Anthem press sep 2026 (13 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A practical guide to scientific writing that applies George David Gopen's Reader Expectation Approach to help researchers communicate with greater clarity, precision, and reader impact.For more than three decades, George David Gopen's Reader Expectation Approach (REA) has transformed how scientists, researchers, and professionals write-not by prescribing rules, but by revealing how readers read. REA was first introduced in his highly acclaimed 1990 American Scientist article, 'The Science of Scientific Writing,' co-authored with Judith A. Swan, which has become the publication's second most viewed online article-approaching 148,000 views since 2017. The framework rests on a deceptively simple insight: Readers of English have unconscious expectations about where in a sentence they will find certain kinds of information. When writers fulfill those expectations, readers can easily interpret the meaning the writer intended. When writers violate reader expectations, even the most accurate science becomes difficult to follow, not because the ideas are complex, but because the prose is working against the reader's natural interpretive process.The New Science of Scientific Writing expands and deepens Gopen's foundational work, drawing on decades of his teaching across research universities, national laboratories, medical schools, law firms, and corporations worldwide. Where other writing guides offer style rules and structural templates, Gopen offers something more fundamental: A cognitive account of how meaning is made. REA was developed independently through observation and practice, and has been corroborated by findings in cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, and discourse analysis. Its applications extend across every form of scientific communication-from peer-reviewed manuscripts and grant proposals to computer programming, research presentations, and science education. Scientists who learn REA do not merely write more clearly; they think more precisely, because the discipline of structuring prose for a reader's expectations forces a writer to confront exactly what they are communicating will be interpreted.This book arrives at a critical moment for global science communication. With millions of non-native English speakers required to publish in English-language journals, and with research funding increasingly contingent on the clarity of grant proposals, the need for a principled, reader-centered writing framework has never been greater. For scientists whose careers depend on being understood-and whose funding depends on making reviewers believe-this book offers what no style guide can: a principled account of how readers make meaning and a practical method for working with that process rather than against it.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature traces the aesthetic and political development of the Gothic genre in Colombia. Drawing on works like José Asunción Silväs poetic 'Nocturnos,' Caliwood's films and Mario Mendoza's novels, Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodriguez shows how Gothic tropes appear in the works of Colombian writers and filmmakers. However, he argues that what results ultimately is not just the Gothic in Colombia, but rather the Colombian Gothic-a new form of the genre with its own agenda and aesthetics.To identify a form of the Gothic as 'Colombian' is, in one sense, to demonstrate how thinkers from that nation have reconfigured and laid claim to tropes often regarded as the purview of Europe and the US. The Colombian Gothic pays homage to but also pokes fun at the Gothic of figures like Poe, Bronte, Hawthorne and Stoker. In the hands of Colombian writers and filmmakers, Gothic tropes are taken to their extremes to reflect particularly Colombian issues, like the ongoing armed conflict in the country since the 1950s as various left wing guerillas, government factions and paramilitary groups escalated violence. In this Colombian Gothic, traditional tropes like distorted familial relations appear as open fratricide and incest. Such transformations address the real-life horrors of violence wrought within the supposed protections of shared nationality.In another sense, the Colombian Gothic does not just define itself apart from the US and European Gothics-it also challenges the centrality of Bogota-centered perspectives of Colombian politics and conflict. By the 1970s and 1980s, cities such as Cali suffered particularly extreme levels of violence, when the war among the drug cartels added another layer to the already complicated conflict. At the same time, Cali had one of the strongest filmmaking traditions in the country. The 'Cali group' of writers and filmmakers seized the Gothic to challenge not just Europe and the US as the centers of the genre, but also to challenge Bogotá as the center of the country-and as the most 'logical' place to set a Gothic narrative with its colder, gloomier, darker urban ambience. The Colombian Gothic of Cali addresses the topics of conflict, but within an unapologetically tropical setting that reflects the hotter climate in the region surrounding Cali. The effort of these Cali-based writers and filmmakers became so dominant in shaping the Colombian Gothic that the twenty-first-century Colombian Gothic-now mainly composed in Bogotá-follows the lead of these creators, continuing to create a Gothic that uniquely reflects the aesthetics and politics of Colombia.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Collects Constantine Sandis's best works on Wittgenstein's approach to understanding others, offering a fresh exegesis of Wittgenstein's writing while showing his relevance beyond the academy.Constantine Sandis has been working on Wittgenstein's approach to other minds for over a decade. This volume collects his best writings on the topic. It sketches a picture of Wittgenstein's approach to understanding others which explains how his anti-scepticism with regard to the philosophical problem of 'other minds' is not only compatible with but also supported by his scepticism concerning the real-life difficulty of understanding others (and vice versa). While each individual essay focuses on particular issues in Wittgenstein (including philosophical anthropology, interpersonal psychology, communication theory, and animal minds), they collectively paint a picture of what he takes the real problem of other minds to be, how to overcome it, and the limitations of our understanding. The book not only offers a fresh exegesis of Wittgenstein's public and private writings on these matters but also proceeds to show the relevance of Wittgenstein beyond the remit of philosophy and the academy as a whole. These include issues in ethology, anthropology, AI intelligibility, psychology, and intercultural studies.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Inspired by the work of Margot Norris, this volume takes up her theme of how James Joyce's works open up a host of new possibilities: for interpretation, for stylistic 'iridescence,' for narrative, for other possible worlds, and for gender equality.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - An original political economy analysis that rethinks inflation as a complex, socially constructed phenomenon, challenging orthodox views and highlighting its potential benefits for growth and inequality reduction.The book's seven short chapters provide an original critical, political economist's introduction to the meaning, causes and consequences of inflation. The book begins by arguing that inflation is a metaphor rather than a 'thing' and that inflation is a complex social construction, whose social complexity tends to become obscured by the presentation of inflation in terms of any simple number. It identifies inclusions and exclusions, measurement difficulties, and inherent imperfections in inflation indexes. It then provides a historical context to arguments about causes and consequences, emphasising how prices and price changes are influenced by both states and (more or less private) economic forces and that rather than involving a neutral 'change of counters', price changes have substantial and differentiated social impacts. It shows that the 'norm' of rising prices is a historical novelty and highlights that genuine hyperinflations are extremely rare.The middle part of the book develops a constructive critique of existing theories. It begins by considering the quantity theory of money, arguing that the four variables of the famous Fisher equation - money, velocity of circulation, prices and transactions - should indeed be seen as variables and that doing so means that monetarist follies do not require their inversion, that inflation cannot be a monetary phenomenon or that states cannot be implicated. It then turns to the relation between unemployment and inflation and develops ideas which link inflation to the dynamics of capitalist innovation, competition and the changing global economy.The final part of the book considers the consequences of inflation. It contests what it sees as an anti-inflationary consensus, presenting evidence that, up to levels far beyond those contemplated by central bankers, inflation is conducive to faster economic growth and that it also tends to reduce wealth and income inequality. In this context, it argues that the contemporary low-inflation regime should be understood as a profoundly political achievement and asks why this inherently political character of inflation has been so effectively submerged and the acceptance of the low inflation agenda so widely accepted.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Focuses on the history and provides an understanding as it was experienced on the ground of the Great Irish Famine, particularly at the level of the rural poor.The Great Irish Famine claimed the lives of one million people, mainly from the lower classes. More than a million others fled the stricken land between 1845 and 1851. This catastrophe ranks among the worst famines to afflict pre-industrial societies, and it retains an important place in the psyche of the Irish people and the Irish diaspora to this day. In recent decades, its history has become the focus of considerable scholarly and popular attention. In particular, a tremendous amount of work has been undertaken on mortality, emigration, relief efforts and the wider political, social and psychological consequences of the calamity. Yet much remains to be retrieved and reconstructed, particularly at the level of the rural poor. This book intends to fill that gap. Astonishingly, there is a large volume of reports on social conditions in the Irish localities, emanating from within those localities, that has never been used systematically by historians. It bears the compelling title of the 'Death Census'. Most historians are simply unaware of its existence. The outstanding feature of the Death Census is that it was authored by local clergymen who lived among the people they served, and were intimately involved with their lives.The census, which has never been published in composite form, is a unique store house of testimonies from near the base of society that awaits the attention of students of famine in Ireland. Ninety-nine clergymen from across Ireland, with marked concentrations in the worst affected parts of the country, contributed to the census. Some of these documents are coloured by politics, which in itself is revealing, but most aspire to more dispassionate representations of the horror facing a famishing people within the 'little society' of the parish, accompanied by appeals, explicit or implicit, to the humanitarian instincts of the wider society. In terms of wider significance, this is one of the great unstudied texts of modern Irish history. This book brings the Death Census together in composite form for the first time, and provides a detailed examination of its contents. The result is a new understanding of the Great Famine as it was experienced on the ground.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This broad-ranging monograph examines the potential creation, through the arts and culture, of societies that enjoy sustainable, positive peace. It begins with a critique of the pervasive nature of militarism and violence embedded deep in the cultural fabric of many societies, influencing the language and discourses we use, the films we watch, our museums and histories, our journalism, and our education systems. It also examines the roots of violence in our parenting styles, gender roles, and spiritual practices.It contrasts this with an examination of a number of peaceful societies that already exist, drawing useful lessons from their cultures. It critiques discrepancies in history education with regard to war and peace and examines artistic and cultural processes, institutions, and artifacts designed to create peace, such as peace museums and parks, peace journalism, peace education, and resistance to violence through cultural means, such as film-making, fine arts, satirical theatre, and protest music. It examines the efficacy of these attempts and suggests positive ways forward. It also explores the role of gender in creating cultures of peace and the impacts on peacebuilding of cultivating peace within.The book commences with an explanation of cultural violence and its underpinning of direct, structural, and ecological violence. Solutions-oriented and optimistic, each chapter begins with a critique of cultural violence in the subject area before moving to examples of positive cultural currents striving to embed sustainable peace deep within societies. It aims to inspire deep understanding, individual reflection, community empowerment, and grassroots action for peace in cultural spheres.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Examines the relationship between the Enlightenment idea of improvement and eighteenth-century travel writings about Middle Eastern overland routes to India.As this book shows, different British responses to the material conditions of the Arab region and its inhabitants were mapped onto some British debates about the viability of modern commercial societies and the apparently intractable problem of securing a more benign relationship between material advance and virtue, modernity and traditions, improvement and backwardness. These debates reflected some significant transformations of the period: fears of French invasion during the Seven Years Wars, Enclosure Acts and the Jacobite Rebellion, the corruption of East India Company, the crisis of the American colonies and French Revolution, and the debate over slavery of the 1790s. En route, Britons raised concerns about a host of religious, political and ethical questions that troubled eighteenth-century Britain: Is moral corruption a necessary price a society has to pay in return for living in a materially advanced state Do people need to honour traditions and religion in modern commercial society in which people have never been freer Can one find virtue and morality in commercial society Can an advanced and enlightened society tolerate religion How can it be that a wealthy society also has poor and dispossessed people who live in workhouses How is it possible that a society which respects Enlightenment values of freedom and liberty also practice slavery and colonise other societies European travellers in the Levant often found themselves confronting these questions, especially in a region known for being grand and great in the past but barren and full of ruins in the present.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Theory and Practice of Creative Coaching is a book that seeks to unearth new and exciting ways of coaching individuals in organisations and communities generally. Much of the practical writing about coaching is dominated by the use of coaching models and approaches and less work has been undertaken exploring the human basis for this work. Taking its source of inspiration from a wide range of sources such as philosophy and the practical joys of nature this book will seek to fill some gaps in the ways in which practice unfolds.Much of work undertaken has been against the practical backdrop of pitching theory against practice . In addition, more recently, this is set against trends involved in Higher Education whereby mature adults are undergoing over 12 months of training to achieve the nationally recognised ILM coaching qualifications at Levels 5 and 7. This represents contact with a diverse set of cohorts of learners of over 300 students in the past 5 years for more than 100 contact hours per cohort. Mixing theory with practice is one of the strong points of these vocational qualifications 'producing' highly motivated practitioners forging their understanding in the fulcrum of reflective practice and individual reflexivity.Against this backdrop ideas, concepts and new ways of thinking have produced groups of coaches who are adept at utilising core and fundamental aspects of human nature to become successful coaches. Huge shifts in understanding have been made through engaging in creative activities; to engaging in art, metaphors, nature, walking and unusual methods of engagement with a fellow human in a coaching setting. As a result, this book sheds light upon the use of creative techniques and begins to extend the possibilities for coaches and their clients. Pitched as a way in which peers and equals can work together to learn and develop alternative coaching approaches this book forms the platform for strong learning and an increased diversity of practice and understanding.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The book presents an original study of the #MeToo movement in Taiwan, focusing on how the movement was instigated by and communicated in the wake of the Taiwanese Netflix series Wave Makers. It first examines how the storyline and character design of the show correspond to the unique challenges survivors of sexual violence face in Taiwan and, in this process, explicates how fictional narratives are translated into actionable forms of social mobilization that empower survivors of sexual violence. The rest of the book examines the ways in which communications of #MeToo took place on social media in Taiwan, using case studies and secondary sources to explore the strengths and limitations of #MeToo as hitherto witnessed in Taiwan's media space.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Offers an ethnographic and lived-account exploration of conflict, belonging, and peacebuilding in Southern Kaduna, showing how colonial legacies, identity politics, and everyday experiences shape intercommunal relations and possibilities for reconciliation among divided communities in contemporary Nigeria.This book explores the complex and contested terrain of conflict and peace in Southern Kaduna, Nigeria, through the voices of community members and the author's own lived experience. Building on The Crisis of Belonging and Ethnographies of Peacebuilding in Kaduna State, Nigeria (2021), it deliberately centers people's narratives to illuminate the historical and contemporary dynamics of land, identity, and power among ethnic minority communities and the dominant Fulani and Hausa groups. Through these stories, the book demonstrates how colonial legacies, state policies, and enduring sociopolitical structures have shaped intercommunal relations and intensified struggles over belonging and territorial entitlement. At its core, the book responds to the voices of those most directly affected by conflict, individuals who courageously shared their experiences and called for their stories to be documented and heard beyond their communities. By foregrounding these lived narratives, the work challenges homogenizing and essentialist accounts of violence and victimhood, amplifies marginalized perspectives, and opens space for more grounded conversations about reconciliation, coexistence, and healing in contested spaces. In doing so, it offers an alternative way of understanding peacebuilding rooted not in abstract frameworks but in everyday practices of survival, negotiation, and placemaking. The primary audience for this book includes scholars and specialists of Northern and Middle Belt Nigerian politics, as well as researchers working on farmer and herder relations, intercommunal conflict, and peacebuilding in Nigeria. It offers a rich empirical and ethnographic resource for scholars seeking grounded insights into conflict, belonging, and peace in contemporary Nigeria and postcolonial societies.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Defines life as an ongoing process formed through dynamic connections among living beings, their environments, and the nonliving, in which life continually changes and transforms.What is BIO Usually used as a prefix before words such as logic, technology, mechanics, and mimetic, bio encompasses and brings together everything that can be recognized as life, as well as the connections and interconnections it establishes with the nonliving and the nonmaterial. In this way, life could not be known without the multiple connections and interconnections, which also act as a contrast and reflective counterpoint to life itself. Abstracted from its reality, life seems to be something that exists or simply is. However, as a flow that connects and interconnects diachronically and synchronically, life is something that is always becoming, at the same time that it is ceasing to be. It is therefore important to reflect on the prefix bio, understood as life, as a way in which one becomes. Thus, the living is not something that just exists, but rather something that changes, as it becomes something else.Now, if life comes to and ceases to exist, it is due to the different connections and interconnections that arise internally-externally/micro-macroscopically between living things, as well as with their environments that include the nonliving and the nonmaterial. Through these connections and interconnections, living beings can change and, in any case, transform themselves. These changes and transformations do not occur in empty space, but within or in the middle of a place (a pond), a container (the stomach of a ruminant), or in a specific area (a coniferous forest). The connections and interconnections that living beings establish can be directed toward something or someone, because they do not live outside an environment (like the kingfisher, which relates to trees, lakes, or rivers; the fish and crustaceans it eats; the wind that allows it to move; and the water in which it dives).Hence, rather than living under the subjection of external conditions, the living have an interest in fostering their connections and interconnections in other ways. In this sense, the concreteness of life, that is, the living in each particular case, shows in its abstraction that life itself changes and transforms within an environment, by directing itself toward something or someone in which one has a specific interest. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Critiques the Eurocentric framing of entrepreneurship in Africa and advocates for embracing Indigenous philosophies and practices to foster inclusive, sustainable socio-economic development.Indigenous entrepreneurship involves the use of Indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) to establish enterprises whose target is not only profit but also socio-economic development of communities, and that differentiates it from mainstream economic activities. Based on this, it is then possible to bring into the conversation the issue of IKS and entrepreneurship in Africa in terms of how the conceptualization and praxis of Indigenous entrepreneurship can be decolonized to unlock and unleash socio-economic development in Africa. For this reason, it matters that Indigenous entrepreneurship does not continue to be subjected to or governed by mainstream economic principles. It should be remembered that before colonial conquest, Indigenous entrepreneurship flourished and led to authentic and inclusive socio-economic development. It was colonialism and settler Eurocentric institutions that subjected Indigenous entrepreneurship to mainstream economic governance regimes leading to its marginalization and in some cases relative demise. Nonetheless, given on one hand the resilience of Indigenous entrepreneurship in terms of surviving the colonial encounter, onslaught, and institutions that should have suffocated and buried it and on the other its potential to spur inclusive socio-economic development, it is now time to revisit and recover it without subjecting it to or seeing it through mainstream economic lenses and the Eurocentric frame. Consequently, this raises three critical but related questions which the book tackles; first, how is entrepreneurship understood and practiced by Indigenous communities in Africa Second, why is there a need to decolonize the conceptualization and praxis of entrepreneurship in Africa through the logic of IKS and how can this be done Third, how and to what extent can IKS be leveraged and/or mobilized and unleashed to contribute to socio-economic development in Africa Against this backdrop, the main goal of the book project therefore is to decolonize within the prism of IKS how Indigenous entrepreneurship is conceptualized, understood, and implemented in Africa. This task should show the poverty of the current understanding and implementation of entrepreneurship in Africa which is couched within a Eurocentric frame. It is now time to transcend the Eurocentric monologue of entrepreneurship to an understanding of how Indigenous communities in various parts of Africa conceptualize and practice entrepreneurship leading to socio-economic development. It is important to amplify the point that since it is the cornerstone of the contemporary Indigenous economy, Indigenous entrepreneurship is both the answer and the path forward for the development and cultural survival of African communities.…