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Cultural Politics in Harry Potter Life Death and the Politics of Fear

Cultural Politics in Harry Potter Life Death and the Politics of Fear

Cultural Politics in Harry Potter: Life Death and the Politics of Fear is the first book-length analysis of topics such as death fear and biopolitics in J. K. Rowling’s work from controversial and interdisciplinary perspectives. This collection brings together recent theoretical and applied cultural studies and focuses on three key areas of inquiry: (1) wizarding biopolitics and intersected discourses; (2) anxiety death resilience and trauma; and (3) the politics of fear and postmodern transformations. As such this book: provides a comprehensive overview of national and gender discourses as well as the transiting bodies in-between in relation to the Harry Potter books series and related multimedia franchise; situates the transformative power of death within the fandom transmedia and film depictions of the Potterverse and critically deconstructs the processes of subjectivation and legitimation of death and fear; examines the strategies and mechanisms through which cultural and political processes are managed as well as reminding us how fiction and reality intersect at junctions such as terrorism homonationalism materialism capitalism posthumanism and technology. Exploring precisely what is cultural about wizarding politics and what is political about culture this book is key reading for students of contemporary literature media and culture as well as anyone with an interest in the fictional universe and wizarding world of Harry Potter. | Cultural Politics in Harry Potter Life Death and the Politics of Fear

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The Bet Truth in Science Literature and Everyday Knowledges

The Bet Truth in Science Literature and Everyday Knowledges

First published in 1999 this epistemological volume takes Searle’s ‘simple theory’ and ‘common sense’ realism and builds it from the ground up applying it to some of the most contentious issues in the philosophy of science. Garry Potter shall also attempt to extent his notions of science and realism beyond the subject boundaries to demonstrate the applicability of both scientificity and realism where such a possibility is perhaps most counter-intuitive: literary criticism. Potter thus presents a unified theory of knowledge. | The Bet Truth in Science Literature and Everyday Knowledges

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The Rise of Analytic Philosophy 1879–1930 From Frege to Ramsey

The Rise of Analytic Philosophy 1879–1930 From Frege to Ramsey

In this book Michael Potter offers a fresh and compelling portrait of the birth of modern analytic philosophy viewed through the lens of a detailed study of the work of the four philosophers who contributed most to shaping it: Gottlob Frege Bertrand Russell Ludwig Wittgenstein and Frank Ramsey. It covers the remarkable period of discovery that began with the publication of Frege's Begriffsschrift in 1879 and ended with Ramsey's death in 1930. Potter—one of the most influential scholars of this period in philosophy—presents a deep but accessible account of the break with absolute idealism and neo-Kantianism and the emergence of approaches that exploited the newly discovered methods in logic. Like his subjects Potter focusses principally on philosophical logic philosophy of mathematics and metaphysics but he also discusses epistemology meta-ethics and the philosophy of language. The book is an essential starting point for any student attempting to understand the work of Frege Russell Wittgenstein and Ramsey as well as their interactions and their larger intellectual milieux. It will also be of interest to anyone who wants to cast light on current philosophical problems through a better understanding of their origins. | The Rise of Analytic Philosophy 1879–1930 From Frege to Ramsey

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The Future of the Nineteenth-Century Dream-Child Fantasy Dystopia Cyberculture

The Future of the Nineteenth-Century Dream-Child Fantasy Dystopia Cyberculture

This book investigates the reappearance of the 19th-century dream-child from the Golden Age of Children's Literature both in the Harry Potter series and in other works that have reached unprecedented levels of popular success today. Discussing Harry Potter as a reincarnation of Lewis Carroll's Alice and J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan Billone goes on to examine the recent resurrection of Alice in Tim Burton's Alice and of Peter Pan in Michael Jackson and in James Bond. Visiting trends that have emerged since the Harry Potter series ended the book studies revisions of the dream-child in texts and films that have inspired mass fandom in the twenty-first century: Stephenie Meyer's Twilight E. L. James's 50 Shades of Grey and Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games. The volume argues that the 21st-century desire to achieve dream-states in relationship to eternal youth results from the way that dreams provide a means of realizing the fantastic yet alarming possibility of escaping from time. This current identification with the dream-child stems from the threat of political unrest and economic and environmental collapse as well as from the simultaneous technophilia and technophobia of a culture immersed in the breathless revolution of the digital age. This book not only explores how the dream-child from the past has returned to reflect misgivings about imagined dystopian futures but also reveals how the rebirth of the dream-child opens up possibilities for new narratives where happy endings remain viable against all odds. It will appeal to scholars in a wide variety of fields including Childhood Studies Children's/YA Literature Cinema Studies Cultural Studies Cyberculture Gender Studies Queer Studies Gothic Studies New Media and Popular Culture. | The Future of the Nineteenth-Century Dream-Child Fantasy Dystopia Cyberculture

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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

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Bodies of Information Reading the VariAble Body from Roman Britain to Hip Hop

Bodies of Information Reading the VariAble Body from Roman Britain to Hip Hop

Bodies of Information initiates the Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics series by encompassing interdisciplinary Bioethical discussions on a wide range of descriptions of bodies in relation to their contexts from varying perspectives: including literary analysis sociology criminology anthropology osteology and cultural studies to read a variety of types of artefacts from the Romano-British period to Hip Hop. Van Rensselaer Potter coined the phrase Global Bioethics to define human relationships with their contexts. This and subsequent volumes return to Potter’s founding vision from historical perspectives and asks how did we get here from then? | Bodies of Information Reading the VariAble Body from Roman Britain to Hip Hop

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Reading and Loving

Reading and Loving

Originally published in 1977. Learning to read is probably the central educational achievement of any child's life. It is also a central concern for parents and teachers. Leila Berg known for her work in children's literature believes that the enjoyment of books and the acquisition of reading and writing is not primarily an academic or a technical skill but grows from a warmly physical and emotional base of shared enjoyment with another human being. This book traces the varied ways that babies learn to communicate and discusses the place of books in the lives of different groups in the community. It examines the types of books used in school and demonstrates that in many cases books themselves provide the major inhibition to the development of reading through their stilted and often formalistic vocabulary. The author's aim is that all children's first experience of reading should be a loving and sensuous one so that they can come to discover the power of books themselves. | Reading and Loving

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The Muse as Eros Music Erotic Fantasy and Male Creativity in the Romantic and Modern Imagination

The Muse as Eros Music Erotic Fantasy and Male Creativity in the Romantic and Modern Imagination

The Muse has long been figured as a divine or erotically alluring consort to the virile male artist who may inspire him or lead him to the edge of madness. This book explores the changing cultural expressions of the relationship between the male artist with a beloved imagined or desired Muse to offer new and penetrating perspectives on musical representations and transformations of creative masculine subjectivity and important aspects of the shift from the styles and aesthetics of Romantic Idealism to Modernist Anxiety in music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Each of the chapters begins with explorations into male artists' relationships with their Muse and moves to analysis and interpretation which uncovers cultural constructions of masculine artistic inspiration and production and their association with creatively inspiring and erotically charged relationships with a Muse. New insights are offered into the musical meaning and cultural significance of selected works by Rossini Beethoven Chopin Liszt Schumann Wagner Sibelius Mahler Bart³k Scriabin Szymanowski Debussy Berg Poulenc and Weill. | The Muse as Eros Music Erotic Fantasy and Male Creativity in the Romantic and Modern Imagination

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The History and Bioethics of Medical Education You've Got to Be Carefully Taught

The History and Bioethics of Medical Education You've Got to Be Carefully Taught

The History and Bioethics of Medical Education: You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught continues the Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics series by exploring approaches to the teaching of bioethics from disparate disciplines geographies and contexts. Van Rensselaer Potter coined the phrase Global Bioethics to define human relationships with their contexts. This and subsequent volumes return to Potter’s founding vision from historical perspectives and asks how did we get here from then? The patient-practitioner relationship has come to the fore in bioethics; this volume asks: is there an ideal bioethical curriculum? Are the students being carefully taught and in turn are they carefully learning? This volume will appeal to those working in both clinical medicine and the medical humanities as vibrant connections are drawn between various ways of knowing. | The History and Bioethics of Medical Education You've Got to Be Carefully Taught

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Media Ethics Cases and Moral Reasoning

Media Ethics Cases and Moral Reasoning

Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning challenges readers to think analytically about ethical situations in mass communication through original case studies and commentaries about real-life media experiences. This text provides a comprehensive introduction to the theoretical principles of ethical philosophies facilitating ethical awareness. It introduces the Potter Box with its four dimensions of moral analysis to provide a framework for exploring the steps in moral reasoning and analyzing the cases. Focusing on a wide spectrum of ethical issues faced by media practitioners the cases in this Eleventh Edition include the most recent issues in journalism broadcasting advertising public relations and entertainment. Cases touch on issues and places worldwide from Al Jazeera to the Xinhua News Agency from Nigerian brown envelopes to PR professional standards in South Africa. Racially divisive language comes up in different communication contexts as does celebrity influence on culture. A core textbook for classes in media ethics communication ethics and ethics in journalism public relations and advertising. | Media Ethics Cases and Moral Reasoning

GBP 120.00
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Clinical Psychology A Case Book of the Neuroses and their Treatment

Clinical Psychology A Case Book of the Neuroses and their Treatment

Originally published in 1948 the blurb read: 'Dr Berg has an extraordinary flair for presenting a difficult subject in a most realistic and attractive manner without sacrifice of scientific essentials. The patients are made to speak for themselves with the result that we feel actually present at the analytical sessions sharing the most intimate details of each individual’s life and feelings. Throughout it is alive with real vivid clinical material. The reader is led through a panorama of troubled minds and disturbed emotions – from the simplest worries and anxieties through increasing severity of stresses to incipient major disorders. The whole subject of treatment is reviewed and expounded in compendious detail concluding with a critical review and revolutionary suggestions for the future. In spite of its novel and entertaining method of exposition the book covers a surprisingly wide field – the whole field of clinical psychology up to date – and more. ' Today it can be read and enjoyed in its historical context. This book is a re-issue originally published in 1948. The language used is a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication. | Clinical Psychology A Case Book of the Neuroses and their Treatment

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Fear Punishment Anxiety and the Wolfenden Report

Fear Punishment Anxiety and the Wolfenden Report

Originally published in 1959 the blurb read: ‘Dr Berg has made a comprehensive survey of the Wolfenden Report in regard to homosexuality and illustrated his comments with extracts from case material. He points out that whereas public opinion has so far lagged behind the Committee’s main recommendation scientifically far from being an advance the report may be considered lamentably reactionary. He says; Perhaps this report is a good lesson in the futility of trying to unravel and assess psychological phenomena without first removing the obstacles to understanding their meaning. The author deals with the subject in his usual forthright witty and persuasive style which is easily enjoyed by psychiatrist and layman alike and the book should be welcomed by all who seek to understand this controversial topic. Later chapters include a discussion of the wider implications of punishment and a new theory of the fundamental nature of Anxiety and Fear. ’ Today it can be read and enjoyed in its historical context. This book is a re-issue originally published in 1959. The language used is a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication. | Fear Punishment Anxiety and the Wolfenden Report

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From the Minds of Jazz Musicians Conversations with the Creative and Inspired

From the Minds of Jazz Musicians Conversations with the Creative and Inspired

From the Minds of Jazz Musicians: Conversations with the Creative and Inspired celebrates contemporary jazz artists who have toiled struggled and succeeded in finding their creative space. The volume was developed through transcribing and editing selected interviews with 35 jazz artists conducted by the author between 2009 and 2012 in New York City with a historical essay on each artist to provide context. The interviews feature musicians from a broad range of musical styles and experiences ranging from Gerald Wilson born in 1918 to Chris Potter born in 1971. Topics range from biographical life histories to artists’ descriptions of mentor relationships revealing the important life lessons they learned along the way. With the goal to discover the person behind the persona the author elicits conversations that speak volumes on the creative process mining the individualistic perspectives of seminal artists who witnessed history in the making. The interviews present the artists’ candid and direct opinions on music and how they have succeeded in pursuing their unique and creative lives. | From the Minds of Jazz Musicians Conversations with the Creative and Inspired

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Sustainable Action Overcoming the Barriers

Sustainable Action Overcoming the Barriers

In this timely exploration of sustainable actions Christian Berg unpacks the complexity in understanding the barriers we face in moving towards a sustainable future providing solution perspectives for every level from individuals to governments and supra-national organizations offering a lucid vision of a long-term and achievable goal for sustainability. While the 2030 Agenda has already set ambitious targets for humanity it offers little guidance for concrete actions. Although much is already being done progress seems slow and some actions aiming at sustainability may be counterproductive. Different disciplines societal actors governmental departments and NGOs attribute the slow progress to a number of different causes from the corruption of politicians to the wrong incentive structures. Sustainable Action surveys all the fields involved in sustainability to provide action principles which speak to actors of different kinds not just those professionally mandated with such changes. It offers a road map to all those who might not constantly think about systems change but who are concerned and want to contribute to a sustainable future in a meaningful way. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of sustainability issues as well as those looking for a framework for how to change their systems at work to impact the quadruple bottom line: environment economy society and future generations. | Sustainable Action Overcoming the Barriers

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More Than Miracles The State of the Art of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

More Than Miracles The State of the Art of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

Written by pioneering experts in the field More Than Miracles remains the authoritative text on solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT). The final work of the world-renowned family therapists and original developers of SFBT the late Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg this comprehensive resource informs practitioners and students in how to apply this practical internationally acclaimed approach. With a new preface this classic edition outlines the latest developments in the fields of family therapy brief therapy and psychotherapy training and practice. A succinct overview orients the reader to the current landscape of SFBT and provides three real-life case transcripts that illustrate the practical applications of SFBT techniques. The seminar format of the text allows readers to: sit in on surprising psychotherapy sessions eavesdrop on the authors’ commentary about the sessions gain a comprehensive overview on the current state of SFBT review and understand the major tenets of SFBT learn specific interventions including the miracle question and the reasons for asking it understand treatment applicability read actual session transcripts understand the miracle scale get insight into the unique relationship between Wittgenstein’s philosophy and SFBT better understand SFBT and emotions examine misconceptions about SFBT and more Suitable for both advanced practitioners and ambitious beginners this book is the ideal resource for anyone seeking an in-depth understanding of the SFBT approach the concepts that inform it and the specific techniques that characterize its implementation. | More Than Miracles The State of the Art of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

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New Directions in Children's Gothic Debatable Lands

New Directions in Children's Gothic Debatable Lands

Children’s literature today is dominated by the gothic mode and it is in children’s gothic fictions that we find the implications of cultural change most radically questioned and explored. This collection of essays looks at what is happening in the children’s Gothic now when traditional monsters have become the heroes when new monsters have come into play when globalisation brings Harry Potter into China and yaoguai into the children’s Gothic and when childhood itself and children’s literature as a genre can no longer be thought of as an uncontested space apart from the debates and power struggles of an adult domain. We look in detail at series such as The Mortal Instruments Twilight Chaos Walking The Power of Five Skulduggery Pleasant and Cirque du Freak; at novels about witches and novels about changelings; at the Gothic in China Japan and Oceania; and at authors including Celia Rees Frances Hardinge Alan Garner and Laini Taylor amongst many others. At a time when the energies and anxieties of children’s novels can barely be contained anymore within the genre of children’s literature spilling over into YA and adult literature we need to pay attention. Weird things are happening and they matter. | New Directions in Children's Gothic Debatable Lands

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The Communicator's Guide to Media Law and Ethics A Handbook for Australian Professionals

The Communicator's Guide to Media Law and Ethics A Handbook for Australian Professionals

This book offers an introduction to the key legal and ethical topics confronting Australian journalists and strategic communicators both at home and internationally and offers a suite of reflective techniques for navigating them. It starts by positioning morals ethics and the law in their historical and philosophical frameworks by tracing the evolution of free expression and professional media ethics. Media law and ethics are then contextualized in their modern international human rights framework. Readers are equipped with a skill set for reflecting on the law and ethics of professional media dilemmas – including mindful reflection the Potter Box journaling concept mapping and discussion. Such approaches are then applied to key topic areas including free expression; reputation; confidentiality; privacy; justice; intellectual property; national security; discrimination and harassment; and conflicted interests. Each is examined in terms of its philosophical underpinnings relationship to human rights professional ethical context international examples legal principles key Australian laws legal cases and strategies for applying reflective practice techniques. It concludes on a confident note – imploring communicators to engage in constructive and mindful strategic communication with the authority and confidence that results from a working knowledge of media law and ethics. This handbook is for professional communicators and students in all fields but particularly in journalism public relations corporate communication media relations and marketing. | The Communicator's Guide to Media Law and Ethics A Handbook for Australian Professionals

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Thinking about Stories An Introduction to Philosophy of Fiction

Thinking about Stories An Introduction to Philosophy of Fiction

Thinking About Stories is a fun and thought-provoking introduction to philosophical questions about narrative fiction in its many forms from highbrow literature to pulp fiction to the latest shows on Netflix. Written by philosophers Samuel Lebens and Tatjana von Solodkoff it engages with fundamental questions about fiction such as: What is it? What does it give us? Does a story need a narrator? And why do sad stories make us cry if we know they aren’t real? The format of the book emulates a lively verbal exchange: each chapter has only one author while the other appears spontaneously in dialogues in the text along the way raising questions and voicing criticisms and inviting responses from their co-author. This unique format allows readers to feel like they are a part of the conversation about the philosophical foundations of some of the fictions in their own lives. Key Features Draws on a wide range of types of narrative fiction from Harry Potter to Breakfast of Champions to Parks and Recreation Explores how fiction despite its detachment from truth is often best able to teach us important things about the world in which we live Concludes by asking in the final chapter whether we all might be fictions Includes bibliographies and suggested reading lists in each chapter | Thinking about Stories An Introduction to Philosophy of Fiction

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Pragmatics in Korean and Japanese Translation

Pragmatics in Korean and Japanese Translation

This book explores how the greater amount of pragmatic information encoded in Korean and Japanese can result in pragmatic (in)visibility when translating between those languages and English. Pragmatic information must be added when translating from English to Korean or Japanese and is easily lost when translating in the other direction. This book offers an analysis of translations in Japanese and Korean of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and The Hobbit or There and Back Again to show how the translated versions crystallise the translators’ interpretations of relationships in the way characters address one another. This book discusses fan translations of Korean and Japanese to English of various popular media observing that the emotional meanings easily lost when translating in this direction are often deemed important enough to warrant the insertion of additional explanatory material. The book additionally discusses the role of fan translation in the construction of international online communities and a heightened communal commentary on translation. Western translation commentary has historically lacked sufficient emphasis on translation to and from East Asian languages and these case studies help to address a problem of central importance to translation to and from languages that encode interpersonal dynamics in dramatically different ways to English. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in translation studies particularly in Korean and Japanese translation. The book will also appeal to students and researchers of the Korean and Japanese languages. | Pragmatics in Korean and Japanese Translation

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Homosexuality A Subjective and Objective Investigation

Homosexuality A Subjective and Objective Investigation

First published in Britain in 1958 the original blurb read: ‘To those whose sex life is based on heterosexual relationships the homosexual is a grotesque shadowy creature – a person spoken of with scorn. If you are not one of us it is impossible to realise our feelings when this occurs. It is incredible to us that a well-educated girl could make the following remark: What do they look like? I wonder if I’ve ever seen one?’ These words – written by a lesbian and taken from one of the personal histories of homosexual men and women which open this book – might be taken as its theme. In our statistically minded age we are apt to forget that behind the word homosexual there is always a person. Widespread misconceptions about homosexuality are particularly startling when one considers the disturbing prevalence. The purpose of this book is to bring into public light the knowledge of the manifestations of the problem so that they may be openly examined. The book is divided into two parts: Part One presents a collection of revealing autobiographies diaries letters and intimate observations in which the homosexuals speak for themselves. Part Two offers an examination of the cause and cure of homosexuality by important figures from all major schools of thought. It includes contributions by Sigmund Freud C. G. Jung George W. Henry Magnus Hirschfield Wilhelm Stekel and Sandor Ferenczi. In editing this volume Dr Berg has bridged a significant gap in the scientific approach to sexual behaviour. By bringing to life the feelings fears attitudes and anxieties of the human being behind the statistics of homosexual incidence as well as the causes it should become indispensable to the movement for intelligent sex education. This book is a re-issue originally published in 1958. The language used is a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication. | Homosexuality A Subjective and Objective Investigation

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A Life Well Lived Dialogues with a “Kabouter

A Life Well Lived Dialogues with a “Kabouter

Manfred Kets de Vries wears many “hats”—psychoanalyst executive coach consultant management educator researcher writer—but he has noticed that whichever hat he is wearing every question he is asked boils down to one thing: “How can I live a well-lived life?” Over many years of practice in all these disciplines Professor Kets de Vries has realized the unsurpassed value of stories in tackling human dilemmas and providing answers to this question. The book is therefore one of the most important books he has written for coaches students leaders managers educators—or anyone seeking a more reflective text to guide them through the multitude of questions that we face in work and in life. He draws on a long literary tradition of the unexpected encounter with a wise “other ” fantastic or magical—think The Little Prince Alice's Adventures in Wonderland The Once and Future King the Harry Potter novels—to animate an exploration of the deepest questions and concerns of human beings. He constructs an extended Socratic dialogue between his two “selves”; the first a naïve traveler lost in the Siberian wilderness and the second a reflective avatar who comes to his aid. The avatar takes the form of a “kabouter ” a familiar figure in Dutch folklore whose counterpart can be found in different cultures around the world and throughout centuries of storytelling. Through stories riddles and puzzles the kabouter challenges the traveler to question and reflect upon his life and values guiding him—and readers—toward the insights that will help them achieve a life well lived. | A Life Well Lived Dialogues with a “Kabouter

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Sex Work and Sex Workers

Sex Work and Sex Workers

Sexuality & Culture serves as a compelling forum for the analysis of ethical cultural psychological social and political issues related to sexual relationships and sexual behavior. These issues include but are not limited to: sexual consent and sexual responsibility; sexual harassment and freedom of speech and association; sexual privacy; censorship and pornography; impact of film/literature on sexual relationships; and university and governmental regulation of intimate relationships. In this volume theoretical essays research reports and book reviews examine the topics of prostitution pornography and other forms of commercialization of sexuality. Contributions include: Twelve Step Feminism Makes Sex Workers Sick by Kari Kerum; Sex Beach Boys and Female Tourists in the Caribbean by Klaus de Albuquerque; Reframing 'Eve' in the AIDS Era: The Pursuit of Legitimacy by New Zealand Sex Workers by Bronwen Lichtenstein; Long-Term Consumption of X-Rated Materials and Attitudes toward Women among Australian Consumers of X-Rated Videos by Roberto Hugh Potter; Invisible Man: A Queer Critique of Feminist Anti-Pornography Theory by Jody Norton; and Theorizing Prostitution: The Question of Agency by Melanie Simmons. Also included are reviews of Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor by Wendy Chapkis; New Sexual Agendas edited by Lynne Segal. In addition Daphne Patai reviews Real Live New Girl: Chronicles of a Sex-Positive Culture by Carol Queen; Nina Hartley reviews Three in Love; Jo Doezema reviews Trafficking in Women; Valerie Jenness reviews Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment by Jane Gallop; and Warren Farrell reviews the film In the Company of Men. This volume will be of interest to sociologists psychologists legal analysts and policymakers. | Sex Work and Sex Workers

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Introducing Translation Studies Theories and Applications

Introducing Translation Studies Theories and Applications

Introducing Translation Studies remains the definitive guide to the theories and concepts that make up the field of translation studies. Providing an accessible and up-to-date overview it has long been the essential textbook on courses worldwide. This fifth edition has been fully revised and continues to provide a balanced and detailed guide to the theoretical landscape. Each theory is applied to a wide range of languages including Bengali Chinese English French German Italian Punjabi Portuguese and Spanish. A broad spectrum of texts is analysed including the Bible Buddhist sutras Beowulf the fiction of Proust and the theatre of Shakespeare European Union and UNESCO documents a range of contemporary films a travel brochure a children's cookery book and the translations of Harry Potter. Each chapter comprises an introduction outlining the translation theory or theories illustrative texts with translations case studies a chapter summary and discussion points and exercises. New features in this fifth edition include: New material to keep up with developments in research and practice; this includes the sociology of translation chapter where a new case study employs a Bourdieusian approach; there is also newly structured discussion on translation in the digital age and audiovisual and machine translation; Revised discussion points and updated figures and tables; New in-chapter activities with links in the enhanced ebook to online materials and articles to encourage independent research; An extensive updated companion website with video introductions and journal articles to accompany each chapter online exercises an interactive timeline weblinks and PowerPoint slides for teacher support. This is a practical user-friendly textbook ideal for students and researchers on courses in translation and translation studies. | Introducing Translation Studies Theories and Applications

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The Making of a Modern Indian Artist-Craftsman Devi Prasad

The Making of a Modern Indian Artist-Craftsman Devi Prasad

The Making of the Modern Indian Artist-Craftsman is intended to be a biographical and critical insight into the work of the potter painter and photographer Devi Prasad. Apart from the making of his personal history and his times it leads us to why the act of making (art) itself takes on such a fundamental philosophical significance in his life. This the author explains derives directly from his absorption of Gandhi’s philosophy that looked at the act of making or doing as an ethical ideal and further back to the impact of the Arts and Crafts Movement on the ideology of ‘Swadeshi’ and on the milieu of Santiniketan. This book examines his art along with his role in political activism which although garnered on Indian soil made him crisscross national borders and assume an important role in the international arena of war resistance. Devi Prasad graduated from Tagore’s Santiniketan in 1944 when he joined the Hindustani Talimi Sangh (which promulgated Nayee Taleem) at Gandhi’s ashram Sevagram as Art ‘Teacher’. His political consciousness saw him participate actively in the Quit India Movement in 1942 in Vinoba Bhave’s Bhoodan and later from 1962 onward as Secretary General (later Chairman) of the War Resisters’ International the oldest world pacifist organisation based in London. From there he was able to extend his Gandhian values internationally. All of this while continuing with his life as a prolific artist. Rather than view them as separate worlds or professions Devi harmonises them within an ethical and conscionable whole. He has written widely on the inextricable link between peace and creativity on child /basic education Gandhi and Tagore on politics and art in English Hindi and Bangla. In 2007 he was awarded the Lalit Kala Akademi Ratna and in 2008 the Desikottama by Visva Bharati University Santiniketan. | The Making of a Modern Indian Artist-Craftsman Devi Prasad

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Sampling Design and Analysis

Sampling Design and Analysis

The level is appropriate for an upper-level undergraduate or graduate-level statistics major. Sampling: Design and Analysis (SDA) will also benefit a non-statistics major with a desire to understand the concepts of sampling from a finite population. A student with patience to delve into the rigor of survey statistics will gain even more from the content that SDA offers. The updates to SDA have potential to enrich traditional survey sampling classes at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The new discussions of low response rates non-probability surveys and internet as a data collection mode hold particular value as these statistical issues have become increasingly important in survey practice in recent years… I would eagerly adopt the new edition of SDA as the required textbook. (Emily Berg Iowa State University) What is the unemployment rate? What is the total area of land planted with soybeans? How many persons have antibodies to the virus causing COVID-19? Sampling: Design and Analysis Third Edition shows you how to design and analyze surveys to answer these and other questions. This authoritative text used as a standard reference by numerous survey organizations teaches the principles of sampling with examples from social sciences public opinion research public health business agriculture and ecology. Readers should be familiar with concepts from an introductory statistics class including probability and linear regression; optional sections contain statistical theory for readers familiar with mathematical statistics. Key Features: Has been thoroughly revised to incorporate recent research and applications. Includes a new chapter on nonprobability samples and more than 200 new examples and exercises have been added. Teaches the principles of sampling with examples from social sciences public opinion research public health business agriculture and ecology. SDA’s companion website contains data sets computer code and links to two free downloadable supplementary books (also available in paperback) that provide step-by-step guides—with code annotated output and helpful tips—for working through the SDA examples. Instructors can use either R or SAS® software. SAS® Software Companion for Sampling: Design and Analysis Third Edition by Sharon L. Lohr (2022 CRC Press) R Companion for Sampling: Design and Analysis Third Edition by Yan Lu and Sharon L. Lohr (2022 CRC Press) | Sampling Design and Analysis

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