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A lively and stimulating resource for all 1st year students of
human geography, this introductory Reader comprises key published
writings from the main fields of human geography. Because the
subject is both broad and necessarily only loosely defined, a
principal aim of this book is to present a view of the subject
which is theoretically informed and yet recognises that any view is
partial, contingent and subject to change.
The extracts selected are accessible and raise issues of method and
theory as well as fact. The editors have chosen articles that not
only represent main currents in the present flow of academic
geography but which are also responsive to developments outside of
the discipline. Their selection contains a mixture of established
and recent writings and each section features a contextualizing
introduction and detailed suggestions for further reading.
Digital Governance provides managers with a simple and jargon-free
introduction to the impact that digital technology can have on the
governance of their organisations. Digital technology is at the
heart of any enterprise today, changing business processes and the
way we work. But this technology is often used inefficiently,
riskily or inappropriately. Worse perhaps, many organisational
leaders fail to grasp the opportunities it offers and thus fail to
"transform" their organisations through the use of technology. This
book provides an explanation of the basic issues around the
opportunities and risks associated with digital technology. It
describes the role that digital technology can play across
organisations (and not just behind the locked doors of the IT
department), giving boards and top management the insight to
develop strategies for investing in and exploiting digital
technology as well as arming them with the knowledge required to
ask the right questions of specialists and to detect when the
answers given are evasive or irrelevant. International in its
scope, this essential book covers the fundamental principles of
digital governance such as leadership, capability, accountability
for value creation and transparency of reporting, integrity and
ethical behaviour.
First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
The past decade has witnessed a remarkable resurgence in the
intellectual interplay between geography and the humanities in both
academic and public circles. The metaphors and concepts of
geography now permeate literature, philosophy, and the arts.
Concepts such as space, place, landscape, mapping and territory
have become pervasive as conceptual frameworks and core metaphors
in recent publications by humanities scholars and well-known
writers.
Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds contains over 25
contributions from leading scholars who have engaged this vital
intellectual project from various perspectives, both inside and
outside of the field of geography. The book is divided into four
sections representing different modes of examining the depth and
complexity of human meaning invested in maps, attached to
landscapes, and embedded in the spaces and places of modern life.
The topics covered range widely and include interpretations of
space, place, and landscape in literature and the visual arts,
philosophical reflections on geographical knowledge, cultural
imagination in scientific exploration and travel accounts, and
expanded geographical understanding through digital and
participatory methodologies. The clashing and blending of cultures
caused by globalization and the new technologies that profoundly
alter human environmental experience suggest new geographical
narratives and representations that are explored here by a
multidisciplinary group of authors.
This book is essential reading for students, scholars, and
interested general readers seeking to understand the new synergies
and creative interplay emerging from this broad intellectual
engagement with meaning and geographic experience.
Contents: Epidemiology of bulimia nervosa, J.H. Crowther, et al. Part 1 Developmental and familial factors: overview, P.A. Crawford and D. Watts; developmental issues in the study of eating problems and disorders, I. Attie and J. Brooks-Gunn; toward a model of the developmental psychopathology of eating disorders - the example of early adolescence, M.P. Levine and L. Smolak; body image, weight control and eating disorders among children, M.H. Thelen, et al; relationship of family and personality factors in bulimia, S. Wonderlich. Part 2 Individual factors: overview, D.S. Rosch and K.L. Shepherd; chronic dieting and eating disorders - a spiral model, T.F. Heatherton and J. Polivy; body-image disorder - definition, development, and contribution to eating disorders, J.C. Rosen; personality characteristics as a risk factor in the development of eating disorders, C. Johnson and S. Wonderlich. Part 3 Future directions: overview, D.L. Zotter and N.E. Sherwood; prevention of bulimia nervosa - questions and challenges, R.H. Striegel-Moore; aetiology of bulimia nervosa - conceptual, research and measurement issues, J.H. Crowther and J.S. Mizes.
The chapters in this volume build on a growing body of
ethnomethodological conversation analytic research on teaching in
order to enhance our empirical understandings of teaching as
embodied, contingent and jointly achieved with students in the
complex management of various courses of action and larger
instructional projects. Together, the chapters document the
embodied accomplishment of teaching by identifying specific
resources that teachers use to manage instructional projects;
demonstrate that teaching entails both alignment and affiliation
work; and show the significance of using high-quality audiovisual
data to document the sophisticated work of teaching. By providing
analytic insight into the highly-specialized work of teaching, the
studies make a significant contribution to a practice-based
understanding of how the life of the classroom, as lived by its
members, is accomplished.
The past decade has witnessed a remarkable resurgence in the
intellectual interplay between geography and the humanities in both
academic and public circles. The metaphors and concepts of
geography now permeate literature, philosophy, and the arts.
Concepts such as space, place, landscape, mapping and territory
have become pervasive as conceptual frameworks and core metaphors
in recent publications by humanities scholars and well-known
writers.
Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds contains over 25
contributions from leading scholars who have engaged this vital
intellectual project from various perspectives, both inside and
outside of the field of geography. The book is divided into four
sections representing different modes of examining the depth and
complexity of human meaning invested in maps, attached to
landscapes, and embedded in the spaces and places of modern life.
The topics covered range widely and include interpretations of
space, place, and landscape in literature and the visual arts,
philosophical reflections on geographical knowledge, cultural
imagination in scientific exploration and travel accounts, and
expanded geographical understanding through digital and
participatory methodologies. The clashing and blending of cultures
caused by globalization and the new technologies that profoundly
alter human environmental experience suggest new geographical
narratives and representations that are explored here by a
multidisciplinary group of authors.
This book is essential reading for students, scholars, and
interested general readers seeking to understand the new synergies
and creative interplay emerging from this broad intellectual
engagement with meaning and geographic experience.
Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer represents a late development in "midrash",
or classical rabbinic interpretation, that has enlightened,
intrigued and frustrated scholars of Jewish culture for the past
two centuries. Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer's challenge to scholarship
includes such issues as the work's authorship and authenticity, an
asymmetrical literary structure as well as its ambiguous
relationship with a variety of rabbinic, Islamic and Hellenistic
works of interpretation. This cluster of issues has contributed to
the confusion about the work's structure, origins and identity.
Midrash and Multiplicity addresses the problems raised by this
equivocal work, and uses Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer in order to assess
the nature of "midrash", and the renewal of Jewish interpretive
culture, during its transition to the medieval era of the early
"Geonim".
This two-volume work which was first published in 1825-8 presents
London's most important buildings at a time of rapid urban
transformation. Aiming to project a vision of London as a dynamic
city of integrated courtly and commercial power, the 70 entries
span a historical range from the medieval (Westminster Hall) to the
early nineteenth century (Soane's Museum) and a diversity of
building types from palaces and churches to banks, theatres,
prisons and bridges. Edited by John Britton, a leading
topographical authority of the period, and Auguste Charles Pugin,
an Anglo-French architectural draughtsman, the volumes contain 146
engravings of the selected buildings, correctly scaled from
different perspectives and including interior scenes as well as
external plans. This was a landmark publication in its time and
remains a vivid portrait of the London's built environment
immediately before the advent of the railway. This new edition
includes an extended introduction by Stephen Daniels, Professor
Emeritus of Cultural Geography, University of Nottingham.
The leading landscape gardener of later Georgian England, Humphry
Repton (1752-1818), was innovative and prolific, undertaking more
than four hundred commissions during his thirty-year career. Repton
worked for a wide variety of clients, notably the dukes of Portland
and Bedford, and on many kinds of sites throughout England. He also
promoted his profession in extensive writings about the theory and
practice of landscape gardening. This book examines Repton's career
and work in the context of the changing human geography of his
time. Fully illustrated with many previously unpublished pictures,
the book charts Repton's vision of England, how his style changed
and persisted over time and from place to place, how he influenced
his profession, and how he fashioned a social identity for himself.
Stephen Daniels frames Repton's life and work in terms of five
domains: the road, the county, the picturesque landscape, the
aristocratic estate, and the urban periphery. Focusing on the way
these domains shaped Repton's career and how he in turn attempted
to shape them, Daniels examines in depth more than twenty
representative commissions that delineate Repton's social and
spatial theory of landscape. The author casts new light not only on
the work of Humphry Repton but also on the role of landscape itself
in English culture and society. Published for the Paul Mellon
Center for Studies in British Art
North American universities depend on international teaching
assistants (ITAs) as a substantial part of the teaching labor
force, which has led to the idea of an 'ITA problem', a deficiency
model which is framed as a divergence between ITAs' linguistic
competence and undergraduates' and their parents' expectations.
This outdated positioning of ITAs as deficient diminishes the
invaluable role they play within the academy. This book argues
instead for an approach to ITA which recognizes them as
multilingual, skilled, migrant professionals who participate in and
are discursively constructed through various participant
frameworks, modalities and activities. The chapters in this volume
offer state-of-the-art research into ITA using a variety of methods
and approaches, and as such constitute a transdisciplinary
perspective which argues for the importance of dialogue between
research and practice.
About Man and God and Law is the story of how Bob Dylan sparked a
revolution of the spirit and why it matters today. Many of our
assumptions about empathy, sensual pleasure, and the essence of
work, community, country, race, and the divine have germinated in
Bob Dylan's need to know what's blowing in the wind and how it
feels. Tracing his work and vision through themes that have shaped
religious and cultural history for millennia, Stephen Daniel Arnoff
uncovers how Bob Dylan has re-enchanted ancient questions of
meaning and purpose throughout popular culture, inspiring a
pantheon of prophetic musicians along the way. This field guide to
Dylan's spiritual wisdom aims to make good on the promise that if
we look closely enough at his body of work-precisely at a moment
when the world we thought we knew seems like uncharted territory-we
can open up our eyes to see not only where we really are, but where
we need to go.
North American universities depend on international teaching
assistants (ITAs) as a substantial part of the teaching labor
force, which has led to the idea of an 'ITA problem', a deficiency
model which is framed as a divergence between ITAs' linguistic
competence and undergraduates' and their parents' expectations.
This outdated positioning of ITAs as deficient diminishes the
invaluable role they play within the academy. This book argues
instead for an approach to ITA which recognizes them as
multilingual, skilled, migrant professionals who participate in and
are discursively constructed through various participant
frameworks, modalities and activities. The chapters in this volume
offer state-of-the-art research into ITA using a variety of methods
and approaches, and as such constitute a transdisciplinary
perspective which argues for the importance of dialogue between
research and practice.
The chapters in this volume build on a growing body of
ethnomethodological conversation analytic research on teaching in
order to enhance our empirical understandings of teaching as
embodied, contingent and jointly achieved with students in the
complex management of various courses of action and larger
instructional projects. Together, the chapters document the
embodied accomplishment of teaching by identifying specific
resources that teachers use to manage instructional projects;
demonstrate that teaching entails both alignment and affiliation
work; and show the significance of using high-quality audiovisual
data to document the sophisticated work of teaching. By providing
analytic insight into the highly-specialized work of teaching, the
studies make a significant contribution to a practice-based
understanding of how the life of the classroom, as lived by its
members, is accomplished.
Work, pressure, and anxiety; love, loss, and lighter topics, such
as drinking tea and travelling, are explored here with
intelligence, sensitivity, and delightful dry humour. Daniels'
philosophical mind is much apparent as he observes, quizzes, and
draws conclusions; so, too, is the poet's restrained anger, which
serves to energise his writing, catalysing the ordinary, here and
there, into something more unsettling. It's Daniels' humanity,
however, which shines through in this book, and which makes these
very finely formed poems seem like a friend to carry with you. This
is a wonderful, wry collection of work which I highly recommend. -
Mab Jones Stephen Daniels is the editor of Fresh Air Poetry. His
poetry has been published in numerous magazines and websites. His
debut pamphlet `Tell Mistakes I Love Them' was published in 2017 by
V. Press. His second pamphlet `GBP5 for this love' was published in
2018 by Paper Swans Press.
A hymn to the British landscape. From the dramatic hills of the
Lake District to the beaches and covers of Cornwall, this richly
illustrated book brings together new perspectives on the places
that have inspired artists, writers and film-makers and shaped the
nation's identity. The third in the bestselling series of Houses of
the National Trust and Gardens of the National Trust, this is a
richly illustrated book providing new perspectives on the British
landscape. From the dramatic hills of the Lake District to the
mysterious fens of eastern England and the beaches and coves of
Cornwall, landscapes provide the settings for our daily lives, as
well as an important part of our identity. The inspiration for
artists, writers and film-makers, our landscapes are cultural,
man-made creations far more than we may be aware. But how much do
we know about how these landscapes came into being? How were
different sorts of landscapes valued in the past? And how can
landscapes today and in the future best adapt to the ever-changing
world in which we live? Chapters include The Art of Landscape,
Ancient Places, Homes and Gardens, Lost in the Woods, Open Country
and Shifting Shores. Landscapes of the National Trust will appeal
to all those who care about the past, present and future of the
British landscape and is superbly illustrated throughout with
stunning photographs.
This study explores the science and culture of nineteenth-century
British arboretums, or tree collections. The development of
arboretums was fostered by a variety of factors, each of which is
explored in detail: global trade and exploration, the popularity of
collecting, the significance to the British economy and society,
developments in Enlightenment science, changes in landscape
gardening aesthetics and agricultural and horticultural
improvement. Arboretums were idealized as microcosms of nature,
miniature encapsulations of the globe and as living museums. This
book critically examines different kinds of arboretum in order to
understand the changing practical, scientific, aesthetic and
pedagogical principles that underpinned their design, display and
the way in which they were viewed. It is the first study of its
kind and fills a gap in the literature on Victorian science and
culture.
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Understand the role of epidemiology in clinical medicine for the
best patient outcomes possible For nearly a quarter of a century,
Medical Epidemiology has been the go-to text for understanding the
principles and concepts of epidemiology and the relationship
between population-based science and efficient patient care. It
delivers the most current information on patterns of disease
occurrence and risk factors - all clearly linked to clinical
practice through the use of Health Scenarios in every chapter. This
edition of Medical Epidemiology has been completely rewritten to
reflect the transformative changes in the manner in which
epidemiologic methods are being utilized in today's healthcare as
well as the major shifts that have occurred at the policy level.
New chapters have been added on many timely topics, including
global health, social determinants of health, health inequalities,
comparative effectiveness, quality of care, variations in care, and
implementation science. Increased information about evaluating,
summarizing, and using evidence for improved patient care and
outcomes gives this edition an even greater clinical focus.
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