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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.
Amid a global zeitgeist of impending catastrophe, this book
explores the culture of fear so prevalent in today's politics,
economic climate, and religious extremism. The authors of this
collection argue that the lens of catastrophe through which so many
of today's issues are examined distorts understanding of the
dynamics at the heart of numerous problems, such as global warming,
ultimately halting progress and transformation. Arguing that
catastrophic thinking results in paralysis or reactionary politics,
the authors posit that the myths of 2012 have negative affects
across the political spectrum and urge activists not to give up
their beliefs and instead focus on working on issues now instead of
waiting until society has ended and needs to be rebuilt.
This volume is the Tenth Anniversary Edition of a book that was
honored in 1992 as an "Outstanding Book" by the Gustavus Myers
Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States.
Reprinted many times since its first publication in 1991, Who Is
Black? has become a staple in college classrooms throughout the
United States, helping students understand this nation's history of
miscegenation and the role that the "one-drop rule" has played in
it. In this special anniversary edition, the author brings the
story up to date in an epilogue. There he highlights some revealing
responses to Who Is Black? and examines recent challenges to the
one-drop rule, including the multiracial identity movement and a
significant change in the census classification of racial and
ethnic groups.
This book describes theories about how people learn, develops each
theory into a teaching strategy that can be employed by any college
teacher, and illustrates how each strategy can be applied in a
classroom setting. It is useful for faculty development workshops
and new faculty institutes.
Here, for the first time, is a book that submits the psychoanalytic
community and training institute to deep anthropological enquiry.
It expertly uncovers the manifold and often hidden institutional
devices used to transform trainees into professionals. By analysing
the origins of the splits and ructions within the profession, and
by attending closely to what trainees feel, do and think as they
struggle towards professional status, Davies exposes the often
subtle but deeply penetrating effects psychoanalytic training has
upon all who pass through it, and the way these effects come to
structure and direct the community itself. The data illuminating
this ethnography is culled from case-studies of clinical work,
interviews with teachers, senior practitioners and trainees, as
well as from his participant observation. This book is written to
be accessible to all those who have an interest in the therapeutic
profession from the psychotherapist, social anthropologist, to the
general reader alike."
In 1864, Union soldier Charles George described a charge into
battle by General Phil Sheridan: "Such a picture of earnestness and
determination I never saw as he showed as he came in sight of the
battle field . . . What a scene for a painter!" These words proved
prophetic, as Sheridan's desperate ride provided the subject for
numerous paintings and etchings as well as songs and poetry. George
was not alone in thinking of art in the midst of combat; the
significance of the issues under contention, the brutal intensity
of the fighting, and the staggering number of casualties combined
to form a tragedy so profound that some could not help but view it
through an aesthetic lens, to see the war as a concert of death. It
is hardly surprising that art influenced the perception and
interpretation of the war given the intrinsic role that the arts
played in the lives of antebellum Americans. Nor is it surprising
that literature, music, and the visual arts were permanently
altered by such an emotional and material catastrophe. In The Arts
and Culture of the American Civil War, an interdisciplinary team of
scholars explores the way the arts - theatre, music, fiction,
poetry, painting, architecture, and dance - were influenced by the
war as well as the unique ways that art functioned during and
immediately following the war. Included are discussions of familiar
topics (such as Ambrose Bierce, Peter Rothermel, and minstrelsy)
with less-studied subjects (soldiers and dance, epistolary songs).
The collection as a whole sheds light on the role of race, class,
and gender in the production and consumption of the arts for
soldiers and civilians at this time; it also draws attention to the
ways that art shaped - and was shaped by - veterans long after the
war.
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Historians on John Gower
Stephen Rigby; As told to Sian Echard; Contributions by Stephen Rigby, Sian Echard, Martha Carlin, …
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Discovery Miles 11 500
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John Gower's poetry offers an important and immediate response to
the turbulent events of his day. The essays here examine his life
and his works from an historical angle, bringing out fresh new
insights. The late fourteenth century was the age of the Black
Death, the Peasants' Revolt, the Hundred Years War, the deposition
of Richard II, the papal schism and the emergence of the heretical
doctrines of John Wyclif and the Lollards. These social, political
and religious crises and conflicts were addressed not only by
preachers and by those involved in public affairs but also by
poets, including Chaucer and Langland. Above all, though, it is in
the verse of John Gower that we find the most direct engagement
with contemporary events. Yet, surprisingly, few historians have
examined Gower's responses to these events or have studied the
broader moral and philosophical outlook which he used to make sense
of them. Here, a number of eminent medievalists seek to demonstrate
what historians can add to our understanding of Gower's poetry and
his ideas about society (the nobility and chivalry, the peasants
and the 1381 revolt, urban life and the law), the Church (the
clergy, papacy, Lollardy, monasticism, and the friars) gender
(masculinity and women and power), politics (political theory and
the deposition of Richard II) and science and astronomy. The book
also offers an important reassessment of Gower's biography based on
newly-discovered primary sources. STEPHEN RIGBY is Emeritus
Professor of Medieval Social and Economic History at the University
of Manchester; SIAN ECHARD is Professor of English, University of
British Columbia. Contributors: Mark Bailey, Michael Bennett,
Martha Carlin, James Davis, Seb Falk, Christopher Fletcher, David
Green, David Lepine, Martin Heale, Katherine Lewis, Anthony Musson,
Stephen Rigby, Jens Röhrkasten.
Medieval manorial records provide a unique insight into the
economic and social life of local communities, as well as the
different approaches adopted by lords in managing their estates.
This volume, edited by James Davis and Joanne Sear, contains the
translations of the surviving court and account rolls of Newmarket,
together with translations of two royal charters for Newmarket's
fairs. Although the court rolls span only fifteen years around the
turn of the fifteenth century, the four different types of court
they represent - manorial, market, fair and leet - are not
replicated in the surviving records of any other medieval English
small town. Also included are substantial sets of account rolls
from the middle and later years of the fifteenth century which, in
particular, provide details of the holdings, stalls and shops that
were rented not just to Newmarket tenants but also to traders from
further afield. Although the dates of the two sets of rolls do not
coincide, their span across most of the fifteenth century provides
substantive evidence for the growth and expansion of commercial
activities, changing Newmarket from an inconsequential trading post
into a significant and vibrant settlement, albeit small, on the
main route between London and Norwich. The manorial rolls contain
deletions and revisions, showing that they were used as working
documents, indispensable to the lord of the manor's officials in
overseeing the smooth running of the settlement and in ensuring the
maximal receipt of all the income due to him. The commercial focus
is a clear and vibrant reminder of the importance of markets to
much of medieval society.
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Body (Hardcover)
James Davies
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R489
Discovery Miles 4 890
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The Sunday Times bestseller with all the strategies you need to
prevent pain and fuel your body to its fullest health potential.
'James is incredible - he has played a huge role in helping me
manage my fitness and recover from injury over the years' David
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anxiety, to everyday wear and tear and injury, life takes its toll
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This book is a question book that offers single best answers (SBA)
to 300 questions related to topics in general medicine. In order to
further enhance knowledge and understanding, detailed answers have
been included. This book is designed as both a revision and
learning aid, with questions being set in a mock-examination format
which can be completed under timed conditions.The primary target
audience of this book is clinical medical students who are revising
for examinations. However, questions have been planned in a way
that a fairly large secondary target audience will be reached as
well. This includes students who are transitioning from
pre-clinical to clinical.As recently qualified medical graduates
who have had the option of both online and book-based questions,
the authors feel that students often prefer a Single Best Answers
book that aids them in advancing their medical knowledge rather
than online question banks, which can often have very repetitive
and one-dimensional questions. Having questions in paper format
replicates examination conditions better than online question banks
and, therefore, offers a more realistic revision experience. In
addition, though SBAs are becoming increasingly more common as an
examination style with medical schools, there are very few SBA
question books available. As such, medical students will find this
book highly useful in the preparation for their examinations.
This book is a question book that offers single best answers (SBA)
to 300 questions related to topics in general medicine. In order to
further enhance knowledge and understanding, detailed answers have
been included. This book is designed as both a revision and
learning aid, with questions being set in a mock-examination format
which can be completed under timed conditions.The primary target
audience of this book is clinical medical students who are revising
for examinations. However, questions have been planned in a way
that a fairly large secondary target audience will be reached as
well. This includes students who are transitioning from
pre-clinical to clinical.As recently qualified medical graduates
who have had the option of both online and book-based questions,
the authors feel that students often prefer a Single Best Answers
book that aids them in advancing their medical knowledge rather
than online question banks, which can often have very repetitive
and one-dimensional questions. Having questions in paper format
replicates examination conditions better than online question banks
and, therefore, offers a more realistic revision experience. In
addition, though SBAs are becoming increasingly more common as an
examination style with medical schools, there are very few SBA
question books available. As such, medical students will find this
book highly useful in the preparation for their examinations.
In this book James Davies considers emotional suffering as part
and parcel of what it means to live and develop as a human being,
rather than as a mental health problem requiring only psychiatric,
antidepressant or cognitive treatment. This book therefore offers a
new perspective on emotional discontent and discusses how we can
engage with it clinically, personally and socially to uncover its
productive value.
The Importance of Suffering explores a relational theory of
understanding emotional suffering suggesting that suffering, does
not spring from one dimension of our lives, but is often the
outcome of how we relate to the world internally - in terms of our
personal biology, habits and values, and externally - in terms of
our society, culture and the world around us. Davies suggests that
suffering is a healthy call-to-change and shouldn't be chemically
anesthetised or avoided. The book challenges conventional thinking
by arguing that if we understand and manage suffering more
holistically, it can facilitate individual and social
transformation in powerful and surprising ways.
The Importance of Suffering offers new ways to think about, and
therefore understand suffering. It will appeal to anyone who works
with suffering in a professional context including professionals,
trainees and academics in the fields of counselling, psychotherapy,
psychoanalysis, psychiatry and clinical psychology.
In this book James Davies considers emotional suffering as part
and parcel of what it means to live and develop as a human being,
rather than as a mental health problem requiring only psychiatric,
antidepressant or cognitive treatment. This book therefore offers a
new perspective on emotional discontent and discusses how we can
engage with it clinically, personally and socially to uncover its
productive value.
The Importance of Suffering explores a relational theory of
understanding emotional suffering suggesting that suffering, does
not spring from one dimension of our lives, but is often the
outcome of how we relate to the world internally in terms of our
personal biology, habits and values, and externally in terms of our
society, culture and the world around us. Davies suggests that
suffering is a healthy call-to-change and shouldn't be chemically
anesthetised or avoided. The book challenges conventional thinking
by arguing that if we understand and manage suffering more
holistically, it can facilitate individual and social
transformation in powerful and surprising ways.
The Importance of Suffering offers new ways to think about, and
therefore understand suffering. It will appeal to anyone who works
with suffering in a professional context including professionals,
trainees and academics in the fields of counselling, psychotherapy,
psychoanalysis, psychiatry and clinical psychology."
"Another book on college teaching?" you may ask. "Surely too many
have been written already!" Dr Davis hopes that professors with
find this to be a different book on college teaching, because it
explores in depth some viable teaching strategies for the college
classroom. This book has grown out of a course on college teaching
offered regularly at the University of Denver.
Here, for the first time, is a book that submits the psychoanalytic
training institute to deep anthropological scrutiny. It expertly
uncovers the hidden institutional devices used to transform
trainees into professionals. By attending closely to what trainees
feel, do, and think as they struggle towards professional status,
it exposes the often subtle but deeply penetrating effects
psychoanalytic training has upon all who pass through it; effects
that profoundly shape not only therapists (professionally and
personally), but also the community itself. The author's
fascinating and original data is culled from his extensive
fieldwork, his case-studies of clinical work, and his interviews
with teachers, senior practitioners and trainees. This book is
written to be accessible to all those who have an interest in the
therapeutic profession from the professional (whether
psychotherapist or anthropologist) to the trainee and general
reader.
This exciting multidisciplinary collection brings together
twenty-two original essays by scholars on the cutting edge of
racial theory, who address both the American concept of race and
the specific problems experienced by those who do not fit neatly
into the boxes society requires them to check.
In 1864, Union soldier Charles George described a charge into
battle by General Phil Sheridan: "Such a picture of earnestness and
determination I never saw as he showed as he came in sight of the
battle field . . . What a scene for a painter!" These words proved
prophetic, as Sheridan's desperate ride provided the subject for
numerous paintings and etchings as well as songs and poetry. George
was not alone in thinking of art in the midst of combat; the
significance of the issues under contention, the brutal intensity
of the fighting, and the staggering number of casualties combined
to form a tragedy so profound that some could not help but view it
through an aesthetic lens, to see the war as a concert of death. It
is hardly surprising that art influenced the perception and
interpretation of the war given the intrinsic role that the arts
played in the lives of antebellum Americans. Nor is it surprising
that literature, music, and the visual arts were permanently
altered by such an emotional and material catastrophe. In The Arts
and Culture of the American Civil War, an interdisciplinary team of
scholars explores the way the arts - theatre, music, fiction,
poetry, painting, architecture, and dance - were influenced by the
war as well as the unique ways that art functioned during and
immediately following the war. Included are discussions of familiar
topics (such as Ambrose Bierce, Peter Rothermel, and minstrelsy)
with less-studied subjects (soldiers and dance, epistolary songs).
The collection as a whole sheds light on the role of race, class,
and gender in the production and consumption of the arts for
soldiers and civilians at this time; it also draws attention to the
ways that art shaped - and was shaped by - veterans long after the
war.
As emotion is often linked with irrationality, it's no surprise
researchers tend to underreport the emotions they experience in the
field. However, denying emotion altogether doesn't necessarily lead
to better research. Methods cannot function independently from the
personalities wielding them, and it's time we questioned the
tendency to underplay the scientific, personal, and political
consequences of the emotional dimensions of fieldwork. This book
explores the idea that emotion is not antithetical to thought or
reason, but is instead an untapped source of insight that can
complement more traditional methods of anthropological research.
With a new, re-humanized methodological framework, this book shows
how certain reactions and experiences consistently evoked in
fieldwork, when treated with the intellectual rigor empirical work
demands, can be translated into meaningful data. Emotions in the
Field brings to mainstream anthropological awareness not only the
viability and necessity of this neglected realm of research, but
also its fresh and thoughtful guiding principles.
Numerous aspects of the medieval economy are covered in this new
collection of essays, from business fraud and changes in wages to
the production of luxury goods. Long dominated by theories of
causation involving class conflict and Malthusian crisis, the field
of medieval economic history has been transformed in recent years
by a better understanding of the process of commercialisation.
Inrecognition of the important work in this area by Richard
Britnell, this volume of essays brings together studies by
historians from both sides of the Atlantic on fundamental aspects
of the medieval commercial economy. From examinations of high
wages, minimum wages and unemployment, through to innovative
studies of consumption and supply, business fraud, economic
regulation, small towns, the use of charters, and the role of
shipmasters and peasants as entrepreneurs, this collection is
essential reading for the student of the medieval economy.
Contributors: John Hatcher, John Langdon, Derek Keene, John S. Lee,
James Davis, Mark Bailey, Christine M. Newman, Peter L. Larson,
Maryanne Kowaleski, Martha Carlin, James Masschaele, Christopher
Dyer
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