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Representing Reality

Discourse, Rhetoric and Social Construction

by Jonathan Potter ...

`This is an admirable book which can be recommended to students with confidence, and is likely also to become an indispensable source of reference for those researching fact construction′ - Discourse & SocietyHow is reality manufactured? The idea of social construction has become a commonplace of much social research, yet precisely what is constructed, and how, and even what constructionism means, ... Read more

$94.99 USD

`This is an admirable book which can be recommended to students with confidence, and is likely also to become an indispensable source of reference for those researching fact construction′ - Discourse & SocietyHow is reality manufactured? The idea of social construction has become a commonplace of much social research, yet precisely what is constructed, and how, and even what constructionism means,
... Read more
Discourses of Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Seeing, Thinking, Writing

by Jonathan Potter ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
This book offers an innovative reassessment of the way Victorians thought and wrote about visual experience. It argues that new visual technologies gave expression to new ways of seeing, using these to uncover the visual discourses that facilitated, informed and shaped the way people conceptualised and articulated visual experience. In doing so, the book reconsiders literary and non-fiction works ... Read more

$58.99 USD

This book offers an innovative reassessment of the way Victorians thought and wrote about visual experience. It argues that new visual technologies gave expression to new ways of seeing, using these to uncover the visual discourses that facilitated, informed and shaped the way people conceptualised and articulated visual experience. In doing so, the book reconsiders literary and non-fiction works
... Read more
Social Texts and Context

Literature and Social Psychology

by Jonathan Potter, Peter Stringer, Margaret Wetherell ...

Series series Routledge Revivals
First published in 1984, Social Texts and Context illustrates the ways in which familiar psychological concepts – femininity, the environment, groups, the self – are constructed in discourse. Novels by Thomas Hardy, Barbara Cartland, Doris Lessing, C. P. Snow, Charles Dickens and Robert Musil are examined, and the theoretical approaches of Roland Barthes, Rom Harre, Jonathan Culler, Henri Tajfel, ... Read more

$41.99 USD

First published in 1984, Social Texts and Context illustrates the ways in which familiar psychological concepts – femininity, the environment, groups, the self – are constructed in discourse. Novels by Thomas Hardy, Barbara Cartland, Doris Lessing, C. P. Snow, Charles Dickens and Robert Musil are examined, and the theoretical approaches of Roland Barthes, Rom Harre, Jonathan Culler, Henri Tajfel,
... Read more
Focus Group Practice

by Jonathan Potter, Claudia Puchta ...

Focus Group Practice is unique in providing a picture of focus group moderation and interaction that is based on the study of what actually happens in high-class market research focus groups and in using recent theories of interaction, for example discourse and conversation analyses, to throw light on the practice of moderation. It is written in clear, engaging and non-technical manner and richly ... Read more

$69.99 USD

Focus Group Practice is unique in providing a picture of focus group moderation and interaction that is based on the study of what actually happens in high-class market research focus groups and in using recent theories of interaction, for example discourse and conversation analyses, to throw light on the practice of moderation. It is written in clear, engaging and non-technical manner and richly
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Lament for a Nation

The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism

by George Grant ...

Narrated by Jonathan Watton ...

Series Audiobook 205 - Carleton Library Series
Unabridged

6 hours 35 min

Canadians have relatively few binding national myths, but one of the most pervasive and enduring is the conviction that the country is doomed. In 1965 George Grant passionately defended Canadian identity by asking fundamental questions about the meaning and future of Canada’s political existence. In Lament for a Nation he argued that Canada – immense and underpopulated, defined in part by the ... Read more

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Canadians have relatively few binding national myths, but one of the most pervasive and enduring is the conviction that the country is doomed. In 1965 George Grant passionately defended Canadian identity by asking fundamental questions about the meaning and future of Canada’s political existence. In Lament for a Nation he argued that Canada – immense and underpopulated, defined in part by the
... Read more
Religious Horror and the Ecogothic

by Mary Going, Kathleen Hudson, Antonio Alcalá González, Kaja Franck, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, Lauren Nixon, Jennifer Schell, Christopher M. Scott, Ruth-Anne Walbank0, Rosie Whitcombe1, Madeline Potter2, Dr Jonathan Greenaway3, Laura R. Kremmel4 ...

Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Religious Horror and the Ecogothic explores the intersections of Anglophone Christianity and the Ecogothic, a subgenre that explores the ecocritical in Gothic literature, film, and media. Acknowledging the impact of Christian ideologies upon interpretations of human relationships with the environment, the Ecogothic in turn interrogates spiritual identity and humanity’s darker impulses in relation ... Read more

$97.99 USD

Religious Horror and the Ecogothic explores the intersections of Anglophone Christianity and the Ecogothic, a subgenre that explores the ecocritical in Gothic literature, film, and media. Acknowledging the impact of Christian ideologies upon interpretations of human relationships with the environment, the Ecogothic in turn interrogates spiritual identity and humanity’s darker impulses in relation
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Participatory Planning in the Caribbean: Lessons from Practice

by Robert Potter, Jonathan Pugh ...

Series series Routledge Revivals
This title was first published in 2003. Until recently, planning and development in the Caribbean have been "top-down", "centre-out" and "expert-led". For a few years now, though, the region has bowed to the global trend and has experimented with participatory planning methods. Participatory planning is heralded by much of the development community as the most appropriate alternative strategy to ... Read more

$73.99 USD

This title was first published in 2003. Until recently, planning and development in the Caribbean have been "top-down", "centre-out" and "expert-led". For a few years now, though, the region has bowed to the global trend and has experimented with participatory planning methods. Participatory planning is heralded by much of the development community as the most appropriate alternative strategy to
... Read more
Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Young Children 0-5 Years

by Marie Potter, Samuel Stones ...

Series series Positive Mental Health
The mental health of children is a current concern, and this applies even to the earliest years of a child’s life. This book supports trainees and practitioners working in early years contexts to understand the risk factors which can result in the development of mental health needs in children from birth to 5. It argues that high quality early years provision can mitigate against some of these ... Read more

$28.99 USD

The mental health of children is a current concern, and this applies even to the earliest years of a child’s life. This book supports trainees and practitioners working in early years contexts to understand the risk factors which can result in the development of mental health needs in children from birth to 5. It argues that high quality early years provision can mitigate against some of these
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Freelance Familiars Box Set Books 1-3

by Daniel Potter ...

Narrated by Jonathan Waters ...

Unabridged

28 hours 29 min

Magic, wizards and talking animals. Those would all be totally cool with Thomas except he woke up as a talking cougar! Now he's viewing the magical world from the bottom up, and everyone's telling him he better roll over if he knows what's good for him. Or else!Thomas runs for "else" as fast as he can on four legs, surprising the entire magical community as they scrambled to keep up. In this three ... Read more

$25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Magic, wizards and talking animals. Those would all be totally cool with Thomas except he woke up as a talking cougar! Now he's viewing the magical world from the bottom up, and everyone's telling him he better roll over if he knows what's good for him. Or else!Thomas runs for "else" as fast as he can on four legs, surprising the entire magical community as they scrambled to keep up. In this three
... Read more
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

by Jonathan Edwards ...

Narrated by John Potter ...

Unabridged

56 min

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God is a classic sermon by Jonathan Edwards, first delivered in Massachusetts in 1741. This rendition is beautifully narrated by John Potter. ... Read more

$7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God is a classic sermon by Jonathan Edwards, first delivered in Massachusetts in 1741. This rendition is beautifully narrated by John Potter.
... Read more

Also available as: eBooks
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Marking Territory

Book 2 of Freelance Familiars

by Daniel Potter ...

Narrated by Jonathan Waters ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Freelance Familiars
Unabridged

10 hours 5 min

Power corrupts. Can Thomas resist the lure?Thomas may be the first magical cougar to go freelance, but he still has a lot to learn about selecting clients. Guilty over the injuries suffered by his friend and client O’Meara, Thomas resolves to collect enough magical essence to get her healed. Teaming up with an under-appreciated cabal of technomagi, Thomas finds himself battling encroaching mages, ... Read more

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Power corrupts. Can Thomas resist the lure?Thomas may be the first magical cougar to go freelance, but he still has a lot to learn about selecting clients. Guilty over the injuries suffered by his friend and client O’Meara, Thomas resolves to collect enough magical essence to get her healed. Teaming up with an under-appreciated cabal of technomagi, Thomas finds himself battling encroaching mages,
... Read more
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Off Leash

Freelance Familiars Book 1

by Daniel Potter ...

Narrated by Jonathan Waters ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Freelance Familiars
Unabridged

8 hours 7 min

Thomas wanted a simple, stable existence, but saddled with unemployment, an absentee girlfriend, and the impending unpaid rent, change is hurtling down on him whether he likes it or not. Following the sudden murder of his strange elderly neighbor, He awakens on wrong side of the Veil transformed into a mountain lion and thrust into a dangerous world of magic.Thomas must team up with a disgraced ... Read more

$14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Thomas wanted a simple, stable existence, but saddled with unemployment, an absentee girlfriend, and the impending unpaid rent, change is hurtling down on him whether he likes it or not. Following the sudden murder of his strange elderly neighbor, He awakens on wrong side of the Veil transformed into a mountain lion and thrust into a dangerous world of magic.Thomas must team up with a disgraced
... Read more

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