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David Martin and the Sociology of Religion

David Martin and the Sociology of Religion

David Martin is a pioneer of a political sociology of religion that integrates a combined analysis of nationalism and political religions with the history of religion. He was one of the first critics of the so-called secularization thesis and his historical orientation makes him one of the few outstanding scholars who have continued the work begun by Max Weber and Emile Durkheim. This collection provides the first scholarly overview of his hugely influential work and includes a chapter written by David Martin himself. Starting with an introduction that contextualises David Martin’s theories on the sociology of religion both currently and historically this volume aims to cover David Martin’s lifework in its entirety. An international panel of contributors sheds new light on his studies of particular geographical areas (Britain Latin America Scandinavia) and on certain systematic fields (secularization violence music Pentecostalism the relation between sociology and theology). David Martin’s concluding chapter addresses the critical points raised in response to his theories. This book addresses one of the key figures in the development of the sociology of religion and as such it will be of great interest to all scholars of the sociology of religion. | David Martin and the Sociology of Religion

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David Braham The American Offenbach

David Braham The American Offenbach

David Braham (1834-1905) was the musical director for the famous vaudeville team of Harrigan and Hart writing music for many of their comic songs including The Mulligan Guards Paddie Duffy's Cart and many more. His long career as a theatrical composer in New York helped establish a new style of Broadway musical. He came from a family well-entrenched in the music and theater worlds and his story touches upon nearly all aspects of the history of American musical theater of this era. | David Braham The American Offenbach

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David Bowie and Transmedia Stardom

David Bowie and Transmedia Stardom

Addressing the interart intertextual and intermedial dimensions of David Bowie’s sonic and visual legacy this book considers more than five decades of a career invested with a star’s luminosity that shines well beyond the remit of pop music. The book approaches the idea of the star David Bowie as a medium in transit undergoing constant movement and change. Within the context of celebrity studies the concept of stardom provides an appropriate frame for an examination of Bowie’s transmedial activity especially given his ongoing iconic signification within the celestial realm. While Bowie has traversed many mediums he has also been described as a medium which is consistent with the way he has described himself. With contributions from a wide range of disciplinary areas and countries each chapter brings a fresh perspective on the concept of stardom and the conceptual significance of the terms ‘mediation’ and ‘navigation’ as they relate to Bowie and his career. Containing a multitude of different approaches to the stardom and mediation of David Bowie this book will be of interest to those studying celebrity audio and visual legacy and the relationships between different forms of media. It was originally published as a special issue of Celebrity Studies. | David Bowie and Transmedia Stardom

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The Chinese Bigamy of Mr. David Winterlea A Manchu-Edwardian Fantasy

The Chinese Bigamy of Mr. David Winterlea A Manchu-Edwardian Fantasy

This book first published in 1961 is a translation of an anonymously-written Chinese work first written in 1913 and published in Shanghai in serial form with illustrations. It is an excellent example of the popular Chinese literature featuring romances between foreigners and the Chinese and relates the story of Mr Feng successful merchant and David Winterlea English diplomat and the sisters Lotus and Peony. | The Chinese Bigamy of Mr. David Winterlea A Manchu-Edwardian Fantasy

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Crusading and Trading between West and East Studies in Honour of David Jacoby

Crusading and Trading between West and East Studies in Honour of David Jacoby

For almost sixty years Professor David Jacoby devoted his research to the economic social and cultural history of the Eastern Mediterranean and this new collection reflects his impact on the study of the interactions between the Italian city-states Byzantium the Latin East and the realm of Islam. Contributors to this volume are prominent scholars from across Medieval Studies and leading historians of the younger generation. | Crusading and Trading between West and East Studies in Honour of David Jacoby

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The Power of the Mayor David Dinkins: 1990-1993

The Power of the Mayor David Dinkins: 1990-1993

Chris McNickle argues that New York City Mayor David Dinkins failed to wield the power of the mayor with the skill required to run the city. His Tammany clubhouse heritage and liberal political philosophy made him the wrong man for the time. His deliberate style of decision-making left the government he led lacking in direction. His courtly demeanor and formal personal style alienated him from the people he served while the multi-racial coalition he forged as New York's first African-American mayor weakened over time. Dinkins did have a number of successes. He balanced four budgets and avoided a fiscal takeover by the unelected New York State Financial Control Board. Major crime dropped 14 percent and murders fell by more than 12 percent. Dinkins helped initiate important structural changes to the ungovernable school system he inherited. His administration reconfigured health care for the poor and improved access to medical treatment for impoverished New Yorkers. McNickle argues that David Dinkins has received less credit than he is due for his successes because they were overshadowed by his failure to fulfill his promise to guide the city to racial harmony. This stimulating review of a transitional period in New York City's history offers perspective on what it takes to lead and govern. | The Power of the Mayor David Dinkins: 1990-1993

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Organisms and Personal Identity Individuation and the Work of David Wiggins

Organisms and Personal Identity Individuation and the Work of David Wiggins

Over his philosophical career David Wiggins has produced a body of work that though varied and wide-ranging stands as a coherent and carefully integrated whole. In this book Ferner examines Wiggins’ conceptualist-realism his sortal theory ‘D’ and his human being theory in order to assess how far these elements of his systematic metaphysics connect. In addition to rectifying misinterpretations and analysing the relations between Wiggins’ works Ferner reveals the importance of the philosophy of biology to Wiggins’ approach. This book elucidates the biological anti-reductionism present in Wiggins’ work and highlights how this stance stands as a productive alternative to emergentism. With an analysis of Wiggins’ construal of substances specifically organisms the book goes on to discuss how Wiggins brings together the concept of a person with the concept of a natural substance or human being. An extensive introduction to the work of David Wiggins as well as a contribution to the dialogue between personal identity theorists and philosophers of biology this book will appeal to students and scholars working in the areas of philosophy biology and the history of Anglophone metaphysics. | Organisms and Personal Identity Individuation and the Work of David Wiggins

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David Harvey A Critical Introduction to His Thought

David Harvey A Critical Introduction to His Thought

David Harvey is among the most influential Marxist thinkers of the last half century. This book offers a lucid and authoritative introduction to his work with a structure designed to reflect the enduring topics and insights that serve to unify Harvey’s writings over a long period of time. Harvey’s writings have exerted huge influence within the social sciences and the humanities. In addition his work now commands a global readership among Left political activists and those interested in current world affairs. Harvey’s central preoccupation is capitalism and the impacts of its growth-obsessed contradictory dynamics. His name is synonymous with key analytical concepts like ‘the spatial fix’ and ‘accumulation by dispossession’. This critical introduction to his thought is an essential companion for both new and more experienced readers. The critique of capitalism is one of the most important undertakings of our time and Harvey’s work offers powerful tools to help us see why a ‘softer’ capitalism is insufficient and a post-capitalist future is necessary. This book is an important resource for scholars and graduate students in geography politics and many other disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. | David Harvey A Critical Introduction to His Thought

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Abstract Painting and the Minimalist Critiques Robert Mangold David Novros and Jo Baer in the 1960s

Abstract Painting and the Minimalist Critiques Robert Mangold David Novros and Jo Baer in the 1960s

This book undertakes a critical reappraisal of Minimalism through an examination of three key painters: Robert Mangold David Novros and Jo Baer. By establishing their substantive engagements with Minimalist discourse as well as their often overlooked artistic exchanges with their sculptor peers it demonstrates that painting crucially informed the movement’s development serving not only as an object of critique but also as a crucible for its most central tenets. It also poses broader disciplinary implications as it historicizes and challenges Minimalism’s death of painting critiques that have been so influential to theories of modernism and postmodernism in the visual arts. | Abstract Painting and the Minimalist Critiques Robert Mangold David Novros and Jo Baer in the 1960s

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The Many Worlds of David Amram Renaissance Man of American Music

The Many Worlds of David Amram Renaissance Man of American Music

In a career spanning 70 years composer conductor and multi-instrumentalist David Amram is hailed today as the creator of symphonic works chamber music and two operas; as a brilliant jazz and vocal improviser; and the composer of memorable stage and film scores. He has collaborated with many leading musicians playwrights artists actors and writers including Jack Kerouac Woody Guthrie Leonard Bernstein Dizzy Gillespie Charlie Parker Arthur Miller Elia Kazan Bob Dylan Judy Collins Elmira Darvarova Paul Newman Willie Nelson Steve Earle and hundreds more. An innovator who blended jazz and global folk styles with classical traditions Amram’s career also emphasizes the creative potential of joyful collaboration. This new book offers a fascinating and wide-ranging picture of Amram’s work and influence from the rich pioneering days of 1950s America to today’s embrace of international cultures. It shows how Amram’s gift as an on-stage spontaneous creator enriches his formal classical composing. With multi-media links for readers it is possible to see and hear film and audio highlights and adventures described in this book by important conductors musicians performers scholars and journalists. This book is the essential guide to a major figure in contemporary music. | The Many Worlds of David Amram Renaissance Man of American Music

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David Foster Wallace and the Body

David Foster Wallace and the Body

David Foster Wallace and the Body is the first full-length study to focus on Wallace’s career-long fascination with the human body and the textual representation of the body. The book provides engaging accessible close readings that highlight the importance of the overlooked and yet central theme of all of this major American author’s works: having a body. Wallace repeatedly made clear that good fiction is about what it means to be a ‘human being’. A large part of what that means is having a body and being conscious of the conflicts that arise morally and physically as a result; a fact with which as Wallace forcefully and convincingly argues we all desire ‘to be reconciled’. Given the ubiquity of the themes of embodiment in Wallace’s work this study is an important addition to an expanding field. The book also opens up the themes addressed to interrogate aspects of contemporary literature culture and society more generally placing Wallace’s works in the history of literary and philosophical engagements with the brute fact of embodiment.

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Coaching and Mentoring A Journey Through the Models Theories Frameworks and Narratives of David Clutterbuck

Coaching and Mentoring A Journey Through the Models Theories Frameworks and Narratives of David Clutterbuck

This book represents both a milestone and a celebration. It brings together in one place all the theories and models that have emerged from the work of David Clutterbuck one of the last surviving first pioneers of coaching and mentoring who has significantly helped to shape the field; and is published as his 75th book at age 75. Many of the models and approaches familiar to coaches and mentors are based in David’s prolific research writing and practice from Systemic Talent Management through Team Coaching from a Complex Adaptive Systems perspective Personal Reflective Space to the Diversity Awareness Ladder. In bringing more than 60 of these innovations into one volume the book provides an invaluable contribution to the practice of coaching and puts the evolution of coaching theory into context tracing its development over time. This book is a one-stop-shop for coach practitioners and students to get up to speed and understand these foundational models. This book will appeal to coaches and HR professionals across the world at all levels. | Coaching and Mentoring A Journey Through the Models Theories Frameworks and Narratives of David Clutterbuck

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Psychotherapy: An Erotic Relationship Transference and Countertransference Passions

Psychotherapy: An Erotic Relationship Transference and Countertransference Passions

Psychotherapy: An Erotic Relationship challenges the traditional belief that transference and countertransference are merely forms of resistance that jeopardize the therapeutic process. David Mann shows how the erotic feelings and fantasies experienced by clients and therapists can be used to bring about a positive transformation. Combining extensive and lively clinical examples with theoretical insights and new research on infants David Mann suggests that the development of the erotic derives from interactions between the parent and child and is seldom absent from the therapist-patient relationship. However while the erotic always contains elements of past relationships it also expresses hope for a different outcome in the present and future. Individual chapters explore the function of the erotic within the unconscious: erotic pre-Oedipal and Oedipal material; homoeroticism in therapy; sexual intercourse as a metaphor for psychological change; the primal scene in the transference and the difficulties of working with perversions. The book is as relevant now as it was when originally published. This Classic Edition contains a new introduction by David Mann summarizing his current ideas since this book was first published in 1997. It brings the therapy setting alive offering clinicians both an accessible and deeper understanding of the interaction between erotic transference and countertransference; it also gives an explicit picture of how these aspects of therapy can be used to enhance the therapeutic process. It remains an essential resource for psychoanalysts psychotherapists and counsellors their clients and anybody with an interest in Eros desire or mental health issues. | Psychotherapy: An Erotic Relationship Transference and Countertransference Passions

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Sexuality Intimacy Power Classic Edition

Sexuality Intimacy Power Classic Edition

This book offers Dimen’s classic take on psychosexuality drawing on relational theory feminism and postmodernism with a new foreword by Virginia Goldner and Velleda Ceccoli honouring the late Muriel Dimen and introducing a new audience to her profound legacy. For Dimen the shift from dualism to multiplicity that has reshaped a range of disciplines can also be brought to bear on our thinking about sexuality. She urges us to return to the open-mindedness hiding between the lines and buried in the footnotes of Freud’s writings and to replace the determinism into which his thought has hardened with more fluid notions of contingency paradox and thirdness. By unveiling the colloquy among psychoanalysis social theory and feminism Dimen challenges clinicians and academicians alike to rethink ideas about gender eroticism and perversion. She explores among other topics the relations between lust and libido; the limitations of Darwinian thought in theorizing homosexuality; the body as projective test; and the intimate tangle of love and hate between women. Generous clinical examples illustrate the ways in which a radical re-visioning of psychosexuality benefits therapists and patients alike. A brilliant example of contemporary psychoanalytic theory at its destabilizing best Sexuality Intimacy Power covers both clinical insights and theoretical rethinking that is invaluable for psychoanalysts psychotherapists and students of women’s gender and queer studies. | Sexuality Intimacy Power Classic Edition

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John Cage's Theatre Pieces

John Cage's Theatre Pieces

The experimental composer John Cage (1912-1992) is best known for his works in percussion prepared piano and electronic music but he is also acknowledged to be one of the most significant figures in 20th century theatre. In Cage's work in theatre composition there is a blurring of the distinctions between music dance literature art and everyday life. Here William Fetterman examines the majority of those compositions by Cage which are audial as well as visual in content beginning with his first work in this genre in 1952 and continuing through 1992. Much of the information in this study comes from previously undocumented material discovered among the unpublished scores and notes of Cage and his frequent collaborator David Tudor as well as author's interviews with Cage and with individuals closely associated with his work including David Tudor Merce Cunningham Bonnie Bird Mary Caroline Richards and Ellsworth Snyder. | John Cage's Theatre Pieces

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The Gift Economy

The Gift Economy

Until recently we have known more about gift giving practices in pre-industrial societies than about those of industrial western society. In this book first published in 1988 David Cheal shows that the process of present giving and receiving is a vital element in contemporary social life relevant to some of the most important theoretical traditions in sociology particularly those of Durkheim and Weber and to the social constructionism of Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann. This volume is the result of a major study of gift rituals carried out by David Cheal and his associates in which general themes are richly illustrated with details from individual case histories gathered during the research. It is highly significant that in western society women are more active gift givers than men and while their voices explain how emotions and interests are interrelated within the gift economy the author shows how that in turn is related to current theories about family gender and religion.

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Classic Case Studies in Psychology Fourth Edition

Classic Case Studies in Psychology Fourth Edition

The human mind is both extraordinary and compelling. From the leader who convinced his followers to kill themselves to the man who lost his memory these famous accounts have provided invaluable insights for scholars and researchers and amazed the public at large. Brought to life by Rolls each case is contextualized with more typical behaviour while the latest thinking in each subfield is also discussed. Revised and updated this new edition features two new case studies including the 'Jim Twins' by Thomas Bouchard an amazing case of twins separated at birth and adopted by different parents yet when reunited 30 years later shared so many behavioural characteristics. It also features a new issues and debates chapter. Classic Case Studies in Psychology is accessibly written and requires no prior knowledge of psychology just an interest in the human condition. The book will amaze sometimes disturb but above all enlighten its readers. Geoff Rolls has taught psychology for over 26 years and is currently Head of Psychology at Peter Symonds College Winchester UK. He is the author of the popular Women Can’t Park Men Can’t Pack (Chambers 2009) which investigates gender stereotypes (including driving) and also Taking the Proverbial (Chambers 2007) which explores the psychological truth behind well-known proverbs and sayings. . | Classic Case Studies in Psychology Fourth Edition

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The Animals Reader The Essential Classic and Contemporary Writings

The Animals Reader The Essential Classic and Contemporary Writings

The Animals Reader brings together classic and contemporary writings from philosophy ethics sociology cultural studies anthropology environmental studies history law and science. Providing readers with both an understanding of the multidisciplinary field of animal studies and a clear sense of how the role of animals in human society has been understood and critiqued through time this second edition has been expanded to reflect key developments in theory and research that have emerged in recent years. Forty-two chapters are divided into six parts. Favourite entries from the first edition have been retained and are joined by sixteen new readings covering topics such as equality animal rights and citizenship zoos death and killing and embodied communication and empathy. The second edition begins with a new prologue by acclaimed wildlife photographer and photojournalist Britta Jaschinski. Updated pedagogical features include a new general introduction by the editors revised introductions to each part and each reading as well as new suggestions for further reading at the end of each section. As such The Animals Reader is an invaluable collection for students across the humanities and social sciences and is also suitable for general readers with an interest in human-animal relations. | The Animals Reader The Essential Classic and Contemporary Writings

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Attacks on Linking Revisited A New Look at Bion's Classic Work

Attacks on Linking Revisited A New Look at Bion's Classic Work

This book aims at providing further contributions inspired by Bion's paper Attacks on Linking (1959) by a distinguinshed group of scholars who have focused on different aspects of his propositions. Contributors: Christine Anzieu-Premmereur Rachel B. Blass Ronald Britton Catalina Bronstein Elias Mallet da Rocha Barros Elizabeth Lima da Rocha Barros Antonino Ferro Jay Greenberg Monica Horovitz Clara Nemas Edna O'Shaughnessy Rudi Vermote | Attacks on Linking Revisited A New Look at Bion's Classic Work

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The Practical Zone System for Film and Digital Photography Classic Tool Universal Applications

The Practical Zone System for Film and Digital Photography Classic Tool Universal Applications

This sixth edition of The Practical Zone System by Chris Johnson updates the classic manual on Ansel Adams's landmark technique for the digital age. For photographers working digitally or with film in color or black and white in the studio or on the go this simple visual language helps to control contrast and through a process called Previsualization provides photographers with the power of free creative expression. This new edition discusses recent advances in technology and potentials for their use in zone photography including HDR smartphone cameras that shoot in raw format and smartphone light meters. Johnson demonstrates how the Zone System is a universal visual and conceptual language that dramatically simplifies the problem of creating and rendering complex lighting setups. | The Practical Zone System for Film and Digital Photography Classic Tool Universal Applications

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Open Government in a Theoretical and Practical Context

Open Government in a Theoretical and Practical Context

Combining a stimulating blend of academic authority and senior practitioner experience this book tackles the principle of openness to official documentation and information flow. It covers important areas such as the Hutton Report into the death of Dr David Kelly the freedom of speech in democratic societies the value of the freedom of information and international comparisons. The book is a must read for courses on public policy and governance and information law. | Open Government in a Theoretical and Practical Context

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A Place Like Home A Hostel for Disturbed Adolescents

A Place Like Home A Hostel for Disturbed Adolescents

The late David Wills spent a lifetime in the service of the so-called delinquent the misfit the maladjusted. He was the first Englishman to train as a psychiatric social worker and was well known for his books The Hawkspur Experiment The Barns Experiment etc. Originally published in 1970 this book describes another experiment with a hostel for boys leaving schools for maladjusted children and lacking any settled home from which to enter the community. It demonstrates once again David Wills’s conviction that the offender wants to be ‘good’ and will be helped by affection rather than by punishment. Yet it is obvious that the work was full of stress and that only people with some of the attributes of archangels could respond to the boys’ needs and remain in control of the situation. The book demonstrates the extent of deprivation suffered by such young people and that no ordinary hostels or lodgings will do if they are to be set upon a less turbulent course of life leading to truly adult independence. It added greatly to our understanding of the personalities experience of life and needs of maladjusted boys in their ‘teens at the time although the lessons drawn from it were disturbing in relation both to prevention and treatment. The penetration of David Wills’s assessment is beyond doubt and (as Dame Eileen Younghusband concludes in her Foreword) his book will give a great deal to those ‘trying in various capacities to help boys and girls who otherwise would grow into adulthood permanently handicapped emotionally and socially’. This book is a re-issue originally published in 1970. The language used is a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication. | A Place Like Home A Hostel for Disturbed Adolescents

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From Farmyard to City Square? The Electoral Adaptation of the Nordic Agrarian Parties

From Farmyard to City Square? The Electoral Adaptation of the Nordic Agrarian Parties

How successful have the Nordic Agrarian-Centre Parties been in transforming themselves from class parties to catchall parties drawing significant support from voters engaged in the non-primary sectors of the economy? Using case studies from five comparable countries David Arter provides an insightful account of an historic group of parties who still wield distinctive strength in the Nordic region. This detailed profile the first ever in English makes a unique contribution to the topical issues of party adaptation and institutional modernization. | From Farmyard to City Square? The Electoral Adaptation of the Nordic Agrarian Parties

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