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A Social History of Sheffield Boxing combines urban ethnography and
anthropology, sociological theory and place and life histories to
explore the global phenomenon of boxing. Raising many issues
pertinent to the social sciences, such as contestations around
state regulation of violence, commerce and broadcasting, pedagogy
and elite sport and how sport is delivered and narrated to the
masses, the book studies the history of boxing in Sheffield and the
sport's impact on the cultural, political and economic development
of the city since the 18th century. Interweaving urban anthropology
with sports studies and historical research the text expertly
examines a variety of published sources, ranging from academic
papers to biographies and from newspaper reports to case studies
and contemporary interviews. In Volume I, Bell and Armstrong
construct a vivid history of boxing and probe its cultural
acceptance in the late 1800s, examining how its rise was
inextricably intertwined with the industrial and social development
of Sheffield. Although Sheffield was not a national player in
prize-fighting's early days, throughout the mid-1800s, many
parochial scores and wagers were settled by the use of fists. By
the end of the century, boxing with gloves had become the norm, and
Sheffield had a valid claim to be the chief provincial focus of
this new passion-largely due to the exploits of George Corfield,
Sheffield's first boxer of national repute. Corfield's deeds were
later surpassed by three British champions: Gus Platts, Johnny
Cuthbert and Henry Hall. Concluding with the dual themes of the
decline of boxing in Sheffield and the city's changing social
profile from the 1950s onwards, the volume ends with a meditation
on the arrival of new migrants to the city and the processes that
aided or frustrated their integration into UK life and sport.
A Social History of Sheffield Boxing combines urban ethnography and
anthropology, sociological theory and place and life histories to
explore the global phenomenon of boxing. Raising many issues
pertinent to the social sciences, such as contestations around
state regulation of violence, commerce and broadcasting, pedagogy
and elite sport and how sport is delivered and narrated to the
masses, the book studies the history of boxing in Sheffield and the
sport's impact on the cultural, political and economic development
of the city since the 18th century. Interweaving urban anthropology
with sports studies and historical research the text expertly
examines a variety of published sources, ranging from academic
papers to biographies and from newspaper reports to case studies
and contemporary interviews. In Volume II, Bell and Armstrong
examine the revival of Sheffield boxing after the decline of the
1950s and 1960s outlined in Volume I. Instigated by two men from
outside the city-Brendan Ingle and Herol Graham-this renaissance
became known as the 'Ingle style,' which between 1995 and 2014
produced four world champions: Naseem Hamed, Johnny Nelson, Junior
Witter and Kell Brook. These successes inspired others and raised
Sheffield's profile as a boxing city, which in the 1990s and 2000s
produced two more world champions in Paul 'Silky' Jones and Clinton
Woods. In this second volume, Bell and Armstrong track the
resurgence of boxing to the present day and consider how the game
and its players have changed over time.
A Social History of Sheffield Boxing combines urban ethnography and
anthropology, sociological theory and place and life histories to
explore the global phenomenon of boxing. Raising many issues
pertinent to the social sciences, such as contestations around
state regulation of violence, commerce and broadcasting, pedagogy
and elite sport and how sport is delivered and narrated to the
masses, the book studies the history of boxing in Sheffield and the
sport's impact on the cultural, political and economic development
of the city since the 18th century. Interweaving urban anthropology
with sports studies and historical research the text expertly
examines a variety of published sources, ranging from academic
papers to biographies and from newspaper reports to case studies
and contemporary interviews. In Volume II, Bell and Armstrong
examine the revival of Sheffield boxing after the decline of the
1950s and 1960s outlined in Volume I. Instigated by two men from
outside the city-Brendan Ingle and Herol Graham-this renaissance
became known as the 'Ingle style,' which between 1995 and 2014
produced four world champions: Naseem Hamed, Johnny Nelson, Junior
Witter and Kell Brook. These successes inspired others and raised
Sheffield's profile as a boxing city, which in the 1990s and 2000s
produced two more world champions in Paul 'Silky' Jones and Clinton
Woods. In this second volume, Bell and Armstrong track the
resurgence of boxing to the present day and consider how the game
and its players have changed over time.
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The Essential Goethe (Paperback)
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe; Edited by Matthew Bell; Introduction by Matthew Bell
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R843
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The most comprehensive one-volume collection of Goethe's writings
ever published in English The Essential Goethe is the most
comprehensive and representative one-volume collection of Goethe's
writings ever published in English. It provides English-language
readers easier access than ever before to the widest range of work
by one of the greatest writers in world history. Goethe's work as
playwright, poet, novelist, and autobiographer is fully
represented. In addition to the works for which he is most famous,
including Faust Part I and the lyric poems, the volume features
important literary works that are rarely published in
English-including the dramas Egmont, Iphigenia in Tauris, and
Torquato Tasso and the bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's
Apprenticeship, a foundational work in the history of the novel.
The volume also offers a selection of Goethe's essays on the arts,
philosophy, and science, which give access to the thought of a
polymath unrivalled in the modern world. Primarily drawn from
Princeton's authoritative twelve-volume Goethe edition, the
translations are highly readable and reliable modern versions by
scholars of Goethe. The volume also features an extensive
introduction to Goethe's life and works by volume editor Matthew
Bell. Includes: Selected poems Four complete dramas: Faust Part I,
Egmont, Iphigenia in Tauris, and Torquato Tasso The complete novel
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship A selection from the travel
journal Italian Journey Selected essays on art and literature
Selected essays on philosophy and science An extensive introduction
to Goethe's life and works A chronology of Goethe's life and times
A note on the texts and translations
A Social History of Sheffield Boxing combines urban ethnography and
anthropology, sociological theory and place and life histories to
explore the global phenomenon of boxing. Raising many issues
pertinent to the social sciences, such as contestations around
state regulation of violence, commerce and broadcasting, pedagogy
and elite sport and how sport is delivered and narrated to the
masses, the book studies the history of boxing in Sheffield and the
sport's impact on the cultural, political and economic development
of the city since the 18th century. Interweaving urban anthropology
with sports studies and historical research the text expertly
examines a variety of published sources, ranging from academic
papers to biographies and from newspaper reports to case studies
and contemporary interviews. In Volume I, Bell and Armstrong
construct a vivid history of boxing and probe its cultural
acceptance in the late 1800s, examining how its rise was
inextricably intertwined with the industrial and social development
of Sheffield. Although Sheffield was not a national player in
prize-fighting's early days, throughout the mid-1800s, many
parochial scores and wagers were settled by the use of fists. By
the end of the century, boxing with gloves had become the norm, and
Sheffield had a valid claim to be the chief provincial focus of
this new passion-largely due to the exploits of George Corfield,
Sheffield's first boxer of national repute. Corfield's deeds were
later surpassed by three British champions: Gus Platts, Johnny
Cuthbert and Henry Hall. Concluding with the dual themes of the
decline of boxing in Sheffield and the city's changing social
profile from the 1950s onwards, the volume ends with a meditation
on the arrival of new migrants to the city and the processes that
aided or frustrated their integration into UK life and sport.
This is the first book to offer a systematic and analytical
overview of the legal framework for residential construction. In
doing so, the book addresses two fundamental questions: Prevention:
What assurances can the law give buyers (and later owners and
occupiers) of homes that construction work - from building of a
complete home to adding an extension or replacing a shower unit -
will comply with minimum standards of design, safety and build
quality? Cure: What forms of redress - from whom, and by what route
- can residents expect, when, often long after completion of
construction, they discover defects? The resulting problems pose
some big and difficult questions of principle and policy about
standards, rights and remedies, which in turn concern justice more
generally. This book addresses these key issues in a comparative
context across the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New
Zealand. It is an accessible guide to the existing law for
residents and construction professionals (and their legal
advisers), but also charts a course to further, meaningful reforms
of the legal landscape for residential construction around the
world. The book's two co-authors, Philip Britton and Matthew Bell,
have taught in the field in the UK, Australia and New Zealand; both
have been active in legal practice, as have the book's two
specialist contributors, Deirdre Ni Fhloinn and Kim Vernau.
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Matthew Bell
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Discovery Miles 8 240
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This is the first book to offer a systematic and analytical
overview of the legal framework for residential construction. In
doing so, the book addresses two fundamental questions: Prevention:
What assurances can the law give buyers (and later owners and
occupiers) of homes that construction work - from building of a
complete home to adding an extension or replacing a shower unit -
will comply with minimum standards of design, safety and build
quality? Cure: What forms of redress - from whom, and by what route
- can residents expect, when, often long after completion of
construction, they discover defects? The resulting problems pose
some big and difficult questions of principle and policy about
standards, rights and remedies, which in turn concern justice more
generally. This book addresses these key issues in a comparative
context across the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New
Zealand. It is an accessible guide to the existing law for
residents and construction professionals (and their legal
advisers), but also charts a course to further, meaningful reforms
of the legal landscape for residential construction around the
world. The book's two co-authors, Philip Britton and Matthew Bell,
have taught in the field in the UK, Australia and New Zealand; both
have been active in legal practice, as have the book's two
specialist contributors, Deirdre Ni Fhloinn and Kim Vernau.
"Pain Management in Veterinary Practice" provides veterinary
practitioners with the information needed to recognize and manage
pain in a wide range of large, small, and exotic animal species.
Encompassing acute, adaptive, and chronic, maladaptive pain, the
book provides an up-to-date review of the physiology and
pathophysiology of pain. "Pain Management in Veterinary Practice"
offers specific strategies for addressing pain in animals,
including local and regional analgesia, continuous rate infusions,
and novel methods of analgesic drug delivery.
With comprehensive information on the pharmacokinetic and
pharmacodynamic characteristics of analgesic drugs, the book goes
beyond pharmaceutical options to incorporate scientific information
on techniques for complementary treatment, including physical
therapy, acupuncture, chiropractic techniques, and nutritional
strategies. "Pain Management in Veterinary Practice" is a valuable
resource for developing pain management protocols in the veterinary
clinic.
The beginnings of psychology are usually dated from experimental
psychology and Freudian psychoanalysis in the late nineteenth
century. Yet the period from 1700 to 1840 produced some highly
sophisticated psychological theorising that became central to
German intellectual and cultural life, well in advance of similar
developments in the English-speaking world. Matthew Bell explores
how this happened, by analysing the expressions of psychological
theory in Goethe"s Faust, Kant"s Critique of Pure Reason, and in
the works of Lessing, Schiller, Kleist and E. T. A. Hoffmann. This
study pays special attention to the role of the German literary
renaissance of the last third of the eighteenth century in bringing
psychological theory into popular consciousness and shaping its
transmission to the nineteenth century. All German texts are
translated into English, making this fascinating area of European
thought fully accessible to English readers for the first time.
The beginnings of psychology are usually dated from experimental
psychology and Freudian psychoanalysis in the late nineteenth
century. Yet the period from 1700 to 1840 produced some highly
sophisticated psychological theorizing that became central to
German intellectual and cultural life, well in advance of similar
developments in the English-speaking world. Matthew Bell explores
how this happened, by analysing the expressions of psychological
theory in Goethe's Faust, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, and in
the works of Lessing, Schiller, Kleist, and E. T. A. Hoffmann. This
study pays special attention to the role of the German literary
renaissance of the last third of the eighteenth century in bringing
psychological theory into popular consciousness and shaping its
transmission to the nineteenth century. All German texts are
translated into English, making this fascinating area of European
thought fully accessible to English readers for the first time.
For many readers in the English-speaking world, Goethe is somehow
separate from the European intellectual and literary tradition. In
this unique and wide-ranging study, Matthew Bell aims to correct
this view by showing how Goethe portrayed human beings as part of a
natural continuum, very much in the spirit of the Enlightenment. Dr
Bell's fresh readings of Goethe's major and lesser-known texts are
set against the background of the science and philosophy of the
age, and the writer's debts to other thinkers are analysed. The
development of Goethe as a writer and thinker is traced from his
sentimental epistolary novel Werther - read in the context of the
rise of psychological theory in the Enlightenment - to the
emergence of his own theory of 'empirical psychology' in the great
roman a clef of 1809, Die Wahlverwandtschaften. In a major new
interpretation of Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Matthew Bell follows
the ideal of organic growth from the novel's origins in
Enlightenment optimism to its revision in an atmosphere of
post-revolutionary scepticism. Placing Goethe in an anthropological
context, Goethe's Naturalistic Anthropology demonstrates that
eighteenth-century anthropological thought provides an essential,
hitherto overlooked context for the understanding of Goethe's
literary enterprise from Werther to Die Wahlverwandtschaften.
Melancholia is a commonly experienced feeling, and one with a long
and fascinating medical history that can be charted back to
antiquity. Avoiding the simplistic binary opposition of
constructivism and hard realism, this book argues that melancholia
was a culture-bound syndrome which thrived in the West because of
the structure of Western medicine since the Ancient Greeks, and
because of the West's fascination with self-consciousness. Whilst
melancholia cannot be equated with modern depression, Matthew Bell
argues that concepts from recent depression research can shed light
on melancholia. Within a broad historical panorama, Bell focuses on
ancient medical writing, especially the little-known but pivotal
Rufus of Ephesus, and on the medicine and culture of early modern
Europe. Separate chapters are dedicated to issues of gender and
cultural difference, and the final chapter offers a survey of
melancholia in the arts, explaining the prominence of melancholia -
especially in literature.
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