The Routledge International Handbook on Zygmunt Bauman is a major, state‑of‑the‑art collection dedicated to the work and ideas of one of the most renowned intellectuals of the 20th and the 21st centuries.Bringing together eminent scholars in social sciences and humanities from all over the world, it presents and engages with the most important characteristics of Bauman’s work and life, the key themes of his oeuvre, the relationship between his ideas and intellectuals’ inno...

Most homeschool advice was written for a child who does not exist in your house, and the color coded block schedules, the cheerful encouragement to start at 8 in the morning, and the tidy hourly timetables all assume a child who transitions without pain and sustains attention for 45 minutes. If you are raising a neurodivergent child, you already know how badly that picture misses your reality. This book is for the parent who has tried those schedules and watched them collapse by 9:30 in th...

If you have ever whispered a promise to yourself in the mirror and then forgotten it by lunchtime, you already know the problem this book is built to solve. The words we speak into our own ears shape the way we move through the day, and for many women the voice that runs the loudest is the voice that says we are not enough. That voice is not the voice of God, and yet it has been given a microphone, because it is the only one we have practiced. This book is a different kind of practice, bui...

Almost forgotten by time, tucked away beyond the sight of the passerby, there is a little piece of old England, which was for many years a forgotten wilderness. If it were not for a weather-beaten plaque on the gatepost few would realise that beyond the rusted gates there lies, in unmarked paupers’ graves, 2,861 former patients of the once formidable Menston Asylum. To be admitted to a lunatic asylum in the nineteenth century was fraught with danger, and in many cases meant a life sentence...

(Piano Instruction). The Hal Leonard Jazz Piano Method is a comprehensive and easy-to-use guide designed for anyone interested in playing jazz piano from the complete novice just learning the basics to the more advanced player who wishes to enhance their keyboard vocabulary. There are lots of fun progressions and licks for you to play and absorb. The accompanying audio includes demonstrations of all the examples in the book! Topics include essential theory, chords and voicings, improvisati...

A victim of the Nazis, then the communists. Twice a refugee, yet always remaining a committed socialist. In countless ways, Zygmunt Bauman lived the political upheavals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He was an actor within them. Bauman’s own lived history informed his politics, which found expression in varying degrees in his sociology, as he wrote extensively on socialism, democracy, bureaucracy, morality, Europe and the Jewish experience.This volume brings together ...

A stranger has come To share my room in the house not right in the head, A girl mad as birds – Dylan Thomas, ‘Love in the Asylum’ With the advent of ‘care in the community’ for the mentally afflicted, the self-contained villages for the apparently insane have now been consigned to the history books. These once bustling Victorian institutions were commonly known in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as the ‘county asylum’ or the ‘pauper lunatic asylum’, and were an accepted and es...

Instant rapport with the audience. They are smiling, leaning forward, ready to listen.Fear stops people from public speaking. Everyone wants to be liked, but the pressure gets in the way. So we avoid it.In a speech, presentation, webinar or even a casual conversation, we have just a few seconds to prove we are interesting and valuable. How can we capture our audience’s attention immediately? By mastering our first 20 seconds.We can ...

The lives and works of the celebrated Bronte family are so ingrained in our cultural psyche that we think we know them inside out - but walking in the footsteps of the literary greats and their characters offers a new perspective on their work. Our journey begins in Cambridge with the arrival of the young Patrick Bronte and follows his family's fortunes as they grow up in their home village of Haworth. We see the wild moorland locations that would inspire the haunting Wuthering Heights and...

The Science of Reading Human Face celebrates the 2nd World Congress on Facial Expression of Emotion (2nd WCFEE), held at University Fernando Pessoa in October 2024. Framed by the theme “Brain and Emotion – Face Connects People,” the volume compiles speeches, keynote lectures, and peer-reviewed papers from world-renowned experts including A. Freitas-Magalhães, António Damásio, Joseph LeDoux, Daniel Goleman, Martin Seligman, Joan-Pere Barret, Dacher Keltner, and Lisa Feldman Barrett. The con...

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Narrative research has become a catchword in the social sciences today, promising new fields of inquiry and creative solutions to persistent problems.This book brings together ideas about narrative from a variety of contexts across the social sciences and synthesizes understandings of the field. Rather than focusing on theory, it exam...

March 29, 1900, is considered by many to be the day mathematical finance was born. On that day a French doctoral student, Louis Bachelier, successfully defended his thesis Théorie de la Spéculation at the Sorbonne. The jury, while noting that the topic was "far away from those usually considered by our candidates," appreciated its high degree of originality. This book provides a new translation, with commentary and background, of Bachelier's seminal work.Bachelier's thesis...