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The Apocalypse of the Reluctant Gnostics Carl G. Jung and Philip K. Dick

The Apocalypse of the Reluctant Gnostics Carl G. Jung and Philip K. Dick

This book presents a comparison of the Gnostic worldviews of Carl G. Jung and science-fiction author Philip K. Dick two figures who have done far more than most to revive an interest in the Gnostic tradition in the modern world. Despite profoundly different approaches - one was a depth psychologist whose unique insights and approach to psychology forced him to explore the depths of the unconscious in a way that inevitably led him to touch frequently on metaphysical or spiritual matters; the other was an author of science-fiction - there are some striking parallels between their unique Gnostic visions. With the relatively recent publication of both Jung's and Dick's personal journals - The Red Book (2009) and The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick (2011) respectively - in which they articulate their Gnostic visions it seems timely to make this comparison. | The Apocalypse of the Reluctant Gnostics Carl G. Jung and Philip K. Dick

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Philip Doddridge and the Shaping of Evangelical Dissent

Philip Doddridge and the Shaping of Evangelical Dissent

Evangelical Dissent in the early eighteenth century had to address a variety of intellectual challenges. How reliable was the Bible? Was traditional Christian teaching about God humanity sin and salvation true? What was the role of reason in the Christian faith? Philip Doddridge (1702-51) pastored a sizeable evangelical congregation in Northampton England and ran a training academy for Dissenters which prepared men for pastoral ministry. Philip Doddridge and the Shaping of Evangelical Dissent examines his theology and philosophy in the context of these and other issues of his day and explores the leadership that he provided in evangelical Dissent in the first half of the eighteenth century. Offering a fresh look at Doddridge’s thought the book provides a criticial examination of the accepted view that Doddridge was influenced in his thinking primarily by Richard Baxter and John Locke. Exploring the influence of other streams of thought from John Owen and other Puritan writers to Samuel Clarke and Isaac Watts as well as interaction with contemporaries in Dissent the book shows Doddridge to be a leader in and shaper of an evangelical Dissent which was essentially Calvinistic in its theology adapted to the contours and culture of its times.

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Play and the Artist’s Creative Process The Work of Philip Guston and Eduardo Paolozzi

Play and the Artist’s Creative Process The Work of Philip Guston and Eduardo Paolozzi

Play and the Artist’s Creative Process explores a continuity between childhood play and adult creativity. The volume examines how an understanding of play can shed new light on processes that recur in the work of Philip Guston and Eduardo Paolozzi. Both artists’ distinctive engagement with popular culture is seen as connected to the play materials available in the landscapes of their individual childhoods. Animating or toying with material to produce the unforeseen outcome is explored as the central force at work in the artists’ processes. By engaging with a range of play theories the book shows how the artists’ studio methods can be understood in terms of game strategies. | Play and the Artist’s Creative Process The Work of Philip Guston and Eduardo Paolozzi

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Literature in our Lives Talking About Texts from Shakespeare to Philip Pullman

Literature in our Lives Talking About Texts from Shakespeare to Philip Pullman

This book recreates in written form seventeen of the most popular frankly personal and engaging lectures on literature given by the award-winning teacher Richard Jacobs who has been working with students for over forty years. This is a book written for students whether starting their studies or more experienced and also for all lovers of literature. At its heart is the conviction that reading thinking about and writing or talking about literature involves us all personally: texts talk to us intimately and urgently inviting us to talk back intervening in and changing our lives. These lectures discuss in an open but richly informed way a wide range of texts that are regularly studied and enjoyed. They model what it means to be excited about reading and studying literature and how the study of literature can be life-changing - perhaps even with the effect of changing the lives of readers of this eloquent and remarkable book. | Literature in our Lives Talking About Texts from Shakespeare to Philip Pullman

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The Nature of Belief Systems Reconsidered

The Nature of Belief Systems Reconsidered

In the foundational document of modern public-opinion research Philip E. Converse’s The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics (1964) established the U. S. public’s startling political ignorance. This volume makes Converse’s long out-of-print article available again and brings together a variety of scholars including Converse himself to reflect on Converse’s findings after nearly half a century of further research. Some chapters update findings on public ignorance. Others outline relevant research agendas not only in public-opinion and voter-behavior studies but in American political development state theory and normative theory. Three chapters grapple with whether voter ignorance is rational. Several chapters consider the implications of Converse’s findings for the democratic ideal of a well-informed public; others focus on the political elite who are better informed but quite possibly more dogmatic than members of the general public. Contributors include Scott Althaus Stephen Earl Bennett Philip E. Converse Samuel DeCanio James S. Fishkin Jeffrey Friedman Doris A. Graber Russell Hardin Donald Kinder Arthur Lupia Samuel L. Popkin Ilya Somin and Gregory W. Wawro. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society. | The Nature of Belief Systems Reconsidered

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The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance brings together a selection of particularly memorable performances beginning with Nell Gwyn in a 1668 staging of Secret Love and moving chronologically towards the final performance of John Philip Kemble's controversial adaptation of Thomas Otway's Venice Presever'd in October 1795. This volume contains a wealth of contextual materials including contemporary reviews portraits advertisements and cast lists. By privileging event over publication this collection aims to encourage an understanding of performance that emphasizes the immediacy - and changeability - of the theatrical repertoire during the long eighteenth century. Offering an invaluable insight into the performance culture of the time The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance is a unique much-needed resource for students of theatre.

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The Lower Niger Bronzes Beyond Igbo-Ukwu Ife and Benin

The Lower Niger Bronzes Beyond Igbo-Ukwu Ife and Benin

This book demonstrates that copper-alloy casting was widespread in southern Nigeria and has been practiced for at least a millennium. Philip M. Peek’s research provides a critical context for the better-known casting traditions of Igbo-Ukwu Ife and Benin. Both the necessary ores and casting skills were widely available contrary to previous scholarly assumptions. The majority of the Lower Niger Bronzes which we know number in the thousands are of subjects not found elsewhere such as leopard skull replicas grotesque bell heads ritual objects and humanoid figures. Important puzzle pieces are now in place to permit a more complete reconstruction of southern Nigerian history. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history African studies African history and anthropology. | The Lower Niger Bronzes Beyond Igbo-Ukwu Ife and Benin

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Einstein on the Beach: Opera beyond Drama

Einstein on the Beach: Opera beyond Drama

Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s most celebrated collaboration the landmark opera Einstein on the Beach had its premiere at the Avignon Festival in 1976. During its initial European tour Metropolitan Opera premiere and revivals in 1984 and 1992 Einstein provoked opposed reactions from both audiences and critics. Today Einstein is well on the way itself to becoming a canonized avant-garde work and it is widely acknowledged as a profoundly significant moment in the history of opera or musical theater. Einstein created waves that for many years crashed against the shores of traditional thinking concerning the nature and creative potential of audiovisual expression. Reaching beyond opera its influence was felt in audiovisual culture in general: in contemporary avant-garde music performance art avant-garde cinema popular film popular music advertising dance theater and many other expressive commercial and cultural spheres. Inspired by the 2012–2015 series of performances that re-contextualized this unique work as part of the present-day nexus of theoretical political and social concerns the editors and contributors of this book take these new performances as a pretext for far-reaching interdisciplinary reflection and dialogue. Essays range from those that focus on the human scale and agencies involved in productions to the mechanical and post-human character of the opera’s expressive substance. A further valuable dimension is the inclusion of material taken from several recent interviews with creative collaborators Philip Glass Robert Wilson and Lucinda Childs each of these sections comprising knee plays or short intermezzo sections resembling those found in the opera Einstein on the Beach itself. The book additionally features a foreword written by the influential musicologist and cultural theorist Susan McClary and an interview with film and theater luminary Peter Greenaway as well as a short chapter of reminiscences written by the singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega. | Einstein on the Beach: Opera beyond Drama

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Marie Jeanne Riccoboni’s Epistolary Feminism Fact Fiction and Voice

Marie Jeanne Riccoboni’s Epistolary Feminism Fact Fiction and Voice

Marie Jeanne Riccoboni’s Epistolary Feminism: Fact Fiction and Voice argues that Riccoboni is among the most significant women writers of the French Enlightenment due to her epistolary feminism. Locating its source in her first novel Lettres de Mistriss Fanni Butlerd (1757) between fact and fiction public and private Marijn S. Kaplan provides new evidence supporting both the novel’s autobiography theory and de Maillebois hypothesis. Kaplan then traces how Riccoboni progressively develops a proto-feminist poetics of voice in her epistolary fiction empowering women to resist patriarchal efforts to silence and appropriate them which culminates in her final novel Lettres de Milord Rivers (1777). In nineteen relatively unknown letters (included with translations) written over three decades to her publisher Humblot several editors Diderot Laclos Philip Thicknesse etc. Riccoboni is shown similarly to defend her oeuvre her reputation and her authority as a woman (writer) refusing to be manipulated and silenced by men. | Marie Jeanne Riccoboni’s Epistolary Feminism Fact Fiction and Voice

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Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse Eleven Days at Newington Butts

Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse Eleven Days at Newington Butts

The playhouse at Newington Butts has long remained on the fringes of histories of Shakespeare’s career and of the golden age of the theatre with which his name is associated. A mile outside London and relatively disused by the time Shakespeare began his career in the theatre this playhouse has been easy to forget. Yet for eleven days in June 1594 it was home to the two companies that would come to dominate the London theatres. Thanks to the ledgers of theatre entrepreneur Philip Henslowe we have a record of this short venture. Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse is an exploration of a brief moment in time when the focus of the theatrical world in England was on this small playhouse. To write this history Laurie Johnson draws on archival studies archaeology environmental studies geography social political and cultural studies as well as methods developed within literary and theatre history to expand the scope of our understanding of the theatres the rise of the playing business and the formations of the playing companies. | Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse Eleven Days at Newington Butts

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Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Adolescents College student development and treatment

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Adolescents College student development and treatment

In this book Philip Rosenbaum and Richard Webb consider the complexities of working as counselors and psychotherapists for college students and offer a broad and detailed account of the developmental issues essential to understanding adolescent experience. Drawing on existentialism cultural psychology and relational and object relations theories in psychoanalysis this book offers a perspective that is sensitive to both clinical concerns and the broader context of college counseling and working with adolescents. Particular attention is paid to the emergence of adolescent identities through a relationship with otherness and several considerations are explored as a result. These include the emergence and reconciliation of destructive feelings suicidal phenomenology and the effects of trauma. By taking a fresh look at clinical developmental theories as they affect adolescents and young adults Rosenbaum and Webb provide a view of college-student development that is theoretically rich and clinically applicable in a way that warrants renewed appreciation and practice among counselors psychotherapists and psychoanalysts working with college-age clients. | Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Adolescents College student development and treatment

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The Cristos yacentes of Gregorio Fernández Polychrome Sculptures of the Supine Christ in Seventeenth-Century Spain

The Cristos yacentes of Gregorio Fernández Polychrome Sculptures of the Supine Christ in Seventeenth-Century Spain

Analyzing seventeenth-century images of the dead Christ produced by Gregorio Fern¡ndez author Ilenia Col³n Mendoza investigates how and why the artist and his patrons manipulated these images in connection with the religious literature of the time to produce striking images that moved the faithful to devotion. In so doing she contributes new findings to the topic of Spanish sacred sculpture. The author re-examines these sculptures not only in the context of a larger sculptural group but also as independent sculptures that were intended as powerful aids to contemplation and devotion as was prescribed by the writings of San Juan de la Cruz and Luis de Granada. Combining study of the sculptural works with that of liturgical sources she reveals the connection between the written word and the sculpted work of art. Through this interdisciplinary approach the author links Fern¡ndez's sculptural program with the strategic objectives of major patrons of the period such as the Duke of Lerma and King Philip III of Spain both fervent defenders of the Catholic faith. | The Cristos yacentes of Gregorio Fernández Polychrome Sculptures of the Supine Christ in Seventeenth-Century Spain

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Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Psychology of Exclusion From Rejection to Personal and Social Harmony

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Psychology of Exclusion From Rejection to Personal and Social Harmony

This new volume considers one of the most pressing topics of the generation: the sense of social exclusion rejection and loneliness experienced by many adolescents and young adults. It offers insights from psychological and biochemical research explaining the role of the brain mind and body in the development of a sense of belonging over the lifespan. Illustrated with examples of the consequences of exclusion drawn from the author’s clinical work this important work surveys the latest research in the field and introduces an innovative framework for understanding the development of a sense of belonging. Wilczyńska considers the effects of social exclusion exploring its consequences for mental health particularly amongst young people and reveals how transgenerational trauma imprinted at the early stages of human development impacts lifelong development. Including a foreword by Philip Zimbardo Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Psychology of Exclusion is essential reading for students and researchers of developmental psychology social psychology and sociology. It will also be of interest to practitioners and policymakers working with children and young people to understand and mitigate the effects of social exclusion and loneliness. | Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Psychology of Exclusion From Rejection to Personal and Social Harmony

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The Sublime

The Sublime

Related to ideas of the great the awe-inspiring and the overpowering the sublime has been debated for centuries amongst writers artists philosophers and theorists and has become a complex yet crucial concept in many disciplines. In this thoroughly updated edition Philip Shaw looks at: Early modern and post-Romantic conceptions of the sublime in two brand new chapters The legacy of the earliest classical theories through those of the long eighteenth century to modernist postmodernist and avant-garde conceptions of the sublime Critical Introductions to major theorists of the sublime such as Longinus Burke Kant Schopenhauer Nietzsche Derrida Lyotard Lacan and Žižek The significance of the concept through a range of literary readings including the Old and New Testaments Homer Milton and writing from the Romantic period to the present day How the concept of the sublime has affected other art forms such as painting and film from abstract expressionism to David Lynch’s neo-noir The influence of the sublime on recent debates in the fields of politics theology and psychoanalysis. Offering historical overviews and explanations this remarkably clear study is essential reading for students of literature critical and cultural theory.

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Maria of Austria Holy Roman Empress (1528-1603) Dynastic Networker

Maria of Austria Holy Roman Empress (1528-1603) Dynastic Networker

Maria of Austria was one of the longest surviving Renaissance Empresses but until now has received little attention by biographers. This book explores her life actions and management of domestic affairs which became a feared example of how an Empress could control alternative spheres of power. The volume traces the path of a Castilian orphan infanta raised among her mother’s Portuguese ladies-in-waiting and who spent thirty years of marriage between the imperial courts of Prague and Vienna. Empress Maria encapsulates the complex dynastic functioning of the Habsburgs: devotedly married to her cousin Maximilian II Maria had constant communication with her father Charles V and her brother Philip II while preserving her Spanish background. Her unique intertwining of roles and positions allows a fresh approach to female agency and the discussion of current issues: the rules of dynastic entente the negotiation of discreet political roles for royal women the reassessment of informal diplomacy and the creation of dynastic networks parallel to the embassies. With chronological chapters discussing Empress Maria’s roles such as infanta regent Empress and a widow this volume is the perfect resource for scholars and students interested in the history of gender court culture and early modern Central Europe. | Maria of Austria Holy Roman Empress (1528-1603) Dynastic Networker

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New Jazz Conceptions History Theory Practice

New Jazz Conceptions History Theory Practice

New Jazz Conceptions: History Theory Practice is an edited collection that captures the cutting edge of British jazz studies in the early twenty-first century highlighting the developing methodologies and growing interdisciplinary nature of the field. In particular the collection breaks down barriers previously maintained between jazz historians theorists and practitioners with an emphasis on interrogating binaries of national/local and professional/amateur. Each of these essays questions popular narratives of jazz casting fresh light on the cultural processes and economic circumstances which create the music. Subjects covered include Duke Ellington’s relationship with the BBC the impact of social media on jazz a new view of the ban on visiting jazz musicians in interwar Britain a study of Dave Brubeck as a transitional figure in the pages of Melody Maker and BBC2’s Jazz 625 the issue of ‘liveness’ in Columbia’s Ellington at Newport album a musician and promoter's views of the relationship with audiences a reflection on Philip Larkin Kingsley Amis and Eric Hobsbawm as jazz critics a musician’s perspective on the oral and generational tradition of jazz in a British context and a meditation on Alan Lomax’s Mr. Jelly Roll and what it tells us about cultural memory and historical narratives of jazz. | New Jazz Conceptions History Theory Practice

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The Sustainable Tall Building A Design Primer

The Sustainable Tall Building A Design Primer

The Sustainable Tall Building: A Design Primer is an accessible and highly illustrated guide which primes those involved in the design and research of tall buildings to dramatically improve their performance. Using a mixture of original research and analysis best-practice design thinking and a detailed look at exemplar case studies author Philip Oldfield takes the reader through the architectural ideas engineering strategies and cutting-edge technologies that are available to the tall building design team. The book takes a global perspective examining high-rise design in different climates cultures and contexts. It considers common functions such as high-rise housing and offices to more radical designs such as vertical farming and vertical cemeteries. Innovation is provided by examining not only the environmental performance of tall buildings but also their social sustainability guiding the reader through strategies to create successful communities at height. The book starts by critically appraising the sustainability of tall building architecture past and present before demonstrating innovative ways for future tall buildings to be designed. These include themes such as climatically responsive architecture siting a tall building in the city zero-carbon towers skygardens and community spaces at height sustainable structural systems and novel façades. In doing so the book provides essential reading for architects engineers consultants developers researchers and students engaged with sustainable design and high-rise architecture. | The Sustainable Tall Building A Design Primer

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British Prime Ministers from Walpole to Salisbury: The 18th and 19th Centuries Volume 1

British Prime Ministers from Walpole to Salisbury: The 18th and 19th Centuries Volume 1

Dick Leonard’s British Prime Ministers from Walpole to Salisbury: The 18th and 19th Centuries surveys the lives and careers of all the 32 Prime Ministers from Sir Robert Walpole (1721–42) to Archibald Philip Primrose fifth Earl of Rosebery (1894–95) in 32 succinct informative and entertaining chapters. Bringing to life the political achievements and personal idiosyncrasies of Britain's rulers over the 18th and 19th centuries the author recounts the circumstances which took them to the pinnacle of British political life probes their political and personal strengths and weaknesses assesses their performance in office and asks what lasting influence they have had. Along the way Leonard entertains and informs revealing little-known facts about the private lives of each of the Prime Ministers such as who was suspected to be an illegitimate half-brother of George III who was assassinated in the House of Commons and who spent his evenings prowling the streets of London trying to reform prostitutes. This book can also form part of a two-volume set published by Routledge including the companion volume Modern British Prime Ministers from Balfour to Johnson. This book will be of key interest to scholars students and readers of British political history the Executive government and British politics. | British Prime Ministers from Walpole to Salisbury: The 18th and 19th Centuries Volume 1

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Expanding the Canon Black Composers in the Music Theory Classroom

Expanding the Canon Black Composers in the Music Theory Classroom

Directly addressing the underrepresentation of Black composers in core music curricula Expanding the Canon: Black Composers in the Music Theory Classroom aims to both demonstrate why diversification is badly needed and help faculty expand their teaching with practical classroom-oriented lesson plans that focus on teaching music theory with music by Black composers. This collection of 21 chapters is loosely arranged to resemble a typical music theory curriculum with topics progressing from basic to advanced and moving from fundamentals diatonic harmony and chromatic harmony to form popular music and music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Some chapters focus on segments of the traditional music theory sequence while others consider a single style or composer. Contributors address both methods to incorporate the music of Black composers into familiar topics and ways to rethink and expand the purview of the music theory curriculum. A foreword by Philip Ewell and an introductory narrative by Teresa L. Reed describing her experiences as an African American student of music set the volume in wider context. Incorporating a wide range of examples by composers across classical jazz and popular genres this book helps bring the rich and varied body of music by Black composers into the core of music theory pedagogy and offers a vital resource for all faculty teaching music theory and analysis. | Expanding the Canon Black Composers in the Music Theory Classroom

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Sound and Aural Media in Postmodern Literature Novel Listening

Sound and Aural Media in Postmodern Literature Novel Listening

This study examines postmodern literature— including works by Kurt Vonnegut William Gaddis Don DeLillo Philip K. Dick Ishmael Reed and Thomas Pynchon —arguing that one of the formal logics of postmodern fiction is heterophonia: a pluralism of sound. The postmodern novel not only bears earwitness to a crucial period in American aural history but it also offers a critique of the American soundscape by rebroadcasting extant technological discourses. Working chronologically through four audio transmission technologies of the twentieth century (the player piano radio television audio and Muzak installations) St. Clair charts the tendency of ever-proliferating audio streams to become increasingly subsumed as background sound. The postmodern novel attends specifically to this background sound warning that inattention to the increasingly complex sonic backdrop allows for ever more sophisticated techniques of aural manipulation—from advertising jingles to mood-altering ambient sound. Building upon interdisciplinary work from the emerging field of sound culture studies this book ultimately contends that a complementary yet seemingly contradictory double logic characterizes the postmodern novel’s engagement with narratives of aural influence. On the one hand such narratives echo and amplify postwar fiction’s media anxiety; on the other hand they allow print fiction to appropriate the techniques of aural media. This dialectical engagement with media aurality—this simultaneous impulse to repudiate and to utilize—is the central mechanism of the heterophonic novel. | Sound and Aural Media in Postmodern Literature Novel Listening

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Philosophy of Language

Philosophy of Language

Philosophy of Language provides a comprehensive meticulous survey of twentieth-century and contemporary philosophical theories of meaning. Interweaving the historical development of the subject with a thematic overview of the different approaches to meaning the book provides students with the tools necessary to understand contemporary analytic philosophy. Beginning with a systematic look at Frege’s foundational theories on sense and reference Alexander Miller goes on to offer a clear exposition of the development of subsequent arguments in the philosophy of language. Communicating a sense of active philosophical debate the author confronts the views of the early theorists taking in Frege Russell and logical positivism and going on to discuss the scepticism of Quine Kripke and Wittgenstein. The work of philosophers such as Davidson Dummett Searle Fodor McGinn Wright Grice and Tarski is also examined in depth. The third edition has been fully revised for enhanced clarity and includes:· a short introduction for students outlining the importance of the philosophy of language and the aims of the book;· two substantial new sections on Philip Pettit’s ethocentric account of rule-following and on Hannah Ginsborg’s partial reductionism about rule-following and meaning;· the addition of chapter summaries and study questions throughout designed to promote greater understanding and engagement;· updated guides to further reading at the end of every chapter. This well-established and sophisticated introduction to the philosophy of language is an unrivalled guide to one of the liveliest and most challenging areas of philosophy and is suitable for use on undergraduate degrees and in postgraduate study.

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Age of Agency Rise with AI

Age of Agency Rise with AI

When the digital world started many companies moved slowly and cautiously not willing to replace their traditional operations. Now most companies have gone digital. We are now moving beyond digital into an AI world. Don't ignore it. This important book will guide you by providing a fresh perspective on the interrelationships between humans and AI. – Philip Kotler Do you feel overwhelmed by the AI wave? Worried that it could cost you your job harm your business or even take over? AI has pervaded our lives and is aggressively disrupting business. No person today can afford to ignore AI. Age of Agency is your companion helping you leverage AI's capabilities to power your productivity and success. By understanding AI you will learn to use it as a tool for personal career growth and business success. Former Microsoft executive Kerushan Govender demystifies AI emphasising the importance of human agency. Reconnect with the needs of humanity and learn the importance of care as a differentiator in an AI world. Avoid the potential pitfalls of excessive reliance on the technology. Age of Agency is a blueprint for ensuring human agency outpaces computer agency. It boldly pits the limits of machine learning against the infinity of human ability. With this survival guide you’ll uncover ways to connect with humanity on a deeper level going beyond anything AI can do. Ready to become AI-savvy with your humanity as your differentiator? Dive into the future with the confidence to ride the wave of today’s AI revolution. | Age of Agency Rise with AI

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The UK Regional–National Economic Problem Geography globalisation and governance

The UK Regional–National Economic Problem Geography globalisation and governance

In recent years the United Kingdom has become a more and more divided society with inequality between the regions as marked as it has ever been. In a landmark analysis of the current state of Britain’s regional development Philip McCann utilises current statistics examines historical trends and makes pertinent international comparisons to assess the state of the nation. The UK Regional–National Economic Problem brings attention to the highly centralised top down governance structure that the UK deploys and demonstrates that it is less than ideally placed to rectify these inequalities. The ‘North-South’ divide in the UK has never been greater and the rising inequalities are evident in almost all aspects of the economy including productivity incomes employment status and wealth. Whilst the traditional economic dominance of London and its hinterland has continued along with relative resilience in the South West of England and Scotland in contrast the Midlands the North of England Northern Ireland and Wales lag behind by most measures of prosperity. This inequality is greatly limiting national economic performance and the fact that Britain has a below average standard of living by European and OECD terms has been ignored. The UK’s economic and governance inequality is unlikely to be fundamentally rebalanced by the current governance and connectivity trends although this definitive study suggests that some areas of improvement are possible if they are well implemented. This pivotal analysis is essential reading for postgraduate students in economics and urban studies as well as researchers and policy makers in local and central government. | The UK Regional–National Economic Problem Geography globalisation and governance

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Postmodern Architecture in Socialist Poland Transformation Symbolic Form and National Identity

Postmodern Architecture in Socialist Poland Transformation Symbolic Form and National Identity

Garish churches gabled panel blocks neo-historical tenements—this book is about these and other architectural oddities that emerged in Poland between 1975 and 1989 a period characterised by the decline of the authoritarian socialist regime and waves of political protest. During that period committed architects defied repressive politics and persistent shortages and designed houses and churches which adapted eclectic historical forms and geometric volumes and were based on traditional typologies. These buildings show a very different background of postmodernism far removed from the debates over Robert Venturi Philip Johnson or Prince Charles in Western Europe and North America—a context in which postmodern architecture stood not for world-weary irony in an economically saturated society but for individualised counter-propositions to a collectivist ideology for a yearning for truth and spiritual values and for a discourse on distinctiveness and national identity. Postmodern Architecture in Socialist Poland argues that this new architecture marked the beginning of socio-political transformation and at the same time showed postmodernism's reconciliatory potential. In light of massive historical ruptures and wartime destruction these buildings successfully responded to the contradictory desires for historical continuity and acknowledgment of rupture and loss. Next to international ideas the architects took up domestic traditions such as the ideas of the Polish school of historic conservation and long-standing national-patriotic narratives. They thus contributed to the creation of a built environment and intellectual climate that have been influential to date. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars interested in postmodern architecture and urban design as well as in the socio-cultural background and transformative potential of architecture under socialism. | Postmodern Architecture in Socialist Poland Transformation Symbolic Form and National Identity

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Success in Social Marketing 100 Case Studies From Around the Globe

Success in Social Marketing 100 Case Studies From Around the Globe

Social marketing a field first introduced by Philip Kotler and Gerald Zaltman in a pioneering article in the Journal of Marketing in 1971 uses marketing concepts to influence the behaviors of individuals and communities for the greater social good. Now as the discipline celebrates its 50th anniversary Success in Social Marketing provides an accessible and comprehensive guide to the field introducing stories from around the world including public health injury prevention environmental protection community engagement financial well-being and education. The 100 case examples contained in this book each about two pages in length follow an outline that includes key components of a campaign: Wicked Problem Purpose & Focus Priority Audience Desired Behavior Audience Insights Marketing Intervention Mix and Results. This common structure provides the reader with a clear sense of how success in social marketing may best be achieved in a wide variety of disciplinary and national contexts. Success in Social Marketing is intended to fill a gap in the market as well as inform and inspire students and practitioners through 100 easily digestible case studies. Issues addressed include public health (opioid use mental health COVID-19) injury prevention (gun violence youth suicide texting while driving) environmental protection (wildfires bicycle transportation in urban areas food waste) community engagement (homelessness racially motivated violence voting) financial wellbeing (microfinance savings employment) and educational achievement (early childhood education college applications female participation in STEM programs) to name but a few. This book is recommended reading for students enrolled in public administration public health environmental studies as well as policymakers interested in ways social marketing may help influence their constituent behaviors for individual as well as social good. | Success in Social Marketing 100 Case Studies From Around the Globe

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