Books by Steven Jones

The approach to medical terminology presented in this book was originally developed for Acquiring Medical Language / Steven L. Jones, Andrew Cavanagh, 2016, and has been adapted for use in an accelerated format.

Jones challenges traditional images of Percy Bysshe Shelley in this first book-length analysis of his major satiric works. Bringing to bear genre theory and a New Historical frame of reference, Jones places Shelley's satires in their broad context of popular, political, and material culture. Jones argues that Shelley's satiric poems express an important countervoice within Shelley's work as well as within Romanticism as a whole. These ironic, public, referential, and worldly texts are shown to be deeply ambivalent, employing the imagery of curse, revenge, and punishment in a coercive rhetoric of violence only occasionally covered with laughter. Thus the satires vividly represent the darker side of the Romantic poet's relation to society as well as his efforts to engage and to change the world. Shelley's Satire illuminates the historical and cultural contexts that stirred the poet's imagination - contemporary superstition, the popular entertainments of the pantomime and graphic prints, and historical events such as the Peterloo Massacre and the Queen Caroline affair. It will engage not only Shelleyans and Romanticists but also anyone interested in satire as a genre, New Historicist methods, theories of cultural formation, and the Regency period in English history.

One School One Planet Vol. 2 is a collection of articles and essays written over the course of the second and third years of the One School One Planet project in Llanfyllin, Powys. The project sought to develop a mainstream permaculture curriculum for schools, while also helping Llanfyllin to prepare as a community for the realities of climate change.

This is a story about a dog who is finding out who he is and what he's good at. You will follow this lovable greyhound called Garry in his search for what he's good at in this adventure. There are tears and joy and friends too. Join Garry in this story of courage, belief, and friendship. There is something out there for everyone. We all have something we are good at in life. Like Garry, don't give up. Keep at it, and you will find your goal in life.

The painter Titian towards the end of his life broke from the very school he helped found. Most notable was his Flaying of Marsyas. It is about a bet made between Apollo and Marsysas who was the greater musician. Marsyas, losing the bet, must be flayed by Apollo. The painting creates controversy now just as it did then. Is it gruesome or a thing of beauty? Renaissance Neoplatonists saw it as a victory for Marsyas, symbolizing a liberation of the Spirit from the flesh. Others saw it as the price for challenging a god to a duel. Still others see it as symbolic of what happens when one lets their passions get the best of them. In the painting we see 'reason' off to the side devoutly playing music to the gods.In many ways the painting could represent the modern milieu of the Church. What some see as a liberating of the Spirit, others see as a brutal gutting of everything sacred. Like the Flaying of Marsyas, it is difficult to tell without the true story. This is the story.

Antonymy is the technical name used to describe 'opposites', pairs of words such as rich/poor, love/hate and male/female. This book provides a detailed and comprehensive account of the phenomenon.