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Louise Talma A Life in Composition

Louise Talma A Life in Composition

American composer Louise Talma (1906-1996) was the first female winner of two back-to-back Guggenheim Awards (1946 1947) the first American woman to have an opera premiered in Europe (1962) the first female winner of the Sibelius Award for Composition (1963) and the first woman composer elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1974). This book analyses Talma’s works in the context of her life focusing on the effects on her work of two major changes she made during her adult life: her conversion to Catholicism as an adult under the guidance of Nadia Boulanger and her adoption of serial compositional techniques. Employing approaches from traditional musical analysis feminist and queer musicology and women’s autobiographical theory to examine Talma’s body of works comprising some eighty pieces this is the first full-length study of this pioneering composer. Exploring Talma’s compositional language text-setting practices and the incorporation of autobiographical elements into her works using her own letters sketches and scores as well as a number of other relevant documents this book positions Talma’s contributions to serial and atonal music in the United States considers her role as a woman composer during the twentieth century and evaluates the legacy of her works and career in American music. | Louise Talma A Life in Composition

GBP 39.99
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Knowing Not-Knowing and Sort-of-Knowing Psychoanalysis and the Experience of Uncertainty

Knowing Not-Knowing and Sort-of-Knowing Psychoanalysis and the Experience of Uncertainty

A contemporary wide-ranging exploration of one of the most provocative topics currently under psychoanalytic investigation: the relationship of dissociation to varieties of knowing and unknowing. The twenty-eight essays collected here invite readers to reflect upon the ways the mind is structured around and through knowing not-knowing and sort-of-knowing or uncertainty. The authors explore the ramifications of being up against the limits of what they can know as through their clinical practice and theoretical considerations they simultaneously attempt to open up psychic and physical experience. How they ask do we tolerate ambiguity and blind spots as we try to know? And how do we make all of this useful to our patients and ourselves? The authors approach these and similar epistemological questions through an impressively wide variety of clinical dilemmas (e. g. the impact of new technologies upon the analytic dyad) and theoretical specialties (e. g. neurobiology). | Knowing Not-Knowing and Sort-of-Knowing Psychoanalysis and the Experience of Uncertainty

GBP 120.00
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Being Lived by My Life A Sort of Autobiography

Being Lived by My Life A Sort of Autobiography

Originally published in 1957 this book was a new departure in autobiographies. It is both enlightening and entertaining. There is a happy blending of narrative reflection and occasional extracts from case histories which gives it a delightfully human character. But it is more than this. It is a story of the profound inward adventure of an exceptionally inquiring mind. From childhood to professional maturity it proceeds through economic difficulties love and tribulation to science and general medical practice. It tells how Dr Berg became so convinced of the psychogenesis of human suffering that with great courage he gave up his practice and personal security to search for the causes in mental conflict. The story proceeds through specialisation in psychiatry to analytical training and analytic practice building up in the later chapters to a description of the troubled mind in all its manifestations and of the medical analyst’s daily work. There is a new explanation of the psychology of love with the inclusion of personal as well as professional experiences. Here as throughout conclusions have an astonishing difference from orthodox or familiar speculation and this is because they are based strictly on knowledge professional and personal. The style is natural lively and lucid. Here is an opportunity to combine learning with entertainment for Dr Berg has an extraordinary flair for presenting difficult things attractively without sacrifice of scientific essentials. This book is a re-issue originally published in 1957. The language used is a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication. | Being Lived by My Life A Sort of Autobiography

GBP 27.99
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Museum Representations of Motherhood and the Maternal Mother Stuff

Museum Representations of Motherhood and the Maternal Mother Stuff

Museum Representations of Motherhood and the Maternal is the first book to address the underrepresentation of motherhood in museums. Questioning how mothering and maternal experiences should be represented in museums Louise-Clarke argues that such institutions wield the power to influence what we think about families mothers and the labour of care. Using the term ‘mothering’ to encompass lived experiences of mothering or caring that are not exclusively tied to sex gender or the maternal body Louise-Clarke explores the ways that experiences of mothering can be represented in museums. The book begins this exploration with Australia’s Museums Victoria (MV) then expands to look at international cases. Offering a blueprint for what Louise-Clarke calls a ‘museology of mothering’ the book imagines what a museum that articulates maternal subjectivities might look and sound like. Museum Representations of Motherhood and the Maternal initiates a dialogue between museum studies and maternal studies making it essential reading for scholars and students working in both disciplines. Questioning conventional museum practices and the values that underpin them the book will also be of interest to museum and heritage practitioners around the world. | Museum Representations of Motherhood and the Maternal Mother Stuff

GBP 48.99
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Get to Know Me: OCD

Get to Know Me: OCD

The ‘Get to Know Me’ resources aim to support children along with those around them who may have additional/special educational needs. They are designed to empower the professionals and adults who support those with identified needs and encourage empathy and understanding. Developed by child psychologist Louise Lightfoot the Guidebook Picture book and Draw-along book in this three-part set will help key adults support children with OCD. Practical guidance tools and strategies are supported by a narrative picture book and a draw-along version which explore the thoughts feelings and sensations experienced by many children with OCD. | Get to Know Me: OCD

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The Ethics of Abortion Women’s Rights Human Life and the Question of Justice

The Ethics of Abortion Women’s Rights Human Life and the Question of Justice

The overturning of Roe v Wade makes the ethical consideration of abortion more important than ever. Appealing to reason rather than religious belief this book is the most comprehensive case against the choice of abortion yet published. This third edition of The Ethics of Abortion critically evaluates all the major grounds for denying basic rights to fetal human beings including the views of those who defend not only abortion but also post-birth abortion. It also provides several (non-theological) justifications for the conclusion that all human beings including those in utero should be respected as persons. This book also critiques the view that abortion is not wrong even if the human fetus is a person. The Ethics of Abortion examines hard cases for those who are prolife such as abortion in cases of rape or in order to save the woman's life as well as hard cases for defenders of abortion such as sex selection abortion and the rationale for being personally opposed but publicly supportive of abortion. It concludes with a discussion of whether artificial wombs might end the abortion debate. Answering the arguments of defenders of abortion this book provides reasoned justification for the view that all intentional abortions are ethically wrong and that doctors and nurses who object to abortion should not be forced to act against their consciences. Updates and Revisions to the Third Edition Include: Discusses Achas Burin’s 2014 essay Beyond Pragmatism: Defending the ‘Bright Line’ of Birth in chapter 3 Incorporates into chapter 8 David Boonin’s cogently argued 2019 book Beyond Roe: Why Abortion Should be Legal – Even if the Fetus is a Person Expands chapter 9 to examine tragic cases in which prenatal diagnosis determines with certainty that a fetus will die shortly after birth Includes an updated and expanded section in chapter 11 on recent debates about conscience protections Considers in chapter 12 recent arguments that parents have a right to kill if the product of conception is in an artificial womb Updates statistics on numbers of abortions in the United States including corrections to statistics that were once thought true but are now known as erroneous Updated bibliography | The Ethics of Abortion Women’s Rights Human Life and the Question of Justice

GBP 39.99
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Strategic Management in East European Ports

Strategic Management in East European Ports

First published in 1998 this volume emerged as part of the series Plymouth Studies in Contemporary Shipping which represents a unique collection of papers and texts edited from the leading maritime institute in Western Europe at the University of Plymouth. Covering research from a range of geographical sectors but with a particular emphasis on Western Europe developing countries and Eastern Europe the topics covered emerge from the full range of business areas including maritime economics policy statistics logistics law and business studies. Designed for both the practising academics and the shipping and ports industry itself this series is an original and novel contribution to the maritime debate. This particular volume focuses on ports in Poland and Eastern Europe more widely as transition economies after the fall of the Soviet Union. Susanne Ferch and Michael Roe examine their use of strategic management systems to determine whether and how the highly turbulent environment is reflected in the systems at Poland’s largest ports Gdynia and Gdañsk. Particular focus is given to inter-port variations. | Strategic Management in East European Ports

GBP 31.99
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All for Naught The Rise and Fall of President Barry Blue: Two Novellas

All for Naught The Rise and Fall of President Barry Blue: Two Novellas

All for Naught tells the story of Richard Melmont a billionaire many times over. His wife Maria daughter Barbara and son Daniel are appalled by his cutthroat methods and even more appalled by the weapons system he is developing. Is he deliberately deceiving government officials bankers and the general public or is he deceiving himself? In The Rise and Fall of President Barry Blue an experienced White House correspondent is trying to sort through contradictory insider accounts to get a true picture of an elusive president. | All for Naught The Rise and Fall of President Barry Blue: Two Novellas

GBP 84.99
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The Definitive Guide to Addiction Interventions A Collective Strategy

The Definitive Guide to Addiction Interventions A Collective Strategy

Written for a broad audience of medical and behavioral healthcare professionals The Definitive Guide to Addiction Interventions: A Collective Strategy introduces clinicians to best practices in addiction interventions and bridges the gap between the theory and practice of successful intervention. Synthesizing decades of fieldwork Louise Stanger explores the framework for successful invitations to change what they look like in action and how to adjust approach by population and Lee Weber serves as editor. The authors summarize and compare intervention models in use today and explain the use of family mapping and individual portraiture as clinical tools. The text also teaches clinicians to troubleshoot common situations as they help move clients toward positive life decisions. Practical ready-to-use clinical tools follow the text in downloadable worksheet form. | The Definitive Guide to Addiction Interventions A Collective Strategy

GBP 27.99
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Death-Facing Ecology in Contemporary British and North American Environmental Crisis Fiction

Death-Facing Ecology in Contemporary British and North American Environmental Crisis Fiction

Recent years have seen a burgeoning of novels that respond to the environmental issues we currently face. Among these Louise Squire defines environmental crisis fiction as concerned with a range of environmental issues and with the human subject as a catalyst for these issues. She argues that this fiction is characterised by a thematic use of death through which it explores a crisis of both environment and self. Squire refers to this emergent thematic device as death-facing ecology. This device enables this fiction to engage with a range of theoretical ideas and with popular notions of death and the human condition as cultural phenomena of the modern West. In doing so this fiction invites its readers to consider how humanity might begin to respond to the crisis. | Death-Facing Ecology in Contemporary British and North American Environmental Crisis Fiction

GBP 38.99
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Filmmakers and Financing Business Plans for Independents

Filmmakers and Financing Business Plans for Independents

This updated ninth edition of Louise Levison’s ultimate filmmaker’s guide provides easy-to-follow steps for writing an investor-winning business plan for independent films. This new edition includes information on current distribution models and the evolving digital streaming service landscape. Updated examples and references solidify this edition as the go-to source for creating a successful film business plan. Complete with comprehensive explanations on how to write each of the eight sections of a business plan; a complete sample plan for reference; and a companion website with additional information and financial tables this book gives readers the tools needed to secure financing for a film. Essential reading for students and professionals alike this book is ideal for anyone looking to further their understanding of film financing and how to create a successful business plan. | Filmmakers and Financing Business Plans for Independents

GBP 34.99
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Facts Words and Beliefs

Facts Words and Beliefs

First published in 1970 Facts Words and Beliefs is concerned primarily with formulating the following question and suggesting the right way of answering it- how can a few stray images or muttered words running through our mind constitute our envisagement of situation perhaps remote in time and place from our present position? From a practical point of view the moments when we envisage the nature of some situation which we believe to exist may not be of any great importance. It would seem that our belief in the existence of such situations lies in some sort of adjustment of our behaviour to them which will be useful if the situations really exist from the point of view of survival and comfort. The author suggests that these moments of conscious envisagement of such absent situations may be rather a sign of such successful adjustment than a factor in bringing it about hence of no practical value in themselves. However if knowledge has any sort of intrinsic value it must surely lie in those moments when one does consciously envisage some aspects of the world more or less as it really is and to try to understand the nature of these moments is to try to understand all that is of intrinsic value in knowledge. This book is a must read for scholars and researchers of philosophy.

GBP 115.00
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Justice Crime and Ethics

Justice Crime and Ethics

Justice Crime and Ethics a leading textbook in criminal justice programs examines ethical dilemmas pertaining to the administration of criminal justice and professional activities in the field. This 11th edition continues to deliver a broad scope of topics focusing on law enforcement legal practice sentencing corrections research crime control policy and philosophical issues. The book’s robust coverage encompasses contentious issues such as capital punishment prison corruption and the use of deception in police interrogation. The 11th edition includes new material on the impact of social media on crime myths and political misconduct. Law enforcement issues including the George Floyd case and responding to domestic as well as foreign terrorism including the January 6th insurrection in Washington DC are examined. The potential ethical implications of Roe v. Wade being overturned by the Supreme Court are also explored. Emerging issues in corporate misconduct are also discussed including healthcare fraud and corruption as well as crypto-currency fraud. Students of criminal justice as well as instructors and professionals in the field continue to rely on this thorough dependable resource on ethical decision making in the criminal justice system.

GBP 68.99
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Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh focuses on the eponymous hero of the world’s oldest epic and his legendary adventures. However it also goes further and examines the significance of the story’s Ancient Near Eastern context and what it tells us about notions of kingship animality and the natures of mortality and immortality. In this volume Louise M. Pryke provides a unique perspective to consider many foundational aspects of Mesopotamian life such as the significance of love and family the conceptualisation of life and death and the role of religious observance. The final chapter assesses the powerful influence of Gilgamesh on later works of ancient literature from the Hebrew Bible to the Odyssey to The Tales of the Arabian Nights and his reception through to the modern era. Gilgamesh is an invaluable tool for anyone seeking to understand this fascinating figure and more broadly the relevance of Near Eastern myth in the classical world and beyond.

GBP 38.99
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Messerschmidt's Character Heads Maddening Sculpture and the Writing of Art History

Messerschmidt's Character Heads Maddening Sculpture and the Writing of Art History

This book examines a famous series of sculptures by the German artist Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736–1783) known as his Character Heads. These are busts of human heads highly unconventional for their time representing strange often inexplicable facial expressions. Scholars have struggled to explain these works of art. Some have said that Messerschmidt was insane while others suggested that he tried to illustrate some sort of intellectual system. Michael Yonan argues that these sculptures are simultaneously explorations of art’s power and also critiques of the aesthetic limits that would be placed on that power. | Messerschmidt's Character Heads Maddening Sculpture and the Writing of Art History

GBP 38.99
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Working Schemes? Active Labour Market Policy in Ireland

Working Schemes? Active Labour Market Policy in Ireland

Published in 1997 this book is an examination of the Irish experience with active labour market policy. This text looks at training in comparison with employment programmes and examines this in the context of strong and weak market orientation. The study is based on a survey which is used to analyze the effect of programme participation on short and long-term employment prospects and on income. The results show that market-orientation is a significant factor in employment scheme success a factor that has not been taken into account in recent policy changes. The book also points out the applications of this sort of study in other European countries. | Working Schemes? Active Labour Market Policy in Ireland

GBP 21.99
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Introducing Pragmatics A Clinical Approach

Introducing Pragmatics A Clinical Approach

This innovative comprehensive course textbook uses a clinical approach to explore pragmatics and pragmatic language skills. Drawing on authentic real-life examples of pragmatic breakdown in children and adults who have developmental or acquired language disorders Louise Cummings expertly guides readers to core insights and principles for understanding where context and meaning in human communication meet. Key features include: Chapter-opening learning objectives and chapter-closing summaries Authentic illustrative cases of atypical pragmatic interaction Exercises for checking knowledge and understanding Annotated recommended further reading A detailed glossary of important terms in pragmatics and clinical linguistics Aimed equally at undergraduate and graduate students who are coming to pragmatics for the first time the text discusses the key issues and concepts of this field in a fascinating new way. With a common easy-to-follow structure across chapters and a wealth of pedagogical resources this is an essential text for students of linguistics and applied linguistics communication studies speech-language pathology psychology and cognitive science and beyond. | Introducing Pragmatics A Clinical Approach

GBP 34.99
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Byron's Don Juan

Byron's Don Juan

First published in 1985. What sort of poem is Don Juan and how does it maintain its momentum through its long and often struggling narrative? These are the questions that Bernard Beatty proposes in this subtle and elegant discussion of Byron’s masterwork. The legend of Don Juan was entrenched in European literature and other arts long before it came under Byron’s hands yet Byron’s treatment of the story is often almost unrecognisably far from its forebears. Beatty indicates how deeply Byron has assimilated his predecessors in order to produce his own work. The sustained argument of this book raises questions of interest not only to students of Byron but of comedy in general as well as of the place of religious motifs in apparently secularised modes. | Byron's Don Juan

GBP 35.99
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The Good the Bad and the Data Shane the Lone Ethnographer’s Basic Guide to Qualitative Data Analysis

The Good the Bad and the Data Shane the Lone Ethnographer’s Basic Guide to Qualitative Data Analysis

Data analysis is often the most difficult task facing students and novice qualitative researchers including Shane the Lone Ethnographer—a grad student with fond visions of the Wild West—and her horse Transcriptor. In this comic-style textbook we follow Shane as she attempts to corral her data and make sense of it for publication. Shane learns how to read sort code write and assess the analysis of a qualitative study in the traditions of ethnography grounded theory discourse and narrative analysis. Along the trail she receives helpful advice from experienced researchers who explain their analytic practices in detail. Written in a friendly comic book style Shane’s Wild West adventures in data analysis will be both instructive and an enjoyable read. | The Good the Bad and the Data Shane the Lone Ethnographer’s Basic Guide to Qualitative Data Analysis

GBP 35.99
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Counselling Young People A Handbook for Trainees and Practitioners

Counselling Young People A Handbook for Trainees and Practitioners

Practical and clearly written this new book from best-selling author Louise Porter equips mental health professionals with the knowledge and skills they need to provide insightful guidance and support to children and adolescents. The book introduces exciting new models for thinking about young people’s needs self-esteem and resilience that will invigorate counselling. It outlines the most common presenting difficulties for young people and provides clear practical guidance on how professionals in a counselling environment can respond to these in an effective way. Offering a coherent blend of theories and practices chapters address a wide range of emotional social behavioural and learning difficulties with which young people may present to counselling such as experiences of grief and loss anxiety and depression disordered eating and dealing with adversity. With an aim to empower the book presents a non-pathologising approach to counselling that respects the skills that young people bring to working through their challenges. Accessible for professionals and trainees alike this book is a must-have for anyone working in a counselling capacity with children and adolescents. | Counselling Young People A Handbook for Trainees and Practitioners

GBP 36.99
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Thackeray The Novelist

Thackeray The Novelist

First published in 1954 Thackeray is intended as a reminder that Thackeray is after all a great novelist. Professor Tillotson admiring the novels as great literature explores their common characteristics and those they share with the rest of Thackeray’s writings – for he sees Thackeray’s work as all of a piece. He is particularly interested in Thackeray’s methods of narration and in the philosophic commentary which forms a sort of trellis for almost everything he put out. He sees him mainly as a writer who subtle as he is address himself to readers honoured as ordinary human beings. In two appendices Professor Tillotson deals with two particular modern opinions – that Thackeray spoiled his novels by an ‘infiltration’ into them of his own biography and that he has no place in the great novel tradition. This book will be of interest to students of literature and history. | Thackeray The Novelist

GBP 105.00
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The Development of Mathematical Logic

The Development of Mathematical Logic

Originally published in 1962. A clear and simple account of the growth and structure of Mathematical Logic no earlier knowledge of logic being required. After outlining the four lines of thought that have been its roots - the logic of Aristotle the idea of all the parts of mathematics as systems to be designed on the same sort of plan as that used by Euclid and his Elements and the discoveries in algebra and geometry in 1800-1860 - the book goes on to give some of the main ideas and theories of the chief writers on Mathematical Logic: De Morgan Boole Jevons Pierce Frege Peano Whitehead Russell Post Hilbert and Goebel. Written to assist readers who require a general picture of current logic it will also be a guide for those who will later be going more deeply into the expert details of this field. | The Development of Mathematical Logic

GBP 29.99
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