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Jeff Wall and the Concept of the Picture

Jeff Wall and the Concept of the Picture

This book grapples with fundamental questions about the evolving nature of pictorial representation and the role photography has played in this ongoing process. These issues are explored through a close analysis of key themes that underpin the photography practice of Canadian artist Jeff Wall and through examining important works that have defined his oeuvre. Wall’s strategic revival of ‘the picture’ has had a resounding influence on the development of contemporary art photography by expanding the conceptual and technical frameworks of the medium and introducing a self-reflexive criticality. Naomi Merritt brings a new and original contribution to the scholarship on one of the most significant figures to have shaped the course of contemporary art photography since the 1970s and shines a light on the multilayered connections between photography and art. This book will be of interest to scholars in the history of photography art and visual culture and contemporary art history. | Jeff Wall and the Concept of the Picture

GBP 130.00
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Colour and Light Spatial Experience

Colour and Light Spatial Experience

Colour and Light: Spatial Experience describes the coherent interaction of light and colour in the spatial context. It explains the nature of light to colour specialists and the nature of colour to light specialists simultaneously conveying an understanding that light and colour must be thought of together. In addition it brings out the apparent contradictions between the practically based knowledge of craftsmen engineers and designers and the theoretically based knowledge of academics in various disciplines. Including background context facts and possible approaches the book provides a basic understanding of light and colour and their significance for humans in the spatial context. | Colour and Light Spatial Experience

GBP 74.99
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Remote Sensing of Night-time Light

Remote Sensing of Night-time Light

Satellite images acquired at night provide a visually arresting perspective of the Earth and the human activities that light up the otherwise mostly dark Earth. These night-time light satellite images can be compiled into a geospatial time series that represent an invaluable source of information for both the natural and social sciences. Night-time light remote sensing has been shown to be particularly useful for a range of natural science and social science applications including studies relating to urban development demography sociology fishing activity light pollution and the consequences of civil war. Key sensors for these time-series include the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program’s Operational Linescan System (DMSP/OLS) and the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership Satellite’s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Day/Night Band (Suomi NPP/VIIRS DNB). An increasing number of alternative sources are also available including high spatial resolution and multispectral sensors. This book captures key methodological issues associated with pre-processing night-time light data documents state of the art analysis methods and explores a wide range of applications. Major sections focus on NPP/VIIRS DNB processing; inter-calibration between NPP/VIIRS and DMPS/OLS; applications associated with socio-economic activities applications in monitoring urbanization; and fishing activity monitoring. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Remote Sensing. | Remote Sensing of Night-time Light

GBP 38.99
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Designing with Light An Introduction to Stage Lighting

Designing with Light An Introduction to Stage Lighting

Now in its seventh edition Designing with Light introduces readers to the art craft and technology of stage lighting and media projection. The new edition is fully updated to include current information on the technology of stage lighting: lighting fixtures lamps cabling dimmers control boards as well as electrical theory. Readers will learn how designed light is used to enhance the audience’s understanding and enjoyment of a production. The book includes specific information on drafting the light plot explores the challenges of designing for different stage configurations and provides examples of lighting designs for dramas musicals and dance. It also features comments and thoughts from active designers from both mainstream theatrical productions and related industries. Written for students of Lighting Design and Technology as well as professional technicians and designers Designing with Light offers a comprehensive survey of the practical and aesthetic aspects of stage lighting design. | Designing with Light An Introduction to Stage Lighting

GBP 48.99
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Beautiful Light An Insider’s Guide to LED Lighting in Homes and Gardens

Beautiful Light An Insider’s Guide to LED Lighting in Homes and Gardens

Beautiful Light by internationally acclaimed lighting designer Randall Whitehead and lighting industry expert and educator Clifton Stanley Lemon is a combination of idea book design resource and product guide. It explores the transition in residential lighting from incandescent light sources to LEDs and how to apply LED lighting with great success. It begins with the fundamental characteristics of light including color temperature color rendering and spectral power distribution and how LEDs differ from older light sources. Combining innovative graphics with the enduring design principles of good lighting the book explains how to design with light layers light people and balance daylight and electric light. Every room of the house as well as exterior and garden spaces is addressed in 33 case studies of residential lighting with LEDs with a wide variety of lighting projects in different styles. Showcasing over 200 color photographs of dramatic interiors beautifully lit with LEDs and clear concise descriptions of design strategies and product specifications Beautiful Light helps both professionals and non-professionals successfully navigate the new era of LEDs in residential lighting. | Beautiful Light An Insider’s Guide to LED Lighting in Homes and Gardens

GBP 34.99
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Night Photography and Light Painting Finding Your Way in the Dark

Night Photography and Light Painting Finding Your Way in the Dark

Lance Keimig one of the premier experts on night photography has put together a comprehensive reference that will show you ways to capture images you never thought possible. This new edition of Night Photography presents the practical techniques of shooting at night alongside theory and history illustrated with clear concise examples and charts and stunning images. From urban night photography to photographing the landscape by starlight or moonlight from painting your subject with light to creating a subject with light this book provides a complete guide to digital night photography and light painting. | Night Photography and Light Painting Finding Your Way in the Dark

GBP 180.00
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Light — Science & Magic An Introduction to Photographic Lighting

Light — Science & Magic An Introduction to Photographic Lighting

Photographic lighting is a topic that will never go out of style no matter how sophisticated cameras and other technology get. Even with the most high-tech gear photographers still need to put a lot of thought and vision into lighting their photographs in order to get great results. Mastering this key skill has the power to dramatically and quickly improve your photographs as well as your efficiency. Light—Science & Magic provides you with a comprehensive theory of the nature and principles of light with examples and instructions for practical application. Featuring photographs diagrams and step-by-step instructions this book speaks to photographers of varying levels. It provides invaluable information on how to light the most difficult subjects such as surfaces metal glass liquids extremes (black-on-black and white-on-white) and portraits. This new edition includes: • Expanded chapters on portraiture and lighting equipment • Chapters on necessary equipment when working on location versus in the studio • An updated appendix of reliable photo gear sources • Over 100 new photographs and informational sidebars • Updated information about advances in flash equipment LED panels and fluorescent lights Lighting styles will evolve but the science of light will always remain the same. Once photographers understand the basic physics of lighting (without having to become physicists) they can apply that knowledge to a broad range of photographic styles. | Light — Science & Magic An Introduction to Photographic Lighting

GBP 46.99
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Spatial Transparency in Architecture Light Layering and Porosity

Spatial Transparency in Architecture Light Layering and Porosity

This volume explores the concept of spatial transparency; a form of spatial continuity that articulates depth through permeable layered or porous three-dimensional organizations where interstitial light is present. Although transparency is a concept largely associated with the modern movement the use of glazed components and twentieth-century architectural discourse spatial transparency is a form of depth awareness through intermediate domains takes place through the interstitial fabric of a structure and occurs when several consecutive domains are spatially and visually connected. These immersive environments invite active participation not as one-way communication but as a series of visual and experiential exchanges interdependencies and relationships. Divided into four parts the book examines spatial transparency in massive opaque constructions light constructions glass assemblies and hybrid systems. It analyzes both the phenomenon of visual connectivity and continuity through intermediate spaces and spatial transparency’s capacity for promoting and enabling graded interflowing environmental transactions. Using historical and contemporary examples it catalogs some of the most common and recurring configurations that manifest these characteristics. Over 20 international case studies from the Americas to Japan are presented to argue that environments exist in porous mediums and that by studying the openings voids light and materials of layered and/or permeable organizations important insights about space making can be revealed. Written for students and academics this book explores various expressions of spatial transparency in architecture and helps connect their abstract ideas with significant built works analytical drawings and comparison charts. | Spatial Transparency in Architecture Light Layering and Porosity

GBP 35.99
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Seizing the Light A Social & Aesthetic History of Photography

Seizing the Light A Social & Aesthetic History of Photography

The definitive history of photography book Seizing the Light: A Social & Aesthetic History of Photography delivers the fascinating story of how photography as an art form came into being and its continued development maturity and transformation. Covering the major events practitioners works and social effects of photographic practice Robert Hirsch provides a concise and discerning chronological account of Western photography. This fundamental starting place shows the diversity of makers inventors issues and applications exploring the artistic critical and social aspects of the creative process. The third edition includes up-to-date information about contemporary photographers like Cindy Sherman and Yang Yongliang and comprehensive coverage of the digital revolution including the rise of mobile photography the citizen as journalist and the role of social media. Highly illustrated with full-color images and contributions from hundreds of artists around the world Seizing the Light serves as a gateway to the history of photography. Written in an accessible style it is perfect for students newly engaging with the practice of photography and for experienced photographers wanting to contextualize their own work. | Seizing the Light A Social & Aesthetic History of Photography

GBP 270.00
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Nigerian and Ghanaian Women Working in the Brussels Red-Light District

Nigerian and Ghanaian Women Working in the Brussels Red-Light District

This book unravels the lives needs and experiences of Nigerian and Ghanaian women working in prostitution in Brussels. This volume casts a light on the working conditions and the experiences of 38 women of Nigerian and Ghanaian origin whose daily struggles and challenges are recalled from interviews in the field. Working within the red-light district of Brussels an area with high crime rates and lacking in basic healthcare provision the women are faced with a number of issues on a daily basis ranging from security and health-related concerns to work-related stress discrimination and perceived stigma. Full voice is given to their stories as well as contributions from state actors and local inhabitants with the chief aim of building safe and healthy places for both residents and workers alike. The authors conclude in presenting clear recommendations and tools for practitioners and policy makers designed to improve the outcomes of migrant women working not just within the red-light district of Brussels but also within wider European and global contexts. This book will be of particular interest for researchers and students of Migration Politics Development Studies Social Work and Sociology as well as a useful guide for policy makers and practitioners in the field. | Nigerian and Ghanaian Women Working in the Brussels Red-Light District

GBP 18.99
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Marketing Graffiti The Writing on the Wall

Marketing Graffiti The Writing on the Wall

Radical and unique in its approach and presentation Marketing Graffiti turns the traditional marketing introduction on its head by helping students to understand the part they already play as ‘consumers’ in the marketing process. Most marketing textbooks tackle the subject as a business function – i. e. how to do marketing in companies and other organizations. Marketing Graffiti shows how marketing is not just a business function but a part of our culture and one in which we are all active as part-time marketers. By rejecting managerially-driven structures in this way Saren's approach makes marketing immediate and instantly recognizable as a process and a phenomenon in which we are already complicit. It helps readers to become aware of what they already know. Critically examining a wide range of products businesses technologies information services ads packaging and branding Saren utilizes everyday images and phenomena to draw out the conceptual foundations of marketing from a social science and cultural studies perspective as something that we all experience in everyday life. This new edition of the first critical marketing textbook discusses the role new technologies (such as social media) play in marketing culture and how this can potentially place more power in the clicks of the consumer. It includes new updated or expanded sections on market exclusion the role of the consumer in innovation space and place pricing consumer communities collaborative consumption and social media marketing. Leading experts in these fields of research and marketing practice also contribute additional sections on these topics. This essential marketing guide is supported by a range of teaching support materials including the latest journal and online references guides to further reading teaching slides and test bank questions | Marketing Graffiti The Writing on the Wall

GBP 38.99
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Not Light but Fire How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom

Not Light but Fire How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom

Do you know how to initiate and facilitate productive dialogues about race in your classroom? Are you prepared to handle complex topics while keeping your students engaged? Inspired by Frederick Douglass's abolitionist call to action it is not light that is needed but fire- author Matthew Kay demonstrateshow to move beyond surface-level discussionsand lead students through the most difficult race conversations. In Not Light But Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom Kay recognizes we often never graduate to the harder conversations so he offers a method for getting them right providing candid guidance on: How torecognize the difference between meaningful and inconsequential race conversations. How tobuild conversational safe spaces - not merely declare them. How toinfuse race conversations with urgency and purpose. How tothrive in the face of unexpected challenges. How administrators mightequip teachers to thoughtfully engage in these conversations. With the right blend of reflection and humility Kay assertsteachers can make school one of the best venues for young people to discuss race. | Not Light but Fire How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom

GBP 27.99
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Philanthropy and Light Carnegie Libraries and the Advent of Transatlantic Standards for Public Space

Philanthropy and Light Carnegie Libraries and the Advent of Transatlantic Standards for Public Space

Walter Gropius associated standardisation with promoting civilisation in 1935 yet Andrew Carnegie’s influence on the proliferation of pattern book public library plans internationally predated these observations by 50 years. Through the first twenty years of his programme he supported the erection of almost three thousand public buildings across Britain and America. Though better acknowledged in the US than the UK this philanthropic contribution radically extended the scope of public provision and remains incomparable in its scale and scope in both nations. Frequently engraved with the self-deifying slogan Let there be Light open access to navigate these new interior public spaces after work coincided with the first provision of electric light. Towards the end of the nineteenth century professional groups had sought to specify minimum standards of natural light and air for schools and hospitals. However the commercial quantification of electricity accelerated the development of a readily comparable vocabulary to prescribe adequate quantities of light for all tasks regardless of their location or orientation. Seeking to gauge the extent of universal values this book concentrates on the design and performance of a handful of early Carnegie library buildings in Britain and America identifying their response to contemporary design theory but also by contrast to their respective local environmental contexts. It examines whether their standards of provision were equitable and if these privately financed public buildings were the first roots of generically standardised public environments to be shared transatlantically. The book also argues that the public library building type can provide a datum for acknowledging the twentieth century legacy of shared international environmental standards for public spaces more broadly. | Philanthropy and Light Carnegie Libraries and the Advent of Transatlantic Standards for Public Space

GBP 42.99
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Homely Atmospheres and Lighting Technologies in Denmark Living with Light

Homely Atmospheres and Lighting Technologies in Denmark Living with Light

Using case studies such as the use of candlelight and energy saving lightbulbs in Denmark this book unravels light’s place at the heart of social life. In contrast to common perception of light as a technical and aesthetic phenomenon Mikkel Bille argues that there is a cultural and social logic to lighting practices. By empirically investigating the social role of lighting in people's everyday lives Mikkel Bille reveals how and why people visually shape their homes. Moving beyond the impact of its use Bille also comments on the politics of lighting to examine how ideas of pollution and home act as barriers for technological fixes to curb energy demand. Attitudes to these issues are reflective of how human perceptions and practices are central to the efforts to cope with climate change. This ethnographic study is a must-read for students of anthropology cultural studies human geography sociology and design. | Homely Atmospheres and Lighting Technologies in Denmark Living with Light

GBP 34.99
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Light and Lens Thinking About Photography in the Digital Age

Light and Lens Thinking About Photography in the Digital Age

The latest edition of this pioneering book allows students to acquire an essential foundation for digital photography. Fully updated it clearly and concisely covers the fundamental concepts of imagemaking how to use digital technology to create compelling images and how to output and preserve images in the digital world. Exploring history methods and theory this text offers classroom-tested assignments and exercises from leading photographic educators approaches for analyzing discussing and writing about photographs and tools to critically explore and make images with increased visual literacy. New to this fourth edition: Completely updated and renewed to reflect social trends and technological advances Highly reconstructed Chapter 3: Image Capture: Cameras Lenses and Scanners Revamped Chapter 4: Exposure: Capturing the Light Entirely new Chapter 8: Digital Studio: The Virtual and the Material Worlds Expanded smartphone photography coverage Featuring nearly 300 international artists and over 360 innovative images and illustrations New engaging assignments Ideal for undergraduate students of digital photography and hobbyist photographers. | Light and Lens Thinking About Photography in the Digital Age

GBP 52.99
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Bricks in the Wall The Politics of Housing in Europe

Bricks in the Wall The Politics of Housing in Europe

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of how politics shape housing markets and vice-versa. It demonstrates how housing impacts a variety of social and political phenomenon including populist politics generational divides wealth inequality monetary policy and the welfare state. Housing and housing markets have important implications for economic stability public policy domestic politics and wealth inequality in Europe and beyond. Yet despite its importance housing has received relatively little attention in comparative politics scholarship. The contributions within this volume push the scholarship of housing into fresh innovative directions. The chapters focus on housing’s contribution to wealth inequality how housing constrains governments’ policy choices in welfare state reform and how it can strengthen governments’ hands in financial regulation. Other contributions reveal the impact of housing on central bankers’ motivations for implementing monetary expansion highlight the generational divide in gaining access to home-ownership demonstrate how housing-driven wealth inequality steers voters political preferences towards right-wing populism and explain how housing gradually shifted from being a social right to an object of investment in Europe even within its most egalitarian states. These contributions cover a diversity of cases in Western and Eastern Europe and theoretical paradigms that will appeal to scholars and policy makers alike. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of West European Politics. | Bricks in the Wall The Politics of Housing in Europe

GBP 38.99
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Shadow the architectural power of withholding light

Shadow the architectural power of withholding light

Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They can be thought of as addenda to the foundation volume Analysing Architecture which first appeared in 1997 and has subsequently been enlarged in three further editions. Examining these extra themes as a series of Notebooks rather than as additional chapters in future editions allows greater space for more detailed exploration of a wider variety of examples whilst avoiding the risk of the original book becoming unwieldy. Shadows may be insubstantial but they are nevertheless an important element in architecture. In prehistoric times we sought shade as a refuge from the hot sun and chilling rain. Through history architects have used shadows to draw to mould form to paint pictures to orchestrate atmosphere to indicate the passing of time … as well as to identify place. Sometimes shadow can be the substance of architecture. | Shadow the architectural power of withholding light

GBP 21.99
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Critical Perspectives on Teaching in Prison Students and Instructors on Pedagogy Behind the Wall

Critical Perspectives on Teaching in Prison Students and Instructors on Pedagogy Behind the Wall

This volume makes a case for engaging critical approaches for teaching adults in prison higher education (or “college-in-prison”) programs. This book not only contextualizes pedagogy within the specialized and growing niche of prison instruction but also addresses prison abolition reentry and educational equity. Chapters are written by prison instructors currently incarcerated students and formerly incarcerated students providing a variety of perspectives on the many roadblocks and ambitions of teaching and learning in carceral settings. All unapologetic advocates of increasing access to higher education for people in prison contributors discuss the high stakes of teaching incarcerated individuals and address the dynamics conditions and challenges of doing such work. The type of instruction that contributors advocate is transferable beyond prisons to traditional campus settings. Hence the lessons of this volume will not only support readers in becoming more thoughtful prison educators and program administrators but also in becoming better teachers who can employ critical democratic pedagogy in a range of contexts. | Critical Perspectives on Teaching in Prison Students and Instructors on Pedagogy Behind the Wall

GBP 36.99
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Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration A Wall Rise Up

Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration A Wall Rise Up

Television shows that we might call ‘prestige television’ represent prison in ways that are sometimes reductive sometimes powerful and sometimes exceedingly complex. This book examines various programmes across the genres of drama comedy and horror that utilize prison or places of incarceration as a central theme or setting to show how they conform to or challenge the standard conversation about the prison industrial complex and the common understanding of prisons as violent spaces where we house the worst among us. Drawing on the work of Angela Davis Doran Larson Dylan Rodriguez Michelle Alexander and Lisa Guenther the author presents focused studies of Orange Is the New Black Rectify American Horror Story and The Walking Dead (along with briefer discussions of The 100 police procedurals and popular sitcoms) to explore the responsibility of television to represent prison in as authentic a fashion as possible the exploitation of the incarcerated in reductive representations of prison and the shifting nature of the national conversation about prison as it is depicted on screen. As such the book will appeal to scholars of cultural and media studies criminology and sociology with interests in incarceration and representations of prison in popular culture. | Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration A Wall Rise Up

GBP 39.99
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Emerging Bond Markets Shedding Light on Trends and Patterns

Emerging Bond Markets Shedding Light on Trends and Patterns

The bond market is a key securities market and emerging economies present exciting new investment opportunities. This timely book provides insights into these emerging bond markets through empirical models and analytical databases i. e. Bloomberg Eikon Refinitiv and the Russian Cbonds. The book looks at the dynamics of the development of emerging bond markets their competitiveness features and patterns using macro and micro level data. It also takes into consideration various securities type i. e. government corporate sub-federal and municipal bonds to identify respective challenges and risks. The book also analyses factors that may inhibit or stimulate a well-balanced financial market. It includes case studies of Asian Latin American and Russian bond markets as also as cross-country comparisons. It will be a useful reference for anyone who is interested to learn more of the bond market and the modelling techniques for critical data analysis. | Emerging Bond Markets Shedding Light on Trends and Patterns

GBP 38.99
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Dance Movement Psychotherapy with People with Learning Disabilities Out Of The Shadows Into The Light

Dance Movement Psychotherapy with People with Learning Disabilities Out Of The Shadows Into The Light

This book provides an overview of dance movement psychotherapy for young people and adults with learning disabilities. Contributors from a variety of backgrounds examine their work with clients from across the disabilities spectrum ranging from mild to complex needs. The book chapters present theory and practice relating to the client group and subsequent therapy processes. This comprises psychotherapeutic interventions dance movement interventions theoretical constructs case study material practitioner care and practitioner learning and development related to individual and group therapy work. The logistics of a Dance Movement Psychotherapy intervention the intervention itself and the ripples of influence into the clients’ wider socio-cultural context are discussed. This stance speaks to current research and practice discourse in health and social care. The book champions acceptance of difference and equality in the health and social care needs for people with learning disabilities whilst emphasising the importance of dance movement psychotherapy for people with non-verbal communication. Dance Movement Psychotherapy with People with Learning Disabilities: Out of the Shadows into the Light will provide a practical and theoretical resource for practitioners and students of dance movement psychotherapy as well as allied health professionals service providers and carers. | Dance Movement Psychotherapy with People with Learning Disabilities Out Of The Shadows Into The Light

GBP 32.99
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Jung's Shadow Concept The Hidden Light and Darkness within Ourselves

Jung's Shadow Concept The Hidden Light and Darkness within Ourselves

This insightful volume is designed as a series of invitations towards living attentiveness examining how we all make the “other” through “projection” (blaming and shaming the other outside ourselves) our enemy with whom we prefer not to dialogue. All of us are faced daily with individual and collective manifestations of the Shadow – all that we fear despise and makes us feel ashamed. Carl Jung’s concept of the Shadow emerging as it did from his personal confrontation with the realms of his unconscious self is one of the most important contributions he made to the understanding of humanity and to depth psychology that realm where the focus is on unconscious processes. The contributors to this book reframe his concept in the context of contemporary Jungian thinking exploring how the Shadow develops in an individual’s infancy and adolescence and its culmination where collective manifestations of the Shadow are addressed. The book offers a voyage through a series of fundamental Shadow concepts and themes including couples relationships disease organizations Evil fundamentalism ecology and boundary violation before ending with a chapter designed to help us integrate the Shadow and hold contra-positions with patience and a tilt towards mutual understanding rather than being locked in polarities. This fascinating new book will be of considerable interest to the general public Jungian analysts trainees scholars and therapists both in training and practice with an interest in the inner world. | Jung's Shadow Concept The Hidden Light and Darkness within Ourselves

GBP 32.99
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Revival: Li Chih 1527-1602 in Contemporary Chinese Historiography (1980) New light on his life and works

Revival: Li Chih 1527-1602 in Contemporary Chinese Historiography (1980) New light on his life and works

The present monograph primarily a collection of annotated translations of these recent studies is neither a new appraisal of Li Chih drawing on these materials nor a critical evaluation of the current Chinese scholarship on his life and thought. In a modest way it is an attempt to make these new sources of information more readily accessible to the sinological community to faciliate research. The divisions of this study are: two sections consisting of translations of new materials on Li Chih with an analytical introduction on the significance of these discoveries and two appendices of bibliographical accounts of primary and secondary sources down to recent times. | Revival: Li Chih 1527-1602 in Contemporary Chinese Historiography (1980) New light on his life and works

GBP 39.99
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