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Educating Young Children: A Lifetime Journey into a Froebelian Approach The Selected Works of Tina Bruce

Educating Young Children: A Lifetime Journey into a Froebelian Approach The Selected Works of Tina Bruce

In the World Library of Educationalists international experts compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their most significant pieces – excerpts from books key articles salient research findings major theoretical and practical contributions – so the world can read them in a single manageable volume. Readers will be able to follow the themes and strands and see how their work contributes to the development of the field. Educating Young Children: A Lifetime Journey into a Froebelian Approach draws together Professor Tina Bruce CBE’s most prominent writings from her accomplished 40-year international career in education centred on the Froebelian tradition. Chosen to illustrate the changes that have occurred in Professor Bruce’s thinking and practices over the last four decades carefully selected readings address key Froebelian themes such as literacy play inclusion and creativity. Short introductions are provided for each chapter and excerpt helping readers to understand the significance of what is presented and explaining how this relates to other chapters in the book. Including chapters from Tina Bruce’s best-selling books and articles as well as leading journals this collection offers a unique commentary on some of the most important issues in Early Childhood Education over the last four decades; it will be engaging and inspiring reading for anyone interested in the development and state of early years education in the UK and internationally. | Educating Young Children: A Lifetime Journey into a Froebelian Approach The Selected Works of Tina Bruce

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Animated Life A Lifetime of tips tricks techniques and stories from an animation Legend

Animated Life A Lifetime of tips tricks techniques and stories from an animation Legend

Since Steamboat Mickey animators have been creating characters and films that are charming warm and humorous allowing people to connect with the animated medium. Animation fans love the characters for a lifetime. This is the legacy of the countless animators and artists who created the classic characters and fun stories and it is the legacy of Disney Legend Floyd Norman. Written with wit and verve Animated Life is a guided tour through an entire lifetime of techniques practical hands-on advice and insight into an entire industry. This is a vital tutorial in animation's past present and future for students who are now poised to be part of another new generation in the art form. Apply artistic magic to your own projects and garner valuable insight and inspiration from a True Disney legend. Animated Life is a classic in the making with completely relevant techniques and tools for the contemporary animation or fine arts professional. | Animated Life A Lifetime of tips tricks techniques and stories from an animation Legend

GBP 175.00
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A History of the Muslim World to 1405 The Making of a Civilization

A History of the Muslim World to 1405 The Making of a Civilization

Muslims first appeared in the early seventh century as members of a persecuted religious movement in a sun-baked town in Arabia. Within a century their descendants were ruling a vast territory that extended from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indus River valley in modern Pakistan. This region became the arena for a new cultural experiment in which Muslim scholars and creative artists synthesized and reworked the legacy of Rome Greece Iran and India into a new civilization. A History of the Muslim World to 1405 traces the development of this civilization from the career of the Prophet Muhammad to the death of the Mongol emperor Timur Lang. Coverage includes the unification of the Dar a1-Islam (the territory ruled by Muslims) the fragmentation into various religious and political groups including the Shi'ite and Sunni and the series of catastrophes in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries that threatened to destroy the civilization. Features: Balanced coverage of the Muslim world encompassing the region from the Iberian Peninsula to South Asia. Detailed accounts of all cultures including major Shi'ite groups and the Sunni community. Primary sources. Numerous maps and photographs featuring a special four-color art insert. Glossary charts and timelines. | A History of the Muslim World to 1405 The Making of a Civilization

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The Concept of a University

The Concept of a University

Taking on the challenge of the postmodernists of politics Kenneth Minogue argues forcefully and persuasively that the current dominant philosophies of education rest upon a mistake. The fashionable belief that the university is society's handmaiden is confronted by a view of the university as an institution with an independent vitality and function. Minogue at one and the same time reminds us of the sources of admiration for university life in the medieval world and how it rested squarely on its essential autonomy from the very social pressures that have come to define the modern university. The Concept of a University traces many confusions imposed by political ideology to a failure to distinguish academic inquiry from other kinds of intellectual activity such as journalism religious proselytizing and high quality propaganda. Minogue holds that where the university lacks a clear sense of the difference between the academic and the pragmatic its vitality is sapped by conflicting purposes. Much of the present debate about the crisis in universities rests upon a fundamental error of trying to fit them into some scheme of social functions. Minogue's analysis breaks through much muddled thinking on this subject presenting instead a coherent relevant and stimulating approach to higher education. In a new introduction Minogue tells us we have become frightfully tolerant. Anyone can become anything and we all belong to the one practical world of churning problems and solutions. There is no doubt that a new world is being born. It seems to be a world that will have little place for the disinterested pursuit of truth. A great deal of old fashioned scholarship survives-partly by silence cunning and exile' -in the universities' of the present day but little relationship remains between what we used to call universities' and the things called by that name today. Kenneth Minogue is professor emeritus of political science at the London School of Economics. He was born in New Zealand educated in Australia and has made his life and academic career in the United Kingdom. He is the author of The Liberal Mind Nationalism and most recently Democracy and the Moral Life. He is a director of the Centre for Policy Studies and also senior research fellow of the Bruges Group where he remains a member of its academic advisory council.

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A History of the Muslim World since 1260 The Making of a Global Community

A History of the Muslim World since 1260 The Making of a Global Community

The history of the predominantly Muslim world is examined within the context of world history. It examines political economic and broad cultural developments as well as specifically religious ones. The themes of the book are tradition and adaptation: it examines the tensions between the desire of Muslims to maintain continuity with their legacy and their recognition of the need to adapt to changing conditions. | A History of the Muslim World since 1260 The Making of a Global Community

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The Progress of a Biographer

The Progress of a Biographer

First published in 1949 The Progress of a Biographer follows a general principle that there are absolute truths which an individual can in some degree apprehend and live by but which churches and institutions can only obscure and pervert. This principle is followed for the sketches in this book most of which were written between the end of World War II and the spring of 1948. The subjects range from P. G. Wodehouse to Karl Marx from W. B. Yeats to Thackeray and from Rainer Maria Rilke to Lloyd George. Believing that to understand a man’s work one must form a coherent impression of the man the author has tried to suggest the leading characteristics and governing impulses of his subjects. His intention has been to clarify rather than to criticise though doubtless the affect may sometimes be one of criticism falling short of clarification. The book will be of interest to students across disciplines but will particularly appeal to students of English literature.

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The Guise of the Good A Philosophical History

The Guise of the Good A Philosophical History

This is the first book to trace the doctrine of the guise of the good throughout the history of Western philosophy. It offers a chronological narrative exploring how the doctrine was formulated the arguments for and against it and the broader role it played in the thought of different philosophers. In recent years there has been a rich debate about whether value judgment or value perception must form an essential part of mental states such as emotions and desires and whether intentional actions must always be done for reasons that seem good to the agent. This has sparked new theoretical interest in the classical doctrine of the guise of the good: whenever we desire (to do) something we see it under the guise of the good; that is we conceive of what we desire as good desirable or justified by reasons in some way or another. This book offers a systematic historical treatment of the guise of the good. The chapters span from Ancient and Medieval philosophy (Socrates Plato Aristotle Augustine and Aquinas) through the early modern period (Hobbes Spinoza Locke Hume and Kant) and up to Elizabeth Anscombe's rediscovery in the 20th century after a period of relative neglect. Together they demonstrate how history can offer potential new models of the guise of the good—or new arguments against it—as well as to give a sense of how the guise of the good can bear on other philosophical issues. The Guise of the Good: A Philosophical History is an excellent resource for scholars and students working on the history of ethics philosophy of action and practical reason. | The Guise of the Good A Philosophical History

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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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A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology The Secret Art of the Performer

A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology The Secret Art of the Performer

First Published in 2005. A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology subtly juxtaposes visual demonstrations of the performer’s craft from a wealth of Eastern and Western sources. More than just a dictionary this is a handbook for theatre practitioners and a guide for students and scholars of transcultural performance. It is the result of many years of research conducted by Eugenio Barba and the International School of Theatre Anthropology (ISTA) based in Denmark and is now a classic foundational text. Whereas most Western research is concerned with naturalism and psychological realism in acting the Dictionary focuses on the actor’s arduous and eclectic craft. The Dictionary aims to expand our knowledge of the possibilities of the scenic body and of the spectator’s response to the dynamics of performance. The Dictionary has practical sections on balance opposition and montage among other techniques and discusses issues including The Text and the Stage The Dilated Body and Energetic Language. This revised edition includes: three new chapters on Eurasian Theatre Exercises and Organicity; 50 new photographs showing the performer’s craft in black and white and colour; and for the first time a useful bibliography and index. | A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology The Secret Art of the Performer

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The Sociology of Knowledge Toward a Deeper Understanding of the History of Ideas

The Sociology of Knowledge Toward a Deeper Understanding of the History of Ideas

This volume serves as both an introduction to the field of the sociology of knowledge and an interpretation of the thought of the major figures associated with its development More than a compendium of ideas Stark seeks here to put order into what he regarded as a diffuse tradition of diverse bodies of thought in particular the seemingly irreconcilable conflict between the study of the political element in thought identified here with Karl Mannheim and the investigation of the social element in thinking associated with the work of Max Scheler. The sociology of knowledge is primarily directed toward the study of the precise ways that human experience through the mediation of knowledge takes on a conscious and communicable shape. While both schools dealt with by Stark assume that the pursuit of truth is not purposeful apart from socially and historically determined structures of meaning the tradition extending from Marx to Mannheim seeks to expose hidden factors that turn us away from the truth while that of Weber and Scheler attempts to identify social forces that impart a definite direction to our search for itIn order to reconcile opposing theoretical positions Stark seeks to lay the foundations for a theory of the social determination of thought by directing his inquiry to the philosophical problem of truth in a manner compatible with cultural sociology. Stark's theoretical legacy to the sociology of knowledge is that social influences operate everywhere through a group's ethos. From this many systems of ideas and social categories emanate revealing partial glimpses of a synthetic whole. The outcome of Stark's work is a general theory of social determination remarkably consistent with contemporary interests in the broad range of cultural studies whose focus is best described as the use of philosophical literary and historical approaches to study the social construction of meaning. The Sociology of Knowledge will be of great interest to social scientists philosophers and intellectual historians. | The Sociology of Knowledge Toward a Deeper Understanding of the History of Ideas

GBP 130.00
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A Rape of the Soul So Profound The return of the Stolen Generation

A Rape of the Soul So Profound The return of the Stolen Generation

A Rape of the Soul So Profound began when a young researcher accidentally came upon restricted files in an archives collection. What he read overturned all his assumptions about an important part of Aboriginal experience and Australia's past. The book ends in the present 20 years later in the aftermath of the Royal Commission on the Stolen Generations. Along the way Peter Read investigates how good intentions masked policies with inhuman results. He tells the poignant stories of many individuals some of whom were forever broken and some who went on to achieve great things. This is a book about much sorrow and occasional madness about governments who pretended things didn't happen and about the opportunities offered to right a great wrong. | A Rape of the Soul So Profound The return of the Stolen Generation

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A History of the Roman People

A History of the Roman People

A History of the Roman People offers students a comprehensive up-to-date readable introduction to the whole span of Roman history. Richly illustrated this fully updated volume takes readers through the mists of Roman prehistory and a survey of the peoples of pre-Roman Italy to a balanced thoughtful account of the complexities of the Roman Republic its evolution into a full-fledged empire and its ultimate decline. This latest edition enhances the political narrative with explorations of elements of daily life in the Roman world. New features in this edition include: Addition of boxes that expand on interesting elements of Roman culture mentioned only in passing in the main text. The visual arrangement of the text helps students bear in mind what is supplemental to the central narrative Increased emphasis on the contributions of women to Roman society and in religious matters Incorporation of recent archaeological finds and current debates A History of the Roman People is an excellent introduction for those with no background in Roman history. Its clear accessible language makes it perfect for undergraduate readers in courses on Roman history and Roman culture. More experienced students wanting to expand their knowledge will also find it a rich resource for the full sweep of Roman antiquity.

GBP 99.99
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A History of the World's Religions

A History of the World's Religions

A History of the World's Religions bridges the interval between the founding of religions and their present state and gives students an accurate look at the religions of the world by including descriptive and interpretive details from original source materials. Refined by over forty years of dialogue and correspondence with religious experts and practitioners around the world A History of the World's Religions is widely regarded as the hallmark of scholarship fairness and accuracy in its field. It is also the most thorough yet manageable history of world religion available in a single volume. A History of the World’s Religions examines the following topics: Some Primal and Bygone Religions The Religions of South Asia The Religions of East Asia The Religions of the Middle East This fourteenth edition is fully updated throughout with new images and inset text boxes to help guide students and instructors. Complete with figures timelines and maps this is an ideal resource for anyone wanting an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the world’s religions.

GBP 160.00
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Towards a Russia of the Regions

Towards a Russia of the Regions

Russia's state system has changed significantly since 1991 but the question of how the country should be governed has not been answered. Russia's constitutional framework is weak and inherently flawed and the balance of political and economic power between the centre and the regions is ill-defined. In the absence of a firm constitutional settlement regional elites have consolidated power restricting the growth of local democracy and frustrating attempts at graass-roots economic reform. This book argues that establishing an effective and regulated relationship between the centre and the regions requires greater decentralisation but devolution need not threaten Russia's integrity if it is transparent and based on a greater respect for the rule of law. | Towards a Russia of the Regions

GBP 160.00
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A History of the Mental Health Services

A History of the Mental Health Services

First published in 1972 A History of the Mental Health Services is a revised and abridged version of both Lunacy Law and Conscience and Mental Health and Social Policy rewriting the material from the end of the Second World War to the passing of the Mental Health Act 1959 and adding a new section which runs from 1959 to the Social Services Act 1970. The story starts with the first legislative mention of the ‘furiously and dangerously mad’ as a class for whom some treatment should be provided traces the development of reform and experiment in the nineteenth century and the creation of the asylum system and ends in the age of Goffman and Laing and Szasz with the virtual disappearance of the system. The book will be of interest to students of mental health sociology social policy health policy and law.

GBP 115.00
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Veena Dhanammal The Making of a Legend

Veena Dhanammal The Making of a Legend

This book looks at the life and music of Veena Dhanammal (1866–1938) considered the embodiment of ‘classicism’ in Karnatik music. It locates her art within the cultural social and intellectual milieu she inhabited allowing readers to track the changing musical landscape of southern India as a process of urbanisation — beginning in the late nineteenth century — resulted in Karnatik music’s movement from a ritual and courtly location to a modern secular form of entertainment in the city space. | Veena Dhanammal The Making of a Legend

GBP 160.00
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The Displaced Rohingyas A Tale of a Vulnerable Community

The Displaced Rohingyas A Tale of a Vulnerable Community

This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh. It analyses the socio-cultural and humanitarian challenges of the crisis along with the discourses that have developed on this issue via the local and international media and literature. The volume also suggests ways to build sustainable solutions for the Rohingya refugees. It discusses wide-ranging issues including a historical overview of the Rohingyas; the Rakhine State of Myanmar and the issue of religious toleration; the struggle for existence in Malaysia and Thailand; vulnerable Rohingya in Bangladesh; and stratified lives in Bangladeshi camps. It also sheds light on social insecurity among Rohingya adolescent girls; understanding gender-based violence in camps; the portrayal of the crisis in Chinese and Indian newspapers; and Bangladesh’s policy in addressing the Rohingya crisis and repatriation. This book will be useful for scholars and researchers of sociology social anthropology refugee studies peace and conflict studies international relations human rights political studies gender studies and South Asian studies. | The Displaced Rohingyas A Tale of a Vulnerable Community

GBP 130.00
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A History of the Modern Middle East

A History of the Modern Middle East

A History of the Modern Middle East examines the profound and often dramatic transformations of the region in the past two centuries from the Ottoman and Egyptian reforms through the challenge of Western imperialism to the impact of US foreign policies. Built around a framework of political history while also carefully integrating social cultural and economic developments this expertly crafted account provides readers with the most comprehensive balanced and penetrating analysis of the modern Middle East. The sixth edition has been revised to provide a thorough account of the major developments since 2012 including the tumultuous aftermath of the Arab uprisings the sectarian conflict in Iraq and civil war in Syria that led to the rise of ISIS the crises in Libya and Yemen and the United States' nuclear talks with Iran. With brand-new timelines in each part updated select bibliographies and expanded online instructor resources A History of the Modern Middle East remains the quintessential text for courses on Middle East history.

GBP 175.00
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The Sociology of Education A Systematic Analysis

The Sociology of Education A Systematic Analysis

The ninth edition of The Sociology of Education examines the field in rare breadth by incorporating a diverse range of theoretical approaches and a distinct sociological lens in its overview of education and schooling. Education is changing rapidly just as the social forces outside of schools are and to present the material in a meaningful way the authors of this book provide a unifying framework—an open systems approach—to illustrate how the issues and structures we find in education are all interconnected. Separate chapters are devoted to how schools help shape who has access to educational opportunities and who does not; issues of race class and gender; the organization of schools and the roles that make up educational settings and more. Throughout the book readers will have an opportunity to engage with theories and issues that are discussed and to apply their newly obtained understanding in response to emerging and persistent problems in the educational system. The new edition continues to be a critical point of reference for students interested in exploring the social context of education and the role education has in shaping our society. It is perfect for sociology of education and social foundations of education courses at the undergraduate or early graduate level. | The Sociology of Education A Systematic Analysis

GBP 115.00
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The Golden Age of Video Games The Birth of a Multibillion Dollar Industry

The Golden Age of Video Games The Birth of a Multibillion Dollar Industry

This book focuses on the history of video games consoles and home computers from the very beginning until the mid-nineties which started a new era in digital entertainment. The text features the most innovative games and introduces the pioneers who developed them. It offers brief analyses of the most relevant games from each time period. An epilogue covers the events and systems that followed this golden age while the appendices include a history of handheld games and an overview of the retro-gaming scene. | The Golden Age of Video Games The Birth of a Multibillion Dollar Industry

GBP 175.00
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Epidemic Cinema The Rise of a Genre

Epidemic Cinema The Rise of a Genre

This book examines the recent trend in global cinema to feature infectious disease. As the global crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic materialised the anxieties and discourses of world risk that had long been portrayed in popular media the book provides a novel definition of the epidemic film genre and offers a systematic look into the narrative and stylistic conventions that characterise it. Epidemic Cinema traces the evolution of the genre from its early cinematic origins to establish the founding principles of a genre standing at the crossroads between science-fiction and horror. It draws on close textual analysis to show how the pandemic reified one of the central predicaments of epidemic narratives: the constant tension existing between free-floating phenomena and the impulse to control and resist such phenomena ultimately epitomised by the trope of the border. Showing how infectious diseases offer a rich allegorical frame which cinema uses to articulate timely anxieties of growingly invisible and deterritorialised risks the author presents the prevalence of contagion in popular culture as a symptom of this growingly viral and virus-ridden context both in its most literal and metaphorical sense. This insightful study will interest students and scholars of film studies global cinema science-fiction horror popular culture and genre theory. | Epidemic Cinema The Rise of a Genre

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The People Of The Colca Valley A Population Study

The People Of The Colca Valley A Population Study

While it now attracts many tourists the Colca Valley of Peru’s southern Andes was largely isolated from the outside world until the 1970s when a passable road was built linking the valley—and its colonial churches terraced hillsides and deep canyon—to the city of Arequipa and its airport eight hours away. Noble David Cook and his co-researcher Alexandra Parma Cook have been studying the Colca Valley since 1974 and this detailed ethnohistory reflects their decades-long engagement with the valley its history and its people. Drawing on unusually rich surviving documentary evidence they explore the cultural transformations experienced by the first three generations of Indians and Europeans in the region following the Spanish conquest of the Incas. | The People Of The Colca Valley A Population Study

GBP 125.00
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