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Finalist for the 2022 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and
Fantasy Studies From the time of Charles Dickens, the imaginative
power of the city of London has frequently inspired writers to
their most creative flights of fantasy. Charting a new history of
London fantasy writing from the Victorian era to the 21st century,
Fairy Tales of London explores a powerful tradition of urban
fantasy distinct from the rural tales of writers such as J.R.R.
Tolkien. Hadas Elber-Aviram traces this urban tradition from
Dickens, through the scientific romances of H.G. Wells, the
anti-fantasies of George Orwell and Mervyn Peake to contemporary
science fiction and fantasy writers such as Michael Moorcock, Neil
Gaiman and China Mieville.
Imbue celestial power into your magickal practice with this new
addition to the Modern Witchcraft series so you can amplify your
spells and rituals with lunar magick. Bask in the power of the
moon! The Modern Witchcraft Book of Moon Magick is written to help
witches of every level harness the power of the moon. This book is
packed with information to help you understand how every moon phase
can affect your magick and spellcraft and provides tips on how you
can use that understanding to strengthen your magick by becoming in
tune with the power of the moon. Expert author Julia Halina Hadas
offers in depth explanations about the moon’s energy and history
in witchcraft, it’s phases and what that means for your magickal
spells, rituals, and intentions, and how best to work with the moon
to amplify your witchcraft power. And with over 50 spells and
rituals based on the moon’s phases, you’ll find the power of
the moon is all you need to take your magick to the next level.
Compiled by a team of international experts, this volume showcases
the best of the huge abundance of literature written in Latin in
Europe from about 1500 to 1800. A general introduction provides
readers with the context they need before diving into the 19
high-quality short Latin extracts and English translations.
Together these texts present a rich panorama of the different
literary genres, styles and themes that flourished at the time, and
include authors such as Erasmus, Buchanan, Leibniz and Newton,
along with less well-known writers. From the vast array of material
available, a varied and meaningful sample of texts has been
carefully curated by the editors of the volume. Passages not only
exhibit literary merit or historical importance, but also
illustrate the role of the complete texts from which they have been
selected in the development of Neo-Latin literature. They reflect
the wide range of authors writing in Latin in early modern Europe,
as well as the importance of Latin in the history of ideas. As with
all volumes in the series, section introductions and accompanying
notes on every text provide orientation on the material for
students.
The book combines an extensive review of art actions, classifying
and anchoring them in contemporary urban theories. It reviews
trends and describes numerous art projects in the public space, and
is interspersed with multiple photographs, hence it may be
attractive to any reader who wishes to become involved in his
community and urban environment.
Advances in Space Environment Research - Volume I contains the
proceedings of two international workshops, the World Space
Environment Forum (WSEF2002) and the High Performance Computing in
Space Environment Research (HPC2002), organized by the World
Institute for Space Environment Research (WISER) from 22 July to 2
August 2002 in Adelaide, Australia.
The articles in this volume review the state-of-the-art of the
theoretical, computational and observational studies of the
physical processes of Sun-Earth connections and Space Environment.
They cover six topical areas: Sun/Heliosphere, Magnetosphere/Bow
Shock, Ionosphere/Atmosphere, Space Weather/Space Climate, Space
Plasma Physics/Astrophysics, and Complex/Intelligent Systems.
The authors are leading space physicists from 20 countries/regions,
representing the WISER international network of research and
training centers of excellence dedicated to promote cooperation in
cutting-edge space environment research and training of first-rate
space scientists, and to link nations for the peaceful use of the
space environment.
This volume is useful for space physicists, astrophysicists and
plasma physicists; and can be adopted as a reference book for
advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Originally published in the UK in 1961 this was an unconventional
book when first published but a powerful interpretation of Greek
individualism. The author examines the influence of the Greeks on
European philosophy, religion, literature, art and architecture and
challenges many commonly held assumptions: ‘Those items in the
Greek legacy which are most easily recognizable as such are in fact
the least important.’
Fault Covering Problems in Reconfigurable VLSI Systems describes
the authors' recent research on reconfiguration problems for
fault-tolerance in VLSI and WSI Systems. The book examines
solutions to a number of reconfiguration problems. Efficient
algorithms are given for tractable covering problems and general
techniques are given for dealing with a large number of intractable
covering problems. The book begins with an investigation of
algorithms for the reconfiguration of large redundant memories.
Next, a number of more general covering problems are considered and
the complexity of these problems is analyzed. Finally, a general
and uniform approach is proposed for solving a wide class of
covering problems. The results and techniques described here will
be useful to researchers and students working in this area. As
such, the book serves as an excellent reference and may be used as
the text for an advanced course on the topic.
Witchcraft meets astrology in this comprehensive guide to the power
of the planets tailored specifically for witches so you can
incorporate the celestial study into your spellcasting and magical
rituals. This guide to astrology was written just for witches, with
information to help you understand how the positions of the
celestial bodies can affect your magic and spellcraft-and how you
can use that understanding to strengthen your magic by becoming in
tune with the planets. The Modern Witchcraft Book of Astrology
includes expert information on the magical energies and
correspondences for the astrological seasons, the planets,
asteroids, and other celestial bodies, and the houses so you can
understand how you can time your magick to be as powerful and
effective as possible. This book also contains tons of spells to
try, organized by the astrological season so you have powerful
magick to choose from at every point in the wheel of the year.
Conventional explanations of the nature of money are weighed down
by bad ideas and irrelevant historical evidence. The standard
theory of finance is hampered by the lack of both sociological and
ethical contextualization, and by sloppy thinking about numbers and
time. Money, Finance, Reality, Morality addresses those weaknesses
with truly novel models of how the economy, money, and finance
actually work. The book analyses the perception of money as an
economic tool (as compared to a symbolic and sociological object)
as a highly functional quantitative token that assigns numerical
values to the inherently unmeasurable economic activities of labour
and consumption. It looks at finance as an often inferior solution
to economic problems and a tool for helping the poor support the
rich. And it explains how the tolerance of greed makes the
money-finance system the weakest link in modern economies. Money,
Finance, Reality, Morality, written without jargon or maths, will
be of interest to students, teachers and practitioners in economics
and finance, government and politics, religion, and philosophy and
sociology.
The book combines an extensive review of art actions, classifying
and anchoring them in contemporary urban theories. It reviews
trends and describes numerous art projects in the public space, and
is interspersed with multiple photographs, hence it may be
attractive to any reader who wishes to become involved in his
community and urban environment.
This book discusses the use of authorship discourses and author
figures in the promotion and marketing of media content, dealing
with the U.S. mainstream media, including franchise film, network
television, and triple-A video games. The research takes a unique
approach studying ideas of authorship in promotion, diverging from
extant approaches looking at the text, production, or reception.
Conceptualizing authorship within the logic of media branding, the
book studies the construction of ideas around creativity and the
creative person in marketing and publicity content where media
industries communicate with audiences. A cross-media approach
allows the book to take a broad look and make comparisons across
the increasingly integrated media industries. The book will be of
great relevance to academics in the fields of film, television, and
media studies, including postgraduate students, conducting teaching
and research around authorship, media industries, and media
promotion.
This book explores the thought of Pierre Bourdieu, one of the most
influential sociologists of the twentieth century, proposing a
modification and extension of his concept of habitus. Building on
Bourdieu's notion of the translational reproduction of social
structure - the idea that while social classes move in the same
direction, dominant groups are able to preserve their relative
power position, thus maintaining the structure of the gap - the
author proposes that as social structures change, habitus change
correspondingly, and thus become plural. Informed by Norbert Elias'
process sociology, this volume offers examples of habitus
pluralisation, arguing that this modification of Bourdieu's thought
renders it more suitable for the study of social changes and
represents the development of a path that Bourdieu himself had
begun to explore in the later stages of his career. As such it will
appeal to scholars of sociology and social theory with interests in
historical sociology, process sociology, social structures and the
thought of Bourdieu.
A unique approach to "Intro CS." In a nutshell, the authors of this
book's objective is to provide an introduction to computer science
as an intellectually rich and vibrant field rather than focusing
exclusively on computer programming. While programming is certainly
an important and pervasive element of their approach, they
emphasize concepts and problem-solving over syntax and programming
language features. This book is a companion to the course "CS for
All" developed at Harvey Mudd College and subsequently adopted at a
variety of colleges and universities. At Mudd, this course is taken
by almost every first-year student - irrespective of the student's
ultimate major - as part of the college's core curriculum. The
offering is also taken by many students at the Claremont Colleges,
including students majoring in the humanities, social sciences, and
the arts. Thus, it serves as a first computing course for students
regardless of their major. This book is intended to be used with
the substantial resources that we have developed for the course.
These resources include complete lecture slides, a rich collection
of weekly assignments, some accompanying software, documentation,
and papers that have been published about the course. The authors
have deliberately kept this book relatively short and have
endeavored to make it fun and readable. The content of this book is
an accurate reflection of the content of the course rather than an
intimidating encyclopedic tome that can't possibly be covered in a
single semester. The book has been written in the belief that a
student can read all of it comfortably as the course proceeds.
The therapeutic relationship has been recognized by psychotherapy
researchers and clinicians alike as playing a central role in the
process and outcome of psychotherapy. This book presents innovative
investigations of the therapeutic relationship focusing on various
relationship mechanisms as they relate to changing processes and
outcomes. A variety of perspectives on the therapeutic relationship
are provided through different research methods, including
quantitative and qualitative methods, and divergence in
psychotherapy orientations, including psychodynamic, interpersonal,
cognitive-behavioural therapy, emotion-focused process experiential
therapy, narrative therapy, and attachment-based family therapy.
The chapters, written by leading psychotherapy researchers, present
cutting-edge empirical studies that apply innovative methods in
order to: study process-outcome links; explore in session processes
that address the question of how the therapeutic relationship
heals; examine the contributions of clients and therapists to the
therapeutic relationship; and suggest practical implications for
training therapists in psychotherapy relationships that work.
Research on the therapeutic relationship has been identified as a
natural arena for bridging the gap between research and clinical
practice, and will be of particular interest to practicing
clinicians. This book was originally published as a special issue
of Psychotherapy Research.
"Zionist Arabesques" is an ethno-historical account of the
landscape of the Jezreel Valley, Israel and explores how the modern
landscape of the valley has been created both physically and
symbolically from the perspective of both local and large scale
processes. It addresses not only the guiding principles of modern
Israeli agriculture, its connection to Zionist settlement and
ideology, and the evolvement of the Arab-Jewish conflict but also
examines the relevance of law, State policies and sector based
politics, being a mixture of archival and ethnographic material
composed with a unique textual structure. The book is useful for
those interested in Zionism and the Israeli Palestinian conflict,
as well in experimental ways of writing.
The therapeutic relationship has been recognized by psychotherapy
researchers and clinicians alike as playing a central role in the
process and outcome of psychotherapy. This book presents innovative
investigations of the therapeutic relationship focusing on various
relationship mechanisms as they relate to changing processes and
outcomes. A variety of perspectives on the therapeutic relationship
are provided through different research methods, including
quantitative and qualitative methods, and divergence in
psychotherapy orientations, including psychodynamic, interpersonal,
cognitive-behavioural therapy, emotion-focused process experiential
therapy, narrative therapy, and attachment-based family therapy.
The chapters, written by leading psychotherapy researchers, present
cutting-edge empirical studies that apply innovative methods in
order to: study process-outcome links; explore in session processes
that address the question of how the therapeutic relationship
heals; examine the contributions of clients and therapists to the
therapeutic relationship; and suggest practical implications for
training therapists in psychotherapy relationships that work.
Research on the therapeutic relationship has been identified as a
natural arena for bridging the gap between research and clinical
practice, and will be of particular interest to practicing
clinicians. This book was originally published as a special issue
of Psychotherapy Research.
A stunning collection of 70 witchcraft-inspired drink recipes with
inspiration for creating your very own spirited cocktails to
benefit your practice. For centuries, witches have been using
spirits of all forms during rituals and celebrations. Now, today's
modern witch can learn how to make the perfect powerful witchcraft
cocktail. All you need is a delicious and easy recipe, a bottle of
your favorite booze, and a desire to get witchy. In WitchCraft
Cocktails, you will find 70 recipes for alcohol-based beverages
that are sure to help you in your craft. Designed for healing,
spells, offerings, and just plain fun, there's nothing these boozy
drinks can't do! Need a love potion to help woo your lover? Maybe a
tincture to heal a cold? Or perhaps you're looking for the perfect
witch-themed signature cocktail to serve at your next gathering.
Regardless of what you're looking for, this book has you covered
and includes tips on how to use your witch's brew to further your
practice-and have fun!
Beyond Archigram is the first study of the prehistory of digital
representation to focus on the magazine Archigram, the magazine
published in London irregularly between 1961 and 1970 and the name
of the group that created it. Archigram is among the most
significant phenomena to emerge in post-war architectural culture.
The wired environments first advertised on its pages formulated an
architectural vocabulary of metamorphosis and obsolescence that
cross-pollinated industrial and digital technology at the same time
as complex systems were becoming commercially available. Through
archival, theoretical and visual analysis, Hadas Steiner explores
the process through which this model was envisaged and disseminated
within an international network of practitioners and shows how the
assimilation of Archigram imagery set the course for the visual
output of what are now commonplace tools in architectural practice.
This book will provide a foundation for further inquiry into the
integration of digital technology at every level of design.
Economists regularly promote Capitalism as the greatest system ever
to grace the planet. With the same breath, they implore us to leave
the job of understanding the magical powers of the market to the
"experts." Despite the efforts of these mainstream commentators to
convince us otherwise, many of us have begun to question why this
system has produced such vast inequality and wanton disregard for
its own environmental destruction. This book offers answers to
exactly these questions on their own terms: in the form of a
radical economic theory.
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