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The Great Pretender - The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness (Paperback): Susannah Cahalan The Great Pretender - The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness (Paperback)
Susannah Cahalan
R505 R473 Discovery Miles 4 730 Save R32 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

"One of America's most courageous young journalists" and the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Brain on Fire investigates the shocking mystery behind the dramatic experiment that revolutionized modern medicine (NPR). Doctors have struggled for centuries to define insanity--how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people--sane, healthy, well-adjusted members of society--went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Forced to remain inside until they'd "proven" themselves sane, all eight emerged with alarming diagnoses and even more troubling stories of their treatment. Rosenhan's watershed study broke open the field of psychiatry, closing down institutions and changing mental health diagnosis forever. But, as Cahalan's explosive new research shows in this real-life detective story, very little in this saga is exactly as it seems. What really happened behind those closed asylum doors?

A MANUFACTURED PLAGUE (Book): Abigail Woods A MANUFACTURED PLAGUE (Book)
Abigail Woods
R1,888 Discovery Miles 18 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is currently regarded as one of the world's worst animal plagues. But how did this label become attached to a curable disease that poses little threat to human health? And why, in the epidemic of 2001, did the government's control strategy still rely upon Victorian trade restrictions and mass slaughter? This groundbreaking and well-researched book shows that, for over a century, FMD has brought fear, tragedy and sorrow- damaging businesses and affecting international relations. Yet these effects were neither inevitable nor caused by FMD itself but were, rather, the product of the legislation used to control it, and in this sense FMD is a 'manufactured' plague rather than a natural one. A Manufactured Plague turns the spotlight on this process of manufacture, revealing a rich history beset by controversy, in which party politics, class relations, veterinary ambitions, agricultural practices, the priorities of farming and the meat trade, fears for national security and scientific progress all made FMD what it is today.

Socialism - Critical Concepts in Political Science (Hardcover): Jeremy Jennings Socialism - Critical Concepts in Political Science (Hardcover)
Jeremy Jennings
R41,915 Discovery Miles 419 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days


This four-volume collection combines the historical with the conceptual, providing a guide to the main themes that have structured socialist thought and practice over the last two hundred years. The set also examines contemporary socialism.
A detailed index and new introduction makes this set an invaluable reference tool for students and researchers of politics.

Against Extinction - The Story of Conservation (Hardcover): William (Bill) Adams Against Extinction - The Story of Conservation (Hardcover)
William (Bill) Adams
R4,511 Discovery Miles 45 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'Conservation in the 21st century needs to be different and this book is a good indicator of why' Bulletin of British Ecological Society. Against Extinction tells the history of wildlife conservation from its roots in the 19th century, through the foundation of the Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna of the Empire in London in 1903 to the huge and diverse international movement of the present day. It vividly portrays conservation's legacy of big game hunting, the battles for the establishment of national parks, the global importance of species conservation and debates over the sustainable use of and trade in wildlife. Bill Adams addresses the big questions and ideas that have driven conservation for the last 100 years: How can the diversity of life be maintained as human demands on the Earth expand seemingly without limit? How can preservation be reconciled with human rights and the development needs of the poor? Is conservation something that can be imposed by a knowledgeable elite, or is it something that should emerge naturally from people's free choices? These have never been easy questions, and they are as important in the 21st century as at any time in the past. The author takes us on a lively historical journey in search of the answers.

Girls in Service - The Official Handbook of the Bund Deutscher Madel (Hardcover): Cynthia A. Sandor Girls in Service - The Official Handbook of the Bund Deutscher Madel (Hardcover)
Cynthia A. Sandor; Translated by Vera Filthaut
R846 R740 Discovery Miles 7 400 Save R106 (13%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Viv's Family Recipes (Hardcover): Vivienne Sang Viv's Family Recipes (Hardcover)
Vivienne Sang
R668 Discovery Miles 6 680 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Planning by Consent - The Origins and Nature of British Development Control (Hardcover): Philip Booth Planning by Consent - The Origins and Nature of British Development Control (Hardcover)
Philip Booth
R4,496 Discovery Miles 44 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days


Contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction. The Nature of Development Control. Forms of Control. Actors in the Process. The Themes of the Book. Chapter 2: The Origins of Development Control. Medieval Controls. The Development of Markets in Land and the Necessity of Landlord Control. The Extension of Public Controls. Leasehold Agreements and their Efforts. The Privatization of Public Control. The Administration of Control in the 17th and 18th Centuries. Chapter 3: The Failure of Leasehold Control and the Rise of Public Intervention. The Failure of the Leasehold System. Leasehold Reform. By-Law Control and the Extension of Public Control. The Weakness of By-Law Regulation. Chapter 4: Development Control in the Early Planning System. The 1909 Act: Control in the First Planning Schemes. Compensation and Betterment. The Maturing of the System in the 1920s. Circular 1305. Control Over Land-Use. The 1932 Act and Interim Development Control. Discretionary Power. Chapter 5: The 1947 Act: Universal Control of Development. The Purpose of Development Control in the 1947 act. The Nationalization of Development Rights. Compensation and Betterment. Development Control in the 1950s and 1960s. The Reform of the Development Plans System. The 1967 Management Study of Development Control. Chapter 6: The Call for Reforms: Development Control in the 1970s. Property Speculation 1970-73 and its Impact on Development Control. The Dobry Report. The 8th Report of the Expenditure Committee. Chapter 7: Development Control Under the Conservatives. Planning Control and Deregulation. Limiting Local Authority Power. Development Control in the Service of Economic Development. Local and National Policy: Plans v. Government Circulars. Planning Gain. Design Control. Development in the Green Belt. Chapter 8: Development Control in the 1990s: a Plan-Led System? The Planning and Compensation Acts and its Effects. Planning Obligations. The Role of Plans in Development Control. Chapter 9: Conclusion: The Future of Development Control. The Strengths and Weaknesses of British Development Control. Future Directions.

Old World Traits Transpl:Esc V (Hardcover): Herbert A. Miller, Robert E. Park Old World Traits Transpl:Esc V (Hardcover)
Herbert A. Miller, Robert E. Park
R6,337 Discovery Miles 63 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Women's Rights, Racial Integration, and Education from 1850-1920 - The Case of Sarah Raymond, the First Female... Women's Rights, Racial Integration, and Education from 1850-1920 - The Case of Sarah Raymond, the First Female Superintendent (Hardcover)
M Noraian
R1,189 R993 Discovery Miles 9 930 Save R196 (16%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Although she held an important position of educational leadership for eighteen years, Sarah Raymond Fitzwilliam's story has been largely overlooked. This historical biography of Fitzwilliam examines her abolitionist roots growing up on a stop of the Underground Railroad, her training at a "normal school," her tenure as a teacher, principal and the nation's first city school superintendent (Bloomington, Illinois 1874-1892). In the process, Noraian also chronicles American society during the Gilded and Progressive ages.

Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology - Volume V (Hardcover): Gregory A. Kimble, Michael Wertheimer Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology - Volume V (Hardcover)
Gregory A. Kimble, Michael Wertheimer
R4,503 Discovery Miles 45 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book offers glimpses into the personal and scholarly lives of 20 giants in the history of psychology. As in the earlier volumes, prominent scholars were invited to prepare chapters on a pioneer who had made important contributions in their own area of expertise. Some of the psychologists described may be the teachers of the instructors who will be the users of this book, potentially providing a personal connection of the pioneers to the students. A special section provides brief portraits of the editors and authors, containing interesting information about the relationship between the pioneers and the psychologists who describe them.
Utilizing an informal, personal, sometimes humorous, style of writing, the book will appeal to students and instructors interested in the history of psychology. Each of the five volumes in this series contains different profiles thereby bringing more than 100 of the pioneers in psychology more vividly to life.

Routledge History of Philosophy (10 Volumes) (Paperback): G.H.R. Parkinson, Stuart Shanker Routledge History of Philosophy (10 Volumes) (Paperback)
G.H.R. Parkinson, Stuart Shanker
R13,431 Discovery Miles 134 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Routledge History of Philosophy series provides a chronological survey of the history of Western Philosophy fro its beginnings in the sixth century BC to the present time. It discusses all the major philosophical developments in depth, and covers all those regarded as great philosophers and many lesser figures of philosophypast and present. We are pleased to announce all 10 volumes are now available in paperback for the first time.

Psycholinguistics - Critical Concepts in Psychology (Hardcover): Gerry Altmann Psycholinguistics - Critical Concepts in Psychology (Hardcover)
Gerry Altmann
R34,374 Discovery Miles 343 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days


These volumes reprint articles from a variety of international journals, book chapters and key technical reports, to take a broad look at how the field has developed from the turn of theTwentieth Century through to the turn of the twenty-first.
Since the 1960s, there has been a boom in research on how the human mind both produces and comprehends language. Psycholinguistics - as a product of this boom - represents a synthesis between linguistics and psychology.
The set covers the following topics:
* Language Acquisition
* The Mental Lexicon
* Sentence Processing
* Discourse and Meaning
* Spoken Language Production
* Reading
* Disorders of Language and Production
* Computational Models of Language Learning and Adult * Language Use

Honeymoon Couples and Jurassic Babies - Identity and Play in Chennai's Post-Independence Sabha Theater (Hardcover):... Honeymoon Couples and Jurassic Babies - Identity and Play in Chennai's Post-Independence Sabha Theater (Hardcover)
Kristen Rudisill
R1,981 Discovery Miles 19 810 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Young families - Gender, sexuality and care (Paperback): Nolwazi Mkhwanazi, Deevia Bhana Young families - Gender, sexuality and care (Paperback)
Nolwazi Mkhwanazi, Deevia Bhana
R44 R41 Discovery Miles 410 Save R3 (7%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Young Families: Gender, Sexuality and Care draws together unique and compelling essays about the contexts of early childbearing, a topic that is now taken for granted. It draws on empirical data, multi-level approaches and inter-disciplinary perspectives on the dynamics that underpin young people's experiences of being pregnant, having a child and caring for the child. The book explores the contexts in which young families are constituted and shaped along with the kinds of social relationships and communities of care that early childbearing creates (or in some instances destroys). It shows the entanglement of gender, sexuality, race, age and class in the formation of young families and its effects on caring practices. This book draws together unique and compelling accounts that address a gap in the existing literature on families in South Africa while also providing an understanding of the diversity of young South African families. Young Families will be of interest and of benefit to those in the fields of Women and Gender studies, Anthropology, Education, Sociology, History and Demography.

Educational Psychology - A Century of Contributions: A Project of Division 15 (educational Psychology) of the American... Educational Psychology - A Century of Contributions: A Project of Division 15 (educational Psychology) of the American Psychological Society (Hardcover)
Barry J. Zimmerman, Dale H. Schunk
R4,936 Discovery Miles 49 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Educational Psychology: A Century of Contributions"--the first comprehensive book-length treatment of this topic--looks at the historic contributions of 16 leading psychologists, as well as others, who influenced the field of educational psychology from its philosophical moorings in the late 19th century to its current scientific status at the dawn of the 21st. It presents information regarding these individuals' ideas and scientific discoveries, along with a sense of the historical context in which they lived.
The book is divided into three sections that correspond to three eras in the history of the discipline:
*the founding period (1880s to 1920);
*the rise to prominence period (1920 to1960); and
*the modern period (1960 to the present).
Each section begins with an overview chapter describing the period in terms of key social, political, and historical events affecting educational theory, research, and practice. In addition, the overview chapters discuss major theoretical, methodological, and instructional contributions of the period and how they changed the course of educational psychology.
The biographical chapters describe the scholar's major contribution in terms of theory, research, and practice and his or her legacy and impact. These descriptions portray these individuals as real human beings responding to historical events and social influences of their time in personal and collective ways that changed the nature and direction of the field.
"Educational Psychology: A Century of Contributions" is a cohesive collection appropriate for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in educational psychology.

Reading Architectural History (Hardcover): Dana Arnold Reading Architectural History (Hardcover)
Dana Arnold
R5,785 Discovery Miles 57 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days


The book concentrates on fundamental texts in the study of architectural history with special reference to eighteenth and nineteenth-century Britain. The texts under discussion address key themes or methods in the construction of architectural histories. Alongside this, philosophical or theoretical writings which address the abstract issues surrounding the main texts are presented as a kind of exegesis on the chosen texts. This together with an introduction and discursive essays which preface each of the sections present a transdisciplinary discourse around the discipline of architectural history.

Mathematics Education in a Neocolonial Country: The Case of Papua New Guinea (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Patricia Paraide, Kay... Mathematics Education in a Neocolonial Country: The Case of Papua New Guinea (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Patricia Paraide, Kay Owens, Charly Muke, Philip Clarkson, Christopher Owens
R3,387 Discovery Miles 33 870 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Most education research is undertaken in western developed countries. While some research from developing countries does make it into research journals from time to time, but these articles only emphasize the rarity of research in developing countries. The proposed book is unique in that it will cover education in Papua New Guinea over the millennia. Papua New Guinea's multicultural society with relatively recent contact with Europe and the Middle East provides a cameo of the development of education in a country with both a colonial history and a coup-less transition to independence. Discussion will focus on specific areas of mathematics education that have been impacted by policies, research, circumstances and other influences, with particular emphasis on pressures on education in the last one and half centuries. This volume will be one of the few records of this kind in the education research literature as an in-depth record and critique of how school mathematics has been grown in Papua New Guinea from the late 1800s, and should be a useful addition to graduate programs mathematics education courses, history of mathematics, as well as the interdisciplinary fields of cross cultural studies, scholarship focusing on globalization and post / decolonialism, linguistics, educational administration and policy, technology education, teacher education, and gender studies.

Reformers, Sport, Modernizers - Middle-class Revolutionaries (Paperback, annotated edition): J.A. Mangan Reformers, Sport, Modernizers - Middle-class Revolutionaries (Paperback, annotated edition)
J.A. Mangan
R1,616 Discovery Miles 16 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A record of the role of selected middle-class individuals across Europe who made notable contributions to the early evolution of modern sport and who saw success in modern sport as an expression of human qualities to be admired, applauded and encouraged. They viewed sport, sometimes self-interestedly but not always self-interestedly, as a medium of personal, collective and national virtue. It is the first general consideration of a selection of these innovatory pioneers and proselytisers who placed Europe at the forefront of major developments in contemporary world sport - now a phenomenon of global significance.

Requiem and an Epilogue (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Glynne Wickham Requiem and an Epilogue (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Glynne Wickham
R4,928 Discovery Miles 49 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days


This volume forms part of the 5 volume set Early English Stages 1300-1660. This set examines the history of the development of dramatic spectacle and stage convention in England from the beginning of the fourteenth century to 1660.

Early English Stages 1300-1576 (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Glynne Wickham Early English Stages 1300-1576 (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Glynne Wickham
R2,391 Discovery Miles 23 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume forms part of the 5 volume set "Early English Stages 1300-1660." This set examines the history of the development of dramatic spectacle and stage convention in England from the beginning of the fourteenth century to 1660.

Part II - Early English Stages 1576-1600 (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Glynne Wickham Part II - Early English Stages 1576-1600 (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Glynne Wickham
R5,356 Discovery Miles 53 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume forms part of the 5 volume set "Early English Stages 1300-1660." This set examines the history of the development of dramatic spectacle and stage convention in England from the beginning of the fourteenth century to 1660.

Artists' Impressions in Architectural Design (Hardcover): Bob Giddings, Margaret Horne Artists' Impressions in Architectural Design (Hardcover)
Bob Giddings, Margaret Horne
R3,284 R1,448 Discovery Miles 14 480 Save R1,836 (56%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days


Artists' Impressions in Architectural Design analyses the ways in which architects have presented their designs for clients and the public, both historically and contemporarily. It spans a period from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century.
Architects have become familiar with change. The passage of time has brought with it new and revived styles of architecture, as well as innovative tools and techniques for their representation. The result is that while some methods show a view of the architect's concept for a building, others offer an almost real experience of the intended architecture. This book provides a rare and valuable study in which the exciting technological developments of today are placed in context with the rich heritage of the past. It offers an opportunity to learn how architects have chosen to represent their ideas. The authors dare to glimpse into the future and hopefully offer some reassurance for tomorrow.

Artists' Impressions in Architectural Design (Paperback): Bob Giddings, Margaret Horne Artists' Impressions in Architectural Design (Paperback)
Bob Giddings, Margaret Horne
R1,792 R1,301 Discovery Miles 13 010 Save R491 (27%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days


Artists' Impressions in Architectural Design analyses the ways in which architects have presented their designs for clients and the public, both historically and contemporarily. It spans a period from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century.
Architects have become familiar with change. The passage of time has brought with it new and revived styles of architecture, as well as innovative tools and techniques for their representation. The result is that while some methods show a view of the architect's concept for a building, others offer an almost real experience of the intended architecture. This book provides a rare and valuable study i which the exciting technological developments of today are placed in context with the rich heritage of the past. It offers an opportunity to learn how architects have chosen to represent their ideas. The authors dare to gllimpse into the future, and hopefully offer some reassurance for the architects of tomorrow.

Linguistic Foundations (Hardcover): Anthony P.R. Howatt, Anthony Howatt, Richard C. Smith, Richard Smith Linguistic Foundations (Hardcover)
Anthony P.R. Howatt, Anthony Howatt, Richard C. Smith, Richard Smith
R12,852 Discovery Miles 128 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume forms part of a five volume set charting the progress of the nineteenth century movement which was instrumental in establishing international guidelines for the teaching of modern languages. It was during this period that for the first time, co-operation between phoneticians and teachers culminated in the publication of works that were instrumental in establishing the 'applied linguistic' approach to language teaching in the twentieth century. For the first time, too, the new science of psychology influenced a scientific theory of second language acquisition. The Reform Movement attracted support across Europe, spurring the development of new professional associations and journals. In turn, the publication in these journals of reports of innovative practice contributed to a greater sense of autonomy and professionalism among modern language teachers, who had hitherto tended to live under the shadow of classical language teaching. The practical innovations and theoretical suggestions for the foreign language teaching, although rooted in the nineteenth century, still have relevance today.

Early Years of Reform - The Reform Movement (Hardcover): Anthony P.R. Howatt, Anthony Howatt Early Years of Reform - The Reform Movement (Hardcover)
Anthony P.R. Howatt, Anthony Howatt; Edited by Richard C. Smith, Richard Smith
R12,864 Discovery Miles 128 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume forms part of a five volume set charting the progress of the nineteenth century movement, which was instrumental in establishing international guidelines for the teaching of modern languages. It was during this period that for the first time, co-operation between phoneticians and teachers culminated in the publication of works that were instrumental in establishing the 'applied linguistic' approach to language teaching in the twentieth century. For the first time, too, the new science of psychology influenced a scientific theory of second language acquisition. The Reform Movement attracted support across Europe, spurring the development of new professional associations and journals. In turn, the publication in these journals of reports of innovative practice contributed to a greater sense of autonomy and professionalism among modern language teachers, who had hitherto tended to live under the shadow of classical language teaching. The practical innovations and theoretical suggestions for the foreign language teaching, although rooted in the nineteenth century, still have relevance today.

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