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WATTS, Michael

MACMILLAN EDUCATION ELT

Filled with humorous and instructive examples, Lovescript provides the inside read on a successful relationship and is the ultimate handbook for deciphering the deeper meaning behind our scrawls and scribbles. Containing many amusing games and tests, this book ensures that readers will never mind their p's and q's in quite the same way again. Illustrations.

Lovescript: What Handwriting Reveals About Love & Romance

Parenting & Relationships

St. Martin's: Griffin

Almost everyone doodles. But do you know why? Or what they reveal? Distilled from the extensive research of Freud and Jung, doodle interpretation is now used by psychologists as an aid to assessing personality. This guide explains the key principles of doodle analysis and includes A-Z interpretations of more than 200 samples. A book bound to be in demand at the office!

Doodle Interpretation: A Beginner's Guide

Reference

Hodder&Stoughton

This handy series from Headway offers brief yet lucid introductions to the world’s cultural icons. Each book examines the life, the work, and the legends surrounding its subject, and key terms and concepts are highlighted and clearly explained. Additionally, each chapter ends with a review section for easy reference and to help consolidate the reader’s understanding of the text.

Heidegger: A Beginner's Guide

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

In this guide, the author provides an analysis of handwriting styles. In four sections covering, the mind and its intelligence, ambition, success, and sexual behaviour, he demonstrates the secrets handwriting can reveal.

Graphology

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Fireside

The Philosophy of Heidegger (Volume 12) (Continental European Philosophy)

In The Philosophy of Heidegger, Michael Watts provides an overview of Heidegger's thoughts that is suitable for both beginning and advanced students. Free from jargon and the standard idioms of academic philosophical writing, Watts uses several illustrations and concrete examples to introduce key Heideggrian concepts such as throwness, the clearing, authenticity, falling, moods, nullity, temporality, Ereignis, enframing, dwelling, and Gelassenheit. He avoids over-involvement with the secondary literature and with wider philosophical debates, which gives the writing an immediate, accessible voice. Ranging widely across Heidegger's writings, the book displays an impressively thorough knowledge of his corpus, navigating the difficult relationship between the earlier and later texts and giving the reader a strong sense of the fundamental motives and overall continuity of Heidegger's thought.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

McGill-Queen's University Press

Using both grand conceptualizations and grounded case studies, Allan Pred and Michael Watts look at how people cope with and give meaning to capitalism and modernity in different times and places. As capital accumulation has grown and taken new forms, it has affected technology and labor relations which in turn have affected people's daily lives. These changes have not always been either welcome or easy. Pred and Watts focus on the symbolic discontent and cultural confrontations that accompany capitalism. They depict people struggling over the meaning of change in their lives and over new relations of power. 
Modernity is experienced differently in different times and places. To illustrate this point, Pred and Watts offer four case studies that range across time and space. These studies remind us that there are multiple capitalisms and mutiple reactions to capitalisms. Watts begins with a study of a Muslim millenarian movement that arose alongside the Nigerian oil boom of the 1970s. When a Muslim prophet and disenfranchised followers tried to create a distinctive community and identity, they came into brutal conflict with state authorities. Thousands died in the resulting oppression. Watts's next case is less bloody, at least in the short run. He tell us what happened when technological change was introduced in rice production in West African peasant society. Peasants were drawn into the world economy as contract farmers. This changed work relations and affected everyday life in peasant households. Families began to fight over who would work and under what conditions. They struggled over gender indentity and property rights. We move back in time and across space for ther third case study. Pred discusses changes in the daily life of the Stockholm working class at the end of the nineteenth century. He writes of the various forms their discontent took as they struggled with economic restructuring. Even conflict over street names took on special meaning. For the last case Pred takes us to a steel mill in California. When a South Korean company became half owner of the mill, there was money for modernization and the threat of layoffs was reduced. But the workers remained unhappy. They protested low wages, unsafe conditions, and unfair recruitment practices. Their labor issues turned into issues of nationalism, morality and identity. All four case studies demonstrate the shock of modernity and how the resulting struggles affect daily life.

Reworking Modernity: Capitalisms and Symbolic Discontent (Hegemony and Experience)

Business & Money

Pred, Allan

Economics

Rutgers University Press

The life of Christ

Religion & Spirituality

Pitkin Pictorials

Oxford: The City and the University

Travel

Europe

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