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E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism Queer Matters

E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism Queer Matters

Through attending to the nonhuman E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism: Queer Matters places Forster’s fiction in conversation with contemporary debates concerned with the intersection of neomaterialism environmental humanities and queer ecology. The book revisits Forster’s liberal humanism from a materialist perspective by focusing on humans’ embodied activities in artificial and natural environments. By examining the everyday embodied experiences of characters the book thus brings to the fore insignificant and sometimes overlooked aspects in Forster’s fiction. It also places importance on the texts’ treatment of queer intimacy as an embodied experience that can transcend sexual desire. The book acknowledges nonhuman agency as central to our understanding of queerness in Forster’s texts and studies the representation of formless matters such as dust as a way through which Forster’s ecological concerns arise by linking the fate of oppressed humans with oppressed nonhuman others. | E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism Queer Matters

GBP 130.00
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Feeling Matters

Feeling Matters

As long as feelings are second-class citizens people will be second class citizens. Experience is an endangered species. An important function of psychotherapy is to make time for experiencing. Psychic taste buds really exist and rarely rest. They feed us each other gauge states of being states of spirit. We taste each other's feelings and intentions. An important aim of this book is to build psychic taste buds not put them down or pretend they don't exist. A positive feeling runs through this book a love of life an affirmation. Yet we discover many feel they do not have an impact. A sense of helplessness and impotence in face of awesome forces seems to be increasing. Health is a broad term with many dark threads. A creeping annihilating sense varies from pockets we try not to notice to soul murder that must be addressed. Yet individuals do try in their private struggles and in the larger social sphere. | Feeling Matters

GBP 130.00
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How to Measure Customer Satisfaction

How to Measure Customer Satisfaction

Customer satisfaction and loyalty are key differentiators between the better and poorer performing businesses in most markets. Satisfaction drives loyalty and loyalty drives business performance. This new edition of How to Measure Customer Satisfaction takes readers step-by-step through designing and implementing a CSM survey highlighting blunders that are commonly made and explaining how to make sure that the measures produced are accurate and credible. It also covers ways of gaining understanding and ownership of the CSM programme throughout the organization and clarifies the business case for customer satisfaction. If you are committed to the future of your company the ability to measure what your customers think of you is essential - and so is this book!

GBP 175.00
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What is Music Production? A Producers Guide: The Role the People the Process

What is Music Production? A Producers Guide: The Role the People the Process

To complete an album a producer needs to know what goes into capturing great music and teasing out inspirational performances from artists. As a producer you are guiding not only the music but also the business and the technical aspects of an album. What Is Music Production? is a guide to this guidance. Formed from a blend of solid information extracted from detailed interviews the book focuses on the process of music production providing insight into how the producer guides this process and molds the final product. Whether you are a student or just starting your professional career What is Music Production? explains what you need to know-from working with artists songs pre-production mixing and mastering to the finance and budgeting-to glean a professional result. Combining the how to with online assets and interviews this book arms you with vital insight into the business of being a music producer. | What is Music Production? A Producers Guide: The Role the People the Process

GBP 175.00
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What Do Unions Do? A Twenty-year Perspective

What Do Unions Do? A Twenty-year Perspective

One of the best-known and most-quoted books ever written on labor unions is What Do Unions Do? by Richard Freeman and James Medoff. Published in 1984 the book proved to be a landmark because it provided the most comprehensive and statistically sophisticated empirical portrait of the economic and socio-political effects of unions and a provocative conclusion that unions are on balance beneficial for the economy and society. The present volume represents a twentieth-anniversary retrospective and evaluation of What Do Unions Do? The objectives are threefold: to evaluate and critique the theory evidence and conclusions of Freeman and Medoff; to provide a comprehensive update of the theoretical and empirical literature on unions since the publication of their book; and to offer a balanced assessment and critique of the effects of unions on the economy and society. Toward this end internationally recognized representatives of labor and management cover the gamut of subjects related to unions. Topics covered include the economic theory of unions; the history of economic thought on unions; the effect of unions on wages benefits capital investment productivity income inequality dispute resolution and job satisfaction; the performance of unions in an international perspective; the reasons for the decline of unions; and the future of unions. The volume concludes with a chapter by Richard Freeman in which he assesses the arguments and evidence presented in the other chapters and presents his evaluation of how What Do Unions Do? stands up in the light of twenty years of additional experience and research. This highly readable volume is a state-of-the-art survey by internationally recognized experts on the effects and future of labor unions. It will be the benchmark for years to come. | What Do Unions Do? A Twenty-year Perspective

GBP 130.00
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Style Bible What to Wear to Work

Style Bible What to Wear to Work

First impressions (and second ones!) count whether you are an intern or a CEO. Lauren A. Rothman addresses an age-old dilemma: how to be appropriate and stylish in the workplace. Based on a decade of experience in the fashion industry she addresses the basics of fashion and executive presence by offering advice anecdotes and style alerts that help readers avoid major fashion faux pas at the office. Style Bible: What to Wear to Work is the must-have resource for the modern professional male or female climbing the ladder of success. Lauren identifies the ultimate wardrobe essentials and reveals shopping strategies and destinations for the everyday person. Style Bible complete with helpful illustrations is the go-to manual on how to dress for every professional occasion and a valuable resource for understanding dress codes by industry city and gender so that your visual cues will make a strong impact. Make a commitment to being better dressed at work with Style Bible. | Style Bible What to Wear to Work

GBP 175.00
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How Organisations Measure Success The Use of Performance Indicators in Government

How Organisations Measure Success The Use of Performance Indicators in Government

Throughout the 1980s the British Civil Service devoted much time and energy developing indicators to measure the performance of government. Never before had so much stress been placed on accountability and performance; a trend which will be reinforced as government continues to devolve activities to agencies and looks for methods to assess their performance. How Organisations Measure Success analyses existing methods from their origins in the 1960s to their revival in the 1980s as part of the Financial Management Initiative and its apotheosis in the 1990s Next Steps Initiative. How Organisations Measure Success reports on two years of field research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and will be of great interest to students of social policy and public administration as well as professionals working in government and public sector management. | How Organisations Measure Success The Use of Performance Indicators in Government

GBP 175.00
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What is Thinking? And Other Philosophical Reflections

What is Thinking? And Other Philosophical Reflections

The philosophical essays of this collection argue each time from a singular perspective that the task of thinking is to release the element of the unconditional from various closures and thus to make it manifest as the true and the essential task of our individual and social existence. Naming this unconditional element as the messianic the book displays the profound ethico-political significance of messianic thought for our contemporary world. This book is co-published with Aakar Books New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the print versions of this book in India Pakistan Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. | What is Thinking? And Other Philosophical Reflections

GBP 130.00
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Playing with Reality Denying Manipulating Converting and Enhancing What Is There

Playing with Reality Denying Manipulating Converting and Enhancing What Is There

This volume explores how and why we deny or manipulate or convert or enhance reality. Finding it important to come to terms with reality with what is there before us and with reality however defined to live responsibly this collection takes a truly multidisciplinary approach to examining the idea that history the truth facts and the events of the present time can be refashioned as prismatic theatrical something we can play with for agendas either noble or ignoble. An international team of contributors considers the issue of how and why in dealing what is there before us we play with reality by employing theatre fiction words conspiracy theories alternate realities scenarios and art itself. Chapters delve into issues of fake news propaganda virtual reality theatre as real life reality TV and positive ways of refashioning and enhancing your own reality. Drawing on examples from film studies to sociology from the social sciences to medicine this volume will appeal to scholars and upper-level students in the areas of communication and media studies comparative literature film studies economics English international affairs journalism philosophy psychology sociology and theatre. | Playing with Reality Denying Manipulating Converting and Enhancing What Is There

GBP 130.00
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What is this Professor Freud Like? A Diary of an Analysis with Historical Comments

What is this Professor Freud Like? A Diary of an Analysis with Historical Comments

In 1921 a young female doctor started analysis with Sigmund Freud. In a diary she recorded what moved her. The present volume not only contains a full translation of these records but also collects four essays by two psychoanalysts and two analytical historians who take their cue from the young doctor's notes to think about Freud and his methods. The discovery of the diary marks a small sensation for the history of social science. Three factors make the document unique: first it records not a training analysis but the analysis of an actual patient second the analysis took place before Freud fell ill with cancer and third the analysand obviously noted down what was said in the practice word by word. | What is this Professor Freud Like? A Diary of an Analysis with Historical Comments

GBP 130.00
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What is Theatre? An Introduction and Exploration

What is Theatre? An Introduction and Exploration

This major introductory textbook is from one of the leading educators working in theatre today. What Is Theatre? will make its reader a better playgoer responding more fully to performance with a keener appreciation of all the resources of theatre-acting design direction organization theatre buildings and audiences. By focusing on the best professional practice and the most helpful learning processes Dr. Brown shows how to read a play-text and to see and hear its potential for performance. Throughout this book suggestions are given for student essays and class discussions to help both instructor and reader to clarify their thoughts on all aspects of theatre-going. While the main focus is on present-day theatre in North America history is used to illuminate current practice. Theatres in Europe and Asia also feature in the discussion. A view is given of all contributors to performance with special emphasis placed on actors and the plays they perform. This textbook is not tied to a few specific play-texts but designed to be effective regardless of which play a student sees or reads. In Part Two leading practitioners of different generations and cultural backgrounds describe their own work providing a variety of perspectives on the contemporary theatre. All this is supplemented by nearly 100 black and white and color illustrations from productions working drawings and plans. This new text engages its readers in the realities of the theatre; it is up-to-date comprehensive and packed with practical advice for understanding how theatre works and how plays come alive in performance. John Russell Brown is professor of Theatre at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor and has taught at a variety of colleges including New York and Stanford Universities. For 15 years he was an associate director of the National Theatre in London and he has directed plays in many other theatres including Cincinnati Playhouse. | What is Theatre? An Introduction and Exploration

GBP 175.00
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What Business Really Wants from IT

What Business Really Wants from IT

Business expectations of their IT departments are simple: Deliver IT without fuss get involved in achieving business results and provide leadership. But while business emphasis is on business results and leadership IT is focused on the technology. How to get your IT Department to Add Real Value to Business presents a practical framework that defines the roles and activities for the CIO to meet business expectations. It introduces a new approach to IT in large organizations which shifts the focus from day to day technological operations to three critical areas of performance for IT: IT management business results and information leadership. The concepts are simple and elegant but the implementation is increasingly demanding. However these changes are essential if in-house IT functions are to survive and prosper in organizations. The author's framework has already proven itself in changing business and IT perspectives significantly. Large organisations have commenced the implementation process and are reporting significant results. The book offers ground-breaking perspectives on the role of IT in organisations. These perspectives are finding favour with business and IT people alike. The book offers practical and anecdotal examples and plans to assist in implementing the framework. | What Business Really Wants from IT

GBP 175.00
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Cognitive Narrative Thematics A Book About What Books Are About

Cognitive Narrative Thematics A Book About What Books Are About

Cognitive Narratives Thematics proposes a new way in which narrative works organise their thematic material. It rehabilitates the study of what books are about by providing a cognitive narrative thematic model (CNT). Part I presents CNT by combining different approaches to narrative such as evolutionary theory semiotics possible worlds theory or rhetorical criticism. Part II applies CNT to a variety of well-known narratives in different modalities such as Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess Julia Donaldson’s The Gruffalo Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are Frank Miller’s 300 or Mike Mignola’s Hellboy. It also considers literary histories and digital humanities. Daniel Candel shows that CNT deserves greater attention and that thematics generates its own forms and adds to the aesthetic pleasure of the text. Candel illustrates that CNT improves the established interpretations of the narrative works it studies. This innovative study reveals how CNT offers readers a deeper understanding and how readers and critics are often using CNT intuitively without being aware of it. It is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of narrative theory. | Cognitive Narrative Thematics A Book About What Books Are About

GBP 130.00
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Behavior Modification What It Is and How To Do It

Behavior Modification What It Is and How To Do It

Behavior Modification: What It Is and How to Do It is a comprehensive practical presentation of the principles of behavior modification and guidelines for their application. Appropriate for university students and for the general reader it teaches forms of behavior modification ranging from helping children learn necessary life skills to training pets to solving personal behavior problems. It teaches practical how-to skills including: discerning long-term effects; designing implementing and evaluating behavioral programs; interpreting behavioral episodes; observing and recording behaviors; and recognizing instances of reinforcement extinction and punishment. Behavior Modification is ideal for courses in Behavior Modification Applied Behavior Analysis Behavior Therapy the Psychology of Learning and related areas; and for students and practitioners of various helping professions (such as clinical psychology counselling education medicine nursing occupational therapy physiotherapy psychiatric nursing psychiatry social work speech therapy and sport psychology) who are concerned directly with enhancing various forms of behavior development. The material is presented in an interesting readable format that assumes no prior knowledge of behavior modification or psychology. Specific cases and examples clarify issues and make the principles real. Guidelines throughout provide a ready source to use as a reference in applying the principles. Online resources including an instructor’s manual are available at www. routledge. com/9780815366546. | Behavior Modification What It Is and How To Do It

GBP 130.00
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Sustainable Buildings in Practice What the Users Think

Sustainable Buildings in Practice What the Users Think

Current assessment methods of sustainable buildings do not adequately account for the users' needs. Given that over the life of a building total salary costs far outweigh both operating costs and combined capital and rental costs the occupants' needs are not something which should be sensibly ignored. This book presents an unbiased evaluation of thirty of the most cutting-edge sustainable buildings in the world in terms of the users' perceived comfort health and productivity. The author has visited the buildings interviewed the design teams and examined the findings of a sixty-question standardized user questionnaire. The book provides:• thirty case studies covering mixed-mode passive and environmentally sustainable commercial and institutional buildings • detailed insights into the principles underlying the design of sustainable buildings worldwide over several climatic zones and eleven countries together with clear explanations and illustrations of innovative design practice• a discussion of common issues and the lessons that may be learnt from a study of the performance of sustainable buildings in practice from the point of view of the people who use them. This important book will be of great benefit to architects and engineers facility managers of commercial and institutional buildings as well as developers and researchers academics and students in these fields. | Sustainable Buildings in Practice What the Users Think

GBP 175.00
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Exploring What is Lost in the Online Undergraduate Experience A Philosophical Inquiry into the Meaning of Remote Learning

Exploring What is Lost in the Online Undergraduate Experience A Philosophical Inquiry into the Meaning of Remote Learning

This book examines the significance and meaning of undergraduate online learning using a hermeneutic phenomenological study asking what is lost when there is no face-to-face contact and exploring the essence of technology itself. Drawing on data from undergraduate students across various higher education institutions including both interview recordings and written reports of their lived experiences the author seeks to uncover the essence of the phenomenon by engaging with themes around the philosophy of technology and the purpose of post-secondary education using Heidegger’s essay The Question Concerning Technology as a crucial interpretive lens. Rather than offering generalized conclusions it presents a basis for further understanding of the experience of online learning and ultimately asks whether the efficiency afforded to undergraduates by online classes or degrees can ever replace what is learned in a classroom with other people. Providing a novel approach to the topic of online learning which centers the concept of experience and drawing links to current conditions and pedagogy in online higher education it will appeal to scholars working across education and philosophy with interests in higher education technology and education phenomenology of education and philosophy of education. | Exploring What is Lost in the Online Undergraduate Experience A Philosophical Inquiry into the Meaning of Remote Learning

GBP 120.00
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Social Science Quotations Who Said What When and Where

Social Science Quotations Who Said What When and Where

Social Science Quotations has been prepared to meet an evident unmet need in the literature of the social sciences. Writings on the lives and theories of individual social scientists abound but there has been no fully documented collection of memorable quotations from the social sciences as a whole. The frequent use of quotations in scientific as well as literary writings that are mere summaries or paraphrases typically fail to capture the full force of formulations that have made quotations memorable. This book of quotations invites the further reading or rereading of the original texts beyond the quotations themselves. Sills and Merton draw extensively upon the writings that constitute the historical core of the social sciences and social thought; those works with staying power often described as the classical texts. Many quotations have been drawn from these classical texts because the quotations contain memorable ideas memorably expressed. Both consequential and memorable these words have been quoted over the generations entering into the collective memory of social scientists everywhere and at times diffusing into popular thought and into the vernacular as well. This book is useful to social scientists anthropologists economists historians political scientists psychiatrists psychologists sociologists and statisticians and for all who want to learn or verify memorable formulations and phrases concerning social thought and social theories. It is particularly useful for graduate students taking courses that examine the history of their discipline. | Social Science Quotations Who Said What When and Where

GBP 130.00
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Real Recognition What Literary Texts Reveal about Social Validation and the Politics of Identity

Real Recognition What Literary Texts Reveal about Social Validation and the Politics of Identity

Real Recognition investigates the complexities of literary and social recognition with the aim of putting a fresh cross-disciplinary spin on reader identification and social acknowledgment. Engaging with contemporary Danish and Anglophone works on racialization disability and gender Marie-Elisabeth Lei Pihl argues in favor of a close relation between aesthetic appeals to recognition and the political dimensions of literary texts. Moreover she proposes a framework bent on experience and relations as opposed to identity and status for articulating new fruitful understandings of how literary texts call for aesthetic and social recognition. Based on this she argues that literary texts can make readers get what social validation is about – and thereby help us redefine a key concept in the social sciences. Marie-Elisabeth Lei Pihl earned her PhD in literature and sociology from the University of Southern Denmark in 2020. Currently she works as a postdoctoral researcher within narrative medicine and literature-based social interventions at the University of Southern Denmark in collaboration with the National Institute of Public Health in Copenhagen. Chapter 3 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www. routledge. com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Real Recognition What Literary Texts Reveal about Social Validation and the Politics of Identity

GBP 120.00
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Poetic Inquiry and Arts-Based Research for the Maintenance of the Republic and What Comes After A Vision for Metamodernity

Poetic Inquiry and Arts-Based Research for the Maintenance of the Republic and What Comes After A Vision for Metamodernity

This book demonstrates the power of poetry and the ways in which academics can utilize poetry to go beyond the scholarly realm and create works of art which unlike traditional academic works problematize and question reality rather than simply describe it. Through its disciplinary scholarly and personal construction poetry holds the potential to “erase” what we know and build a new world. The purpose of this book is to show how professors and students who write poetry can be emboldened to imagine new forms of government and political arrangements promote social change and challenges to power structures and detail radical ways of living with each other more generally. Conceiving of the “republic” as a democratic republic or representative democracy the author calls attention to the idea of poetry as evidence-based which despite the absence of verifiable data nonetheless gives structure to ideas and experiences filtered through human cognition imagination and senses. Grounded in theory arts-based research and poetic inquiry and supplemented with practical class assignments pedagogical strategies and reflective items this volume will appeal to faculty scholars and postgraduate students working across research methods arts-based research and practice and language and linguistics. | Poetic Inquiry and Arts-Based Research for the Maintenance of the Republic and What Comes After A Vision for Metamodernity

GBP 130.00
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Viral Sovereignty and the Political Economy of Pandemics What Explains How Countries Handle Outbreaks?

Viral Sovereignty and the Political Economy of Pandemics What Explains How Countries Handle Outbreaks?

Over the past few decades a number of emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) have disrupted societies throughout the world including HIV Ebola H5N1 (or ‘‘avian flu’’) and SARS and of course the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) which spread worldwide to become a global pandemic. As well as EIDs countries and regions also contend with endemic diseases such as malaria. There are many factors that have contributed to the rise in and spread of EIDs and other diseases including overpopulation rapid urbanization environmental degradation and antibiotic resistance. Political and cultural responses to disease can greatly affect their spread. The global community needs to defend itself against disease threats: one weak link is enough to start a chain reaction that results in a global pandemic such as COVID-19. Some states take a nationalistic approach towards combating disease; however international cooperation and meaningful ‘‘viral sovereignty’’—empowering countries to create effective health institutions and surveillance systems in order to contain disease—must be considered. This volume with a focus on Southeast Asia Africa and North America considers the intersection between disease politics science and culture in the global battle against pandemics making use of case studies and interviews to examine the ways in which governments and regions handle outbreaks and pandemics. | Viral Sovereignty and the Political Economy of Pandemics What Explains How Countries Handle Outbreaks?

GBP 130.00
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Sex Now Talk Later

Sex Now Talk Later

Sex matters. It is a crucial part of whom we are and what to do. So why do we police what is 'normal' and what is 'bizarre'? As the author argues in this insightful book whenever we disapprove of others or ourselves in this way we close our eyes to a deeper understanding of human nature. As a psychiatrist she has also worked inside prisons with sex offenders so she is familiar with the extremes of 'oddity'. Here she uses a psychoanalytic framework with humour insight and clarity to explore why we disapprove and what we lose when we do. She presents us with a series of interwoven vignettes drawn from clinical work and life experiences which have led her to these conclusions. The author argues in this book that as human beings we have a responsibility to develop a much more enquiring and open mind and to feel privileged rather than disgusted when we have access to primitive fantasies that shine light into the dark corners of minds not considered 'normal'. | Sex Now Talk Later

GBP 130.00
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Thinking About Literacy Young Children and Their Language

Thinking About Literacy Young Children and Their Language

Thinking About Literacy discusses the literacy of children in the infant years. The author takes the view that the child is an active learner when he/she arrives in school and that it is the school's job to build on what the child already knows. The book addresses issues such as spelling writing and children talking and writing about moral matters. It has an optimistic view of the potential of children to surprise us with their language and emphasises that literacy is for life not just for an hour. | Thinking About Literacy Young Children and Their Language

GBP 115.00
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