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used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
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Do you have to be a genius to get a first at university? In How to
Get a First Thomas Dixon argues that you do not, and sets out to
demystify first-class degrees in the arts, humanities and social
sciences, clearly articulating the difference between the excellent
and the merely competent in undergraduate work. This concise,
no-nonsense guidebook will give prospective and current students
advice on teaching and learning styles that prevail in university,
managing your time and managing your lecturers. In an accessible,
and entertaining style, the author looks at subjects such as:
making the transition from school to university; developing
transferable skills; making use of lectures and seminars; using
libraries and the internet; note-taking, essays, seminars and
presentations; common mistakes to avoid; writing with clarity and
style; revision and examinations. Illustrated with many examples
from a range of academic disciplines, How to Get a First is an
all-purpose guide to success in academic life.
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Emotions are
complex mental states that resist reduction. They are visceral
reactions but also beliefs about the world. They are spontaneous
outbursts but also culturally learned performances. They are
intimate and private and yet gain their substance and significance
only from interpersonal and social frameworks. And just as our
emotions in any given moment display this complex structure, so
their history is plural rather than singular. The history of
emotions is where the history of ideas meets the history of the
body, and where the history of subjectivity meets social and
cultural history. In this Very Short Introduction, Thomas Dixon
traces the historical ancestries of feelings ranging from sorrow,
melancholy, rage, and terror to cheerfulness, enthusiasm, sympathy,
and love. The picture that emerges is a complex one, showing how
the states we group together today as "the emotions" are the
product of long and varied historical changes in language, culture,
beliefs, and ways of life. The grief-stricken rage of Achilles in
the Iliad, the happiness inscribed in America's Declaration of
Independence, the love of humanity that fired crusades and
revolutions through the ages, and the righteous rage of modern
protest movements all look different when seen through this lens.
With examples from ancient, medieval, and modern cultures,
including forgotten feelings and the creation of modern emotional
regimes, this Very Short Introduction sheds new light on our
emotions in the present, by looking at what historians can tell us
about their past. Dixon explains the key ideas of historians of
emotions as they have developed in conversation with psychology and
psychiatry, with attention paid especially to ideas about basic
emotions, psychological construction, and affect theory. ABOUT THE
SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University
Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area.
These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new
subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis,
perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and
challenging topics highly readable.
In this informative guide, Thomas Dixon argues that you do not have
to be a genius to get a first at university. He sets out to
de-mystify first-class degrees in the arts, humanities and social
sciences, clearly articulating the difference between the excellent
and the merely competent in undergraduate work. This concise,
no-nonsense guidebook will give prospective and current students
advice on teaching and learning styles that prevail in university
and on how to manage their two most important resources - their
time and their lecturers. In an accessible and entertaining style,
the author looks at subjects such as: making the transition from
school to university developing transferable skills making use of
lectures and seminars using libraries and the Internet note-taking,
essays, seminars and presentations common mistakes to avoid writing
with clarity and style revision and examinations. Illustrated with
many examples from a range of academic disciplines, How to Get a
First is an all-purpose guide to success in academic life. Visit
the companion website www.getafirst.com
Thomas Dixon was a lawyer, North Carolina state legislator, Baptist
minister, lecturer, and novelist. This novel, an abridgement by
Cary Wintz was originally published in 1905. It reflects
turn-of-the-century attitudes most southerners had about Republican
rule during Reconstruction.
Thomas Dixon was a lawyer, North Carolina state legislator, Baptist
minister, lecturer, and novelist. This novel, an abridgement by
Cary Wintz was originally published in 1905. It reflects
turn-of-the-century attitudes most southerners had about Republican
rule during Reconstruction.
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Debates about
science and religion are rarely out of the news. Whether it
concerns what's being taught in schools, clashes between religious
values and medical recommendations, or questions about how to
address our changing global environment, emotions often run high
and answers seem intractable. Yet there is much more to science and
religion than the clash of extremes. As Thomas Dixon and Adam
Shapiro show in this balanced and thought-provoking Very Short
Introduction, a whole range of views, subtle arguments, and
fascinating perspectives can be found on this complex and
centuries-old subject. They explore the key philosophical questions
that underlie the debate, but also highlight the social, political,
and ethical contexts that have made the tensions between science
and religion such a fraught and interesting topic in the modern
world. In this new edition, Dixon and Shapiro connect historical
concepts such as evolution, the heliocentric solar system, and the
problem of evil to present-day issues including the politicization
of science; debates over mind, body, and identity; and the moral
necessity of addressing environmental change. Ranging from medical
missionaries to congregations adopting new technologies during a
pandemic, from Galileo's astronomy to building the Thirty Meter
Telescope, they explore how some of the most complex social issues
of our day are rooted in discussions of science and religion. ABOUT
THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford
University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every
subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get
ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts,
analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make
interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
According to the reigning competition-driven model of evolution,
selfish behaviors that maximize an organism's reproductive
potential offer a fitness advantage over self-sacrificing
behaviors-rendering unselfish behavior for the sake of others a
mystery that requires extra explanation. Evolution, Games, and God
addresses this conundrum by exploring how cooperation, working
alongside mutation and natural selection, plays a critical role in
populations from microbes to human societies. Inheriting a tendency
to cooperate, argue the contributors to this book, may be as
beneficial as the self-preserving instincts usually thought to be
decisive in evolutionary dynamics. Assembling experts in
mathematical biology, history of science, psychology, philosophy,
and theology, Martin Nowak and Sarah Coakley take an
interdisciplinary approach to the terms "cooperation" and
"altruism." Using game theory, the authors elucidate mechanisms by
which cooperation-a form of working together in which one
individual benefits at the cost of another-arises through natural
selection. They then examine altruism-cooperation which includes
the sometimes conscious choice to act sacrificially for the
collective good-as a key concept in scientific attempts to explain
the origins of morality. Discoveries in cooperation go beyond the
spread of genes in a population to include the spread of cultural
transformations such as languages, ethics, and religious systems of
meaning. The authors resist the presumption that theology and
evolutionary theory are inevitably at odds. Rather, in rationally
presenting a number of theological interpretations of the phenomena
of cooperation and altruism, they find evolutionary explanation and
theology to be strongly compatible.
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