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Foundations of Futures Studies Volume 1: History Purposes and Knowledge

Foundations of Futures Studies Volume 1: History Purposes and Knowledge

Futures studies is a new field of inquiry involving systematic and explicit thinking about alternative futures. It aims to demystify the future make possibilities for the future more known to us and increase human control over the future. This book summarizes and expands contributions of futurists to the envisioning power and well-being of humanity. Bell brings together futurist intellectual tools describing and explaining not only the methods but also the nature concepts theories and exemplars of the field. Foundations of Futures Studies fulfills Bell's five main purposes for writing this two-volume effort: (1) to show that futures studies like other fields from anthropology to zoology exists as an identifiable sphere of intellectual activity; (2) to create a teaching instrument that can be used as a basic text for core courses in futures studies; (3) to futurize the thinking of specialists in other disciplines; (4) to contribute to the further development and improvement of futures studies; and (5) to provide tools to empower both ordinary people and leaders to act in ways that create better futures for themselves and their societies. Bell maintains that despite its sometimes doomsday rhetorical style and widespread use by special interests futures studies offers hope for the future of humanity and concrete ways of realizing that hope in the real world of our everyday lives. It will appeal to all interested in futures studies as well as sociologists economists political scientists and historians. | Foundations of Futures Studies Volume 1: History Purposes and Knowledge

GBP 145.00
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The Secret Army The IRA

The Secret Army The IRA

The Secret Army is the definitive work on the Irish Republican Army. It is an absorbing account of a movement that has had a profound effect on the shaping of the modern Irish state. The secret army in the service of the invisible Republic has had a powerful effect on Irish events over the past twenty-five years. These hidden corridors of power interest Bell and inspired him to spend more time with the IRA than many volunteers spend in it. This book is the culmination of twenty-five years of work and tens of thousands of hours of interviews. Bell's unique access to the leadership of the republican movement and his contacts with all involved British politicians Irish politicians policemen arms smugglers and others committed or opposed to the IRA explain why The Secret Army is the book on the subject. This edition represents a complete revision and includes vast quantities of new information. Bell's book gives us vital insight into our times as well as Irish history. This edition of The Secret Army contains six new chapters that bring the history of this clandestine organization up to date. They are: The First Decade The Nature of the Long War 1979-1980; Unconventional Conflict The Hunger Strikes January 1980-October 3 1981; The Protracted Struggle September 1981-January 1984; War Politics and the Split January 1984-December 1986; The Troubles as Institution 1987-1990: and The Armed Struggle Transformed 1991-1996 The End Game. In his new introduction Bell reflects on his decades of research the experiences he has had and the people he has met during his extensive visits to Ireland. | The Secret Army The IRA

GBP 145.00
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Freud's On Narcissism An Introduction

Freud's On Narcissism An Introduction

On Narcissism: An Introduction is a densely packed essay dealing with ideas that are still being debated today - from the role of narcissism in normal and pathological development and the relationship of narcissism to homosexuality libido romantic love and self-esteem to issues of therapeutic intervention. The contributors place the work in the context of Freud's evolving thinking point out its innovations review its problematic aspects and examine how its theoretical concepts have been elaborated more recently by analysts of diverse theoretic persuasions. In addition they use Freud's text to chart new developments in psychoanalysis and point toward still unresolved problems. An introduction by Joseph Sandler Ethel Spector Person and Peter Fonagy provides a succinct overview of the material. Contributors: Willy Baranger David Bell R. Horacio Etchegoyen Peter Fonagy Leon Grinberg Bela Grunberger Heinz Henseler Otto F. Kernberg Paul H. Ornstein Ethel Spector Person Joseph Sandler Hanna Segal Nikolaus Treurniet Clifford Yorke | Freud's On Narcissism An Introduction

GBP 130.00
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Intelligence Race And Genetics Conversations With Arthur R. Jensen

Intelligence Race And Genetics Conversations With Arthur R. Jensen

In a series of provocative conversations with Skeptic magazine Ssenior editor Frank Miele renowned University of California-Berkeley psychologist Arthur R. Jensen details the evolution of his thoughts on the nature of intelligence tracing an intellectual odyssey that leads from the programs of the Great Society to the Bell Curve Wars and beyond. Miele cross-examines Jensen's views on general intelligence (the g factor) racial differences in IQ cultural bias in IQ tests and whether differences in IQ are due primarily to heredity or to remediable factors such as poverty and discrimination. With characteristic frankness Jensen also presents his view of the proper role of scientific facts in establishing public policy such as Affirmative Action. 'Jensenism' the assertion that heredity plays an undeniably greater role than environmental factors in racial (and other) IQ differences has entered the dictionary and also made Jensen a bitterly controversial figure. Nevertheless Intelligence Race and Genetics carefully underscores the dedicated lifetime of scrupulously scientific research that supports Jensen's conclusions. | Intelligence Race And Genetics Conversations With Arthur R. Jensen

GBP 130.00
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Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Cartoonists and Caricaturists

Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Cartoonists and Caricaturists

British cartoonists and caricaturists are renowned worldwide. Originally published in 2000 this indispensable handbook offers a unique ‘who’s who’ of all the major artists working in Britain in the twentieth century and contains nearly 500 entries. Extensively illustrated the book provides information on the work of artists such as Steve Bell Gerald Scarfe Posy Simmonds Ronald Searle Trog mac and Larry as well as such past masters as David Low Vicky H. M. Bateman Illingworth Heath Robinson and more. The dictionary concentrates primarily on political cartoonists caricaturists and joke or ‘gag’ cartoonists actively working for the main Fleet Street national dailies and weeklies from 1900 to 1995. Each entry is cross-referenced and provides a concise biographical outline with an account of the artist’s style influences and preferred medium. Where relevant the entry includes suggestions for further reading and notes solo exhibitions books illustrated and works held in public collections. The Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Cartoonists and Caricaturists offers an insight into the lives of satirical artists working during a century that provoked cartoonists and caricaturists to a pitch of comic and artistic invention that has rarely been matched.

GBP 99.99
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The Making of Modern Uganda

The Making of Modern Uganda

First published in 1958 The Making of Modern Uganda is concerned with the formation of modern Uganda in the sixty years since the 1890s when the foundations of the British administration were laid. In the first decade of the 20th century Sir Hesketh Bell Uganda’s Governor decided that Uganda should be built up by Africans under the disinterested guidance of Europeans. The book therefore traces the emergence of a territory whose material prosperity is mainly based upon peasant agriculture guided by the advice of British agricultural officers. It describes the development from an era of tribal clan and even village organisation to the system of centralised government along semi-parliamentary lines but notes the disagreement as to whether Uganda’s future should lie as a unitary or a federal state. The controversial issue of closer union with the other East African territories is studied at some length as also is the growth of the politically active minority which plays so important a part in the modern Protectorate. The author believes that the years of ‘happy Uganda’ the years before the Second World War were a period in which hard work coupled with peace and obvious progress tended to conceal for many the growth of new forces which needed an outlet and only found one in the political and constitutional developments of the post-war age. This book will be of interest to students of history African studies ethnic studies and political science.

GBP 90.00
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Run Grow Transform Integrating Business and Lean IT

Run Grow Transform Integrating Business and Lean IT

Your customers want innovation and value and they want it now. How can you apply Lean principles and practices throughout your enterprise to drive operational excellence reduce costs while improving quality enable efficient growth and accelerate idea-to-value innovation? Shingo Prize-winning author Steve Bell and other thought leaders show you how guiding you to more effectively align people and purpose promote enterprise agility and leverage transformative IT capabilities to create market-differentiating value for your customers. Combining research and insight with practical examples and in-depth case studies that can be put to immediate use Run Grow Transform: Integrating Business and Lean IT is a must read for leaders and senior managers from all disciplines showing you how to: Drive enterprise outcomes and strategy through adaptive Business/IT learning Maximize collaboration leverage the knowledge and skills of your teams Overcome enterprise-wise obstacles commonly encountered by Agile development teams Improve infrastructure reliability and cost learn how to get the best results from operations frameworks including ITIL COBIT and ISO 20000 Apply Lean principles to Enterprise Architecture and Business Process Management disciplines Make informed value-based choices about outsourcing Tap into big data and social media to listen to and interact with the virtual voice of your customers Streamline management collaboration and communication systems Identify and measure the right things that lead to customer value What readers are saying: This book focuses on the most critical and challenging issue for any aspect of the development or use of IT: creating a collaborative learning culture. Jeffrey K. Liker Shingo Prize-winning Author of The | Run Grow Transform Integrating Business and Lean IT

GBP 175.00
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Aesthetics A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts

Aesthetics A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts

Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts fourth edition contains a selection of ninety-six readings organized by individual art forms as well as a final section of readings in philosophical aesthetics that cover multiple art forms. Sections include topics that are familiar to students such as painting photography and movies architecture music literature and performance as well as contemporary subjects such as mass art popular arts the aesthetics of the everyday and the natural environment. Essays are drawn from both the analytic and continental traditions and multiple others that bridge this divide between these traditions. Throughout readings are brief accessible for undergraduates and conceptually focused allowing instructors many different syllabi possibilities using only this single volume. Key Additions to the Fourth Edition The fourth edition is expanded to include a total of ninety-six essays with nineteen new essays (nine of them written exclusively for this volume) updated organization into new sections revised introductions to each section an increased emphasis on contemporary topics such as stand-up comedy the architecture of museums interactivity and video games the ethics of sexiness trans/gendered beauty the aesthetics of junkyards and street art pornography and the inclusion of more diverse philosophical voices. Nevertheless this edition does not neglect classic writers in the traditional aesthetics: Plato Aristotle Hume Kant Hegel Heidegger Collingwood Bell and writers of similar status in aesthetics. The philosophers writing new chapters exclusively for this fourth edition are: • Sondra Bacharach on street art • Aili Bresnahan on appreciating dance • Hina Jamelle on digital architecture • Jason Leddington on magic • Sheila Lintott on stand-up comedy • Yuriko Saito on everyday aesthetics • Larry Shiner on art spectacle museums in the twenty-first century • Peg Brand Weiser on how beauty matters • Edward Winters on the feeling of being at home in vernacular architecture as in such urban places as bars. | Aesthetics A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts

GBP 105.00
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Forensic Science An Introduction to Scientific and Investigative Techniques Fifth Edition

Forensic Science An Introduction to Scientific and Investigative Techniques Fifth Edition

Covering a range of fundamental topics essential to modern forensic investigation the fifth edition of the landmark text Forensic Science: An Introduction to Scientific and Investigative Techniques presents contributions and case studies from the personal files of experts in the field. In the fully updated 5th edition Bell combines these testimonies into an accurate and engrossing account of cutting edge of forensic science across many different areas. Designed for a single-term course at the undergraduate level the book begins by discussing the intersection of law and forensic science how things become evidence and how courts decide if an item or testimony is admissible. The text invites students to follow evidence all the way from the crime scene into laboratory analysis and even onto the autopsy table. Forensic Science offers the fullest breadth of subject matter of any forensic text available including forensic anthropology death investigation (including entomology) bloodstain pattern analysis firearms tool marks and forensic analysis of questioned documents. Going beyond theory to application this text incorporates the wisdom of forensic practitioners who discuss the real cases they have investigated. Textboxes in each chapter provide case studies current events and advice for career advancement. A brand-new feature Myths in Forensic Science highlights the differences between true forensics and popular media fictions. Each chapter begins with an overview and ends with a summary and key terms review questions and up-to-date references. Appropriate for any sensibility more than 350 full-color photos from real cases give students a true-to-life learning experience. *Access to identical eBook version included Features Showcases contributions from high-profile experts in the field Highlights real-life case studies from experts’ personal files along with stunning full-color photographs Organizes chapters into topics most popular for coursework Covers of all forms of evidence from bloodstain patterns to questioned documents Includes textboxes with historical notes myths in forensic science and advice for career advancement Provides chapter summaries key terms review questions and further reading Includes access to an identical eBook version Ancillaries for Instructors: PowerPoint® lecture slides for every chapter A full Instructor’s Manual with hundreds of questions and answers—including multiple choice Additional chapters from previous editions Two extra in-depth case studies on firearms and arson (photos included) Further readings on entomological evidence and animal scavenging (photos included) | Forensic Science An Introduction to Scientific and Investigative Techniques Fifth Edition

GBP 99.99
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