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Widow to Widow How the Bereaved Help One Another

Widow to Widow How the Bereaved Help One Another

Widow to Widow shares the experiences of widows who have found comfort and continuity in mutual-help and community support programs. In the second edition of her pioneering text Phyllis Silverman brings the success of the original widow-to-widow program into the 21st century preparing a new generation of community leaders clergy counselors hospice staff social workers and the widowed themselves to organize and implement mutual-help programs. | Widow to Widow How the Bereaved Help One Another

GBP 175.00
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Meditation Classic and Contemporary Perspectives

Meditation Classic and Contemporary Perspectives

Many claim that meditation is effective in the treatment of many ailments associated with stress and high blood pressure and in the management of pain. While there are many popular books on meditation few embrace the science as well as the art of meditation. In this volume Shapiro and Walsh fill this need by assembling a complete collection of scholarly articles-Meditation: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives. From an academic rather than a popular vantage the volume takes the claims and counterclaims about meditation to a deeper analytical level by including studies from clinical psychology and psychiatry neuroscience psychophysiology and biochemistry. Each selection is a contribution to the field either as a classic of research or by being methodologically elegant heuristically interesting or creative. Original articles cover such topics as the effects of meditation in the treatment of stress hypertension and addictions; the comparison of meditation with other self-regulation strategies; the adverse effects of meditation; and meditation-induced altered states of consciousness. Concluding with a major bibliography of related works Meditation offers the reader a valuable overview of the state and possible future directions of meditation research. Today in the popular media and elsewhere debate continues: Is meditation an effective technique for spiritual and physical healing or is it quackery? Meditation: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives weighs in on this debate by presenting what continues to be the most complete collection of scholarly articles ever amassed on the subject of meditation. | Meditation Classic and Contemporary Perspectives

GBP 130.00
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Doctrine and Difference The Thematic Scale of Classic American Literature

Doctrine and Difference The Thematic Scale of Classic American Literature

Doctrine and Difference: The Thematic Scale of Classic American Literature aims to expand and deepen our knowledge into the inquiry of “contextual historicism ” observing writers of the American nineteenth century and their vastly differing approaches to perceptions such as race gender and national identity. Ranging from the religious acuities of the first American Puritans to the more secularized literary awakening of the American Renaissance and into late-century texts that deliberately resist the limits of received religious and political opinion this volume seeks to uncover a history of human thought within classic American Literature. This volume critically observes these survivable works of literature presenting insight into the “difference” made by conversation dispute and dramatized self-doubt within novels and poems of the historical past. | Doctrine and Difference The Thematic Scale of Classic American Literature

GBP 135.00
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Dialogues Across Civilizations Sketches In World History From The Chinese And European Experiences

Dialogues Across Civilizations Sketches In World History From The Chinese And European Experiences

Dialogues Across Civilizations sets the histories of China and Europe alongside one another. Each chapter stands as an essay that imaginatively places historical individuals and events in proximity to one another and explores a specific topic?gender relations rural politics artistic renderings of nature to name a few?through the stories of perso | Dialogues Across Civilizations Sketches In World History From The Chinese And European Experiences

GBP 130.00
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Classic Readings in Urban Planning

Classic Readings in Urban Planning

This new edition of the best anthology in planning includes 33 selections by many of the profession's most respected thinkers and eloquent writers. Returning editor Jay M. Stein chose the articles about half of them new to this edition based on suggestions from colleagues and students who used the first edition recommendations from planning scholars awards for writing in the field of planning and his own review of recent planning literature. Classic Readings in Urban Planning offers an unparalleled depth of coverage and range of perspectives on traditional aspects of planning as well as on important contemporary issues. This is an exceptional main or supplementary textbook for advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level students in urban and regional planning. As a general overview of the field of urban planning it is also an excellent choice for planning commissioners practicing planners and professionals in related fields such as environmental and land use law architecture and government. An abstract introduces each reading and each section includes suggestions for additional readings suitable for more extensive study. Many of these are also classics that could not be included as a main selection.

GBP 120.00
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Classic Readings and Cases in the Philosophy of Law

Classic Readings and Cases in the Philosophy of Law

With over sixty cases as support this text presents the philosophy of law as a perpetual series of debates with overlapping lines and cross connections. Using law as a focus to bring into relief many social and political issues of pressing importance in contemporary society this book encourages readers to think critically and philosophically. Classic Readings and Cases in the Philosophy of Law centers on five major questions: What is law? What if any connection must there be between law and morality? When should law be used to restrict the liberty of individuals? To what extent should democratic states permit civil disobedience? What if anything justifies the infliction of punishment on those who violate the law? The extensive anthology of cases covers the mundane to the grandest of constitutional issues including controversial topics like ownership of genetic material capital punishment and gay rights. Brief introductions to each case describe the central issue being litigated the legal reasoning of the justices both majority and dissenting the decision of the court and its philosophical significance.

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The Struggle for Asia 1828–1914 A Study in British and Russian Imperialism

The Struggle for Asia 1828–1914 A Study in British and Russian Imperialism

The Struggle for Asia 1828–1914 (1977) studies a classic case of rival imperialisms. British leaders tended to believe that Russian expansion threatened India; Russian leaders came to believe in a British threat to their empire. Each sought security by trying to control the policies of weaker states which lay between their imperial frontiers and on whose alignment depended the balance of power. By 1914 when both felt even more threatened by Germany than by one another Russia seemed to have gained the upper hand in a struggle for hegemony in Asia which had been crucial for the course of world politics. This book examines the intellectual origins of the ‘Great Game’. | The Struggle for Asia 1828–1914 A Study in British and Russian Imperialism

GBP 90.00
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Tradigital Blender A CG Animator's Guide to Applying the Classic Principles of Animation

Tradigital Blender A CG Animator's Guide to Applying the Classic Principles of Animation

Expand your animation toolkit with foundational animation techniques software expertise professional best-practices proven and time-tested work flows. Roland Hess a leading Blender artist and instructor expertly navigates you through Blender's character animation systems and controls with a focus on each of the classical principles of animation like timing anticipation appeal staging exaggeration squash and stretch and much more. Unique from other software titles the Tradigital series offers a specific tool-set of practical instruction and foundational knowledge that all great animators will need to know. Expand your digital workflow to include the practical resources with the robust companion web site that include demonstrations project files links to further resources available at http://www. focalpress. com/cw/hess-9780240817576/. | Tradigital Blender A CG Animator's Guide to Applying the Classic Principles of Animation

GBP 175.00
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Animated Life A Lifetime of tips tricks techniques and stories from an animation Legend

Animated Life A Lifetime of tips tricks techniques and stories from an animation Legend

Since Steamboat Mickey animators have been creating characters and films that are charming warm and humorous allowing people to connect with the animated medium. Animation fans love the characters for a lifetime. This is the legacy of the countless animators and artists who created the classic characters and fun stories and it is the legacy of Disney Legend Floyd Norman. Written with wit and verve Animated Life is a guided tour through an entire lifetime of techniques practical hands-on advice and insight into an entire industry. This is a vital tutorial in animation's past present and future for students who are now poised to be part of another new generation in the art form. Apply artistic magic to your own projects and garner valuable insight and inspiration from a True Disney legend. Animated Life is a classic in the making with completely relevant techniques and tools for the contemporary animation or fine arts professional. | Animated Life A Lifetime of tips tricks techniques and stories from an animation Legend

GBP 175.00
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The Great Elector Frederick William of Brandenburg-Prussia

The Great Elector Frederick William of Brandenburg-Prussia

In this first biography in English for fifty years Derek McKay avoids the limitation of seeing Frederick William primarily as precursor of the 'Enlightened' Frederick the Great. Instead he roots him firmly in his own time a dynastic protestant ruler like many another in Germany but gifted with the toughness and opportunism to overcome the hostility of his local nobilities and of the surrounding great powers. | The Great Elector Frederick William of Brandenburg-Prussia

GBP 130.00
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From the Subprime Crisis to the Great Recession A Financial History of the United States 2006–2009

From the Subprime Crisis to the Great Recession A Financial History of the United States 2006–2009

Originally published in 2010 this book covers the development of the mortgage market the residential housing boom and bust that led to the subprime crisis and the effect of this crisis on financial institutions as well as the stock market panic of 2008. It details the massive government interventions that sought to prevent another Great Depression. | From the Subprime Crisis to the Great Recession A Financial History of the United States 2006–2009

GBP 170.00
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Voluntary Associations

Voluntary Associations

A vast and complicated array of subject matter is subjected to analysis comment and speculation by fifteen contributors representing three separate but contiguous disciplines. Their approaches are as various as one would expect. One is concerned with the bonds that hold associations together and another with the tendency for the private to become public. One sees associations as interferences with democratic political processes while another is more impressed by their positive values. Still another shows that the way in which they operate in the political process depends not only on the kind of association but also upon the political context within which they operate. Pennock and Chapman say that the theorist's job is to speculate and to interpret the facts as he sees them. It is also the theorist's job to suggest hypotheses for testing: to point to lines of inquiry that should be pursued. One cannot read the essays in this volume without having his eyes opened-or opened wider-both to the paucity of information about the political features of voluntary associations and to the wide variety of aspects from which the subject needs to be approached. The kinds of questions that need to be examined can be grouped in categories. The first focuses on the individual: What kinds of memberships does he have? Even more what is the effect upon him of membership in each kind of association? The second examines internal composition and workings of organizations. The third focuses on the state as a whole and the effect of organized groups upon it the political processes of the associational structure of the society and modes of behavior of these associations. Organized groups play an intermediate role in the polity. At the same time the state and those charged at any particular time with the performance of its functions must look primarily to new associations within it to secure compliance with its law and for guidance in shaping those laws.

GBP 130.00
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Families

Families

In 'Families' Jane Howard informally visits many dozens of families and tries to discover what makes the best ones work so well. Families are not dying she finds although they are evolving in various ways. From the tightest-knit nuclear family or extended clan to the most fragile new commune the family in one guise or another remains everybody's most basic hold on reality. We may run away from our families as many do but no sooner do we escape than we find another one often very much like it. Sympathetically with immense thrust she crosses the continent to discover families' myths jokes and rituals. She leafs through their scrapbooks sits on their porches and takes part when she can in their feasts and celebrations. She talks to a father of eighteen several double first cousins stepchildren multiple godmothers an honorary relative of an Indian tribe and a nine-year-old boy who has no family but his mother. She sits with a matriarch on the front stoop of a ghetto house goes camping with a family in Mexico has Thanksgiving with another in Iowa and orders pizza with a Greek clan in Massachusetts. Howard reports on visits to conventional Southern and Jewish households and to innovative ones whose members lacking a common history plan on building common futures as if water were after all as thick as blood. She examines the notion that there are ways and ways of achieving kinship of which birth and marriage are only the most obvious. Millions of clans and families all over the United States continue to celebrate quarrel disband reunite and endure. Jane Howard makes us realize how our lives are interwoven both with the families we are born into and with those we invent as we go through life. 'Families' is compassionate provocative and profound. The paperback edition of this important work will be essential reading for all those with an interest in the study of familial bonds particularly sociologists anthropologists and psychologists.

GBP 110.00
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Social Statistics Managing Data Conducting Analyses Presenting Results

Social Statistics Managing Data Conducting Analyses Presenting Results

With a clear engaging writing style and fascinating examples using a variety of real data this text covers the contemporary statistical techniques that students will encounter in the world of social research. It covers these techniques at an introductory level and carefully guides students through increasingly complex examples without intimidating them. Recurrent examples using four timely topics—health immigration income inequality and everyday harassment—help students understand how the techniques fit together and how to use the techniques in combination with one another. A superb author-created web resource accompanies the text. How to make clear presentations of research results is also a feature of the text. New to this edition: New research shows how the techniques has changed over time in the academic literature showing students that social scientists really do use the statistical techniques the book teaches and giving them ample motivation to learn the techniques. Examples throughout the book use the most recent data from the General Social Survey. Four timely topics are threaded throughout the book: immigration health income inequality and everyday harassment. Linneman uses these topics recurrently with different statistical techniques to illustrate how the techniques are related to one another. The new edition more explicitly emphasizes that the various techniques the students are learning are often used in combination with one another. After introducing a new technique and showing how to use it on its own Linneman then systematically offers examples of how to combine that technique with techniques students learned in previous chapters. Most of the literature examples that end each chapter are new and use very recent research from top academic journals (three quarters from 2015 or later nearly half from 2019). They feature research that covers timely topics such as Black Lives Matter transgender health social media police behavior and climate change. The SPSS demonstrations are completely redone both in the book and on the website’s demonstration videos using more recent data. Linneman applies his experience teaching his own students SPSS (knowing where students get confused) to clarify his explanations in these demonstrations. | Social Statistics Managing Data Conducting Analyses Presenting Results

GBP 94.99
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The Different Faces of Politics in Literature and Music

The Different Faces of Politics in Literature and Music

This book highlights the links between politics and governance and the arts. The essays in the volume show how literature and music have challenged those in power risking political censure. In addition they also try to delineate how patronage has been used for propaganda or to stir up national fervour. They focus on the tension and symbiosis between the politician and the artist foregrounding how they have always tried to influence challenge and in some cases undermine one another. This volume will serve as an indispensable source for researchers and academics in political science the humanities and performing arts. | The Different Faces of Politics in Literature and Music

GBP 130.00
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Operations Research New Paradigms and Emerging Applications

Operations Research New Paradigms and Emerging Applications

Operation Research methods are often used in every field of modern life like industry economy and medicine. The authors have compiled of the latest advancements in these methods in this volume comprising some of what is considered the best collection of these new approaches. These can be counted as a direct shortcut to what you may search for. This book provides useful applications of the new developments in OR written by leading scientists from some international universities. Another volume about exciting applications of Operations Research is planned in the near future. We hope you enjoy and benefit from this series! | Operations Research New Paradigms and Emerging Applications

GBP 120.00
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The Different Faces of Politics in the Visual and Performative Arts

The Different Faces of Politics in the Visual and Performative Arts

This book highlights the linkages between politics and governance and the arts. The essays in the volume show how visual and performative arts have challenged those in power – or conversely patronised by them – been used for propaganda to stir up national fervour and found themselves at the receiving end of political censure. They focus on the tension and symbiosis between the politician and the artist foregrounding how they have always tried to influence challenge and in some cases undermine one another. This volume will serve as an indispensable source for researchers and academics in political science the humanities and performing arts. | The Different Faces of Politics in the Visual and Performative Arts

GBP 130.00
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Personality in the Social Process

Personality in the Social Process

First published in 1985. This book presents a new way to ask an old question. Many fields have considered the nature of the influence that members of a group exert on the course of social events. Social science provides another way to examine this issue. Moreover social science has a particular strength: It helps us to phrase questions more precisely than before it encourages us to follow a line of rea­soning systematically and it requires us to evaluate our ideas in light of a par­ticular kind of evidence. The authors want to use these strengths to explore systematically the ways that factors in the person and in the environment to­gether may shape the emergence of social behavior. | Personality in the Social Process

GBP 175.00
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Systemic Functional Linguistics A Complete Guide

Systemic Functional Linguistics A Complete Guide

This user-friendly student guide is the essential resource for all those engaged in studying systemic functional linguistics (SFL). Assuming no prior knowledge this guide is divided into nine chapters which can be read independently of one another and used for purposes of reference. The reading section maps out and mediates the key SFL literature. The application guides show how SFL has been and can be applied to various domains from translation to healthcare communication. The term guides demystify the core terminology and the vocabulary guides aid readers in dealing with the most commonly used terms in text analysis. Systemic Functional Linguistics is an invaluable guidebook for all those studying functional grammar and SFL within linguistics applied linguistics and related courses. | Systemic Functional Linguistics A Complete Guide

GBP 120.00
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Organizations and Organizing Rational Natural and Open Systems Perspectives

Organizations and Organizing Rational Natural and Open Systems Perspectives

This broad balanced introduction to organizational studies enables the reader to compare and contrast different approaches to the study of organizations. This book is a valuable tool for the reader as we are all intertwined with organizations in one form or another. Numerous other disciplines besides sociology are addressed in this book including economics political science strategy and management theory. Topic areas discussed in this book are the importance of organizations; defining organizations; organizations as rational natural and open systems; environments strategies and structures of organizations; and organizations and society. For those employed in fields where knowledge of organizational theory is necessary including sociology anthropology cognitive psychology industrial engineering managers in corporations and international business and business strategists. | Organizations and Organizing Rational Natural and Open Systems Perspectives

GBP 175.00
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Evidence for Hope The Search for Sustainable Development

Evidence for Hope The Search for Sustainable Development

Since the Stockholm Environment Conference in 1972 and the Rio Summit in 1992 there has been unprecedented public concern for the future of the planet and a growing awareness that development needs to be sustainable. This text charts the growth of these ideas by beginning with a visionary piece written by Barbara Ward in the 1970s and ends with a chapter looking ahead another 30 years into the future. Two generations of thinkers and activists have helped to shape environment and development policy and increase local level power in environmental management. In celebration of their 30th anniversary the IIED's most influential writers provide in this volume a perspective on three decades of development and green debates. | Evidence for Hope The Search for Sustainable Development

GBP 160.00
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