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Akhenaten
The pharaoh Akhenaten, who ruled Egypt in the mid-fourteenth century BCE, has been the subject of more speculation than any other character in Egyptian history. Often called the originator of monotheism and the world's first recorded individual, he has fascinated and inspired both scholars of Egyptology and creative talents as diverse as Sigmund Freud and Philip Glass.<BR>This provocative biograph...
2002
Allegory
<P>Indispensable to an understanding of Medieval and Renaissance texts and a topic of controversy for the Romantic poets, allegory remains a site for debate and controversy in the twenty-first-century.</P> <P></P> <P>In this useful guide, Jeremy Tambling:</P> <UL> <UL> <P></P></UL> <LI>presents a concise history of allegory, providing numerous examples from Medieval forms to the present day</LI> <...
2009
All Life is Problem Solving
<STRONG>'Never before has there been so many and such dreadful weapons in so many irresponsible hands.'</STRONG><EM> - Karl Popper, from the Preface</EM><BR><EM>All Life is Problem Solving</EM> is a stimulating and provocative selection of Popper's writings on his main preoccupations during the last twenty-five years of his life. This collection illuminates Popper's process of working out key form...
2001
An Actor's Work
<P>Stanislavski's 'system' has dominated actor-training in the West since his writings were first translated into English in the 1920s and 30s. His systematic attempt to outline a psycho-physical technique for acting single-handedly revolutionized standards of acting in the theatre.</P> <P></P> <P>Until now, readers and students have had to contend with inaccurate, misleading and difficult-to-read...
2008
An Analysis of Eric Foner's Reconstruction
<P>'Reconstruction' is the name given to the period that, beginning shortly before the end of the American Civil War and running until 1877, saw the frustration of federal government's attempts to integrate the newly freed slaves into the American political and economic system. It ended in frustration, disillusionment and also violence, with individual southern states denying rights to freed slave...
2017
An Analysis of C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man
C.S. Lewis's 1943 The Abolition of Man is a set of three essays that encapsulate some of the most important elements of good critical thinking. Lewis considers a weighty topic, moral philosophy - and more precisely how we teach it, and where morality comes from. As critics and enthusiasts for Lewis's work alike have noted, though, he was not a philosopher as such, but a professor of literature. An...
2017
An analysis of william h. whytes the organization man
An analysis of william h. whytes the organization man
2018
An Analysis of Immanuel Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
The eighteenth-century philosopher Immanuel Kant is as daunting as he is influential: widely considered to be not only one of the most challenging thinkers of all time, but also one of the most important. His <EM>Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason</EM> takes on two of his central preoccupations - the reasoning powers of the human mind, and religion - and applies the full force of his re...
2017
An Analysis of Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees's Our Ecological Footprint
<P><EM>Our Ecological Footprint</EM> presents a powerful model for measuring humanity's impact on the Earth to reduce the harm we are causing the planet before it's too late. </P> <P>While some people believe we can find a middle ground between environmental conservation and economic development, or that future technological discoveries will solve the problem, the authors warn that our planet's li...
2017
An analysis of robert a. dahls who governs? democracy and
An analysis of robert a. dahls who governs? democracy and
2017
An Analysis of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities
<P>Despite having no formal training in urban planning, Jane Jacobs deftly explores the strengths and weaknesses of policy arguments put forward by American urban planners in the era after World War II. They believed that the efficient movement of cars was of more value in the development of US cities than the everyday lives of the people living there. By carefully examining their relevance in her...
2017
An analysis of clifford geertzs the interpretation of cult
An analysis of clifford geertzs the interpretation of cult
2017
An autism casebook for parents and practitioners
An autism casebook for parents and practitioners
2020
An Analysis of Jared M. Diamond's Collapse
<P>American scholar Jared Diamond deploys his powers of interpretation to great effect in <EM>Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed,</EM> which seeks to understand the meaning behind the available evidence describing societies that have survived and those that have withered and died. </P> <P>Why, for example, did the Norsemen of Scandinavia who colonized Greenland in the early tenth ce...
2017
An analysis of ernest gellners nations and nationalism
An analysis of ernest gellners nations and nationalism
2017
An Actor's Work on a Role
<P></P> <P></P> <P> <EM>An Actor's Work on a Role</EM> is Konstantin Stanislavsky's classic exploration of the rehearsal process, applying the techniques of his seminal actor training system to the task of bringing life and truth to one's role. </P> <P></P> <P>Originally published over half a century ago as <EM>Creating a Role</EM>, this book became the third in a trilogy - after <EM>An Actor...
2009
An internal family systems guide to recovery from eating di
An internal family systems guide to recovery from eating di
2017
An introduction to grounded methodology for emerging educat
An introduction to grounded methodology for emerging educat
2020
An Analysis of Abraham H. Maslow's A Theory of Human Motivation
<P>US psychologist Abraham H. Maslow's <EM>A Theory of Human Motivation</EM> is a classic of psychological research that helped change the field for good. Like many field-changing thinkers, Maslow was not just a talented researcher, he was also a creative thinker - able to see things from a new perspective and show them in a different light. </P> <P>At a time when psychology was dominated by two m...
2017
Antisocial, narcissistic, and borderline personality disord
Antisocial, narcissistic, and borderline personality disord
2020
Asia's Naval Expansion
<P>The navies of China, India and to a lesser extent Japan are expanding rapidly at present. This has the potential to alter the US-dominated naval balance in Asia-Pacific but it also raises a question: are the region's powers involved in a naval arms race?</P> <P>Naval development is and always has been a crucial indicator of economic and political development. It shows the emergence of a signifi...
2012
Autoethnography as Method
This methods book will guide the reader through the process of conducting and producing an autoethnographic study through the understanding of self, other, and culture. Readers will be encouraged to follow hands-on, though not prescriptive, steps in data collection, analysis, and interpretation with self-reflective prewriting exercises and self-narrative writing exercises to produce their own auto...
1999
Biopolitical Media
<P>This book presents an historical account of media and catastrophe that engages with theories of biopolitics in the work of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri and others. It explains how responses to catastrophe in media and cultural criticism over the past 150 years are embedded in biological conceptions of life and death, contamination and immunity, race and species...
2018
Brazilian National Cinema
<P>Brazilian cinema is one of the most influential national cinemas in Latin America and this wide-ranging study traces the evolution of Brazilian film from the silent era to the present day, including detailed studies of more recent international box-office hits, such as <EM>Central Station</EM> (1998) and <EM>City of God </EM>(2002).</P> <P><EM>Brazilian National Cinema</EM> gives due importance...
2007
Caring for a Loved One with an Eating Disorder
<P><EM>Caring for a Loved One with an Eating Disorder: The New Maudsley Skills-Based Training Manual</EM> provides a framework for carer skills workshops which can be used by anyone working with these conditions. </P> <P>Based on the successful New Maudsley Model, which equips carers with the knowledge and skills needed to support those with an eating disorder, the book consists of two sections wh...
2018
Cinematic Settlers
<P>This anthology adds to the burgeoning field of settler colonial studies by examining settler colonial narratives in the under analyzed medium of film.</P> <P></P><I> <P>Cinematic Settlers</I> discusses different cinematic genres, national traditions, and specific movies in order to expose related threads, shared circulations of knowledge, and paralleled representations. Organized into thematic ...
2020
Cities, Slums and Gender in the Global South
<P>Developing regions are set to account for the vast majority of future urban growth, and women and girls will become the majority inhabitants of these locations in the Global South. This is one of the first books to detail the challenges facing poorer segments of the female population who commonly reside in 'slums'. It explores the variegated disadvantages of urban poverty and slum-dwelling from...
2015
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adult ADHD
<P><EM>Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adult ADHD: An Integrative Psychosocial and Medical Approach</EM> has been revised, updated, and expanded for this second edition and remains the definitive book for clinicians seeking to treat adults with ADHD. Clinicians will continue to benefit from the presentation of an evidence-supported treatment approach for adults with ADHD that combines cognitive b...
2014
Colloquial Indonesian
<I> <P>Colloquial Indonesian: The Complete Course for Beginners</I> has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Indonesian as it is written and spoken today. </P> <P>Combining a clear, practical and accessible style with a methodical and thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently ...
2015