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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Provides an accessible introduction to the Environmental
Humanities, a complex and interdisciplinary area, and designed to
provide a foundation for future study, projects and pursuits.
Written by academics with experience of teaching and writing in the
field. Content is engaging and includes case studies, discussion
questions, annotated bibliographies, and links to online resources.
Organised by subject, this book could be used on general
environmental humanities courses, or individual chapters could be
used on subject specific courses i.e. Environmental History,
environmental film etc.
Addressing the important topic of the effects of music and reading
integration on students' achievements and attitudes, this book
presents twenty lessons for integrating selected music and reading
concepts and skills. Designed for upper-elementary music and
reading teachers, it provides specific materials and teaching
techniques.
Communities great and small across Europe for eight centuries have
contracted with doctors. Physicians provided citizen care, helped
govern, and often led in public life. Civic Medicine stakes out
this timely subject by focusing on its golden age, when cities
rivaled territorial states in local and global Europe and when
civic doctors were central to the rise of shared, organized written
information about the human and natural world. This opens the
prospect of a long history of knowledge and action shaped more by
community and responsibility than market or state, exchange or
power.
Focusing on the history of ideas, this book explores important
questions concerning knowledge in relation to philosophy, science,
ethics and Christian faith. Kirk contributes to the current debate
about the intellectual basis and integrity of Western culture,
exploring controversial issues concerning the notions of modernity
and post-modernity. Repositioning the Christian faith as a valid
dialogue partner with contemporary secular movements in philosophy
and ethics, Kirk seeks to show that in 'post-Christian' Europe the
Christian faith still possesses intellectual resources worthy to be
reckoned with. This book's principal argument is that contemporary
Western society faces a cultural crisis. It explores what appears
to be an historical enigma, namely the question of why Western
intellectual endeavours in philosophy and science seem to have
abandoned the search for a source of knowledge able to draw
together disparate pieces of information provided by different
disciplines. Kirk draws conclusions, particularly in the area of
ethical decision-making, from this apparent failure and invites
readers to consider Christian theism afresh as a means for the
renewal of culture and society.
The places of our daily life affect our health, well-being, and
receipt of health care in complex ways. The connection between
health and place has been acknowledged for centuries, and the
contemporary discipline of health geography sets as its core
mission to uncover and explicate all facets of this connection. The
Routledge Handbook of Health Geography features 52 chapters from
leading international thinkers that collectively characterize the
breadth and depth of current thinking on the health-place
connection. It will be of interest to students seeking an
introduction to health geography as well as multidisciplinary
health scholars looking to explore the intersection between health
and place. This book provides a coherent synthesis of scholarship
in health geography as well as multidisciplinary insights into
cutting-edge research. It explores the key concepts central to
appreciating the ways in which place influences our health, from
the micro-space of the body to the macro-scale of entire world
regions, in order to articulate historical and contemporary aspects
of this influence.
Communities great and small across Europe for eight centuries have
contracted with doctors. Physicians provided citizen care, helped
govern, and often led in public life. Civic Medicine stakes out
this timely subject by focusing on its golden age, when cities
rivaled territorial states in local and global Europe and when
civic doctors were central to the rise of shared, organized written
information about the human and natural world. This opens the
prospect of a long history of knowledge and action shaped more by
community and responsibility than market or state, exchange or
power.
Non-representational theory is an academic approach that animates
the active world; its taking-place. It shows how material, sensory
and affective processes combine with conscious thought and agency
in the making of everyday life. This book offers an agenda for
health geography, providing the first comprehensive overview of
what a 'more-than-representational' health geography looks like. It
outlines the basis of a new ontological understanding of health,
and explores the key qualities of 'movement-space' that are
critical to how health emerges within the assemblages that enable
it. It shows how non-representational events and concerns are key
to human happiness and wellbeing, to the experience of health and
disease, to activities that add to or detract from health and to
health care work, not to mention to the broader initiatives and
operation of health institutions and health sciences. This book
bridges the gap between non-representational theory and health
research, and provides the groundwork for future developments in
the field. It will be of interest to students, researchers and
professionals alike working in health, geography and a range of
other disciplines.
Understanding where ageing occurs, how it is experienced by
different people in different places, and in what ways it is
transforming our communities, economies and societies at all levels
has become crucial for the development of informed research, policy
and programmes. This book focuses on the interdisciplinary field of
study - geographical gerontology - that addresses these issues.
With contributions from more than 30 leading geographers and
gerontologists, the book examines the scope and depth of
geographical perspectives, concepts and approaches applied to the
study of ageing, old age and older populations. The book features
25 chapters organized into five parts that cover the field's
theoretical traditions and intellectual evolution; the
contributions of key disciplinary perspectives from population
geography, social and cultural geography, health geography, urban
planning and environmental studies; the scales of inquiry within
geographical gerontology from the global to the embodied; the
thematic breadth of contemporary issues of interest that define the
field (places, spaces and landscapes of ageing); and a discussion
about challenges, opportunities and agendas for future developments
in geography and gerontology. This book provides the first
comprehensive foundation of knowledge about the state of the art of
geographical gerontology that will be of interest to scholars of
ageing around the world.
Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies is unique due to its
rare assemblage of essays, which has not appeared within an edited
collection before. Romantic Ecocriticism is distinct because the
essays in the collection develop transnational and transhistorical
approaches to the proto-ecological early environmental aspects in
British and American Romanticism. First, the edition's
transnational approach is evident through transatlantic connections
such as, but are not limited to, comparisons among the following
writers: William Wordsworth, William Howitt, and Henry D. Thoreau;
John Clare and Aldo Leopold; Charles Darwin and Ralph W. Emerson.
Second, the transhistorical approach of Romantic Ecocriticism is
evident in connections among the following writers: William
Wordsworth and Emily Bronte; Thomas Malthus and George Gordon
Byron; James Hutton and Percy Shelley; Erasmus Darwin and Charlotte
Smith; Gilbert White and Dorothy Wordsworth among others. Thus,
Romantic Ecocriticism offers a dynamic collection of essays
dedicated to links between scientists and literary figures
interested in natural history.
Health care is constantly undergoing change and refinement
resulting from the adoption of new practices and technologies, the
changing nature of societies and populations, and also shifts in
the very places from which care is delivered. Primary Health Care:
People, Practice, Place draws together significant contributions
from established experts across a variety of disciplines to focus
on such changes in primary health care, not only because it is the
most basic and integral form of health service delivery, but also
because it is an area to which geographers have made significant
contributions and to which other scholars have engaged in 'thinking
geographically' about its core concepts and issues. Including
perspectives from both consumers and producers, it moves beyond
geographical accounts of the context of health service provision
through its explicit focus on the practice of primary health care.
With arguments well-supported by empirical research, this book will
appeal not only to scholars across a range of social and health
sciences, but also to professionals involved in health services.
Provides an accessible introduction to the Environmental
Humanities, a complex and interdisciplinary area, and designed to
provide a foundation for future study, projects and pursuits.
Written by academics with experience of teaching and writing in the
field. Content is engaging and includes case studies, discussion
questions, annotated bibliographies, and links to online resources.
Organised by subject, this book could be used on general
environmental humanities courses, or individual chapters could be
used on subject specific courses i.e. Environmental History,
environmental film etc.
Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies is unique due to its
rare assemblage of essays, which has not appeared within an edited
collection before. Romantic Ecocriticism is distinct because the
essays in the collection develop transnational and transhistorical
approaches to the proto-ecological early environmental aspects in
British and American Romanticism. First, the edition's
transnational approach is evident through transatlantic connections
such as, but are not limited to, comparisons among the following
writers: William Wordsworth, William Howitt, and Henry D. Thoreau;
John Clare and Aldo Leopold; Charles Darwin and Ralph W. Emerson.
Second, the transhistorical approach of Romantic Ecocriticism is
evident in connections among the following writers: William
Wordsworth and Emily Bronte; Thomas Malthus and George Gordon
Byron; James Hutton and Percy Shelley; Erasmus Darwin and Charlotte
Smith; Gilbert White and Dorothy Wordsworth among others. Thus,
Romantic Ecocriticism offers a dynamic collection of essays
dedicated to links between scientists and literary figures
interested in natural history.
The First Jewish Revolt against Rome is arguably the most decisive
event in the history of Judaism and Christianity. The destruction
of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE by the Roman General Titus
forced a transformation in structure and form for both of these
fraternal religions. Yet despite its importance, little has been
written on the First Revolt, its causes, implications and the facts
surrounding it.
In this volume, Andrea M. Berlin and J. Andrew Overman have
gathered the foremost scholars on the period to discuss and debate
this pivotal historical event. The contributions explore both Roman
and Jewish perspectives on the Revolt, looking at its history and
archaeology, and finally examining the ideology and interpretation
of the revolt in subsequent history and myth.
Non-representational theory is an academic approach that animates
the active world; its taking-place. It shows how material, sensory
and affective processes combine with conscious thought and agency
in the making of everyday life. This book offers an agenda for
health geography, providing the first comprehensive overview of
what a 'more-than-representational' health geography looks like. It
outlines the basis of a new ontological understanding of health,
and explores the key qualities of 'movement-space' that are
critical to how health emerges within the assemblages that enable
it. It shows how non-representational events and concerns are key
to human happiness and wellbeing, to the experience of health and
disease, to activities that add to or detract from health and to
health care work, not to mention to the broader initiatives and
operation of health institutions and health sciences. This book
bridges the gap between non-representational theory and health
research, and provides the groundwork for future developments in
the field. It will be of interest to students, researchers and
professionals alike working in health, geography and a range of
other disciplines.
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