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Penguin Books Ltd The Classic Slum Salford Life in the First
Book SynopsisA study which combines personal reminiscences with careful historical research, the myth of the ''good old days'' is summarily dispensed with; Robert Roberts describes the period of his childhood, when the main affect of poverty in Edwardian Salford was degredation, and, despite great resources of human courage, few could escape such a prison.Table of Contents1 Class Structure2 Possessions3 Manners and Morals4 Governors, Pastors and Masters5 The Common Scene6 Food, Drink and Physic7 Alma Mater8 Culture9 The Great Release10 High Days and AfterAppendices1 Conducted Tour2 Snuffy3 Bronze MushroomsSelect BibliographyIndexIllustrationsThe photographs, which have not been published before, were taken around the early 1900s by a Worsley man, Samuel Coulthurst, who went about Salford dressed as a rag and bone merchant with his camera concealed on a handcart.1. Corner shop2. A muffler–white, if possible, for the Lord's day3. Some were too poor to buy at the old clothes shops4. General dealer5. The clothiers6. Women of the time I7. Women of the time II8. Water for the wheel: a knife and scissors grinder9. Hawkers at rest10. 'The short way out of Manchester'11. A barrel organ called Tuesdays and Saturdays12. Theatre by the market13. Boys haggling at the hen market
£14.24
Skyhorse Publishing Roberts' Guide for Butlers and Other Household
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1827, Roberts’ Guide for Butlers and Other Household Staff was a handbook for servants to perform their duties more efficiently and thoughtfully. Roberts gives a plethora of information about household duties of a butler like: How to dress suitably for work Regulations for the dinner table Directions for cleaning tea trays Giving Britannia metal a brilliant polish Preserving fruits for the year Addressing and behaving properly around your employer And many more insightsRoberts provides information on how to make the best-tasting lemonade; preserving good wine for years; not passing judgments on the other servants; never letting your master ring the bell for you twice; cleaning dirty tables with a mix of milk, turpentine, and sweet oil; rubbing off rust with salad oil and lime; and other useful tidbits for the curious butler. This is a fascinating look behind the scenes of household help and will delight any nineteenth century enthusiast.
£10.44
Manchester University Press A Ragged Schooling: Growing Up in the Classic
Book SynopsisWith great humour and vitality, Robert Roberts evokes his Edwardian childhood in the vivid portrait of a vanished community. Breathing the smoke from the factory chimneys, the children of Salford struggled daily to survive the grinding poverty that surrounded them. Sharing lively games along the railways lines and canal banks, their lives were rich in experience and comradeship.Trade Review'One of the best and most sensitive of English working-class autobiographies'The Guardian' A marvelous piece of work ... this vivid portrait of a vanished community ... bubbles with comic vitalitySpectator'The autobiography of an exceptional man ... a memoir of quite extraordinary richness'The Observer -- .Table of Contents1. In their small corner2. To business!3. Home and hearth4. Janie5. A fearful joy6. The food of love7. Fire and food8. Low class and no class9. Sins of the flesh10. Christians 11. Fears12. Ventures13. Travelling men14. Superstition15. ‘Lovely war’16. Skool17. Song of apprentices18. Class of strugglers19. To the egress
£12.88
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. A Primer of Molecular Biology
Book SynopsisIn arecent plenary address to the American College of Cardiology, Dr. Leroy Hood stated that he expected the application of the techniques of recombinant DNA and molecular biology to medicine would advance the field more in the next twenty years than all of the progress that has been made in the past 2,000 years.Table of Contents1 The Fundamental Discoveries and Unique Features of Recombinant DNA Techniques.- 2 Essentials of Nucleic Acids and Proteins.- 3 Techniques of Molecular Biology.- 4 The Essentials of Molecular Genetics.- 5 Molecular Biology of Contractile and Cytoskeletal Proteins.- 6 Molecular Biology of Cardiac Growth and Hypertrophy.- 7 Molecular Biology of Cardiac Ion Channels.
£40.49
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Roberts Guide for Butlers & Household St
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Rowman & Littlefield The Moral Psychology of Gratitude
Book SynopsisExpressions of gratitude abound. Hardly a book is published that does not include in its preface or acknowledgments some variation on, “I am grateful to…for…” Indeed, most achievements come to be only through the help of others. We value the benevolence of others, and when we—or our loved ones—are the recipients of benevolence, our emotional response is often one of gratitude. But, are we bound to the requirement of ‘repaying’ our benefactors in some way? If we are, and there are—as ordinary language suggests—debts of gratitude, what kind of debts are these? Does the appropriateness of my gratitude require that my benefactor in fact intended to benefit me (in just the way she did)? Is there a difference between feeling grateful and being grateful? Is a precondition of my being grateful to another that I respect her? Do we owe a special sort of gratitude to those who have shaped us into the persons we are? What are the psychological and normative relations between gratitude the emotion, and gratitude the virtue?These are among the questions carefully addressed in The Moral Psychology of Gratitude. This volume provides readers with the state-of-the-art in research on gratitude. It does so in the form of sixteen never-before published articles on the emotion by leading voices in philosophy and the sciences of the mind.Trade ReviewIn fifteen thoughtful essays and an introduction, The Moral Psychology of Gratitude expands our thinking about gratitude in new directions. Contributors analyze gratitude from a number of philosophical angles, in essays about reasons and action, rights and duties, gratitude as a reactive attitude, and gratitude and virtue. Some philosophical discussions, such as those of Carr and Roberts, are informed by literature. An interdisciplinary turn is also taken in the two contributions to the section on ‘Authentic Selves and Brains.’ In addition to philosophers, a neuroscientist and two psychologists offer their perspectives on gratitude. The result is a volume offering a unique, state-of-the-art examination of gratitude that is not to be missed. -- Nancy E. Snow, Professor of Philosophy at the University of OklahomaIn fifteen thoughtful essays and an introduction, The Moral Psychology of Gratitude expands our thinking about gratitude in new directions. Contributors analyze gratitude from a number of philosophical angles, in essays about reasons and action, rights and duties, gratitude as a reactive attitude, and gratitude and virtue. Some philosophical discussions, such as those of Carr and Roberts, are informed by literature. An interdisciplinary turn is also taken in the two contributions to the section on ‘Authentic Selves and Brains.’ In addition to philosophers, a neuroscientist and two psychologists offer their perspectives on gratitude. The result is a volume offering a unique, state-of-the-art examination of gratitude that is not to be missed. -- Nancy E. Snow, Professor of Philosophy at the University of OklahomaThis collection is a thoroughly satisfying example of how our everyday experiences and relationships provide us with an invitation to take on big philosophical questions. The editors have brought together an excellent group of scholars. Each begins with familiar cases of gratitude but ends up somewhere fascinatingly different. -- Linda Radzik, Professor of Philosophy, Texas A&M UniversityWritten with admirable clarity and liveliness, the contributions to this book explore gratitude in all of its dimensions as a positive emotion, a virtue, a reactive attitude, and as the grounding of some kind of debt. Ranging from philosophy, to psychology and to neuroscience this collection is an essential reference point for future research on this topic. We owe Daniel Telech and Robert Roberts a debt of gratitude for skilfully assembling such an exciting volume. -- Alessandra Tanesini, Professor of Philosophy at Cardiff UniversityTable of Contents[1] The Emotion-Virtue-Debt Triad of Gratitude: An Introduction to The Moral Psychology of Gratitude, Daniel Telech & Robert Roberts / Part 1: REASONS AND ACTION / [2] Gratitude: Generic vs. Deep, Hichem Naar / [3] Acting from Gratitude, Terrance McConnell / Part 2: GRATITUDE, RIGHTS, AND DUTIES / [4] Obligations of Gratitude: Directedness Without Rights, Adrienne M. Martin / [5] Debts of Gratitude, Agnes Callard / [6] Gratitude, Rights and Benefit, Coleen Macnamara / [7] Do Children Owe Their Parents Gratitude?, Cameron Fenton / Part 3: GRATITUDE AS A REACTIVE ATTITUDE / [7] Gratitude as a Second-Personal Attitude (of the Heart), Stephen Darwall / [8] Gratitude and Resentment: Some Asymmetries, D. Justin Coates / [9] Gratitude and Norms: On the Social Function of Gratitude, Bennett W. Helm / Part 4: AUTHENTIC SELVES AND BRAINS / [10] Neural Perspective on Gratitude, Christina Karns / [11] Gratitude, Authenticity, and Self-Authorship, Jack J. Bauer & Colin Shanahan / Part 5: GRATITUDE & VIRTUE / [12] Gratitude as a Virtue, Sophie Grace Chappell / [13] Gratitude, Truth and Lies, David Carr / [14] Cross-Pollination in the Gardens of Virtue, Liz Gulliford / [15] The Virtue of Gratitude and its Associated Vices, Tony Manela / [16] Gratitude, Friendship, and Mutuality: Reflections on Three Characters in Bleak House, Robert Roberts
£34.20
Rowman & Littlefield International The Moral Psychology of Gratitude
Book SynopsisExpressions of gratitude abound. Hardly a book is published that does not include in its preface or acknowledgments some variation on, “I am grateful to…for…” Indeed, most achievements come to be only through the help of others. We value the benevolence of others, and when we—or our loved ones—are the recipients of benevolence, our emotional response is often one of gratitude. But, are we bound to the requirement of ‘repaying’ our benefactors in some way? If we are, and there are—as ordinary language suggests—debts of gratitude, what kind of debts are these? Does the appropriateness of my gratitude require that my benefactor in fact intended to benefit me (in just the way she did)? Is there a difference between feeling grateful and being grateful? Is a precondition of my being grateful to another that I respect her? Do we owe a special sort of gratitude to those who have shaped us into the persons we are? What are the psychological and normative relations between gratitude the emotion, and gratitude the virtue? These are among the questions carefully addressed in The Moral Psychology of Gratitude. This volume provides readers with the state-of-the-art in research on gratitude. It does so in the form of sixteen never-before published articles on the emotion by leading voices in philosophy and the sciences of the mind.Trade ReviewIn fifteen thoughtful essays and an introduction, The Moral Psychology of Gratitude expands our thinking about gratitude in new directions. Contributors analyze gratitude from a number of philosophical angles, in essays about reasons and action, rights and duties, gratitude as a reactive attitude, and gratitude and virtue. Some philosophical discussions, such as those of Carr and Roberts, are informed by literature. An interdisciplinary turn is also taken in the two contributions to the section on ‘Authentic Selves and Brains.’ In addition to philosophers, a neuroscientist and two psychologists offer their perspectives on gratitude. The result is a volume offering a unique, state-of-the-art examination of gratitude that is not to be missed. -- Nancy E. Snow, Professor of Philosophy at the University of OklahomaThis collection is a thoroughly satisfying example of how our everyday experiences and relationships provide us with an invitation to take on big philosophical questions. The editors have brought together an excellent group of scholars. Each begins with familiar cases of gratitude but ends up somewhere fascinatingly different. -- Linda Radzik, Professor of Philosophy, Texas A&M UniversityWritten with admirable clarity and liveliness, the contributions to this book explore gratitude in all of its dimensions as a positive emotion, a virtue, a reactive attitude, and as the grounding of some kind of debt. Ranging from philosophy, to psychology and to neuroscience this collection is an essential reference point for future research on this topic. We owe Daniel Telech and Robert Roberts a debt of gratitude for skilfully assembling such an exciting volume. -- Alessandra Tanesini, Professor of Philosophy at Cardiff UniversityTable of Contents[1] The Emotion-Virtue-Debt Triad of Gratitude: An Introduction to The Moral Psychology of Gratitude, Daniel Telech & Robert Roberts / Part 1: REASONS AND ACTION / [2] Gratitude: Generic vs. Deep, Hichem Naar / [3] Acting from Gratitude, Terrance McConnell / Part 2: GRATITUDE, RIGHTS, AND DUTIES / [4] Obligations of Gratitude: Directedness Without Rights, Adrienne M. Martin / [5] Debts of Gratitude, Agnes Callard / [6] Gratitude, Rights and Benefit, Coleen Macnamara / [7] Do Children Owe Their Parents Gratitude?, Cameron Fenton / Part 3: GRATITUDE AS A REACTIVE ATTITUDE / [7] Gratitude as a Second-Personal Attitude (of the Heart) , Stephen Darwall / [8] Gratitude and Resentment: Some Asymmetries, D. Justin Coates / [9] Gratitude and Norms: On the Social Function of Gratitude, Bennett W. Helm / Part 4: AUTHENTIC SELVES AND BRAINS / [10] Neural Perspective on Gratitude, Christina Karns / [11] Gratitude, Authenticity, and Self-Authorship, Jack J. Bauer & Colin Shanahan / Part 5: GRATITUDE & VIRTUE / [12] Gratitude as a Virtue, Sophie Grace Chappell / [13] Gratitude, Truth and Lies, David Carr / [14] Cross-Pollination in the Gardens of Virtue, Liz Gulliford / [15] The Virtue of Gratitude and its Associated Vices, Tony Manela / [16] Gratitude, Friendship, and Mutuality: Reflections on Three Characters in Bleak House, Robert Roberts
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