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The Sunday Times bestseller with all the strategies you need to prevent pain and fuel your body to its fullest health potential. ‘James is incredible – he has played a huge role in helping me manage my fitness and recover from injury over the years’ David Beckham Stress, anxiety, injury, everyday wear and tear. Life takes its toll on our bodies and it can be so easy to suffer through the aches and pains when it feels like you don't have the time, money or resources to fix them.In Body, James Davies gives you everything you need to heal, reset and restore your body to manage everyday niggles and more serious injury. From arthritis and muscle strains to IBS and stress, James has compiled everything he's learned as an internationally renowned physio and osteopath to give you all the tools you need. Simply explained and with case studies along the way this book is the go-to book for looking after your body. Empower yourself with the knowledge you need to achieve full-body health and keep your body moving. BODY was number 9 in the Sunday Times Bestseller Chart w/b 12th September 2022
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Here, for the first time, is a book that submits the psychoanalytic training institute to deep anthropological scrutiny. It expertly uncovers the hidden institutional devices used to transform trainees into professionals. By attending closely to what trainees feel, do, and think as they struggle towards professional status, it exposes the often subtle but deeply penetrating effects psychoanalytic training has upon all who pass through it; effects that profoundly shape not only therapists (professionally and personally), but also the community itself. The author's fascinating and original data is culled from his extensive fieldwork, his case-studies of clinical work, and his interviews with teachers, senior practitioners and trainees. This book is written to be accessible to all those who have an interest in the therapeutic profession from the professional (whether psychotherapist or anthropologist) to the trainee and general reader.
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In this book James Davies considers emotional suffering as part and parcel of what it means to live and develop as a human being, rather than as a mental health problem requiring only psychiatric, antidepressant or cognitive treatment. This book therefore offers a new perspective on emotional discontent and discusses how we can engage with it clinically, personally and socially to uncover its productive value.The Importance of Suffering explores a relational theory of understanding emotional suffering suggesting that suffering, does not spring from one dimension of our lives, but is often the outcome of how we relate to the world internally – in terms of our personal biology, habits and values, and externally – in terms of our society, culture and the world around us. Davies suggests that suffering is a healthy call-to-change and shouldn't be chemically anesthetised or avoided. The book challenges conventional thinking by arguing that if we understand and manage suffering more holistically, it can facilitate individual and social transformation in powerful and surprising ways.The Importance of Suffering offers new ways to think about, and therefore understand suffering. It will appeal to anyone who works with suffering in a professional context including professionals, trainees and academics in the fields of counselling, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, psychiatry and clinical psychology.
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In this book James Davies considers emotional suffering as part and parcel of what it means to live and develop as a human being, rather than as a mental health problem requiring only psychiatric, antidepressant or cognitive treatment. This book therefore offers a new perspective on emotional discontent and discusses how we can engage with it clinically, personally and socially to uncover its productive value.The Importance of Suffering explores a relational theory of understanding emotional suffering suggesting that suffering, does not spring from one dimension of our lives, but is often the outcome of how we relate to the world internally – in terms of our personal biology, habits and values, and externally – in terms of our society, culture and the world around us. Davies suggests that suffering is a healthy call-to-change and shouldn't be chemically anesthetised or avoided. The book challenges conventional thinking by arguing that if we understand and manage suffering more holistically, it can facilitate individual and social transformation in powerful and surprising ways.The Importance of Suffering offers new ways to think about, and therefore understand suffering. It will appeal to anyone who works with suffering in a professional context including professionals, trainees and academics in the fields of counselling, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, psychiatry and clinical psychology.
Information in the Labour Market
Job-Worker Matching and Its Implications for Education in Ontario
Häftad, Engelska, 1984
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This study uses a simple model of information gathering to generate policy recommendations concerning education in Ontario, especially at the post-secondary level. The schools are viewed as helping students discover jobs matched to their abilities, and policy prescriptions are offered from that standpoint.After examining earlier economic models of education – seeing it in terms of human capital and signalling – the authors analyse their informational model. In the light of the three theories of education, they then proceed to examine the appropriate role of government in the education market, and offer their policy recommendations. In addition, trends in the structure of education over the last two decades are studied and explained from the economic point of view. They argue that too much has been spent on formal education and not enough on on-the-job-training, but the answer is not more government intervention or vocationalism. Education policy should encourage free choice and an increasing ability to match interests or skills with jobs. Vocationalism merely hinders the latter and endangers economic well-being in the long term.
Emotions in the Field
The Psychology and Anthropology of Fieldwork Experience
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
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As emotion is often linked with irrationality, it's no surprise researchers tend to underreport the emotions they experience in the field. However, denying emotion altogether doesn't necessarily lead to better research. Methods cannot function independently from the personalities wielding them, and it's time we questioned the tendency to underplay the scientific, personal, and political consequences of the emotional dimensions of fieldwork. This book explores the idea that emotion is not antithetical to thought or reason, but is instead an untapped source of insight that can complement more traditional methods of anthropological research.With a new, re-humanized methodological framework, this book shows how certain reactions and experiences consistently evoked in fieldwork, when treated with the intellectual rigor empirical work demands, can be translated into meaningful data. Emotions in the Field brings to mainstream anthropological awareness not only the viability and necessity of this neglected realm of research, but also its fresh and thoughtful guiding principles.
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As emotion is often linked with irrationality, it's no surprise researchers tend to underreport the emotions they experience in the field. However, denying emotion altogether doesn't necessarily lead to better research. Methods cannot function independently from the personalities wielding them, and it's time we questioned the tendency to underplay the scientific, personal, and political consequences of the emotional dimensions of fieldwork. This book explores the idea that emotion is not antithetical to thought or reason, but is instead an untapped source of insight that can complement more traditional methods of anthropological research.With a new, re-humanized methodological framework, this book shows how certain reactions and experiences consistently evoked in fieldwork, when treated with the intellectual rigor empirical work demands, can be translated into meaningful data. Emotions in the Field brings to mainstream anthropological awareness not only the viability and necessity of this neglected realm of research, but also its fresh and thoughtful guiding principles.
Relation of a Voyage to Sagadahoc
Now First Printed From the Original Manuscript in the Lambeth Palace Library
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
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Galvanized Iron; Its Manufacture and Uses. A Detailed Description of This Important Industry and Its
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
350 kr
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Galvanized Iron; Its Manufacture and Uses. A Detailed Description of This Important Industry and Its
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
196 kr
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History of England
(1603-1690) From the Accession of James I. to the Battle of the Boyne
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
421 kr
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History of England
(1603-1690) From the Accession of James I. to the Battle of the Boyne
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
266 kr
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Relation of a Voyage to Sagadahoc [By J. Davies] Ed. With Preface, Notes and Appendix by B.F. Decosta
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
350 kr
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339 kr
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Relation of a Voyage to Sagadahoc
Now First Printed From the Original Manuscript in the Lambeth Palace Library
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
350 kr
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339 kr
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367 kr
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Relation of a Voyage to Sagadahoc [By J. Davies] Ed. With Preface, Notes and Appendix by B.F. Decosta
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
176 kr
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177 kr
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