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Book Conundrum

Download or read book Conundrum written by Jan Morris and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2006-05-16 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first-ever books on gender transition, this poignant memoir by a trans woman is “the best first-hand account ever written by a traveler across the boundaries of sex” (Newsweek). “A profoundly poetic story.” —The New York Times “An exquisite read.” —Maria Popova, The Marginalian The great travel writer Jan Morris was born James Morris. James Morris distinguished himself in the British military, became a successful and physically daring reporter, climbed mountains, crossed deserts, and established a reputation as a historian of the British empire. He was happily married, with several children. To all appearances, he was not only a man, but a man’s man. Except that appearances, as James Morris had known from early childhood, can be deeply misleading. James Morris had known all his conscious life that at heart he was a woman. Conundrum, one of the earliest books to discuss transsexuality with honesty and without prurience, tells the story of James Morris’ hidden life and how he decided to bring it into the open, as he resolved first on a hormone treatment and, second, on risky experimental surgery that would turn him into the woman that he truly was.

Book Conundrums

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  • Author : Harry Pearce
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2010-09-21
  • ISBN : 0062042750
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Conundrums written by Harry Pearce and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conundrum is a mind-stretch. Encrypting idioms into their typographic equivalents, Harry enlivens our everyday language and challenges readers to see that "time after time after time" or, at least, "more often than not" "the writing is on the wall." For fans of word puzzles, sudoku, crosswords, and all manner of mind games, Conundrum offers an artfully packaged, cleverly designed new challenge. Drawing upon, literally in this case, graphic puzzles that he began creating as a child, Harry's developed over 100 witty conundrums for this book that will stretch the mind as well as delight the senses. A member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale, a frequent lecturer and contributor to design discourse, an internationally recognized leader in design, and a founder of Lippa Pearce, one of the UK's most respected design agencies, Harry refines the way we see and communicate. Conundrum achieves nothing less than changing how we understand and interact with language.

Book The Times MindGames Word Puzzles and Conundrums Book 1

Download or read book The Times MindGames Word Puzzles and Conundrums Book 1 written by Times Uk and published by Times Books. This book was released on 2017-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Test your word power and rack your brain with this mixed collection of 500 puzzles and conundrums from the MindGames section of The Times. With more than 500 assorted word puzzles and conundrums, this collection contains the favorites: Polygon, Lexica, Word Watch, Scrabble(TM) Challenge, and Codewords. The perfect gift for all word puzzle fans.

Book Conundrums  Riddles and Puzzles

Download or read book Conundrums Riddles and Puzzles written by Dean Rivers and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a fascinating collection of riddles in which the readers will find some of the most ingenious and exciting forms of wit. In addition, the book contains a rare collection of arithmetical puzzles that will appeal to those who are fascinated by numbers and their amusing combinations and results. The collection is a perfect medium for training the minds of the kids as well as adults. Contents include: General Conundrums Biblical Conundrums Poetical Conundrums French Conundrums Arithmetical Puzzles

Book Conundrums  Riddles and Puzzles

Download or read book Conundrums Riddles and Puzzles written by Dean Rivers and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Conundrums

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  • Author : Jon Mills
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2012-04-27
  • ISBN : 1136512489
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Conundrums written by Jon Mills and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2013 Goethe Award Winner! This is the first book of its kind to offer a sustained critique of contemporary psychoanalytic thought favoring relational, postmodern, and intersubjective perspectives, which largely define American psychoanalysis today. Conundrums turns an eye toward the philosophical underpinnings of contemporary theory; its theoretical relation to traditional psychoanalytic thought; clinical implications for therapeutic practice; political and ethical ramifications of contemporary praxis; and its intersection with points of consilience that emerge from these traditions. Central arguments and criticisms advanced throughout the book focus on operationally defining the key tenets of contemporary perspectives; the seduction and ambiguity of postmodernism; the question of selfhood and agency; illegitimate attacks on classical psychoanalysis; the role of therapeutic excess; contemporary psychoanalytic politics; and the question of consilience between psychoanalysis as a science versus psychoanalysis as part of the humanities. The historical criticisms against psychoanalysis are further explored in the context of the current philosophical-scientific binary that preoccupies the field.

Book Conundrums

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  • Author : Dean Rivers
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1905
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 174 pages

Download or read book Conundrums written by Dean Rivers and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Crafting Conundrums

Download or read book Crafting Conundrums written by Ellie Baker and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for crafters, puzzle lovers, and pattern designers alike, Crafting Conundrums: Puzzles and Patterns for the Bead Crochet Artist provides methods, challenges, and patterns that offer a springboard for creative exploration. All are illustrated with beautiful color diagrams and photographs. Experienced bead crochet crafters looking for a project may choose to skip ahead to the pattern pages and begin crocheting from an abundance of unique, mathematically inspired designs. Those wishing to design their own patterns will find many useful tools, template patterns, and a new methodology for understanding how to do so even without using math. Puzzle lovers without previous knowledge of bead crochet will also find ample inspiration for learning the craft. The first part of the book describes the basic requirements and constraints of a bead crochet pattern and explains what makes designing in this medium so tricky. The authors present their new design framework and offer insight on how best to approach design choices and issues unique to bead crochet. The second part presents a series of bead crochet design challenges informed by colorful bits of mathematics, including topology, graph theory, knot theory, tessellations, and wallpaper groups. Each chapter in this section begins with a design puzzle accompanied by an introduction to the mathematical idea that inspired it. The authors then discuss what made the challenge difficult, present some of their solutions, and describe the thinking and ideas behind their approach. The final part contains nearly 100 original bead crochet patterns, including solutions to all the design challenges. This part also provides a tutorial on the fundamentals of bead crochet technique. Behind the deceptively simple and uniform arrangement of beads is a subtle geometry that produces compelling design challenges and fascinating mathematical structures. In color throughout, Crafting Conundrums gives both math enthusiasts and crafters an innovative approach to creating bead crochet patterns while addressing a variety of mathematically inspired design questions. Supplementary materials, including demo videos, are available on the book’s CRC Press web page.

Book Risk Conundrums

Download or read book Risk Conundrums written by Roger E Kasperson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A risk conundrum can be viewed as a risk that poses major issues in assessment, and whose management is not easily engaged. Such perplexing problems can either paralyze or badly delay risk analysis and directions for progression. Rather than simply focusing on the progress in risk analysis that has already been made, it is crucial to consider what has been learnt about these seemingly unmanageable problems and how best to move forward. Risk Conundrums seeks to answer this question by bringing together a range of key thinkers in the field to explore key issues such as risk communication, uncertainty, social trust, indicators and metrics, and risk management, drawing upon case study examples including natural disasters, terrorism, and energy transitions. The initial chapters address risk conundrums, their properties, and the challenges they pose. The book then turns to a greater emphasis on systemic and regional risk conundrums. Finally, it considers how risk management can be changed to address these unsolvable conundrums. Alternative pathways are defined and scrutinized and predictions for future developments set out. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of risk governance, environmental policy, and sustainable development.

Book The Conundrum

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  • Author : David Owen
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2012-02-07
  • ISBN : 1101560134
  • Pages : 205 pages

Download or read book The Conundrum written by David Owen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look out for David Owen's next book, Where the Water Goes. The Conundrum is a mind-changing manifesto about the environment, efficiency and the real path to sustainability. Hybrid cars, fast trains, compact florescent light bulbs, solar panels, carbon offsets: Everything you've been told about living green is wrong. The quest for a breakthrough battery or a 100 mpg car are dangerous fantasies. We are consumers, and we like to consume green and efficiently. But David Owen argues that our best intentions are still at cross purposes to our true goal - living sustainably and caring for our environment and the future of the planet. Efficiency, once considered the holy grail of our environmental problems, turns out to be part of the problem. Efforts to improve efficiency and increase sustainable development only exacerbate the problems they are meant to solve, more than negating the environmental gains. We have little trouble turning increases in efficiency into increases in consumption. David Owen's The Conundrum is an elegant nonfiction narrative filled with fascinating information and anecdotes takes you through the history of energy and the quest for efficiency. This is a book about the environment that will change how you look at the world. We should not be waiting for some geniuses to invent our way out of the energy and economic crisis we're in. We already have the technology and knowledge we need to live sustainably. But will we do it? That is the conundrum.

Book Collection Conundrums

Download or read book Collection Conundrums written by Rebecca A. Buck and published by Rlpg/Galleys. This book was released on 2007 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection Conundrums: Solving Museum Registration Mysteries provides guidelines for investigating the oddities found in every museum collection - objects without record, identification or sometimes even a location - and determining what to do. Written by registrars Rebecca Buck and Jean A. Gilmore, editors of the best-selling The New Museum Registration Methods, this new volume contains essential information for museums large and small, new and old. The text offers solutions to the problems of old loans, undocumented objects found in collections, items lost in inventory, supplementary collections and more, as well as guidelines on how to keep problems from occurring in the first place. Features a history of registration methods and the standards for collection documentation and care, along with sample documents such as loan agreements, co-tenancy agreements, storage agreements and deed of gift. Recommended for everyone involved in collections planning and management.

Book The Seven Conundrums

Download or read book The Seven Conundrums written by Edward Phillips Oppenheim and published by McClelland and Stewart. This book was released on 1923 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 1700 Conundrums Worth Knowing

Download or read book 1700 Conundrums Worth Knowing written by Edith Bertha Ordway and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Standard Book of Riddles  Conundrums  Etc

Download or read book Standard Book of Riddles Conundrums Etc written by Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stepped Care 2 0  The Power of Conundrums

Download or read book Stepped Care 2 0 The Power of Conundrums written by Peter Cornish and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stepped Care 2.0: A Paradigm Shift in Mental Health, by Dr Peter Cornish, made a compelling argument for why the existing mental health care system has consistently struggled to meet the needs of clients from all walks of life, and laid out key principles and guidelines for how the system could be changed. But what challenges are involved in putting these ideas into practice? Stepped Care 2.0: The Power of Conundrums features essays, interviews, and arguments from a wide range of contributors who have tried to do just that. The Power of Conundrums dives deep into the practical application of the Stepped Care 2.0 model (SC2.0), looking at the ways SC2.0 has succeeded, the difficulties administrators face when implementing it, and how it could be improved. Chapters touch on topics including: the evidence for stepped care, the way SC2.0 can be stymied by the Western cultural values that dominate mental healthcare, implementation science and SC2.0, the risk paradigm and SC2.0, the model’s one-at-a-time approach to therapy, what co-design means in an SC2.0 context, a case study on how implementing SC2.0 can go wrong, the understanding of recovery put forward by the model, and how SC2.0 can work for clients experiencing complex, persistent, or chronic mental health issues. Each chapter is followed by a reflection from Cornish, and the book concludes with a roundtable discussion about how SC2.0 can evolve to meet the challenges it faces. This text brings theory and practice together by including an updated version of Stepped Care 2.0: A Paradigm Shift in Mental Health, as well as the full text of Stepped Care 2.0: The Power of Conundrums.

Book Riddles and Conundrums

Download or read book Riddles and Conundrums written by Paul William Kearney and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Complex Clinical Conundrums in Psychiatry

Download or read book Complex Clinical Conundrums in Psychiatry written by Kuppuswami Shivakumar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-25 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the readers with a series of complex cases that are organized by psychiatric disorder. Written by experts in the field, the cases offer insight on how to navigate care in delicate situations while considering preexisting medical conditions. Topics cover pharmacological concerns in women who are pregnant or nursing, working with dementia patients suffering from HIV, assessing and treating ADHD in special populations, monitoring medication use in patience recovering from Substance Use Disorder, and working with patients suffering from personality disorders. Each chapter offers guidance through the maze of classifications, clinical features, diagnosis and various complex interventions. The book also covers new information on the advances in research and management aspects. Complex Clinical Conundrums in Psychiatry is a valuable resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, family physicians, geriatricians, counselors, social workers, nurses, and all medical professionals working with complex psychiatric patients.