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The Courage to Fail A Social View of Organ Transplants and Dialysis

The Courage to Fail A Social View of Organ Transplants and Dialysis

The title of this profound work conveys the bold uncertain and often dangerous adventure in which medical professionals and their organ transplant and dialysis patients are engaged. Built around a series of case studies The Courage to Fail is the product of collaborative first-hand research concerned with various social phenomena generated by transplantation and dialysis. The authors examine the individuals involved and the workings and atmosphere of some of the medical centers in which these forms of therapy have been developed. They examine gift-exchange dimensions of transplantation: the transcendent and tyrannical aspects of the gift of life that transplants entail for donors and recipients-and for medical professionals as well. They also analyze the dilemma of uncertainty inherent in medicine which occurs with particular force in the development of such experimental techniques. Since publication of the original edition the authors have continued to follow social and medical developments surrounding organ transplants and dialysis. In their new introduction they discuss transplantation as a gift of life how and when death occurs efforts to procure more organs and organ replacement and issues of equity. This book will be of interest to physicians medical students medical sociologists and anyone interested in the history of and issues surrounding organ transplantation and dialysis. | The Courage to Fail A Social View of Organ Transplants and Dialysis

GBP 130.00
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Justice Indigenous Peoples and Canada A History of Courage and Resilience

Justice Indigenous Peoples and Canada A History of Courage and Resilience

Justice Indigenous Peoples and Canada: A History of Courage and Resilience brings together the work of a number of leading researchers to provide a broad overview of criminal justice issues that Indigenous people in Canada have faced historically and continue to face today. Both Indigenous and Canadian scholars situate current issues of justice for Indigenous peoples broadly defined within the context of historical realities and ongoing developments. By examining how justice is defined both from within Indigenous communities and outside of them this volume examines the force of Constitutional reform and subsequent case law on Indigenous rights historically and in contemporary contexts. It then expands the discussion to include theoretical considerations particularly settler colonialism that help explain how ongoing oppressive and assimilationist agendas continue to affect how so-called justice is administered. From a critical perspective the book examines the operation of the criminal justice system through bail specialized courts policing sentencing incarceration and release. It explores legal frameworks as well as current issues that have significantly affected Indigenous peoples such as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission the Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls human rights resurgence and identity. This unique collection of perspectives exposes the disconcerting agenda of historical and modern-day Canadian federal government policy and the continued denial of Indigenous rights to self-determination. It is essential reading for those interested in the struggles of the Indigenous peoples in Canada as well as anyone studying race crime and justice. | Justice Indigenous Peoples and Canada A History of Courage and Resilience

GBP 130.00
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From Reverie to Interpretation Transforming Thought into the Action of Psychoanalysis

From Reverie to Interpretation Transforming Thought into the Action of Psychoanalysis

Bion's identification of reverie as a psychoanalytic concept has drawn attention to a dimension of the analyst's experience with tremendous potential to enrich our interpretive understanding. The courage of these authors in revealing their own process of reverie as transformed into the action of psychoanalysis will inspire and foster further investigation of this fruitful yet heretofore infrequently explored area of psychoanalytic discovery. | From Reverie to Interpretation Transforming Thought into the Action of Psychoanalysis

GBP 130.00
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Freud Alder and Jung Discovering the Mind

Freud Alder and Jung Discovering the Mind

Walter Kaufmann completed this the third and final volume of his landmark trilogy shortly before his death in 1980. The trilogy is the crowning achievement of a lifetime of study writing and teaching. This final volume contains Kaufmann's tribute to Sigmund Freud the man he thought had done as much as anyone to discover and illuminate the human mind. Kaufmann's own analytical brilliance seems a fitting reflection of Freud's and his acute commentary affords fitting company to Freud's own thought. Kaufmann traces the intellectual tradition that culminated in Freud's blending of analytic scientific thinking with humanistic insight to create a poetic science of the mind. He argues that despite Freud's great achievement and celebrity his work and person have often been misunderstood and unfairly maligned the victim of poor translations and hostile critics. Kaufmann dispels some of the myths that have surrounded Freud and damaged his reputation. He takes pains to show how undogmatic how open to discussion and how modest Freud actually was. Kaufmann endeavors to defend Freud against the attacks of his two most prominent apostate disciples Alfred Adler and Carl Gustav Jung. Adler is revealed as having been jealous hostile and an ingrate a muddled thinker and unskilled writer and remarkably lacking in self-understanding. Jung emerges in Kaufmann's depiction as an unattractive petty and envious human being an anti-Semite an obscure and obscurantist thinker and like Adler lacking insight into himself. Freud on the contrary is argued to have displayed great nobility and great insight into himself and his wayward disciples in the course of their famous fallings-out. | Freud Alder and Jung Discovering the Mind

GBP 145.00
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The Manager's Guide to Discipline

The Manager's Guide to Discipline

For most managers let alone the employees involved the disciplinary process can be painful and embarrassing. Poor performance tends to be confused with misconduct and consequently carries the stigma of punishment; this despite the fact that most company policies and indeed the ACAS Code (correctly) put emphasis on improving behaviour or performance rather than punishment. Derek Eccleston's concise guide provides a clear picture of the purpose and the process of the disciplinary procedure. This toolkit approach contains invaluable information and includes clear checklists and sample letters to help guide managers and supervisors through the minefield of employment rights explaining what to do and how to do it. Written in a no nonsense way The Manager's Guide to Discipline is free of legal jargon and focuses on the practical issues throughout. It will help to protect the organisation whilst ensuring matters are dealt with not left or brushed under the carpet because of a lack of management confidence. This essential reference will encourage managers to approach performance and disciplinary problems proactively and with more confidence and will significantly reduce the risk of getting it wrong.

GBP 175.00
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The Writing Machine A History of the Typewriter

The Writing Machine A History of the Typewriter

First Published in 1973 The Writing Machine presents a comprehensive history of the typewriter. Michael Adler not only investigated the history of the machine but also started collecting typewriters because of the difficulty of discovering what these old machines looked like. Then he found there were other collectors all over the world who supplied him with such a wealth of data that he had eventually to limit the scope of his ‘history’. There are hundreds and hundreds of makes and models of ‘conventional’ front-stroke type bar machines with four-row keyboards but they were virtually all the same. It is the unconventional ones that are interesting and it is on these that the author concentrates. The book is amusing as well as informative and it ends with a complete catalogue of ‘unconventional’ typewriters manufactured up to the 1930s when the ‘conventional’ machine had become universal. This book is a must read for anyone interested to learn about the writing machine. | The Writing Machine A History of the Typewriter

GBP 105.00
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The Philosopher's Habitat An Introduction to

The Philosopher's Habitat An Introduction to

First published in 1990 The Philosopher's Habitat introduces the subject by investigating a variety of the problems which are currently engaging philosophers and which can be made intelligible to an absolute beginner. Rather than introducing philosophy by examining in the traditional way the writings of great philosophers the author has inverted this procedure. The idea is that the reader will become absorbed in these dramas will thereby come to appreciate the ways in which the stage was set by the great writers of the past and will feel the urge to participate. Questions at the end of each chapter encourage the reader to push beyond the text. This book is a must read for students of philosophy. | The Philosopher's Habitat An Introduction to

GBP 90.00
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The Origins of Violence Approaches to the Study of Conflict

The Origins of Violence Approaches to the Study of Conflict

In this fundamental analysis Rapoport asks: Why do we have wars? Doesn't humanity always seem on the verge of self-annihilation? Is there something in human genetic structure that makes people want to kill each other? Perhaps this impulse is a matter of good versus evil or just plain human nature. Rapoport moves beyond cliches by claiming that the sources of modern violence reside in the imbalance between a lag in the system of values inherited from the past and the structure of science and technology that awaits no revision of values to move ahead. As a result Rapoport argues that the study of war and peace should be considered a science just like biology or for that matter political science. The same rules of empirical engagement and experimentation should apply. Before we can have a theory of peace we need a methodology of conflict. Using the writings of thinkers who have made significant contributions to the predominant ideas and ideals of our society Rapoport weaves together the strands of independent thought and research into a single thought-provoking work. After investigating the whys of violence using ideological psychological strategic and systemic perspective Rapoport moves to an in-depth analysis of possible varieties of conflict resolution. He explores such mechanisms as mediation education and applying the results of scientific research. He documents the impact of ideologies countervailing dominant ones that place obstacles in the way of peacemaking. Rapoport argues that conciliation and game theories can be utilized to replace the concept of winner take all or total victory. The Origins of Violence is a needed contribution to our understanding of warfare and provides a forward-looking perspective that can be of wide use to each of the policy sciences starting with military strategy and ending with international development. | The Origins of Violence Approaches to the Study of Conflict

GBP 110.00
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The State in Relation to Labour

The State in Relation to Labour

W. Stanley Jevons was a central figure linking political economy with social policy and The State in Relation to Labour is the quintessential product of that fusion. Jevons reviews how legislation enacted for the protection of labor re-established the social contract on a new industrial footing. The concept of industrial partnership insured that the state continued to hold a monopoly of power while taking account of rising labor agitation. Jevons' scholarly brilliance is evident in this pathbreaking work on economics and policy construction. The State in Relation to Labour deals with the economic role of government in resolving conflicts between different groups of English citizens. The issue of class is central to the topic and two further points are implicit. The first is the market economy as a product of the institutions which form and operate through it. Jevons argues that markets can be and indeed have been formed to favor one class interest or another. Second he asserts that conventional arguments favor the class interests they serve whether or not they are recognized to doing so. Jevons neither shrinks from candid analysis of English social political and economic history and institutions nor espouses an openly pragmatic approach to the economic role of government. He eschews the erection of class or other ideological sentiment into principles of policy. Implicit in his analysis is an understanding that some law some set of legal rights and limitations is necessary. The issue is not whether government will establish relative rights and responsibilities but what they will be and further when they will be changed. Among the topics discussed are principles of industrial legislation direct interference of the state with labor the Factory Acts and similar legislation directly affecting laborers trade union legislation the law of industrial conspiracy cooperation and industrial partnership and arbitration and conciliation. In a new introduction Warren J. Samuels examines the life and works of William Stanley Jevons. He discusses the various arguments put forth in The State in Relation to Labour and the consequences of Jevons' approach.

GBP 130.00
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Animate to Harmony The Independent Animator's Guide to Toon Boom

Animate to Harmony The Independent Animator's Guide to Toon Boom

Want to create studio-quality work and get noticed? Just coming off Flash and looking for a Toon Boom intro? Are you a traditional pencil-and-paper animator? From scene setup to the final render learn how to navigate the Toon Boom interface to create animation that can be published on a variety of platforms and formats. Animate to Harmony guides you through Toon Boom‘s Animate Animate Pro and Harmony programs teaching you how to create high-quality 2D animation of all complexities. The main text focuses onfeatures that are common across all three programs while Advanced Techniques boxes throughout the book elaborate on Pro and Harmony features appealing to all levels of experience with any of the three main Toon Boom products. | Animate to Harmony The Independent Animator's Guide to Toon Boom

GBP 175.00
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The South African Response to COVID-19 The Early Years

The South African Response to COVID-19 The Early Years

This book analyses the first two years of South Africa’s response to the COVID-19 epidemic from its emergence in early 2020. Drawing on the perspectives of a range of public health experts economists and other social scientists and development practitioners this book argues that understanding this early response will be essential to moderate and improve future policy thinking around health governance and epidemic readiness. This book provides a systemic analysis of not only the epidemiological progression of COVID-19 in South Africa but also the socio-political factors that will be key in determining the future of the country as a whole including health system challenges socio-economic disparities and inequalities and variable (often contradictory and tardy) policy responses. Overall this book exposes Manichean thinking and the spurious policy dichotomies that pitch public health against human rights economic recovery against viral vector control and science against ideology with lessons not just for South Africa but also for elsewhere on the African continent and beyond. This book will be perfect for researchers and practitioners across Public Health Health Policy and Global Health as well as those with an interest in South African politics and development more generally. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | The South African Response to COVID-19 The Early Years

GBP 120.00
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The History of the Jews in Early Modern Italy From the Renaissance to the Restoration

The History of the Jews in Early Modern Italy From the Renaissance to the Restoration

Challenging traditional historiographical approaches this book offers a new history of Italian Jews in the early modern age. The fortunes of the Jewish communities of Italy in their various aspects – demographic social economic cultural and religious – can only be understood if these communities are integrated into the picture of a broader European or better still global system of Jewish communities and populations; and that this history should be analyzed from within the dense web of relationships with the non-Jewish surroundings that enveloped the Italian communities. The book presents new approaches on such essential issues as ghettoization antisemitism the Inquisition the history of conversion and Jewish-Christian relations. It sheds light on the autonomous culture of the Jews in Italy focusing on case studies of intellectual and cultural life using a micro-historical perspective. This book was first published in Italy in 2014 by one of the leading scholars on Italian Jewish history. This book will appeal to students and scholars alike studying and researching Jewish history early modern Italy early modern Jewish and Italian culture and early modern society. | The History of the Jews in Early Modern Italy From the Renaissance to the Restoration

GBP 130.00
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Indian Modernities Literary Cultures from the 18th to the 20th Century

Indian Modernities Literary Cultures from the 18th to the 20th Century

This volume studies the ways in which modernity has been conceived practiced and performed in Indian literatures from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It brings together essays on writings in Hindi Urdu Punjabi Bengali Odia Gujarati Marathi Tamil Telugu Kannada Malayalam and languages from Northeast India which form a dialogical relationship with each other in this volume. The concurrence and contradictions emerging through these studies problematize the idea of modernity afresh. The book challenges the dominance of colonial modernity through sociohistorical and cultural analysis of how modernity surfaces as a multifaceted phenomenon when contextualized in the multilingual ethos of India. It further tracks the complex ways in which modernism in India is tied to the harvests of modernity. It argues for the need to shift focus on the specific conditions that gave shape to multiple modernities within literatures produced from India. A versatile collection the book incorporates engagements with not just long prose fiction but also lesser-known essays research works and short stories published in popular magazines. This unique work will be of interest to students and teachers of Indian writing in English Indian literatures and comparative literatures. It will be indispensable to scholars of South Asian studies literary historians linguists and scholars of cultural studies across the globe. | Indian Modernities Literary Cultures from the 18th to the 20th Century

GBP 130.00
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Introduction to the Thermodynamics of Materials

Introduction to the Thermodynamics of Materials

Maintaining the substance that made Introduction to the Thermodynamic of Materials a perennial best seller for decades this Sixth Edition is updated to reflect the broadening field of materials science and engineering. The new edition is reorganized into three major sections to align the book for practical coursework with the first (Thermodynamic Principles) and second (Phase Equilibria) sections aimed at use in a one semester undergraduate course. The third section (Reactions and Transformations) can be used in other courses of the curriculum that deal with oxidation energy and phase transformations. The book is updated to include the role of work terms other than PV work (e. g. magnetic work) along with their attendant aspects of entropy Maxwell equations and the role of such applied fields on phase diagrams. There is also an increased emphasis on the thermodynamics of phase transformations and the Sixth Edition features an entirely new chapter 15 that links specific thermodynamic applications to the study of phase transformations. The book also features more than 50 new end of chapter problems and more than 50 new figures. | Introduction to the Thermodynamics of Materials

GBP 130.00
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Diplomacy and Ideology From the French Revolution to the Digital Age

Diplomacy and Ideology From the French Revolution to the Digital Age

This innovative new book argues that diplomacy which emerged out of the French Revolution has become one of the central Ideological State Apparatuses of the modern democratic nation-state. The book is divided into four thematic parts. The first presents the central concepts and theoretical perspectives derived from the work of Slavoj Žižek focusing on his understanding of politics ideology and the core of the conceptual apparatus of Lacanian psychoanalysis. There then follow three parts treating diplomacy as archi-politics ultra-politics and post-politics respectively highlighting three eras of the modern history of diplomacy from the French Revolution until today. The first part takes on the question of the creation of the term ‘diplomacy’ which took place during the time of the French Revolution. The second part begins with the effects on diplomacy arising from the horrors of the two World Wars. Finally the third part covers another major shift in Western diplomacy during the last century the fall of the Soviet Union and how this transformation shows itself in the field of Diplomacy Studies. The book argues that diplomacy’s primary task is not to be understood as negotiating peace between warring parties but rather to reproduce the myth of the state’s unity by repressing its fundamental inconsistencies. This book will be of much interest to students of diplomacy studies political theory philosophy and International Relations. | Diplomacy and Ideology From the French Revolution to the Digital Age

GBP 130.00
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Social Progress and the Authoritarian Challenge to Democracy

Social Progress and the Authoritarian Challenge to Democracy

Social Progress and the Authoritarian Challenge to Democracy examines the authoritarian challenge to present-day democracy through a framing of social progress theory and the idea of the social contract. Building on the author’s previous work this book discusses whether social progress is linear and on a continual upward trajectory to human betterment or if there are peaks and troughs along the way. More importantly it questions that if social progress exists is it compatible with social and environmental sustainability? At the outset the book introduces the concepts of social contract theory and the idea of human social progress long considered to be settled conditions now ripe for further examination. Each chapter carefully analyses the contemporary struggle between democracy and authoritarianism using examples from the USA as a foundation to discuss and compare democracies from around the world encountering the pressures of rising authoritarianism including anti-immigration xenophobia and anti-institutionalism. It argues that if the climate crisis is to be urgently addressed as required the rise in authoritarian thinking with its focus on maintaining power and the creation of individual wealth presents a challenge to both our societal foundations and environmental sustainability. Highlighting and analysing topics of critical importance to today’s society this book will have widespread appeal to academics researchers and postgraduate students throughout the social sciences including sociology political science philosophy environmental sustainability and development studies.

GBP 130.00
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The Visual Legacy of Alexander the Great from the Renaissance to the Age of Revolution

The Visual Legacy of Alexander the Great from the Renaissance to the Age of Revolution

This is an analysis of the diverse facets of Alexander the Great’s image from the Renaissance era through the Baroque into the nineteenth century. Perceived as the first sovereign ruler of the world for centuries Alexander became an exemplar for the most ambitious kings and emperors. This cultural phenomenon flourished above all in the Renaissance while extending into the nineteenth century. Early modern monarchs’ identification with Alexander associated them with ideas of kingly wisdom. Yet this admiration waned on occasions. Napoleon was Alexander of Macedonia’s most ardent critic. During the nineteenth century the Macedonian hero was viewed as an individual who won control of the Achaemenid empire but also underwent a progressive moral decline that converted him into a tyrant. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history and iconography. | The Visual Legacy of Alexander the Great from the Renaissance to the Age of Revolution

GBP 130.00
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The Field Guide to Human Error Investigations

The Field Guide to Human Error Investigations

This title was first published in 2002: This field guide assesses two views of human error - the old view in which human error becomes the cause of an incident or accident or the new view in which human error is merely a symptom of deeper trouble within the system. The two parts of this guide concentrate on each view leading towards an appreciation of the new view in which human error is the starting point of an investigation rather than its conclusion. The second part of this guide focuses on the circumstances which unfold around people which causes their assessments and actions to change accordingly. It shows how to reverse engineer human error which like any other componant needs to be put back together in a mishap investigation. | The Field Guide to Human Error Investigations

GBP 100.00
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Meeting the Standards in Primary ICT A Guide to the ITTNC

Meeting the Standards in Primary ICT A Guide to the ITTNC

This practical guide to using ICT in the primary classroom addresses all the concerns of student teachers and provides plenty of ideas and advice on how to incorporate ICT into classroom practice on a daily basis. The authors bring together theory and practice to help prospective and new teachers acquire and develop the skills required for using ICT effectively. Meeting the Standards in Primary ICT is split into three sections which will: help assess the readers' ICT skills knowledge and understanding discuss ways of incorporating ICT for teaching across the primary curriculum help the reader to think about ICT and their own professional learning and development. This book will be an invaluable resource for all student teachers on primary training courses lecturers and mentors supporting trainees on these courses and newly qualified teachers (NQTs). | Meeting the Standards in Primary ICT A Guide to the ITTNC

GBP 130.00
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Regional Approaches to the Responsibility to Protect Lessons from Europe and West Africa

Regional Approaches to the Responsibility to Protect Lessons from Europe and West Africa

This book studies regional approaches to the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in Europe and West Africa. The work assesses how and to what extent the European Union (EU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have internalised the norm both generally in institutions policies and programs and specifically in crisis situations of R2P concern such as the 2011 Libyan crisis and 2012 Malian crisis. It provides a historical analysis of how the two regional organisations have dealt with questions of sovereignty security and human rights since their founding as well as an analysis of some of the European and West African roots of the R2P norm. This reflects the notion that global norms are often informed by local and regional practices and that this needs to be recognised in order to fully understand regional responses to alleged global norms. The book uses process tracing to trace the regional internalisation of R2P and has benefited from qualitative research interviews with EU- and ECOWAS-stakeholders. One of the key findings is that ECOWAS and West Africa have delivered a key contribution to the norm construction of R2P a finding insufficiently recognised in the current literature. This book will be of much interest to students of the Responsibility to Protect EU human rights and foreign policy African politics security studies and International Relations in general. | Regional Approaches to the Responsibility to Protect Lessons from Europe and West Africa

GBP 120.00
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