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Positive Psychology in Search for Meaning

Positive Psychology in Search for Meaning

What are the ways in which we can understand the meaning of the psychology of meaning in people’s lives? In the last century mainstream psychology has largely neglected the topic of meaning. More recently the concept has become an academically legitimate one within positive psychology and in some other speciality areas of psychology. This book contains a collection of theoretical methodological and empirical papers written by the acknowledged experts systematically working on the problems of personal meaning within the positive psychology framework. The authors investigate the possibilities and limitations of a scientific study of personal meaning and new perspectives that this concept brings to the field. This book was originally published as a special issue of The Journal of Positive Psychology. | Positive Psychology in Search for Meaning

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Melville and the Question of Meaning

Melville and the Question of Meaning

This rich volume of essays restores meaning itself as the focal point of one of our most thoughtful modern writers Herman Melville. Melville and the Question of Meaning thinks about thinking in Melville. For if Melville’s concerns with interpretation (the contributors to one recent collection variously read the author for the ‘meaning’ of the characters the meaning of the body recesses of meaning deepest levels of meaning double meaning and the meaning of being and everything else) overlap with our own concerns at a cultural moment when meaning feels especially strained we have lost sight of the central place of meaning making in Melville’s work. My own readings in Melville are a pedestrian’s guide through the self-conscious complications of meaning we meet with in Melville across a range of different disciplines and endeavors. Combining aesthetics and sociolinguistics history and theory rhetoric and politics philosophy and film studies Melville and the Question of Meaning demonstrates that the project of making meaning in Melville remains as vital as ever.

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Meaning Semantics Pragmatics Cognition

Meaning Semantics Pragmatics Cognition

Meaning addresses the fundamental question of human language interaction: what it is to mean and how we communicate our meanings to others. Experienced textbook writer and eminent researcher Betty J. Birner gives balanced coverage to semantics and pragmatics emphasizing interactions between the two and discusses other fields of language study such as syntax neurology philosophy of language and artificial intelligence in terms of their interfaces with linguistic meaning. Comics and diagrams appear throughout to keep the reader engaged; and end-of-chapter quizzes data-collection exercises and opinion questions are employed along with more traditional exercises and discussion questions. In addition the book features copious examples from real life and current events along with boxes describing linguistic issues in the news and interesting and accessible research on topics like swearing politics and animal communication. Students will emerge ready for deeper study in semantics and pragmatics – and more importantly with an understanding of how all of these fields serve the fundamental purpose of human language: the communication of meaning. Meaning is an ideal textbook for courses in linguistic meaning that focus on both semantics and pragmatics in equal parts with special attention on philosophical questions related subfields of linguistics and interfaces among these various areas. Appropriate for both undergraduate and graduate-level courses in semantics pragmatics and general linguistics Meaning is essential reading for all students of linguistic meaning. | Meaning Semantics Pragmatics Cognition

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Powerful Book Introductions Leading with Meaning for Deeper Thinking

Powerful Book Introductions Leading with Meaning for Deeper Thinking

Effective book introductions during guided reading set the stage for young readers to navigate new texts independently and successfully and often shape the outcome of small-group lessons. Many teachers struggle with decisions about what these introductions should address what they should include and how to conduct them. Powerful Book Introductions: Leading with Meaning for Deeper Thinking literacy leaders Kathleen Fay Chrisie Moritz and Suzanne Whaley speak to these concerns by taking a close look at the purposeful planning that goes into preparing for this small but vital part of today's guided reading lessons. Through relatable classroom examples and the wisdom of their shared teaching experiences the authors show you how to: Select texts for your small-group lessons specifically based on your students' needs Amplify meaning-making from the first moments of your guided reading book introductions and maintain this emphasis Introduce visual and structural information to support your readers in meaning-making No matter where you are in your understanding of guided reading Powerful Book Introductions will help you as you learn to craft student-centered meaning-driven book introductions that prepare your readers for success. | Powerful Book Introductions Leading with Meaning for Deeper Thinking

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The Search for Beulah Land

The Search for Beulah Land

This book first published in 1980 describes and analyses the revolutionary years that saw the birth of the first modern Welsh nation and the American Republic. In the last days of the eighteenth century as the Atlantic world responded to the challenge of the American and French revolutions the novel industrial capitalism of England planted itself in the Welsh south and east and disrupted traditional rural community to west and north. Wales a marginal and poverty-stricken country was propelled into modernisation cultural revival a breach with the Establishment a millenarian mitigation and its first politics. | The Search for Beulah Land

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Architecture Mentalities and Meaning

Architecture Mentalities and Meaning

In order to function architectural theory and practice must be shaped to suit current cultural economic and political forces. Thus architecture embodies reductive logic that conditions the treatment of human and social processes – which raises the question of how to define objectivity for architectural mentalities that must conform to a set of immediate conditions. This book focuses on meaning and on the physical and mental processes that define life in built environments. The potential to draw knowledge from aesthetics psychology political economy philosophy geography and sociology is offset by the fact that architectural logic is inevitably reductive cultural socio-economic and political. However despite the duty to conform it is argued that the treatment of human processes and the understanding of architectural mentalities can benefit from interdisciplinary linkages small freedoms and cracks in a system of imperatives that can yield the means of greater objectivity. This is valuable reading for students and researchers interested in architectural theory as a working reality and in the relationships between architecture and other fields. | Architecture Mentalities and Meaning

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Grammar Meaning and Concepts A Discourse-Based Approach to English Grammar

Grammar Meaning and Concepts A Discourse-Based Approach to English Grammar

Grammar Meaning and Concepts: A Discourse-Based Approach to English Grammar is a book for language teachers and learners that focuses on the meanings of grammatical constructions within discourse rather than on language as structure governed by rigid rules. This text emphasizes the ways in which users of language construct meaning express viewpoints and depict imageries using the conceptual meaning-filled categories that underlie all of grammar. Written by a team of authors with years of experience teaching grammar to future teachers of English this book puts grammar in the context of real language and illustrates grammar in use through an abundance of authentic data examples. Each chapter also provides a variety of activities that focus on grammar genre discourse and meaning which can be used as they are or can be adapted for classroom practice. The activities are also designed to raise awareness about discourse grammar and meaning in all facets of everyday life and can be used as springboards for upper high school undergraduate and graduate level research projects and inquiry-based grammatical analysis. Grammar Meaning and Concepts is an ideal textbook for those in the areas of teacher education discourse analysis applied linguistics second language teaching ESL EFL and communications who are looking to teach and learn grammar from a dynamic perspective. | Grammar Meaning and Concepts A Discourse-Based Approach to English Grammar

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Hunger for Connection Finding Meaning in Eating Disorders

Hunger for Connection Finding Meaning in Eating Disorders

Who develops which eating disorder and why? When do eating disorders begin and what fuels them? In Hunger for Connection psychoanalyst and eating-disorder specialist Alitta Kullman expands on the body/mind personality organization she calls the perseverant personality illustrating how food and thought are linked from infancy and for some can become the primary source of nurturance and thought-processing for a lifetime—leading to what we call an eating disorder. Writing in a highly accessible style Kullman brings humor and gentleness to her interactions with patients offering health professionals and mainstream readers alike an essential guide to understanding and/or working with cyclical eating disorders of all types. From psychoanalysts psychotherapists and counsellors to eating disorder specialists researchers and students Hunger for Connection not only provides guidelines for therapists of varying theoretical orientations and levels of expertise but help and hope to people suffering with eating disorders and those who care for and about them. | Hunger for Connection Finding Meaning in Eating Disorders

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Japan s Search for Strategic Security Partnerships

Japan s Search for Strategic Security Partnerships

As tensions between China and Japan increase including over the disputed islands in the East China Sea Japan has adopted under Prime Minister Abe a new security posture. This involves internally adapting Japan’s constitutional position on defence and externally building stronger international relationships in the Asia-Pacific region and more widely. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of these developments. It shows how trust and co-operation with the United States the only partner with which Japan has a formal alliance is being rebuilt discusses how other relationships both on security and on wider issues are being formed in the region and with European countries and the EU with the relationships with India and Australia being of particular importance and concludes by assessing the likely impact on the region of Japan’s changing posture and new relationships. | Japan�s Search for Strategic Security Partnerships

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Hinduism Its Meaning for the Liberation of the Spirit

Hinduism Its Meaning for the Liberation of the Spirit

First Published in 1959 Hinduism written specifically for the modern readers describes and interprets one of the world’s chief religions. For thousands of years Indian sages have speculated on man creation and the universe. One result has been an astonishing amount of myth and ritual of art asceticism and philosophy. Swami Nikhilananda provides a brief account of Hinduism in both its theoretical and its practical aspects. It is written mainly from the point of view of non-dualism which the author argues is the highest achievement of India’s mystical insights and philosophical speculation and her real contribution to world culture. The volume deals with themes like Hindu Ethics; Karma-Yoga; Bhakti-Yoga; Jnana- Yoga; Raja-Yoga; and Tantra. This complete survey of Hindu beliefs and customs is indispensable for scholars and researchers of Hinduism religion Indian philosophy Indian culture and heritage. | Hinduism Its Meaning for the Liberation of the Spirit

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Donor Conception and the Search for Information From Secrecy and Anonymity to Openness

Donor Conception and the Search for Information From Secrecy and Anonymity to Openness

This book examines donor conception and the search for information by donor-conceived people. It details differing regulatory approaches across the globe including those that provide for ‘open-identity’ or anonymous donation or that take a ‘dual-track’ approach. In doing so it identifies models regarding the recording and release of information about donors that may assist in the further development of the law policy and associated practices. Arguments for and against donor anonymity are considered and specifically critiqued. The study highlights contrasting reasoning and emphasis upon various interests and factors that may underpin secrecy anonymity or openness. The book will be of value to academics students and legal practitioners involved with this area. It is also relevant to policy makers health practitioners and anyone with an interest in the subject. | Donor Conception and the Search for Information From Secrecy and Anonymity to Openness

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Euro-Mediterranean Security A Search for Partnership

Euro-Mediterranean Security A Search for Partnership

This title was first published in 2003. This work provides a clearer understanding of the EU's approach towards security in the Mediterranean. After examining the EU's interests and the potential threats to security in the region it analyzes EU security policy towards the region as a whole through the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership and towards all disputes and conflicts in the area. It recommends opening up the European Security and Defence Policy to Mediterranean participation in order to establish a deep and equitable security partnership between both shores. The book argues that this way the EU could implement its innovative comprehensive and co-operative approach to security. Rather than focusing on the military aspect alone this approach takes into account all dimensions of security (political socio-economic cultural and ecological) and is based on partnership rather than confrontation. It therefore contrasts quite sharply with the policies advocated in the US National Security Strategy. | Euro-Mediterranean Security A Search for Partnership

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Meaning and Spirituality in Sport and Exercise Psychological Perspectives

Meaning and Spirituality in Sport and Exercise Psychological Perspectives

Despite the growing literature on spirituality and its positive impact on well-being in health psychology education occupational psychology and leisure studies it has been less examined in sport studies. Meaning and Spirituality in Sport and Exercise: Psychological Perspectives examines the many forms of spirituality in sport from a psychological perspective from moments of transcendence and finding deeper meaning and value to prayer before an important competition or in adversity such as a career-threatening injury. Based on the latest research and the Nesti’s experience in applied sport psychology service delivery this book covers a range of novel topics linking spirituality to athlete development injury exercise motivation and ageing athletes and offers applied practical guidance for sport psychologists working with spiritual athletes. Offering a unique contribution to the study of spirituality in sport and to sport psychology practice this book is vital reading for any upper-level student or academic working in sport and exercise psychology religion and sport or the philosophy of sport and any practising sport psychologist. | Meaning and Spirituality in Sport and Exercise Psychological Perspectives

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Theological Reflection and Education for Ministry The Search for Integration in Theology

Theological Reflection and Education for Ministry The Search for Integration in Theology

A major and continuing problem for theological education and the practice of Christian ministry is how to best achieve a genuine integration between theory and practice theology and experience. The key claim of this book is that theological reflection beginning with experience is a method of integration and that pastoral supervision is a vehicle for theological reflection. In establishing this claim John Paver demonstrates that the model and method have potential to be a catalyst for reform within theological colleges and seminaries. Three different theological reflection models are developed and critiqued in this book and their capacity to be developed in particular contexts is explored. This book does not stop at ministry cultural and personal integration but is bold enough to make recommendations for structural integration within the theological institution. | Theological Reflection and Education for Ministry The Search for Integration in Theology

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Design for Life Creating Meaning in a Distracted World

Design for Life Creating Meaning in a Distracted World

Stuart Walker’s design work has been described as life-changing inspiring disturbing and ferocious. Drawing on an extraordinarily diverse range of sources and informed by creative practice Design for Life penetrates to the heart of modern culture and the malaise that underlies today’s moral and environmental crises. The author argues that this malaise is deep-seated and fundamental to the modern outlook. He shows how our preoccupation with technological progress growth and the future has produced a constricted view of life – one that is both destructive and self-reinforcing. Based on over twenty-five years of scholarship and creative practice he demonstrates the vital importance of solitude contemplation inner growth and the present moment in developing a different course – one that looks squarely at our current precarious situation while offering a positive hopeful way forward – a way that is compassionate context-based human scale ethically motivated and critically creative. Design for Life is an intensely original contribution that will be essential reading for design practitioners and students. Written in a clear accessible style it will also appeal to a broader readership especially anyone who is concerned with contemporary society’s rising inequalities and environmental failings and is looking for a more constructive balanced and thoughtful direction. | Design for Life Creating Meaning in a Distracted World

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Systemic Functional Language Description Making Meaning Matter

Systemic Functional Language Description Making Meaning Matter

This volume showcases previously unpublished research on theoretical descriptive and methodological innovations for understanding language patterns grounded in a Systemic Functional Linguistic perspective. Featuring contributions from an international range of scholars the book demonstrates how advances in SFL have developed to reflect the breadth of variation in language and how descriptive methodologies for language have evolved in turn. Taken together the volume offers a comprehensive account of Systemic Functional Language description providing a foundation for practice and further research for students and scholars in descriptive linguistics SFL and theoretical linguistics. | Systemic Functional Language Description Making Meaning Matter

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Russia And Eastern Europe After Communism The Search For New Political Economic And Security Systems

Russia And Eastern Europe After Communism The Search For New Political Economic And Security Systems

Examining the key challenges confronting Russia and Eastern Europe this multidisciplinary volume considers the constitutional political economic security and national identity issues facing these post-communist societies. Drawing upon both theory and case studies informed by newly available primary sources leading U. S. and Russian specialists | Russia And Eastern Europe After Communism The Search For New Political Economic And Security Systems

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American Isolationism Between the World Wars The Search for a Nation's Identity

American Isolationism Between the World Wars The Search for a Nation's Identity

American Isolationism Between the World Wars: The Search for a Nation's Identity examines the theory of isolationism in America between the world wars arguing that it is an ideal that has dominated the Republic since its founding. During the interwar period isolationists could be found among Republicans and Democrats Catholics and Protestants pacifists and militarists rich and poor. While the dominant historical assessment of isolationism — that it was provincial and short-sighted — will be examined this book argues that American isolationism between 1919 and the mid-1930s was a rational foreign policy simply because the European reversion back to politics as usual insured that the continent would remain unstable. Drawing on a wide range of newspaper and journal articles biographies congressional hearings personal papers and numerous secondary sources Kenneth D. Rose suggests the time has come for a paradigm shift in how American isolationism is viewed. The text also offers a reflection on isolationism since the end of World War II particularly the nature of isolationism during the Trump era. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of U. S. Foreign Relations and twentieth-century American history. | American Isolationism Between the World Wars The Search for a Nation's Identity

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Film and Video Editing Theory How Editing Creates Meaning

Film and Video Editing Theory How Editing Creates Meaning

Film and Video Editing Theory offers an accessible introductory guide to the practices used to create meaning through editing. In this book Michael Frierson synthesizes the theories of the most prominent film editors and scholars from Herbert Zettl Sergei Eisenstein and Noël Burch to the work of landmark Hollywood editors like Walter Murch and Edward Dmytryk. In so doing he maps out a set of craft principles for readers whether one is debating if a flashback reveals too much if a certain cut clarifies or obscures the space of a scene or if a shot needs to be trimmed. The book is grounded in the unity of theory and practice looking beyond technical proficiency in a specific software to explain to readers how and why certain cuts work or don’t work. | Film and Video Editing Theory How Editing Creates Meaning

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