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"Ghosts appear in place of whatever a given people will not face" (p. 65)The poems in Gravesend explore ghosts as instances of collective grief and guilt, as cultural constructs evolved to elide or to absorb a given society's actions, as well as, at times, to fill the gaps between such actions and the desires and intentions of its individual citizens. Tracing the changing nature of the ghostly in the western world from antiquity to today, the collection focuses particularly on the ghosts created by the European expansion of the 16th through 20th centuries, using the town of Gravesend, the seaport at the mouth of the Thames through which countless emigrants passed, as an emblem of theambiguous threshold between one life and another, in all the many meanings of that phrase.
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What does it mean to be accompanied? How can autonomy and a sense of self emerge through one's involvement with others? This book examines the formation of self among the Urarina, an Amazonian people of lowland Peru. Based on detailed ethnography, the analysis highlights the role of intimate but asymmetrical attachments and dependencies which begin in the womb, but can extend beyond human society to include a variety of animals, plants, spirits and material objects. It thereby raises fundamental questions about what it means to be alive, to be an experiencing subject, and to be human. From the highly personalized relationships that develop between babies and their hammocks, to the demonstrations of love and respect between spouses and the power asymmetries that structure encounters between shamans and spirits, hunters and game animals, or owners and pets, what emerges is a strong sense that the lived experience of togetherness lies at the heart of the human condition. Recognizing this relational quality of existence enables us to see how acting effectively in the world may be less a matter of individual self-assertion than learning how to elicit empathetic acts of care and attentiveness by endearing oneself to others.
Urarina Indians --- Itucale Indians --- Indians of South America --- Social life and customs. --- Social networks. --- Psychology. --- #SBIB:39A74 --- Psychology --- Social life and customs --- Social networks --- Etnografie: Amerika --- amazonian culture. --- amazonian history. --- amazonian studies. --- anthropology. --- archaeology. --- biodiversity. --- cultural science. --- different cultures. --- distractions for kids. --- easy to read. --- engaging. --- ethnography. --- home school history books. --- home school science books. --- human society. --- learning while reading. --- life in south america. --- nonfiction books. --- politics. --- psychology. --- social science. --- south american culture. --- south american history. --- south american philosophies. --- south american politics. --- urarina.
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This volume is a one-of-a-kind contribution to applied social science and the product of a long collaboration between an established, interdisciplinary sociologist and a successful banking executive. Together, Neil Smelser and John Reed use a straightforward approach to presenting substantive social science knowledge and indicate its relevance and applicability to decision-making, problem-solving and policy-making. Among the areas presented are space-and-time coordinates of social life; cognition and bias; group and network effects; the role of sanctions; organizational dynamics; and macro-changes associated with economic development. Finally, the authors look at the big picture of why society at large demands and needs social-science knowledge, and how the academy actually supplies relevant knowledge.
Social sciences --- Social science research --- Research. --- anthropology. --- applied social sciences. --- behavioral economics. --- books by scientists. --- books for science lovers. --- cultural analysis. --- development of culture. --- economic development. --- educational books. --- home school science books. --- how humans interact. --- huma psychology. --- human analysis. --- human culture. --- human philosophy. --- informative books. --- learning from experts. --- learning while reading. --- nonfiction books. --- passion books. --- politics and science. --- quarantine books. --- social science research. --- social science. --- social theories. --- sociology.
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All animals must eat. But who eats who, and why, or why not? Because insects outnumber and collectively outweigh all other animals combined, they comprise the largest amount of animal food available for potential consumption. How do they avoid being eaten? From masterful disguises to physical and chemical lures and traps, predatory insects have devised ingenious and bizarre methods of finding food. Equally ingenious are the means of hiding, mimicry, escape, and defense waged by prospective prey in order to stay alive. This absorbing book demonstrates that the relationship between the eaten and the eater is a central-perhaps the central-aspect of what goes on in the community of organisms. By explaining the many ways in which insects avoid becoming a meal for a predator, and the ways in which predators evade their defensive strategies, Gilbert Waldbauer conveys an essential understanding of the unrelenting coevolutionary forces at work in the world around us.
Insects --- Insects --- Defenses. --- Predators of. --- books about bugs. --- books for kids and adults. --- books for my grandson. --- bug camouflage. --- bug defensive mechanisms. --- cool bugs. --- distraction for kids. --- easy to read. --- ecology. --- engaging. --- entomology. --- evolution. --- food chain explained. --- food chain of bugs. --- fun books. --- fun facts about bugs. --- gifts for kids. --- great for reluctant readers. --- how bugs survive. --- informative books. --- insects. --- invertebrates zoology. --- learning while reading. --- man vs beast. --- predator and prey. --- science and math. --- survival techniques of bugs. --- what eats bugs.
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This definitive biography offers a new critical assessment of the life, works, and ideas of Herbert E. Bolton (1870-1953), a leading historian of the American West, Mexico, and Latin America. Bolton, a famous pupil of Frederick Jackson Turner, formulated a concept-the borderlands-that is a foundation of historical studies today. His research took him not only to the archives and libraries of Mexico but out on the trails blazed by Spanish soldiers and missionaries during the colonial era. Bolton helped establish the reputation of the University of California and the Bancroft Library in the eyes of the world and was influential among historians during his lifetime, but interest in his ideas waned after his death. Now, more than a century after Bolton began to investigate the Mexican archives, Albert L. Hurtado explores his life against the backdrop of the cultural and political controversies of his day.
Historians --- Bolton, Herbert Eugene, --- Mexican-American Border Region --- United States --- Historiography. --- Territorial expansion --- 19th century history. --- 20th century history. --- american borderlands history. --- american history. --- american west. --- bancroft library. --- biographical. --- book club reads. --- books for history lovers. --- discussion books. --- distraction for kids. --- easy to read. --- engaging. --- european history. --- herbert bolton. --- historiography. --- history. --- informative books. --- latin america. --- learning while reading. --- leisure reads. --- mexican history. --- mexico. --- page turner. --- political controversies. --- quarantine books. --- united states history. --- university of california.
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This book explores the emergence of Greek tragedy on the American stage from the nineteenth century to the present. Despite the gap separating the world of classical Greece from our own, Greek tragedy has provided a fertile source for some of the most innovative American theater. Helene P. Foley shows how plays like Oedipus Rex and Medea have resonated deeply with contemporary concerns and controversies-over war, slavery, race, the status of women, religion, identity, and immigration. Although Greek tragedy was often initially embraced for its melodramatic possibilities, by the twentieth century it became a vehicle not only for major developments in the history of American theater and dance, but also for exploring critical tensions in American cultural and political life. Drawing on a wide range of sources-archival, video, interviews, and reviews-Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage provides the most comprehensive treatment of the subject available.
Greek drama --- Theater --- History and criticism --- History --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- Greek drama - History and criticism --- Theater - United States - History --- 20th century literacy. --- american culture and politics. --- american interpretation. --- american theater. --- books for english students. --- classical greek literature. --- coffee table books. --- controversial topics. --- dramatic. --- easy to read. --- educational books. --- engaging. --- greek tragedy. --- historical nonfiction. --- history of american dance. --- history of american theater. --- how to write a tragedy. --- intense emotion. --- interpretation of greek tragedy. --- learning while reading. --- lively. --- page turner. --- performing arts. --- shakespeare. --- theater film. --- theatrical.
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Both Hollywood and corporate America are taking note of the marketing power of the growing Latino population in the United States. And as salsa takes over both the dance floor and the condiment shelf, the influence of Latin culture is gaining momentum in American society as a whole. Yet the increasing visibility of Latinos in mainstream culture has not been accompanied by a similar level of economic parity or political enfranchisement. In this important, original, and entertaining book, Arlene Dávila provides a critical examination of the Hispanic marketing industry and of its role in the making and marketing of U.S. Latinos. Dávila finds that Latinos' increased popularity in the marketplace is simultaneously accompanied by their growing exotification and invisibility. She scrutinizes the complex interests that are involved in the public representation of Latinos as a generic and culturally distinct people and questions the homogeneity of the different Latino subnationalities that supposedly comprise the same people and group of consumers. In a fascinating discussion of how populations have become reconfigured as market segments, she shows that the market and marketing discourse become important terrains where Latinos debate their social identities and public standing.
Hispanic American consumers. --- Market segmentation --- Hispanic Americans --- Consumers, Hispanic American --- Hispanic Americans as consumers --- Spanish Americans as consumers --- Consumers --- Ethnic identity. --- Hispanic American consumers --- Ethnic identity --- E-books --- american history. --- american markets. --- american society. --- anthropology. --- coffee table books. --- corporate america. --- cultural examination. --- discrimination of hispanics. --- easy to read. --- engaging. --- hispanic culture. --- hispanic marketing industry. --- hispanic marketing. --- homeschool history books. --- informative reading. --- latino history. --- latinos in america. --- learning while reading. --- nonfiction books. --- oppression of hispanics. --- quarantine books. --- social culture. --- struggles of hispanics. --- united states history. --- united states latinos.
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"Aryan," a word that today evokes images of racial hatred and atrocity, was first used by Europeans to suggest bonds of kinship, as Thomas Trautmann shows in his far-reaching history of British Orientalism and the ethnology of India. When the historical relationship uniting Sanskrit with the languages of Europe was discovered, it seemed clear that Indians and Britons belonged to the same family. Thus the Indo-European or Aryan idea, based on the principle of linguistic kinship, dominated British ethnological inquiry. In the nineteenth century, however, an emergent biological "race science" attacked the authority of the Orientalists. The spectacle of a dark-skinned people who were evidently civilized challenged Victorian ideas, and race science responded to the enigma of India by redefining the Aryan concept in narrowly "white" racial terms. By the end of the nineteenth century, race science and Orientalism reached a deep and lasting consensus in regard to India, which Trautmann calls "the racial theory of Indian civilization," and which he undermines with his powerful analysis of colonial ethnology in India. His work of reassessing British Orientalism and the Aryan idea will be of great interest to historians, anthropologists, and cultural critics.--Publisher description.
Indo-Aryans --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- South Asia --- Aryans --- Ethnology --- Indo-Iranians --- History. --- History --- India --- E-books --- British occupation, 1765-1947 --- Indo-Aryans - History. --- academic books. --- aryan analysis. --- aryan culture. --- asian history. --- books for cultural critics. --- books for my history thesis. --- british anthropology. --- british history. --- british indian analysis. --- british indian textbooks. --- british orientalism. --- ethnology of india. --- history of race science. --- history of the aryan concept. --- homeschool history books. --- indian anthropology. --- indian civilization. --- indo european history. --- interesting textbooks. --- learning while reading. --- sanskrit history. --- university of california textbooks.
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Americans learned how to make wine successfully about two hundred years ago, after failing for more than two hundred years. Thomas Pinney takes an engaging approach to the history of American wine by telling its story through the lives of 13 people who played significant roles in building an industry that now extends to every state. While some names-such as Mondavi and Gallo-will be familiar, others are less well known. These include the wealthy Nicholas Longworth, who produced the first popular American wine; the German immigrant George Husmann, who championed the native Norton grape in Missouri and supplied rootstock to save French vineyards from phylloxera; Frank Schoonmaker, who championed the varietal concept over wines with misleading names; and Maynard Amerine, who helped make UC Davis a world-class winemaking school.
Viticulturists --- Vintners --- Viticulture --- Wine and wine making --- Enology --- Oenology --- Vinification --- Wines --- Alcoholic beverages --- Grape products --- Fruit wines --- Grape culture --- Viniculture --- Fruit-culture --- Grapes --- Terroir --- Wine makers --- Wine merchants --- Winemakers --- Grape growers --- Fruit growers --- History. --- alcoholic beverages. --- american wine vs european wine. --- american wine. --- books for wine lovers. --- culture of wine. --- easy to read. --- engaging. --- european vines. --- european winemakers. --- first american vineyards. --- gallo. --- gifts for mom. --- history of wine. --- how american wine started. --- how to become a sommelier. --- how to make your own wine. --- informative reads. --- learning while reading. --- leisure reads. --- mondavi. --- page turner. --- sommelier books. --- things to do during quarantine. --- vacation reads. --- wine blending. --- wine industry. --- wine making.
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The year 2010 marked the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain's death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain's works, UC Press published Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1, the first of a projected three-volume edition of the complete, uncensored autobiography. The book became an immediate bestseller and was hailed as the capstone of the life's work of America's favorite author.This Reader's Edition, a portable paperback in larger type, republishes the text of the hardcover Autobiography in a form that is convenient for the general reader, without the editorial explanatory notes. It includes a brief introduction describing the evolution of Mark Twain's ideas about writing his autobiography, as well as a chronology of his life, brief family biographies, and an excerpt from the forthcoming Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2-a controversial but characteristically humorous attack on Christian doctrine.
Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography. --- Twain, Mark, -- 1835-1910. --- Twain, Mark. --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 --- 19th century literature. --- american history. --- american literature. --- author autobiographies. --- autobiography memoir. --- autobiography of mark twain. --- book collector books. --- book lover books. --- books about mark twain. --- classical writing. --- coffee table books. --- discussion books. --- easy to read. --- english class books. --- family of mark twain. --- famous american authors. --- history of mark twain. --- learning while reading. --- literary criticism. --- mark twain fan books. --- mark twain ideas. --- mark twain life. --- pass on books. --- remastered book. --- sam clemens.
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