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This book is a unique volume that brings a variety of
psychoanalytic perspectives to the study of sport. It highlights
the importance of sports for different individuals and how the
function and use of sports can be brought into the consulting room.
Passionate interest in actively engaging in sports is a universal
phenomenon. It is striking that this aspect of human life, prior to
this volume, has received little attention in the literature of
psychoanalysis. This edited volume is comprised largely of
psychoanalysts who are themselves avidly involved with sports. It
is suggested that intense involvement in sports prioritizes
commitment and active engagement over passivity and that such
involvement provides an emotionally tinged distraction from the
various misfortunes of life. Indeed, the ups and downs in mood
related to athletic victory or defeat often supplant, temporarily,
matters in life that may be more personally urgent. Engaging in
sports or rooting for teams provides a feeling of community and a
sense of identification with like-minded others, even among those
who are part of other communities and have sufficient communal
identifications. This book offers a better psychoanalytic
understanding of sports to help us discover more about ourselves,
our patients and our culture, and will be of great interest to
psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, or anyone with an interest in
sport and its link to psychoanalysis and mental health.
This book is a unique volume that brings a variety of
psychoanalytic perspectives to the study of sport. It highlights
the importance of sports for different individuals and how the
function and use of sports can be brought into the consulting room.
Passionate interest in actively engaging in sports is a universal
phenomenon. It is striking that this aspect of human life, prior to
this volume, has received little attention in the literature of
psychoanalysis. This edited volume is comprised largely of
psychoanalysts who are themselves avidly involved with sports. It
is suggested that intense involvement in sports prioritizes
commitment and active engagement over passivity and that such
involvement provides an emotionally tinged distraction from the
various misfortunes of life. Indeed, the ups and downs in mood
related to athletic victory or defeat often supplant, temporarily,
matters in life that may be more personally urgent. Engaging in
sports or rooting for teams provides a feeling of community and a
sense of identification with like-minded others, even among those
who are part of other communities and have sufficient communal
identifications. This book offers a better psychoanalytic
understanding of sports to help us discover more about ourselves,
our patients and our culture, and will be of great interest to
psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, or anyone with an interest in
sport and its link to psychoanalysis and mental health.
Focussing on the relatively few small firms which grew rapidly,
this book, originally published in 1993 uses face-to-face
interviews as well as published records to identify and analyse the
managerial factors most closely associated with successful small
firms. The volume concentrates on the following key managerial
issues: In what respects do the managerial backgrounds and
aspirations of the founders of fast-growth small firms differ from
those of non-fast-growth small firms? How is the process of growth
managed? What incentives, remuneration packages and communication
systems are instituted? How do these characteristics and
experiences differ in fast-growth small firms from both the
traditional small firm and large-firm sector? To what extent is it
possible to explain the relative economic performance of small
firms in terms of differences in their ownership, organizational
and management structures.
This study, originally published in 1987, addresses the question of
small firm performance. Drawing on an extensive database containing
financial, employment and ownership data for several thousand small
firms, the book examines whether small firms do actually provide
jobs, whether they grow and why small firms fail. Guidance is given
on how to spot the signs of impending failure in a small business,
which is of use to accountants small business PR actioners and
government grant providers.
People worry that computers, robots, interstellar aliens, or Satan
himself - brilliant, stealthy, ruthless creatures - may seize
control of our world and destroy what's uniquely valuable about the
human race. Cultural Evolution and its Discontents shows that our
cultural systems - especially those whose last names are "ism" -
are already doing that, and doing it so adeptly that we seldom even
notice. Like other parasites, they've blindly evolved to exploit us
for their own survival. Creative arts and humanistic scholarship
are our best tools for diagnosis and cure. The assemblages of ideas
that have survived, like the assemblages of biological cells that
have survived, are the ones good at protecting and reproducing
themselves. They aren't necessarily the ones that guide us toward
our most admirable selves or our healthiest future. Relying so
heavily on culture to protect our uniquely open minds from
cognitive overload makes us vulnerable to hijacking by the systems
that co-evolve with us. Recognizing the selfish Darwinian functions
of these systems makes sense of many aspects of history, politics,
economics, and popular culture. What drove the Protestant
Reformation? Why have the Beatles, The Hunger Games, and paranoid
science-fiction thrived, and how was hip-hop co-opted? What
alliances helped neoliberalism out-compete Communism, and what
alliances might enable environmentalism to overcome consumerism?
Why are multiculturalism and university-trained elites provoking
working-class nationalist backlash? In a digital age, how can we
use numbers without having them use us instead? Anyone who has
wondered how our species can be so brilliant and so stupid at the
same time may find an answer here: human mentalities are so complex
that we crave the simplifications provided by our cultures, but the
cultures that thrive are the ones that blind us to any interests
that don't correspond to their own.
People worry that computers, robots, interstellar aliens, or Satan
himself - brilliant, stealthy, ruthless creatures - may seize
control of our world and destroy what's uniquely valuable about the
human race. Cultural Evolution and its Discontents shows that our
cultural systems - especially those whose last names are "ism" -
are already doing that, and doing it so adeptly that we seldom even
notice. Like other parasites, they've blindly evolved to exploit us
for their own survival. Creative arts and humanistic scholarship
are our best tools for diagnosis and cure. The assemblages of ideas
that have survived, like the assemblages of biological cells that
have survived, are the ones good at protecting and reproducing
themselves. They aren't necessarily the ones that guide us toward
our most admirable selves or our healthiest future. Relying so
heavily on culture to protect our uniquely open minds from
cognitive overload makes us vulnerable to hijacking by the systems
that co-evolve with us. Recognizing the selfish Darwinian functions
of these systems makes sense of many aspects of history, politics,
economics, and popular culture. What drove the Protestant
Reformation? Why have the Beatles, The Hunger Games, and paranoid
science-fiction thrived, and how was hip-hop co-opted? What
alliances helped neoliberalism out-compete Communism, and what
alliances might enable environmentalism to overcome consumerism?
Why are multiculturalism and university-trained elites provoking
working-class nationalist backlash? In a digital age, how can we
use numbers without having them use us instead? Anyone who has
wondered how our species can be so brilliant and so stupid at the
same time may find an answer here: human mentalities are so complex
that we crave the simplifications provided by our cultures, but the
cultures that thrive are the ones that blind us to any interests
that don't correspond to their own.
Focussing on the relatively few small firms which grew rapidly,
this book, originally published in 1993 uses face-to-face
interviews as well as published records to identify and analyse the
managerial factors most closely associated with successful small
firms. The volume concentrates on the following key managerial
issues: In what respects do the managerial backgrounds and
aspirations of the founders of fast-growth small firms differ from
those of non-fast-growth small firms? How is the process of growth
managed? What incentives, remuneration packages and communication
systems are instituted? How do these characteristics and
experiences differ in fast-growth small firms from both the
traditional small firm and large-firm sector? To what extent is it
possible to explain the relative economic performance of small
firms in terms of differences in their ownership, organizational
and management structures.
This study, originally published in 1987, addresses the question of
small firm performance. Drawing on an extensive database containing
financial, employment and ownership data for several thousand small
firms, the book examines whether small firms do actually provide
jobs, whether they grow and why small firms fail. Guidance is given
on how to spot the signs of impending failure in a small business,
which is of use to accountants small business PR actioners and
government grant providers.
Until recently film has been impractical and expensive to teach,
but television and video have provided unprecedented opportunities.
Not only is it becoming possible for everyone to make use of a
library of films on video, subjecting them to close evaluative
study, but also, with the increasing availability of video cameras
in schools and colleges, it is becoming possible for everyone to
learn the language of this richly expressive form by using it.
Through an engaged analysis of the beginnings of film, the nature
of expression, the conventions of film and television, the
development of narrative, and modern film theories, Robert Watson
provides an aesthetic framework for film study which has
implications and numerous suggestions for practical creative work.
There is increasing scientific evidence to suggest that humans are
gradually but certainly changing the Earth's climate. In an effort
to prevent further damage to the fragile atmosphere, and with the
belief that action is required now, the scientific community has
been prolific in its dissemination of information on climate
change. Inspired by the results of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change's Second Assessment Report, Jepma and Munasinghe set
out to create a concise, practical and compelling approach to
climate change issues. They deftly explain the implications of
global warming, and the risks involved in attempting to mitigate
climate change. They look at how and where to start action, and
what organization is needed to be able to implement the changes.
This book represents a much needed synopsis of climate change and
its real impacts on society. It will be an essential text for
climate change researchers, policy analysts, university students
studying the environment, and anyone with an interest in climate
change issues.
There is increasing scientific evidence to suggest that humans are
gradually but certainly changing the Earth's climate. In an effort
to prevent further damage to the fragile atmosphere, and with the
belief that action is required now, the scientific community has
been prolific in its dissemination of information on climate
change. Inspired by the results of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change's Second Assessment Report, Jepma and Munasinghe set
out to create a concise, practical and compelling approach to
climate change issues. They deftly explain the implications of
global warming, and the risks involved in attempting to mitigate
climate change. They look at how and where to start action, and
what organization is needed to be able to implement the changes.
This book represents a much needed synopsis of climate change and
its real impacts on society. It will be an essential text for
climate change researchers, policy analysts, university students
studying the environment, and anyone with an interest in climate
change issues.
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Judges and Ruth
Robert Watson
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R1,196
Discovery Miles 11 960
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Built in 1927, the German ocean liner SS Cap Arcona was the
greatest ship since the RMS Titanic and one of the most celebrated
luxury liners in the world. When the Nazis seized control in
Germany, she was stripped down for use as a floating barracks and
troop transport. Later, during the war, Hitler's minister, Joseph
Goebbels, cast her as the "star" in his epic propaganda film about
the sinking of the legendary Titanic. Following the film's enormous
failure, the German navy used the Cap Arcona to transport German
soldiers and civilians across the Baltic, away from the Red Army's
advance. In the Third Reich's final days, the ill-fated ship was
packed with thousands of concentration camp prisoners. Without
adequate water, food, or sanitary facilities, the prisoners
suffered as they waited for the end of the war. Just days before
Germany surrendered, the Cap Arconawas mistakenly bombed by the
British Royal Air Force, and nearly all of the prisoners were
killed in the last major tragedy of the Holocaust and one of
history's worst maritime disasters. Although the British government
sealed many documents pertaining to the ship's sinking, Robert P.
Watson has unearthed forgotten records, conducted many interviews,
and used over 100 sources, including diaries and oral histories, to
expose this story. As a result, The Nazi Titanic is a riveting and
astonishing account of an enigmatic ship that played a devastating
role in World War II and the Holocaust.
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
Sweeping across scholarly disciplines, Back to Nature shows that,
from the moment of their conception, modern ecological and
epistemological anxieties were conjoined twins. Urbanization,
capitalism, Protestantism, colonialism, revived Skepticism,
empirical science, and optical technologies conspired to alienate
people from both the earth and reality itself in the seventeenth
century. Literary and visual arts explored the resulting cultural
wounds, expressing the pain and proposing some ingenious cures. The
stakes, Robert N. Watson demonstrates, were huge. Shakespeare's
comedies, Marvell's pastoral lyrics, Traherne's visionary
Centuries, and Dutch painting all illuminate a fierce submerged
debate about what love of nature has to do with perception of
reality.
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