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The Anatomy of Grief
Dorothy P. Holinger;Dorothy P. Holinger
An original, authoritative guide to the impact of grief on the brain, the heart, and t...
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The Anatomy of Grief
2020
An original, authoritative guide to the impact of grief on the brain, the heart, and the body of the bereaved'Dorothy Holinger's exploration of the contours of grief is wise, moving, thought-provoking, and, best of all, extraordinarily helpful. Beautifully written and humane, it is a balm for the bereaved.'—Barry Bearak, Pulitzer Prize winner for international reporting“The Anatomy of Grief sets out to examine the nexus of connections between the physiology and psychology of grief .... What's central for Holinger is that turning feeling into words, and giving voice to buried emotions, acts to release tension. She is a passionate advocate for language as healer.”—Clair Wills, New York Review of Books Grief happens to everyone. Universal and enveloping, grief cannot be ignored or denied. This original new book by psychologist Dorothy P. Holinger uses humanistic and physiological approaches to describe grief's impact on the bereaved. Taking examples from literature, music, poetry, paleoarchaeology, personal experience, memoirs, and patient narratives , Holinger describes what happens in the brain, the heart, and the body of the bereaved. Readers will learn what grief is like after a loved one dies: how language and clarity of thought become elusive, why life feels empty, why grief surges and ebbs so persistently, and why the bereaved cry. Resting on a scientific foundation, this literary book shows the bereaved how to move through the grieving process and how understanding grief in deeper, more multidimensional ways can help quell this sorrow and allow life to be lived again with joy. Visit the author's companion website for The Anatomy of Grief : dorothypholinger.com/
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Bereavement - Grief--Physiological aspects - Electronic booksContent provider:
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Tenue Est Mendacium : Rethinking Fakes and Authorship in Classical, Late Antique, & Early Christian Works
Klaus Lennartz;Javier Martínez;Klaus Lennartz;Javier Martínez
Many new and fruitful avenues of investigation open up when scholars consider forgery ...
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Tenue Est Mendacium : Rethinking Fakes and Authorship in Classical, Late Antique, & Early Christian Works
2021
Many new and fruitful avenues of investigation open up when scholars consider forgery as a creative act rather than a crime. We invited authors to contribute work without imposing any restrictions beyond a willingness to consider new approaches to the subject of ancient fakes, forgeries, and questions of authenticity. The result is this volume, in which our aim is to display some of the many possibilities available to scholarship.The exposure of fraud and the pursuit of truth may still be valid scholarly goals, but they implicitly demand that we confront the status of any text as a focal point for matters of belief and conviction. Recent approaches to forgery have begun to ask new questions, some intended purely for the sake of debate: Ought we to consider any author to have some inherent authenticity that precludes the possibility of a forger's successful parody? If every fake text has a real context, what can be learned about the cultural circumstances which give rise to forgeries? If every real text can potentially engender a parallel history of fakes, what can this alternative narrative teach us? What epistemological prejudices can lead us to swear a fake is genuine, or dismiss the real thing as inauthentic?Following Splendide Mendax and Animo Decipiendi?, this is the latest installment of an ongoing inquiry, conducted by scholars in numerous countries, into how the ancient world - its literature and culture, its history and art - appears when viewed through the lens of fakes and forgeries, sincerities and authenticities, genuine signatures and pseudepigrapha. How does scholarship tell the truth if evidence doesn't? But fabula docet: The falsum does not simply make the great, annoying stone before the door of the truth (otherwise this here would really be a'council of antiquarians and paleographers'). The falsum makes a delicate, fine tissue. It allows the verum to shine through, in nuances and reliefs that were less noticeable without its counterpart, really tied at the head. And, treated differentiated, it becomes even itself perlucidum, shines out with'hidden values.'
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Forgery of antiquities - Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)Content provider:
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Bibliography of Natural History Travel Narratives
Anne S. Troelstra;Anne S. Troelstra
Anne Troelstra's fine bibliography is an outstanding and ground-breaking work. He has ...
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Bibliography of Natural History Travel Narratives
2016
Anne Troelstra's fine bibliography is an outstanding and ground-breaking work. He has provided the academic world with a long-needed bibliographical record of human endeavour in the field of the natural sciences.The travel narratives listed here encompass all aspects of the natural world in every part of the globe, but are especially concerned with its fauna, flora and fossil remains. Such eyewitness accounts have always fascinated their readers, but they were never written solely for entertainment: fragmentary though they often are, these narratives of travel and exploration are of immense importance for our scientific understanding of life on earth , providing us with a window on an ever changing, and often vanishing, natural world. Without such records of the past we could not track, document or understand the significance of changes that are so important for the study of zoogeography.With this book Troelstra gives us a superb overview of natural history travel narratives . The well over four thousand detailed entries, ranging over four centuries and all major western European languages, are drawn from a wide range of sources and include both printed books and periodical contributions. While no subject bibliography by a single author can attain absolute completeness, Troelstra's work is comprehensive to a truly remarkable degree.The entries are arranged alphabetically by author and chronologically, by the year of first publication, under the author's name. A brief biography, with the scope and range of their work, is given for each author; every title is set in context, the contents – including illustrations – are described and all known editions and translations are cited. In addition, there is a geographical index that cross refers between authors and the regions visited, and a full list of the bibliographical and biographical sources used in compiling the bibliography.
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Scientific expeditions--Bibliography - Travel--Bibliography - Natural history--Bibliography - Naturalists--Travel--Bio-bibliography - Naturalists--BiographyContent provider:
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River of Dark Dreams : Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
Walter Johnson;Walter Johnson
Winner of the SHEAR Book PrizeHonorable Mention, Avery O. Craven Award“Few books have ...
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River of Dark Dreams : Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
2013
Winner of the SHEAR Book PrizeHonorable Mention, Avery O. Craven Award“Few books have captured the lived experience of slavery as powerfully.”—Ari Kelman, Times Literary Supplement“[One] of the most impressive works of American history in many years.”—The Nation“An important, arguably seminal, book…Always trenchant and learned.”—Wall Street JournalA landmark history, by the author of National Book Critics Circle Award finalist The Broken Heart of America, that shows how slavery fueled Southern capitalism.When Jefferson acquired the Louisiana Territory, he envisioned an “empire for liberty” populated by self-sufficient white farmers. Cleared of Native Americans and the remnants of European empires by Andrew Jackson, the Mississippi Valley was transformed instead into a booming capitalist economy commanded by wealthy planters, powered by steam engines, and dependent on the coerced labor of slaves. River of Dark Dreams places the Cotton Kingdom at the center of worldwide webs of exchange and exploitation that extended across oceans and drove an insatiable hunger for new lands. This bold reconsideration dramatically alters our understanding of American slavery and its role in U.S. expansionism, global capitalism, and the upcoming Civil War.Walter Johnson deftly traces the connections between the planters'pro-slavery ideology, Atlantic commodity markets, and Southern schemes for global ascendency. Using slave narratives , popular literature, legal records, and personal correspondence, he recreates the harrowing details of daily life under cotton's dark dominion. We meet the confidence men and gamblers who made the Valley shimmer with promise, the slave dealers, steamboat captains, and merchants who supplied the markets, the planters who wrung their civilization out of the minds and bodies of their human property, and the true believers who threatened the Union by trying to expand the Cotton Kingdom on a global scale.But at the center of the story are the enslaved people who pulled down the forests, planted the fields, picked the cotton—who labored, suffered, and resisted on the dark underside of the American dream .“Shows how the Cotton Kingdom of the 19th-century Deep South, far from being a backward outpost of feudalism, was a dynamic engine of capitalist expansion built on enslaved labor.”—A. O. Scott, New York Times“River of Dark Dreams delivers spectacularly on the long-standing mission to write ‘history from the bottom up.'”—Maya Jasanoff, New York Review of Books
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Imperialism--History--19th century - Slave trade--History--19th century - Cotton growing--Mississippi River Valley--History--19th century - Slavery--Mississippi River Valley--History--19th century - Slavery--Economic aspects--Mississippi River Valley--History--19th century - Social change--Mississippi River Valley--History--19th century - Capitalism--Mississippi River Valley--History--19th centuryContent provider:
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Authenticity and Victimhood After the Second World War : Narratives From Europe and East Asia
Randall Hansen;Achim Saupe;Andreas Wirsching;Daqing Yang;Randall Hansen;Ach...
The Second World War was filled with many terrible crimes, such as genocide, forced mi...
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Authenticity and Victimhood After the Second World War : Narratives From Europe and East Asia
2021
The Second World War was filled with many terrible crimes, such as genocide, forced migration and labour, human-made famine, forced sterilizations, and dispossession, that occurred on an unprecedented scale. Authenticity and Victimhood after the Second World War examines victim groups constructed in the twentieth century in the aftermath of these experiences. The collection explores the concept of authenticity through an examination of victims'histories and the construction of victimhood in Europe and East Asia. Chapters consider how notions of historical authenticity influence the self-identification and public recognition of a given social group, the tensions arising from individual and group experiences of victimhood, and the resulting, sometimes divergent, interpretation of historical events. Drawing from case studies on topics including the Holocaust, the siege of Leningrad, American air raids on Japan, and forced migrations from Eastern Europe, Authenticity and Victimhood after the Second World War demonstrates the trend towards a victim-centred collective memory as well as the interplay of memory politics and public commemorative culture.
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War victims--East Asia - War victims--Europe - World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Historiography - World War, 1939-1945--East Asia--Historiography - Collective memory--East Asia - Collective memory--Europe - World War, 1939-1945--Europe--HistoriographyContent provider:
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Tracing Hospital Boundaries : Integration and Segregation in Southeastern Europe and Beyond, 1050-1970
Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw;Irena Benyovsky Latin;Kathleen Vongsathorn;Jane L....
Tracing Hospital Boundaries explores, for the first time, how the forces of both integ...
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Tracing Hospital Boundaries : Integration and Segregation in Southeastern Europe and Beyond, 1050-1970
2020
Tracing Hospital Boundaries explores, for the first time, how the forces of both integration and segregation shaped hospitals and their communities between the eleventh and twentieth centuries in Europe, North America and Africa. Within this broad comparative context it also shines a light on a number of case studies from Southeastern Europe. The eleven chapters show how people's access to, and experience of, healthcare institutions was affected by social, cultural and economic, as well as medical, dynamics. These same factors intersected with developing healthcare technologies to shape hospital design and location, as well as internal policies and practices. The volume produces a new history of the hospital in which boundaries – both physical and symbolic – are frequently contested and redrawn. Contributors are Irena Benyovsky Latin, David Gentilcore, Annemarie Kinzelbach, Rina Kralj-Brassard, Ivana Lazarević, Clement Masakure, Anna Peterson, Egidio Priani, Gordan Ravančić, Jonathan Reinarz, Jane Stevens Crawshaw, David Theodore, Christina Vanja, George Weisz, and Valentina Živković.
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Hospitals--Social aspects - Hospitals--HistoryContent provider:
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Understanding Scientific Theories of Origins : Cosmology, Geology, and Biology in Christian Perspective
Robert C. Bishop;Larry L. Funck;Raymond J. Lewis;Stephen O. Moshier;John H....
The question of origins remains a stumbling block for many. But just as the Psalmist g...
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Understanding Scientific Theories of Origins : Cosmology, Geology, and Biology in Christian Perspective
2018
The question of origins remains a stumbling block for many. But just as the Psalmist gained insight into God's character through the observation of nature, modern scientific study can deepen and enrich our vision of the Creator and our place in his creation. In this often contentious field Bishop, Funck, Lewis, Moshier, and Walton serve as our able guides. Based on over two decades of teaching origins together in the classroom, the authors present a textbook exploring mainstream scientific theories of origins in astronomy, cosmology, chemistry, geology, biology, physical anthropology, and genetics. While many authors engage origins from a Christian perspective, this is the first work offering a full-fledged discussion of the scientific narrative of origins from the Big Bang through humankind, from biblical and theological perspectives accessible to a lay audience. Topics includePrinciples of biblical interpretationClose readings of relevant Genesis textsA comprehensive Trinitarian doctrine of creationCosmic originsThe geologic history of EarthThe origin of life on EarthThe origin of species and diversity of lifeHuman originsNew creation and creation careScience educationRather than the familiar scenario where science and faith compete, this book seeks to diffuse tensions by taking the inspiration and authority of the Bible seriously while respecting and honoring God's revelation through creation. Understanding Scientific Theories of Origins gives the reader a detailed picture of the sciences of origins along with how they fit into the story of God's creative and redemptive action.BioLogos Books on Science and Christianity invite us to see the harmony between the sciences and biblical faith on issues including cosmology, biology, paleontology, evolution, human origins, the environment, and more.
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Biblical cosmology - CosmologyContent provider:
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Imagining the Mulatta : Blackness in U.S. And Brazilian Media
Jasmine Mitchell;Jasmine Mitchell
Brazil markets itself as a racially mixed utopia. The United States prefers the term m...
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Imagining the Mulatta : Blackness in U.S. And Brazilian Media
2020
Brazil markets itself as a racially mixed utopia. The United States prefers the term melting pot. Both nations have long used the image of the mulatta to push skewed cultural narratives . Highlighting the prevalence of mixed race women of African and European descent, the two countries claim to have perfected racial representation—all the while ignoring the racialization, hypersexualization, and white supremacy that the mulatta narrative creates. Jasmine Mitchell investigates the development and exploitation of the mulatta figure in Brazilian and U.S. popular culture. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, she analyzes policy debates and reveals the use of mixed-Black female celebrities as subjects of racial and gendered discussions. Mitchell also unveils the ways the media moralizes about the mulatta figure and uses her as an example of an ”acceptable” version of blackness that at once dreams of erasing undesirable blackness while maintaining the qualities that serve as outlets for interracial desire.
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Racially mixed women--Race identity--Brazil - Racially mixed women--Race identity--United States - Mass media and race relations--Brazil - Mass media and race relations--United States - Celebrities in mass media - Women in mass mediaContent provider:
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Transnational American Spaces
Powell, Tina;Suppes, Patricia Sagasti;Powell, Tina;Suppes, Patricia Sagasti
As people migrate, they face the need to create a stable space within a disconcertingl...
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Transnational American Spaces
2022
As people migrate, they face the need to create a stable space within a disconcertingly unfamiliar environment. This experience of creating new spaces opens opportunities for positive transcultural connections; however, these opportunities can also serve as the disciplining of the migrant body. This text focuses on the movement of bodies in transnational communities and the formation of domestic and communal spaces that provide respite from migratory paths, negotiate transnational relationships, or establish a new home. In doing so, we explore literary texts that question, challenge, and deepen our understanding of the experience of migration through the use of space and place. The texts in question examine three levels of transnational spaces: intimate spaces such as family, personal growth, or sexuality; inherited spaces reflected in generational conflicts, religious identity, and inherited histories; and national spaces that look at issues of broader national identities. The texts we examine engage with transnational communities within the United States, and the ways in which narratives reimagine new space to negotiate change and create new norms. These narratives can sometimes bridge both cultures or can sometimes result in a violent sense of displacement. Each chapter problematizes a different aspect of transcultural adaptation, and the geographic ties of each community focus reflect the multicultural reality of the U.S., with connections to Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America.
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Immigrants--United States--Social conditionsContent provider:
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Make We Merry More and Less : An Anthology of Medieval English Popular Literature
Douglas Gray;Jane Bliss;Douglas Gray;Jane Bliss
Conceived as a companion volume to the well-received Simple Forms: Essays on Medieval ...
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Make We Merry More and Less : An Anthology of Medieval English Popular Literature
2019
Conceived as a companion volume to the well-received Simple Forms: Essays on Medieval English Popular Literature (2015), Make We Merry More and Less is a comprehensive anthology of popular medieval literature from the twelfth century onwards. Uniquely, the book is divided by genre, allowing readers to make connections between texts usually presented individually. This anthology offers a fruitful exploration of the boundary between literary and popular culture, and showcases an impressive breadth of literature, including songs, drama, and ballads. Familiar texts such as the visions of Margery Kempe and the Paston family letters are featured alongside lesser-known works, often oral. This striking diversity extends to the language: the anthology includes Scottish literature and original translations of Latin and French texts. The illuminating introduction offers essential information that will enhance the reader's enjoyment of the chosen texts. Each of the chapters is accompanied by a clear summary explaining the particular delights of the literature selected and the rationale behind the choices made. An invaluable resource to gain an in-depth understanding of the culture of the period, this is essential reading for any student or scholar of medieval English literature, and for anyone interested in folklore or popular material of the time. The book was left unfinished at Gray's death; it is here edited by Jane Bliss.
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Literature and folklore--Great Britain - English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism - Folk literature, English--History and criticismContent provider:
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Encyclopedia of Global Resources, Third Edition
Editors of Salem Press;Editors of Salem Press
The articles in this set are extremely diverse, with articles covering soil, fisheries...
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Encyclopedia of Global Resources, Third Edition
2019
The articles in this set are extremely diverse, with articles covering soil, fisheries, forests, aluminum, the Industrial Revolution, the U.S. Department of the Interior, the hydrologic cycle, glass, and placer mineral deposits.
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Natural resources--EncyclopediasContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Bonica's Management of Pain
Jane C. Ballantyne;Scott M. Fishman;James P. Rathmell;Jane C. Ballantyne;Sc...
Publisher's Note: Products purchased from 3rd Party sellers are not guaranteed by the ...
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Bonica's Management of Pain
2019
Publisher's Note: Products purchased from 3rd Party sellers are not guaranteed by the Publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. This exhaustively comprehensive edition of the classic Bonica's Management of Pain, first published 65 years ago, expertly combines the scientific underpinnings of pain with clinical management. Completely revised, it discusses a wide variety of pain conditions—including neuropathic pain, pain due to cancer, and acute pain situations—for adults as well as children. An international group of the foremost experts provides comprehensive, current, clinically oriented coverage of the entire field. The contributors describe contemporary clinical practice and summarize the evidence that guides clinical practice.
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Analgesia - Chronic pain--Treatment - Pain--TreatmentContent provider:
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Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 2 : Contemporary Maya Narratives
Arturo Arias;Arturo Arias
Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 2 is an in-depth analysis of the sociohistorical co...
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Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 2 : Contemporary Maya Narratives
2018; Vol. 00002
Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 2 is an in-depth analysis of the sociohistorical conflict impacting Indigenous communities in Latin America. Continuing the project he began in volume 1, Arturo Arias analyzes contemporary Peninsular and Chiapanecan Maya narratives . He examines the works of Yucatecan writers Jorge Cocom Pech, Javier Gómez Navarrete, Isaac Carrillo Can, and Marisol Ceh Moo. For Chiapas, Arias looks at the works of Tseltal novelist Diego Méndez Guzmán, Tsotsil short-story writer Nicolás Huet Bautista, and Tseltal narrative writer Josías López Gómez. Arias problematizes the nature of Western modernity and the crisis of Western models of development in the present. By way of his analysis, he suggests that we are facing a historical impasse because we have neglected native knowledges that offer alternative codes of ethics and beingness that emerge from Indigenous cosmovisions. The text skillfully contributes to and strengthens debates between US-centered and Latin American cultural studies theorists, as well as the hemispheric expansion of Native American and Indigenous Studies. Recovering Lost Footprints, Volume 2 is inspired more by the past as it impinges upon a continuing, constantly expanding present. Arias's reading of Maya literatures forces us to reconsider the space-time structure of Western thinking. Indeed, this book is intriguing precisely because it views literature from an Indigenous perspective, evidencing how that social space is full of multiple contrasting experiences and historical processes.
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Guatemalan literature--History and criticism - Maya literature--History and criticismContent provider:
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Upper Perené Arawak Narratives of History, Landscape, and Ritual
Elena Mihas;Elena Mihas
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, ...
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Upper Perené Arawak Narratives of History, Landscape, and Ritual
2014
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The rich storytelling traditions of the Alto Perené Arawaks of eastern Peru are showcased in this bilingual collection of traditional narratives , ethnographic accounts, women's autobiographical stories, songs, chants, and ritual speeches. The Alto Perené speakers are located in the colonization frontier at the foot of the eastern Andes and the western fringe of the Amazonian jungle. Unfortunately, their language has a slim chance of surviving because only about three hundred fluent speakers remain. This volume collects and preserves the power and vitality of Alto Perené oral and linguistic traditions, as told by thirty members of the Native community. Upper Perené Arawak Narratives of History, Landscape, and Ritual covers a range of themes in the Alto Perené oral tradition, through genres such as myths, folk tales, autobiographical accounts, and ethnographic texts about customs and rituals, as well as songs, chants, and oratory. Transcribed and translated by Elena Mihas, a specialist in Northern Kampa language varieties, and grounded in the actual performances of Alto Perené speakers, this collection makes these stories available in English for the first time. Each original text in Alto Perené is accompanied by an English translation, and each theme is introduced with an essay providing biographical, cultural, and linguistic information. This collection of oral literature is masterful and authoritative as well as entertaining and provocative, testifying to the power of Alto Perené storytelling.
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Ethnology--Peru--Perene River Valley - Ashaninca Indians--Peru--Perene River Valley--Social life and customs - Ashaninca Indians--Peru--Perene River Valley--Rites and ceremonies - Folk literature--History and criticism - Oral tradition--Peru--Perene River Valley - Campa language--Peru--Perene River Valley--Texts - Discourse analysis - Narration (Rhetoric)Content provider:
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Taxi! : A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver
Graham Russell Gao Hodges;Graham Russell Gao Hodges
Why the cabdriver is the real victim of the false promises of Uber and the gig economy...
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Taxi! : A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver
2020
Why the cabdriver is the real victim of the false promises of Uber and the gig economy.2007 Noteworthy Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, Princeton University Industrial Relations SectionHailed in its first edition as a classic study of New York City's history and people, Graham Russell Gao Hodges's Taxi! is a remarkable evocation of the forgotten history of the taxi driver. This deftly woven narrative captures the spirit of New York City cabdrivers and their hardscrabble struggle to capture a piece of the American dream . From labor unrest and racial strife to ruthless competition and political machinations, Hodges recounts this history through contemporary news accounts, Hollywood films, and the words of the cabbies themselves. A new preface recalls the author's five years of hacking in New York City in the early 1970s, and a new concluding chapter explores the rise of app-based ridesharing services with the arrival of companies like Uber and Lyft. Sharply criticizing the use of the independent contractor model that is the cornerstone of Uber and the gig economy, Hodges argues that the explosion of for-hire vehicles in Manhattan reversed decades of environmental anti-congestion efforts. He calls for a return to the careful regulations that governed taxicabs for decades and provided a modest yet secure living for cabbies. Whether or not you've ever hailed a cab on Broadway, Taxi! provides a fascinating perspective on New York's most colorful emissaries.
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Taxicabs--New York (State)--New York--History - Ridesharing--New York (State)--New York - Taxicab drivers--New York (State)--New York--History - Taxicab drivers--New York (State)--New York--Social conditionsContent provider:
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After Life : A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America
Rhae Lynn Barnes;Keri Leigh Merritt;Yohuru Williams;Rhae Lynn Barnes;Keri L...
After Life is a collective history of how Americans experienced, navigated, commemorat...
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After Life : A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America
2022
After Life is a collective history of how Americans experienced, navigated, commemorated, and ignored mass death and loss during the global COVID-19 pandemic, mass uprisings for racial justice, and the near presidential coup in 2021 following the 2020 election. Inspired by the writers who documented American life during the Great Depression and World War II for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the editors asked twenty-first-century historians and legal experts to focus on the parallels, convergences, and differences between the exceptional'long 2020', while it unfolds, and earlier eras in U.S. History.Providing context for the entire volume, After Life's Introduction explains how COVID-19 and America's long history of inequality, combined with a corrupt and unconcerned federal government, produced one of the darkest times in our nation's history. Discussing the rise of the COVID-19 death toll in the United States, eventually exceeding the 1918 flu, the AIDS epidemic, and the Civil War, it ties public health, immigration, white supremacy, elections history, and epidemics together, and provides a short history of the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 and the beginnings of a Third Reconstruction.After Life documents how Americans have dealt with grief , pain, and loss, both individually and communally, and how we endure and thrive. The title is an affirmation that even in our suspended half-living during lockdowns and quarantines, we are a nation of survivors—with an unprecedented chance to rebuild society in a more equitable way.Contributors include: Gwendolyn Hall, Heather Ann Thompson, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Keith Ellison, Keri Leigh Merritt, Martha Hodes, Mary Kathryn Nagle, Mary L. Dudziak, Monica Muñoz Martinez, Peniel E. Joseph, Philip J. Deloria, Rhae Lynn Barnes, Robert L. Tsai, Robin D. G. Kelley, Scott Poulson-Bryant, Stephen Berry, Tera W. Hunter, Ula Y. Taylor, and, Yohuru Williams.
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COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020---Social aspects--United States - COVID-19 (Disease)--Social aspects--United StatesContent provider:
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Anxious Eaters : Why We Fall for Fad Diets
Janet Chrzan;Kima Cargill;Janet Chrzan;Kima Cargill
What makes fad diets so appealing to so many people? How did there get to be so many d...
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Anxious Eaters : Why We Fall for Fad Diets
2022
What makes fad diets so appealing to so many people? How did there get to be so many different ones, often with eerily similar prescriptions? Why do people cycle on and off diets, perpetually searching for that one simple trick that will solve everything? And how did these fads become so central to conversations about food and nutrition?Anxious Eaters shows that fad diets are popular because they fulfill crucial social and psychological needs—which is also why they tend to fail. Janet Chrzan and Kima Cargill bring together anthropology, psychology, and nutrition to explore what these programs promise yet rarely fulfill for dieters. They demonstrate how fad diets help people cope with widespread anxieties and offer tantalizing glimpses of attainable self-transformation. Chrzan and Cargill emphasize the social contexts of diets, arguing that beliefs about nutrition are deeply rooted in pervasive cultural narratives . Although people choose to adopt new eating habits for individual reasons, broader forces shape why fad diets seem to make sense.Considering dietary beliefs and practices in terms of culture, nutrition, and individual psychological needs, Anxious Eaters refrains from moralizing or promoting a “right” way to eat. Instead, it offers new ways of understanding the popularity of a wide range of eating trends, including the Atkins Diet and other low- or no-carb diets; beliefs that ingredients like wheat products and sugars are toxic, allergenic, or addictive; food avoidance and “Clean Eating” practices; and paleo or primal diets. Anxious Eaters sheds new light on why people adopt such diets and why these diets remain so attractive even though they often fail.
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Reducing diets--Social aspects - Reducing diets--Psychological aspects - Diet--Social aspects - Food habits--Social aspects - Nutrition--Social aspectsContent provider:
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Communities and Museums in the 21st Century : Shared Histories and Climate Action
Karen Brown;Alissandra Cummins;Ana S. González Rueda;Karen Brown;Alissandra...
Communities and Museums in the 21st Century brings together innovative, multidisciplin...
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Communities and Museums in the 21st Century : Shared Histories and Climate Action
2024
Communities and Museums in the 21st Century brings together innovative, multidisciplinary perspectives on contemporary museology and participatory museum practice that contribute to wider debates on museum communities, heritage, and sustainability. Set within the context of globalisation and decolonisation, this book draws upon bi-regional research that will enrich our understanding of the complex relationships between Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean through museum studies and practice. Chapters reflect upon the role of museums in defining community identities; the importance of young people's participation and intergenerational work for sustainability; the role of museums in local development; and community-based museums and climate change. Contributors examine these issues through the lens of museum partnerships and practices, as well as testing the continued relevance of the notion of ‘integral museum'and its relatives in the form of ecomuseums. With its focus on regional museums in Latin America and Caribbean, this book highlights how the case studies promote greater intercultural dialogue, global understanding and social cohesion. It also demonstrates how the methodology can be adapted to other communities who are facing the perils of climate change and unsustainable forms of development. Communities and Museums in the 21st Century proposes creative and sustainable strategies relevant to a globalised future. With its focus on global societal challenges, this book will appeal to museologists and museum practitioners, as well as those working in heritage studies, cultural studies, memory studies, art history, gender studies, and sustainable development.
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Museums and community--Caribbean Area - Museums and community--Latin America - Latin Americans--Ethnic identityContent provider:
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Women's Lives Around the World : A Global Encyclopedia [4 Volumes]
Susan M. Shaw;Nancy Staton Barbour;Patti Duncan Ph.D;Kryn Freehling-Burton ...
Providing an in-depth look at the lives of women and girls in approximately 150 countr...
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Women's Lives Around the World : A Global Encyclopedia [4 Volumes]
2018
Providing an in-depth look at the lives of women and girls in approximately 150 countries, this multivolume reference set offers readers transnational and postcolonial analysis of the many issues that are critical to the success of women and girls.For millennia, women around the world have shouldered the responsibility of caring for their families. But in recent decades, women have emerged as a major part of the global workforce, balancing careers and family life. How did this change happen? And how are societies in developing countries responding and adapting to women's newer roles in society? This four-volume encyclopedia examines the lives of women around the world, with coverage that includes the education of girls and teens; the key roles women play in their families, careers, religions, and cultures; how issues for women intersect with colonialism, transnationalism, feminism, and established norms of power and control.Organized geographically, each volume presents detailed entries about the lives of women in particular countries. Additionally, each volume offers sidebars that spotlight topics related to women and girls in specific regions or focus on individual women's lives and contributions. Primary source documents include sections of countries'constitutions that are relevant to women and girls, United Nations resolutions and national resolutions regarding women and girls, and religious statements and proclamations about women and girls. The organization of the set enables readers to take an in-depth look at individual countries as well as to make comparisons across countries.
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Women--Social conditions--EncyclopediasContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
The Future of Us : What the Dreams of Children Mean for Twenty-First-Century America
Irwin Redlener;Irwin Redlener
Raymond is a talented young artist who carries his work from homeless shelter to homel...
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The Future of Us : What the Dreams of Children Mean for Twenty-First-Century America
2017
Raymond is a talented young artist who carries his work from homeless shelter to homeless shelter in a tattered bag but has never even been inside a museum. He is emblematic of the children that the renowned pediatrician and children's advocate Irwin Redlener has met over the course of his long and colorful career. Inadequate education, barriers to health care, and crushing poverty make it overwhelmingly difficult for many children to realize their dreams . In this memoir, Redlener draws on poignant personal experiences to investigate the nation's healthcare safety net and special programs that are designed to protect and nurture our most vulnerable kids, but that too often fail to do so. The book follows Redlener's winding career, from his work as a pediatrician in the Arkansas delta, to treating child abuse in a Miami hospital, to helping children in the aftermath of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. The reader accompanies him to the board of USA for Africa, to cofounding the Children's Health Fund with Paul Simon, as he persuades Joan Baez to play a benefit concert for his clinic in rural Arkansas, and to dinner with Fidel Castro. But what has motivated him most powerfully are the children who struggle with terrible adversities yet dream of becoming paleontologists, artists, and marine biologists. These stories are his springboard for discussing larger policy issues that hinder us from effectively eradicating childhood poverty and overcoming barriers to accessible health care. Persistent deprivation and the avoidable problems that accompany poverty ensnare millions of children, with rippling effects that harm the health, prosperity, and creativity of the adults they become. Redlener argues that we must drastically change our approach to meeting the needs of children—for their sake and to ensure America's resiliency and influence in an increasingly complex and challenging world.
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Child welfare--United States - Children--Government policy--United States - Children--United States--Social conditions--21st centuryContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Paulus als Erzähler? : Eine narratologische Perspektive auf die Paulusbriefe
Christoph Heilig;Christoph Heilig
Paulus ist vor allem als theologischer Denker bekannt. Nun behaupten gewichtige Stimme...
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Paulus als Erzähler? : Eine narratologische Perspektive auf die Paulusbriefe
2020; Vol. 00237
Paulus ist vor allem als theologischer Denker bekannt. Nun behaupten gewichtige Stimmen aus dem englischsprachigen Raum, die Exegese seiner Briefe habe sich bisher viel zu sehr auf abstrakte Konzepte und Argumentationsfiguren konzentriert. Vielmehr sei die Erkenntnis von fundamentaler Bedeutung, dass die Texte durch und durch von Geschichten geprägt seien. Gemeint sind nicht explizite Erzählungen, sondern narrative Strukturen, die im Subtext oder in der Weltanschauung des Autors verortet werden. Heiligs Studie unterzieht diesen „narrative approach“ einer kritischen Prüfung: Kann im Fall von Briefen sinnvoll von Narrativen gesprochen werden? Ist die Priorisierung impliziter Erzählungen sinnvoll? Mit welchem methodischen Werkzeug könnte man die bisher angeblich übersehenen Erzählungen identifizieren? Heilig beantwortet diese und weitere grundsätzliche Fragen unter Bezugnahme auf die erzähltheoretische und textlinguistische Forschung und zeigt in der Analyse konkreter Texte auf, wie Paulus tatsächlich als „Erzähler“ auftritt. Dabei demonstriert er, wie eine initiale Konzentration auf explizite Erzählungen tatsächlich auf einen Weg zu einer neuen, narratologisch fundierten Betrachtungsweise der Schriften des Apostels führen kann.
