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David Schofield, Eliza Bennett, Ruth Gemmell, Juliet Aubrey, Emma Cleasby, …
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R24
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Johannes Roberts writes and directs this high school-set British
horror-thriller. When a group of teachers become trapped in school
after hours by a mysterious group of murderous, hooded teenagers,
alcoholic teacher Robert Anderson (David Schofield) must do all he
can to save his daughter, Kate (Eliza Bennett), from the gang's
clutches.
Governments, big business and communities are coming under
increased pressure to develop low carbon energy supply
technologies. Within the context of the climate change debate a
delicate balance has to be reached between local environmental
protection and our need for reliable low carbon energy. This books
brings together ten years of research conducted by the Tyndall
Centre for Climate Change Research and uses a range of case studies
from carbon capture and storage to on-shore wind farms to explore
the complex nature of disputes between a wide variety of
stakeholder groups. Topics covered include: the importance of
context the relationship between risk and trust sense of place role
of the media An invaluable resource for researchers and readers in
local or national government, industry or community groups who wish
to deepen their understanding of controversy around low carbon
technology and how to overcome it.
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Ninja Nate
Markette Sheppard; Illustrated by Robert Paul
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R491
R402
Discovery Miles 4 020
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Some Asian political leaders and Western academics have recently
claimed that China is unlikely to produce an open political system.
This claim rests on the idea that ?Confucian culture? provides an
alternative to Western civil values, and that China lacked the
democratic traditions and even the horizontal institutions of trust
that could build a c
From the first Black Radio City Rockette dancer Jennifer Jones
comes an inspiring picture book autobiography perfect for fans of
trailblazers like Misty Copeland, Mae Jemison, and more. Dancing
has always made her feel free, like she can do anything. But when
Jennifer was a child, some people didn't think that she had a
future as a dancer because of the color of her skin. With the
support of her family, especially her mother, she proved that
anything is possible when you believe you belong. With beautiful
watercolor illustrations by artist Robert Paul Jr., On the Line is
a captivating true story about manifesting your dreams..
Exam Board: OCR Level: A-level Subject: Sociology First Teaching:
September 2015 First Exam: June 2017 Build students' confidence to
tackle the key themes of the 2015 OCR A-Level Sociology
specification with this clear and accessible approach delivered by
a team of leading subject authors. - Develop knowledge and
understanding of key Year 2 concepts in a contemporary context,
including globalisation and the digital social world - Strengthen
essential sociological skills with engaging activities at every
stage of the course - Reinforce learning and prepare for exams with
practice and extension questions and exercises
Exam Board: OCR Level: A-level Subject: Sociology First Teaching:
September 2015 First Exam: June 2016 Build students' confidence to
tackle the key themes of the 2015 OCR A-Level Sociology
specification with this clear and accessible approach delivered by
a team of leading subject authors. - Develop knowledge and
understanding of key Year 1 concepts in a contemporary context,
including globalisation and the digital social world - Strengthen
essential sociological skills with engaging activities at every
stage of the course - Reinforce learning and prepare for exams with
practice and extension questions and exercises
Amid a welter of simultaneous policy initiatives in the UK, health
treatment centers were a top-down National Health Service (NHS)
innovation that became subverted into a multiplicity of solutions
to different local problems. This book is a highly readable account
of how and why these centers evolved with completely unforeseen
results, revealing clear practical lessons based on UK case-study
research involving over 200 interviews. By following the case
studies through each key stage of reform, the book tells the story
of NHS reform in action. Well-structured and clearly written, it
uncovers a range of difficulties and conflicts in pushing forward
wide-sweeping reforms at a local level, and it outlines the
practical lessons to be learned.
Among the most influential, world-renowned scientists during the
early decades of the twentieth century was the Dutch astronomer
Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn (1851-1922). Kapteyn's influence resulted
from and contributed to the golden age of Dutch science. In the
words of the brilliant English astrophysicist, Arthur S. Eddington:
Holland has given many scientific leaders to the world: it is
doubtful whether any other nation in proportion to its size can
show so fine a record. J.C. Kapteyn was among the most
distinguished of its sons -- a truly great astronomer'. The present
text is an English translation of Kapteyn's 1928 (Dutch) biography
by his daughter Henrietta Hertzsprung-Kapteyn. While the original
biography suffers from -- but in many ways is also enriched by --
the emotional excesses of a loving daughter writing of her famous
father, this new translation provides an annotated assessment of
Kapteyn as family man, scientist and world leader. This new volume
also opens up to a much wider reading public many of the enormously
rich contributions, not only of Kapteyn the man but also of the
Dutch, to the emergence of astronomy as a major intellectual force
in the world. Perhaps equally important, the translated biography
reproduces many biographical and technical details from Kapteyn's
correspondence with numerous other scientists and scholars. Access
to the Kapteyn biography becomes an archival treasure for future
studies dealing with Kapteyn himself, as well as with the history
of both modern and Dutch astronomy and with the rise of
international astronomy.
Some Asian political leaders and Western academics have recently
claimed that China is unlikely to produce an open political system.
This claim rests on the idea that "Confucian culture" provides an
alternative to Western civil values, and that China lacked the
democratic traditions and even the horizontal institutions of trust
that could build a civil society. An opposed school of thought is
far more optimistic about democracy, because it sees market
economies of the kind China has begun to foster as pushing
inexorably against authoritarian political control and reproducing
Western patterns of change."Alternate Civilities" argues for a
different set of political possibilities. By comparing China with
Taiwan's new and vibrant democracy, it shows how democracy can grow
out of Chinese cultural roots and authoritarian institutions. The
business organizations, religious groups, environmental movements,
and women's networks it examines do not simply reproduce Western
values and institutions. These cases point to the possibility of an
alternate civility, neither the stubborn remnant of an ancient
authoritarian culture, nor a reflex of market economics. They are
instead the active creation of new solutions to the problems of
modern life.
Among the most influential, world-renowned scientists during the
early decades of the twentieth century was the Dutch astronomer
Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn (1851-1922). Kapteyn's influence resulted
from and contributed to the golden age of Dutch science. In the
words of the brilliant English astrophysicist, Arthur S. Eddington:
Holland has given many scientific leaders to the world: it is
doubtful whether any other nation in proportion to its size can
show so fine a record. J.C. Kapteyn was among the most
distinguished of its sons -- a truly great astronomer'. The present
text is an English translation of Kapteyn's 1928 (Dutch) biography
by his daughter Henrietta Hertzsprung-Kapteyn. While the original
biography suffers from -- but in many ways is also enriched by --
the emotional excesses of a loving daughter writing of her famous
father, this new translation provides an annotated assessment of
Kapteyn as family man, scientist and world leader. This new volume
also opens up to a much wider reading public many of the enormously
rich contributions, not only of Kapteyn the man but also of the
Dutch, to the emergence of astronomy as a major intellectual force
in the world. Perhaps equally important, the translated biography
reproduces many biographical and technical details from Kapteyn's
correspondence with numerous other scientists and scholars. Access
to the Kapteyn biography becomes an archival treasure for future
studies dealing with Kapteyn himself, as well as with the history
of both modern and Dutch astronomy and with the rise of
international astronomy.
Compares those active resistance movements which burst into public
view in China and "cultural resistance", which instead lies
unspoken in everyday action. This book argues that certain areas of
life defuse attempts at cultural domination by resisting and
dissolving all unified interpretation.
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Restoring Hope
Robert Paul
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R939
R768
Discovery Miles 7 680
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Frederick Douglass (1818--1895) was a prolific writer and public
speaker whose impact on American literature and history has been
long studied by historians and literary critics. Yet as political
theorists have focused on the legacies of such notables as W. E. B.
Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, Douglass's profound influence on
Afro-modern and American political thought has often been
undervalued. In an effort to fill this gap in the scholarship on
Douglass, editor Neil Roberts and an exciting group of established
and rising scholars examine the author's autobiographies, essays,
speeches, and novella. Together, they illuminate his genius for
analyzing and articulating core American ideals such as
independence, liberation, individualism, and freedom, particularly
in the context of slavery. The contributors explore Douglass's
understanding of the self-made American and the way in which he
expanded the notion of individual potential by arguing that
citizens had a responsibility to improve not only their own
situations but also those of their communities. A Political
Companion to Frederick Douglass also considers the idea of agency,
investigating Douglass's passionate insistence that every person in
a democracy, even a slave, possesses an innate ability to act.
Various essays illuminate Douglass's complex racial politics,
deconstructing what seems at first to be his surprising aversion to
racial pride, and others explore and critique concepts of
masculinity, gender, and judgment in his oeuvre. The volume
concludes with a discussion of Douglass's contributions to pre--
and post--Civil War jurisprudence.
An intensely personal meditation on the nature of America by a
White Philosopher who joined a Black Studies Department and found
his understanding of the world transformed by the experience.
Autobiography of an Ex-White Man is an intensely personal
meditation on the nature of America by a White Philosopher who
joined a Black Studies Department and found his understanding of
the world transformed by the experience. The book begins with an
autobiographical narrative of the events leading up to Wolff's
transfer from a Philosophy Department to the W. E. B. Du Bois
Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of
Massachusetts, and his experiences in the Department with his new
colleagues, all of whom had come to Academia from the Civil Rights
Movement of the 1960s. Wolff discovered that the apparently simple
act of moving across campus to a new Department in a new building
worked a startling change in the way he saw himself, his
university, and his country. Reading as widely as possible to bring
himself up to speed in his new field of academic responsibility,
Wolff realized after a bit that his picture of American history and
culture was undergoing an irreversible metamorphosis. America, he
realized, has from its inception been a land both of Freedom and of
Bondage -- Freedom for the few, and then forthose who are White,
Bondage at first for the many, and then for those who are not
White. Slavery is thus not an aberration, an accident, a Peculiar
Institution -- it is the essence and core of the American
experience. Wolff's optimistic outlook leads him to express the
hope that acknowledging the realities of America's racial history
and present will begin to tear down the formidable barrier to
change. He sees this refashioning of the American story as a first
step toward the crafting of a truly liberatory project. Robert Paul
Wolff is Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of
Massachusetts-Amherst and the author of numerous books, including
Introductory Philosophy and In Defense of Anarchism.
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Zorgamazoo (Paperback)
Robert Paul Weston
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R260
R221
Discovery Miles 2 210
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Are You a Believer in Fanciful Things? In Pirates and Dragons and
Creatures and Kings?
Then sit yourself down in a comfortable seat, with maybe some
cocoa and something to eat, and Iall spin you the tale of Katrina
Katrell, a girl full of courage (and daring, as well!), who down in
the subway, under the ground, saw something fantastical roaming
around . . .
What was it she saw? Iad rather not say. (Whoas ever heard of a
Zorgle, anyway?)
But if you are curious, clever and brave, if intrepid adventure
is something you crave, then open this book and Iall leave it to
you to uncover the secret of ZORGAMAZOO!
Join Morty the Zorgle and Katrina on a fantastically
illustrated, "youall-wanna-read-every-word-aloud," sophisticated
rhyming adventure for kids of all ages!
Amid a welter of simultaneous policy initiatives in the UK, health
treatment centers were a top-down National Health Service (NHS)
innovation that became subverted into a multiplicity of solutions
to different local problems. This book is a highly readable account
of how and why these centers evolved with completely unforeseen
results, revealing clear practical lessons based on UK case-study
research involving over 200 interviews. By following the case
studies through each key stage of reform, the book tells the story
of NHS reform in action. Well-structured and clearly written, it
uncovers a range of difficulties and conflicts in pushing forward
wide-sweeping reforms at a local level, and it outlines the
practical lessons to be learned.
In Robert Ward's The Crucible: Creating an American Musical
Nationalism, Robert Paul Kolt explores the life of the American
composer Robert Ward through an examination of his most popular and
enduring work, The Crucible. Focusing on the musical-linguistic
relationships within the opera, Kolt demonstrates Ward's unique
synthesis of text and music, one that lends itself to the
perception of American musical nationalism. This book contains the
most thorough and in-depth biography of Ward yet in print. Based on
interviews with the composer, Kolt presents new information about
Ward's life and career, focusing on his opera and examining the
formation and construction of The Crucible's libretto and score, in
turn offering new insights into the process of composing an opera.
Kolt observes how the libretto's linguistic aspects helped Ward
formulate the opera's melodic and rhythmic musical material. A
detailed and unique analysis of the opera, particularly the musical
and linguistic techniques Ward employed, demonstrates how these
techniques lend themselves to the opera's reception as a work of
American musical nationalism. The book also provides yet
unpublished information on Arthur Miller's play, examining how it
came to be written and soon after became the basis for Ward's work.
Several appendixes provide a fuller picture, including a deleted
scene from Miller's play and Ward's version of the scene, a
chronological overview of the Salem Witchcraft Trials, and
illustrations and photo reproductions from Ward's manuscript.
When Litvinov arrived in Washington in 1933 after the sixteen years
of diplomatic silence between his country and the U.S., he carried
with him his commission as official representative to the U.S.,
dated 1918 and signed by Lenin and Chicherin, as evidence of the
long-standing desire of the Soviet Union for recognition. This is
an absorbing narrative of the events which led up to this dramatic
arrival, heralded with such high hopes and good will, and of the
collapse into discord and disillusionment which followed. A
full-length account of these negotiations, it presents a new
picture of the pressures for and against diplomatic recognition of
the Soviet Union. Originally published in 1953. The Princeton
Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again
make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
When Litvinov arrived in Washington in 1933 after the sixteen years
of diplomatic silence between his country and the U.S., he carried
with him his commission as official representative to the U.S.,
dated 1918 and signed by Lenin and Chicherin, as evidence of the
long-standing desire of the Soviet Union for recognition. This is
an absorbing narrative of the events which led up to this dramatic
arrival, heralded with such high hopes and good will, and of the
collapse into discord and disillusionment which followed. A
full-length account of these negotiations, it presents a new
picture of the pressures for and against diplomatic recognition of
the Soviet Union. Originally published in 1953. The Princeton
Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again
make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
In the treatment of marital problems, behaviorally oriented and com
munication oriented approaches have been in conflict and seen as
con trasting and unlikely bed partners. Many therapists, focusing
on com munication skills, have felt that behaviorists were too
structured and uncaring; on the other hand, behaviorists have
considered humanistic therapists as being "touchy-feely," vague,
and unfocused. However, in the Handbook of Marital Therapy,
Liberman, Wheeler, de Visser, and the Kuehnels have wedded these
two potent approaches into an inte grated framework that makes them
loving bed partners. With over a decade of experience in applying
behaviorally ori ented treatment to couples, Liberman and his
co-authors have devel oped an educational model that focuses on
teaching specific commu nication skills to couples. The
communication skills they describe have been used extensively in
all types of marital therapy, regardless of the therapist's
theoretical orientation. The unique contribution of this book is
that the authors provide a step-by-step approach to teaching these
communication skills within a behavioral framework. Each chapter
guides the therapist through the many issues and problems
confronting him or her as a change agent. This highly readable book
is enhanced by a liberal use of case exam ples. Emphasis is given
to homework and structured sessions that focus on increasing
specific communication skills in a sequential manner. The
advantages of working with couples in a group setting are dis
cussed, and concrete suggestions on how to manage these groups are
clearly presented."
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