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Irvine Welsh's fiction has defined an era, and this first full-length study provides a sustained textual and contextual analysis of all his work, from 'Trainspotting' and 'The Acid House' to 'Glue' and 'Porno'. A detailed chronological survey also considers the appropriateness of cultural, postmodern and postcolonial theories to Welsh's incendiary fiction. Kelly gives a fascinating insight into the writer's formal and political ambitions, placing him in the context of the 'brat pack' which exploded onto the Scottish literary scene in the 1990s. He explores the social, class and political conditioning of Welsh's early life, and its impact on his motivations for writing. Clearly written and accessible, this will be a key resource for students and academics alike. Choose 'Irvine Welsh'! ;
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A hundred years after the tragic 1924 British Everest expedition, this collection explores the wider social and cultural history of the mountain. Mount Everest looms large in the popular imagination. Since the deaths of mountaineers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine in 1924, histories of the mountain have overwhelmingly focused on the mythologies of western male adventure and conquest. But there are many more stories waiting to be told. Other Everests brings together new voices and perspectives on the historical and cultural significance of Everest in the modern world. The book shines a light on the overlooked role of local people and high-altitude workers, while also revealing the significant contributions women have made to climbing the mountain and writing its history. It explores the depiction of Everest in a range of media and investigates how the forces of nationalism and commercialism have shaped many different 'Everests'. After years of exploitation, Indigenous people are now reclaiming Mount Everest in the twenty-first century. Other Everests re-examines the past and present of the world's highest peak, presenting an exciting vision of what Everest might become in the future.
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This new edition of Lyme Disease provides up-to-date evidence-based research and covers the significant advances in our understanding of the disorders referred to as Lyme disease or Lyme borreliosis. This book explores the causative organism, its requisite ecosystem, disease epidemiology, host-Borrelia interactions, diagnostic testing, clinical manifestations, therapeutic options, the role of host immunity on pathogenesis and long term prognosis. The authors provide balanced perspectives on all aspects of Lyme disease and explicitly review both the basic biology of the infection and practical clinical aspects. This new edition: Includes new borrelial pathogens that have been identified (B. miyamotoi, B. mayonii and B. bavariensis among others). Provides updated information on the molecular biology of the organism, neuroborreliosis, and the role of the C6 peptide in diagnosis. Discusses the controversies about 'chronic Lyme disease', post Lyme disease syndrome and other ongoing but non-specific symptoms that have been attributed to this infection. As the endemic footprint of Lyme disease continues to grow, this book provides a broad and detailed guide for clinicians and researchers involved with the diagnosis and treatment of the condition. Covering biology, epidemiology and therapeutics, it is also essential reading for students of global health and infectious disease.
Going North helps me become a better and more effective WPA because it helps me understand and appreciate the many-sided controversies about what a first-year writing course should be and do. My writing program is fortunate to have over 80 GTAs and adjuncts, and like the teachers in most programs, our well-qualified and sincerely motivated teachers hold a wide variety of positions about the courses' goals and processes. As WPA, I need to find the right balance between, on the one hand, program coherence and control and, on the other, freedom and discovery.And I admire Irv Peckham's argumentative demeanor—humble but unambiguous, respectful but convincing. Many WPAs will find, as I did, that they already agree with the book's overall recommendations, but what's new and interesting and important is the way that Irv makes his arguments, drawing on ideas from rhet-comp histories and scholarship, from social and cognitive theorists, and from contemporary FYW textbooks, to name just a few. It's a model for academic argument generally and a model I want to follow as a WPA. Here's to hoping it gains a wide readership in the field and beyond.—Chuck Paine, University of New Mexico College composition is fundamentally a middle-class enterprise and is conducted by middle-class professionals, while student demographics show increasing presence of the working class. In spite of best intentions to relieve social class inequities, says Irvin Peckham, many critical pedagogies merely reproduce them. In Going North Thinking West, Peckham argues for more clarity on the history of critical thinking, social class structures, and teacher identity, while he undertakes a skeptical look at teaching practices with which even he identifies. Critical thinking itself, Peckham suggests, is a middle-class projection, and the belief that it is linked with effective writing skills may in fact cause writing teachers to misread their students. Both the idea that argumentation is the obvious and necessary form of academic discourse and the conviction that social transformation is a purpose of the classroom need to be examined. Ultimately, Going North Thinking West advocates a collaborative investigation of students’ worlds as the first step in a successful writing pedagogy. It is an argument for re-orienting pedagogy toward service to students rather than transforming them.
A BRILLIANT investigation into the motivations and methods behind the actions of Hogwarts’s renowned Headmaster! Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts, is one of the most recognizable and mysterious figures in the Harry Potter series. As an unscrupulous beetle-like journalist once said, he’s “a biographer’s dream.” Is he omniscient or limited? Is he benevolent or malevolent? What really drove him in the last years of an extraordinary life?
