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The untold story of a group of Irish cities and their remarkable
development before the age of industrialization A backward corner
of Europe in 1600, Ireland was transformed during the following
centuries. This was most evident in the rise of its cities, notably
Dublin and Cork. David Dickson explores ten urban centers and their
patterns of physical, social, and cultural evolution, relating this
to the legacies of a violent past, and he reflects on their
subsequent partial eclipse. Beautifully illustrated, this account
reveals how the country's cities were distinctive and-through the
Irish diaspora-influential beyond Ireland's shores.
People's behaviour can be rewarding to others through what they say
or do: it may be no more than an appreciative smile, a sympathetic
touch or a word of praise, but the impact can be highly
significant. This book, first published in 1993, explores these
social rewards and their relevance to the practice of people in the
interpersonal professions. While much of its content is relevant to
everyday life, the focus is on ways in which an understanding of
the working of social rewards can benefit such groups as teachers,
doctors, social workers, counsellors, nurses and managers in their
interaction with their patients, clients and pupils. In exploring
the nature and distribution of social rewards, the authors
introduce the concept of interpersonal skill, and discuss a range
of theoretical perspectives to account for the consequences of
responding positively to others. The effects of promoting
interpersonal attraction, the establishment and regulation of
relationships, and the ethical issues involved in conferring power
and facilitating influence are also discussed. With its discussion
of theory and research linked to explicit practical applications,
Rewarding People will be of interest to students in the areas of
communication, psychology and business studies.
People's behaviour can be rewarding to others through what they say
or do: it may be no more than an appreciative smile, a sympathetic
touch or a word of praise, but the impact can be highly
significant. This book, first published in 1993, explores these
social rewards and their relevance to the practice of people in the
interpersonal professions. While much of its content is relevant to
everyday life, the focus is on ways in which an understanding of
the working of social rewards can benefit such groups as teachers,
doctors, social workers, counsellors, nurses and managers in their
interaction with their patients, clients and pupils. In exploring
the nature and distribution of social rewards, the authors
introduce the concept of interpersonal skill, and discuss a range
of theoretical perspectives to account for the consequences of
responding positively to others. The effects of promoting
interpersonal attraction, the establishment and regulation of
relationships, and the ethical issues involved in conferring power
and facilitating influence are also discussed. With its discussion
of theory and research linked to explicit practical applications,
Rewarding People will be of interest to students in the areas of
communication, psychology and business studies.
Dublin has many histories: for a thousand years a modest urban
settlement on the quiet waters of the Irish Sea, for the last four
hundred it has experienced great - and often astonishing - change.
Once a fulcrum of English power in Ireland, it was also the
location for the 1916 insurrection that began the rapid imperial
retreat. That moment provided Joyce with the setting for the
greatest modernist novel of the age, Ulysses, capping a cultural
heritage which became an economic resource for the brash 'Tiger
Town' of the 1990s. David Dickson's magisterial survey of the
city's history brings Dublin to life from its medieval incarnation
through the glamorous eighteenth century, when it reigned as the
'Naples of the North', through to the millennium. He reassesses 120
years of Anglo-Irish Union, in which Dublin - while economic
capital of Ireland - remained, as it does today, a place in which
rival creeds and politics struggled for supremacy. Dublin reveals
the rich and intriguing story behind the making of a capital city.
How science gets done in today's world has profound political
repercussions, since scientific knowledge, through its technical
applications, has become an important source of both economic and
military power. The increasing dependence of scientific research on
funding from business and the military has made questions about the
access to and control of scientific knowledge a central issue in
today's politics of science.
In The New Politics of Science, David Dickson points out that the
scientific community has its own internal power structures, its
elites, its hierarchies, its ideologies, its sanctioned norms of
social behavior, and its dissenting groups. And the more that
science, as a social practice, forms an integral part of the
economic structures of the society in which it is imbedded, the
more the boundaries and differences between the two dissolve.
Groups inside the scientific community, for example, will use
groups outside the community--and vice versa--to achieve their own
political ends. In this edition, Dickson has included a new preface
commenting on the continuing and increasing influence of industrial
and defense interests on American scientific research in the
1980s.
Hugh Dorian was born in poverty in rural Donegal in 1834. He
survived Ireland’s Great Famine, only to squander uncommon
opportunities for self-advancement. Having lost his job and clashed
with priests and policemen, he moved to the city of Derry but never
slipped the shadow of trouble. Three of his children died from
disease and his wife fell drunk into the River Foyle and drowned.
Dorian declined into alcohol-numbed poverty and died in an
overcrowded slum in 1914. A unique document survived the tragedy of
Dorian’s life. In 1890 he completed a “true historical
narrative” of the social and cultural transformation of his home
community. This narrative forms the most extensive lower-class
account of the Great Famine. A moving account of the lives of
ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, it invites
comparison with the classic slave narratives of Frederick Douglass
and Harriet Jacobs. Dorian achieves a degree of totality in his
reconstruction of the world of the pre-Famine poor that is
unparalleled in contemporary memoir or fiction. He describes their
working and living conditions, sports and drinking, religious
devotions and festivals. And then he describes the catastrophe that
obliterated that world. Horror is remembered vividly but with
restraint: “in a very short time there was nothing but stillness;
a mournful silence in the villages; in the cottages grim poverty
and emaciated faces showing all the signs of hardships.” The
picture of starvation is stark but authentic: “the cheek bones
became thin and high, the cheeks blue, the bones sharp, and the
eyes sunk . . .. the legs and the feet swell and get red and the
skin cracks . . .”. And at last came “the dispersion . . . to
places which their fathers never heard of and which they themselves
never would have seen, had the times not changed.” No one," he
writes, “can measure the distance of the broad Atlantic speedier
and better than a father whose child is there.” A sense of loss,
closer to bereavement than nostalgia, is threaded through the text:
it is a lament for the might have been — the future as imagined
before the Famine — rather than the actual past. The final and
lasting image is of trauma without recovery: the wise-men who had
sat late into the small hours debating politics in the years before
the Famine congregated in the after years but sat now in silence
“their subjects . . . lacking words.” Dorian’s narrative was
never published in his own lifetime and all but forgotten after the
author’s death. First published in Ireland in August 2000, The
Outer Edge of Ulster includes a scholarly introduction that traces
the troubles that beset the author and locates the narrative in
wider literary contexts. Appearing for the first time in America,
this critically acclaimed book offers an intimate look at the
everyday lives of ordinary people facing extraordinary challenges.
Communication Skills Training for Health Professionals provides the
sound theoretical basis and practical approach needed to implement
a higher standard of care through improved communication. This
fully revised and extended second edition has several new
perspectives, including the use of interactive video as a training
medium; facilitating the transfer of training to work contexts; the
communication audit and its role in quality assurance in health;
working with groups as a communication strategy; refined and
expanded practical exercises for trainers.
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