Search results for ""author andrew prescott""
Brown Dog Books Speedy Sophie
Sophie is a special little girl who runs everywhere. With her magical running shoes, Sophie speeds past everything and everyone. One day, Sophie’s magical shoes don’t fit anymore, and Sophie must learn how to walk instead of run. Hesitantly, Sophie puts on a different pair of shoes and is surprised by the new experiences she encounters on her way to school. Sophie is always seen with her loyal friend ‘Tweet’ the bird by her side. Be sure to spot ‘Tweet’ on every page and see what sort of mischief he gets up to. Sophie’s story is about learning to slow down, taking a deep breath and appreciating the magic that exists all around. This is a wonderful short story introducing young children to mindfulness.
£9.67
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Slow Scholarship: Medieval Research and the Neoliberal University
A powerful claim for the virtues of a more thoughtful and collegiate approach to the academy today. This book offers a response to the culture of metrics, mass digitisation, and accountability (as opposed to responsibility, or citizenship) that has developed in higher education world wide, as exemplified by the UK's Research Excellence Framework exercise (REF), and the increasing bureaucracy that limits the time available for teaching, research, and even conversation and collaboration. Ironically, these are problems that will be solved only by academicsfinding the time to talk and to work together. The essays collected here both critique the culture of speed in the neoliberal university and provide examples of what can be achieved by slowing down, by reclaiming research and research priorities, and by working collaboratively across the disciplines to improve conditions. They are informed both by recent research in medieval studies and by the problematic culture of twenty-first century higher education. The contributions offer very personal approaches to the academic culture of the present moment. Some tackle issues of academic freedom head-on; others more obliquely; but they all have been written as declarations of theacademic freedom that comes with slow thinking, slow reading, slow writing and slow looking and the demonstrations of its benefits. CATHERINE E. KARKOV is Professor and Chair of Art History at the University of Leeds. Contributors: Lara Eggleton, Karen Jolly, Chris Jones, James Paz, Andrew Prescott, Heather Pulliam
£40.00
The Self-Publishing Partnership Ltd Merlin finds his Magic
Separated from the flock, Merlin the lamb desperately yearns to return home. His mummy had told him he was magic. Could his magic help him to get back to her? Merlin has no idea what his magic does but life presents him with several new companions in the form of three bouncy goats, three wise horses and a little girl who is able to understand what animals say. Each one teaches him that nature surrounds us with magic all the time. Finally, when Merlin discovers that his magic is making other people happy, he experiences deep joy and complete fulfilment. A whimsical tale for young and old…
£9.99
Policy Press Communities, Archives and New Collaborative Practices
This book examines the changing relationship between communities, citizens and the notion of the archive. Digital resources have made archiving widely accessible, and there is now a growing plurality of practices associated with collecting and curating. Using a range of case studies, this book challenges perceived barriers to collaboration between communities and archives and promotes the value of co-creation.
£71.99
Bristol University Press Communities, Archives and New Collaborative Practices
This innovative book examines the changing relationship between communities, citizens and the notion of the archive. Archives have traditionally been understood as repositories of knowledge and experience, remote from the ordinary people who fund and populate them, however digital resources have led to a growing plurality of archives and the practices associated with collecting and curating. This book uses a broad range of case studies which place communities at the heart of this exciting development, to illustrate how their experiences are central to our understanding of this new terrain which challenges traditional histories and the control of knowledge and power.
£31.99
Amsterdam University Press King Alfred the Great, his Hagiographers and his Cult: A Childhood Remembered
This book situates Alfred the Great in his hagiographic context. For 150 years, the fables told in the ninth century about Alfred’s childhood have posed interlocking disciplinary challenges to historians committed to evicting romance from history. Blending current Hagiography Studies with historical, literary, and biblical hermeneutics can help us forgo the anti-hagiographic commitments which motivated the scholars who purified the Victorian cult of Alfred by expunging his legends and salvaging his historicity. The book focusses on the typological functions of three Alfredian fables from the Old English Chronicle, the Old English Boethius, and Asser’s Vita Ælfredi, analyses the plot common to all three, critiques the psychological conjecture that Alfred’s childhood memory was their common source, and shows that synoptically they can help us see how Alfred shaped the curve of his own life’s destiny and how he engaged in the formation of his own cult to last a thousand years.
£117.00
