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Complete third series of the popular telefantasy about the trials
and tribulations of the thinly clad busty warrior princess, Xena
(Lucy Lawless) and her equally comely sidekick, Gabrielle (Renee
O'Connor). Episodes are: 'The Furies', 'Been There, Done That',
'The Dirty Half Dozen', 'The Deliverer', 'Gabrielle's Hope', 'The
Debt (Part 1)', 'The Debt (Part 2)', 'The King of Assassins',
'Warrior...Priestess...Tramp', 'The Quill is Mightier', 'Maternal
Instincts', 'The Bitter Suite', 'One Against an Army', 'Forgiven',
'King Con', 'When in Rome...', 'Forget Me Not', 'Fins, Femmes and
Gems', 'Tsunami', 'Vanishing Act', 'Sacrifice (Part 1)' and
'Sacrifice (Part 2)'.
The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, now in its
fourth edition, compiles the contributions of major researchers and
practitioners and explores the cultural institutions of more than
30 countries. This major reference presents over 550 entries
extensively reviewed for accuracy in seven print volumes or online.
The new fourth edition, which includes 55 new entires and 60
revised entries, continues to reflect the growing convergence among
the disciplines that influence information and the cultural record,
with coverage of the latest topics as well as classic articles of
historical and theoretical importance.
Angela Harrelson, George Floyd's aunt and closest relative in
Minnesota, tells the behind-the-scenes story of George's family-how
he lived and why he died-and how the world can find a solution to
racism through his death. Angela Harrelson grew up poor, one of
thirteen brothers and sisters raised in a shack in the North
Carolina woods. She was first in her family to go to college, first
to be commissioned in the military, and first to have a career as a
professional nurse. Along the way, she and her family were exposed
to the harshest forms of racism-from her childhood riding the
school bus with white children who made the Black kids stand, to
racist commanding officers in the Air Force who told her they
wanted her to fail. Nothing stopped Angela, and nothing removed the
hope in her heart that America could learn to stop hating people
based on the color of their skin. This is the story of George
Floyd's aunt, Angela Harrelson, and how, after being suddenly
thrust into the spotlight, she went on a quest to make sure her
nephew did not die in vain. Lift Your Voice is a memoir of faith,
hope, and bravery, of what we all-Black and white-need to do to
eradicate racism from our society. It's a story of tragic loss and
a worldwide uprising to ensure Perry's death ushers society into a
time where people are no longer judged, hated, or killed because of
the color of their skin.
Originally published in 1989. In this interdisciplinary study, Dr
Levin offers an account of personal growth and self-fulfilment
based on the development of our capacity for listening. This book
should be of interest to advanced students of critical theory,
psychology, cultural studies, ethics, continental philosophy,
ontology, metaphysics.
First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, now in its
fourth edition, compiles the contributions of major researchers and
practitioners and explores the cultural institutions of more than
30 countries. This major reference presents over 550 entries
extensively reviewed for accuracy in seven print volumes or online.
The new fourth edition, which includes 55 new entires and 60
revised entries, continues to reflect the growing convergence among
the disciplines that influence information and the cultural record,
with coverage of the latest topics as well as classic articles of
historical and theoretical importance.
Here I'm Alive explores the musical foundation of being human from
a psychoanalytic perspective. Writing in collaboration, three
psychoanalytic clinicians develop a fresh vision of the essential
role of music in psychical life. Through an interdisciplinary
exploration, Here I'm Alive shows how music is fundamental to
becoming human, establishing our embodied sense of membership and
participation in a shared world through the fabric of culture. With
one authorial voice, these pages resonate with the musical forms of
living that make possible any individual style of conduct or shape
of desire and without which we are forever lost in the noise.
John Stuart Mill's best-known work is On Liberty (1859). In it he
declared that Western society was in danger of coming to a
standstill. To understand how Mill came to this conclusion requires
one to investigate his notion of the stages from barbarism to
civilisation, and also his belief in imperialism as part of the
civilising process. This study encompasses discourses on the
blessings, curses and dangers of modernisation from approximately
the time of the American and French revolutions to that of the
so-called mid-Victorian calm in which On Liberty was written.
Current political issues concerning the West and Islamic countries
have heightened interest in just the kind of question that this
book discusses: that of how the West relates to, and assesses, the
rest of the world.
John Stuart Mill's best-known work is On Liberty (1859). In it he
declared that Western society was in danger of coming to a
standstill. This was an extraordinarily pessimistic claim in view
of Britain's global dominance at the time and one that has been
insufficiently investigated in the secondary literature. The
wanting model was that of China, a once advanced civilisation that
had apparently ossified. his notion of the stages from barbarism to
civilisation, and also his belief in imperialism as part of the
civilising process. Here India plays a central role, as both Mill
and his father worked for the East India Company. This study, then,
investigates the relationship between Mill's liberalism and his
justification of imperialism. It takes us into the Utilitarianism
of his family background, and such other influences as Romanticism,
Scottish political economy and such key French thinkers as
Saint-Simon, Guizot, Comte and Tocqueville. consequences of Western
civilisation. It encompasses discourses on colonialism and
orientalism, on enlightenment optimism and conservative despair, on
the need for leadership and the advance of democracy; in short, on
the blessings, curses and dangers of modernisation from
approximately the time of the American and French revolutions to
that of the so-called mid-Victorian calm in which On Liberty was
written. Furthermore, current political issues concerning the West
and Islamic countries have heightened interest in just the kind of
question that this book discusses: that of how the West relates to,
and assesses, the rest of the world.
Preventing Eating Disorders, complete with a variety of prevention strategies, programs, and approaches, is designed for health and mental health workers, educators, researchers, students, and interested members of the community at large who wish to prevent eating disorders and related problems (e.g., negative body image). Building bridges between academic and community-based knowledge and activism, this book describes prevention at the societal, institutional, familial, and individual levels, and focuses on increasing resilience and protective factors as well as reducing the vulnerability to disordered eating.
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This is a unique study, contuining the work of Merleau-Ponty and
Heidegger, and using the techniques of phenomenology against the
prevailing nihilism of our culture. It expands our understanding of
the human potential for spiritual self-realization by interpreting
it as the developing of a bodily-felt awareness informing our
gestures and movements. The author argues that a psychological
focus on our experience of well-being and pathology as embodied
beings contributes significantly to a historically relevant
critique of ideology. It also provides an essential touchstone in
experience for a fruitful individual and collective response to the
danger of nihilism. Dr Levin draws on Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology
to clarify Heidegger's analytic of human beings through an
interpretation that focuses on our experience of being embodied. He
reconstructs in modern terms the wisdom implicit in western and
semitic forms of religion and philosophy, considering the work of
Freud, Jung, Focault and Neitzsche, as well as that of American
educational philosophers, including Dewey. In particular, he draws
on the psychology of Freud and Jung to clarify our historical
experience of gesture and movement and to bring to light its
potential in the fulfilment of Selfhood. Throughout the book, the
pathologies of the ego and its journey into Selfhood are considered
in relation to the conditons of technology and the powers of
nihilism.
This is a unique study, contuining the work of Merleau-Ponty and
Heidegger, and using the techniques of phenomenology against the
prevailing nihilism of our culture. It expands our understanding of
the human potential for spiritual self-realization by interpreting
it as the developing of a bodily-felt awareness informing our
gestures and movements. The author argues that a psychological
focus on our experience of well-being and pathology as embodied
beings contributes significantly to a historically relevant
critique of ideology. It also provides an essential touchstone in
experience for a fruitful individual and collective response to the
danger of nihilism. Dr Levin draws on Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology
to clarify Heidegger's analytic of human beings through an
interpretation that focuses on our experience of being embodied. He
reconstructs in modern terms the wisdom implicit in western and
semitic forms of religion and philosophy, considering the work of
Freud, Jung, Focault and Neitzsche, as well as that of American
educational philosophers, including Dewey. In particular, he draws
on the psychology of Freud and Jung to clarify our historical
experience of gesture and movement and to bring to light its
potential in the fulfilment of Selfhood. Throughout the book, the
pathologies of the ego and its journey into Selfhood are considered
in relation to the conditons of technology and the powers of
nihilism.
The third edition of Pharmaceutical Process Scale-Up deals with the
theory and practice of scale-up in the pharmaceutical industry.
This thoroughly revised edition reflects the rapid changes in the
field and includes: New material on tableting scale-up and
compaction. Regulatory appendices that cover FDA and EU Guidelines.
New chapters on risk evaluation and validation as related to
scale-up. Practical advice on scale-up solutions from world
renowned experts in the field. Pharmaceutical Process Scale-Up,
Third Edition will provide an excellent insight in to the practical
aspects of the process scale-up and will be an invaluable source of
information on batch enlargement techniques for formulators,
process engineers, validation specialists and quality assurance
personnel, as well as production managers. It will also provide
interesting reading material for anyone involved in Process
Analytical Technology (PAT), technology transfer and product
globalization.
Here I'm Alive explores the musical foundation of being human from
a psychoanalytic perspective. Writing in collaboration, three
psychoanalytic clinicians develop a fresh vision of the essential
role of music in psychical life. Through an interdisciplinary
exploration, Here I'm Alive shows how music is fundamental to
becoming human, establishing our embodied sense of membership and
participation in a shared world through the fabric of culture. With
one authorial voice, these pages resonate with the musical forms of
living that make possible any individual style of conduct or shape
of desire and without which we are forever lost in the noise.
Now revised and updated throughout, with special emphasis on online
customer service and retail websites. Social psychologists and law
enforcement officials agree: If a window in a building is broken
and left in its ruined state, the rest of the windows will soon be
shattered, and the neighborhood will subsequently go downhill.
According to business author Michael Levine, this same notion can
be applied to the world of business. In BROKEN WINDOWS, BROKEN
BUSINESS Levine guides readers through his premise that all big
dilemmas in business stem from lack of attention to small details.
Using dozens of corporate "broken window" case studies, including
McDonald's, K-Mart, Google, JetBlue, and more, he argues that by
integrating the solutions to small problems into a much larger
plan,the resulting combined solution can stimulate overall business
growth-and keep customers coming back for more.
This book investigates the close connections between engineering
and war, broadly understood, and the conceptual and structural
barriers that face those who would seek to loosen those
connections. It shows how military institutions and interests have
long influenced engineering education, research, and practice and
how they continue to shape the field in the present. The book also
provides a generalized framework for responding to these influences
useful to students and scholars of engineering, as well as
reflective practitioners. The analysis draws on philosophy,
history, critical theory, and technology studies to understand the
connections between engineering and war and how they shape our very
understandings of what engineering is and what it might be. After
providing a review of diverse dimensions of engineering itself, the
analysis shifts to different dimensions of the connections between
engineering and war. First, it considers the ethics of war
generally and then explores questions of integrity for engineering
practitioners facing career decisions relating to war. Next, it
considers the historical rise of the military-industrial-academic
complex, especially from World War II to the present. Finally, it
considers a range of responses to the militarization of engineering
from those who seek to unsettle the status quo. Only by confronting
the ethical, historical, and political consequences of engineering
for warfare, this book argues, can engineering be sensibly
reimagined.
Originally published in 1989. In this interdisciplinary study, Dr
Levin offers an account of personal growth and self-fulfilment
based on the development of our capacity for listening. This book
should be of interest to advanced students of critical theory,
psychology, cultural studies, ethics, continental philosophy,
ontology, metaphysics.
Contents: The Analytic Freud: Philosophy and Psychoanalysis; Introduction (Michael Levine); 1. Mind * Psychoanalysis, Metaphor and the Concept of Mind (Jim Hopkins) * Freud and Intentionality: How Far Down Does The Will Go? (Graeme Marshall) * Freudian Wish-Fulfilment and Sub-Intentional Explanation (Tamas Pataki) * Keeping Time: Freud on the Temporality of Mind (Marcia Cavell) * Subject, Object, World: Some Reflections on the Kleinian Origins of the Mind (David Snelling) * Freud's Theory of Consciousness (Paul Redding)
2. Ethics * Aristotelian Akrasia and Psychoanalytic Regression (Michael Stocker) * Emotional Agents (Nancy Sherman) * Moral Authenticity and the Unconscious (Grant Gillett)
3. Sexuality * Freud on Unconscious Affects, Mourning and the Erotic Mind (Amelie Rorty) * Love and Loss in Freud's 'Mourning and Melancholia': A Rereading (Jennifer Radden) * Lucky in Love: Love and Emotion (Michael Levine)
4. Civilisation * Sublimation, Love and Creativity (Marguerite La Caze) * Freud and the Rule of Law: From Totem and Taboo to Psychoanalytic Jurisprudence (Jose Brunner) * The Joke, the 'As If' and the Statement (Edmond Wright)
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