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One of the most famous writers of all time, George Orwell's life
played a huge part in his understanding of the world. A constant
critic of power and authority, the roots of Animal Farm and
Nineteen Eighty-Four began to grow in his formative years as a
pupil at a strict private school in Eastbourne. His essay Such,
Such Were The Joys recounts the ugly realities of the regime to
which pupils were subjected in the name of class prejudice,
hierarchy and imperial destiny. This graphic novel vividly brings
his experiences at school to life. As Orwell earned his place
through scholarship rather than wealth, he was picked on by both
staff and richer students. The violence of his teachers and the
shame he experienced on a daily basis leap from the pages,
conjuring up how this harsh world looked through a child's innocent
eyes while juxtaposing the mature Orwell's ruminations on what such
schooling says about society. Today, as the private school and
class system endure, this is a vivid reminder that the world Orwell
sought to change is still with us.
Twenty-nine Breton tales, as told over a series of long winter
nights, featuring an ingenious miller, a Jerusalem-bound ant, a mad
dash at midnight, and more In the late nineteenth century, the
folklorist François-Marie Luzel spent countless winter evenings
listening to stories told by his neighbors, local Breton farmers
and villagers. At these social gatherings, known as veillées,
Luzel recorded the tales in unusual detail, capturing a
storytelling tradition that is now almost forgotten. The Midnight
Washerwoman and Other Tales of Lower Brittany collects twenty-nine
stories gathered by Luzel, many translated into English for the
first time. The tales are presented in a series of five imaginary
veillées, giving readers a unique opportunity to listen in on a
long-ago winter’s night of storytelling. Some of the stories mix
the apparently supernatural with the everyday—as in the title
tale, when a mysteriously nocturnal washerwoman causes three
handsome lads to flee so quickly they lose their clogs in the
process. Others invite listeners to root for the underdog, as when
a simple miller outwits a powerful Seigneur. Another tale must have
been greeted with raucous laughter as it recounts an ascending
ladder of obstacles—from a mouse to a cat to a man to God (or the
Devil) himself—confronted by a traveling ant. Michael Wilson, the
volume’s editor and translator, provides a substantive
introduction that discusses Luzel’s work and the significance of
Breton storytelling.
This authoritative and multi-disciplinary book provides architects,
lighting specialists, and anyone else working daylight into design,
with all the tools needed to incorporate this most fundamental
element of architecture. It includes: an overview of current
practice of daylighting in architecture and urban planning a review
of recent research on daylighting and what this means to the
practitioner a global vision of architectural lighting which is
linked to the climates of the world and which integrates view,
sunlight, diffuse skylight and electric lighting up-to-date tools
for design in practice delivery of information in a variety of ways
for interdisciplinary readers: graphics, mathematics, text,
photographs and in-depth illustrations a clear structure: eleven
chapters covering different aspects of lighting, a set of
worksheets giving step-by-step examples of calculations and design
procedures for use in practice, and a collection of algorithms and
equations for reference by specialists and software designers. This
book should trigger creative thought. It recognizes that good
lighting design needs both knowledge and imagination.
Interest in biofilms has increased dramatically in recent years. New microscopic and molecular techniques have revolutionized our understanding of biofilm structure, composition, organization and activities. This book brings advances in the prevention and treatment of biofilm-related diseases to the attention of clinicians and medical researchers. Human tissues often support complex microbial communities growing as biofilms that can cause infections. As microbes in biofilms exhibit increased tolerance towards anti-microbial agents and decreased susceptibility to host defense systems, biofilm-associated diseases have become increasingly difficult to treat.
Exploring the potential for storytelling as a creative practice for
health and well-being, Michael Wilson considers how the art form
might help us reconsider the power relationships in healthcare
contexts and restore agency to patients, in partnership with
medical professionals. Storytelling is explored not simply as a
means of conveying information and experience from one person to
another but as an act of listening, a process for thinking,
evaluating and understanding. Wilson reflects on his over thirty of
years of researching and practising storytelling, and blends his
experience with a collection of case studies representing diverse
approaches to storytelling for health, including theatre, stand-up
comedy, writing, visual arts and digital storytelling. Most
importantly, storytelling is approached not from the point of view
of the medical practitioner or educator, or even the patient, but
through the lens of those who tell stories as a creative and
everyday practice. It is a book with the storyteller at its core.
During the refounding of the Anthroposophical Society as the
General Anthroposophical Society at Christmas 1923/24, Rudolf
Steiner also reconstituted, as the School of Spiritual Science, the
Esoteric School he had led in three classes from 1904 to 1914, at
the same time extending its scope by adding artistic and scientific
Sections. However, owing to his illness and later death in March
1925, he was only able to make a beginning by establishing the
First Class and the Sections. The actual step from the Esoteric
School to the School of Spiritual Science was nevertheless an
exceptional one. The Esoteric School from Helena Blavatsky's time
had been secret. Its existence was known only to those personally
invited to participate. In contrast, the existence of the School of
Spiritual Science was stated openly in the public statutes of the
General Anthroposophical Society. From the Christmas Conference
onwards, Rudolf Steiner worked within this publicly acknowledged
framework. The Class Lessons comprise a complete spiritual course
of nineteen fundamental lessons given between February and August
1924, several lessons given at other locations, and seven further
lessons from September 1924 which take up the themes of the first
part of the nineteen lessons in a modified form. This authentic,
accurate and high-quality bilingual edition - with English and
German texts printed side by side - is published in conjunction
with the School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum. A compact
four-volume clothbound set, it features plates with Rudolf
Steiner's handwritten notes of the mantras and reproductions of his
original colour blackboard drawings. The translations of the
mantric verses have been reworked by a committed group of
translators, linguists and editors, expressing subtleties of
meaning, grammatical accuracy and poetic style whilst retaining the
original sound and metre of the German mantric forms. Three
versions of the existing English translations are also included.
First published in 1997, this volume takes a dive into methods of
teenage storytelling, including questions of believability,
fashionability, rebellious spirit, the supernatural, personal
narratives and riddles, along with an archive of texts collected by
the author intended to illuminate and inform the analysis. It
builds on the extensive work of Peter and Iona Opie on the same
subject involving children of all ages and explores connections to
folklore and narrative variations from a performative perspective.
Michael Wilson shares their findings that children continue to
cherish their traditional lore in the face of modern technological
entertainment. His study is similar in responding to the poor
status and even denial of a teenage narrative tradition, inspired
by both short and extended narratives which he experienced daily.
Wilson hoped to give academic depth and breadth to the storytelling
renaissance and giving teenage storytellers their rightful place in
our ongoing oral narrative tradition.
No nonsense solutions from the straight-talking face of British
business. IF FUNDAMENTAL REFORM DOES NOT TAKE PLACE THEN WE ARE
DEAD IN THE WATER. GLOBALISATION DOES NOT TAKE PRISONERS. BRITAIN
MUST BECOME FIT FOR PURPOSE IN THE 21ST CENTURY. This is the
explosive, first book from 'the face of British business', Lord
Digby Jones. With a renowned, no-nonsense, straight-talking
approach, he is one of the world's most acclaimed business
commentators. In his candid and forthright style Fixing Britain
puts the spotlight on critical national and international business
issues and lays out the essential reform urgently needed for the
growth of our nation. Knowledgeable, authoritative and independent,
Digby highlights how untenable the status quo is in the UK, and
sets out how Britain can get back in and stay in the globalised
race. Sending a clear message to government, business leaders,
strategists and the media, Fixing Britain explores the effective
linkage of change at all levels, from Westminster to education, the
public and private sectors, our social cohesion and our sense of
common purpose. Digby is never afraid to say what others are
thinking - this is the most explosive examination of the state of
British business in years.
First published in 1997, this volume takes a dive into methods of
teenage storytelling, including questions of believability,
fashionability, rebellious spirit, the supernatural, personal
narratives and riddles, along with an archive of texts collected by
the author intended to illuminate and inform the analysis. It
builds on the extensive work of Peter and Iona Opie on the same
subject involving children of all ages and explores connections to
folklore and narrative variations from a performative perspective.
Michael Wilson shares their findings that children continue to
cherish their traditional lore in the face of modern technological
entertainment. His study is similar in responding to the poor
status and even denial of a teenage narrative tradition, inspired
by both short and extended narratives which he experienced daily.
Wilson hoped to give academic depth and breadth to the storytelling
renaissance and giving teenage storytellers their rightful place in
our ongoing oral narrative tradition.
Therapists sometimes ask: What supports you in life? What gets you
through difficult times? Our 'journey' in life relies on a range of
resources to equip and fulfil us. Knowing about these resources,
however, is not enough: for lasting benefits, they must be bodily
felt experiences. The aim of this book is to illustrate the
holistic purpose of therapy to resource integration of the client.
It draws upon extensive material to affirm that the practice of
contemporary therapy benefits from insights gained from evolving
neuroscience. Particular emphasis is put on the benefits of drawing
on the dimensions of experience to strengthen ego processes like
self-awareness and self-regulation, and engage with the depths of
being, including 'soul'. Resource Focused Counselling and
Psychotherapy provides professionals with a comprehensive and
integrative model of resource focused therapy, drawing upon
clinical examples and the current range of research and theory
surrounding this emerging approach. Additionally, the book contains
a range of self-resourcing exercises and practices for each part of
the integrative model, enabling individuals to develop
self-resources for greater resilience and well-being in their own
lives. This book is an important read for psychotherapists,
psychologists and counsellors, including those working with trauma.
It also provides valuable insights for modalities practising from a
psycho-spiritual perspective, including Jungian and transpersonal
psychotherapists.
This authoritative and multi-disciplinary book provides architects,
lighting specialists, and anyone else working daylight into design,
with all the tools needed to incorporate this most fundamental
element of architecture. It includes: * an overview of current
practice of daylighting in architecture and urban planning * a
review of recent research on daylighting and what this means to the
practitioner * a global vision of architectural lighting which is
linked to the climates of the world and which integrates view,
sunlight, diffuse skylight and electric lighting * up-to-date tools
for design in practice * delivery of information in a variety of
ways for interdisciplinary readers: graphics, mathematics, text,
photographs and in-depth illustrations * a clear structure: eleven
chapters covering different aspects of lighting, a set of
worksheets giving step-by-step examples of calculations and design
procedures for use in practice, and a collection of algorithms and
equations for reference by specialists and software designers. This
book should trigger creative thought. It recognizes that good
lighting design needs both knowledge and imagination.
This is the classic novel that brought to life in full colour! From
his barber shop in Fleet Street, Sweeney Todd murders selected
customers to steal their money and valuables. Some suspect he is up
to no good, but no one knows how he actually kills his victims. How
does he dispose of the bodies? And what is his connection with Mrs.
Lovett who runs a popular pie shop nearby? Will Colonel Jeffery
discover what happened to his friend Thornhill after he visited
Todd for a shave? And will the heartbroken Johanna Oakley ever find
out what happened to her beloved Mark Ingestrie? Perhaps Todd's
shop boy Tobias Ragg will uncover the barber's dark secrets -
"Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street" is a tale that has
become part of London folklore. Adapted from the original
serialised story "The String of Pearls", published in weekly
instalments in "The People's Periodical" from November 1846 to
March 1847, this graphic novel breathes new life into the legendary
barber who "polished 'em off".
Death is not an end - it's a new beginning. After death, all of the
molecules that came together to form the living "you" become
nutrients for millions of creatures, large and small. Your body
becomes the hub of a complex ecosystem of microbes, insects, worms,
plants and more. Cheer up! This book shows how you are going to
live forever - as components of so many other wonderful creatures.
It describes the science behind the remarkable recycling of your
body. We begin with lessons about how your body functions, is a
collection of valuable nutrients and is a home to millions of
microbes. The book goes on to describe the various stages the body
passes through as it decomposes following death. The microbes and
insects that make use of your tissues are then introduced. Finally,
you will learn about the enduring effects that your body will have
on the wider biosphere. We are rich in valuable resources that will
end up feeding an immense number and variety of other creatures.
Inevitably, your body will support the continuation of life on our
beautiful planet - this book describes how all this happens.
Peru is classified as one of the deadliest countries in the world
for environmental defenders, where activists face many forms of
violence. Through an ethnographic and systematic comparison of four
gold mining conflicts in Peru, Resisting Extractivism presents a
vivid account of subtle and routine forms of violence, analyzing
how meaning making practices render certain types of damage and
suffering noticeable while occluding others. The book thus builds a
ground-up theory of violence—how it is framed, how it impacts
people's lived experiences, and how it can be confronted. By
excavating how the everyday interactions that underlie conflicts
are discursively concealed and highlighted, this study assists in
the prevention and transformation of violence over resource
extraction in Latin America. The book draws on a controlled,
qualitative comparison of four case studies, extensive ethnographic
research conducted over fourteen months of fieldwork, analysis of
over 900 archives and documents, and unprecedented access to more
than 250 semi structured interviews with key actors across
industry, the state, civil society, and the media. Michael Wilson
Becerril identifies, traces, and compares these dynamics to explain
how similar cases can lead to contrasting outcomes-insights that
may be usefully applied in other contexts to save lives and build
better futures.
This is the classic novel brought to life in full colour! 'I will
honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I
will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future'. Classical
Comics' first Dickens title is probably his best-loved story.
Scrooge gets a rude awakening to how his life is, and how it should
be. Full of Christmas Spirit(s), this is a book that you'll want to
read all year round!
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Biological control, the management of pests by the use of living
organisms, has a long history of application to agriculture around
the world. However, the effective use of beneficial organisms is
constrained by environmental, legal, and economic restrictions,
forcing researchers to adopt increasingly multi-disciplinary
techniques in order to deploy successful biological control
programs. It is this complex process, including the mindset and the
social environment of the researcher as well as the science being
pursued, that this book seeks to capture. Chapters reveal the
personal experiences of scientists from the initial search for
suitable control agents, to their release into ecosystems and
finally to the beneficial outcomes which demonstrate the great
success of biological control across diverse agro-ecosystems.
Drawing together historical perspectives and approaches used in
the development of biological control as well as outlining current
debates surrounding terminology and differential techniques,
Biological Control: A Global Perspective will be a valuable
resource.
Human tissues often support large, complex microbial communities
growing as biofilms that can cause a variety of infections. As a
result of an increased use of implanted medical devices, the
incidence of these biofilm-associated diseases is increasing: the
non-shedding surfaces of these devices provide ideal substrata for
colonisation by biofilm-forming microbes. The consequences of this
mode of growth are far-reaching. As microbes in biofilms exhibit
increased tolerance towards antimicrobial agents and decreased
susceptibility to host defence systems, biofilm-associated diseases
are becoming increasingly difficult to treat. Not surprisingly,
therefore, interest in biofilms has increased dramatically. The
application of microscopic and molecular techniques has
revolutionised our understanding of biofilm structure, composition,
organisation, and activities, resulting in important advances in
the prevention and treatment of biofilm-related diseases. The
purpose of this book, which was first published in 2003, is to
bring these advances to the attention of clinicians and medical
researchers.
This book is about the adhesion of bacteria to their human hosts.
Although adhesion is essential for maintaining members of the
normal microflora in/on their host, it is also the crucial first
stage in any infectious disease. It is important, therefore, to
fully understand the mechanisms underlying bacterial adhesion so
that we may be able to develop methods of maintaining our normal
(protective) microflora, and of preventing pathogenic bacteria from
initiating an infectious process. These topics are increasingly
important because of the growing prevalence of antibiotic-resistant
bacteria and, consequently, the need to develop alternative
approaches for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases.
This book describes the bacterial structures responsible for
adhesion and the molecular mechanisms underlying the adhesion
process. It also deals with the consequences of adhesion for both
the adherent bacterium and the host cell/tissue to which it has
adhered.
A basic issue for all those essaying to write comprehensive texts
on the nature of psychoanalysis, whether oriented primarily to the
exposition of the theory or of the technique of psychoanalysis, -
within the American literature the books by Brenner and by Greenson
come to mind as exemplars of the two categories - is that of the
relationship of the theory to the technique and the practice. This
issue is however not always brought into explicit focus in this
literature and thereby its problematic nature as a fundamental and
not yet satisfactorily re solved dilemma of our discipline is often
glossed over, or even by passed completely, as if we could
comfortably assume that Freud had, uniquely in the world's
intellectual history, fully succeeded in creating a science and a
discipline in which the theory (the understanding) and the therapy
(i. e., the cure) were inherently together and truly the same, but
two sides of the same coin."
"Lee, living in Hong Kong, meets Matt, a fine young Scot. Their
relationship becomes stronger by the day, despite their deep
cultural differences. But there is Lee's dad to contend with, who
views this affair very suspiciously. And there is another contender
for Lee's heart, a Chinese young man, whose jealousy takes on
twinges of xenophobia. Will Lee and Matt's relationship
successfully cross the cultural divide and overcome the negative
odds? Two worlds collide creating good sparks--and bad ones"--P.
[4] of cover, v. 1.
Can I be a creative therapist without overstepping boundaries and
risking complaints? Can I practise safely and ethically whilst
remaining true to my humanistic values? This book answers 'Yes' by
offering a safety net to trainees and therapists working in the
context of today's 'complaints culture'. Exploring what safe and
creative practice means in relation to the key cornerstones in
therapy, the authors offer practical guidance to assist the reader
in reflecting on and negotiating the challenges of boundaries,
legalities and defensive practice. Creative Ethical Practice for
Counselling & Psychotherapy considers the necessary structures
and processes that must inform creative, humanistic practice for it
to be a safe, ethical therapeutic framework. Packed with reflective
exercises, summaries, case examples and step-by-step guidance, this
book takes the reader from establishing the therapeutic
relationship to worst-case scenarios like complaints procedures and
legal action. It is essential reading for legal & ethical
modules on all counselling courses. Patti Owens, Michael Wilson and
Bee Springwood are all humanistic and integrative therapists and
members of the UK Association of Humanistic Psychology
Practitioners (UKAHPP) as well as the United Kingdom Council for
Psychotherapy (UKCP).
Littlewood-Paley theory is an essential tool of Fourier
analysis, with applications and connections to PDEs, signal
processing, and probability. It extends some of the benefits of
orthogonality to situations where orthogonality doesn't really make
sense. It does so by letting us control certain oscillatory
infinite series of functions in terms of infinite series of
non-negative functions. Beginning in the 1980s, it was discovered
that this control could be made much sharper than was previously
suspected. The present book tries to give a gentle, well-motivated
introduction to those discoveries, the methods behind them, their
consequences, and some of their applications.
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