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Emma Gad (1852-1921) was a prolific Danish playwright at the turn
of the twentieth century. With sparkling prose and witty dialogue,
Gad's ambitious and sophisticated theatrical productions raised
important and still pressing questions about sexuality and
morality-including the status of women in marriage, divorce,
same-sex desire, and marital infidelity. Through her plays she
engaged with contemporaries like Henrik Ibsen, Oscar Wilde, and
George Bernard Shaw, yet she is primarily remembered for her
etiquette book, Takt og Tone. Laughter and Civility, the first
biographical and scholarly volume to examine and contextualize her
dramas, deeply explores how and why influential women are so often
excluded from the canon. Lynn R. Wilkinson provides insightful
readings into all twenty-five of Gad's plays and demonstrates how
writers and intellectuals of the time, including Georg and Edvard
Brandes, took her critically acclaimed work seriously. This volume
rightfully reinstates Emma Gad's work into the repertory of
European drama and is crucial for scholars interested in
turn-of-the-century Scandinavian drama, literature, culture, and
politics.
We need a world trade organization. We just don't need the one that
we have. By pitching unequally matched states together in chaotic
bouts of negotiating the global trade governance of today offers -
and has consistently offered - developed countries more of the
economic opportunities they already have and developing countries
very little of what they desperately need. This is an unsustainable
state of affairs to which the blockages in the Doha round provide
ample testimony. So far only piecemeal solutions have been offered
to refine this flawed system. Radical proposals that seek to
fundamentally alter trade governance or reorient its purposes
around more socially progressive and egalitarian goals are thin on
the ground. Yet we eschew deeper reform at our peril. In What's
Wrong with the World Trade Organization and How to Fix It Rorden
Wilkinson argues that without global institutions fit for purpose,
we cannot hope for the kind of fine global economic management that
can put an end to major crises or promote development-for-all.
Charting a different path he shows how the WTO can be transformed
into an institution and a form of trade governance that fulfils its
real potential and serves the needs of all.
Good clinical practice is impossible without an understanding of the ways in which patients present their complaints. Patients have their own styles of coping and of expressing their concerns, and without a clear understanding of these the clinician may find successful and swift diagnosis and treatment much harder to achieve. Coping and Complaining provides essential guidance for clinicians on how to identify various coping styles, and how to improve the quality of discourse with people of different backgrounds and ages. Drawing on a diverse range of evidence from such areas as developmental psychology, and theories on learning and memory, Coping and Complaining provides essential information on identification of patients' coping styles, focusing on such areas as: · The latest developments in attachment theory · The neurobiology of emotional development, and the biology of language development · Primary processes in early development · Communication, role play, the moral order of the consultation, and emotional first aid · Consequences for preventive medicine Coping and Complaining presents stimulating new approaches to consultations with patients and creative new ways of looking at health promotion.
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Good Call borrows from the world of coaching to help you evaluate
your decision-making to date and develop new and better habits and
practices with God at the centre. Iain Dunbar and Pete Wilkinson
separate out and discuss the various faculties that God has given
us for interacting with him and explore how to employ these in
decision-making. The authors use a wide variety of biblical
examples alongside lessons from their own experience to illustrate
decision-making principles.
How do I decide I am ill; how do I decide that my children are ill?
How do I learn effective ways of conveying to others that I am ill?
This book discusses the languages of illness which we use to
present our discomforts to others through an exploration of the
child's world of illness. It looks at how illness concepts are
introduced to children, how the causes of illness and 'germ'
rationales are incorporated into the socialisation of children, and
how a particular morality about health and illness is expressed.
Besides the analysis of the social context within which the
children's views are developing, the book presents the children's
own views from three years old up to thirteen. How we talk about
illness can have as important consequences as the methods we use to
cure it. This book persuades the reader to look more closely at the
language of illness, allowing a reappraisal to medical practice,
school health programmes and class teaching, health education and
even the differences in health between the social classes. In this
way it forges a link between physical medicine and psychotherapy,
providing the developmental perspective of illness behaviour which
has long been lacking.
How do I decide I am ill; how do I decide that my children are ill?
How do I learn effective ways of conveying to others that I am ill?
This book discusses the languages of illness which we use to
present our discomforts to others through an exploration of the
child's world of illness. It looks at how illness concepts are
introduced to children, how the causes of illness and 'germ'
rationales are incorporated into the socialisation of children, and
how a particular morality about health and illness is expressed.
Besides the analysis of the social context within which the
children's views are developing, the book presents the children's
own views from three years old up to thirteen. How we talk about
illness can have as important consequences as the methods we use to
cure it. This book persuades the reader to look more closely at the
language of illness, allowing a reappraisal to medical practice,
school health programmes and class teaching, health education and
even the differences in health between the social classes. In this
way it forges a link between physical medicine and psychotherapy,
providing the developmental perspective of illness behaviour which
has long been lacking.
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Skin (Paperback)
P.F. Millington, R. Wilkinson
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R1,548
Discovery Miles 15 480
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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First published in 1983 this book provides a review of the
fundamentals of the biology and mechanics of human skin. The major
theme is the interaction between and dependence of the integrity of
skin on, cell turnover, nutrition, control mechanisms and disease.
Mechanical, thermal and electrical properties are presented
separately in a way that should allow the mathematically
inexperienced reader to understand the principles but with
sufficient detail to permit development of more advanced ideas.
Discussion of environmental effects on skin includes cosmetics,
solar radiation and clinical treatments. An account of methods of
wound closure and of the recent attempts to find a substitute for
skin completes an overview of this fascinating tissue.
The Human Rights Act came into effect on 2nd October 2000, giving
every citizen a clear statement of their rights and
responsibilities. For public authorities - such as the NHS - the
Act makes it a legal duty to respect and foster the rights of
citizens as set out in the European Convention on Human Rights.
This timely book has been written by nursing-related
professionals who are nationally recognised for their experience in
nursing and its relation to ethics and the law. Intended to be of
practical use for nurses in their day to day relationships with
patients and clients, this guide explores the impact of The Human
Rights Act on key areas such as health law and ethics, patient
rights and non-discrimination.
Particular emphasis is placed on the role of the nurse in
safeguarding patients rights and several case studies are included
to illustrate issues raised by the Act. Written for nurses and
other healthcare professionals, this guide provides an informed
overview of the Human Rights Act and its ramifications for
healthcare services in the twenty-first century.
Anne Charlotte Leffler (1849-1892) was the most important European
woman playwright of the last decades of the nineteenth century and
together with Ibsen and Strindberg one of the Scandinavian pioneers
of modern and modernist drama. Lynn R. Wilkinson's Anne Charlotte
Leffler and Modernist Drama is the first full-length study of
Leffler's dramatic production. It argues that Leffler's plays
deserve to be read and performed today alongside those of Ibsen and
Strindberg, as they indeed were during her lifetime, and will serve
as a welcome resource for new productions of her plays and studies
of her work. Born the same year as August Strindberg, Anne
Charlotte Leffler was a far more successful playwright in
Scandinavia and elsewhere during her lifetime. After her death,
however, literary histories dismissed her work as an example of the
propagandistic literature of the Swedish 1880s. But beginning in
the 1970s, revivals of her plays in theaters and on television have
rekindled interest in Leffler and her work. Scoring her first
theatrical success in 1873 with a play about a young actress who
rejects marriage for a career on the stage, Leffler wrote fourteen
plays that were either published or performed in theaters
throughout Scandinavia and Europe - often to considerable critical
acclaim. All address the situation of women, but often in
connection with other issues, such as the exploitation of the
working classes or the repressiveness of late-nineteenth-century
European culture, and in a range of styles. Her feminist classic,
the realist True Women, centers on the conflicts that arise on one
household when a daughter opposes her spendthrift father's claim to
the last of his wife's money. But it premiered together with the
avant-garde one-act A Saving Angel, which depicts in the form of a
dance the unsettling effects of urban sexuality on a group of young
women. And Leffler's last play, The Ways of Truth, is a dream play
that draws on flaneur narratives to show the wanderings of an
intellectual heroine and her companion through scenes from
late-nineteenth-century European life.
Annett Williams will learn this summer how life isn't played fair.
She will experience thing's and feel emotion's she never knew that
was inside her.. Her world spins outta control. Her 3 best friend
will help her figure thing's out.The thing's she will hear will
blow her mind, But the thing's she has seen will effect her deeply.
Will her 3 best friends help her bounce back from it?Or will she?
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such
as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
We need a world trade organization. We just don't need the one that
we have. By pitching unequally matched states together in chaotic
bouts of negotiating the global trade governance of today offers -
and has consistently offered - developed countries more of the
economic opportunities they already have and developing countries
very little of what they desperately need. This is an unsustainable
state of affairs to which the blockages in the Doha round provide
ample testimony. So far only piecemeal solutions have been offered
to refine this flawed system. Radical proposals that seek to
fundamentally alter trade governance or reorient its purposes
around more socially progressive and egalitarian goals are thin on
the ground. Yet we eschew deeper reform at our peril. In What's
Wrong with the World Trade Organization and How to Fix It Rorden
Wilkinson argues that without global institutions fit for purpose,
we cannot hope for the kind of fine global economic management that
can put an end to major crises or promote development-for-all.
Charting a different path he shows how the WTO can be transformed
into an institution and a form of trade governance that fulfils its
real potential and serves the needs of all.
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