Bücher von John Coates

After Pleasures on the Periphery (2022: Cuvillier), It wasn¿t a Nightmare is the second collection of authentic and at times surreal observations of life and work in the provinces and also some of the capitals of Poland, Hungary, Finland, England, Scotland, Ireland, Spain and the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). Following the snapshot-technique of Jack London, Laurie Lee and Christopher Isherwood, the vignette-like stories aim to reflect on the harshness and then again rare sudden beauty of life to be encountered in every corner of the world where human beings come together in very different contexts. In the background, the narrator keeps asking the question of what is the ¿truth¿ regarding the sociological mechanisms and driving forces in the fabric of these contexts.As in the first volume, this book includes a number of original photographs from the narrator¿s own private collections.

PLEASURES on the PERIPHERY is a collection of authentic, occasionally surreal observations of life and work in the provinces of Sicily and People¿s Hungary 1966-1970. The narrator was short of money, trying to survive like everyone else, very much out on his own ¿ but through his work in a position to encounter a wide cross-section of society. Twenty years later he was one of a team assisting in the local transition from communism to democracy (¿Hello What?¿) in the distant south of Hungary, supported by an EC grant. The concept of ¿socialism with a human face¿ pervades many of the descriptions included in this book and acts as a recurrent theme in its vignettes.The book includes a number of original photographs, and begins and ends with excursions to two non-peripheral places, London and the cloudy south-west of Poland.

Diese Sammlung lateinischer Gedichte in der Tradition von Horaz und Vergil ist über sechzig Jahre hinweg entstanden. Zu Beginn handelte es sich noch primär um schulische bzw. studentische Exerzitien am College von Eton und am Trinity College, Cambridge; teils waren es Wettbewerbsbeiträge. Die Mehrzahl der Gedichte dieser frühen Phase stellte dabei ¿versiones¿ originär englischer Texte dar.Nach einer Pause von ca. 25 Jahren und einem abwechslungsreichen perpipatetischen Akademikerleben in Finnland, Ungarn, Polen, Spanien und Sizilien nahm der Autor eine Stelle in der Anglistik der Universität Göttingen an, wo ihn das dortige Seminar für Klassische Philologie als lateinischen Schriftsteller wiederentdeckte und zum Dichten neu animierte. Die Produkte dieser späteren Phase knüpfen wiederum an z.B. englische, französische und portugiesische Textvorlagen an, zeigen jedoch eine stärkere Emanzipation von diesen. Sie tragen eine persönlichere Note, die man atmosphärisch eher dem silbernen Latein zurechnen könnte. Auch zeigen sie eine zunehmend ¿englischere¿ Grundhaltung, die bisweilen in Zynismus umschlägt ¿ was wiederum eine typische klassisch lateinische Färbung einbringt.Thematisch handeln die insgesamt 20 Oden und 6 Epigramme von sehr unterschiedlichen Bereichen: existentialistische Philosophie, Gedanken zur kurz- bzw. immerwährenden Liebe, die Konsequenzen von Krieg auf unser Privatleben, das Älterwerden und die Bienenzucht. Die lateinischen ¿versiones¿ sind jeweils auf Englisch übersetzt, und die Textvorlagen sind in einem Kommentarteil am Schluss des Bandes erläutert.

Kipling's use of superior knowledge as the basis for deception and practical jokes is discussed in this book within the wider social context of his time. His writing is examined for what it reveals about a complex, self-conscious but powerful range of values, including his criticisms of British colonial rule and Victorian practices.

In this volume, Indigenous and non-Indigenous social work scholars examine local cultures, beliefs, values, and practices as central to decolonization. Supported by a growing interest in spirituality and ecological awareness in international social work, they interrogate trends, issues, and debates in Indigenous social work theory.

Written by two leading workers in the field, this brief but elegant book presents in full detail the simplest proof of the "main conjecture" for cyclotomic fields. From the reviews: "The text is written in a clear and attractive style, with enough explanation helping the reader orientate in the midst of technical details."

John Coates examines the thought of Moore, Ramsey, Wittgenstein and Keynes in this important study. He investigates the importance for the social sciences of the ideas developed by these Cambridge philosophers between the two World Wars, and offers evidence that there was far closer collaboration between them than has been supposed.

How can mainstream Western social work learn from and in turn help advance indigenous practice? This title discusses some of the significant global trends and issues relating to indigenous and cross-cultural social work. It identifies the ways in which indigenization is shaping professional social work practice and education.