Most Popular Books by Peter Wright

In 1976, former Assistant Director of MI5 Peter Wright left British Intelligence when the government had repeatedly refused to pursue his discovery of the infamous "Fifth Man" in the Burgess-Maclean-Philby-Blunt KGB spy ring. An uncensored account of the American and British business of spying--a work so revealing it has been banned in Britain.

In Technology as Experience, John McCarthy and Peter Wright argue that any account of what is often called the user experience must take into consideration the emotional, intellectual, and sensual aspects of our interactions with technology. We don''t just use technology, they point out; we live with it. They offer a new approach to understanding human-computer interaction through examining the felt experience of technology. Drawing on the pragmatism of such philosophers as John Dewey and Mikhail Bakhtin, they provide a framework for a clearer analysis of technology as experience. Just as Dewey, in Art as Experience, argued that art is part of everyday lived experience and not isolated in a museum, McCarthy and Wright show how technology is deeply embedded in everyday life. The "zestful integration" or transcendent nature of the aesthetic experience, they say, is a model of what human experience with technology might become. McCarthy and Wright illustrate their theoretical framework with real-world examples that range from online shopping to ambulance dispatch. Their approach to understanding human computer interaction—seeing it as creative, open, and relational, part of felt experience—is a measure of the fullness of technology''s potential to be more than merely functional.

This is the first scholarly book to fully address the topics of the psychology of deceptive persuasion in the marketplace and consumer self-protection. Deception permeates the American marketplace. Deceptive marketing harms consumers’ health, welfare and financial resources, reduces people’s privacy and self-esteem, and ultimately undermines trust in society. Individual consumers must try to protect themselves from marketers’ misleading communications by acquiring personal marketplace deception-protection skills that go beyond reliance on legal or regulatory protections. Understanding the psychology of deceptive persuasion and consumer self-protection should be a central goal for future consumer behavior research. The authors explore these questions. What makes persuasive communications misleading and deceptive? How do marketing managers decide to prevent or practice deception in planning their campaigns? What skills must consumers acquire to effectively cope with marketers’ deception tactics? What does research tell us about how people detect, neutralize and resist misleading persuasion attempts? What does research suggest about how to teach marketplace deception protection skills to adolescents and adults? Chapters cover theoretical perspectives on deceptive persuasion; different types of deception tactics; how deception-minded marketers think; prior research on how people cope with deceptiveness; the nature of marketplace deception protection skills; how people develop deception protection skills in adolescence and adulthood; prior research on teaching consumers marketplace deception protection skills; and societal issues such as regulatory frontiers, societal trust, and consumer education practices. This unique book is intended for scholars and researchers. It should be essential reading for upper level and graduate courses in consumer behavior, social psychology, communication, and marketing. Marketing practitioners and marketplace regulators will find it stimulating and authoritative, as will social scientists and educators who are concerned with consumer welfare.

This new study of the fiction of Gene Wolfe, one of the most influential contemporary American science fiction writers, offers a major reinterpretation of Gene Wolfe’s four-volume The Book of the New Sun and its sequel The Urth of the New Sun. After exposing the concealed story at the heart of Wolfe’s magnum opus, Wright adopts a variety of approaches to establish that Wolfe is the designer of an intricate textual labyrinth intended to extend his thematic preoccupations with subjectivity, the unreliability of memory, the manipulation of individuals by social and political systems, and the psychological potency of myth, faith and symbolism into the reading experience.

Gynocentrism, a centuries old term, refers to the principle of female centeredness or female dominance in various social or interpersonal contexts. The term has recently enjoyed a resurgence, serving again as a descriptor of the expanding yet centuries old obsession with the rights, status, and power of women. This book traces the history of that tradition to its roots in medieval society, while being careful to note the difference between benign gynocentric acts and the more problematic examples of gynocentric culture. The essays collected in this volume were originally penned for the website Gynocentrism and its Cultural Origins, and have since been revised for this eBook edition. The essays are grouped into five parts exploring various aspects of gynocentrism, and providing examples of the phenomenon from historical literature. The final part, Post Gynocentric Relationships explores the possibility of relationships built on the notion of friendship as an alternative to neurotic shibboleths of romantic love.

Photographs of the western national parks complemented by a history of the defunct Mural Project.

Peter Wright has been a dancer, choreographer, teacher, producer and director in the theatre as well as in television for over 70 years. In Wrights & Wrongs, Peter offers his often surprising views of today''s dance world, lessons learned – and yet to learn – from a lifetime''s experience of ballet, commercial theatre and television. Peter started his career in wartime, with the Kurt Jooss company. He has worked with such greats as Pina Bausch, Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, Marcia Haydée, Richard Cragun, Monica mason, Karen Kain, Miyako Yoshida and Carlos Acosta - as well as today''s generation of starts including Alina Cajocaru, Marianela Nunez, Natalia Osipova and Lauren Cuthbertson. While now regarded as part of the British ballet establishment, for many years Peter developed his career outside London, particularly in Germany with John Cranko''s Stuttgart Ballet. That distance gives him a unique and unrivalled view on ballet companies. His close association with choreographers Frederick Ashton, Ninette de Valois, founder of the Royal Ballet, Kenneth MacMillan and David Bintley gives Peter an authoritative perspective on British ballet. Wrights and Wrongs includes black-and-white photographs from Wright''s career, and as Exeunt magazine comments: ''Anyone with an interest in British ballet will find plenty to occupy them in Wright''s book... the many dramas and delights of his life in dance spring forth from the page with brio.''

Kayla perceives her world in vectors and variables, in quantities given and determined. She''s a prodigy. A genius. Yet there are equations she can''t solve.

Modeled on the principles of feudal society, the feminist enterprise of designing male and female social classes has been several centuries in the making. Well before Marx and Marxism the feminist tradition was orchestrating its own version of the long march through the institutions of society, agitating for social and legal changes that would ultimately free women of most responsibilities while leaving men''s responsibilities unchanged or increased. Peter Wright explores the nature of political feminism and the rhetorical devices that have proven so decisive for the success of the movement. Among those tactics are appeals to women''s biological vulnerabilities and the necessity of male chivalry to secure women''s protections and rise in status.

"It''s not easy to reveal the achievments of a woman whose job is rooted in confidentiality, therefore observations and deductions made by the author are solely his. Living with an adept psychotherapist is, in itself, an awakening experience. The nuances, the subtelties of silent exchange, will soon sharpen the layman''s awarenes."

A fantastic anthology of novellas that don''t fit neatly in a box. Includes The Witch Girl and the Wobbly by Michael Cooney, Please Listen Carefully As Our Options Have Changed by Eric Aldrich, Hearts In the Dark by Christopher Woods, Allure by Ed Burke, Eternal Spring by Cora Tate, Shipped Off by Gordon Blitz, and Shangri La by Mark Williams.

In recent years the disability sector has seen the rise of political ideologies directing the provision of services and supports to disabled persons; Marxist, radical feminist, and social justice extremism being the more obvious among them. Such imposed frameworks have important implications for the quality of care received by service users, and to whom services might be tailored, though few academics have acknowledged their impact on men with disabilities. As described in the following pages the negative impact of such ideologies is disproportionally borne by male service users whose experiences and needs are often neglected. The authors describe some of the more problematic issues and offer positive suggestions for men to both identify and hopefully navigate their way around these biases. The first chapter by Hanna Wallen looks at recent feminist advocacy for people with disabilities, which amounts to a gendering of what are essentially genderless issues. The result of such gendering is to exclude men from important service considerations, creating a selective practice that amounts to an attack on men’s civil rights. The subsequent three chapters by Peter Wright were first published in 2015 at the Men''s Mental Health Network which have been updated for this volume. These essays explore the experience of men with disabilities living in a world that often fails to meet reasonable expectations, particularly in areas of provision of care, and protections against violence and abuse. The articles discuss possible reasons for these failures, in particular the creep of gynocentric attitudes in the disability sector, while offering positive encouragement for men to self-advocate, where possible, in their own best interest.

Author Peter Wright identifies and outlines five parameters -- Power, Weight, Tire Grip, Drag and Lift -- and shows how each can be maximized. In addition, he describes the variety of technologies (including those that have been banned over the years) that are involved, not just in the makeup of the Formula 1 cars, but also in the component manufacturing, systems testing, and the actual racing of the cars.

The importance of chivalry is taught to little girls and boys from the start, outlining for them the various rules of male obligation that will guide sexual relations throughout their lifetimes; i.e., males are here to protect and provide for women. The victories of legendary cinematic heroes whose brave deeds are rounded with applause and happily-ever-afters appears to seal the fate of chivalry as the future path of every man. Those few who do pause to question chivalry''s values however - its rote expectation of male sacrifice, possibility of danger or injury, impacts on mental health, potential for exploitation and abuse, or the question of valid compensations for ongoing sacrifices - may conclude that it serves as a poor life map, or worse that it amounts to a malignant and toxic form of masculinity. This book examines the realities of chivalry beyond the usual platitudes to see what''s really at stake for men. The essays, written by men''s advocates Peter Wright and Paul Elam, survey the roots of the chivalric tradition and examine real life examples of chivalry in action.

The Moody children, Eliot and Lucy, are devastated by the loss of their uncle Ronald in a road accident. Uncle Ronald, Professor Ronald Moody, had been a brilliant scientist engaged in hush hush research of some sort, and from him, the children inherit Mr Chip, a highly sophisticated robot developed by Ronald over many years. A disturbing train of events had preceded Ronald''s death. A mysterious explosion at one of his laboratories had claimed the lives of two scientists, and a third was later found hanged in suspicious circumstances. Subsequent events seem to focus on the search for a special book, which went missing at the time of Ronald''s death. Enigmatic new neighbour, Mrs Amelia Sultana, as well as larger-than-life Civil Servant, Sidney Biggs, wend their way through the story and are eventually revealed as key players in the drama. It is also clearly apparent early on, that evil International villains, Emil and Rufus Droitfeld, are implicated up to their eyeballs in dodgy, dastardly goings-on, but are they the brains behind the tortuous plot?

A cornucopia of stories that span genres and styles. Our editor spanned the globe to find every style and type of story to keep you engaged and make sure that we never, ever fit neatly in a box. Must read.

Don''t Think of a Black Cat is a practical NLP beginners guide. Performance is vital these days in sport, business, performing arts, and our daily lives. NLP and other techniques associated with performance psychology are explained and explored with practical examples and thought-provoking exercises, all designed to help build and enhance a toolkit of personal skills both for yourself and your colleagues, clients and players. This fun and interesting book is a perfect way to get into the subject.

A graphic tale of addiction versus the deadly threat of cancer where noboy wins. If the addiction doesn''t get you, the disease will. Willets writes from the heart when he describes his present circumstances "self inflicted. You will travel from the heights of elation to the depths of despair.

A critical inquiry into the value and experience of participation in design research. In Taking [A]part, John McCarthy and Peter Wright consider a series of boundary-pushing research projects in human-computer interaction (HCI) in which the design of digital technology is used to inquire into participative experience. McCarthy and Wright view all of these projects—which range from the public and performative to the private and interpersonal—through the critical lens of participation. Taking participation, in all its variety, as the generative and critical concept allows them to examine the projects as a part of a coherent, responsive movement, allied with other emerging movements in DIY culture and participatory art. Their investigation leads them to rethink such traditional HCI categories as designer and user, maker and developer, researcher and participant, characterizing these relationships instead as mutually responsive and dialogical. McCarthy and Wright explore four genres of participation—understanding the other, building relationships, belonging in community, and participating in publics—and they examine participatory projects that exemplify each genre. These include the Humanaquarium, a participatory musical performance; the Personhood project, in which a researcher and a couple explored the experience of living with dementia; the Prayer Companion project, which developed a technology to inform the prayer life of cloistered nuns; and the development of social media to support participatory publics in settings that range from reality game show fans to on-line deliberative democracies.

Listening After Nature examines the constructions and erasures that haunt field recording practice and discourse. Analyzing archival and contemporary soundworks through a combination of post-colonial, ecological and sound studies scholarship, Mark Peter Wright recodes the Field; troubles conceptions of Nature; expands site-specificity; and unearths hidden technocultures. What exists beyond the signal? How is agency performed and negotiated between humans and nonhumans? What exactly is a field recording and what are its pedagogical potentials? These questions are operated by a methodology of listening that incorporates the spaces of audition, as well as Wright''s own practice-based reflections. In doing so, Listening After Nature posits a range of novel interventions. One example is the “Noisy-Nonself,” a conceptual figuration with which to comprehend the presence of reticent recordists. “Contact Zones and Elsewhere Fields” offers another unique contribution by reimagining the relationship between the field and studio. In the final chapter, Wright explores the microphone by tracing its critical and creative connections to natural resource extraction and contemporary practice. Listening After Nature auditions water and waste, infrastructures and animals, technologies and recordists, data and stars. It grapples with the thresholds of sensory perception and anchors itself to the question: what am I not hearing? In doing so, it challenges Western universalisms that code the field whilst offering vibrant practice-based possibilities.

Experience-centered design, experience-based design, experience design, designing for experience, user experience design. All of these terms have emerged and gained acceptance in the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Interaction Design relatively recently. In this book, we set out our understanding of experience-centered design as a humanistic approach to designing digital technologies and media that enhance lived experience. The book is divided into three sections. In Section 1, we outline the historical origins and basic concepts that led into and flow out from our understanding of experience as the heart of people''s interactions with digital technology. In Section 2, we describe three examples of experience-centered projects and use them to illustrate and explain our dialogical approach. In Section 3, we recapitulate some of the main ideas and themes of the book and discuss the potential of experience-centered design to continue the humanist agenda by giving a voice to those who might otherwise be excluded from design and by creating opportunities for people to enrich their lived experience with and through technology. Table of Contents: How Did We Get Here? / Some Key Ideas Behind Experience-Centered Design / Making Sense of Experience in Experience-Centered Design / Experience-Centered Design as Dialogue / What do We Mean by Dialogue? / Valuing Experience-Centered Design / Where Do We Go from Here?

Many years ago before electric street lights, the lamplighter was a man who was employed by the town to go round lighting all the street lamps at the onset of evening, and minding them and keeping them lit throughout the night. He would also put them out in the morning. This book is a metaphorical look at lamplighting, and instances where we can take steps to keep our mental lamps alight and the streets of our life well lit. It takes a closer look at some of our cultural myths, preconceptions and superstitions. It examines some of the ''young wives tales'' that sneak, via parlance, into the fabric of our understanding of our world - that world that our perceptions have, often while we were looking the other way, fashioned into being ''the real world''.

Pathways to Peak Performance. The Zone or Flow State is one of those things in sport and indeed all performance and creativity, that elevates our ''game'' from something we love, to something that brings us a level of profound and utter ecstasy. Noticing and using the Gateways will enable us to pay visits there whenever we choose, and not just by chance or luck!

This is the author''s story of profound personal change that took place across a period of eight momentous weeks in the autumn of 2016. Peter describes the build-up to this period thus: ""In September I knew that I was very much at a crossroads, a decisive point, particularly with my career and activity choices going forward. I could have gone on a holiday, perhaps a cruise around the world, to seek some clarity; yet still return and be no further forward. So it was that I found myself making arrangements with a very good friend to visit her for a day of intensive one-to-one personal and business development coaching."" Whilst the business activities were addressed with anticipation and enthusiasm, it was the personal elements of their working together that caused Peter to now view his coach, his good friend, more as his Guide in spirit. What happened next unfolds as an Odyssey of personal transformation that he was not quite expecting or was prepared for.

After nearly sixty years of participating in team and group activities and about half that time spent in coaching and studying the functionality of teams, I feel I''ve come to a conclusive level of understanding about what makes one team work better than another. Yet this all started as an investigation. Starting with the big question - why do some teams look great on paper yet come up short in the reality of performance? For with all great teams, they are always greater than the sum of the skills and attributes of their individual members. Is it mere chemistry - or is there something far more tangible, and therefore accessible, going on? Is it the vision and personalities of the leaders, coaches, mentors and managers - or is there a formula, a template? My conclusion was the six elements that make up the acronym CACTUS, and in this book those elements are explained and explored.

Inside & Out: A Health and Physical EducationTextbook has been specifically written for Level 6 of theCurriculum and Standards Framework (CSF II). This third editioncomprehensively covers the three strands, including full coverage of the healthstrand, ''Self and relationships''. This full-colour textbook features: chapters grouped according to the strands a wide range of content and learning activities written by practisingPhysical Education and Health teachers who are experts in their field a detailed grid which links chapter content and questions to strands andlearning outcomes extension questions and research tasks, many of which address CSF IIextension outcomes a cross-referencing code to relevant questions in the workbook

Navigating the Ship of You is a book about discovery, exploration and sailing the vast oceans of our lives. It is about journeying into the Unknown and returning and making it Known - by drawing maps and charting our experiences. It is about gaining an understanding of the art of self navigation in order to enhance and transform our lives. It is set in two parts. Part One examines the primary phenomena of the art of self navigation, namely the power of Thought and Language. Part Two contains stories of some of the encounters on both my own voyages and the voyages of some of those I have helped, guided and explored with and sailed alongside. Life and its manifold circumstances serves up a vast and varied climate for our voyages and journeys, so our expertise and mastery of the Art of Navigation is of vital importance to our perspective, understanding and appreciation of what life in general, and our life in particular, is all about.

This book is a practical guide to handling the stresses of Examinations and Performances. It is designed for students, performers in any discipline, parents, and anyone looking for a down to earth, straightforward approaching to dealing with the crucial aspects of performing under pressure or being in the spotlight. From first guiding the reader to learn how to breathe properly, through helping them gain an understanding of the nature of thought and the relevance of how to pay full attention in the present moment, Peter writes about the differences between learning, conditioning and performance. He goes on to list many resources and practical tips that are an innate part of our selves, and includes a number of ''case studies'' that illuminate in a practical way many of the areas explored in the book.

The life story of vet Peter Wright, as he walked in the footsteps of the famous ''James Herriot'', from work experience with him as a lad - to taking over his practice in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales. Packed full of laugh-out loud moments, heartbreaking stories and transporting tales of his love for working with the animals and people of this breath-taking part of the country. Covering his bucolic childhood growing up on a farm right through to the heady days of his successful Channel 5 TV series, Peter''s warm nature and professional attitude shine through every page.

The UK''s best-loved vet looks back at the funniest, most absurd or heart-breaking animal encounters and situations he has been in over his long and highly successful career. "My mentor and former boss Alf Wight said that the life of a vet is never dull and how true he was. It is funny looking back that he found fame through his James Herriot books, and now his former surgery and myself have been taken to the nation''s heart once again through our show The Yorkshire Vet. "It just shows what a nation of animal lovers we are and these past few years have been particularly challenging for all of us with the Coronavirus outbreak. But what it has shown me is the comfort and support our pets give us in times like these. All the same, it was this, along with recent changes to my working life that gave me an opportunity to reflect, so I want to look back at some of my favourite cases and share them with you."