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Authenticity in Culture, Self, and Society
Across sociology and cultural studies in particular, the concept of authenticity has begun to occupy a central role, yet in spite of its popularity as an ideal and philosophical value authenticity notably suffers from a certain vagueness, with work in this area tending to borrow ideas from outside o... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Studies on the Social Construction of Identity and Authenticity (Routledge Advances in Sociology)
As identity and authenticity discourses increasingly saturate everyday life, so too have these concepts spread across the humanities and social sciences literatures. Many scholars may be interested in identity and authenticity but lack knowledge of paradigmatic or disciplinary approaches to these co... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Understanding Society through Popular Music
Written for Introductory Sociology and Sociology of Popular Music courses, the second edition of Understanding Society through Popular Music uses popular music to illustrate fundamental social institutions, theories, sociological concepts, and processes. The authors use music, a social phenomenon of... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Total Life Coaching: 50+ Life Lessons, Skills, and Techniques to Enhance Your Practice . . . and Your Life
Total Life Coaching by Pat and Lloyd is more than just a book. It is an interactive experience in which you will find recipes for living your life more authentically, as well as master time-honored lessons that you can bring to your coaching clients. Regardless of the personal coaching techniques or... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
Hardscrabble: The High Cost of Free Land
How emigrants were lured to Ontario’s Muskoka in the 1870s in a vain attempt to farm the Canadian Shield. When the Free Grants and Homestead Act was first introduced in 1868, fierce debates erupted in Ontario’s Legislature over whether land in the Muskoka region should be opened to settlement or res... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Identity, Rights and Constitutional Transformation (Routledge Revivals)
First published in 1999 , this book provides an analysis of the role of constitutional governance from an international and interdisciplinary perspective. The range of disciplines represented in the collection of papers aims to open new perspectives on topics that are frequently left to the expert h... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
Football on Trial: Spectator Violence and Development in the Football World
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
The Roots of Football Hooliganism: An Historical and Sociological Study (Routledge Library Editions: Sports Studies)
This systematic historical and sociological study of the phenomenon of football hooliganism examines the history of crowd disorderliness at association football matches in Britain and assesses both popular and academic explanations of the problem. The authors’ study starts in the 1880s, when profess... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Hooligans Abroad: The Behaviour and Control of English Fans in Continental Europe (Routledge Library Editions: Sports Studies)
This book traces international developments in the hooligan phenomenon since the Heysel tragedy of 1985. The authors make special reference to the troubled European championships in West Germany in 1988 and look critically at political responses to the problem. The authors used ‘participant observat... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Becoming a Professional Life Coach: Lessons from the Institute of Life Coach Training
Personal and professional coaching, which has emerged as a powerful career in the last several years, has shifted the paradigm of how people who seek help with life transitions find a "helper" to partner with them in designing their desired future. No matter what kind of sub-specialty a coach might ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Becoming a Professional Life Coach: Lessons from the Institute of Life Coach Training
Personal and professional coaching, which has emerged as a powerful career in the last several years, has shifted the paradigm of how people who seek help with life transitions find a "helper" to partner with them in designing their desired future. No matter what kind of sub-specialty a coach might ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
Therapist as Life Coach: An Introduction for Counselors and Other Helping Professionals (Revised and Expanded)
In 2006, U.S. News and World Report listed coaching as one of the 10 top growing professions. The first edition of Therapist as Life Coach, published in 2002, anticipated this trend, and since its publication it has become a standard for therapists who wish to transition or expand their practices in... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Genetic Hearing Loss
Heredity, either alone or in combination with environmental factors, is the most prominent underlying cause of hearing impairment. Thanks in large part to positional cloning techniques, scientists have identified nearly 100 gene loci implicated in hearing loss since 1995-an extraordinarily rapid rat... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
Cultural Olympians: Rugby School's Cultural Leaders
by John Clarke • John Taylor • Rowan Williams • Jay Winter • Anthony Kenny • Ian Hesketh • Andrew Vincent • David Boucher • John Witheridge • David Urquhart • Robin Poidevin • A N Wilson • A C Grayling • Patrick DerhamThis book is designed to provide a rigorous yet practical engagement with key questions surrounding faith, philosophy, science, culture and social progress by celebrating the life and thought of Rugbeian cultural leaders, social pioneers and educationalists, with an exploration of their continued re... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Whose Middle Ages?: Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past (Fordham Series in Medieval Studies)
by Geraldine Heng • Ryan Szpiech • Andrew Reeves • Katherine Wilson • Helen Young • Nicholas L. Paul • Maggie Williams • William Diebold • W. Mark Ormrod • J. Patrick • Lauren Mancia • Sandy Bardsley • Adam Bishop • Marian Bleeke • Will Cerbone • Fred Donner • Sarah Guérin • Stephennie Mulder • Pamela Patton • Magda Teter • Elizabeth Tyler • David Wacks • Cord WhitakerWhose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the nonspecialist reader and ideal for teaching at an undergraduate level. Each of twenty-two essays takes up an area where digging for meaning in the medieval past has brought something distorted back int... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Provenance and Early Cinema (Early Cinema in Review: Proceedings of Domitor)
by Martin L. Johnson • Mark Williams • Richard Abel • Charles Keil • Gregory A. Waller • Marina Dahlquist • Ian Christie • Camille Blot-Wellens • Germain Lacasse • Grazia Ingravalle • Noemi Daugaard • Olivia Kristina Stutz • Priska Morrissey • Clara Auclair • Teresa Castro • Anne Sigaud • Ned Thanhouser • Bret Vukoder • Patrick Ellis • Allain Daigle • Danielle Crepaldi Carvalho • Nadi Tofighian • André Habib • Ken Eisenstein • Eszter Polonyi • Christina Stewart • Christina Corfield • Norie Taniguchi • Kim TomadjoglouRemnants of early films often have a story to tell. As material artifacts, these film fragments are central to cinema history, perhaps more than ever in our digital age of easy copying and sharing. If a digital copy is previewed before preservation or is shared with a researcher outside the purview ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
Clubbable Man: Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture in Honor of Greg Clingham
by David Hopkins • Antjie Krog • Harry Thomas • Margaret Williams • John Richetti • Philip Smallwood • Adam Rounce • Kate Parker • Elaine Wood • Clement Hawes • James Rice • Daniel Little • Gordon Turnbull • Adam Walker • Kevin L. Cope • Anthony W Lee • Cedric D. • Bärbel Czennia • Robert G. Walker • Aaron R. Hanlon • Martine Brownley • Dominic Jermey • Caroline Fassett • Joseph McNicholas • Erin Labbie • Patrick Thomas Henry • Kang Tchou • Gary Sojka • Nina Forsberg • John Rickard • Kieron Winn • Emily GrosholzSamuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as “a most unclubbable man." Conversely, this celebratory volume gathers distinguished eighteenth-century studies scholars to honor the achievements, professional generosity, and sociability of Gre... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022