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Gambling Losses and Self-Esteem An Interactionist Approach to the Betting Shop

Gambling Losses and Self-Esteem An Interactionist Approach to the Betting Shop

This book provides new insights into contemporary betting shops with a particular focus on the manner in which losing bets are dealt with by customers. Drawing on research undertaken in Ireland it demonstrates that customers tend to shift responsibility for monetary losses onto factors external to themselves as part of a collective process engaged in to restore self-esteem and considers the role played by announcements made in betting shops in creating an atmosphere of inclusion - and the implications of this for ‘problem gambling’. Through an analysis of newspaper representations of the first legally operating betting shops in Ireland which opened in the 1920s the author places the contemporary betting shop in historical context and examines trends in gambling across the British Isles with reference to social class and the security or precarity of work. An interactionist study not only of gambling but also of responsibility and the connection between the micro-world and social structures this volume will appeal to sociologists with interests in symbolic interactionism and strategies of blame. | Gambling Losses and Self-Esteem An Interactionist Approach to the Betting Shop

GBP 38.99
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Pillars of Eternity Champions Edition Steam CD Key

Pillars of Eternity Champions Edition Steam CD Key

Prepare to be enriched by a world where the choices you make and the paths you select the shape your destiny. Obsidian Entertainment, the developer of Fallout: New Vegas™ and South Park: The Stick of Truth™, together with Paradox Interactive is proud to present Pillars of Eternity. Retake the deep sense of exploration, the joy of a pulsating adventure, and the thrill of leading your own band of companions across a new fantasy realm and into the depths of monster-infested dungeons in search of lost treasures and ancient mysteries. So collect your party, venture forth, and embrace journey as you delve into a realm of wonder, nostalgia, and the excitement of old-schoold RPGs with Obsidian’s Pillars of Eternity! FeaturesPlay as any one of six races: Human, Aumaua, Dwarf, Elf, Godlike and Orlan.Use five core skills to overcome any situation: Stealth, Athletics, Lore, Mechanics and Survival.Deep character personalization : Build a character as one of eleven classes such as Barbarian, Chanter, Cipher, Druid, Fighter, Monk, Paladin, Priest, Ranger, Rogue and Wizard.Sculpt your own story: Side with various factions using a reputation system, where your actions and choices have far reaching consequences.Disocver a rich and diverse world: Beautiful pre-rendered environments laced with an engaging story and characters bring the world to life.

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Kennedy Surface Gauge with 9" & 1 2" Pillars

Kennedy Surface Gauge with 9" & 1 2" Pillars

Used for marking out lines parallel to a true edge or groove, and also to mark the centre of round bars. Machined base, two pillars, a double ended scriber and an adjustable attachment for holding scribers up to 1/4 diameter on to the pillar. The base has a machined V-groove for use on pipes and round bar and two frictionally held pins which are used as a guide when sliding along the true edge or groove. The angle of the pillar can be finely adjusted with the use of a knurled thumb screw. Supplied with two pillars. Base dimensions: 80 x 30mm.

GBP 42.99
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The Green Six Sigma Handbook A Complete Guide for Lean Six Sigma Practitioners and Managers

The Green Six Sigma Handbook A Complete Guide for Lean Six Sigma Practitioners and Managers

This book is a hands-on single-source reference of tools techniques and processes integrating both Lean and Six Sigma. This comprehensive handbook provides up-to-date guidance on how to use these tools and processes in different settings such as start-up companies and stalled projects as well as establish enterprises where the ongoing drive is to improve processes profitability and long-term growth. It contains the hard Six Sigma approach as well as the flexible approach of FIT SIGMA which is adaptable to manufacturing and service industries and also public sector organisations. You will also discover how climate change initiatives can be accelerated to sustainable outcomes by the holistic approach of Green Six Sigma. The book is about what we can do now with leadership training and teamwork in every sphere of our businesses. Lean originally developed by Toyota is a set of processes and tools aimed at minimising wastes. Six Sigma provides a set of data-driven techniques to minimise defects and improve processes. Integrating these two approaches provides a comprehensive and proven approach that can transform an organisation. To make change happen we need both digital tools and analog approaches. We know that there has been a continuous push to generate newer approaches to operational excellence such as Total Quality Management Six Sigma Lean Sigma Lean Six Sigma and FIT SIGMA. It is vital that we harness all our tools and resources to regenerate the economy after the Covid-19 pandemic and make climate change initiatives successful for the survival of our planet. Six Sigma and its hybrids (e. g. Lean Six Sigma) should also play a significant part. Over the last three decades operational performance levels of both public sector and private sector organisations improved significantly and Lean Six Sigma has also acted as a powerful change agent. We urgently need an updated version of these tools and approaches. The Green Six Sigma Handbook not only applies appropriate Lean and Six Sigma tools and approaches fitness for the purpose but it aims at sustainable changes. This goal of sustainability is a stable bridge between Lean Six Sigma and climate change initiatives. Hence when the tools and approaches of Lean Six Sigma are focused and adapted primarily to climate change demands we get Green Six Sigma. | The Green Six Sigma Handbook A Complete Guide for Lean Six Sigma Practitioners and Managers

GBP 42.99
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The Politics of Self-Determination Beyond the Decolonisation Process

The Politics of Self-Determination Beyond the Decolonisation Process

Since the formation of the UN in 1945 the international community has witnessed a number of violent self-determination conflicts such as the disintegration of Yugoslavia Chechnya Kashmir and South Sudan that have been a major cause of humanitarian crises and destruction. This book examines the scope and applicability of political self-determination beyond the decolonisation process. Explaining the historical evolution of self-determination this book provides a theoretical examination of the concept and background. Taking an interdisciplinary approach the author analyses self-determination in relation to contemporary conflicts which inform and drive a coherent theoretical framework for international responses to claims for self-determination. Built upon an examination of the conceptual foundations of self-determination this book presents a new understanding and application of self-determination. It addresses the important question of whether self-determination claims legitimate armed violence either by the self-determining group’s right to rebel or by the international community in the form of humanitarian intervention. The Politics of Self-Determination will be of interest to students and scholars of political science international relations security studies and conflict studies. | The Politics of Self-Determination Beyond the Decolonisation Process

GBP 42.99
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Mental Wellbeing and Psychology The Role of Art and History in Self Discovery and Creation

Mental Wellbeing and Psychology The Role of Art and History in Self Discovery and Creation

This book aims to unpack not only the philosophical and psychological need to understand ourselves but also how through an exploration of historical archives and artistic creativity we can build self-identify and self-esteem to improve a sense of wellbeing for ourselves and those for whom we care. It will give examples for developing mental health and wellbeing interventions for charities private care and the NHS and will also offer an evidence base for the use of creativity and historical resources in mental health care. The book gives a practical use for archives particularly as more are being digitalised and becoming widely available. | Mental Wellbeing and Psychology The Role of Art and History in Self Discovery and Creation

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Psychosis Risk and Experience of the Self Understanding the Individual Development of Psychosis as a Basic Self-disturbance

Psychosis Risk and Experience of the Self Understanding the Individual Development of Psychosis as a Basic Self-disturbance

Møller sheds light on the inner aspects of psychosis and psychosis risk and its core experiential phenomena as a method of understanding the individual early psychosis development. The book details how such experiences might take shape in the human mind and how a better understanding achieved through detailed clinical conversations can lead to earlier detection and improved interventions. Møller also outlines the subjectivity model (also called Ipseity Disturbance Model) and presents a broad review of different treatment approaches and settings in which work with disturbed self-experience could be integrated including psychotherapy in-patient milieu therapy supportive treatments psychoeducational family work local networking and medication. Psychosis Risk and Experience of the Self will prove essential for experienced and specialised clinicians as well as the more generally interested reader. | Psychosis Risk and Experience of the Self Understanding the Individual Development of Psychosis as a Basic Self-disturbance

GBP 29.99
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Psychoanalysis and the Birth of the Self A Radical Interdisciplinary Approach

Psychoanalysis and the Birth of the Self A Radical Interdisciplinary Approach

This book draws psychoanalysis out of unsubstantiated hermeneutic speculation and into the science and philosophy of the Self. Mark Leffert offers a survey of where we as human beings come from going back into prehistory and our development as individuals. Psychoanalysis and the Birth of the Self is written to provide psychoanalysts with interdisciplinary information drawn from fields that they may have had little access to. Leffert undertakes a novel integration of topics not frequently discussed together resulting in a radical critique of the theorization of psychoanalysis. The book begins by setting the story with a short analysis of the history of psychoanalysis. A new science has been founded on the recognition of the impossibility of separating evolution from development; it is called Evo-Devo. Applied to the human condition it integrates development with palaeoanthropology and forms the basis for exploring such topics as the neurophilosophy of consciousness the birth of the Self and its neurodevelopment. It includes epigenetics in the conversation. Leffert then takes a radical turn integrating the biological Evo-Devo of the Self with the study of its Existence that is Existentialism and Phenomenology. The integration of these two threads Evo-Devo and Existentialism offers a powerful and unique tool for exploring the Self. The author offers an innovative way of understanding an individual that pulls together their biology their development and the way they choose to exist in the world. It steps outside of the traditional ways of clinically understanding an individual not by abandoning them but rather by powerfully supplementing them. Psychoanalysis and the Birth of the Self offers a novel interdisciplinary braiding of disparate strands of knowledge that will be of interest to psychoanalysts as well as those in the disciplines of neuroscience existentialism and phenomenology and anthropology. | Psychoanalysis and the Birth of the Self A Radical Interdisciplinary Approach

GBP 36.99
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Chinese Urban Transformation A Tale of Six Cities

Chinese Urban Transformation A Tale of Six Cities

Now an established global force China has experienced a sustained period of staggering economic growth since policy reform in the 1970s. Chinese urbanisation is the most significant example of economic environmental and social change both within China and globally. In recent years central government has made a concerted effort to encourage city governments to realign their priorities and achieve a balance between economic efficiency social justice and environmental protection. Chinese Urban Transformation: A Tale of Six Cities is a fascinating exploration of the dramatic development Chinese cities have undergone. Tracing this transformation through a comprehensive analysis of social and economic change in six cities it unravels the complex relationship between policy outlook and role that urban development plays in China’s view of itself including the tensions resulting from rapid social and economic change. | Chinese Urban Transformation A Tale of Six Cities

GBP 42.00
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Person-centred Primary Care Searching for the Self

Person-centred Primary Care Searching for the Self

Primary care grounded in the provision of continuous comprehensive person-centred care is of paramount importance in the delivery of accessible and effective health care around the world. The central notion of person-centred care however relies on often-unexamined concepts of self or understandings of what it means to be a person and an agent. This cutting-edge book explores contemporary pressures on the sense of self for both patient and health professional within a consultation and argues that building new concepts of the self is essential if we are to reinvigorate the central tenets of person-centred primary care. Contemporary trends such as shared decision-making between health professionals and patients and promoting self-management assume those involved are able to make their own decisions and take action. In practice however medicine often opts for reductionist perspectives of patients as passive mechanical systems and diseases as puzzles. At the same time huge political and organisational changes mean time and resources are scarce putting further pressure on consultations. This book discusses how we can start to resolve these tensions. The first part considers problems posed by the increasing bureaucratisation of primary care the impact of information technology in the consultation the effects of chronic disease on our sense of self and how an emphasis on biology over biography leads to over-diagnosis. The second part proposes solutions based on a strong ontology of consciousness concepts of creative capacity coherence and engagement and will show how these can enhance the self-esteem of patients and doctors and benefit their therapeutic dialogue. Combining theoretical perspectives from philosophy sociology and healthcare research with insights drawn from clinical practice this edited volume is suitable for those researching and studying primary healthcare communication and relationships in heal | Person-centred Primary Care Searching for the Self

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The Final FRCR Self-Assessment

The Final FRCR Self-Assessment

This is an SBA question book aimed at the post-graduate radiology market specifically those taking the Fellowship of the Royal College of Radiology (FRCR) part 2 ('final') exams. This is a complementary title to The Final FRCR: Complete Revision Notes which published in 2018. Part 2 of the FRCR is itself composed of two elements. Part 2a is a series of six multiple choice exams covering the major body systems: musculoskeletal & trauma gastrointestinal genitourinary head and neck pediatrics and chest. Part 2b involves a written exam and an oral viva and is typically taken at the beginning of the fourth year of specialty training. Approximately 700-1000 trainees sit the exam each year. The SBAs would also be applicable for those studying for other exams or coming to the UK to sit the UK exams from Asia and the Middle East. Key Features Resource designed for those taking the final FRCR (UK exam) designed to be a complementary product to The Final FRCR: Complete Revision Notes. Templated question format across the six major body systems. Written by recent graduates of the FRCR exams who know how best to approach the topic. Reviewed by senior advisors. | The Final FRCR Self-Assessment

GBP 31.99
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The Self-Regulated Learning Guide Teaching Students to Think in the Language of Strategies

The Self-Regulated Learning Guide Teaching Students to Think in the Language of Strategies

The Self-Regulated Learning Guide introduces K-12 teachers to the basics of self-regulation. Highly practical and supported by cutting-edge research this book offers a variety of techniques for seamlessly infusing self-regulated learning principles into the classroom and for nurturing students’ motivation to strategize reflect and succeed. Featuring clear explanations of the psychology of self-regulation these nine chapters provide teachers with core concepts realistic case scenarios reflection activities and more to apply SRL concepts to classroom activities with confidence. | The Self-Regulated Learning Guide Teaching Students to Think in the Language of Strategies

GBP 31.99
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Epicurus on the Self

Epicurus on the Self

Epicurus on the Self reconstructs a part of Epicurean ethics which only survives on the fragmentary papyrus rolls excavated from an ancient library in Herculaneum On Nature XXV. The aim of this book is to contribute to a deeper understanding of Epicurus’ moral psychology ethics and of its robust epistemological framework. The book also explores how the notion of the self emerges in Epicurus’ struggle to express the individual perspective of oneself in the process of one’s holistic self-reflection as an individual psychophysical being.

GBP 39.99
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Revival: Six Lectures on Painting (1904) Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy of Arts in London January 1904

Revival: Six Lectures on Painting (1904) Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy of Arts in London January 1904

The chapters in this volume were delivered at lectures to students of the Royal Academy of Arts in January 1904 by George Clausen who was at that time Professor of Painting. He approaches the subject a number of ways including specific masters styles methods techniques contexts and composition. The book offers a balanced introduction to the subject and to the modern reader an insightful glimpse at an approach to this evergreen topic as delivered over 100 years ago. | Revival: Six Lectures on Painting (1904) Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy of Arts in London January 1904

GBP 36.99
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Lifestyle and Medicine in the Enlightenment The Six Non-Naturals in the Long Eighteenth Century

Lifestyle and Medicine in the Enlightenment The Six Non-Naturals in the Long Eighteenth Century

The biggest challenges in public health today are often related to attitudes diet and exercise. In many ways this marks a return to the state of medicine in the eighteenth century when ideals of healthy living were a much more central part of the European consciousness than they have become since the advent of modern clinical medicine. Enlightenment advice on healthy lifestyle was often still discussed in terms of the six non-naturals – airs and places food and drink exercise excretion and retention and sleep and emotions. This volume examines what it meant to live healthily in the Enlightenment in the context of those non-naturals showing both the profound continuities from Antiquity and the impact of newer conceptions of the body. Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com/books/e/9780429465642 | Lifestyle and Medicine in the Enlightenment The Six Non-Naturals in the Long Eighteenth Century

GBP 38.99
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Know Thyself The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge

Know Thyself The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge

Know Thyself: The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge takes the reader on tour of the nature value and limits of self-knowledge. Mitchell S. Green calls on classical sources like Plato and Descartes 20th-century thinkers like Freud recent developments in neuroscience and experimental psychology and even Buddhist philosophy to explore topics at the heart of who we are. The result is an unvarnished look at both the achievements and drawbacks of the many attempts to better know one’s own self. Key topics in this volume include: Knowledge – what it means to know the link between wisdom and knowledge and the value of living an examined life Personal identity – questions of dualism (the idea that our mind is not only our brain) bodily continuity and personhood The unconscious — including the kind posited by psychoanalysis as well as the form proposed by recent research on the so-called adaptive unconscious Free will – if we have it and the recent arguments from neuroscience challenging it Self-misleading – the ways we willfully deceive ourselves and how this relates to empathy peer disagreement implicit bias and intellectual humility Experimental psychology – considerations on the automaticity of emotion and other cognitive processes and how they shape us This book is designed to be used in conjunction with the free ‘Know Thyself’ MOOC (massive open online course) created through collaboration of the University of Connecticut's Project on Humility and Conviction in Public Life and the University of Edinburgh’s Eidyn research centre and hosted on the Coursera platform (https://www. coursera. org/learn/know-thyself). The book is also suitable as a text for interdisciplinary courses in the philosophy of mind or self-knowledge and is highly recommended for anyone looking for a short overview of this fascinating topic. | Know Thyself The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge

GBP 19.99
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Transactional Analysis of Schizophrenia The Naked Self

Transactional Analysis of Schizophrenia The Naked Self

In Transactional Analysis of Schizophrenia: The Naked Self Zefiro Mellacqua presents a full assessment of the relevance and value of transactional analysis in understanding conceptualizing and treating schizophrenia in contemporary clinical settings. Opening with a review of Eric Berne’s ideas Mellacqua applies theory to the understanding and psychotherapeutic treatment of people suffering from first-episode schizophrenia and to those already living with more long-lasting psychotic levels of self-disturbance. The chapters address a series of crucial methodological themes including the need for both intensive and extensive analytic sessions; the therapist’s tolerance of uncertainty and not knowing; the informative quality of both therapist’s and patient’s embodiment(s); the emergence of the transference-countertransference relationship; the link between silent transactions and unconscious communication; dream analysis; and the value of regular supervisions. Mellacqua’s approach incorporates meetings with family and caregivers as well as emphasising multidisciplinary work with patients in a variety of settings such as in hospitals outpatient clinics and psychiatric home treatment. The book is illustrated with engaging clinical case studies throughout which illuminate the schizophrenic experience and provide examples of how these tools can be used to help patients. Transactional Analysis of Schizophrenia demonstrates how those who suffer from acute schizophrenia especially those at their very first episode of psychosis can make an effective recovery and live a satisfying life through the therapeutic application of transactional analysis. It will be essential reading for transactional analysts psychodynamically oriented psychotherapists psychologists psychiatrists nurses social workers academics and all mental health professionals working with people suffering from schizophrenic psychoses. See the below link for an interview about the book with Gianpiero Petriglieri and series editor William F. Cornell: https://vimeo. com/499800269 | Transactional Analysis of Schizophrenia The Naked Self

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The Organisation and Impact of Social Research Six Original Case Studies in Education and Behavioural Sciences

The Organisation and Impact of Social Research Six Original Case Studies in Education and Behavioural Sciences

Originally published in 1976 the authors of six of the most widely quoted works in behavioural science related to education at the time here describe in detail their research work including its origins planning and implementation. The accounts are unusual not only for their technical detail but for their candour. The brief was to put the heart and brains back into accounts of research so the authors comment not only on the research design but on the personal and professional problems they had to overcome. They also reflect on the reception of their work and the way in which it has been adapted misunderstood or deliberately distorted to support arguments of widely differing ideological pressure groups. The book shows how ingenuity and persistence as well as technical competence lie at the heart of the research process. The authors do not give the normal depersonalised streamlined account which gives a false mechanical picture of research as an occupation but show it to be a profound personal and professional experience as they comment on the thought that lay behind their work and the way it was finally produced for publication. Dr Shipman has written a short introduction to each chapter and contributed a concluding chapter relating the six research experiences to conventional views on the research process and to the part played by research evidence in policy making. | The Organisation and Impact of Social Research Six Original Case Studies in Education and Behavioural Sciences

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The Secret to Maximizing Profitability A Business Novel on How to Successfully Combine The Theory of Constraints Lean and Six Sigma to Dri

The Secret to Maximizing Profitability A Business Novel on How to Successfully Combine The Theory of Constraints Lean and Six Sigma to Dri

This book fully details as the title suggests the real secret to maximizing an organization's profitability. While many companies have implemented improvement initiatives such as Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing there is a missing link which when discovered and implemented will take these same companies to profit levels not seen before. This missing link is the Theory of Constraints and when it’s combined with Lean and Six Sigma true transformational improvements are sure to follow. In this book the author walks you through the step-by-step method on how to combine these three methodologies with the result being significant improvements to flow major improvements in variation substantial reductions in waste superior on-time delivery and ultimately maximized profitability. He has been using this integrated methodology for many years and each time the results realized were well beyond what the leadership teams had experienced previously. The genesis behind this combined improvement cycle is based upon many years of analysis of both failures and successes using Lean Six Sigma and the Theory of Constraints as stand-alone improvement initiatives. By integrating Lean Six Sigma and the Theory of Constraints into a single improvement cycle the author has developed a recipe that will maximize your return on investment cash flow and net profit. The Secret to Maximizing Profitability is both stimulating and thought provoking but more importantly it will provide your organization with a roadmap for maximizing the use of your resources to achieve more bottom-line improvement than you ever imagined possible. | The Secret to Maximizing Profitability A Business Novel on How to Successfully Combine The Theory of Constraints Lean and Six Sigma to Dri

GBP 27.99
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Psychodynamic Self Psychology in the Treatment of Anorexia and Bulimia

Psychodynamic Self Psychology in the Treatment of Anorexia and Bulimia

This book presents an implementation of psychodynamic self psychology in the treatment of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa using a theoretical and therapeutic approach to examine the way that patients turn to food consumption or avoidance in order to supply needs they do not believe can be provided by human beings. The book starts with an overview of self psychology presenting both the theory of self psychology and its specific application for the etiology and treatment of eating disorders. Featuring contributions from eating disorder professionals the book then integrates this theory with 16 compelling case studies to explore how the eating-disordered patient is scared to take up space in a society that encourages precisely that. Professionals in the field of psychotherapy for eating disorders as well as the entire community of psychotherapists will benefit from the empirical capability of the theory to predict the development as well as remission from eating disorders. | Psychodynamic Self Psychology in the Treatment of Anorexia and Bulimia

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Six Simple Twists The Pleat Pattern Approach to Origami Tessellation Design

Six Simple Twists The Pleat Pattern Approach to Origami Tessellation Design

This new edition of Six Simple Twists: The Pleat Pattern Approach to Origami Tessellation Design introduces an innovative pleat pattern technique for origami designs that is easily accessible to anyone who enjoys the geometry of paper. The book begins with six basic forms meant to ease the reader into the style and then systematically scaffolds the instructions to build a strong understanding of the techniques leading to instructions on a limitless number of patterns. It then describes a process of designing additional building blocks. At the end what emerges is a fascinating artform that will enrich folders for many years. Unlike standard project-based origami books Six Simple Twists focuses on how to design rather than construct. In this thoroughly updated second edition the book explores new techniques and example tessellations with full-page images and mathematical analysis of the patterns. A reader will through practice gain the ability to create still more complex and fascinating designs. Key Features Introduces the reader to origami tessellations and demonstrates their place in the origami community New layout and instructional approach restructure the book from the ground up Addresses common tessellation questions such as what types of paper are best to use and how this artform rose in popularity Teaches the reader how to grid a sheet of paper and the importance of the pre-creases Gives the reader the ability to create and understand tessellations through scaffolded instruction Includes exercises to test understanding Introduces a new notation system for precisely describing pleat intersections Analyzes pleat intersections mathematically using geometrically-focused models including information about Brocard points | Six Simple Twists The Pleat Pattern Approach to Origami Tessellation Design

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The New Midlife Self-Writing

The New Midlife Self-Writing

In The New Midlife Self-Writing Wittman treats recent self-writing by Rachel Cusk Roxane Gay Sarah Manguso and Maggie Nelson carefully situating these vital midlife works within the history of self-writing. She argues that they renew and redirect the autobiographical trajectories characteristic of earlier self-writing by switching their orientation to face the future and by celebrating midlife as a growing season a time of Bildung. In each chapter writer-by-writer she demonstrates how the midlife self-writers in question trace confident and future-oriented paths through the past rejecting triumphalism and complicating both identity and individualism just as they refine and redefine genres. Exploring these midlife self-writers as chroniclers of Generation X’s midlife in particular Wittman coins the term digital absence to map their unique relationship to new forms of knowledge and knowledge gathering in an Information Age that they are both of and set apart from. She theorizes that their works share a pedagogical style a style characterized by clarity exposition and classical rhetoric as well as a concern with the classroom offering a warrant for reading them in pedagogical terms in concert with traditional scholarly approaches. Furthermore Wittman presents readers with a look ahead at the future of midlife self-writing as well as self-writing overall concluding that we might be looking at the scholarship of the future.

GBP 18.99
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Mythologies of Internal Exile in Elizabethan Verse Six Studies

Mythologies of Internal Exile in Elizabethan Verse Six Studies

Writers of the English Renaissance like their European contemporaries frequently reflect on the phenomenon of exile—an experience that forces the individual to establish a new personal identity in an alien environment. Although there has been much commentary on this phenomenon as represented in English Renaissance literature there has been nothing written at length about its counterpart namely internal exile: marginalization or estrangement within the homeland. This volume considers internal exile as a simultaneously twofold experience. It studies estrangement from one’s society and correlatively from one’s normative sense of self. In doing so it focuses initially on the sonnet sequences by Sidney Spenser and Shakespeare (which is to say the problematics of romance); then it examines the verse satires of Donne Hall and Marston (likewise the problematics of anti-romance). This book argues that the authors of these major texts create mythologies—via the myths of (and accumulated mythographies about) Cupid satyrs and Proteus—through which to reflect on the doubleness of exile within one’s own community. These mythologies at times accompanied by theologies of alienation suggest that internal exile is a fluid and complex experience demanding multifarious reinterpretation of the incongruously expatriate self. The monograph thus establishes a new framework for understanding texts at once diverse yet central to the Elizabethan literary achievement. | Mythologies of Internal Exile in Elizabethan Verse Six Studies

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The Distribution of the Product

The Distribution of the Product

Originally published in 1979 the purpose of this book is to introduce a theory of the distribution of national income between wages profits and other categories of income. The relation between this branch of distribution theory and other areas of economics is explained in the Introduction. The first six chapters are designed to introduce distribution theory to students of intermediate economic principles. The reader should be familiar with the basic analysis of supply demand and market equilibrium and with the use of indifference curves to represent a consumer’s preferences. The remaining seven chapters discuss developments of the theory introduced in the first six. | The Distribution of the Product

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Histories of the Self Personal Narratives and Historical Practice

Histories of the Self Personal Narratives and Historical Practice

Histories of the Self interrogates historians’ work with personal narratives. It introduces students and researchers to scholarly approaches to diaries letters oral history and memoirs as sources that give access to intimate aspects of the past. Historians are interested as never before in how people thought and felt about their lives. This turn to the personal has focused attention on the capacity of subjective records to illuminate both individual experiences and the wider world within which narrators lived. However sources such as letters diaries memoirs and oral history have been the subject of intense debate over the last forty years concerning both their value and the uses to which they can be put. This book traces the engagement of historians of the personal with notions of historical reliability and with the issue of representativeness and it explores the ways in which they have overcome the scepticism of earlier practitioners. It celebrates their adventures with the meanings of the past buried in personal narratives and applauds their transformation of historical practice. Supported by case studies from across the globe and spanning the fifteenth to twenty-first centuries Histories of the Self is essential reading for students and researchers interested in the ways personal testimony has been and can be used by historians. | Histories of the Self Personal Narratives and Historical Practice

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