Download or read book The Beauty Of Psyche 2005 written by Andrew Staniland and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Staniland's prose-poem novel ?The Beauty Of Psyche (2005)? is a retelling of the Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche as a novel about imagination. The characters are played by actors, against a backdrop of paintings, models and sets. The story at times becomes a series of paintings and sculptures in an exhibition. And many of the references to people, films, theatre and other myths may or may not be imaginary too. Revised edition. Reading this I felt the excitement and pleasure of those long Romantic poems by Keats, Shelley and Byron or even Pope and Milton but it's not ?like? any of them. It is not a modern version of a classic, it is a modern classic... It's a genuine literary work of art. A true contemporary classic. It's beautiful, it's intelligent and I don't imagine I?ll ever read anything like it again.? Cally Phillips, indie e-book review
Download or read book Psyche in a Dress written by Francesca Lia Block and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: But this is what I could not give up: I could not give up myself Psyche has known Love—scented with jasmine and tasting of fresh oranges. Yet he is fleeting and fragile, lost to her too quickly. Punished by self-doubt, Psyche yearns to be transformed, like the beautiful and brutal figures in the myths her lover once spoke of. Attempting to uncover beauty in the darkness, she is challenged, tested, and changed by the gods and demons who tempt her. Her faith must be found again, for if she is to love, she must never look back.
Download or read book A Georgian Anthology written by Andrew Staniland and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Staniland's "A Georgian Anthology" is a sequence of poems inspired by the classical myths about Prometheus and Colchis, by Georgia's own mythology and history, by its poetry, especially Shota Rustaveli's "The Knight In The Panther Skin", and by the beauty of the Georgian landscape, with its castles, towers, monasteries and the mountains of the Caucasus.
Download or read book Beauty and Misogyny written by Sheila Jeffreys and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-05-31 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should western beauty practices, ranging from lipstick to labiaplasty, be included within the United Nations understandings of harmful traditional/cultural practices? By examining the role of common beauty practices in damaging the health of women, creating sexual difference, and enforcing female deference, this book argues that they should. In the 1970s feminists criticized pervasive beauty regimes such as dieting and depilation, but some ‘new’ feminists argue that beauty practices are no longer oppressive now that women can ‘choose’ them. However, in the last two decades the brutality of western beauty practices seems to have become much more severe, requiring the breaking of skin, spilling of blood and rearrangement or amputation of body parts. Beauty and Misogyny seeks to make sense of why beauty practices are not only just as persistent, but in many ways more extreme. It examines the pervasive use of makeup, the misogyny of fashion and high-heeled shoes, and looks at the role of pornography in the creation of increasingly popular beauty practices such as breast implants, genital waxing and surgical alteration of the labia. It looks at the cosmetic surgery and body piercing/cutting industries as being forms of self-mutilation by proxy, in which the surgeons and piercers serve as proxies to harm women’s bodies, and concludes by considering how a culture of resistance to these practices can be created. This essential work will appeal to students and teachers of feminist psychology, gender studies, cultural studies, and feminist sociology at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and to anyone with an interest in feminism, women and beauty, and women’s health.
Download or read book Letters Of Introduction written by Andrew Staniland and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Staniland's "Letters Of Introduction" includes a series of odes, four "Sonnets On Public Life" and a series of "Three-Line Variations" that are an English lyrical equivalent of haiku. There are poems about post-truth politics and #MeToo, as well as poems about Armenia, written before the April 2018 revolution, including a sequence, "Thirty-Nine Letters", that has a poem for each letter of the Armenian alphabet.
Download or read book Poems 1982 2004 written by Andrew Staniland and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of poems by Andrew Staniland from 1982 to 2004. Some are written in free verse, some in metric verse. They are in the romantic tradition of English poetry and explore contemporary spiritual and psychotherapeutic experience. Revised edition.
Download or read book New Poems 2006 written by Andrew Staniland and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in Andrew Staniland's "New Poems (2006)" are poems about contemporary spiritual experience, written in classical metre, in the romantic tradition of English poetry. They include a series of odes and a sequence of short poems which give the collection its title. Revised edition.
Download or read book The Perennial Poetry 2010 written by Andrew Staniland and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Staniland's "The Perennial Poetry (2010)" is a collection of contemporary English Romantic poetry written in classical metre. There are poems about spiritual experience, creativity, love and poetry itself. The subjects include contemporary films and paintings, Chartres cathedral and the war in Afghanistan, a trip to Tallinn and writing a themed poem for a poetry competition. There are odes and sonnets, including translations of French, Spanish, Italian and German sonnets. Revised edition.
Download or read book The Weight Of Light 2004 written by Andrew Staniland and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Staniland's prose-poem novel "The Weight Of Light (2004)" is a lyrical description of the inner life and spiritual practice of Delphine, a Frenchwoman living in London. It is set entirely in her apartment, like a camera recording the poetry of her daily life, her meditations and spiritual experiences. It is a "new spirituality" novel that is both literary and an honest description of a contemporary spiritual life. Revised edition.
Download or read book Hymns Films And Sonnetinas 2007 written by Andrew Staniland and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Staniland's "Hymns, Films And Sonnetinas (2007)" are written in classical metre, in the romantic tradition of English poetry. They include ?Five Hymns? (dedicated to five gods and goddesses representing different elements of contemporary culture and spirituality), ?Twelve Films By Eric Rohmer?, ?An Older Actress? (a narrative poem in alexandrine couplets about a French actress and her film career), ?William Blake And The Eighteenth Century New Age? and ?Sonnetinas? (a miscellaneous sequence of sonnet-like miniatures). Revised edition.
Download or read book The Psychology of Beauty written by Ellen Sinkman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the vital importance of beauty, its sources, and manifestations in everyone's lives-including psychotherapy patients. During psychotherapy, patients manifest or defend against the desire to be beautiful. This book considers definitions of beauty, gender ide...
Download or read book Playful Poems written by Andrew Staniland and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Staniland's "Playful Poems" is a sequence of over a hundred short poems written between March 2015 and August 2016 and prompted by reading most of Shakespeare's plays in their likely chronological order. There are poems about the wars in Ukraine and Syria, refugees, dictators, nationalism and Brexit, as well as "The lovely wood of piebald light/That any English poem is".
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Psychology of Appearance written by Nichola Rumsey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a society in which messages associating physical attractiveness with success and happiness are pervasive.This book gives a detailed, authoritative account of research, policy, and practice in psychological aspects of appearance, including the role of the media in shaping people's attitudes and behaviors towards appearance.
Download or read book Fundamental Questions in Cross Cultural Psychology written by Fons J. R. van de Vijver and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cross-cultural psychology has come of age as a scientific discipline, but how has it developed? The field has moved from exploratory studies, in which researchers were mainly interested in finding differences in psychological functioning without any clear expectation, to detailed hypothesis tests of theories of cross-cultural differences. This book takes stock of the large number of empirical studies conducted over the last decades to evaluate the current state of the field. Specialists from various domains provide an overview of their area, linking it to the fundamental questions of cross-cultural psychology such as how individuals and their cultures are linked, how the link evolves during development, and what the methodological challenges of the field are. This book will appeal to academic researchers and post-graduates interested in cross-cultural research.
Download or read book Routledge International Handbook of Consumer Psychology written by Cathrine V. Jansson-Boyd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique handbook maps the growing field of consumer psychology in its increasingly global context. With contributions from over 70 scholars across four continents, the book reflects the cross-cultural and multidisciplinary character of the field. Chapters relate the key consumer concepts to the progressive globalization of markets in which consumers act and consumption takes place. The book is divided into seven sections, offering a truly comprehensive reference work that covers: The historical foundations of the discipline and the rise of globalization The role of cognition and multisensory perception in consumers’ judgements The social self, identity and well-being, including their relation to advertising Social and cultural influences on consumption, including politics and religion Decision making, attitudes and behaviorally based research Sustainable consumption and the role of branding The particularities of online settings in framing and affecting behavior The Routledge International Handbook of Consumer Psychology will be essential reading for anyone interested in how the perceptions, feelings and values of consumers interact with the decisions they make in relation to products and services in a global context. It will also be key reading for students and researchers across psychology and marketing, as well as professionals interested in a deeper understanding of the field.
Download or read book EBook Social Psychology 3e written by David Myers and published by McGraw Hill. This book was released on 2020-08-21 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social psychology has a profound influence on our everyday lives; from our shopping habits to our interactions at a party. It seeks to answer questions that we often think and talk about; questions such as: - What circumstances prompt people to help, or not to help? - What factors influence the ups and downs of our close relationships? - Why do some people behave differently when on their own compared to in a group? - What leads individuals sometimes to hurt, and other times to help one another? - Why are we attracted to certain types of people? - How do some persuade others to do what they want? This new edition of Social Psychology has been revised to introduce a more flexible structure for teaching and studying. It includes up-to-date, international research with an emphasis throughout on its critical evaluation. Applied examples across the chapters help to highlight the relevance, and hence the impact, that the theories and methods of this fascinating subject have upon the social world. Key Features Include: - Research Close-Up: Following a brand-new style, this feature matches the layout used in research papers, providing an accessible introduction to journal articles and the research methods used by social psychologists. - Focus On: Fully revised, these boxes look at opposing viewpoints, controversial research or alternative approaches to the topics. This offers a more critical outlook and prompts the questioning of the validity of published research - Recommended Readings: New to this edition, recommended further readings of both classic and contemporary literature have been added to each chapter, providing a springboard for further consideration of the topics. Connect Psychology is McGraw-Hill’s digital learning and teaching environment. Students – You get easy online access to homework, tests and quizzes designed by your instructor. You receive immediate feedback on how you’re doing, making it the perfect platform to test your knowledge. Lecturers – Connect gives you the power to create auto-graded assignments, tests and quizzes online. The detailed visual reporting allows you to easily monitor your students’ progress. In addition, you can access key support materials for your teaching, including a testbank, seminar materials and lecture support. Visit: http://connect.mcgraw-hill.com for more details. Professor David N. Myers holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History. As of fall 2017, he serves as the director of the Luskin Center for History and Policy. He previously served as chair of the UCLA History Department (2010-2015) and as director of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies (1996-2000 and 2004-2010). Dr Jackie Abell is a Reader in Social Psychology with the Research Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, based at Coventry University, UK. Her current areas of research interest include the application of social psychology to wildlife conservation and environmental issues to facilitate resilience and sustainable development, place attachment and identity, social cohesion and inclusion. Professor Fabio Sani holds a Chair in Social and Health Psychology at the University of Dundee. His general research interest concerns the mental and physical health implications of group processes, social identity and sense of belonging. He has been an associate editor of the European Journal of Social Psychology.
Download or read book Handbook of Gender Research in Psychology written by Joan C. Chrisler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-03-12 with total page 835 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald R. McCreary and Joan C. Chrisler The Development of Gender Studies in Psychology Studies of sex differences are as old as the ?eld of psychology, and they have been conducted in every sub?eld of the discipline. There are probably many reasons for the popularity of these studies, but three reasons seem to be most prominent. First, social psychological studies of person perception show that sex is especially salient in social groups. It is the ?rst thing people notice about others, and it is one of the things we remember best (Fiske, Haslam, & Fiske, 1991; Stangor, Lynch, Duan, & Glass, 1992). For example, people may not remember who uttered a witty remark, but they are likely to remember whether the quip came from a woman or a man. Second, many people hold ?rm beliefs that aspects of physiology suit men and women for particular social roles. Men’s greater upper body strength makes them better candidates for manual labor, and their greater height gives the impression that they would make good leaders (i. e. , people we look up to). Women’s reproductive capacity and the caretaking tasks (e. g. , breastfeeding, baby minding) that accompany it make them seem suitable for other roles that require gentleness and nurturance. Third, the logic that underlies hypothesis testing in the sciences is focused on difference. Researchers design their studies with the hope that they can reject the null hypothesis that experimental groups do not differ.
