Michael White

In the crypt of the Medici Chapel in Florence, palaeopathologist, Edie Granger, and her uncle, Carlin Mackenzie, are examining the mummified remains of one of the most powerful families in Renaissance Italy. Edie and Mackenzie both have serious doubts about the true identity of at least two of the five-hundred-year-old bodies.

Much of the received wisdom about the world of work emphasizes the marketization of the employment relationship; the decline of class-based forms of inequality, and the individualization of employment relations. Non-standard forms of employment, the delayering of organizational hierarchies, and the use of individual performance-based payment systems are all held up as examples of a new neo-liberal order in which employers and employees no longer feel a sense of obligation to each other. Drawing on a range of employee and employer surveys, including the authors own Working in Britain 2000 survey, this ambitious study presents a comprehensive examination of the conditions, attitudes, and experiences of British employees from the mid-1980s to the early years of this century. The authors' analyses provides a compelling critique of the received wisdom, while also providing an original, alternative account of recent developments in work and labour markets. Along the way, the book covers such topical issues as the changing nature of trade union membership, the consequences of Britain's 'long hours' culture', and the apparent inability of women to ask for pay rises. Significantly, the authors seek to reposition debates about the future of work by restoring the concepts of contracts and social class to the analysis of the employment relationship. Based on the ESRC funded Future of Work research programme this book is destined to shape our understanding of employment in Britain for the foreseeable future.

Much of the received wisdom about the world of work emphasizes the marketization of the employment relationship; the decline of class-based forms of inequality, and the individualization of employment relations. Non-standard forms of employment, the delayering of organizational hierarchies, and the use of individual performance-based payment systems are all held up as examples of a new neo-liberal order in which employers and employees no longer feel a sense of obligation to each other. Drawing on a range of employee and employer surveys, including the authors own Working in Britain 2000 survey, this ambitious study presents a comprehensive examination of the conditions, attitudes, and experiences of British employees from the mid-1980s to the early years of this century. The authors' analyses provides a compelling critique of the received wisdom, while also providing an original, alternative account of recent developments in work and labour markets. Along the way, the book covers such topical issues as the changing nature of trade union membership, the consequences of Britain's 'long hours' culture', and the apparent inability of women to ask for pay rises. Significantly, the authors seek to reposition debates about the future of work by restoring the concepts of contracts and social class to the analysis of the employment relationship. Based on the ESRC funded Future of Work research programme this book is destined to shape our understanding of employment in Britain for the foreseeable future.

In 1997, THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE was voted the most influential book of the twentieth century by teachers, librarians and parents in the UK. The last six US Presidents have all claimed C. S. Lewis to be one of their favourite writers (as have Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair). He was an acclaimed academic, a renowned Christian thinker and apologist, the author of dozens of non-fiction books and a founder member of The Inklings (with J. R. R. Tolkien). Lewis fought in the First World War trenches and became a famous broadcaster known as 'the apostle to sceptics' during World War II: his newspaper articles and radio programmes were well known. He led what was considered by many of his contemporaries to be a rather bohemian life in Oxford, living with a much older woman, a widow named Janie Moore. Late in life he married an American divorcee who (as documented in the movie SHADOWLANDS) died tragically of cancer four years into their marriage. Michael White's biography is an accessible yet erudite study of a subject who has immense and lasting international appeal.

Maps of Narrative Practice provides brand new practical and accessible accounts of the major areas of narrative practice that White has developed and taught over the years, so that readers may feel confident when utilizing this approach in their practices. The book covers each of the five main areas of narrative practice-re-authoring conversations, remembering conversations, scaffolding conversations, definitional ceremony, externalizing conversations, and rite of passage maps-to provide readers with an explanation of the practical implications, for therapeutic growth, of these conversations. The book is filled with transcripts and commentary, skills training exercises for the reader, and charts that outline the conversations in diagrammatic form. Readers both well-versed in narrative therapy as well as those new to its concepts, will find this fresh statement of purpose and practice essential to their clinical work.

'From tactical to practical' -- a riveting and sweeping history of human innovation, and how man's greatest technological leaps have almost always happened in times of war.

"En av årets sterkeste biografier. (...) presis, troverdig og informativ"Poeten.noDet er få forfattere som kan vise til samme popularitet og varige tiltrekningskraft som John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. Det er solgt mer enn 160 millioner eksemplarer av de berømte romanene hans, og de er langt på vei ansvarlige for å ha skapt hele den nye sjangeren “fantasy”-litteratur. I denne biografien forklarer Michael White hvorfor Tolkiens innflytelse og betydning har fortsatt å øke også etter forfatterens død i 1973. Denne biografien er like rik på fakta som den er underholdende. Gå ikke glipp av den fascinerende beretningen om hvordan mannen som skapte Hobbiten, ble en av gigantene i moderne litteratur.

Der findes utallige historier, et menneske kan fortælle om sit liv. Vi har en tendens til at blive den historie, vi fortæller. Dette er udgangspunktet for den narrative metode. Michael White er en af grundlæggerne af den narrative metode inden for terapi og socialt arbejde, og denne bog viser, hvordan han arbejder med metoden i sin terapeutiske praksis. White er kendt for sin fantasifulde tilgang til det terapeutiske arbejde. Han er udholdende i sin udfordring af klienternes negative selvopfattelse og arbejder med en ukuelig optimisme på at hjælpe mennesker til mere positive fortolkninger af deres oplevelser. For meningen i disse oplevelser er ikke givet på forhånd: meningen skabes, idet klienten fortæller sin historie om oplevelserne. I den narrative terapi skaber terapeut og klient således i fællesskab alternative historier, som giver et nyt perspektiv på klientens fortid, nutid og fremtid. I terapien arbejder man med at eksternalisere problemet, dvs. placere det uden for det enkelte menneske. Det er med Michael Whites ord ”ikke personen der er problemet, men problemet der er problemet”. MICHAEL WHITE bor i Australien. Han er en efterspurgt foredragsholder over hele verden og har flere gange besøgt Danmark. Med bøgerne Narrativ praksis og Narrativ teori foreligger for første gang en samling af Michael Whites grundlæggende tekster på dansk. I Narrativ teori præsenteres de teoretiske overvejelser, der udgør fundamentet for den narrative metode.

Michael White er en af grundlæggerne af den narrative metode inden for terapi og socialt arbejde. Den narrative metode tager udgangspunkt i poststrukturalismen, som gør op med forestillingen om dybere, bagvedliggende sandheder, som det er videnskabens opgave at finde frem til. Hovedtanken bag den narrative metode er, at der ikke findes én sand historie, men utallige mulige historier, et menneske kan fortælle om sit liv. Igennem den narrative terapi skaber terapeut og klient i fællesskab alternative historier om klienten, som giver et nyt perspektiv på klientens fortid, nutid og fremtid. Allan Holmgren skriver i bogens forord om den narrative metode: ”En klient, der ankommer til en terapi-session, medbringer sine særlige begreber, forståelsesrammer og historier. Disse udøver magt over klienten i dennes beretning om sit konkrete og kropslige liv. Denne magt er, hvad narrativ terapi først og fremmest interesserer sig for. Hverken terapeut eller klient opfattes som passive og autentiske repræsentanter for en sandhed om livet og terapien. Terapeuten er ikke en ekspert. Terapeuten er heller ikke neutral. Terapeuter har ikke adgang til sand viden om menneskers liv.” I Narrativ teori præsenteres det teoretiske fundament bag Michael Whites narrative metode. De teoretiske beskrivelser ledsages af kliniske vignetter fra Whites arbejde med børn, voksne og familier. MICHAEL WHITE bor i Australien. Han er en efterspurgt foredragsholder over hele verden og har flere gange besøgt Danmark. Med bøgerne Narrativ teori og Narrativ praksis foreligger for første gang en samling af Michael Whites grundlæggende tekster på dansk. Narrativ praksis handler om, hvordan der arbejdes med den narrative metode i den terapeutiske praksis.

This well-respected professor of early Christianity delves into what preceded the Gospels of the New Testament, which documents were written first and why, and what debates and personalities influenced what was ultimately chosen for inclusion in the Bible.

As much as we all know that 'E = mc2' was Einstein's most important and groundbreaking equation, do we really know what it means or why Einstein is regarded as one of history's foremost thinkers? In this absorbing biography Michael White and John Gribbin reveal the man behind the physics and introduce us to his theories in an accessible and fascinating way. With an updated preface for this new edition on the fiftieth anniversary of his death and the hundredth anniversary of the theory of relativity, EINSTEIN explains how the scientific icon changed our view of the world and why no one can ever hope to understand that world without first understanding his work.

Profiles Catholic priest and natural philosopher Giordano Bruno, whose pursuit of an all-encompassing system of thought and radical theories earned him the patronage of powerful royals, inspired top thinkers throughout history, and caused him to be executed for heresy. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

De Stijl was the title of a magazine founded in the Netherlands in 1917 and is now used to identify the abstract art and functional architecture of its major contributors: Mondrian, Van Doesburg, Van der Leck, Oud, Wils and Rietveld. This book is the first to emphasize the local context of De Stijl and explore its relationship to the distinctive character of Dutch modernism. Examines the connection between debates concerning abstraction in painting and spatiality in architecture and contemporary developments in the fields of urban planning, advertising, interior design and exhibition design. Describes the interaction between the world of mass culture and the fine arts.

Even before its current zenith of popularity, coffee has been a favorite beverage worldwide for centuries. To prepare coffee beans for use, human ingenuity has created hundreds of versions of coffee grinders, and this book is devoted exclusively to them. With 600 quality color photographs, the authors direct a marvelous tour of the best and most sought after examples from around the world. Accurate information about the makers and the time and place of manufacture make this a valuable resource for collectors as well as a rich visual history of over 300 years of American and European coffee grinding devices. Each example is described with its current value. Joseph E. MacMillan, a leading authority on coffee grinders and author of the MacMillan Index, writes in his Foreword to this book, “Knowing the quality of these authors, I am confident that this book will be an asset to the serious collector and will be enjoyed by all of its readers for years to come.”

* Subtitled 'The First Scientist', this new one-volume biography places science at the centre of Leonardo da Vinci's life and work