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The Routledge Companion to Public Humanities Scholarship (Routledge Literature Companions)
by Daniel Fisher-Livne Michelle May-CurryAcross humanities disciplines, public scholarship brings academics and community members and organizations together in mutually-beneficial partnership for research, teaching, and programming. While the field of publicly engaged humanities scholarship has been growing for some time, there are few volumes that have attempted to define and represent its scope. The Routledge Companion to Public Humanities Scholarship brings together wide-ranging case studies sharing perspectives on this work, grounded in its practice in the United States.The collection begins with chapters reflecting on theories and practices of public humanities scholarship. The case studies that follow are organized around six areas of particular impact in public humanities scholarship: Informing contemporary debates; amplifying community voices and histories; helping individuals and communities navigate difficult experiences; preserving culture in times of crisis and change; expanding educational access; and building and supporting public scholarship. The Companion concludes with a glossary, introducing select concepts. Taken together, these resources offer an overview for students and practitioners of public humanities scholarship, creating an accessible vocabulary rooted in the practices that have so advanced academic and community life.Although drawing on case studies from the US, these examples offer perspectives and insights relevant to public humanities around the world. This book will be of interest to anyone working within the public humanities or wanting to make their work public and engage with wider communities.
The Eye Hunter
by Sebastian FitzekThe second in a powerfully unsettling trilogy by the master of the psychothriller, Sebastian Fitzek.Dr Suker is one of the best eye surgeons in the world. He is also a psychopath who abducts women and removes their eyelids.So far, all the victims of the twisted doctor's crimes have committed suicide shortly thereafter. The police are unable to proceed against him due to the lack of evidence.When another woman is abducted, her mother turns to Alina Gregoriev for help. Gregoriev, the blind physiotherapist, has been considered a medium since her abilities helped capture an infamous serial killer. She reluctantly gets involved in the Suker case, where she is drawn into a world of madness and violence that also engulfs her old friend, police officer turned journalist Alexander Zorbach.Reviews for Sebastian Fitzek'Fitzek's thrillers are breathtaking, full of wild twists.' Harlan Coben'Without question one of the crime world's most evocative storytellers.' Karin Slaughter'A true master of his craft.' Chris Carter
Knowing COVID-19: The pandemic and beyond (The pandemic and beyond)
by Des Fitzgerald Fred CooperKnowing COVID-19 demonstrates how researchers in the humanities shone a light on some of the many hidden problems of COVID-19, in the very depths of the pandemic crisis. Drawing on eight COVID-19 research projects, the volume shows how humanities researchers, alongside colleagues in the clinical and life sciences, addressed some of the major critical unknowns about this new infectious disease – from the effects of racism to the risks of deploying shame; from how to design an effective instructional leaflet to how to communicate effectively to bus passengers. Across eight novel case studies, the book showcases how humanities research during a pandemic is not only about interpreting the crisis when it has safely passed, but how it can play a vital, collaborative and instrumental role as events are still unfolding.
Pinch Perkins and the Midsummer Curse
by null Cathy FitzGeraldMidsummer’s Eve is about to get a whole lot more magical! Someone is misusing magic. Curses have been cast and terrifying creatures are on the move . . . Twelve-year-old Pinch Perkins lives on Tricky Dragon Lane, deep in the heart of London’s magical quarter. But when her mum is struck by a curse, and nobody seems to have a clue what to do, Pinch knows it’s down to her to find a cure. Racing the clock on Midsummer's Eve, Pinch will face the terrifying boss of the Thames Mudlarks, dance with the devious fairy king and queen and share a burger with King Arthur's knights . . . all while trying to avoid the clutches of two fearsome villains out to SQUISH her!
Question 7: The beautiful, genre-bending new literary read from the Booker Prize winning author
by Richard Flanagan'Question 7 could be Richard Flanagan’s greatest yet' Guardian‘A masterpiece’ Mark HaddonThis is a book about the choices we make and the chain reaction that follows . . .By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair, through 1930s nuclear physics, to Flanagan’s father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events reaches fission when a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river, not knowing if he is to live or to die.Flanagan has created a love song to his island home and his parents and the terrible past that delivered him to that place.Through a hypnotic melding of dream, history, science, and memory, Question 7 shows how our lives so often arise out of the stories of others and the stories we invent about ourselves.‘I was fascinated, troubled, and enchanted by this strange and extraordinary work... I can think of nothing else quite like it’ Sarah Perry‘Mighty in its rage and tenderness: his most momentous book yet’ Laura Cumming'Spectacular . . . It seems to me a book that will have an overwhelming effect on readers. It certainly did on me' Colm TóibínRichard Flanagan, Winner of the Booker Prize 2014
Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand: Melancholy, Medicines, and the Information of the Soul (Routledge Research in Early Modern History)
by James Dougal FlemingIn Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand, J.D. Fleming brings together two areas of sixteenth-century intellectual history. One is the period emergence of artificial systems for verbatim shorthand notation—a crucial episode in the history of information. The other is the ancient medical discourse of melancholy humour, or black bile. Timothie Bright (1550–1615), physician and priest, prompts the juxtaposition. For he was the author, not only of the period’s original shorthand manual—Characterie (1588)—but also of the first book in English on the dark humour: The Treatise of Melancholy (1586).Bright’s account of melancholy involves a cybernetic phenomenology of the human. Essentially, we are psyches (souls or minds). We are sealed off from our bodies, operating them as automata across an interface. Psychological presence, for Bright, is illusion and pathology. Engrossing performances or representations therefore bring great danger, and so does the doctrine of predestination—less for its content than its typical delivery. Painful preaching was indispensable in sixteenth-century English Protestantism. But it falls foul of Bright’s proscriptions. These are followed by his publication of the first known system for verbatim shorthand notation since antiquity, its technique heavily inflected toward a vocabulary of the pulpit. The passionate, oral performance of the inspired preacher receives an unprecedented textual preservative—and prophylactic. Bright’s technology of information serves his phenomenology of alienation.This book will be of interest to students and scholars of the early modern period, the tradition of melancholy, and the history of information—as theory, and technology.
Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand: Melancholy, Medicines, and the Information of the Soul (Routledge Research in Early Modern History)
by James Dougal FlemingIn Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand, J.D. Fleming brings together two areas of sixteenth-century intellectual history. One is the period emergence of artificial systems for verbatim shorthand notation—a crucial episode in the history of information. The other is the ancient medical discourse of melancholy humour, or black bile. Timothie Bright (1550–1615), physician and priest, prompts the juxtaposition. For he was the author, not only of the period’s original shorthand manual—Characterie (1588)—but also of the first book in English on the dark humour: The Treatise of Melancholy (1586).Bright’s account of melancholy involves a cybernetic phenomenology of the human. Essentially, we are psyches (souls or minds). We are sealed off from our bodies, operating them as automata across an interface. Psychological presence, for Bright, is illusion and pathology. Engrossing performances or representations therefore bring great danger, and so does the doctrine of predestination—less for its content than its typical delivery. Painful preaching was indispensable in sixteenth-century English Protestantism. But it falls foul of Bright’s proscriptions. These are followed by his publication of the first known system for verbatim shorthand notation since antiquity, its technique heavily inflected toward a vocabulary of the pulpit. The passionate, oral performance of the inspired preacher receives an unprecedented textual preservative—and prophylactic. Bright’s technology of information serves his phenomenology of alienation.This book will be of interest to students and scholars of the early modern period, the tradition of melancholy, and the history of information—as theory, and technology.
Proximity as Method: Concepts for Coexistence in the Global Past and Present (Transdisciplinary Souths)
by Riccarda Flemmer Bani Gill Jacky KosgeiThis book examines proximity as a benchmarked concept that can be deployed across a range of humanities disciplines to rethink the ways in which existences in the world are always already coexistences – and to parse the heuristic, ethical, epistemological, praxeological consequences of this recognition.The volume:- Brings together diverse theoretical approaches and utilizes a range of methodological instruments – conceptual, textual-analytic (whether in the realm of literary or religious studies, or theology or law), archival, digital, sociological or politological;- Includes empirical case-studies that allow calibrated and scaled exemplifications;- Launches forays onto unexplored conceptual terrain, or call into question hallowed truths of scholarly procedure.The volume will be essential reading for students and early researchers in the social sciences and the humanities.
The Double Trouble Society and the Worst Curse (The Double Trouble Society #2)
by Carrie Hope FletcherA spell-binding new adventure from acclaimed performer and bestselling author Carrie Hope Fletcher.After defeating the Crowood Witch and saving the day, Ivy, Maggie and the rest of the Double Trouble Society are on the lookout for their next big adventure.They won't have to wait long - there are three new kids in town and they're all behaving very mysteriously . . .The Double Trouble Society know how to handle witches but can they manage vampires, werewolves and ghosts as well?Readers love The Double Trouble Society series:'Makes you believe there's magic in every one of us''Could not stop reading this wonderful and charming story''Mysterious and exciting!'
The Roads To Rome: A History
by Catherine FletcherBrimming with life and drama, this is the first book to explore two thousand years of European history through one the greatest imperial networks ever built'A delightful, novel and authoritative history from the ground up' JUDITH HERRIN'Epic and witty ... Fletcher is a thoroughly enjoyable narrator because she peppers her learned prose with wry humour' TOBIAS JONES, Observer'All roads lead to Rome.' It's a medieval proverb, but it's also true: today's European roads still follow the networks of the ancient empire, as Rome’s extraordinary legacy continues to grip our imaginations.Over the two thousand years since they were first built, the roads have been walked by crusaders and pilgrims, liberators and dictators, but also by tourists and writers, refugees and artists. As channels of trade and travel, and routes for conquest and creativity, Catherine Fletcher shows how the roads forever transformed the cultures, and intertwined the fates, of a vast panoply of people across Europe and beyond.Reflecting on his own walk on the Appian Way, Charles Dickens observed that here is ‘a history in every stone that strews the ground.’ Based on outstanding original research, and brimming with life and drama, this is the first book to explore two thousand years of history through one of the greatest imperial networks ever built.
Architectural Styles: A Visual Guide
by Margaret Fletcher Robbie PolleyA hand-drawn guide to architectural styles throughout historyArchitectural Styles is an incomparable guide to architectural styles across the centuries and around the world. Modeled after an architect's plein air sketchbook, the volume features hundreds of detailed drawings by esteemed architectural illustrator Robbie Polley alongside incisive and informative descriptions. This unique guidebook takes readers from Europe and the Americas to Egypt, China, and India. It covers a host of historical and contemporary architectural styles, from ancient and classical to Pre-Columbian, Romanesque, Renaissance, Palladian, art nouveau, Brutalist, and biomorphic. It describes the histories and characteristics of the building traditions of each era and region of the world, and looks at key architectural elements such as buttresses, spandrels, curtain walls, and oculi. The book also includes a section on building parts—from domes and columns to towers, arches, roofs, and vaulting—along with a detailed glossary and bibliography.Comprehensive and authoritative, Architectural Styles is an essential resource for architects and designers and a must-have illustrated guide for anyone interested in architecture or drawing.
Whisky Business (The\macabe Brothers Ser. #Book 1)
by null Elliot FletcherOne flirty Hollywood actress. One grumpy Scottish islander. One magnetic connection. 'Gorgeous and heartfelt. The perfect blend of sweet and super spicy. I loved it!' Cressida McLaughlin When her acting career hits rock bottom, Hollywood star April Sinclair returns to her Scottish hometown on the Isle of Skye to lick her wounds. In desperate need of distraction, she sets her sights on restoring her family whisky distillery to its former glory. But she wasn’t expecting short-tempered and totally irresistible Malcolm Macabe to be the one in charge. Master distiller Mal has three loves in his life: whisky, his dog, and silence. He has no time for the pampered princess poking her nose around, even if said princess is the one who got away. Mal is content to wait her out. She’ll grow bored and run back to her glamorous world eventually. But their shared desire to save the distillery will mean working a lot closer than either of them might wish … With a stunning rural Scottish setting, a healthy measure of steaminess, and a rugged heartthrob to die for, opposites definitely start to attract in this spicy enemies-to-lovers, grumpy-sunshine romcom. Readers are already falling in love with April and Mal… 'One of my favourite books of the year'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'This book is a delight! Mal and April have my heart … Take me to Scotland, PLEASE!'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'This story is really special'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'If you like your romances sweet and spicy, with a dash of hilarious meddling siblings and the world's cutest dogs, then this is the read for you!'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'This story is so deliciously vibrant – from the characters to the setting, it was so easy to get lost in the novel'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Cinderella's Deal With The Colonel
by null Jenni FletcherShortlisted for the RNA Awards 2024! A penniless Cinderella And a tempting offer from the Colonel… When a marquess’s scheme leads to the debt and demise of Abigail’s father she wants retribution! Only her plans of confronting the scoundrel go awry when his handsome younger brother Colonel Theodore Marshall offers her a job as his secretary. Theo’s deal helps Abigail rescue her family from financial ruin, but working so closely with him isn’t as easy as she expected. Especially when each encounter sparks with tension!
City, Citizen, Citizenship, 400–1500: A Comparative Approach (The New Middle Ages)
by Robert Flierman Els Rose Merel de Bruin-van de BeekThis open access book explores how medieval societies conversed about the city and citizen in texts, visual imagery and material culture. It adopts a long-term, interdisciplinary, and cross-cultural perspective, bringing together contributions on the early, high, and later Middle Ages, covering both the medieval East and West, and representing a wide variety of disciplinary angles and sources. The volume is first and foremost about medieval perceptions and their articulation in text, image and material form. The principal focus is not on cities or citizenship per se, but on those who used such concepts, wrote about them, and visualized and depicted them. At the same time, the book seeks to address why the city remained such a salient concept also in non-urban contexts – the periphery, the desert, the monastery – and how medieval thinking on the ideal city and civic community could involve denunciation of the earthly city and its institutional trappings. It thus pushes scholarly boundaries, but also seeks to escape deeply entrenched notions of citizenship as either a form of political participation or legal status.
Supercharged Leader: Develop your mind and skillset to deal with anything
by Mandy Flint Elisabet Vinberg HearnSupercharged Leader explains the 6 mindsets you need to be a better leader now and in the future: Inclusion, Agility, Strategy, Collective Intelligence, Learning, and Connectivity. You can't afford to miss out.
Probiotics: A Clinical Guide
by Martin Floch Adam KimProbiotics: A Clinical Guide is one of the first books on the market to present current and evidence-based recommendations for primary care providers and gastroenterologists on the use of probiotics as a way to treat specific diseases and disorders.Why you will want Probiotics: A Clinical Guide: Unique focus on the clinical use of probiotics in a wide variety of diseases Comprehensive review of the science behind probiotics and probiotic products In-depth review of current literature for specific diseases or disorders Recommendations of the use of probiotics is supported by evidence-based clinical trials Each chapter includes a table that outlines the exact probiotic organisms and dosages that are the most efficacious A glance at what is inside Probiotics: A Clinical Guide: Basic Physiology Intestinal microecology; stimulating the immune response, nutrients to nourish the organism, role in fermentation and metabolism, and much more… Use in Clinical Medicine Probiotics in children, adult infectious diarrhea, surgical infections, allergic disease, ulcerative colitis, crohn’s disease, liver disease, and more… Probiotics: A Clinical Guide by Dr. Martin Floch & Dr. Adam Kim is a ground-breaking book that will serve as a valuable reference and clinical guide for gastroenterologists, internists, family practitioners, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants.
Probiotics: A Clinical Guide
by Martin Floch Adam KimProbiotics: A Clinical Guide is one of the first books on the market to present current and evidence-based recommendations for primary care providers and gastroenterologists on the use of probiotics as a way to treat specific diseases and disorders.Why you will want Probiotics: A Clinical Guide: Unique focus on the clinical use of probiotics in a wide variety of diseases Comprehensive review of the science behind probiotics and probiotic products In-depth review of current literature for specific diseases or disorders Recommendations of the use of probiotics is supported by evidence-based clinical trials Each chapter includes a table that outlines the exact probiotic organisms and dosages that are the most efficacious A glance at what is inside Probiotics: A Clinical Guide: Basic Physiology Intestinal microecology; stimulating the immune response, nutrients to nourish the organism, role in fermentation and metabolism, and much more… Use in Clinical Medicine Probiotics in children, adult infectious diarrhea, surgical infections, allergic disease, ulcerative colitis, crohn’s disease, liver disease, and more… Probiotics: A Clinical Guide by Dr. Martin Floch & Dr. Adam Kim is a ground-breaking book that will serve as a valuable reference and clinical guide for gastroenterologists, internists, family practitioners, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants.
Connecting Ecologies: Integrating Responses to the Global Challenge (Routledge Studies in Religion and Environment)
by Gavin Flood Patrick RiordanConnecting Ecologies focuses on the environmental aspects of Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’ and the challenge to care for our common home. It considers how best to devise and implement the new societal models needed to tackle the ecological problems facing the world today. The book addresses the need for and complexity of an integral ecology, one that looks not only at physical and biological processes but also allows for the contributions of theology, philosophy, spirituality, and psychology, including the implications for the human and social sciences. The contributions document four categories of resonances, resources, requirements, and responses evoked by a reading of Laudato Si’ and include consideration of other faith traditions. They reflect on how care for our common home motivates people in different places, cultures, and professions to cooperate for myriad goods in common. The volume is particularly relevant for scholars working in religious studies and theology with an interest in ecology, the environment, and the Anthropocene.
Fantastic histories: Medieval fairy narratives and the limits of wonder (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture)
by Victoria FloodFantastic Histories explores the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century England, and the subsequent uses of fairy narratives in both insular and continental history and romance. It traces the uses of the fairy as a contested marker of historicity and fictionality in the histories of Gerald of Wales and Walter Map, the continental mirabilia of Gervase of Tilbury, and the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century French Mélusine romances and their early English reception. Working across insular and continental source material, Fantastic Histories explores the practices of history-writing, fiction-making, and the culturally determined boundaries of wonder that defined the limits of medieval history.
Fantastic histories: Medieval fairy narratives and the limits of wonder (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture)
by Victoria FloodFantastic Histories explores the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century England, and the subsequent uses of fairy narratives in both insular and continental history and romance. It traces the uses of the fairy as a contested marker of historicity and fictionality in the histories of Gerald of Wales and Walter Map, the continental mirabilia of Gervase of Tilbury, and the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century French Mélusine romances and their early English reception. Working across insular and continental source material, Fantastic Histories explores the practices of history-writing, fiction-making, and the culturally determined boundaries of wonder that defined the limits of medieval history.
Data Storytelling in Marketing: How to Tell Persuasive Stories Through Data
by Caroline FlorenceMarketers are storytellers, they write content, marketing strategies and devise internal communications, but unless these stories are evidence-based, they won't be believable or truly persuasive. Understanding how to use data to build and tell stories is an increasingly important part of the modern-day marketers' toolkit. Stories centered on robust evidence and credible data can withstand challenges, provide meaning, offer insight and engage audiences.This book is designed to plug the data storytelling skills gap and enable marketing professionals to cut through the data overload, join the data dots and create engaging narratives and content. Regardless of whether you're a data expert, data anxious or a data sceptic, this book will give you the tools to help you to communicate more effectively with your customers and your stakeholders. Written by expert trainer Caroline Florence, this book outlines how to build robust and compelling data stories. Drawing on her client work with companies such as Toyota, Lactalis, News UK, Mars Petcare and AXA, plus contributions from experts across data, insights, marketing and customer experience, this book provides a practical roadmap to increase your influence with data storytelling.
The History of Museums Vol 7
by William Henry FlowerMuseums and collecting is now a major area of cultural studies. This selected group of key texts opens the investigation and appreciation of museum history. Edward Edwards, chief pioneer of municipal public libraries, chronicles the founders and early donors to the British Museum. Greenwood and Murray provide informative pictures of the early history of the museum movement. Sir William Flower, Director of the British Museum (Natural History), takes a pioneering philosophical approach to the sphere of natural history in relation to museums. Similarly, Acland and Ruskin discuss and explore the relationships of art and architecture to museums.
The History of Museums Vol 7
by William Henry FlowerMuseums and collecting is now a major area of cultural studies. This selected group of key texts opens the investigation and appreciation of museum history. Edward Edwards, chief pioneer of municipal public libraries, chronicles the founders and early donors to the British Museum. Greenwood and Murray provide informative pictures of the early history of the museum movement. Sir William Flower, Director of the British Museum (Natural History), takes a pioneering philosophical approach to the sphere of natural history in relation to museums. Similarly, Acland and Ruskin discuss and explore the relationships of art and architecture to museums.
Public Sector Management
by Norman Flynn Alberto AsquerIn an era marked by unprecedented challenges, from the climate crisis to the rise of populism, the ways to manage public sector organisations have dramatically changed. In the eighth edition of this bestselling textbook, Flynn and Asquer offer the definitive introduction to public administration. Now substantially revised and updated throughout, this text reflects the latest approaches, tools and techniques that help governments respond to the multifaceted problems facing societies today and pre-empt those of tomorrow. Recognising the importance of context, Public Sector Managementunderscores that one-size-fits-all management practices are inadequate. Learn how public sector management adapts to changing political climates and societal pressures and be guided through the intricacies of making evidence-based policies while acknowledging the political dynamics that shape them. Updates to the eighth edition include: · A Global Perspective: Explore variations in public sector management shaped by cultural, historical, and institutional contexts, and gain a deep understanding of how governments address challenges in unique ways. · Balancing Theory and Practice: the new edition offers amore detailed and holistic perspective on public sector management by bringing in the latest theoretical insights and real-world public sector management practices. · Adapting to Change and tacking today’s issues: Confront the challenges faced in the age of technology, from artificial intelligence to Big Data; the climate crisis and clean energy transitions; and resulting from the latest geopolitical shifts including workforce migration to the erosion of trust in democracies. · A Call for Contextual Understanding: Learn how factors such as heterogeneity, population, income inequality, and technological access influence public sector management practices. Public Sector Management is essential reading for upper undergraduate and postgraduate students studying public sector management or public administration and is perfect for those studying on a Master of Public Administration programme. Norman Flynn was Director of the Centre for Financial and Management Studies, SOAS, University of London and Programme Director of the MSc in Public Policy and Management. Alberto Asquer is Head of the School of Finance and Management, Programme Director, MSc Public Policy and Management, and Senior Lecturer of Public Policy and Management at SOAS University of London