Written to meet the needs of students following the new AQA (A) GCSE Religious Studies course from September 2009. They are written for Option 2: Christainity: Ethics and Option 4: Roman Catholicism: Ethics.Written by Sheila Butler who is a Principal Examiner and an experinced Head of Religious Stu[...]
The AQA (A) GCSE Religious Studies Revision Guide provides a carefully planned course of revision. It is written specifically for Unit 4: Roman Catholicism: Ethics. The core topics are covered in six sections, presented as a series of spreads which outline the key facts and terms. Case studies are i[...]
GCSE Revision Guides cover the essential subject content and provide short tests and examination-style questions. This combination of concise notes and practice creates the ideal revision resource.[...]
The Way of All Flesh is one of the time-bombs of literature," said V. S. Pritchett. "One thinks of it lying in Samuel Butler's desk for thirty years, waiting to blow up the Victorian family and with it the whole great pillared and balustraded edifice of the Victorian novel."
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Perched on an island off the shores of Cornwall, England, the soaring castle of St. Michael's Mount has been home to the St. Aubyn family since 1647. For nearly thirty years, Stanley Ager, one of the most esteemed butlers of the twentieth century, ensured that St. Michael's Mount was an impeccable p[...]
The most comprehensive book on electroacoustic transducers and arrays for underwater sound Includes transducer modeling techniques and transducer designs that are currently in use Includes discussion and analysis of array interaction and nonlinear effects in transducers Contains extensive data in fi[...]
"Joe Orton's last play, What the Butler Saw, will live to be accepted as a comedy classic of English literature" (Sunday Telegraph) The chase is on in this breakneck comedy of licensed insanity, from the moment when Dr Prentice, a psychoanalyst interviewing a prospective secretary, instructs her to [...]
Since the publication of Gender Trouble in 1990, Judith Butler has revolutionised our understanding of identities and the ways in which they are constructed. This volume examines her critical thought through key texts, touching upon such issues as: * The subject * Gender * Sex * Language * The Psych[...]
An introduction to the study of how information affects economic relations. This book provides a narrative treatment of the more formal concepts of Information Economics, using easy to understand and lively illustrations from film and literature and nutshell examples.[...]
Over the past 25 years, the work of Judith Butler has had an extraordinary impact on numerous disciplines and interdisciplinary projects across the humanities and social sciences. This original study is the first to take a thematic approach to Butler as a political thinker. Starting with an explanat[...]
Judith Butler has been arguably the most important gender theorist of the past twenty years. This edited volume draws leading international political theorists into dialogue with her political theory. Each chapter is written by an acclaimed political theorist and concentrates on a particular aspect [...]
One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler's "Gender Trouble" is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning [...]
Sexuality is an important area of clients' lives yet it is often neglected, both in the consulting room and in training. This book examines issues of sexuality in a positive and affirming light and considers how sexuality-related issues can be introduced into therapy and training. Sex and sexuality[...]
The drainage of rainwater and wastewater from areas of human development has both environmental and engineering aspects. This book deals comprehensively not only with the design of new systems, but also the analysis and upgrading of existing infrastructure, and the environmental issues involved.[...]
Judith Butler can justifiably be described as one of the major critical thinkers of our time. While she is best-known for her interventions into feminist debates on gender, sexuality and feminist politics, her focus in recent years has broadened to encompass some of the most pertinent topics of inte[...]
In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of [...]
"'Children enjoyed it so much they didn't realise they were being worked so hard.' - Jo Miles - Learning Support Assistant at Manor Farm Community Junior School, Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire 'Great speaking and listening activity setting up ideas for the Big Write. The games extended the children's vo[...]
Takes a thematic approach to Judith Butler as a political thinker. Starting with an explanation of her terms of analysis, this study develops Butler's theory of the political through an exploration of her politics of troubling given categories and approaches.[...]
Presents an overview of the logic, evolution, application and outcomes of the 5 major approaches of international conflict management: traditional peacekeeping; peace enforcement and support operations; negotiation and bargaining; mediation; and, adjudication. This book provides an understanding of [...]
For nearly two decades, Television: Critical Methods and Applications has served as the foremost guide to television studies. Designed for the television studies course in communication and media studies curricula, Television explains in depth how television programs and commercials are made and how[...]
The use of theory' in feminist analysis has been said to threaten feminism as a political force. This collection of work by leading feminist scholars engages with the question of the political status of poststructuralist theory within feminism. Against the view that poststructuralism necessarily we[...]
In "Bodies That Matter," Judith Butler further develops her distinctive theory of gender by examining the workings of power at the most "material" dimensions of sex and sexuality. Deepening the inquiries she began in "Gender" "Trouble," Butler offers an original reformulation of the materiality of b[...]