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Engenderings Constructions of Knowledge Authority and Privilege

Engenderings Constructions of Knowledge Authority and Privilege

Naomi Scheman argues that the concerns of philosophy emerge not from the universal human condition but from conditions of privilege. Her books represent a powerful challenge to the notion that gender makes no difference in the construction of philosophical reasoning. At the same time it criticizes the narrow focus of most feminist theorizing and calls for a more inclusive form of inquiry. | Engenderings Constructions of Knowledge Authority and Privilege

GBP 175.00
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Ways of Attending How our Divided Brain Constructs the World

Ways of Attending How our Divided Brain Constructs the World

Attention is not just receptive but actively creative of the world we inhabit. How we attend makes all the difference to the world we experience. And nowadays in the West we generally attend in a rather unusual way: governed by the narrowly focussed target-driven left hemisphere of the brain. Forget everything you thought you knew about the difference between the hemispheres because it will be largely wrong. It is not what each hemisphere does – they are both involved in everything – but how it does it that matters. And the prime difference between the brain hemispheres is the manner in which they attend. For reasons of survival we need one hemisphere (in humans and many animals the left) to pay narrow attention to detail to grab hold of things we need while the other the right keeps an eye out for everything else. The result is that one hemisphere is good at utilising the world the other better at understanding it. Absent present detached engaged alienated empathic broad or narrow sustained or piecemeal attention has the power to alter whatever it meets. The play of attention can both create and destroy but it never leaves its object unchanged. How you attend to something – or don’t attend to it – matters a very great deal. This book helps you to see what it is you may have been trained by our very unusual culture not to see. | Ways of Attending How our Divided Brain Constructs the World

GBP 18.99
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Palliative Care within Mental Health Ethical Practice

Palliative Care within Mental Health Ethical Practice

Palliative Care Within Mental Health: Ethical Practice explores the comprehensive concerns and dilemmas that occur surrounding people experiencing mental health problems and disorders. Working beyond narrow stereotypical definitions of palliative care as restricted to terminal cancer patients this balanced and thought-provoking volume examines the many interrelated issues that face the individual families and caregivers setting the groundwork for improved ethical relationships and interventions. Chapters by experts and experienced practitioners detail the challenges concerns and best practices for ethical care and responses in a variety of individual and treatment contexts. This is an essential and thoughtful new resource for all those involved in the fast-developing field of palliative mental health. | Palliative Care within Mental Health Ethical Practice

GBP 46.99
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Disability in Antiquity

Disability in Antiquity

This volume is a major contribution to the field of disability history in the ancient world. Contributions from leading international scholars examine deformity and disability from a variety of historical sociological and theoretical perspectives as represented in various media. The volume is not confined to a narrow view of ‘antiquity’ but includes a large number of pieces on ancient western Asia that provide a broad and comparative view of the topic and enable scholars to see this important topic in the round. Disability in Antiquity is the first multidisciplinary volume to truly map out and explore the topic of disability in the ancient world and create new avenues of thought and research.

GBP 42.99
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Haunted Europe Continental Connections in English-Language Gothic Writing Film and New Media

Haunted Europe Continental Connections in English-Language Gothic Writing Film and New Media

Haunted Europe offers the first comprehensive account of the British and Irish fascination with a Gothic vision of continental Europe tracing its effect on British intellectual life from the birth of the Gothic novel to the eve of Brexit and the symbolic recalibration of the UK’s relationship to mainland Europe. By focusing on the development of the relationship between Britain and Ireland and continental Europe over more than two-hundred years this collection marks an important departure from standard literary critical narratives which have tended to focus on a narrow time-period and have missed continuities and discontinuities in our ongoing relationship with the mainland. | Haunted Europe Continental Connections in English-Language Gothic Writing Film and New Media

GBP 38.99
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A History of Pre-Cinema V1

A History of Pre-Cinema V1

The contents of A History of Pre-Cinema Volume 1 (and its companion volumes 2 and 3) cover the optical devices used for entertainment and instruction that proliferated before the introduction of cinema. To view pre-cinema devices merely as steps towards the cinema however would be a very narrow perspective. They were - and in some cases still are - self-contained media with their own peculiarities differences potential and limitations. This volume concentrates on items published before the spread of the cinema and later references to devices of that period. Having easy access to original texts in facsimile is a useful resource for researchers. Volume 1 is divided into the following sections: The camera obscura; Photography; Stereoscopy; Moving photographs; Chronophotography; Optical philosophical toys. | A History of Pre-Cinema V1

GBP 27.99
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Professional Development What Works

Professional Development What Works

This comprehensive and authoritative book serves as the road map to your school’s professional development journey. Written for principals professional development directors other district leaders and teacher leaders Professional Development: What Works shows you how to plan and implement programs that promote teacher growth. Full of helpful case studies useful resources and templates this book guides you in creating an effective job-embedded professional development program that moves ideas to action. Special Features in this Revised Edition: Revised discussion on supporting and providing learning opportunities for adults New Cases from the Field and Notes from the Field amplify best practices and serve to narrow the gap between research and practice Updated and expanded coverage of professional job-embedded learning helps leaders keep pace with advancements Suggested readings support digging deeper into topical areas found within the chapters | Professional Development What Works

GBP 28.99
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Bosnian Authors in a European Window A Comparative Study

Bosnian Authors in a European Window A Comparative Study

The study compares three Bosnian authors with three European titans: The poet Mak Dizdar to Homer the novelist Meša Selimović to Fyodor Dostoevsky and the novelist Ivo Andrić to Leo Tolstoy. The purpose is to move the appreciation of the writing of the most important Bosnian writers of the 20th century closer to the European literary community and to the wholeness of the literary phenomenon. Secondary literature on the Bosnian authors is too narrow focusing on their ethnic heritages and the Balkan milieu in which they write and missing something essential to a critical appreciation of their works. The study creates not only affinities but more importantly amitiés between the authors. The discipline of comparative literature reveals what is missing in the secondary literature namely a vision of the literary universe inclusive and comprehensive. | Bosnian Authors in a European Window A Comparative Study

GBP 48.99
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A History of Western Literature From Medieval Epic to Modern Poetry

A History of Western Literature From Medieval Epic to Modern Poetry

This book begins in a narrow territory strictly Western and extends with the passage of time to include the poetry plays novels and works of speculation of the great authors of the past and present from Russia to Mexico. His objective is to tell the whole story of Western writing in languages other than English from the twelfth-century Chanson de Roland to Evtushenko's poetry of the 1960's. Cohen not only presents a factual account of historical growth. The book reflects the author's own judgments and valuations arrived at in the course of almost forty years' reading in the main European languages. A work of original criticism A History of Western Literature immediately became a standard reference when first published. In this new edition the author has included revisions covering the most important recent writers and their work. | A History of Western Literature From Medieval Epic to Modern Poetry

GBP 130.00
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Drawing as Performance Theatrical Games and Techniques for Visual Artists

Drawing as Performance Theatrical Games and Techniques for Visual Artists

Making connections between drama and drawing Drawing as Performance introduces visual artists and designers to rehearsal techniques theory and games as ways of developing image-making and visual communication skills. Drawing from the fields of theatre and anthropology this book is full of practical exercises that encourage experimentation and play as methods of making expressive communicative and meaningful images. Ideas are adapted from the rehearsal room to the drawing studio offering artists a fresh approach to translating experiences into visual images. Games and exercises are accompanied by demonstrations and responses from professional practitioners and visual communication students. This one-of-a-kind book guides students and professionals alike to improvisation self-expression and reflective visual communication techniques in order to narrow the gap between the handmade image and inner experience from which artists draw their inspiration. | Drawing as Performance Theatrical Games and Techniques for Visual Artists

GBP 24.99
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Death and Dying Sociological Perspectives

Death and Dying Sociological Perspectives

Death and Dying is an important core text for students and professionals interested in developing a holistic understanding of death and dying. Chapters are replete with case studies activities key point boxes and other features that enable readers to develop a sociologically informed understanding of the broad range of complex issues that underpin death and dying. Written by two established and highly respected experts in the field it offers a thoroughgoing account of a wide range of social aspects of death and dying filling gaps left by the traditionally narrow focus of the existing literature. By drawing the suggested sociological perspectives and highlighting the role of social policy the authors put forward a fresh perspective of the field of thanatology. This book is a major contribution in progressing knowledge and understanding of dying and death for students and professionals in counseling health and human services. | Death and Dying Sociological Perspectives

GBP 38.99
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Teaching Critical Thinking in the Context of Political Rhetoric A Guide for Classroom Practice

Teaching Critical Thinking in the Context of Political Rhetoric A Guide for Classroom Practice

During the past several decades there has been a blitz of information sometimes referred to as the knowledge explosion and students have struggled in their attempts to distinguish true fake and terribly biased information especially regarding political issues. This book highlights the value of critical thinking as a way to navigate this difficult and frustrating terrain so that students grow and develop as knowledgeable independent thinkers. To promote this growth the book offers thoughtful evidence-based advice for teachers to support students’ deep thinking as it relates to real-world contexts. Strategies presented include student reflection based on experience moving from narrow to broader perspectives and using graphic organizers to build and activate knowledge before during and after instructional activities. With the instructional guidance and activities presented in this short easy-to-apply volume teachers can give students the tools they need to negotiate the often-murky waters of political communication. | Teaching Critical Thinking in the Context of Political Rhetoric A Guide for Classroom Practice

GBP 24.99
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The Routledge Companion to Accounting History

The Routledge Companion to Accounting History

The Routledge Companion to Accounting History presents a single-volume synthesis of research in this expanding field exploring and analysing accounting from ancient civilisations to the modern day. No longer perceived as the narrow study of how a mysterious technique was used in past the scope of accounting history has widened substantially. This revised and updated volume moves beyond the history of accounting technologies accounting theories and practices and the accountants who applied them. Expert contributors from around the world explore the interfaces between accounting and the economy society culture and the polity. Accounting history is shown to offer important insights into such disparate phenomena as the evolution of capitalism control of labour gender and family relationships racial exploitation the operation of religious organisations and the functioning of the state. Illuminating the foundation and development of accounting systems this updated classic book opens the field to a new generation of accounting scholars and historians around the world.

GBP 42.99
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The Institutionalisation of Disaster Risk Reduction South Africa and Neoliberal Governmentality

The Institutionalisation of Disaster Risk Reduction South Africa and Neoliberal Governmentality

The past three decades have seen a global shift in disaster management from an event driven response to a ‘could-be’ risk management approach. Disaster risk reduction (DRR) has become entrenched as a dominant paradigm within the field of disaster management. More than a decade after adopting DRR legislation in South Africa there remains a dearth of evidence that this has translated into substantive action. This book examines the institutionalisation of DRR in South Africa conceived of as a political economy of knowledge production. Using a critical theory approach the book does not consider why DRR is failing but instead asks ‘why DRR?’ As such it explores possibilities beyond DRR’s narrow optic and offers new insights into disaster management through the lens of South Africa. This is valuable reading for graduate students and academics working in disaster studies geography public policy and development/post-development studies as well as policy makers. | The Institutionalisation of Disaster Risk Reduction South Africa and Neoliberal Governmentality

GBP 18.99
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Rethinking the Way We Teach Science The Interplay of Content Pedagogy and the Nature of Science

Rethinking the Way We Teach Science The Interplay of Content Pedagogy and the Nature of Science

Offering a fresh take on inquiry this book draws on current research and theory in science education literacy and educational psychology as well as the history and philosophy of science to make its case for transforming the way science is taught. Re-thinking the Way We Teach Science addresses major themes in national reform documents and movements-how to place students at the center of what happens in the classroom; how to shift the focus from giving answers to building arguments; how to move beyond narrow disciplinary boundaries to integrated explorations of ideas and issues that connect directly with students; and most especially the importance of engaging students in discussions of an interactive and explanatory character. Deeply anchored in the classroom highly interactive and relevant across grade levels and subject matter above all this is a book about choosing to place the authority of reason over that of right answers. | Rethinking the Way We Teach Science The Interplay of Content Pedagogy and the Nature of Science

GBP 145.00
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Transformative Justice Remedying Human Rights Violations Beyond Transition

Transformative Justice Remedying Human Rights Violations Beyond Transition

Transitional justice mechanisms employed in post-conflict and post-authoritarian contexts have largely focused upon individual violations of a narrow set of civil and political rights as well as the provision of legal and quasi-legal remedies such as truth commissions amnesties and prosecutions. In contrast this book highlights the significance of structural violence in producing and reproducing rights violations. The book further argues that in order to remedy structural violations of human rights there is a need to utilise a different toolkit from that typically employed in transitional justice contexts. The book sets out and applies a definition of transformative justice as expanding upon and providing an alternative to transitional justice. Focusing on a comparative study of social movements nongovernmental organisations and trade unions working on land and housing rights in South Africa and their network relationships the book argues that networks of this kind make an important contribution to processes advancing transformative justice. | Transformative Justice Remedying Human Rights Violations Beyond Transition

GBP 39.99
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Routledge Handbook of Latin America in the World

Routledge Handbook of Latin America in the World

The Handbook of Latin America in the World explains how the Latin American countries have both reacted and contributed to changing international dynamics over the last 30 years. It provides a comprehensive picture of Latin America’s global engagement by looking at specific processes and issues that link governments and other actors social and economic within the region and beyond. Leading scholars offer an up-to-date state of the field theoretically and empirically thus avoiding a narrow descriptive approach. The Handbook includes a section on theoretical approaches that analyze Latin America’s place in the international political and economic system and its foreign policy making. Other sections focus on the main countries actors and issues in Latin America’s international relations. In so doing the book sheds light on the complexity of the international relations of selected countries and on their efforts to act multilaterally. The Routledge Handbook of Latin America in the World is a must-have reference for academics researchers and students in the fields of Latin American politics international relations and area specialists of all regions of the world.

GBP 42.99
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Animal Rhetoric and Natural Science in Eighteenth-Century Liberal Political Writing Political Zoologies of the French Enlightenment

Animal Rhetoric and Natural Science in Eighteenth-Century Liberal Political Writing Political Zoologies of the French Enlightenment

Our tendency to read French Enlightenment political writing from a narrow disciplinary perspective has obscured the hybrid character of political philosophy rhetoric and natural science in the period. As Michèle Duchet and others have shown French Enlightenment thinkers developed a philosophical anthropology to support new political norms and models. This book explores how five important eighteenth-century French political authors—Rousseau Diderot La Mettrie Quesnay and Rétif de La Bretonne—also constructed a political zoology in their philosophical and literary writings informed by animal references drawn from Enlightenment natural history science and physiology. Drawing on theoretical work by Derrida Latour de Fontenay and others it shows how these five authors signed on to the old rhetorical tradition of animal comparisons in political philosophy which they renewed via the findings and speculations of contemporary science. Engaging with recent scholarship on Enlightenment political thought it also explores the links between their political zoologies and their family resemblance as liberal political thinkers. | Animal Rhetoric and Natural Science in Eighteenth-Century Liberal Political Writing Political Zoologies of the French Enlightenment

GBP 145.00
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Digital Activism and the Global Middle Class Generation Hashtag

Digital Activism and the Global Middle Class Generation Hashtag

This book examines the causes of a growing wave of digital activism across developing countries arguing that it is driven by social change rather than technological advancement alone. Beginning with an investigation into the modernization of ‘middle-income countries’ and its ramifications for political culture the book examines large-scale social media protest during political controversies in Indonesia. The book connects empirical evidence to classic theories of value change and political behaviour. It departs from a narrow ‘digital divide’ framing whereby Internet access produces Internet activism. It introduces the concepts of ‘digital self-expression’ and of ‘middle-class struggles’ to capture the value-stratified nature of political engagement in the online sphere. Drawing on a blend of ‘big-data’ text analyses representative opinion research and socioeconomic household analyses a rich picture of the determinants of digital activism emerges. This truly cross-disciplinary book will appeal particularly to students and scholars in Political Science Sociology International Development and Communication but also to anyone eager to learn about political activism social transformation and new media from a global perspective. | Digital Activism and the Global Middle Class Generation Hashtag

GBP 130.00
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Youth and Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa Working but Poor

Youth and Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa Working but Poor

It is widely acknowledged that youth unemployment is one of the most critical challenges facing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. This volume brings together an eminent group of international scholars to analyse the extent and complex nature of this joblessness and offer a set of evidence-based policy choices that could contribute to solving the problem in the short- and long-run. Part I reviews the existing literature on youth unemployment and underemployment in Sub-Saharan Africa from microeconomic and macroeconomic perspectives while Part II goes on to present detailed country studies of Ethiopia Ghana Kenya and South Africa. These studies offer a deep understanding of the situation on the ground and consider country-specific solutions. Throughout the book it is argued that the standard ILO definition of unemployment is too narrow to correctly portray employment situations in Sub-Saharan Africa. Several alternative measures of unemployment are presented which show that joblessness is far more pervasive than commonly assumed in the literature. This volume will be of interest to academics and policy makers involved in African development. | Youth and Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa Working but Poor

GBP 38.99
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Christians and the Middle East Conflict

Christians and the Middle East Conflict

Christians and the Middle East Conflict deals with the relationship of Christians and Christian theology to the various conflicts in the Middle East a topic that is often sensationalized but still insufficiently understood. Political developments over the last two decades however have prompted observers to rediscover and examine the central role religious motivations play in shaping public discourses. This book proceeds on the assumption that neither a focus on the eschatological nor a narrow understanding of the plight of Christians in the Middle East is sufficient. Instead it is necessary to understand Christians in context and to explore the ways that Christian theology applies through the actions of Christians who have lived and continue to live through conflict in the region either as native inhabitants or interested foreign observers. This volume addresses issues of concern to Christians from a theological perspective from the perspective of Christian responses to conflict throughout history and in reflection on the contemporary realities of Christians in the Middle East. The essays in this volume combine contextual political and theological reflections written by both scholars and Christian activists and will be of interest to students and scholars of Politics Religion and Middle East Studies.

GBP 38.99
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Shaping Citizenship A Political Concept in Theory Debate and Practice

Shaping Citizenship A Political Concept in Theory Debate and Practice

Citizenship is a core concept for the social sciences and citizenship is also frequently interpreted challenged and contested in different political arenas. Shaping Citizenship explores how the concept is debated and contested defined and redefined used and constructed by different agents at different times and with regard to both theory and practice. The book uses a reflexive and constructivist perspective on the concept of citizenship that draws on the theory and methodology of conceptual history. This approach enables a panorama of politically important readings on citizenship that provide an interdisciplinary perspective and help to transcend narrow and simplified views on citizenship. The three parts of the book focus respectively on theories debates and practices of citizenship. In the chapters constructions and struggles related to citizenship are approached by experts from different fields. Thematically the chapters focus on political representation migration internationalization sub-and transnationalization as well as the Europeanisation of citizenship. An indispensable read to scholars and students Shaping Citizenship presents new ways to study the conceptual changes struggles and debates related to core dimensions of this ever-evolving concept. | Shaping Citizenship A Political Concept in Theory Debate and Practice

GBP 44.99
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Out of Reach The Ideal Girl in American Girls’ Serial Literature

Out of Reach The Ideal Girl in American Girls’ Serial Literature

Out of Reach: The Ideal Girl in American Girls’ Serial Literature traces the journey of the ideal girl through American girls’ series in the twentieth century. Who is the ideal girl? In what ways does the trope of the ideal girl rely on the exclusion and erasure of Othered girls? How does the trope retain its power through cultural shifts? Drawing from six popular girls’ series that span the twentieth century Kate G. Harper explores the role of girls’ series in constructing a narrow ideal of girlhood one that is out of reach for the average American girl reader. Girls’ series reveal how over time the ideal girl trope strengthens and becomes naturalized through constant reiteration. From the transitional girl at the turn of the century in Dorothy Dale to the liberated romantic of Sweet Valley High these texts provide girls with an appealing model of girlhood urging all girls to aspire to the unattainable ideal. Out of Reach illuminates the ways in which the ideal girl trope accommodates social changes taking in that which makes it stronger and further solidifying its core. | Out of Reach The Ideal Girl in American Girls’ Serial Literature

GBP 38.99
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Extremism and Counter-Extremism Narratives in Pakistan An Analysis of Narrative Building

Extremism and Counter-Extremism Narratives in Pakistan An Analysis of Narrative Building

The book provides an extensive analysis of extremism extremist narratives and counter-narratives and their role in consolidating exclusive religious cultural and social identities in Pakistan. Focusing on the construction and institutionalization of extremist tendencies the book studies the process of the adoption of the narrow interpretation of religion and society which subsequently was equated with national identity. It looks at the efforts of counter-extremism narratives which tend to focus on violent extremism while overlooking non-violent manifestations. The author highlights that the main issue with counter-narratives is the difficulty in presenting extremism and its narratives as a threat since they have been normalized with the state being part of facilitating and building them. A valuable and much-required contribution to the existing literature on extremism and narrative building in Pakistan this book would help students academics and policymakers in identifying the limitations of counter-narratives in Pakistan while providing them with a detailed overview of extremism and extremist narratives. It will also be of interest to researchers studying Security Studies and Asian Politics especially in the context of South Asia. | Extremism and Counter-Extremism Narratives in Pakistan An Analysis of Narrative Building

GBP 130.00
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