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The Body Politic in Roman Political Thought

By: Julia Mebane

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The Body Politic in Roman Political Thought

By: Julia Mebane

How did Roman writers use the metaphor of the body politic to respond to the downfall of the Republic? In this book, Julia Mebane begins with the Catilinarian Conspiracy in 63 BCE, when Cicero and Catiline proposed two rival models of statesmanship on the senate floor: the civic healer and the head of state. Over the next century, these two paradigms of authority were used to confront the establishment of sole rule in the Roman world. Tracing their Imperial afterlives allows us to see how Romans came to terms with autocracy without ever naming it as such. In identifying metaphor as an important avenue of political thought, the book makes a significant contribution to the history of ideas. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

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1009389300

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End-of-Life Issues, Grief, and Bereavement

What Clinicians Need to Know

By: Sara Honn Qualls,Julia E. Kasl-Godley

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End-of-Life Issues, Grief, and Bereavement

What Clinicians Need to Know

By: Sara Honn Qualls,Julia E. Kasl-Godley

A practical overview of clinical issues related to end-of-life care, including grief and bereavement The needs of individuals with life-limiting or terminal illness and those caring for them are well documented. However, meeting these needs can be challenging, particularly in the absence of a well-established evidence base about how best to help. In this informative guide, editors Sara Qualls and Julia Kasl-Godley have brought together a notable team of international contributors to produce a clear structure offering mental health professionals a framework for developing the competencies needed to work with end-of-life care issues, challenges, concerns, and opportunities. Part of the Wiley Series in Clinical Geropsychology, this thorough and up-to-date guide answers complex questions often asked by patients, their families and caregivers, and helping professionals as well, including: How does dying occur, and how does it vary across illnesses? What are the spiritual issues that are visible in end-of-life care? How are families engaged in end-of-life care, and what services and support can mental health clinicians provide them? How should providers address mental disorders that appear at the end of life? What are the tools and strategies involved in advanced care planning, and how do they play out during end-of-life care? Sensitively addressing the issues that arise in the clinical care of the actively dying, this timely book is filled with clinical illustrations, guidance, tips for practice, and encouragement. Written to equip mental health professionals with the information they need to guide families and others caring for the needs of individuals with life-threatening and terminal illnesses, End-of-Life Issues, Grief, and Bereavement presents a rich resource for caregivers for the psychological, sociocultural, interpersonal, and spiritual aspects of care at the end of life.

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354

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470881135

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9780470881132

The Evolution of Household Technology and Consumer Behavior, 1800-2000

By: Julia Sophie Woersdorfer

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The Evolution of Household Technology and Consumer Behavior, 1800-2000

By: Julia Sophie Woersdorfer

The increasing division and specialization of labor between the market and the nonmarket sector is a central stylized fact of long-run economic development. Over time, a large share of activities which had formerly been carried out by the private household itself has become replaced by market alternatives, raising at the same time the demand for consumer goods. The neoclassical economic framework of household production theory relates the increasing demand for household technology to rising wages and opportunity costs of time: the higher the wage rate, the more costly it is to spend time in unpaid housework activities. Consumer products are thus purchased to make household production processes more efficient and to substitute capital goods for the household’s time (time substitution hypothesis). Although this hypothesis sounds plausible at first sight, it cannot capture the essential phenomena underlying the complex process of the mechanization of the home over the past 200 years. Its major weakness lies in the treatment of consumer preferences, whose explanatory potential is explicitly factored out. Using the washing of clothes as a microcosm of household economics, this book examines long-term changes in cleanliness consumption patterns from the perspective of an evolutionary economic, psychologically informed consumer theory. Woersdorfer shows how the historical evolution of cleanliness consumption over the past 200 years is the result of the interplay of supply and demand side factors, namely, technical change in washing technology on one side and motivational driving forces and consumer learning capabilities on the other. Hence, not changing relative prices but innate consumer needs and consumer learning processes, leading to a growing understanding of how to satisfy those needs, are the essential driving forces behind the rising technological endowment of the home and the corresponding demand for household appliances. The Evolution of Household Technology and Consumer Behavior, 1800–2000 will be of interest to researchers in the field of evolutionary economics, history of technology, economic history, innovation economics and sociology.

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252

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Routledge

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1351789082

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9781351789080

Lonely Planet Portugal

By: Julia Wilkinson,John King

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Lonely Planet Portugal

By: Julia Wilkinson,John King

Discover Portugal's rugged natural beauty and rich cultural heritage with this informative and practical guide. Whether you yearn to get off the beaten track in the Parque Nacional da Peneda-Geres, wander the narrow lanes of the Moorish quarter in Moura, laze on a golden beach in the Algarve or party till dawn at Lisbon's colourful Festas dos Santos Populares -- this book covers it all. -- 72 maps, including full-colour country map -- illustrated guide to Portugal's varied architectural styles -- wide range of accommodation options from rural cottages to medieval castles -- the latest on clubs, bars and live music venues in Lisbon and Porto -- practical tips on everything from cybercafes to travel with kids -- handy language chapter and glossary

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0864426232

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9780864426239

The Body Politic in Roman Political Thought

By: Julia Mebane

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The Body Politic in Roman Political Thought

By: Julia Mebane

Employs the metaphor of the body politic in Ancient Rome to rethink the transition from the Republic to Principate.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009389297

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The Body Politic in Roman Political Thought

The Body Politic in Roman Political Thought

End-of-Life Issues, Grief, and Bereavement

End-of-Life Issues, Grief, and Bereavement

The Evolution of Household Technology and Consumer Behavior, 1800-2000

The Evolution of Household Technology and Consumer Behavior, 1800-2000

Lonely Planet Portugal

Lonely Planet Portugal

The Body Politic in Roman Political Thought

The Body Politic in Roman Political Thought

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