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Exam Board: AQA Level & Subject: AS Sociology First teaching:
September 2015 Next exams: June 2023 AQA approved This fourth
edition of Collins’ respected AQA A-level Sociology series is
updated for the 2015 AQA Sociology specifications. Covering AS and
Year 1 of A-level, it will help students master the knowledge and
skills they need to excel in their study and engage with
contemporary society. This textbook has been revised by our team of
expert authors, who are practising sociologists, teachers and HE
experts. It includes full coverage of Education with Methods in
Context; Culture and Identity; Families and Households; Health; and
Work, Poverty and Welfare. Tried and tested content works alongside
new features to ensure that students: understand essential theories
and perspectives with up-to-date explanations and key concepts
defined on the page engage with the latest research with in-depth
explorations of new and classic research studies and accompanying
questions develop proficiency in critical analysis with up-to-date
case studies and questions focused on analysis and evaluation
acquire strong research skills with practical tasks that actively
involve students in the research process reflect and evaluate with
prompt questions integrated into the explanation assess progress
and apply learning with extensive practice questions for every
Topic, including both short answer and extended writing.
Rogrig Wishard is a killer, a liar and a thief. Rogrig is the last
person the fey would turn to for help. But they know something he
doesn't. In a world without government or law, where a man's
loyalty is to his family and faerie tales are strictly for
children, Rogrig is not happy to discover that he's carrying faerie
blood. Especially when he starts to see them wherever he goes. To
get his life back, he's going to have to journey further from home
than he's ever been before and find out what the fey could possibly
want from him. But that's easier said than done when the punishment
for abandoning your family is death.
Exam Board: AQA Level & Subject: A level Sociology First
teaching: September 2015 Next exams: June 2023 AQA approved This
fourth edition of Collins' respected AQA A-level Sociology series
is updated for the 2015 AQA Sociology specifications. Covering the
second year of the A level course, it will help students master the
knowledge and skills they need to excel in their study and engage
with contemporary society. This textbook has been revised by our
team of expert authors, who are practising sociologists, teachers
and HE experts. It includes full coverage of Crime and Deviance
with Theory and Methods; Beliefs in Society; Global Development;
The Media; and Stratification and Differentiation. Tried and tested
content works alongside new features to ensure that students:
Understand essential theories and perspectives with up-to-date
explanations and key concepts defined on the page Engage with the
latest research with in-depth explorations of new and classic
research studies and accompanying questions Develop proficiency in
critical analysis with up-to-date case studies and questions
focused on analysis and evaluation Acquire strong research skills
with practical tasks that actively involve students in the research
process Reflect and evaluate with prompt questions integrated into
the explanation Assess progress and apply learning with extensive
practice questions for every Topic, including both short answer and
extended writing
This volume provides the reader with an integrated overview of
state-of-the-art research in philosophy and ethics of design in
engineering and architecture. It contains twenty-five essays that
focus on engineering designing in its traditional sense, on
designing in novel engineering domains, including ICT, genetics,
and nanotechnology, designing of socio-technical systems, and on
architectural and environmental designing. Written for Faculty, PhD
and Master's students in philosophy and ethics of technology,
philosophy and ethics of architecture, management of technology,
management of architecture.
In this strikingly original work, Stephen Moore considers God's
male bodies--the body of Yahweh in the Hebrew Bible, and the Father
of Jesus Christ, and Jesus himself in the New Testament--and our
obsessive earthly quest for a perfect human form. God's Gym is
about divinity, physical pain, and the visions of male
perfectability.
Weaving together his obsession with human anatomy and dissection,
an interest in the technologies of torture, the cult of physical
culture, and an expert knowledge of biblical criticism, Moore
explains the male narcissism at the heart of the biblical God.
God's Gym is an intensely personal book, brimming with our
culture's phobias and fascinations about male perfectability.
Don't panic! This brand new collector's edition box set contains
the only audiobooks you'll ever need on your galactic travels - the
complete BBC radio productions of Douglas Adams's legendary saga.
Included are: The two original series, the Primary and Secondary
Phases, remastered by Dirk Maggs with vibrant sound and music and
including a 55-minute feature programme, Douglas Adams's Guide
tothe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and a fascinating 50-minute
interview with Douglas Adams Extended editions of the Tertiary,
Quandary and Quintessential Phases, directed by Dirk Maggs and
featuring over 11/2 hours of material not heard on BBC Radio 4 The
concluding Hexagonal Phase, with a further 50 minutes of extra
unbroadcast content A special bonus disc featuring Douglas Adams's
appearance on BBC Radio 4's Bookclub, in which he talks to James
Naughtie and a group of readers about comedy, sci-fi, the creation
of his characters and his influences Grab your towel, pour yourself
a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster and get set for over 20 hours of
unmissable radio adventure! Audio updated in 2020.
The conventional understanding of Japanese wartime ideology has for
years been summed up by just a few words: anti-modern,
spiritualist, and irrational. Yet such a cut and dried picture is
not at all reflective of the principles that guided national policy
from 1931-1945. Challenging the status quo, "Constructing East
Asia" examines how Japanese intellectuals, bureaucrats, and
engineers used technology as a system of power and
mobilization--what historian Aaron Moore terms a "technological
imaginary"--to rally people in Japan and its expanding empire. By
analyzing how these different actors defined technology in public
discourse, national policies, and large-scale infrastructure
projects, Moore reveals wartime elites as far more calculated in
thought and action than previous scholarship allows. Moreover,
Moore positions the wartime origins of technology deployment as an
essential part of the country's national policy and identity,
upending another predominant narrative--namely, that technology did
not play a modernizing role in Japan until the "economic miracle"
of the postwar years.
David Richards directs this fact-based drama exploring the case of
'The Yorkshire Ripper'. Throughout the 1970s and early '80s, the
serial killer preyed on young women and committed a total of 13
murders in the West Yorkshire area. This film shows a dramatisation
of the investigation led by Detective George Oldfield (Alun
Armstrong) which took its toll on both his career and personal life
but which also led to the conviction of Peter Sutcliffe (Craig
Cheetham) in 1981.
The war in Afghanistan creates an urgency for telling
stories-between soldiers, as they hand off missions to each other,
and between soldiers and civilians, trying to explain what is going
on-while also denying a lot of the context that is important for
the telling of that story. The landscape is so mountainous and
isolating that one incident or anecdote might not fit into a bigger
picture beyond itself. A patrol may have no effect on the one that
comes next. The war has ground itself into such a stasis that it is
hard to see movement or plot. Yet we're there. We have to say
something. We have to be accountable, even though the circumstances
complicate the ability to talk about it while simultaneously
creating a constant yearning to do so. The Longer We Were There
follows a part-time soldier's experience over seven years in the
Iowa Army National Guard. He enlists at seventeen into the
infantry, then bounces between college classes, army training,
disaster relief, civilian jobs, a deployment in Afghanistan-first
on the Afghan-Pakistani border, then into a remote valley in the
Hindu Kush Mountains-and finally comes home. His stories are about
having one foot on each side of the civilian-military divide, the
difficulty of describing one side to those on the other, and how,
as a consequence of this difficulty, that divide gets replicated
within the self.
Winner of the 2014 Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary
scholarship from the Phi Beta Kappa Society Having excavated the
world's earliest novels in his previous book, literary historian
Steven Moore explores in this sequel the remarkable flowering of
the novel between the years 1600 and 1800-from Don Quixote to
America's first big novel, an homage to Cervantes entitled Modern
Chivalry. This is the period of such classic novels as Tom Jones,
Candide, and Dangerous Liaisons, but beyond the dozen or so
recognized classics there are hundreds of other interesting novels
that appeared then, known only to specialists: Spanish picaresques,
French heroic romances, massive Chinese novels, Japanese graphic
novels, eccentric English novels, and the earliest American novels.
These minor novels are not only worthy of attention in their own
right, but also provide the context needed to appreciate why the
major novels were major breakthroughs. The novel experienced an
explosive growth spurt during these centuries as novelists
experimented with different forms and genres: epistolary novels,
romances, Gothic thrillers, novels in verse, parodies, science
fiction, episodic road trips, and family sagas, along with quirky,
unclassifiable experiments in fiction that resemble contemporary,
avant-garde works. As in his previous volume, Moore privileges the
innovators and outriders, those who kept the novel novel. This
sequel, like its predecessor, is a "zestfully encyclopedic, avidly
opinionated, and dazzlingly fresh history of the most 'elastic' of
literary forms" (Booklist).
At 7.30am on 1st July 1916, some 60,000 men climbed out of their
trenches and walked across No-Man's-Land and into the history
books. The Battle of the Somme, which was to rage for another four
and a half months, would ultimately involve every Irish battalion
on the Western Front. For some, such as the 36th (Ulster) Division
which sustained some 5,000 casualties in just 24 hours, the
slaughter left them so weakened that they had to be withdrawn. For
others their participation went on for weeks until attrition wore
them down. Today the Somme is at peace, though the First World War
hasn't been forgotten. Dotted across its tranquil landscape are
memorials to the Irish dead, many of whom lie in the cemeteries
clustered around the old front lines. Re-issued to commemorate the
100th anniversary, Steven Moore's 'The Irish on the Somme' puts the
contribution of the men of Ireland, north and south, unionist and
nationalist, into context. It takes the reader through the
conflict, from the declaration of war in August 1914, to the Second
Battle of the Somme and the final push to victory, then on to the
monuments and cemeteries, the tangible proof of Ireland's part in
the war to end all wars. This is an invaluable guide for the
armchair enthusiast and those visiting the battlefields.
The conventional understanding of Japanese wartime ideology has for
years been summed up by just a few words: anti-modern,
spiritualist, and irrational. Yet such a cut-and-dried picture is
not at all reflective of the principles that guided national policy
from 1931-1945. Challenging the status quo, Constructing East Asia
examines how Japanese intellectuals, bureaucrats, and engineers
used technology as a system of power and mobilization-what
historian Aaron Moore terms a "technological imaginary"-to rally
people in Japan and its expanding empire. By analyzing how these
different actors defined technology in public discourse, national
policies, and large-scale infrastructure projects, Moore reveals
wartime elites as far more calculated in thought and action than
previous scholarship allows. Moreover, Moore positions the wartime
origins of technology deployment as an essential part of the
country's national policy and identity, upending another
predominant narrative-namely, that technology did not play a
modernizing role in Japan until the "economic miracle" of the
postwar years.
Former students often thank their music teachers for what they were
taught about music and about life. Play it from the Heart uses
stories and concepts from music education as models for success.
Making music together requires exceptional cooperation, and
ensembles are the ultimate cooperative organizations. J. Steven
Moore relates what he and his students have learned about
excellence, leadership, responsibility, cooperation, and passion
from being in the band. Calling on personal experience, student
feedback, and resources ranging from Tim Lautzenheiser to Mahatma
Gandhi, Moore shares the lessons of playing from the heart.
President Obama has declared that the standard by which all
policies and policy outcomes are judged is fairness. He declared in
2011 that we've sought to ensure that every citizen can count on
some basic measure of security. We do this because we recognize
that no matter how responsibly we live our lives, any one of us, at
any moment, might face hard times, might face bad luck, might face
a crippling illness or a layoff. And that, he says, is why we have
a social safety net. He says that returning to a standard of
fairness where anyone can get ahead through hard work is the issue
of our time. And perhaps it is.
This book explores what it means for our economic system and our
economic results to be fair. Does it mean that everyone has a fair
shot? Does it mean that everyone gets the same amount? Does it mean
the government can assert the authority to forcibly take from the
successful and give to the poor? Is government supposed to be Robin
Hood determining who gets what? Or should the market decide that?
The surprising answer: nations with free market systems that allow
people to get ahead based on their own merit and achievement are
the fairest of them all.
This volume provides the reader with an integrated overview of
state-of-the-art research in philosophy and ethics of design in
engineering and architecture. It contains twenty-five essays that
focus on engineering designing in its traditional sense, on
designing in novel engineering domains, and on architectural and
environmental designing. This volume enables the reader to overcome
the traditional separation between engineering designing and
architectural designing.
As a soldier and civilian, Steven Moore has traveled from the
American Midwest to Afghanistan and beyond. In those travels, he's
seen what place can mean, specifically rural places, and how it
follows us, changes us. What Moore has to say about rural places
speaks to anyone who has driven a lonely road at night, with
nothing but darkness as a cushion between them and the emptiness
that surrounds. Place and how we define it-and how it defines us-is
a through line throughout the collection of eleven essays. Moore
writes about where we come from and the disconnection we often feel
between each other: between veterans and nonveterans, between
people of different political beliefs, between regions, between
eras. These pieces build into a contemplative whole, one that is a
powerful meditation on why where we come from means something and
how we'll always bring where we are with us, no matter where we go.
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