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Two in a Boat

The True Story of a Marital Rite of Passage

By: Gwyneth Lewis

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Two in a Boat

The True Story of a Marital Rite of Passage

By: Gwyneth Lewis

When she was in her forties, recovering from depression and alcoholism, Gwyneth Lewis, the National Poet of Wales, decided to trade in her landlubber existence—a house in Cardiff and a responsible job at the BBC—for life at sea with her husband, Leighton, a former bosun with the Merchant Navy. After buying a small yacht (called Jameeleh) and teaching themselves to sail it (a process not without its fair share of disasters), they set out to cross the Atlantic. But Gwyneth's seasickness and Leighton's astonishing transformation into Captain Bligh were just the beginning in a series of outrageous catastrophes, both maritime and marital. A truly unique memoir, both witty and wise, Two in a Boat is Gwyneth Lewis's strange, stirring, and often hilarious account of their voyage—at once a wholly original, relentlessly entertaining beginner's guide to the art of sailing and an unforgettable portrait of a marriage under pressure.

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Harper Perennial

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0060823240

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9780060823245

Sunbathing in the Rain

A Cheerful Book on Depression

By: Gwyneth Lewis

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Sunbathing in the Rain

A Cheerful Book on Depression

By: Gwyneth Lewis

Sunbathing in the Rain is undoubtedly the best book I have ever read about one person's experience of depression.' - Dorothy Rowe, author of Breaking the Bonds 'This upbeat, very readable and engaging view of depression as a temporary retrenchment, a breathing space in which to adjust better to life, makes encouraging reading.' - Spectator 'Gwyneth Lewis writes with clarity, beauty and metaphorical precision. She conveys the darkness, the silence, the selfishness, the mental clutter of depression brilliantly.' - Simon Hattenstone, Guardian 'Welsh poet Gwyneth Lewis shares her personal story of wrestling with clinical depression and describes what she learned along the way about coping with the disease. The text is aimed primarily at those who are currently depressed and are struggling to recover. The emphasis throughout is on the healing power of self-acceptance and truth-telling. This is a reprint of a book first published in London by Flamingo in 2002.' - www.booknews.com This might well be the Age of Depression. More people than ever now experience the disease directly or see a friend or relative succumb to it. Among their number is Gwyneth Lewis. And she set about writing this book simply because she wished something like it had existed for her when she was in the middle of her depression. Depression is assassination. The depressive is both victim and detective - charged with tracking down the perpetrator of his or her own murder. By drawing on her own experience of struggling with the affliction, by highlighting ways of coping, ways of truth-telling, and ways of thriving, in a straightforward, robust fashion full of casual wisdom and easy wit, Gwyneth re-embarks on a journey that nearly killed her first time round and returns with this, perhaps the first truly undogmatic, undemanding, downright useful book about depression.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1846426499

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9781846426490

A Hospital Odyssey

By: Gwyneth Lewis

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A Hospital Odyssey

By: Gwyneth Lewis

A Hospital Odyssey is an outrageously imaginative voyage through illness and healing. Drawing on the most recent biomedical research into stem cells and cancer, the poem is a journey through the body's inner space and the strange habitats created by disease, including the chimeras people see when they're unwell. Maris, whose husband, Hardy, has been diagnosed with cancer, is separated from him. Her mythical journey leads though a surreal landscape, peopled by true and false physicians, god-celebrities, rabid statues, diseases hunting healthy bodies and a microbes holding their annual ball. The Otherworld is located in the hospital's basement. In her desperate search Maris meets and converses with Aneurin Bevan, founder of the NHS. Immensely readable, "A Hospital Odyssey" is a modern epic: "Dr Who" meets "Paradise Lost". The poem asks: what is health? And what does it mean to care for someone who's ill? Gwyneth Lewis's dramatisation of A Hospital Odyssey was broadcast as Radio 4's Afternoon Drama on 26 June 2014.

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Bloodaxe Books Limited

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1852248777

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9781852248772

Deconstructing the Starships

Science, Fiction and Reality

By: Gwyneth A. Jones

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Deconstructing the Starships

Science, Fiction and Reality

By: Gwyneth A. Jones

Essays and reviews by a feminist science fiction author apply sharp critical skills to discuss the genre's relationship to contemporary reality. The author examines such topics as the relationships between aspects of the science fiction genre and modern literary theory, the function of realism and language in science fiction, and the view of the body in the cyberpunk subgenre. She also explores in-depth the works of such authors as C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ursula Le Guin, C.J. Cherryh, and William Gibson, among others. Distributed by ISBS. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Oxford University Press

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0853237832

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9780853237839

Flowers in the Snow

The Life of Isobel Wylie Hutchison

By: Gwyneth Hoyle

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Flowers in the Snow

The Life of Isobel Wylie Hutchison

By: Gwyneth Hoyle

Over the course of a dozen years, Scottish plant collector Isobel Wylie Hutchison (1889?1982) explored northern latitudes from the Lofoten Islands of Norway to the far reaches of the American Aleutians. To achieve her goals, she traveled by any means available, from rowboats in Greenland to trading schooners and coast-guard vessels in Alaska. When necessary, she journeyed by snowshoe or sled in pursuit of her botanical specimens, accompanied only by strangers who served as guides. In Flowers in the Snow, Gwyneth Hoyle paints a vivid portrait of a woman gloriously out of the step with the conventions of her time.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803273444

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9780803273443

Going to the Dogs

Greyhound Racing, Animal Activism, and American Popular Culture

By: Gwyneth Anne Thayer

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Going to the Dogs

Greyhound Racing, Animal Activism, and American Popular Culture

By: Gwyneth Anne Thayer

In the 1970s sitcom The Odd Couple, Felix and Oscar argue over a racing greyhound that Oscar won in a bet. Animal lover Felix wants to keep the dog as a pet; gambling enthusiast Oscar wants to race it. This dilemma fairly reflects America's attitude toward greyhound racing. This book, the first cultural history of greyhound racing in America, charts the sport's meteoric rise-and equally meteoric decline-against the backdrop of changes in American culture during the last century. Gwyneth Anne Thayer takes us from its origins in "coursing" in England, through its postwar heyday, and up to its current state of near-extinction. Her entertaining account offers fresh insight into the development of American sport and leisure, the rise of animal advocacy, and the unique place that dogs hold in American life. Thayer describes greyhound racing's dynamic growth in the 1920s in places like Saint Louis, Chicago, and New Orleans, then explores its phenomenal popularity in Florida, where promoters exploited its remote association with the upper class and helped foster a celebrity culture around it. By the end of the century media reports of alleged animal cruelty had surfaced as well as competition from other gaming pursuits such as state lotteries and Indian casinos. Greyhound racing became so suspect that even Homer Simpson derided it. In exploring the socioeconomic, political, and ideological factors that fueled the rise and fall of dog racing in America, Thayer has consulted participants and critics alike in order to present both sides of a contentious debate. She examines not only the impact of animal protectionists, but also suspected underworld ties, longstanding tensions between dogmen and track owners over racing contracts, and the evolving relationship between consumerism and dogs. She captures the sport's glory days in dozens of photographs that recall its coursing past or show celebrities like Frank Sinatra and Babe Ruth with winning racing hounds. Thayer also records the growth of the adoption movement that rescues ex-racers from possible euthanasia. Today there are fewer than half as many greyhound tracks, in half as many states, as there were 10 years ago-and half of them are in Florida. Thayer's in-depth, meticulously balanced account is an intriguing look at this singular activity and will teach readers as much about American cultural behavior as about racing greyhounds.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700619135

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9780700619139

Children's Unspoken Language

By: Gwyneth Doherty-Sneddon

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Children's Unspoken Language

By: Gwyneth Doherty-Sneddon

Gwyneth Doherty-Sneddon, a developmental psychologist and the mother of two young children, demonstrates the way in which a young child's developing personality and intelligence is revealed through non-verbal communication. She shows how parents and other adults have the potential to facilitate a child's social and intellectual growth through acknowledging and responding to this unspoken language. Taking an in-depth look at four of the channels of non-verbal communication - hand gesture, facial expression, eye gaze and touch - this accessible text follows the development of young children from birth to late primary school age. Using jargon-free language Children's Unspoken Language is invaluable reading for parents and professionals alike.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1846423805

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9781846423802

Chasing Newsroom Diversity

From Jim Crow to Affirmative Action

By: Gwyneth Mellinger

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Chasing Newsroom Diversity

From Jim Crow to Affirmative Action

By: Gwyneth Mellinger

Social change triggered by the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s sent the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) on a fifty-year mission to dismantle an exclusionary professional standard that envisioned the ideal journalist as white, straight, and male. In this book, Gwyneth Mellinger explores the complex history of the decades-long ASNE diversity initiative, which culminated in the failed Goal 2000 effort to match newsroom demographics with those of the U.S. population. Drawing upon exhaustive reviews of ASNE archival materials, Mellinger examines the democratic paradox through the lens of the ASNE, an elite organization that arguably did more than any other during the twentieth century to institutionalize professional standards in journalism and expand the concepts of government accountability and the free press. The ASNE would emerge in the 1970s as the leader in the newsroom integration movement, but its effort would be frustrated by structures of exclusion the organization had embedded into its own professional standards. Explaining why a project so promising failed so profoundly, Chasing Newsroom Diversity expands our understanding of the intransigence of institutional racism, gender discrimination, and homophobia within democracy.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252094646

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9780252094644

Worship and Festivals

By: Gwyneth Windsor

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Worship and Festivals

By: Gwyneth Windsor

One of a series for lower-secondary pupils which aims to provide a foundation for GCSE and Standard Grade work. It uses an active-learning approach to help students to develop an understanding of all aspects of the Christian faith. This book covers worship and the Christian festivals.

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Heinemann

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0435302736

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9780435302733

From Pews to Politics

Religious Sermons and Political Participation in Africa

By: Gwyneth H. McClendon,Rachel Beatty Riedl

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From Pews to Politics

Religious Sermons and Political Participation in Africa

By: Gwyneth H. McClendon,Rachel Beatty Riedl

Using Christianity in Africa, this book demonstrates that cultural influences, specifically religious sermons, can impact political participation.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108486576

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9781108486576

Power to Save the World

The Truth About Nuclear Energy

By: Gwyneth Cravens

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Power to Save the World

The Truth About Nuclear Energy

By: Gwyneth Cravens

An informed look at the myths and fears surrounding nuclear energy, and a practical, politically realistic solution to global warming and our energy needs. Faced by the world's oil shortages and curious about alternative energy sources, Gwyneth Cravens skeptically sets out to find the truth about nuclear energy. Her conclusion: it is a totally viable and practical solution to global warming. In the end, we see that if we are to care for subsequent generations, embracing nuclear energy is an ethical imperative.

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Vintage

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030726856X

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9780307268563

Water Qual Freshwater Fish

By: Gwyneth Howells

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Water Qual Freshwater Fish

By: Gwyneth Howells

This book covers the major polluting chemicals affecting fisheries in European fresh waters and the effort required to extend the work towards the preparation of critical reviews on less important chemicals would be out of proportion to the benefits obtained.

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CRC Press

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1482287153

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9781482287158

Osmotic and Ionic Regulation in Animals

International Series of Monographs on Pure and Applied Biology

By: W. T. W. Potts,Gwyneth Parry

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Osmotic and Ionic Regulation in Animals

International Series of Monographs on Pure and Applied Biology

By: W. T. W. Potts,Gwyneth Parry

Osmotic and Ionic Regulation in Animals focuses on the processes involved in osmoregulation. The book first discusses general considerations of osmoregulation in animals, including the distinction of body fluids, definitions, and properties of solutions and membranes. The text also looks at the different types of excretory organs, including the differentiation of the excretory organs of mollusks, crustaceans, and vertebrates; protonephridia; and excretion in insects. The selection also describes the ionic regulation in marine animals. Topics include the selective advantages of ionic regulation; mechanisms of ionic regulation; and composition of tissues. The text also discusses osmotic regulation in brackish and freshwater animals. The book also focuses on osmotic regulation in terrestrial animals, including salt gain and loss, secretions, water loss and uptake, and osmotic pressure and composition of blood. The text is a good source of information for readers interested in osmoregulation.

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Elsevier

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1483140482

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9781483140483

Imprisoned Fathers and Their Children

By: Gwyneth Boswell,Peter Wedge

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Imprisoned Fathers and Their Children

By: Gwyneth Boswell,Peter Wedge

More than 125,000 children in the UK alone are 'sentenced' to separation from their imprisoned parents. This book draws on extensive research and experience to examine the effect this kind of separation can have on the emotional development of a child and on family relationships. They make suggestions for work with prisoners and families.

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180

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1853029726

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9781853029721

Joanna Russ

By: Gwyneth Jones

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Joanna Russ

By: Gwyneth Jones

Experimental, strange, and unabashedly feminist, Joanna Russ's groundbreaking science fiction grew out of a belief that the genre was ideal for expressing radical thought. Her essays and criticism, meanwhile, helped shape the field and still exercise a powerful influence in both SF and feminist literary studies.Award-winning author and critic Gwyneth Jones offers a new appraisal of Russ's work and ideas. After years working in male-dominated SF, Russ emerged in the late 1960s with Alyx, the uber-capable can-do heroine at the heart of Picnic on Paradise and other popular stories and books. Soon, Russ's fearless embrace of gender politics and life as an out lesbian made her a target for male outrage while feminist classics like The Female Man and The Two of Them took SF in innovative new directions. Jones also delves into Russ's longtime work as a critic of figures as diverse as Lovecraft and Cather, her foundational place in feminist fandom, important essays like "Amor Vincit Foeminam," and her career in academia.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252051483

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9780252051487

Jane Williams (Ysgafell)

By: Gwyneth Tyson Roberts

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Jane Williams (Ysgafell)

By: Gwyneth Tyson Roberts

The first full account of the life and work of a nineteenth-century woman who carved out a unique career as an important writer in English on Welsh subjects. It is a major contribution to history of women’s writing in English. It is also a major contribution to knowledge of Welsh Writing in English in the nineteenth century.

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University of Wales Press

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1786835649

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9781786835642

Public Lives

Women, Family, and Society in Victorian Britain

By: Eleanor Gordon,Lecturer in Economic History Eleanor Gordon,Gwyneth Nair,MS Gwyneth Nair

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Public Lives

Women, Family, and Society in Victorian Britain

By: Eleanor Gordon,Lecturer in Economic History Eleanor Gordon,Gwyneth Nair,MS Gwyneth Nair

Study of the lives of Victorian women and their families. This publication offers insights into middle-class life in Britain from 1840 through the early years of the 20th century. Examined are women's relationships, their marriages, the ways they earned and spent their money, and their social, spiritual, and civic lives. The authors explore personal diaries (both men's and women's), correspondence, inventories, wills, census reports, and other documents from Glasgow, the second most important British city of the period.

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Yale University Press

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0300102208

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9780300102208

Still Small Voice

By: Gwyneth Findlow

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Still Small Voice

By: Gwyneth Findlow

This is a practical challenge to those who are 'fair dinkum' about their personal spiritual life, to do something about the New Atheist proclamation that faith is bad, religion poisons everything, the Three Monotheisms can only make war [not peace] and the answer to all our problems is 'to be reasonable'.If new Atheism is wrong - it is up to us to demonstrate that very fact by making it our business to reconcile with [either/both] of the other Two Mono-Theisms in a very public way - thereby encouraging others to do the same.

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Lulu.com

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1409293475

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9781409293477

Urban Planning in a Capitalist Society

By: Gwyneth Kirk

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Urban Planning in a Capitalist Society

By: Gwyneth Kirk

Originally published in 1980, Urban Planning in a Capitalist Society addresses land use planning as both a technical and a political activity, involving the distribution of scarce resources – land and capital. The book reviews and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of several theoretical perspectives, and pluralist, bureaucratic, reformist and Marxist approaches to the distribution of power, and hence resources in a capitalist society. It concentrates on the role played by planning professionals, the opportunity for the public to influence land use planning decision making, and the scope for political action concerning planning.

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Routledge

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1351050613

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9781351050616

Dictionary of South & Southeast Asian Art

By: Gwyneth Chaturachinda,Sunanda Krishnamurty,Pauline W. Tabtiang

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Dictionary of South & Southeast Asian Art

By: Gwyneth Chaturachinda,Sunanda Krishnamurty,Pauline W. Tabtiang

This basic dictionary of South and Southeast Asian art offers clear and concise explanations of hundreds of useful terms. With over 1,300 entries and 112 line illustrations, this volume makes a handy reference for anyone interested and engaged in South and Southeast Asia Entries range from terms encountered in South and Southeast Asian history, religion, mythology, literature, to those specific to art and architecture, and are drawn from the diverse religious traditions of the region.

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184

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Silkworm Books

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1943932158

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9781943932153

Envy in Politics

By: Gwyneth H. McClendon

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Envy in Politics

By: Gwyneth H. McClendon

How envy, spite, and the pursuit of admiration influence politics Why do governments underspend on policies that would make their constituents better off? Why do people participate in contentious politics when they could reap benefits if they were to abstain? In Envy in Politics, Gwyneth McClendon contends that if we want to understand these and other forms of puzzling political behavior, we should pay attention to envy, spite, and the pursuit of admiration--all manifestations of our desire to maintain or enhance our status within groups. Drawing together insights from political philosophy, behavioral economics, psychology, and anthropology, McClendon explores how and under what conditions status motivations influence politics. Through surveys, case studies, interviews, and an experiment, McClendon argues that when concerns about in-group status are unmanaged by social conventions or are explicitly primed by elites, status motivations can become drivers of public opinion and political participation. McClendon focuses on the United States and South Africa—two countries that provide tough tests for her arguments while also demonstrating that the arguments apply in different contexts. From debates over redistribution to the mobilization of collective action, Envy in Politics presents the first theoretical and empirical investigation of the connection between status motivations and political behavior.

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248

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Princeton University Press

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0691178658

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9780691178653

The Mum Surprise

By: Gwyneth Rees

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The Mum Surprise

By: Gwyneth Rees

Esmie decides to cheer her brother up by baking him a cake. Even better, Esmie can concoct it secretly in their elderly neighbour's kitchen now she's away. But just as she embarks on her secret scheme, a visitor arrives - who seems intent on robbing Esmie's neighbour. Can Esmie use her detective skills and save the day?

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MacMillan UK

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0330442996

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9780330442992

Sunbathing in the Rain

A Cheerful Book on Depression

By: Gwyneth Lewis

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A Cheerful Book on Depression

By: Gwyneth Lewis

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1846426499

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9781846426490

Quantum Poetics

By: Gwyneth Lewis

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Quantum Poetics

By: Gwyneth Lewis

In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university. The lectures are then published in book form by Bloodaxe, giving readers everywhere the opportunity to learn what the poets themselves think about their own subject. Gwyneth Lewis's three lectures explore the connection linking form and politics with the content of poetry while exploring how each of these changes our understanding of time. She argues that the poet steers a path between making music and making sense - not at the level of the line, but in the deep structures of meaning which are poetry's terrain. The accuracy of what they say is just as important as its expression, both for their own well-being and for its worth to the reader. Taken together, her lectures begin to posit not the science in poetry but a science of the art form. 'The Stronger Life': Much has been made of the volatility of poets, which is largely a myth. Because it can be confessional, poetry is often assumed to be therapeutic, but it can, equally, be toxic. The lives and work of poets are distinct but not unrelated. Using examples from Laura Riding and George Herbert, Gwyneth Lewis argues in this lecture that poets are more, not less resilient than the rest of the population. Looking at her own modern epic, A Hospital Odyssey, she questions how form is essential to health. 'What Country, Friends, is This?': Using Illyria in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night as a starting point, this lecture explores language politics and writing, describing how far poets will go to negotiate safe passage between one and the other. Fluent in Welsh and English, Gwyneth Lewis reflects on writing in two opposed traditions at the same time and reflects on what light the work of poets such as Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill and Anne Carson, among others, throws on the nature of poetry as a whole. 'Quantum Poetics': Form is the science of poetry. Because of its peculiar relationship with time, poetry's history isn't linear. Language works with a quantum indeterminacy. With special reference to the early Welsh tradition's extreme formalism, Gwyneth Lewis discusses in this lecture how what seems like ornament conjures probability waves into being, adding an extra, unheard, dimension to the sound of metre.

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Bloodaxe Books Limited

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1780370709

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9781780370705

White Queen

By: Gwyneth Jones

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White Queen

By: Gwyneth Jones

In the year 2038, the earth has been ravaged by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Retroviruses run rampant through humanity. Economic disaster has destabilised the world, the US has undergone a socialist revolution, and the balance of power has changed. Then the aliens arrive. With no clear understanding of the visitors' intent, factions form, including the anti-alien group White Queen, working to turn humans against these extra-terrestrial tourists. Caught in the middle is Johnny Guglio, an American exile whose only fault was living near the landing site, and Braemar Wilson, a cutthroat reporter who will do whatever she needs to get ahead of the story. And for better or for worse, it seems being caught in the middle is the best place for them to uncover the truth. Winner of the 1991 James Tiptree Jr. Award, WHITE QUEEN is the first in Gwyneth Jones' critically acclaimed Aleutian Trilogy.

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Gateway

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147323025X

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9781473230255

The Book of Taliesin

Poems of Warfare and Praise in an Enchanted Britain

By: Rowan Williams,Gwyneth Lewis

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The Book of Taliesin

Poems of Warfare and Praise in an Enchanted Britain

By: Rowan Williams,Gwyneth Lewis

The great work of Welsh literature, translated in full for the first time in over 100 years by two of its country's foremost poets Tennyson portrayed him, and wrote at least one poem under his name. Robert Graves was fascinated by what he saw as his work's connection to a lost world of deeply buried folkloric memory. He is a shapeshifter; a seer; a chronicler of battles fought, by sword and with magic, between the ancient kingdoms of the British Isles; a bridge between old Welsh mythologies and the new Christian theology; a 6th-century Brythonic bard; and a legendary collective project spanning the centuries up to The Book of Taliesin's compilation in 14th-century North Wales. He is, above all, no single 'he'. The figure of Taliesin is a mystery. But of the variety and quality of the poems written under his sign, of their power as exemplars of the force of ecstatic poetic imagination, and of the fascinating window they offer us onto a strange and visionary world, there can be no question. In the first volume to gather all of the poems from The Book of Taliesin since 1915, Gwyneth Lewis and Rowan Williams's accessible translation makes these outrageous, arrogant, stumbling and joyful poems available to a new generation of readers.

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Penguin UK

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0141396946

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9780141396941

Obstetric Fistula

Guiding Principles for Clinical Management and Programme Development

By: Gwyneth Lewis,Luc De Bernis,World Health Organization. Department of Making Pregnancy Safer

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Obstetric Fistula

Guiding Principles for Clinical Management and Programme Development

By: Gwyneth Lewis,Luc De Bernis,World Health Organization. Department of Making Pregnancy Safer

This practical manual has three main objectives: to draw attention to the urgent issue of obstetric fistula; provide background information along with principles for developing fistula prevention and treatment strategies and programmes; and contribute to the development of more effective services for women under treatment for fistula repair.

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9241593679

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9789241593670

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