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One of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century, Pyotr Demianovich Ouspensky was a complex and romantic soul. A promising young intellectual in Tsarist Russia, he won recognition as a novelist and philosopher, yet descended into self-chosen obscurity as a teacher of 'the Work', the system of his great contemporary Gurdjieff. Today, it is as Gurdjieff's chief disciple that he is remembered, yet Colin Wilson argues convincingly that h...

This book includes eight papers from a workshop held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in 2001.

The million dollar skill in business is learning how to generate quality leads for your business. Unfortunately, we all hear stories of a motivated individuals starting a business, getting all excited, and then 6 months down the road, they ask, "How do I generate leads, how do I get clients?" The lack of knowledge and training in this area destroys so many entrepreneurial lives. Here's some good news though. You are holding in your...

Provides sound advice on the issues raised when performing music of the past.

This third volume continues the comprehensive revision of this era, and covers in detail the next fifty years, a very different period during which the Empire came perilously close to total disintegration under the pressure of foreign invasions and seemingly interminable civil war. The economy also collapsed and with it the Imperial coinage, a desperate situation which was only partially alleviated by the currency reform of Aurelian undertaken...

The impetus for this book came from an appreciation that reflexivity, for both consultant and client, is the core ingredient for facilitating the "changing organization." Central to this belief, Reflexive Inquiry (RI) draws on the spirit of five overlapping theoretical traditions--systemic, social constructionist, critical, appreciative, and complexity. These principles each offer a contribution to the management of reflexive consciousness and...

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This book is a critique and commentary on globalisation from a theological perspective. Drawing on the works of theologians such as Augustine, Rahner, Luther, Newbigin, Moe-Lobeda, McFague, Jesnon, Wainwright, de Chardin, McCaughey, and Kung, the author critiques globalisation and those who espouse it, defend and promote it. For Gill, globalisation 'is an economic phenomenon with political ramifications whereby economic and political aspects o...

One of the untold stories of World War II is the guarding of Greenland and its coastal waters, where the first U.S. capture of an enemy ship took place.

The papers in this book focus on many different aspects of the therapeutic relationship, including the self of the therapist, working cross-culturally and with language difference, impasse, risk taking, the place of research, and the influence of theory. Clinical examples illustrate successful as well as less successful outcomes in therapy, and these clinical explorations make the book accessible to both systemic and non-systemic practitioners...

Defining Acts considers how the surviving English plays of the 15th century represent and transform competing late-medieval practices of interpretation. These works take up a series of contests over who could legitimately determine the meaning of texts.

Presents the life and work of one of the most influential psychological theorists of modern times, George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff. This examination of a psychologist and teacher of genius also provides an introduction to the philosophy of Gurdjieff. This work presents the life and work of one of the most influential psychological theorists of modern times. George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff is one of the most enigmatic figures of our time. He attracted ...

Carl Gustav Jung is one of the seminal figures in the history of depth psychology. An enormously influential and original thinker, Jung was for some time Freud's principal disciple, but he became more and more critical of the Freudian emphasis on repressed sexual tendencies and after the publication of "Symbols of Transformation" in 1912, Jung broke away from Freud to develop his own technique of 'analytical psychology'.

- Numerous contributions from international scholars providing comprehensive coverage of theory and concepts of HCI- Examples of best practices and case studies in Human computer interaction- A compendium of terms, definitions and explanations of concepts, processes and acronyms provided by international experts- Organized by titles and indexed by authors and topics, making it a convenient method of reference for readers.- Cross referencing of...

The years between 1870 and 1939 were a crucial period in the growth of industrial capitalism in Canada, as well as in time when many women joined the paid workforce. Yet despite the increase in employment, women faced a difficult struggle in gaining fair remuneration for their work and in gaining access to better Jobs. Discounted Labour analyses the historical roots of women's persistent inequality in the paid labour force. Ruth A. Frager and ...

This book examines institutions that govern economic activity in the United States and the dramatic changes they have undergone since the late nineteenth century.

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Auf bisher unerreicht detaillierte Weise zeigt dieses einzigartige Handbuch und Nachschlagewerk, wie man sich auf alle denkbaren Notfälle vorbereitet, mit ihnen umgeht und sie übersteht. Es reicht von der Ersten Hilfe im Alltag über Survival in Extremsituationen bis zum bestmöglichen Verhalten in Katastrophenfällen, sich selbst und immer auch andere betreffend. Pragmatisch und präzise gibt es dem Leser Hunderte von Vorsorgetips und Verhaltensr...

Fitting Sentences is an analysis of writings by prisoners from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in North America, South Africa, and Europe. Jason Haslam examines the ways in which these writers reconfigure subjectivity and its relation to social power structures, especially the prison structure itself, while also detailing the relationship between prison and slave narratives. Specifically, Haslam reads texts by Henry David Thoreau, Harri...