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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.
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.
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.
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.
Dr Thomas Harrison Butler was a skilled, yet amateur, designer
responsible for some hundreds of classic English cruising yachts
which still grace our seas. Cruising Yachts, his design manifesto,
first appeared in 1945-the year of his death-and last appeared in
print in 1995. This long overdue Fifth Edition has been produced in
collaboration with the Harrison Butler Association, and is a
complete re-setting of the original text, drawings and mono
photographs, documenting in detail HB's approach to the design and
equipping of a yacht, providing an annotated catalogue of notable
designs, and including a biographical portrait by HB's daughter,
the late Joan Jardine-Brown. New for this edition are a modern
gallery of colour photographs of HB yachts, and a thoughtful and
illuminating Foreword by Ed Burnett, one of today's foremost
designers of yachts in the classic English idiom.
The classic Persian poem of romance and tragedy captured as a
sumptuous and richly colourful graphic novel, inspired by
traditional art of the region. It is a story known around the
world. Born of an Arabic tale, it has been interpreted hundreds of
times in Persian, Turkish, and Indian languages. It has influenced
playwrights, composers, filmmakers, scholars, modern popular
language, the first opera of Islamic origin, and individuals as
varied as Aleister Crowley and Eric Clapton. The tragic tale of
love unfulfilled - Majnun and Layla. Qais and Layla were madly in
love. So in love, it has been said, that the young man could not
contain his passion for his beloved, singing to the winds with such
fervour he was given the nickname “Majnun” — The Madman. But
their love could not be, as the lovers were separated by fate and
man, leading to a tragic end for these star-crossed souls.
Experience the classic Persian poem as painted in the lush palette
of artist Yann Damezin. Through his brush, we see a decadent and
sensorial world, one as raw and vulnerable as the love between the
Majnun and his Layla.
A distinguished team of internationally renowned scholars surveys the great empires from 1600 BC to AD 500, from the ancient Mediterranean to China, in ten comprehensive chapters, taking in the empires of New Kingdom Egypt; the Hittites; Assyria and Babylonia; Achaemenid Persia; Athens; Alexander; Parthian and early Sasanian Persia; Rome; India; and Qin and Han China. Each chapter conveys the main narrative of events, their impact on ancient societies and the dominant rulers who shaped that history, from Ramesses II in Egypt to Chandragupta in India, from Rome’s Augustus to China’s Shi-huangdi.
Exploring the very nature of empire itself, the authors show how profoundly imperialism in the distant past influenced the 19th-century powers and the modern United States.
Italian writer and filmmaker Gianni Celati's 1989 philosophical
travelogue Towards the River's Mouth explores perception, memory,
place and space as it recounts a series of journeys across the Po
River Valley in northern Italy. The book seeks to document the "new
Italian landscape" where divisions between the urban and rural were
being blurred into what Celati terms "a new variety of countryside
where one breathes an air of urban solitude." Celati traveled by
train, by bus, and on foot, at times with photographer Luigi
Ghirri, at others exploring on his own without predetermined
itineraries, taking notes on the places he encountered, watching
and listening to people in stations, fields, bars, houses, squares,
and hotels. In this way the book took shape as Celati traveled and
wrote, gathering and rewriting his notes into "stories of
observation" (9). Celati attempts to find meaning by seeking the
uncertain limits of our ability to discern everyday surroundings.
"Every observation," as he puts it, "needs liberate itself from the
familiar codes it carries, to go adrift in the middle of all things
not understood, in order to arrive at an outlet, where it must feel
lost." At the forefront of the then-nascent spatial turn in the
humanities, Towards the River's Mouth is a key text of what in
recent years has been variously termed literary cartography,
literary geography, and spatial poetics. Its call to carefully and
affectionately examine our surroundings while attempting to step
back from habitual ways of perceiving and moving through space, has
resonated as much with literary scholars and other writers as with
geographers and architects. By now a classic of twentieth-century
Italian literature, it has in recent years garnered increasing
attention, especially with the growth of ecocriticism and new
materialism within the environmental humanities. This edition,
translated into English for the first time, features an
introduction that places Towards the River's Mouth in the context
of Celati's other work, and a selection of ten scholarly essays by
prominent figures in comparative literature and Italian studies.
Elsa Morante's Politics of Writing is a collected volume of
twenty-one essays written by Morante specialists and international
scholars. Essays gather attention on four broad critical topics,
namely the relationship Morante entertained with the arts, cinema,
theatre, and the visual arts; new critical approaches to her four
novels; treatment of body and sexual politics; and Morante's
prophetic voice as it emerges in both her literary works and her
essayistic writings. Essays focus on Elsa Morante's strategies to
address her wide disinterest (and contempt) for the Italian
intellectual status quo of her time, regardless of its political
side, while showing at once her own kind of ideological commitment.
Further, contributors tackle the ways in which Morante's writings
shape classical oppositions such as engagement and enchantment with
the world, sin and repentance, self-reflection, and corporality, as
well as how her engagement in the visual arts, theatre, and
cinematic adaptations of her works garner further perspectives to
her stories and characters. Her works-particularly the novels
Menzogna e sortilegio (House of Liars, 1948), La Storia: Romanzo
(History: A Novel, 1974) and, more explicitly, Aracoeli (Aracoeli,
1982)-foreshadowed and advanced tenets and structures later
affirmed by postmodernism, namely the fragmentation of narrative
cells, rhizomatic narratives, lack of a linear temporal
consistency, and meta- and self-reflective processes.
Elsa Morante's Politics of Writing is a collected volume of
twenty-one essays written by Morante specialists and international
scholars. Essays gather attention on four broad critical topics,
namely the relationship Morante entertained with the arts, cinema,
theatre, and the visual arts; new critical approaches to her four
novels; treatment of body and sexual politics; and Morante's
prophetic voice as it emerges in both her literary works and her
essayistic writings. Essays focus on Elsa Morante's strategies to
address her wide disinterest (and contempt) for the Italian
intellectual status quo of her time, regardless of its political
side, while showing at once her own kind of ideological commitment.
Further, contributors tackle the ways in which Morante's writings
shape classical oppositions such as engagement and enchantment with
the world, sin and repentance, self-reflection, and corporality, as
well as how her engagement in the visual arts, theatre, and
cinematic adaptations of her works garner further perspectives to
her stories and characters. Her works-particularly the novels
Menzogna e sortilegio (House of Liars, 1948), La Storia: Romanzo
(History: A Novel, 1974) and, more explicitly, Aracoeli (Aracoeli,
1982)-foreshadowed and advanced tenets and structures later
affirmed by postmodernism, namely the fragmentation of narrative
cells, rhizomatic narratives, lack of a linear temporal
consistency, and meta- and self-reflective processes.
This interdisciplinary anthology explores a wide range of
intersecting issues contributing to and arising from gun violence.
Millions of people are hurt and killed by gun violence globally,
and the traumatic realities of these events are navigated by
individuals and communities widely. In this context, gun violence
fundamentally threatens social functioning in significant ways, and
profoundly test the resilience of families. The resulting
transformations carry social, political, legal, and economic
implications for mothering, family dynamics, and community
engagement. This collaborative volume brings together diverse
perspectives intended to deconstruct perceptions, realities, risks,
and impacts of gun violence, as seen by researchers, educators,
community advocates, public health/health care experts,
criminologists, social workers, field-based practitioners, and
victims/survivors of gun violence. The distinct and broad range of
contributions in this volume critically unpacks representations,
stress and trauma, resilience, advocacy/activism, policymaking,
family functioning, social justice and equity, governmentality and
the criminal justice system, public health/health care, and
community programs/interventions. Ultimately, the work is a unique
contribution to the literature in which there is a lack of wide
academic consideration of gun violence and a demonstrably
unsatisfactory political response stretching back decades.
Note: This is the bound book only and does not include access to
MyCounselingLab (R) with Pearson eText. To order MyCounselingLab
(R) with Pearson eText packaged with the bound book, use ISBN
0134387457. In an accessible writing style, Fisher and Harrison's
Substance Abuse: Information for School Counselors, Social Workers,
Therapists and Counselors presents succinct, practical coverage of
alcohol and other drug prevention, treatment, and recovery for
generalist students, prospective mental health professionals, and
allied professionals. It includes basic information on substances
of abuse and focuses on clinically relevant knowledge on such
topics as cultural competence, co-occurring disorders, other
behavioral addictions, children and families, and ethics and
confidentiality. Each chapter includes clinical application cases
and questions for further discussion. The new edition inclues a new
chapter on "Co-Occurring Disorders and Other Special Populations,"
new information on cultural competencies and intervening with
special populations such as the elderly and LGBTQQI, and new
information on risk factors for alcohol and other drugs for
culturally and ethnically diverse populations. Also available with
MyCounselingLab (R) This title is also available with
MyCounselingLab-an online homework, tutorial, and assessment
program designed to work with the text to engage students and
improve results. Within its structured environment, students see
key concepts demonstrated through video clips, practice what they
learn, test their understanding, and receive feedback to guide
their learning and ensure they master key learning outcomes.
Offers a philosophical history of bridges-both literal bridges and
their symbolic counterparts-and the acts of cultural connection
they embody. "Always," wrote Philip Larkin, "it is by bridges that
we live." Bridges represent our aspirations to connect, to soar
across divides. And it is the unfinished business of these
aspirations that makes bridges such stirring sights, especially
when they are marvels of ingenuity. A rich compendium of myths,
superstitions, and literary and ideological figurations, Of Bridges
organizes a poetic and philosophical history of bridges into nine
thematic clusters. Leaping in lucid prose between distant times and
places, Thomas Harrison questions why bridges are built and where
they lead. He probes links forged by religion between life's
transience and eternity as well as the consolidating ties of music,
illustrated by the case of the blues. He investigates bridges in
poetry, as flash points in war, and the megabridges of our
globalized world. He illuminates real and symbolic crossings facing
migrants each day and the affective connections that make persons
and societies cohere. In readings of literature, film, philosophy,
and art, Harrison engages in a profound reflection on how bridges
form and transform cultural communities. Of Bridges is a
mesmerizing, vertiginous tale of bridges both visible and
invisible, both lived and imagined.
Offers a philosophical history of bridges—both literal bridges
and their symbolic counterparts—and the acts of cultural
connection they embody. “Always,” wrote Philip Larkin, “it is
by bridges that we live.” Bridges represent our aspirations to
connect, to soar across divides. And it is the unfinished business
of these aspirations that makes bridges such stirring sights,
especially when they are marvels of ingenuity. A rich compendium of
myths, superstitions, and literary and ideological figurations, Of
Bridges organizes a poetic and philosophical history of bridges
into nine thematic clusters. Leaping in lucid prose between distant
times and places, Thomas Harrison questions why bridges are built
and where they lead. He probes links forged by religion between
life’s transience and eternity as well as the consolidating ties
of music, illustrated by the case of the blues. He investigates
bridges in poetry, as flash points in war, and the megabridges of
our globalized world. He illuminates real and symbolic crossings
facing migrants each day and the affective connections that make
persons and societies cohere. In readings of literature, film,
philosophy, and art, Harrison engages in a profound reflection on
how bridges form and transform cultural communities. Of Bridges is
a mesmerizing, vertiginous tale of bridges both visible and
invisible, both lived and imagined.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.The Age of
Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical
understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking.
Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel
Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and
moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade.
The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and
Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a
debate that continues in the twenty-first century.++++The below
data was compiled from various identification fields in the
bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an
additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:
++++British LibraryT104253Horizontal chain lines.London: printed by
H. Goldney, 1780. vi, 2],163, 1]p.; 8
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