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Doctor of Society Tom Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late-Enlightenment England

Doctor of Society Tom Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late-Enlightenment England

First published in 1992 this book explores how we come to hold our present attitudes towards health sickness and the medical profession. Roy Porter argues that the outlook of the age of Enlightenment was crucially important in the creation of modern thinking about disease doctors and society. To illustrate this viewpoint he focuses on Thomas Beddoes a prominent doctor of the eighteenth century and examines his challenging pugnacious radical and often amusing views on a wide range of issues concerning the place of illness and medicine in society. Many modern debates in medicine continue to echo the topics which Beddoes himself discussed in his ever-trenchant and provocative manner. This book will be of interest to those studying the history of medicine social history and the Enlightenment. | Doctor of Society Tom Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late-Enlightenment England

GBP 35.99
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House and Home Cultural Contexts Ontological Roles

House and Home Cultural Contexts Ontological Roles

House and home are words routinely used to describe where and how one lives. This book challenges predominant definitions and argues that domesticity fundamentally satisfies the human need to create and inhabit a defined place in the world. Consequently house and home have performed numerous cultural and ontological roles and have been assiduously represented in scripture literature art and philosophy. This book presents how the search for home in an unpredictable world led people to create myths about the origins of architecture houses for their gods and house tombs for eternal life. Turning to more recent topics it discusses how writers often used simple huts as a means to address the essentials of existence; modernist architects envisioned the capacity of house and home to improve society; and the suburban house was positioned as a superior setting for culture and family. Throughout the book house and home are critically examined to illustrate the perennial role and capacity of architecture to articulate the human condition position it more meaningfully in the world and assist in our collective homecoming. | House and Home Cultural Contexts Ontological Roles

GBP 36.99
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The Companion to 'Bleak House'

The Companion to 'Bleak House'

This book first published in 1988 is the most comprehensive annotation of Bleak House ever undertaken. It provides authoritative background information about the topical issues of the novel that interested Dickens as a social critic and activist. It also describes the novel’s literary antecedents and identifies the sources of its hundreds of literary and historical allusions. The annotation is based on a wide range of nineteenth-century sources – from newspapers periodicals and parliamentary papers to travel guides and cookery books – and gives the modern reader unprecedented access to both Bleak House – Dickens’s tract for the times – and the period when it was written. | The Companion to 'Bleak House'

GBP 29.99
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Lessons in Leadership from the White House to Your House

Lessons in Leadership from the White House to Your House

This book argues that we can learn a great deal about leadership from the experiences of eight US presidents who have served in the White House since Watergate. The eight presidents considered here differed widely in their family backgrounds wealth education age prior political experiences and motivations for power. But they all made the same promise—to “faithfully execute the Office of President of the US and … preserve protect and defend the Constitution of the United States”—and they all faced considerable challenges in fulfilling that promise. While all eight presidents had policy successes and failures the author argues that we gain real insight on their leadership acumen by analyzing the deeper structures of leadership effectiveness that all leaders need to address: vision execution management and decision-making. The book assesses the performance of each president along these four dimensions of leadership and extends lessons learned to leaders in other sectors. | Lessons in Leadership from the White House to Your House

GBP 34.99
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House Inspector

House Inspector

This book is a concise and comprehensive guide to building defects and building inspection. Whether as a practitioner you are employed in buying selling managing or maintaining houses or whether or as a layperson you are buying a property to invest or live in this book will help you make sound decisions and avoid costly mistakes. Written by two highly experienced authors House Inspector is a general and accessible book which describes how and why house construction has changed identifies some of the more common defects and provides a series of elemental check lists. Essential reading for trainees and general practice surveyors maintenance inspectors housing managers estate agents planners and even private purchasers and investors. This book will improve your knowledge and understanding of potential problems and provide a simple framework for a competent building inspection.

GBP 105.00
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Our House: Making Sense of Dissociative Identity Disorder

Our House: Making Sense of Dissociative Identity Disorder

Our House tells the story of a child who has experienced something that children should never have to experience. It introduces the reader to the people who arrived to help them cope with the bad things in the house that they all share. Accompanied by beautiful and gentle illustrations the story takes a non-threatening approach to demystify dissociative identity disorder using the metaphor of a house to explain what it is and how it develops. Our House can be read by individuals or used as a treatment tool to stimulate discussion and is suitable for all ages. It includes additional guidance which explains the metaphor in depth as well as advice regarding dissociative disorders and signposts to further help for both individuals and professionals. Bringing clarity to a complex issue this is an invaluable resource for survivors of trauma and for those who support them counsellors psychologists social care workers and other professionals as well as family and friends. An accompanying guidebook is also available offering further information resources and activities and page-by-page insights into illustrations from the picture book. Both books can be purchased as a set. | Our House: Making Sense of Dissociative Identity Disorder

GBP 13.99
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The Manor House Hospital A Personal Record

The Manor House Hospital A Personal Record

First published in 1966 The Manor House Hospital is a short history of the hospital from its difficult early days to its modern avatar with operating theatres spacious and airy wards comfortable waiting rooms and all other appurtenances which were often lacking in other institutions. It also documents the history of the remarkable men who made such a transformation possible. This book will be of interest to students of history medicine and public policy. | The Manor House Hospital A Personal Record

GBP 90.00
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Digital Health Technologies Law Ethics and the Doctor-Patient Relationship

Digital Health Technologies Law Ethics and the Doctor-Patient Relationship

Increasingly digital technologies are used in healthcare. This book explores eight digital health technologies situated the context of a life span from high-throughput genomic sequencing technologies and do-it-yourself (DIY) insulin delivery for diabetes management in paediatrics to the use of robotic care assistants for older adults and digital advance care decisions. A scene-setting case scenario at the start of each chapter describes the digital technology and identifies the sometimes competing interests of the key stakeholders. Broad themes of resource allocation access to technologies informed consent privacy of health data and ethical concerns are considered in context alongside analysis of legal duties owed by healthcare professionals to act in their patients’ best interests. This book addresses legal and ethical issues arising from the use of emerging digital health technologies and is of interest to academics clinicians and regulators and anyone interested in the development of health technologies and the challenges they may present. It focusses on the Australian legal framework with some comparison to other jurisdictions. | Digital Health Technologies Law Ethics and the Doctor-Patient Relationship

GBP 34.99
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From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe Behind and Beyond Lancaster House

From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe Behind and Beyond Lancaster House

First published in 1980. The aim of this collection of articles is to furnish information and perspective on the main economic and political elements present in the making of Zimbabwe. Although the articles were prepared before the conclusion of the Lancaster House negotiations they discuss matters which must be central to the future of this important newly independent state of Southern Africa. | From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe Behind and Beyond Lancaster House

GBP 175.00
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Comfort in the Eighteenth-Century Country House

Comfort in the Eighteenth-Century Country House

Country houses were grand statements of power and status but they were also places where people lived. This book traces the changes in layout the new technologies and the innovations in furniture that made them more convenient and comfortable. It argues that these material changes were just one aspect of comfort in the country house: feeling comfortable was just as important as being comfortable. Achieving this involved the comfort and solace to be found in daily routines religious faith and above all relationships with family and friends. Such emotional comforts and the attachment to things and places that embodied and memorialized them made country houses into homes. | Comfort in the Eighteenth-Century Country House

GBP 38.99
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Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music The Reynolds Desert House

Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music The Reynolds Desert House

Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music describes the collaborative interaction of internationally acclaimed composer Roger Reynolds musician Karen Reynolds and musically inspired composer engineer and architect Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) to create a house design The Reynolds Desert House. The process combined aesthetics and intuition with mathematical systems showcasing how art and science are balanced—by way of music and architecture—to address the essential technical aspects of music along with the role of emotion and energy. The book analyzes three representative chamber works and presents a trove of primary sources: letters diaries notes photographs sketches and person-to-person conversations. What emerges are patterns of direct parallels between how Xenakis characterized the process of musical creation and his design of The Reynolds Desert House. Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music is a testament to the singularly innovative and creative mind of Iannis Xenakis. Supplementary materials—including color reproductions of black and white images in the book—can be found at: www. rogerreynolds. com/xenakisreynoldsroutledge. html | Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music The Reynolds Desert House

GBP 39.99
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Ultimate Insiders White House Photographers and How They Shape History

Ultimate Insiders White House Photographers and How They Shape History

Virtually unknown to the public or historians White House photographers have developed amazing access to the presidents of the United States over the past half-century. In this book long-time White House correspondent Kenneth T. Walsh tells their stories emphasizing observations about the presidents the photographers got to know so well along with other key figures close to those presidents—including the first ladies members of Congress and important world leaders. This book shows how official White House photographers have morphed into ultimate insiders within the American presidency allowed to observe and take pictures of nearly everything Chief Executives do related to their job. The photogs have often become close friends with the presidents they have served. Using these bonds of trust and their own powers of observation they created fundamental impressions and public images of the presidents through the art of photography. Acting not only as image makers but as visual historians they have built pictorial chronicles of the presidency—intimate narratives of America’s leaders in public and private showing how they dealt with everyday life as well as moments of great crisis and opportunity. From children playing in the Oval Office to decisions to send troops into harm’s way images created by White House photographers can make or break a presidential administration as well as define an era. | Ultimate Insiders White House Photographers and How They Shape History

GBP 27.99
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How to Extend Your Victorian Terraced House

How to Extend Your Victorian Terraced House

Brimming with design ideas drawings and photographs of exemplary projects this is a must-have highly visual guide to extending a Victorian terraced house for designers architects and homeowners. An essential resource for designing and delivering a wide variety of extensions it features case studies from the full gamut of nineteenth-century terrace house types. Detailed plans reveal floor by floor a range of options for extending and/or reconfiguring space. Colour-coded before-and-after plans show at a glance which walls have been removed or changed in each option. This is complemented by extensive colour photography of realised built work. Ideas and inspiration are supplemented by practical guidance with ‘rules of thumb’ for design and key information on permitted development rights. All plans are drawn to scale so that they may be measured from and used for planning any renovation project. Covering different types of briefs and design solutions this indispensable guide to renovating Victorian terraces features extensions loft conversions basements and interior remodelling. It contains over 150 floor plans and 100 full-page colour images. | How to Extend Your Victorian Terraced House

GBP 45.00
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Passive House Details Solutions for High-Performance Design

Passive House Details Solutions for High-Performance Design

Passive House Details introduces the concepts principles and design processes of building ultralow-energy buildings. The objective of this book is to provide design goals research analysis systems details and inspiring images of some of the most energy-efficient carbon-neutral healthy and satisfying buildings currently built in the region. Other topics included: heat transfer moisture management performance targets and climatic zones. Illustrated with more than 375 color images the book is a visual catalog of construction details materials and systems drawn from projects contributed from forty firms. Fourteen in-depth case studies demonstrate the most energy-efficient systems for foundations walls floors roofs windows doors and more. | Passive House Details Solutions for High-Performance Design

GBP 39.99
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Dynastic Colonialism Gender Materiality and the Early Modern House of Orange-Nassau

Dynastic Colonialism Gender Materiality and the Early Modern House of Orange-Nassau

Dynastic Colonialism analyses how women and men employed objects in particular places across the world during the early modern period in order to achieve the remarkable expansion of the House of Orange-Nassau. Susan Broomhall and Jacqueline Van Gent explore how the House emerged as a leading force during a period in which the Dutch accrued one of the greatest seaborne empires. Using the concept of dynastic colonialism they explore strategic behaviours undertaken on behalf of the House of Orange-Nassau through material culture in a variety of sites of interpretation from palaces and gardens to prints and teapots in Europe and beyond. Using over 140 carefully selected images the authors consider a wide range of visual material and textual sources including portraits glassware tiles letters architecture and global spaces in order to rethink dynastic power and identity in gendered terms. Through the House of Orange-Nassau Broomhall and Van Gent demonstrate how dynasties could assert status and power by enacting a range of colonising strategies. Dynastic Colonialism offers an exciting new interpretation of the complex story of the House of Orange-Nassau‘s rise to power in the early modern period through material means that will make fascinating reading for students and scholars of early modern European history material culture and gender. This book is highly illustrated throughout. The print edition features the images in black and white whereas the eBook edition contains the illustrations in colour. | Dynastic Colonialism Gender Materiality and the Early Modern House of Orange-Nassau

GBP 39.99
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Rape Culture in the House of David A Company of Men

Rape Culture in the House of David A Company of Men

Rape Culture in the House of David: A Company of Men describes a biblical rape culture sustained and maintained by Yhwh and a host of men—from royal kings and princes to their relatives counselors generals and servants. This volume reveals that sexual violence in the house of David is not simply perpetrated by its most powerful men. Rather in the pursuit of power status authority and honor men form alliances and networks that support the use and abuse of women’s bodies and valorize sexualized violence against other men. The man who is most capable of sexual violence is Israel’s ideal king. Barbara Thiede deftly addresses the power and contemporary relevance of these narratives and argues that exposing and naming rape culture in biblical literature is essential—in social economic and political realms. This is a meaningful feminist intervention in the field of biblical studies and is of great benefit to graduate students and scholars of religion gender studies and masculinity studies. | Rape Culture in the House of David A Company of Men

GBP 48.99
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Samuel Pepys and the Second Dutch War Pepys's Navy White Book and Brooke House Papers

Samuel Pepys and the Second Dutch War Pepys's Navy White Book and Brooke House Papers

The two pieces of work which make up this volume were compiled by Pepys in the 1660s. The first is Pepys’s own record of how the Navy Board functioned. It records details of meetings with fellow officers such as Sir William Penn and Sir John Mennes and how work could be hampered at times by the refusal of an officer to sign a contract or bill as he had not been present at the original discussions. The Navy White Book gives the discussions which took place over a variety of matters such as contracts with Sir William Warren a timber merchant; costs and quality of masts and canvas. The Brooke House Papers deal with the inquiry set up by the House of Commons into the conduct of the Second Dutch War following the humiliation of the Dutch invasion of 1667 and the inefficiency of the Navy Board. The Brooke House Papers further show Pepys defending the Navy Board’s professionalism and integrity and also that naval administration during the Second Dutch War was efficient. The Papers also show Charles II ‘s role in protecting the Navy Board by making his dissatisfaction with the inquiry known through his disrespectful language and interruptions as well as his support for Pepys whom he makes the Board’s spokesman. | Samuel Pepys and the Second Dutch War Pepys's Navy White Book and Brooke House Papers

GBP 46.99
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Marco Frascari's Dream House A Theory of Imagination

Marco Frascari's Dream House A Theory of Imagination

This previously unpublished work is essential reading for anyone who has followed Marco Frascari’s scholarship and teachings over the last three decades. It also provides the perfect introduction for anyone new to his writings. As ever Frascari does not offer prescriptive tools and frameworks to enact his theories of drawing and imagination; instead he teaches how to build one’s own through individual practice. An illuminating introduction places the text in a wider context providing the reader with a fascinating and important context and understanding to this posthumous work. Frascari's sketchbooks are reproduced faithfully in full colour to provide the reader with a remarkable insight into the design process of this influential mind. | Marco Frascari's Dream House A Theory of Imagination

GBP 36.99
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Full House Reassessing the Earth’s Population Carrying Capacity

Full House Reassessing the Earth’s Population Carrying Capacity

Originally published in 1995 after decades of steady growth this book was written at a time when the world’s food supply was no longer keeping up with population increases. This book examines the causes of the imbalance in the food/population equation and suggests ways in which Malthusian checks can be countered. It calls for an international strategy to restore global security and a budget to implement it with a massive redirection of the world’s financial resources. On one side of the argument the authors advocate increased expenditure on family planning services education and women’s rights. On the other they stress the environmental importance of reforestation and soil conservation schemes to halt the deterioration of the agricultural resource base. | Full House Reassessing the Earth’s Population Carrying Capacity

GBP 80.00
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Burning Down the House Latin American Comics in the 21st Century

Burning Down the House Latin American Comics in the 21st Century

Burning Down the House explores the political economic and cultural landscape of 21st-century Latin America through comics. It examines works from Argentina Brazil Bolivia Chile Uruguay Perú Colombia México and Spain and the resurgence of comics in recent decades spurred by the ubiquity of the Internet and reminiscent of the complex political experiences and realities of the region. The volume analyses experimentations in themes and formats and how Latin American comics have become deeply plural in its inspirations subjects drawing styles and political concerns while also underlining the hybrid and diverse cultures they represent. It examines the representative and historical images in a state of emergency and political upheaval; decolonial perspectives and social struggles linked to ethnic and sexual minorities. It looks at how Latin American comics are made right now – from a diverse and autochthonous Latin American perspective. With a wide array of illustrations this book in the Global Perspectives in Comics Studies series will be an important resource for scholars and researchers of comic studies Latin American studies cultural studies English literature political history and post-colonial studies. | Burning Down the House Latin American Comics in the 21st Century

GBP 36.99
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Education for the Mercantile Counting House Critical and Constructive Essays by Nine British Writers 1716-1794

Education for the Mercantile Counting House Critical and Constructive Essays by Nine British Writers 1716-1794

This book first published in 1989 surveys higher education in preparation for business careers particularly the fledgling profession of accounting. Examining the origins of English schooling for merchants it brings to light articles and writers from the eighteenth century who proposed a liberal education for business – a key part of the development of the history of accounting. | Education for the Mercantile Counting House Critical and Constructive Essays by Nine British Writers 1716-1794

GBP 32.99
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Black Everyday Lives Material Culture and Narrative Tings in de House

Black Everyday Lives Material Culture and Narrative Tings in de House

This book is a ground-breaking exploration of everyday life as experienced through the lens of Black British cultural history and creative practice through a multiplicity of voices and writing styles. The structure of Black Everyday Lives Material Culture and Narrative examines life through a personal study of the family home – room by room object by object – as a portal through which to examine the intricacies and nuances of daily considerations of African heritage people living in Britain in the modern era (post-1950). Using Small Anthropology methodology this book foregrounds the experiences of Black British lives by bringing the threads of history and culture into the relevancy of the present day and demonstrates how the personal sphere directly links to wider public and political concerns. This book will be of interest to a wide range of disciplines including Black studies anthropology cultural studies history visual culture photography media communication sociology community development art and design and by any course that studies ethnographic methodologies material culture migration everyday life and British society. | Black Everyday Lives Material Culture and Narrative Tings in de House

GBP 24.99
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The Media as a Tool of International Intervention House of Cards

The Media as a Tool of International Intervention House of Cards

This book explores the role of external powers and international organisations in media assistance in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Through analysis of key documents media reports and interviews with key participants it examines the main actors their roles and the way in which they influenced the media and society. Bosnia and Herzegovina remains one of the biggest experiments in international intervention in modern history. Media assistance as well as international intervention was an enormous project which involved many donors and recipient organisations and large amounts of money but it is just one of many countries where democratisation and state-building took place with little to no input from the local community. Since the mid-1980s media assistance has been an integral part of international intervention used as a tool of democratisation in post-conflict countries and societies. The process is often led and created outside these countries and implemented by various international organisations led by technocrats and dictated by the will of donors. The author uses the case study of Bosnia and Herzegovina to assess this in a broader context. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of Southeast Europe international organisations peace-building and rebuilding society in post-war countries as well as journalists and policy-makers. | The Media as a Tool of International Intervention House of Cards

GBP 130.00
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