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Praise for Alex Neptune, Dragon Thief: "I loved it! A rich and
exciting story." LD Lapinski, author of The Strangeworlds Travel
Agency "A wonderfully pacy adventure full of imagination and
jeopardy." Jasbinder Bilan, author of Asha & the Spirit Bird
"Hilarious - full of humour, friendship, and mythical adventure."
Sarah Driver, author of The Huntress trilogy Join Alex Neptune, the
boy with the power of the ocean in his hands, on his second
adventure - perfect for fans of Percy Jackson and Dragon Realm!
Alex Neptune is struggling to get to grips with his new oceanic
powers...so the last thing he needs is Haven Bay being attacked by
pirates in a ship made of rubbish. The marauders are hunting for
the missing egg of the elusive water dragon - and Alex is
determined to reach it first to stop them stealing its power. Along
with friends Zoey and Anil - plus a clumsy seal, a lock-picking
hermit crab and some seriously menacing otters - Alex sets out on a
treasure hunt to a secret shipwreck where they must face three
monstrous challenges. Indiana Jones meets Pirates of the Caribbean
in this ultimate treasure-hunting, puzzle-solving ocean adventure!
"I loved it! A rich and exciting story." LD Lapinski, author of The
Strangeworlds Travel Agency "A wonderfully pacy adventure full of
imagination and jeopardy." Jasbinder Bilan, author of Asha &
the Spirit Bird "Hilarious - full of humour, friendship, and
mythical adventure." Sarah Driver, author of The Huntress trilogy
Meet Alex Neptune, the boy with the power of the ocean in his hands
- a brand-new hero for fans of Percy Jackson and Dragon Realm! For
as long as Alex Neptune can remember, the ocean has been trying to
kill him. So he's not too happy when a bunch of sea creatures drag
him to the abandoned aquarium on the hill, where an imprisoned
water dragon needs his help. But how can he say no to a magical
myth? Recruiting his tech-genius best friend Zoey, legend-lover
Anil, a sharp-shooting octopus, four acrobatic otters and a
thieving seagull, Alex plots a heist to break the dragon out. And
suddenly discovers the power of the ocean at his fingertips...
Cool Contemporary Classic highlights 26 high-profile,
highly-crafted and elegantly detailed projects from sectors
including luxury hotels, private residential, and restaurants, bars
and cafes by award-winning, London-based practice, Archer Humphryes
Architects.An opening design manifesto by practice Directors David
Archer and Julie Humphryes and an introduction by Pamela Buxton
(London-based architecture and design journalist) are followed by
texts by Edwin Heathcote (architecture and design critic of The
Financial Times), Jan-Carlos Kucharek (senior editor of the RIBA
Journal and editor of its sister title Products in Practice).A
highly illustrated, 448 page title with beautiful photography, Cool
Contemporary Classic illustrates the practice's approach to each
project, the historical research carried out to inform each design
as well as the attention to detail employed by Archer Humphryes
Architects for each bespoke design. Through these images we learn
how each of these projects, all produced over the last eleven
years, have come together, and which elements drove their overall
design. From designing projects to sit within public spaces to
interior design, Cool Contemporary Classic examines a wide range of
subjects and will be of interest to students, professionals and
anyone with an interest in contemporary architecture, interior
design and lifestyle aesthetics.
They say that crime doesn't pay, but somebody has forgotten to tell
the criminals! Burglary, drugs, car theft and anti-social behaviour
are all in a day's experience on the Belthorpe Estate in Leeds.
However, some people have had enough and are fighting back, taking
the law into their own hands. Who is behind the vigilante attacks?
And what happens when the forces of law and order can't, or wont,
do anything about it? Welcome to Bandit Country...From the killing
ground of Northern Ireland at the height of 'The Troubles' to the
mean streets of a contemporary housing estate, and with the War on
Terror as its backdrop Bandit Country takes us on one man's journey
through modern Britain - a Britain where people live with the
stress of economic meltdown and lawlessness on the streets. But
what lies at the heart of this journey is a quest for justice that
will, in the end, threaten to reveal the deepest, darkest secrets
at the heart of modern government. Will those secrets be revealed,
or will the journey end as it began, in an explosion of death and
destruction...
Find out how children lived in Ancient Rome. Meet Velia the
Etruscan girl who lived before the Republic was founded, at the
origins of Roman civilisation. Learn about the Vestal Virgins with
Claudia as she joins the cult at the age of seven. Discover Roman
roads and acqueducts with Tarquinius, the apprentice engineer.
Enjoy the thrills and spills of chariot racing, the young
charioteer.
Each beautifully illustrated page introduces children about the
same age as readers and shows how kids lived at that time. Learn
about the annual flood, food and agriculture with the farmer's
children Kia and Woser. Meet the young Pharaoh Kawab and his Great
Royal Wife Maia, as you discover what the kings and queens of Egypt
did in their daily lives. Help the student scribe Sabu learn to
spell and the young musicians Sadek and Ana get their first job.
Britain’s relationship with Russia is surprisingly
under-explored. When the two formed a pragmatic alliance and fought
together at Navarino in 1827, it was overwhelmingly the work of the
British prime minister, George Canning. His death brought about a
volte-face that would see the countries fighting on opposite sides
in the Crimean War and jostling for power during the Great Game. It
was not until the 1917 revolution that another statesman had a
defining impact on relations between Britain and Russia: Winston
Churchill opposed Bolshevism, yet he never stopped advocating
diplomatic and military engagement with Russia. In the Second World
War, he recognised earlier than most the necessity of allying with
the Soviets against the menace of Nazi Germany – as well as the
post-war threat to freedom posed by the Soviets themselves.Bringing
us into the twenty-first century, Owen chronicles how both
countries have responded to their geopolitical decline. Drawing on
both imperial and Soviet history, he explains the unique nature of
Putin’s autocracy and addresses Britain’s return to ‘blue
water’ diplomacy. With Owen’s characteristic insight and
expertise, Riddle, Mystery, and Enigma depicts a relationship
governed by principle as often as by suspicion, expediency, and
outright necessity.
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No Snail (Hardcover)
David Owen
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New Hall is one of the oldest inhabited moated houses in England.
Built of local sandstone and warm Midlands brick, it sits in what
was once the vast hunting forests of Sutton Chase, in the ancient
county of Warwickshire. Sir Nicholas Pevsner, the great 20th
century British architectural historian, describes New Hall's
plaster ceilings, Solar (known as the Great Chamber), the
seventeenth century staircase and various other additions as 'a
major mansion in a moat'. The house was added to and adorned by
subsequent owners, including the Earls of Warwick, whose fortunes
rose and fell in the social, political and economic upheavals over
the centuries; it is this story, told for the first time, that is
England's history in miniature. This is a house that has lasted
almost a millennium and the light bouncing off the lily-filled
moat, its diamond-shard mullioned windows, their rippling ancient
glass, the elegant hubris of the Victorian cupola-ed, castellated
wing, are now enjoyed by guests of the wonderful, luxury hotel it
is today. Written by Kate Holt, an internationally acclaimed
photojournalist, with a foreword by Dr David Owen, OBE, a member of
the last private family to own New Hall, this is a book that will
engage, delight and inform.
An accessible resource to develop authentic learning and teaching
in higher education, this book challenges conventional teaching
practice and presents meaningful and impactful alternatives across
disciplines that are research informed, student-centred and
achievable. Bringing together a wide range of contemporary
examples, this essential text shows how academics from an
increasing range of disciplines and fields have shifted their
attention away from the restrictions of campus-based education.
Using engaging case study material, underpinned by cutting edge
research, the text shares innovations from over 50 different
institutions, offers practical advice on how to facilitate
authentic learning in real world contexts and examines the range of
alternative assessment techniques available to the contemporary
teacher. A Handbook for Authentic Learning in Higher Education is
ideal reading for early career academics exploring approaches to
learning, established academics searching for practical guides to
emergent pedagogies and all those responsible for leading teaching
and learning practices within their department or institution.
Key Skills for Housing Adaptations delves into the crucial role
occupational therapists play in helping people with additional
needs adapt their homes in order to give them a better quality of
life. Highlighting the long-term benefits environmental adjustments
can afford, this accessible and practical book combines key skills
needed to carry out home adaptations, from professional reasoning
skills and cultural considerations to relevant legislation and the
roles and remits of people working in the field. Supplemented with
knowledge checks preceding every chapter, practical exercises, and
case studies as well as digital resources including examples of
architectural plans and videos that bring the theory to life, this
is a comprehensive and essential tool for both new and seasoned
occupational therapists looking to make a positive impact on
clients' home lives.
An accessible resource to develop authentic learning and teaching
in higher education, this book challenges conventional teaching
practice and presents meaningful and impactful alternatives across
disciplines that are research informed, student-centred and
achievable. Bringing together a wide range of contemporary
examples, this essential text shows how academics from an
increasing range of disciplines and fields have shifted their
attention away from the restrictions of campus-based education.
Using engaging case study material, underpinned by cutting edge
research, the text shares innovations from over 50 different
institutions, offers practical advice on how to facilitate
authentic learning in real world contexts and examines the range of
alternative assessment techniques available to the contemporary
teacher. A Handbook for Authentic Learning in Higher Education is
ideal reading for early career academics exploring approaches to
learning, established academics searching for practical guides to
emergent pedagogies and all those responsible for leading teaching
and learning practices within their department or institution.
Focusing on the flight of women and girls from Venezuela, this book
examines the gendered nature of forced displacement and the ways in
which the failures of protection regimes to be sensitive to
displacement's gendered character affect women and girls, and their
sexual and reproductive health. Highlighting how categorical legal
distinctions between 'refugees' and 'migrants' fail to capture the
dynamics of forced migration in Latin America, it investigates how
the operation of this categorical divide generates responsibility
and protection gaps in relation to female forced migrants which act
as determinants of sexual and reproductive health. Drawing on the
voices of displaced women, it argues that a robust political ethics
of protection of the forcibly displaced must encompass all
necessary fleers and be responsive to the gendered character of
forced displacement and particularly to effective access to sexual
and reproductive health rights.
We call beliefs reasonable or unreasonable, justified or unjustified. What does this imply about belief? Can we be held responsible for our beliefs, and perhaps more significantly should we be blamed for our unreasonable convictions? Reason Without Freedom argues that the major problems of epistemology have their roots in this question over responsibility for belief. By drawing on the arguments of Descartes, Locke and Hume - the founders of epistemology - David Owens offers a critical discussion of the current trends in contemporary epistemology. He proposes that the problems we confront today - scepticism, the analysis of knowlege, and debates on epistemic justification- can be tackled only once we have understood the moral psychology of belief. Reason Without Freedom will be essential reading for all those interested in contemporary epistemology, philosophy of mind and action, ethics, and the history of seventeenth and eighteenth- century philosophy.
Series Information: International Library of Philosophy
Contents: Introduction Kant and the question of maturity Nietzsche the transformation of critique: Nietzsche and genealogy The genealogy of modernity: Nietszche, asceticism and nihilism The politics of the Ubermensch: Nietzsche, maturity and modernity Weber genealogy as cultural science: Weber, methodology and critique The genealogy of modernity: Weber, asceticism and disenchantment The politics of "personality": Weber, maturity and modernity Foucault genealogy as historical ontology: Foucault, methodology and critique The genealogy of modernity: Foucault, humanism and biopolitics The politics of critique: Foucault, maturity and modernity Conclusion
This text examines the work of Nietzsche, Weber and Foucalut as a
distinct trajectory of critical thinking within modern thought
which traces the emergence and development of genealogy in the form
of immanent critique. The book aims to clarify the relations
between these thinkers and to respond to Habermas' (and Dews')
charge that these thinkers are nihilists and that their approach is
philosophically incoherent and practically irresponsible by showing
how genealogy as a practical activity is directed towards the
achievements of human autonomy. The scope of the book covers the
critical methodolgies developed by these thinkers with respect to
the analysis of how we have become what we are, their substantive
reconstructions of how we have become what we are and the
implication which they draw for the possiblity of human autonomy in
the present. It proceeds by detailed analysis of each thinker in
turn showing the structure of their approach, their historical
account of the emergence of modernity, and the politics of their
attempts to facilitate the achievement of human autonomy.
This edited volume argues that democracy is broader and more
diverse than the dominant state-centered, modern representative
democracies, to which other modes of democracy are either presumed
subordinate or ignored. The contributors seek to overcome the
standard opposition of democracy from below (participatory) and
democracy from above (representative). Rather, they argue that
through differently situated participatory and representative
practices, citizens and governments can develop democratic ways of
cooperating without hegemony and subordination, and that these
relationships can be transformative. This work proposes a slow but
sure, nonviolent, eco-social and sustainable process of democratic
generation and growth with the capacity to critique and transform
unjust and ecologically destructive social systems. This volume
integrates human-centric democracies into a more mutual,
interdependent and sustainable system on earth whereby everyone
gains.
This edited volume argues that democracy is broader and more
diverse than the dominant state-centered, modern representative
democracies, to which other modes of democracy are either presumed
subordinate or ignored. The contributors seek to overcome the
standard opposition of democracy from below (participatory) and
democracy from above (representative). Rather, they argue that
through differently situated participatory and representative
practices, citizens and governments can develop democratic ways of
cooperating without hegemony and subordination, and that these
relationships can be transformative. This work proposes a slow but
sure, nonviolent, eco-social and sustainable process of democratic
generation and growth with the capacity to critique and transform
unjust and ecologically destructive social systems. This volume
integrates human-centric democracies into a more mutual,
interdependent and sustainable system on earth whereby everyone
gains.
A landmark work of western philosophy, "On the Genealogy of
Morality" is a dazzling and brilliantly incisive attack on European
"morality". Combining philosophical acuity with psychological
insight in prose of remarkable rhetorical power, Nietzsche takes up
the task of offering us reasons to engage in a re-evaluation of our
values. In this book, David Owen offers a reflective and insightful
analysis of Nietzsche's text. He provides an account of how
Nietzsche comes to the project of the re-evaluation of values; he
shows how the development of Nietzsche's understanding of the
requirements of this project lead him to acknowledge the need for
the kind of investigation of "morality" that he terms "genealogy";
he elucidates the general structure and substantive arguments of
Nietzsche's text, accounting for the rhetorical form of these
arguments, and he debates the character of genealogy (as
exemplified by Nietzsche's "Genealogy") as a form of critical
enquiry. Owen argues that there is a specific development of
Nietzsche's work from his earlier "Daybreak" (1881) and that in
"Genealogy of Morality", Nietzsche is developing a critique of
modes of agency and that this constitutes the most fundamental
aspect of his demand for a revaluation of values. The book is a
distinctive and significant contribution to our understanding of
Nietzsche's great text.
A landmark work of western philosophy, "On the Genealogy of
Morality" is a dazzling and brilliantly incisive attack on European
"morality". Combining philosophical acuity with psychological
insight in prose of remarkable rhetorical power, Nietzsche takes up
the task of offering us reasons to engage in a re-evaluation of our
values. In this book, David Owen offers a reflective and insightful
analysis of Nietzsche's text. He provides an account of how
Nietzsche comes to the project of the re-evaluation of values; he
shows how the development of Nietzsche's understanding of the
requirements of this project lead him to acknowledge the need for
the kind of investigation of "morality" that he terms "genealogy";
he elucidates the general structure and substantive arguments of
Nietzsche's text, accounting for the rhetorical form of these
arguments, and he debates the character of genealogy (as
exemplified by Nietzsche's "Genealogy") as a form of critical
enquiry. Owen argues that there is a specific development of
Nietzsche's work from his earlier "Daybreak" (1881) and that in
"Genealogy of Morality", Nietzsche is developing a critique of
modes of agency and that this constitutes the most fundamental
aspect of his demand for a revaluation of values. The book is a
distinctive and significant contribution to our understanding of
Nietzsche's great text.
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Passionate Supervision (Paperback)
Anna Chesner, Sheila Ryan, Jane Read; Edited by Robin Shohet; Contributions by David Owen, …
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Practitioners working in the helping professions realise the
importance of supervision as a space for: reflection; compassionate
inquiry; and continuing professional development. This book
presents examples of good practice which will help readers to
enhance their own supervisory relationships. Robin Shohet brings
together supervisors from the fields of consultancy, education,
coaching, psychotherapy, youth work and homeopathy, many of whom
have been supervising for over 20 years. The contributors explain
why supervision continues to be just as important as when they
first started, and describe how and why they have managed to stay
passionate about their chosen career. The book features numerous
case examples to illustrate the different perspectives,
demonstrating that supervision is essential and rewarding in a
variety of professions. Passionate Supervision is a valuable
resource for anyone working in the helping professions, for whom
supervision is an integral part of their work.
The topic of recognition has come to occupy a central place in
debates in social and political theory. Developed by George Herbert
Mead and Charles Taylor, it has been given expression in the
program for Critical Theory developed by Axel Honneth in his book
The Struggle for Recognition. Honneth's research program offers an
empirically insightful way of reflecting on emancipatory struggles
for greater justice and a powerful theoretical tool for generating
a conception of justice and the good that enables the normative
evaluation of such struggles. This 2007 volume offers a critical
clarification and evaluation of this research program, particularly
its relationship to the other major development in critical social
and political theory; namely, the focus on power as formative of
practical identities (or forms of subjectivity) proposed by Michel
Foucault and developed by theorists such as Judith Butler, James
Tully, and Iris Marion Young.
In an important departure from theories of causation, David Owens
proposes that coincidences have no causes, and that a cause is
something which ensures that its effects are no coincidence. In
Causes and Coincidences, he elucidates the idea of a coincidence as
an event which can be analysed into constituent events, the
nomological antecedents of which are independent of each other. He
also suggests that causal facts can be analysed in terms of
non-causal facts, including relations of necessity. Thus, causation
is defined in terms of coincidence, and coincidence without
reference to causation. David Owens challenges the ideas associated
with Hume, Davidson and Lewis, constructing a theory which
distinguishes nomological necessity and sufficiency from their
logical counterparts. He is able to offer novel solutions to the
major problems of causation, including the direction of causation,
the logical form of causal statements, the distinction betwen
causal connections and logical connections, and the relationship
between psychological and physical causation.
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