Taylor Francis imprint: 366 books
by Jay L. Lemke
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2005
Texts record the meanings we make: in words, pictures and deeds, and politics chronicles our uses of power in shaping social relationships large and small. Textual politics is about meaning - the meaning we make with words and with the symbolic values of every object and action.; The book begins with...
Facing Death: Images, Insights, and Interventions
A Handbook For Educators, Healthcare Professionals, And Counselors
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Facing Death is a unique handbook for educators, healthcare professionals and counselors. It uses materials from the visual arts, excerpts from poetry, fiction, drama, and examples from popular culture to sensitize the reader to important, universal issues confronting the dying, and those responsible for their care.
Masons, Tricksters and Cartographers
Comparative Studies in the Sociology of Scientific and Indigenous Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
In an eclectic and highly original study, Turnbull brings together traditions as diverse as cathedral building, Micronesian navigation, cartography and turbulence research. He argues that all our differing ways of producing knowledge - including science - are messy, spatial and local. Every culture...
Feminist Academics
Creative Agents For Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
This text brings together leading feminists who explore questions of feminist interventions in organisations of knowledge production, covering both the structure and culture of academic institutions and the social divisions between women. Feminism is located as a force for change, empowering women...
The Dynamics Of Race And Gender
Some Feminist Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
During the past decade, feminism and women's studies have been forced to acknowledge the diversities of women's experiences, as well as the patriarchal oppression that they share. The emphasis on difference has shattered the illusion of homogeneity and sisterhood which previously characterized white,...
Housing Design Quality
Through Policy, Guidance and Review
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
This book directly addresses the major planning debate of our time - the delivery and quality of new housing development. As pressure for new housing development in England increases, a widespread desire to improve the design of the resulting residential environments becomes evermore apparent with...
The Idea of Building
Thought and Action in the Design and Production of Buildings
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
This book is unique in its attempt to explore the many ways we have of thinking about buildings. In particular it raises questions about the kinds of knowledge we have and will need in designing, making and enjoying our buildings. At the very least this book provides an overview of the fragmented...
The Real Facts Of Life
Feminism And The Politics Of Sexuality C1850-1940
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
During the last twenty years feminist research into the history of sexuality has made important contributions to the theoretical understanding of the relationship between sexuality and male power. When sexology became established as a science, feminists had for many years been engaged in a struggle...
Building Mycology
Management of Decay and Health in Buildings
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2006
Biodeterioration is the most common problem of mankind and its record can be traced back to biblical times or probably earlier. Building Mycology deals with the study of fungi in and around the building environment, having direct and indirect effect on the health of the building, its materials, structures and occupants.
Bereavement and Support
Healing in a Group Environment
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
In the early 1970s bereavement support groups were almost unknown. However, the obvious benefits of the group process for recovery - the mutual support and understanding that helps mourners to a better outlook - has created a demand for people who can organise and facilitate these groups.
Addressing...
by Sara Breinlinger, Caroline Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
In recent years there has been a growth of single-issue campaigns in western democracies and a proliferation of groups attempting to exert political influence and achieve social change. In this context, it is important to consider why individuals do or don't get involved in collective action, for...
Molecularizing Biology and Medicine
New Practices and Alliances, 1920s to 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
The contributors present a coherent set of case studies of practices, technologies and strategies aimed at the isolation, investigation, manipulation, production, and uses of molecules including vitamins, hormones, blood products, antibiotics, and vaccines. These case studies examine how processes...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2006
The latest volume in this popular series of books which explores the theoretical basis for temporary and transportable structures where permanence is either not possible or desirable. The book provides insight into the wide range of uses of these structures, the varied forms they take and the concerns...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Transportable Environments explores aspects of the historical and theoretical basis for portable architecture and provides an insight into the wide range of functions that it is used for today, the varied forms that it takes and the concerns and ideas for its future development. Written by a team...