Bill Mckitterick explores the ways that strong self-leadership can help social workers refocus their attention on efforts that can achieve positive change. He also identifies tactics and strategies for providing leadership within a team and in senior positions.
"This new study analyses the development of the professions centering here on churchmen, lawyers, physicians, and teachers. The increasing professionalisation of England (and the other powerful nations of western Europe) was a major factor in the development of a recognisably mo…
"This new study analyses the development of the professions centering here on churchmen, lawyers, physicians, and teachers. The increasing professionalisation of England (and the other powerful nations of western Europe) was a major factor in the development of a recognisably mo…
In this book--which fully explores the political and cultural significance of psychology in post-World War II America--Ellen Herman tells the story of Americans' love affair with the behavioral sciences. It began during wartime. The atmosphere of crisis sustained from the 1940s …
This collection of essays by Martin Herbert considers various artists who have withdrawn from the art world or adopted an antagonistic position toward its mechanisms (essays on Lutz Bacher, Stanley Brouwn, Christopher D'Arcangelo, Trisha Donnelly, David Hammons, Agnes Martin, Ca…
"In Neatness Counts, Kevin Kopelson reflects on the poetics of the desk - rolltop or bureau plat, cluttered or bare, the nest-like desk, the schematic desk, the dramatic desk, the dramatic lack of any such furniture. Exploring the topography of literary creation by way of the to…
In Neatness Counts, Kevin Kopelson offers a series of meditations on how orderliness, chaos, and other physical states correspond with both the exhilaration of production and the desperation of writer's block. Focusing on Elizabeth Bishop, Marcel Proust, Roland Barthes, Tom Stop…
"Regarded by his contemporaries as the leading madrigal composer of his time, Luca Marenzio was an important figure in sixteenth-century Italian music, and also highly esteemed in England, Flanders and Poland. This English translation of Marco Bizzarini's study of the life and w…
"Reporting War examines the nature of contemporary war reporting in a range of locales, including Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East - especially Iraq - and southern Asia. The contributors, both practising and former journalists and leading academics, consider issues including…
In The Painter's Practice, James Cahill reveals the intricacies of the painter's life with respect to payment and patronage - an approach that is still largely absent from the study of East Asian art. Drawing upon such unofficial archival sources as diaries and letters, Cahill …
This book provides students and novice clinicians with nuts-and bolts advice about the process of doing therapy, starting with the first contact with a new patient. Filling a typical gap in clinical training, the book focuses on such real-world tasks as setting up appointments a…
This book provides students and novice clinicians with nuts-and bolts advice about the process of doing therapy, starting with the first contact with a new patient. Filling a typical gap in clinical training, the book focuses on such real-world tasks as setting up appointments a…
"This book provides students and novice clinicians with nuts-and-bolts advice about the process of doing therapy, starting with the first contact with a new patient. Suzanne Bender and Edward Messner - a junior clinician and a seasoned practitioner and supervisor - provide a uni…