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Knowing Not-Knowing and Sort-of-Knowing Psychoanalysis and the Experience of Uncertainty

Knowing Not-Knowing and Sort-of-Knowing Psychoanalysis and the Experience of Uncertainty

A contemporary wide-ranging exploration of one of the most provocative topics currently under psychoanalytic investigation: the relationship of dissociation to varieties of knowing and unknowing. The twenty-eight essays collected here invite readers to reflect upon the ways the mind is structured around and through knowing not-knowing and sort-of-knowing or uncertainty. The authors explore the ramifications of being up against the limits of what they can know as through their clinical practice and theoretical considerations they simultaneously attempt to open up psychic and physical experience. How they ask do we tolerate ambiguity and blind spots as we try to know? And how do we make all of this useful to our patients and ourselves? The authors approach these and similar epistemological questions through an impressively wide variety of clinical dilemmas (e. g. the impact of new technologies upon the analytic dyad) and theoretical specialties (e. g. neurobiology). | Knowing Not-Knowing and Sort-of-Knowing Psychoanalysis and the Experience of Uncertainty

GBP 120.00
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Being Lived by My Life A Sort of Autobiography

Being Lived by My Life A Sort of Autobiography

Originally published in 1957 this book was a new departure in autobiographies. It is both enlightening and entertaining. There is a happy blending of narrative reflection and occasional extracts from case histories which gives it a delightfully human character. But it is more than this. It is a story of the profound inward adventure of an exceptionally inquiring mind. From childhood to professional maturity it proceeds through economic difficulties love and tribulation to science and general medical practice. It tells how Dr Berg became so convinced of the psychogenesis of human suffering that with great courage he gave up his practice and personal security to search for the causes in mental conflict. The story proceeds through specialisation in psychiatry to analytical training and analytic practice building up in the later chapters to a description of the troubled mind in all its manifestations and of the medical analyst’s daily work. There is a new explanation of the psychology of love with the inclusion of personal as well as professional experiences. Here as throughout conclusions have an astonishing difference from orthodox or familiar speculation and this is because they are based strictly on knowledge professional and personal. The style is natural lively and lucid. Here is an opportunity to combine learning with entertainment for Dr Berg has an extraordinary flair for presenting difficult things attractively without sacrifice of scientific essentials. This book is a re-issue originally published in 1957. The language used is a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication. | Being Lived by My Life A Sort of Autobiography

GBP 27.99
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All for Naught The Rise and Fall of President Barry Blue: Two Novellas

All for Naught The Rise and Fall of President Barry Blue: Two Novellas

All for Naught tells the story of Richard Melmont a billionaire many times over. His wife Maria daughter Barbara and son Daniel are appalled by his cutthroat methods and even more appalled by the weapons system he is developing. Is he deliberately deceiving government officials bankers and the general public or is he deceiving himself? In The Rise and Fall of President Barry Blue an experienced White House correspondent is trying to sort through contradictory insider accounts to get a true picture of an elusive president. | All for Naught The Rise and Fall of President Barry Blue: Two Novellas

GBP 84.99
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Facts Words and Beliefs

Facts Words and Beliefs

First published in 1970 Facts Words and Beliefs is concerned primarily with formulating the following question and suggesting the right way of answering it- how can a few stray images or muttered words running through our mind constitute our envisagement of situation perhaps remote in time and place from our present position? From a practical point of view the moments when we envisage the nature of some situation which we believe to exist may not be of any great importance. It would seem that our belief in the existence of such situations lies in some sort of adjustment of our behaviour to them which will be useful if the situations really exist from the point of view of survival and comfort. The author suggests that these moments of conscious envisagement of such absent situations may be rather a sign of such successful adjustment than a factor in bringing it about hence of no practical value in themselves. However if knowledge has any sort of intrinsic value it must surely lie in those moments when one does consciously envisage some aspects of the world more or less as it really is and to try to understand the nature of these moments is to try to understand all that is of intrinsic value in knowledge. This book is a must read for scholars and researchers of philosophy.

GBP 115.00
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Messerschmidt's Character Heads Maddening Sculpture and the Writing of Art History

Messerschmidt's Character Heads Maddening Sculpture and the Writing of Art History

This book examines a famous series of sculptures by the German artist Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736–1783) known as his Character Heads. These are busts of human heads highly unconventional for their time representing strange often inexplicable facial expressions. Scholars have struggled to explain these works of art. Some have said that Messerschmidt was insane while others suggested that he tried to illustrate some sort of intellectual system. Michael Yonan argues that these sculptures are simultaneously explorations of art’s power and also critiques of the aesthetic limits that would be placed on that power. | Messerschmidt's Character Heads Maddening Sculpture and the Writing of Art History

GBP 38.99
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Working Schemes? Active Labour Market Policy in Ireland

Working Schemes? Active Labour Market Policy in Ireland

Published in 1997 this book is an examination of the Irish experience with active labour market policy. This text looks at training in comparison with employment programmes and examines this in the context of strong and weak market orientation. The study is based on a survey which is used to analyze the effect of programme participation on short and long-term employment prospects and on income. The results show that market-orientation is a significant factor in employment scheme success a factor that has not been taken into account in recent policy changes. The book also points out the applications of this sort of study in other European countries. | Working Schemes? Active Labour Market Policy in Ireland

GBP 21.99
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Byron's Don Juan

Byron's Don Juan

First published in 1985. What sort of poem is Don Juan and how does it maintain its momentum through its long and often struggling narrative? These are the questions that Bernard Beatty proposes in this subtle and elegant discussion of Byron’s masterwork. The legend of Don Juan was entrenched in European literature and other arts long before it came under Byron’s hands yet Byron’s treatment of the story is often almost unrecognisably far from its forebears. Beatty indicates how deeply Byron has assimilated his predecessors in order to produce his own work. The sustained argument of this book raises questions of interest not only to students of Byron but of comedy in general as well as of the place of religious motifs in apparently secularised modes. | Byron's Don Juan

GBP 35.99
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The Good the Bad and the Data Shane the Lone Ethnographer’s Basic Guide to Qualitative Data Analysis

The Good the Bad and the Data Shane the Lone Ethnographer’s Basic Guide to Qualitative Data Analysis

Data analysis is often the most difficult task facing students and novice qualitative researchers including Shane the Lone Ethnographer—a grad student with fond visions of the Wild West—and her horse Transcriptor. In this comic-style textbook we follow Shane as she attempts to corral her data and make sense of it for publication. Shane learns how to read sort code write and assess the analysis of a qualitative study in the traditions of ethnography grounded theory discourse and narrative analysis. Along the trail she receives helpful advice from experienced researchers who explain their analytic practices in detail. Written in a friendly comic book style Shane’s Wild West adventures in data analysis will be both instructive and an enjoyable read. | The Good the Bad and the Data Shane the Lone Ethnographer’s Basic Guide to Qualitative Data Analysis

GBP 35.99
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The Development of Mathematical Logic

The Development of Mathematical Logic

Originally published in 1962. A clear and simple account of the growth and structure of Mathematical Logic no earlier knowledge of logic being required. After outlining the four lines of thought that have been its roots - the logic of Aristotle the idea of all the parts of mathematics as systems to be designed on the same sort of plan as that used by Euclid and his Elements and the discoveries in algebra and geometry in 1800-1860 - the book goes on to give some of the main ideas and theories of the chief writers on Mathematical Logic: De Morgan Boole Jevons Pierce Frege Peano Whitehead Russell Post Hilbert and Goebel. Written to assist readers who require a general picture of current logic it will also be a guide for those who will later be going more deeply into the expert details of this field. | The Development of Mathematical Logic

GBP 29.99
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Thackeray The Novelist

Thackeray The Novelist

First published in 1954 Thackeray is intended as a reminder that Thackeray is after all a great novelist. Professor Tillotson admiring the novels as great literature explores their common characteristics and those they share with the rest of Thackeray’s writings – for he sees Thackeray’s work as all of a piece. He is particularly interested in Thackeray’s methods of narration and in the philosophic commentary which forms a sort of trellis for almost everything he put out. He sees him mainly as a writer who subtle as he is address himself to readers honoured as ordinary human beings. In two appendices Professor Tillotson deals with two particular modern opinions – that Thackeray spoiled his novels by an ‘infiltration’ into them of his own biography and that he has no place in the great novel tradition. This book will be of interest to students of literature and history. | Thackeray The Novelist

GBP 105.00
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Indigenous Religion(s) in Sápmi Reclaiming Sacred Grounds

Indigenous Religion(s) in Sápmi Reclaiming Sacred Grounds

Indigenous religion(s) are afterlives of a particular sort shaped by globalising discourses on what counts as an indigenous religion on the one hand and the continued presence of local traditions on the other. Focusing on the Norwegian side of Sápmi since the 1970s this book explores the reclaiming of ancestral pasts and notions of a specifically Sámi religion. It connects religion identity and nation-building and takes seriously the indigenous turn as well as geographical and generational distinctions. Focal themes include protective activism and case studies from the art and culture domain both of which are considered vital to the making of indigenous afterlives in indigenous formats. This volume will be of great interest to scholars of Global Indigenous studies Sámi cultural studies and politics Ethnicity and emergence of new identities Anthropology Studies in religion and folklore studies. | Indigenous Religion(s) in Sápmi Reclaiming Sacred Grounds

GBP 38.99
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Ukraine in Crisis

Ukraine in Crisis

In this comprehensive volume Canadian Ukrainian and American scholars examine various aspects of the Ukrainian crisis and consider its impact on Europe. The chapters include topics such as: Russian narratives about Ukraine; the conflicting assumptions underlying their divergent nation-building agendas; new findings about the far right's involvement in the Maidan protests; the Ukrainian crisis from the perspective of Western grand strategy; the security implications of Russia's geopolitical agenda in Ukraine; the factors that contributed to the rise of separatism in Donbass; and the economic costs for Ukraine of choosing economic integration with Europe rather than Eurasia. This book demonstrates that the current crisis in Ukraine is much more complex than comes across in the media. It also explores the fact that since Russia and Ukraine will always be neighbours some sort of modus vivendi between them will have to be found. This book was originally published as a special issue of European Politics and Society. | Ukraine in Crisis

GBP 42.99
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Informal Alliance The Bilderberg Group and Transatlantic Relations during the Cold War 1952-1968

Informal Alliance The Bilderberg Group and Transatlantic Relations during the Cold War 1952-1968

Informal Alliance is the first archive-based history of the secretive Bilderberg Group the high-level transatlantic elite network founded at the height of the Cold War. Making extensive use of the recently opened Bilderberg Group archives as well as a wide range of private and official collections it shows the significance of informal diplomacy in a fast-changing world of Cold War decolonization and globalization. By analyzing the global mindset of the postwar transatlantic elite and by focusing on private transnational modes of communication and coordination this study provides important new insights into the history of transatlantic relations anti-Americanism Western anti-communism and European integration during the 1950s and 1960s. Informal Alliance also debunks the persistent myth that the Bilderberg Group was created by the CIA and repudiates widespread conspiracy theories alleging that Bilderberg was some sort of secret world government. | Informal Alliance The Bilderberg Group and Transatlantic Relations during the Cold War 1952-1968

GBP 38.99
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Religious Pluralism and Political Stability Obligations in Agreement

Religious Pluralism and Political Stability Obligations in Agreement

This book argues that the principles and institutions of political liberalism are necessary conditions for achieving reliable stability amid conditions of pluralism. Only a political system of this sort can bring citizens’ moral religious and political loyalties into robust agreement. Through an analysis that encompasses normative political theory and American constitutional law David Golemboski illustrates the implications of this conclusion by examining contemporary legal debates in law and religion. By developing a fresh perspective on how legal frameworks for religious exercise and establishment can ameliorate conflict and enhance the stability of a liberal constitution this book demonstrates that political systems need not subordinate or sacrifice important liberal priorities in favor of stability. Rather those liberal priorities are themselves necessary components of a stable order. Religious Pluralism and Political Stability will be of interest to scholars across the fields of political philosophy legal theory and constitutional law who have an interest in religion. | Religious Pluralism and Political Stability Obligations in Agreement

GBP 130.00
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The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evidence

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evidence

What one can know depends on one’s evidence. Good scientific theories are supported by evidence. Our experiences provide us with evidence. Any sort of inquiry involves the seeking of evidence. It is irrational to believe contrary to your evidence. For these reasons and more evidence is one of the most fundamental notions in the field of epistemology and is emerging as a crucial topic across academic disciplines. The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evidence is an outstanding reference source to the key topics problems and debates in this exciting subject and is the first major volume of its kind. Comprising forty chapters by an international team of contributors the handbook is divided into six clear parts: The Nature of Evidence Evidence and Probability The Social Epistemology of Evidence Sources of Evidence Evidence and Justification Evidence in the Disciplines The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evidence is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of science and epistemology and will also be of interest to those in related disciplines across the humanities and social sciences such as law religion and history.

GBP 205.00
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Belarus - Alternative Visions Nation Memory and Cosmopolitanism

Belarus - Alternative Visions Nation Memory and Cosmopolitanism

Belarus is often regarded as Europe’s last dictatorship a sort-of fossilized leftover from the Soviet Union. However a key factor in determining Belarus’s development including its likely future development is its own sense of identity. This book explores the complex debates and competing narratives surrounding Belarus’s identity revealing a far more diverse picture than the widely accepted monolithic post-Soviet nation. It examines in a range of media including historiography films and literature how visions of Belarus as a nation have been constructed from the nineteenth century to the present day. It outlines a complex picture of contested myths – the peasant nation of the nineteenth century the devoted Soviet republic of the late twentieth century and the revisionist Belarusian nationalism of the present. The author shows that Belarus is characterized by immense cultural linguistic and ethnic polyphony both in its lived history and in its cultural imaginary. The book analyses important examples of writing in and about Belarus in Belarusian Polish and Russian revealing how different modes of rooted cosmopolitanism have been articulated. | Belarus - Alternative Visions Nation Memory and Cosmopolitanism

GBP 38.99
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Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films In conversation with Stanley Cavell

Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films In conversation with Stanley Cavell

In Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films Elizabeth Kraft brings the canon of Restoration comedy into the conversation initiated by Stanley Cavell in his book Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage. Before there could be imagined remarriages of the sort Cavell documents there had to be imagined marriages of equality. Such imagined marriages were first mapped out on the Restoration stage by witty pairs such as Harriet and Dorimant Millamant and Mirabell and Alithea and Harcourt who are precursors of the central couples in films such as Bringing Up Baby His Girl Friday and The Lady Eve. In considering the Restoration comedy canon in one-on-one discourse with the Hollywood remarriage comedy canon Kraft demonstrates the indebtedness of the twentieth-century films to the Restoration dramatic texts-and the philosophical richness of both canons as they explore the nature and significance of marriage as pursuit of moral perfectionism. Her book will be of interest to specialists in Restoration drama and film scholars. | Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films In conversation with Stanley Cavell

GBP 38.99
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Construction in the Landscape A Handbook for Civil Engineering to Conserve Global Land Resources

Construction in the Landscape A Handbook for Civil Engineering to Conserve Global Land Resources

Construction in the Landscape describes the impact of construction on the land and landscape where it takes place. Geographical coverage is necessarily global to reflect the great variation both in people's economic and social needs and in the shortage or abundance of natural resources. Part one introduces both land resources whether used for agriculture human settlement or mineral extraction or conserved as scenery wildlife habitat or for the undefined needs of future generations; and construction its products skills processes and impacts on land resources. Part two describes specific forms of civil engineering – from landform adaptation through dams and river control works coastal construction and transport infrastructure to particular types of structure such as bridges towers and power stations or the layout of complete settlements. Part three deals with regional planning of construction and land use in different geographical circumstances – from fine scenery through rural countryside to city and suburban development – and to the sort of land arrangements that may be sustainable for an increased but hopefully more civilized human population a century hence. | Construction in the Landscape A Handbook for Civil Engineering to Conserve Global Land Resources

GBP 44.99
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Too Many Lawyers? The future of the legal profession

Too Many Lawyers? The future of the legal profession

The topic of too many lawyers is both timely and timeless. The future make up and performance of the legal profession is in contest challenged by new entrants technology and the demand for transparency; at the same time lawyers long have participated in contests over professional boundaries. In this book we take up several fundamental questions about the question of whether there are too many lawyers. What do we mean by too many? Is there a surplus of lawyers? What sort of lawyers are and will be needed? How best can we discern this? These questions and more are addressed here in scholarly articles presented at the Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (Spain) by some of the best researchers in the field. The collection witha chapter by Prof. Richard L. Abel addresses methodological normative and policy questions regarding the number of lawyers in particular countries and worldwide while connecting this phenomenon to political social economic historical cultural and comparative contexts. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the Legal Profession. | Too Many Lawyers? The future of the legal profession

GBP 42.99
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India and the Responsibility to Protect

India and the Responsibility to Protect

Bloomfield charts India’s profoundly ambiguous engagement with the thorny problem of protecting vulnerable persons from atrocities without fatally undermining the sovereign state system a matter which is now substantially shaped by debates about the responsibility to protect (R2P) norm. Books about India’s evolving role in world affairs and about R2P have proliferated recently but this is the first to draw these two debates together. It examines India’s historical responses to humanitarian crises starting with the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War concentrating on the years 2011 and 2012 when India sat on the UN Security Council. Three serious humanitarian crises broke during its tenure - in C´te d'Ivoire Libya and Syria - which collectively sparked a ferocious debate within India. The book examines what became largely a battle over ’what sort of actor’ modern India is or should be to determine how this contest shaped both India’s responses to these humanitarian tragedies and also the wider debates about rising India’s international identity. The book’s findings also have important (and largely negative) implications for the broader effort to make R2P a recognised and actionable international norm. | India and the Responsibility to Protect

GBP 35.99
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Philosophy of Religion: The Basics

Philosophy of Religion: The Basics

This book introduces students and other interested readers to the philosophy of religion—a vibrant and growing field of academic philosophy. Readers will be guided through an exploration of classic and contemporary arguments for and against theism. In addition to this crucial but standard fare this book looks to probe deeper into the nature and value (or dis-value) of religion itself. Philosophy of religion is becoming more diverse both in terms of the religious traditions it examines and the issues that it addresses. This book reflects that fact engaging with religious traditions from Quakerism to Jainism. Questions and topics covered include: What is religion? What philosophical problems arise for the practices of prayer worship and meditation? How might multiple religions co-exist in peace? If there’s a God would it be the sort of thing that language could describe? When and how might it be rational to wager that a particular religion is true? With a glossary of key terms and suggestions for further reading Philosophy of Religion: The Basics is an ideal starting point for anyone seeking a lively and accessible foray into the study of religion or philosophy.

GBP 19.99
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Nazi Occultism Between the SS and Esotericism

Nazi Occultism Between the SS and Esotericism

Nazi Occultism provides a serious scholarly study of a topic that is often marred by sensationalism and misinformation. The Morning of the Magicians by Pauwels and Bergier (1960) gave rise to the idea that a secret society with wide powers the Thule society was the hidden and ignored centre of Nazism. The influence of this very real small group is however only a fantasy a myth. The author a historian specializing in neo-Nazism looks back on this speculative construction its origins its ideological tinkering and the practices which have succeeded in forming a sort of radical and sulphurous counterculture which has created a fascination with esotericism and Nazism and the SS. To better understand it he also paints a portrait of some of the authors who contributed to this extremist subculture such as the Italian esotericist Julius Evola the Argentine anthropologist Jacques-Marie de Mahieu Chilean neo-Nazi Miguel Serrano and the writer Jean-Paul Bourre. This book will appeal to scholars researchers and activists as well as general readers with an interest in the history of Nazism and the occult. | Nazi Occultism Between the SS and Esotericism

GBP 34.99
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Conversations that Make a Difference for Children and Young People Relationship-Focused Practice from the Frontline

Conversations that Make a Difference for Children and Young People Relationship-Focused Practice from the Frontline

In this unique book international trainer and consultant Lisa Cherry invites professionals from education social work and healthcare to engage in conversations on a range of pertinent topics and issues affecting children and young people today. Divided into three main parts which introduce attachment adversity and trauma each discussion places an emphasis on emotion and the understanding that we have as humans for compassion empathy and connection. By encouraging collaboration between sectors and exploring a range of intersecting themes the conversations take the reader on a winding journey to broaden their depth of thinking reflect on their practice and to consider the central message: that we can bring about social change one interaction at a time. This book is a call to action and an opportunity to look around and decide what kind of service we want to provide what kind of community we want to live in and what sort of legacy we want to leave. At a time of ever-present social and political challenges this book will stimulate conversations on current practice and professional development for the future and is a must-read for everyone working with children and young people. | Conversations that Make a Difference for Children and Young People Relationship-Focused Practice from the Frontline

GBP 19.99
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