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This book is a comprehensive guide to the evidence, theories, and
practical issues associated with recovery from stuttering in early
childhood and into adolescence. It examines evidence that
stuttering is associated with a range of biological factors - such
as genetics - and psychological factors - such as anxiety - and it
critically assesses theoretical accounts that attempt to integrate
these findings. Written so that it can be used flexibly to meet the
demands of courses about stuttering, the book may be used as a text
at the undergraduate or graduate level in psychology or
speech-language science.
How did romanticism define its relationship with its sources? How
has romanticism since been understood and misunderstood across a
range of cultural activities? These are among the questions taken
up in this reexamination of the place of adaptation within
romanticism. Renegotiating the cultural topography of the period
and the place of romanticism in subsequent cultural history, the
volume focuses on the adaptation of source material by romantic
writers and the adaptation in subsequent periods of the tropes and
ideologies associated with romanticism. In place of a hierarchical
distinction between source and text, between 'romanticism' and its
contexts, the collection identifies distinct but overlapping and
mutually constitutive genres such as the Gothic and romance.
Whether their essays deal with early nineteenth-century periodical
reviews, affordable editions of Pride and Prejudice aimed at the
late nineteenth-century mass audience, or the ongoing cultural
presence of romanticism in late twentieth- and early
twenty-first-century debates about embryology and stem cell
research, the contributors remain cognizant of the tension between
the processes of adaptation and the apparent ideology of romantic
originality.
"This book is a comprehensive guide to the evidence, theories, and
practical issues associated with recovery from stuttering in early
childhood and into adolescence. It examines evidence that
stuttering is associated with a range of biological factors such as
genetics and psychological factors such as anxiety, and it
critically assesses theoretical accounts that attempt to integrate
these findings. Written so that it can be used flexibly to meet the
demands of courses about stuttering, the book may be used as a text
at the undergraduate or graduate level in psychology or
speech-language science"--Provided by publisher.
This is the first biography of John Francis Bentley (1839-1902),
best known as architect of Westminster Cathedral, since his
daughter Winefride de l'Hopital's Westminster Cathedral and its
Architect (1919). Bentley was born in Doncaster, Yorkshire, and
went to London to work in the office of Henry Clutton, a
distinguished High Victorian architect who became a Roman Catholic
in 1856. Bentley also converted, and, after setting up his own
practice in 1860, came to be widely recognised as the best Catholic
architect of his time. He built comparatively few complete
churches, but did extensive work in adding to and furnishing other
architects' churches. He had remarkable skill in the design of
woodwork, metalwork, stained glass, and organ cases, all of which
are covered in the book. His finest parish church is Holy Rood,
Watford, but the climax of his career was the commission in 1894 to
design Westminster Cathedral, which was almost complete when he
died in 1902.
In this first book to explore the entire history of triumphal
arches, from their Roman origins to the present day, the Classicist
and architectural historian Peter Howell describes arches through
time, in terms of their cultural and historical significance. He
also discusses the form of the arch in Renaissance painting and the
rather surprising use of arches as war memorials. The erection of
arches is far from dead, and Howell shows us examples, taken from
over thirty years of research, from around the world.
The world around us, natural or man-made, is built and held
together by solid materials. Understanding their behaviour is the
task of solid mechanics, which is in turn applied to many areas,
from earthquake mechanics to industry, construction to
biomechanics. The variety of materials (metals, rocks, glasses,
sand, flesh and bone) and their properties (porosity, viscosity,
elasticity, plasticity) is reflected by the concepts and techniques
needed to understand them: a rich mixture of mathematics, physics
and experiment. These are all combined in this unique book, based
on years of experience in research and teaching. Starting from the
simplest situations, models of increasing sophistication are
derived and applied. The emphasis is on problem-solving and
building intuition, rather than a technical presentation of theory.
The text is complemented by over 100 carefully-chosen exercises,
making this an ideal companion for students taking advanced
courses, or those undertaking research in this or related
disciplines.
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
an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification:
++++ Feeds And Their Use: Inspection And Analyses; Issue 223 Of
Bulletin (Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station) J. D. Turner,
Alfred Meredith Peter, Howell Davis Spears Kentucky Agricultural
Experiment Station, University of Kentucky, 1919 Technology &
Engineering; Agriculture; General; Feeds; Technology &
Engineering / Agriculture / Animal Husbandry; Technology &
Engineering / Agriculture / General
Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis) was a Spanish writer who lived
in Rome in the second half of the first century AD. He wrote only
in the genre of epigram, invented by the Greeks, which he chose
because of his dislike of all that was pretentious and escapist in
contemporary literature, where stale mythological topics were
regarded as both 'elevated' and, in times of political danger,
safe. His own boundless interest in the life he saw around him in
Rome, and his sense of humour, led him to prefer to express himself
in short and highly polished poems. He brought the genre to such a
pitch of perfection that his work has defined it for subsequent
authors. Although only a limited number of his own epigrams conform
to the dictionary definition as 'a short poem ending in a witty
turn of thought', their effectiveness has shaped this definition.
This book tells what we know about the man's commonsense attitude
to life, and his hatred of hypocrisy and malice. It assesses his
debt to literary tradition and the astonishing influence he had on
later writers. Part of the "Ancient in Action" series this new
series of short incisive books introduces major figures of the
ancient world to the modern general reader, including the
essentials of each subject's life, works, and significance for
later western civilisation.
The threat to use military force is a matter that commands
immediate attention from many segments of government. Karsten,
Howell, and Allen systematically analyze statistically significant
numbers of actual cases to discover the determinants of success or
failure of the threat to employ military force. After describing
their methodology, they address several questions: what are the
general characteristics of the typical threat? what types of
threats succeed? what threats lead to war? did threats in the
prenuclear past differ in outcome from those in the nuclear
present? have the United States' threats differed substantially
from those of other nations? can anything be said concerning the
long-term consequences of the threats? In a concluding chapter the
authors summarize their findings, compare them to the conventional
wisdom, and then, as a test, apply them to six historical cases.
They end their study with a look at the Solidarity and Falklands
crises, and a theoretical scenario that suggests the significance
of their findings.
The world around us, natural or man-made, is built and held
together by solid materials. Understanding their behaviour is the
task of solid mechanics, which is in turn applied to many areas,
from earthquake mechanics to industry, construction to
biomechanics. The variety of materials (metals, rocks, glasses,
sand, flesh and bone) and their properties (porosity, viscosity,
elasticity, plasticity) is reflected by the concepts and techniques
needed to understand them: a rich mixture of mathematics, physics
and experiment. These are all combined in this unique book, based
on years of experience in research and teaching. Starting from the
simplest situations, models of increasing sophistication are
derived and applied. The emphasis is on problem-solving and
building intuition, rather than a technical presentation of theory.
The text is complemented by over 100 carefully-chosen exercises,
making this an ideal companion for students taking advanced
courses, or those undertaking research in this or related
disciplines.
The essays in this volume reinterpret and contest the Gothic
cultural inheritance, each from a specifically twenty-first century
perspective. Most are based on papers delivered at a conference
held, appropriately, in Horace Walpole's Gothic mansion at
Strawberry Hill in West London, which is usually seen as the
geographical origin of the first, but not the last, of the many
Gothic revivals of the past 300 years. In a contemporary context,
the Gothic sensibility could be seen as a mode particularly
applicable to the frightening instability of the world in which we
find ourselves at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The
truth is probably less epochal: that Gothic never went away (when
were we ever without fear?), or at least has persisted since its
resurgence in the late nineteenth century. Gothic is at least as
modern as it is ancient, and each essay in this collection
contributes to current scholarship on the Gothic by exploring a
particular aspect of Gothic's contemporaneity. The volume contains
papers on horror novels and cinema, poetry, popular music and fan
cultures.
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