|
Showing 1 - 25 of
162 matches in All Departments
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
|
The Freshwater Budget of the Arctic Ocean - Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Tallinn, Estonia, 27 April-1 May, 1998 (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
Edward Lyn Lewis, E. Peter Jones, Peter Lemke, Terry D. Prowse, Peter Wadhams
|
R2,511
Discovery Miles 25 110
|
Ships in 12 - 17 working days
|
The hydrological cycle of the Arctic Ocean has intimate and complex
linkages to global climate: changes in one affect the other,
usually with a feedback. The combined effects of large river
runoff, advection of meteoric water, low evaporation rates and
distillation by freezing contribute to the formation of a strong
halocline in the upper Arctic ocean, which limits thermal
communication between the sea ice and the warmer waters of Atlantic
origin below. Sea ice and freshened surface waters are transported
from the marginal seas by winds and currents, ultimately exiting
the Arctic Ocean through Fram and Davis Straits. Variations in the
freshwater outflow from these regions affect the density structure
of the Arctic Ocean itself and so the surface heat balance. Another
feedback is the effect these variations have on the density profile
of the water column in the Greenland and Labrador seas where, at
present, convection takes place mixing surface waters downwards
with those at greater depth. This downward convective motion
produces dense deep waters that flow outwards from these two
centres and affect the entire North Atlantic.
The Conference "Perspectives in Analysis" was held during May
26-28, 2003 at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm,
Sweden. The purpose of the conference was to consider the future of
analysis along with its relations to other areas of mathematics and
physics, and to celebrate the seventy-?fth birthday of Lennart
Carleson. The scienti?c theme was one with which the name of
Lennart Carleson has been associated for over ?fty years. His modus
operandi has long been to carry out a twofold approach to the
selection of research problems. First one should look for promising
new areas of ana- sis, especially those having close contact with
physically oriented problems of geometric character. The second
step is to select a core set of problems that require new
techniques for their resolutions. After making a central contri-
tion, Lennart would usually move on to a new area, though he might
return to the topic of his previous work if new techniques were
developed that could break old mathematical log jams. Lennart's
operating approach is based on fundamental realities of modern
mathematics as well as his own inner c- victions. Here we ?rst
refer to an empirical fact of mathematical research: All topics
have a ?nite half-life, with ?fteen years being an upper bound for
most areas. After that time it is usually a good idea to move on to
so- thing new.
"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 presents emerging work in the co-evolving fields of
design-led systemics, referred to as systemic design to distinguish
it from the engineering and hard science epistemologies of system
design or systems engineering. There are significant societal
forces and organizational demands impelling the requirement for
"better means of change" through integrated design practices of
systems and services. Here we call on advanced design to lead
programs of strategic scale and higher complexity (e.g., social
policy, healthcare, education, urbanization) while adapting systems
thinking methods, creatively pushing the boundaries beyond the
popular modes of systems dynamics and soft systems. Systemic design
is distinguished by its scale, social complexity and integration -
it is concerned with higher-order systems that that entail multiple
subsystems. By integrating systems thinking and its methods,
systemic design brings human-centred design to complex,
multi-stakeholder service systems. As designers engage with ever
more complex problem areas, it is necessary to draw on a basis
other than individual creativity and contemporary "design thinking"
methods. Systems theories can co-evolve with a new school of design
theory to resolve informed action on today's highly resilient
complex problems and can deal effectively with demanding, contested
and high-stakes challenges.
Reading Latin, first published in 1986, is a bestselling Latin
course designed to help mature beginners read classical Latin
fluently and intelligently. It does this in three ways: it
encourages the reading of continuous texts from the start; it
offers generous help with translation at every stage; and it
integrates the learning of classical Latin with an appreciation of
the influence of the Latin language upon English and European
culture from antiquity to the present. The Text and Vocabulary,
richly illustrated, consists at the start of carefully graded
adaptations from original classical Latin texts. The adaptations
are gradually phased out until unadulterated prose and verse can be
read. The accompanying Grammar and Exercises volume completes the
course, although the present volume could be used as a
self-standing beginner's reader if desired. This second edition has
been fully revised and updated, with a new chapter containing
stories from early Roman history.
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.
|
The Odyssey (Paperback, Revised Ed)
Homer; Edited by D.C.H. Rieu, Peter Jones; Translated by E.V. Rieu
1
|
R270
R211
Discovery Miles 2 110
Save R59 (22%)
|
Ships in 5 - 10 working days
|
‘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.
Fraud, corruption and bribery in and around public services have
become an increasing concern in recent years. The reported level of
fraud and corruption affecting the public sector has remained
unacceptably high despite numerous national and international
initiatives intended to tackle these crimes and their consequences.
Fraud and Corruption in Public Services is a definitive, practical
guide to the diverse risks that arise in central and local
government. There is guidance on civil and criminal law around
fraud, bribery and corruption as well as the national and
international governmental measures and initiatives for countering
this form of criminality. Most importantly of all, the book offers
advice, practical examples and strategies for preventing and
combating fraud, bribery and corruption. The text is readable,
well-informed and intensely practical; illustrated throughout with
real-life examples from the author's 40 year career.
|
|