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Secret Nature of Devon is an inspirational introduction to the
unique character of Devon's countryside, and the animals and plants
that are special to the county. The book explores the extraordinary
richness of Devon's wildlife habitats: Estuaries, Farmland, Fresh
Water, Heathland, Limestone and Chalk, Lundy, Moorland, Sand Dunes,
Sea Cliffs, Sea Shore, Woodland, Wood, Pasture and Parkland It
includes a comprehensive list of the species that make Devon
special, with the best times and places to see them; details of
recommended nature reserves and a map showing their locations; and
contact details for local wildlife organisations. Secret Nature of
Devon is written and photographed by Andrew Cooper, one of the
country's leading wildlife film makers, with advice from county
Wildlife Trusts, the RSPB, Butterfly Conservation and many other
organisations. The title is from one of his most popular,
award-winning BBC natural history television series. This book is
the first in a major new nationwide series.
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The Case for the Centre Right
David Gauke; Contributions by Rory Stewart, Michael Heseltine, Dominic Grieve, Daniel Finkelstein, …
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R385
Discovery Miles 3 850
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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In recent years, the once familiar landscape of British politics
has fundamentally changed. The Conservative Party in particular has
undergone a profound transformation. Centre-right values that
steered British politics for decades – internationalism, respect
for the rule of law, fiscal responsibility, belief in our
institutions – were cast aside in the wake of the Brexit
referendum to the detriment of UK prosperity, electoral trust and
the long-term fortunes of the Conservative Party. But this
radical rightwards shift can and must be reversed. In this bold
intervention, David Gauke and other leading figures on the centre
right – including Michael Heseltine, Rory Stewart, Amber Rudd,
Gavin Barwell and Daniel Finkelstein - explore how the Conservative
Party morphed into a populist movement and why this approach is
doomed to fail. Together they make the case for a return to the
liberal centre right, arguing with passion and conviction that the
values that once defined the best of British conservatism remain
essential to both the Party and to the UK’s political future.
Social Work: An introduction to contemporary practice has quickly
established itself as a leading and uniquely comprehensive
introduction to the field. Essential knowledge and skills are
examined with authority and depth, and key debates approached in an
accessible, informative and engaging way. Underpinned by research
and advice to make close illustrative links with practice, it
stimulates interest and actively engages the reader. Richly
supported throughout with examples and real-life case scenarios,
the text encourages the reader to adopt a critical and reflective
approach. Furthermore, believing that social work exists to help
people through complex and painful transitions in life, the authors
set the relationship at the heart of social work practice. This
text is essential reading for social work students on undergraduate
and postgraduate training programmes, newly qualified social
workers and practitioners in a variety of settings
As the world changes, so sexual identities are changing. In a
context of globalisation, mass communication and technological
advances, individuals find themselves able to make lifestyle
choices in new and different ways. In this increasingly confusing
world, sociologists have argued that identities are in flux, and
that traditional patterns of identity and intimacy are being
disrupted and reshaped, with all the implications for sexual
identities that this suggests. Changing Gay Male Identities draws
on the powerful life stories of twenty-one gay men to explore how
individuals construct and maintain their sense of self in
contemporary society. The book draws upon theoretical debates on
topics such as gender, performance, sex, class, camp, race and
ethnicity, to explore four aspects of identity: the role of the
body in who we are relationships and communities performing in
everyday life reconciling different aspects of our selves (such as
religion and sexuality). In Changing Gay Male Identities Andrew
Cooper assesses the magnitude of these social and sexual changes.
He argues that although there are many opportunities for new forms
of identity in a changing world, the possibilities can be
significantly constrained, and that this has major implications for
the freedoms and choices of individuals in contemporary societies.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of
sociology, sexuality studies, gender studies, and GLBTQ studies.
As the world changes, so sexual identities are changing. In a
context of globalisation, mass communication and technological
advances, individuals find themselves able to make lifestyle
choices in new and different ways. In this increasingly confusing
world, sociologists have argued that identities are in flux, and
that traditional patterns of identity and intimacy are being
disrupted and reshaped, with all the implications for sexual
identities that this suggests. Changing Gay Male Identities draws
on the powerful life stories of twenty-one gay men to explore how
individuals construct and maintain their sense of self in
contemporary society. The book draws upon theoretical debates on
topics such as gender, performance, sex, class, camp, race and
ethnicity, to explore four aspects of identity: the role of the
body in who we are relationships and communities performing in
everyday life reconciling different aspects of our selves (such as
religion and sexuality). In Changing Gay Male Identities Andrew
Cooper assesses the magnitude of these social and sexual changes.
He argues that although there are many opportunities for new forms
of identity in a changing world, the possibilities can be
significantly constrained, and that this has major implications for
the freedoms and choices of individuals in contemporary societies.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of
sociology, sexuality studies, gender studies, and GLBTQ studies.
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The Case for the Centre Right
David Gauke; Contributions by Rory Stewart, Michael Heseltine, Dominic Grieve, Daniel Finkelstein, …
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R1,093
Discovery Miles 10 930
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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In recent years, the once familiar landscape of British politics
has fundamentally changed. The Conservative Party in particular has
undergone a profound transformation. Centre-right values that
steered British politics for decades – internationalism, respect
for the rule of law, fiscal responsibility, belief in our
institutions – were cast aside in the wake of the Brexit
referendum to the detriment of UK prosperity, electoral trust and
the long-term fortunes of the Conservative Party. But this
radical rightwards shift can and must be reversed. In this bold
intervention, David Gauke and other leading figures on the centre
right – including Michael Heseltine, Rory Stewart, Amber Rudd,
Gavin Barwell and Daniel Finkelstein - explore how the Conservative
Party morphed into a populist movement and why this approach is
doomed to fail. Together they make the case for a return to the
liberal centre right, arguing with passion and conviction that the
values that once defined the best of British conservatism remain
essential to both the Party and to the UK’s political future.
Which 'forms of feeling' are facilitated and which discouraged
within the cultures and structures of modern state welfare? This
book illuminates the social and psychic dynamics of these new
public cultures of welfare, locating them in relation to our
understanding of borderline states of mind in individuals,
organizations and society. Drawing upon
Recently global health issues have leapt to the forefront of the
international agenda and are now an everyday concern around the
world. The war for global health is clearly being lost on many
fronts and the massive body count is mounting fast. Re-emerging
diseases such as polio and tuberculosis, long thought to be on the
verge of elimination, are now coupled with the devastation of newly
emerging ones such as SARS and avian influenza. In addition, the
shock of bioterrorism has given a tragic poignancy to the
importance of studying the failure of the global health governance
system. Compiled by renowned specialists, this volume studies the
global challenges and responses to these issues, as well as the
roles of central institutions such as the World Health
Organization, the World Trade Organization and the G8. Health
practitioners and clinicians seeking a context for their front-line
care provision, as well as scholars and students of global health
issues, will find the volume highly valuable.
Which 'forms of feeling' are facilitated and which discouraged
within the cultures and structures of modern state welfare? This
book illuminates the social and psychic dynamics of these new
public cultures of welfare, locating them in relation to our
understanding of borderline states of mind in individuals,
organizations and society. Drawing upon their idea of a
psychoanalytic sensibility rooted in Wilfred Bion's notion of
'learning from experience', the authors aim to access the new
structures of feeling now taking shape in marketized and
commodified health and social care systems. Integrating their
reflections on clinical work with patients, consultancy with public
sector organizations, political analysis, and the tradition of
Group Relations Training, they offer a wide-ranging perspective on
how contemporary social anxieties are managed within modern public
welfare. Our collective struggle with fears of dependency and loss,
and the demands of living and working in an interdependent
'networked' world give rise to fresh challenges to our ability to
maintain depth of emotional engagements in welfare settings. Part
of the Tavistock Clinic Series.
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This edition offers the first English translation of Amalia Holst's
daring book, On the Vocation of Woman to Higher Intellectual
Education (1802). In one of the first works of German philosophy
published under a woman's name, Holst presents a manifesto for
women's education that centres on a basic provocation: as far as
the mind is concerned, women are equal partakers in the project of
Enlightenment and should thus have unfettered access to the
sciences in general and to philosophy in particular. Holst's
manifesto resonates with the work of several women writers across
Europe, including Olympe de Gouges, Mary Wollstonecraft, and
Germaine de Staël. Yet in contrast to the early works of feminism
we celebrate today, her book had little success. Its reception
confronts us with a darker side of the German Enlightenment that,
until recently, has been neglected. Holst sought to unearth the
gendered nature of the fundamental concepts of the
Enlightenment—including vocation, education, and culture—which
enabled men to establish the subordinate status of women by
philosophical means. However, her argument was scorned by male
reviewers, who denied the very possibility of a woman philosopher.
With an introduction by Andrew Cooper, and translations of
biographical material and early reviews, this edition provides
students and scholars of German philosophy with a timely resource
for developing a richer understanding of their field, and general
readers with a powerful early feminist text that reveals the
opportunities and difficulties facing women philosophers at the
turn of the nineteenth century.
Providing a thorough examination of the threats posed to
destinations by tourism, this comprehensive text discusses how
popular and fragile destinations, such as the Great Barrier Reef,
could become severely damaged and forced to close to tourists if
current tourism trends continue. The consequences of tourism
growth, predicted changes, and management and policy responses are
reviewed. The book will explore tourism in the context of climate
change and vulnerable environments, exploring the situation at
local level and in a wider perspective using international case
studies throughout and providing future recommendations. It will be
an essential text for researchers, policymakers and students in
tourism, ecotourism, environmental conservation, planning, coastal
management and engineering, climate change and marine conservation.
During the second half of the seventeenth century the entire
intellectual framework of educated Europe underwent a radical
transformation. A secularized view of humanity and nature was
replacing faith in the direct operation of God's will in the
temporal world, while a growing confidence in human reason and the
Scientific Revolution turned back the epistemological skepticism
spawned by the Reformation. By focusing on the Dutch Collegiants, a
radical Protestant group that flourished in Holland from 1620 to
1690, Andrew Fix explicates the mechanisms at work in this crucial
intellectual transition from traditional to modern European
worldview. Starting from Rijnsburg, near Leiden, the Collegiants
spread over the course of the century to every major Dutch city. At
the same time, their thinking evolved from a millenarian
spiritualism influenced heavily by the sixteenth-century Radical
Reformation to a philosophical rationalism similar to the ideas of
Spinoza. Fix has taken on an important topic in the history of
ideas: the circumstances under which natural reason came to be
accepted as an autonomous source of truth for the individual
conscience. He also has fresh and concrete things to say about the
relationship between religion and science in early modern European
history. Originally published in 1990. 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.
During the second half of the seventeenth century the entire
intellectual framework of educated Europe underwent a radical
transformation. A secularized view of humanity and nature was
replacing faith in the direct operation of God's will in the
temporal world, while a growing confidence in human reason and the
Scientific Revolution turned back the epistemological skepticism
spawned by the Reformation. By focusing on the Dutch Collegiants, a
radical Protestant group that flourished in Holland from 1620 to
1690, Andrew Fix explicates the mechanisms at work in this crucial
intellectual transition from traditional to modern European
worldview. Starting from Rijnsburg, near Leiden, the Collegiants
spread over the course of the century to every major Dutch city. At
the same time, their thinking evolved from a millenarian
spiritualism influenced heavily by the sixteenth-century Radical
Reformation to a philosophical rationalism similar to the ideas of
Spinoza. Fix has taken on an important topic in the history of
ideas: the circumstances under which natural reason came to be
accepted as an autonomous source of truth for the individual
conscience. He also has fresh and concrete things to say about the
relationship between religion and science in early modern European
history.
Originally published in 1990.
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 paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
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.
This groundbreaking book explores the psychodynamics and
socio-politics of the forensic therapeutic milieu, addressing some
of the most difficult and complex issues facing practitioners. It
sets out a psycho-social framework for understanding the
predicament and the needs of those who live in and those who work
in forensic mental health settings. It brings to life the thinking
of those working on the frontline in an increasingly difficult and
hostile environment, and draws together fresh and stimulating
approaches to engagement with highly complex individuals who
present challenges to traditional models of psychiatric assessment
and treatment. Contributors with considerable clinical experience
and expertise from a range of disciplines consider the ethical,
emotional and intellectual challenges of their work, and describe
ways in which genuine containment and change can be achieved
despite numerous perceived assaults on therapeutic relationships,
and on the therapeutic milieu itself. Combining clinical case
studies with organisational perspectives and clear descriptions of
theoretical processes, they explore key issues including the
challenges of maintaining role-appropriate, 'boundaried'
relationships; the tensions between public protection and
individual confidentiality; questions of risk and responsibility;
duty of care and respect for individual liberty; the challenges
posed by inter-professional tensions and rivalries; as well as
specific clinical dilemmas. The difficulties they experience in
fulfilling specific therapeutic roles in the face of uncertainties
about the funding and commissioning of their services are
addressed, and the final part of the book outlines some of the ways
in which individuals, particular services and whole organisations
may protect themselves when under attack. This unique and highly
original book is essential reading for all those working, or
training to work, in both forensic and non-forensic inpatient
therapeutic milieux and for academics and lay readers interested in
the societal dynamics of inclusion and exclusion that are
replicated and magnified in these settings.
When Megan met Carter Anderson at Harvard, their college romance
took a mystical turn thanks to The Alchemy of Will. This book by
Dr. Allen Fincher gave them the power to do almost anything, but
with disastrous results. Years later, their six-year-old daughter,
Caitlin, is dying a slow death from bone cancer. Dr. Fincher's book
offers them a cure: they can save the life of their first-born by
sacrificing the life of their second. But Megan and Carter don't
have a second-born... yet. Only half-convinced, Megan, confined to
their New York apartment, begins nine months of hell, and she and
Carter enter a spiral that consumes more lives than they could have
ever conceived. Ranging from domestic terror to all-out
supernatural horror that flecks the American east coast with
mangled bodies, Descending Lines takes a gut-wrenching
question--how far would you go to save your child?--and turns it
into a fast-paced journey to places where even nightmares fear to
tread. Descending Lines: The only way out is down.
Frankenstein is arguably the most famous horror story ever told,
written by Mary Shelley when she was just nineteen. That book
explored ideas of creation, rebellion, terror, arrogance,
mortality, immortality, and more. Today's most talented authors
build upon the original themes and topics to present new ghastly
fiction based on many of the various aspects of the original
Frankenstein story. But there was a catch to the assignment -- each
story could only be four pages long. Enjoy these tales, which have
been distilled down to their very essence for your horrific
pleasure.
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