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Fable, Method, and Imagination in Descartes (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): James Griffith Fable, Method, and Imagination in Descartes (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
James Griffith
R3,028 Discovery Miles 30 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What role do fables play in Cartesian method and psychology? By looking at Descartes' use of fables, James Griffith suggests there is a fabular logic that runs to the heart of Descartes' philosophy. First focusing on The World and the Discourse on Method, this volume shows that by writing in fable form, Descartes allowed his readers to break from Scholastic methods of philosophizing. With this fable-structure or -logic in mind, the book reexamines the relationship between analysis, synthesis, and inexact sciences; between metaphysics and ethico-political life; and between the imagination, the will, and the passions.

Cuban Fury (Blu-ray disc): Ian McShane, Rashida Jones, Chris O'Dowd, Nick Frost, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Olivia Colman,... Cuban Fury (Blu-ray disc)
Ian McShane, Rashida Jones, Chris O'Dowd, Nick Frost, Wendi McLendon-Covey, … 1
R42 Discovery Miles 420 Ships in 10 - 20 working days

Nick Frost stars as a former salsa dancer desperate to regain his mojo in this comedy directed by James Griffiths. 22 years after a bullying incident robbed him of his shot at glory in the UK Junior Salsa Championships, overweight and self-loathing office worker Bruce Garrett (Frost) falls for the charms of his new, seemingly out-of-reach American boss Julia (Rashida Jones). Bruce's hopes rise, however, when he discovers that Julia also shares a passion for the dance floor, inspiring him to try to turn back the clock and win the girl of his dreams. Unfortunately, there's a problem - Bruce's testosterone-fuelled colleague Drew (Chris O'Dowd) has made it quite obvious that he's got his own carnal designs on Julia. Can Bruce regain his confidence, unleash his dormant Latin fire and snatch the ultimate prize?

The Great Firewall of China - How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet (Hardcover, 2nd edition): James... The Great Firewall of China - How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
James Griffiths
R1,911 Discovery Miles 19 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

China's 'Great Firewall' has evolved into the most sophisticated system of online censorship in the world. As the Chinese internet grows and online businesses thrive, speech is controlled, dissent quashed, and attempts to organise outside the official Communist Party are quickly stamped out. Updated throughout and available in paperback for the first time, The Great Firewall of China draws on James Griffiths' unprecedented access to the Great Firewall and the politicians, tech leaders, dissidents and hackers whose lives revolve around it. New chapters cover the suppression of information about the first outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, disinformation campaigns in response to the exposure of the persecution of Uyghur communities in Xinjiang and the crackdown against the Umbrella movement in Hong Kong.

Speak Not - Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language (Paperback): James Griffiths Speak Not - Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language (Paperback)
James Griffiths
R337 Discovery Miles 3 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A Globe & Mail Book of the Year "A stimulating work on the politics of language." LA Review of Books As globalisation continues languages are disappearing faster than ever, leaving our planet's linguistic diversity leaping towards extinction. The science of how languages are acquired is becoming more advanced and the internet is bringing us new ways of teaching the next generation, however it is increasingly challenging for minority languages to survive in the face of a handful of hegemonic 'super-tongues'. In Speak Not, James Griffiths reports from the frontlines of the battle to preserve minority languages, from his native Wales, Hawaii and indigenous American nations, to southern China and Hong Kong. He explores the revival of the Welsh language as a blueprint for how to ensure new generations are not robbed of their linguistic heritage, outlines how loss of indigenous languages is the direct result of colonialism and globalisation and examines how technology is both hindering and aiding the fight to prevent linguistic extinction. Introducing readers to compelling characters and examining how indigenous communities are fighting for their languages, Griffiths ultimately explores how languages hang on, what happens when they don't, and how indigenous tongues can be preserved and brought back from the brink.

Holocaust Education in Primary Schools in the Twenty-First Century - Current Practices, Potentials and Ways Forward (Hardcover,... Holocaust Education in Primary Schools in the Twenty-First Century - Current Practices, Potentials and Ways Forward (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann, Paula Cowan, James Griffiths
R3,305 Discovery Miles 33 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection is the first of its kind, bringing together Holocaust educational researchers as well as school and museum educators from across the globe, to discuss the potentials of Holocaust education in relation to primary school children. Its contributors are from countries that have a unique relationship with the Holocaust, such as Germany, Israel, neutral Switzerland, and Allied countries outside the UK. Their research provides new insight into the diverse ways in which primary aged students engage with Holocaust education. Chapters explore the impact of teaching the Holocaust to this age group, school and museum teaching pedagogies, and primary students' perspectives of the Holocaust. This book will appeal to school and museum educators of primary aged students whose work requires them to teach the Holocaust, Citizenship (or Civics) or Human Rights Education. Since the turn of the twenty-first century there has been a transformation in school and museum-based Holocaust education. This book clearly demonstrates that primary education has been included in this transformation.

The Body Speaks - Therapeutic Dialogues For Mind-Body Problems (Hardcover, New): James Griffith, Melissa Griffith The Body Speaks - Therapeutic Dialogues For Mind-Body Problems (Hardcover, New)
James Griffith, Melissa Griffith
R1,501 Discovery Miles 15 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For decades, health care providers have worked as though there were a monolithic wall dividing the ailments of the mind from those of the body. Theorists on either side developed separate languages and philosophies to explain symptoms. This distinction has left many clinicians unable to treat successfully patients whose symptoms - such as headaches, conversion paralysis, and seizures - arise from the place where mind and body meet. In this book, the authors describe a powerful narrative therapy, one that relies on the wisdom and everyday language of patients' real-life stories instead of the expert knowledge and professional language of the clinician. This approach can be used across all categories of somatic symptoms, from factitious ones to medical illnesses such as asthma or migraine headaches. The authors show how somatic symptoms are often related to unspeakable dilemmas, as in the case of a child who, after discovering a parent's marital infidelity, is afraid to disclose the secret and begins having blackout spells for which a neurologist can find no physiological basis. These dilemmas can be understood only if a clinician creates the kind of relationship in which privately held stories of fear, shame, and threat can be told safely. Detailed case studies and numerous brief examples vividly illustrate techniques for helping patients escape the dilemmas that bind their bodies by finding new language and stories that can free them. In an innovative section, the authors rethink the current ideas and practices of psychopharmacology. Rather than "treating" a brain disease, a clinician uses medications to recalibrate brain systems that register alarm, thereby opening new possibilitiesfor therapeutic change through speaking, listening, reflecting, and relating. This book offers all clinicians - psychiatrists, social workers, psychologists, nurses, physicians, and family therapists - a way to use language to help patients resolve bodily symptoms. It avoids the stigmatization that patients and families so often experience - and the frustration clinicians feel - when struggling to find answers for mind-body problems.

Holocaust Education in Primary Schools in the Twenty-First Century - Current Practices, Potentials and Ways Forward (Paperback,... Holocaust Education in Primary Schools in the Twenty-First Century - Current Practices, Potentials and Ways Forward (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann, Paula Cowan, James Griffiths
R2,549 Discovery Miles 25 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection is the first of its kind, bringing together Holocaust educational researchers as well as school and museum educators from across the globe, to discuss the potentials of Holocaust education in relation to primary school children. Its contributors are from countries that have a unique relationship with the Holocaust, such as Germany, Israel, neutral Switzerland, and Allied countries outside the UK. Their research provides new insight into the diverse ways in which primary aged students engage with Holocaust education. Chapters explore the impact of teaching the Holocaust to this age group, school and museum teaching pedagogies, and primary students' perspectives of the Holocaust. This book will appeal to school and museum educators of primary aged students whose work requires them to teach the Holocaust, Citizenship (or Civics) or Human Rights Education. Since the turn of the twenty-first century there has been a transformation in school and museum-based Holocaust education. This book clearly demonstrates that primary education has been included in this transformation.

Speak Not - Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language (Hardcover): James Griffiths Speak Not - Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language (Hardcover)
James Griffiths
R898 Discovery Miles 8 980 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A Globe & Mail Book of the Year "A stimulating work on the politics of language." LA Review of Books As globalisation continues languages are disappearing faster than ever, leaving our planet's linguistic diversity leaping towards extinction. The science of how languages are acquired is becoming more advanced and the internet is bringing us new ways of teaching the next generation, however it is increasingly challenging for minority languages to survive in the face of a handful of hegemonic 'super-tongues'. In Speak Not, James Griffiths reports from the frontlines of the battle to preserve minority languages, from his native Wales, Hawaii and indigenous American nations, to southern China and Hong Kong. He explores the revival of the Welsh language as a blueprint for how to ensure new generations are not robbed of their linguistic heritage, outlines how loss of indigenous languages is the direct result of colonialism and globalisation and examines how technology is both hindering and aiding the fight to prevent linguistic extinction. Introducing readers to compelling characters and examining how indigenous communities are fighting for their languages, Griffiths ultimately explores how languages hang on, what happens when they don't, and how indigenous tongues can be preserved and brought back from the brink.

Geomorphological Mapping, Volume 15 - Methods and Applications (Hardcover, 15th edition): Mike Smith, James Griffiths Geomorphological Mapping, Volume 15 - Methods and Applications (Hardcover, 15th edition)
Mike Smith, James Griffiths; Edited by Paolo Paron
R3,826 Discovery Miles 38 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Geomorphological Mapping: a professional handbook of techniques and applications is a new book targeted at academics and practitioners who use, or wish to utilise, geomorphological mapping within their work. Synthesising for the first time an historical perspective to geomorphological mapping, field based and digital tools and techniques for mapping and an extensive array of case studies from academics and professionals active in the area. Those active in geomorphology, engineering geology, reinsurance, Environmental Impact Assessors, and allied areas, will find the text of immense value.
Growth of interest in geomorphological mapping and currently no texts comprehensively cover this topicExtensive case studies that will appeal to professionals, academics and students (with extensive use of diagrams, potentially colour plates)Brings together material on digital mapping (GIS and remote sensing), cartography and data sources with a focus on modern technologies (including GIS, remote sensing and digital terrain analysis)Provides readers with summaries of current advances in methodological/technical aspectsAccompanied by electronic resources for digital mapping

Queen in the 1970s - Decades (Paperback): James Griffiths Queen in the 1970s - Decades (Paperback)
James Griffiths
R469 R380 Discovery Miles 3 800 Save R89 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

When Freddie Bulsara arrived in England in 1964, fleeing with his family from a bloody revolution on the streets of his homeland Zanzibar, he already knew that he wanted to be a rock'n'roll star. But before that dream could become a reality, there were three specific people he needed to meet. Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon were the other three components in what became Queen, a band whose name is now writ large in rock legend, but whose members spent their early career mired in legal troubles, critical hostility and financial hardship. In the early 1970s, with their preening singer and arch conceptualiser now renamed Freddie Mercury, the group projected an image that was at once regal, mystical and exotic. Yet behind the black eyeliner and billows of dry ice, Queen were four sharply contrasting individuals whose dogged struggle to win success was every bit as dramatic as the ogre battles and fairy king fantasias that populated their music. Queen in the Seventies is an up-close examination of the band's now critically adored first ten years, the decade when they forged their unique vision, beat off the critics and became, after many epic tantrums and much violent throwing of crockery, champions of the world.

The Great Firewall of China - How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet (Paperback, 2nd edition): James... The Great Firewall of China - How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet (Paperback, 2nd edition)
James Griffiths
R533 R491 Discovery Miles 4 910 Save R42 (8%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

China's 'Great Firewall' has evolved into the most sophisticated system of online censorship in the world. As the Chinese internet grows and online businesses thrive, speech is controlled, dissent quashed, and attempts to organise outside the official Communist Party are quickly stamped out. Updated throughout and available in paperback for the first time, The Great Firewall of China draws on James Griffiths' unprecedented access to the Great Firewall and the politicians, tech leaders, dissidents and hackers whose lives revolve around it. New chapters cover the suppression of information about the first outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, disinformation campaigns in response to the exposure of the persecution of Uyghur communities in Xinjiang and the crackdown against the Umbrella movement in Hong Kong.

Hobbes and Modern Political Thought (Paperback): James Griffith Hobbes and Modern Political Thought (Paperback)
James Griffith; Yves Charles Zarka
R830 Discovery Miles 8 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Reveals the Hobbesian origins of contemporary political concerns, especially the relationships between state, individual and lawYves Charles Zarka shows you how Hobbes established the framework for modern political thought. Discover the origin of liberalism in the Hobbesian theory of negative liberty; that Hobbesian interest and contract are essential to contemporary discussions of the comportment of economic actors; and how state sovereignty returns anew in the form of the servility of the state. At the same time, Zarka controversially argues against received readings claiming that Hobbes is a thinker of a state monopoly on legitimate violence.

Fable, Method, and Imagination in Descartes (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018): James Griffith Fable, Method, and Imagination in Descartes (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
James Griffith
R3,028 Discovery Miles 30 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What role do fables play in Cartesian method and psychology? By looking at Descartes' use of fables, James Griffith suggests there is a fabular logic that runs to the heart of Descartes' philosophy. First focusing on The World and the Discourse on Method, this volume shows that by writing in fable form, Descartes allowed his readers to break from Scholastic methods of philosophizing. With this fable-structure or -logic in mind, the book reexamines the relationship between analysis, synthesis, and inexact sciences; between metaphysics and ethico-political life; and between the imagination, the will, and the passions.

The Adventures of Chi Chi Giraffe (Paperback): James Griffiths The Adventures of Chi Chi Giraffe (Paperback)
James Griffiths
R259 Discovery Miles 2 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mac & the Rainbow Crystal (Paperback): James Griffiths Mac & the Rainbow Crystal (Paperback)
James Griffiths
R158 Discovery Miles 1 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Mac is an ordinary boy, that falls into a well in his grandmothers garden. He arrives in another world, where he becomes a super hero, fighting against the evil Lord Houk

Papers On Subjects Connected With The Duties Of The Corps Of Royal Engineers, Volume 15 (Hardcover): Great Britain Army Royal... Papers On Subjects Connected With The Duties Of The Corps Of Royal Engineers, Volume 15 (Hardcover)
Great Britain Army Royal Engineers, Sir Henry James, Griffith George Lewis
R898 Discovery Miles 8 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Turning The Screen - Personalisation and Privacy (Paperback): David Huw Griffith-Jones, Robert James Griffith-Jones, R&d... Turning The Screen - Personalisation and Privacy (Paperback)
David Huw Griffith-Jones, Robert James Griffith-Jones, R&d Griffith-Jones
R194 Discovery Miles 1 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Leisure Hours - A Series of Poems, Original and Translated, by Zeta (Paperback): James Griffiths Leisure Hours - A Series of Poems, Original and Translated, by Zeta (Paperback)
James Griffiths
R476 R396 Discovery Miles 3 960 Save R80 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Les aventures de Chi-Chi la Girafe (French, Paperback): James Griffiths Les aventures de Chi-Chi la Girafe (French, Paperback)
James Griffiths
R425 Discovery Miles 4 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sji-Sji Sjiraf og vennene hans (Norwegian, Paperback): James Griffiths Sji-Sji Sjiraf og vennene hans (Norwegian, Paperback)
James Griffiths
R435 Discovery Miles 4 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

2 korte eventyr om Sji Sji Sjiraf og Vennene hans. Including the English Version.

Beliefs and Holy Places - A Spiritual Geography of the Pimeria Alta (Paperback): James Griffith Beliefs and Holy Places - A Spiritual Geography of the Pimeria Alta (Paperback)
James Griffith
R635 R567 Discovery Miles 5 670 Save R68 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The region once known as Pimeria Alta now southern Arizona and northern Sonora has for more than three centuries been a melting pot for the beliefs of native Tohono O'odham and immigrant Yaquis and those of colonizing Spaniards and Mexicans. One need look no further than the roadside crosses along desert highways or the diversity of local celebrations to sense the richness of this cultural commingling. Folklorist Jim Griffith has lived in the Pimeria Alta for more than thirty years, visiting its holy places and attending its fiestas, and has uncovered a background of belief, tradition, and history lying beneath the surface of these cultural expressions. In Beliefs and Holy Places, he reveals some of the supernaturally sanctioned relationships that tie people to places within that region, describing the cultural and religious meanings of locations and showing how bonds between people and places have in turn created relationships between places, a spiritual geography undetectable on physical maps. Throughout the book, Griffith shows how culture moves from legend to art to belief to practice, all the while serving as a dynamic link between past and future. Now as the desert gives way to newcomers, Griffith's book offers visitors and residents alike a rare opportunity to share in these rich traditions.

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