The Routledge Guidebook to Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra is an engaging introduction to this rich and provocative philosophical text. Nietzsche is arguably one of the most influential and yet least understood philosophers of the nineteenth century. The same can be said of his self-proclaimedmagnum opus, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The work has influenced everything from poetry, literature, and music to philosophy, psychoanalysis, and soldiers on the battlefields of World...

Between 1878 and 1882, Nietzsche published what he called 'the free spirit works': Human, All Too Human; Assorted Opinions and Maxims; The Wanderer and His Shadow; Daybreak; and The Gay Science. Often approached as a mere assemblage of loosely connected aphorisms, these works are here re-interpreted as a coherent narrative of the steps Nietzsche takes in educating himself toward freedom that executes a dialectic between scientific truth-seeking and artistic life-affirmation. Matthew Meyer'...

Rami, the Llama overhears his little girl tell her momma that Rami is her Travel Llama. Rami does not know what it means to be a travel llama but hopes to discover its meaning during their family vacation to Southern Spain. Follow along as Rami discovers beautiful locations and attempts to learn what being a travel llama is all about. As Rami and his family travel, he provides simple travel tips for children and interesting facts about some of the locations. Rami's adventure does not end w...

Rami, la llama de juguete oye a su pequeña decirle a su mamá que Rami es su llama de viaje. Siga mientras Rami intenta aprender de qué se trata ser una llama viajera. Rami ofrece sencillos consejos de viaje para niños y datos interesantes sobre algunos de los lugares que visita en el sur de España. La historia de Rami es perfecta para quien viaja por primera vez o para cualquiera que ame las llamas. Este es el primero de una serie de libros de viajes e ilustraciones para niños con Rami y u...

Here at Jersey Devil Press, there are three things we look for in a story: strangeness, beauty, and poop jokes. And while this collection is admittedly a little shy on scatological humor, the 18 works collected here are easily the strangest and most beautiful things we've ever published.The 2015 Jersey Devil Press Anthology contains the best work from our last five years, written by some of our favorite authors. We love them in a way we're not entirely comfortable with.And ...

Archery and the Human Condition in Lacan, the Greeks, and Nietzsche showcases archery as a metaphor for the fundamental tension at the heart of the human condition. Matthew Meyer develops a theory of subjectivity that incorporates elements from psychoanalysis, Greek literature, philosophy, and Zen archery, bringing together allusions to the bow and archery made by Sophocles, Homer, Heraclitus, Aristotle, Lacan, Nietzsche, and Awa Kenzo. The book weaves together a psychoanalytic account of ...

This book takes an integrated approach to pain rehabilitation and combines pain science, rehabilitation and yoga with evidence-based approaches from respected contributors. They demonstrate how to integrate the concepts, philosophies and practices of yoga and pain science in working with people in pain. An essential and often overlooked part of pain rehabilitation is listening to, working with, learning from, and validating the person in pain's lived experience.Th...

Uncover an integrated approach to spiritual growth from 12 trusted Christian leaders.For six years, spiritual formation leaders such as Dallas Willard, Bruce Demarest, and Bill Hull came together with other colleagues to create a collection of wisdom and honest personal revelation in the areas of discipleship and spiritual formation. The result is The Kingdom Life, a book that offers a fresh approach to the spiritual disciplines through a three-pronged foc...

American Disgust shows how perceptions of disgust and fears of contamination are rooted in the country's history of colonialism and racism. Drawing on colonial, corporate, and medical archives, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer argues that microbial medicine is closely entwined with changing cultural experiences of digestion, excrement, and disgust that are inextricably tied to the creation of whiteness.Ranging from nineteenth-century colonial encounters with Native people to John Har...

Der Mensch verschläft ein Drittel seines Lebens. Doch wie schläft man »richtig«? Dieser Band präsentiert erstmals eine Geschichte des Schlafs, die die Perspektiven von Historikern, Literaturwissenschaftlern, Anthropologen und Medizinern zusammenführt. Die Autorinnen und Autoren diskutieren, wie sich Wahrnehmung, Bewertung und Organisation des Schlafs vom späten 18. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert verändert haben. Sie zeigen, auf welche Weise moderne Gesellschaften versuchten, Kontrolle über den Sc...

Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century provides readers with a comprehensive survey of topics, methodologies, and theories in the discipline, drawing on contributions from leading anthropologists around the world. As a discipline, medical anthropology provides situational analysis of health, disease, and disability to show how the experiences of medical experts, patients, and their broader communities are informed by their social and cultural contexts. Adopting ...

This book brings together all the key evidence on recovery capital measurement and its application. It offers a clear and accessible overview of the development of the strengths-based approach in addressing behavioural health issues and quantifying and measuring recovery capital, along with the evidence base for this approach.The book sets out the proven benefits of this approach to measuring and bolstering addiction recovery, demonstrating the impact of the approach in improving t...