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        Psychology

        Developing the Potential of Children with Special Needs

        A Skill-based Perspective on Early Childhood Movement Development

        by Jeremy Krauss

        Jeremy Krauss, one of the last students of Mosché Feldenkrais, has been practicing the Feldenkrais Method for over 40 years and has developed the Jeremy Krauss Approach (JKA) during the past 15 years in his work with children with special needs. This interprofessional approach can provide skill-based support for children with a variety of developmental delays. Krauss looks back on treatment successes with atypically developed individuals whose difficulties are located in the neurological, psychological, or socioemotional domain. Using numerous case studies, Krauss reflects on his experiences, which are connectable to topics such as motor learning, neuroplasticity and developmental psychology. Didactically, JKA is based on close observation of movement sequences and individual movement patterns. The focus is on variations in the dynamic transition from one position to another and the associated individual developmental steps.

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        Business, Economics & Law
        December 2017

        Transforming Travel

        Realising the potential of sustainable tourism

        by Jeremy Smith

        Transforming Travel combines stories from leading companies, interviews with pioneers and thinkers, along with thorough analysis of the industry's potential to make lasting, positive change. - A unique collection of case studies and stories of the most successful, inspirational, impactful and innovative travel businesses in the world. - A vital presentation of the latest research and statistics on the positive impacts and potential of transformative, sustainable tourism, - A positive and realistic vision of the scope of tourism to promote sustainable development at a time when travel and interaction with foreign cultures is facing numerous existential challenges. Written in a highly engaging style Transforming Travel presents an urgent argument for transforming tourism so it might reach its potential to promote tolerance, restore communities and regenerate habitats, while providing a vital guide for anyone looking to develop the successful sustainable tourism enterprises and destinations needed to do so.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        April 2009

        The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne

        Bearing blindness

        by Catherine Maxwell

        This innovative study of vision, gender and poetry traces Milton's mark on Shelley, Tennyson, Browning and Swinburne to show how the lyric male poet achieves vision at the cost of symbolic blindness and feminisation. Drawing together a wide range of concerns including the use of myth, the gender of the sublime, the lyric fragment, and the relation of pain to creativity, this book is a major re-evaluation of the male poet and the making of the English poetic tradition. The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. It recovers a disfiguring sublime imagined as an aggressive female force which feminises the male poet in an act that simultaneously deprives and energises him. This book will be required reading for anyone with a serious interest in the English poetic tradition and Victorian poetry. ;

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        Wer den Löffel abgibt

        Kriminalroman

        by Maxwell, Jessa

        Aus dem amerikanischen Englisch von Kristina Lake-Zapp

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        September 2020

        Die Diebin des Teufels

        Roman

        by Maxwell, Lisa

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        January 2021

        Language and imagination in the Gawain poems

        by J. Anderson

        This major new literary study offers a fresh view of the significance of the famous group of fourteenth-century poems, 'Pearl', 'Cleanness', 'Patience' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'. It is a comprehensive study which puts the poems themselves firmly at its centre, though it is always alert to relevant aspects of their literary and cultural context. John Anderson builds his discussions of the poems' ideas on an examination of the anonymous poet's superb Shakespeare-like language. He finds that the great fourteenth-century struggle, between religious and secular forces for control of men's minds, underlies all the poems. This title is the first in the new Manchester Medieval Literature series, which makes readability a priority. Accordingly, despite its wide range of reference and the radicalism of some of its leading ideas, this book is written in a jargon-free style designed to appeal to specialist, non-specialist and student readers alike.

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        Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
        March 2005

        Language and imagination in the Gawain poems

        by J. J. Anderson

        This major new literary study offers a fresh view of the significance of the famous group of fourteenth-century poems, 'Pearl', 'Cleanness', 'Patience' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'. It is a comprehensive study which puts the poems themselves firmly at its centre, though it is always alert to relevant aspects of their literary and cultural context. John Anderson builds his discussions of the poems' ideas on an examination of the anonymous poet's superb Shakespeare-like language. He finds that the great fourteenth-century struggle, between religious and secular forces for control of men's minds, underlies all the poems. This title is the first in the new Manchester Medieval Literature series, which makes readability a priority. Accordingly, despite its wide range of reference and the radicalism of some of its leading ideas, this book is written in a jargon-free style designed to appeal to specialist, non-specialist and student readers alike.

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        Science & Mathematics
        September 2024

        Pistols in St Paul's

        by Fiona Smyth

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        Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
        January 2013

        Second sight

        by Catherine Maxwell

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        June 2020

        The Malleus Maleficarum

        by P. G. Maxwell-Stuart

        The Malleus Maleficarum is one of the best-known treatises dealing with the problem of what to do with witches. It was written in 1487 by a Dominican inquisitor, Heinrich Institoris, following his failure to prosecute a number of women for witchcraft, it is in many ways a highly personal document, full of frustration at official complacency in the face of a spiritual threat, as well as being a practical guide for law-officers who have to deal with a cunning, dangerous enemy. Combining theological discussion, illustrative anecdotes, and useful advice for those involved in suppressing witchcraft, its influence on witchcraft studies has been extensive. The only previous translation into English, that by Montague Summers produced in 1928, is full of inaccuracies. It is written in a style almost unreadable nowadays, and is unfortunately coloured by his personal agenda. This new edited translation, with an introductory essay setting witchcraft, Institoris, and the Malleus into clear, readable English, corrects Summers' mistakes and offers a lean, unvarnished version of what Institoris actually wrote. It will undoubtedly become the standard translation of this important and controversial late-medieval text.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        August 2009

        Martin del Rio

        INVESTIGATIONS INTO MAGIC

        by P. Maxwell-Stuart, Sarah Purdue

        This is the first English translation of one of the most important, interesting and comprehensive discussions of the occult sciences ever published. Investigations into magic deals not only with magic in all its forms, from the manipulation of angelic and demonic powers to straightforward conjuring and illusion, but also with witchcraft, alchemy, astrology, divination, prophecy, and possession by evil spirits. In addition, Del Rio gives judges and confessors practical advice on the most effective ways of dealing with people who are accused of practising magic, and enlivens his whole discussion with anecdotes drawn from a remarkable range of sources, including his own experience. Nothing so panoramic had ever appeared before, and for the next one hundred and fifty years Investigations into magic was the indispensable reference work on the subject. ;

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        July 2013

        Verrucht

        Erotische Storys

        by Maxwell, Mary Rose

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        October 2017

        Algernon Charles Swinburne

        by Catherine Maxwell, Stefano Evangelista

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        June 2023

        Der Analog

        Ein nicht-euklidischer, im symbolischen Verstand authentischer alpinistischer Abenteuerroman

        by René Daumal, Claudio Rugafiori, H. J. Maxwell, Albrecht Fabri, H. J. Maxwell

        Der »Analog« ist ein Berg, der »Himmel und Erde verbindet«, höher als der Mount Everest – doch bisher unentdeckt. Theodor, der bei einer Zeitschrift für Paläontologie arbeitet, ist von der Existenz jedoch überzeugt. Ebenso wie Dr. Sogol, der sich mit ihm in Verbindung setzt, Alpinismus lehrt und die eigene Wohnung in einen Gebirgsweg verwandelt hat. Es findet sich schließlich eine ganze Gruppe von Abenteuerlustigen zusammen, die die Sinnsuche zum Berg treibt. Sie rüsten ein Schiff aus, die »Impossible«, und begeben sich zu jener von niemandem je gesehenen Landmasse. Tatsächlich gelangt die Reisegruppe zum Berg, doch der Aufstieg konfrontiert sie mit unerwarteten Mühen. Der Weg zum Gipfel ist gleichsam ein innerer und die Annäherung an eine höhere Weisheit. Der erste Roman René Daumals, eines Autors, der in Rausch und Nahtoderfahrung Erkenntnis suchte, hieß Das Große Besäufnis. Seinen zweiten Roman, Der Analog, beschrieb er selbst als das Gegenstück, als »Ausblick in eine Welt, in der es das Wahre, Gute, Schöne gibt.« Daumal verlässt 1940 mit seiner jüdischen Ehefrau Vera Milanova das von der deutschen Wehrmacht besetzte Paris. Nach Stationen in den Pyrenäen und Marseille, lässt sich das Paar 1943 in den Alpen nieder, wo Daumal die Arbeit am Analog fortsetzt. Der Analog muss jedoch unvollendet bleiben und erscheint posthum. Der Autor stirbt mit 36 Jahren in Folge einer Tuberkulose Erkrankung und sein Roman schließt mit einem Komma. Der Leser also muss die letzten Schritte zum hoffnungsfrohen Ausblick eigenständig erklimmen.

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        Science & Mathematics
        May 2022

        Transgenic Insects

        Techniques and Applications

        by Mark Quentin Benedict, Maxwell Scott

        Technology for modifying the genotypes and phenotypes of insects and other arthropods has steadily progressed by development of more precise and powerful methods, most prominently transgenic modification. There is now almost unlimited ability to modify phenotypes to benefit human health and agriculture. Precise DNA modifications and gene drive particularly have the power to make wild-type populations less harmful in ways that could never be performed with previous transgenic approaches. This transition from primarily laboratory science to greater prominence for field applications has also necessitated a greater development of modelling, ethical considerations and regulatory oversight. The 2nd edition of Transgenic Insects contains chapters contributed by experts in the field that cover the technology and applications that are now possible. These include an increased emphasis on acceptance issues that will be necessary for application of many technologies.

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