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University of Virginia Press Treasure in Heaven The Holy Poor in Early
Book SynopsisFrom the rise of Christian monasticism in Egypt and Syria to present day, Christians have argued fiercely about whether monks should work to support themselves. Peter Brown shifts attention from Western to Eastern Christianity, introducing us to this smoldering debate that took place across the entire Middle East from the Euphrates to the Nile.Trade ReviewOne of the most familiar phrases in the New Testament is Jesus's exhortation to forget about earthly riches and instead store up 'treasure in heaven.' Here, Peter Brown uses the phrase to pry open ancient attitudes about the relationship between work, leisure, and piety, and the way Christianity both reflected and threatened long-standing tensions. Treasure in Heaven is wide-ranging, accessible, and highly readable. Someday Brown will write a book that does not stimulate new thinking. But this is not that day, nor is this that book."" — H. A. Drake, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of Constantine and the Bishops""The poor were a special focus of early Christianity, but who were they? And what made them so deserving? These questions have preoccupied Peter Brown for more than a decade. After Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire and Through the Eye of a Needle, he turns here to the eastern edges of the Roman Empire and to the ‘holy poor,’ those men and women who deliberately chose poverty in order to be closer to God, and who must therefore be supported by the rest of society. With his accustomed virtuosity Brown reveals hitherto unsuspected tensions between the ‘real poor’ and the ‘holy poor,’ and the anxious questions asked about the value of work, the impact of wealth, and the nature of the ‘angelic life.’ Above all, what did ‘treasure in heaven’ really mean? In the third book of his trilogy, Brown lays bare in vivid and arresting detail the legacies of Syria and Egypt, the variety and contradictions within Christianity, and the intense self-questioning of Christians in the early centuries.""— Dame Averil Cameron, University of Oxford
£18.00
University of Minnesota Press Exposed
Book SynopsisTrade Review "Accessibly written, lucidly argued, and capacious in its ambit, there is so much in this book to savor, to be inspired by, and to provoke."—Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, author of Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman "In addition to the descriptions and analyses of imaginative activism, strange agencies of non-human entities, and the politics of place, Alaimo develops compelling theories of self, action, and being human along the way."—Jack Halberstam, University of Southern California "Despite the gravity of her subject matter, Alaimo’s examples and writing are often playful. This not only echoes the complexity and occasional contradictions of environmental politics but also makes Exposed a very enjoyable read. This book is much more than a theoretical exploration; it calls on us to rethink what it means to be human and act accordingly."—New Books Network "A must read for members of the American Rock Garden Society, as well as those living in similar areas worldwide."—Natural Areas JournalTable of ContentsContents Introduction: Dwelling in the Dissolve Part I: Posthuman Pleasures 1. This Is about Pleasure: An Ethics of Inhabiting 2. Eluding Capture: The Science, Culture, and Pleasure of “Queer” Animals Part II. Insurgent Exposure 3. The Naked Word: Spelling, Stripping, Lusting as Environmental Protest 4. Climate Systems, Carbon-Heavy Masculinity, and Feminist Exposure Part III. Strange Agencies in Anthropocene Seas 5. Oceanic Origins, Plastic Activism, and New Materialism at Sea 6. Your Shell on Acid: Material Immersion, Anthropocene Dissolves Conclusion: Thinking as the Stuff of the World Acknowledgments Notes Index
£19.94
John Wiley & Sons Nutrition DiagnosisRelated Care
Book SynopsisAn authoritative go-to resource for students and clinical nutrition practitioners that covers over 270 conditions. Each section provides an overview followed by essential evidence-based information on nutrition management of each condition. Nutrition therapy and practical guidance is presented in a style that is easy-to-navigate and implement.
£100.80
University of Minnesota Press Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System
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Duke University Press Earth Beings
Book SynopsisConversing with Mariano and Nazario Turpo, father and son, Marisol de la Cadena explores the entanglements and partial connections between indigenous and non-indigenous worlds, and the ways in which indigenous knowing both include and exceed modern and non-modern practices.Trade Review"While theoretically sophisticated, the book’s concrete language and brief introductory asides make it suitable for advanced undergraduates unfamiliar with its core concepts." -- Carwil Bjork-James * Anthropological Quarterly *"Earth Beings is essential reading for those following current research on relational ontologies and the importance of other-than-human contributions to society (ayllu) by encouraging us to think about how beings, places, knowledges, and power interact, particularly in the Peruvian Andes, but in a way that is relevant to much of South America and beyond.... [T]he exceptional ethnographic narratives and the clarity of writing make this a monograph that could be incorporated into a senior undergraduate or, more likely, a graduate level anthropology, geography, environmental studies, political sciences, or Indigenous studies class." -- Katherine MacDonald * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"De la Cadena's Earth Beings reads, from start to finish, as a labor of love. . . . Each page is dense with insights about the intricacies and challenges of collaborative politics." -- Emily Yates-Doerr * Medicine Anthropology Theory *"De la Cadena’s book is an important read and a profound application of contemporary theory to Quechua struggles in South America. It is a moving yet challenging read where the discussions, specifically on cultural politics and representation, can be applied in numerous Indigenous contexts to better transform the relational mode of interactions and divisions between nature, humans and other- than- human entities within a political realm." -- Agnieszka Pawlowska-Mainville * AlterNative *"Earth Beings is a powerful ethnography, the result of more than a decade of fieldwork in the Peruvian Andes.... [T]he reader can visualize the changes in the political opportunities for indigenous peoples in Peru’s political trajectory from liberalism to socialism to, most recently, the neoliberal multiculturalism of the new millennium." -- Anita Carrasco * American Ethnologist *"[T]his book is important and vividly written and deserves to be widely read for how it revalorizes and brings fresh insight to the Andean living earth as a subject of social relations." -- Peter Gose * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *"A remarkable feat of ethnographic writing with a keen linguistic sensitivity and a stunning accomplishment of cultural translation." -- Enrique Mayer * Journal of Anthropological Research *"A remarkable achievement, not only merely in the compelling case it makes for ecologies of nature-humanity practices, but above all, at the level of method and authorship, where it models a concept of anthropology as of colaboring and writing 'from' rather than 'about' a specific place and land." -- Valentina Napolitano * Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory *Table of ContentsForeword xi Preface. Ending This Book without Nazario Turpo xv Story 1. Agreeing to Remember, Translating, and Carefully Co-laboring 1 Interlude 1. Mariano Turpo: A Leader In-Ayllu 35 Story 2. Mariano Engages "the Land Struggle": An Unthinkable Indian Leader 59 Story 3. Mariano's Cosmopolitics: Between Lawyers and Ausangate 91 Story 4. Mariano's Archive: The Eventfulness of the Ahistorical 117 Interlude 2. Nazario Turpo: "The Altomisayuq Who Went to Heaven" 153 Story 5. Chamanismo Andino in the Third Millennium: Multiculturalism Meets Earth-Beings 179 Story 6. A Comedy of Equivocations: Nazario Turpo's Collaboration with the National Musuem of the American Indian 209 Story 7. Munayniyuq: The Owner of the Will (and How to Control That Will) 243 Epilogue. Ethnographic Cosmopolitics 273 Acknowledgments 287 Notes 291 References 303 Index 317
£21.59
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The American Ascendancy How the United States
Book SynopsisWhat road did Americans travel to reach global preeminence? Taking the long historical view, this book demonstrates that wealth, confidence, and leadership were key elements to America's ascent.Trade Review"Should be on the desk of every candidate for national office." - American Historical Review "Explains how a weak and peripheral New World republic turned itself into the preeminent power of the twentieth century." - Foreign Affairs"
£28.76
University of Pennsylvania Press The Gibraltar Crusade Castile and the Battle for
Book SynopsisJoseph O'Callaghan offers the first full and authoritative history of the epic battle for control of the Strait of Gibraltar waged by Castile, Morocco, and Granada in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries-a major, but often overlooked chapter in the Christian reconquest of Spain.Trade Review"Through a meticulous choice and interpretation of Arabic, Catalan, Castilian, English, and Latin chronicles and ecclesiastical, municipal, and royal notarial records, O'Callaghan lays out with consummate care and with great detail the story of the brutal struggle for control of the Strait of Gibraltar-a struggle that would ultimately seal the fate of Spanish Islam." * The Medieval Review *"[O'Callaghan] does a superb job of sifting through the chronicles of the Christian and Muslim rulers that provide the foundation for this entire narrative. . . . This very interesting book makes it abundantly clear that pragmatism and financial gain had as much to do with the correlation of forces as did religious practice." * Journal of Military History *"What truly makes this work a prominent addition to the field of Iberian reconquest lore are the Castilian, Latin, Arabic, and English sources O'Callaghan uses with proficient erudition to tell the story of this 'epic battle'-one that certainly needed to be told." * Historian *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Genealogical Tables Chapter 1. Spain and the Strait of Gibraltar Chapter 2. Alfonso X's African Crusade Chapter 3. The Crusade Against the Mudéjars Chapter 4. The Crusade Against the Marinids Chapter 5. Sancho IV and the Conquest of Tarifa Chapter 6. The Crusades of Gibraltar, Almería, and Algeciras Chapter 7. The Early Crusades of Alfonso XI's Reign Chapter 8. The Loss of Gibraltar and the Crusade of Salado Chapter 9. The Crusade of Algeciras and Gibraltar Chapter 10. Waging the Crusade of Gibraltar Chapter 11. The Aftermath: The Strait of Gibraltar to 1492 List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£999.99
Stanford University Press Getting to Yes And
Book SynopsisTrade Review"You don't have to spend years on stage to be good at the art of improvisation. In his new book, Getting to 'Yes, And', improv veteran Bob Kulhan shows you how improvisation techniques can positively impact almost any business situation. Read this intriguing book and get ready to take communication at work to a whole new level."—Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The New One Minute Manager and Collaboration Begins with You"Prescriptive, educational, and funny, this book is filled with disarmingly easy improv techniques to up our game at work. Getting to "Yes and" has earned its place on the bookshelves, desks, and nightstands of savvy business readers. It's Dale Carnegie Training for the 21st century."—Jack Canfield, CEO, The Canfield Training Group and bestselling author of The Success Principles "For years, the business world has echoed 'yes and,' but we were light on details—until now. In a fun romp from Chicago's Second City to Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and beyond, this book threads together improv and such business essentials as negotiation, sales, goal setting, and conflict resolution. Read it, follow it, and you'll get better results, maybe even a few laughs along the way."—Dave Logan, USC Marshall School of Business and bestselling co-author, Tribal Leadership"Improvisation is the key to collaboration and innovation, and Bob Kuhlan is an improv star! This book shows you how to use improvisation for business success. It's filled with specific, practical, actionable advice, and it's lots of fun to read."—Keith Sawyer, author of Group Genius and Zig Zag: The Surprising Path to Greater Creativity"Kulhan is an experienced improviser with a deep understanding of the art form. And, he is a talented teacher with years of experience translating the essence of improv into valuable business lessons. His no nonsense (yet entertaining) style is perfect for anyone in either business or improv who wants to bring the two worlds together."—Daniel Klein, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Department of Theater, and d.school"Kulhan was early to the realization that we are constantly innovating in business and in life, and that there is a method to doing it better. He brings very sharp tools to promote collective success, through motivating, making decisions, energizing, building ideas, and managing status differences. Although a key insight in the book is that improvisation isn't synonymous with comedy, nobody will mind that Bob presents these important ideas with a lively and fun way."—Paul Ingram, Columbia Business School"Getting To 'Yes And' is a transformative book. With focus, care, professionalism, and good humor, Kulhan delivers a how-to guide for implementing improvisation in business. At the center, we will definitely be incorporating his techniques into our future programs."—Rick Barrera, COO The Center for Heart Led Leadership and author of Overpromise and Overdeliver"I don't know anyone who likes this more or commits harder than Bob. Bob is an improviser's improviser. Buy this book!"—TJ Jagodowski, Improviser and author of Improvisation at the Speed of Life"When it comes to the application of improv tenets in the business world, there is no one better than Bob Kulhan. Any university, business, and (now) reader is fortunate to have him as their lead facilitator. If I ran the business world, I would insist this book be a part of every curriculum, in every company."—Susan Messing, Instructor and Performer, iO, The Annoyance, and The Second City and Adjunct Professor, DePaul University, The University of Chicago, The School at Steppenwolf, and The World"I have known Bob Kulhan for a damn 20 years. He's a great improviser, a great teacher, and an o.k. guy. His commitment to improvisation is spring loaded and fuel injected. He's super positive (too positive) and rather smart! Read this book because why not?"—Mick Napier, Founder, The Annoyance Theatre and author of Behind the Scenes and Improvise"Bob Kulhan's skills as an improvisational teacher and player offer an insightful and energetic point of view to any group.I have thoroughly enjoyed playing with this dummy for almost twenty years now. And I look forward to many more."—Jack McBrayer, Actor, 30 Rock, The Middle, Wreck-It Ralph"Bob is a thoughtful and caring teacher of improvisation. He's a tireless champion of the art form and he'd stop me from singing his praises if that didn't directly contradict improv's first rule: Acceptance. Deal with it, Bob."—Jordan Klepper, anchor of Comedy Central's The Opposition with Jordan Klepper and former correspondent on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah"Getting to "Yes And" is an eye-opening and innovative business book written by a business person and professor for business people."—Soundview Executive Summaries"It's impossible not to smile when you read this book. Whether it is the 'Eights' exercise or celebrating ridiculous ideas, "Yes And"will remind you how to have fun at work – and as a result I'm convinced your business will be more effective...Can't recommend this book highly enough. It will be a GREAT addition to your bookshelf."—MyBusinessBookClub"Teaching momentary situational analysis, snap decision making and workplace camaraderie makes this book an excellent read for any manager looking to build a great team."— Kelly Gibbons, ForbesTable of ContentsIntroduction: More than One Way to Hit a Piñata 1. Thinking Outside of Thinking Outside of the Box 2. Just Say "Yes, and . . ." 3. I'm with the Brand 4. Energy Independence 5. Teaming Up 6. Must Be Something Ideate 7. Busted 8. Take Me to Your Leadership 9. How to Eat an Elephant 10. And Wait . . . There's More!
£22.49
John Wiley & Sons Plowmans Folly
Book SynopsisIt was on July 5, 1943, when Plowman's Folly was first issued, that the author startled a lethargic public, long bemused by the apparently insoluble problem of soil depletion, by saying, simply, “The fact is that no one has ever advanced a scientific reason for plowing.” With the key sentence, he opened a new era.Trade ReviewProbably no book on an agricultural subject has ever prompted so much discussion in this country.""- Louis Bromfield in The Reader's Digest
£17.06
Stanford University Press Bound Feet Young Hands
Book SynopsisTrade Review" Bound Feet, Young Hands provides a detailed, much-needed analysis of Chinese footbinding and women's labor during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Bossen and Gates break new ground in our understanding of the role and status of women's work during a period of enormous economic, political and cultural change."— Rubie S. Watson, anthropologist and former director of Peabody Museum, Harvard University"Bound Feet, Young Hands represents the most empirically grounded and analytically bold contribution to studies of gender, labor, and economic transformation in imperial China. Based on a staggering volume of surveys, field interviews, and local sources, this meticulously researched volume persuasively illuminates the economic rationale underlying the rise and fall of foot binding, shattering multiple strands of conventional wisdom about the social and cultural milieu of restraining the mobility of young women."—Kellee S. Tsai, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology"[T]his well-written and carefully argued book makes a significant contribution to both women's history and economic history in China. Linking footbinding with women's hand labor, the book brings to light the important yet largely overlooked contributions of women, and especially young girls, to the household economy and to handcraft industry prior to industrialization in China. With this groundbreaking study, images of Chinese women idling with bound feet, which has symbolized women's submission and confinement to domestic labor, should be replaced by images of young girls laboring at textiles and handcrafts for their families and China's commercial economy."—Lihong Shi, Current AnthropologyTable of Contents1. Questions About Footbinding 2. Seeking Answers: Research Methods and Fieldwork 3. North China Plain 4. Northwest China 5. Southwest China 6. Bound Feet Across China.
£40.50
Stanford University Press A Sense for the Other The Timeliness and
Book SynopsisThis approach to anthropology focuses on negotiating the social meanings used in making sense of the world, and on the processes of identification that create the difference between same and other.Trade Review"Like the work of anthropology itself, [An Antyhropology for Contemporaneous Worlds] is difficult but well worth the effort."—Anthropology of Work ReviewTable of ContentsPreface to the English edition An introductory word 1. Who is the other? 2. Others and their meaning 3. The proximal other, or the other next door 4. The others' norm 5. Knowledge and recognition anthropology's meaning and end 6. The conquest of space Conclusion: a changed world, a changed object Notes Complementary sources.
£16.14
John Wiley & Sons History of the Indies of New Spain
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The University of Chicago Press Simone A Novel
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£16.15
Indiana University Press The Future of the Soviet Past The Politics of
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOverall, this is a popular topic well handled and essential for students and scholars across several disciplines. The volume provides a good overview of contemporary Russia, and as scholars we should now consider how else these new avenues of research can be unlocked. -- James C. Pearce - College of the Marshall Islands * The Russian Review *This volume considers the relationship between the history of the Soviet Union and contemporary Russian culture, exploring how cinema, television, music, education and more reflect historical narratives, particularly in relation to Josef Stalin. The contributors contend that 'Russia's inability to fully rewrite Soviet history plays [a] part in its current political agenda'. * Survival *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Revisiting the Future of the Soviet Past and the Memory of Stalinist Repression, by Nanci Adler and Anton Weiss-WendtPart I: The Present Memory of the Past1. Presentism, Politicization of History, and the New Role of the Historian in Russia, by Ivan Kurilla2. Secondhand History: Outsourcing Russia's Past to Kremlin's Proxies, by Anton Weiss-Wendt3. The Soviet Past and the 1945 Victory Cult as Civil Religion in Contemporary Russia, by Nikita Petrov4. Russia as a Bulwark against Anti-Semitism and Holocaust Denial: The Second World War according to Moscow, by Kiril FefermanPart II: Museums, Pop Culture, and Other Memory Battlegrounds5. Keeping the Past in the Past: The Attack on the Perm 36 Gulag Museum and Russian Historical Memory of Soviet Repression, by Steven A. Barnes6. Known and Unknown Soldiers: Remembering Russia's Fallen in the Great Patriotic War, by Johanna Dahlin7. Fighters of the Invisible Front: Re-imaging the Aftermath of the Great Patriotic War in Recent Russian Television Series, by Boris Noordenbos8. War, Cinema, and the Politics of Memory in Putin 2.0 Culture, by Stephen M. NorrisPart III: Remembering and Framing the Soviet Past beyond Russia's Borders9. The 2014 Russian Memory Law in European Context, by Nikolay Koposov10. Tenacious Pasts: Geopolitics and the Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Issues, by George Soroka11. The 1968 Invasion of Czechoslovakia: Return to the Soviet Interpretation, by Štěpán ČernoušekIndex
£29.70
Random House USA Inc Dragons Love Tacos Party-in-a-Box
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P The Undying Flame
Book SynopsisHere for the first time is a stirring collection of rare songs of the Holocaust; songs of resistance, despair, rage, hope and even humour, written in the face of utter evil. The very existence of these songs raises haunting questions. The historical notes and insightful survivor testimony in this groundbreaking volume provide moving answers.
£30.56
The University of North Carolina Press The Thing about Religion An Introduction to the
Book SynopsisLays out a range of theories, terms, and concepts and shows how they work together to centre materiality in the study of religion. Integrating carefully curated visual evidence, Morgan applies these ideas and methods to case studies across a variety of religious traditions, modeling step-by-step analysis and emphasizing historical context.
£999.99
Insight Editions Harry Potter: Hufflepuff Constellation Postcard
Book SynopsisFrom your desk to theirs, celebrate your love of HARRY POTTER™ and HUFFLEPUFF™ with this beautiful collection of postcard-style note cards in a collectible tin. With gold foil accents throughout, this stunning collection includes five different Hufflepuff™ designs. These note cards are the perfect size for a personalized note, thank you, or greeting from you to a friend, loved one, or fellow Harry Potter™ fan.
£14.78
Headline Publishing Group British Cheese on Toast
Book Synopsis''A collection of unusual and tempting recipes'' Sunday PostA uniquely British phenomenon, there is something magical about cheese on toast. Two simple ingredients that, when put together, are the greatest of comfort foods and the quickest of meals. At its most basic level, this staple of many a British teatime is a delicious pairing, as award-winning cheesemonger Steve Parker shows in this celebration of the nation''s favourite cheesesBritish Cheese on Toast will take you on a tasting tour of British cheeses, showcasing the absolute best along the way. From Cheddar to Wensleydale via soft, blue, smoked and goat''s, in this book you''ll find over 100 recipes plus advice on which cheese to use with which type of bread, as well as suggestions for innovative sweet and savoury flavour combinations to take things to another level. With a handy guide to shops where artisan cheeses featured in the book can be bought, as well asTrade ReviewI honestly didn't know there were so many ways to toast cheese - genius! -- Patricia Michelson, La Fromagerie[British Cheese on Toast] reveals how you can upgrade the simple dish with more than 100 amazing and delicious recipes . . . Steve Parker delves into the UK's top dairy delights to create delicious flavour combinations. * Daily Star *Steve Parker recently wrote a book called British Cheese on Toast. Any prime minister would be well advised to retain him as a special adviser on the subject... * The Times *A collection of unusual and tempting recipes * Sunday Post *Steve Parker takes you on a tasting tour of British cheeses * Take A Break *With a handy guide to shops where artisan cheeses featured in the book can be bought, as well as tips on using supermarkets, British Cheese on Toast is a complete celebration of this traditional meal. The perfect gift for cheese lovers everywhere. * Eastern Daily Press *
£11.69
University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia Stories People and Their Places in
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents Foreword Daniel K. Richter Introduction. Places and People Completed by Rodney Hessinger Part I. For the Love of God: Three Colonial Men of Faith Prologue Daniel K. Richter Chapter 1. Anthony Benezet Completed by Jean R. Soderlund Chapter 2. Henry Muhlenberg Completed by Lisa Minardi Chapter 3. William White Completed by Sarah Barringer Gordon Part II. Declaring Independence: Three Revolutionary Wives Prologue C. Dallett Hemphill Chapter 4. Grace Growden Galloway Completed by Judith L. Van Buskirk Chapter 5. Anne Shippen Livingston Completed by Susan Branson Chapter 6. Deborah Norris Logan Completed by Rodney Hessinger Part III. Striving to Succeed: Three "Self-Made Men" in the New Nation Prologue Rodney Hessinger Chapter 7. Charles Willson Peale Completed by Nenette Luarca-Shoaf Chapter 8. Stephen Girard Completed by Brenna O'Rourke Holland Chapter 9. Joseph Hemphill Completed by Sarah K. Rodriguez Part IV. Pursuing an Inclusive America: Three Aspiring Antebellum Lives Prologue Rodney Hessinger Chapter 10. Francis Johnson Completed by Richard S. Newman Chapter 11. Sarah Thorn Tyndale Completed by Susan E. Klepp Chapter 12. William Darrah Kelley Completed by Andrew Shankman Notes Index Acknowledgments
£25.19
Crossway Books 40 Days of Love
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University of Pennsylvania Press An Illustrated Business History of the United
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The breadth of [Vague's] scholarship and sourcing of materials offers lessons of great value to political decision-makers and businesspeople. The stories and brief biographies of characters are amusing but readers should learn from the successes and failures." * The Jerusalem Post *Vague offers a fast-paced and readable chronological survey of American business history that takes note of individuals and companies that have contributed to the nation’s economic development. * Choice *
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Aurora Metro Publications 50 Women in Theatre
Book SynopsisSince 1660 when actresses first began performing on the English stage, women have forged bright careers in theatre, while men called the shots. Four hundred years of women playwrights, from Aphra Behn to Caryl Churchill, yet plays by women make up less than a quarter of staged productions in the UK, leading to a scarcity of roles for women. With women buying most of the tickets, theatre productions risk losing their relevance to modern culture if they fail to represent the many and varied lives of women. With an overview of post-war theatre and 25 exclusive interviews with leading women theatre-makers, this book inspires us to create a truly equal and inclusive theatre today. Including interviews with: Nina Lee Aquino Sudha Buchar Moira Buffini Paule Constable Denise Gough Jill Greenhalgh Vicky Ireland Jude Kelly Bryony Lavery Rachel Maza Kumiko Mendl Katie Mitchell Marsha Norman Lynn Nottage Kate O'Donnell Winsome Pinnock Emma Rice Daryl Roth Jenny Sealey Saviana Stanescu Michelle Terry Kate Waters and more...Trade Review"An inclusive and all-around eye-opening account of how theatre has changed...an enlightening path into the dazzling minds of these groundbreaking women." - The Broadway World; "As a publication, 50 Women in Theatre is comprehensive and a good thing to have, an important collection of talent around the world." -The Reviews Hub; Star rating: five stars - Musical Theatre Review; Fight for gender equality is harder than ever: Read The Stage; "Or how about celebrating achievement? Part of a series called '50 Women in ...', 50 Women in Theatre must have been good fun and rather satisfying to research and assemble. It consists, after a detailed introduction, of 50 short celebrations of the contributions made to theatre by women since 1945. And they are wonderfully diverse both in terms of who they are and what they've achieved. Thus we go from choreographer Gillian Lyne to producer Thelma Holt, director Jenny Sealey and voice guru Cicely Berry. Actors include Audra McDonald, Meera Syal, Glenda Jackson and Judi Dench, We also read about producers such as Nica Burns, actor/directors like Michelle Terry and playwrights including Moira Buffini and Bryony Lavery. Some of these accounts are written in the third person (Caryl Churchill, Sonia Friedman) not least because some of them are dead (Joan Littlewood, Jocelyn Herbert) or, presumably, preferred not to be interviewed. Others are presented as "in their own words" and written at greater length usually in a question and answer format. It's an attractive hard back book on shiny paper with lots of coloured photographs so it would make a good present." - Sardine Magazine, no.56
£22.49
University of Toronto Press Topographies of Fascism Habitus Space and
Book SynopsisTopographies of Fascism offers the first comprehensive exploration of how Spanish fascist writing essays, speeches, articles, propaganda materials, poems, novels, and memoirs represented and created space from the early 1920s until the late 1950s.Trade Review‘Topographies of Fascism is an original, ambitious, and innovative study which offers fascinating insights into the use and representation of space in Spanish fascism… Only with books like this will the spectre of Spanish fascism be finally exorcised.’ -- Jordi Cornellà * Bulletin of Spanish Studies January 2016 *‘This is a good tool for writers and researchers interested in Spanish Civil War, fascist politics, and literature.’ -- C. Prieto * Choice Magazine, vol 51:06:2014 *Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Note on Translations and Quoted Material Introduction 1. A Politics of Space Concepts of Space Mapping Planning Ordering 2. Morocco: The Forging of a Habitus Colonial Space and Fascism Technologies of Tropological Striation Spatial History and Tropological Striation The Legion: A Pedagogy of the Habitus Places of Radical Evil Warmongering and the Colonization of Spain 3. Spatial Myths Fascist Journeys Habitus and Myth Castile, or the Ur-topia The Telluric Being Rome, Epicentre of a Totalitarian Production of Space Rome, Capital of Spanish Fascism The Grammar of Empire 4. The City Hegemony and the City Spatial Antagonisms and the Rhetoric of Walking The City at War Spatial Form and the Rhetoric of Mapping Into the Battlefield Longing for the City Representing Fascist Urban Space The Performance of Victory 5. Russia: Spectres and Paratopos Returning a Courtesy Call Territorial Alterity and Absolute War The Paratopos The House of the Spectre The Visit The Being-for-War Unforgiving Ghostly Cities Revenants Notes Works Cited Index
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Insight Editions Jane Austen: File Folder Set: Set of 9
Book SynopsisSpruce up your office space with this file folder set, each with a different beautiful floral pattern and one of Jane Austen’s most beloved literary quotes.Each set includes nine file folders with 3 each of three designs, so you can organize in style.
£14.04
Princeton University Press Iran Rising The Survival and Future of the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of 20 essential books about the Middle East, compiled by the Middle Eastern Studies community at Anhui University in central China"
£17.09
Galison Mudpuppy Frank Lloyd Wright Saguaro Forms Cactus
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University of Toronto Press The Stoic Origins of Erasmus Philosophy of Christ
Book SynopsisThis original and provocative engagement with Erasmus’ work argues that the Dutch humanist discovered in classical Stoicism several principles which he developed into a paradigm-shifting application of Stoicism to Christianity. Ross Dealy offers novel readings of some lesser and well-known Erasmian texts and presents a detailed discussion of the reception of Stoicism in the Renaissance. In a considered interpretation of Erasmus’ De taedio Iesu, Dealy clearly shows the two-dimensional Stoic elements in Erasmus’ thought from an early time onward. Erasmus’ genuinely philosophical disposition is evidenced in an analysis of his edition of Cicero’s De officiis. Building on stoicism Erasmus shows that Christ’s suffering in Gethsemane was not about the triumph of spirit over flesh but about the simultaneous workings of two opposite but equally essential types of value: on the one side spirit and on the other involuntary and intractableTrade Review‘This meticulous study of 16th century thinking can be dense, but the picture of Erasmus that emerges will prove worth the effort.’ -- D.A. Brown * Choice Magazine vol 55:01:2017 *"The Stoic Origins of Erasmus’ Philosophy of Christ contains many interesting ideas, which Dealy presents in an engaging way and is a welcome addition to the literature. " -- George Lazaroiu * Sixteenth Century Journal vol. 49, no. 1 2018 *"The Stoic Origins of Erasmus’ Philosophy of Christ is a challenging and thought-provoking book. It is a book that goes to the heart of the philosophical subject matter that is everywhere apparent in Erasmus’s writings, but hardly ever studied in serious ways." -- Han van Ruler, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam * Renaissance Quarterly, vol 71 4, Winter 2018 *"The Stoic Origins of Erasmus’ Philosophy of Christ makes an important contribution to Erasmus scholarship through a close reading of two of Erasmus’ early works that are rarely considered alongside one another, the De taedio Iesu and the Enchiridion, in an attempt to trace their considerable Stoic elements."v -- Kirk Essary, University of Western Australia * Erasmus Studies, vol 39 *Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Introduction A Philosophy Beneath The Rhetoric Part I The Fifteenth-Century Background Part Ii Erasmus' Two-Dimensional Stoicism Part Iii Stoic Natural Instinct and Christ's Fear of Death, De Taedio Iesu Part Iv Larger Philosophical Issues Part V Correcting a Thousand Years of Christology Part Vi Beyond Devotionalist Assumptions Part Vii Spiritual Warfare Conclusion Bibliography Index
£60.35
Moleskine Passion Journal Film TV
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Chronicle Books Mindfulness Dice
Book SynopsisThis fun-to-use, interactive set of six dice makes it easy to practice mindfulness in daily life for anyone looking for more peace and balance.Mindfulness Dice includes 36 soothing practices and thousands of possible combinations. Whether at home, work, or on the go, Mindfulness Dice makes it easy to find moments of peace, awareness, and joy—with a simple roll of the dice anyone can discover simple meditations, mantras, and exercises for calm and clarity.Delivered in an eye-catching, colorful box filled with six beautiful wooden, color-coded dice plus an instructional booklet, this is a great gift for anyone looking for some relief from the stresses of daily life.• MINDFULNESS MADE FUN: This interactive format makes it fun to learn and practice mindfulness.• VALUABLE CONTENT IN AN AFFORDABLE PACKAGE: Mindfulness is proven to help people find peace and balance, and these dice offer valuable practices in an accessible forma
£16.31
Temple University Press,U.S. Finished Business
Book SynopsisRay Didinger opens his lively memoir Finished Business with the Philadelphia Eagles' upset win in Super Bowl LII. When the Eagles finally hoist the Lombardi Trophy, Didinger does his best to straddle the emotions of a working reporter and a long-suffering Philly fan. His ability to do that is why he has built up such a loyal following. Didingerbegan following the Eagles as a kid, hanging out in his grandfather's bar in Southwest Philadelphia. He spent his summers at the team's training camp in Hershey. It was there he met his idol, flanker Tommy McDonald. He would later write a play, Tommy and Me, about their friendship and his efforts to see McDonald enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Didinger has been covering the Eagles as a newspaper columnist or TV analyst since 1970. Over the years, he wrote sports for the Philadelphia Bulletin and the Philadelphia Daily News. He later produced Emmy Awardwinning documentaries for NFL Films before transitioning to sports talk radio an
£22.79
Duke University Press Atmospheric Noise The Indefinite Urbanism of Los
Book SynopsisMarina Peterson traces entanglements of environmental noise, atmosphere, sense, and matter that cohere in and through encounters with airport noise at Los Angeles International Airport since the 1960s, showing how noise is central to how we know, feel, and think atmospherically.Trade Review“An exemplary experiment in compositional thinking and writing, Atmospheric Noise buzzes with conceptual and methodological inventiveness. Through the style in which it deftly traces the uneven emergence and refraction of urban noise across archives, concepts, bodies, regulations, and experience, Marina Peterson's book brilliantly performs its own argument about the importance of an ethos of informed listening. Atmospheric Noise should be on the bookshelf of anyone interested in understanding and writing about the atmospheric conditions of worlds.” -- Derek P. McCormack, author of * Atmospheric Things: On the Allure of Elemental Envelopment *“Writing in and through the movements of people, butterflies, planes, and homes; the shifts in environmental discourse; and varied human-nonhuman entanglements, Marina Peterson brings us a story and a book that will resonate across fields for years to come. Original, compelling, and evocative.” -- Nicole Starosielski, author of * The Undersea Network *"Peterson’s prose is always lyric, tidal almost, but she sacrifices neither scholarly rigor nor theoretical ferocity in her pursuit of how sound gets us into questions, spaces, activities, constructions, and the politics of infrastructure. Atmospheric Noise is the story of a city remade (parts indeed sacrificed) around an airport, flight paths, and racket. It’s also the story of instrumentation, calibration, and how we both measure and experience what we claim to know. It’s a shining example of what, with care, ethnography can be." -- Gretchen Bakke * Public Books *"Peterson conceptualizes the act of listening as an intervention into the atmosphere, which originates these categories and definitions, while sound itself remains immaterial and unquantifiable. Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals." * Choice *"Atmospheric Noise is an engaging and timely piece of scholarship. At its most successful, the work draws jarring, cacophonous resonances between the science and engineering of acoustics, urban political economy, governmentality, the metaphysics of sound, and the social construction of ecology and environment. It amplifies the possibilities of social science inquiry in its call for attunement to noise, to sound, to an atmospheric sensibility as method." -- Andrew Merrill * Public *"Atmospheric Noise is a rich and complex interrogation of urban noise, and there is much to engage readers interested in sonic philosophy, auditory culture, and histories of acoustics. . . . Atmospheric Noise offers an original account of how the sounds of Los Angeles airport came to shape lives, neighbourhoods, and the urban environment." -- Marie Thompson * Yearbook for Traditional Music *"This study offers researchers in fields including music, sound studies, urban planning, and American studies a model for the possible contributions of new materialism’s methodological assumptions. In doing so it invites readers and researchers to be sensitive to new attunements demanded by the changing (post)human onto-epistemologies supporting our own entanglements with the sonic in music and other regimes of tonality." -- Andrew J. Kluth * Journal of the Society for American Music *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Aerial Attunements 19 2. Noise Annoys 45 3. Environmental Imaginaries 77 4. Murmurs: Experiments in Glitching 105 5. Vibrating Matter 129 6. Indefinite Urbanism 155 Notes 185 References 207 Index 231
£18.89
Indiana University Press Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDowty's book will serve as an accessible and important work in the field of the history of the Yishuv during the Ottoman period and the early stages of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The combination of attention to detail and a broad overview means that this work will be useful to scholars and students for years to come, and the author deserves every praise for this. -- Tamir Karkason * H-Judaic *A seminal work of impeccable and meticulous scholarship, Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine: Two Worlds Collide by Professor Alan Dowty must be considered a core addition to community, college and university library Turkish, Palestinian, and Israeli history collections and supplemental studies curriculums. * MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW *The rigorous research and scholarly perspective of Alan Dowty's Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine shines a light on issues of the Arab-Israel conflict that others have overlooked. * Jewish Press.com *Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine is a study rich with insight and information that is skillfully put into a broader context. You will finish the book with a wealth of knowledge about the past and greater insight into the present. -- Dinah Rokach * HaShomer *Table of ContentsPreface1. Palestine before Zionism2. Russian Jews before Zionism3. Two Worlds Collide4. Unneighborly Relations5. Truth from the Land of Israel6. The Arena Expands7. Battle LinesEpilogueBibliographyIndex
£17.99
John Wiley & Sons Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Clinical
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£999.99
Moleskine Moleskine Studio Collection Large Plain Notebook
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£20.54
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi R. Crumb Literature Autobiography and the Quest
Book SynopsisCharts Robert Crumb's intellectual trajectory and explores the recurring philosophical themes that permeate his depictions of literary and biographical works and the ways he responds to them through innovative, dazzling compositional techniques.
£27.96
University Press of Kansas Last Second in Dallas
Book SynopsisIn this follow-up to his critically acclaimed Six Seconds in Dallas, Josiah Thompson reveals major forensic discoveries since 2000 that overturn previously accepted ‘facts’ about the Kennedy assassination. Together they provide what no previous book on the assassination has done - incontrovertible proof that JFK was killed in a crossfire.
£32.21
MP-CUA Catholic Uni of Amer Tolkien Philosopher of War
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£23.96
Galison Mudpuppy Michael Storrings New York Public Library 1000
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£16.52
Columbia University Press How to Feel
Book SynopsisHow to Feel explores the scientific, physical, emotional, and cultural aspects of touch, reconnecting us to what is arguably our most important sense. Sushma Subramanian introduces readers to the scientists whose groundbreaking research is underscoring the role of touch in our lives.Trade ReviewA fascinating look at one of the most mysterious senses. A great read for anyone who has ever wondered why you feel the way you feel, literally. -- Olga Khazan, author of Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider WorldIn this addictively readable book, Sushma Subramanian explores our vital human sense of touch in terms of history, science, culture, family and most of all humanity. It's a story full of insight and surprise, told by a science writer with a poet's sense of language. Don't miss it. -- Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of AffectionThis book is a wonderful journey into the science of touch. Sushma Subramanian is a great writer who has deeply researched her subject, so the book offers the experience of discovering science with the ease of reading fiction. -- Tiffany M. Field, director of the Touch Research Institute, University of Miami School of MedicineSubramanian brings an intensely personal narrative to the study of touch, with a breadth of coverage and a great balance for scientists and nonscientists alike. -- Robert DeSalle, author of Our Senses: An Immersive ExperienceOf all the senses, touch continues to be the least understood because it has so many components that are difficult to isolate.’ [How to Feel: The Science and Meaning of Touch is a] useful introduction to the culture, mechanics, and consequences of touch. * Booklist *Subramanian is a thoughtful guide. [How to Feel] delivers an eye-opening mix of self-discovery and scientific investigation. * Publishers Weekly *[Subramanian] enjoyably shows through interviews with philosophers, massage therapists, haptic technologists, a man with no sense of touch and others, touch is our least understood sense. * Nature *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Dull: How Our Cultures Lost Touch2. Numb: Life Without Touch3. Mushy: When Sensation Crosses Into Emotion4. Untethered: Will the Body Become Obsolete?5. Softening: Overcoming Touch Aversion6. Boundaries: Knowing Good Touch from Bad7. Slick: How Companies Sell Us Touch8. Haptics: Bringing Touch to Our Technology9. Tactful: Building Machines That Can Touch Us BackConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
£22.50
John Wiley & Sons What to Do When Mistakes Make You Quake A Kids
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£12.59
Indiana University Press Understanding Climate Change through Religious
Book SynopsisHow can religion help to understand and contend with the challenges of climate change? Understanding Climate Change through Religious Lifeworld, edited by David Haberman, presents a unique collection of essays that detail how the effects of human-related climate change are actively reshaping religious ideas and practices, even as religious groups and communities endeavor to bring their traditions to bear on mounting climate challenges. People of faith from the low-lying islands of the South Pacific to the glacial regions of the Himalayas are influencing how their communities understand earthly problems and develop meaningful responses to them. This collection focuses on a variety of different aspects of this critical interaction, including the role of religion in ongoing debates about climate change, religious sources of environmental knowledge and how this knowledge informs community responses to climate change, and the ways that climate change is in turn driving religious change. Trade ReviewThis anthology will be valuable for scholars interested in religion, climate communication, and Indigenous cultures. The book, or selected chapters from it, would be appropriate for upper-level undergraduate or graduate courses in anthropology, area studies, environmental studies, and religion. -- Cybelle Shattuck - Western Michigan University * H-Environment *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Multiple Perspectives on an Increasingly Uncertain WorldRecombinant Responses1. Climate Change Never Travels Alone2. Climate Change, Moral Meteorology and Local Measures at Quyllurit'i, a High Andean Shrine3. Religious Explanations for Coastal Erosion in Narikoso, FijiLocal Knowledge4. "Nature Can Heal Itself"5. Maya Cosmology and Contesting Climate Change in Mesoamerica6. Anthropogenic Climate Change, Anxiety, and the SacredLoss, Anxiety, and Doubt7. The Vanishing of Father White Glacier8. Loss and Recovery in the HimalayasReligious Transformations9. Angry Gods and Raging Rivers10. Recasting the SacredConclusion: Religion and Climate ChangeList of ContributorsIndex
£25.19
Mixed Media Resources Let Your Imagination Sprout
Book SynopsisWith a teeny tiny seed, patience, and a little extra care, a boy and his community turn a parking lot into a thriving community garden.
£13.59
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Terrorism News Beat
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£24.75
Batsford Ltd A Cloud a Day Journal
Book SynopsisA cloudspotter's interactive journal. Our interest in clouds is more profound than we ever thought. Gavin Pretor-Pinney, founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society and author of A Cloud A Day has been spreading the word via social media and hugely popular TED talks, and the response has been revelatory. Following on from his very successful A Cloud A Day book, he wants readers to take time each day to look at the shifting skies. To take a moment, as he says. Then, using the prompts and space in the journal, record the cloud, weather, and importantly their thoughts on that day. It is the perfect mindful occupation. To help readers understand the clouds they are looking at, the book includes a hugely useful pin wheel device – a cloud selector – at the back of the journal. The device allows the reader to visually match the cloud they see in the sky with the cloud in the selector device, which has all the information about that particular cloud they need. From the cloudlets of the altocumulus clouds to the rarer Lacunosus cloud (holes surrounded by fringes of cloud). In amongst the prompts and spaces are stunning images of clouds with bits of poetry, science and folklore. It is the ideal interactive journal for those interested in clouds and the weather but also for those looking for the perfect way to spend 10 minutes of the day to reconnect with nature and the passing of the seasons. Praise for A Cloud A Day: '[This] charming little volume reminds us that self-care is as available as a glance out the window, no matter your age or infirmities' The New York Times ‘A confident celebration of our ever-changing skies... I defy anyone who reads it not to start taking furtive peeks out the window.’ Robert Leigh-Pemberton, Daily Telegraph
£15.36
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Disintegrating Empire
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£25.19
Johns Hopkins University Press Body Maps
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£42.50
John Wiley & Sons Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease
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