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This book examines Latin narratives produced in the aftermath of
the First Crusade and challenges the narrative of supposed
brutality and amorality of warfare in this period--instead focusing
on the moral and didactic concerns surrounding warfare and violence
with which medieval authors wrestled. The battle oration, a rousing
harangue exhorting warriors to deeds of valour, has been regarded
as a significant aspect of warfare since the age of Xenophon, and
has continued to influence conceptions of campaigning and combat to
the present day. While its cultural and chronological pervasiveness
attests to the power of this trope, scholarly engagement with the
literary phenomenon of the pre-battle speech has been limited.
Moreover, previous work on medieval battle rhetoric has only served
to reinforce the supposed brutality and amorality of warfare in
this period, highlighting appeals to martial prowess, a hatred for
'the enemy' and promises of wealth and glory. This book, through an
examination of Latin narratives produced in the aftermath of the
First Crusade and the decades that followed, challenges this
understanding and illuminates the moral and didactic concerns
surrounding warfare and violence with which medieval authors
wrestled. Furthermore, while battle orations form a clear mechanism
by which the fledgling crusading movement could be explored
ideologically, this comparative study reveals how non-crusading
warfare in this period was also being reconceptualised in light of
changing ideas about just war, authority and righteousness in
Christian society. This volume is perfect for researchers, students
and scholars alike interested in medieval history and military
studies.
Design History Beyond the Canon subverts hierarchies of taste which
have dominated traditional narratives of design history. This book
explores a diverse selection of objects, spaces and media, ranging
from high design to mass-produced and mass-marketed objects, as
well as counter-cultural and sub-cultural material. The authors'
research highlights the often marginalized role of gender and
racial identity in the production and consumption of design, the
politics which underpins design practice and the role of designed
objects as pathways of nostalgia and cultural memory. While focused
primarily on North American examples from the early 20th century
onwards, this collection also features essays examining European
and Soviet design history, as well as the influence of Asia and
Africa on Western design practice. This book is organised in three
thematic sections: 'Consumers', 'Intermediaries' and 'Designers'.
The first section analyses a range of designed objects and spaces
through the experiences and perspectives of users. The second
section considers intermediaries from both technology and cultural
industries, as well as the hidden labour within the design process
itself. The final section focuses on designers from multiple design
disciplines including high fashion, industrial design, interior
design, graphic design and design history pedagogy. The essays
utilize different research methods and a wide range of theoretical
approaches, including feminist theory, critical race theory,
spatial theory, material culture studies, science and technology
studies and art history. This book brings together the most recent
research which stretches beyond the traditional canon and looks to
interdisciplinary methodologies to better understand the practice
and consumption of design.
'What the doctor ordered . . . a fiercely funny novel.' Sunday
Times It is the year of our Lord 1349 and it is the season of the
Plague. Brothor Diggory's life is about to change. The sickness is
creeping ever closer and the monks of his order must attend to the
afflicted. He is about to meet the Plague. What he doesn't realise
is that encountering an illness and understanding it are two quite
different things . . . An uproarious and uplifting novel about
sickness and health, and how perhaps we're never quite as
cutting-edge as we might like to believe. 'Ribald yet deeply
touching.' Observer 'Therapeutically hilarious.' Telegraph 'Often
ingenious and frequently hilarious.' Guardian
This book is a comprehensive summary of the recommendations for
best practice, and current evidence, for physical activity and
rehabilitation of functional deficits in individuals with end-stage
diseases. While advances in technology have afforded us the
opportunity to live longer lives, it has also demanded an expansion
of focus of medical interventions towards palliative care to
enhance the quality of life. Exercise and healthcare professionals
must strive to broaden their perspectives to provide for the unique
needs of these individuals, and to successfully engage with them,
to achieve the most positive outcomes throughout the entire
continuum of care. Healthcare providers play a critical role in
advocating for care to allow individuals to remain physically
active for as long as possible, even in the face of declining
health. Finally, due to the increasing and progressively emergent
healthcare utilization required by these individuals, a significant
cost burden is experienced by healthcare systems, patients,
families, and payers. There is evidence of substantial protective
effects of physical activity, prevention, safety, and
rehabilitative procedures to reduce hospital readmissions, reduce
length of stay, and assist in avoiding unwarranted or unnecessary
diagnostic tests or procedures. Physical activity has been proven
to have a substantial impact and protective effects on virtually
all medical conditions. During curative management, but especially
during transitional phases to palliative care, other strategies
need enhanced consideration to complement the existing plan of care
and help to improve patient's quality of life. Ideally, physical
medicine would be at the forefront of allowing individuals to live
their best life until the very end. Physical Activity and
Rehabilitation in Life-threatening Illness is key reading for
academics and policy makers in physical activity, international
exercise, wellness and rehabilitation, and related disciplines, as
well as research-focused clinicians in settings where patients with
advanced illness are frequently encountered.
This book is a comprehensive summary of the recommendations for
best practice, and current evidence, for physical activity and
rehabilitation of functional deficits in individuals with end-stage
diseases. While advances in technology have afforded us the
opportunity to live longer lives, it has also demanded an expansion
of focus of medical interventions towards palliative care to
enhance the quality of life. Exercise and healthcare professionals
must strive to broaden their perspectives to provide for the unique
needs of these individuals, and to successfully engage with them,
to achieve the most positive outcomes throughout the entire
continuum of care. Healthcare providers play a critical role in
advocating for care to allow individuals to remain physically
active for as long as possible, even in the face of declining
health. Finally, due to the increasing and progressively emergent
healthcare utilization required by these individuals, a significant
cost burden is experienced by healthcare systems, patients,
families, and payers. There is evidence of substantial protective
effects of physical activity, prevention, safety, and
rehabilitative procedures to reduce hospital readmissions, reduce
length of stay, and assist in avoiding unwarranted or unnecessary
diagnostic tests or procedures. Physical activity has been proven
to have a substantial impact and protective effects on virtually
all medical conditions. During curative management, but especially
during transitional phases to palliative care, other strategies
need enhanced consideration to complement the existing plan of care
and help to improve patient's quality of life. Ideally, physical
medicine would be at the forefront of allowing individuals to live
their best life until the very end. Physical Activity and
Rehabilitation in Life-threatening Illness is key reading for
academics and policy makers in physical activity, international
exercise, wellness and rehabilitation, and related disciplines, as
well as research-focused clinicians in settings where patients with
advanced illness are frequently encountered.
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The Zoo (Paperback)
Christopher Wilson
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R303
R194
Discovery Miles 1 940
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There are certain things that Yuri Zipit knows:
That being official food-taster for the leader of the Soviet Union requires him to drink too much vodka for a 12-year-old.
That you do not have to be an Elephantologist to see that the great leader is dying.
That Marshal Bruhah has been known to eat his own children, while Comrade Krushka is only fit to run a slaughterhouse, and that one of them has Yuri's father somewhere here in the Dacha.
That it's a crime to love your family more than you love Socialism, the Party or the Motherland.
That, because of his damaged mind, everyone thinks Yuri is a fool.
But Yuri isn't. He sits quietly through another excessive state dinner and witnesses it all - betrayals, body doubles, buffoonery. He's starting to get the hang of this politics thing, but there's so much to learn. Who knew that a man could be in five places at once? That someone could break your nose as a sign of friendship? That people could be disinvented?
The Zoo is a cutting satire, told through the refreshing voice of one gutsy boy who will not give up on hope.
First full-length survey of the Temple Church, from its foundation
in the twelfth century to the Second World War. Founded as the main
church of the Knights Templar in England, at their New Temple in
London, the Temple Church is historically and architecturally one
of the most important medieval buildings in England. Its round
nave, modelled on the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, is
extraordinarily ambitious, combining lavish Romanesque sculpture
with some of the earliest Gothic architectural features in any
English building of its period. It also holds one of the most
famous series of medieval effigies in the country. Major
developments in the post-medieval period include the reordering of
the church in the 1680s by Sir Christopher Wren, and a substantial
restoration programme in the early 1840s. Despite its extraordinary
importance, however, it has until now attracted little scholarly or
critical attention, a gap that is remedied by this volume. It
considers the New Temple as a whole in the Middle Ages, and
allaspects of the church itself from its foundation in the twelfth
century to its war-time damage in the twentieth. Richly illustrated
with numerous black and white and colour plates, it makes full use
of the exceptional range and quality of the antiquarian material
available for study, including drawings, photographs, and plaster
casts. Contributors: Robin Griffith-Jones, Virginia Jansen, Philip
Lankester, Helen Nicholson, David Park, Rosemary Sweet, William
Whyte, Christopher Wilson. Robin Griffith-Jones is Master of the
Temple at the Temple Church; David Park is a Professor at the
Courtauld Institute of Art.
The Gothic Cathedral focuses on the interaction between design and
the requirements of patrons, following the creative processes of
architects by reconstructing the problems and opportunities which
faced them. Christopher Wilson presents the essential facts on such
aspects as chronology, structural techniques and stylistic
developments and then goes further, seeing the story as a sequence
of choices from which new solutions arose, which, in their turn,
gave rise to still more challenges. Illustrated with carefully
chosen photographs and specially drawn diagrams, this fresh,
perceptive and provocative book has already established itself as a
definitive introduction to the subject.
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Edinburgh (Hardcover, New Ed)
John Gifford, Colin McWilliam, David Walker, Christopher Wilson
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R1,796
Discovery Miles 17 960
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The historic capital of Scotland is well known as a fortified
medieval city with castle and crown-steepled church, its Royal Mile
leading down to the Abbey and Palace of Holyrood; as a merchant
city of the Stuart period with Parliament House and closely built
houses and tenements; as a Georgian town with the largest sequence
of planned developments in Britain; as a Victorian town of churches
and banks, hotels and pubs, of quiet surburbs; and as a
twentieth-century city where the Festival and its Fringe have
encouraged the rediscovery of old buildings and the planning of new
ones. A comprehensive gazetteer is provided to all notable
developments of central Edinburgh, the seaport town of Leith and
the suburban neighbourhoods.
People with Asperger Syndrome (AS) can be particularly at risk of
developing mental health difficulties such as anxiety and
depression. Here, adults with Asperger Syndrome speak out about
their own experiences of mental health issues, offering sound
advice for other Aspies and providing valuable insights for family,
friends and also for mental health professionals. Touching on
everything from difficulties at work and college to coping with low
self-confidence, self-harm, alcohol, misdiagnosis, sectioning,
counselling, medication and battles with mental health services,
the book provides a window into how people with AS experience
mental health issues, and what can be done to help. The individual
accounts describe innovative coping strategies and methods for
maintaining emotional and psychological wellbeing as well as
practical advice on things like how to stay positive and deal with
day-to-day stress and meltdowns. This is essential reading for
adults with Asperger Syndrome, and their families and friends, and
will be a useful resource for psychologists, psychiatrists, mental
health service providers and other professionals who support adults
with Asperger Syndrome.
The latest British Archaeological Association transactions report
on the conference volumes at Beverley in 1983. Papers provide the
latest thoughts on topics at Beverley Minster and in the
surrounding area. Contributions include: Pre-Conquest Sculpture (J
Lang); pre-13th century Beverley (R Morris & E Cambridge); 12th
century sculpture from Bridlington (M Thurlby); Bridlington
Augustinian church and cloister in the 12th century (J A Franklin);
stained glass of Beverley Minster (D O'Connor); East Riding
sepulchal monuments (B & M Gittos); St Peter's Church, Howden
(N Coldstream); the Percy tomb workshop (N Dawton); architectural
development of Patrington Church (J Maddison); Beverley in
conflict: Archbishop Neville and the Minster Clergy, 1381-8 (R B
Dobson); monumental brasses in the 14th and 15th centuries (S
Badham); the misericords in Beveley Minster (C Grossinger).
What does a person have to do to achieve success in the workforce,
or more broadly, in life? If you've ever asked yourself these
questions, look no further than here. Author Christopher Wilson's
BA to Boardroom with No BS, Skills for Life delivers an answer
that's straightforward, sensible, and, as the title suggests,
devoid of all the "BS" clouding most forms of career advice these
days. Described by Paul F. Levy, former CEO of Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center, as "one of those essential life guides
that everyone should have," BA to Boardroom with No BS gives
readers what they need to know. The book offers pragmatic, usable
advice on how to affect positive change and practical growth in
one's career and personal life. By honing the interpersonal and
professional skills necessary not only to spur, but also to respond
to, one's rise through the ranks, individuals are set up to achieve
more successful outcomes. Wilson's unique brand of no-nonsense
advice is based on the premise that, while knowledge is important
in any job, skills are what ultimately move people forward and
enable them to climb the workplace ladder. To illustrate this
point, Wilson compares the accumulation of job skills to the act of
filling a toolbox with tools. With each new tool added to the box,
one becomes more equipped to build a better outcome, more mindful
of the results each tool produces, and more capable of choosing,
and effectively using, the right tools for the right job. Through a
series of very relatable, often funny, and always edifying stories,
Wilson identifies very specific personal and professional skills
and depicts the application of those skills to actual workplace
scenarios, as he encountered them during his thirty-plus years
working as a corporate employee, CEO, mentor, parent, and executive
coach. While the stories in BA to Boardroom with No BS can be read
straight through and in order, success-driven individuals will want
to revisit the text over and over again as they progress through
career and life, calling upon it as a reference whenever the need
arises to learn how to deal with a new, different, or challenging
work or personal situation. An "Index of Skills" near the front of
the book enables readers to do just that. After finding the desired
skill in the index, they need only flip to the correct page to find
the desired information. Some of the skills featured in the book
include: personal skills, such as resume writing, salary
negotiation, and peer relations; management skills, such as hiring
people, building a team, and managing up; leadership skills, such
as influencing, situational leadership, and stakeholder analysis;
and life skills, such as investing, credit, and insurance basics.
However accurate the title may be when it comes to "No BS," do not
be deceived by the appearance of "BA" in the title. Though the book
is intended primarily for college students and graduates entering
the workforce for the first time, BA to Boardroom with No BS offers
benefits to a much larger audience. In addition to providing a
resource for new workers, the book offers invaluable information,
instruction, and motivation for those who are returning to work
after hiatus, assuming greater leadership and/or management roles
in an existing job, looking to get a tighter grasp on workplace
dynamics, or simply looking to get ahead in any aspect of life. For
more complete information, visit www.batoboardroom.com.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
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++++ Winchester National Pageant To Be Held In The Grounds Of
Wolvesey Castle: On June 25th, And The Five Following Days. The
Book Of The Words And Music Winchester, England. National pageant,
Christopher Wilson Printed for the Pageant committee by Warren
& son, 1908
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Life and Health (Paperback)
John C. Almack, Charles Christopher Wilson, John Lewis Bracken
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Discovery Miles 13 470
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