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This book is the first major study of England's biggest and
best-known witch trial which took place in 1612, when ten witches
were arraigned and hung in the village of Pendle in Lancashire. The
book has equal appeal across the disciplines of both History and
English Literature/Renaissance Studies, with essays by the leading
experts in both fields. Includes helpful summaries to explain the
key points of each essay. Brings the subject up-to-date with a
study of modern Wicca and paganism, including present-day
Lancashire witches. Quite simply, this is the most comprehensive
study of any English witch trial. -- .
This textbook will help you unlock and access the great potential
of corpus linguistics for language learning. While other books
discuss how instructors may implement corpora in the classroom,
this book provides step-by-step illustrated examples to help
learners, graduate students, and language instructors visualize and
understand the potential of corpus linguistics for language
learning. It guides you through the application of corpus searches
for writing, vocabulary and cultural study and provides guidance on
building your own corpus. The hands-on approach will strengthen
your development into an autonomous language learner and help
instructors learn to design and implement their own corpus
activities. With tutorials on a range of popular and increasingly
user-friendly corpora, it helps usher in a new era of corpus-aided
language learning.
The etiology of the Wimbum people in the Western Grassfields of
Cameroon is described through an examination of the way in which
the meanings of key concepts, used to interpret and explain illness
and other forms of misfortune, are continually being produced and
reproduced in the praxis of everyday communication. During the
course of numerous dialogues, witchcraft, a highly ambivalent
force, gradually emerges as the prime mover. As destructive
cannibals or respectable elders the witches are the ultimate cause
of all significant illness, misfortune and death, and as diviners
they are also the ultimate judges who apportion moral
responsibility. Even the ancestors and the traditional gods turn
out to be fronts behind which the witches hide their activities.The
study is on three levels: a medical anthropological exploration of
explanations of illness and misfortune; a detailed ethnography of
traditional African cosmology and witchcraft; and an examination of
recent theoretical issues in anthropology such as the nature of
ethnographic fieldwork and the possibility of dialogical or
postmodern ethnography.
We have long recognized technology as a driving force behind much historical and cultural change. The invention of the printing press initiated the Reformation. The development of the compass ushered in the Age of Exploration and the discovery of the New World. The cotton gin created the conditions that led to the Civil War. Now, in Beyond Engineering, science writer Robert Pool turns the question around to examine how society shapes technology. Drawing on such disparate fields as history, economics, risk analysis, management science, sociology, and psychology, Pool illuminates the complex, often fascinating interplay between machines and society, in a book that will revolutionize how we think about technology. We tend to think that reason guides technological development, that engineering expertise alone determines the final form an invention takes. But if you look closely enough at the history of any invention, says Pool, you will find that factors unrelated to engineering seem to have an almost equal impact. In his wide-ranging volume, he traces developments in nuclear energy, automobiles, light bulbs, commercial electricity, and personal computers, to reveal that the ultimate shape of a technology often has as much to do with outside and unforeseen forces. For instance, Pool explores the reasons why steam-powered cars lost out to internal combustion engines. He shows that the Stanley Steamer was in many ways superior to the Model T--it set a land speed record in 1906 of more than 127 miles per hour, it had no transmission (and no transmission headaches), and it was simpler (one Stanley engine had only twenty-two moving parts) and quieter than a gas engine--but the steamers were killed off by factors that had little or nothing to do with their engineering merits, including the Stanley twins' lack of business acumen and an outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease. Pool illuminates other aspects of technology as well. He traces how seemingly minor decisions made early along the path of development can have profound consequences further down the road, and perhaps most important, he argues that with the increasing complexity of our technological advances--from nuclear reactors to genetic engineering--the number of things that can go wrong multiplies, making it increasingly difficult to engineer risk out of the equation. Citing such catastrophes as Bhopal, Three Mile Island, the Exxon Valdez, the Challenger, and Chernobyl, he argues that is it time to rethink our approach to technology. The days are gone when machines were solely a product of larger-than-life inventors and hard-working engineers. Increasingly, technology will be a joint effort, with its design shaped not only by engineers and executives but also psychologists, political scientists, management theorists, risk specialists, regulators and courts, and the general public. Whether discussing bovine growth hormone, molten-salt reactors, or baboon-to-human transplants, Beyond Engineering is an engaging look at modern technology and an illuminating account of how technology and the modern world shape each other.
The etiology of the Wimbum people in the Western Grassfields of
Cameroon is described through an examination of the way in which
the meanings of key concepts, used to interpret and explain illness
and other forms of misfortune, are continually being produced and
reproduced in the praxis of everyday communication. During the
course of numerous dialogues, witchcraft, a highly ambivalent
force, gradually emerges as the prime mover. As destructive
cannibals or respectable elders the witches are the ultimate cause
of all significant illness, misfortune and death, and as diviners
they are also the ultimate judges who apportion moral
responsibility. Even the ancestors and the traditional gods turn
out to be fronts behind which the witches hide their activities.The
study is on three levels: a medical anthropological exploration of
explanations of illness and misfortune; a detailed ethnography of
traditional African cosmology and witchcraft; and an examination of
recent theoretical issues in anthropology such as the nature of
ethnographic fieldwork and the possibility of dialogical or
postmodern ethnography.
Medical anthropology is playing an increasingly important role in
public health. This book provides an introduction to the basic
concepts, approaches and theories used, and shows how these
contribute to understanding complex health related behaviour.
Public health policies and interventions are more likely to be
effective if the beliefs and behaviour of people are understood and
taken into account. The book examines: Concepts of culture Medical
systems Patient's experience of illness and treatment The use of
medicines and healing practices Public health and medical research
Examples of particular health problems, such as HIV and malaria,
are used to show how an anthropological approach can contribute to
both a better understanding of health and illness and to more
culturally compatible public health measures.Series Editors:
Rosalind Plowman and Nicki Thorogood.
'Anyone who wants to get better at anything should read Peak.'
Fortune Do you want to stand out at work, improve your athletic or
musical performance, or help your child achieve academic goals?
Anders Ericsson has made a career studying chess champions, violin
virtuosos, star athletes, and memory mavens. Peak distils three
decades of myth-shattering research into a powerful learning
strategy that is fundamentally different from the way people
traditionally think about acquiring new abilities. Ericsson's
revolutionary methods will show you how to improve at almost any
skill that matters to you, and that you don't have to be a genius
to achieve extraordinary things. 'Remarkable...who among us doesn't
want to learn how to get better at life?' Stephen J. Dubner,
co-author of Freakonomics 'This book...could truly change the
world' Joshua Foer, author of Moonwalking with Einstein
Corpus-Assisted Ecolinguistics introduces and integrates key
research concepts, principles and techniques in ecolinguistics and
corpus-assisted discourse study, answering foundational questions
for researchers new to the discipline and asserting the urgent need
to expand its scope. Breaking new ground, the book analyzes
under-explored environmental discourses that have a tangible impact
on ecological wellbeing and sustainability by perpetuating harmful
attitudes, practices and ideologies. Chapters present in-depth case
studies, including an analysis of the evolving representations of
wilderness, an eco-stylistic analysis of a popular novel, and an
investigation of the use of humor in reports on animal escapes from
slaughterhouses. The studies employ a range of corpus analysis
techniques to show how ecological degradation and crisis have
become normalized, and even trivialized, in popular discourse but
also spaces where positive discourse practices are present. By
applying tools from corpus linguistics to a diverse range of
environmental discourses, this book makes a significant
contribution to advancing the field of ecolinguistics.
This textbook will help you unlock and access the great potential
of corpus linguistics for language learning. While other books
discuss how instructors may implement corpora in the classroom,
this book provides step-by-step illustrated examples to help
learners, graduate students, and language instructors visualize and
understand the potential of corpus linguistics for language
learning. It guides you through the application of corpus searches
for writing, vocabulary and cultural study and provides guidance on
building your own corpus. The hands-on approach will strengthen
your development into an autonomous language learner and help
instructors learn to design and implement their own corpus
activities. With tutorials on a range of popular and increasingly
user-friendly corpora, it helps usher in a new era of corpus-aided
language learning.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Delve into what it
was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the
first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and
farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists
and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original
texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly
contemporary.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++British LibraryT077034With a half
title. Dedication dated: Westminster, Oct. 16, 1788.London: printed
for J. F. and C. Rivington, 1788. viii,28p.; 8
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary
study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope,
Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann
Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others.
Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the
development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:
++++British LibraryT081939Also issued as part of: 'Religious
tracts, dispersed by the Society for Promoting Christian
Knowledge', 1800, vol.VI, 1807, vol.V.London: printed for J. F. and
C. Rivington, 1789. 36p.; 12
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Rich in titles on
English life and social history, this collection spans the world as
it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles
include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of
nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world
that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American
Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side
of conflict. ++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++British LibraryT053220London: printed
and sold by E. Duncomb; and at the printing-office in Hind-Court,
opposite Water-Lane, Fleet-Street, 1753. iv, 1],10-388p.; 8
The United States of America is a great nation. The nation has
become great by virtue of its goodness. The nation has been good
because it is founded upon and has been nourished by the
Judeo-Christian world view during its first 200 years. During the
past fifty years our citizenry has been puzzled by increasing
social evidences of pleasure seeking, criminal behavior, greed,
family frailty and angry dividedness. Students of history report
these misfortunes to be manifestations of decline, as seen in all
fallen cultures of the past. Arnold Toynbee, one of those students,
is of the opinion that by virtue of free will, once the process is
understood, any culture can regain its spiritual creativity and
rise to even greater heights. Love of liberty is a universal fact
of human nature. Liberty in its purest form was captured by those
who crafted our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution.
Both documents identify the sovereignty of the citizenry and the
servile role of government. But the democratic republic created by
them is a fragile political entity and in very subtle ways a
comfortable population can allow responsible liberty to become
eroded by the "decadence of irresponsible freedom" (Solzenhitzen).
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Medical theory and
practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the
extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases,
their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology,
agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even
cookbooks, are all contained here.++++The below data was compiled
from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of
this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping
to insure edition identification: ++++British
LibraryT114251Theophilus Philanthropos = Robert Poole.London:
printed for, and sold by E. Duncomb, 1741. 2], xviii, liv,324,
12]p., plate; 8
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