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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
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images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Final FRCR Viva: 100 Cases and Revision Notes provides an
invaluable collection of high quality cases to enable radiological
trainees to fully prepare for the FRCR Part B Viva exam. Focussing
solely on providing the knowledge necessary to pass one of the
toughest exam components, 100 common viva topics are presented,
each one accompanied by model answers and tips on how to discuss
the case in question. Contains 100 typical exam cases, with
accompanying scripts (model answers) and relevant key points Model
answers enhanced with concise revision notes Highly illustrated
with images and diagrams to aid understanding of differential
diagnoses Authors include experienced consultant radiologists
involved in FRCR training
A group of science educators with experience of being involoved in
curriculum development, and in conducting extensive research on
many aspects of teaching and learning science, have combined their
findings in this volume. Each author has conducted research into
his or her own area of science education and presents the
implications of this research for a specific area of science
teaching. The experiences of members of the Monash Children's
Science Group; specifically three primary teachers and one biology
teacher, have also been included so as to present the voices of
teachers for whom writing a personal account of their teaching is
often an unappealing task.
In life there are times when we are overwhelmed by what is
happening around and within us. It is like being caught in
floodwaters with no way out. King David describes his life this way
in Psalm 69. To the neck and rising explores his thoughts,
feelings, emotions and attitudes throughout the Psalm. The journey
that David takes is not dissimilar to ours and can provide us with
valuable personal insights. Choices we make while in the place of
the floodwaters determine whether we remain in that place of
emotional turmoil or we begin to make steps towards recovery.
In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford co-founded a university to honour
their recently deceased young son. After her husband's death in
1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the
university to inculcate her values, steered Stanford into
eccentricity and public controversy for more than a decade. In 1905
she was murdered in Hawaii, a victim, according to the Honolulu
coroner's jury, of strychnine poisoning. With her vast fortune the
university's lifeline, the Stanford president and his allies
quickly sought to foreclose challenges to her bequests by
constructing a story of death by natural causes. The cover-up
gained traction in the murky labyrinths of power, wealth and
corruption of Gilded Age San Francisco. The murderer walked. Deftly
sifting the scattered evidence and conflicting stories of suspects
and witnesses, Richard White gives us the first full account of
Jane Stanford's murder and its cover-up. Against a backdrop of the
city's machine politics, rogue policing, tong wars and heated
newspaper rivalries, White's search for the murderer draws us into
Jane Stanford's imperious household and the academic enmities of
the university. Although Stanford officials claimed that no one
could have wanted to murder Jane, we meet several people who had
the motives and the opportunity to do so. One of these, we
discover, also had the means...
The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics.
In this pioneering study, White explores the relationship between the natural history of the Columbia River and the human history of the Pacific Northwest for both whites and Native Americans. He concentrates on what brings humans and the river together: not only the physical space of the region but also, and primarily, energy and work. For working with the river has been central to Pacific Northwesterners' competing ways of life. It is in this way that White comes to view the Columbia River as an organic machine--with conflicting human and natural claims--and to show that whatever separation exists between humans and nature exists to be crossed.
'To be Australian': what can that mean? Inventing Australia sets
out to find the answers by tracing the images we have used to
describe our land and our people - the convict hell, the
workingman's paradise, the Bush legend, the 'typical' Australian
from the shearer to the Bondi lifesaver, the land of opportunity,
the small rich industrial country, the multicultural society. The
book argues that these images, rather than describing an especially
Australian reality, grow out of assumptions about nature, race,
class, democracy, sex and empire, and are 'invented' to serve the
interests of particular groups. There have been many books about
Australia's national identity; this is the first to place the
discussion within an historical context to explain how Australians'
views of themselves change and why these views change in the way
they do.
Love comes in many forms and touches all our lives, and despite its
changing history, it remains constant in human experience. Love's
Philosophy explores the basic expressions of love. In this book,
White looks at friendship, romance, parenthood, and humanitarian
love in classical and contemporary perspective. He argues that the
philosophical oblivion of love has been a mistake. By examining
both the historical and contemporary formations of love, he
proposes alternative models to guide both our thinking and our
experience of loving.
The Heart of Wisdom explores the intersection of philosophy and
spirituality. Though spirituality is a concept often viewed with
skepticism by philosophers and others, spiritual concerns are
prominent in many people's lives, whether or not they ascribe to a
religious creed. This book examines spiritual concepts like
generosity, suffering, and joy, incorporating the various
perspectives of great philosophers, including Nietzsche, Aristotle,
and Derrida, as well as Eastern wisdom traditions, including
Buddhism and Vedanta philosophy.
What is a good life? What does it mean to be a good person? Richard
White answers these questions by considering aspects of moral
goodness through the virtues: courage, temperance, justice,
compassion and wisdom. White explores how moral virtues affect and
support social movements such as pacifism, environmentalism,
multiculturalism, and animal rights. Drawing on the works of Plato,
Aristotle, Hume, Nietzsche and others, White's philosophical
treatment of virtue ethics is extended through historical and
cross-cultural analysis, and he examines the lives of Socrates,
Buddha, and Gandhi who lived virtuous lives to help the reader
understand and acquire moral wisdom.
Nietzsche worked to comprehend the nature of the individual.
Richard White shows how Nietzsche was inspired and guided by the
question of personal sovereignty and how through his writings
sought to provoke the very sovereignty he described. White argues
that Nietzsche is a philosopher our contemporary age must therefore
come to understand if we are ever to secure a genuinely meaningful
direction for the future. Profoundly relevant to our era,
Nietzsche's philosophy addresses a version of individuality that
allows us to move beyond the self-dispossession of mass society and
the alternative of selfish individualism - to fully understand how
one becomes what one is. Nietzsche described himself as a godless
anti-metaphysician. These writings encourage the student to
question any reading that fails to address Nietzsche's sense of
irony with respect to his own philosophical claims. The anthology
includes the best recent writings on Nietzsche. It covers all the
main themes of Nietzsche's philosophy and pays particular attention
to Nietzsche's discussion of value and the need for a re-evaluation
of values; his critique of metaphysics and the problem of
knowledge; and his account of art and politics.
This title was first published in 2002: Nietzsche described himself
as a godless anti-metaphysician. These writings encourage the
student to question any reading that fails to address Nietzsche's
sense of irony with respect to his own philosophical claims. The
anthology includes the best recent writings on Nietzsche. It covers
all the main themes of Nietzsche's philosophy and pays particular
attention to Nietzsche's discussion of value and the need for a
re-evaluation of values; his critique of metaphysics and the
problem of knowledge; and his account of art and politics.
This work aims to provide teachers at all levels and in all
subjects with a greater range of practical methods for probing
their students' understanding. These probes are presented in the
manner of a starting set, to act as a stimulus to invention, rather
than as a comprehensive list.
A group of science educators with experience of being involoved in
curriculum development, and in conducting extensive research on
many aspects of teaching and learning science, have combined their
findings in this volume.; Each author has conducted research into
his or her own area of science education and presents the
implications of this research for a specific area of science
teaching. The experiences of members of the Monash Children's
Science Group; specifically three primary teachers and one biology
teacher, have also been included so as to present the voices of
teachers for whom writing a personal account of their teaching is
often an unappealing task.
'White sets himself a most ambitious task, and he goes remarkably
far to achieving his goals. Very few books tell so much about
Australia, with elegance and concision, as does his' - Professor
Michael Roe 'Stimulating and informative. an antidote to the
cultural cringe' - Canberra Times 'To be Australian': what can that
mean? Inventing Australia sets out to find the answers by tracing
the images we have used to describe our land and our people - the
convict hell, the workingman's paradise, the Bush legend, the
'typical' Australian from the shearer to the Bondi lifesaver, the
land of opportunity, the small rich industrial country, the
multicultural society. The book argues that these images, rather
than describing an especially Australian reality, grow out of
assumptions about nature, race, class, democracy, sex and empire,
and are 'invented' to serve the interests of particular groups.
There have been many books about Australia's national identity;
this is the first to place the discussion within an historical
context to explain how Australians' views of themselves change and
why these views change in the way they do.
Disney animated version of the classic fairy tale. When a prince is
turned into a hideous beast by a magical spell, he finds that the
only way out of his predicament is to win the love of the beautiful
Belle. Belle agrees to come and stay at his home in exchange for
the freedom of her father, whom the Beast had previously captured.
At first she is repulsed by his hideous features, but as time
passes she learns to recognise his true inner beauty.
The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected
multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in
the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian
Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of
Reconstruction and the Gilded Age as the seedbed of modern America.
At the end of the Civil War the leaders and citizens of the
victorious North envisioned the country's future as a free-labor
republic, with a homogenous citizenry, both black and white. The
South and West were to be reconstructed in the image of the North.
Thirty years later Americans occupied an unimagined world. The
unity that the Civil War supposedly secured had proved ephemeral.
The country was larger, richer, and more extensive, but also more
diverse. Life spans were shorter, and physical well-being had
diminished, due to disease and hazardous working conditions.
Independent producers had become wage earners. The country was
Catholic and Jewish as well as Protestant, and increasingly urban
and industrial. The "dangerous" classes of the very rich and poor
expanded, and deep differences-ethnic, racial, religious, economic,
and political-divided society. The corruption that gave the Gilded
Age its name was pervasive. These challenges also brought vigorous
efforts to secure economic, moral, and cultural reforms. Real
change-technological, cultural, and political-proliferated from
below more than emerging from political leadership. Americans,
mining their own traditions and borrowing ideas, produced creative
possibilities for overcoming the crises that threatened their
country. In a work as dramatic and colorful as the era it covers,
White narrates the conflicts and paradoxes of these decades of
disorienting change and mounting unrest, out of which emerged a
modern nation whose characteristics resonate with the present day.
In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford co-founded a university to honour
their recently deceased young son. After her husband’s death in
1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the
university to inculcate her values, steered Stanford into
eccentricity and public controversy for more than a decade. In 1905
she was murdered in Hawaii, a victim, according to the Honolulu
coroner’s jury, of strychnine poisoning. With her vast fortune
the university’s lifeline, the Stanford president and his allies
quickly sought to foreclose challenges to her bequests by
constructing a story of death by natural causes. The cover-up
gained traction in the murky labyrinths of power, wealth and
corruption of Gilded Age San Francisco. The murderer walked. Deftly
sifting the scattered evidence and conflicting stories of suspects
and witnesses, Richard White gives us the first full account of
Jane Stanford’s murder and its cover-up. Against a backdrop of
the city’s machine politics, rogue policing, tong wars and heated
newspaper rivalries, White’s search for the murderer draws us
into Jane Stanford’s imperious household and the academic
enmities of the university. Although Stanford officials claimed
that no one could have wanted to murder Jane, we meet several
people who had the motives and the opportunity to do so. One of
these, we discover, also had the means...
Whidbey and Camano, two of the largest of the numerous beautiful
islands dotting Puget Sound, together form the major part of Island
County. Taking this county as a case study and following its
history from Indian times to the present, Richard White explores
the complex relationship between human induced environmental change
and social change. This new edition of his classic study includes a
new preface by the author and a foreword by William Cronon.
What is spirituality? Does it enable us to be better persons? Is
spirituality related to religion? These days, is it even relevant?
On college campuses, does it promote student well-being? Does it
further moral growth? Can spirituality make a difference in
healthcare? What about social justice and service to the
marginalized? This rich collection of essays by respected scholars
and practitioners in diverse fields in academic, healthcare, social
justice, and interfaith contexts addresses these questions in
strikingly profound and meaningful ways. Their voices offer
alternatives to the prevailing notion of spirituality as a purely
private matter, and make a case for living spiritually through deep
and genuine engagement with others, bridging our inherent and
original fault-line of Self and Other. Their keen observations
resuscitate the spiritual fabric of defiance against and liberation
from forces of oppression which show their face not only through
chronic inequities and social injustice but in consumer
capitalism's grip on our souls. This volume's dispatch to our minds
and hearts is timely in an age of looming cynicism, pessimism,
fear, and distrust. In carving out a renewed sense of what lies at
the heart of living a life of the spirit, or spirituality, it
offers an antidote to our widespread hermeneutic of suspicion. None
of the authors claims to encapsulate one, pure meaning of the
spiritual. Yet they share one collective voice: spirituality is
indeed genuine when it calls forth compassion and wears the worn
and tangled face of humaneness, freeing ourselves from the prison
of ego. Here we find messages of hope, much needed in a time when
our society seems increasingly shadowed by dark clouds. These
essays remind us of what's right in the world.
What is God? What does it mean to believe in God? What happens to
God after the death of God? This book examines "the death of God"
from a philosophical standpoint. It focuses on monotheism,
polytheism, and nature, and it discusses the renewed importance of
spirituality-and the "spiritual but not religious"-in response to
the death of God. In recent years, religious belief has been in
decline, but secularism cannot satisfy our spiritual needs. We are
now living in a "post-secular" age in which the relationship
between philosophy, spirituality, and religion must be re-examined.
As an exploratory essay, this book engages the reader at a profound
level, and considers a variety of modern thinkers, including
Nietzsche, Hegel, Freud, Levinas, Assmann, and Buber. It offers a
sustained meditation on the origin of God, the death of God, and
the future of "God" as a guiding ideal.
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