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This exciting new book brings together the experiences and
expertise of a range of practitioners who work within criminal
justice and provides a broad and informative account of a variety
of intervention techniques. From pharmacological approaches,
through the treatment of various specific conditions and on to the
use of poetry and art by prisoners, the book offers a series of
thought-provoking chapters that will help inform the practice of
anyone who works with this vulnerable population. The book is
edited by Peter Jones, a leading figure in the field of working
therapeutically with offenders. Vital information for: Probation
officers, social workers, counsellors, psychologists who work
within the criminal justice system.
Culture and religion are overlapping phenomena: cultures are
normally understood to subsume religions, and religions are very
often central to cultures. The two are particularly closely
associated when we focus on the kinds of difference that generate
issues for public policy. The world has always been culturally and
religiously diverse, but recent movements of population have
intensified the internal diversity of societies. That increased
diversity has presented societies with a number of pressing
questions. How much should cultural differences matter? Can they
and should they be treated impartially? Should they receive equal
recognition and what sort of recognition might that be? Are
cultural and religious differences at odds with human rights
thinking or do universal human rights demand respect for those
differences? When the demands of a religious faith clash with those
of a society's rules, which should take precedence? Should the
religious have to endure whatever burdens their beliefs bring their
way, or should they be accommodated so that their religious faith
does not become a source of social disadvantage? Should they have
to put up with unwelcome treatments of their beliefs or should they
be protected from the offensive and the disrespectful? These are
some of the many issues examined in Culture, Religion and Rights.
Do you ever feel that you could be - well - just that little bit
happier? This simple book reveals how you can be happy every day,
through these surprisingly easy tips and advice. Whoever you are,
whatever you do, and whatever is holding you back, you can do it
AND be happy. How To Do Everything and Be Happy is a book for
ordinary people, with ordinary lives. People who have been ambling
along and wondering if things would be better if they were just a
little different. It's a book for most people. It's a book for you.
Peter Jones was once a normal guy. Sometimes frustrated, often
dissatisfied, but always working hard towards a 'happily every
after' he would share with his wife Kate. But when Kate died in
Peter's arms after just 2 years and 3 months of marriage, he
realised his days had been spent working towards a fantasy, instead
of making every hour count. Alone, at rock bottom, Peter discovered
that the secret to happiness is simple: it's about filling your
time with the things that make you happy. If you've got a brain in
your head, if you can pick up a pen, if you've got half an idea
about what makes you smile, this book will show you how to do that.
Peter's ideas are born from hard-won experience. Like Boxing Day:
originally a day Peter and Kate spent together, without plans or
restrictions, as an antidote to the chaos of Christmas. When Kate
passed away, Peter continued the tradition by himself, doing
whatever came to mind: it turned out to be the most refreshing,
relaxing and fulfilling few hours he'd ever had. And its effects
could be felt throughout the month. Practical, amusing and
mumbo-jumbo-free, How To Do Everything And Be Happy does exactly
what it says on the tin.
Over the last fifty years the life and work of Edmund Burke
(1729-1797) has received sustained scholarly attention and debate.
The publication of the complete correspondence in ten volumes and
the nine volume edition of Burke's Writings and Speeches have
provided material for the scholarly reassessment of his life and
works. Attention has focused in particular on locating his ideas in
the history of eighteenth-century theory and practice and the
contexts of late eighteenth-century conservative thought. This book
broadens the focus to examine the many sided interest in Burke's
ideas primarily in Europe, and most notably in politics and
aesthetics. It draws on the work of leading international scholars
to present new perspectives on the significance of Burke's ideas in
European politics and culture.
This book deploys a long-term account of political corruption in
Britain to explain the phenomenon of corruption as it resides
within the state and the contemporary problem of corruption denial
among members of the political class. It aims to satisfy the
concern about corruption and identify potential causes and
significance. The book provides and account of definitions of
corruption and how those definitions have changed over time.
Throughout the succeeding chapters it discusses public life and how
ethical considerations for public office holders have evolved over
time. This book argues that corruption is not just a concern about
politics and understanding corruption requires a multi-disciplinary
approach: history; political science; sociology; anthropology and
urban ethnography.
W.-H. Friedrich's "Verwundung und Tod in Der Ilias" was originally
published in 1956. Never before translated into English, its
importance has slowly come to be recognised: first, because it
discusses in detail the plausibility (or otherwise) of the wounds
received on the Homeric battlefield and is therefore of
considerable interest to historians of medicine; and second,
because it makes a serious and sustained effort to grapple with the
question of style, and thus confronts an issue which oral theory
has scarcely touched. Peter Jones adds a Preface briefly locating
the work within the terms of oral theory; Kenneth Saunders,
Emeritus Professor of Medicine at St George's Hospital Medical
School, London, updates Friedrich's medical analyses in a full
Appendix.
The world of healthcare is constantly evolving, ever increasing
in complexity, costs, and stakeholders, and presenting huge
challenges to policy making, decision making and system design. In
Design for Care, we'll show how service and information designers
can work with practice professionals and patients/advocates to make
a positive difference in healthcare.
This book explores the development of navigation in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries. It examines the role of men of science,
seamen and practitioners across Europe, and the realities of
navigational practice, showing that old and new methods were
complementary not exclusive, their use dependent on many competing
factors.
The intellectual scope and cultural impact of British writers
cannot be assessed without reference to their European 'fortunes'.
These essays, prepared by an international team of scholars,
critics and translators, record the ways in which David Hume has
been translated, evaluated and emulated in different national and
linguistic areas of Europe. This is the first collection of essays
to consider how and where Hume's works were initially understood
throughout Europe. They reflect on how early European responses to
Hume relied on available French translations, and concentrated on
his "Political Discourses" and his "History", and how later German
translations enabled professional philosophers to discuss his more
abstract ideas. Also explored is the idea that continental readers
were not able to judge the accuracy of the translations they read,
nor did many consider the contexts in which Hume was writing:
rather, they were intent on using what they read for their own
purposes. "The Reception of British Authors in Europe" series
includes literary and political figures, as well as philosophers,
historians and scientists. Each volume provides new research on the
ways in which selected authors have been translated, published,
distributed, read, reviewed and discussed in Europe.
"Party, Parliament and Personality" is a collection of essays on
political psychology from some of the best known names in political
science in England (Ivor Crewe, Vincent Wright, Rod Hague, David
Hine, Iain McLean). The central focus of the volume is British
politics, but the book also contains a number of comparative
chapters, indlucing Hague's theories of presidential personality,
which explores psychodynamic theories of personality in the context
of the US presidency and David Hines' on the political psychology
of corruption, which focusses on Italy. The book also presents a
number of chapters on political theory, including Albert Weale's on
the central nature of disagreement in democratic politics. "Party,
Parliament and Personality" emphasizes the psychology of individual
political actors as well as the personalities of political
philosophers such as Hobbes and Rousseau.
This book represents the first attempt to identify and describe a
workhouse reform 'movement' in mid- to late-nineteenth-century
England, beyond the obvious candidates of the Workhouse Visiting
Society and the voices of popular critics such as Charles Dickens
and Florence Nightingale. It is a subject on which the existing
workhouse literature is largely silent, and this book therefore
fills a considerable gap in our understanding of contemporary
attitudes towards institutional welfare. Although many scholars
have touched on the more obvious strands of workhouse criticism
noted above, few have gone beyond these to explore the possibility
that a concerted 'movement' existed that sought to place pressure
on those with responsibility for workhouse administration, and to
influence the trajectory of workhouse policy.
Design Journeys for Complex Systems is a designer's handbook to
learn systemic design tools to engage stakeholder groups in
collaborative design to address complex societal systems. Systemic
design uses systems thinking and service design to address
large-scale societal contexts and complex socio-technical systems.
These are contexts characterized by social and technological
complexity, high uncertainty, and often problematic outcomes. Using
a tour guide metaphor, the book trains people's mindsets and
provides tools for dealing with hyper complexity, to enable
understanding of systemic problems, and to build capacity to
collaborate in teams to produce action proposals.
This "comparative micro-historical" study for the transitional period between the old and the new France, (1760-1820) analyzes six small localities. It explains how country dwellers disengaged themselves from the congeries of local societies that made up the ancien régime, and attached themselves to the wider polity of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic state. The result is a strikingly new perspective on the rural history of France during an epoch of momentous change.
The diverse make-up of modern societies has long been a major
preoccupation of political philosophy. It has also been a prominent
focus for public policy. How should a society provide for the
differences exhibited by its population? Should it view them with
indifference, or seek to diminish them in the interest of social
cohesion, or view them as positive goods that it should facilitate
or promote? The answer cannot be simple, partly because the
differences captured by the terms 'difference' or 'diversity' are
themselves so diverse. The essays brought together in this volume
focus on one sort of response to difference: toleration. They were
written at different times and deal with different aspects of
toleration, but they are characterised by a number of common
themes.
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The Odyssey (Paperback, Revised Ed)
Homer; Edited by D.C.H. Rieu, Peter Jones; Translated by E.V. Rieu
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‘I long to reach my home and see the day of my return. It is my never-failing wish’ The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by natural and supernatural threats – shipwrecks, battles, monsters and the implacable enmity of the sea-god Poseidon – Odysseus must test his bravery and native cunning to the full if he is to reach his homeland safely and overcome the obstacles that, even there, await him. E. V. Rieu’s translation of the Odyssey was the very first Penguin Classic to be published, and has itself achieved classic status. For this edition, his text has been sensitively revised and a new introduction added to complement E. V. Rieu’s original introduction.
Serge Lang was an iconic figure in mathematics, both for his own
important work and for the indelible impact he left on the field of
mathematics, on his students, and on his colleagues. Over the
course of his career, Lang traversed a tremendous amount of
mathematical ground. As he moved from subject to subject, he found
analogies that led to important questions in such areas as number
theory, arithmetic geometry, and the theory of negatively curved
spaces. Lang's conjectures will keep many mathematicians occupied
far into the future. In the spirit of Lang's vast contribution to
mathematics, this memorial volume contains articles by prominent
mathematicians in a variety of areas of the field, namely Number
Theory, Analysis, and Geometry, representing Lang's own breadth of
interest and impact. A special introduction by John Tate includes a
brief and fascinating account of the Serge Lang's life. This
volume's group of 6 editors are also highly prominent
mathematicians and were close to Serge Lang, both academically and
personally. The volume is suitable to research mathematicians in
the areas of Number Theory, Analysis, and Geometry.
If any man could be defined as the epitome of the modern jazz
singer, it would surely be Jon Hendricks. His contributions to jazz
as a whole were colossal: a hipster, a bopster, a comic and
raconteur, a wordsmith par excellence, and a fearless improviser
who took the arts of scatting and vocalese to new heights. As a
founder member of the groundbreaking vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks
and Ross, he changed forever the public perception of what a jazz
singer could be. Jon Hendricks started singing professionally at
the age of seven. Within five years he was supporting his entire
family - including three sisters, eleven brothers and a niece -
with his earnings from radio appearances. He was active in jazz
long before the birth of bebop, and didn't stop until he was in his
nineties. Taught by the pioneering bebop pianist Art Tatum,
Hendricks performed with everyone of any consequence in jazz, from
Louis Armstrong to Charlie Parker. Before Lambert, Hendricks and
Ross astonished the world with their album Sing A Song Of Basie, he
was writing songs for Louis Jordan. Later he wrote for stage,
screen and the press, and influenced and worked with Manhattan
Transfer, Bobby McFerrin and Kurt Elling. Not content with writing
lyrics for jazz instrumentals, he turned his hand later in life to
classical works by Rimsky-Korsakov and Rachmaninoff. When Jon
Hendricks died in 2017, he left behind a final masterwork - his
fully-lyricized adaptation of the Miles Davis album Miles Ahead.
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