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Disarmed And Dangerous The Radical Life And Times Of Daniel And Philip Berrigan Brothers In Religious Faith And Civil Disobedience

Disarmed And Dangerous The Radical Life And Times Of Daniel And Philip Berrigan Brothers In Religious Faith And Civil Disobedience

What transformed Daniel and Philip Berrigan from conventional Roman Catholic priests into ?holy outlaws??for a time the two most wanted men of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI? And how did they evolve from their traditionally pious second-generation immigrant beginnings to become the most famous (some would say notorious) religious rebels of their day?Disarmed and Dangerous the first full-length unauthorized biography of the Berrigans answers these questions with an incisive and illuminating account of their rise to prominence as civil rights and antiwar activists. It also traces the brothers' careers as constant thorns in the side of church authority as well as their leadership of the ongoing Plowshares movement?a highly controversial campaign of civil disobedience against the contemporary arms trade and nuclear weapons. Murray Polner and Jim O'Grady plumb the Berrigans' contradictions: among them Philip's secret marriage while he was still a Josephite priest to Elizabeth McAlister then a Catholic nun which led to their dismissals by their respective religious orders and Philip's excommunication from the church; and Daniel's speech faulting Israel's treatment of Palestinians and the resulting criticism loosed upon him from pro-Israeli Americans and many of his allies on the left. Disarmed and Dangerous is a fascinating study of brothers linked by faith and the dreams of peace and social justice in a century bloodied by war mass murders and weapons of immense destructive power. It is above all an original contribution to modern American history that is sure to be widely read and discussed. | Disarmed And Dangerous The Radical Life And Times Of Daniel And Philip Berrigan Brothers In Religious Faith And Civil Disobedience

GBP 130.00
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The British Polity

The British Polity

The British Polity is an engaging and comprehensive survey of the structure and process of British government. Offering an insider's analysis Philip Norton examines the debates surrounding Britain's political history and culture constitution parties and elections branches of government media and relations with the European Union. Throughout The British Polity follows a theme of continuity and change that draws on historical and institutional knowledge and that helps to explain contemporary British politics.

GBP 175.00
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Creating Writers A Creative Writing Manual for Schools

Creating Writers A Creative Writing Manual for Schools

This unique and comprehensive text offers an original approach to teaching creative writing by exploring ideas giving advice and explaining workshop activities and has many contributors from some of today's most popular children's authors including: Jacqueline Wilson Roger McGough Philip Pullman Malorie Blackman and David Almond. Creating Writers is a practical writing manual for teachers to use with upper primary and lower secondary level pupils that covers poetry fiction and non-fiction. | Creating Writers A Creative Writing Manual for Schools

GBP 175.00
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HyperThinking Creating a New Mindset for the Age of Networks

HyperThinking Creating a New Mindset for the Age of Networks

Hyperthinking is predicated on the assumption that the single most important skill required to help you and your organization thrive in the age of perpetual change digital communications and networks is the mind-set of individuals. This includes your values your ability to learn and ability to adapt to change. After 14 years of experience with leading global companies author Philip Weiss has developed an approach that pulls together the ingredients needed for the modern executive to both adapt and thrive in this new age. The Hyperthinking model has been developed and tested on teams clients and the author‘s networks with great success. The book explains how Hyperthinking can apply to different facets of our lives starting from our personal experience and our role in society and shows how to adapt better to the new business world. Hyperthinking is a set of values and tools that used in combination enable individuals to embrace change develop their creativity and effectively engage in the digital age. It has been tested by a variety of business executives and helped them to understand change as well as overcome fear or resistance to technology. Philip Weiss offers the perfect antidote to information overload; a wonderful blueprint for personal and organizational innovation; and a set of perspectives to help us all make sense of a fast-changing business environment. Read it and start Hyperthinking! | HyperThinking Creating a New Mindset for the Age of Networks

GBP 175.00
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The Early Christian Centuries

The Early Christian Centuries

Charting the first six hundred years of the Christian movement THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CENTURIES carries the reader from the world of second-temple Judaism to the Byzantine age the rise of Islam and the beginnings of medieval European polities. With a combination of rare tact and acuity Philip Rousseau takes the measure of a generation of scholarship on early Christianity and the late Roman world. He stresses the importance of shifting historical consciousness the continuity and development of ideas and the urge for social respectability. Paying the greatest attention to the 'inner' components of Christian life the resulting story captures fully the major figures: Paul the gospel writers the early 'apologists' and the great figures of the 'patristic' age including the Cappadocian Fathers Augustine and Gregory the Great.

GBP 130.00
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Misteaks. . . and how to find them before the teacher does. . . A Calculus Supplement 3rd Edition

Misteaks. . . and how to find them before the teacher does. . . A Calculus Supplement 3rd Edition

An unusual supplement to every calculus textbook Misteaks and How to Find Them before the Teacher Does is popular with students and teachers alike. Teachers love the way it encourages students to truly think about mathematics rather than simply plugging numbers into equations to crank out answers and students love the author's straightforward tongue-in-cheek style. The title of this light-hearted and amusing book might well have been Going Gray in Elementary Calculus and How to Avoid it. Changing the metaphor Barry has hit the nail on the finger in hundreds of fine examples. Philip J. Davis coauthor of The Mathematical Experience. How I wish that something like this had been available when I was a student! -Ralph P. Boas former editor of The American Mathematical Monthly. Bonus: Solution to LeWitt Puzzle | Misteaks. and how to find them before the teacher does. A Calculus Supplement 3rd Edition

GBP 170.00
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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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Intervention and Disarmament In a Culturally Diverse World

Intervention and Disarmament In a Culturally Diverse World

In this book some of Philip Towle’s major contributions are brought together to shed light on the Cold War and its aftermath. Topics include the build-up of chemical and nuclear weapons the attack on New York’s World Trade Center in 2001 intervention in overseas conflicts and the role of the Church. The first section concentrates on the ways in which the West has interfered in conflicts around the world from the Vietnam War to Bosnia Afghanistan and Iraq and explains why intervention worked in former Yugoslavia but not in countries such as Vietnam Afghanistan or Libya. The second section focuses on arms control and disarmament how they were linked to intervention – particularly through the fear of terrorism – and how and why some arms control measures succeeded and some did not. Intervention and Disarmament: In a Culturally Diverse World is useful for postgraduates and scholars interested in international affairs and warfare in the modern world. | Intervention and Disarmament In a Culturally Diverse World

GBP 130.00
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Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry Cultural Identities Political Crises

Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry Cultural Identities Political Crises

Delving into the landscapes and politics of twentieth- and twenty-first-century South East and West Yorkshire Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry: Cultural Identities Political Crises theorises Yorkshire as a distinct region of poetry in its own right. In outlining the commonalities and parameters of this branch of poetry Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry engages the work with a selection of poets writing in and about the region since 1945 including Philip Larkin Ted Hughes Simon Armitage Helen Mort Zaffar Kunial Kate Fox and Vicky Foster. Charting the developments in Yorkshire poetry this book explores several key contexts – including deindustrialisation the Miners’ Strikes and Brexit – in detail evidencing the impacts of these sociopolitical events on the poetry of a region. Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry investigates 75 years of poetry to ask the question: what is Yorkshire poetry? In other words what is it that connects poems by these writers whilst setting them apart from poetry of other UK regions? | Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry Cultural Identities Political Crises

GBP 130.00
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Exploring End of Life Experience Facing Death

Exploring End of Life Experience Facing Death

The groundbreaking contribution made by this unique book draws on the experiences recorded by five people who are facing death – Jenny Diski Philip Gould Christopher Hitchens Michael Mayne and Cory Taylor. Analysing the key themes that emerge from a psychodynamic perspective the book describes how the memoirists respond to the first shock of receiving a terminal diagnosis how they meet the challenge of continuing an active life when the illusion of an open-ended future has gone and finally how they struggle with accepting death as it overtakes them. The author argues that the ability to accept personal death is the key to resolving the paradox of our need to survive at all costs while at the same time however much we might deny it we know that we must die. In a society where death and dying occur largely out of sight this book provides information about what it is like to die – physically psychologically and emotionally – and invites us to think about coming to terms with death. Exploring End of Life Experience is an important contribution to the interdisciplinary literature on death and dying relevant to scholars and practitioners in medicine nursing psychology and the wider medical humanities. | Exploring End of Life Experience Facing Death

GBP 130.00
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Recording Studio Design

Recording Studio Design

Recording Studio Design Fourth Edition explains the key principles of successful studio design and construction using straightforward language and the use of practical examples appreciated by readers of previous editions. Updated to reflect new industry standards this fourth edition addresses improvements in cinema sound with specific attention paid to B-chain electroacoustic response and calibration. Using over 50 years’ experience author Philip Newell provides detail on the practical aspects of recording in various environments not only exploring the complex issues relating to the acoustics but also providing real-world solutions. While the book contains detailed discussions about performing rooms control rooms and mobile studios concepts of the infrastructures are also discussed because no studio can perform optimally unless the technical and human requirements are adequately provided for. In this new edition sound for cinema provides a platform for highlighting many wider electroacoustic topics in a way that is relatively easy to visualise. The way in which sound and vision interact is an important aspect of many modern multimedia formats. The new edition includes: A new Chapter 22 that will thoroughly reflect recently published SMPTE investigations which will drastically impact standards for cinema sound; The inclusion of new academic research and its practical applications; An entire new illustrated chapter on room construction principles; and The consolidation of ideas which were only emerging when the earlier editions were published.

GBP 105.00
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Biochemistry An Organic Chemistry Approach

Biochemistry An Organic Chemistry Approach

“There is a continuing demand for up to date organic & bio-organic chemistry undergraduate textbooks. This well planned text builds upon a successful existing work and adds content relevant to biomolecules and biological activity”. Professor Philip Page Emeritus Professor School of Chemistry University of East Anglia UK “Introduces the key concepts of organic chemistry in a succinct and clear way”. Andre Cobb KCL UK Reactions in biochemistry can be explained by an understanding of fundamental organic chemistry principles and reactions. This paradigm is extended to biochemical principles and to myriad biomolecules. Biochemistry: An Organic Chemistry Approach provides a framework for understanding various topics of biochemistry including the chemical behavior of biomolecules enzyme activity and more. It goes beyond mere memorization. Using several techniques to develop a relational understanding including homework this text helps students fully grasp and better correlate the essential organic chemistry concepts with those concepts at the root of biochemistry. The goal is to better understand the fundamental principles of biochemistry. Features: Presents a review chapter of fundamental organic chemistry principles and reactions. Presents and explains the fundamental principles of biochemistry using principles and common reactions of organic chemistry. Discusses enzymes proteins fatty acids lipids vitamins hormones nucleic acids and other biomolecules by comparing and contrasting them with the organic chemistry reactions that constitute the foundation of these classes of biomolecules. Discusses the organic synthesis and reactions of amino acids carbohydrates nucleic acids and other biomolecules. | Biochemistry An Organic Chemistry Approach

GBP 105.00
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The Common Law Tradition A Collective Portrait of Five Legal Scholars

The Common Law Tradition A Collective Portrait of Five Legal Scholars

This book commemorates a place and a time in American law teaching but more importantly an outlook: the common law tradition. That outlook was empirical and tolerant. These values were carried into expression by a group of people who were not part of a cult or faction nor ruled by the herd instinct. Now in paperback The Common Law Tradition is a collective portrait of five scholars who epitomize the tradition. The focus is Chicago in the 1960s. The five figures considered-Edward H. Levi Harry Kalven Jr. Karl Llewellyn Philip Kurland and Kenneth Culp Davis-did much to broaden the perspectives of the legal academy. Levi made use of sociology economics and comparative law. Kalven collaborated with sociologists on the Jury Project and with economists on tax law and auto compensation plans. Llewellyn's commitment to empirical research underpinned his work on the Uniform Commercial Code. Kurland's approach to constitutional law was highlighted by his insistence on the relevance of legal history. Davis was an energetic comparativist in his work on administrative law. What distinguished these Chicagoans is that their work was practical and rooted in the law and hence yielded concrete applications. The group's diversity the tolerant atmosphere in which they taught and wrote and the attachment of its individual members to empirical approaches differentiate them from today's legal scholars and make their ideas of continuing importance. | The Common Law Tradition A Collective Portrait of Five Legal Scholars

GBP 130.00
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Unifying Themes In Complex Systems Volume 2 Proceedings Of The Second International Conference On Complex Systems

Unifying Themes In Complex Systems Volume 2 Proceedings Of The Second International Conference On Complex Systems

The International Conference on Complex Systems provides a unique opportunity for scientists to rise above the disciplinary boundaries and explore unity in complex systems. This volume contains the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Complex Systems. The sessions ranged from the opening talk by Nobel laureate Philip Anderson on emergence and the relevance of complex systems to physics to the final panel that included many of the great management gurus of this generation. The plenary session topics for the second conference were emergence description and modeling self-organization networks time series agents in action and complexity and management. Talks in these sessions often focused on contributions in specific disciplines but each session contained a diverse set of disciplines to show the strategies and concepts that can be applied generally to complex systems. Overall the conference presentations dealt with issues of significant public interest including individual psychology dynamics of social and economic change the human genome and ecology. The New England Complex Systems Institute is an independent educational and research institution dedicated to advancing the study of complex systems including new concepts and methodologies that are affecting all fields of science and engineering and are being applied to technology business and even social policy. NECSI organizes conferences workshops short courses and other activities from which books will be produced for the NECSI Series on Complexity. The books will range from conference proceedings and graduate textbooks to general-audience trade books and will address fundamental concepts new frontiers and innovative applications of complex systems. | Unifying Themes In Complex Systems Volume 2 Proceedings Of The Second International Conference On Complex Systems

GBP 130.00
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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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