Marianne: 1163 books
by Lorraine Radford, Marianne Hester
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2006
Research into children and domestic violence in recent years has emphasized the importance of giving positive support to a non-abusive parent for effective child protection. But what exactly does positive support involve?
Based on findings from six primary research studies carried out by the...
Finding the Body in the Mind
Embodied Memories, Trauma, and Depression
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Since the 1990s many different scientific disciplines have intensified their interest in the so called 'mind-body-problem': psychoanalysis, philosophy, academic psychology, cognitive science and modern neuroscience. The conceptualization of how the mind works has changed completely, and this has profound...
by Paul Green, Padmaprabha Dalby, Harriet Mowat
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Positive shifts in attitudes mean that emphasis is now being placed on the person with dementia and their personal relationships, rather than the illness. There is also growing recognition of the significance of a person's spiritual life in forming an essential basis for their sense of identity, and...
Forced Marriage
Introducing a Social Justice and Human Rights Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Forced Marriage: Introducing a social justice and human rights perspective brings together leading practitioners and researchers from the disciplines of criminology, sociology and law. Together the contributors provide an international, multi-disciplinary perspective that offers a compelling alternative...
Dragonflight
In Search of Britain's Dragonflies and Damselflies
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
This book is an account of two years spent getting to know Britain's most dazzling and enigmatic insects - the dragonflies and damselflies. The quest to find, photograph, watch and learn about dragons and damsels took the author on a tour of diverse and lovely wetlands up and down Britain, from the...
by Harold D. Clarke, Peter Kellner, Marianne Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
This is a comprehensive study of the 2015 general election in Britain designed not only for students and scholars of British politics, but also for the interested reader. It looks at the record of the Coalition government both in terms of its plans and performance, particularly in relation to the...
Slaying the Nuclear Dragon
Disarmament Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
In recent decades the debate on nuclear weapons has focused overwhelmingly on proliferation and nonproliferation dynamics. In a series of Wall Street Journal articles, however, George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger, and Sam Nunn called on governments to rid the world of nuclear weapons, helping...
Frontier Grit
The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
These are the stories of twelve women who "heard the call" to settle the west and who came from all points of the globe to begin their journey: the East Coast, Europe, and as far away as New Zealand. They endured unimaginable hardships just to get to their destination and then the next phase of the...
Women, Work and the Victorian Periodical
Living by the Press
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Covering a wide range of magazine work, including editing, illustration, poetry, needlework instruction and typesetting, this book provides fresh insights into the participation of women in the nineteenth-century magazine industry.
by Professor Marianne Novy
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Are Shakespeare's plays dramatizations of patriarchy or representations of assertive and eloquent women? Or are they sometimes both? And is it relevant, and if so how, that his women were first played by boys? This book shows how many kinds of feminist theory help analyze the dynamics of Shakespeare's...
Rethinking Sympathy and Human Contact in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Hawthorne, Douglass, Stowe, Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
In accessible and impassioned discussions of literature and philosophy, this book reveals a surprising approach to the intractable problem of human contact. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Emily Dickinson rethought the nature of human contact, turning away from...
by Marianne S. Haynes
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
It's important for you to have good lunches in your vegetarian diet. You need to eat some good stuff in the middle of the day so you'll feel energetic and less likely to wear out and develop lethargy. The problem with preparing lunch is that you clearly don't have time to get it ready. That's where this...
Grey Matters
A Guide for Collaborative Research with Seniors
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
This study marks a major step in making collaboration between seniors, academic researchers, and community researchers a reality. Many aging adults are motivated to undertake research projects in later life or even return to university after retirement. Grey Matters is the result of a pilot project...
Erasing the Invisible Hand
Essays on an Elusive and Misused Concept in Economics
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
This book examines the use, principally in economics, of the concept of the invisible hand, centering on Adam Smith. It interprets the concept as ideology, knowledge, and a linguistic phenomenon. It shows how the principal Chicago School interpretation misperceives and distorts what Smith believed...