Author: Christopher C. H. Cook File Type: pdf In Mystical Theology and Contemporary Spiritual Practice several leading scholars explore key themes within the Christian mystical tradition, contemporary and historical. The overall aim of the book is to demonstrate the relevance of mystical theology to contemporary spiritual practice. Attention is given to the works of Baron von Hugel, Vladimir Lossky, Margery Kempe, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Thomas Merton, and Francisco de Osuna, as well as to a wide range of spiritual practices, including pilgrimage, spiritual direction, contemplative prayer and the quotidian spirituality of the New Monasticism. Christian mystical theology is shown to be a living tradition, which has vibrant and creative new expressions in contemporary spiritual practice. It is argued that mystical theology affirms something both ordinary and extraordinary which is fundamental to the Christian experience of prayer. **

Author: Matthew Beaumont File Type: pdf Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night, wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we know todayhome to the lost, the vagrant and the noctambulant. Matthew Beaumont recounts an alternative history of London by focusing on those of its denizens who surface on the streets when the suns down. If nightwalking is a matter of going astray in the streets of the metropolis after dark, then nightwalkers represent some of the most suggestive and revealing guides to the neglected and forgotten aspects of the city. In this brilliant work of literary investigation, Beaumont shines a light on the shadowy perambulations of poets, novelists and thinkers Chaucer and Shakespeare William Blake and his ecstatic peregrinations and the feverish ramblings of opium addict Thomas De Quincey and, among the lamp-lit literary throng, the supreme nightwalker Charles Dickens. We discover how the nocturnal city has inspired some and served as a balm or narcotic to others. In each case, the city is revealed as a place divided between work and pleasure, the affluent and the indigent, where the entitled and the desperate jostle in the streets. With a foreword and afterword by Will Self, Nightwalking is a captivating literary portrait of the writers who explore the city at night and the people they meet. **Review A wonderful book, that has many fascinating things to say about the night-time life of our capital down the ages. Rarely has a book on the subject of darkness been so illuminating all insomniacs should read it. Ian Thomson, *Evening Standard* An enthralling study of city life and creativity impressive, magisterial A copy of Nightwalking should be the indispensable handbook for creative writing classes from Ayrshire to East Anglia. Robert McCrum, *Observer* Part literary criticism, part social history, part polemic, this is a haunting addition to the canon of psychogeography. *Financial Times* An important and lively book. *Times Higher Education* A lively and learned study a book that remains personal in tone even when it is flexing its considerable intellectual muscle. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, *Guardian* Rarely has a book about darkness been so illuminating. Spectator (Books of the Year) One of the most brilliant of the younger generation of English critics. Terry Eagleton Nothing less than a grand unifying theory of the counter-enlightenment. Will Self He releases an ancient, urban miasma that rises from the page, untroubled by electric illumination, allowing us to inhale what Shakespeares contemporary Thomas Dekker called that thick tobacco-breath which the rheumaticke night throws abroad. *Independent* Teeming and glorious Matthew Beaumont probes far into the shadows. Alexandra Harris, *Times Literary Supplement* This is a book pulsing with life, just as the streets do, despite attempts to cut that liminal, semi-illicit life off. The foreword and afterword, by Will Self, beautifully bracket the book, reinforcing the idea that the city is layered over time, and that each layer is accessible, and can be made vivid in the imagination. Why Nightwalking has not won a major award is beyond mine. Nicholas Lezard, *The Guardian* In Nightwalking, Matthew Beaumont rubs shoulders with the deviants, dissidents and dispossessed who lurk in the shadows of Shakespeare, Johnson, Blake and De Quincey. Mark Sanderson, Evening Standard (The Best Books About London) The joy of Beaumonts book is the way it illuminates both literature and urban politics through the splendors and panics of their nighttime journeys. *Flavorwire* A historical guide to the capital, Beaumont details everything including the villainous common nightwalkers and prostitutes of the middle ages and Charles Dickenss time as an insomniac. *Dazed & Confused* About the Author Matthew Beaumont is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at University College London. He is the author of Utopia Ltd. Ideologies of Social Dreaming in England 1870-1900 (2005), and the co-author, with Terry Eagleton, of The Task of the Critic Terry Eagleton in Dialogue (2009). He has also edited Restless Cities (2010). He lives and walks in London.

Author: Gary Shelly File Type: pdf DISCOVERING THE INTERNET COMPLETE CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES, Fourth Edition provides a hands-on introduction to the latest Internet concepts and skills to help students become digitally literate computer users. Societal coverage makes this book unique, and with content on e-business, social media, and technologies of the Internet, students will receive both basic and technical coverage of Internet concepts and skills.Important Notice Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Author: Peter M. Kappeler File Type: pdf Some primate field studies have been on-going for decades, covering significant portions of individual life cycles or even multiple generations. In this volume, leading field workers report on the history and infrastructure of their projects in Madagascar, Africa, Asia and South America. More importantly, they provide summaries of their long-term research efforts on primate behaviour, ecology and life history, highlighting insights that were only possible because of the long-term nature of the study. The chapters of this volume collectively outline the many scientific reasons for studying primate behaviour, ecology and demography over multiple generations. This kind of research is typically necessitated by the relatively slow life histories of primates. Moreover, a complete understanding of social organization and behaviour, factors often influenced by rare but important events, requires long-term data collection. Finally, long-term field projects are also becoming increasingly important foci of local conservation activities.From the Back CoverSome primate field studies have been on-going for decades, covering significant portions of individual life cycles or even multiple generations. In this volume, leading field workers report on the history and infrastructure of their projects in Madagascar, Africa, Asia and South America. More importantly, they provide summaries of their long-term research efforts on primate behaviour, ecology and life history, highlighting insights that were only possible because of the long-term nature of the study. The chapters of this volume collectively outline the many scientific reasons for studying primate behaviour, ecology and demography over multiple generations. This kind of research is typically necessitated by the relatively slow life histories of primates. Moreover, a complete understanding of social organization and behaviour, factors often influenced by rare but important events, requires long-term data collection. Finally, long-term field projects are also becoming increasingly important foci of local conservation activities.