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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.
What do people believe about death and the afterlife? How do they
negotiate the relationship between science and religion? How do
they understand apparently paranormal events? What do they make of
sensations of awe, wonder or exceptional moments of sudden
enlightenment? The volunteer mass observers responded to such
questions with a freshness, openness and honesty which compels
attention. Using this rich material, Mass Observers Making Meaning
captures the extraordinarily diverse landscape of belief and
disbelief to be found in Britain in the late 20th-century, at a
time when Christianity was in steep decline, alternative
spiritualities were flourishing and atheism was growing. Divided as
they were about the ultimate nature of reality, the mass observers
were united in their readiness to puzzle about life’s larger
questions. Listening empathetically to their accounts, James Hinton
– himself a convinced atheist – seeks to bring divergent ways
of finding meaning in human life into dialogue with one another,
and argues that we can move beyond the cacophony of conflicting
beliefs to an understanding of our common need and ability to seek
meaning in our lives.
Provides motivation for developing mathematical models for
telecommunications network power and energy efficiency modelling.
Discusses factors impacting overall network power consumption.
Includes types of network equipment and their power consumption
profiles. Reviews basics of network power modelling including
network segmentation, top-down and bottom-up models. Explores
application of metrics for equipment, networks, and services.
Life in Nature, first published in 1862, is a series of papers by
the nineteenth-century English surgeon and popular science writer
James Hinton. About a third of the material, though revised and
reworked for this book, had appeared previously under the title
'Physiological Riddles' in the Cornhill Magazine, in which Hinton
explained biological phenomena for non-scientific readers. Hinton
wrote this thirteen-chapter book to present a concise overview of
the human body, informed by the latest scientific insights, that
would be more easily intelligible for the general population than
the scientific physiological data of his day. His intention was
also to demonstrate the similarity between patterns occurring in
the organic world and in the rest of nature. This book will be of
value to historians of Victorian culture and science as an example
of how authors and publishers responded to the growing middle-class
interest in scientific discoveries.
History remembers James Hinton as a successful surgeon and author
of books and articles on physiology and ethics. A gifted thinker
and communicator, Hinton was well placed to address the
relationship between science and religion in an age when the two
were pitted against each other. First published in 1859, the same
year as the Origin of Species, Man and His Dwelling Place takes an
ambitiously broad view of the human condition, addressing difficult
topics from science, religion, philosophy and ethics. Hinton's
arguments against outdated ways of thinking and his approach to
human nature were revolutionary, and he took pains to address
readers' doubts in a series of question-and-answer dialogues at the
end of the book. Hinton's impassioned plea for a bolder spirit of
enquiry to better interpret human existence assures this book an
important place in the history of science and the understanding of
Darwin's intellectual context.
In Nine Wartime Lives, James Hinton uses diaries kept by nine
'ordinary' people in wartime Britain to re-evaluate the social
history of the Second World War, and to reflect on the
twentieth-century making of the modern self.
These diaries were written by some of the unusually self-reflective
and public-spirited people who agreed to write intimate journals
about their daily activity for the social research organization,
Mass Observation. One of the nine diarists discussed is Nella Last,
whose published diaries have been a source of delight and
fascination for many thousands of readers. Alongside her there are
chapters on eight other Mass Observers, each in their own way as
vivid, interesting, and surprising as Nella herself.
A central insight underpins the book: in seeking to make the best
of our own lives, each of us makes selective use of the resources
of our shared culture in a unique way; and, in so doing, we
contribute, however modestly, to molecular processes of historical
change. Placing individuals at the center of his analysis, James
Hinton probes the impact of war on attitudes to citizenship, the
changing relationships between men and women, and the search for
meanings in life that could transcend the wartime context of
limitless violence.
Consistently sensitive, thoughtful and often moving, this
beautifully written book resists nostalgic contrasts between the
presumed dutiful citizenship of wartime Britain and contemporary
anti-social individualism, pointing instead to longer run processes
of change rooted as much in struggles for personal autonomy in the
private sphere as in the politics of active citizenship in public
life.
This is the first full-scale history of Mass-Observation, the
independent social research organisation which, between 1937 and
1949, set out to document the attitudes, opinions, and every-day
lives of the British people. Through a combination of
anthropological fieldwork, opinion surveys, and written testimony
solicited from hundreds of volunteers, Mass-Observation created a
huge archive of popular life during a tumultuous decade which
remains central to British national identity. The social history of
these years has been immeasurably enriched by the archive, and
extracts from the writings of M-O's volunteers have won a wide and
admiring audience. Now James Hinton, whose acclaimed Nine Wartime
Lives demonstrated how the intensely personal writing of some of
M-O's volunteers could be used to shed light on broader historical
issues, has written a wonderfully vivid and evocative account which
does justice not only to the two founders whose tempestuous
relationship dominated the early years of Mass-Observation, but
also to the dozens of creative and imaginative, and until now
largely unknown, young enthusiasts whose work helped to keep the
show on the road. The history of the organisation itself - the
staff, the research methods, the struggle for funding, M-O's
characteristic 'voice', and its role in the cultural and political
life of the period - are themselves as interesting as any of the
themes that the founders set out to document. This long-awaited and
deeply researched history corrects and revises much of our existing
knowledge of Mass-Observation, opens up new and important
perspectives on the organisation, and will be seen as the
authoritative account for years to come.
What was it like to live in Britain during the second half of the
twentieth century? In a successor to his acclaimed Nine Wartime
Lives: Mass Observation and the Making of the Modern Self, James
Hinton uses autobiographical writing contributed to Mass
Observation since 1981 to explore the social and cultural history
of late twentieth-century Britain. Prompted by thrice-yearly
open-ended questionnaires, Mass Observation's volunteers wrote
about their political attitudes, religious beliefs, work,
childhoods, education, friendships, marriages, sex lives, mid-life
crises, aging - the whole range of human emotion, feeling,
attitudes, and experience. At the core of the book are seven
'biographical essays': intimate portraits of individual lives set
in the context of the shift towards the more tolerant and
permissive society of the 1960s and the rise of Thatcherite
neo-liberalism as the structures of Britain's post-war settlement
crumbled from the later 1970s. The mass observers featured in the
book, four women and three men, are drawn from across the social
spectrum - wife of a small businessman, teacher, social worker, RAF
wife, mechanic, lorry driver, City banker: all active and forceful
characters with strong opinions and lives crowded with struggle and
drama. The honesty and frankness with which they wrote about
themselves takes us below the surface of public life to the efforts
of 'ordinary', but exceptionally articulate and self-reflective,
people to make sense of their lives in rapidly changing times.
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