General studies and General knowledge Books

Book SynopsisChallenge yourself at home with word and number puzzlesFrom the puzzles section of The Times our Editors have chosen the best selection of general-knowledge and definition crossword puzzles to keep even the most eager enthusiasts entertained for hours.This collection of 300 accessible puzzles is utterly addictive, yet concise enough to be solved relatively quickly.Encompassing a wide range of subjects including geography, literature, history and culture, these general-knowledge and definition-based puzzles will test your word power and broaden your horizons at the same time.With clues that are satisfyingly skillful and containing no cryptic elements, these crosswords are guaranteed to stretch your mind and entertain you equally.Puzzles taken from previously published titles.

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Book SynopsisA bumper-size quiz book with all new questions to test your general knowledge, with 500 quizzes and 10,000 questions. Includes 30 picture rounds to get you scratching your head!Perfect for playing with friends and family.Arranged in easy, medium and hard sections, these quizzes offer something for everyone.Have a go at these questions:Which acid is used in lead-acid car batteries?Sulphuric acid.How many eyes does a bee have?Five.Taking its name from one of the largest rivers in the nation, the kwanza is the currency of which African country?Angola.This is the ideal gift for all budding quizzers, whether playing at home with friends and family, or practising for a night down the pub.The answers are quick and easy to find so that anyone can pick this up and test themselves or play quiz master.Trade ReviewSo here’s the perfect gift book (for the festive season or any time of the year!) that brings together the generations to enjoy a super-fun quiz night of trivia knowledge offering entertainment, education… and plenty of head scratching.Lancashire Post

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Book SynopsisAdam Rutherford (Author) Adam Rutherford is an award-winning writer, broadcaster, and geneticist at University College London. His books include A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, The Book of Humans, and the Sunday Times bestseller How to Argue with a Racist. He has written and presented numerous documentaries for BBC radio and television, including Inside Science and The Cell. Adam has also worked as a science advisor on many films, including the Oscar-winning Ex Machina (2015) and Annihilation (2018).Hannah Fry (Author) Hannah Fry is currently Professor in the mathematics of cities from University College London. In January 2025 she will join Cambridge University as the first Professor for the Public Understanding of Mathematics. In January 2024, Hannah was appointed to be the new president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. Hannah is the author of The Mathematics of Love<Trade ReviewA wonderfully engaging blend of wit, enthusiasm, clarity and knowledge. -- Bill BrysonThe illustrations are truly excellent. -- Professor Alice RobertsLike the universe itself, this book is multi-faceted, surprising and full of wonders. It's also funny, wise and exceedingly brainy. You really owe it to yourself to read it. -- Tim Harford, author of How To Make The World Add UpIf only Adam Rutherford and Hannah Fry were on tap to all of us, all the time: we could turn to them whenever we wanted delicious explanations, narratives and theories to make sense of the material world. But we do have this deeply addictive book as a companion. The pair have such a gift for making life, numbers and the forces at work in the universe all the richer, stranger, funnier and more marvellous. -- Stephen FryExplores just about every area of life. * Daily Mail *

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Book SynopsisChallenge yourself at home with word and number puzzlesFrom the puzzles section of The Times our Editors have chosen the best selection of general-knowledge and definition crossword puzzles to keep even the most eager enthusiasts entertained for hours.This collection of 300 accessible puzzles is utterly addictive, yet concise enough to be solved relatively quickly.Encompassing a wide range of subjects including geography, literature, history and culture, these general-knowledge and definition-based puzzles will test your word power and broaden your horizons at the same time.With clues that are satisfyingly skillful and containing no cryptic elements, these crosswords are guaranteed to stretch your mind and entertain you equally.Puzzles taken from previously published titles.

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Book SynopsisEssential guide to British universities that gives you all the information you need to make the crucial decisions on what to study, where to study, and how much it might cost. Objective and authoritative, it is the best-selling guide to making the right university choice for you.For more than 30 years The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide has provided the most accurate and up-to-date information about British universities to help choosing which universities to apply to as easy as possible. This definitive guide is designed for those who are applying to start courses in 2025.Select the right course and universityCompare university performanceGet to grips with the application processFind the latest rankings by subjectPlus, the lowdown on university lifeWritten by Zoe Thomas, journalist and education writer, this is the most authoritative guide available. Its university and subject tables inside are the most respected and studied in Britain.

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Book SynopsisChallenge yourself with word and number puzzlesGive your memory a workout, stimulate your brain and hone your general knowledge with 100 definition-only puzzles from The Times.Covering a wide range of topics, from geography to literature, history and culture, this collection will test both your general knowledge and your wordpower.Compiled by the Times2 Crossword Editor John Grimshaw, these quick accessible puzzles are utterly absorbing and addictive, yet concise enough to be done on the move.Quality is paramount to The Times' crosswords, with clues that are satisfyingly tough, but accurate. This new collection is no different, providing hours of crossword enjoyment and stimulation.

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Book SynopsisQuiz your family at home with crosswords, puzzles and games.The Times2 jumbo crossword is an entertaining test of word power and general knowledge. The 60 crosswords in this collection offer the same challenge as The Times2 daily crossword but the larger grid means there are more clues to enjoy and some longer words and phrases to muse on.The Times 2 jumbo crossword now appears weekly in the Saturday edition of The Times. It provides a constant alternative to The Times jumbo cryptic crossword.The Times 2 jumbo crosswords are intended to be exactly the same type as the normal daily crossword in The Times 2 section with the same mixture of reasonably-challenging but not too recondite words and references.The Times 2 crossword editor, John Grimshaw, has selected 60 of the best crosswords from The Times to form this enjoyable collection.

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents, for the first time in English, fourteen essays by Yuri Andrukhovych, making a well-known Ukrainian voice accessible to the English-speaking world.Trade Review"We should feel grateful to the translators for making Andrukhovych’s incisive essays available, for the first time and in one place, to English-speaking audiences." -- Alexander Burak * Slavic Review *"Andrukhovych is one of Ukraine’s most prominent intellectuals, perhaps the very symbol of the rise of Ukrainian postmodernism in the early 1990s." -- Alessandro Achilli * New Zealand Slavonic Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments A Biographical Preface about the Author Michael M. Naydan En Route Endeavours Mark Andryczyk Author’s Introduction Yuri Andrukhovych Autobiographical Essay: The Central-Eastern Revision (expanded version 2005) Culturological and Political Essays: Erz-Herz-Perz (1994) The City-Ship (1994) Carpathologia Comosphilica (1996) Time and Place, or My Final Territory (1999) A Little Bit of Urban Studies (1999) What Language Are You From: A Ukrainian Writer among the Temptations of Temporariness (2002) Meeting Place Germaschka (2002) Four Million for Our Agents (2003) A Land of Dreams (2004) The Star Absinthe: Notes on a Bitter Anniversary (2011) Love and Hatred in Kyiv (January 2014) Seven Hundred Fierce Days, or the Role of a Contrabass in the Revolution (March 2014) Afterword Yuri Andrukhovych Notes Index

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Book SynopsisChallenge yourself at home with word and number puzzlesFrom the puzzles section of The Times our Editors have chosen the best selection of general-knowledge and definition crossword puzzles to keep even the most eager enthusiasts entertained for hours.This collection of 300 accessible puzzles is utterly addictive, yet concise enough to be solved relatively quickly.Encompassing a wide range of subjects including geography, literature, history and culture, these general-knowledge and definition-based puzzles will test your word power and broaden your horizons at the same time.With clues that are satisfyingly skillful and containing no cryptic elements, these crosswords are guaranteed to stretch your mind and entertain you equally.Puzzles taken from previously published titles.

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Book SynopsisChallenge yourself at home with word and number puzzles Give your memory a workout and hone your general knowledge with 80 definition-style puzzles from The Times2 section.

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Book SynopsisThe fourth title in this series, featuring a whole year’s worth of the general-knowledge Big Quizword from the Saturday edition of The Sun.

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Book SynopsisChallenge yourself at home with word and number puzzlesGive your memory a workout, stimulate your brain and hone your general knowledge with 80 definition-style puzzles from The Times2 section.Covering a wide range of topics from geography to literature, history and culture, this collection will test your word power and boost your general knowledge to boot.Compiled by the Times2 Crossword Editor, John Grimshaw, these quick accessible puzzles are utterly absorbing and addictive, yet concise enough to be completed on the move.The Times is an excellent-quality crossword provider. With clues that are satisfyingly skilful and solutions helpfully provided at the back of the book, Times2 Crossword Book 15 is guaranteed to entertain your brain.Previously published as The Times T2 Crossword book 15.

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Book SynopsisCollins Big Cat Arabic Reading Programme is a guided reading series for ages 3 to 11. The series is structured with reference to the learning progression of Arabic at nursery and primary schools researched especially for Collins. This carefully graded approach allows children to build up their reading knowledge of Arabic step by step.

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Book SynopsisKierkegaard's thought is more relevant than ever to contemporary debates about the self, truth, ethics, and religion. This study explains how to make sense of controversial ideas in Kierkegaard's work, such as wholeheartedness, subjective truth, 'the leap' into faith and 'the teleological suspension of the ethical'.Trade Review'Professor Fremstedal conducts a compelling reconstruction of how Kierkegaard develops wholeheartedness based on his views of moral psychology, metaethics, and the ethics of religious belief … This monograph provides unique understanding and reliable resources, tackling some controversial issues, and is a timely reference worthy of being read by researchers interested in the study of Kierkegaard and his outstanding cognitive philosophy on selfhood, ethics, and religion.' Chuandai Qiao, Dialog A Journal of Theology'While this book will serve as an indispensable resource for contemporary Kierkegaard scholarship, it also has something to offer for ongoing conversations about Kant, German Romanticism, Idealism, ethics, religious epistemology, and Kierkegaard's subsequent relevance to these areas. In this way, Fremstedal has done a tremendous service to Kierkegaard scholarship by re-presenting him as a figure worthy of immediate consideration across multiple subdisciplines of philosophical and theological inquiry and scholarship.' Charles Duke, Journal for Continental Philosophy of ReligionTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Self, Despair and Wholeheartedness: 1. Selfhood and anthropology; 2. Why be moral? The critique of amoralism; 3. Moral inescapability: Moral agency and meta-ethics; Part II. Morality, Prudence and Religion: 4. The critique of eudaimonism: Virtue ethics, kantianism and beyond; 5. Non-eudaimonistic ethics and religion: Happiness and salvation; 6. The 'Teleological suspension of the ethical' and Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac; 7. Moralized religion: The identity of the good and the divine; Part III. 'Subjectivity, Inwardness, is Truth': 8. 'Hidden inwardness' and humor: Kantian ethics and religion; 9. Subjective truth: 'Kierkegaard's most notorious…claim'; Part IV. Faith and Reason: 10. A leap of faith? The use of lessing, Jacobi and Kant; 11. Faith neither absurd nor irrational: The neglected reply to Eiríksson; 12. Faith beyond reason: Supra-rationalism and anti-rationalism; 13. The ethics of belief: Fideism and pragmatism; Conclusion; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisHow do objects mediate human relationships, and possess their own social and political agency? What role does material culture such as prestige consumption as well as commodity aesthetics, biographies, and ownership histories play in the production of social and political identities, differences, and hierarchies? How do (informal) consumer subcultures of collectors organize and manage themselves? Drawing on theories from anthropology and sociology, specifically material culture, consumption, museum, ethnicity, and post-socialist studies, Materializing Difference addresses these questions via analysis of the practices and ideologies connected to Gabor Roma beakers and roofed tankards made of antique silver. The consumer subculture organized around these objects defined as ethnicized and gendered prestige goods by the Gabor Roma living in Romania is a contemporary, second-hand culture based on patina-oriented consumption. Materializing Difference reveals the iTable of ContentsIntroduction: Translocal Communities of Practice and Multi-Sited Ethnographies Part I. Negotiating and Materializing Difference and Belonging 1. Symbolic Arenas and Trophies of the Politics of Difference 2. The Gabors’ Prestige Economy: A Translocal, Ethnicized, Informal, and Gendered Consumer Subculture 3. From Antiques to Prestige Objects: De- and Re-contextualizing Commodities from the European Antiques Market 4. Creating Symbolic and Material Patina 5. The Politics of Brokerage: Bazaar-Style Trade and Risk Management 6. Political Face-Work and Transcultural Bricolage/Hybridity: Prestige Objects in Political Discourse Part II. Contesting Consumer Subcultures: Interethnic Trade, Fake Authenticity, and Classification Struggles 7. Gabor Roma, Cărhar Roma, and the European Antiques Market: Contesting Consumer Subcultures 8. Interethnic Trade of Prestige Objects 9. Constructing, Commodifying, and Consuming Fake Authenticity 10. The Politics of Consumption: Classification Struggles, Moral Criticism, and Stereotyping Part III. Multi-Sited Commodity Ethnographies 11. Things-In-Motion: Methodological Fetishism, Multi-Sitedness, and the Biographical Method 12. Prestige Objects, Marriage Politics, and the Manipulation of Nominal Authenticity: The Biography of a Beaker, 2000-2007 13. Proprietary Contest, Business Ethics, and Conflict Management: The Biography of a Roofed Tankard, 1992-2012 Conclusion: The Post-Socialist Consumer Revolution and the Shifting Meanings of Prestige Goods

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Book SynopsisIn this volume, twelve leading sociologists and historians leverage the conceptual work of John A. Hall to explore the complex and profoundly consequential relationship between states, nations, power, and civility.Table of ContentsPart One: National Contexts 1. Is America Breaking Apart? The Rise of Donald Trump 2. How Homogenous Need America Be? Nation, Race, and Civility 3. Roadblocks to Civility: Lessons from Turkish Nationalism 4. Urban Civility Defying Political Authoritarianism? Unpacking Turkey’s Reversal of Democracy 5. Under Stress: Civility, Compassion, and National Solidarity – The Refugee Crisis in Germany after 1945 Part Two: International and Comparative Contexts 6. Nationalism and Imperialism as Enemies and Friends: Nation-State Formation and Imperial Projects in the Balkans 7. The Despotic and Infrastructural Powers of Democratic, Autocratic, and Authoritarian Regimes 8. Resistance and Nationalist Violence: A Hallsian Approach to Nation-Building in a Colonial Context 9. Two Communist Revolutions: A Hallsian Comparison of China and Russia 10. Religious Toleration in Pre-Modern Empires 11. Ashoka and Constantine: On Mega-Actors and the Politics of Empires and Religions

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Book SynopsisAccidental Wilderness showcases how the removal of city rubble and its displacement can result in new urban parklands with significant ecological importance for the health of the city and its residents.Trade Review"The Spit is miraculous and amazing, growing out of Toronto like a volcanic island. Accidental Wilderness is a stunningly beautiful and hopeful book that captures with writing that is both technical and romantic the story of how the Spit came to be and what it almost was if not for the interventions of the people who protected it." -- Shawn Micallef * Spacing magazine *"This book will leave readers with a great appreciation of what has been created in Lake Ontario at the end of Leslie Street and what impact that creation could have on the future of wilderness – accidental or otherwise – in Canada." -- Michael Olsen * Ontario Field Ornithologists *"This beautifully produced ode celebrates a unique place on the shores of Toronto's Lake Ontario. The Spit, as it is known locally, was a dump site for the city's midcentury building boom, a landform not so much planned as accumulated. But nature arrived uninvited, spurring several decades of local advocacy, and eventually a singular urban park emerged." * Landscape Architecture Magazine *"Part field guide, part environmental history, Accidental Wilderness would make an excellent manual for ecological restoration along the entire lakeshore." -- Amy Lavender Harris * Spacing Magazine *"The book’s value is the detailed accounting of how the accidental creation of Tommy Thompson Park evolved in concert with Kehm’s park master plan. The planning and design process could be used as a framework for creating and restoring urban wildlands in Great Lakes communities and other coastal ecosystem areas. Such a framework is especially critical given how climate change is shifting weather-induced physical processes and temperature. Burley’s photography provides the reader with an intimate feel for the created park character. The book is recommended for those interested in more ecologically based planning and design processes." -- Richard Smardon, SUNY-College of Environmental Science and Forestry * Landscape Journal *Table of ContentsForeword David Miller Introduction Walter H. Kehm Portfolio I Robert Burley Part I: Epiphany The Spontaneous Ecology of Tommy Thompson Park Peter Del Tredici Building the Leslie Street Spit Wayne Reeves Aquatic Park Walter H. Kehm The Evolution of Advocacy John Carley Portfolio II Robert Burley Part II: Process Conservation by Design: The 1986 Plan Walter H. Kehm Plants and Natural Succession Gavin Miller Birds and Birding at the Spit Garth Vernon Riley Mammals and Fish Gord MacPherson and Walter H. Kehm Habitat Projects and Wildlife Management Andrea Chreston Portfolio III Robert Burley Part III: Evolution People in the Park Walter H. Kehm Let the Spit Be!! Robert Burley Home Chief R. Stacey Laforme Acknowledgments Comparative Parks List of Bird Species List of Plant Species References Further Resources Image Key Contributors

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Book SynopsisHow do objects mediate human relationships, and possess their own social and political agency? What role does material culture such as prestige consumption as well as commodity aesthetics, biographies, and ownership histories play in the production of social and political identities, differences, and hierarchies? How do (informal) consumer subcultures of collectors organize and manage themselves? Drawing on theories from anthropology and sociology, specifically material culture, consumption, museum, ethnicity, and post-socialist studies, Materializing Difference addresses these questions via analysis of the practices and ideologies connected to Gabor Roma beakers and roofed tankards made of antique silver. The consumer subculture organized around these objects defined as ethnicized and gendered prestige goods by the Gabor Roma living in Romania is a contemporary, second-hand culture based on patina-oriented consumption. Materializing Difference reveals the iTable of ContentsIntroduction: Translocal Communities of Practice and Multi-Sited Ethnographies Part I. Negotiating and Materializing Difference and Belonging 1. Symbolic Arenas and Trophies of the Politics of Difference 2. The Gabors’ Prestige Economy: A Translocal, Ethnicized, Informal, and Gendered Consumer Subculture 3. From Antiques to Prestige Objects: De- and Re-contextualizing Commodities from the European Antiques Market 4. Creating Symbolic and Material Patina 5. The Politics of Brokerage: Bazaar-Style Trade and Risk Management 6. Political Face-Work and Transcultural Bricolage/Hybridity: Prestige Objects in Political Discourse Part II. Contesting Consumer Subcultures: Interethnic Trade, Fake Authenticity, and Classification Struggles 7. Gabor Roma, Cărhar Roma, and the European Antiques Market: Contesting Consumer Subcultures 8. Interethnic Trade of Prestige Objects 9. Constructing, Commodifying, and Consuming Fake Authenticity 10. The Politics of Consumption: Classification Struggles, Moral Criticism, and Stereotyping Part III. Multi-Sited Commodity Ethnographies 11. Things-In-Motion: Methodological Fetishism, Multi-Sitedness, and the Biographical Method 12. Prestige Objects, Marriage Politics, and the Manipulation of Nominal Authenticity: The Biography of a Beaker, 2000-2007 13. Proprietary Contest, Business Ethics, and Conflict Management: The Biography of a Roofed Tankard, 1992-2012 Conclusion: The Post-Socialist Consumer Revolution and the Shifting Meanings of Prestige Goods

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Book SynopsisIn this book, two experts on classical social theory explain why we must find context in the works of classical thinkers to better understand the complexities of today’s issues.Trade Review"This book offers an interesting discussion of the development of sociological theory, with a specific emphasis on the ways that capitalism shaped the field of sociology during its early years.... Its presentation of the social, historical, and economic context from which early sociological theory emerged is exemplary: detailed, thorough, and compelling." * Teaching Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface PART I: Context 1. Introduction: Why Classical Social Theory? 2. Modernity and Social Theory 3. European Enlightenment and Early Social Thought PART II: The Classical Triumvirate 4. Karl Marx: Philosophy and Methodology 5. Karl Marx: Theory of History 6. Karl Marx: Economics of Capitalism 7. Émile Durkheim: The Division of Labour in Society 8. Émile Durkheim: The Rules of Sociological Method and On Suicide 9. Émile Durkheim: Religion and Education 10. Max Weber: Methodology 11. Max Weber: Capitalism and Modernity 12. Max Weber: Social Classes and Legitimate Domination\ PART III: Expanding the Canon 13. Gender and Social Theory 14. W.E.B. Du Bois on Race 15. G.H. Mead on Self and Society PART IV: Classical Social Theory Today 16. Concluding Thoughts on the Classical Canon Further Reading and Sources Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers a critical yet empathic exploration of the ancient myth of Medea as immortalized by early Greek and Roman dramatists to showcase the tragic forces afoot when relational suffering remains unresolved in the lives of individuals, families and communities. Medea as a tragic figure, whose sense of isolation and betrayal interferes with her ability to form healthy attachments, reveals the human propensity for violence when the agony of unresolved grief turns to vengeance against those we hold most dear. However, metaphorically, her life story as an emblem for existential crisis serves as a psychological touchstone in the lives of early twentieth-century female authors, who struggled to find their rightful place in the world, to resolve the sorrow of unrequited love and devotion, and to reconcile experiences of societal abandonment and neglect as self-discovery.Trade Review“In The Tragic Life Story of Medea as Mother, Monster, and Muse, Jana Rivers-Norton effectively peels back the many layers of the Medea motif from its classical construction to its contemporary manifestations to reveal the “troubled” and often “troubling” relationship between mothers and daughters explored in the work of four American feminist and pre-feminist authors across multiple genres—poets H.D., Edna St. Vincent Millay and Louise Bogan and fiction writer Ellen Glasgow, with Toni Morrison receiving a tangential, but welcome, glance. The author speculates through her exploration how Medea’s “negation” as monster-mother through time may mask Medea once enlightening essence as earth mother and psychic and spiritual healer. The result, then, as Rivers-Norton’s analysis argues, has been a mixed bag of personal and artistic conflicts and crises for each woman, borne out in the lives and work of the author’s subjects. Mother-daughter relationships may be the cause of tremendous pain and a sense of loss, but also a stimulus for further artistic expression and emotional growth, the text conveys. The journey through the works of these women also presents an opportunity for Rivers-Norton to explore her own conflicts with the past.”Professor Mark Alan GravesDepartment of English, Communications, Media and Languages, Morehead State University“Jana Rivers-Norton’s undertaking in The Tragic Life Story of Medea as Mother, Monster, and Muse uncovers the urgency of redemptive storytelling through an exploration of female artists ranging from Hilda Doolittle to Charlotte Perkins Gilman. This fascinating portrayal of modern reincarnations of the Medea myth is a splendid and vital interdisciplinary addition to the feminist canon.”Hannah HuberPostdoctoral Research Associate, Institute for the Humanities and University Library, University of Illinois at Chicago“[The book] examines how painful familial and other emotional traumas can result in exquisite art, a topic I find perennially fascinating. Kierkegaard’s magnificent articulation of the poetic artist in Either/Or came to mind as I read the book: “What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: ‘Sing again soon’ - that is, ‘May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful’.” […] Rivers Norton writes a moving narrative of women whose prose and verse express their intense personal conflict in such a way that, like Kierkegaard’s imagined audience, I too say “Sing again soon.” As a result of reading The Tragic Life Story of Medea as Mother, Monster and Muse, I want to learn more about, and to read the works of, the authors whose lives Rivers Norton presents with such loving detail. […] Rivers Norton offers a poignant narrative of women who survived trauma through literature, a narrative that reflects her own profound experiences, the reason why she was drawn to the writers included in the book and why she can speak from personal authority.”James J. ClaussUniversity of Washington, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2020

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Book SynopsisSince the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, the discourse of human rights has expanded to include not just civil and political rights but also economic, social, cultural, and, most recently, collective rights. Given their broad scope, human rights issues are useful touchstones in the humanities classroom and benefit from an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural pedagogy in which objects of study are situated in historical, legal, philosophical, literary, and rhetorical contexts. Teaching Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies is a sourcebook of inventive approaches and best practices for teachers looking to make human rights the focus of their undergraduate and graduate courses.Contributors first explore what it means to be human and conceptual issues such as law and the state. Next, they approach human rights and related social-justice issues from the perspectives of particular geographic regions and historical eras, through the lens of genre, and in relation to specific rights violations—for example, storytelling and testimonio in Latin America or poetry created in the aftermath of the Armenian genocide. Essays then describe efforts to cultivate students’ capacity for ethical reading practices and to deepen their understanding of the stakes and artistic dimensions of human rights representations, drawing on active learning and experimental class contexts. The final section, on resources, directs readers to further readings in history, criticism, theory, and literary and visual studies and provides a chronology of human rights legal documents.

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Book SynopsisSocial media applications, such as Facebook and Twitter, are dramatically changing the sports world. These changes have appears in a very short period of time, creating a host of implications for sports media processes and sports organisations as they grapple with athletes’ use of these media channels. This book chronicles social media’s rapid rise in becoming a powerful “player” in the sports industry and draws upon relevant examples involving athletes and sports organisations to demonstrate both the positive and problematic consequences that social media has created for athletes and sports organisations. In exploring how social media has affected sports media processes, organisational management, and athlete-fan communication, this book will appeal to scholars, practitioners, and fans alike. Social media is here to stay and this text offers strategic and collaborative ways that both athletes and sports organizations can harness the power of social media.

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Book Synopsis'See if you can tell your Tantalus from your Tacitus!' – The Daily Telegraph'This book aims to fill you in on the stuff you wish you'd been taught at school' – The Times______________________A Classical Education is a must-have for anyone feeling let down by modern schooling.How many times have you wished that your history stretched all the way back to Greek and Roman myths and legends? Or that you'd been taught Latin at school? Or perhaps you wish you knew all about the great inventions and medical developments that have made our world what it is today? A Classical Education provides all of these classical facts that modern schooling leaves out, and many more. Perfect for parents who wish to broaden their children's education, as well as for those who would simply like to learn or relearn the facts themselves, A Classical Education is informative and educational, but above all accessible. Subjects include: Latin and Greek; Logic and philosophy; Natural sciences; Art and architecture; Poetry and drama; History and Classical literature.Trade ReviewSee if you can tell your Tantalus from your Tacitus! * The Daily Telegraph *This book aims to fill you in on the stuff you wish you'd been taught at school * The Times *An invaluable overview of the principles and discoveries of the Ancients, providing all those classical facts that modern schooling leaves out... and many more * Lancashire Evening Post *A cutely old-fashioned volume covered in Roman centurions' helmets * Yorkshire Post *This book will jog the memory just enough, reviving tales of heroic deeds and ungodly behaviour, without getting bogged down in dull technicalities * The Field *If you wished you'd paid more attention at school, then this is the book for you. Fascinating! * The Good Book Guide *

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Book SynopsisHow on earth did 'with bells on' come to express enthusiasm? What do chips on shoulders have to do with inferiority complexes? ... And who is the face that launched a thousand ships? Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas provides us with the meanings of these well-worn and much-loved phrases by putting these linguistic quirks in context, and explaining how and why they were first used. For example, did you know that 'the rule of thumb' refers to the use of the thumb to make measurements, as the first joint of the average adult thumb measures one inch?Absorbing, diverting and fascinating - as far as gift books go, Spilling the Beans really is the bee's knees!Trade ReviewIf you'd like to know the origins of some of our most baffling phrases, take a look at this * Daily Express *Provides a wealth of fascinating facts about the meaning and origin of phrases we use every day... With every page guaranteed to entertain and inform, this really is the bee's knees when it comes to the perfect gift! * Lancashire Evening Post *Reveals the origins and meanings of some of the most popular and obscure sayings we use today * Daily Mirror *

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Book SynopsisThe life cycle of companies and enterprises, at present, is short-lived due to rapid social and technological changes. Despite the growing awareness on the importance of knowledge management (KM) among academic researchers, it is still not widely practiced in industry. Why is this? Most KM programs emphasize the importance of capturing, retaining, and sharing organisational knowledge amongst their stakeholders. The beneficial effect of these programs is rarely felt immediately, which often results in senior management avoiding prioritising KM initiatives. To overcome this hurdle in implementing KM an approach that includes the assessment of knowledge risk factors and the disastrous effect on the daily operation of the company is explored. This book is the first attempt of its kind to provide a pragmatic view to launch knowledge risk management at the grassroot level, with steps by steps on what should be the mission and practical skills needed for a KM practitioner. Another surprise of this book is the numerous cases, examples and data that are brough about from the real business world. For business practitioners, KM researchers and those in HR, risk management, management accounting and Leadership this work is a must for expanding their understanding of Knowledge Management and knowledge risks.Table of ContentsChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Assessment of Knowledge Risks Chapter 3. Intellectual Capital Charting, Accounting and Risks Chapter 4. Knowledge Audit Chapter 5. Knowledge Elicitation for Unstructured Business Process Chapter 6. Building a Learning Organization Chapter 7. KM Implementation Chapter 8. Measuring Corporate Performance

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Book SynopsisThinking of starting a postdoc? Want to know how to move on from a postdoc? Or simply want to make the best of your postdoc years? Being a postdoc is not a career... but it can be the pivotal point in the making of one. This friendly, practical, and occasionally humorous guide to all things postdoc combines the three authors' vast experience of postdoc careers and personal development.This is a guide to developing, advancing and furthering yourself and your career. In working through exercises, learning from the experience of others (including the trials and tribulations of the authors) and seeking out information, we hope you will consider what success means on your own terms.Your postdoc is part of the journey towards a range of career destinations, from industrial R&D specialist to politician, from lecturer to spin-out Chief Executive, and this book is designed to help you get there. Providing indispensable advice on UK-based postdocs for national and international students, it is perfect for those making exciting transitions (student to postdoc, postdoc to the wide world of careers beyond) or for those who simply want to take their postdoc up a gear.This Second Edition includes new material exploring the importance of collaborations, enterprise career routes and research impact.

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Book SynopsisMalinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific was a major contribution to anthropological theory and method, while simultaneously establishing the sub-field of economic anthropology. Even a century after its publication, Malinowski's pioneering work remains critical for anthropology in a postcolonial age. This volume uses ethnographic studies from around the world to contextualize the work politically and intellectually, examining its gestation and influence from multiple perspectives. It critically explores the meaning of economy for Malinowski from his formation in the Austro-Hungarian Empire to his path-breaking fieldwork in Melanesia and ensuing career in London.

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Book SynopsisA delightful and witty treasure trove of utterly useless information by the author of The Things That Nobody Knows.Most encyclopaedias are boring. They are so packed with worthy but dull facts that a great deal of weird and wonderful material is squeezed out. The Encyclopaedia of Everything Else takes the opposite approach and leaves out all the dreary stuff you can find elsewhere. The result is the most fascinating, astonishing, varied and utterly useless collection of information ever assembled and organized between two covers. From aardvark tooth bracelets to the genus of tropical weevils known as Zyzzyva, via Mark Twain's views about cabbages, this is a quarter of a million words of sublime pointlessness.Trade ReviewHighly enjoyable... Captivating and inspiring * New Scientist on THE THINGS THAT NOBODY KNOWS *Properly researched, and the elegance of its pop-cosmology or pop-biology mini-narratives rivals that of many specialists. It is slyly witty, and pleasingly optimistic. * Guardian on THE THINGS THAT NOBODY KNOWS *

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Book Synopsis'This is a fascinating book ... it will no doubt be a great source of entertainment around many a dinner table' – She Magazine______________________________A Sunday Times top-ten title in 2008 and a bestseller ever since, I Used to Know That has continued to delight readers with its pages of forgotten facts from our school days.I Used to Know That is an ideal and accessible reference guide for adults wanting to brush up on their lost knowledge – or prepare for a pub quiz!If you've forgotten the capital city of Chile; the basics of osmosis; how to solve a quadratic equation; who wrote the famous poem about daffodils; the use of a conjunction or the number of continents in the world, I Used to Know That is guaranteed to provide all the answers.Trade ReviewAmusing but useful... I am not the only one planning to keep it on my desk to avoid any intellectually embarrassing moments * The Scotsman *a droll personal audit of how much - or how little - of school learning lingers on into later life... it is not only fun to dip into, it is a mine of useful information... It's all there, easily found, clearly laid out * The Oldie *This is a fascinating book... it will no doubt be a great source of entertainment around many a dinner table * She *A fun and witty collection of snippets of information we 'used to know' from school * Essentials *This is an absorbing volume of familiar facts and figures you may well have forgotten... If the answers are just out of reach, but you know them really, this is the book for you * Sainsbury's Magazine *It is a fascinating read and you might even learn a few things you missed out on first time around * Townswoman Magazine *It covers everything we should remember from school but don't * The Western Mail *could help you connect with your childhood, boost your brainpower and remind your kids just how clever you are * Irish News *[an] entertaining rag-bag of a book, a sort of cocktail of half-remembered things from your schooldays * Birmingham Evening Mail *

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Book SynopsisA Sunday Times top-ten title in 2007 and a bestseller ever since, I Before E (Except after C) has continued to inform and entertain its many readers. Offering reminders of mnemonics from our youth and containing countless more to help us in adult life, this handy collection contains all the memory aids you'll ever need to know: from well-known rhymes, mnemonics, and memorable sayings to a selection of more modern methods of boosting one's failing memory. I Before E (Except after C) will ensure you'll never struggle to remember names, dates, facts, figures and events ever again!Trade Reviewthe little poems that make a big difference to your brain power * Sunday Express Magazine *If you struggle to recall how many days there are in November and the difference between "their" and "there", this book could be your saving grace * The Sun *Bright ideas to keep your memory sharp... definitely a book for the bedside table * The Lady *An excellent way to drum in essential facts and spellings * The Daily Express *A fun and useful mix of mnemonics, rhymes and acronyms * Choice Magazine *A treasure trove of memory-joggers... a fun mix of reference and nostalgia, where you can visit foolproof ways to remember just about anything * The Weekly News *A must for every household! * Beige Magazine *This is much more than just nostalgia. A great family gift. * Angels and Urchins Magazine *

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Book Synopsis'Contemplating Comedy' is a fabulous compilation of laugh-out-loud funny lines, guaranteed to have readers in stitches as they browse the book. The humour is presented in an original and engaging way, enticing readers to choose their favourite lines and think about what really makes them laugh. Beyond the comedy the author also shares some insights and ideas honed from a lifetime of offbeat experience - a painless way to help remove the stitches.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction 11 Chapter One: Planet earth closes down: The party animal’s guide to social distancing 15 Party animals 18 Chapter Two: Self-referential humour and I 24 Oxymorons 30 Malapropisms 34 Spoonerisms 43 Chapter Three: Good god no! My unbiblical chord was cut off in my prime 61 Historical context 64 Three nineteenth century intellectuals 68 Modern times and the new atheists 74 Writers, scientists, comedians and others 84 Bertrand Russell’s celestial teapot 103 A thought experiment 105 Fear of death 108 Chapter Four: The divine comedian - how the fission chips got inside the farcical accelerator 111 Working idioms and phrases 112 Serious punishment: Puns and wordplay 117 Reversal 129 Change of perception 136 Set pieces 144 Dark humour 160 Chapter Five: Psychology - it gets inside your head 169 Lesson one: People are rubbish at logic and lazy too 171 Lesson two: Punishment, reward and reversion to the mean 179 Lesson three: Motivation. Why bother? 183 Lesson four: Bouncebackability 185 Lesson five: Buckets of water, addiction to words and issues with projection 189 Chapter Six: Battle of the sexes 194 Sexism 195 Differences between men and women 197 Evolutionary psychology 202 The progression of the male-female relationship 211 Chapter Seven: Contemplation in the fast lane 232 The three C’s: Cause, choice and chance 236 Mad, bad and sad 240 Boundary issues 242 Scope for horror 246 Meme sequencing 249 Another brick in the wall 252 Paradox resolved 281 Chapter Eight: About doubt - the black swan’s guide to risk management 292 About doubt: The psychology of risk 296 Skill is the elimination of luck 302 Black swans 304 Chapter Nine: The fine art of the insult: Roasts, sledges and bumper stickers 307 Insults 307 Sledging in cricket 322 Bumper stickers 326

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