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To Hunt Men (Hardcover)
Gary Smith; Photographs by Gary Smith
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R872
Discovery Miles 8 720
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* Offers strategies for individuals and relationships of diverse
ethno-racial cultural backgrounds. * Provides innovative tools
which consider the impacts of acculturation, minority status,
intersectionality and minority stress on sexual health and
dysfunction. * Helps clinicians to broaden their awareness and
build their professional capacity. * Chapters include key terms,
critical questions for the reader, case studies, and suggested
further reading. * It is the very first of its kind and will be a
significant contribution to sex therapy, marriage and family
therapy, and couples counselling.
For introductory courses in physical geology. Encouraging students
to observe, discover, and visualize, How Does Earth Work? Second
Edition engages students with an inquiry-based learning method that
develops a solid interpretation of introductory geology. Like
geology detectives, students learn to think through the scientific
process and uncover evidence that explains earth's mysteries.
There is no doubt science is currently suffering from a credibility
crisis. This thought-provoking book argues that, ironically,
science's credibility is being undermined by tools created by
scientists themselves. Scientific disinformation and damaging
conspiracy theories are rife because of the internet that science
created, the scientific demand for empirical evidence and
statistical significance leads to data torturing and confirmation
bias, and data mining is fuelled by the technological advances in
Big Data and the development of ever-increasingly powerful
computers. Using a wide range of entertaining examples, this
fascinating book examines the impacts of society's growing distrust
of science, and ultimately provides constructive suggestions for
restoring the credibility of the scientific community.
A book that will take you through the best Scottish winter journeys
from the comfort of your favourite chair. There'll be detailed
descriptions, accompanied by some fine photographs, of all the
well-known winter classics such as the traverse of An Teallach,
Ledge Route on the Ben Nevis, the Aonach Eagach Ridge and the Black
Spout on Lochnagar. Some of the not so well-known schizzles
included are Morrisons Gully on Beinn Eighe, Academy Ridge on Sgorr
Ruadh, Summit Gully on Stob Coire nam Beith and the magnificent
Deep South Gully on Beinn Alligin.
* Offers strategies for individuals and relationships of diverse
ethno-racial cultural backgrounds. * Provides innovative tools
which consider the impacts of acculturation, minority status,
intersectionality and minority stress on sexual health and
dysfunction. * Helps clinicians to broaden their awareness and
build their professional capacity. * Chapters include key terms,
critical questions for the reader, case studies, and suggested
further reading. * It is the very first of its kind and will be a
significant contribution to sex therapy, marriage and family
therapy, and couples counselling.
Developed specifically for the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence,
Text for Scotland is written by a dedicated team of authors who
have extensive experience of teaching in Scotland. Text for
Scotland is a complete, unit-based resource for S1 and S2 that
builds essential language skills, with a focus throughout on
Assessment is for Learning strategies. Text for Scotland is closely
matched to the epxeriences and outcomes of the Scottish Curriculum
for Excellence 2008 so you don't need to spend time adapting
resources. * clear outcomes and experiences stated at the start of
each unit to show students what they will be learning. * up-to-date
examples to help students identify with the material and engage
them in the classroom. * activities which focus on acquiring key
language skills. * self- and peer-evaluation activities, which
embed Assessment is for Learning practice. * a clear and colourful
design so your students engage with the material.
In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid
economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe, Walter
Benjamin emerged as the most original practicing literary critic
and public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of
the "Selected Writings" is now available in paperback in two
parts.
In Part 1, Benjamin is represented by two of his greatest
literary essays, "Surrealism" and "On the Image of Proust," as well
as by a long article on Goethe and a generous selection of his
wide-ranging commentary for Weimar Germany's newspapers.
Part 2 contains, in addition to the important longer essays,
"Franz Kafka," "Karl Kraus," and "The Author as Producer," the
extended autobiographical meditation "A Berlin Chronicle," and
extended discussions of the history of photography and the social
situation of the French writer, previously untranslated shorter
pieces on such subjects as language and memory, theological
criticism and literary history, astrology and the newspaper, and on
such influential figures as Paul Valery, Stefan George, Hitler, and
Mickey Mouse.
In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid
economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe, Walter
Benjamin emerged as the most original practicing literary critic
and public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of
the "Selected Writings" is now available in paperback in two
parts.
In Part 1, Benjamin is represented by two of his greatest
literary essays, "Surrealism" and "On the Image of Proust," as well
as by a long article on Goethe and a generous selection of his
wide-ranging commentary for Weimar Germany's newspapers.
Part 2 contains, in addition to the important longer essays,
"Franz Kafka," "Karl Kraus," and "The Author as Producer," the
extended autobiographical meditation "A Berlin Chronicle," and
extended discussions of the history of photography and the social
situation of the French writer, previously untranslated shorter
pieces on such subjects as language and memory, theological
criticism and literary history, astrology and the newspaper, and on
such influential figures as Paul Valery, Stefan George, Hitler, and
Mickey Mouse.
G.B. Smith’s book, PATHWAYS takes the viewer through a journey of
each image, using light to illuminate patterns and distilling the
subject down to its uncluttered form. This innovative approach
transcends a wide range of subjects and genres and reflects his
traditional photographic heritage of plate cameras and exclusively
black-and-white imagery. The joy of his imagery is in fact deeply
embedded in his ability to present the canvas in its essential
form. His images bring solace to our psyche constantly overwhelmed
by the overstimulation of color, and they encourage us to
appreciate the essence of the subject in a new and releasing way.
Out of less comes more in this gorgeously produced volume. PATHWAYS
is also a metaphor for the photographer’s personal artistic
journey that began almost fifty years ago as a teenager and has
taken a somewhat circuitous route, coming back full circle to
embrace his original photographic passions. The book features
selected works from several of G.B. Smith’s current collections,
including many of his more recent award-winning images. All of the
author’s proceeds are being donated to The Breast Cancer Alliance
charity.
Walter Benjamin (1896-1940) has been called by Hannah Arendt the
greatest critic of the century. While an increasing number of
Anglo-American literary critics draw upon Benjamin's writings in
their own works, their colleagues in the philosophical community
remain relatively unacquainted with his legacy. In the European
intellectual world, by contrast, Benjamin's critical
epistemological program, his philosophies of history and language,
and his aesthetics have long since become part of philosophical
discourse. The present collection of articles, many of which were
contained in earlier versions in the Winter 1983 special issue of
the journal The Philosophical Forum, initiates the project of
establishing Benjamin's importance to philosophy.
A balance of original work by Benjamin and important commentary on
his works, this volume includes the crucial chapter from Benjamin's
magnum opus The Arcades Project, his Program of the Coming
Philosophy, and Central Park, as well as essays by leading scholars
(including Theodor W. Adorno, Leo Lowenthal, and Rolf Tiedemann)
that treat single philosophical themes and relate his ideas to
those of other thinkers such as Gadamer, Goodmann, and Rosenzweig.
Gary Smith's introduction to the volume provides an extremely
useful and sophisticated entree for readers unaccustomed to the
breadth of Benjamin's philosophical allusions, as well as an
informative summation of the contents of the volume. This book will
be of interest to philosophers, literary theorists, art historians,
anthropologists, and other social scientists.
A guide for students and pastors to interpret and communicate the
messages of the prophetic books well Preaching from a prophetic
text can be daunting because it can be difficult to place these
prophecies in their proper historical setting. The prophets used
different literary genres and they often wrote using metaphorical
poetry that is unfamiliar to the modern reader. This handbook
offers an organized method of approaching a prophecy and preparing
a persuasive, biblically based sermon that will draw modern
application from the theological principle embedded in the
prophetic text.
Essential Statistics, Regression, and Econometrics, Second Edition,
is innovative in its focus on preparing students for
regression/econometrics, and in its extended emphasis on
statistical reasoning, real data, pitfalls in data analysis, and
modeling issues. This book is uncommonly approachable and easy to
use, with extensive word problems that emphasize intuition and
understanding. Too many students mistakenly believe that statistics
courses are too abstract, mathematical, and tedious to be useful or
interesting. To demonstrate the power, elegance, and even beauty of
statistical reasoning, this book provides hundreds of new and
updated interesting and relevant examples, and discusses not only
the uses but also the abuses of statistics. The examples are drawn
from many areas to show that statistical reasoning is not an
irrelevant abstraction, but an important part of everyday life.
We underestimate the importance of luck in our lives. We think too
highly of the golfer who wins the British Open and, if he loses the
next tournament, we speculate that he slacked off. Although the
winner is surely an excellent golfer, good luck in how the ball
bounced and how it rolled afterwards outside of the golfer's
control also played an important role. An insufficient appreciation
of chance can wreak all kinds of mischief not only in sports, but
also education, medicine, business, politics and elsewhere.
Perfectly natural, random variation can lead us to attach meaning
to the meaningless. Freakonomics showed how economic calculations
can explain seemingly counter-intuitive decision-making. Thinking,
Fast and Slow, helped readers identify a host of small cognitive
errors that can lead to miscalculations and irrational thought. In
What the Luck? statistician and author, Gary Smith, sets himself a
similar goal, and explains - in clear, understandable, and witty
prose - how a statistical understanding of luck can change the way
we see just about every aspect of our lives.
Gary Smith is one of the most accomplished sports journalists
working today, a three-time National Magazine Award winner who has
been selected in a poll of Associated Press editors as the
sportswriter they'd most like to hire. In Beyond the Game, Gary
Smith has brought together his greatest stories, from the inspiring
account of basketball coach Jim Valvano's courageous battle against
cancer, to an unforgettable tale of a remote valley in Bolivia that
plays host to an unusual annual ritual in which the men of rival
villages engage in a riotous all-day fistfight. Beyond the Game is
not only a collection of great sportswriting; it is a collection of
great writing, period. Each of Smith's stories -- of dreams and
fears, failure and triumph, self-destruction and salvation -- will
profoundly touch you and remain with you long after you have closed
the pages of the book.
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