Ian Miller: 28 books
Bloodtaking and Peacemaking
Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Dubbed by the New York Times as "one of the most sought-after legal academics in the county," William Ian Miller presents the arcane worlds of the Old Norse studies in a way sure to attract the interest of a wide range of readers. Bloodtaking and Peacemaking delves beneath the chaos and...
Water
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Other than air, the only substance more vital to life is water. Our bodies brim with it, and if we’re deprived of it for even a few days, the results can be fatal. Our planet, too, is mostly water, with oceans across approximately seventy percent of its surface. But potable water has in many times...
Hrafnkel or the Ambiguities
Hard Cases, Hard Choices
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
William Ian Miller presents a close reading of one of the best known of the Icelandic sagas, showing its moral, political, and psychological sophistication. Hrafnkel tells of a fairly simple feud in which a man rises, falls, and rises again with a vengeance, so to speak. The saga deals with complex...
The Scything Handbook
Learn How to Cut Grass, Mow Meadows and Harvest Grain with a Scythe
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Dreading the weekly lawn mow? Need to whack the weeds in your orchard? Cringing at the drudgery and incessant blare of the mower? Imagine instead long sweeps of an elegant scythe cutting your grass and pesky weeds in blissful, meditative silence.That is the power of the "scythe revolution"...
Beckett and Bion
The (Im)Patient Voice in Psychotherapy and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
This book focuses on Samuel Beckett's psychoanalytic psychotherapy with W. R. Bion as a central aspect both of Beckett's and Bion's radical transformations of literature and psychoanalysis. The recent publication of Beckett's correspondence during the period of his psychotherapy with Bion provides...
A Modern History of the Stomach
Gastric Illness, Medicine and British Society, 1800–1950
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
This is the first exploration of the relationship between the abdomen and British society between 1800 and 1950. Miller demonstrates how the framework of ideas established in medicine related to gastric illness often reflected wider social issues including industrialization and the impact of wartime anxiety upon the inner body.
by Ian Miller, Alistair D. Sweet
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
On the Daily Work of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy is an operating manual for the challenging, often lonely and confusing work of doing therapy. It locates clinical method in a historical tradition of many contributory workers including Freud, Breuer, Klein, Segal, Ferenczi, Waelder, Katan, Tausk, Sullivan,...
by William Ian Miller
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Defining Psychoanalysis
Achieving a Vernacular Expression
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
The empirical baseline of today's psychoanalytic vernacular may be inferred from what psychoanalysts read. Contemporary information aggregation provides us with a unique moment in "reading" today's psychoanalytic vernacular. The PEP Archive compiles data on journal articles analogous to...
On Minding and Being Minded
Experiencing Bion and Beckett
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
On Minding and Being Minded explores links between depictions of lived experience written by Samuel Beckett and the experience of psychoanalytic psychotherapy pioneered in the writings of W.R. Bion. These robust literary and clinical intersections are made explicit within the demanding culture of...
Reforming food in post-Famine Ireland
Medicine, science and improvement, 1845–1922
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Reforming food in post-famine Ireland: Medicine, science and improvement, 1845–1922 is the first dedicated study of how and why Irish eating habits dramatically transformed between the famine and independence. It also investigates the simultaneous reshaping of Irish food production after the famine....
by Ian J Miller
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
During the 1970s oil crisis, Dr Miller was a Section Head at New Zealand's national chemistry laboratory, and during this period he surveyed the technology available to make biofuels, and embarked on his own program. Now, with a further resurgence of interest in biofuels, he has repeated the...
by Henry Miller, Ian S. MacNiven
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Henry Miller’s landmark travel book, now reissued in a new edition, is ready to be stuffed into any vagabond’s backpack.
Like the ancient colossus that stood over the harbor of Rhodes, Henry Miller’s The Colossus of Maroussi stands as a seminal classic in travel literature. It has preceded...
Zones of Control
Perspectives on Wargaming
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts.
Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...
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