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Tracing the history of science from Aristotle to Einstein, from the Pythagorean theorem to quantum mechanics, this title offers intriguing insights into how scientific theories come into being, how to eliminate blocks to creativity and how science can lead to an understanding of society, the human condition and the human mind itself.

Few philosophers have had more influence on the shape of western philosophy after 1900 than Martin Heidegger. This title offers a full range of this profound and controversial thinker's writings, including: "The Origin of the Work of Art"; "The introduction to Being and Time"; "What Is Metaphysics?"; and, "The End of Philosophy".

This volume brings diagnostic order, a comprehensible theory, and a clinical approach out of the confusion surrounding the "borderline" concept.

Michel Foucault's work on freedom, subjectivity, and power is now central to thinking across a range of disciplines, including philosophy, history, education, psychology, politics, anthropology, sociology, and criminology. This book explores his central ideas, such as disciplinary power, biopower, bodies, spirituality, and practices of the self.

The acoustics of a space can have a real impact on the sounds you create and capture. This book helps you understand how real music sounds behave in different spaces whether during a performance or a recording and how they are perceived by performers and listeners.

A reference guide to the grammar system for intermediate to advanced learners of Polish. It presents an accessible and systematic description of the language, focusing on real patterns of use in contemporary language.

How do we know what we 'know'? How did we - as individuals and as a society - come to accept certain knowledge as fact? This title questions the reliability of our assumptions on knowledge. It investigates the relationship between 'individual' and 'scientific' knowledge.

A guide to narratological theory and terminology and its application to literature. It outlines the key concepts of style, metaphor and metonymy, and the history of narrative forms.

Finnish: An Essential Grammar is a reference guide to the most important aspects of Finnish as it is used by native speakers today. It is the ideal reference source both for those studying Finnish independently and for all students.

Discusses the essentials of Chinese grammar. This book presents Chinese entries in both pinyin romanisation and Chinese characters, and are accompanied, in most cases, by English translations to facilitate self-tuition in both the spoken and the written language. It is suitable for students with some knowledge of the language.

Explains the relationships between physical activity, health and disease, and examines the benefits of exercise in the prevention and treatment of a wide range of important conditions.

Traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its own right. This translation of the original "A sthetik des Performativen" addresses key issues in performance art, experimental theatre and cultural performances to lay the ground for a fresh appreciation of the artistic event.

Argues that good care has little to do with 'patient choice' and, therefore, creating more opportunities for patient choice will not improve health care. Illustrating the discussion with examples from diabetes clinics and diabetes self care, this book presents the 'logic of care' in a step by step contrast with the 'logic of choice'.

Offers guidance on how to apply the theory and refine TA psychotherapy skills in practice.

Provides guidance on how to manage risks based on a definitive synthesis of the research literature. This title offers a survey of the whole field of risk and demonstrates how scientific, economic, political and civil society actors can participate in inclusive risk governance.

Explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals and writers, both within the academy and without. This book provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde.

Covers the challenges, complexities and benefits of sustainability for businesses, governments and other organizations. This book shows how organizations can reach or exceed economic, social and environmental excellence. It offers practical approaches and tools including a model sustainability policy for organizations.

Examining international case studies including USA, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, this book identifies and explores the use of heritage throughout the world. Challenging the idea that heritage value is self-evident, and that things must be preserved, it demonstrates how it gives tangibility to the values that underpin different communities.

Gnosticism was for C.G. jung the chief prefiguration of his analytical psychology. In this volume Robert Segal has searched the Jungian corpus for Jung's main discussions of this ancient form of spirituality.

Takes up the story of bands and their development from the end of the WWII to the start of the new millennium. Considering both local and regional contests and larger-scale national events, this title investigates the impact of the radio, television, and commercial recording on the brass band industry, and what the future holds for the genre.

"Love is a force of destiny whose power reaches from heaven to hell". So Jung advises while reflecting on "The love problem of a student", contained in this volume. He also speaks of concepts crucial to his understanding of the personality, such as animus and anima.

This new translation synthesizes the results of modern study, presenting the work in its historical context. The first book to render original Chinese rhymes into rhymed English.

This volume is about the conquest, occupation, organization and exploitation of European colonies in the 19th century. It includes all of the major European powers, including the Netherlands, France, England, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Russia. Taking a comparative approach, the text looks at the successes and failures of each administration.

A compact and straightforward guide to the skills needed to study philosophy - reading, listening, discussing and writing - aimed at anyone coming to the subject for the first time or just looking to improve their performance.

This revised edition of the first complete translation of the seminal work 'Die Philosophie des Geldes' by Georg Simmel includes a new preface by David Frisby.

For 5000 years shipping has served the world economy and it provides a sophisticated transport service to every part of the globe. This title uses historical and theoretical analysis as the framework for a practical explanation of how shipping works.

Takes a look at soccer match analysis, highlighting the match analysis research and the innovative technologies being used by professional soccer clubs around the world.

This volume collects and organizes passages on myth by Jung himself and by some of the most prominent Jungian writers after him: Erich Neumann, Marie-Louise von Franz and James Hillman.

A fresh look at the rationale for, and distinctiveness of, ethnographic research. The policy and political implications of ethnography are a particular focus of attention.

Describes how the notion of Relativity strikes at the heart of our very conception of the universe, regardless of whether we are physicists or philosophers.