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Offering insights from pioneering new perspectives in addition to
well-established traditions of research, this Handbook considers
the activities not only of advocacy groups in the environmental,
feminist, human rights, humanitarian, and peace sectors, but also
the array of religious, professional, and business associations
that make up the wider non-governmental organization (NGO)
community. Including perspectives from multiple world regions, the
book takes account of institutions in the Global South, alongside
better-known structures of the Global North. International
contributors from a range of disciplines cover all the major
aspects of research into NGOs in International Relations to
present: a comprehensive overview of the historical evolution of
NGOs, the range of structural forms and international networks
coverage of major theoretical perspectives illustrations of how
NGOs are influential in every prominent issue-area of contemporary
International Relations evaluation of the significant regional
variations among NGOs and how regional contexts influence the
nature and impact of NGOs analysis of the ways NGOs address
authoritarianism, terrorism, and challenges to democracy, and how
NGOs handle concerns surrounding their own legitimacy and
accountability. Exploring contrasting theories, regional
dimensions, and a wide range of contemporary challenges facing
NGOs, this Handbook will be essential reading for students,
scholars, and practitioners alike.
In light of the limited achievements of the Arab Spring and other
pro-democracy movements, volume 39 examines and unpacks arguments
that these protests represent both a new phase and new prospects
for democratic mobilization. The volume engages with new
theoretical and methodological perspectives and illuminates novel
aspects of transnational social movement dynamics, such as the
evolving role of information technology, deterritorialisation and
government counter-responses.
The most influential actor of his age, David Garrick (1717-79)
shaped the London stage for over three decades as theatre manager
at Drury Lane. He popularised a more natural style of acting, and
did much to make Shakespeare the most revered English playwright.
First published in 1780 and reissued here in the second edition of
that year, this two-volume biography was written by Thomas Davies
(c.1712-85). Samuel Johnson, a friend of the Garrick family,
notably provided Davies with anecdotes and information on Garrick's
early life. The work does not dwell on gossip or private life; it
offers instead an informed portrait of the stage in Garrick's time.
Davies had inhabited this world as a much less successful actor
himself, before becoming a bookseller. His work is therefore a
direct and valuable witness to theatrical London in the eighteenth
century. The first volume covers the years 1717-63.
The most influential actor of his age, David Garrick (1717-79)
shaped the London stage for over three decades as theatre manager
at Drury Lane. He popularised a more natural style of acting, and
did much to make Shakespeare the most revered English playwright.
First published in 1780 and reissued here in the second edition of
that year, this two-volume biography was written by Thomas Davies
(c.1712-85). Samuel Johnson, a friend of the Garrick family,
notably provided Davies with anecdotes and information on Garrick's
early life. The work does not dwell on gossip or private life; it
offers instead an informed portrait of the stage in Garrick's time.
Davies had inhabited this world as a much less successful actor
himself, before becoming a bookseller. His work is therefore a
direct and valuable witness to theatrical London in the eighteenth
century. The second volume covers the years 1763-79.
This fascinating and research-led textbook gives students the facts
and the tools they need to engage critically with the psychological
dimension of the criminal justice system. Accessibly written and
packed with the latest psychological research, Forensic Psychology:
Fact and Fiction is an engaging and wide-ranging exploration of
both foundational and contemporary issues. The book prepares
students to weigh up evidence and arguments, and reach their own
conclusions about the issues and questions that have led them to
study forensic psychology. Forensic Psychology: Fact and Fiction
gives students all they need to get to grips with debates about the
link between mental fitness and criminal responsibility, the
purposes and effectiveness of punishment, and the use of police
force, and others. It places psychology at its heart, combining
research with legal perspectives to give the full picture. Drawing
on global research and examples, students are given insights into
what differs and what remains the same across jurisdictions and
borders. Real-life case studies illustrate forensic concepts,
allowing students to see how psychology is applied to criminal
behaviour and the response of society to it. This comprehensive
introduction is ideal for undergraduate students taking a course in
forensic psychology. Balancing clarity and rigor, the book takes
the student on a journey from the fundamental concepts through to
the application of psychology to forensic techniques. Accompanying
online resources for this title can be found at
bloomsburyonlineresources.com/davis-forensic-psychology. These
resources are designed to support teaching and learning when using
this textbook and are available at no extra cost.
An uplifting, encouraging reminder that God works through his
imperfect people. Evangelism is crucial, it is urgent, it is
exciting, it is wonderful. There is nothing more thrilling than to
see God at work in people's lives and to see men, women, boys and
girls discovering the incredible joy and peace that comes from
knowing Jesus. But it is also hard. Really hard. Often, sharing our
faith with other people is the area of our Christian lives where we
feel at our most useless. The Bible contains a wealth of
theological truth that is a powerhouse of encouragement for
evangelism, including the basic truths that God is God and you are
you. God is who he has always been: infinite, eternal,
unchangeable, all-powerful, at work in his world. You are you; you
don't need to become someone you are not. God has not called a
select group of elite Christians to tell the world about Jesus; he
has chosen his weak, insecure, ineloquent people. He has chosen
you.
In 1935, the English writer Stephen Spender wrote that the
historical pressures of his era should "turn the reader's and
writer's attention outwards from himself to the world." Combining
historical, formalist, and archival approaches, Thomas S. Davis
examines late modernism's decisive turn toward everyday life,
locating in the heightened scrutiny of details, textures, and
experiences an intimate attempt to conceptualize geopolitical
disorder. The Extinct Scene reads a range of mid-century texts,
films, and phenomena that reflect the decline of the British Empire
and seismic shifts in the global political order. Davis follows the
rise of documentary film culture and the British Documentary Film
Movement, especially the work of John Grierson, Humphrey Jennings,
and Basil Wright. He then considers the influence of late modernist
periodical culture on social attitudes and customs, and presents
original analyses of novels by Virginia Woolf, Christopher
Isherwood, and Colin MacInnes; the interwar travel narratives of W.
H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, and George Orwell; the wartime
gothic fiction of Elizabeth Bowen; the poetry of H. D.; the
sketches of Henry Moore; and the postimperial Anglophone Caribbean
works of Vic Reid, Sam Selvon, and George Lamming. By considering
this group of writers and artists, Davis recasts late modernism as
an art of scale: by detailing the particulars of everyday life,
these figures could better project large-scale geopolitical events
and crises.
Offering insights from pioneering new perspectives in addition to
well-established traditions of research, this Handbook considers
the activities not only of advocacy groups in the environmental,
feminist, human rights, humanitarian, and peace sectors, but also
the array of religious, professional, and business associations
that make up the wider non-governmental organization (NGO)
community. Including perspectives from multiple world regions, the
book takes account of institutions in the Global South, alongside
better-known structures of the Global North. International
contributors from a range of disciplines cover all the major
aspects of research into NGOs in International Relations to
present: a comprehensive overview of the historical evolution of
NGOs, the range of structural forms and international networks
coverage of major theoretical perspectives illustrations of how
NGOs are influential in every prominent issue-area of contemporary
International Relations evaluation of the significant regional
variations among NGOs and how regional contexts influence the
nature and impact of NGOs analysis of the ways NGOs address
authoritarianism, terrorism, and challenges to democracy, and how
NGOs handle concerns surrounding their own legitimacy and
accountability. Exploring contrasting theories, regional
dimensions, and a wide range of contemporary challenges facing
NGOs, this Handbook will be essential reading for students,
scholars, and practitioners alike.
In 1935, the English writer Stephen Spender wrote that the
historical pressures of his era should "turn the reader's and
writer's attention outwards from himself to the world." Combining
historical, formalist, and archival approaches, Thomas S. Davis
examines late modernism's decisive turn toward everyday life,
locating in the heightened scrutiny of details, textures, and
experiences an intimate attempt to conceptualize geopolitical
disorder. The Extinct Scene reads a range of mid-century texts,
films, and phenomena that reflect the decline of the British Empire
and seismic shifts in the global political order. Davis follows the
rise of documentary film culture and the British Documentary Film
Movement, especially the work of John Grierson, Humphrey Jennings,
and Basil Wright. He then considers the influence of late modernist
periodical culture on social attitudes and customs, and presents
original analyses of novels by Virginia Woolf, Christopher
Isherwood, and Colin MacInnes; the interwar travel narratives of W.
H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, and George Orwell; the wartime
gothic fiction of Elizabeth Bowen; the poetry of H. D.; the
sketches of Henry Moore; and the postimperial Anglophone Caribbean
works of Vic Reid, Sam Selvon, and George Lamming. By considering
this group of writers and artists, Davis recasts late modernism as
an art of scale: by detailing the particulars of everyday life,
these figures could better project large-scale geopolitical events
and crises.
In the first historical account of international NGOs, from the
French Revolution to the present, Thomas Davies places the
contemporary debate on transnational civil society in context. In
contrast to the conventional wisdom, which sees transnational civil
society as a recent development taking place along a linear
trajectory, he explores the long history of international NGOs in
terms of a cyclical process characterised by three major waves: the
era to 1914, the inter-war years, and the period since the Second
World War. The breadth of transnational civil society activities
explored is unprecedented in its diversity, from business
associations to humanitarian organisations, peace groups to
socialist movements, feminist organisations to pan- nationalist
groups. The geographical scope covered is also extensive, and the
analysis is richly supported with reference to a diverse array of
previously unexplored sources. By revealing the role of civil
society rather than governmental actors in the major trans-
formations of the past two-and-a-half centuries, this book is for
anyone interested in obtaining a new perspective on world history.
The analysis concludes in the second decade of the twenty-first
century, providing insights into the trajectory of transnational
civil society in the post-9/11 and post-financial crisis eras.
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