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Much has been written about the law as it affects new and minority
religions, but relatively little has been written about how such
religions react to the law. This book presents a wide variety of
responses by minority religions to the legal environments within
which they find themselves. An international panel of experts offer
examples from North America, Europe and Asia demonstrating how
religions with relatively little status may resort to violence or
passive acceptance of the law; how they may change their beliefs or
practices in order to be in compliance with the law; or how they
may resort to the law itself in order to change their legal
standing, sometimes by forging alliances with those with more power
or authority to achieve their goals. The volume concludes by
applying theoretical insights from sociological studies of law,
religion and social movements to the variety of responses. The
first systematic collection focussing on how minority religions
respond to efforts at social control by various governmental
agents, this book provides a vital reference for scholars of
religion and the law, new religious movements, minority religions
and the sociology of religion.
First Published in 1970. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
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As If (New edition)
James Richardson
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Much has been written about the law as it affects new and minority
religions, but relatively little has been written about how such
religions react to the law. This book presents a wide variety of
responses by minority religions to the legal environments within
which they find themselves. An international panel of experts offer
examples from North America, Europe and Asia demonstrating how
religions with relatively little status may resort to violence or
passive acceptance of the law; how they may change their beliefs or
practices in order to be in compliance with the law; or how they
may resort to the law itself in order to change their legal
standing, sometimes by forging alliances with those with more power
or authority to achieve their goals. The volume concludes by
applying theoretical insights from sociological studies of law,
religion and social movements to the variety of responses. The
first systematic collection focussing on how minority religions
respond to efforts at social control by various governmental
agents, this book provides a vital reference for scholars of
religion and the law, new religious movements, minority religions
and the sociology of religion.
One of the characteristic features of Victorian poetry is dimness,
a vanishing away-things blur with the motion of their passing,
which seems inseparable from the mind's fading as it lets them go.
Tennyson, Rossetti, Swinburne, and the young Yeats are elegists of
the self; they render life as transparent, ghostlike, dissolving,
ungraspable, nearly unrememberable. This vanishing away, this
dimness, of Victorian poetry is most obvious in the twilights,
mists, shadows, deep horizons, and flowing waters of its central
landscape, but it is also a matter of sound and syntax, of
repetition and rhythm, texture and line movement. Vanishing Lives
examines these features and links them to larger issues, such as
the psychology of the individual poets, and the Victorian and
modern frames of mind. The tendencies under consideration are less
ideas than forms or styles of feeling. They are so universal in the
nineteenth century that they may not seem to call for comment, but
for all their vagueness they are deep, powerful, resistant to
change-an essential stratum of the experience of Victorian poetry.
For poets like Yeats, who struggled to move beyond them, they were
far more than the trappings of an outmoded poetry. They were a
deeply ingrained aesthetic, a style, a morality, not only a way of
art to be revised, but a way of living to be outgrown-a Tennysonian
way.
This innovative textbook provides a concise and accessible guide
for undergraduate students specializing in children and young
people's nursing in the UK and further afield. Each chapter has
been fully updated to reflect current knowledge and practice. The
wide range of topics covered includes all the essentials, such as
contemporary child health policy and legal issues; knowledge and
skills for practice; and caring for children with special needs.
Students will learn how to recognize the deteriorating child, use
procedural play and distraction, and consider the mental health of
children and young people. A Textbook of Children's and Young
People's Nursing is written by multidisciplinary experts, rooted in
child-centred healthcare within a family context, and draws upon
best contemporary practice. It is an invaluable resource that will
help nursing students provide effective, evidence-based care. Key
points, summary boxes and clearly defined aims, objectives and
learning outcomes to support learning Conversation boxes to enliven
the text Patient scenarios to relate theory to practice New
chapters on skin health and the use of therapeutic play Suggestions
for seminar discussion topics to help teachers Resource lists and
online resources for further study or research Online slides to
complement chapters within book
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Gesture-Based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction - International Gesture Workshop, GW'99, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, March 17-19, 1999 Proceedings (Paperback, 1999 ed.)
Annelies Braffort, Rachid Gherbi, Sylvie Gibet, James Richardson, Daniel Teil
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The need to improve communication between humans and computers has
been instrumental in de ning new modalities of communication, and
new ways of interacting with machines. Gestures can convey
information for which other modalities are not e cient or suitable.
In natural and user-friendly interaction, gesturescanbeused,
asasinglemodality, orcombinedinmultimodalinteraction schemes which
involvespeech, or textual media. Speci cation methodologiescan be
developed to design advanced interaction processes in order to de
ne what kind of gestures are used, which meaning they convey, and
what the paradigms of interaction are. Research centred on gesture
interaction has recently provided signi cant
technologicalimprovements, in particular: gesture capture and tra-
ing (from video streams or other input devices), motion
recognition, motion generation, and animation. In addition, active
research in the elds of signal processing, pattern recognition,
arti cial intelligence, and linguistics is relevant to the areas
covered by the multidisciplinary research on gesture as a means of
communication. Resulting fromathree-dayinternationalworkshopin
Gif-sur-Yvette, France, with 80 participants from ten countries all
over the world, this book presents contributions on gesture under
the focus of human-computer communication. The workshop was run by
Universit e Paris Sud, Orsay, on the lines of GW'96 at York
University, UK, and GW'97 at Bielefeld University, Germany. Its
purpose was to bring together scientists from researchand
industrial organisationswo- ing on all aspects of gesture modelling
and interaction. The book is organised in sixsections,
coveringhumanperceptionandproductionofgesture, gestureloc- isation
and movement segmentation, vision-based recognition and sign
language recognition, gesture synthesis and animation, and
multimodality.
One of the characteristic features of Victorian poetry is dimness,
a vanishing away-things blur with the motion of their passing,
which seems inseparable from the mind's fading as it lets them go.
Tennyson, Rossetti, Swinburne, and the young Yeats are elegists of
the self; they render life as transparent, ghostlike, dissolving,
ungraspable, nearly unrememberable. This vanishing away, this
dimness, of Victorian poetry is most obvious in the twilights,
mists, shadows, deep horizons, and flowing waters of its central
landscape, but it is also a matter of sound and syntax, of
repetition and rhythm, texture and line movement. Vanishing Lives
examines these features and links them to larger issues, such as
the psychology of the individual poets, and the Victorian and
modern frames of mind. The tendencies under consideration are less
ideas than forms or styles of feeling. They are so universal in the
nineteenth century that they may not seem to call for comment, but
for all their vagueness they are deep, powerful, resistant to
change-an essential stratum of the experience of Victorian poetry.
For poets like Yeats, who struggled to move beyond them, they were
far more than the trappings of an outmoded poetry. They were a
deeply ingrained aesthetic, a style, a morality, not only a way of
art to be revised, but a way of living to be outgrown-a Tennysonian
way.
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For Now (Paperback)
James Richardson
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R416
R341
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The Totally Football Book will feature the best writing from the
Totally Football Show regulars, who by happy coincidence also
happen to be among the finest football journalists around, and will
be the definitive account of where football is at. Containing a
series of essays looking at the state of the game, with the
combination of irreverence and analysis that everyone will know
from the podcast and lots more besides. Carl Anka will consider the
shadow that Covid-19 still casts over the game, and asks what
asterisks should be placed against the seasons impacted by the
pandemic. Daniel Storey looks at the war in Ukraine through the
prism of football, thinking about the game's place in the wider
world and how, even though such astonishing events should mean
football doesn't matter, it still really does. Sasha Goryunov takes
a look at the astonishing rivalry between Liverpool and Manchester
City, Tom Williams writes about the unique relationship between
Gareth Bale and Wales, Elias Burke considers the work that Wayne
Rooney has done under extraordinary circumstances at Derby, Katie
Whyatt looks at Ella Toone and Lauren Hemp, two of the finest
players in the women's game, Maher Mezahi profiles Aliou Cisse
after he led Senegal to Africa Cup of Nations glory and much, much
more. There will also be a day-by-day account of the key events of
the 2021/22 season, from the traditional curtain-raiser of the
Community Shield right through to the Champions League final, with
everything from transfers, fights, sackings, arguments...and plenty
of actual football too in between. And finally, of course, the
quiz. The Inter Totally Cup crowned a new champion this year, and
with the sort of trivia that has stumped even the podcast's finest
brains, plus a set of teasers about the season just gone, you can
test your knowledge against ours.
500 aphorisms. Our best-seller. In "Boston Review," Brenda
O'Shaughnessy wrote, "Readers will be obsessed by this book; they
will memorize passages, give copies to friends, proselytize. That's
because "Vectors" so generously provides the best that poetry can
offer. It is a masterpiece of practicality, beauty, and
solace."
Poetry. ..".There's a broad, probing, unusual intelligence in
Richardson's] work, an unusual kind of technical introspection and
a wide-ranging inspiration and content that use as their matter
images and ideas from sources as far afield as ancient philosophy,
and contemporary science...it is work that brings news to us of
packets of mental and emotional experience that haven't sung so
well together in poetry for a longer time than one would care to
think"--C.K. Williams. James Richardson is the author of five books
of poetry, including VECTORS: APHORISMS & TEN-SECOND ESSAYS,
and several critical studies. The recipient of the Cecil Hemley and
Robert H. Winner Prizes from the Poetry Society of America, he is
Professor of English and Creative Writing at Princeton University.
"The poems are elegies for everything, including myself," writes
James Richardson. "Beyond this, I cannot pretend to be certain of
much about them. I suppose they reflect a self with only a tenuous
grip on its surroundings, threatened by their (and its own)
continuous vanishing. The poems respond with a helplessness, fitful
control, and not a little tenderness. Like the protagonists of The
Encyclopedia of Stones: A Pastoral, I am very slow, both unsettled
and inspired by the vertiginous strangeness and speed of events. I
suspect these melancholy and disembodied poems are attempts to
arrest the moment long enough to say farewell, to let things go
rather than be subject to their disappearance." Originally
published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
"The poems are elegies for everything, including myself," writes
James Richardson. "Beyond this, I cannot pretend to be certain of
much about them. I suppose they reflect a self with only a tenuous
grip on its surroundings, threatened by their (and its own)
continuous vanishing. The poems respond with a helplessness, fitful
control, and not a little tenderness. Like the protagonists of The
Encyclopedia of Stones: A Pastoral, I am very slow, both unsettled
and inspired by the vertiginous strangeness and speed of events. I
suspect these melancholy and disembodied poems are attempts to
arrest the moment long enough to say farewell, to let things go
rather than be subject to their disappearance." Originally
published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
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During (Paperback)
James Richardson
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R398
R298
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