This volume is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some of the key texts which informed Johan Huizinga's famous study of the Burgundian court, The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which has never gone out of print. It combines these texts with sources that Huizinga did not consider, those[...]
Australia's rural workplaces and homes have a poor safety record due to people being unaware of simple safety measures and the hazards which make them necessary. This book offers a practical guide to all the major safety aspects of farming, including tractors, bushfires, and building fires.[...]
What are professional doctorates? How do they change professional knowledge and improve practice? This book examines the relationship between advanced study on higher education courses and professional practice. It explores contributions made by research on practice to professional development.[...]
This best-selling text provides a scheme which enables the beginning researcher to organize and evaluate the research that they read and to plan and implement small scale research projects of their own. The authors also give structured, practical guidance on the development of a research question, t[...]
32 less familiar folk tales from the American Indians, Australian Bushmen, African Kaffirs and from Persia, Lapland, Brazil, and India. Different enough to capture all imaginations. 50 illustrations.
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Eco awareness has had an enormous impact across all cultural and political spectrums, not least in the art world. This accessible and thought-provoking book is the first in-depth exploration of the ways in which contemporary artists are confronting nature, the environment, climate change and ecology[...]
Wheatley's Road Traffic Law in Scotland is an established reference manual for all those involved in the detection and prosecution of road traffic offences. The new edition of this authoritative text has been revised throughout to include all major legislative changes.[...]
Determined to take his deeply loved younger sister Pauline's education in hand, Henry Beyle - better known by the most famous of his scores of 'noms de plume', Stendhal - was obliged to continue her tuition in epistolary fashion on leaving Grenoble. In his letters to her he instructs her in what she[...]
Does the success of warts-and-all celebrity biographies betray our prurient, voyeuristic times? Or is a fascination with the lives and struggles of others a facet of human nature, reflected in literary tastes through the ages? Modern biographies, Andrew Brown argues, inspire by framing life as a st[...]
Encyclopedias have traditionally claimed to provide absolute knowledge, yet with information now among the world's most valuable commodities, this Brief History is a timely consideration of how accurate that claim can ever be. While the omissions and distortions of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia may[...]
Andrew Brown spent part of his childhood in Sweden during the 1960s. In the 1970s he married a Swedish woman and worked in a mill raising their son. In the mid-1980s his marriage and the country fell apart. Twenty years later Andrew travelled the length of Sweden in search of the country he had love[...]
Finding himself locked in his room for six weeks, a young officer uses his imagination to travel around his room, using the various objects it contains as inspiration for a delightful parody of contemporary travel-writing and exercise in Sternean picaresque, and humorously demonstrating what one can[...]
Chelsea Physic Garden was founded by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in 1673 as a resource providing plant material for the training of apothecaries. For most of its existence, the Garden has been a focus for botanists, taxonomists, students and horticulturists both for employing their skills[...]
Från 1960-talet och tjugo år framåt var Sverige avundat runt om i världen. Det var ett välmående land som strävade efter jämställdhet, som hade lyckats undvika krig och som nu verkade leda världen mot en renare, vänligare, förnuftigare framtid. Flyktingar var välkomna, oavsett om de var[...]
Music Technology in Education lays out the principles of music technology and how they can be used to enhance musical teaching and learning in primary and secondary education. Previously published as Computers in Music Education, this second edition has been streamlined to focus on the needs of toda[...]
New medical technologies are increasingly at the centre of novel transformations in the human and social body. Whilst reproduction, health, ageing and dying have long been areas for technical intervention, the emergence of molecular biology and information technology raise far--reaching political, s[...]
Presents the history of Bristol. This volume contains a portfolio of new and original views of Bristol's locations, all by local photographers. It depicts how the city has evolved to meet the changing needs and tastes of its residents and visitors.[...]