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Positive Psychology in Search for Meaning

Positive Psychology in Search for Meaning

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

GBP 38.99
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Unimaginable Storms A Search for Meaning in Psychosis

Unimaginable Storms A Search for Meaning in Psychosis

A distillation of many years' work on a therapeutic milieu ward of the Maudsley Hospital in which psychotic patients were treated with an integral combination of psychiatric and psychological care anchored in the use of advanced psychoanalytic concepts of psychosis. Compelling clinical material is reproduced to help illuminate the meaning of illnesses such as paranoid schizophrenia catatonia psychotic anorexia and manic-depression. Several depth interviews by the author an authority on the application of psycho-analytic thought to the problems of psychosis are reproduced for the first time. | Unimaginable Storms A Search for Meaning in Psychosis

GBP 130.00
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Anthropology Islands and the Search for Meaning in the Anthropocene

Anthropology Islands and the Search for Meaning in the Anthropocene

Part ethnography part memoir and part critical reflection on the Anthropocene this book examines the ways that islands form and inform human experiences of the everyday and the extraordinary. Utilizing carefully considered anthropological perspectives drawn from over a decade of anthropological fieldwork the author employs islands as a complex set of lenses to examine the ways that we are intimately connected separated and divided from ourselves one another and the planet. Moving across time place and disciplinary boundaries this book traces a narrative route from the remote islands of Micronesia to the subarctic expanses of northern Iceland all in service of gaining a deeper understanding of the cultural resonance of islands. This book offers the reader a type of ideological travel guide one that exchanges restaurant reviews and hotel recommendations for pathways of reflection and new modes of seeing and being in the world. It will be of interest to scholars in the social sciences and humanities and readers from human geography cultural studies sociology philosophy and American studies. | Anthropology Islands and the Search for Meaning in the Anthropocene

GBP 44.99
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Search Theory Some Recent Developments

Search Theory Some Recent Developments

Providing immediate access to modern search theory state-of-the-art methods related areas of mathematics and their techniques and applications this important reference surveys classical results and approaches to search theory as well as the latest procedures of optimal and nearly optimal search planning for the most detailed and comprehensive source on the subject. Search Theory clearly describes the solution of an optimal search problem with an exponential detection function. covers one-and two-sided detection problems by furnishing continuous and discrete time strategies. examines two-sided search strategies with solutions in hide and seek games in many discrete and continuous bounded and unbounded domanins. presents a consistent framework for solving complex problems in a unified way by differential equations. discusses systematic means of generating tours for optimal search in bounded domains. and considers a novel class of random search plans. | Search Theory Some Recent Developments

GBP 175.00
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Melville and the Question of Meaning

Melville and the Question of Meaning

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

GBP 39.99
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Meaning Semantics Pragmatics Cognition

Meaning Semantics Pragmatics Cognition

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

GBP 32.99
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Euro-Mediterranean Security: A Search for Partnership A Search for Partnership

Euro-Mediterranean Security: A Search for Partnership A Search for Partnership

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

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Powerful Book Introductions Leading with Meaning for Deeper Thinking

Powerful Book Introductions Leading with Meaning for Deeper Thinking

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

GBP 26.99
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Search Engine Optimization and Marketing A Recipe for Success in Digital Marketing

Search Engine Optimization and Marketing A Recipe for Success in Digital Marketing

Search Engine Optimization and Marketing: A Recipe for Success in Digital Marketing analyzes the web traffic for online promotion that includes search engine optimization and search engine marketing. After careful analysis of the nuances of the semantic web of search engine optimization (SEO) and its practical set up readers can put their best foot forward for SEO setup link-building for SERP establishment various methods with requisite algorithms and programming codes with process inferences. The book offers comprehensive coverage of essential topics including: • The concept of SEM and SEO • The mechanism of crawler program concepts of keywords • Keyword generation tools • Page ranking mechanism and indexing • Concepts of title meta alt tags • Concepts of PPC/PPM/CTR • SEO/SEM strategies • Anchor text and setting up • Query-based search While other books are focused on the traditional explanation of digital marketing theoretical features of SEO and SEM for keyword set up with link-building this book focuses on the practical applications of the above-mentioned concepts for effective SERP generation. Another unique aspect of this book is its abundance of handy workarounds to set up the techniques for SEO a topic too often neglected by other works in the field. This book is an invaluable resource for social media analytics researchers and digital marketing students. | Search Engine Optimization and Marketing A Recipe for Success in Digital Marketing

GBP 105.00
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Combinatorial Algorithms Generation Enumeration and Search

Combinatorial Algorithms Generation Enumeration and Search

This textbook thoroughly outlines combinatorial algorithms for generation enumeration and search. Topics include backtracking and heuristic search methods applied to various combinatorial structures such as:CombinationsPermutationsGraphsDesignsMany classical areas are covered as well as new research topics not included in most existing texts such as:Group algorithmsGraph isomorphismHill-climbingHeuristic search algorithmsThis work serves as an exceptional textbook for a modern course in combinatorial algorithms providing a unified and focused collection of recent topics of interest in the area. The authors synthesizing material that can only be found scattered through many different sources introduce the most important combinatorial algorithmic techniques - thus creating an accessible comprehensive text that students of mathematics electrical engineering and computer science can understand without needing a prior course on combinatorics. | Combinatorial Algorithms Generation Enumeration and Search

GBP 59.99
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The Search for Beulah Land

The Search for Beulah Land

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

GBP 27.99
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In Search of Nixon A Psychohistorical Inquiry

In Search of Nixon A Psychohistorical Inquiry

Who was the real Richard Nixon and why did he behave the way he did? In this innovative work a distinguished historian trained in psychoanalysis unravels the riddle of Nixon's singularly opaque political personality. Neither a political biography nor a clinical psychoanalysis at the time of its initial publication In Search of Nixon launched a new genre of scholarship; the psycho-historical inquiry. Mazlish offers insight into the subtle interplay between Nixon the man and Nixon the public figure. Why for example did Nixon have such personal difficulties in making decisions? Knowing how the young Nixon learned to cope with the problems of his childhood what can we infer about his unpredictable decisions on Communist China inflation and the Supreme Court? Bruce Mazlish applies psychoanalysis to history in order to understand Nixon's behaviour decisions and political stance. He explains why Nixon characteristically projected personal crises onto the political arena as for example in the famous Checkers speech or in the Haynsworth-Carswell affair. And he examines why conversely political questions such as pacifism abortion and subversion had such a peculiarly personal meaning for him. | In Search of Nixon A Psychohistorical Inquiry

GBP 130.00
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Manual of Online Search Strategies Volumes I-III

Manual of Online Search Strategies Volumes I-III

This title was first published in 2001. Comprehensively updated this three-volume edition of the Manual of Online Search Strategies covers the whole range of Internet CD-ROM and dial-up online services and includes several new chapters. International experts on each subject area selected from the UK and North America describe in detail how to identify and exploit specialist bibliographic and non-bibliographic databases the best search methods and delivery modes and the relative merits of different services and online hosts in their different disciplines. Numerous examples of search results are used to illustrate different strategies and commands. Each volume includes the editors’ introductory chapter on search strategies which gives an overview of searching language platforms and vendors interfaces and search and database evaluation methods. The Manual can be used as a subject handbook a directory of recommended resources and as a textbook. This new edition provides extensive guidance for searchers of electronic information and is particularly useful for those working in a subject area other than their own. Readers will gain a professional 'edge' from the skill and wisdom that the specialist authors have passed on in their chapters and will be able to expand their searching techniques into new areas. | Manual of Online Search Strategies Volumes I-III

GBP 60.00
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Evidence for Hope The Search for Sustainable Development

Evidence for Hope The Search for Sustainable Development

Since the Stockholm Environment Conference in 1972 and the Rio Summit in 1992 there has been unprecedented public concern for the future of the planet and a growing awareness that development needs to be sustainable. This text charts the growth of these ideas by beginning with a visionary piece written by Barbara Ward in the 1970s and ends with a chapter looking ahead another 30 years into the future. Two generations of thinkers and activists have helped to shape environment and development policy and increase local level power in environmental management. In celebration of their 30th anniversary the IIED's most influential writers provide in this volume a perspective on three decades of development and green debates. | Evidence for Hope The Search for Sustainable Development

GBP 160.00
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Architecture Mentalities and Meaning

Architecture Mentalities and Meaning

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

GBP 42.99
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A Nation In Waiting Indonesia's Search For Stability

A Nation In Waiting Indonesia's Search For Stability

In A Nation in Waiting Adam Schwarz spans a wide variety of issues of concern in today's Indonesia providing a detailed view of one of the world's most populous yet least-understood nations. He chronicles the major economic and political changes recorded during former President Suharto's thirty-one-year tenure and the present economic and political crisis. In this fully updated second edition Schwarz analyzes the impact of Suharto's resignation on the political economic and social life of Indonesia. | A Nation In Waiting Indonesia's Search For Stability

GBP 130.00
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Grammar Meaning and Concepts A Discourse-Based Approach to English Grammar

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

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

GBP 42.99
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Hunger for Connection Finding Meaning in Eating Disorders

Hunger for Connection Finding Meaning in Eating Disorders

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

GBP 18.99
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