Examines literature's role as a vehicle for social protest, rebellion, and critical reform, since the sixteenth century

Lives in Progress: A Study of the Natural Growth of Personality

Health, Fitness & Dieting

White, Robert W.

Psychology & Counseling

Henry Holt Co.

The case studies in this volume range from the small entrepreneur to the large multinational, focusing on the major financial decisions made in a corporation. It includes international cases, several dealing with current issues, from corporate governance to the pricing of complex securities.

Case Studies in Modern Corporate Finance

Business & Money

Finance

PRENTICE/HALL

The Study of Lives reveals for the first time the extent of Henry A. Murray's considerable influence on the study of personality. Throughout his long and distinguished career, he has either trained or strongly influenced some of the world's leading psychologists, eighteen of whom have written fascinating essays for this book. The range of topics presented here is as diverse and highly original as Murray's own ideas about personality. Everyone concerned with the study of personality will find this book an excellent sampling of the best work being done in the field. "The study of lives" is a phrase Henry A. Murray has often used to describe his own work, and it suggests his central conviction that living beings must be studied as living wholes. Personality, he has repeatedly pointed out, is a dynamic process-a constantly changing configuration of thoughts, feelings, and actions occurring in a social environment and continuing throughout life. If small parts and short segments of human affairs have to be isolated for detailed scrutiny, they must still be understood as parts of a patterned organic system and as segments of a lifelong process. This has never meant for him that all research should take the form of collecting life histories, although his contributions along this line have been outstanding. It implies simply that isolating, fragmenting, and learning just a tiny bit about a lot of people tend to carry us away from what is most worth studying. The essays in this book are grouped under headings that represent some of Murray's strongest interests: His conception of personality as a dynamic process is reflected in Part I, which deals with continuities and changes in the course of life. His interest in devising procedures suitable for disclosing live feelings, fantasies, and adaptations and his insistence on the necessity for an adequate taxonomy of carefully discriminated, carefully defined variables are represented in the papers of Part II. His view that creativity is a central property of human nature has contributed to the reflections and researches that make up Part III. Finally, his concern with values--the great blind spot of traditional science but so obviously a momentous problem for contemporary lives and societies--has been taken up in several different ways by the authors of Part IV.

The Study of Lives: Essays on Personality in Honor of Henry A. Murray

Routledge

Ruairí Ó Brádaigh: The Life and Politics of an Irish Revolutionary

"In a very real sense, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh can . . . be said to be the last, or one of the last Irish Republicans. Studies of the Provisional movement to date have invariably focused more on the Northerners and the role of people like Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness. But an understanding of them is not possible without appreciating where they came from and from what tradition they have broken. Ruairí Ó Brádaigh is that tradition and that is why this account of his life and politics is so important." ―from the foreword by Ed Moloney, author of A Secret History of the IRA\nAt his death in 2013, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh remained a divisive and influential figure in Irish politics and the Irish Republican movement. He was the first person to serve as chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army, as president of the political party Sinn Féin, and to have been elected, as an abstentionist, to the Dublin parliament. He was a prominent, uncompromising, and articulate spokesperson of those Irish Republicans who questioned the peace process in Northern Ireland. His concern was rooted in his analysis of Irish history and his belief that the peace process would not achieve peace. He believed that it would support the continued partition of Ireland and result in continued, inevitable, conflict.\nThe child of Irish Republican veterans, Ó Brádaigh led IRA raids, was arrested and interned, escaped and lived "on the run," and even spent a period of time on a hunger strike. Because he was an effective spokesman for the Irish Republican cause, he was at different times excluded from Northern Ireland, Britain, the United States, and Canada. He was also a key figure in the secret negotiation of a bilateral IRA-British truce in the mid-1970s.\nIn a brief afterword for this new edition, author Robert W. White addresses Ó Brádaigh's continuing influence on the Irish Republican Movement, including the ongoing "dissident" campaign. Whether for good or bad, this ongoing dissident activity is a part of Ruairí Ó Brádaigh's enduring legacy.

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Indiana University Press

The latest edition of this popular, successful text. Focuses on the theme of life development and provides numerous cases. Covers all major approaches, including the psychoanalytic, neo-analytic, client-centered and behavioral. Features new material on homosexuallity and minorities, more illustrations and an improved design.

The Abnormal Personality

Medical Books

Watt, Norman F.

Psychology

wiley

A useful set of thorough and rich case studies for studying personality! Personality is, to an important extent, a product of experience. This workbook supplies readers with practical material for studying individual lives. It contains the life stories and experiences of four people coming from a variety of backgrounds. The material is given largely in the subjects' own words or in descriptions of behavior, with virtually no comments or interpretations by the examining psychologists. This leaves readers to work out their own understanding of each of the four people. How does each person come to be as he or she is? How do they come to act, to think, to feel, and to relate as they do? Probing questions on the subject's personality and development follow each case study. Readers are challenged to assemble evidence, to find patterns and relations, and to reach judgments about what was significant in each subject's life.

Case Workbook in Personality

Riggs, Margaret M.

Gilbert, Doris C.

Waveland Pr Inc.

Bob White started out as a young man, with an idea that he could do a 25,000 mile road trip from the Artic to the bottom of the earth across the Straits of Magellan to the southern most place on earth where people live. Fifty years ago,before there was a road, he made this epic journey; encountering bull fights, bandits, bullets, and bad roads, and finally ending as a MAN. One will enjoy riding with him in his old Chevy pickup, as he drives "The Trip".

The Trip: All The Way, in my Chevrolet

Travel

South America

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Out of the Ashes is the definitive history of the Provisional Irish Republican movement, from its formation at the outset of the modern 'Troubles' up to and after their official disarmament in 2005. Robert White, a prolific observer of the IRA and Sinn Fein's activities, has amassed an incomparable body of interview material from leading members of the organisation over a thirty-year period. In this defining study, the interviewees' perspectives provide extraordinary insights, not only into the inner workings of the paramilitary group, but also the complex motivations that provoked their violent actions, their eventual reform, and the mind-set of 'dissidents' who refused to lay down their arms. Those interviewed stem from every stage of the Provisionals' history, from founding figures such as SeÃ?Â?Ã?Â¡n Mac StiofÃ?Â?Ã?Â¡in, Ruari Ã?Â?Ã?Â? BrÃ?Â?Ã?Â¡daigh and Joe Cahill to the new generation who replaced them: Danny Morrison, Martin McGuinness, Marian Price, and Brendan Hughes, amongst others. Their oral perspectives provide completely unique insights into key moments within the movement's history, highlighting the real motives behind the violence that caused worldwide consternation. Out of the Ashes is a pioneering history that breaks new ground in defining how the Provisional Republican groups operated and survived from within their own ranks, and how they continued to act under international pressures to disband. [Subject: Irish Studies, Northern Ireland, Military History, History, Oral History]

Out of the Ashes: An Oral History of Provisional Irish Republicanism

History

Europe

Merrion Press

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