The Complete Leader: Handbook of Essentials for Human Services Leadership gives leaders within human services organizations with lay or professional leadership responsibilities, over 25 essential practices for human services. Special attention is paid to supervision, case management, evaluation, teamwork and character. The content of this handbook was developed over three decades by respected leader Robert Shaw, working in various services with individuals and families. His approaches are ...

Robert Shaw (1795 1863) was a Scottish Presbyterian leader in the Original Secession Church and a minister at Whitburn. The Reformed Faith is the standard of Church beliefs for the Reformed churches worldwide. It is also the most comprehensive statement of biblically based Christian belief available. This book is a practical aid to help Christians understand and apply the material in the Confession to their lives. It is well written and organized bringing to bear many additional scriptures w...

Night is a foundational element of human and animal life on earth, but its interaction with the social world has undergone significant transformations during the era of globalization. As the economic activity of the ‘daytime’ city has advanced into the night, other uses of the night as a time for play, for sleep or for escaping oppression have come increasingly under threat.This book looks at the relationship between night and society in contemporary cities. It identifies that whil...

Children of Fate was written in 1981 and is a fascinating, passionate and humorous testament to the forgotten lives of the dispossessed and marginalised in General Pinochet's Chile. 2013 is the fortieth anniversary of the year Pinochet seized power in a vicious coup.

What do we know of the emotional life of the Middle Ages? Though a long-neglected subject, a multitude of sources – spiritual and secular literature, iconography, chronicles, as well as theological and medical works – provide clues to the central role emotions played in medieval society.In this work, historians Damien Boquet and Piroska Nagy delve into a rich variety of texts and images to reveal the many and nuanced experiences of emotion during the Middle Ages – from the demonstr...

Follow the brilliant and hilarious adventures of the Zen Buddhist monk who became one of China's greatest folk heroes!During the Song Dynasty (960-1279), Ji Gong studied at the renowned Ling Yin monastery, nestled in the steep hills above Hangzhou. The Chan (Zen) Buddhist masters of the temple tried to instruct Ji Gong in the spartan practices of their sect, but the young monk, following in the footsteps of other great ne'er-do-wells, distinguished himself mainly b...

The story of the culmination of my desire for powered paragliding flight. A brief insight of the designer, creator and test pilot Robert Shaw followed by the history of the development of his self-coined Eggmotor. This book gets into the nitty-gritty of the engineering, testing and ultimately the successful flights of this home-made, back-to-basics aviation marvel. There is also a plethora of information and relevent resources for any budding D.I.Y. sky hungry folks to follow their dreams ...

Replica of 1871 edition by John Murray, London.
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The captivating travel narrative chronicling the author’s journey through Central Asia.
Robert Shaw, the author of this work was an unlikely explorer, struck down by rheumatic fever after university and forced to tame his desire for adventure by settling down as a tea-planter in the Himalayas. Yet “an adventurous spirit, stimulated by study and unabated b...

Originally published in 1977, the chapters in this volume derive from a conference on Perceiving, Acting and Knowing held by the Center for Research in Human Learning at the University of Minnesota in 1973. The volume was intended to appeal, not just to the specialist or the novice, but to anyone sufficiently interested in psychology to have obtained a sense of its history at the time. Through these essays the authors express a collective attitude that a careful scrutiny of the fundamental...

The therapist's body is a vital part of the therapeutic encounter, yet there is an inherent inadequacy in current psychotherapeutic discourse to describe the bodily phenomena. Until recently, for instance, the whole area of touch in psychotherapy has been given very little attention. The Embodied Psychotherapist uses accounts of therapists' own experiences to address this inadequacy in discourse, and provides strategies for incorporating these feelings into therapeutic work with c...

A proposal for a new way to do cognitive science argues that cognition should be described in terms of agent-environment dynamics rather than computation and representation.While philosophers of mind have been arguing over the status of mental representations in cognitive science, cognitive scientists have been quietly engaged in studying perception, action, and cognition without explaining them in terms of mental representation. In this book, Anthony Chemero descr...

Understanding Consciousness, 2nd Edition provides a unique survey and evaluation of consciousness studies, along with an original analysis of consciousness that combines scientific findings, philosophy and common sense. Building on the widely praised first edition, this new edition adds fresh research, and deepens the original analysis in a way that reflects some of the fundamental changes in the understanding of consciousness that have taken place over the last 10 years.T...