Taylor & Francis publish over 2,500 journals and 8,400+ new books each year, across more than 200 subjects and partner with more than 700 scholarly societies. From anthropology to zoology they publish for academics, students and professionals.
Their Routledge Classics imprint features many of the world’s foremost thinkers such as Michel Foucault with Madness and Civilisation, Carl Jung Pyschological Types and Peter Drucker Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
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Book SynopsisThe Differentiating Instruction With Menus for the Inclusive Classroom series offers teachers who have multiple ability levels in one classroom everything they need to create a student-centered learning environment based on appropriate choice. These books, which can be used as a stand-alone series or in conjunction with the original Differentiating Instruction With Menus series for advanced learners, provide numerous types of leveled menus that lower and on-level students can use to select exciting products to demonstrate learning. The reproducible menus in the books address topics in math, science, language arts, and social studies, and each subject-area book contains two menus for each of the 20 carefully selected concepts taught within that content area. Teachers will find that having two leveled menus for each topic offers opportunities for differentiation and easy modification while still encouraging choice and higher level, yet appropriate, options for their on-level and lower
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Book SynopsisThis book reassesses the relationship between human dignity, law, and specifically the âpersonalistâ school of agency.The work argues that a specific way of appreciating dignity is contained in how law understands the person, and so can be used to improve upon how we explain and interpret the law. Despite considerable differences between jurisdictions as regards human dignity in application, it is argued that the particular weight of human persons is the widely shared focal point. The central claim, therefore, is that the law recognises, and tries to foster, the status of personhood, and, drawing on the work of Karol WojtyÅa, the author develops a âStatus of Personhood Theoryâ.The book will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of Legal Philosophy, Jurisprudence, Philosophy, Ethics and Political Theory.
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Book SynopsisThis four-volume collection of primary sources examines art in Scotland during the nineteenth century. During the nineteenth century, Scotland developed as a powerful industrial nation, eventually leading the world in areas such as textiles, shipbuilding and iron and steel production. As a result, a new generation of businessmen began to take an interest in buying art, as a symbol of their new-found wealth and status. The same period saw the establishment of art institutes and artistsâ societies in major centres such as Glasgow and Edinburgh, providing artists not only with opportunities to exhibit their work, but also to see the work of European artists. This period saw the transformation of Scottish art from a period when visual culture was dominated by a retrogressive, romanticised image of the nation, to the modern era, when Scotlandâs artists travelled abroad and embraced the latest avant-garde ideas, eventually enjoying an international reputation. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students of Art History and Scottish History.
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Book SynopsisThis volume provides background texts for the early modern origins of pornography including its philosophic and literary foundations. By the early nineteenth-century, pornographic publications came out of the radical milieu during the global age of revolutions. In England, publishers wrote political philosophy and pornography in tandem. The age of revolutionary pornography ended in the 1860s, when William Dugdale, the doyen of them all, died in prison, sentenced to hard labour for obscenity. The volume documents radical publishers including their publications, their trade records, their arrest records, their court trials, and their political goals. It also includes materials from the Society for the Suppression of Vice and other early attempts to limit obscenity and vice.
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Book SynopsisThis volume details scientific pornography during the long nineteenth century. Though there is little overlap between pornography and sexual science currently, in the past pornographers played up scientific credentials to reassure readers while the state used the ambiguity between categories to censor information about birth control and sexual nonconformity. This volume provides evidence from the mid-century years during which time many of the main producers of pornography were affiliated with anthropology, geography, bibliography, and medicine. This volume includes materials related to the Cannibal Club and its members. It also situates the collection of Henry Spenser Ashbee and his bibliographic records in the period.
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Book SynopsisThis volume examines the growth of high-end literary pornographic productions that took place towards the final quarter of the nineteenth century and were largely published on the continent where control of production was lax. These publications were published and circulated for the elite. Publications that came from this group and period include The Pearl, My Secret Life, Romance of Lust, and The Sins of the Cities of the Plain; or, The Recollections of a Mary-Ann, with Short Essays on Sodomy and Tribadism. The volume includes Home Office and Foreign Office records that detail the methods attempted to limit the spread of pornography.
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Book SynopsisThis volume concerns itself with arrival of mass pornography at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. This volume details the rise of cheap, readily available, and much maligned materials such as postcards, pamphlets, and photographs. Mass pornography expanded the market to include women, children, the poor, and people of colour in Great Britain and across the British Empire. The volume documents imperial and international attempts to curtail the spread of pornography that took place between the 1880s and 1914 and provides examples of who suffered as a result.
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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Art and Disability explores disability in visual culture to uncover the ways in which bodily and cognitive differences are articulated physically and theoretically, and to demonstrate the ways in which disability is culturally constructed. This companion is organized thematically and includes artists from across historical periods and cultures in order to demonstrate the ways in which disability is historically and culturally contingent. The book engages with questions such as: How are people with disabilities represented in art? How are notions of disability articulated in relation to ideas of normality, hybridity, and anomaly? How do artists use visual culture to affirm or subvert notions of the normative body? Contributors consider the changing role of disability in visual culture, the place of representations in society, and the ways in which disability studies engages with and critiques intersectional notions of gender, race, ethnicity
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Book SynopsisThis textbook provides an accessible yet comprehensive introduction to detectors in particle physics. It emphasises the core physics principles, enabling a deeper understanding of the subject for further and more advanced studies. In addition to the discussion of the underlying detector physics, another aspiration of this book is to introduce the reader to practically important aspects of particle detectors, like electronics, alignment, calibration and simulation of particle detectors. Case studies of the various applications of detectors in particle physics are provided.The primary audience is graduate students in particle or nuclear physics, in addition to advanced undergraduate students in physics.Key Features: Provides an accessible yet thorough discussion of the basic physics principles needed to understand how particle detectors work. Presents applications of the basic physics concepts to examples of modern detectors. Discusses p
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Book SynopsisProviding a âshort takeâ on the long history of political economy, this book examines both the stories about and those within economics. It traces the history of political economy from its beginnings in the Scottish Enlightenment; through its disciplinary demarcation as a science in the nineteenth century that saw its differentiation from literary, aesthetic, and moral discourses; and to its emergence as the âamoralâ market-driven neoliberalism that dominates economic theories and policies today.In exploring the long history of economic thought, it examines and challenges both Enlightenment and contemporary grand narratives such as the stadial theory of progress, the âGreat Divergenceâ and the âGreat Convergenceâ that have divided the world into global norths and souths according to their economic advantages. It concludes with a study of currency as both a medium of monetary exchange and a term that denotes prevalence and acceptance to explore political economyâs continuous engagement with the problem of representing value through money. Part of the series Short Takes on Long Views, this book will appeal to a traditional academic audience of scholars and students, and to a wider public audience of informed non-fiction readers interested in the long history of economics.
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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of current trends, challenges and opportunities for metal and mineral production and use, in the context of climate change and the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda 2030. Minerals and metals are used throughout the world in manufacturing, construction, infrastructure, production of electronics and consumer goods. Alongside this widespread use, extraction and processing of mineral resources take place in almost every nation at varying scales, both in developing countries and major developed nations. The chapters in this interdisciplinary handbook examine the international governance mechanisms regulating social, environmental and economic implications of mineral resource extraction and use. The original contributions, from a range of scholars, examine the relevance of the mining industry to the United Nations Sustainable Deve
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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Global Health provides an overview of the complex relationship between anthropology and global health. The book brings together a diverse group of scholars who consider the intersection of anthropological concerns with health and disease as understood and intervened upon by the field of global health.The book is structured around five sections: (1) social, cultural, and political determinants of health; (2) knowledge production in anthropology and global health; (3) persistent invisibilities in global health; (4) reimagining a critical global health; and (5) new horizons in anthropology and global health. Over these five themes a range of topics is explored, including: rare diseases medical pluralism universal global health protocols HIV health security indigenous communities (non)communicable diseases decolonizing global health The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Global Health is an essential resource for upper-level students and researchers in anthropology, global health, sociology, international development, health studies, and politics.
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Book SynopsisHow do independent contemporary art musicians forge a career in the music industry? What knowledge, skills and understandings are required to sustain a career in music? What environmental supports are needed to assist emerging musicians? This volume addresses these challenges through an analysis of an industry-based career development program.The FutureMakers program, developed by Musica Viva, one of the worldâs leading Chamber Music providers, aims to develop artistic leadership, capacity building, and sector development in Chamber Music. The volume offers a unique perspective on the program in bringing together voices of: the directors, the participants, the facilitators including industry professionals who contributed workshops, extended conversations, and individual mentoring, and, researchers. The chapters consider the many facets of building a career in the contemporary art music sector with a particular focus on Chamber Music. The accounts of experience offered through these multiple lenses provide insights into the musical and extra-musical skills and knowledge required when navigating a career in a world of global challenges and increasing complexity for musicians and the music industry.This volume will be of use to multiple audiences. For those embarking on a career in contemporary art music the insights of participantsâ experience provide a touchstone. For those who nurture, mentor and teach future musicians the volume provides insights into the connections needed between the academy and the music industry. For music organisations the volume points to a model of practice for building a sustainable contemporary music industry.
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Book SynopsisThis book provides a comparative historical study of the rise and evolution of anti-colonial movements in South Africa and Israel/Palestine. It focuses on the ways in which major political movements and activists conceptualised their positions vis-a-vis historical processes of colonial settlement and indigenous resistance over the last century. Drawing on a range of primary sources, the author engages with theoretical debates involving key actors operating in their own time and space. Using a comparative framework, the book illustrates common and divergent patterns of political and ideological contestations and focuses on the relevance of debates about race and class, state and power, ethnicity and nationalism. Particular attention is given to South Africa and Israel/Palestine's links to global campaigns to undermine foreign domination and internal oppression, tensions between the quests for national liberation and equality of rights, the role of dissidents from within
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Book SynopsisFinancial Management in Museums considers sustainable and innovative solutions to current museum financial challenges by analyzing the many changes and pressures affecting the museum field.Presenting diverse perspectives from a range of authors around the world, the book shares and compares different funding models and methods of museum financial management. Arguing that museums need to be more effective in obtaining and managing financial resources, the volume also demonstrates how innovative and sustainable financial management strategies and structures can allow museums to respond to societal pressures and issues in a more effective way. It also demonstrates that museums must allocate resources responsibly to fulfill their goals of justice, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. The theoretical and practical contributions within the volume cover a comprehensive range of topics, including foundational concepts, revenue, expenses, budgeting, financial leadership, strat
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Book SynopsisDissociative Retreat and Addiction presents a new theoretical and clinical model for understanding and treating addiction. Giuseppe Craparo examines how addictive behaviors develop as the result of complex psychic and physical conditions, working in conjunction with a specific drug object, and explores factors including poor relational and developmental history, strong emotional pain and psychopathological conditions including anxiety, depression, personality disorders and psychosis. Craparoâs clinical, developmental-relational model conceptualizes addictive symptoms as reenactments of traumatic memories and observes how drug objects are used as defensive somato-psychic retreats from the intense emotions associated with traumatic memories. The book provides a full overview of the model with clinical examples and theoretical underpinnings. Dissociative Retreat and Addiction will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and other professionals working with addiction and trauma.
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Book SynopsisThis timely book offers an overview of how to understand health and wellbeing in custodial settings. It draws on cutting-edge research for a big picture perspective on the issues of prisoners' health and wellbeing in prison settings. Bringing together international experts from research psychology, health and criminology, the volume creates a multidisciplinary narrative to highlight contemporary issues within prisons concerning health and wellbeing. It also explores how these issues can be effectively researched and subsequently understood.The book covers how to navigate ethics in prisons research, the practicalities of conducting research in custodial settings, as well as discussions and case study examples from custodial settings in different countries. Chapters include illustrative examples and practical guidance from those working in the area, offering rich and in-depth insights into the different factors that affect health and wellbeing within prisons. The book also reflects on contemporary changes to prison research following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.The book will be essential reading for postgraduate and upper-level undergraduate students of research psychology, criminology and health psychology. The book will also be highly relevant for postgraduate students and professionals studying or working on health and wellbeing in prisons and custodial environments.
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Book SynopsisFor Emmanuel Levinas the danger of Western thought is that, if we start with ourselves, we end with ourselves. Psychotherapy and counselling would be for the sole purpose of strengthening self-initiated and self-directed fulfilment, resulting in individual and societal forms of totalitarianism. Levinas suggests that ethics should be about putting the Other first, but not in some fundamentalist Christian sense of the self-choosing to give one's life for others. The origin of authentic ethical behaviour is not from the self but from the Other.Levinas offers us a fundamental shift in our thinking about therapeutic practices. His writings call on us to have an ethical responsibility in the very way we practice therapy. This is with all the complexities of negotiating from nearness and distance, involvement and boundaries, and how we view ourselves in attempting to do this. Levinas inspires us towards ontological, epistemological and methodological shifts. The attempt to put the O
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Book SynopsisNow in its fifth edition, Exploring Medical Anthropology provides a concise and engaging introduction to medical anthropology. It presents competing theoretical perspectives in a balanced fashion, highlighting points of conflict and convergence. Concrete examples and the authors' personal research experiences are utilized to explain some of the disciplineâs most important insights, such as that biology and culture matter equally in the human experience of disease and that medical anthropology can help to alleviate human suffering.The text has been thoroughly updated for the fifth edition, including new material on intersectionality, disability, diet, reproductive health, mental health, and public health (including Covid19); additional material on theory and methods, including rapid ethnographic assessment; additional examples from outside the Americas; and the inclusion of research from BIPOC scholars. It contains a range of pedagogical features to support teaching and learning, including images, text boxes, a glossary, and suggested further reading.
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Book SynopsisFocusing on the life and works of Wang Li, one of the founding figures of modern Chinese linguistics, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to his scholarship. It presents Wang Li as a pioneering linguist whose research ranged across grammar, phonology and phonetics, historical linguistics, dialectology, pedagogy, and prosody, and shows how he integrated traditional Chinese philology with modern linguistic science.The book first sketches Wang Liâs life through a concise biography from his birth in 1900 to his deceased in 1986, highlighting key moments in his intellectual development and professional career. It then introduces his major contributions across different research areas, explaining their significance to the study of the Chinese language.This volume is an essential resource for students and researchers of Chinese linguistics, as well as for readers seeking an accessible entry point to one of the most influential linguists of the twentieth century.
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Book SynopsisThis book examines how China transforms industrial heritage sites into creative industry parks through adaptive reuse.Drawing on theoretical frameworks, case studies from Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, and expert interviews, it explores the intersection of architecture, heritage, culture, business, and policy in redeveloping former industrial sites. The work examines the contributions of these projects to urban regeneration, cultural repositioning, and forward-thinking spatial innovation, offering readers comprehensive insights into how China's creative industry parks serve as cultural, architectural, and economic platforms that breathe new life into industrial heritage, fostering urban vitality and cultural identity. The book targets scholars and graduate students in cultural studies, architecture, urban planning, and heritage management, while offering valuable perspectives for cultural advisors, policymakers, city officials, and development agencies involved in culture and heritage-led urban regeneration. Professionals, including architects, planners, and creative industry managers, will discover practical examples of how adaptive reuse generates both cultural and economic value. Its accessible style also appeals to general readers interested in China's urban transformation and cultural evolution.Creative Industry Parks in China seamlessly integrates theoretical analysis, case studies, and professional practice. This work functions as both a scholarly resource and a practical guide for understanding and implementing heritage-driven urban development strategies.
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Book SynopsisThis second volume, together with the first of a two-volume set, probes the lived experiences and subjectivities of music performers in the western art music tradition, using phenomenological, hermeneutical, empirical and historical inquiry.The two volumes widen this research area through close investigations of a variety of rich, complex and nuanced experiences classical music performers have qua performers, as they interact with musical scores, instruments, performance traditions, other musicking individuals, wider artistic and cultural discourses, norms and beliefs. The two volumes aim to âœhumaniseâ music performers and contribute towards shaping a more performer-centred discipline of Music Performance Studies. The second volume, The Music Performersâ Lived Experiences: Personal Perspectives, brings together some of the leading performer-researchers from around the world, who foreground their personal experiences, artistic voices, and insights, not only offering intimate accounts of their creative journeys, challenges, and inspirations but also reflecting on these experiences in ways that contribute to rigorous research. Collectively, the chapters reveal the deeply human dimensions of music making, and of music scholarship. The lived experiences explored in this volume include coming to know musical form through embodied acts of music-making at the piano; music performance anxiety through the lens of an Autistic woman violinist; developing musical identity and performing personae as a female double bass player; performing Schubert on the piano as a person who experiences the world as socially disabled; engaging with an organ score as an organist and a pianist; creating expressive performances of an operatic score so that each rendition feels, to the performer, as if for the first time; performing from the whole self and sounding like oneâs self; exercising agency and leadership as a soloist within ensemble contexts; learning and integrating into public performances western classical improvisation as a cellist; participating in online group improvisation as a beginner and an experienced post-genre improviser; engaging with early recorded classical music performances as a listener and applying the insights gained to oneâs own artistic practice as a pianist; and listening, as a performer, to other performers without participating in the performance oneself. Readers will emerge with renewed understanding and fresh insight into the multifaceted world and nuanced experiences of classical music performers.
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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary book lays the foundations for a new critique of human societies examining how humans, as a species, are suited to live across the rural-urban spectrum. It proposes a new perspective for urban studies, ultimately centred on human nature. Evolutionary perspectives are at the core of the book and are linked to other disciplines such as economic geography, sociology, anthropology, geographical psychology, environmental psychology, genetics, and ontogenetics.The book summarises the academic state-of-the-art of the various fields under discussion, each expressing its own angle which, when holistically presented in the same volume, enriches the integrated understanding of such a multilayered theme. The timing of this book is critical: today, more than ever, we live in urban environments of some description or other and, within the coming decades, large numbers of new dwellers will âchooseâ cities as their permanent place of residence. For this reason, the author argues that urban planning and design must embrace this unique opportunity to build ex-novo urban and non-urban settlements for billions of people in liveable ways. The interdisciplinary approach brings together the study and understanding of cities from diverse disciplines.This topical work therefore offers the reader a new understanding of how â and tentatively, why â living in cities affects humans for better or worse. It indirectly underlines the importance of smaller settlements based on empirical evidence, without necessarily having to escape from the big city, which instead could become more attractive if wisely planned and integrated in the larger multivariate territory. The author provides educated insights for policy and planning, inducing habitats which could be optimal for our wellbeing and progress.
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Book SynopsisThis book is a practical self-help manual that provides step-by-step guidance on applying schema therapy for eating disorders and eating difficulties.Structured in two parts, the book addresses how to overcome the thinking, emotional and behavioural patterns that drive eating difficulties, using powerful experiential strategies for change. It helps readers understand the factors that drive and maintain their eating and body-image patterns and offers effective techniques for overcoming them. Readers will learn to reconnect with their authentic self that lies beneath these protective patterns, discovering new ways to meet their deepest needs. Templates and worksheets provide useful resources that support recovery.The first of its kind, this book supports those suffering from eating disorders and serves as a reference and adjunct to face-to-face therapy for therapists and clinicians.
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Book SynopsisThrough wide-ranging thematic chapters, this book offers students a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of monarchy across Europe in the Middle Ages.The volume is separated into four themes: Concepts of Rulership, Exercising Authority, Dynasty and Succession and Ritual and Representation. Each theme has four chapters that give the student an overview of key concepts supported by rich examples taken from monarchies across Europe, both in the text and in the Spotlight and Source Studies. The textbook offers an examination of areas which are frequently overlooked, such as the Balkan region, the Scandinavian kingdoms and the Crusader States in the Latin East. In addition, a prologue, written by Rutger D. Kramer, discusses the legacy of the Carolingians on medieval rulership, and an epilogue places the monarchies of medieval Europe in context with their global counterparts. Further reading suggestions at the end of each chapter will help students develop their knowledge of medieval monarchy and the history of rulers and realms of the period.Exploring Monarchy in Medieval Europe, 1000-1500 is a foundational text for courses on medieval monarchy as well as a useful supplementary text for students of medieval European history.
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Book SynopsisFocusing on the design aspects of ports and harbor structures, including shipyards, this book details various Indian codes and compares them with prevalent international standards. It covers the estimation of loads acting on the system, as well as the design of slipways, marine travel lifts, and ship lifts. Sediment transport and the movement of shoals are illustrated with typical examples for green port development, including capital dredging and disposal. The book also explains procedures and documentation required for environmental clearance, along with EIA/EMP guidelines and case studies on rehabilitation and retrofitting. Additionally, it includes spreadsheets for various design calculations such as beam, pile, crack width, and fixity depth. Covers planning, analysis, design, construction, retrofitting, rehabilitation, and environmental impact of ports and harbors Provides a comparison of Indian codes with international codes on load combinations, crack width and deflection limits, corrosion rates, and more Discusses failure case studies to offer insights for designers and eliminate misconceptions and design defects Includes an exclusive chapter on pertinent Indian codes Illustrates loads, analysis, design, construction, and repair with case studies and code compliance for practicing engineers This book is intended for graduate students, practicing engineers, and professionals.
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Book SynopsisThis four-volume collection brings together primary sources on British food during the long nineteenth century. Volumes explore manufacturing and markets, food and the body, cooking and cuisine, and food catering and culture. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of Food History.
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Book SynopsisThis companion book to Relational Feedback: Why Feedback Fails and How to Make it Meaningful builds on this first text introducing The Relational Leadership WAY : a thematic framework produced from a doctoral research study. The framework has been âtestedâ with 70+ managers and received favourable and reinforcing feedback about the efficacy of this relational approach.The aim is to continuously challenge opinion that feedback still incites fear and to learn more about what will ease our approach to this essential development practice. We are not alone with our feedback fears and perceived failures. You will find strategies to reveal and release tensions that help regain equilibrium as we make adjustments that change entrenched obsolete perceptions.Youâre invited to reflect on own and othersâ feedback perceptions by defusing a collection of authentic feedback stories that generated fear, confusion and feelings of inadequacy. Exploring coping strategies designed to dilute impact and avoid future repetition are offered as solutions with an invitation to adapt to individual circumstances. Letâs also remember there are feedback conversations managed effectively and these feature in the relational qualities mix of good practice.Letâs also acknowledge good practice in feedback that helps us shine, do our best, fulfil our dreams and become our confident selves.
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Book SynopsisIn the second edition of The Historical Novel, Jerome de Groot expertly charts the evolution of one of literature's most beloved and complex forms. From its eighteenth-century origins to postmodern and contemporary historical fiction, de Groot reveals how historical fiction continues to challenge, provoke, and transform our understanding of the past.The new edition has been thoroughly revised and expanded with global perspectives and new emphasis on the role and importance of female writers throughout. Readers will discover fresh insights on: different genres, such as sensational or âlowâ fiction, crime novels, literary works, counterfactual writing and related issues of audience, value, and authenticity; the many functions of historical fiction, particularly the challenges it poses to accepted histories and postmodern questioning of âgrand narrativesâ; the relationship of the historical novel to the wider cultural sphere with reference to historical theory, the internet, television, and film; key theoretical concepts such as the authentic fallacy, postcolonialism, Marxism, Neo-Victorian approaches, critical race theory, queer and feminist reading; works which diversify our understanding of the form and reflect an increasing sense that the writer should be understood as intervening in historical debatesâincluding the work of Hilary Mantel, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Townsend Warner, W.G. Sebald, Chinua Achebe, Sarah Waters, Amitav Ghosh, George Eliot, and Leo Tolstoy. Drawing on a wide range of examples from across the centuries and around the globe, the second edition of The Historical Novel is essential reading for exploring the rich intersection where history meets fictionâa creative borderland where the past continues to be reimagined.
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Book SynopsisIn the second edition of The Historical Novel, Jerome de Groot expertly charts the evolution of one of literature's most beloved and complex forms. From its eighteenth-century origins to postmodern and contemporary historical fiction, de Groot reveals how historical fiction continues to challenge, provoke, and transform our understanding of the past.The new edition has been thoroughly revised and expanded with global perspectives and new emphasis on the role and importance of female writers throughout. Readers will discover fresh insights on: different genres, such as sensational or âlowâ fiction, crime novels, literary works, counterfactual writing and related issues of audience, value, and authenticity; the many functions of historical fiction, particularly the challenges it poses to accepted histories and postmodern questioning of âgrand narrativesâ; the relationship of the historical novel to the wider cultural sphere with reference to historical theory, the internet, television, and film; key theoretical concepts such as the authentic fallacy, postcolonialism, Marxism, Neo-Victorian approaches, critical race theory, queer and feminist reading; works which diversify our understanding of the form and reflect an increasing sense that the writer should be understood as intervening in historical debatesâincluding the work of Hilary Mantel, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Townsend Warner, W.G. Sebald, Chinua Achebe, Sarah Waters, Amitav Ghosh, George Eliot, and Leo Tolstoy. Drawing on a wide range of examples from across the centuries and around the globe, the second edition of The Historical Novel is essential reading for exploring the rich intersection where history meets fictionâa creative borderland where the past continues to be reimagined.
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Book SynopsisLearning Language: First Language, Bilingual, and Second Language Acquisition is the first textbook to offer a holistic introduction to language acquisition, combining from three key fields: child first language acquisition, bi- and mulitilingual acquisition, and second language acquisition.Rich in pedagogy, this innovative book adopts a distinct interdisciplinary approach to coherently explain how languages are learned. Organised around the linguistic targets of acquisition (sounds, words, structures, communication), the book offers a clear and deep understanding of the commonalities and divergence among these three research traditions. In this volume, Adams, Warren and Wright survey both the core theory principles and research practices in each area. They support students, researchers, and instructors by providing clear explanations, clear examples, and a wide range of instructional materials: from an overview of key research methods and guiding theories to definitions of key terms, reflection questions to spark discussion, and class exercises. Downloadable material is also available, including practical exercises, additional readings, and suggested research topics. Instructors and readers can choose to follow the book structure or to use the three main sections independently, focusing on each type of language acquisition in turn.This unique book provides an ideal basis for introductory courses in Language Acquisition, ESOL, Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching, Child Language Development, and Speech Pathology programs. It also serves as a flexible and accessible resource for anyone interested in applied linguistics and language acquisition.
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Book SynopsisThe miniaturization of electronics has driven a huge innovation in medical instruments. Medical-grade systems are now able to be sent home with patients, alongside small, portable sports, stress and lifestyle monitoring devices.The core ideas of these devices originated 130 years ago but they are now made cheaply and readily available in consumer devices like smart watches as well as in new diagnostic instruments.Medical Devices and Data: Technology to Instrument the Body and its Interpretation focuses on three key questions: how do these new instruments work, how do they interpret their data, and when do they err? It also identifies the key factors that are driving this innovation further.This text is written for those who would like to understand non-invasive medical instruments in more detail. It is written in an accessible manner and no formal background in science, engineering or medicine is required. Some equations are used where necessary, but calculus is avoided. The book explains the key ideas behind the advanced techniques used.All data, software and ïgures used in this book are made available online at the following Github: https://url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/N28qCwpEkBHAJkEoyFQF8HJhX1S?domain=bitbucket.orgKey features: Explores the design and use of medical instrumentation, seeking to explain the data measured and how it relates to body processes. Discusses what these devices mean: modern instruments give a whole range of indications: from basic (heart rate) to much more complicated (sleep quality score). For users of these devices, this book hope to shed some light on the information available. Details when results can be trusted and how to cast a critical eye over the accuracy and interpretation of these instruments.
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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1985, this book argues forcefully and practically for new relationship between science and the small farmer. It advocates scientific research seeking out changes which are already taking place within the smallholder farming sector and building on local initiatives. Drawing on his experience of West Africa, the author demonstrates that many of the most successful innovations in food-crop production during the 20th century have indigenous roots and that there should therefore be less emphasis on âteachingâ farmers how to farm and more emphasis on how to foster and support local adaptation and inventiveness. This book will be of interest to students of agriculture, environmental studies and rural development as well as those working with relief and development agencies.
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