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Gifts Differing: Understanding personality type
by Isabel Briggs-Myers Peter MyersLike a thumbprint, personality type provides an instant snapshot of a person's uniqueness. Drawing on concepts originated by Carl Jung, this book distinguishes four categories of personality styles and shows how these qualities determine the way you perceive the world and come to conclusions about what you've seen. It then explains what they mean for your success in school, at a job, in a career and in your personal relationships. For more than 60 years, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) tool has been the most widely used instrument in the world for determining personality type, and for more than 25 years, Gifts Differing has been the preeminent source for understanding it.
Love Speaks Its Name: Gay And Lesbian Love Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
by J. D. McClatchyFrom Sappho to Shakespeare to Cole Porter-a marvelous and wide-ranging collection of classic gay and lesbian love poetry. The poets represented here include Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Federico Garcìa Lorca, Djuna Barnes, Constantine Cavafy, Elizabeth Bishop, W. H. Auden, and James Merrill. Their poems of love are among the most perceptive, the most passionate, the wittiest, and the most moving we have. From Michelangelo's "Love Misinterpreted" to Noël Coward's "Mad About the Boy," from May Swenson's "Symmetrical Companion" to Muriel Rukeyser's "Looking at Each Other," these poems take on both desire and its higher power: love in all its tender or taunting variety.
Defend America First: The Antiwar Editorials Of The Saturday Evening Post, 1939-1942
by Garet Garrett Bruce Ramsey
Historical Narratives And Christian Identity On A European Periphery: Early History Writing In Northern, East-central, And Eastern Europe (c. 1070-1200) (Medieval Texts And Cultures Of Northern Europe Ser. #26)
by Ildar Garipzanov
Lords And Peasants In A Changing Society: The Estates Of The Bishopric Of Worcester, 680-1540 (Past And Present Publications)
by Christopher DyerWe Must Love One Another Or Die: Lectures on Love, Sex and Morality given in Great Saint Mary's Church, Cambridge
by Hugh Montefiore Frank Lake Howard Root V. A. DemantWe must love one another or die: lectures on love, sex and morality given in Great Saint Mary's Church, Cambridge, by Frank Lake, Howard Root, V.A. Demant; edited by Hugh Montefiore.
International Law (Longman Law Series)
by Richard K. GardinerInternational law is now of potential concern to all lawyers. Even subjects which seem purely of national or domestic concern can be affected by public international law, such as where new law is derived from treaties or where issues have international aspects. Students and lawyers therefore need to study international law as much for its practical effects and consequences within national legal systems as for its more widely-known role in relations between states and its geo-political significance. This book concentrates on the concepts and core areas of public international law, as well as the skills which students and lawyers need to acquire in order to study and work with international law, whether generally or in specialist areas.
Butterworth's Commercial Court And Arbitration Pleadings
by Charles Macdonald Chirag KariaCommercial Court and Arbitration Pleadings provides detailed, expert guidance on the techniques and skills that can be learnt and built upon by all Barristers and Solicitor Advocates involved in this specialised area of law. Step-by-step the authors explain the applicable rules, advise on the art of good pleading and provide precedents for common forms of pleadings, applications and other formal documents most likely to be encountered in the commercial field. This book will provide you with: detailed guidance for preparing a lucid and effective commercial court or arbitration pleading; a summary of the substantive law the pleader must bear in mind; a precedent based on stated facts, showing the form the relevant pleading should take.
Bolton Priory: The Economy Of A Northern Monastery, 1286-1325 (Oxford Historical Monographs)
by Ian KershawThe history of the priory, 1120-1330. The priory's exploitation of its estate. Pasture farming. Investment. Provisions and food consumption at the priory. The priory's finances. The last two centuries.
The Cosmic Fragments
by Heraclitus G. S. KirkThis work provides a text and an extended study of those fragments of Heraclitus' philosophical utterances whose subject is the world as a whole rather than man and his part in it. Professor Kirk discusses fully the fragments which he finds genuine and treats in passing others that were generally accepted as genuine but here considered paraphrased or spurious. In securing his text, Professor Kirk has taken into account all the ancient testimonies, and in his critical work he attached particular importance to the context in which each fragment is set. To each he gives a selective apparatus, a literal translation and and an extended commentary in which problems of textual and philosophical criticism are discussed. Ancient accounts of Heraclitus were inadequate and misleading, and as Kirk wrote, understanding was often hindered by excessive dogmatism and a selective use of the fragments. Professor Kirk's method is critical and objective, and his 1954 work marks a significant advance in the study of Presocratic thought.
Just Mercy: A Story Of Justice And Redemption
by Bryan StevensonThe US has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. One in every 15 people born there today is expected to go to prison. For black men this figure rises to one in 3. And Death Row is disproportionately black, too. Bryan Stevenson grew up poor in the racially segregated South. His innate sense of justice made him a brilliant young lawyer, and one of his first defendants was Walter McMillian, a black man sentenced to die for the murder of a white woman - a crime he insisted he didn't commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, startling racial inequality, and legal brinkmanship - and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever. At once an unforgettable account of an idealistic lawyer's coming of age and a moving portrait of the lives of those he has defended, Just Mercy is an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of justice.
Sugar: A Bittersweet History
by Elizabeth AbbottMuch like oil today, sugar was once the most powerful commodity on earth. It shaped world affairs, influencing the economic policies of nations, driving international trade and wreaking environmental havoc. The Western world's addiction to sugar came at a terrible human cost: the near extinction of the New World indigenous peoples gave rise to a new form of slavery, as millions of captured Africans were crammed into ships to make the dangerous voyage to Caribbean cane plantations.
Women And Religion In Medieval England
by Diana WoodPapers based on contributions to a conference held by the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education at Rewley House, 16-18 February 2001.
Questioning Q
by Nicholas Perrin Mark S. GoodacreScholars have long been agreed that there is a single source for the gospels, which they refer to as 'Q'. This text challenges these assumptions and offers alternatives.
The End Of Food: the coming crisis in the world food industry
by Paul RobertsThe emergence of large-scale food production gave us unprecedented abundance - but at a steep and ultimately unsustainable price. Relentless cost-cutting has made our food systems vulnerable to contamination and disease. More than a billion people are overweight or obese, yet roughly the same number are still malnourished. Over-crowded countries like China are already planning for tightened global food supplies. As the world veers back to a time of hunger and uncertainty, Paul Roberts explores the vulnerable miracle of our modern food economy and pinpoints the decisions we must make to avoid the coming meltdown.
Handbook of Child Psychology (PDF): Volume 1: Theoretical Models of Human Development
by William Damon Richard M. LernerPart of the authoritative four-volume reference that spans the entire field of child development and has set the standard against which all other scholarly references are compared. Updated and revised to reflect the new developments in the field, the "Handbook of Child Psychology, Sixth Edition" contains new chapters on such topics as spirituality, social understanding, and non-verbal communication. "Volume 1: Theoretical Models of Human Development," edited by Richard M. Lerner, Tufts University, explores a variety of theoretical approaches, including life-span/life-course theories, socio-culture theories, structural theories, object-relations theories, and diversity and development theories. New chapters cover phenomenology and ecological systems theory, positive youth development, and religious and spiritual development.
Word and Image In Arthurian Literature (PDF)
by Keith BusbyFirst published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
The Ontogeny of Information (PDF): Developmental Systems and Evolution
by Susan OyamaIn The Ontogeny of Information, Susan Oyama draws on psychology, biology, and anthropology, as well as philosophy and history, to explore the many facets of the nature-nurture debate. Our deepest beliefs about what is natural, inevitable and unchangeable, what is normal and good, are affected by our concept of biological nature. Because the non-academic world also continues to frame important questions in terms of genetic necessity and cultural overlay, this distinction between nature and culture has serious implications for the conduct of private lives and for the making of public policy.
Cognitive and Language Development in Children (Child Development)
by John Oates Andrew GraysonThis is one of a series of four books that forms part of the Open University course on child development. The series provides a detailed and thorough introduction to the central concepts, theories, issues and research evidence in developmental psychology. Cognitive and Language Development in Children gives an up–to–date and accessible account of how thinking and language develop during childhood. The book is innovative in its approach: it starts by considering cognition and language in infants and continues to weave together these two areas in subsequent chapters that cover aspects of their development through childhood. The chapters have been prepared by leading researchers and theorists in collaboration with members of the Open University course team. Building on the themes in The Foundations of Child Development, a previous book within the series, the editors provide a fully up–to–date, broad and engaging overview of the field, ranging from modern understandings of brain architecture and function to the social and cultural contexts of learning. The chapters have many features to assist and facilitate understanding, including defined learning outcomes, research summaries, activities, readings, definitions of key terms and section summaries.