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The last several decades have witnessed an explosion of new empirical research into representations of the past and the conditions of their production, prompting claims that we have entered a new era in which the past has become more “present” than ever before. Contemplating Historical Consciousness brings together leading historians, ethnographers, and other scholars who give illuminating reflections on the aims, methods, and conceptualization of their own research as well as the successes and failures they have encountered. This rich collective account provides valuable perspectives for current scholars while charting new avenues for future research.

Collective memory. --- Historiography --- Social aspects. --- academic. --- career. --- collective account. --- diplomacy. --- economic studies. --- economics. --- empirical research. --- engaging. --- ethnographic studies. --- ethnography. --- european history. --- government and governing. --- historical consciousness. --- historical studies. --- historiography. --- history. --- life lessons. --- lively. --- making sense of history series. --- multidisciplinary research. --- new ideas. --- page turner. --- politics. --- promising voices. --- social issues. --- social problems. --- technology. --- thought-provoking. --- valuable perspectives.

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Written for everyone who loves and is simultaneously driven crazy by the holiday season, Christmas: A Candid History provides an enlightening, entertaining perspective on how the annual Yuletide celebration got to be what it is today. In a fascinating, concise tour through history, the book tells the story of Christmas-from its pre-Christian roots, through the birth of Jesus, to the holiday's spread across Europe into the Americas and beyond, and to its mind-boggling transformation through modern consumerism. Packed with intriguing stories, based on research into myriad sources, full of insights, the book explores the historical origins of traditions including Santa, the reindeer, gift giving, the Christmas tree, Christmas songs and movies, and more. The book also offers some provocative ideas for reclaiming the joy and meaning of this beloved, yet often frustrating, season amid the pressures of our fast-paced consumer culture. DID YOU KNOWFor three centuries Christians did not celebrate Christmas? Puritans in England and New England made Christmas observances illegal? St. Nicholas is an elf in the famous poem "The Night Before Christmas"? President Franklin Roosevelt changed the dateof Thanksgiving in order to lengthen the Christmas shopping season? Coca-Cola helped fashion Santa Claus's look in an advertising campaign?

Christmas --- History. --- biblical history. --- biographical. --- biography. --- birth of jesus. --- christmas history. --- christmas songs. --- christmas traditions. --- faith and belief. --- family. --- gift giving. --- history of christianity. --- holiday season. --- intriguing stories. --- life lessons. --- memoir. --- modern consumerism. --- pre-christian roots. --- reclaiming the joy. --- reindeer. --- santa. --- spirituality. --- story of christmas. --- tour through history. --- uplifting stories.

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This bold and innovative book traces the phenomenon of the "odyssey" experience as it shapes, informs, and defines our lives. Drawing on an astonishing range of examples, Neil J. Smelser focuses on how such experiences enhance our lives and provide us with meaning and dignity. The odyssey experience, as Smelser advances it, is generic, widespread, and recurring. It is a finite period of disengagement from the routines of life and immersion into a simpler, transitory, often collective, usually intense period of involvement that culminates in some kind of regeneration. By examining a variety of topics as part of a larger, overarching phenomenon, Smelser transforms their study from the particular to the comparative. The Odyssey Experience thus reaches beyond a simple description of where and how transformations occur in daily life to offer a profound explanation for why they are there.

Insight. --- Introspection. --- Life change events. --- Vision quests. --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages. --- Voyages and travels. --- behavioral studies. --- comparative studies. --- engaging. --- human behavior. --- human condition. --- human experiences. --- human tendencies. --- intense period of life. --- life changes. --- life journeys. --- life lessons. --- nonfiction. --- odyssey. --- personal growth. --- personal transformation. --- physical journeys. --- psychological journeys. --- quest for meaning. --- regeneration. --- religion and spirituality. --- scientists. --- self help. --- social relationships. --- spiritual journeys. --- spiritual.

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Business academia offers an excellent entrepreneurial foundation. Ten reality sets in. This book bridges the gap between academia and real business, to counsel by example, and to deliver timely, actionable recommendations to capitalize on opportunities, or to sidestep hidden business grenades. Advice is best delivered by those who have successfully walked the entrepreneurial trail, but not without incurring some scars along the way. That's us. For the university instructor or professor, this book adds another dimension to what is being taught, and facilitates the lecturers' ability to convey important business lessons in bite-size morsels.

Entrepreneurship. --- New business enterprises. --- Success in business. --- Business. --- Start-ups. --- Minimum viable product. --- Exit strategy. --- Advisers. --- Advisory board. --- Deal making. --- Entrepreneurs. --- Sales. --- Customers. --- Boot strapping. --- Funding. --- Elastic ethics. --- Investors. --- Social responsibility. --- Communications. --- Partners. --- Competitors. --- Marketing. --- International deals. --- Domestic markets. --- Assets. --- Soft assets. --- Data rooms. --- Business plans. --- Markets. --- Value propositions. --- Revenue models. --- Branding. --- Promotion. --- Business ethics. --- Business strategies. --- Business advice. --- Success. --- Dealing with challenges. --- Academic business gap. --- Business stories that teach. --- Business life lessons.

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Taking stock of a century of pervasive loss-of warfare, disease, and political strife-this eloquent book opens a new view on both the past and the future by considering "what is lost" in terms of "what remains." Such a perspective, these essays suggest, engages and reanimates history. Plumbing the cultural and political implications of loss, the authors--political theorists, film and literary critics, museum curators, feminists, psychoanalysts, and AIDS activists--expose the humane and productive possibilities in the workings of witness, memory, and melancholy. Among the sites of loss the authors revisit are slavery, apartheid, genocide, war, diaspora, migration, suicide, and disease. Their subjects range from the Irish Famine and the Ottoman slaughter of Armenians to the aftermath of the Vietnam War and apartheid in South Africa, problems of partial immigration and assimilation, AIDS, and the re-envisioning of leftist movements. In particular, Loss reveals how melancholia can lend meaning and force to notions of activism, ethics, and identity.

Social history --- Loss (Psychology) --- Psychic trauma --- Melancholy --- Melancholy in literature. --- Dejection --- Emotions --- Depression, Mental --- Sadness --- Emotional trauma --- Injuries, Psychic --- Psychic injuries --- Trauma, Emotional --- Trauma, Psychic --- Psychology, Pathological --- Psychology --- Social aspects. --- Social history - 20th century --- Loss (Psychology) - Social aspects --- Psychic trauma - Social aspects --- Melancholy - Social aspects --- Melancholy in literature --- aids. --- anthology. --- apartheid. --- culture of grief. --- diaspora. --- disease. --- ethics. --- feminists. --- film critics. --- genocide. --- grief. --- history. --- human condition. --- identity. --- irish famine. --- life lessons. --- literary critics. --- memory. --- migration. --- mourning. --- nonfiction essays. --- ottoman slaughter. --- overcoming loss. --- personal journey. --- political activists. --- political issues. --- political theorists. --- psychology of loss. --- realistic. --- slavery. --- social politics. --- suicide. --- tragic. --- vietnam war. --- warfare. --- witness.