and for those who are subject to such legal phenomena Legal dissonance can lead to behavior being simultaneously promoted by one legal order and punished by the other, leading to injustice, and, perhaps more importantly, undermining the ability of both legal orders to deter wrongdoing.

An Analysis of Leon Festinger's A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance

Author : Camille Morvan
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351351877
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book An Analysis of Leon Festinger's A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance written by Camille Morvan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leon Festinger’s 1957 A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance is a key text in the history of psychology – one that made its author one of the most influential social psychologists of his time. It is also a prime example of how creative thinking and problem solving skills can come together to produce work that changes the way people look at questions for good. Strong creative thinkers are able to look at things from a new perspective, often to the point of challenging the very frames in which those around them see things. Festinger was such a creative thinker, leading what came to be known as the “cognitive revolution” in social psychology. When Festinger was carrying out his research, the dominant school of thought – behaviorism – focused on outward behaviors and their effects. Festinger, however, turned his attention elsewhere, looking at “cognition:” the mental processes behind behaviors. In the case of “cognitive dissonance”, for example, he hypothesized that apparently incomprehensible or illogical behaviors might be caused by a cognitive drive away from dissonance, or internal contradiction. This perspective, however, raised a problem: how to examine and test out cognitive processes. Festinger’s book records the results of the psychological experiments he designed to solve that problem. The results helped prove the existence for what is now a fundamental theory in social psychology.

The Style of Palestrina and the Dissonance

Author : Knud Jeppesen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Style of Palestrina and the Dissonance written by Knud Jeppesen and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Intentional Dissonance

Author : Iain S. Thomas
Publisher : Central Avenue Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1926760859
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Intentional Dissonance written by Iain S. Thomas and published by Central Avenue Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-07 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s been 10 years since the world officially ended. In the last city on Earth, Jon Salt is addicted to Sadness, a drug that invokes its name, and obsessed with his lover, Michelle; both of which threaten to drive him insane. Strange creatures and new technologies appeared in the last days of humanity and the widespread adoption of teleportation technology sundered the fabric of time and space, leaving a smattering of looping ghosts. It is a sad, monotone world, but the remaining populace is happy, thanks to the anti-depressants in the water supply. The last government on Earth has taken a special interest in a gift that Jon possesses: the ability to make his thoughts real. Jon must rely on that gift and the help of a few unlikely friends to stay one step ahead of those who desperately want to use him for something far more sinister than even he could dream…

Cognitive Dissonance

Author : Eddie Harmon-Jones
Publisher : American Psychological Association (APA)
ISBN 13 : 9781433830105
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Dissonance written by Eddie Harmon-Jones and published by American Psychological Association (APA). This book was released on 2019 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume describes advances in the theory of cognitive dissonance, from its origination in 1954 to the present day.

Dissonance and Distrust

Author : Margaret Thornton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195536614
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Dissonance and Distrust written by Margaret Thornton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This path-breaking book examines the experiences of women in the legal profession in Australia. It looks at the relationship between the feminine and the public sphere through a study of women as members of the jurisprudential community. Dissonance and Distrust: Women in the Legal Profession challenges the assumption that women will become accepted within the legal community as increasing numbers are 'let in'. The fiction that the feminine is associated with disorder has resulted in the implementation of disciplinary strategies designed to curb refractory women. Dissonance and Distrust reveals the ways in which the "fictive feminine" is invoked to deny authority to professional women. The book is based on interviews with more than 100 women, including law students, academics, solicitors, barristers and judges. Although the book focuses on women in the legal profession, its significance transcends the case study, as it seeks to explain why women are perceived to lack authority in the public sphere.

The Dissonant Legacy of Modernismo

Author : Gwen Kirkpatrick
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520369203
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Dissonant Legacy of Modernismo written by Gwen Kirkpatrick and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

The Day of the Dissonance

Author : Alan Dean Foster
Publisher : Open Road Media Science & Fantasy
ISBN 13 : 9781497601741
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Day of the Dissonance written by Alan Dean Foster and published by Open Road Media Science & Fantasy. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To save his dying mentor, Jon-Tom the spellsinger and his ever reluctant sidekick Mudge the otter must venture across time and space to confront a danger unlike anything they have faced before Jon-Tom and his friends have seen better days. After his motley crew moved heaven and Earth to save civilization at the battle of Jo-Troom Gate, his merry band went its separate ways. Mudge, the foul-mouthed otter, eagerly returned to thieving, drinking, and whoring, while Talea, the girl of Jon-Tom's dreams, embarked on her own adventures, leaving him to study magic with Clothahump, the irascible wizard whose inept spell trapped him in this weird otherworld in the first place. But now Clothahump is dying, and not even Jon-Tom's spellsinging can make him well. In search of medicine for the centuries-old turtle, he and Mudge venture across the seas on a dubious quest that will require the assistance of an Amazonian white tiger, a ferret, and a gender-challenged unicorn. They're going to need all the help they can get. "One of the most consistently inventive and fertile writers of science fiction and fantasy."-The Times "Alan Dean Foster is a master of creating alien worlds." -SFRevu "Foster knows how to spin a yarn." -Starlog "Foster does a fine job with his misfit heroes and even with his minor characters." -Publishers Weekly The New York Times-bestselling author of more than 110 books, Alan Dean Foster is one of the most prominent writers of modern science fiction and fantasy. Born in New York City in 1946, he studied filmmaking at UCLA, but first found success in 1968 when a horror magazine published one of his short stories. In 1972 he wrote his first novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, the first in his Pip and Flinx series featuring the Humanx Commonwealth, a universe he has explored in more than twenty-five novels. Foster also created the Spellsinger series and has written dozens of bestselling film novelizations, as well as the story for Star Trek: The Motion Picture. An avid world traveler, he chronicles some of his own adventures in the wild in his memoir Predators I Have Known (2011). Foster lives with his family in Prescott, Arizona.

Cognitive Dissonance

Author : Judson Mills
Publisher : Amer Psychological Assn
ISBN 13 : 9781557985651
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Dissonance written by Judson Mills and published by Amer Psychological Assn. This book was released on 1999-01 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tell any smoker that his habit is unhealthy, and he most likely will agree. What mental process does a person go through when he or she continues to do something unhealthy? When an honest person tells a "white lie," what happens to his or her sense of integrity? If someone must choose between two equally attractive options, why does one's value judgement of the options change after the choice has been made? In 1954 Dr. Leon Festinger drafted a version of a theory describing the psychological phenomenon that occurs in these situations. He called it cognitive dissonance: the feeling of psychological discomfort produced by the combined presence of two thoughts that do not follow from one another. Festinger proposed that the greater the discomfort, the greater the desire to reduce the dissonance of the two cognitive elements. The elegance of this theory has inspired psychologists over the past four decades. Cognitive Dissonance: Perspectives on a Pivotal Theory in Social Psychology documents the on-going research and debate provoked by this influential theory.