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The Inequality Reader Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race Class and Gender

The Inequality Reader Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race Class and Gender

Oriented toward the introductory student The Inequality Reader is the essential textbook for today's undergraduate courses. The editors David B. Grusky and Szonja Szelenyi have assembled the most important classic and contemporary readings about how poverty and inequality are generated and how they might be reduced. With thirty new readings the second edition provides new materials on anti-poverty policies as well as new qualitative readings that make the scholarship more alive more accessible and more relevant. Now more than ever The Inequality Reader is the one-stop compendium of all the must-read pieces simply the best available introduction to the stratifi cation canon. | The Inequality Reader Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race Class and Gender

GBP 130.00
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Systems-Centred Theory and Practice The Contribution of Yvonne Agazarian

Systems-Centred Theory and Practice The Contribution of Yvonne Agazarian

Systems-centered therapy (SCT) brings an innovative approach to clinical practice. Developed by the author SCT introduces a theory and set of methods that put systems ideas into practice. The collection of articles in this book illustrates the array of clinical applications in which SCT is now used. Each chapter introduces particular applications of SCT theory or methods with specific examples from practice that help the theory and methods come alive for the reader across a variety of clinical contexts. This book will be especially useful for therapists and clinical practitioners interested in sampling SCT for those who learn best with clinical examples and for anyone with a serious interest in learning the systems-centered approach. | Systems-Centred Theory and Practice The Contribution of Yvonne Agazarian

GBP 130.00
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Aspects of Modern Language Teaching in Europe

Aspects of Modern Language Teaching in Europe

From the teaching of grammar to the teaching of literature; from classroom teaching to independent learning; from role-playing to CAL - few books on teaching languages cover such a wide field. In this book teaching experience and research from practitioners in four European countries throw new light on old problems faced every day while others reveal innovative teaching methods and new insights into how teachers and learners interact. Sections include: language learning strategies and computer-assisted language learning facilitating individual progress through autonomous learning how to bring a foreign country alive in the classroom de-mythologising grammar teaching how different types of dictionaries can make valuable contributions to language teaching teaching and using idiomatic phrases. | Aspects of Modern Language Teaching in Europe

GBP 175.00
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Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka Counter-history as War after the Tamil Tigers

Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka Counter-history as War after the Tamil Tigers

This book examines Tamil nationalism in Sri Lanka and provides insights on how Tamil nationalism has survived the destruction of the Tamil Tigers after May 2009 and continues to thrive despite the absence of a charismatic leadership to lead it or a centralised organisation to mobilise the Tamils along ethnic nationalistic lines. The ethnic nationalist ideology shaped up by the Tamil Tigers continues to remain the driving force of the Tamil polity in Sri Lanka and the Diaspora. Using a Foucauldian counter-historical theoretical framework the author analyses and offers answers to these questions: What is keeping Tamil nationalism alive despite the demise of the Tamil Tigers over a decade ago? Why do many Tamils in Sri Lanka and abroad refuse to accept a Sri Lankan political identity? How are Tamils able to continue on a nationalist path despite the absence of a unified political leadership? The book argues that Tamil nationalism has survived the latter’s destruction because it has become counter-historical. It is this that has allowed despite the internecine rivalries between Tamil political parties and Diaspora groups the Tamil nationalist spirit to remain alive. The author also suggests that counter-history has for many Tamil political parties and Diaspora groups become the means of waging war other than through an armed struggle against the Sri Lankan state. Based on field research interviews and documentary analysis the book provides empirical and unique insights on Foucault’s thesis that power is multifaceted and can function in the absence of centralised mechanisms. This book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of Politics and International Relations in particular those working on ethnic nationalism post-armed conflict peacebuilding/conflict resolution the politics in Sri Lanka diaspora politics and Foucault. | Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka Counter-history as War after the Tamil Tigers

GBP 120.00
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Liberty and the News

Liberty and the News

This little gem of a book which first appeared in 1920 was written in Walter Lippmann's thirtieth year. He was still full of the passionate faith in democracy that was evident in his writings before the First World War. From today's point of view Lippmann's argument seems unusually prescient. He was troubled by distortions in newspaper journalism but was also deeply aware of the need to protect a free press. Lippmann believed that toleration of alternative beliefs was essential to maintaining the vitality of democracy. Liberty and the News is a key transitional work in the corpus of Lippmann's writings. For it is here that he proposes that public opinion is largely a response not to truths but rather to a pseudo-environment which exists between people and the external world. Lippmann was worried that if the beliefs that get exchanged between people are hollow and bear only a purely accidental relationship to the world as it truly is then the entire case for democracy is in danger of having been built on sand. His concerns remain very much alive and important.

GBP 130.00
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New Pop-Up Paper Projects Step-by-step paper engineering for all ages

New Pop-Up Paper Projects Step-by-step paper engineering for all ages

New Pop-Up Paper Projects is an inspirational book for everyone who wants to learn and share the magic of pop-up paper engineering. Illustrated throughout with colour diagrams and photographs this book guides you through basic techniques and foundation skills offers advice on classroom planning and health and safety and shows you how to ensure that learners of all ages can develop and progress their skills. Guiding you through 90- 180- and 360-degree engineering this book presents step-by-step instructions and ideas for over 200 cross-curricular themes from cityscapes to magical creatures. Aiming to challenge and inspire Paul Johnson uses over 150 paper-engineering techniques including: storybooks pop-ups without folds zigzag pop-ups pulleys wheels and levers asymmetrical pop-ups intricate toy theatres diagonal pop-ups with movables. This book brimming with pop-up techniques and how to teach them is for everyone � from the self-styled �visually illiterate� to the art graduate from parents keeping creativity alive at home to classroom teachers planning an engaging curriculum for their class of 30 plus pupils. | New Pop-Up Paper Projects Step-by-step paper engineering for all ages

GBP 175.00
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Social Organization of Medical Work

Social Organization of Medical Work

Today we face the painful reality of the prevalence of chronic rather than acute diseases. The technologies developed to manager long-term incurable illnesses have radically and irrevocably altered the organizational structure of health care presenting us with a frequently bewildering array of medical specialties. Social Organization of Medical Work offers essential insight into this new era of health care. Through richly documented often gripping case studies Anselm Strauss and his co-authors show us exactly how health workers are confronting the problems created by chronic disease and coping with today's highly technologized hospitals. They guide us through the various hospital work sites describing in detail the kinds of tasks performed by medical personnel the interactions of staff members with each other and with patients and the overall resulting patient treatment and response. Focusing on the concept of illness trajectory the authors vividly illustrate the complex contingent nature of modern medical work. For example open heart surgery keeps ill persons alive and may even improve them symptomatically but those who do survive must face an uncertain future in terms of the physiological consequences of the surgery and the drugs required. They also have to adjust t altered lifestyles. In the new introduction Anselm Strauss discusses the continuing importance of this work to sociologists medical scholars and medical professionals.

GBP 130.00
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Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion A Philosophical Appraisal

Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion A Philosophical Appraisal

David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical and literary classic of the highest order. It is also an extremely relevant work because of its engagement with issues as alive today as in Hume’s time: the Design Argument for a deity the Problem of Evil the dangers of superstition and fanaticism the psychological roots and social consequences of religion. In this outstanding and unorthodox collection an international team of scholars engage with Hume’s classic work. The chapters include state-of-the-art contributions on the central interpretive questions posed by the Dialogues as well as major contributions relating the work to contemporary issues in Philosophy of Religion Philosophy of Science Moral Psychology and Social Philosophy. Additional contributions tackle the historical and philosophical background of the Dialogues relating it to Hume’s own systematic philosophy to the work of other key seventeenth and eighteenth-century figures – Locke Clarke Bayle Cudworth Malebranche Spinoza Lord Bolingbroke and Voltaire among others – to early modern neo-Epicureanism in the life sciences and notably to what Darwin missed by thinking too much like William Paley and not enough like Hume’s Philo. Overall this volume provides fresh and even groundbreaking perspectives on Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. It is essential reading for students and scholars of Hume the History of Modern Philosophy Philosophy of Religion and the History and Philosophy of Science. | Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion A Philosophical Appraisal

GBP 130.00
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Advocacy Networks and the Responsibility to Protect The Politics of Norm Circulation

Advocacy Networks and the Responsibility to Protect The Politics of Norm Circulation

This book contributes to existing debates on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) by demonstrating new advocacy strategies and the greater interconnectedness of various R2P proponents. In 2021 the UN General Assembly adopted a new resolution on R2P which reaffirmed its commitment from the 2005 World Summit Outcome and put R2P on the annual agenda. For many R2P proponents this was another manifestation of worldwide R2P relevance and of growing support among UN members to protect people from genocide war crimes ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. Yet the existing crises in Myanmar Venezuela Belarus Syria and many others revealed the widening gap between the discourse and practice. This book aims to find out what keeps the concept alive despite its indisputable pitfalls. In contrast to existing studies that treat the R2P endorsement or contestation as intertwined processes of norm evolution it argues that the status of R2P has been accomplished by the conscious politics of its advocates operating in complex global networks. As such the book puts emphasis on the agency of R2P champions and examines who keeps the idea resonating and how they manage to preserve its worldwide relevance. Rather than proposing a new model of advocacy the book aims to pinpoint the politics of R2P's circulation the importance of individual R2P champions and their interconnectedness through innovative forms of cooperation within complex networks. This book will be of much interest to students of the R2P diplomacy human rights foreign policy and International Relations. | Advocacy Networks and the Responsibility to Protect The Politics of Norm Circulation

GBP 120.00
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Imperialism and Colonialism Christopher Bayly Richard Rathbone and Richard Drayton

Imperialism and Colonialism Christopher Bayly Richard Rathbone and Richard Drayton

Imperialism and Colonialism: Christopher Bayly Richard Rathbone and Richard Drayton is a collection of interviews that are being published as a book for the first time. These interviews have been conducted by one of England’s leading social anthropologists and historians Professor Alan Macfarlane. Filmed over a period of several years the three conversations in this volume are part of the series Creative Lives and Works. These transcriptions form a part of a larger set of interviews that cut across various disciplines from the social sciences and the sciences to the performing and visual arts. The current volume is on three foremost imperial and global historians. Colonialism is intrinsically linked to its imperial past. Christopher Bayly Richard Rathbone and Richard Drayton come alive through these conversations in this book. They offer a refreshing perspective to the actions of the colonizer and the colonized often deriding the actions of the former. Bayly talks at great length about his Indian experience Rathbone talks about the tempered indifference of the larger academic community towards African history and its oral tradition and Drayton engages his readers with anecdotes and interesting insights into Creole culture. The book will be of enormous value not just to those interested in the subject of History Culture Studies Ethnography and Comparative Studies and Literature but also to the uninitiated because of the lucidity which conversations bring to even otherwise opaque discussions. . Please note: This title is co-published with Social Science Press New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India Pakistan Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. | Imperialism and Colonialism Christopher Bayly Richard Rathbone and Richard Drayton

GBP 130.00
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Essays On Entrepreneurs Innovations Business Cycles and the Evolution of Capitalism

Essays On Entrepreneurs Innovations Business Cycles and the Evolution of Capitalism

Ordinarily the word essays is invoked at great risk by authors and publishers alike. But in the case of this special collection by Joseph A. Schumpeter the great Austrian economist who finally settled at Harvard the scholarly world knows this particular volume as his Essays. For a less pious younger generation a subtitle has been added describing what these essays are about. In addition to the major themes of Schumpeter's life: the place of the entrepreneur in economic development the risks and rewards of innovation business cycles and why they occur and the evolution of capitalism in Europe and America the Essays contain statements on how Schumpeter viewed his own development; they discuss how he looked at Marxism and how he feared that economics was in danger of becoming too ideological. Several of the Essays are classics. This is the case for The Creative Response in Economic History in which Schumpeter makes a plea for the close cooperation between economic theory and economic history. Another is Science and Ideology which constitutes Schumpeter's presidential address before the American Economic Association. Finally there is the intriguing preface to the Japanese translation of Theory of Economic Development in which Schumpeter names Walras and Marx as his two great predecessors. Even those who treasure the original publication were irritated by the remarkably poor quality of much of the book which reproduced everything from typewriter script to nearly unreadable reduced double columns. These lapses have been corrected in this new edition. Here Schumpeter's Essays can finally be read with the enjoyment no lesS than enlightenment they deserve. The volume is alive to the basic issues of our time. The reader can look forward to intellectual insight and stimuli of the highest order. | Essays On Entrepreneurs Innovations Business Cycles and the Evolution of Capitalism

GBP 145.00
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What is Theatre? An Introduction and Exploration

What is Theatre? An Introduction and Exploration

This major introductory textbook is from one of the leading educators working in theatre today. What Is Theatre? will make its reader a better playgoer responding more fully to performance with a keener appreciation of all the resources of theatre-acting design direction organization theatre buildings and audiences. By focusing on the best professional practice and the most helpful learning processes Dr. Brown shows how to read a play-text and to see and hear its potential for performance. Throughout this book suggestions are given for student essays and class discussions to help both instructor and reader to clarify their thoughts on all aspects of theatre-going. While the main focus is on present-day theatre in North America history is used to illuminate current practice. Theatres in Europe and Asia also feature in the discussion. A view is given of all contributors to performance with special emphasis placed on actors and the plays they perform. This textbook is not tied to a few specific play-texts but designed to be effective regardless of which play a student sees or reads. In Part Two leading practitioners of different generations and cultural backgrounds describe their own work providing a variety of perspectives on the contemporary theatre. All this is supplemented by nearly 100 black and white and color illustrations from productions working drawings and plans. This new text engages its readers in the realities of the theatre; it is up-to-date comprehensive and packed with practical advice for understanding how theatre works and how plays come alive in performance. John Russell Brown is professor of Theatre at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor and has taught at a variety of colleges including New York and Stanford Universities. For 15 years he was an associate director of the National Theatre in London and he has directed plays in many other theatres including Cincinnati Playhouse. | What is Theatre? An Introduction and Exploration

GBP 175.00
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The Three Romes Moscow Constantinople and Rome

The Three Romes Moscow Constantinople and Rome

Moscow Constantinople (now Istanbul) and Rome itself are vitally alive in the present and are magnets for tourists. Also going back a long way each lives in history. These cities have their points in common each wanting to rule the world and establish Rome of the Caesars Constantinople of the Emperors and Moscow of the Tsars were also the Rome of St. Peter the Constantinople of the Patriarchs and the Moscow of the Orthodox Metropolitans. These were cities on earth that aspired to heaven kingdoms that succeeded each other as standard-bearers of Christianity from the fourth century on. Indeed the Russian monk declared to the Tsar: Two Romes have fallen but the third stands and a fourth shall never besh the kingdom of heaven on earth. People recognizing this link them together as the Three Romes. These cities differ though in their understanding of man's nature and business. The Three Romes are three places and also states of mind. Now with a new introduction which describes the contemporary significance to these cities this book will be assessable to the modern reader at all levels. This fascinating book weaves the past and present in a narrative that is sometimes harrowing always vivid and even at times amusing. Russell Fraser shows the reader each city as he himself saw it. He shuttles easily between today and yesterday between today's Central Committee and Ivan the Great between Turkish Istanbul and the golden Constantinople of Justinian between today's Roman politics and the splendid Caesars. Great historical events intellectual concerns and artistic riches define the three Romes. Fraser goes beyond the facades images and myths to lay bare the three great psychologies still vying for the mind of man. The Three Romes is an utterly original book a celebration of the past and an urbane guide to the present. | The Three Romes Moscow Constantinople and Rome

GBP 130.00
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