Designed for one-term courses on physics for liberal arts majors, this book aims to give an insight into the connections between physics and cultural history. The book uses no mathematics beyond basic high-school algebra. The author has twice won awards from the American Institute of Physics.

Physics for Poets

Science & Math

MADISON ROBERT (UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN

Physics

Open University Pres

Concentrating on the first three books of Spenser's allegorical poem, Roberts selects certain episodes from the poem, opening up their techniques and possible meanings, and examining the patterns of narrative and the recurrent key images. He raises significant critical issues and gives students access to ideas, themes and discussions that Spenser knew (or could have known, so providing the necessary historical and intellectual background.

Faerie Queen (Open Guides to Literature)

Literature & Fiction

Roberts,J

History & Criticism

This friendly and practical book is the guide to how to teach adults. Now in its fourth edition, the book has been extensively rewritten to meet the needs of those working with adults at the beginning of the twenty-first century.This book is aimed to anyone who wants to know how to teach adults. It will help people who teach adults in a wide range of settings - from traditional adult education institutes, universities and management training courses to government training schemes.The book aims to build confidence, to offer practical advice and to give the real-life flavour of the privilege and excitement of helping fellow adults develop.

Adults Learning

Education & Teaching

Rogers, J.

Higher & Continuing Education

How do academics perceive themselves and colleagues in their own disciplines, and how do they rate those in other subjects? How closely related are their intellectual tasks and their ways of organizing their professional lives? What are the interconnections between academic cultures and the nature of disciplines? This title maps academic knowledge and explores the diverse characteristics of those who inhabit and cultivate it.

Academic Tribes & Territories

Becher T

Schools & Teaching

Human Resource Management in Education (Management in Education Series)

Riches & M

This book gives us the voices of miners who felt the full weight of state censure and regulatory power in the long strike of 1984-85. Censured as "the enemy within", they are subjected to a wide range of policing practices. Apart from the police force itself, the law (both criminal and civil), the Government, the welfare agencies, the National Coal Board, the mass media and the trade union bureaucracy all played their major parts in policing the strike, and each played a particular role in the changing political consciouness of the striking community. The book aims to remind us of the recurrent class character of criminal justice and of the long-neglected necessity for criminology to deal with the processes of criminalization involved in industrial relations, and to locate people's responses to disputes, censures and policing in terms of their level of class consciousness. The book describes the political consciousness of the politically criminalized, and the way in which that consciousness changes in relation to repressive policing and social regulation. This is an account of the effects this policing had on a divided mining community's consciousness of class, state and justice.

The Enemy Without: Policing and Class Consciousness in the Miners' Strike (New Directions in Criminology Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Green, P.

Sociology

Provides explanation, discussion, and comment on some 1,000 terms and concepts in special education (arranged alphabetically). Intended as a basic (albeit expensive) reference for those who work with special needs children. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The Special Education Handbook: An Introductory Reference

Health, Fitness & Dieting

WILLIAMS, P.

Children's Health

<p>Social change has become very obviously internationalized during the current historical epoch. Democratization, industrialization, the growth of capitalism, the emergence of nationalism, the rise and fall of communism, the advent of various types of religious revivalism: most of the key developments in the social life of our times have unfolded on a world scale. Indeed, the most fundamental transformation in recent history has perhaps been the process of globalization itself.<br>This book aims to equip students of international relations and other fields to analyse social change from a global perspective. The author addresses such core problems as what we mean by 'international relations'; the relationship between international and domestic aspects of the process of social transformation; the role of politics, economics, culture, psychology and ecology in the dynamics of change; the relationship between structure and agency in producing social change; and links between theory and practice in the transformation process. In the course of this discussion he critically reviews existing treatments of the international dimension of social change, such as those found in modernization theory, Marxism, world-system theory, the recent revival of historical sociology, and notions of postmodernism.<br>International Relations of Social Change has been written primarily with advanced undergraduates in mind, but it will also appeal to international relations specialists, sociologists and historians at all levels who see a need for reconstructed theory in order to understand more fully the problems of social transformation. A wide-ranging cross-disciplinary bibliography will aid readers further to that end.</p>

International Relations of Social Change

Scholte J

Politics & Government

If women's difficulties are not to be trivialized then political, societal and historical frameworks, besides individual dynamics, must be appreciated. The use of clinical material demonstrates the value of such an approach and provides a framework in which to describe the counselling process.

Women in Therapy and Counseling

Walker, M.

A careworker is in the "frontline" and is often the person who deals first with clients who are frightened, upset, confused, angry and lonely; who washes, toilets and dresses clients; who sits with a dying client and deals with bereaved relatives. This book provides useful practical guidance and discusses how best to empathize with the client, how to listen, assess risks, encourage clients' self-esteem and independence. It deals with daily tasks and considers how to cope with emergencies. It shows how to avoid stress in the job and advises on career development.

Caring for People

Social Sciences

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