Food Jockey is more or less an account of Spencer Palmer's year in the business of fast food. In telling his experience Palmer holds nothing back, he tells you what goes on when a fast food worker dons the uniform and tells you what the job is like and lets you in on the everyday goings of the restaurant business. Palmer reveals stories of working alongside fellow employees, dealings with the public, restaurant procedures, and everything els...
The story of Gilbert Noon, one of the author's alter egos, who becomes entangled with a young girl, loses his job as a schoolmaster, travels abroad and falls in love with a married woman with who he elopes. Originally published in 1934, shortly after the author's death.
This selection brings together poets of every hue: from magisterial figures like T Gwynn Jones, R Williams Parry and Saunders Lewis to folk poets such as Alun Cilie and Dic Jones, from cerebral poets Pennar Davies and Bobi Jones to popular entertainers Geraint Lovgreen and Ifor ap Glyn.
Hand-drawn storyboards, pastel paintings, and charcoal pencil sketches along with quotes from artists, directors, and designers illustrate the creative process of the animated film.
Identifies practical reasoning as reasoning performed with comparatively few cognitive assets, including resources such as information, time and computational capacity. This work is intended for researchers in logic, belief dynamics, computer science, AI, psychology and neuroscience, linguistics, argumentation theory, and other fields.
This practical text describes how to use a desk-top computer to monitor and control laboratory experiments. Stephen Derenzo clearly explains how to design electronic circuits and write computer programs to sense, analyze and display real-world quantities, including displacement, temperature, force, sound, light, and biomedical potentials. He includes numerous laboratory exercises and appendices that provide practical information on microcomput...
A decade after the first edition of this book established itself as one of the major books that covered the nature of the demand for tourism, and the implications of that demand, this second edition represents a significant updating of material that reflects contemporary thinking.
In order for their skills to remain fresh, students need opportunities to practice the math skills that they have learned in previous courses. "Math Skills Maintenance" contains pages of practices for various basic math skills. Each page is geared to one or more previously-learned skills.
Shinto: A Short History" provides a running history of Shinto as a religious system from prehistory to the present day. The introduction explains the concept of a religious system, followed by four chapters that treat different periods in Shinto history. The book has been written with both the scholar of Japanese studies and the non-specialist in mind, thereby offering an excellent introduction to the subject.
Over the last century, identity as an avenue of inquiry has become both an academic growth industry and a problematic category of historical analysis. This volume shows how the study of medicine can provide new insights into colonial identity, and the possibility of accommodating multiple perspectives on identity within a single narrative. Contributors to this volume explore the perceived self-identity of colonizers, the adoption of western an...
Stillness in Motion in the Seventeenth Century Theatre provides a comprehensive examination of this aesthetic theory. The author investigates this aesthetic history as a form of artistic creation, philosophical investigation, a way of representing and manipulating ideas about gender and a way of acknowledging, reinforcing and making a critique of social values for the still and moving, the permanent and elapsing. The book's analysis covers the...
Alasdair Whittle's new work argues powerfully for the complexity and fluidity of life in the Neolithic, through a combination of archaeological and anthropological case studies and current theoretical debate.
The book ranges from the sixth to the fourth millennium BC, and from the Great Hungarian Plain, central and western Europe and the Alpine foreland to parts of southern Britain.
Familiar terms such as individuals, agency, identity and st...
