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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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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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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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Religious Pluralism and Political Stability Obligations in Agreement

Religious Pluralism and Political Stability Obligations in Agreement

This book argues that the principles and institutions of political liberalism are necessary conditions for achieving reliable stability amid conditions of pluralism. Only a political system of this sort can bring citizens’ moral religious and political loyalties into robust agreement. Through an analysis that encompasses normative political theory and American constitutional law David Golemboski illustrates the implications of this conclusion by examining contemporary legal debates in law and religion. By developing a fresh perspective on how legal frameworks for religious exercise and establishment can ameliorate conflict and enhance the stability of a liberal constitution this book demonstrates that political systems need not subordinate or sacrifice important liberal priorities in favor of stability. Rather those liberal priorities are themselves necessary components of a stable order. Religious Pluralism and Political Stability will be of interest to scholars across the fields of political philosophy legal theory and constitutional law who have an interest in religion. | Religious Pluralism and Political Stability Obligations in Agreement

GBP 130.00
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Young Children's Behaviour Guidance approaches for early childhood educators

Young Children's Behaviour Guidance approaches for early childhood educators

'The book provides a comprehensive yet practical discussion of guidance strategies that can be implemented in a variety of situations. These strategies promote a respect for children and their rights enhance children's self-esteem and help to foster pro-social skills. This book is a must-read for both students and practitioners who work with children and families. ' - Dr Laura McFarland School of Education Charles Sturt UniversityDrawing on the latest research evidence Young Children's Behaviour outlines the beliefs and values that underpin the guidance approach to managing the behaviours of children from birth to eight years of age. In contrast with rewards-and-punishment systems guidance believes that children do not need incentives to behave well but instead need skills. Rather than punishing them for lacking skills guidance teaches young children self-regulation skills so that they can behave considerately. The author provides practical strategies that both meet children's needs and safeguard the rights of surrounding adults and children. These methods include listening being assertive giving positive instructions solving problems collaboratively and coaching children to self-regulate their emotions and impulses. The text also offers advice on responding to many common challenges including separation distress meltdowns aggression and social withdrawal. Finally the book suggests how educators can provide educational and behavioural support for children with atypical development and describes how to foster effective relationships with parents whose children display challenging behaviours. Dr Louise Porter powerfully argues that behaviour guidance is the most effective approach to working with young children and reflects the deepest values of early childhood education and care. | Young Children's Behaviour Guidance approaches for early childhood educators

GBP 130.00
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Advances in Noninvasive Food Analysis

Advances in Noninvasive Food Analysis

To ensure food quality and safety food professionals need a knowledge of food composition and characteristics. The analysis of food product is required for quality management throughout the developmental process including the raw materials and ingredients but food analysis adds processing cost for food industry and consumes time for government agencies. Advances in Noninvasive Food Analysis explores the potential and recent advances in non-invasive food analysis techniques used to ensure food quality and safety. Such cost-reducing and time-saving non-destructive food analysis techniques covered include Infrared Raman Spectroscopy and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. The book also covers data processing and modelling. Features: Covers the advent of non-invasive non-destructive methods of food analysis Presents such techniques as near and mid infrared Raman Spectroscopy and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Describes the growing role of nanotechnology in non-invasive food analysis Includes image analysis and data processing and modelling required to sort out the data The prime for this book are food professionals working in industry control authorities and research organizations that ensure food quality and safety as well as libraries of universities with substantial food science programs food companies and food producers with research and development departments. Also available in the Contemporary Food Engineering series: Advances in Food Bioproducts Fermentation Engineering and Bioprocessing Technologies edited by Monica Lizeth Chavez Gonzalez Nagamani Balagurusamy Christobal N. Aguilar (ISBN 9781138544222) Advances in Vinegar Production edited by Argyro Bekatorou (ISBN 9780815365990) Innovative Technologies in Seafood Processing edited by Yesim Ozogul (ISBN 9780815366447)

GBP 115.00
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Classical Theism New Essays on the Metaphysics of God

Classical Theism New Essays on the Metaphysics of God

This volume provides a contemporary account of classical theism. It features 17 original essays from leading scholars that advance the discussion of classical theism in new and interesting directions. It’s safe to say that classical theism—the view that God is simple omniscient and the greatest possible being—is no longer the assumed view in analytic philosophy of religion. It is often dismissed as being rooted in outdated metaphysical systems of the sort advanced by ancient and medieval philosophers. The main purpose of this volume is twofold: to provide a contemporary account of what classical theism is and to advance the scholarly discussion about classical theism. In Section I the contributors offer a clear and cutting-edge account of the nature and existence of the God and the historical and theological foundations of classical theism. Section II contains chapters on a variety of topics such as whether classical theism’s doctrine of simplicity needs revision whether simplicity is compatible with the Christian doctrine of the Incarnation and whether the hypothesis of a multiplicity of divine ideas is consistent with divine simplicity among others. Classical Theism will appeal to scholars and advanced students in the philosophy of religion who are interested in the nature of God. Chapters 2 and 6 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Classical Theism New Essays on the Metaphysics of God

GBP 120.00
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Emotional Self-Knowledge

Emotional Self-Knowledge

This volume sheds light on the affective dimensions of self-knowledge and the roles that emotions and other affective states play in promoting or obstructing our knowledge of ourselves. It is the first book specifically devoted to the issue of affective self-knowledge. The relation between self-knowledge and human emotions is an often emphasized but poorly articulated one. While philosophers of emotion tend to give affectivity a central role in making us who we are the philosophical literature on self-knowledge focuses overwhelmingly on cognitive states and does not give a special place to the emotions. Currently there is little dialogue between both fields or with other philosophical traditions that have important contributions to make to this topic such as phenomenology and Asian philosophy. This volume brings together philosophers from the relevant fields to explore two related sets of questions: First do philosophers of emotion exaggerate the importance of our affective lives in making us who we are? Or is it philosophers of self-knowledge who misunderstand emotions? Second what is the role of emotions in self-knowledge? What sort of self-knowledge can be secured by paying attention to our emotions? Emotional Self-Knowledge is an essential resource for researchers and advanced students working on philosophy of emotion philosophy of mind epistemology philosophical psychology and phenomenology. Chapter 1 and Chapter 10 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license.

GBP 130.00
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Parents Schools and the State Global Perspectives

Parents Schools and the State Global Perspectives

This book maps globally shifting relations between families schools and the state across a range of nations (Australia Germany India Norway Singapore Sweden USA) in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Featuring contributions from leading international experts the book’s eight chapters reflect upon the apparently vital responsibility of parents for choosing the rights sort of educational pathways for their children offering comparative insights into several different kinds of state with different contexts for the practices of ‘educational’ parenting. The contributors consider the proposition that a significant focus of the material emotional and occupational investment of contemporary parents is the formal education of their children re-shaping not only the relationship between parents and schools but also the nature of parenthood itself. Parents are analysed both as local actors in schools and as subjects of national and international policy regimes particularly recent and contemporary imperatives of marketisation. . With a focus on social change the chapters examine the operation of global educational programmes and ideas in national and local settings. The collected national and local studies attend to different confluences of local regional and transnational considering a variety of social and cultural patterns as well as national and local educational structures and policy regimes. Parents Schools and The State: Global Perspectives will be a useful resource for academics researchers and advanced students of comparative education educational policy and leadership educational research history of education sociology research methods and politics. This book was originally published as a special issue of Comparative Education. | Parents Schools and the State Global Perspectives

GBP 130.00
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Wastewater Treatment Molecular Tools Techniques and Applications

Wastewater Treatment Molecular Tools Techniques and Applications

Wastewater Treatment: Molecular Tools Techniques and Applications provides an insight about the application of different tools and technology for exploring microbial structure-function relationships that involved in WWTPs. From the present day consequence of alarming usable water crysis throughout the globe an immediate action on water cycle is necessary. Along with other options the waste water recycling is one major opportunity to combat the future scarcity. The book aims to provide a comprehensive view of advanced emerging technologies for wastewater treatment heavy metal removal pesticide degradation dye removal waste management microbial transformation of environmental contaminants etc. It also describes different application of Omic tools in Waste water treatment plants (WWTPs) describes the role of microorganisms in WWTPs points out the reuse of treated wastewater through emerging technologies also includes the recovery of resources from wastewater and emphasizes on cutting edge molecular tools for WWTPs. We hope the content of the book will be very much usefull for the community who are directly associated in wastewater management research people who are associated with environmental awarness programme and the students of UG and PG courses. Features: This book highlights the importance of molecular genomics molecular biology techniques to sort out the problems faced by industrialist who operates wastewater treatment plant with the ever-increasing number of environmental pollutants. Describes application of different Omic tools in Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) Describes the role of microorganisms in WWTPs Points out the reuse of treated wastewater through emerging technologies. Includes the recovery of resources from wastewater Emphasizes on cutting edge molecular tools This book targets engineers scientists and managers who require an excellent introduction and basic knowledge to the principles of molecular biology or molecular genomics in the area of wastewater treatment. Different professionals working or interested in the Environmental Microbiology or Bioremediation or Environmental Genomics field. Students on Environmental Biotechnology/Microbiology. | Wastewater Treatment Molecular Tools Techniques and Applications

GBP 150.00
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Digitalization Contexts Roles and Outcomes

Digitalization Contexts Roles and Outcomes

Conceptually as well as practically digitalization is similar to the implementation of a modern computation model – the model may be a centralized setup using a mainframe or it may be extended to an N-tier architecture. Regardless of the specifics of the implementation however the conceptual model of data processing remains the same. Digitalization is nothing but a system relying on digital technologies to create conduct and potentially expand a business activity of some sort. Digitalization can be used to create an e-commerce model for a small business or to create a global supply and distribution chain geared toward almost any kind of a business. It could also be used for non-profit purposes such as on-line education and telemedicine or e-government. Digitalization: Contexts Roles and Outcomes is a contemplation and analysis of the socio-technical system that is known as digitalization. It considers the context of digitalization as well as the ways by which digitalization offers value to the context within which it operates. This book aims to offer readers an entry point to a path of inquiry into the different aspects of digitalization. The goal is to identify main directions for further inquiry as well as to outline the most obvious obstacles along the way. The book aims to guide readers on their own unique journeys using the basic ideas principles and concepts synthesized developed and presented in the book. It is beneficial to both practitioners and researchers. The book covers: The functionality of digitalization The significance of digitalization Identifying the context of digitalization Designing a control system A cognitive model for the theory of digitalization Designing a theory of digitalization The book helps readers to consider the subject of digitalization in a rigorous and rational way so their own perspectives can emerge stronger and be substantiated and reinforced by building an argument vis-à-vis perspectives and points examined in this book. | Digitalization Contexts Roles and Outcomes

GBP 99.99
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Sex and Dehumanization

Sex and Dehumanization

Never before published in the United States David Holbrook's study offers the sort of common sense all too uncommon in this area of study. His essential premise is that sex has become converted from an instrument for the expression of happiness and affection into an end unto itself. In the search for sexual liberation all that has been accomplished is the mechanization of sexuality and the destruction of the full range of emotions that nourish the human search for social and biological meaning. Sex and Dehumanization is one of those rare books that will immediately strike the reader as part of the common wisdom that has somehow been lost in a search for the pleasure principle unhinged from other values and goals. During the past quarter century Holbrook argues not only has the concept of sex become increasingly separated from the rest of existence but sex casualties have increased disastrously. The spread of AIDS has brought an ominous and deadly manifestation of this thesis into the human equation yet at the same tune the response to this menace has been nothing short of manic denial. A similar picture emerges in less deadly forms. Whatever statistics one examines whether those of sexual activity among young children abortion or sexual disease one finds a grim antidote to any hopes of progress in the sphere of human dealings with the sexual. Holbrook locates many of the problems involved in this separation of sex and affection in the emergence of the idea that our lives are governed by impersonal forces beyond human control. Sex and Dehumanization is in the great tradition of social history and psychiatric analysis. Robert Nye writing in the Scotsman says that Holbrook's diagnosis of our unease should be attentively studied by all who really care about sex and love and the responsibility of freedom. Gabriel Pearson in the Guardian echoes this sentiment adding that never has such a secular ethic been so firmly and urgently and usefully stated. And John Rex sees the book as containing the germs of important and central moral discussion.

GBP 130.00
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Farce

Farce

Farce has always been relegated to the lowest rung of the ladder of dramatic genres. Distinctions between farce and more literary comic forms remain clouded even in the light of contemporary efforts to rehabilitate this type of comedy. Is farce really nothing more than slapstick-the putting out of candles kicking down of tables falling over joynt-stools as Thomas Shadwell characterized it in the seventeenth century? Or was his contemporary Nahum Tate correct when he declared triumphantly that there are no rules to be prescribed for that sort of wit no patterns to copy; and 'tis altogether the creature of imagination? Davis shows farce to be an essential component in both the comedic and tragic traditions. Farce sets out to explore the territory of what makes farce distinct as a comic genre. Its lowly origins date back to the classic Graeco-Roman theatre; but when formal drama was reborn by the process of elaboration of ritual within the mediaeval Church the French term farce became synonymous with a recognizable style of comic performance. Taking a wide range of farces from the briefest and most basic of fair-ground mountebank performances to fully-fledged five-act structures from the late nineteenth century the book reveals the patterns of comic plot and counter-plot that are common to all. The result is a novel classification of farce-plots which serves to clarify the differences between farce and more literary comic forms and to show how quickly farce can shade into other styles of humor. The key is a careful balance between a revolt against order and propriety and a kind of Realpolitik which ultimately restores the social conventions under attack. A complex array of devices in such things as framing plot characterization timing and acting style maintain the delicate balance. Contemporary examples from the London stage bring the discussion up-to-date and reveal farce as a complex and potent comic form with its own history rules and traditions. Farce sheds light on the genre its history and usage in terms of dramatic critics. Davis examines the recurring themes in farcical comedies including rebellion revenge and coincidence. This classic work updated with a new introduction and 50% new material has been a staple of literary and humor studies libraries for years. It is part of the Transaction Series in Humor edited by Arthur Asa Berger.

GBP 130.00
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