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Book SynopsisArchaeological Networks and Social Interaction focuses on conceptualisations of human interaction, human-thing entanglement, material affordances and agency.Network concepts in the archaeological discipline are ubiquitous these days. They range from loose concepts, used as metaphors to address a notion of connectivity, to highly formal and mathematically complex predictions of human behaviour. These different networked worlds sometimes clash and rarely converge. Archaeologists interested in network analysis, however, have achieved a much better understanding of the implications of adopting formal methods for studying social interaction and there have been theoretical advancements realising a better synergy between different theoretical perspectives. These nascent concerns are explored further in this volume with regional specialists exploring case studies from Prehistory to the Middle Ages throughout the Ancient and New Worlds, outlining how formal network appTable of Contents1. Archaeological networks and social interaction 2. Relational concepts and challenges to network analysis in social archaeology 3. Entangled identities: processes of status construction in late Urnfield burials4. Distributed feasts: reciprocity, hospitality and banquets in Iron Age to Orientalising central and southern Italy 5. Marble networks: social interaction in houses at Pompeii 6. Objects that bind, objects that separate7. A complex beadwork: bead trade and trade beads in Scandinavia ca. 800-1000 AD revisited 8. Social network analysis and the social interactions that define Hopewell 9. Terrestrial communication networks and political agency in Early Iron Age Central Italy (950-500 BCE): a bottom-up approach

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Book SynopsisCool Britannia and Multi-Ethnic Britain: Uncorking the Champagne Supernova attempts to move away from the melancholia of Cool Britannia and the discourse which often encases the period by repositioning this phenomenon through an ethnic minority perspective.In March 1997, the front page of the magazine Vanity Fair announced London Swings! Again!' This headline was a direct reference to the swinging London of the 1960s the English capital which became the era-defining epicentre of the world for its burgeoning rock and pop music scene, with its daring new youth culture, and the boutique fashion houses of Carnaby Street captured most indelibly by the Mods, Rockers, and psychedelic hippies of the time. In the 1990s this renewed interest in the swinging 60s seemed to reinvigorate popular culture, after a global period in the 1980s which would see the collapse of traditional communism and the ending of Cold War, while ushering in the beginnings of a new technologiTrade Review"Arday’s Cool Britannia is both a brave cultural history and a deeply personal odyssey. Retrieving the 1990s from retro sentimentality, Arday reminds us that the decade of Brit pop and girl power was also an era of discriminatory policing, hostile immigration policy and the murder of Stephen Lawrence. A necessary corrective to the Brit nostalgia and historical amnesia that mark our present day."Prof. Paul Warmington, University of Warwick "A must-read for anybody seeking the truth of Britain’s uncomfortable relationship with race, as well as for those who are yet to wake up. Offering an unfiltered – and at times deeply confronting – reflection on British culture, Jason Arday’s Cool Britannia is a brave and powerful antidote to our collective amnesia."Rt. Hon David Lammy MP, Member of Parliament for Tottenham"Cool Britannia and Multi-Ethnic Britain: Uncorking the Champagne Supernova provides a striking and powerful counter-argument to the romanticised view of the '90s, currently imagined so fondly as the past we have lost to Brexit nationalism. As Arday shows, ‘diversity’ was cynically used as a slogan to distract from the reality of racism, oppression and broken-promises."Prof. David Gillborn, Centre for Research in Race & Education (CRRE), University of Birmingham "In this timely and engaging book, Jason Arday writes with the passion and purpose. He brings the perspectives of people of colour from margin to centre in order to offer an important counter-narrative to the melancholic historicization of ‘The Cool Britannia Years’. Touching on key historical moments in the popular imaginary, and weaving through his own personal experiences, Jason Arday encourages us to see the institutional racisms that society is too quick to forget."Dr. Remi Joseph-Salisbury, University of Manchester"The vivid soundtrack of Arday’s stylish youth comes alive in these pages. While you feel the beat of bands like Oasis and New Order signalling the euphoria and optimism of the Post-Thatcher New Labour era, Arday deftly reveals the ‘Other’ story of the underbelly of racial violence, fear and discrimination that marked the life of so many young black men, culminating in the death of Stephen Lawrence. If you grew up or lived through the 1990s you will not fail to be moved by this eloquent unwritten song of the myth of multicultural Britain." Emeritus Prof. Heidi Safia Mirza, University of London"In this insightful book, Jason Arday reflects upon a period in which he came of age. While the 1990s represented a welcome rupture from the torpor of the previous decade, the cheer leaders of 'Cool Britannia' overstated, it is argued, the inclusivity of the new era. Forensically examining the period through a minority lens, Jason convincingly demonstrates the prevalence of institutional racism and how minority ethnic groups continued to be marginalised." Prof. Andrew Pilkington, University of Northampton Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Love Spreads: The Impact of The Cool Britannia Years on Multi-Ethnic Britain; 2. Don’t Look Back in Anger: Bringing Institutional Racism into Public Focus during the Cool Britannia Years; 3. Bitter Sweet Symphony: Reflecting and Drawing Conclusions on the Cool Britannia years on Multi-Ethnic Britain.

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Book SynopsisExploring the formation of networks across late medieval Central Europe, this book examines the complex interaction of merchants, students, artists, and diplomats in a web of connections that linked the region. These individuals were friends in business ventures, occasionally families, and not infrequently foes. No single activity linked them, but rather their interconnectivity through matrices based in diverse modalities was key. Partnerships were not always friendship networks, art was sometimes passed between enemies, and families created for financial gain. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the chapters focus on inclusion and exclusion within intercultural networks, both interpersonal and artistic, using a wide spectrum of source materials and methodological approaches. The concept of friends is considered broadly, not only as connections of mutual affection but also simply through business relationships. Families are considered in terms of how they helped or hindered

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Book SynopsisThe path taken by German philosophy in the twentieth century is one of the most exciting and controversial in the history of human thought, by turns radical and conservative and secular and religious. In this outstanding introduction, German Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Dilthey to Honneththe third and final volume in his trilogyJulian Young examines the work of eight German philosophers and theologians of the period. He discusses their engagement with the deepest existential questions, their critique of the rationalization and mechanization of modernity, and their commitment to varying forms of liberalism, socialism, and democracy.Young introduces and assesses the thought of the following figures: Wilhelm Dilthey: the need for worldviews', and the distinction between explanation' and understanding' as a bulwark against the reduction of human beings to scientific quanta Karl Jaspers: existentialism, the challenge of nihilism,Trade Review"Preceded by volumes covering Weber to Habermas and Lukács to Strauss,(published in 2018 and 2020) this third and final volume of Young’s German Philosophy in the Twentieth Century examines eight philosophers and theologians who once were, but no longer are, central to the pressing philosophical debates of the 20th century. ... In company with the previous two volumes in the set, this insightful, well-written volume is an exciting guide through 20th-century German philosophy. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers." - J. A. Fischel, CHOICE "Preceded by volumes covering Weber to Habermas and Lukács to Strauss,(published in 2018 and 2020) this third and final volume of Young’s German Philosophy in the Twentieth Century examines eight philosophers and theologians who once were, but no longer are, central to the pressing philosophical debates of the 20th century. ... In company with the previous two volumes in the set, this insightful, well-written volume is an exciting guide through 20th-century German philosophy. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers." - J. A. Fischel, CHOICE Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1. Wilhelm Dilthey: Explanation and understanding 2. Karl Jaspers: The first existentialist 3. Edith Stein: Empathy, community, and Catholicism 4. Paul Tillich: Religious existentialism 5. Martin Buber: I and thou 6. Hans Jonas: Responsibility for the planet 7. Erich Fromm: Humanistic psychology 8. Axel Honneth: The struggle for recognition Afterword. Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe third edition of Crusader Archaeology updates previous editions to include coverage of important recent work in the field. It examines what life was like for European settlers and travellers to the crusader states during the centuries of Latin rule.Examining past, recent and ongoing archaeological discoveries, and research in the field from Israel, Jordan, Syria, Turkey and Cyprus, this volume includes recent findings and approaches including new exploration work in urban sites such as Jerusalem, Acre and Caesarea, new work on industrial sites and new discoveries in research including DNA studies, the field of weaponry and many other topics. It covers such topics as settlement types, fortification, daily life, day-to-day activities, warfare, religious life, arts, industry, leisure pursuits, building technology, agriculture, medicine, death and burial. It considers, in all these fields, the manner in which the Frankish population was influenced by the local and neigTable of Contents1 Background: The Crusades and Outremer; 2 The city and urban life; 3 The rural landscape; 4 The defence of the Latin East; 5 Frankish ecclesiastical architecture; 6 Frankish domestic architecture; 7 Crafts and minor arts; 8 The fine arts; 9 Building techniques and materials; 10 Medicine; 11 Burials; Postcript

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the dream cultures of the European long sixteenth century, with a focus on Italian sources, reflections and debates on the nature and value of dreams, and frameworks of interpretation.The chapters examine a variety of oneiric experiences, since distinctions such as that between dreams and visions are themselves culturally specific and variable. Several developments of the period are relevant and consequently considered, from the introduction of the printing press and the humanist rediscovery of ancient texts to the religious reforms and the cultural encounters at the time of the first globalisation. At the centre of the narrative is the exceptional case of Girolamo Cardano, heterodox physician, mathematician, astrologer, autobiographer, dreamer and key dream theorist of the epoch. The Italian peninsula produced the first printed editions of many classical and medieval treatises, and, particularly between the 1560s and the 1610s, was also especi

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Book SynopsisThis revised and updated textbook applies a critical and practical lens to the world of social media analytics. Author Jeremy Harris Lipschultz explores the foundations of digital data, strategic tools, and best practices in an accessible volume for students and practitioners of social media communication.This second edition expands upon entrepreneurship, marketing, and technological principles, demonstrating how raising awareness, sparking engagement, and producing business outcomes all require emphasis on customers, employees, and other stakeholders within paid, earned, social, and owned media. It also looks to the future, examining how the movement toward artificial intelligence and machine learning raises new legal and ethical issues in effective management of social media data. Additionally, the book offers a solid grounding in the principles of social media measurement itself, teaching the strategies and techniques that enable effective analysis. It features theoretical

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Book SynopsisThis book aims to reconceptualise the Graeco-Roman military phenomenon of the war cry; the term itself is inadequate for defining an ancient military practice that has been misrepresented in modern media and understudied by contemporary scholars.Gersbach introduces the term and paradigm battle expression to replace war cry, which acknowledges the variety of undertakings, visual and sonic, that military forces from the Graeco-Roman world presented on the battlefield before, during or after battle. The battle expression was sophisticated in nature; it could include significant cultural song or dance that required high levels of rehearsal and execution. Conversely, battle expression types demonstrated spontaneous wit and humour on the part of a military force that aimed to capitalise on the experiences of a battle. These performances served a variety of purposes outside of instilling group cohesion among the participants and to intimidate the onlooking enemy. This book associate

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Book SynopsisMetapolitics, Algorithms and Violence argues that we need a more finegrained approach to understand contemporary far-right violence an approach that takes language and cultural production in a digital economy seriously. This book underlines the importance of socio-political, economic, historical and technological context in understanding the rise of the new right. More concretely, based on a digital ethnographic approach, it argues that we should understand this violence and the contemporary rise of new far-right practices and actors in relation to the theoretical renewal of La Nouvelle Droite' in the 20th century; the democratization' of new right metapolitics in the 21st century as a result of the rise of digital media; and the development of a layered, transnational and polycentric new right cultural niche in which far-right activists and terrorists produce identity, discourse, digital cultures and practices. This work will be an engaging and necessTrade Review‘Maly has emerged in recent years as one of the most intrepid venturers into the dark territories of the digital. In this book, he dissects the dangerous imbrications among digital cultures, algorithmic infrastructures, and the violence of the radical right. This is an urgent warning and a necessary reckoning for everyone who has the future of democracy and humanism at heart.’Emiliano Treré, Reader in Data Agency and Media Ecologies, School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC), Cardiff University, UK; Co-director of the Data Justice Lab; author of Hybrid Media Activism (2019)'In this highly insightful and wide-ranging study, Maly lays out the crucial role that discourse plays in creating the environment that produces far-right violence. Maly’s analysis tracks how social media and digital communications technology, along with the cultural practices that have grown up around them, facilitate the production and circulation of this discourse, and how this interplay of extremist ideologies and digital affordances has led to the evolution of a new form of metapolitics which transforms our understanding of far-right activism. For anyone wishing to understand how extremist ideas achieve such disturbing purchase in contemporary mainstream society, this book is essential reading.'Philip Seargeant, Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, Open University, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Ideology and activism in the digital age: theoretical and methodological reflections 2. The birth of metapolitics 2.0 3. The global new right and the algorithmic activism of Schild & Vrienden 4. Metapolitical influencers and far-right culture 5. Data voids, junk news and metapolitics 2.0 6. Metapolitical terrorism and digital media 7. The global new right: between mainstreaming and deplatformization 8. Metapolitics, algorithms and Violence Epilogue: Metapolitics, digital ethnography and democracy

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Book SynopsisThis book presents an introductory and comprehensive history of the Slavic-speaking peoples who inhabited Eastern and Southern Europe during the seven-hundred-year period stretching from the first archaeological and historical records to the establishment of their first organised polities. The book is organised thematically (social organisation, politics and government, economy, religion, culture) in order to present some of the most recent scholarly advances in a range of fields, showing new light in some historical scholarly polemics. It is a political and cultural history that incorporates recent findings in areas previously overlooked in scholarly literature, such as slavery, the role of women, the importance of Jewish communities, and the problematic relations of all these emerging polities with neighbouring empires. Instead of focusing exclusively on any specific geographic area, or dealing mainly with linguistic and cultural aspects, the book provides a much-needed ove

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Book SynopsisThe Political Psychology of Social Unrest in Latin America is a unique collection of research and writings by Latin American scholars. It explores the social, psychological, and political factors of the recent turmoil in Latin American countries.From the impeachment demonstrations in Brazil, student movements in Chile, and massive demonstrations in Costa Rica, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Mexico, this edited volume analyses the underlying similarities and differences between these events through the lens of diverse research traditions, methods, and researchers. The book examines both actual inequalities and disadvantages as well as the role of perceptions of inequality and injustice. The authors also investigate the role of micro-processes, such as cultural consumption in the family, and the role of social psychological processes in historical Latin American unrest. By utilising leading approaches in social and political psychology and testing these approaches in the context of a very diverse and dynamic non-WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) societies, the authors bring the communities and civilizations less studied by Western social psychologists to the international audience.Focusing on how social and political processes unfold in different countries and providing insights into the psychological underpinnings of social unrest from a variety of perspectives, this is an essential reading for students and researchers of psychology, social, political, peace and cross-cultural psychology as well as political science and sociology.

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Book SynopsisSpanning a wide range of texts, figures, and traditions from the ancient Mediterranean world, this volume gathers far-reaching, interdisciplinary papers on Greek philosophy from an international group of scholars.The bookâs 16 chapters address an array of topics and themes, extending from the formation of philosophy from its first stirrings in archaic Greek as well as Egyptian, Persian, Mesopotamian, and Indian sources, through central concepts in ancient Greek philosophy and literatures of the classical period and into the Hellenistic age. Studies in Ancient Greek Philosophy offers both in-depth, rigorous, attentive investigations of canonical texts in Western philosophy, such as Platoâs Phaedo, Gorgias, Republic, Phaedrus, Protagoras and the Metaphysics, De Caelo, Nichomachean Ethics, Generation and Corruption of Aristotleâs corpus, as well as inquiries that reach back into the rich archives of the Mediterranean Basin and forward into the traditions of

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume provides a wide- ranging introduction to the novelistic oeuvre of the prize- winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah. It addresses a gap in Gurnah scholarship by including chapters which discuss his earlier works that have not received the scholarly attention they deserve.Drawing on a range of critical lenses including postcolonial theory, Indian Ocean studies, psychoanalytic theory, migration studies and gender studies, this book provides illuminating commentary on his novels. Attentive to the geographical and historical reach of the narratives, the chapters engage with recurring thematic concerns of departures and arrivals; of complex family relationships; and of precarious cosmopolitan hospitality in situations of changing power relations from the old Indian Ocean monsoon trading system to colonial and postcolonial contexts. The volume concludes with an author interview. It will be of great interest to researchers in the fields of Literary and Cultural StudiesTable of Contents1. Introduction: Critical Perspectives on Abdulrazak Gurnah 2. Reading Melancholia in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Pilgrims Way 3. From Black Britain to Black Internationalism in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Pilgrims Way 4. Dottie, Cruel Optimism and the Challenge to Culture 5. Postmodern Materialism in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Dottie: Intertextuality as Ideological Critique of Englishness 6. Yusuf’s Choice: East African Agency During the German Colonial Period in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Novel Paradise 7. The Submerged History of the Indian Ocean in Admiring Silence 8. Narrative Cartographies, ‘Beautiful Things’ and Littoral States in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea 9. ‘It Worked in a Different Way’: Male Same- Sex Desire in the Novels of Abdulrazak Gurnah 10. Honour and Shame in the Construction of Difference in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Novels 11. White- washed Minarets and Slimy Gutters: Abdulrazak Gurnah, Narrative Form and Indian Ocean Space 12. At the Margins: Silences in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Admiring Silence and The Last Gift 13. Locating Abdulrazak Gurnah: Margins, Mainstreams, Mobilities 14. A Conversation with Abdulrazak Gurnah

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Book SynopsisEngaging Children in Vast Early America examines the often overlooked roles that children played in moments of contact between Indigenous groups, Europeans, and Africans in North and South America over the course of the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries.Adulthood is the default lens through which most of history is examined. This is because so few historians analyze the age or life stage of those they study. As a result, people of the past are often assumed to be adults when their actions or experiences align more closely with what modern society deems adultlike. Many of these assumed adults, however, were agentive children. This collaborative collection is the first of its kind to invite experts in the field of Vast Early America to engage with the history of childhood and youth. The result is nine innovative essays that expand our understanding of childhood and agentive children but also of empire and everyday life in Vast Early America.This accessible

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the lives, careers, and publications of a group of Spanish Renaissance surgeons as exemplars of both the surgical renaissance occurring across Europe and of the unique context of Spain.In the sixteenth century, European surgeons forged new identities as learned experts who combined university medical degrees with manual skills and practical experience. No longer merely apprentice-trained craftsmen engaged only with healing the exterior wounds and rashes of the body, these learned surgeons actively engaged with the epistemic shifts of the sixteenth century, including new forms of knowledge construction, based in empiricism, and knowledge circulation, based in printing. These surgeons have long been overshadowed by the innovative work of anatomists and botanists but were participants in the same intellectual currents reshaping many aspects of knowledge. Active in communities across both Castile and Aragon, learned surgeons formed an intellectualTable of Contents0. Introduction 1. Physicians and Surgeons: Medical Learning and Licensing 2. Spanish Learned Surgeons: A Broad and Connected Movement 3. Sharing Knowledge: Learned Surgical Texts 4. Refining Knowledge and Practice: Empiricism, Tradition, and Innovation 5. Expanding Expertise: New Problems and New Treatments 6. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisSpecifically focusing on the relationship between the Eudemian and the Nicomachean Ethics, this collection of essays studies major themes from Aristotleâs ethics. This volume builds on a recent revival of interest in Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics, which offers an invaluable complement to the Nicomachean Ethics in the study of the development of Aristotle's ethical ideas. It brings together a series of new studies by leading scholars covering the main points of inquiry raised by the relationship between the two works, exploring their continuities and divergences. At the same time, it showcases a variety of approaches to and perspectives on the main questions posed by Aristotleâs ethical thought.Investigating the Relationship Between Aristotleâs Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics is offered as a contribution to long-standing debates over Aristotle's ethical thinking, as well as an inspiration for new approaches, which take both of his surviving ethical treatises seriously. The volume will be of interest to students and scholars of ancient philosophy and ethics, particularly Aristotleâs two ethics.

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Book SynopsisThis concise biography tells the story of John Dewey, a pioneer of pragmatism and the first original school of philosophy created in America. The school was born out of a specific historical context, in the wake of a country at war with itself, and in response to the rapid changes of industrialization. Dewey's pragmatism celebrated human intelligence and agency and the promise that tomorrow could be better than today. For Dewey, pragmatism was the philosophy of democracy.Dewey lived from just before the Civil War to just before school integration. As such, the book touches on many key moments in American history, from social reform in turn of the century Chicago, to censorship during World War One, and to the government's responsibilities in the Great Depression. It covers all this in the context of the life of a man whose ideas helped shape American culture and intellectual life.John Dewey: Prophet of an Educated Democracy will appeal to students, scholars, and

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Book SynopsisThis book is an interdisciplinary study of Japan during the socially euphoric years of the Bubble Economy in the 1980s. Shedding light on consumer experiences, this study explores the socio-cultural landscape of Japan, the nation that boasted the second largest economy in the late twentieth century.Drawing its analysis from various media sources, popular literary works, and public reports, the book articulates how the late 1980s calibrated consumer demands, lifestyles, and perceptions of wealth. Through an examination of the qualitative effects of âBubble moneyâ on consumers, the book disentangles the anatomy of the festive ambience in the economic phase, closely reading fictional and non-fictional literary works that play the role of reportage, critique, and satire. Through observations of human behaviours in consumption, the book reveals psychosomatic experiences and self-consciousness.Featuring a wide range of sources from Japanese media and literary works which hav

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Book SynopsisThis book imagines the ocean as central to understanding the world and its connections in history, literature and the social sciences. Introducing the central conceptual category of ocean as method, it analyzes the histories of movement and traversing across connected spaces of water and land sedimented in literary texts, folklore, local histories, autobiographies, music and performance. It explores the constant flow of people, material and ideologies across the waters and how they make their presence felt in a cosmopolitan thinking of the connections of the world. Going beyond violent histories of slavery and indenture that generate global connections, it tracks the movements of sailors, boatmen, religious teachers, merchants, and adventurers.The essays in this volume summon up this miscegenated history in which land and water are ever linked. A significant rethinking of world history, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of history, especially cTable of ContentsNote on ContributorsIntroductionNishat Zaidi and Dilip MenonSection I: The Poetics of Fluvial Cosmopolitanism1. Going Below the Waterline: Hydrocolonial Methods, Creolized WaterIsabel Hofmeyr2.Fellowship and Aversion in the South: The Challenges of South-South CollaborationElleke Boehmer3. Found in Prison: The Poetics of Oceanic HistoriesGeeta Patel4. Remembering the Bengal Delta: ca. 1450-1850Rila Mukherjee5. “The wind sketches landscapes of words”: Oceanic poetics in the Horn of Africa and western Indian Ocean”Kelsey McFaulSection II: Oceanic Narratives6. Padmabati of the Oceans: Unfreedom and Belonging in Syed Alaol’s PadmabatiSwati Moitra7. Senses Translated: Paṭappāṭṭus in the Indian Ocean, Circulation of Texts and Sounds across Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit CosmopoleisIhsan Ul IhthisamSection III: Constructing Space8. Of Those on Shore: The Dhow Trade and Mobility in the Indian OceanNidhi Mahajan9. Towards an Architecture of the Indian Ocean: Mapping the Syncretic Grammar of Coastal Cities & Architecture through Ibn Battuta’s Water Journeys (1342-1347)Iqtedar Alam10. Through the Eyes of the Boat People: Redefining Oceans in the 21st centuryChrisalice Ela Joseph and Vinod BalakrishnanSection IV: Religion, Knowledge and Law Across the Oceans11. Literate Illiterates: Arabi-Malayalam and Parallel Process of Knowledge Production among Muslims in KeralaM.H.Ilias.12. ʿUlamāʾ Networks across the Seas: Understanding the Trajectory of Islam in Medieval MalabarMohammed Shameem K. K.13. Encountering the ‘Other: Pilgrims at Sea and Accounts of Journeys to Hejaz in the Age of Oceanic MobilityMuhamed Riyaz Chenganakkattil14. Christianity, Conversion and Caste: Reflecting on Identity in Dalit Christian Malayalam Writings in Post-Colonial IndiaSteven S. George15. Rainbow Waters: Towards a Queer Coalition between India and BotswanaKashish DuaIndex

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Book SynopsisCombining contextual, institutional, and global perspectives, this book evaluates the impact of international trade on eighteenth-century economic thought. It meticulously delineates how economic ideas and institutions flowed between North and South Europe and across the Indian and Atlantic Oceans during the Age of Enlightenment.Global Commerce in the Age of Enlightenment carefully explores contemporary debates about economic institutions, which were a crucial element in the race for controlling international trade. Eighteenth-century thinkers devoted much attention to the relative merits of existing institutions, such as free ports, grasped the dangers of economic dependence, and appraised emerging conceptions of property rights. The author draws on an impressive range of sources, including pamphlets and travel accounts, and work from lesser-known figures such as Pierre Poivre and Ange Goudar.This volume will be valuable reading for advanced students and researchers o

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Book SynopsisBertrand Russell wrote The Analysis of Mind during one of the most turbulent periods of his life. He began it in 1918 whilst in in prison in London for his opposition to the First World War, and completed it in Peking (now Beijing) in 1921, where he had been giving lectures at the National University. It is a vital book for understanding Russell's philosophy. He argues for a fresh conception of the mind, provided by his eclectic fusion of William Jamesâs 'neutral monism'; the emerging theory of behaviourism, to which Russell was strongly drawn; and his own new causal theory of meaning. As such, The Analysis of Mind built a foundation for the distinctive brand of much of his later philosophical writing. In his customary sharp prose, Russell explores fundamental questions about the mind, including desire and feeling; the vexed relationship between psychological and physical laws; sensations and mental images; memory; belief; and emotions and the will. TTable of ContentsIntroduction to the Routledge Classics Edition Thomas Baldwin, Preface, 1. Recent Criticisms of “Consciousness”, 2. Instinct and Habit, 3. Desire and Feeling, 4. Influence of Past History on Present Occurrences in Living Organisms, 5. Psychological and Physical Causal Laws, 6. Introspection, 7. The Definition of Perception, 8. Sensations and Images, 9. Memory, 10. Words and Meaning, 11. General Ideas and Thought, 12. Belief, 13. Truth and Falsehood, 14. Emotions and Will, 15. Characteristics of Mental Phenomena, Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume untangles the multiple threads of the Mexican Revolution to present an accessible introduction to its causes, development, and consequences.Grounded in a detailed narrative that readers can actively explore through accompanying primary sources, the book also provides a broad view of Mexico's cultural, political, and social evolution from the 1870s to the 1940s. It traces the promises and perils of export-led modernization during the late nineteenth century, the subsequent explosion of popular discontent, the difficult process of reconstruction, and the lasting legacies. The book emphasizes the promises and shortcomings of liberalism; the demands from workers and peasants; the gender underpinnings of revolutionary principles; new forms of authoritarianism; and how conservative resistance curbed the revolution's reform agenda.Featuring a number of learning tools such as a chronology, glossary, and introduction to key historical figures, The Mexican Revolu

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking treatment of post-communist developments in East Central Europe examines politics, economics, media, religious institutions, transitional justice, gender inequality, and literature, highlighting the overt functions, latent functions, and side effects associated with each sphere.Communism in East Central Europe had cracks from the beginning, as uprisings in East Germany in 1953 and Hungary in 1956 demonstrated. But with the establishment of the Independent Trade Union Solidarity in Poland in the Summer of 1980, communism went into steady decline and, between 1988 and 1991, crumbled. What followed has been an unsteady transition to various forms of often corrupt pluralism with democracy doing best in the Czech Republic (with the exception of the years 2017â2021) and Slovenia, and worst in Hungary, Albania, Serbia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Drawing on the functionalist theory of Robert K. Merton, the authors examine what policymakers â communist and post-commun

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Book SynopsisScience and Religion have been two major elements in the building of modern nation-states. While contemporary historiography of science has studied the interactions between nation building and the construction of modern scientific and technological institutions, science-and-religion is still largely based on a supposed universal historiography in which global notions of science and of religion are seldom challenged.This book explores the interface between science, religion and nationalism at a local level, paying attention to the roles religious institutions, specific confessional traditions, or an undefined notion of religion played in the construction of modern science in national contexts: the use of anti-clerical rhetoric as scapegoat for a perceived scientific and technological backwardness; the part of religious tropes in the emergence of a sense of belonging in new states; the creation of invented traditions that included religious and scientific myths so as to promoteTable of Contents1. Introduction. Science, Religion and Nationalism, or the entanglement of mythical narratives 2. “Ibn Sina the Turk”: Early 20th Century Turkish Nationalism, Islam, and the Historiography of Science 3. Science in Utopia: Tommaso Campanella’s City of the Sun in the Thought of Luigi Firpo 4. “Catholics, Natural Science, and National Belonging in Germany, 1830-1914” 5. “John William Draper and ‘Thoughts on the Future Civil Policy of America’” 6. Building a nation. Spanish Engineers in the Science-and-Religion narratives 7. The Education of the Argentine Nation. Positivists and Catholics on Science and Religion 8. Nineteenth-century Mexican nationalism, between liberalism and conservatism: positivism as the force of the nation 9. “Being Orthodox, Greek and modern: Scientists and Theologians in 19th and early 20th century Greece” 10. Between Darwin and Religion. Nation-building and the future of Poland 11. “Serving God, Fatherland, and Language”: Alcover, Catalan, and Science 12. Scientific atheism seen through the lens of historical museums

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Book SynopsisThis book takes a thematic approach to questions of how to define emotion and loneliness, breaking down loneliness into a range of different dimensions â estrangement, longing, homesickness, isolation â and considers how these phenomena appear across a range of global contexts.Loneliness is a topic of current concern, a downside of the anomie of the modern condition. Yet, emotions and experiences that share some of the features of loneliness can be found in cultures from the ancient world onwards. The book engages with discussions about what loneliness might encompass and how different societies and people have experienced it, raising key questions including where we place the boundaries of emotion, what makes particular emotions distinctive and cultural (or conversely universal), and how we might engage in comparative work across languages and cultures.Loneliness in World History provides an introduction to an important contemporary emotion across cultures and time, and it is particularly suited for undergraduate students and those new to the field of the history of emotions.

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Book SynopsisThis book interrogates the theological and philosophical foundations of the Quest for the historical Jesus, taking a multidisciplinary approach to historical Jesus research and making a significant, original contribution to the field. Suitable for students and scholars of New Testament studies and historical Jesus research.

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Book SynopsisThe Maya World brings together over 60 authors, representing the fields of archaeology, art history, epigraphy, geography, and ethnography, who explore cutting-edge research on every major facet of the ancient Maya and all sub-regions within the Maya world.The Maya world, which covers Guatemala, Belize, and parts of Mexico, Honduras, and El Salvador, contains over a hundred ancient sites that are open to tourism, eight of which are UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and many thousands more that have been dug or await investigation. In addition to captivating the lay public, the ancient Maya have attracted scores of major interdisciplinary research expeditions and hundreds of smaller projects going back to the 19th century, making them one of the best-known ancient cultures. The Maya World explores their renowned writing system, towering stone pyramids, exquisitely painted murals, and elaborate funerary tombs as well as their creative agricultural strategies, complex social, economic, and political relationships, widespread interactions with other societies, and remarkable cultural resilience in the face of historical ruptures. This is an invaluable reference volume for scholars of the ancient Maya, including archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists.Trade Review"A compendium that brings together the latest research built on deep foundations of archaeological, historical, paleo-ecological, and epigraphic study. A must for the bookshelf of every investigator of the ancient Maya!" - Dr. Mary Miller, Getty Research Institute, USA"A volume of unprecedented riches, this book instructs, guides, and inspires with its far-ranging and lucid essays about ancient Maya civilization. My main regret is not having this compendium as a student! It will lead us all forward. Majestic and authoritative." - Dr. Stephen D. Houston, Brown University, USA"It has been generations since Maya studies had a really great handbook for students, experts and everyone interested in the subject. This sharply current book delivers. The Maya World is a superb compendium of finely written, intellectually exciting and highly informative essays by leading experts in the field. I will turn to it regularly and I recommend everyone else who reads it do the same." - David A. Freidel, Washington University, St. Louis, USA"A rich collection of up-to-date essays by top authorities on all aspects of the culture, politics, livelihood and achievements of the ancient Maya. A triumph of scholarship, it can be read with profit by specialists and students, as well as by visitors to the realm of the Maya." - Michael D. Coe (1929-2019), Yale University, USA"A compendium that brings together the latest research built on deep foundations of archaeological, historical, paleontological, and epigraphic study. A must for the bookshelf of every investigator of the ancient Maya!" - Dr. Mary Miller, Getty Research Institute, USA"A volume of unprecedented riches, this book instructs, guides, and inspires with its far-ranging and lucid essays about ancient Maya civilization. My main regret is not having this compendium as a student! It will lead us all forward. Majestic and authoritative." - Dr. Stephen D. Houston, Brown University, USA"It has been generations since Maya studies had a really great handbook for students, experts and everyone interested in the subject. This sharply current book delivers. The Maya World is a superb compendium of finely written, intellectually exciting and highly informative essays by leading experts in the field. I will turn to it regularly and I recommend everyone else who reads it do the same." - David A. Freidel, Washington University, St. Louis, USA"A rich collection of up-to-date essays by top authorities an all aspects of the culture, politics, livelihood and achievements of the ancient Maya. A triumph of u scholarship, it can be read with profit by specialists and students, as well as by visitors to the realm of the Maya." - Michael D. Coe (1929-2019), Yale University, USATable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction; Part I: Beginnings; Introduction to Beginnings; Chapter 2: Archaic Maya Matters; Chapter 3: Public Architecture and the Rise of Complexity in the Middle Preclassic; Chapter 4: The Southern Maya Lowlands in the Late Preclassic; Chapter 5: The Late Preclassic Pacific Slope; Chapter 6: The Maya Highlands and the Late Preclassic: Kaminaljuyu as a Case Study; Part II: Bodies; Introduction to Bodies; Chapter 7: Maya Bioarchaeology; Chapter 8: Graves, Dead Bodies, Souls, and Ancestors; Chapter 9: Gender and Sexuality; Chapter 10: Human-Animal Relations in the Maya World; Chapter 11: Favored Plants of the Maya; Chapter 12: Migration and Mobility in the Eastern Maya Lowlands; Part III: Landscapes; Introduction to Landscapes; Chapter 13 Paleoecology, Soil, and Water in Maya History; Chapter 14 Settlement Patterns; Chapter 15 Ancient Maya Ports, Port Facilities, and Navigation; Chapter 16 Cave Use Among the Ancient Maya; Chapter 17 Ancient Maya Rurality: Old Assumptions, Current Research and New Directions; Chapter 18 Lakamha: the place of "Big Waters": The archaeology of the ancient city of Palenque, Mexico; Chapter 19 The Maya City of Caracol, Belize: The Integration of an Anthropogenic Landscape; Chapter 20: Ek’ Balam: A Maya City In The Urban Landscape of Yucatan; Part IV: Relations; Introduction to Relations; Chapter 21 Household Archaeology of the Classic Period Lowland Maya; Chapter 22 Inequality and social groups; Chapter 23 Maya Relations with the Material World; Chapter 24 Maya Commerce; Chapter 25 Classic Maya Geopolitics; Chapter 26 The Politics of Conflict: War before and beyond the State in Maya Society; Part V: Production; Introduction to Production; Chapter 27: Ancient Maya Agriculture; Chapter 28: The Maya Forest: A Domesticated Landscape; Chapter 29: The Complexity of Ancient Maya Craft Production; Chapter 30: Animating Materials: The Sculpted Forms of the Ancient Maya World; Chapter 31: Maya Mural Painting; Chapter 32: Recent Developments in Maya Epigraphic Research; Chapter 33: Maya Time; Chapter 34: Maya Rites, Rituals, and Ceremonies; Part VI: Interactions; Introduction to Interactions; Chapter 35: Olmecs and Other Western Neighbors; Chapter 36: Interactions between Ancient Teotihuacan and the Maya World; Chapter 37: Southeast Mesoamerica; Chapter 38: Classic and Postclassic Peoples of the Pacific Coast; Chapter 39: The Northern Maya Tollans; Part VII: Resilience, Legacies, and Transformations; Introduction to Resilience, Legacies, and Transformations; Chapter 40: Collapse, Transformation, Reorganization: The Terminal Classic Transition in the Maya World; Chapter 41: The Structures of Everyday Life in the Postclassic Urban Setting of Mayapan; Chapter 42: Colonial Entanglements at Tahcabo, Yucatán; Chapter 43: The Archaeology of Henequen Haciendas: San Pedro Cholul as a Case Study; Chapter 44: Lacandon Maya Culture: Continuity and Change

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Book SynopsisMapping the New Left Antisemitism: The Fathom Essays provides a comprehensive guide to contemporary Left antisemitism.The rise of a new and largely left-wing form of antisemitism in the era of the Jewish state and the distinction between it and legitimate criticism of Israel are now roiling progressive politics in the West and causing alarming spikes in antisemitic incitement and incidents. Fathom journal has examined these questions relentlessly in the first decade of its existence, earning a reputation for careful textual analysis and cogent advocacy. In this book, the Fathom essays are contextualised by three new contributions: Lesley Klaff provides a map of contemporary antisemitic forms of antizionism, Dave Rich writes on the oft-neglected lived experience of the Jewish victims of contemporary antisemitism and David Hirsh assesses the intellectual history of the left from which both Fathom and his own London Centre for the Study of ContemporarTrade Review‘Antisemitism has often presented itself as a satisfactory explanation for what is wrong with the world, and repeatedly offered tragic recipes for how to improve that world. Do our moral and political ideals today reproduce past prejudice and projection? We cannot know without reflection, and it is difficult to imagine a better stimulus to reflection than the essays gathered in this informative, wide-ranging, and important volume’.David Nirenberg, author of Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition‘This is an indispensable volume on an unignorable subject’.Anthony Julius, author of Trials of the Diaspora: The History of Anti-Semitism in England‘Written by many of this generation’s leading scholars, Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The Fathom Essays is a valuable compilation of learned, deeply insightful analyses of contemporary anti-Jewish hostility prevalent in significant strains of western political thought. An eye-opening, much-needed collection, it offers critically important reflections on a phenomenon too often overlooked or denied: the pernicious links between “anti-Zionism” and antisemitism within the political left’.Alvin Rosenfeld, Professor of English and Jewish Studies and Irving M. Glazer Chair, Jewish Studies Director, Center for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, Indiana University at Bloomington, USA ‘Fathom has played an invaluable role challenging some dangerous myths concerning Jews and Zionism that have corrupted parts of the left. This wide-ranging collection will compel anyone concerned with a future left to worry about intellectually and historically simplistic formulas’.Mitchell Cohen, Professor of Political Science at Baruch College of the City University of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center. 1991-2009 co-editor of Dissent, one of the United States' leading intellectual quarterlies, now an Editor Emeritus‘Mapping the New Left Antisemitism is essential reading for anyone interested in one of the most destructive ideologies of the 21st century. It includes essays by some of the most pertinent scholars on antisemitism from the political left and makes the case for the urgency of combating antisemitism in its most modern forms’.Gunther Jikeli, Erna B. Rosenfeld Professor in Jewish Studies and Associate Director at the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, Indiana University Bloomington, USA‘This collection of essays on contemporary left antisemitism showcases the best qualities of Alan Johnson’s Fathom, which focuses relentlessly on the heart of the problem of how people relate to Israel. People who consider themselves to be well-informed and anti-racist are too often confused about the facts and prone to stumbling into antisemitic ways of thinking. Johnson is attentive to the temptation to use an invented notion of Jews or Zionism to make sense of a frightening world. He educates about the situation and provides a platform (through Fathom) for smart people writing from diverse viewpoints’.Rosa Freedman, inaugural Professor of Law, Conflict and Global Development at the University of Reading, and a Research Fellow at The London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, UK‘In 10 years Fathom has already published half a century's worth of critically important essays and reviews’.Michael Walzer, Professor (Emeritus) of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ; author of Just and Unjust Wars (1977), among other books; former co-editor of Dissent magazine for twenty yearsTable of ContentsPart 1: Introduction and Contexts 1. Introduction to Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The Fathom Essays 2. A New Form of the Oldest Hatred: Mapping Antisemitism Today 3. The Jewish Experience of Antisemitism 4. The Left and the Jews: Time for a Rethink Part 2: Contemporary Left Antisemitism 5. What is Left Antisemitism? 6. Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism 7. Alibi Antisemitism 8. Like a Cloud Contains a Storm: Jean Améry’s Critique of Anti-Zionism 9. What Corbyn’s favourite sociologists Greg Philo and Mike Berry get wrong about contemporary antisemitism 10. Antisemitism and the Left: A Memoir 11. Denial: Norman Finkelstein and the New Antisemitism 12. ‘Toxic Gifts’: Israel and the Anti-Zionist Left. An interview with Susie Linfield Part 3: The Soviet Roots of Contemporary Left Antisemitism 13. Soviet Anti-Zionism and Contemporary Left Antisemitism 14. Communists Against Jews: The Anti-Zionist Campaign in Poland in 1968 15. The German Left’s Undeclared Wars on Israel. An Interview with Jeffrey Herf Part 4: Left Antisemitism and the Holocaust 16. Holocaust Inversion and Contemporary Antisemitism 17. Hitler and the Nazis’ Anti-Zionism 18. Holocaust Falsifiers: Blaming ‘Zionists’ for the Crimes of the Nazis Part 5: Left Antisemitism in Europe and the United States 19. Reflections on Contemporary Antisemitism in Europe 20. The unwelcome arrival of the quenelle 21. A Modern Orthodox-Christian Ritual Murder Libel: St. Philoumenos of Jacob’s Well 22. We Shall Be as a City on a Hill: Trump, ‘Progressive’ Antisemitism, and the Loss of American Jewish Exceptionalism Part 6: Left Antisemitism and Academia 23. The Meaning of David Miller 24. From Scholarship to Polemic? A case study of the emerging crisis in academic publishing on Israel 25. Pathologising ‘Jewish Being and Thinking’: Oren Ben-Dor and Academic Antisemitism Part 7: The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance 26. On Misrepresentations of the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism 27. Political Antisemitism: A Defence of the IHRA Definition Part 8: Theory and Left Antisemitism 28. Misreading Hannah Arendt: Judith Butler’s Anti-Zionism and the Eichmann Trial 29. The Pleasures of Antisemitism 30. Intersectionality and Antisemitism: A New Approach 31. Left Alternatives to Left Antisemitism: a conversation between Alan Johnson and Philip Spencer

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1983, Patriarchal Precedents is an excavation of the term patriarchy. Rosalind Coward shoes how the debates about patriarchy and matriarchy were crucial to social theories in the nineteenth century, discussing how the resolution of these debates resulted in our present ways of (mis)understanding the family, sexual relations and sexual characteristics. Rosalind Coward argues that the violent debates around patriarchy tell a salutary tale about how the term presupposed as much as it set out to explain. She demonstrates how it was used in Marxism and psychoanalysis in ways which blocked any radical thinking about sexual relations, and how the arguments against the term patriarchy within anthropology still have to be taken seriously. She argues that in order to advance our understanding of how power is exercised in sexual relations, of the place which sexual relations have within society and the construction of sexual characteristics, a series of presuppositions about

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Book SynopsisThis concise volume offers an accessible introduction to state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) language models, providing a platform for their use in textual interpretation across the humanities and social sciences.The book outlines the affordances of new technologies for textual analysis, which has historically employed established approaches within the humanities. Neuman, Danesi, and Vilenchik argue that these different forms of analysis are indeed complementary, demonstrating the ways in which AI-based perspectives echo similar theoretical and methodological currents in traditional approaches while also offering new directions for research. The volume showcases examples from a wide range of texts, including novels, television shows, and films to illustrate the ways in which the latest AI technologies can be used for dialoguing with textual characters and examining textual meaning coherence. Illuminating the potential of AI language models to both enhance and

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Book SynopsisThe first peer-reviewed book of its kind, this important volume addresses a current gap in the field of gestalt therapy: that the practiceand psychotherapy more broadlystill suffers from pervasive hetero- and cis-normativity. This book offers gestalt-therapy-based research and training material on gender, sex, and relationship diversity (GSRD), including chapters on a variety of GSRD issues and how therapists can become more GSRD-sensitive. The contributors position themselves across the whole spectrum of GSRD and offer their voices as an invitation to further queer the gestalt community with diverse content ranging from academic, research-oriented pieces to experiential, reflective perspectives. Featured chapters explore topics including gender-radical clients, sex and sexuality, relationship diversity, integrating GSRD and gestalt therapy, and addressing heteronormativity in gestalt therapy training. Queering Gestalt Therapy is for everyone who is interested iTrade Review'Queering Gestalt Therapy is a truly pertinent and seminal contribution to the field of psychotherapy, irrespective of therapeutic orientation and training. This volume offers readers a breadth of understanding in its leading-edge discussion of the complexities and nuances in considering gender identities, sexual orientations, and relationship diversities. Readers will be rewarded with an essential broadening of awareness-informing-understanding, perspective, and clinical practice across the human landscape.'Allan Singer, Psychotherapist in Private Practice, Boston, MA, USA'Thanks to all who contributed to this timely anthology. I was simultaneously enlivened and brought up to date on reading through the diverse voices of contributors. This book makes an important and belated addition to our gestalt field. Anyone practising gestalt therapy with a general population today needs to read it.'Malcolm Parlett PhD, Author of Future Sense, former editor of the British Gestalt Journal'Queering Gestalt Therapy is the book missing from the Gestalt reading list. It manages to unfold a new perspective on the subject matter using Gestalt theory, whereas it invites the reader to take a closer look in each author’s personal world that contains the meticulous experience on working with gender radical clients. It is a highly recommended book for all mental health practitioners, regardless their school of thought, as it will embellish their professional practice.' Maria Tzioni, Gestalt Psychotherapist and Yoga Instructor Table of ContentsWelcome Everyone 1. Understanding Gender Radical Clients 2. Gender-identification 3. Holding Uncertainty so that it can be Thought About: Relational Gestalt Therapy with Gender Creative Children 4. The Drag and Queer Years as a Means of Developing a Therapeutic Self: Bringing Street Work in the Office 5. Experiment and Phenomenology in Treating Gender Dysphoria 6. 'Selfish and Destructive': Where does the late-in-life lesbian seek therapeutic support? 7. A Gay Son and His Dying Straight Dad: An Account of Ambiguous Loss and the Embodiment of Homophobia 8. Activism and Therapy 9. Compulsive Sexual Behaviours: Moving Beyond the Frontiers of Addiction Thinking 10. Queering Relationships 11. LGBTI in Rural Ireland: Secret Lives Creatively Lived 12. Gender, Sexuality and Relationship Diversity (GSRD) Sensitive Gestalt Psychotherapy 13. ‘I assumed that it was a man she was in love with’: Heteronormativity and Queer Experimentation in Gestalt Therapy Training

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Book SynopsisExamining the historical context of healthcare whilst focusing on building a more just, equitable world, this book proposes a radical imagination for nursing and presents possibilities for speculative futures embracing queer, feminist, posthuman, and abolitionist frames.Bringing together radical and emancipatory perspectives from an international selection of authors, this book reflects on the realities created by the COVID-19 pandemic, recognizing that our situation is not new but the result of ongoing hegemonies and injustices. The authors attend to the history of nursing and related institutions, examining the assumptions, ideologies, and discourses that shape the discipline and its place within healthcare. They explore the impact of this context on contemporary nursing and look at alternative visions for the future. The final section specifically focuses on ways that we can move forward.Envisioning new possibilities for nursing, this innovative volume is a vital re

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1932, Nationalism and Imperialism in the Hither East seeks to present the history of Turkey, Egypt and Arabia in the decade where the political structures created by World War I and the Peace Conferences sought consolidation and the evolution of their own life. The story begins where, after the immediate consequences of the War had been liquidated, the civil and political administration of the several countries was established. This book is intended as contribution to the endeavour to understand the historical and sociological character of nationalism and of the forces which are determining the history of our own day. The social, political, and cultural movements in these countries, the struggle between imperialism and nationalism throw light upon the processes which extend far beyond the region under consideration. The language used is a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this republication. This book will be oTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Ancient Routes of World Communication Revived 2. From the Middle Ages to the Modern Era 3. Classes and Estates 4. Imperialism and Nationalism 5. Egypt 6. Palestine Jews and Arabs 7. Trans-Jordan 8. Syria 9. Iraq 10. The Arabian Peninsula 11. Bridges Between East and West Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLate Victorian Scotland had a flourishing music publishing trade, evidenced by the survival of a plethora of vocal scores and dance tune books; and whether informing us what people actually sang and played at home, danced to, or enjoyed in choirs, or reminding us of the impact of emigration from Britain for both emigrants and their families left behind, examining this neglected repertoire provides an insight into Scottish musical culture and is a valuable addition to the broader social history of Scotland.The decline of the music trade by the mid-twentieth century is attributable to various factors, some external, but others due to the conservative and perhaps somewhat parochial nature of the publishersâ output. What survives bears witness to the importance of domestic and amateur music-making in ordinary lives between 1880 and 1950. Much of the music is now little more than a historical artefact. Nonetheless, Karen E. McAulay shows that the nature of the music, the song and

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Book SynopsisToy Story and the Inner World of the Child offers the first comprehensive analysis of the role of toys and play within the development of film and animation. The author takes the reader on a journey through the complex interweaving of the animation industry with inner world processes, beginning with the early history of film. Karen Cross explores digital meditations through an in-depth analysis of the Pixar Studios and the making of the Toy Story franchise. The book shows how the Toy Story functions as an outlet for exploring fears and anxieties relating to new technologies and industrial processes and the value of taking a psycho-cultural approach to recent controversies surrounding the film industry, particularly its cultural and sexual politics. The book is key reading for film and animation scholars as well as those who are interested in applications of psychoanalysis to popular culture and children''s media. Trade Review"Karen Cross' excellent book provides an essential intervention into the currently underexplored intersection between play and animation. Adding to the body of work on the Toy Story franchise, this is indispensable reading for those interested in animation studies, critical theory, play and children’s culture. Cross takes the innovative approach of combining psychoanalytic thought with critical theory resulting in a fascinating exploration of how play shapes our childhoods and ongoing lives, as represented onscreen." - Dr Caroline Ruddell, Reader in Film and Television, Brunel University London"In a long overdue interrogation of the relationship between the ‘Toy Story’ franchise, and the toys, children and psycho-cultural life it embodies, Cross offers an insightful critique that moves play beyond the pleasure principle into the realms of fear, anxiety, and loss. Simultaneously, Cross re-reads digital culture through a lens privileging unconscious phantasy in animation - and its production contexts - offering a complex and challenging analysis that revises the status of play, gender politics and technological progress. This is Woody and Buzz re-thought, rendered less as nostalgic playthings, and more as figures at the centre of the perpetual negotiations of human endeavour and doubt." - Paul Wells, Professor of Animation and Director of the Animation Academy at Loughborough University, UK Table of ContentsSeries PrefaceCaroline Bainbridge and Candida YatesAcknowledgementsIntroductionCHAPTER ONEAnimation and the inner worldCHAPTER TWO‘Laser envy’ and the myth of technological omnipotenceCHAPTER THREEFear, guilt and defence against lossCHAPTER FOURAdolescent control and preserving toy storiesCHAPTER FIVEFeminine playscapes: transgression of form and control of spaceCHAPTER SIXVoice and inclusion in newly mobilised statesPostscript

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Book SynopsisLearning Archaeology is designed for undergraduate archaeology students, helping them develop interpretive skills in the classroom through problem-oriented, active learning exercises.This book brings together case studies drawn from real archaeological research so students can understand (and wrestle with) how archaeology is practiced, the kinds of questions that can be addressed with archaeological data (and its limits), and the often contested place of the discipline in the modern world. Experts working across the globe and on a variety of topics have written chapters addressing critical archaeological issues or questions using data and examples from their own research projects. Several chapters are co-authored by experienced practitioners working outside of the academy in archaeology and heritage-related fields, including Tribal or First Nations members. Importantly, each author or group of authors situates their archaeological problem within the social and political context of their practice. With ethical and socio-political considerations woven through each chapter, the book is structured into three sections, Excavation, Analytical Methods, and Archaeology in the Contemporary World and provides both a comprehensive view of archaeological method as well as an understanding the role that archaeological knowledge has in contemporary society.Learning Archaeology is for undergraduate archaeology students and suitable for use in introductory courses in archaeology.

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