The truth is, most people walk past powerful medicine every day without knowing it. That chamomile tea in your pantry? It's one of the most studied natural sleep aids on the planet.That turmeric in your spice rack? It's been clinically shown to reduce inflammation as effectively as some over-the-counter drugs. That aloe vera on your windowsill? It's been used as a burn treatment for over 5,000 years.The problem isn't that natural remedies don't work. The pr...

Transform Your Curriculum for the Future of Higher EducationIn an era of rapid technological disruption and artificial intelligence, the half-life of learned professional skills has shrunk to roughly five years. The traditional model of retrospective design—teaching exactly as we were taught—is simply no longer viable. Higher education must pivot away from static, monolithic degree programmes toward dynamic, adaptable learning ecosystems.In 10 Principle...

With contributions from experienced scholars in sociology and anthropology, Ethnography’s Ghosts illuminates and interrogates the 'ghosts' of past ethnographic fieldwork – whether revisited in practice or in the imagination.This book captures the remnants of past ideas, people, and legacies that shape current practices, highlighting how fieldnotes transform into precious archives that both anchor and haunt researchers. By revisiting these notes, scholars experience a blend...

Get up to speed on the extensive changes to the newest release of Microsoft SQL ServerThe 2012 release of Microsoft SQL Server changes how you develop applications for SQL Server. With this comprehensive resource, SQL Server authority Robert Vieira presents the fundamentals of database design and SQL concepts, and then shows you how to apply these concepts using the updated SQL Server. Publishing time and date with the 2012 release, Beginning Microsoft SQL Serv...

This book addresses aesthetics from a process philosophy perspective to highlight how even the perception of fixed objects, such as painting and drawing, depends on the intertwining and layering of a range of processes.Drawing on philosophers within the process tradition, the book argues that the visual arts and aesthetics need to directly address speed differentials in vision and the material medium. In doing so, it rephrases questions in aesthetics – which often involve perduring...

This final book in Paul Atkinson’s celebrated quartet on ethnographic research investigates material culture and its relationship to sensory ethnography. Building on the author’s recent fieldwork, the book showcases how materials, techniques, tools and perspectives combine with the five senses to inform ethnographic methods.Filled with images and hands-on examples of encounters with crafts and craft workers, the book takes you on a sensory journey through glassblowing, woodworking,...

In the early 1980s, against the background of chronic unemployment in Britain, the particular plight of young people had come to be identified as a subject for special concern. Anxieties were expressed, as they were in the 1930s, as a twin concern for a waste of the nation’s resources and for the demoralization of youth, leading potentially to anti-social behaviour.Originally published in 1982, this volume of essays identifies a number of key issues in the pattern of state response...

In Ethnographic Explorations: Surrender and Resistance, Whitaker and Atkinson, two experienced ethnographers, explore the complexities of fieldwork, analysis and writing from new perspectives. It takes the opportunity to reflect on Ethnography not just as a methodological perspective, but at a fundamental level.In general terms, Ethnography is seen not just in terms of a set of data-collection methods, but as a more profoundly transformational perspective. The book explore...

This book provides students and researchers with clear guidance through this tricky, but fundamental aspect of qualitative, ethnographic research. The chapters provide a concise overview that clarifies, illustrates and develops a highly popular methodological principle. To some extent, the book is critical of some contemporary approaches, particularly those that portray reflexivity as an optional, virtuous extra. Drawing on a broad range of anthropological, sociological and other sources, ...

In Ethnographic Engagements: Encounters with the Familiar and the Strange Delamont and Atkinson, each with over 40 years of experience as ethnographers, present strategies for designing, conducting and publishing research that contributes original insights.Ethnography is a core qualitative research method, widely used across the social sciences. However, producing good, interesting and thought-provoking ethnography is never easy. This book provides effective research strat...

The British National Health Service celebrated its thirtieth birthday in 1978. A Royal Commission was set up to consider the role of the National Health Service, and it is the debates that surrounded this Royal Commission that form the basis for the twelve topics covered by this book.The economic difficulties that the country was facing when this book was published in 1979 highlighted the widely publicised malaise in the health service, and exposed the limitation of a set of ideals...

An in-depth look at the invention and development of the electric guitar, demonstrating how its design has changed and what its design over the years has meant for its sound. Amplified celebrates this beloved instrument and reveals how it developed through the experiments of amateur makers and part-time tinkerers. It digs deep into archives and features new interviews with makers and players.