The Realities of Completing a PhD gives a balanced and evidence-based view of the realities of PhD life. Full of practical tips and including a checklist to complete before sending an application, the book helps prospective PhD students prepare for the realities of taking on a PhD from an informed basis and offers guidance on submitting a well-planned application. This is the first book of its kind to bring together a range of international data that helps to paint a more balanced picture of the PhD process. The book outlines different types of PhD, how to select a topic for a PhD, how to write a robust research proposal and application, and the realities of PhD study in relation to student wellbeing, social commitments and employment prospects. By considering the issues raised in this book, students are less likely to be overwhelmed by the PhD process, and better equipped to complete their award. The book will be invaluable for potential doctoral students as well as those already embarking on a PhD. It will also enable university mentors and supervisors to consider how the application phase is key to managing student expectations, and how they can further promote a healthy and productive PhD experience.

The Realities of Completing a PhD (Routledge Research in Education)

Education & Teaching

Rowe, Nicholas

Higher & Continuing Education

Routledge

The Realities of Completing a PhD: How to Plan for Success (Routledge Research in Education)

Rules and Institutions addresses the sociological “Problem of Order” from the economist’s perspective. It asks whether Homo economicus could himself be the creator of those social institutions like property rights, which are assumed to be part of the world he inhabits, or whether instead the existence of those institutions is incompatible with the theory of rational individual behavior. The answer given is that they are compatible, but only if we consider rationality as pertaining to rules of action rather than simply to actions themselves.   Following an introductory chapter that poses the problem, chapter two presents a general statement and defense of the proposed answer. Chapter three examines the rationality of following a rule of action in relation to the “time-inconsistency problem.” Chapter four shows how the institution of private property rights might arise from a Hobbesian “State of Nature.” Chapter five criticizes the Functionalist thesis that social institutions are efficient. Chapter six shows how conflicts, like wars and strikes, can be understood as the consequence of the very rules needed to preserve consensus. Chapter seven concludes by showing that the economist’s perspective and the rationality of rules need not assume pure selfishness, merely that altruism is imperfect.  Rules and Institutions breaks new ground and will be of fundamental interest to economists, political scientists, and sociologists.  

Rules and Institutions

Business & Money

Economics

University of Michigan Press

Fair Penitent (Regents Restoration Drama)

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Fair Penitent

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

University Of Nebraska Press

The tragedy of Jane Shore (Regents Restoration drama series)

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The Tragedy of Jane Shore (Regents Restoration Drama Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Univ of Nebraska Pr

Pedicord, Harry Willam

A tour of the classical Greek and Roman legends from the creation of the world to the ascension of Augustus Caesar, composed by Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) in English translation. This text was originally published by Jacob Tonson and collected from poets alive and dead: John Dryden, Joseph Addison, Alexander Pope, William Congreve, Laurence Eusden, Arthur Mainwaring, Samuel Croxall, Nahum Tate, Stonestreet, John Gay, Alexander Catcott, Temple Stanyan, Nicholas Rowe, Stephen Harvey, James Vernon, Samuel Garth. modernized by Sasha Newborn This work inclues over a hundred tales of metamorphoses resulting from human interaction with gods and goddesses. The stories begin with the creation of the world, a second creation after a flood, familiar stories of Cadmus, Perseus, Bacchus, Medea and Jason, Theseus, Troy, the Calydon Boar Hunt, the battle with the Centaurs, and many little-known tales. All of this set in iambic pentameter verse and running over 500 pages. We know the authors of some of the segments but attribution of every section is no longer possible. Ovid is a Roman poet, writing in Latin for a Roman audience about Greek mythology, just at the time that the Roman Republic was overthrown. Specifically, he makes a monumental effort to string these myths together as if it were all a sequential tale, leading from the very creation of the world to the clouded origins of Rome built by the remnants of fleeing Trojans, right up to his obsequious praise of Augustus Caesar, the new ruler in power during Ovid's lifetime. Politics aside, Ovid provides us the gift of thoroughly exploring the heritage of the European polytheistic world. These were not merely bedtime stories for children. Myth, as Karen Armstrong reminds us, meant stories of gods and goddesses that are still around. This web of mythology would continue to make sense of Roman Emperors being declared gods, or a horse being elected as a Senator. Cities often had their own gods or goddesses as guardians. Or one might pray specifically to a deity having special interest over, say, childbirth, or agriculture, or navigation. My personal revelation after diving into this pre- Christian worldview for months, was to allow myself to inhabit in a visceral way the mind-set of the classical world. No moral commandments written in stone or in a sacred text to follow; rather, the requirement was to honor the gods and goddesses-whose actions and emotions were, alarmingly, quite similar to human actions and emotions but with much greater consequences. Offerings to gods were expected, but no bedtime prayers-though one might beseech a goddess or god to become involved in a personal struggle. The gods had their own household dramas, such as Jove's wanton infidelity to his wife Juno, with actions that might have serious side effects in the human world. That's how demi-gods were born, for instance. Ovid's theme throughout is on transformations in these stories-women to bats or a spider or a tree, demigods born of a godly rape, a whole race which may be half-horse, half-human (the centaurs), people who become rivers or rocks or cows-as a consequence of overweening pride or neglect of worshipful ritual, or perhaps just at the whim of a god or goddess. One might be raised up or cast down. And a few might be heroes vanquishing fearsome foes. Being human was not the only option. Given this mythic dimension of a world alive at every turn, it's easy to see why polytheists regularly charged Christians with being atheists, since they denied the existence of so many gods, and sought comfort in only one, and a distant one at that. Christian heaven, they felt, must be a lonely place with such a restrictive attitude. At the time of Augustus Caesar, this plentiful field of deities of all shades and shapes was the norm for almost the whole Mediterranean basin. Other world cultures likewise had their pantheons of spirits and gods and goddesses-and many still do.

The Changes

Ovid

Eusden, Laurence

Poetry

Bandanna Books

Nicholas Rowe (20 June 1674 - 6 December 1718), English dramatist, poet and miscellaneous writer, was appointed Poet Laureate in 1715. His plays and poems were well-received during his lifetime, with one of his translations described as one of the greatest productions in English poetry. He was also considered the first editor of the works of William Shakespeare. The Ambitious Stepmother, Rowe's first play, produced in 1700 at Lincoln's Inn Fields by Thomas Betterton and set in Persepolis, was well received. This was followed in 1701 by Tamerlane. In this play the conqueror Timur represented William III, and Louis XIV is denounced as Bajazet. It was for many years regularly acted on the anniversary of William's landing at Torbay.

Jane Shore (Esprios Classics): A Tragedy

Blurb

The Works Of Shakespear: In Six Volumes; Volume 6

Shakespeare., William

Pope, Alexander

History

Wentworth Press

The Works Of Shakespear: In Six Volumes; Volume 1

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