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Book SynopsisThis book challenges current thinking about youth violence and gangs, and their racialisation by the media and the police. It highlights how the street gang label is unfairly linked to Black (and urban) youth street-based lifestyles/cultures and friendship groups.Trade Review"A colossus of a book..... should become the handbook for anyone attempting to address issues around young people and violence." Charlie Parker, Hiphology Ltd“A much needed and valuable addition to the literature on youth 'gangs', written in a sensitive manner informed by the author’s extensive and close up research.,. A must read for anyone interested in youth crime or in youth issues more generally." Tracy Shildrick, University of LeedsTable of ContentsIntroduction; Global perspectives on urban youth violence; The 2011 English riots; Gangs in the UK?; Policing the gang crisis; Policy, prevention and policing into practice; Road life realities and youth violence; Youth, social policy and crime; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisApproved Mental Health Professionals must possess and deploy a range of skills, knowledge and values in order to make ethically complex decisions on behalf of people with severe mental health difficulties. This invaluable handbook considers these challenges and provides in-depth guidance on all key aspects of the role.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Section One: The AMHP in Context; AMHP practice context; Ethical issues in applying mental health law; Social perspectives in mental health; The multi-professional AMHP role; Section Two: The AMHP in Practice; Completing a Mental Health Act assessment; Risks and challenges in Mental Health Act assessments; Applying the interface between the Mental Health Act and the Mental Capacity Act; Exploring mental health treatment; Section Three: Developing Good Practice; Upholding rights, equality and anti-oppressive practice; Resilience as a trainee and practitioner; AMHP decision making.

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Book SynopsisMatthew Quinn plots a landmark reimagination of governance and public administration, underpinned by sustainable development and civic republicanism.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Framing the Thinking 2. Governance and Sustainable Development as Governmentality 3. Bureaucratic Practice and Governmentality 4. Lessons from Governing for Sustainable Development 5. Towards a New Civic Bureaucracy Closing Words

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Book SynopsisWritten by a highly respected team of authors brought together by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), this second volume of The Global Agenda for Social Justice provides accessible insights into some of the world's most pressing social problems and proposes international public policy and social responses to those problems.Table of ContentsPresident’s Welcome - Noreen Sugrue Editorial Introduction - Glenn Muschert, Kristen M. Budd, Heather Dillaway, David C. Lane, Manjusha Nair, and Jason A. Smith About the SSSP Foreword - Margaret Abraham PART 1: Topical Pieces 1. The Challenge of Global School Segregation - Charity Anderson 2. The Authoritarian Backlash Against Education Justice for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Youth - Madelaine Adelman and Eliza Byard 3. From the Streets to Social Policy: How to End Gender-Based Violence against Women - Özlem Altıok 4. Fatphobia - Laurie Cooper Stoll, Angela Meadows, Stephanie von Liebenstein and Carina Elisabeth Carlsen 5. Opioid Abuse and Evidence-Based Practices for a Global Epidemic - Andrea N. Hunt 6. Water Justice as Social Policy: Tackling the Global Challenges to Water and Sanitation Access - Marie Carmen Shingne and Stephen P. Gasteyer 7. COVID-19 Vaccine Inequity - Seow Ting Lee 8. The Problem of Insecure Community Health Workers in the Global South - Catherine van de Ruit and Amy Zhou 9. Sub-Saharan Africa’s Digital Poverty in Perspective - Ahmed Badawi Mustapha 10. Climate Change, Migration, and Language Endangerment in the Pacific - Jason Brown and John Middleton 11. Reimagining the Climate Crisis as a Social Crisis - Marko Salvaggio Part 2: Reflection Pieces 12. Invitation to Transnational Sociology - John G. Dale and Ivan Kislenko 13. Global Social Justice Research, Teaching and Activism: A Global Turn in Sociology? - Jerry A. Jacobs and Elinore Avni 14. A Sociology of Hope: Why We Need a Radical Action Agenda for Social Justice - Corey Dolgon Afterword - Héctor L. Delgado

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Book SynopsisExploring representations of Latinx people from Scarface to Narcos, this book examines how pop culture has framed Latin America as the villain in America’s long and ineffectual War on Drugs. If there is an enemy in the War on Drugs, it is people of color. That is the lesson of forty years of cultural production in the United States. Popular culture, from Scarface and Miami Vice to Narcos and Better Call Saul, has continually positioned Latinos as an alien people who threaten the US body politic with drugs. Jason Ruiz explores the creation and endurance of this trope, its effects on Latin Americans and Latinx people, and its role in the cultural politics of the War on Drugs. Even as the focus of drug anxiety has shifted over the years from cocaine to crack and from methamphetamines to opioids, and even as significant strides have been made in representational politics in many areas of pop culture, Latinx people remain an unshakeTable of Contents Introduction Chapter 1. “Say Goodnight to the Bad Guy”: South Florida, Cocaine, and the Many Faces of Scarface Chapter 2. Miami Vices: Whiteness and Otherness in Representing the Criminalized City Chapter 3. “The Most Alive Dead Man in the World”: Plotting the Death of Pablo Escobar Chapter 4. Dancing toward Revenge: Queer Representation and What It Means to Be Seen in Narcomedia Chapter 5. Dark Matters: Breaking Bad and the Suburban Crime Drama Chapter 6. Bad Hombres: Narcomedia at the US-Mexico Border Chapter 7. From Public Enemy to Global Media Commodity: Pablo Escobar Transformed Epilogue. “It’s Time for a White Man to Leave the Building”: Centering Latinidad in Narcomedia Acknowledgments Notes Selected Filmography Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this revealing look at home care, Cynthia J. Cranford illustrates how elderly and disabled people and the immigrant women workers who assist them in daily activities develop meaningful relationships even when their different ages, abilities, races, nationalities, and socioeconomic backgrounds generate tension. As Cranford shows, workers can experience devaluation within racialized and gendered class hierarchies, which shapes their pursuit of security. Cranford analyzes the tensions, alliances, and compromises between security for workers and flexibility for elderly and disabled people, and she argues that workers and recipients negotiate flexibility and security within intersecting inequalities in varying ways depending on multiple interacting dynamics. What comes through from Cranford''s analysis is the need for deeply democratic alliances across multiple axes of inequality. To support both flexible care and secure work, she argues for an intimate community unionisTrade ReviewCranford's in-depth, thought-provoking, and insightful work is an important read not only for scholars of care work and labor, but also for activists, social workers, and organizers outside of academia who are interested in building alliances of care. * New Books Network *Home Care Fault Lines provides an innovative and essential analysis of the politics of community-based personal and attendant care and demonstrates the power of sociological analysis to inform policy and promote social justice. * American Journal of Sociology *In Home Care Fault Lines, Cynthia Cranford has written an ambitious and pathbreaking book. More than ever before, we cannot ignore the glaring need to invest in the home care sector in a way that is responsive to the needs of both care workers and recipients of care. Luckily, just in time, Cranford's book has provided us with an insightful analysis of how to do just that. * Contemporary Sociology *We can expect Home Care Fault Lines to become a pivotal reference for international care scholarship. * International Journal of Care and Caring *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Tenions between Flexibility and Security 1. Gender, Migration, and the Purist of Security 2. Disability and the Quest for Flexibility 3. Managing Flexibility without Security in Toronto's Direct Funding 4. Negotiating Flexibility with Security in Los Angeles's In-Home Supportive Services 5. Agency-Led Flexibility and Insecurity in Toronto's Home Care 6. Bargaining for Security with Flexibility in Toronto's Attendant Services 7. Toward Flexible Care and Secure Work in Intimate Labor

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Book SynopsisA pioneering examination of nuclear trauma, the continuing and new nuclear peril, and the subjectivities they generate Amid resurgent calls for widespread nuclear energy and “limited nuclear war,” the populations that must live with the consequences of these decisions are increasingly insecure. The nuclear peril combined with the looming threat of climate change means that we are seeing the formation of a new kind of subjectivity: humans who are in a position of perpetual ontological insecurity. In Radioactive Ghosts, Gabriele Schwab articulates a vision of these “nuclear subjectivities” that we all live with. Focusing on the legacies of the Manhattan Project, Hiroshima, and nuclear energy politics, Radioactive Ghosts takes us on a tour of the little-seen sides of our nuclear world. Examining devastating uranium mining on Native lands, nuclear sacrifice zones, the catastrophic accidents at Chernobyl and Fukushima, and the formation of a new transspecies ethics, Schwab shows how individuals threatened with extinction are creating new adaptations, defenses, and communal spaces. Ranging from personal accounts of experiences with radiation to in-depth readings of literature, film, art, and scholarly works, Schwab gives us a complex, idiosyncratic, and personal analysis of one of the most overlooked issues of our time.Trade Review"This book, a wake-up call and a tour de force of wide-ranging interdisciplinary scholarship, is beautifully written and accessible; Gabriele Schwab moves nuclear power discourse further by focusing on aspects rarely addressed together, like psychic, racial, gender and class implications. Her short personal interludes add yet another layer of meaning. Radioactive Ghosts should be required reading for everyone hoping the human species can survive."—E. Ann Kaplan, author of Climate Trauma: Foreseeing the Future in Dystopian Film and Literature"The innocent sounding Manhattan project forever put a Damocles sword on human existence. The first uranium that made the Project possible was dug from Africa. Drawing parallels between the extraction of uranium and the extraction of slave labor, Gabriele Schwab shows the prominent role of colonialism and race in the politics of nuclear production and possession. Radioactive Ghosts, with its clarity of prose and thought, reminds us that we humans have only the one planet. Why, oh, why should any nation be proud that they have the capacity to destroy all planetary life? Exorcise these radioactive ghosts by banning and destroying all these weapons of human destruction. End this MADNESS."—Ngugi wa Thiong'o, author of Wrestling with the Devil "Gabrielle Schwab’s thought-provoking book makes a timely contribution to the on-going nuclear debate."—Journal of Peace ResearchTable of ContentsContentsPreface: Of Three-Eyed Fish and Other GhostingsIntroduction: Why Nuclear Necropolitics Today?Part I. Nuclear Subjectivities1. No Apocalypse, Not Now: Derrida and the Nuclear Unconscious2. Nuclear Colonialism3. Critical Nuclear Race Theory4. The Gender of Nuclear SubjectivitiesInterlude: Children of the Nuclear AgeWith Simon J. OrtizPart II. Haunting from the Future5. The Afterlife of Nuclear Catastrophes6. Hiroshima’s Ghostly Shadows7. Postnuclear Madness and Nuclear Crypts8. Transspecies Selves: Intimacies, Extimacies, AnimaciesCoda: Postnuclear Ecologies: Language, Body, and Affect in Beckett’s Happy DaysAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis important new book explores the nature of the divided brain and its relevance for contemporary psychotherapy. Citing the latest neuroscientific research, it shows how the relationship between the two hemispheres of the brain is central to our mental health, and examines both the practical and theoretical implications for therapy.Trade Review"A magnificent achievement." – Professor Jeremy Holmes, psychiatrist and author of Exploring in Security: Towards an Attachment-Informed Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and The Search for the Secure Base: Attachment Theory and Psychotherapy"Fascinating – both lucid and intriguing." – Adam Phillips, psychoanalyst and author of Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst and Attention Seeking"Wonderful – a really important book revealing the missing key to understanding psychopathology and psychotherapy." – Dr Phil Mollon, psychoanalyst and author of Shame and Jealousy: The Hidden Turmoils; Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy; and The Fragile Self: The Structure of Narcissistic Disturbance"This book explores and explicates insights that are fundamentally important to the practice of therapy today. Really fascinating." – Robert Snell, analytic psychotherapist and author of Uncertainties, Mysteries, Doubts: Romanticism and the Analytic AttitudeTable of ContentsIntroduction Rod TweedyCHAPTER ONEThe Right Brain Is Dominant in PsychotherapyAllan N. SchoreCHAPTER TWOWays of Attending: How our Divided Brain Constructs the World Iain McGilchristCHAPTER THREESocial and Emotional LateralityLouis CozolinoCHAPTER FOURDistinct But Linked: Wellbeing and the Multimodal MindAlexander Welch Siegel and Daniel J. SiegelCHAPTER FIVESystems-Centered Group Psychotherapy: Developing a Group Mind that Supports Right Brain Function and Right-Left-Right Hemispheric IntegrationSusan P. Gantt and Bonnie BadenochCHAPTER SIXGoing Beyond Sucking Stones: Connection and Emergent Meaning in Life and in TherapyBarbara DowdsCHAPTER SEVENA right-brain dissociative model for right-brain disorders: Dissociation vs repression in borderline and other severe psychopathologies of early traumatic origin. Clara MucciCHAPTER EIGHTGrowing, Living and Being RightlyDarcia NarvaezCHAPTER NINEThe Therapeutic Purpose of Right Hemispheric LanguageRussell MearesCHAPTER TENThe formation of the two types of contexts by brain hemispheres as a basis for the new approach to the mechanisms of psychotherapyVadim S. Rotenberg

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Book SynopsisExplores childhood in relation to blackness, transfeminism, queerness, and deportability to interrogate what “the child” makes possibleThe concept of childhood contains many contested and ambivalent meanings that have extraordinary implications, particularly for those staking their claim for belonging and justice on the wish for inclusion within it. In Ambivalent Childhoods, Jacob Breslow examines contemporary U.S. social justice movements (including Black Lives Matter, transfeminism, queer youth activism, and antideportation movements) to discover and reveal how childhood operates within and against them.Ambivalent Childhoods brings together critical race, trans, feminist, queer, critical migration, and psychoanalytic theories to explore the role of childhood in shaping and challenging the disposability of young black life, the steadfastness of the gender binary, the queer life of children’s desires, and the precarious status of migrants. Through an engagement with“the psychic life of the child” that combines theoretical discussions of childhood, blackness, transfeminism, and deportability with critical readings of films, narrative, images, and social justice movements, Breslow demonstrates how childhood requires sustained attention as a complex and ambivalent site for contesting the workings of power, not only for the young. Ambivalent Childhoods is a forward-thinking and intersectional analysis of how childhood affects activism, national belonging, and the violence directed against queer, trans, and racialized people. Trade Review "This is a landmark achievement. Rigorous and lyrical, urgently political and achingly personal, Ambivalent Childhoods braids together scholarly approaches to childhood that center Blackness, transgender, queer sexuality, and migration in order to show how each twist through ambivalent, fraught, and necessary claims to the protections of childhood innocence."—Rebekah Sheldon, author of The Child to Come: Life after the Human Catastrophe "A highly engaging, timely, and forward-thinking interdisciplinary and intersectional exploration of how childhood shapes activism, national belonging, and the violence transacted against queer, trans, and racialized people. Jacob Breslow successfully weaves these differing fields and movements together to show us something vital but seemingly unnoticed about the role of the psychic life of the child in American fantasies about the political and citizenship."—Jules Gill-Peterson, author of Histories of the Transgender Child "Both deeply informative and good to think with."—Children’s Literature Association Quarterly "[Breslow] demonstrates one way to occupy the ambivalence of childhood, attending to its harmful effects while valuing its psychic power to sustain us. Ambivalent Childhoods invites us to engage with that ambivalence and the speculative futures it makes possible."—American Literary History Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: The Wish for Childhood1. Disavowing Black Childhood: Trayvon Martin, Adolescent Citizenship, and Anti-Blackness2. Transphobia as Projection: Trans Childhoods and the Psychic Brutality of Gender3. Desiring the Child: Queerness, Motherhood, and the Analyst4. Undocumented Dream-Work: Intergenerational Migrant Aesthetics and the Parricidal Violence of the BorderAfterword: Ambivalence and Loss AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAn alternative history of capitalist urbanization through the lens of the commons Characterized by shared, self-managed access to food, housing, and the basic conditions for a creative life, the commons are essential for communities to flourish and protect spaces of collective autonomy from capitalist encroachment. In a narrative spanning more than three centuries, Against the Commons provides a radical counterhistory of urban planning that explores how capitalism and spatial politics have evolved to address this challenge.Highlighting episodes from preindustrial England, New York City and Chicago between the 1850s and the early 1900s, Weimar-era Berlin, and neoliberal Milan, Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago shows how capitalist urbanization has eroded the egalitarian, convivial life-worlds around the commons. The book combines detailed archival research with provocative critical theory to illuminate past and ongoing struggles over land, shared resources, public space, neighborhoods, creativity, and spatial imaginaries.Against the Commons underscores the ways urbanization shapes the social fabric of places and territories, lending particular awareness to the impact of planning and design initiatives on working-class communities and popular strata. Projecting history into the future, it outlines an alternative vision for a postcapitalist urban planning, one in which the structure of collective spaces is ultimately defined by the people who inhabit them.Trade Review "Against the Commons rewrites the history of capitalist urbanization since the eighteenth century by focusing on the role of planning in struggles around social reproduction. This fresh and exciting book is an invitation to scholars, students, and practitioners in planning, architecture, and urban studies to rethink the past and the future of urbanization."—Łukasz Stanek, University of Manchester "Against the Commons is one of the most important, original, and radical contributions to planning theory and history in the past fifty years. While Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago offers a sharply critical perspective on the project of planning under capitalism, he also provides an inspiring call for new forms of collective self-management that protect, extend, and empower the commons."—Neil Brenner, University of Chicago "Against the Commons draws attention to the sparsely studied negative agency of urban planning and capitalist urbanization in the demise of achieving improvements associated with the commons, such as collectivization of society and creation of communal space." —Environment & Urbanization "Against the Commons is a truly ground-breaking work, which both deepens our understanding of the genealogies of urban planning and opens up several avenues for discussion and critique." —Housing Studies

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Book SynopsisIn Visible Learning: Lesson Planning Hattie and Zierer make explicit how to implement the world-famous Visible Learning research into the bedrock of teaching and preparation â lesson planning.By implementing the Visible Learning data in everyday teaching, this book provides a practical guide to lesson planning that is unique and objective. Important planning steps are explained and described using example lessons in several different subjects. Success criteria are described, and simple strategies to implement, intervene and evaluate lessons effectively are provided including, critically how to switch from surface to deep learning and back again. This book: combines the largest body of empirical educational research to date (now informed by more than 2,100 meta-analyses and implementation in thousands of classrooms globally) with the everyday task of lesson planning includes empirical research on teaching and learning as well as theoretical studies

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Book SynopsisAn imagination of possibilities, of miscalculations, of futures off-kilter “Probability is a chimera, its head is true, its tail a suggestion. Futurologists attempt to compel the head to eat the tail (ouroboros). Here, though, we will try to wag the tail.” —Vilém Flusser Two years after his Vampyroteuthis Infernalis, the philosopher Vilém Flusser engaged in another thought experiment: a collection of twenty-two “scenarios for the future” to be produced as computer-generated media, or technical images, that would break the imaginative logjam in conceiving the social, political, and economic future of the universe. What If? is not just an “impossible journey” to which Flusser invites us in the first scenario; it functions also as a distorting mirror held up to humanity. Flusser’s disarming scenarios of an Anthropocene fraught with nightmares offer new visions that range from the scientific to the fantastic to the playful and whimsical. Each essay reflects our present sense of understanding the world, considering the exploitation of nature and the dangers of global warming, overpopulation, and blind reliance on the promises of scientific knowledge and invention. What If? offers insight into the radical futures of a slipstream Anthropocene that have much to do with speculative fiction, with Flusser’s concept of design as “crafty” or slippery, and with art and the immense creative potential of failure versus reasonable, “good” computing or calculability. As such, the book is both a warning and a nudge to imagine what we may yet become and be.Trade Review"While the universe Flusser created with his previous book, Vampyroteuthis Infernalis, explores a single alternate lifeworld coherent in its mirroring of the human species by a cephalopod, each scenario in What If? suggests a variety of new ideas, given the speculative, projecting nature of their setting—in the best and most creative sense of ‘what if’—in the past, the present, or the future."—from the IntroductionTable of ContentsIntroduction: What If? Into the Slipstream of Flusser’s “Field of Possibilities”Anke FingerFirst Scenario: What If . . .Part I. Scenes from Family LifeSecond Scenario: GrandmotherThird Scenario: GrandfatherFourth Scenario: Great UncleFifth Scenario: BrothersSixth Scenario: SonSeventh Scenario: GrandchildrenEighth Scenario: Great-GrandchildrenPart II. Scenes from Economic LifeNinth Scenario: Economic MiracleTenth Scenario: Foreign AidEleventh Scenario: Mechanical EngineeringTwelfth Scenario: AgricultureThirteenth Scenario: Chemical IndustryFourteenth Scenario: Animal HusbandryPart III. Scenes from PoliticsFifteenth Scenario: WarSixteenth Scenario: Aural ObedienceSeventeenth Scenario: Perpetual PeaceEighteenth Scenario: RevolutionNineteenth Scenario: Parliamentary DemocracyTwentieth Scenario: Aryan ImperialismTwenty-First Scenario: Black Is BeautifulPart IV. ShowdownTwenty-Second Scenario: A BreatherAfterwordKenneth GoldsmithAcknowledgmentsNotes

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Book SynopsisReflective Practice for Professional Development provides an accessible introduction to the theory and practice of reflection. In ten concise chapters it explores how reflecting on experiences can be used for professional development and help progress knowledge and skills. Using scenarios, questions and stories, the reader is encouraged to apply the content to their own context, demonstrating the importance of reflection in helping us to make sense as well as make the most of our professional experience. Exploring key themes such as the importance of criticality, models of reflection and connections between thought, language and actions, it considers the ways in which reflection can widen perspectives, generate deeper understanding of professional challenges and enhance creativity.Full of practical tools and approaches for enriching and recording reflections, this insightful book aims to simplify reflective practice for teachers. It is an ideal gTrade Review"A hugely enjoyable book that combines practical support for anyone who wishes to reflect, or indeed encourage reflection, with fascinating vignettes that illustrate the points being made. The writing has a lightness of touch that draws the attention of the reader in and makes this a book that will devoured in a short space of time.Whilst all the major models are covered, the strength of this book lies in its ability to explore the transformative power of reflection and to show how reflection is a state of mind, rather than a series of practical tasks. The harder edge that reflection can create is explored in chapter 4 where the author skilfully steers the reader away from treating reflection as a mere ‘comfort blanket’ towards using it to imbue thinking with a degree of criticality that will allow current practice to be challenged and improved.One of the most enjoyable sections refers to what happens when the process of reflection becomes a negative pattern. The reframing of expectations and perceptions can create a cycle of destructive and negative behaviour and the author offers practical solutions and theoretical exposition behind this behaviour.Much of the later part of the book draws on work from people such as Robinson and Bateson and links reflection to creativity. Railing against the perils of groupthink, the author champions the benefits of reflecting when challenging much of the orthodoxy and presents an alternative approach to the prevailing situation in education.The book ends with a quote for the ages ‘I wish I was your age and knew what I know now’, the strength of this book is that the author provides a way for us all to benefit from the wisdom of others, and also the wisdom that is inside us all."Dr Peter Wolstencroft, Deputy Director Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, UK"Carol Thompson has managed to marry two very different aspects of reflection into this excellent and highly-readable book: there is the rigorous attention to detail regarding the relevant theories in the field of professional reflection alongside pertinent activities and exercises to support practitioners within their own reflective practice. This is a book which is itself a model of reflection – the ability to think through what has been devised and stated in the search for creative experiment. I cannot recommend this work wholeheartedly enough to anyone who has an interest in reflection and its influence on professional practice."Dr Neil Hopkins, Advanced Resarcher, Teacher Education, University of Bedfordshire, UK"A hugely enjoyable book that combines practical support for anyone who wishes to reflect, or indeed encourage reflection, with fascinating vignettes that illustrate the points being made. The writing has a lightness of touch that draws the attention of the reader in and makes this a book that will devoured in a short space of time.Whilst all the major models are covered, the strength of this book lies in its ability to explore the transformative power of reflection and to show how reflection is a state of mind, rather than a series of practical tasks. The harder edge that reflection can create is explored in chapter 4 where the author skilfully steers the reader away from treating reflection as a mere ‘comfort blanket’ towards using it to imbue thinking with a degree of criticality that will allow current practice to be challenged and improved.One of the most enjoyable sections refers to what happens when the process of reflection becomes a negative pattern. The reframing of expectations and perceptions can create a cycle of destructive and negative behaviour and the author offers practical solutions and theoretical exposition behind this behaviour.Much of the later part of the book draws on work from people such as Robinson and Bateson and links reflection to creativity. Railing against the perils of groupthink, the author champions the benefits of reflecting when challenging much of the orthodoxy and presents an alternative approach to the prevailing situation in education.The book ends with a quote for the ages ‘I wish I was your age and knew what I know now’, the strength of this book is that the author provides a way for us all to benefit from the wisdom of others, and also the wisdom that is inside us all."Dr Peter Wolstencroft, Deputy Director Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, UK"Carol Thompson has managed to marry two very different aspects of reflection into this excellent and highly-readable book: there is the rigorous attention to detail regarding the relevant theories in the field of professional reflection alongside pertinent activities and exercises to support practitioners within their own reflective practice. This is a book which is itself a model of reflection – the ability to think through what has been devised and stated in the search for creative experiment. I cannot recommend this work wholeheartedly enough to anyone who has an interest in reflection and its influence on professional practice."Dr Neil Hopkins, Advanced Resarcher, Teacher Education, University of Bedfordshire, UK"What I really like about this book and the way the author writes, is that she does not preach to the reader about the ‘correct’ way to reflect. Instead, she offers valuable insights into different aspects of reflection to help the reader work out for themselves what may work for them. The strategies scattered throughout the book, and summed up at the end, make this a really useful tool, not just for trainee teachers, but also for those who are more experienced in reflection, opening our eyes to trying something different. This will be added to the essential reading list for my trainee teachers, and I will certainly be using it to improve my own practice. I can see it quickly becoming one of my ‘go to’ texts which I will constantly be dipping in to." - Elaine Battams, Teacher Educator and Advanced Practitioner at Barnfield College, UK"Thompson’s book is organised sensitively, beginning each chapter with a mind map which represents her personal recollections. Further, authentic vignettes followed by thought-provoking questions are clearly explained to offer the reader some context... I strongly believe that this book is the right place to start for those getting to grips with a holistic understanding of the practical and theoretical underpinnings of reflection." Elanur Yilmaz, Educational ReviewTable of ContentsReflective Practice for Professional Development: Introduction 1. Why should we reflect? 2. Learning through practice 3. Models of reflection 4. The importance of critical thinking 5. Diffusing the dynamite 6. Tools for reflection 7. Reflection for creativity 8. Joining up the dots 9. Reflecting with others 10. Turning reflection into action Final thoughts Appendix

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Book SynopsisWhile today we are experiencing a revival of world art and the so-called global turn of art history, encounters between art historians and anthropologists remain rare. Even after a century and a half of interactions between these epistemologies, a sceptical distance prevails with respect to the disciplinary other. This volume is a timely exploration of the roots of this complex dialogue, as it emerged worldwide in the colonial and early postcolonial periods, between 1870 and 1970. Exploring case studies from Australia, Austria, Brazil, France, Germany, and the United States, this volume addresses connections and rejections between art historians and anthropologists—often in the contested arena of “primitive art.” It presents better- and lesser-known actors, from the art historian-anthropologist Aby Warburg to the modernist Brazilian artist Tarsila do Amaral, and from curators-museum directors such as Alfred Barr and René d’Harnoncourt to the curator-impresario Leo Frobenius. Entering the current debates on decolonizing the past, this collection will prompt reflection on future relations between these two fields.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Peter Probst The Allure of Architectural Ornament: Ethnographic Art and the “Shortcomings” of Inka Stonemasonry - Carolyn Dean Anatomy of a Chronological Hallucination: The Category of Primitive Art and Élie Faure’s L’art medieval - John Warne Monroe Ethnology at the Margins of “General Art History”: The Case of Alois Hein - Priyanka Basu What Happens When Natives Draw? Theodor Koch-Grünberg and the Beginnings of World Art History - Claudia Mattos Avolese Boas and Semper: From the Biology of Images to Primitive Art - Carlo Severi Empathy with the Unknown: Reproducing “World Art” after 1900 - Joseph Imorde Fatal Attraction: Carl Einstein’s “Ethnological” Turn - Charles W. Haxthausen Pathos and Paideuma: Aby Warburg, Leo Frobenius, and the Demons of Culture - Peter Probst Ernst Vatter: A Forgotten Pioneer of Art Ethnology - Karl-Heinz Kohl The Anthropologist as Critic: Claude Lévi-Strauss - Boris Wiseman René d’Harnoncourt, Twentieth-Century Cultural Broker: Bridging Art History and Anthropology through the Display of Indigenous Art - Nancy Lutkehaus Outside and Inside Art History: Anthropologists, Art Historians, Curators, and the Recognition of Aboriginal Art - Howard Morphy Contributors Illustration Credits Index

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Book SynopsisMax Stirner’s The Unique and Its Property (1844) is the first ruthless critique of modern society. In All Things are Nothing to Me, Jacob Blumenfeld reconstructs the unique philosophy of Max Stirner (1806–1856), a figure that strongly influenced—for better or worse—Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Emma Goldman as well as numerous anarchists, feminists, surrealists, illegalists, existentialists, fascists, libertarians, dadaists, situationists, insurrectionists and nihilists of the last two centuries. Misunderstood, dismissed, and defamed, Stirner’s work is considered by some to be the worst book ever written. It combines the worst elements of philosophy, politics, history, psychology, and morality, and ties it all together with simple tautologies, fancy rhetoric, and militant declarations. That is the glory of Max Stirner’s unique footprint in the history of philosophy. Jacob Blumenfeld wanted to exhume this dead tome along with its dead philosopher, but discovered instead that, rather than deceased, their spirits are alive and quite well, floating in our presence. All Things are Nothing to Me is a forensic investigation into how Stirner has stayed alive throughout time.

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Book SynopsisThis second edition of the award-winning original text brings together in one volume the current thinking and conceptualizations on dissociation and the dissociative disorders. Comprised of ten parts, starting with historical and conceptual issues, and ending with considerations for the present and future, internationally renowned authors in the trauma and dissociation fields explore different facets of dissociation in pathological and non-clinical guises. This book is designed to be the most comprehensive reference book in the dissociation field and aims to provide a scholarly foundation for understanding dissociation, dissociative disorders, current issues and perspectives within the field, theoretical formulations, and empirical findings. Chapters have been thoroughly updated to include recent developments in the field, including: the complex nature of conceptualization, etiology, and neurobiology; the various manifestations of dissociation in clinical and non-clinical forms; andTrade ReviewAn excellent successor to the 2009 standard work edited by Dell and O’Neil, this book is again the most complete and up-to-date source of the burgeoning theory, research and clinical practice of dissociation and the dissociative disorders. Diverging perspectives on the construct of dissociation collected together in one volume provide both an invitation for reflection and a foundation to stimulate further development in theory and clinical practice. With valuable contributions from leaders in the field, it is an absolute must for clinicians, researchers, and students interested in trauma and dissociation. Suzette Boon, PhD, co-author of Coping with Trauma-related Dissociation and Treatment of Trauma-related Dissociation and author of Assessment of Trauma-related Dissociation Leading voices in the trauma field, Drs. Dorahy, Gold, and O’Neil have created a wonderful and extremely comprehensive review of dissociation and dissociative disorders for clinicians and researchers. This updated and expanded 2nd edition consists of 49 chapters, all written by noted authorities, covering historical and conceptual issues, etiology, phenomenology, neurobiology, assessment, and multiple approaches to treatment. Notably, it unflinchingly articulates the major controversies and unresolved issues in the dissociation field and provides evenhanded synthesis and context whenever possible. Currently the most comprehensive and definitive work in the field, this book is a must-have for anyone studying or treating dissociation. Highly recommended.John Briere, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry & the Behavioral SciencesKeck - University of Southern California School of Medicine. Author of Treating risky and compulsive behavior in trauma survivors. NY: Guilford, 2019.Dorahy, Gold and O’Neil have mastered the art of "herding cats" in editing an extraordinarily diverse and deeply incisive collection of erudite and wise explorations of dissociative processes, those ubiquitous discontinuities, detachments, compartmentalizations, and disruptions of human relatedness, mental coherence, subjective sense of self, and neurobiological processes that skew experience as if they had a mind of their own. It's not just an exploration of depersonalization, derealization, amnesia, identity confusion and identity alteration; but, rather, it's a deep-dive into what makes this dissociative world of what is strangely familiar go round and round, and then some. This is a must read volume that will both challenge and entertain you as a fellow explorer in the land of that which is dissociative. There is something for everyone here, and nearly everything a serious clinician might want to understand as we try and help the people who struggle with complex phenomena and experience that hide in plain sight. Get it, read it, and ponder it. You will be enriched by your efforts and those of the authors and editors who have poured their hearts into this extraordinary work.Richard A. Chefetz, M.D., Private Practice, Washington, D.C., Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis; Intensive psychotherapy for persistent dissociative processes: The fear of feeling real. New York: W.W. Norton, 2015. This revision of Dissociation and the Dissociative Disorders closely follows the tradition set by the original. The editors have done a masterful job producing an updated volume primarily devoted to the conceptual/theoretical advances about dissociation and its various expressions and disorders, written by identified experts in the field. The editors note that, at present, the understanding of the underlying principle of dissociation remains unclear and subject to debate among the chapter authors, some of whom hold very discrepant and even incompatible viewpoints. However, it is their hope and the promise of this book that the viewpoints they espouse and the advances they present consolidate in the future to ascertain that elusive underlying principle that may well be multi-factorial and multi-theoretical.Christine A. Courtois, PhD, ABPP, author, Healing the Incest Wound: Adult Survivors in Therapy (1988; 2010), co-author, Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders (2013), co-editor, The Treatment of Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders (2012; 2020)This second edition is an edifying contribution to the field of psychology of trauma and dissociation that has now been updated. The strength of the book lies in its rich tapestry of chapters written by world experts echoing polyvocal ideas from divergent perspectives, using empirical evidence and theoretical developments. The multiple perspectives, whilst all connected, each carry their own distinct voice. Growth is stifled whenever absolutes are made and this book outlines the complexity and comprehensibility of dissociation as examined from different vantage points. The book is inspiring to teachers and students alike and is most welcome to practitioners of all psychological disciplines. Orit Badouk Epstein, Attachment based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Editor and Writer, John Bowlby Centre, London.Table of Contents1.History of the Concept of DissociationOnno van der Hart & Martin J. Dorahy2.The Conceptual Unity of Dissociation – A Philosophical ArgumentStephen E. Braude3.The Traumatic Disintegration DimensionBenedetto Farina & Russell Meares4.Dissociation Versus Alterations in Consciousness: Related but Different ConceptsKathy Steele, Martin J. Dorahy, & Onno van der Hart5.The Case for the Study of "Normal" Dissociation ProcessesConstance J. Dalenberg, Rachel R. Katz, Kenneth J. Thompson & Kelsey Paulson6.Dissociation and ResiliencePaula Thomson7.Adaptive Dissociation: A Response to Interpersonal, Institutional, and Cultural BetrayalAlexis A. Adams-Clark, Jennifer M. Gómez & M. Rose Barlow8.Dissociative Multiplicity and PsychoanalysisJohn A. O’NeilSection 2: Etiological and developmental considerations9.A Developmental Pathways Model of DissociationLinnea B. Linde-Krieger, Tuppett M. Yates & Elizabeth A. Carlson10.The Relationship Between Attachment and Dissociation: Theory, Research, and Clinical implicationsAdriano Schimmenti11.Attachment Trauma and the Developing Right Brain: Origins of Pathological Dissociation and Some Implications for psychotherapyAllan N. Schore12.Adverse Childhood Experiences and Dissociative Disorders: A Causal Pathway Based on the Disruptive Impacts of Cumulative Childhood Adversity and Distress-Related Dissociation Michael Quiñones13.Beyond Death: Enduring Incest – The Fusion of Father With DaughterWarwick Middleton14.Clarifying the Etiology of the Dissociative Disorders: It’s Not All About TraumaPaul F DellSection 3: Theoretical approaches15.The Theory of Trauma-related Structural Dissociation of the PersonalityOnno van der Hart & Kathy Steele16.Discrete Behavioral State Theory Richard J. Loewenstein & Frank W. Putnam17.The Perceptual Theory of Dissociation Donald B. Beere18.Contextual Dissociation Theory: The Dual Impact of Trauma and Developmental DeprivationSteven N. Gold19.The Four-Dimensional (4D) Model as a Framework for Understanding Trauma-Related DissociationPaul A. Frewen, Serena Wong & Ruth A. Lanius20.Dissociation and Unformulated Experience: A Psychoanalytic Model of MindDonnel B. SternSection 4: The Dissociative Disorders21.Dissociation in the ICDs and DSMsJohn A. O’Neil22.Dissociative Amnesia and Dissociative FugueColin A. Ross23.Depersonalization/Derealization DisorderMatthias Michal24.A Grounded Theory of Dissociative Identity disorder: Placing DID in Mind, Brain, and BodyLauren A. M. Lebois, Chloe S. Kaplan, Cori A. Palermo, Xi Pan & Milissa L. Kaufman25.Psychotic Presentations of Dissociative DisordersVedat Şar26.The Other in the Self: Possession, Trance, and Related PhenomenaEtzel Cardeña, Yvonne Schaffler & Marjolein van Duijl27.Dissociative Disorders in Children and Adolescents Joyanna Silberg & Stephanie DallamSection 5: Dissociation as a transdiagnostic process – acute and chronic28.Peritraumatic Dissociation and Chronic Posttraumatic Symptomatology: Thirty Years and CountingEtzel Cardeña & Catherine C. Classen29.Dissociation and Trauma: Clinical and Research Intersections in PTSD Olga Winkler, Lisa Burback, Suzette Bremault-Phillips & Eric Vermetten30.Complex PTSD and Emotion Dysregulation: The Role of DissociationJulian D. Ford31.Is Dissociation an Integral Aspect of Borderline Personality Disorder, or is it a Comorbid Disorder?Marilyn I. Korzekwa & Paul F. Dell32.The Nature of Psychotic Symptoms: Traumatic in Origin and Dissociative in Kind?Andrew Moskowitz, Eleanor Longden, Filippo Varese, Dolores Mosquera, & John Read33.Somatoform Dissociation, Agency and ConsciousnessEllert R. S. Nijenhuis34.Maladaptive Daydreaming is a Dissociative Disorder: Supporting Evidence and TheoryNirit Soffer-Dudek & Eli Somer35.Opioid Misuse and Dissociation: Two Powerful Modes of Distress RegulationEli Somer36.Dissociative Factors Contributing to Violence and Antisocial OrientationsRichard A. HohfelerSection 6: Neurobiological and cognitive understandings of dissociation37.The Defense Cascade, Traumatic Dissociation and the Self: A Neuroscientific Model Frank M. Corrigan, Ulrich F. Lanius & Brenna Kaschor38.Towards an Ecology of Dissociation in the Context of Trauma: Implications for the Psychobiological Study of Dissociative DisordersEllert R. S. Nijenhuis39.The Neurobiology of Dissociation in Chronic PTSDFrancesca L. Schiavone & Ruth A. Lanius40.Subjective Amnesia in Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Dual Path Model Drawing on Metacognitive Beliefs Related to Self and Memory Functioning Martin J. DorahySection 7: Assessment and measurement41.Diagnosing the Dissociative Disorders: Conceptual, Theoretical, and Practical ConsiderationsD. Michael Coy & Jennifer A. Madere42.True Drama or True Trauma? Forensic Trauma Assessment and the Challenge of Detecting MalingeringBethany L. Brand & Laura S. BrownSection 8: Treatment considerations and conceptualizations 43.Encountering the Singularities of Multiplicity: Meeting and Treating the Unique PersonRichard P. Kluft44.Controversies in the Treatment of Traumatic Dissociation:The Phased Model, ‘Exposure,’ and the Challenges of Therapy for Complex TraumaPam Stavropoulos & David Elliott45.The Unconscionable in the Unconscious: The Evolution of Relationality in the Conceptualization of the Treatment of Trauma and DissociationElizabeth F. Howell & Sheldon ItzkowitzSection 9: Treatment challenges and therapist considerations 46.Memory, Trauma and the Therapeutic EncounterSylvia Solinski47.Conceptual Foundations for Long-Term Psychotherapy of Dissociative Identity DisorderRichard J. LoewensteinSection 10: The future48.A Research Agenda for the Dissociative Disorders FieldVedat Şar & Colin A. Ross49.Integrating DissociationDavid Spiegel

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Book SynopsisWriting the Pandemic addresses the many challenges that writing instructors and students have faced since the arrival of COVID-19 and their ramifications for teaching and learning, including: Instructional Delivery – in-person, hybrid, and remote classes; Campus and Classroom Protocols – masking, distancing, and cleaning; Safety – quarantining, isolating, and reporting; and Justice – antiracism, political divides, and implications for education. The book is intended for an audience of first-year college composition teachers and other English and language arts instructors at the postsecondary and secondary levels who have experienced the seismic shifts in writing instruction and education more generally that have been necessitated by the pandemic. The author paints portraits of the pandemic experience that writing teachers and their students will relate to and offers practical learning material that can be used in writing courses. An original compilation of material on this theme, Writing the Pandemic includes reflections by a highly experienced writing instructor and his students together with ready-to-use assignments. It is written in a lively style by the author of English Composition Teacher’s Guidebook, Tom Mulder, an award-winning instructor who teaches at Grand Rapids Community College in Michigan. With each chapter, the author offers selected notes blogged at intervals during critical incidents in the unfolding coronavirus as well as individual students’ stories along with their photographs, both inside composition classrooms adapted for distanced learning and writing or working from home. He also presents questions for reflection and his own speculations about the future that are sure to stimulate readers’ own thoughts about what has changed, and how much, as a result of the pandemic, and about what writing instruction will look like going forward.Table of ContentsSeries Editor’s Preface Preface Chapter 1. Distanced Chapter 2. Breaking the Ice Chapter 3. Electronic Chapter 4. Exploring the Local Scene Chapter 5. Detailed Chapter 6. Exploring Careers Chapter 7. Equitable Chapter 8. Exploring a Person/People Chapter 9. Cyclic Timeline of Selected Events from Christmas 2019 to Easter 2022

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Book SynopsisFOREWORD BY DON TAPSCOTT CEO of the Tapscott Group, executive chairman of the Blockchain Research Institute, and world-leading authority on the impact of technology on business and society. The Internet is now, but the future is the metaverse. The metaverse is a virtual-reality space in which users can interact with a computer-generated environment and others. The prediction is that the next ten years will be the golden era of the metaverse, and everyone's life, entertainment, social interaction, and work will increasingly take place in the metaverse world. This book outlines six important trends in the era of the metaverse, that will see dramatic changes in technology and the bringing together of digital and physical worlds. People will experience a great migration of their social life and economic activities into the metaverse. Furthermore, the authors argue that, in the metaverse, we can get rid of many of the constraints of the physical world, achieve a better self in the new digital space, and truly maximize our own value as human beings. This book sets out how you can seize the opportunity of the metaverse era.

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Book SynopsisGriselda Pollock reintroduces an important feminist forerunner in this new, full-colour setting of Helen Rosenau’s 1944 book Woman in Art Helen Rosenau (1900–1984) was part of the influential migration of European Jewish intellectuals who fled to Britain and the United States during the 1930s, bringing with them exciting innovations in art history’s methods. Only Rosenau, however, centred gender in her analysis. The result—her book Woman in Art: From Type to Personality—is a feminist art-historical project, as relevant today as when it was first published in 1944, in which Rosenau drew on contemporary discussions of gender in anthropology, philosophy, sociology, law, theology, history, and literature. In this new volume, ahead of the eightieth anniversary of its original publication, Rosenau’s erudite and accessible text is prefaced with a personal memoir by Adrian Rifkin, who was once her student, new research into the refugee experience by Rachel Dickson, and a portrait of Rosenau as feminist intellectual by Griselda Pollock. In conversation with this new setting of the original text, richly illustrated with colour images, Pollock offers eye-opening new readings of key aspects of Rosenau’s methods, concepts, arguments, and interpretations of famous artworks, establishing the place of Rosenau’s “little book of 1944” in the historiographies of both feminist thought and cutting-edge art history across two centuries. A digital facsimile of Woman in Art (1944) can be found on the Internet Archive (archive.org)

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Book SynopsisThis revised and expanded second edition of Key Themes in Health and Social Care is a learning resource for students in health and social care. It provides an overview of foundational issues and core themes in the field and introduces key areas of debate, moving from an introductory level to in-depth discussion as the book progresses. Divided into three parts: the first part sets the scene, addressing introductory psychology and sociology, social policy, equality and diversity, skills for practice, and working with people the second part considers key themes such as mental health and wellbeing; management of services; the relationship between place and wellbeing; research in health and social care; and person-centred interventions the third part looks at discrete areas of practice such as mental health; ageing, leading and managing health and social care; working with vulnerable populations; and health promotion Each chapter begins with an outlTable of Contents1.Introduction. Part One. 2.Foundations in Health and Social Care. 3.Human Growth and Development. 4.Current Issues in Health and Social Care. 5.Working with People. 6.Social Policy in Health and Social Care. 7.Professional Practice and Work-Based Learning. Part Two. 8.Health, Social Care and Crime. 9.Person Centred Interventions. 10.Valuing Research in Health and Social Care. 11.Managing Health and Social Care. Part Three. 12.Young People and Social Care. 13.Engaging Vulnerable Groups. 14.Children’s and Young People’s Mental Health. 15.Ageing in the 21st century. 16.Transcultural Issues. 17.Leadership in Health and Social Care. 18.Conducting a Student Empirical Research Study in Health and Social Care. 19.Conclusion. 20.Glossary

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Book SynopsisA feminist analysis of young women and popular culture and a forceful critique of male domination in youth culture.Feminism, Young Women, and Cultural Studies collects together essays dating back to the mid-1970s to provide both a feminist analysis of young women and popular culture (including magazines, dance, and fashion) as well as a forceful critique of male domination in youth culture and the ways in which an ideology of adolescent femininity functioned so as to subdue and restrain young women in passive and subordinate gender unequal positions. The collection also shines a light on the kinds of methodologies being developed at Birmingham University CCCS as cultural studies was emerging as a distinct field of study. These essays when first published found their way onto the university undergraduate curriculum across the world and were translated into various languages. The author in this new edition provides a lively up-to-date introductory essay to each chapter as well as an engaging full introduction to the book as a whole that draws attention to race and ethnicity and intersectionality in studies of girlhood. It also considers the category of "girl" from queer perspectives and reflects on new inflections of teen femininity in popular fiction.

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive textbook prepares early childhood educators to effectively work with and support young children (ages 0-8) with diverse languages, cultures, and learning needs. With a multipurpose, multilevel format, this dynamic resource focuses on the central role of language development and culture in all aspects of learning. Adaptable chapters cover curriculum, family involvement, co-teaching, classroom environment and more, and feature both brief and deeper study versions of the material, alongside a wealth of case examples and implementation strategies. Accompanied by an online instructor's manual, this ground-breaking text is an ideal resource for students and educators in early childhood and second language education, and all fields that work with young children, and all fields that work with young children. Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Language Development 3. Getting Started 4. Curriculum 5. Meeting Individual Needs 6. Environment and Materials 7. Family and Community 8. Co-Teaching, Collaborating, and Working with Specialists 9. Professionalism 10. What Administrators, Supervisors, and Instructors Need to Know

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Book SynopsisFor the irrepressible self-starters and skilful navigators, the conscientious leaders and highly focused organisers, discover a notebook that understands you.As well as blank and lined pages for your own lists, notes and thoughts, this beautiful, design-led notebook features a dedicated section in the back written by a personality psychologist to help you to better understand your personality type and maximise your potential.Part of the Note to Self: Personality Notebooks series. Other titles include Dreamer and Disrupter.

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Book SynopsisHans Vaihinger (18521933) was an important and fascinating figure in German philosophy in the early twentieth century, founding the well-known journal Kant-Studien. Yet he was overshadowed by the burgeoning movements of phenomenology and analytical philosophy, as well as hostility towards his work because of his defense of Jewish scholars in a Germany controlled by Nazism.However, it is widely acknowledged today that The Philosophy of As If' is a philosophical masterwork. Vaihinger argues that in the face of an overwhelmingly complex world, we produce a simpler set of ideas, or idealizations, that help us negotiate it. When cast as fictions, such ideas provide an easier and more useful way to think about certain subjects, from mathematics and physics to law and morality, than would the truth in all its complexity. Even in science, he wrote, we must proceed as if a material world exists independently of perceiving subjects; in behaviour, we must act as Table of ContentsForeword to the Routledge Classics Edition Michael Rosenthal General Introduction Part 1: Basic Principles General Introductory Remarks on Fictional Constructs A. The Enumeration and Division of Scientific Fictions B. The Logical Theory of Scientific Fictions C. Contributions to the History and Theory of Fictions D. Consequences for the Theory of Knowledge Part 2: Amplified Study of Special Problems 1. Artificial Classification 2. Further Artificial Classifications 3. Adam Smith's Method in Political Economy 4. Bentham's Method in Political Science 5. Abstractive Fictional Methods in Physics and Psychology 6. Condillac's Imaginary Statue 7. Lotze's 'Hypothetical Animal' 8. Other Examples of Fictitious Isolation 9. The Fiction of Force 10. Matter and Materialism as Mental Accessories 11. Abstract Concepts as Fictions 12. General Ideas as Fictions 13. Summational, Nominal, and Substitutive Fictions 14. Natural Forces and Natural Laws as Fictions 15. Schematic Fictions 16. Illustrative Fictions 17. The Atomic Theory as a Fiction 18. Fictions in Mathematical Physics 19. The Fiction of Pure Absolute Space 20. Surface, Line, Point, etc., as Fictions 21. The Fiction of the Infinitely Small 22. The History of the Infinitesimal Fiction 23. The Meaning of the' As If' Approach 24. The Fictive Judgment 25. The Fiction contrasted with the Hypothesis Part 3: Historical Confirmations A. Kant’s Use of the ‘As If’ Method B. Forberg, The Originator of the Fichtean Atheism-Controversy, and his Religion of As-If C. Lange's 'Standpoint of the Ideal' D. Nietzsche and his Doctrine of Conscious Illusion. Subject Index Index of Names

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Book SynopsisAn Introduction to Cyberpsychology provides a comprehensive introduction to this rapidly growing discipline. Fully updated in its second edition, the book encourages students to critically evaluate the psychology of online interactions and to develop appropriate research methodologies to complete their own work in this field.The book examines cyberpsychology and online research methodologies, social psychology in an online context, practical applications of cyberpsychology, and the psychological aspects of other technologies. This new edition has been carefully updated to include additional coverage of: Expanded content relating to major developments in the field and new content on gaming and screentime A new chapter examining the relationship between older adults and technology Cyberpsychology in focus feature boxes in each chapter that examine topics in depth Interviews with professionals working in fields relating to cyberpsychology Each chapter includes key terms and a glossary, content summaries, discussion questions, and recommended reading to guide further study.Supported by extensive online resources for students and instructors, this authoritative book is an essential core text for undergraduate modules in cyberpsychology, and an ideal primer for students of postgraduate programs in cyberpsychology.To view the additional student and instructor resources for this book, please visit https://routledgelearning.com/bpscoretextbooksTrade Review‘The editorial team and contributors’ knowledge and understanding of the broad intersections of cyberpsychology research is second-to-none, given their years of experience teaching and writing about the impact of technology on human behaviour. This is a must have book for those starting to learn about, or wanting to keep pace with, the multi-disciplinary field of cyberpsychology.’ Dr. Andrew J. Campbell, Associate Professor of Cyberpsychology, The University of Sydney, Australia‘The 2nd Edition of An Introduction to Cyberpsychology offers a comprehensive and thought-provoking critical analysis of a range of contemporary topics in this ever-evolving field. With supporting online resources, this is an essential read for interested scholars and students across a range of disciplinary areas, not least in psychology. Highly recommend.’ Neil Coulson, Professor of Health Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK‘The second edition of An Introduction to Cyberpsychology shares the most-up-to-date research on contemporary issues in cyberpsychology in accessible, easy-to-understand language. It is thorough and considers the multiple ways in which human behaviour shapes and is shaped by digital technology across all facets of life from developmental ages (youth and older age), work, education, sport, and interpersonal and romantic relationships. Chapters are written by leaders in the field and the online learning activities would enhance any cyberpsychology curriculum. I'm looking forward to using this in my own classrooms!’Dr Melanie Keep, Director of Academic Education, Sydney School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney‘This book provides a comprehensive overview of cyberpsychology. It applies evidence-based literature from psychology and related disciplines to explore the impact of online technologies to a diverse range of topics including but not limited to health, education, social identity, consumer behaviour, and the workplace. In doing so it provides an invaluable resource for students, instructors, policymakers, and any other stakeholders with an interest in the increasingly important discipline of cyberpsychology. The supplementary online resources provided that can be accessed by students are engaging and will provide a deeper understanding of the issues that the book discusses.’Prof. John McAlaney, University of Bournemouth, UK‘As technology progresses, the importance of cyberpsychology as an essential part of the wider psychology curriculum becomes more apparent. This book acts as an excellent introduction to the field, providing an in-depth overview of all the subject has to offer. Through interactive discussion questions and additional reading lists, the book provides a valuable and accessible resource for students and anyone intrigued to find out more about our digital behaviours. An essential addition to the existing literature, with contributions from leading experts in the field. A great read!’ Dr Lisa Orchard, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Wolverhampton, UK‘The new edition of An Introduction to Cyberpsychology by Irene Connolly, Marion Palmer, Hannah Barton, and Gráinne Kirwan demystifies the relatively new field of cyberpsychology. Moreover, it communicates the nuts and bolts of strategies from several up-to-date approaches for studying digital technologies. The companion website provides informative supplementary materials that are easy to follow. This is an important addition to the cyberpsychology literature.’ Thomas D. Parsons, PhD, Grace Center Professor for Innovation in Clinical Education, Simulation Science, & Immersive Technology, Director: Computational Neuropsychology & Simulation (CNS) Lab, Arizona State University, USA‘The second edition of An Introduction to Cyberpsychology is a valuable and much needed addition to the field. A must-read for those who are new to cyberpsychology as well as those who are looking to update their understandings. An Introduction to Cyberpsychology covers diverse topics at the forefront of cyberpsychology, which are highly applicable to life in the digital age. Importantly, An Introduction to Cyberpsychology provides readers with the building blocks to develop a nuanced and critical understanding of key issues in cyberpsychology.’Dr Catherine Talbot, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Bournemouth University, UK‘An Introduction to Cyberpsychology does an amazing job of covering the current state of cyberpsychology and how its basic premises extend interdisciplinarily in both positive and potentially destructive ways. In addition to including many opportunities for the reader to think critically about this growing applied discipline within psychology, the editors and chapter authors have included many resources and relevant references that allow for extending the utility of the textbook outside of the very pages they appear on. As a cyberpsychological researcher and an academic teaching cyberpsychology at the graduate level, I found the focus on conducting online research particularly well-suited to my student’s needs, with several of the other chapters uniquely capturing the essence of what I want all of my first-year students to be aware of.’ Dr. Scott Debb, Associate Professor, CyberPsychology Research & Program Coordinator, Norfolk State University, USATable of ContentsPart 1: IntroductionInterview 1: Cyberpsychology in Professional PracticeItayi Viriri1. Introduction to CyberpsychologyGráinne Kirwan2. Conducting Online ResearchBrendan RooneyPart 2: Human interaction onlineInterview 2: Cyberpsychology in Professional PracticeLee Kelly3. Computer-Mediated Communication and Online MediaGráinne Kirwan4. Self and Identity in CyberspaceIrene Connolly5. The dark Side of the InternetHannah Barton and Derek Laffan6. Love and Relationships OnlineNicola Fox Hamilton7. Attention and Distraction OnlineJohn Greaney and Emma Mathias8. The Dynamics of Groups OnlineOlivia Hurley 9. Persuasion and Compliance in CyberspaceHannah Barton10. Privacy and Trust OnlineGrainne KirwanPart 3: Applied CyberpsychologyInterview 3: Cyberpsychology in Professional PracticeFardus Sultan11. Forensic CyberpsychologyGrainne Kirwan12. Cyberpsychology and PsychopathologyCliona Flood and Audrey Stenson13. Sport & Health CyberpsychologyOlivia Hurley 14. The Online WorkplaceCliona Flood and Audrey Stenson15. The Internet as an Educational SpaceMarion Palmer16. Consumer Cyberpsychology and Online marketingNicola Fox Hamilton 17. Young People and the InternetIrene Connolly 18. Older adults in the Digital AgeLiam ChallenorPart 4: Psychology and TechnologyInterview 4: Cyberpsychology in Professional PracticePhelim May19. Human-Computer InteractionAndrew Errity20. GamingDavid Hayes, Andrew Errity, Brendan Rooney, and Conall Tunney21. Psychological Applications of Virtual and Augmented/Mixed RealityGrainne Kirwan22. The Psychology of Artificial IntelligenceGrainne Kirwan

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Book SynopsisIn this third Why I Write volume, Eileen Myles addresses the social, political, and aesthetic conditions that shape their workTrade Review“A real keeper. . . . This book stitches wisdom and philosophy into the world anew via phrases that sometimes seem like strings of afterthoughts.”—Steve Hanson, Manchester Review of Books

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Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates the use of psychoanalytic thinking in front line mental health settings and aims to make available an approach to working with emotional and mental disturbance to a wide range of clinicians within psychiatric and other mental health settings. Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Theory in Practice 3. Supervision and Consultation: turning in to psychotic communications in frontline mental health settings 4. Therapeutic and Anti-Therapeutic Factors in Therapeutic Relationships 5. Psychoanlaytic Understanding of Depressional and Suicidal Risk 6. Psychotherapeutic work with Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder 7. Turning in to Psychotic Communication on a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit 8. Therapeutic work with treatment resistant patients 9. The Contribution of Psychanalytic Perspectives on the patient’s relationship with their bodies 10. Social Systems and Social Defence

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Book SynopsisBy February 2020, the U.S. economic expansion had become the longest on record. Unemployment was plumbing half-century lows. Stock markets soared to new highs. One month later, the public health battle against a deadly virus had pushed the economy into the equivalent of a medically induced coma. America''s workplaces-offices, shops, malls, and factories-shuttered. Many of the nation''s largest employers and tens of thousands of small businesses faced ruin. Over 22 million American jobs were lost. The extreme uncertainty led to some of the largest daily drops ever in the stock market.Nick Timiraos, the Wall Street Journal''s chief economics correspondent, draws on extensive interviews to detail the tense meetings, late night phone calls, and crucial video conferences behind the largest, swiftest U.S. economic policy response since World War II. Trillion Dollar Triage goes inside the Federal Reserve, one of the country''s most important and least understood institutions, to chronicle how its plainspoken chairman, Jay Powell, unleashed an unprecedented monetary barrage to keep the economy on life support. With the bleeding stemmed, the Fed faced a new challenge: How to nurture a recovery without unleashing an inflation-fueling, bubble-blowing money bomb?Trillion Dollar Triage is the definitive, gripping history of a creative and unprecedented battle to shield the American economy from the twin threats of a public health disaster and economic crisis. Economic theory and policy will never be the same.

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Book SynopsisNow in paperback, this witty, irreverent narrative explores what we can learn from the extraordinary legacies of 30 iconic women--from Frida Kahlo and Liz Taylor to Nora Ephron and Lena Dunham--who forged their own unique paths in the world. Smart, sassy, and unapologetically feminine, this elegantly illustrated book is an ode to the bold and charismatic women of modern history. Best-selling author Karen Karbo (The Gospel According to Coco Chanel) spotlights a group of spirited rule breakers who charted their way with little regard for expectations: Amelia Earhart, Helen Gurley Brown, Carrie Fisher, Hillary Clinton, Amy Poehler, and Shonda Rhimes, among others. Their lives--imperfect, elegant, messy, glorious--provide inspiration and instruction for the new age of feminism we have entered. Karbo distills these lessons with empathy and humor, examining the universal themes that connect us to these mesmerizing personalities today: sucTrade Review“It’s the unexpected stories that are some of the most beguiling…These are messy, inspiring lives lived in public by necessity or choice. They often offer great humor too.” –San Francisco Chronicle"I think that this is a book that everyone should read and one that everyone should have on their shelves." - Ms. Nose in a Book“I love the idea of grabbing a cuppa, this book, and just diving right in. It’s such a great pick-me-up. Reading about these awesome women, their struggles, their successes, and how inspiring they are - just puts a smile on my face. They are awe-inspiring stories that I gobbled up with joy. --abookishwayoflife.blogspot.com “This book is a total inspiration for those that want to shake things up a little bit and push boundaries further for women…All I can say is I now have a very long list of biographies and memoirs on and by the woman that appear in this book.” –abookishaffair.blogspot.com“An engaging, inspiring collection where I enjoyed learning about amazing modern women and was left wanting to learn more.” –doingdeweydecimal.com “The author chose a great selection of women to represent the "difficult" woman.” –cerebralgirl.blogspot.com“Karbo has a knack for the nuances and sidebars that leave the reader not just a carrier of new facts, but of fascination and admiration for her subjects.” –The Register-Guard"This book is a history lesson that goes down like cotton candy: pink, sweet, and fun as hell. Don’t miss it." —NextTribe“With occasional anecdotes from her own life, Karbo delves into her personal relationship with each of these women…all of them important touchstones for her.” –LA Review of Books“In Praise of Difficult Women” is a collection of short biographies of well-known women who are difficult in what Karbo thinks is the best sense — strong, independent, smart, assertive." —The Seattle Times“Karbo, of Portland, Oregon, is embracing being a “difficult woman” in her newest book, which celebrates other women who broke the rules.” –Wisconsin State Journal, AP News“Refreshingly frank, Karbo’s book celebrates women who forged provocative identities and found life fulfillment despite the odds they faced. Inspiring reading about women who have shown “that it’s all right to occupy our humanity.” –Kirkus "The women chosen are eclectic, while the narrative is researched and informed yet conversationally welcoming...Karbo’s fondness for rule breakers and benders is clear, and she defends them through character quirks and missteps—real women lead real and flawed lives." –Foreword In Praise of Difficult Women offers many words of wisdom, including sage advice from fashion titan Diana Vreeland, who noted that the only right life to live is “the one you know you want, and you make it for yourself.” —Women's Voices ForeSight“Karbo examines the universal themes that connect each of us to these icons of female badassery and argues that being “difficult” can lead to a more fulfilling life.” –BookRiot “In 29 takes, Karen Karbo catalogs the ways in which a woman rankles: She can be independent, exacting, impatient, persistent, opinionated, angry, unaccommodating, ambitious, restless, confident, brilliant, articulate, or just plain visible. Nothing is lost on Karbo, from Elizabeth Taylor’s double eyelashes to the contents of Martha Gellhorn’s travel bag to Amelia Earhart’s homemade roller coaster. You’ll need two copies!”—Stacy Schiff, best-selling author of Cleopatra: A Life and The Witches “Part biography, part inspiration, all parts fascinating, In Praise of Difficult Women is a wise and hilarious reminder of the importance of being a pain in the ass. Keep it by your bedside.”—Meghan Daum, best-selling author of The Unspeakable “Give me difficult women or give me death. Karen Karbo’s In Praise of Difficult Women brings us all back to life by illuminating the paths of women who refused to shut up, sit down, hold still, behave, or smile on anyone’s terms but their own. A perfect manifesto as to why now is the time to get loud, unflinching, and brazen, exactly as we are.”—Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Misfit’s Manifesto “Difficult seems absolutely delightful in these absorbing, inspiring, and often surprising portraits that do more than entertain. They raise important questions about femininity and culture, power and bravery—and make us ask these same questions about our mothers, sisters, daughters, and ourselves. Though Karbo masterfully covers a wide range of exceptional women, what unites them is the way they make ‘difficult’ become a quality not to avoid but to aspire to with gusto.”—Lori Gottlieb, New York Times best-selling author of Marry Him

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Book SynopsisFemale presence and involvement on boards improves firm performance, transforms corporate governance and leads to the transition towards more responsible business.Corporate boards are essential bodies for governance and management and their efficiency determines a companyâs performance. The board is a crucial element of the corporate governance structure and its efficiency and performance determines the success of the operation and monitoring of the company. The board is viewed as the liaison between providers of capital (shareholders) and managers who use this capital to create value. The board role is to represent, formulate and fulfill the interests and expectations of shareholders as the owners of the companies. The discussion surrounding female participation in business inevitably needs to refer to their presence on corporate boards. It is also a reliable indicator of a gender equality policy and advancement, adopted by countries and companies.The boTable of ContentsPart I Overview; Introduction (Maria Aluchna and Guler Aras); Part II Concepts and Models; Chapter 1 Women on Corporate Boards: Backgrounds, Drivers and Mechanisms (Maria Aluchna and Tomasz Szapiro); Chapter 2 Gender Diversity on Boards in Norway and the UK: A Different Approach to Governance or a Case of Path Dependency? (Rita Goyal, Nada Korac Kakabadse, Filipe Morais and Andrew P. Kakabadse); Chapter 3 Regulation of the Gender Composition of Company Boards in Europe: Experience and Prospects (Kevin Campbell and Leszek Bohdanowicz); Part III Regulation and Compliance; Chapter 4 Gender Balance in Australian Boardrooms: The Business Case for Quotas (JF Corkery, Madeline Elizabeth Taylor and Melanie Hayden); Chapter 5 Women on Corporate Boards in Poland and Estonia in the Context of the EU Gender Equality Policy (Marta Pachocka, Aleksandra Szczerba-Zawada and Diana Eerma); Chapter 6 Socio-Economic Perspective on Women on Boards: An African Perspective (Justina Mutale and Anna Masłoń-Oracz); Chapter 7 Women's Experiences in Top Management Teams (TMTs): The Case of Israeli National Majority and National Minority Women (Helena Desivilya Syna, Michal Palgi and Maha Karkabi-Sabbah); Part IV Business Practice; Chapter 8 Female Entrepreneurship and Boardroom Diversity: The Case of Russia (Irina Tkachenko and Irina Pervukhina); Chapter 9 Female Representation on Swedish Corporate Boards (Gunnar Rimmel, Petra Inwinkl, Anna Lindstrand and Ida Ohlsson); Chapter 10 Females on Corporate Boards: French Perspectives: Towards More Diversity? (Nabyla Daidj); Chapter 11 The 2017 New Zealand Stock Exchange Directors’ Network Analysis and the Effect of ‘Soft’ Reporting Regimes on Board Diversity (Rosanne Hawarden); Chapter 12 Women on Boards: Perspectives from BRIC and Turkey (Güler Aras and Ozlem Kutlu Furtuna); Part V Conclusion; Conclusion: Woman on Boards: What Will be the Next Step? (Güler Aras and Maria Aluchna)

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Book SynopsisHow the “bad feelings” of trans experience inform trans survival and flourishing Some days—or weeks, or months, or even years—being trans feels bad. Yet as Hil Malatino points out, there is little space for trans people to think through, let alone speak of, these bad feelings. Negative emotions are suspect because they unsettle narratives of acceptance or reinforce virulently phobic framings of trans as inauthentic and threatening. In Side Affects, Malatino opens a new conversation about trans experience that acknowledges the reality of feeling fatigue, envy, burnout, numbness, and rage amid the ongoing onslaught of casual and structural transphobia in order to map the intricate emotional terrain of trans survival. Trans structures of feeling are frequently coded as negative on both sides of transition. Before transition, narratives are framed in terms of childhood trauma and being in the “wrong body.” Posttransition, trans individuals—especially trans people of color—are subject to unrelenting transantagonism. Yet trans individuals are discouraged from displaying or admitting to despondency or despair. By moving these unloved feelings to the center of trans experience, Side Affects proposes an affective trans commons that exists outside political debates about inclusion. Acknowledging such powerful and elided feelings as anger and exhaustion, Malatino contends, is critical to motivating justice-oriented advocacy and organizing—and recalibrating new possibilities for survival and well-being.Trade Review "Hil Malatino has become an indispensable thinker when it comes to trans scholarship, somehow able to put into words not just ideas but feelings that I had previously found ineffable and unspeakable, a talent that is familiar to me from the very best of literature."—Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby "Down with the narrative tyranny of gender dysphoria and euphoria! Side Affects dares invoke a trans right to feel bad, not as antidote to normativity but as a portal to the complex feelings of transition that have been buried by medicalization, activist urgency, and the collateral damage of transphobia. Hil Malatino delivers a powerful trans reckoning for feminist, queer, and affect studies."—Jules Gill-Peterson, author of Histories of the Transgender Child "Overall, it’s an amazingly informative publication that I’m certain will enlighten many people in academia, trans, or otherwise."—neowitcher reads "Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad, rejects the sanitized narratives of the moral and intellectual purity of transness meant to please the cis gaze. Instead, it delves into a conversation around the trans experience that acknowledges the reality of feeling, fatigue, envy, burnout, numbness, and rage amid the ongoing onslaught of casual and structural transphobia as a way to map the emotional terrain of trans survival."—Shondaland "The book provides an insider's view of the bleaker and more frustrating aspects of transition, too often downplayed since transgender people were forcibly enlisted as combatants in the so-called culture wars."—Boston Review "Malatino’s argument is firmly grounded in current trans, queer, and feminist theory, while it invokes the methods of poststructural critique and phenomenological interrogation."—CHOICE "Reading Hil Malatino’s Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad offered me permission to see my life and the terror of this current political moment with more honesty."—X-Tra

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Book SynopsisQueer in Europe takes stock of the intellectual and social status and treatment of queer in the New Europe of the twenty-first century, addressing the ways in which the Anglo-American term and concept 'queer' is adapted in different national contexts, where it takes on subtly different overtones, determined by local political specificities and intellectual traditions. Bringing together contributions by carefully chosen experts, this book explores key aspects of queer in a range of European national contexts, namely: Belgium, Cyprus, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, The Nordic Region, The Netherlands, Poland, Russia and Spain. Rather than prescribing a universalizing definition, the book engages with a wide spectrum of what is meant by 'queer', as each chapter negotiates the contested border between direct queer activist action based on identity categories, and more plural queer strategies that call these categories into question. The first volume in English devoted to the exploration of queer in Europe, this book makes an important intervention in contemporary queer studies.Trade Review'Given how queer theory has been haunted by a troubling lack of specificity inherent in its central term, this volume comes as welcome relief. By focusing on concrete case studies and gathering a range of local stories, Queer in Europe does justice to the conceptual and geographical heterogeneity of the category queer.' Tim Dean, SUNY-Buffalo, USA 'This excellent book is a timely reminder that ’queer’ goes far beyond the debates between activists and academics in English-speaking countries. Differing cultural, social and political circumstances have brought forth a huge number of vibrant, productive and contentious takes on queerness across "Europe" which in itself is a concept impossible to reduce to a single definition.' Michael Gratzke, University of St Andrews, UK '... give[s] a much clearer picture of modern European Queer citizenship, activist movements, and issues as they have been affected by the historical influences of communism and capitalism... 'Queer in Europe' centers each chapter on one country and is less concerned with trying to locate a homogenous state of Queer activism on the European continent...' M/C Reviews 'It is an important intervention into current queer studies agenda by engaging and exploring the very status and notion of ’queerness’. By asking what is its meaning outside the originating cultural context of the United States, the book poses questions about the ontology of queer politics, and asks for the epistemological underpinning of queer studies... Downing and Gillett have done a praise-worthy job of collecting a vast range of European examples, and reading about them will be rewarding to anyone interested in the queer/sexuality studies. The book’s greatest strength and appeal is its richness and diverse a panorama of cases that sometimes may seem almost too hard to harness together. We are offered not only a range of country examples but also various ways of theorising/writing about them...' Psychology and SexualityTable of ContentsQueer in Europe

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the rich resources of the ten-volume series of The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science, this one-volume distillation provides a comprehensive overview of all the main branches of contemporary political science: political theory; political institutions; political behavior; comparative politics; international relations; political economy; law and politics; public policy; contextual political analysis; and political methodology. Sixty-seven of the top political scientists worldwide survey recent developments in those fields and provide penetrating introductions to exciting new fields of study. Following in the footsteps of the New Handbook of Political Science edited by Robert Goodin and Hans-Dieter Klingemann a decade before, this Oxford Handbook will become an indispensable guide to the scope and methods of political science as a whole. It will serve as the reference book of record for political scientists and for those following their workTrade ReviewReview from previous edition Robert Goodin has put together a superb volume: truly a collection of the very best from the already outstanding chapters in the original ten volumes. The authors -- the most prominent and authoritative experts from all over the world -- provide not only a comprehensive and systematic assessment of what political science has already accomplished but also a guide to where the discipline should be heading in the future. Political scientists in all fields will welcome this immensely valuable effort. * Arend Lijphart, Research Professor Emeritus of Political Science Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego *A concise and solid introduction to political science and its ten sub-disciplines. The assembly of scholars from leading US, European, and Australian universities and research centres provides the reader with diverse perspectives and awareness of current scholarship. Entries are heavily cited and provide a concise roadmap of key scholars, theories, and current developments within each area...Highly recommended * CHOICE *Anyone who wants to know the state of the art in political science and where the discipline is headed, but only consult one volume, need go no further than these authoritative essays by first rate contributors * Carole Pateman, Research Professor School of European Studies, Cardiff University *Table of ContentsPART 1 INTRODUCTION; PART II POLITICAL THEORY; PART III POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS; PART IV LAW & POLITICS; PART V POLITICAL BEHAVIOR; PART VI CONTEXTUAL POLITICAL ANALYSIS; PART VII COMPARATIVE POLITICS; PART VIII INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; PART IX POLITICAL ECONOMY; PART X PUBLIC POLICY; PART XI POLITICAL METHODOLOGY

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Book SynopsisHelp children form a fulfilling, lifelong relationship with Jesus! The Beginner’s Bible Let’s Learn About Jesus offers young children an introduction to the life and character of Jesus, giving them a deeper understanding of Christ and the role he plays in their lives. The Beginner’s Bible is a perennial favorite with young children and their parents, impacting 28 million families for over 30 years.Featuring helpful examples from classic Bible stories, as well as thoughtful questions, fun prompts, and prayers, children will learn about who Jesus is, what he said and did on earth, and how he impacts our lives today. With easy-to-read stories and bright, colorful illustrations, kids will be eager to draw closer to their Lord and Savior and start their faith journey with a solid foundation.The Beginner’s Bible Let’s Learn About Jesus:Is part of The Beginner’s Bible® bra

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Book SynopsisLooking at two of the key paradigms of the post-Cold War eraânational sovereignty, and human rights â this book examines the possibilities for their reconciliation from a global perspective. The real or imagined fear of a flood of immigrants has caused and fuelled the surge of an amalgam of populist political forces, anti-immigrant movements, and exclusionist nationalism in many developed countries. In the last decade, we have witnessed the emergence of two phenomena in the political and legal spheres. On the one hand, there are liberal globalists asking for respect and the protection of the basic human rights of migrants and asylum seekers and arguing for their civic and social integration into host societies. On the other hand, there are growing calls for a tougher stance on immigration, and powerful populist politicians and governments have emerged in many developed countries. How can the idea of universal human rights survive exclusionist nationalism that uses a populist, unscrupulous approach to its advantage? The contributors to this book explore the meaning of, and possible solutions to, this dilemma using a wide range of approaches and seek appropriate ways of dealing with these normative predicaments shared by many developed societies. Scholars and students of human rights, migration, nationalism and multiculturalism will find this a very valuable resource.

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Book SynopsisBritain may have its problems but those who argue the EU is doing better are seeing a fantasy. In reality, the EU has all of Britain's problems - and more.

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Book SynopsisLocating assisted suicide within the broader medical end-of-life context and drawing on the empirical data available from the increasing number of permissive jurisdictions, this book provides a novel examination of the human rights implications of the prohibition on assisted suicide in England and Wales and beyond. Assisted suicide is a contentious topic and one which has been the subject of judicial and academic debate internationally. The central objective of the book is to approach the question of the ban's compatibility with the European Convention on Human Rights afresh; freed from the constraints of the existing case law and its erroneous approach to the legal issues and selective reliance on empirical data. The book also examines the compatibility of the ban on assisted suicide with rights which have either been erroneously disregarded or not considered by either the domestic courts or the European Court of Human Rights. Having regard to human rights jurisprudence more broadlTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1:The Legal Status of End-of-Life Practices: A Comparative Introduction Chapter 2: Protecting Life and Assisting Death: Is Not Allowing Assisted Suicide a Violation of the Right to Life? Chapter 3: Freedom from Torture or Inhuman or Degrading Treatment: Does the Prohibition on Assisted Suicide Constitute Ill-Treatment? Chapter 4: The Right to Choose the Manner and Timing of One's Death: A Re-examination of the Proportionality of the Ban on Assisted Suicide Chapter 5: Justifying the Ban on Assisted Suicide: The Empirical Evidence Chapter 6: Differential Treatment of End-of-Life Practices: Discrimination under Article 14 of the ECHRConclusions

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Book SynopsisEstablishing safety and working with dissociative parts in complex trauma therapy.Trade Review"This comprehensive textbook by three master clinicians is a welcome addition to the growing literature on treatment of patients who have suffered the most extreme early life trauma. A calm and steady emphasis on basic principles, illustrated with numerous case vignettes, offers wise guidance to clinicians facing the challenges of this difficult but rewarding work." -- Judith Lewis Herman, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School "Three expert, experienced clinicians and researchers who are leaders in the field have combined their vast experience and knowledge to write one of the most informative, comprehensive books on the treatment of complex trauma and trauma-generated dissociation I have ever read. This book is clearly written and presents a thorough framework for understanding trauma-generated dissociation and addresses such important issues as the collaborative therapeutic relationship, case conceptualization and treatment planning, phase-oriented treatment, and working with dissociative parts in a safe way that promotes integration. This is necessary reading for all clinicians not only for understanding and treating trauma-generated dissociation but also as a great text for therapy in general." -- Roger M. Solomon, PhD, Senior Faculty, EMDR Institute

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Book SynopsisBeing an Effective Programme Leader in Higher Education is a practical guide designed to help navigate the complex academic, pastoral, and administrative challenges that come with working in this position. This book looks at topics such as leadership, personal tutoring, and academic and student support mechanisms from the unique perspective of the programme leader. It gives suggestions for effective ways to lead a programme, incorporates practical advice on some key leadership skills, and offers proven strategies from across various contexts within the role. Vignettes, which include descriptions of authentic situations provided by programme leaders, sit alongside probing questions to prompt reflection for professional development.This practical text is a must-read for programme leaders working in higher education and provides the guidance necessary to help them create an environment that is inclusive, caring, compassionate, and supportive. Trade Review"Programme leadership is arguably one of the most important roles in HE in supporting student success, but there are sparingly few books on the subject. This new book authored by an experienced programme leader tackles this vacuum and provides an evidence-based and practice-informed overview of effective programme leadership. Chapters deal with a range of responsibilities, each supported by vignettes applying their learning. This book is a must for anyone in a programmme leadership role."-Ian Turner NTF PFHEA FRSB MCSFS, Professor of Learning and Teaching in Higher EducationTable of Contents1. Leadership 2. Your Support Mechanisms 3. Quality 4. Programme Design and Approval 5. Student Experience 6. Involving External Expertise 7. Work-based Learning

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Book SynopsisThis book equips readers with the knowledge, insights and key capabilities to understand and practice business activities from ethical and sustainable vantage points.In our interconnected global business environment, the impacts of business activities are under increased ethical scrutiny from a wide range of stakeholders. Written from an international perspective, this book introduces the theory and practice of ethical and sustainable business, focusing in particular on eco-environmental sustainability, intergenerational responsibilities, current disruptive technologies, and intercultural values of the business community and consumers. Written by an expert author who also brings to the fore non-Western concepts and themes, this book: features positive case studies, as well as transferrable and applicable key insights from such cases; highlights the importance of taking cultural differences into account; takes a tTrade Review"In business as in life there is no ethics-free zone, and students will look for guidance in steering their course through the many challenges awaiting them. This book prepares them well by laying a solid foundation in ethical theory with only a minimum of technical terminology, but with numerous cases and thought experiments for ethical decision-making that stimulate students’ moral imagination to develop their own pathways towards solutions they can ethically justify." Gerhold K. Becker, Founding Director, Centre for Applied Ethics, Hong Kong Baptist University "Gandhi once pointed out that commerce without morality is a social sin. In this excellent book, Roman Meinhold has provided practical ethical guidelines not just only for business students but also entrepreneurs and professionals. It is an invaluable asset for our future commercial society." Warayuth Sriwarakuel, Vice President for Research, Assumption University of Thailand Business Ethics and Sustainability is an incredibly valuable asset for any businessperson, young or experienced, to challenge old norms about business ethics and profitability working against each other and hopefully it will allow more people to understand that these two concepts can in fact work harmoniously hand-in-hand." Quincy Yu, Senior Vice President, Tycoon Music Co. Ltd. "The book is a highly recommended useful tool for current students and future global leaders." Khothatso Tšooana, Principal Secretary Ministry of Health, Lesotho; former Commissioner of Police, Lesotho Mounted Police Service, Lesotho Table of Contents1. Business and Ethics: Contradiction and Success Story 2. Ethics and Business: Down the Philosophical Rabbit Hole 3. Normative Ethical Foundations of Business Ethics: The Big Five 4. Sustainability and Organizations’ Environmental Responsibility: Trash and Treasures 5. Ethical Stakeholder Analysis and Ethical SWOT Analysis 6. Disruptive Technologies and Business Ethics 7. Business Ethics in Media, Marketing, Advertising, and Fashion 8. Intercultural Business Ethics and Sustainability 9. Systemic Issues 10. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisBetween the State and the Schoolhouse examines the Common Core State Standards from the initiative’s promising beginnings to its disappointing outcomes. Situating the standards in the long history of state and federal efforts to shape education, the book describes a series of critical lessons that highlight the political and structural challenges of large-scale, top-down reforms. Education policy expert Tom Loveless argues that there are too many layers between the state and the classroom for a national standards approach to be effective. Specifically, he emphasizes the significant gap between states’ roles in designing education policy and teachers’ roles as implementers of policy. In addition, he asserts that top-down policies are unpredictable, subject to political and ideological pressures, and vulnerable to the pendulum effect as new reforms emerge in response to previous ones. One of the most ambitious education reforms of the past century, the Common Core aimed to raise student success, prepare larger numbers of students for both college and careers, and close achievement gaps. Yet, as Loveless documents, a decade later there remains a lack of significant positive impact on student learning.Between the State and the Schoolhouse marks an important contribution to the debate over the standards movement and the role of federal and state governments in education reform.

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Book SynopsisBringing together scholars from English literature, geography, politics, the arts, environmental humanities and sociology, Imagining Apocalyptic Politics in the Anthropocene contributes to the emerging debate between bodies of thought first incepted by scholars such as Mouffe, Whyte, Kaplan, Hunt, Swyngedouw and Malm about how apocalyptic events, narratives and imaginaries interact with societal and individual agency historically and in the current political moment. Exploring their own empirical and philosophical contexts, the authors examine the forms of political acting found in apocalyptic imaginaries and reflect on what this means for contemporary society. By framing their arguments around either pre-apocalyptic, peri-apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic narratives and events, a timeline emerges throughout the volume which shows the different opportunities for political agency the anthropocenic subject can enact at the various stages of apocalyptic moments. Featuring Table of ContentsIntroduction: ... these unprecedented times Earl T. Harper and Doug Specht 1. They say "our house is on fire" – on the climate emergency and (new) Earth politics Edward H. Huijbens and Martin Gren 2. Do not go gentle into that good night: contested narratives and political subjectivities in the Anthropocene Carlos Tornel and Aapo Lunden 3. The end of worlding: indigenous cosmologies in the Anthropocene Mariana Reyes-Carranza 4. Apocalypse repeated: the absence of theindigenous subject in George Turner’s The Sea and Summer (1987) Charlotte Lancaster 5. Apocalyptic Literary Geographies: The Tempest’s ‘brave new world,’ Frankenstein’s ‘modern Prometheus,’ and Cloud-Atlas’ ‘ furthest-eeein’ eye’ Charles Travis 6. A world without bodies: geotrauma and the work of mourning in Jorie Graham's Fast Philip Jones 7. Meaningful life at the end of times: ageism and the duty-to-die in Logan’s Run James A. Tyner 8. The catastrophic drive Lucas Pohl and Samo Tomšič 9. The self(ie) in the Anthropocene Doug Specht and Cat Snyder 10. Urbicide in the Anthropocene: imagining Miami futures Stephanie Wakefield 11. Triggering the apparitions: spectres of chemical seascapes María Soledad Castro Vargas and Diana Barquero Pérez 12. Study for "Memories of the apocalypse" Carl Christian Olsson 13. Variegated environmental apocalypses: post-politics, the contestatory, and an eco-precariat manifesto for a radical apocalyptics Tristan Sturm and Nicholas Ferris Lustig

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