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We may all feel we know what an "English" garden is, but do we
really? England's Gardens offers a holistic, modern-day tour and an
update on the history of some of the most iconic, enduring, and
influential gardens across the country. A fresh take on a
much-loved subject, this book will help you get to know England's
gardens up close and personal. Garden historian Stephen Parker
leads you through England's horticultural history, unearthing the
cultural context and hidden stories behind the gardens, and
bringing lesser-known garden makers to the fore. In five detailed
historical chapters, Parker explores the making of the so-called
"English" garden - from its origins in the formal splendour of
stately homes, all the way to climate-change resilience and
future-facing designs of the modern era. Inside the pages of this
stunning book on England's country gardens, you will find: - 5
chapters of detailed narrative essays arranged in chronological
order. - Detailed profiles showcase significant garden makers. -
More than 20 photography-led garden case studies explore key
gardens to visit in England today. - Stunning, full-bleed,
contemporary photography brings the gardens to life. - Archival
photography and historical art sheds light on the history and
making of the gardens. Discover the best gardens to visit today -
with garden case studies showcasing everything England's gardens
have to offer through stunning contemporary photography and careful
analysis of planting schemes and garden makers' creative
influences. From iconic sites like Sissinghurst and Great Dixter,
to more unusual examples such as Prospect Cottage and The Laskett -
this book celebrates England's gardens in all their glorious
diversity, sublime beauty, and exuberant eccentricity.
Eureka: General Surgery and Urology is an innovative book for
medical students that fully integrates core science, clinical
medicine and surgery. The book benefits from an engaging and
authoritative text, written by specialists in the field, and has
several key features to help you really understand the subject:
Chapter starter questions - to get you thinking about the topic
before you start reading Break out boxes which contain essential
key knowledge Clinical cases to help you understand the material in
a clinical context Unique graphic narratives which are especially
useful for visual learners End of chapter answers to the starter
questions A final self-assessment chapter of Single Best Answers to
really help test and reinforce your knowledge The book starts with
the First Principles chapter which clearly explains key concepts
such as assessment of the patient fitness for surgery, patient
consent and pain management. The Clinical Essentials chapter
provides an overview of the symptoms and signs of surgical disease,
investigations and management options. A series of disease-based
chapters briefly describe, by system, relevant structure and
function, history and examination and main surgical presentations,
each chapter introduced by engaging clinical cases that feature
unique graphic narratives. The Emergencies chapter covers the
principles of immediate care in situations such as acute
appendicitis. Finally, the Self-Assessment chapter comprises 80
multiple choice questions in clinical Single Best Answer format, to
thoroughly test your understanding of the subject. The Eureka
series of books are designed to be a 'one stop shop': they contain
all the key information you need to know to succeed in your studies
and pass your exams.
Practice Methodologies in Education Research offers a fresh
approach to researching practice in education. Addressing a major
gap in research methodology scholarship, it highlights how integral
practice theory is to the transformational agendas of education
research, introducing a theory of activist practice methodologies
informed by expansive theories of practice. With contributions from
leading education researchers drawn from across the world, the book
confronts onto-epistemological dilemmas for doing research that
arise from taking practice theory seriously, including the theories
of Bourdieu, de Certeau, Deleuze, Haraway, Latour, Taylor, and
Vygotsky. A defining feature of the chapters is their activist
axiologies and their experimental approach to researching practice
in education, in fields as diverse as educational leadership,
schooling, higher education, adult and workplace education and
training, professional practice, and informal learning. Practice
Methodologies in Education is essential reading for education
academics and postgraduates engaged in critical research using
practice theory.
Practice Methodologies in Education Research offers a fresh
approach to researching practice in education. Addressing a major
gap in research methodology scholarship, it highlights how integral
practice theory is to the transformational agendas of education
research, introducing a theory of activist practice methodologies
informed by expansive theories of practice. With contributions from
leading education researchers drawn from across the world, the book
confronts onto-epistemological dilemmas for doing research that
arise from taking practice theory seriously, including the theories
of Bourdieu, de Certeau, Deleuze, Haraway, Latour, Taylor, and
Vygotsky. A defining feature of the chapters is their activist
axiologies and their experimental approach to researching practice
in education, in fields as diverse as educational leadership,
schooling, higher education, adult and workplace education and
training, professional practice, and informal learning. Practice
Methodologies in Education is essential reading for education
academics and postgraduates engaged in critical research using
practice theory.
This volume contributes to the study of 'new' sonic and visual
sources and their intertextual relationship with the documentary,
as well as traditional understandings of 'text', in the history of
education. It both presents case studies of research and points to
new avenues of further research. This volume arose from a joint
conference of the History of Education Society, UK, and the
Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society, held in
2016, on the theme 'sight, sound and text in the history of
education'. The conference drew together educational and media
historians, as well as archivists and museum professionals, to
examine methodological issues, and a range of examples of sensory
and textual histories. The event from which this book arose showed
that there is so much more to consider in this area. This book was
originally published as a special issue of History of Education.
This volume contributes to the study of 'new' sonic and visual
sources and their intertextual relationship with the documentary,
as well as traditional understandings of 'text', in the history of
education. It both presents case studies of research and points to
new avenues of further research. This volume arose from a joint
conference of the History of Education Society, UK, and the
Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society, held in
2016, on the theme 'sight, sound and text in the history of
education'. The conference drew together educational and media
historians, as well as archivists and museum professionals, to
examine methodological issues, and a range of examples of sensory
and textual histories. The event from which this book arose showed
that there is so much more to consider in this area. This book was
originally published as a special issue of History of Education.
This book is an edited collection introducing the Education Policy
and Social Inequality series, and presents chapters from authors on
the editorial board. It investigates relations between educational
policy and social inequality, not simply in terms of policy
solutions for inequalities but also how education policy frames,
creates and at times exacerbates social inequalities. It adopts a
critical stance, encompassing innovative and interdisciplinary
theoretical and conceptual studies - drawing on e.g. sociology,
cultural studies, social and cultural geography, and history - as
well as original empirical work that examines a range of
educational contexts, including early years education, vocational
and further education, informal education, K-12 schooling and
higher education. The book argues that critique and policy studies
can have a transformative function, positing new dimensions for
understanding the role of education policy in connection with
recurrent social problems and seeking the amelioration of social
inequality in ways that challenge the possibility of equity in the
liberal democratic state, as well as in other forms of governance
and government.
This book is an edited collection introducing the Education Policy
and Social Inequality series, and presents chapters from authors on
the editorial board. It investigates relations between educational
policy and social inequality, not simply in terms of policy
solutions for inequalities but also how education policy frames,
creates and at times exacerbates social inequalities. It adopts a
critical stance, encompassing innovative and interdisciplinary
theoretical and conceptual studies - drawing on e.g. sociology,
cultural studies, social and cultural geography, and history - as
well as original empirical work that examines a range of
educational contexts, including early years education, vocational
and further education, informal education, K-12 schooling and
higher education. The book argues that critique and policy studies
can have a transformative function, positing new dimensions for
understanding the role of education policy in connection with
recurrent social problems and seeking the amelioration of social
inequality in ways that challenge the possibility of equity in the
liberal democratic state, as well as in other forms of governance
and government.
This study of the legendary Berlin literary and cultural journal
Sinn und Form (1949- ) has a twofold significance. Based on
extensive archival research and a detailed reading of the journal's
published face, it is a comprehensive history of "Sinn und Form",
whose founding editor was Peter Huchel and whose authors include
Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Pablo Neruda, Romain Rolland, Peter
Weiss, Christa Wolf, Heiner Muller and Durs Grunbein. As such, it
offers a fascinating perspective on the cultural history of the GDR
and post-unification Germany. The study is also a first typological
analysis of the anatomy of such a journal, organised in seven
analytical categories: founding conception; cultural-political
context; institutional infrastructure; role of editors; network of
contributors; textual and compositional dimension; readership and
reception. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of culture, the
authors set out to explain how the journal acquired and maintained
its influence over the last 60 years. In turn, this
conceptualisation of the journal as an agent in the cultural field
opens the way for systematic research into literary and cultural
journals from a comparative perspective, synthesising sociological
and literary approaches.
This book seeks to move twentieth-century German literary history
away from its stubbornly persistent reliance on the political
turning-points of 1933 and 1945. In the first part of the book, the
authors analyze a synchronic corpus of literary journals,
identifying a restorative aesthetic mood in the years 1930-1960
which persists across political date boundaries. In the second
part, the careers of five writers are considered diachronically
against this prevailing restorative climate: Gottfried Benn,
Johannes R. Becher, Bertolt Brecht, Gunter Eich, and Peter Huchel.
Combining these two approaches, the authors show that a fresh
perspective that challenges established literary-historical
periodisations can shed light on the common cultural and aesthetic
ground shared by writers, editors and critics across the
ideological divides of the era.
By the author of "Cohabitees", this book traces the boundaries of
legal marriage since the Industrial Revolution, from informal
marriage practices to modern cohabitation. Changes are placed in
their economic, political and social contexts, seen to be the
product of class and gender conflict.
MRCS Applied Basic Science and Clinical Topics offers a complete
and up-to-date guide to specialty training in surgery, covering all
the core topics examined in the MRCS Part A and B exams. Presented
in a clear layout, chapters are mapped to the syllabus to deliver
structured revision in all the systems. Featuring concise and
easy-to-digest notes, this book provides clinical knowledge,
practical skills and the essential revision tool to maximise
chances of exam success. Key Points Presents topics in an
accessible double-page format for rapid access to information
Covers the full knowledge-base examined by the Royal College of
Surgeons Highly illustrated with clinical photographs, imaging and
diagrams to aid visual memory of topics Equips candidates with the
necessary basic science and clinical knowledge to succeed in the
MRCS exams Complements MRCS Part A: 500 SBAs and EMQs and MRCS Part
B OSCE: Anatomy Highly Commended at the BMA Medical Book Awards
2013
This first English language biography of Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
in two decades paints a strikingly new picture of one of the
twentieth century's most controversial cultural icons. First
published in 2014 and now available in paperback, it was critically
lauded and declared the definitive life of this great artist and
writer. Drawing on letters, diaries and unpublished material,
including Brecht's medical records, Parker offers a rich and
enthralling account of Brecht's life and work, viewed through the
prism of the artist. Tracing his extraordinary life, from his
formative years in Augsburg, through the First World War, his
politicisation during the Weimar Republic and his years of exile,
up to the Berliner Ensemble's dazzling productions in Paris and
London, Parker shows how Brecht achieved his transformative effect
upon world theatre and poetry. Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life is a
powerful portrait of a great, compulsively contradictory
personality, whose artistry left its lasting imprint on modern
culture.
God is love. Right? In sermons you have been told repeatedly that
God is opposed to murder, rape, child abuse, animal cruelty and
slavery - because God is all-loving and all-forgiving. Right?
Wrong! The God of the Bible is an evil, psychopathic mass murderer!
Shocked? Well you should be! Do you dare to take a journey of
discovery through the dark underbelly of the Holy Bible and learn
of all the atrocities - murder, rape, child abuse, animal cruelty,
slavery and so much more - that the God of the Bible not only
condones, but has inflicted so mercilessly and without any kind of
'love' upon so many innocents? This is not for the faint-hearted
and sure to be an uncomfortable read for many - but if you dare,
then why not learn the truth about God that you were never told in
sermons? You will not find any bedtime stories here; so be warned -
you may need a tough stomach for this one! Note: Also available;
Steven Parker's 'Why All Religions Are Wrong' - Discover how
religion stands up to modern-day logical, rational and
well-reasoned scrutiny! ISBN-13: 9781490979564
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