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This Scottish Mountaineering Club climbers' guidebook details all
the climbing to be found on the sea-cliffs and outcrops on the
magical Isle of Skye. It is an up to date and fully comprehensive
guide to what is an increasingly popular area, on an already
popular island. It is a companion volume to the 2011 guide to the
Cuillin mountains of Skye, from the SMC. It is written by one of
the recognised experts in this area. It is full colour throughout
with action pictures and detailed photo-diagrams. User friendly in
a successful and well presented format, this title includes page
marker ribbon to ease the location of climbs.
When it comes to deciding the most tragic British artist of the
20th century, Cyril Mann (1911-80) must be a contender. Mann made a
number of genuinely innovative breakthroughs and certainly had the
potential to become one of the most important figurative painters
of his time. Yet, struggling with mental health problems, Mann had
an unerring instinct for turning each moment of promise into bitter
disappointment. In 1959, Renske van Slooten fell in love with Mann
who was more than twice her age. Renske was convinced she
discovered a genius and she promised to dedicate her life to him as
muse, model and money earner. Their struggles quickly threatened to
overwhelm them. The Girl in a Green Jumper is not only an
enthralling story set against the backdrop of 1960s London, but it
also charts in detail the struggles an artist goes through, both
creatively and financially. Renske also gives fascinating insights
into the way that Cyril's painting technique evolved over time.
Multidisciplinary Studies on the Environment and Civilization draws
on research from a diverse range of fields across the humanities,
social and natural sciences to discover what is needed to develop
an affluent, sustainable and resilient world for the twenty-first
century and beyond. The contributions throughout this volume build
and promote frameworks for an interdisciplinary approach to
sustainability both in and beyond Japan. Utilizing research efforts
from a broad range of fields such as zoology, biological
anthropology and archaeology, these multidisciplinary studies are
brought together to assess the impacts humans have had on the
environment as well as the role of civilization, culture and
heritage in environmental history. This book provides a truly
multidisciplinary approach to environmental issues and will be of
great interest to graduate students and researchers in fields such
as climate, geology, plant taxonomy and marine science as well as
those with an interest in Japanese history, archaeology, art and
literature.
This ground-breaking publication provides a new view of the great
Scottish artist Alan Davie (1920-2014), whose intensely physical
gestural painting stood the staid post-war British art world on its
head. In advance of a new Davie gallery in Hertford, the visually
spectacular book argues that far from being an essentially
historical figure, defined by the abstract expressionist era of the
Fifties and early Sixties when he enjoyed his greatest fame, Davie
was a prophetic artist whose preoccupations with universal
creativity and self-realisation are more relevant today than
they've ever been. Lavishly illustrated with rare archive
photographs and little-seen paintings, Alan Davie in Hertford
demonstrates that Davie's visionary art was far more closely bound
up with physical places than is generally supposed, not least the
quiet market town of Hertford, where he lived for 60 years. A
catalogue of 40 works intended as the new gallery's core
collection, provides a "rich and fabulous" survey of Davie's work,
from student works of the Thirties to some of his very last
paintings.
A second volume of photos from the archive of the oldest off-road
cycling club in the world is a further look into an unseen corner
of cycling, social history and outdoor culture. Since 1955 the
members of the Rough-Stuff Fellowship - the world's oldest off-road
cycling club - have explored the 'rough stuff' where the roads end.
From tight thickets to sheer rock faces and the wide open spaces of
the mountains, these pioneers of riding off the beaten track have
recorded their adventures at home and abroad in stunning photos and
ride reports.
Founded in 1955, the Rough-Stuff Fellowship is the world's oldest
off-road cycling club. Its archive contains thousands of stunning
images, hand-drawn maps and documents - an unexpected treasure
trove of incredible value and beauty that is now being brought to a
wider public by Isola Press. The photos are evocative of a bygone
age and a bygone style - a time when you might set off on a bike
ride wearing a shirt and tie or a bobble hat, and no ride was
complete without a stop to brew up some tea and smoke a pipe. They
are also a record of intrepid adventures. RSF riders explored the
Lake District, the Cairngorms, the Alps and further afield, and
their exploits were beautifully documented by amateur and
professional photographers. In their own very British way, these
men and women were pioneers, pedalling and carrying their bikes
where angels feared to tread. Mountain bikes, gravel bikes,
adventure bikes all owe them a debt. This book celebrates their
style and their spirit. It is a stunning visual resource of cycling
heritage that will inspire new adventures.
Physical abuse and neglect are the most common forms of child
maltreatment, and professionals who work with children have a duty
to possess a thorough understanding of them in order to identify
and intervene in abusive situations. This curriculum teaches
participants eight lessons on the socioeconomic and familial
factors that place children at risk, the signs indicative of abuse
and neglect, and methods for medically evaluating and treating
physically abused or neglected children. Among the issues discussed
in detail are types of radiological studies and their uses, types
of common fractures and how they are produced, the ways to
differentiate between abusive and accidental head injury, and the
distinction between intentional and unintentional neglect. The
CD-ROM contains 208 clinical photographs illustrative of common
injuries, diagnostic imaging methods, and forms of neglect. The
training curriculum contains activities, test questions,
photographic references, and a PowerPoint teaching presentation and
is accredited through Saint Louis University's School of Medicine
and School of Nursing to provide CME/CNE credit(s).
Multidisciplinary Studies on the Environment and Civilization draws
on research from a diverse range of fields across the humanities,
social and natural sciences to discover what is needed to develop
an affluent, sustainable and resilient world for the twenty-first
century and beyond. The contributions throughout this volume build
and promote frameworks for an interdisciplinary approach to
sustainability both in and beyond Japan. Utilizing research efforts
from a broad range of fields such as zoology, biological
anthropology and archaeology, these multidisciplinary studies are
brought together to assess the impacts humans have had on the
environment as well as the role of civilization, culture and
heritage in environmental history. This book provides a truly
multidisciplinary approach to environmental issues and will be of
great interest to graduate students and researchers in fields such
as climate, geology, plant taxonomy and marine science as well as
those with an interest in Japanese history, archaeology, art and
literature.
Recent interdisciplinary studies, combining scientific techniques
such as ancient DNA analysis with humanistic re-evaluations of the
transcultural value of bronze, have presented archaeologists with a
fresh view of the Bronze Age in Europe. The new research emphasises
long-distance connectivities and political decentralisation.
'Bronzisation' is discussed as a type of proto-globalisation. In
this Element, Mark Hudson examines whether these approaches can
also be applied to East Asia. Focusing primarily on Island East
Asia, he analyses trade, maritime interactions and warrior culture
in a comparative Eurasian framework. He argues that the
international division of labour associated with Bronze Age trade
provided an important stimulus to the rise of decentralised
complexity in regions peripheral to alluvial states. Building on
James Scott's work, the concept of the 'barbarian niche' is
proposed as a way to model the longue duree of premodern Eurasian
history. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge
Core.
First published to accompany major retrospective exhibitions at
West Cork Arts Centre and the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA),
this full-colour illustrated monograph explores William Crozier's
whole career, taking in the second half of the twentieth century -
a key period in the development of British and Irish art. The
catalogue is furnished with essays presenting brand new research by
renown art historians and curators, Illuminated by unpublished
sources and personal memoirs. What emerges is a picture of the
continuum that runs through all of Crozier's work, revealing a
fascinating narrative that, far from a story of transformation from
darker, earlier imagery into the apparent hedonism of later
landscapes, is one of continuity of purpose in Crozier's mind-set
that connects 1950s Britain and Ireland with the concerns of the
new millennium. Profoundly affected by post-war existential
philosophy, Crozier consciously allied himself and his work with
contemporary European art throughout the 1950s and 1960s, towards
painters such as Jean Dubuffet, Pierre Soulages, Hans Hartung and
Nicolas de Stael. The landscape became the source of visceral
paintings: For Crozier, ravaged landscapes symbolised the torment
and fear of the post-war condition at the heart of existentialism.
Only ten years separate these images of traumatized humanity from
the luxuriantly colourful works inspired by the landscape of West
Cork. His early skill as a colourist reaches its zenith in
paintings that capture the essence and appearance of the West Cork
landscape in ways immediately recognisable to the viewer, but they
are also concerned to capture a landscape during a period of great
physical and social change. Crozier believed that when painting the
Irish landscape he must, "Tell the truth. Say it simply."
This book challenges the conventional view of Japanese society as being monocultural and homogenous. Unique for its historical breadth and interdisciplinary orientation, this study extends from the prehistoric phase to the present. It challenges the notion that Japan's monoculture is being challenged only because of internationalism, arguing that cultural diversity has always existed in Japan. It is a provocative discussion of identity politics around the question of "Japaneseness". The paperback edition has a new epilogue.
This book is about the transformation of America that has occurred
over the past thirty-five years, as capitalist logic has expanded
into previously protected spheres of life. This expansion has had
devastating effects on the potential for human development. Looking
at how human beings create themselves and their worlds on material
foundations of health and the natural environment, through work and
politics, the book chronicles how neoliberalism has limited human
potential. At a time when neoliberalism's effects are stirring
various forms of popular resistance and opposition, this is a
manifesto of sorts for the range of processes that need to be
confronted if human potential is to be freed from the increasingly
cramped quarters to which neoliberalism has confined it. -- .
Accompanying the first exhibition of outstanding British artist
Mark Wallinger's paintings in Switzerland, this catalogue focuses
on his large-scale Action Paintings, complemented by a series of
new, polychrome small-scale paintings. Despite their many
differences from the works of French Impressionism the collection
of the Museum Langmatt is centered around, light and movement
remain the central elements here as there. A homage to the term
coined by Harold Rosenberg who claimed that for action painters the
canvas was not a representation but an extension of the mind
itself, these performative works move from image to action. Created
by sweeping paint-laden hands across the canvas in active freeform
gestures, they make intense reference to the body, intensified by
the use of plasticine which creates soft, relief-like effects.
Using a developmental perspective, the authors offer a new,
integrated model for supporting people with intellectual disability
(ID). This concept builds upon recent advances in attachment
informed approaches, by drawing upon a broader understanding of the
social, emotional, and cognitive competencies of people with ID,
which is grounded in developmental neuroscience and psychology. The
book explores in detail how challenging behaviour and mental health
difficulties in people with ID arise when their basic emotional
needs are not being met by those in the environment. Using
individually tailored interventions, which complement existing
models of care, practitioners can help to facilitate maturational
processes and reduce behaviour that is challenging to others. As a
result, the "fit" of a person within his or her individual
environment can be improved. Case examples throughout the book
illuminate how this approach works by targeting interventions
towards the person's stage of emotional development. This book will
be of interest to a wide range of professionals working with people
with ID, including: clinical psychologists, psychiatrists,
occupational therapists, learning disability nurses, speech and
language therapists, and teachers in special education settings, as
well as parents and caregivers.
First published to accompany Piano Nobile's exhibiton at Piano
Nobile Kings Place, Thomas Newbolt: Drama Paintings - A Modern
Baroque, this fully colour illustrated book presents a substantial
publication on contemporary artist Thomas Newbolt. Newbolt's
dedication to the figure in art, and the vitality of his work have
gained him international recognition. An artist of talent and
intellectual integrity, he was Harkness Fellow at the University of
Virginia and the University of Wisconsin, and a Fellow-Commoner at
Trinity College, Cambridge, as well as a respected teacher at
Camberwell, Anglia Ruskin and The Royal Drawing School, London.
Recent exhibitions include Ely Cathedral, the Estorick Collection,
and a group show, Vital Signs, at Clifford Chance in 2015. His work
is held in major international public collections. With essays by
Mark Hudson, arts critic at the Telegraph, Professor Maurice
Biriotti, and Martin Gayford, critic at the Spectator, this
catalogue provides fresh insight into the work of this most
enigmati and powerful of artists. Lavishly illustrated and
beautifully designed as a work of art in its own right, Thomas
Newbolt: Paintings is a reflection on Newbolt's career thus far,
and a testament to the significance of his work. The publication
includes three essays, a catalogue of works selected by Thomas
Newbolt, a chronologyof the artist's career and an index.
The first in a four-volume set, The Cambridge World History of
Violence, volume I provides a comprehensive examination of violence
in prehistory and the ancient world. Covering the period through to
the end of classical antiquity, the chapters take a global
perspective spanning sub-Saharan Africa, the Near East, Europe,
India, China, Japan and Central America. Unlike many previous
works, this book does not focus only on warfare but examines
violence as a broader phenomenon. The historical approach
complements, and in some cases critiques, previous research on the
anthropology and psychology of violence in the human story. Written
by a team of contributors who are experts in each of their
respective fields, this volume will be of particular interest to
anyone fascinated by archaeology and the ancient world.
Law enforcement and social service professionals were consulted
during the development of this curriculum to ensure that the
content and format are appropriate for training in those fields as
well. The curriculum is formatted for portable, straightforward
learning as a whole or chapter-by-chapter and is accompanied by a
supplementary CD. The CD contains 208 clinical photographs
illustrative of common injuries, diagnostic imaging methods, and
forms of neglect. Chapter activities, post-tests, registration
forms, and an instructional PowerPoint presentation are also
included on the CD. This title offers directed self-study
opportunity. In addition to the continuing education edition of
""Physical Abuse and Neglect: A Training Curriculum"", G.W. Medical
is pleased to announce the release of a new sister product: a
reference edition that contains all of the information and
educational activities of the CEU version without the continuing
education credits. This new product is designed to provide a
substantially reduced pricepoint for programs and individuals who
need the information, but not the credits.
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