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Extreme Intelligence Development Predicaments Implications

Extreme Intelligence Development Predicaments Implications

Extreme intelligence is strongly correlated with the highest of human achievement but also paradoxically with higher relationship conflict career difficulty mental illness and high-IQ crime. Increased intelligence does not necessarily increase success; it should be considered as a minority special need that requires nurturing. This book explores the social development and predicaments of those who possess extreme intelligence and the consequent personal and professional implications for them. It uniquely integrates insights and knowledge from the research fields of intelligence giftedness genius and expertise with those from depth psychology emphasising the importance of finding ways to talk effectively about extreme intelligence and how it can better be supported and embraced. The author supports her arguments throughout reviewing the academic literature alongside representations of genius in history fiction and the media and draws on her own first-hand research interviews and consulting work with multinational high-IQ adults. This book is essential reading for anyone supporting or working with the highly gifted as well as those researching or interested by the field of intelligence. | Extreme Intelligence Development Predicaments Implications

GBP 27.99
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France’s Purveyors of Hatred Aspects of the French Extreme Right and its Influence 1918–1945

France’s Purveyors of Hatred Aspects of the French Extreme Right and its Influence 1918–1945

This book examines the extreme right in France during the interwar period. It begins by describing the background of the French right before 1914 and then provides commentary and analysis of the broad range of the extra-parliamentary right in interwar France. Organisations such as Action Française and the militant ligues are examined as well as prominent extreme-right intellectuals such as Lucien Rebatet Robert Brasillach and Pierre Drieu la Rochelle. The various forms of French anti-Semitism are assessed and the book also situates the French extreme right within a broader context by assessing its impact on other European countries including the UK. It concludes by exploring the complicated politics of wartime France where some extreme-right activists collaborated with the Nazis while others opposed them and where few generalisations prove possible. This volume will be of great interest to scholars and students of French history the extreme right and interwar politics. | France’s Purveyors of Hatred Aspects of the French Extreme Right and its Influence 1918–1945

GBP 36.99
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Living with Extreme Intelligence Developing Essential Communication Skills

Living with Extreme Intelligence Developing Essential Communication Skills

In Living with Extreme Intelligence: Developing Essential Communication Skills Dr Sonja Falck provides a unique and practical manual of how to improve interpersonal interactions that involve adults who stand out from the neurotypical majority by having top 2% IQ. Her main message is that understanding the individual differences involved in extreme intelligence and mastering relevant communication skills can break through barriers of frustration underachievement and loneliness to bring about brain-changingly positive conversations and interpersonal effectiveness connection and joy. Dr Falck begins by explaining the neurophysiological and social foundations of why we communicate the way we do and then explains in detail seven essential communication skills. Following this she shows how to put these skills into practice applying insights from depth psychology and demonstrating how to have better conversations in a variety of contexts from general social gatherings to the workplace and intimate relationships. Particular attention is paid to areas that Dr Falck’s research and professional practice have repeatedly shown her are challenging for adults with extreme intelligence such as small talk office politics dating and handling conflict. She draws on case examples from her consulting work (psychotherapy and coaching) with clients who have extreme intelligence and examples from novels cinema the media the literature on giftedness and biographical material on high-profile high-IQ figures like Steve Jobs Elon Musk and Lady Gaga. Throughout she emphasizes the theme from her original model of interpersonal relating which is that experiencing freedom of self-expression with others who offer you a high level of acceptance is what puts you in a state of thriving. The book provides step-by-step guidance for engaging in numerous interpersonal situations such as how to handle difficult conversations how to write effective emails how to breathe listen play take a risk bond repair a broken connection and keep yourself well through changes like failure success and falling in love. It is essential reading for anyone affected by or interested in issues associated with extremely high intelligence. | Living with Extreme Intelligence Developing Essential Communication Skills

GBP 24.99
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Misers British Responses to Extreme Saving 1700–1860

Misers British Responses to Extreme Saving 1700–1860

This volume uses the extreme case of misers to examine interlocking categories that undergirded the emergence of modern British society including new perspectives on charity morality and marriage; new representations of passion and sympathy; and new modes of saving spending and investment. Misers surveys this class of people—as invented and interpreted in sermons poems novels and plays; analyzed by economists and philosophers; and profiled in obituaries and biographies—to explore how British attitudes about saving money shifted between 1700 and 1860. As opposed to the century before the nineteenth century witnessed a new appreciation for misers as economists credited them with adding to the nation's stock of capital and novelists newly imagined their capacity to empathize with fellow human beings. These characters shared the spotlight with real people who posthumously donned that label populating into a cottage industry of miser biographies by the 1850s. By the time A Christmas Carol appeared in 1843 many Victorians had come to embrace misers as links that connected one generation’s extreme saving with the next generation’s virtuous spending. With a broad chronological period this volume is useful for students and scholars interested in representation of misers in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. | Misers British Responses to Extreme Saving 1700–1860

GBP 130.00
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Extreme Sustainability Rhetoric and Sustainable Development

Extreme Sustainability Rhetoric and Sustainable Development

This book considers the nature causes and consequences of extreme pro- and anti-sustainability rhetoric exploring how and why the expressions of radical views on sustainability-related themes may prevent real sustainable development. Following a thorough introduction on sustainability rhetoric on dialogue and on the role played by ideologies in the building of environmental beliefs Fracarolli Nunes and Lee Park examine positions and statements expressed or made by individuals companies governments and NGOs in the last decades. The outcomes of these considerations lead to the classification of expressions in different categories of sustainability rhetoric laying the groundwork for the development of a ‘sustainability spectrum’: a metric for the level of radicalization of sustainability positions which ranges from apocalyptic views to ultimate denial. Through the combination of historical perspectives theoretical frameworks and conceptual developments this book provides a foundation for a more informed and productive dialogue between radically opposing views on sustainability issues. This volume will be of great interest to students scholars and practitioners researching and working in the areas of environmental communication and media environmental politics and sustainable development. | Extreme Sustainability Rhetoric and Sustainable Development

GBP 130.00
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The Psychology of Extreme Violence A Case Study Approach to Serial Homicide Mass Shooting School Shooting and Lone-actor Terrorism

The Psychology of Extreme Violence A Case Study Approach to Serial Homicide Mass Shooting School Shooting and Lone-actor Terrorism

Featuring a unique overview of the different forms of extreme violence this book considers the psychology of extreme violence alongside a variety of contributing factors such as brain abnormalities in homicide offenders. Featuring several contemporary real-world case studies this book offers insight into the psychology of serial homicide offenders mass shooters school shooters and lone-actor terrorists. The main purpose of this book is not to glorify or condemn the actions of these individuals but to attempt to explain the motivations and circumstances that inspire such acts of extreme violence. By adopting a detailed case study approach it aims to increase our understanding of the specific motivations and psychological factors underlying extreme violence. Using nontechnical language this book is the ideal companion for students researchers and forensic practitioners interested in the multidisciplinary nature of extreme violence. This book will also be of interest to students taking courses on homicide mass shooting school shooting terrorism forensic psychology and criminology and criminal justice. | The Psychology of Extreme Violence A Case Study Approach to Serial Homicide Mass Shooting School Shooting and Lone-actor Terrorism

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The Micro-Economics of Peasant Economy China 1920-1940

The Micro-Economics of Peasant Economy China 1920-1940

The objectives of this study first published in 1982 are to elaborate a micro-economic model which adequately explains the interrelationships among economic forces determining the distribution of income in a peasant economy in the early stages of transition to industrialization. It also examines the development of the ‘dual economy’ an economy composed of a large peasant agricultural sector with its ancillary handicraft sector both traditional in techniques and institutions and a small but growing modern industrial sector. | The Micro-Economics of Peasant Economy China 1920-1940

GBP 31.99
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Micro-Approaches to Demographic Research

Micro-Approaches to Demographic Research

Originally published in 1988 this collection of essays was the first attempt by population scientists to incorporate some of the methods and materials of anthropologists into their work. The essays bridge the gap in the conceptualisation and organisation of field research by 2 sets of social scientists – demographers and social anthropologists – who share an interest in the explanation of particular patterns of population composition and change. | Micro-Approaches to Demographic Research

GBP 80.00
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Micro-geographies of the Western City c.1750–1900

Micro-geographies of the Western City c.1750–1900

This book examines the overlapping spaces in modern Western cities to explore the small-scale processes that shaped these cities between c. 1750 and 1900. It highlights the ways in which time and space matter framing individual actions and practices and their impact on larger urban processes. It draws on the original and detailed studies of cities in Europe and North America through a micro-geographical approach to unravel urban practices experiences and representations at three different scales: the dwelling the street and the neighbourhood. Part I explores the changing spatiality of housing examining the complex and contingent relationship between public and private and commercial and domestic as well as the relationship between representations and lived experiences. Part II delves into the street as a thoroughfare connecting the city but also as a site of contestation over the control and character of urban spaces. Part III draws attention to the neighbourhood as a residential grouping and as a series of spaces connecting flows of people integrating the urban space. Drawing on a range of methodologies from space syntax and axial analysis to detailed descriptions of individual buildings this book blends spatial theory and ideas of place with micro-history. With its fresh perspectives on the Western city created through the built environment and the everyday actions of city dwellers the book will interest historical geographers urban historians and architects involved in planning of cities across Europe and North America. | Micro-geographies of the Western City c. 1750–1900

GBP 38.99
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Migration Micro-Business and Tourism in Thailand Highlanders in the City

Migration Micro-Business and Tourism in Thailand Highlanders in the City

Visitors to Thailand’s urban and beach-sided tourist hotspots notice the presence of colourful and predominantly female vendors offering self-made and mass-manufactured products. A high percentage of these vendors are members of the highland ethnic minority group of Akha who have become micro-entrepreneurs or self-employed street vendors. The work and everyday life experiences of these ethnic minority migrants are situated at the intersections of tourism migration and the informal sector. This book investigates the social economic and political embeddedness of street vendors in urban tourist contexts in Thailand. Based on extensive field research it presents a detailed analysis of urban-directed mobility patterns and revealing strategies and dilemmas in the urban souvenir business. Focusing on the development of urban ethnic minority souvenir stalls run mostly by people belonging to the highland group of Akha the author explains the spatial expansion of ethnic businesses and assesses the economic and political obstacles micro-entrepreneurs are confronted with. The book offers an understanding of the everyday practices and social relations of and between unequally powerful actors related to ethnic minority tourism in urban contexts and systematically integrates individual and collective action into socio-economic and politico-institutional contexts. A significant contribution to migration and ethnic minority studies in the Thai and Asian urban tourism context the book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of Southeast Asian studies tourism migration and ethnic minority studies. | Migration Micro-Business and Tourism in Thailand Highlanders in the City

GBP 42.99
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Screenwriting for Micro-Budget Films Tips Tricks and Hacks for Reverse Engineering Your Screenplay

Screenwriting for Micro-Budget Films Tips Tricks and Hacks for Reverse Engineering Your Screenplay

Screenwriting for micro-budget films can present its own challenges and this book takes the reader through all the considerations that need to be made to write an effective screenplay for a low-budget film. Drawing on his own experience case studies from films such as Primer Coherence and Reservoir Dogs as well as the perspectives of working screenwriters such as Joe Swanberg and Alex Ross-Perry Greenberg explores common pitfalls screenwriters face and suggests practical solutions. This book lays the groundworks of the realities of low-budget filmmaking and also talks through the practical aspects such as story structure and genre considerations. Greenberg makes the process of writing a screenplay for a low-budget film accessible and creative allowing student and independent filmmakers to tailor their writing for their films. This book is ideal for aspiring screenwriters independent filmmakers and students of screenwriting. | Screenwriting for Micro-Budget Films Tips Tricks and Hacks for Reverse Engineering Your Screenplay

GBP 28.99
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Treating Mind and Body Essays in the History of Science Professions and Society Under Extreme Conditions

Treating Mind and Body Essays in the History of Science Professions and Society Under Extreme Conditions

As historians rediscover human society to be as much about desire fantasy and irrationality as it is about interest reality and reason the history of psychoanalytic thought takes on an increasing significance. Its growth and interconnection with other fields appealed to the eclectic and holistic interests of historians so much so that the term psychohistory was coined admiringly ambivalently or perjoratively. The methodological intersection of psychology and history also helped move us toward a more inclusive social history through investigation of the institutional history of medical sciences of the mind. Treating Mind and Body examines the recent history of psychotherapy psychoanalysis and medicine in Germany through a series of original essays by Geoffrey Cocks. The first section Psychotherapy analyzes the history of psychotherapy in the Third Reich and includes such essays as The Professionalization of Psychotherapy in Germany and The Nazis and C. G. Jung which examines Jung's association with the Nazi regime and the rift between Jungians and Freudians. Section two Psychoanalysis considers the repression of memory evident among German psychoanalysts a more disturbing historical reality than the traditional view of a Nazi destruction of psychoanalysis. Essays include Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Germany Since 1939 as well as a discussion of Heinz Kohut's self psychology in light of Kohut's life experience in Austria and America. In section three Cocks treats medicine the history of professions and the increasing awareness among historians of the place of medicine hi Nazi plans and projects. Essays include Jews and Medicine in Modern German Society and The Nuremberg Doctor's Trial and Medicine in Modern Germany. As a historian of Germany psychoanalysis and medicine Cocks's writings reflect an abiding interest in the intersections of psychology and history. To his selection of previously published essays he adds a new introduction placing the essays in newer richer contexts. This book will be of interest to psychologists psychiatrists and psychotherapists as well as those in the fields of medicine history and sociology. | Treating Mind and Body Essays in the History of Science Professions and Society Under Extreme Conditions

GBP 27.99
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The Micro-politics of Microcredit Gender and Neoliberal Development in Bangladesh

The Micro-politics of Microcredit Gender and Neoliberal Development in Bangladesh

Microcredit has been seen in recent decades as having great potential for aiding development in poor developing countries with Bangladesh being one of the countries which has pioneered microcredit and implemented it most widely. This book based on extensive original research explores how microcredit works in practice and assesses its effectiveness. It discusses how microcredit usually channelled through women is often passed to the men of the family a practice disapproved of by some but regarded as acceptable by borrowers who have a communal approach to debt rather than viewing debt as something held by single individuals. The book demonstrates how the rules around microcredit are often seem as irksome by the borrowers how lenders often charge high rates of interest and work primarily to preserve their institutions thereby going against the spirit of the microcredit movement and how borrowers often end up on a downward spiral deeper and deeper in debt. Overall the book argues that although microcredit does much good it also has many drawbacks. | The Micro-politics of Microcredit Gender and Neoliberal Development in Bangladesh

GBP 44.99
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Ritual Emotion Violence Studies on the Micro-Sociology of Randall Collins

Ritual Emotion Violence Studies on the Micro-Sociology of Randall Collins

Microsociologists seek to capture social life as it is experienced and in recent decades no one has championed the microsociological approach more fiercely than Randall Collins. The pieces in this exciting volume offer fresh and original insights into key aspects of Collins’ thought and of microsociology more generally. The introductory essay by Elliot B. Weininger and Omar Lizardo provides a lucid overview of the key premises this perspective. Ethnographic papers by Randol Contreras using data from New York and Philippe Bourgois and Laurie Kain Hart using data from Philadelphia examine the social logic of violence in street-level narcotics markets. Both draw on heavily on Collins’ microsociological account of the features of social situations that tend to engender violence. In the second section of the book a study by Paul DiMaggio Clark Bernier Charles Heckscher and David Mimno tackles the question of whether electronically mediated interaction exhibits the ritualization which according to Collins is a common feature of face-to-face encounters. Their results suggest that at least under certain circumstances digitally mediated interaction may foster social solidarity in a manner similar to face-to-face interaction. A chapter by Simone Polillo picks up from Collins’ work in the sociology of knowledge examining multiple ways in which social network structures can engender intellectual creativity. The third section of the book contains papers that critically but sympathetically assess key tenets of microsociology. Jonathan H. Turner argues that the radically microsociological perspective developed by Collins will better serve the social scientific project if it is embedded in a more comprehensive paradigm one that acknowledges the macro- and meso-levels of social and cultural life. A chapter by David Gibson presents empirical analyses of decisions by state leaders concerning whether or not to use force to deal with internal or external foes suggesting that Collins’ model of interaction ritual can only partially illuminate the dynamics of these highly consequential political moments. Work by Erika Summers-Effler and Justin Van Ness seeks to systematize and broaden the scope of Collins’ theory of interaction by including in it encounters that depart from the ritual model in important ways. In a final reflective chapter Randall Collins himself highlights the promise and future of microsociology. Clearly written these pieces offer cutting-edge thinking on some of the crucial theoretical and empirical issues in sociology today. | Ritual Emotion Violence Studies on the Micro-Sociology of Randall Collins

GBP 35.99
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Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation New Evidence from Four Continents

Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation New Evidence from Four Continents

This book explores the nature of regions and how they function particularly at the local and micro-level. Whilst recent years have seen a resurgence in debates around the roles which regions can play in development the focus has tended to be on 'macro' regional institutions such as the EU ASEAN ECOWAS or MERCOSUR. In contrast this book offers a nuanced analysis of the important field of sub-regionalism and sub-national cross-border cooperation. Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation takes a fresh look at both theoretical and empirical approaches to ‘region-making’ through cooperation activities at the micro-level across national borders in Europe Southeast Asia Latin America Africa and the Middle East. The book aims to explore the role that institutional dynamics play at the micro-level in shaping local and global ties investigate what the formal and informal integration factors are that bolster regionalism and regionalization processes and to clarify to what extent and under what conditions cooperation at the micro-level can be instrumental to solving common problems. Scholars and students within politics sociology geography and economics would find this book an important guide to regionalism at a micro-local level perspective. | Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation New Evidence from Four Continents

GBP 38.99
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Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development Inside a UNESCO Convention

Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development Inside a UNESCO Convention

Drawing on debates about intangible cultural heritage (ICH) safeguarding at the local and international levels Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development: Inside a UNESCO Convention explores the theoretical and practical implications of the intertwinement between these policy fields. Considering how sustainable development (SD) priorities are influencing representations of ICH the volume questions how they are expanding the frontiers of the heritage realm and unsettling accepted understandings of the social uses of heritage. The contributing authors who hail from a variety of different contexts and disciplinary backgrounds explore these issues from a unique vantage point as both scholars and actors of the processes they analyze. Playing different roles in the implementation of the Convention their positioning as insiders allows for a unique analytical perspective that is based on first-hand engagement with the practices of the Convention. Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development: Inside a UNESCO Convention sheds light on the complexity potential and consequences of combining ICH and SD at the policy-making level and in heritage practices on the ground. It will be of interest to academics and students working in heritage studies development studies anthropology archaeology international law political science international relations and sociology. | Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development Inside a UNESCO Convention

GBP 35.99
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Global Heating and the Australian Far Right

Global Heating and the Australian Far Right

Global Heating and the Australian Far Right examines the environmental politics of far-right actors and movements in Australia exploring their broader political context and responses to climate change. The book traces the development of far-right pseudo-environmentalism and territorial politics from colonial genocide and Australian nationalism to extreme-right political violence. Through a critical analysis of news and social media it reveals how denialist and resignatory attitudes towards climate change operate alongside extreme right accelerationism in a wider Australian political context characterised by reactionary fossil fuel politics and neoliberal New Right climate change agendas. The authors scrutinise the manipulation of environmental politics by contemporary Australian far- and extreme-right actors in cross-national online media. They also assess the political-ideological context of the contemporary far right addressing intergovernmental approaches to security threats connected to the far right and climate change and the emergence of radical environmentalist traditions in ‘New Catastrophism’ literature. The conclusion synthesises key insights analysing the mainstreaming of ethnonationalist and authoritarian responses to global heating and potential future trajectories of far-right movements exploiting the climate crisis. It also emphasises the necessity for radical political alternatives to counter the far right’s exploitation of climate change. This book will be of interest to researchers of climate change the far right neoliberal capitalism extremism and Australian politics.

GBP 130.00
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