Gillian Hutchinson's Books

Producing Women's Poetry, 1600-1730

Text and Paratext, Manuscript and Print

By: Gillian Wright

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Producing Women's Poetry, 1600-1730

Text and Paratext, Manuscript and Print

By: Gillian Wright

Gillian Wright combines literary and bibliographical approaches to examine the work of five English women poets in the period 1600-1730.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

285

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1107037921

ISBN 13

9781107037922

Thomas Coram, Gent., 1668-1751

By: Gillian Wagner

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Thomas Coram, Gent., 1668-1751

By: Gillian Wagner

Thomas Coram is forever identified with the foundling hospital he established in 1739. This, however, came near the end of his life: previous records seemed few and far between until Gillian Wagner began to look at the scarce but intriguing evidence for his earlier career. As a young man Coram went to Massachusetts, where he stayed for ten years building ships in Boston and Taunton, working to further the spread of Anglicanism. He returned to England disappointed and heavily in debt. Surviving this early setback, he slowly secured for himself a place within English society through his championing of further settlements to exploit America's natural resources, and his characteristic support for radical causes. A strong believer in women's rights and equal opportunities for girls, he believed that it was due to the unique support of a group of aristocratic women - twenty-one ladies of quality and distinction - that he was granted a royal charter for his foundling hospital. Within two years of the establishment of the hospital, Coram fell out with the governors and was ejected from the governing body. His last years were clouded by disagreements and poverty, but a pension, granted in 1749, finally signalled recognition of his achievements. He died in 1751 and was buried in the chapel of his hospital. GILLIAN WAGNER was the first woman to chair the Thomas Coram Foundation, successor to the foundling Hospital (now Coram Family), and Barnardo's - whose founder's biography she has also written. Her other books include Children of the Empire, the story of children sent to live and work in Canada and Australia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She has had a long and noteworthy involvement with the voluntary sector (in particular, chairing the influential review into residential care, 'A Positive Choice'), and was created a Dame in 1994.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

246

Publisher

Boydell & Brewer

Published Date

ISBN 10

1843830574

ISBN 13

9781843830573

A Bibliography of Industrial Relations

By: G. S. Bain,Gillian B. Woolven,G. B. Woolven

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Bibliography of Industrial Relations

By: G. S. Bain,Gillian B. Woolven,G. B. Woolven

Reference book comprising a bibliography aiming to bring together secondary source interdisciplinary material on labour relations in the UK between the years 1880 and 1970 - covers employees attitudes, trade unions and employees associations, employers organizations, the labour market and working conditions, etc.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

700

Publisher

CUP Archive

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521215471

ISBN 13

9780521215473

Art and the Historical Film

Between Realism and the Sublime

By: Gillian McIver

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Art and the Historical Film

Between Realism and the Sublime

By: Gillian McIver

Art and the Historical Film provides an important examination of fine art's impact on filmmaking, grappling with the question of authenticity. From Eugene Delacroix's interpretation of the 1830 French revolution to Uli Edel's version of the Baader-Meinhof Gang, artistic representations of historical subjects are appealing and pervasive. Movies often adapt imagery from art history, including paintings of historical events. Films and art shape the past for us and continue to affect our interpretation of history. While historical films are often argued over for their adherence to "the facts," their real problem is realism: how can the past be convincingly depicted? Realism in the historical film genre is often nourished and given credibility by its use of painterly references. This book examines how art-historical images affect historical films by going beyond period detail and surface design to look at how profound ideas about history are communicated through pictures. Art and the Historical Film: Between Realism and the Sublime is based on case studies that explore the links between art and cinema, including American independent Western Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 2010), British heritage film Belle (Amma Asante, 2013), and Dutch national epic Admiral (Roel Reiné, 2014). The chapters create immersive worlds that communicate distinct ideas about the past through cinematography, production design, and direction, as the films adapt, reference, and transpose paintings by artists such as Rubens, Albert Bierstadt, and Jacques-Louis David.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

277

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

1501384740

ISBN 13

9781501384745

Foundation Studies for Caring

Using Student-Centred Learning

By: Edward Alan Glasper,Gillian McEwing,John E. Richardson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Foundation Studies for Caring

Using Student-Centred Learning

By: Edward Alan Glasper,Gillian McEwing,John E. Richardson

Supported by a companion skills volume and website, Foundation Studies for Caring is a comprehensive introductory text for all health professionals, which maps directly on to the key skills framework. Taking a student-centred learning and interprofessional approach, it is the most inclusive and engaging theory text in the market.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

763

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1137162023

ISBN 13

9781137162021

Words in Common

Essays on Language, Culture and Society

By: Gillian Thomas

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Words in Common

Essays on Language, Culture and Society

By: Gillian Thomas

This text is aimed at English composition courses at university and community college. This Canadian theme-based reader for introductory composition is structured around two very current topics: language and culture. The text features topics all students have experience with and are aimed at generating debate and discussion. Issues range from questions of personal freedom to the pace of technological change, from self-expression to the social construction of institutions, to name a few. With its combination of Canadian content and focus on language and culture, Words in Common offers a unique approach to developing critical thinking, reading, and writing skills for introductory composition.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

420

Publisher

Don Mills, Ont. : Addison-Wesley

Published Date

ISBN 10

0201613743

ISBN 13

9780201613742

Sebald's Jews

The Jew as Trope in the Narrative Fiction of W. G. Sebald

By: Gillian Selikowitz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Sebald's Jews

The Jew as Trope in the Narrative Fiction of W. G. Sebald

By: Gillian Selikowitz

This first sustained exploration of Sebald's engagement with Jews and Jewishness challenges his position as German "speaker of the Holocaust" by revealing that, despite his intentions, his figural treatment of Jewish characters perpetuates harmful stereotypes. German writer W.G. Sebald (1944-2001) has been hailed, together with Primo Levi, as the "prime speaker of the Holocaust," a breathtaking claim that casts Levi, survivor of Auschwitz, and Sebald, progeny of the German perpetrator generation, in an unlikely pairing that confirms Sebald's status as the preeminent German writer concerned with the Jewish experience in recent history. Recipient of a Koret Jewish Book Award for his "extraordinary evocation of the last century's greatest trauma," Sebald has been widely valorized for restoring individuality to the Jewish victims he portrays. Sebald's Jews challenges Sebald's position as the moral conscience of a nation struggling to repair the German-Jewish relationship. It argues that despite the varied and quasi-documentary life stories of the Jews who people his narrative prose, and despite his intentions, Sebald's elaborate figural writing fashions Jewish characters as tropes for the conflicts that troubled his generation, allegories that vitiate Jewish individuality and evoke age-old and malign Jewish stereotypes. The book provides new insights into Sebald's ambiguous engagement with Jewishness by revising the notion that he restores individuality to Jewish lives and avoids the generalized treatment of Jews he excoriated in the writing of his German peers. The study reflects a shift in Sebald research that reassesses his revered position by examining controversial aspects of his oeuvre. It provides a much-needed broadening of Sebald scholarship"--

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

239

Publisher

Boydell & Brewer

Published Date

ISBN 10

1640141820

ISBN 13

9781640141827

Translating Children's Literature

By: Gillian Lathey

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Translating Children's Literature

By: Gillian Lathey

Translating Children’s Literature is an exploration of the many developmental and linguistic issues related to writing and translating for children, an audience that spans a period of enormous intellectual progress and affective change from birth to adolescence. Lathey looks at a broad range of children’s literature, from prose fiction to poetry and picture books. Each of the seven chapters addresses a different aspect of translation for children, covering: · Narrative style and the challenges of translating the child’s voice; · The translation of cultural markers for young readers; · Translation of the modern picture book; · Dialogue, dialect and street language in modern children’s literature; · Read-aloud qualities, wordplay, onomatopoeia and the translation of children’s poetry; · Retranslation, retelling and reworking; · The role of translation for children within the global publishing and translation industries. This is the first practical guide to address all aspects of translating children’s literature, featuring extracts from commentaries and interviews with published translators of children’s literature, as well as examples and case studies across a range of languages and texts. Each chapter includes a set of questions and exercises for students. Translating Children’s Literature is essential reading for professional translators, researchers and students on courses in translation studies or children’s literature.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

177

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317621301

ISBN 13

9781317621300

Disputed Ground

Robin Hyde, Journalist

By: Robin Hyde,Gillian Boddy,Jacqueline D. Matthews

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Disputed Ground

Robin Hyde, Journalist

By: Robin Hyde,Gillian Boddy,Jacqueline D. Matthews

... This book brings together for the first time the best of Hyde's journalism. Alongside extracts from the now out of print Journalese (1934) are previously uncollected articles and reviews from newspapers and magazines, ranging in subject matter from the Treaty of Waitangi to the Spanish Civil War, from China in the thirties to the Queen Street Riots. These detailed and vivid accounts of aspects of New Zealand society and the international situation have an urgency with makes them relevant to us all.The biographical introduction offers a fuller picture than we have had of this remarkable writer, drawing on interviews, letters and the work itself." -- Back cover.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

428

Publisher

Victoria University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

086473204X

ISBN 13

9780864732040

Falling for Rome

By: Gillian Archer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Falling for Rome

By: Gillian Archer

Hollywood's hottest actor is off the market! Who's the mystery woman that caught his eye…and his heart? Rome: My brother's whole world imploded this week, and the media coverage is relentless. My assistant has come up with the perfect plan to take the attention off him and put it on me. Who doesn't love a love story? Now let's see if what's-her-name wants to make some money and industry connections. It's a win-win. Sophia: The whole world knows who the Grier brothers are. The sexy Hollywood actors are on every woman's wish list—and if I'm honest, mine too. But then I met Roman Grier and totally embarrassed myself. At least I'll never see him again. Only now he's pursuing me. Well, kinda. He is promising me the world. Literally. I've always wanted to be a screenwriter, and he's got the connections to get me through the door—if I pretend to date him and lie to everyone. It's only a few months, and it's not like I'm going to fall for Roman Grier for real…

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

161

Publisher

Gillian Archer

Published Date

ISBN 13

9798201893620

Law and Parenthood

By: Chris Barton,Gillian Douglas

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Law and Parenthood

By: Chris Barton,Gillian Douglas

In recent years, child law has increased in prominence, not only in the public eye and the courts, but also as a study option as a result of modularisation. This book discusses the substantive law, the procedural law, and all the main issues which are commonly raised in both undergraduate and postgraduate courses on the subject. With the implementation of the Children Act 1989 and the Child Support Act 1991, family law practitioners will also have much to gain from this text, as they find themselves increasingly specialising in child care law and private child law. The primary concern of family law tends to be the role and function of parents. This book addresses the key issues of parental rights and responsibilities: a vital approach lacking in most academic law books which instead look at the parent-child relationship from the position of the child. Barton and Douglas: Law and Parenthood pioneers the study of child law in context by examining the legal concepts of parentage and parenting within their historical, philosophical and sociological perspectives. Special attention is also given to the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted at the United Nations in 1989, as it exemplifies the increasing pressure of international obligations upon states to acknowledge the rights of both parents and children.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

503

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521613523

ISBN 13

9780521613521

Primal Religion and the Bible

William Robertson Smith and His Heritage

By: Gillian M. Bediako

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Primal Religion and the Bible

William Robertson Smith and His Heritage

By: Gillian M. Bediako

This important study of the published and unpublished writings of Scotland's most brilliant and controversial nineteenth-century theologian focuses on his concern to situate biblical religion within the context of the primal religions of Israel's neighbours. The book explores the implications of the relationship between the Christian faith and primal religion. Robertson Smith has still a contribution to make to contemporary discussion of the phenomenology of the Christian faith and Christian responses to religious pluralism.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

418

Publisher

A&C Black

Published Date

ISBN 10

1850756724

ISBN 13

9781850756729

The Correspondence between Peter the Venerable and Bernard of Clairvaux

A Semantic and Structural Analysis

By: Gillian R. Knight

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Correspondence between Peter the Venerable and Bernard of Clairvaux

A Semantic and Structural Analysis

By: Gillian R. Knight

Starting from the premise of the letter as literary artefact, with a potential for ambiguity, irony and textual allusion, this innovative analysis of the correspondence between the Cluniac abbot, Peter the Venerable, and the future saint, Bernard of Clairvaux, challenges the traditional use of these letters as a source for historical and (auto)biographical reconstruction. Applying techniques drawn from modern theories of epistolarity and contemporary literary criticism to letters treated as whole constructs, Knight demonstrates the presence of a range of manipulative strategies and argues for the consequent production of a significant degree of fictionalisation. She traces the emergence of an epistolarly sequence which forms a kind of extended narrative, drawing its authority from Augustine and Jerome, and rooted in classical rhetoric. The work raises important implications both for the study of relations between Cluniacs and Cistercians in the first half of the 12th century and for the approach to letter-writing as a whole.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

516

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1351892304

ISBN 13

9781351892308

Bodies

Sex, Violence, Disease, and Death in Contemporary Legend

By: Gillian Bennett

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Bodies

Sex, Violence, Disease, and Death in Contemporary Legend

By: Gillian Bennett

Because they are so often told as news, contemporary legends force us to reevaluate life as we know it. They confront us with macabre, fantastic, horrific, or hilarious characters and events that seem to come straight out of myths and folktales, but are presented as present day events. The difficulty is that it is not at all easy to decide whether these often disturbing stories should be treated as reliable or dismissed as fantasy. The legends explored in this book are some of the most bizarre, gruesome, and politically sensitive stories in the contemporary legend canon. At any moment a body may be invaded by noxious creatures, deliberately infected with deadly disease, or raided to provide donor organs for sick foreigners. These are "winter's tales," the stuff of nightmares. In this book Gillian Bennett traces the cultural history of six legends, well-known in Europe and America from medieval times to the present day. Appearing in broadsides, ballads, myths, ancient and modern legends, novels, plays, films, television shows, and stories told in the oral tradition, these legends are not just silly tales which can be dismissed as trivial and untrue. They reveal much about the concerns and fears of everyday life and demonstrate the limits of knowledge and power in the modern world.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

340

Publisher

Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published Date

ISBN 10

1628467657

ISBN 13

9781628467659

Electronic Theft

Unlawful Acquisition in Cyberspace

By: Peter Grabosky,Russell G. Smith,Gillian Dempsey

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Electronic Theft

Unlawful Acquisition in Cyberspace

By: Peter Grabosky,Russell G. Smith,Gillian Dempsey

When this book was first published in 2001, the convergence of communications and computing had begun to transform Western industrial societies. Increasing connectivity was accompanied by unprecedented opportunities for crimes of acquisition. The fundamental principle of criminology is that crime follows opportunity, and opportunities for theft abound in the digital age. Electronic Theft named, described and analysed the range of electronic and digital theft, and constituted the first major survey of the field. The authors covered a broad list of electronic misdemeanours, including extortion, defrauding governments, telephone fraud, securities fraud, deceptive advertising and other business practices, industrial espionage, intellectual property crimes, and the misappropriation and unauthorised use of personal information. They were able to capture impressively large amounts of data internationally from both scholarly and professional sources. The book posed and attempted to answer some of the pressing questions to do with national sovereignty and enforceability of laws in 2001.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

254

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

052180597X

ISBN 13

9780521805971

Disabling Policies?

A Comparative Approach to Education Policy and Disability

By: Gillian Fulcher

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Disabling Policies?

A Comparative Approach to Education Policy and Disability

By: Gillian Fulcher

First published in 1989, this book is about integrating or mainstreaming policies, looking specifically at how to improve circumstances for schoolchildren with disabilities or handicaps, and their teachers. The author draws on her experiences, both within and outside the academic institution, to conceptualise and theorise policy, so as to place this policy in a political framework and locate it in a wider model of social life. This model is then used to disentangle the nature and effects of policy practices surrounding integration and mainstreaming, looking at practice in various parts of Europe, the US and Australia, at that time. Although written at the end of the 1980s, this book discusses topics that are still relevant today.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

305

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317360559

ISBN 13

9781317360551

Visual Methodologies

An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials

By: Gillian Rose

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Visual Methodologies

An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials

By: Gillian Rose

Now in its Fourth Edition, Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials is a bestselling critical guide to the study and analysis of visual culture. Existing chapters have been fully updated to offer a rigorous examination and demonstration of an individual methodology in a clear and structured style. Reflecting changes in the way society consumes and creates its visual content, new features include: Brand new chapters dealing with social media platforms, the development of digital methods and the modern circulation and audiencing of research images More ′Focus′ features covering interactive documentaries, digital story-telling and participant mapping A Companion Website featuring links to useful further resources relating to each chapter. A now classic text, Visual Methodologies appeals to undergraduates, graduates, researchers and academics across the social sciences and humanities who are looking to get to grips with the complex debates and ideas in visual analysis and interpretation.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

457

Publisher

SAGE

Published Date

ISBN 10

1473967910

ISBN 13

9781473967915

Pioneering Women

Riddel Hall and Queen's University Belfast

By: Gillian McClelland,Diana Hadden

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Pioneering Women

Riddel Hall and Queen's University Belfast

By: Gillian McClelland,Diana Hadden

Few topics have produced more heroines than the struggle of women for their right to education. Amongst the pioneers of third-level education for women in the north of Ireland were Eliza and Isabella Riddel. Never themselves having had the opportunity of university education, in 1913 they founded Riddel Hall for women students.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

248

Publisher

Ulster Historical Foundation

Published Date

ISBN 10

1903688574

ISBN 13

9781903688571

Parents as Care Managers

The Experiences of Those Caring for Young Children with Cerebral Palsy

By: Gillian Bridge

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Parents as Care Managers

The Experiences of Those Caring for Young Children with Cerebral Palsy

By: Gillian Bridge

First published in 1999, this volume examines the inclusion of disabled children as a category of children in need under the Children Act 1989 and as eligible for assessments of need under the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 has drawn renewed attention to the plight of these children and their families. This book presents the findings from a study of parents whose child has cerebral palsy. The research undertaken at the cost of social policy change focuses on the apparent gap between the well-argued proposals for community care and the experiences of carers. A bewildering picture emerges of inadequate services and treatments from the health, education and social services in the public, voluntary and private sectors. Parents experience isolation and stress as they explore ways to improve the quality of their children’s lives by experimenting with unregulated and under-researched treatments for an incurable physical condition. The conclusion that there has been deterioration in provision for these families is a serious indictment on current social policy direction.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

474

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

0429813449

ISBN 13

9780429813443

Feminism and Geography

The Limits of Geographical Knowledge

By: Gillian Rose

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Feminism and Geography

The Limits of Geographical Knowledge

By: Gillian Rose

Geography is a subject which throughout its history has been dominated by men; men have undertaken the heroic explorations which form the mythology of its foundation, men have written most of its texts and, as many feminist geographers have remarked, men's interests have structured what counts as legitimate geographical knowledge. This book offers a sustained examination of the masculinism of contemporary geographical discourses. Drawing on the work of feminist theories about the intersection of power, knowledge and subjectivity, different aspects of the discipline's masculinism are discussed in a series of essays which bring influential approaches in recent geography together with feminist accounts of the space of the everyday, the notion of a sense of place and views of landscape. In the final chapter, the spatial imagery of a variety of feminists is examined in order to argue that the geographical imagination implicit in feminist discussions of the politics of location is one example of a geography which does not deny difference in the name of a universal masculinity.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

284

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Published Date

ISBN 10

0745680496

ISBN 13

9780745680491

How to Find Out About the Social Sciences

Library and Technical Information

By: Gillian A. Burrington

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

How to Find Out About the Social Sciences

Library and Technical Information

By: Gillian A. Burrington

How to Find Out About The Social Sciences indicates the sources of information in the social sciences that are traditionally taught in social science faculties in universities. The book delineates the scope and nature of the different social sciences, explains the necessary education and training, and lists possible careers for those who take up the studies. The book also lists the possible sources of information such as organizations, libraries, books and other published material, and social administration. Lastly, it explains the significance of the different sources of information, what kind of information could be derived from them, and how they can be used to learn or teach in the social sciences. The text is for social scientists, professors, and researchers on the discipline and its many branches. It is also recommended for undergraduate and graduate students alike, as well as those who have taken a casual interest on the social sciences.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

153

Publisher

Elsevier

Published Date

ISBN 10

1483160149

ISBN 13

9781483160146

Contexts of Physiotherapy Practice

By: Joy Higgs,Megan Smith,Gillian Webb,Margot Skinner

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Contexts of Physiotherapy Practice

By: Joy Higgs,Megan Smith,Gillian Webb,Margot Skinner

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the key issues and perspectives in the current practice of physiotherapy, focussing on the issues that are not taught in 'clinical' texts yet that underpin professional practice. The book helps students gain a good understanding of the physiotherapy profession. It will introduce students to the key practice issues included in professional entry curricula: history of the profession, the workforce and roles of physiotherapists, ethics, law, reflective practice, clinical reasoning, teamwork, and other professional issues within the field of physiotherapy.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

353

Publisher

Elsevier Health Sciences

Published Date

ISBN 10

0729586790

ISBN 13

9780729586795

All's Well That Ends

By: Gillian Roberts

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

All's Well That Ends

By: Gillian Roberts

Barring the usual teenage pranks, all seems peaceful at Philly Prep, the private school in Philadelphia where Amanda Pepper teaches English. No doubt the money that appears to be missing from funds collected to aid victims of a catastrophic hurricane Down South will turn up. Probably the rumor that some of Amanda’s students have discovered the thrills of gambling is totally unfounded. In any case, Amanda has other things to think about. Her husband, private investigator C. K. MacKenzie, is struggling to help his Louisiana kinfolk reconstruct their post-hurricane lives. Her friend Sasha’s stepmother has just committed suicide–although, according to Sasha, Phoebe Ennis would never have killed herself, especially not while having a drink and wearing a red silk blouse and red sandals with four-inch heels. Amanda isn’t persuaded but reluctantly agrees to help investigate the woman’s demise, though the evidence for foul play is slim. True, the middle-aged compulsive collector of knickknacks wasn’t universally loved. Phoebe’s own son hated her and she bored her friends to death with hints of her “royal” lineage. And with four marriages behind her, she was already preparing to announce her renewed availability on the Net. But when another woman is found dead in Phoebe’s house, it becomes clear that something is indeed murderously amiss, and much closer to home than Amanda or anyone else could have imagined. All’s Well That Ends is the final novel in Gillian Roberts’s acclaimed Amanda Pepper series. It’s also the best, irresistibly intelligent, and richly entertaining. Amanda’s farewell adventure brings the genius of “the Dorothy Parker of mystery writers” (Nancy Pickard) into full flower, and the bloom is sweet and a wonder to behold. From the Hardcover edition.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

247

Publisher

Ballantine Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

034549718X

ISBN 13

9780345497185

The Ephemeral Eighteenth Century

Print, Sociability, and the Cultures of Collecting

By: Gillian Russell

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Ephemeral Eighteenth Century

Print, Sociability, and the Cultures of Collecting

By: Gillian Russell

Often regarded as trivial and disposable, printed ephemera, such as tickets, playbills and handbills, was essential in the development of eighteenth-century culture. In this original study, richly illustrated with examples from across the period, Gillian Russell examines the emergence of the cultural category of printed ephemera, its relationship with forms of sociability, the history of the book, and ideas of what constituted the boundaries of literature and literary value. Russell explores the role of contemporary collectors such as Sarah Sophia Banks in preserving such material, arguing for 'ephemerology' as a distinctive strand of popular antiquarianism. Multi-disciplinary in scope, The Ephemeral Eighteenth Century reveals new perspectives on the history of theatre, the fiction of Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen, and on the history of bibliography, as well as highlighting the continuing relevance of the concept of ephemerality to how we connect through social media today.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

325

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1108803865

ISBN 13

9781108803861

Social Capital in Singapore

The Power of Network Diversity

By: Vincent Chua,Gillian Koh,Ern Ser Tan,Drew Shih

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Social Capital in Singapore

The Power of Network Diversity

By: Vincent Chua,Gillian Koh,Ern Ser Tan,Drew Shih

How can social cohesion be achieved in a meritocratic and multicultural global city-state? Meritocracy poses a paradox: On one hand, it integrates individuals through frameworks of equal treatment, equal justice and opportunity regardless of race, language or religion. On the other hand, individuals are then segregating through academic sorting, they are rewarded based on credentials and performance which also results in elite identification and bonding. After a generation, without mitigation action, social stratification can result. Distinctive circles differentiating social elites from non-elites, the professional classes from non-professional classes emerge. The remedy the authors propose is network diversity which is the organic forming of ties across class and other social boundaries built on deliberate policies, programmes and platforms designed to facilitate that. This social mixing, forged in social infrastructure such as schools, workplaces, and voluntary associations pays off by producing the collective goods of national identity and trust. This hypothesis has been tested in the case of Singapore society and the empirical results from the research on the power of network diversity and bridging social capital are found in this volume. An insightful read for scholars and practitioners in public policy and social network analysis looking to understand the challenges faced by and the experiences that have emerged from the case of Singapore with its multicultural and cosmopolitan setting.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

191

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000335275

ISBN 13

9781000335279

The Straight Mind in Corinth

Queer Readings across 1 Corinthians 11:2-16

By: Gillian Townsley

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Straight Mind in Corinth

Queer Readings across 1 Corinthians 11:2-16

By: Gillian Townsley

A new reading that troubles and transgresses the normal with regard to biblical studies and our understandings of gender and sexuality Despite its lack of both historical and exegetical clarity, 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 has often been fundamental to understandings of gender and sexuality in many Christian traditions. In particular, a hierarchical model of gender and a heterosexual model of sexuality tend to dominate and are presented as “natural” and “God-ordained.” With the materialist lesbian theory of Monique Wittig providing the theoretical basis for discussion, this book intersects various biblical, theological, and queer lines of inquiry across 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 in order to reveal and challenge these models of gender and sexuality that lie behind both the text itself and its various interpretations. Features Reveals the complex relationship between effeminacy, masculinity and sexual relations in the first century Greco-Roman environment of the New Testament Explores the ideologies of sexuality that underlie much of the debate within evangelical circles Examines Karl Barth’s theology on the binary pairing of “man and woman” as asymmetrically related to each other and to God through the notion of the imago dei, revealing and challenging the ways in which this reflects androcentric and patriarchal ideologies

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

367

Publisher

SBL Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0884141756

ISBN 13

9780884141754

Cultural Climate and Linguistic Style

Change in English Fictional Prose from the Late Victorian to the Early Modern Period

By: Gillian Cawthra

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Cultural Climate and Linguistic Style

Change in English Fictional Prose from the Late Victorian to the Early Modern Period

By: Gillian Cawthra

A book exploring the relation between culture and syntax at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. The analysis of particular syntactic features in novels of the time shows clear differences of usage which may be seen to reflect current social upheaval.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

175

Publisher

Springer

Published Date

ISBN 10

1349094021

ISBN 13

9781349094028

Feminism, Femininity and the Politics of Working Women

The Women's Co-Operative Guild, 1880s to the Second World War

By: Gillian Scott

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Feminism, Femininity and the Politics of Working Women

The Women's Co-Operative Guild, 1880s to the Second World War

By: Gillian Scott

This text discusses the development of the Women's Co-operative Guild from the 1880s to World War II. Charting the rise and fall of a feminist organization, the author assesses its political significance and examines the causes of its demise.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

237

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1135360316

ISBN 13

9781135360313

The Lived Body

Sociological Themes, Embodied Issues

By: Gillian A. Bendelow,Simon J. Williams

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Lived Body

Sociological Themes, Embodied Issues

By: Gillian A. Bendelow,Simon J. Williams

The Lived Body takes a fresh look at the notion of human embodiment and provides an ideal textbook for undergraduates on the growing number of courses on the sociology of the body. The authors propose a new approach - an 'Embodied Sociology' - one which makes embodiment central rather than peripheral. They critically examine the dualist legacies of the past, assessing the ideas of a range of key thinkers, from Marx to Freud, Foucault to Giddens, Deleuze to Guattari and Irigary to Grosz, in terms of the bodily themes and issues they address. They also explore new areas of research, including the 'fate' of embodiment in late modernity, sex, gender, medical technology and the body, the sociology of emotions, pain, sleep and artistic representations of the body. The Lived Body will provide students and researchers in medical sociology, health sciences, cultural studies and philosophy with clear, accessible coverage of the major theories and debates in the sociology of the body and a challenging new way of thinking.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1134649495

ISBN 13

9781134649495

Rethinking Imagination

By: Gillian Robinson,John F. Rundell

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Rethinking Imagination

By: Gillian Robinson,John F. Rundell

Pulling together a collection of richly informative essays Rethinking Imagination addresses competing sets of ideas, oscillating between the modern and post-modern, creativity and sublimity, progress and apocalypse, democracy and redemption Enlightenment and Romanticism and reason and imagination. Aiming to thematise these debates from the perspective of the imagination, Rethinking Imagination takes two directions. The first addresses a socio-cultural interpretation in which the distinguishing figures of modernity can be viewed as continuing differentiation and autonomatization of spheres and systems that goes well beyond the divisions of labour. The second is an ongoing philosophical discourse about the imagination and its relation to reason which has been present since Enlightenment. Divided into two separate yet interconnected parts, this book is a highly significant collection of essays and a valuable contribution to the field of philosophical and socio-cultural sociology. It is a key book for undergraduate, postgraduate and academic researchers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

204

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1136142762

ISBN 13

9781136142765

Virginia Woolf

And the Women who Shaped Her World

By: Gillian Gill

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Virginia Woolf

And the Women who Shaped Her World

By: Gillian Gill

An insightful, witty look at Virginia Woolf through the lens of the extraordinary women closest to her. How did Adeline Virginia Stephen become the great writer Virginia Woolf? Acclaimed biographer Gillian Gill tells the stories of the women whose legacies--of strength, style, and creativity--shaped Woolf's path to the radical writing that inspires so many today. Gill casts back to Woolf's French-Anglo-Indian maternal great-grandmother Th r se de L'Etang, an outsider to English culture whose beauty passed powerfully down the female line; and to Woolf's aunt Anne Thackeray Ritchie, who gave Woolf her first vision of a successful female writer. Yet it was the women in her own family circle who had the most complex and lasting effect on Woolf. Her mother, Julia, and sisters Stella, Laura, and Vanessa were all, like Woolf herself, but in markedly different ways, warped by the male-dominated household they lived in. Finally, Gill shifts the lens onto the famous Bloomsbury group. This, Gill convinces, is where Woolf called upon the legacy of the women who shaped her to transform a group of men--united in their love for one another and their disregard for women--into a society in which Woolf ultimately found her freedom and her voice.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

437

Publisher

Mariner Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1328683958

ISBN 13

9781328683953

Race Matters

Indigenous Australians and "our" Society

By: Gillian Cowlishaw,Barry Morris

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Race Matters

Indigenous Australians and "our" Society

By: Gillian Cowlishaw,Barry Morris

Annotation pending.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

309

Publisher

Aboriginal Studies Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0855752947

ISBN 13

9780855752941

European Zoroastrian Attitudes to Their Purity Laws

By: Gillian Towler Mehta

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

European Zoroastrian Attitudes to Their Purity Laws

By: Gillian Towler Mehta

The thesis has one main focus, the purity laws of a religious group in Europe, an original piece of research never done before in the UK. The thesis uses diasporic theories of identity; theories of women and the body; theories of women, their bodies and patriarchal religion and theories of women, purity and pollution in religion, to explain why European Zoroastrian women continue to support six of the purity laws of Zoroastrianism in the year 2003. Purity and pollution are at the heart of the Zoroastrian religion and the research demonstrated that Zoroastrians belief in and knowledge of the six purity laws was strong in 2003. Zoroastrians are a diasporic religious group whose modern origins are in Iran and the sub-continent of India. They have been visiting and settling, from the sub-continent, in Europe, and especially in London, in small numbers since the middle of the nineteenth century. There have been three quantitative surveys of the Zoroastrian community in Europe, in 1976, 1985 and 2003, with each survey building on the last one. Thus, the analytical, quantitative research leading up to the thesis covers a period of nearly 30 years. In the 2003 survey, new questions, never posed before in academic research, were asked about six of the Zoroastrian purity laws, which yielded data for the main focus of the thesis. The women support the six purity laws more than the men and the majority of both women and men affirmed four of the purity laws and rejected two of them. The conclusion of the thesis is that the six Zoroastrian purity laws examined in this research are used in the creation of a hybrid, immanent and liminal religious identity and in some cases ethnic identity, by the women of the European Zoroastrian community; purity laws are known about and matter to these women in Europe in 2003.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

356

Publisher

Universal-Publishers

Published Date

ISBN 10

1599423855

ISBN 13

9781599423852

Eating Culture

An Anthropological Guide to Food, Second Edition

By: Gillian Crowther

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Eating Culture

An Anthropological Guide to Food, Second Edition

By: Gillian Crowther

From ingredients and recipes to meals and menus across time and space, this highly engaging overview illustrates the important roles that anthropology and anthropologists play in understanding food and its key place in the study of culture. The new edition, now in full colour, introduces discussions about nomadism, commercializing food, food security, and ethical consumption, including treatment of animals and the long-term environmental and health consequences of meat consumption. New feature boxes offer case studies and exercises to help highlight anthropological methods and approaches, and each chapter includes a further reading section. By considering the concept of cuisine and public discourse, Eating Culture brings order and insight to our changing relationship with food.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

393

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1487593317

ISBN 13

9781487593315

Doctoral Supervision and Research Culture

What We Know, What Works and Why

By: Karen Clegg,Gillian Houston,Owen Gower

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Doctoral Supervision and Research Culture

What We Know, What Works and Why

By: Karen Clegg,Gillian Houston,Owen Gower

Drawing on original survey data, reflective accounts, and case studies of supervisory practice in different disciplines, Doctoral Supervision and Research Culture explores the supervisor experience and demonstrates the craft, compassion and consistency required of supervisors in responding to different researcher’s needs. Based on empirical data and using the voice of research supervisors, the authors throw a spotlight on the challenges and opportunities supervisors face in supporting doctoral researchers through to successful PhD completion. This book acts as an invitation to institutions, funders, industry and academics to review what, and how they support PhD provision and to elevate the status of supervision practice. It shows how research cultures - disciplinary, institutional and individual - affect the supervisory experience and highlight the challenges that supervisors face, as well as the rewards that successful supervisory relationships bring. It is also a celebration of the contribution that doctoral researchers and all those who support research make to society. Designed to provide opportunities for sharing of practice across disciplines and the sector, Doctoral Supervision and Research Culture will be of interest to both new and experienced supervisors, to staff and researcher developers in institutions, and to funders, policy makers and senior management in universities who seek to improve and enhance the supervisory experience for all agents.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

190

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1040032621

ISBN 13

9781040032626

From Independence to Revolution

Egypt's Islamists and the Contest for Power

By: Gillian Kennedy

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

From Independence to Revolution

Egypt's Islamists and the Contest for Power

By: Gillian Kennedy

From Independence to Revolution tells the story of the complicated relationship between the Egyptian population and the nation's most prominent political opposition--the Islamist movement. Most commentators focus on the Muslim Brotherhood and radical jihadists constantly vying for power under successive authoritarian rulers, from Gamal Abdul Nasser to General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Yet the relationship between the Islamists and Egyptian society has not remained fixed. Instead, groups like the Muslim Brotherhood, radical jihadists and progressive Islamists like Tayyar al Masri have varied in their responses to Egypt's socio-political transformation over the last sixty years, thereby attracting different sections of the Egyptian electorate at different times. From bread riots in the 1970s to the 2011 Tahrir Square uprising and the subsequent election of the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi in 2012, Egypt's Islamists have been countering authoritarian elites since colonial independence. This book is based on the author's fieldwork interviews in Egypt and builds on comparative political approaches to the topic. It offers an account of Egypt's contesting actors, demonstrating how a consistently fragmented Islamist movement and an authoritarian state have cemented political instability and economic decline as a persistent trend."--Provided by publisher.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

286

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1849047057

ISBN 13

9781849047050

Rediasporization

African-Guyanese Kweh-Kweh

By: Gillian Richards-Greaves

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Rediasporization

African-Guyanese Kweh-Kweh

By: Gillian Richards-Greaves

Rediasporization: African-Guyanese Kweh-Kweh examines how African-Guyanese in New York City participate in the Come to My Kwe-Kwe ritual to facilitate rediasporization, that is, the creation of a newer diaspora from an existing one. Since the fall of 2005, African-Guyanese in New York City have celebrated Come to My Kwe-Kwe (more recently called Kwe-Kwe Night) on the Friday evening before Labor Day. Come to My Kwe-Kwe is a reenactment of a uniquely African-Guyanese pre-wedding ritual called kweh-kweh, and sometimes referred to as karkalay, mayan, kweh-keh, and pele. A typical traditional (wedding-based) kweh-kweh has approximately ten ritual segments, which include the pouring of libation to welcome or appease the ancestors; a procession from the groom’s residence to the bride’s residence or central kweh-kweh venue; the hiding of the bride; and the negotiation of bride price. Each ritual segment is executed with music and dance, which allow for commentary on conjugal matters, such as sex, domestication, submissiveness, and hard work. Come to My Kwe-Kwe replicates the overarching segments of the traditional kweh-kweh, but a couple (male and female) from the audience acts as the bride and groom, and props simulate the boundaries of the traditional performance space, such as the gate and the bride’s home. This book draws on more than a decade of ethnographic research data and demonstrates how Come to My Kwe-Kwe allows African-Guyanese-Americans to negotiate complex, overlapping identities in their new homeland, by combining elements from the past and present and reinterpreting them to facilitate rediasporization and ensure group survival.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

226

Publisher

Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published Date

ISBN 10

1496831195

ISBN 13

9781496831194

Social Inclusion and Mental Health

Understanding Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion

By: Jed Boardman,Helen Killaspy,Gillian Mezey

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Social Inclusion and Mental Health

Understanding Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion

By: Jed Boardman,Helen Killaspy,Gillian Mezey

People with mental health conditions are among the most socially excluded groups in society. Mental health conditions are influenced by the social environment, which in turn shapes our social and cultural responses to the people who experience them. Much of what mental health practitioners do is 'essentially social' and the effects of their interventions are hampered by the marginalised status of many of the people that they see. This book documents the ways in which people with mental health conditions are excluded from participating in society and offers some pointers as to how this may be reversed. It highlights the need to reduce mental health inequalities and to consider the importance of material inequalities and social injustices faced by people experiencing mental ill-health. Whilst the challenges are considerable and the solutions wide-ranging, mental health practitioners can play a significant role in facilitating the social inclusion of those with mental health conditions.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

411

Publisher

RCPsych Publications

Published Date

ISBN 10

100930223X

ISBN 13

9781009302234

Book's by Gillian Hutchinson

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email