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Prepossessing Henry James The Strange Freedom

Prepossessing Henry James The Strange Freedom

The novels of Henry James are filled with ghosts but most of them escape dramatic treatment. These elusive specters are the voices of precursors that haunt his narratives compromising their constitutive freedom. The Strange Freedom is an examination of the ways James’s fiction is prepossessed by some major voices of the English literary tradition: those of Shakespeare Richardson Fielding Gibbon Thackeray and Dickens. This subtextual arrogation sets constrains to the unfolding in James’s narratives of liberal and romantic freedom—it places limits both to the absolute exemptions of aesthetic interest and to radical Bohemian abandon. But these constrains and limits can be regarded dialectically as the enabling conditions of the very liberty they imperil. Drawing on recent research on the spectral dynamics and indirections of literary influence by scholars like Adrian Poole Philip Horne Nicola Bradbury Tamara Follini and Peter Rawlings but also on earlier deconstructive work by John Carlos Rowe Prepossessing Henry James offers a speculative account of the way James is simultaneously resourced and restrained by his sources. Along the way we discover how Hamlet’s ghost instills in James a fantasy of mental autonomy or how he adapts Gibbon’s Enlightened narrative to inhibit civic liberty with images of female sacrifice. We see the governess in The Turn of the Screw possessed by the specter of Richardson’s Pamela exposing social freedoms with liberal brutality. We encounter Gray in The Ivory Tower striving to obtain personal freedom by repressing Dickensian figures monstruous fantastic. And finally we recognize how much The Ambassadors owes to the ambiguous manner of Thackeray. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Prepossessing Henry James The Strange Freedom

GBP 130.00
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James Mill John Stuart Mill and the History of Economic Thought

James Mill John Stuart Mill and the History of Economic Thought

Commemorating the 250th anniversary of James Mill’s birth and the 150th of John Stuart Mill’s death this volume analyses the Mills’ discussions on topics such as environment cultivation education utilitarianism socialism international relations international trade and living standard. John Stuart Mill is an important figure of the classical political economy and his father played a critical role in the early stages of his intellectual development. The contributions of the two Mills are examined by leading scholars on the theory and history of economics from Japan UK and France. They not only deal with the Mills’ individual contributions but also shed light on their relationships and associations with a number of economists and philosophers in Britain between the late 18th and the early 20th centuries including Adam Smith Malthus Ricardo Pennington Torrens Martineau Longfield Morris Sidgwick and Marshall. This book is an essential read for scholars interested in the economics of James and John Mill and reconsideration of their theories and thoughts using the backdrop of the current state of society. | James Mill John Stuart Mill and the History of Economic Thought

GBP 130.00
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Northampton Patronage and Policy at the Court of James I

Northampton Patronage and Policy at the Court of James I

First published in 1982 Northampton is a modern study of Henry Howard Earl of Northampton privy councillor to James I. Dr. Peck convincingly challenges the traditional eminence grise who stirred factional strife at court undermined relations between king and parliament and stopped at nothing including murder to secure his family’s advancement. Drawing extensively on Northampton’s papers Dr. Peck offers a more balanced assessment of this important Jacobean courtier who shaped policy and pursued administrative reform as avidly as he sought his own patronage and profit. Unlike traditional biographies this study is organized topically in order to examine larger issues of policy making and administration in the Jacobean period. This book will be of interest to specialists in Stuart studies to historians of England to social scientists concerned with development of early bureaucracy and all those with a more general interest in Tudor Stuart history. | Northampton Patronage and Policy at the Court of James I

GBP 90.00
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Phenomenological Ontology of Breathing The Respiratory Primacy of Being

Phenomenological Ontology of Breathing The Respiratory Primacy of Being

This book studies the phenomenological ontology of breathing. It investigates breathing and air as a question of phenomenological philosophy and looks at phenomenological questions concerning respiratory methodology ontological experience of respiration respiratory spirituality and respiratory embodiment. Drawing on the ideas of Maurice Merleau-Ponty Gaston Bachelard Martin Heidegger Edmund Husserl Luce Irigaray and David Kleinberg-Levin the book argues for the ontological primacy of breathing and develops a new principle of philosophy that the author calls “Silence of Breath Abyss/Yawn of Air”. It asserts that breathing is not a thing- or person-oriented relation but perpetual communication with the immense elemental atmosphere of open and free air. This new phenomenological method of breathing offers readers a chance to begin to wonder rethink re-experience and reimagine all questions of life in an innovative and creative way as aerial and respiratory questions of life. Part of the Routledge Critical Perspectives on Breath and Breathing series the book breaks new ground in phenomenology and phenomenological ontology by offering a decisive and insightful treatment of breath. It will be indispensable for students and researchers of philosophy phenomenology and ontology. It will also be of special interest to Merleau-Ponty scholars as it investigates uncharted dimensions of Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy. | Phenomenological Ontology of Breathing The Respiratory Primacy of Being

GBP 120.00
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Nitric Oxide Sensing

Nitric Oxide Sensing

Although nitric oxide (NO) is an important biological signaling molecule its free-radical electronic configuration makes it a most reactive molecule and the scariest colorless gas causing immense environmental and health hazards. Detection of NO levels in biological samples and in the atmosphere is therefore crucial. In the past few years extensive efforts have been devoted to developing many active sensors and effective devices for detecting and quantifying atmospheric NO NO generated in biological samples and NO exhaled in the human breath. This book provides a concrete summary of recent state-of-the-art small-molecule probes and novel carbon nanomaterials used for chemical photoluminescent and electrochemical NO detection. One chapter is especially dedicated to the available devices used for detecting NO in the human breath that indirectly infers to lung inflammation. The authors with expertise in diverse dimensions have attempted to cover almost all areas of NO sensing. | Nitric Oxide Sensing

GBP 116.00
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Love Bombing Reset Your Child's Emotional Thermostat

Love Bombing Reset Your Child's Emotional Thermostat

Love Bombing is a radical new method for resetting the emotional thermostats of troubled children and their parents setting them on a much happier trajectory. It is simple to do easily explained and works for both severe and mild problems from aged three to early teenage. Many if not most parents feel that their children may have missed out in some way during the early years. Offering a simple relatively trouble-free self-help method for putting that right is what parents are waiting for. This book is written in highly accessible language assures Oliver James. The method is explained as simply as possible illustrated with cases. Love Bombing is a very simple technique which helps most children from aged three to early teenage. Because so many parents are or have had periods of living very busy or miserable or complicated lives most of us need to reconnect with our children from time to time. Love Bombing does the job explains James. | Love Bombing Reset Your Child's Emotional Thermostat

GBP 130.00
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British Methodist Revivalism and the Eclipse of Ecclesiology

British Methodist Revivalism and the Eclipse of Ecclesiology

Revivalism was one of the main causes of division in nineteenth-century British Methodism but the role of revivalist theology in these splits has received scant scholarly attention. In this book James E. Pedlar demonstrates how the revivalist variant of Methodist spirituality and theology empowered its adherents and helped foster new movements even as it undermined the Spirit’s work through the structures of the church. Beginning with an examination of unresolved issues in John Wesley’s ecclesiology Pedlar identifies a trend of increasing marginalisation of the church among revivalists via an examination of three key figures: Hugh Bourne (1772–1852) James Caughey (1810–1891) and William Booth (1860–1932). He concludes by examining the more catholic and irenic theology of Samuel Chadwick (1860–1932) the leading Methodist revivalist of the early twentieth century who became a strong advocate of Methodist Union. Pedlar shows that these theological differences must be considered alongside social and political factors in any well-rounded assessment of the division and eventual reunification of British Methodism. | British Methodist Revivalism and the Eclipse of Ecclesiology

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A Random Walk in Science

A Random Walk in Science

A Random Walk in Science provides insight into the wit and intellect of the scientific mind through a blend of amusing and serious contributions written by and about scientists. The book records changing attitudes within science and mirrors the interactions of science with society. Some of the contributors include Lewis Carroll Isaac Newton Jonathan Swift and James Clark Maxwell. This entertaining anthology covers Murphy's Law the trial of Galileo life on Earth Gulliver's computer and much more.

GBP 175.00
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Therapeutic Culture Triumph and Defeat

Therapeutic Culture Triumph and Defeat

For nearly half a century social scientists have made claims that there is a therapeutic ethos with extensive influence upon numerous aspects of American society. In Therapeutic Culture twelve authors address the implications of this ethos and its effects on a wide range of social institutions extending from the family to schools and operating in religious behavior and within the legal system. Has there been as the sociological theorist Philip Rieff argued in 1966 a triumph of the therapeutic? If so in what kinds of institutions has it been most pervasive? At the same time what aspects of modern culture has it replaced or defeated? Therapeutic Culture addresses these questions and raises others. Part 1 of this volume examines the emergence of the idea of authenticity as it defines the manipulation of emotions and behavior both in the United States and Great Britain. Contributors include Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn Frank Furedi Jonathan B. Imber and Alan Woolfolk. Part 2 illustrates specific cases of the effects of therapeutic culture within institutions including courts schools religious communities and the virtual community of the Internet. Contributors include James L. Nolan Jr. John Steadman Rice Felicia Wu Song and James Tucker. Part 3 extends the analyses of specific social institutions to the broader consequences that have resulted as a therapeutic ethos has taken root in contemporary life. Contributors include Digby Anderson Ellen Herman and James Davison Hunter. Part 4 is devoted to a previously unpublished essay by Philip Rieff whose significant influence can be seen in many of the contributions. Rieff revisits the highly controversial confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas in 1991 and offers ample evidence of the therapeutic uses of politics as well as the political manipulations available within a therapeutic culture to provide a fitting conclusion. This volume establishes a benchmark for further theoretical reflection and empirical research on the nature of therapeutic culture. It will be of interest to sociologists psychologists political scientists and cultural studies specialists. | Therapeutic Culture Triumph and Defeat

GBP 130.00
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Direct Democracy in Switzerland

Direct Democracy in Switzerland

Only one country in the world-Switzerland-is a direct democracy in which to an extent the people pass their own laws judge the constitutionality of statutes and even have written in effect their own constitution. In this propitious volume Gregory Fossedal reports on the politics and social fabric of what James Bryce has called the nation that has taken the democratic idea to its furthest extent. The lessons Fossedal presents at a time of dissatisfaction with the role of money and privileged elites in many Western democracies are at once timely and urgent. | Direct Democracy in Switzerland

GBP 130.00
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Where Analysis Meets the Arts The Integration of the Arts Therapies with Psychoanalytic Theory

Where Analysis Meets the Arts The Integration of the Arts Therapies with Psychoanalytic Theory

This book provides the reader with a theoretical framework that considers how psychoanalysis can enrich the clinical application of the arts therapies. Five specialist arts therapies used in contemporary psychotherapy are examined: drama psychodrama art dance movement and music. Although the contributors represent a variety of orientations and practices it is the theme of integration which makes this book most stimulated and original demonstrating how both psychoanalysis and the arts therapies may benefit from a meeting of minds. Contributors: Jeremy Holmes; Joy Schaverien; Mary Levens; Marina Jenkins; Paul Holmes; Kedzie Penfield; Helen Odell-Miller; Jocelyn James; Yvonne Searles; and Isabelle Streng. | Where Analysis Meets the Arts The Integration of the Arts Therapies with Psychoanalytic Theory

GBP 130.00
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Philosophic Classics Volume IV Nineteenth-Century Philosophy

Philosophic Classics Volume IV Nineteenth-Century Philosophy

This anthology of readings in contemporary Western philosophy focuses on 19th-century philosophers who represent a variety of responses to the issue of their day: whether or not there was a knowable nonhuman rational order upon which thinking persons could willfully choose to act. The selections are readable and accessible yet remain faithful to the original works. Accompanying the text are drawings diagrams photographs and a timeline; all of which allow the reader to really study the major philosophical thinkers of the 19th-century: Bentham Wollstonecraft Fichte Hegel Schopenhauer Comte Feuerbach Mill Kierkegaard Marx Peirce James and Nietzche. For anyone interested in owning a collection of works from the greatest philosophical thinkers in the 19th-century. | Philosophic Classics Volume IV Nineteenth-Century Philosophy

GBP 170.00
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Congress and the American Tradition

Congress and the American Tradition

Most Americans would probably be surprised to hear that in 1959 James Burnham a leading political thinker questioned whether Congress would survive and whether the Executive Branch of the American government would become a dictatorship. In the last decade members of Congress have impeached a president rejected or refused to consider presidential nominees and appear in the media criticizing the chief executive. Congress does not exactly appear to be at risk of expiring. Regardless of how we perceive Congress today more than forty years after Congress and the American Tradition was written Burnham's questions arguments and political analysis still have much to tell us about freedom and political order. Burnham originally intended Congress and the American Tradition as a response to liberal critics of Senator McCarthy's investigations of communist influence in the United States. He developed it into a detailed analysis of the history and functioning of Congress its changing relationship with the Executive Branch and the danger of despotism even in a democratic society. The book is organized into three distinct parts. The American System of Government analyzes the concept of government ideology and tradition power and the place and function of Congress within the American government. The Present Position of Congress explores its law-making power Congressional commissions treaties investigatory power and proposals for Congressional reform. The Future of Congress discusses democracy and liberty and ultimately asks Can Congress Survive? Michael Henry's new introduction sheds much insight into Burnham's writings and worldview combining biography and penetrating scholarly analysis. He makes it clear why this work is of continuing importance to political theoreticians historians philosophers and those interested in American government. James Burnham (1905-1987) began his career as a professor of philosophy at New York University. He co-founded with William F. Buckley Jr. The National Review. His books include The Managerial Revolution The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom and Suicide of the West. Michael Henry received his advanced degree in political theory. He has been teaching philosophy at St. John's University in New York since 1977.

GBP 130.00
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e-HR Using Intranets to Improve the Effectiveness of Your People

e-HR Using Intranets to Improve the Effectiveness of Your People

Title first published in 2003. Despite all the hype about e-learning the real breakthrough in technology at least as far as HR goes is in the development of the corporate intranet for people management purposes. Bryan Hopkins and James Markham's book explains the potential for intranets in every aspect of HR: personnel administration performance management employee development communication and knowledge management as well as training and e-learning. It asks and answers the key questions you need to ask yourself and provides case studies illustrating how organizations have successfully exploited their intranet to help their people work more effectively and efficiently. HR managers are under pressure to cut costs increase the effectiveness and range of the services they deliver. In many organizations there is also considerable pressure to maximise the returns on investment in technology. This book provides you with the means to achieve all of these goals. | e-HR Using Intranets to Improve the Effectiveness of Your People

GBP 110.00
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Student Protest The Sixties and After

Student Protest The Sixties and After

This topical new study takes a new look at the causes course and consequences of student activism across the world since its heyday in the 1960s. It starts with analyses of some of the most familiar - and romanticised - Sixties protests themselves in the US France Germany Mexico and Great Britain. It then goes on to examine more recent and hazardous examples of student activism particularly in China Korea and Iran. Throughout the tone is hard-headed and analytical rather than celebratory exploring the similarities and differences across these protests and asking what they achieved. The contributors to the volume are: Ingo Cornils; Gerard J. DeGroot; Sylvia Ellis; Sandra Hollin Flowers; Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi; Bertram M. Gordon; J. Angus Johnston; Alan R. Kluver; Donald J. Mabry; Gunter Minnerup; A. D. Moses; Frank Pieke; Julie Reuben; Barbara Tischler; Nella Van Dyke; Clare White; James L. Wood; Eric Zolov. | Student Protest The Sixties and After

GBP 130.00
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Critical Issues in Homeland Security A Casebook

Critical Issues in Homeland Security A Casebook

Critical Issues in Homeland Security: A Casebook encourages analytical and careful examination of practical homeland security problems through the presentation of contemporary cases involving major state or national events. Case studies demonstrate the complexity of challenges within the domain of homeland security policy and administration. Editors James D. Ramsay and Linda Kiltz carefully curated fourteen cases all from top scholars and practitioners to cover a broad range of legal policy and operational challenges within the field of homeland security. Timely and interesting cases on such issues as arctic security the use of drones in targeted killings cyber security and the emergency management lessons of the 2010 Haiti earthquake give students a deeper understanding of the relationship between the theories and the practices of homeland security. Discussion questions at the end of each case and an online instructor's manual make Critical Issues in Homeland Security an even more effective learning tool for any homeland security program. | Critical Issues in Homeland Security A Casebook

GBP 130.00
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Ancient Britain

Ancient Britain

This book is for anyone starting out to understand the prehistoric life of Britain from the first human occupation 450 000 years ago until the Roman conquest in AD 43. James Dyer here succeeds in bringing to life a thriving picture of the people and customs of the Stone Bronze and Iron Ages based on the sometimes sparse clues presented by prehistoric archaeological sites across Britain. For many readers Ancient Britain will provide the first chance to get to grips with the present state of our knowledge of prehistoric agriculture settlement trade and ritual. The rise of power with the development of a class system at the hands of the first metal users is charted through to the growth of wealth and the emergence of a warlike and advanced Iron Age society - a society that was nonetheless unable to withstand the might of Rome. With over 130 illustrations and photographs including a number of specially drawn reconstructions this highly visual book is an ideal primer for all students of prehistory and all those who are simply interested in the subject.

GBP 130.00
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Interpreting Residential Life Values to Practise

Interpreting Residential Life Values to Practise

First published in 1989 Interpreting Residential Life raises questions like – a) what makes residential establishments tick b) what is going on beneath the surface of the daily routine c) why is change so difficult to create and even more difficult to sustain and d) how can residential social workers evaluate their work? James Atherton provides a set of tools to enable residential workers to answer these questions in their own establishments. Simply and directly he provides a framework which shows how policy and practice relate to each other and reinforce or hinder each other in crises as well as in routines. He examines the whole residential establishment as a social system concentrating on daily life within it and demonstrating how values are implicit in all aspects of practice. He draws on the experiences of residential staff at all levels to uncover the working myths and offers ways of understanding how establishments function and indicates the pathways to change. This is an essential read for students of social work and sociology. | Interpreting Residential Life Values to Practise

GBP 90.00
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Edwin and John A Personal History of the American South

Edwin and John A Personal History of the American South

In Edwin and John: A Personal History of the American South award-winning author James T. Sears interweaves diaries letters and poems to craft an innovative first-person narrative history that details the hard realities of growing up gay in the South during the early decades of the 20th century. Set against the backdrop of World War II and the post-war South Edwin and John provides a unique and intimate approach to queer history by following the 50 year relationship between John Zeigler and Edwin Peacocke that carried them both from their roots in the conservative South through service in World War II and into a placid and loving literary life where they opened a bookshop in what was then the small town of Charleston South Carolina. Edwin and John is a revealing look at queer history detailing how these two men and their remarkable circle of close friends-which included some of the greatest writers and artists of their era including Prentiss Taylor Carson McCullers and John Bennett-endured war intolerance and jealousies while living proud and public lives in far more conservative times. | Edwin and John A Personal History of the American South

GBP 130.00
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Black Women Centre Stage Diasporic Solidarity in Contemporary Black British Theatre

Black Women Centre Stage Diasporic Solidarity in Contemporary Black British Theatre

This book examines the political alliances that are built across the diaspora in contemporary plays written by Black women playwrights in the UK. Through the concept of creative diasporic solidarity it offers an innovative theoretical approach to examine the ways in which the playwrights respond creatively to the violence and marginalisation of Black communities especially Black women. This study demonstrates that theatre can act as a productive space for the ethical encounter with the Other (understood in terms of alterity as someone different from the self) by examining the possibilities of these plays to activate the spectators’ responsibility and solidarity towards different types of violence experienced by Black women offering alternative modes of relationality. The book engages with a range of contemporary works written by Black women playwrights in the UK including Mojisola Adebayo Theresa Ikoko Diana Nneka Atuona Gloria Williams Charlene James or Yusra Warsama bringing to the fore a gendered and intersectional approach to the analysis of the texts. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in contemporary theatre gender studies and diaspora studies. | Black Women Centre Stage Diasporic Solidarity in Contemporary Black British Theatre

GBP 130.00
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The Migrant Presence Australian Responses 1947-1977

The Migrant Presence Australian Responses 1947-1977

This classic work in Australian sociology examines the way in which Australian institutions have responded to the influx of migrants of non-Anglo-Saxon origin. Until the end of the sixties the typical Australian reaction was that these migrants could be and were being assimilated into the mainstream of British-Australian society and culture. At the end of the sixties both the assimilationist philosophy and the claim of successful and effortless absorption came into question and migrants of non-English speaking background began to be defined as problems. Now in a third phase migrants themselves are rejecting the notion that they are above all problems or people with problems. Instead they are asserting their rights and dignity as legitimate minorities in an ethnically plural society. The author goes on to trace in detail the response of the institutions of education health and the trade unions to 'the migrant presence'. 'Well written well presented well documented and challenging. ' - C. A. Price The National Times'Well written sympathetic to the point of anger and should be included in any course on Australian society or public policy. an invaluable contribution. ' - James Jupp Politics | The Migrant Presence Australian Responses 1947-1977

GBP 130.00
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Jail Journeys The English Prison Experience Since 1918

Jail Journeys The English Prison Experience Since 1918

Originally published in 1989 Jail Journeys was a contemporary history of the English prison system in the words of those who had endured it as prisoners or who had worked within it. More than 1000 extracts from more than 150 first-hand accounts of life ‘inside’ chronicle the empty routines of the prison day and tell of the loneliness the despair the squalor the fights the friendships the sex the humour. There are also eye-witness accounts of the Dartmoor Mutiny of hangings and floggings of escapes and personal statements by the well-known – James Phelan Wilfred Macartney Albert Pierrepoint Charles Kray John McVicar Jimmy Boyle Alfie Hinds Lord Alfred Douglas – and by many others less well known. These testimonies by turn dramatic literate and naïve add up to an implicit sociology of the twentieth-century English prison depicting a divided social structure with ‘screws’ on one side and ‘cons’ on the other. The book is aimed at anyone with an interest in social issues and twentieth-century history as well as students of law history sociology criminology and social administration and at professionals working in all these fields. | Jail Journeys The English Prison Experience Since 1918

GBP 90.00
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