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Edwin and John A Personal History of the American South

Edwin and John A Personal History of the American South

In Edwin and John: A Personal History of the American South award-winning author James T. Sears interweaves diaries letters and poems to craft an innovative first-person narrative history that details the hard realities of growing up gay in the South during the early decades of the 20th century. Set against the backdrop of World War II and the post-war South Edwin and John provides a unique and intimate approach to queer history by following the 50 year relationship between John Zeigler and Edwin Peacocke that carried them both from their roots in the conservative South through service in World War II and into a placid and loving literary life where they opened a bookshop in what was then the small town of Charleston South Carolina. Edwin and John is a revealing look at queer history detailing how these two men and their remarkable circle of close friends-which included some of the greatest writers and artists of their era including Prentiss Taylor Carson McCullers and John Bennett-endured war intolerance and jealousies while living proud and public lives in far more conservative times. | Edwin and John A Personal History of the American South

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James Mill John Stuart Mill and the History of Economic Thought

James Mill John Stuart Mill and the History of Economic Thought

Commemorating the 250th anniversary of James Mill’s birth and the 150th of John Stuart Mill’s death this volume analyses the Mills’ discussions on topics such as environment cultivation education utilitarianism socialism international relations international trade and living standard. John Stuart Mill is an important figure of the classical political economy and his father played a critical role in the early stages of his intellectual development. The contributions of the two Mills are examined by leading scholars on the theory and history of economics from Japan UK and France. They not only deal with the Mills’ individual contributions but also shed light on their relationships and associations with a number of economists and philosophers in Britain between the late 18th and the early 20th centuries including Adam Smith Malthus Ricardo Pennington Torrens Martineau Longfield Morris Sidgwick and Marshall. This book is an essential read for scholars interested in the economics of James and John Mill and reconsideration of their theories and thoughts using the backdrop of the current state of society. | James Mill John Stuart Mill and the History of Economic Thought

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John Wesley's Political World

John Wesley's Political World

This book employs a global history approach to John Wesley’s (1703–1791) political and social tracts. It stresses the personal element in Wesley’s political thought focusing on the twin themes of ‘liberty and loyalty’. Wesley’s political writings reflect on the impact of global conflicts on Britain and provide insight into the political responses of the broader religious world of the eighteenth century. They cover such topics as the nature and origin of political power economy taxes trade opposition to slavery and to smuggling British rule in Ireland relaxation of anti-Catholic Acts and the American Revolution. Glen O’Brien argues that Wesley’s political foundations were less theological than they were social and personal. Political engagement was exercised as part of a social contract held together by a compact of trust. The book contributes to eighteenth-century religious history and to Wesley Studies in particular through a fresh engagement with primary sources and recent secondary literature in order to place Wesley’s writings in their global political context. | John Wesley's Political World

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John McGahern Ways of Looking

John McGahern Ways of Looking

John McGahern (1934–2006) believed that fiction could act as a window on the world. Such windows however frame our fields of vision alter and shape our perspectives. Far from being static the artist’s perspective must continually evolve. This book provides a literary analysis of John McGahern’s artistic and poetic vision – his ‘ways of looking’ examining the shifting focus of this vision: how and why it develops what effects such developments have on the work’s forms and how these forms evolve at what times and in response to what stimuli. This volume demonstrates that such developments mirror an analogous social expansion during the latter half of the twentieth century and argues that McGahern’s literary spaces relate to his efforts to realise a more accommodating form to envelop the structureless society. While the number of critical studies on McGahern has increased markedly in recent years research still tends to fall into the well-established camps of social realism or literary aestheticism. This text aims to explore the common ground between the material context and social worlds of each work and the hermeneutics of a ‘traditional’ literary investigation. It traverses such divides through close readings of McGahern’s work with attention to the topopoetical production of images of the house the home and the family unit. The book ultimately shows how attention to McGahern’s literary spaces provides a greater understanding of the aesthetic vision and form of each novel and allows us to understand those aspects relative to the social cultural and political undercurrents of the works individually and collectively. | John McGahern Ways of Looking

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Science and Religion Edwin Salpeter Owen Gingerich and John Polkinghorne

Science and Religion Edwin Salpeter Owen Gingerich and John Polkinghorne

Science and Religion: Edwin Salpeter Owen Gingerich and John Polkinghorne is a collection of interviews being published as a book. These interviews have been conducted by one of England’s leading social anthropologists and historians Professor Alan Macfarlane. Filmed over a period of 40 years the five conversations in this volume are part of Social Science Press’s series Creative Lives and Works. These transcriptions also form a part of a larger set of interviews that cut across various disciplines from the social sciences the sciences and to the performing and visual arts. The current volume is on three foremost physicists and historians of science. Edwin Salpeter recounts rather dispassionately his departure from Austria to Australia to escape Nazi persecution. And in doing so broaches not only on the prevailing anti-Semitic sentiment of the time but takes the debate forward into the one between science and religion. Though he only touches upon it this debate finds resonance in the words of Owen Gingerich who belonged to the Mennonite dispensation and who has been rather vocal about the pro-Christian anti-creationist ideology. However it is John Polkinghorne who provides a deep insight into the ongoing debate on science and religion. Immensely riveting as conversations this collection reveals how intrinsically related science and religion are how pertinent it is to understand the workings of science in the context of religion. The book will be of enormous value not just to those interested in Astronomy and Cosmology as well as the History of Science but also to those with an inquisitive mind. 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. | Science and Religion Edwin Salpeter Owen Gingerich and John Polkinghorne

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Freedom Responsibility and Value Essays in Honor of John Martin Fischer

Freedom Responsibility and Value Essays in Honor of John Martin Fischer

This volume celebrates the career of John Martin Fischer whose work on a wide range of topics over the past 40 years has been transformative and inspirational. Fischer’s semicompatibilist view of free will and moral responsibility is perhaps the most widely discussed view of its kind and his emphasis on the significance of reasons-responsiveness as the capacity that underlies moral accountability has been widely influential. Aside from free will and moral responsibility Fischer is also well-known for his work on freedom and foreknowledge the problem of evil the badness of death the meaning of life and the allure of immortality. This volume gathers new essays by leading scholars on some of the major themes of Fischer's work and it also includes a new piece by Fischer in which he offers a systematic reflection on and defense of the motivations that have shaped his theorizing about moral responsibility. Freedom Responsibility and Value will be of interest to scholars and students working on a variety of issues in metaphysics ethics and philosophy of religion. | Freedom Responsibility and Value Essays in Honor of John Martin Fischer

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Religion and Ecological Crisis Christian and Muslim Perspectives from John B. Cobb and Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Religion and Ecological Crisis Christian and Muslim Perspectives from John B. Cobb and Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Religion and Ecological Crisis delves into the complex relationship between religions and ecology presenting Christian and Islamic perspectives on ecological issues through the work of John Boswell Cobb and Seyyed Hossein Nasr. It examines how faith traditions of the world see and respond to our current unprecedented climate change issues. This is the first comparative study of Cobb and Nasr’s eco-religious understanding and explores how their prescriptions can contribute alternatively to techno-scientific initiatives in environmental sustainability. Taking Cobb’s economism and Nasr’s scientism as the key concepts for surveying the roots of the ecological crisis the book offers interdisciplinary and interreligious insights into the debates about ecological equilibrium motivational awareness in human mind and about entanglements between religion and the environment. This will be an insightful resource for policy makers faith leaders and for academics working in Environmental Studies and Religious Studies. | Religion and Ecological Crisis Christian and Muslim Perspectives from John B. Cobb and Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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The Printer as Author in Early Modern English Book History John Day and the Fabrication of a Protestant Memory Art

The Printer as Author in Early Modern English Book History John Day and the Fabrication of a Protestant Memory Art

This is the first book to demonstrate how mnemotechnic cultural commonplaces can be used to account for the look style and authorized content of some of the most influential books produced in early modern Britain. In his hybrid role as stationer publisher entrepreneur and author John Day master printer of England’s Reformation produced the premier navigation handbook state-approved catechism and metrical psalms Book of Martyrs England’s first printed emblem book and Queen Elizabeth’s Prayer Book. By virtue of finely honed book trade skills dogged commitment to evangelical nation-building and astute business acumen (including going after those who infringed his privileges) Day mobilized the typographical imaginary to establish what amounts to—and still remains—a potent and viable Protestant Memory Art. | The Printer as Author in Early Modern English Book History John Day and the Fabrication of a Protestant Memory Art

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‘Two Scrubby Travellers’: A psychoanalytic view of flourishing and constraint in religion through the lives of John and Charles Wesley

‘Two Scrubby Travellers’: A psychoanalytic view of flourishing and constraint in religion through the lives of John and Charles Wesley

The ways in which people change and grow and learn to become good are not only about conscious decisions to behave well but about internal change which allows a loving and compassionate response to others. Such change can take place in psychotherapy; this book explores whether similar processes can occur in a religious context. Using the work of Julia Kristeva and other post-Kleinian psychoanalysts change and resistance to change are examined in the lives of John Wesley the founder of Methodism and his brother Charles the greatest English hymn-writer. Their mother’s description of them as young men as ‘two scrubby travellers’ was a prescient expression indicating their future pilgrimage which they negotiated through many struggles and compromises; it points towards the ‘wounded healer’ a description which could be applied to John in later years. The use of psychoanalytic thought in this study allows the exploration of unconscious as well as conscious processes at work and interesting differences emerge which shed light on the elements in religion that promote or inhibit change and the influence of personality factors. ‘Two scrubby travellers’: A psychoanalytic view of flourishing and constraint in religion through the lives of John and Charles Wesley enriches our understanding of these two important historical figures. It questions the categorising of forms of religion as conducive to change and so ‘mature’ and other forms as ‘immature’ at a time when many particularly young people are attracted by fundamentalist evangelical forms of belief. This book will be essential reading for researchers working at the intersection of psychoanalysis and religious studies; it will also be of interest to psychotherapists and psychoanalysts more generally and to researchers in the philosophy of religion.

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Ethnomusicology and its Intimacies Essays in Honour of John Baily

Ethnomusicology and its Intimacies Essays in Honour of John Baily

Ethnomusicology and its Intimacies situates intimacy a concept that encompasses a wide range of often informal social practices and processes for building closeness and relationality within the ethnomusicological study of music and sound. These scholarly essays reflect on a range of interactions between individuals and communities that deepen connections and associations and which may be played out relatively briefly or nurtured over time. Three major sections on Performance Auto/biographical Strategies and Film are each prefaced by an interview with a scholar or practitioner with close knowledge of the subject that links the chapters in that section. Often drawing directly on fieldwork experience in a variety of contexts authors consider how concepts of intimacy can illuminate the ethnographic study of music addressing questions such as: how can we understand ethnomusicological and ethnographic research and performance as processes of musically mediated intimacy? How are the longstanding relationships we develop with others particularly intimated by and through musicking? How do we understand the musically intimate relationships of others and how do these inflect our own musical intimacies? How does music represent inscribe constrain or provoke social or personal intimacies in particular contexts? The volume will appeal to all scholars with interests in music and how it is used to construct relationships in different contexts around the world. | Ethnomusicology and its Intimacies Essays in Honour of John Baily

GBP 130.00
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English Literature in the Age of Chaucer

English Literature in the Age of Chaucer

Written in an engaging and accessible manner English Literature in the Age of Chaucer serves as both a lucid introduction to Middle English literature for those coming fresh to the study of earlier English writing and as a stimulating examination of the themes traditions and the literary achievement of a number of particulary original and interesting authors. In addition to detailed and sensitive treatment of Chaucer's major works the book includes chapters on his chief contemporaries such as John Gower William Langland and the Gawain-poet. It also examines the often underrated contribution to the English literary tradition of his successors John Lydgate and Thomas Hoccleve as well as the interesting and original work of the Scottish poets Robert Henryson William Dunbar and Gavin Douglas who also claim Chaucer as their model. Apart from the narrative poetry of Chaucer and his followers the book also contains chapters on the Middle English lyric; Middle English prose including Mandeville's travels; the most original and imaginative writings of the Middle English mystics in particular Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe; and Thomas Malory's impressive prose compilation of Arthurian stories.

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Trade Investment and the Environment

Trade Investment and the Environment

A discussion on the future of trade investment and the environment. It sets out the trade investment and environment agenda in the run-up to the Millennium Round of trade negotiations. Topics covered include: building markets for sustainable trade; environmental regulation; finance and transnational corporations; environmental regulation and international investment; and conflict resolution in the World Trade Organization. The contributors include Renato Ruggiero (WTO Director General) Brian Wilson MP (UK Trade Minister) and John Gummer MP (former UK Secretary of State for the Environment).

GBP 175.00
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Direct Democracy Or Representative Government? Dispelling The Populist Myth

Direct Democracy Or Representative Government? Dispelling The Populist Myth

In Direct Democracy or Representative Government? John Haskell develops a devastating critique of direct democracy by exposing the central flaw in populist thinking. Contrary to the beliefs of populist advocates of direct democracy the popular will cannot be interpreted from the results of the plebiscite. John Haskell presents a defense of representative institutions that brings to bear in an understandable way the findings of public choice scholars. Haskell covers the clash of ideas between populists and constitutionalists throughout American history. He follows the development of direct democracy during the twentieth century especially the dramatically increased use of initiatives and referenda in the last decade. As Americans become increasingly frustrated with the workings of the institutions of government at the state and national levels and as populist ideas gain greater currency new forms of direct and participatory democracy making use of the latest computer technology appeal to more people. Haskell speculates as to the likely future direction of direct democracy in the U. S. He describes in clear language the fundamental problem with the premise of populist thinking and explains why direct democracy presents a threat to minority rights and only promises irresponsible and unaccountable governance. | Direct Democracy Or Representative Government? Dispelling The Populist Myth

GBP 130.00
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Organizational Behavior Securing Competitive Advantage

Organizational Behavior Securing Competitive Advantage

The management of organizational behavior is a critically important source of competitive advantage in today’s organizations. Managers must be able to capitalize on employees’ individual differences as jobs are designed teams are formed work is structured and change is facilitated. This textbook now in its third edition provides its readers with the knowledge required to succeed as managers under these circumstances. In this book John Wagner and John Hollenbeck make the key connection between theory and practice to help students excel as managers charged with the task of securing competitive advantage. They present students with a variety of helpful learning tools including: • Coverage of the full spectrum of organizational behavior topics • Managerial models that are based in many instances on hundreds of research studies and decades of management practice – not the latest fad • Completely new introductory mini-cases and updated examples throughout the text to help students contextualize organizational behavior theory and understand its application in today’s business world This ideal book for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students of organizational behavior is written to motivate exceptional student performance and contribute to their lasting managerial success. Online resources including PowerPoint slides and test banks round out this essential resource for instructors and students of organizational behavior. | Organizational Behavior Securing Competitive Advantage

GBP 145.00
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Textual Practice 10.3

Textual Practice 10.3

Papers include: Tragedy and the nationalist condition of criticism Thomas Doucherty-Descartes Baudrillard Dryden and a consideration of cultural relations between England and France in the late seventeenth century. ILaodamia and the moaning of Mary John Barrell-changing critical responses to Wordsworth's heroic version of masculinity. Melodrama as Avant-garde: enacting a new subjectivity Simon Shepherd-nineteenth-century English radicals and translations of French melodrama. The diasporic imaginary: theorizing the Indian diaspora Vijay Mishra; Bisexuality heterosexuality and wishful theory Jonathan Dollimore. Reviews index. Holcroft IA Tale of Mystery -a melo-drame and ICaleb Williams | Textual Practice 10. 3

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McDowell and the Hermeneutic Tradition

McDowell and the Hermeneutic Tradition

This volume explores the connections between John McDowell’s philosophy and the hermeneutic tradition. The contributions not only explore the hermeneutical aspects of McDowell’s thought but also ask how this reading of McDowell can inform the hermeneutical tradition itself. John McDowell has made important contributions to debates in epistemology metaethics and philosophy of language and his readings of Aristotle Kant Hegel and Wittgenstein have proved widely influential. While there are instances in which McDowell draws upon the work of hermeneutic thinkers the hermeneutic strand of McDowell’s philosophy has not yet been systematically explored in depth. The chapters in this volume open up a space in which to read McDowell himself as a hermeneutic thinker. They address several research questions: How can McDowell’s recourse to the hermeneutical tradition be understood in detail? Besides Gadamer does McDowell’s work implicitly convey and advance motives from other seminal figures of this tradition such as Heidegger and Dilthey? Are there aspects of McDowell’s position that can be enhanced through a juxtaposition with central hermeneutic concepts like World Tradition and Understanding? Are there further perhaps yet unexplored aspects of McDowell’s infl uences that ought to be interpreted as expressing hermeneutic ideas? McDowell and the Hermeneutic Tradition will appeal to researchers and advanced students working in American philosophy Continental philosophy hermeneutics history of philosophy philosophy of language and epistemology.

GBP 130.00
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Difficulties in the Analytic Encounter

Difficulties in the Analytic Encounter

This book represents an odyssey through the career of a thoughtful and serious psychoanalyst. John Klauber a strong and articulate member of the middle or independent group of the British Institute of Psycho-Analysis was President of the British Psycho-Analytical Society at his untimely death in August 1981. This volume which he fortunately lived to see published turns out to be a legacy of his psychoanalytic and personal thinking and feeling and contains ten papers spanning the tewnty years of the 1960s and 1970s. It conveys in a fashion which compels reading the mind of the author which was the essence of the man. | Difficulties in the Analytic Encounter

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The Crisis of Medieval Russia 1200-1304

The Crisis of Medieval Russia 1200-1304

John Fennell's history of thirteenth-century Russia is the only detailed study in English of the period and is based on close investigation of the primary sources. His account concentrates on the turbulent politics of northern Russia which was ultimately to become the tsardom of Muscovy but he also gives detailed attention to the vast southern empire of Kiev before its eclipse under the Tatars. The resulting study is a major addition to medieval historiography: an essential acquisition for students of Russia itself and a book which decisively fills a vast blank on the map of the European Middle Ages for medievalists generally. | The Crisis of Medieval Russia 1200-1304

GBP 130.00
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Radical Orthodoxy? - A Catholic Enquiry

Radical Orthodoxy? - A Catholic Enquiry

Radical Orthodoxy? A Catholic Enquiry is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand 'Radical Orthodoxy' or be in critical dialogue with it. John Milbank Catherine Pickstock and Graham Ward the three principal exponents of Radical Orthodoxy each enter into dialogue with theologians from the Catholic tradition - a tradition with whose sources and current researches Radical Orthodoxy claims to have much in common. The Introduction explores the issues and tensions involved in Radical Orthodoxy's dialogue with Catholic theology and David Burrell offers an important evaluation of Radical Orthodoxy in the context of North America. In the first dialogue John Milbank presents one of the clearest expositions of the Radical Orthodoxy programme to date; Fergus Kerr's reply discusses this programme in the wider context of post-war Catholic debate. Catherine Pickstock explores the work of Aquinas to show how Radical Orthodoxy is appropriating the work of past theological giants and in reply Laurence Hemming asks what questions remain in that process. Graham Ward Oliver Davies and Lucy Gardner debate the challenges facing contemporary theology both from the past and the postmodern present. James Hanvey's provocative conclusion opens the way to future debate. Challenging yet accessibly written this book represents an important milestone in the critical reception of Radical Orthodoxy. Shedding new light on contemporary issues and current theological enquiry this book offers important insights to students of theology and those training for ministry clergy and informed lay people and everyone who wants to make sense of one of the most demanding yet important debates currently taking place. | Radical Orthodoxy? - A Catholic Enquiry

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Renegotiating Rural Development in Ireland

Renegotiating Rural Development in Ireland

This title was first published in 2002: As rural Ireland undergoes deep-reaching changes this book critically assesses what the author terms the renegotiation of rural development in Ireland through the repackaging reproduction and representation of suggestions ideas and alternatives for rural renewal. Deconstructing the process and practice of rural development in Ireland John McDonagh explores the new approaches to development and the so-called desire for creating integrative policy and planning approaches. The main conduits for this investigation are those of partnership and community groups and their involvement in rural development issues. Further through investigation of the relevant concepts and theories of rural change the volume delves into the discourses of rurality and development and utilizes the diversity of approaches and understanding of this increasingly complex issue. | Renegotiating Rural Development in Ireland

GBP 115.00
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Introduction to the Design and Behavior of Bolted Joints Non-Gasketed Joints

Introduction to the Design and Behavior of Bolted Joints Non-Gasketed Joints

The fully updated Fifth Edition of John H. Bickford's classic work updated by Michael Oliver provides a practical detailed guide for the design threaded bolted joints the tightening of threaded joints and the latest design procedures for long-term life. New sections on materials threads and their strength have been added and coverage of FEA for design analysis is now included. Referencing the latest standards this new edition combines fastener materials explanation of how fasteners are made and how fasteners fit together supplementing the basic design coverage included in previous versions of this authoritative text. Introduction to the Design and Behavior of Bolted Joints: Non-Gasketed Joints will be of interest to engineers involved in the design and testing of bolted joints. | Introduction to the Design and Behavior of Bolted Joints Non-Gasketed Joints

GBP 150.00
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