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A Diamond to Die for (Hardcover): Ann Blair Kloman A Diamond to Die for (Hardcover)
Ann Blair Kloman
R912 Discovery Miles 9 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Isobel's Odyssey (Hardcover): Ann Blair Kloman Isobel's Odyssey (Hardcover)
Ann Blair Kloman
R901 R802 Discovery Miles 8 020 Save R99 (11%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Challenges to School Exclusion - Exclusion, Appeals and the Law (Paperback, New): And Ann Blair, Karen Eden, Neville Harris Challenges to School Exclusion - Exclusion, Appeals and the Law (Paperback, New)
And Ann Blair, Karen Eden, Neville Harris
R1,614 Discovery Miles 16 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


Permanent exclusion is the most severe sanction a school can impose on a child and the number of permanently excluded children is rising. Based on systematic observation of exclusion appeal panel hearings.Challenges to School Exclusion offers a unique insight into the appeal process. It focuses on:
*mechanisms by which parents and children can challenge permanent exclusion
*the law and current practice
*the social context of exclusion
*reforms of the appeal system made by the School Standards and Framework Act
*the DfEEs latest guidance on pupil inclusion.
Challenges to School Exclusion is the first study to examine permanent exclusion. The findings reveal serious deficiencies in the appeal system, including a frequent failure to deal fairly with excluded children. The text will be of particular interest to head teachers, local education authorities, school governors, education lawyers and education charities.

Forgers and Critics, New Edition - Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship (Paperback): Anthony Grafton Forgers and Critics, New Edition - Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship (Paperback)
Anthony Grafton; Foreword by Ann Blair
R510 Discovery Miles 5 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The close links between forgery and criticism throughout history In Forgers and Critics, Anthony Grafton provides a wide-ranging exploration of the links between forgery and scholarship. Labeling forgery the "criminal sibling" of criticism, Grafton describes a panorama of remarkable individuals-forgers from classical Greece through the recent past-who produced a variety of splendid triumphs of learning and style, as well as the scholarly detectives who honed the tools of scholarship in attempts to unmask these skillful fakers. In the process, Grafton discloses the extent, the coherence, and the historical interest of two significant and tightly intertwined strands in the Western intellectual tradition.

Information - A Historical Companion (Hardcover): Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja-Silvia Goeing, Anthony Grafton Information - A Historical Companion (Hardcover)
Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja-Silvia Goeing, Anthony Grafton
R1,821 R1,467 Discovery Miles 14 670 Save R354 (19%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A landmark history that traces the creation, management, and sharing of information through six centuries Thanks to modern technological advances, we now enjoy seemingly unlimited access to information. Yet how did information become so central to our everyday lives, and how did its processing and storage make our data-driven era possible? This volume is the first to consider these questions in comprehensive detail, tracing the global emergence of information practices, technologies, and more, from the premodern era to the present. With entries spanning archivists to algorithms and scribes to surveilling, this is the ultimate reference on how information has shaped and been shaped by societies. Written by an international team of experts, the book's inspired and original long- and short-form contributions reconstruct the rise of human approaches to creating, managing, and sharing facts and knowledge. Thirteen full-length chapters discuss the role of information in pivotal epochs and regions, with chief emphasis on Europe and North America, but also substantive treatment of other parts of the world as well as current global interconnections. More than 100 alphabetical entries follow, focusing on specific tools, methods, and concepts-from ancient coins to the office memo, and censorship to plagiarism. The result is a wide-ranging, deeply immersive collection that will appeal to anyone drawn to the story behind our modern mania for an informed existence. Tells the story of information's rise from 1450 through to today Covers a range of eras and regions, including the medieval Islamic world, late imperial East Asia, early modern and modern Europe, and modern North America Includes 100 concise articles on wide-ranging topics: Concepts: data, intellectual property, privacy Formats and genres: books, databases, maps, newspapers, scrolls and rolls, social media People: archivists, diplomats and spies, readers, secretaries, teachers Practices: censorship, forecasting, learning, political reporting, translating Processes: digitization, quantification, storage and search Systems: bureaucracy, platforms, telecommunications Technologies: cameras, computers, lithography Provides an informative glossary, suggested further reading (a short bibliography accompanies each entry), and a detailed index Written by an international team of notable contributors, including Jeremy Adelman, Lorraine Daston, Devin Fitzgerald, John-Paul Ghobrial, Lisa Gitelman, Earle Havens, Randolph C. Head, Niv Horesh, Sarah Igo, Richard R. John, Lauren Kassell, Pamela Long, Erin McGuirl, David McKitterick, Elias Muhanna, Thomas S. Mullaney, Carla Nappi, Craig Robertson, Daniel Rosenberg, Neil Safier, Haun Saussy, Will Slauter, Jacob Soll, Heidi Tworek, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Alexandra Walsham, and many more.

Physico-theology - Religion and Science in Europe, 1650-1750 (Hardcover): Ann Blair, Kaspar Von Greyerz Physico-theology - Religion and Science in Europe, 1650-1750 (Hardcover)
Ann Blair, Kaspar Von Greyerz
R1,494 R1,341 Discovery Miles 13 410 Save R153 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This first book-length study of physico-theology questions the widespread notion of a steadily advancing early modern separation of religion and science. Beginning around 1650, the emergence of a number of new scientific concepts, methods, and instruments challenged existing syntheses of science and religion. Physico-theology, which embraced the values of personal, empirical observation, was an international movement of the early Enlightenment that focused on the new science to make arguments about divine creation and providence. By reconciling the new science with Christianity across many denominations, physico-theology played a crucial role in diffusing new scientific ideas, assumptions, and interest in the study of nature to a broad public. In this book, sixteen leading scholars contribute a rich array of essays on the terms and scope of the movement, its scientific and religious arguments, and its aesthetic sensibilities. Contributors: Ann Blair, Simona Boscani Leoni, John Hedley Brooke, Nicolas Brucker, Katherine Calloway, Kathleen Crowther, Brendan Dooley, Peter Harrison, Barbara Hunfeld, Eric Jorink, Scott Mandelbrote, Brian W. Ogilvie, Martine Pecharman, Jonathan Sheehan, Anne-Charlott Trepp, Rienk Vermij, Kaspar von Greyerz

The Theater of Nature - Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science (Paperback): Ann Blair The Theater of Nature - Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science (Paperback)
Ann Blair
R1,873 Discovery Miles 18 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Theater of Nature is histoire totale of the last work of the political philosopher Jean Bodin, his Universae naturae theatrum (1596). Through Bodin's work, Ann Blair explores the fascinating and previously little known world of late Renaissance natural philosophy. A study of the text, of its context (through comparisons with different genres of natural philosophy and works entitled "Theater"), and of its reception in the seventeenth century highlights above all the religious motivations, encyclopedic ambitions, and bookish methods characterizing much of late Renaissance science. Amid the religious crisis and the explosion of knowledge in the late sixteenth century, natural philosophy offered grounds for consensus across religious divides and a vast collection of useful and pleasant information, admired for both its order and its variety. The commonplace book provided a versatile tool for gathering and sorting bits of natural knowledge garnered from a wide array of bookish sources and "experience," fueling a vigorous cycle of text-based science at least through the mid-seventeenth century. The miscellaneous genre of the problemata into which Bodin's text was adapted attracted more popular audiences until even later. To place the Theatrum in its cultural context is also to reveal more clearly the peculiarities of Bodin's philosophical project in this, its final expression. He combined arguments from reason, experience, and authority to undermine traditional Aristotelian conclusions and proposed instead a natural philosophy based on pious, often biblical, solutions. Originally published in 1997. 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 Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe (Paperback, Revised): Anthony Grafton, Ann Blair The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe (Paperback, Revised)
Anthony Grafton, Ann Blair
R831 Discovery Miles 8 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe" focuses on the ways culture is moved from one generation or group to another, not by exact replication but by accretion or revision. The contributors to the volume each consider how the passing of historical information is an organic process that allows for the transformation of previously accepted truth. The volume covers a broad and fascinating scope of subjects presented by leading scholars. Anthony Grafton's contribution on the fifteenth-century forger Annius of Viterbo emphasizes the role of imagination in the classical revival; Lisa Jardine demonstrates the way in which Erasmus helped turn a technical and rebarbative book by Rudolph Agricola into a sixteenth-century success story; Alan Charles Kors finds the roots of Enlightenment atheism in the works of French Catholic theologians; Donald R. Kelley follows the legal idea of "custom" from its formulation by the ancients to its assimilation into the modern social sciences; and Lawrence Stone shows how changes in legal action against female adultery between 1670 and 1857 reflect basic shifts in English moral values. Anthony Grafton is Professor of History at Princeton University. Among his many books are "Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship" and "The Footnote: A Curious History." Ann Blair teaches history at Harvard University. She is author of "The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science."

The Theater of Nature - Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science (Hardcover): Ann Blair The Theater of Nature - Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science (Hardcover)
Ann Blair
R4,683 Discovery Miles 46 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Theater of Nature is histoire totale of the last work of the political philosopher Jean Bodin, his Universae naturae theatrum (1596). Through Bodin's work, Ann Blair explores the fascinating and previously little known world of late Renaissance natural philosophy. A study of the text, of its context (through comparisons with different genres of natural philosophy and works entitled "Theater"), and of its reception in the seventeenth century highlights above all the religious motivations, encyclopedic ambitions, and bookish methods characterizing much of late Renaissance science. Amid the religious crisis and the explosion of knowledge in the late sixteenth century, natural philosophy offered grounds for consensus across religious divides and a vast collection of useful and pleasant information, admired for both its order and its variety. The commonplace book provided a versatile tool for gathering and sorting bits of natural knowledge garnered from a wide array of bookish sources and "experience," fueling a vigorous cycle of text-based science at least through the mid-seventeenth century. The miscellaneous genre of the problemata into which Bodin's text was adapted attracted more popular audiences until even later. To place the Theatrum in its cultural context is also to reveal more clearly the peculiarities of Bodin's philosophical project in this, its final expression. He combined arguments from reason, experience, and authority to undermine traditional Aristotelian conclusions and proposed instead a natural philosophy based on pious, often biblical, solutions. Originally published in 1997. 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.

Revival - A Bella James Mystery (Paperback): Alexis Koetting Revival - A Bella James Mystery (Paperback)
Alexis Koetting; Edited by Mary Ann Blair; Cover design or artwork by Ruth Dwight
R476 R447 Discovery Miles 4 470 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Diamond to Die for (Paperback): Ann Blair Kloman A Diamond to Die for (Paperback)
Ann Blair Kloman
R567 Discovery Miles 5 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mastering Conversational Hypnosis: Learn How to Influence and Persuade Someone Easily Without Them Knowing It (Paperback):... Mastering Conversational Hypnosis: Learn How to Influence and Persuade Someone Easily Without Them Knowing It (Paperback)
Cheryl-Ann Blair
R314 Discovery Miles 3 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Are you tired of ineffective debates and not being able to be persuasive? Do you see others who can instantly connect to others and seem to be able to sway opinions their way easily? What if I told you that you could be just as persuasive? You can be. Conversational hypnosis is your gateway to becoming a better communicator, with better persuasive power and the ability to influence. Linguistic principles are used to improve the power of your speech, making people pay attention and listen. Not only will they listen, but you will also find that they are agreeable to what you are suggesting. Make the power of suggestion work for you and learn how to get people to do what you want through influence and persuasion. This book will walk you through how to establish rapport and then how to get people to do what you want, without realizing you are influencing them in any way.

Rhymes with Little Reason (Paperback): Anne Blair Rhymes with Little Reason (Paperback)
Anne Blair
R550 Discovery Miles 5 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Isobel's Odyssey (Paperback): Ann Blair Kloman Isobel's Odyssey (Paperback)
Ann Blair Kloman
R539 Discovery Miles 5 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Guide to the Etruscan and Roman Worlds at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Hardcover):... Guide to the Etruscan and Roman Worlds at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Hardcover)
Donald White, Ann Blair Brownlee, Irene Bald Romano, Jean MacIntosh Turfa
R1,122 Discovery Miles 11 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The University Museum's classical collections are among the largest, most diverse, and most systematically collected of those of any museum in the United States. Of particular importance is the Etruscan material, spanning the entire history of the Etruscan peoples, from the ninth to the second centuries B.C. The strengths of the Roman collection are its glass, coins, sculpture, and the excavated objects from the Italian sites of Colonia Minturnae and the Sanctuary of Diana at Nemi.The "Guide" covers religion, daily life, language, commerce and trade, and death and burial among the Etruscans and Romans, and the legacy of the classical world in Western culture. It celebrates the completion of a suite of galleries at the University Museum--Worlds Intertwined: Etruscans, Greeks, and Romans--and is a companion guide to The Ancient Greek World (1995).

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