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- This book explores the theoretical commitments and cultural
values that have deterred the field of psychology from facing
squarely and dealing credibly, as best they can, with inescapable
human limitations and frailties, unavoidable suffering, pain, loss,
heartbreak, and despair. - Takes an interdisciplinary approach,
combining phenomenology, critical theory, feminist perspectives,
postmodern approaches, hermeneutic philosophy and virtue ethics.
Routledge International Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical
Psychology is a compilation of works by leading scholars in
theoretical and philosophical psychology that offers critical
analyses of, and alternatives to, current theories and philosophies
typically taken for granted in mainstream psychology. Within their
chapters, the expert authors briefly describe accepted theories and
philosophies before explaining their problems and exploring fresh,
new ideas for practice and research. These alternative ideas offer
thought-provoking ways of reinterpreting many aspects of human
existence often studied by psychologists. Organized into five
sections, the volume covers the discipline of psychology in
general, various subdisciplines (e.g., positive psychology and
human development), concepts of self and identity as well as
research and practice. Together the chapters present a set of
alternative ideas that have the potential to take the field of
psychology in fruitful directions not anticipated in more
traditional theory and research. This handbook will be a valuable
resource for students and scholars of the theory, assumptions, and
history of psychology.
This practical book provides recipes for the construction of
devices used in low temperature experimentation. It emphasizes what
works, rather than what might be the optimum method, and lists
current sources for purchasing components and equipment.
The complete beginner's guide to Python, for young people who want
to start today Adventures in Python is designed for 11-to 15-year
olds who want to teach themselves Python programming, but don't
know where to start. Even if you have no programming experience at
all, this easy to follow format and clear, simple instruction will
get you up and running quickly. The book walks you through nine
projects that teach you the fundamentals of programming in general,
and Python in particular, gradually building your skills until you
have the confidence and ability to tackle your own projects. Video
clips accompany each chapter to provide even more detailed
explanation of important concepts, so you feel supported every step
of the way. Python is one of the top programming languages
worldwide, with an install base in the millions. It's a favourite
language at Google, YouTube, the BBC, and Spotify, and is the
primary programming language for the Raspberry Pi. As an
open-source language, Python is freely downloadable, with extensive
libraries readily available, making it an ideal entry into
programming for the beginner. Adventures in Python helps you get
started, giving you the foundation you need to follow your
curiosity. * Start learning Python at its most basic level * Learn
where to acquire Python and how to set it up * Understand Python
syntax and interpretation for module programming * Develop the
skills that apply to any programming language Python programming
skills are invaluable, and developing proficiency gives you a head
start in learning other languages like C++, Objective-C, and Java.
When learning feels like fun, you won't ever want to stop so get
started today with Adventures in Python.
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Night of the Vegan (Hardcover)
Elijah C. Richardson, Leroy E Bryant II, Alana Joli Abbott; Illustrated by Chris Yarbrough, Lee Oaks, …
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Modeling and Using Context - 6th International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT 2007, Roskilde, Denmark, August 20-24, 2007, Proceedings (Paperback, 2007 ed.)
Boicho Kokinov, Daniel C. Richardson, Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer, Laure Vieu
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th
International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and
Using Context, CONTEXT 2007, held in Roskilde, Denmark in August
2007.
The 42 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and
selected from a total of 121 submissions. The papers deal with the
interdisciplinary topic of modeling and using context from various
points of view, ranging from computer science, especially
artificial intelligence and ubiquitous computing, through cognitive
science, linguistics, organizational sciences, philosophy, and
psychology to application areas such as medicine and law.
Unlike the earthquakes and hurricanes that have influenced
Caribbean history, the region's fires have almost always been
caused by humans. Geographer Bonham C. Richardson explores the
effects of fire in the social and ecological history of the British
Lesser Antilles, from the British Virgin Islands south to Trinidad.
Focusing on the late nineteenth century, leading to the 1905
withdrawal of British military forces from the region, Richardson
shows how fire-lit social upheavals served as forerunners of
political independence movements.
Drawing on Caribbean and London archives as well as years of
fieldwork, Richardson examines how villagers used, modified, and
contemplated fire in part to vent their frustrations with a savage
economic depression and social and political inequities imposed
from afar. He examines fire in all its forms, from protest torches
to sugarcane fires that threatened the islands' economic staple.
Richardson illuminates a neglected period in Caribbean history by
showing how local uses of fire have been catalysts and even causes
of important changes in the region.
This major textbook survey, first published in 1992, explains how
the Caribbean's present geography is intimately tied to the past.
The Caribbean was Europe's first colony, its landscapes transformed
to produce tropical staples and its decimated aboriginal populace
replaced with African slaves. As European power has waned in the
Caribbean, it has been replaced by the geopolitical domination of
the United States. Professor Richardson examines this colonisation
and recolonisation of the Caribbean during the past half
millennium, portraying a region victimised by natural hazards, soil
erosion, over population and gunboat diplomacy. Most importantly,
he explains the ways in which Caribbean peoples have reacted and
adapted to their external influences. No other single survey of the
region provides equivalent breadth - ranging from aboriginal
ecologies to today's narcotic traffic - or harnesses so effectively
elements of the past to illuminate the present.
The Caribbean was Europe's first colony, its landscapes transformed to produce tropical staples and its decimated aboriginal populace replaced with African slaves. As European power has waned in the Caribbean, it has been replaced by the geopolitical domination of the United States. Professor Richardson examines this colonization and recolonization of the Caribbean during the past half millennium, portraying a region victimized by natural hazards, soil erosion, overpopulation and gunboat diplomacy. Most importantly, he explains the ways in which Caribbean peoples have reacted and adapted to their external influences. No other single survey of the region provides equivalent breadth--ranging from aboriginal ecologies to today's narcotic traffic--or harnesses so effectively elements of the past to illuminate the present.
Like his father before him, Octavio runs the Notre Dame bakery and
knows the secret recipe for the perfect Parisian baguette. But,
also like his father, Octavio has never mastered the art of reading
and his only knowledge of the world beyond the bakery door comes
from his own imagination. Just a few streets away, Isabeau works
out of sight in the basement of the Louvre, trying to forget her
disfigured beauty by losing herself in the paintings she restores
and the stories she reads. The two might never have met, but for a
curious chain of coincidences involving an impoverished painter, a
jaded bookseller, and a book of fairytales, lost and found...
Evocative, romantic, and wise, this is a magical novel about the
power of stories - to help us find enchantment, freedom, and
sometimes even love.
This practical book provides recipes for the construction of
devices used in low temperature experimentation. It emphasizes what
works, rather than what might be the optimum method, and lists
current sources for purchasing components and equipment.
The History of Matthew Wald (1824) is John Gibson Lockhart's fourth
and final novel and perhaps his most focused, stylistically
successful fiction. The title character tells his own story, which
is set in the context of, and carefully interwoven with, the larger
historical, social, and political events and circumstances of
Scotland in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Matthew Wald
exemplifies Lockhart's idea that the novel should portray the
'human mind under the influence of not one, but many of its
passions--ambition--love--revenge--remorse' and should reflect the
historical and social truth of the age. This scholarly edition
includes an Introduction that discusses the literary and historical
contexts of the narrative and the novel's early reception and
textual history. Detailed Explanatory Notes complement the
Introduction to provide the modern reader with the resources to
re-evaluate Lockhart's place in the history of the Scottish novel
and Romantic fiction.
Although portrayed as the 'boozing buffoon' of Blackwood's
Edinburgh Magazine, Hogg (both as the celebrated Ettrick Shepherd
and anonymously) was a key contributor of songs, narrative poems,
tales, and reviews to the liveliest of all early nineteenth-century
periodicals. The present volume includes several items hitherto
published only in Blackwood's, and ranges from the infamous
'Chaldee Manuscript' to newly-identified items such as a Scottish
commemoration of the coronation of George IV. The volume also
includes works Hogg intended for Blackwood's but which are now
published for the first time. Hogg's work for his favourite
periodical is provided in this volume in full cultural context,
including detailed annotation and a convenient and complete
editorial apparatus. Also included is music for several of the
Shepherd's songs.
Some time around his fiftieth birthday, Ambrose Zephyr fails his
annual medical check-up. An illness of inexplicable origin with no
known or foreseeable cure is diagnosed and it will kill him within
a month. Give or take a day. In the time that remains, he decides
to travel to all the places he has most loved or ever wanted to
visit, in strict alphabetical order. And so Ambrose and his wife
Zipper embark on a strange adventure that takes them further and
further away from home and doesn't quite turn out as either of them
had expected.
Offers Lockhart's final text to modern readers for the first time
Offers the first scholarly edition of Lockhart's best-know novel
based on Lockhart's final text Supplies extensive annotation and
full scholarly apparatus Includes a thorough textual history based
on comparative study of the manuscript, corrected proof pages,
first edition, and second edition Some Passages in the Life of Mr
Adam Blair (1822), John Gibson Lockhart's second and best-known
novel, is the story of a Church of Scotland minister whose sexual
relationship with a married woman has tragic consequences. One of
the earliest serious studies in fiction of a minister in Scottish
society, the novel also explores gender roles through the character
of Blair's friend in the affair, Charlotte. This edition provides
the first modern publication of Lockhart's final text, the revised
second edition (1824), as well as the first scholarly edition of
the novel, including extensive annotations and a detailed textual
history.
This open access book focuses on making the transition from
in-person, classroom education to other feasible alternative modes
and methodologies to deliver education at all levels. The book
presents and analyzes research questions to explore in this arena,
including pedagogical issues relating to technological and
infrastructure challenges, teacher professional development, issues
of disparity, access and equity, and impact of government policies
on education. It also provides unique opportunities and vehicles
for generating scholarship that helps explain the varied
educational needs, perspectives and solutions that arise during an
emergency and the different roles educational institutions and
educators may play during this time. Developed from a highly
successful Presidential Session at the annual meeting of the
Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT),
this edited volume presents AECT and its membership as the premier
organization focusing on the provision of educational
communications and technology leadership. In addition, it functions
as a contemporary document of this global crisis as well as a rich
resource for possible future emergency scenarios in the educational
arena.
This open access book focuses on making the transition from
in-person, classroom education to other feasible alternative modes
and methodologies to deliver education at all levels. The book
presents and analyzes research questions to explore in this arena,
including pedagogical issues relating to technological and
infrastructure challenges, teacher professional development, issues
of disparity, access and equity, and impact of government policies
on education. It also provides unique opportunities and vehicles
for generating scholarship that helps explain the varied
educational needs, perspectives and solutions that arise during an
emergency and the different roles educational institutions and
educators may play during this time. Developed from a highly
successful Presidential Session at the annual meeting of the
Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT),
this edited volume presents AECT and its membership as the premier
organization focusing on the provision of educational
communications and technology leadership. In addition, it functions
as a contemporary document of this global crisis as well as a rich
resource for possible future emergency scenarios in the educational
arena.
An analysis of two heuristic strategies for the development of
mechanistic models, illustrated with historical examples from the
life sciences. In Discovering Complexity, William Bechtel and
Robert Richardson examine two heuristics that guided the
development of mechanistic models in the life sciences:
decomposition and localization. Drawing on historical cases from
disciplines including cell biology, cognitive neuroscience, and
genetics, they identify a number of "choice points" that life
scientists confront in developing mechanistic explanations and show
how different choices result in divergent explanatory models.
Describing decomposition as the attempt to differentiate functional
and structural components of a system and localization as the
assignment of responsibility for specific functions to specific
structures, Bechtel and Richardson examine the usefulness of these
heuristics as well as their fallibility-the sometimes false
assumption underlying them that nature is significantly
decomposable and hierarchically organized. When Discovering
Complexity was originally published in 1993, few philosophers of
science perceived the centrality of seeking mechanisms to explain
phenomena in biology, relying instead on the model of nomological
explanation advanced by the logical positivists (a model Bechtel
and Richardson found to be utterly inapplicable to the examples
from the life sciences in their study). Since then, mechanism and
mechanistic explanation have become widely discussed. In a
substantive new introduction to this MIT Press edition of their
book, Bechtel and Richardson examine both philosophical and
scientific developments in research on mechanistic models since
1993.
From Madame de Stael, Dumas, and Taine, to Giraudoux, Adamov,
Ionesco, and the existentialists, this study provides a fascinating
account of the progress of Kleist's reception in France from
complete rejection in 1807 to spectacular critical and public
acclaim in the 1950s. Richardson argues that Kleist's success in
France disproves the traditional idea that his work is
"unexportable" and shows the conditions that led to his positive
reception outside Germany.
Epigenetics and Dermatology explores the role of epigenetics in the
pathogenesis of autoimmune-related skin diseases and skin cancer.
Leading contributors cover common and uncommon skin conditions in
which extensive epigenetic research has been done. They explain how
environmental exposures (chemicals, drugs, sunlight, diet, stress,
smoking, infection, etc.) in all stages of life (from a fetus
in-utero to an elderly person) may result in epigenetic changes
that lead to development of some skin diseases in life. They also
discuss the possibilities of new and emergent epigenetic treatments
which are gradually being adopted in management of various skin
diseases. Chapters follow a conventional structure, covering
fundamental biology of the disease condition, etiology and
pathogenesis, diagnosis, commonly available treatments, and
epigenetic therapy where applicable.
In Critical Thinking About Psychology: Hidden Assumptions and
Plausible Alternatives contributors examine the unquestioned givens
of psychology and suggest other ways of looking at them.
Psychologists are taught early in their careers to use their
research findings to examine common myths and debunk false beliefs.
Yet, in spite of this emphasis on critical analysis, psychologists
do not typically subject psychology itself to such evaluation. In
this fascinating volume, experts from varied subdisciplines
critique assumptions peculiar to their specialty and then propose
alternatives to replace the original assumptions. The book covers
six major psychology subdisciplines, ranging from clinical
psychology to neuropsychology. Contributors critique unquestioned
tenets of the field such as the dualism between mind and body, the
truth of efficient causation, and the discrete unit known as the
individual. Authors then provide alternative ways of seeing the
field, such as nondualistic models of the self and a moral vision
of human development, effectively creating new conceptual ground
for psychology. In analyzing what is taken for granted, this volume
teaches critical thinking skills at the same time that it moves
psychology in exciting new directions.
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