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Blood Tests Made Easy is a quick reference guide designed to bring
medical students up to speed when interpreting blood tests on their
clinical placements. Small enough to be carried and quickly
referenced on the go, this book covers everything you need to know
when interpreting bloods, including the main abnormalities you are
likely to encounter. Rather than focusing on theory or physiology,
it is designed to provide an easy-to-follow guide to support
clinical decision making. This latest addition to the Made Easy
series will fill knowledge gaps on blood test interpretation,
becoming a valuable asset both for medical students and, later, as
a reference guide to increase junior doctors' confidence on the
wards. Relevant to real life - material laid out like real hospital
laboratory tests Easy to use - information presented in a clear and
accessible format Case studies and multiple-choice questions to aid
revision Portable for easy access on the wards
Natural Citizens: Ethical Formation as Biological Development
presents a novel view, "naturalist humanism," that applies recent
scientific work challenging dichotomous views of biological
development. Rather than being a passive victim of its evolutionary
fate, the developing organism is an active participant, partly
constructing its own ecological niche from internal and external
resources. The human developmental environment, our ecological
niche, has a distinctive socio-cultural character. Richard Paul
Hamilton proposes that we understand the development of moral
character as an integral part of biological development with the
virtues construed as refinements of mundane social intelligence.
Drawing on work in 4E Cognition, Hamilton revisits the traditional
idea of ethical understanding as quasi-perceptual but argues that
this can only be made intelligible by taking a
non-representationalist view of perception. The virtuous person has
learned how to focus her attention on what enables her to live a
fully human life, individually and communally. Given that not all
societies are equally conducive to fully human lives, the
concluding sections explore how contemporary capitalist society
distorts our attention and what obstacles it places in the way of
virtue. Natural Citizens highlights the unsustainable state of
current social and economic relations and the urgent need for
radical alternatives.
Exploring the experiments in individual and national
self-consciousness conducted during the Romantic period, this
essential comparative study of European literature, philosophy and
politics makes original and often surprising connections and
contrasts to reveal how personal and social identities were
re-orientated and disorientated from the French Revolution onwards.
Reviving a contested moment in the history of aesthetic theory,
this study shows how the growing awareness of irresolution in
Kant's third Kritik allowed Romantic writers to put the aesthetic
to radical uses not envisaged by its parent philosophy. It also
recounts how they would go on to force philosophy to revise
received notions of authority, empowering women and subordinated
ethnic groups to re-orientate existing hierarchies. The sheer range
and variety of writers covered is testament both to the breadth of
writing that Kant's philosophy so rashly legitimated and to the
wider importance of philosophy to the understanding of Romantic
literature.
Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. This edition has been fully revised and includes a new glossary of critical terms, fully updated bibliography, clear suggestions for additional reading, as well as new discussion of Historicism's relation to the globalization debate. Historicism: *explains the theory and practice of historicism *presents the history of the term and its uses *introduces key thinkers in the field, from ancient Greece to the present *considers historicism in relation to contemporary debates, such as post-colonialism, feminism and globalization. This compact, yet comprehensive guide enables students to understand and apply historicist approaches in their own studies.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British
and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of
thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the
place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and
find speculations of comparable ambition. It argues that Coleridge
found his philosophical adventures in the dominant idiom of his
times exciting and as imaginatively engaging as poetry. Paul
Hamilton situates major themes in Coleridge's prose and poetic
writings in relation to his passion for German philosophy. He
argues that Coleridge's infectious attachment to German
(post-Kantian) philosophy was due to its symmetries with the
structure of his Christian belief. Coleridge is read as an excited
and winning expositor of this philosophy's power to articulate an
absolute grounding of reality. Its comprehensiveness, however,
rendered redundant further theological description, undermining the
faith it had seemed to support. Thus arose Coleridge's anxious
disguising of his German plagiarisms, aspersions cast on German
originality, and his claims to have already experienced their
insights within his own religious sensibility or in the writings of
Anglican divines and neo-Platonists. This book recovers the extent
to which his ideas call to be expanded within German philosophical
debate.
Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1885) published nothing in her
lifetime, save short extracts from her journals and letters which
her brother, William, included in his Guide to the Lakes. She spent
most of her life caring for her brother and his family, working,
traveling and studying with him and his friends who include de
Quincey and Coleridge. This selection for the first time presents
her writings as a discrete text, giving her a separate authorial
voice from that of her brother and bringing her to a new generation
of students, scholars and enthusiasts.
Wordsworth's journals, analyzed and set into context by Paul
Hamilton's insightful introduction, chronicle the hardships and
indispositions, the comings and goings, the windfalls and losses of
those around her, both at home and during her many travels,
revealing a relish for the experiences of others distinctly free
from Romantic egoism. Most significantly, in her Grasmere Journal,
she tells her own story, imposing her own narrative structure on
events and discovering the plot of her own life.
Work on British Romanticism is often characterised as much by its
conscious difference from preceding positions as it is by its
approach to or choice of material. As a result, writing neglected
or marginalised in one account will be restored to prominence in
another, as we reconstruct the past as a history of the present.
This collection of essays takes as its starting point the
wide-ranging work of Marilyn Butler on Romantic literature, and
includes contributions by some of the most prominent scholars of
Romanticism working today. The essays offer interesting
perspectives on Maria Edgeworth, Coleridge, Austen, Scott and
others, showing that the openness of modern critical perceptions
matches and reflects the diversity of the literature and culture of
the Romantic period itself.
Work on British Romanticism is often characterised as much by its
conscious difference from preceding positions as it is by its
approach to or choice of material. As a result, writing neglected
or marginalised in one account will be restored to prominence in
another, as we reconstruct the past as a history of the present.
This collection of essays takes as its starting point the
wide-ranging work of Marilyn Butler on Romantic literature, and
includes contributions by some of the most prominent scholars of
Romanticism working today. The essays offer interesting
perspectives on Maria Edgeworth, Coleridge, Austen, Scott and
others, showing that the openness of modern critical perceptions
matches and reflects the diversity of the literature and culture of
the Romantic period itself.
Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian
Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British
Romanticism. The principle of selection is to choose writers whose
use of fiction is realistic - not realist, but fundamentally
contributory to the purposes of non-fictional discourse. The
political resonance audible when we put Real at the start of a
compound noun is also true to the period looked at. At that time,
positive political institutions were recovering from their upending
in the French Revolution and their strategic re-shaping in the
period of Restoration after Napoleon. In this volume, Paul Hamilton
pinpoints a moment when the political imagination was actually
creative of political reality. It is a long gloss on Friedrich
Meinecke's description of the early Romantic period in Germany as
'that past era of teeming intellectual impulses with its excess of
non-political political ideals', but Hamilton finds his insight
into the contemporary inextricability of the ideal and the
political true of France and Italy. Before the existence of a
unified Germany or Italy, and in the new France after Napoleon,
there was an opportunity and a necessity to imagine the kind of
nation which would be desirable. Realpoetik examines the extent to
which this illuminates the fiction and philosophy of Friedrich
Schlegel, Madame de Stael, Giacomo Leopardi and others. It also
reflects on current dissatisfaction with existing political
arrangements and our contemporary desire to re-imagine a new, more
representative politics.
The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism focuses on the period
beginning with the French Revolution and extending to the uprisings
of 1848 across Europe. It brings together leading scholars in the
field to examine the intellectual, literary, philosophical, and
political elements of European Romanticism. The volume begins with
a series of chapters examining key texts written by major writers
in languages including French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian,
Hungarian, Greek, and Polish amongst others. Then follows a second
section based on the naturally inter-disciplinary quality of
Romanticism, encapsulated by the different discourses with which
writers of the time, set up an internal comparative dynamic. These
chapters highlight the sense a discourse gives of being written
knowledgeably against other pretenders to completeness or
comprehensiveness of understanding, and the Enlightenment
encyclopaedic project. Discourses typically push their individual
claims to resume European culture, collaborating and trying to
assimilate each other in the process. The main examples featuring
here are history, geography, drama, theology, language, geography,
philosophy, political theory, the sciences, and the media. Each
chapter offers original and individual interpretation of individual
aspects of an inherently comparative world of individual writers
and the discursive idioms to which they are historically subject.
Together the forty-one chapters provide a comprehensive and unique
overview of European Romanticism.
Paul Hamilton here redefines romanticism in terms of its
philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Hamilton,
metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic
period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally
characteristic of the romantic project itself. Through bracing
analyses of the aesthetics of Friedrich Schiller and Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, and key works by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy and Mary
Shelley, John Keats, Sir Walter Scott, and Jane Austen, Hamilton
shows how the romantic movement's struggle with its own tenets was
not an effort to seek an alternative way of thought, but instead a
way of becoming what it already was. And yet, as Hamilton reveals,
the romanticists were still not content with their own
self-consciousness. Pushed to the limits, such contemplation either
manifested itself as self-disgust or forced romanticists to search
for a discourse outside of aesthetics. Adding greater clarity to
our understanding of romanticism and shedding much-needed light on
the commerce between English writers and philosophers in Germany
and France, this study should be valuable to students of
literature, aesthetics and critical theory.
TThe Oxford Handbook to European Romanticism brings together
leading scholars in the field to examine the intellectual,
literary, philosophical, and political elements of European
Romanticism. The book focuses on the cultural history of the period
extending from the French Revolution to the uprisings of 1848. It
begins with a series of chapters examining key texts written by
major writers in languages including: French; German; Italian;
Spanish; Russian; Hungarian; Greek; and Polish amongst others. A
second section then explores the naturally inter-disciplinary
quality of Romanticism, exemplified by the different discourses
with which writers of the time set up an internal, comparative
dynamic. These chapters highlight the sense a discourse gives of
being written knowledgeably against other pretenders to
completeness or comprehensiveness of self-understanding of the
time. Discourses typically advance their own claims to resume
European culture, collaborating with and at the same time trying to
assimilate each other in the process. The main examples featured
here are: history; geography; drama; theology; language;
philosophy; political theory; the sciences; and the media. Each
chapter offers an original and individual interpretation of an
inherently comparative world of individual writers and the
discursive idioms to which they are historically subject. Together
the forty-one chapters provide a comprehensive and provocative
overview of European Romanticism.
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Good Doll (Paperback)
Yeva-Genevieve Lavlinski; Illustrated by Yeva-Genevieve Lavlinski; Edited by Paul Hamilton Molinsky
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Good Will Doll (Paperback)
Yeva-Genevieve Lavlinski; Illustrated by Yeva-Genevieve Lavlinski; Edited by Paul Hamilton Molinsky
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Discovery Miles 3 220
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