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Book SynopsisA bold reading of the modern-realist aesthetic and an articulate challenge to several enduring and limiting myths about Canadian writing, Modern Realism in English- Canadian Fiction will stimulate important debate in literary circles everywhere.Trade Review'Modern Realism offers a clear and in-depth analysis for anyone seeking access to a new understanding of the genre, and an excellent resource for critics and scholars seeking to discover newly refound examples of modern realist Canadian fiction.' -- Marc Andre Fortin Canadian Literature issue #218 autumn 2013Table of ContentsAcknowledgments * The Modern-Realist Movement: Contexts, Aesthetics, Origins * Manifestos for a Modern Realism: Canadian Bookman and The Canadian Forum of the 1920s * Raymond Knister: Revolutionary Modern Realist * The Proliferation of Modern Realism in Canada, Part 1: Prairie Realism Re-evaluated * Frederick Philip Grove's Eclectic Realism and 'The Great Tradition' * The Proliferation of Modern Realism in Canada, Part 2: Urban and Social Realism Reclaimed * Morley Callaghan's Cosmopolitan Modern Realism * Modern Realism and Canadian Literature Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn this meditation/how-to guide on drawing as an ethnographic method, Andrew Causey offers insights, inspiration, practical techniques, and encouragement for social scientists interested in exploring drawing as a way of translating what they "see" during their research.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Etudes Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Can't See? 3. Dare to See and Dare to Draw 4. Seeing Edges as Lines 5. Seeing Inside Edges 6. Seeing Movement 7. Seeing Absence 8. Final Words Appendix References Index

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Book SynopsisThe Hotel: Occupied Space explores the hotel as both symbol and space through the concept of occupancy. By examining how it manifests in art, photography, and film as well as its uses during wartime and as a sanctuary for displaced people, this book offers a timely critique of a crucial modern space.Trade Review"Its assemblage of sources unique to Davidson’s perspective and its original articulation of the concept of occupancy makes The Hotel: Occupied Space a topical study that, while broad in scope, is refreshingly clear and accessible to anyone interested in our evolving relationship with the built environment in the age of global conduct." -- Matthew D’Ambrosio Griffith, Harvard University * Between *"Through his provocative series of close readings, Davidson uses the hotel form as a way to register the significance of incursions of state power into the contractually arranged relationship to space that defines the modern hotel." -- Jordan J. Howie, University of Toronto * University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018 *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: The Overlooked Space Part I: The Realm of Imagination Chapter 1: The Pictorial Hotel Chapter 2: The Cinematic Hotel Part II: The Built Environment Chapter 3: The Wartime Hotel Chapter 4: The Displacement Hotel Conclusion: The Hotel Attraction Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisIn his groundbreaking study, Art, Politics and Development, Philipp Lepenies contributes to the ongoing controversy about why the track record of development aid is so dismal. He asserts that development aid policies are grounded in a specific way of literally looking at the world. This worldview is the result of a mental conditioning that began with the invention of linear perspective in Renaissance art. It not only triggered the emergence of modern science and brought forth our Western notion of progress, but ultimately, development as well. Art, Politics, and Development examines this process by pulling from a range of disciplines, including art history, philosophy, literature, and social science. Lepenies not only explains the shortcomings of modern aid in a novel fashion, he also proposes how aid could be done differently. In the series Politics, History and Social Change, edited by John C. TorpeyTrade Review"While none of [the book's] components [are] original, the combination of them may be. The best section, on the invention of perspective... cites art historian Erwin Panofsky's Perspective as Symbolic Form. Lepenies isn't writing history; he's building an intellectual construct. Its end point is the assertion that contemporary thinking on development supports a linear concept of progress and that we possess a privileged viewpoint on it."--Library Journal, October 2013Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. Perspective: A Window to the World and to the FuturePERSPECTIVEMedieval Art, Optics, and Perspectives • The Invention of Perspective: The Mirror • From the “Intercisione” to the Vanishing Point • The Window • The Role of Mathematics • Rediscovery or InventionAnticipation of a New Weltanschauung: Transgressing Medieval BoundariesThe Iconic Gaze • The Window Revisited • Iconic Space, Subjective Objectivity, and the Invention of Infinity • Friction with Religion • The Artist as Creator • The Horizon • The World and the Future • A Case in Point: The Città Ideale of Berlin2. From Art to WorldviewThe Disenchantment of the Physical WorldThe Universe Open to Our Gaze • The Order to Conquer Nature • Everything Has a Mathematical Counterpart • The Predictable Universe • Control through Calculation Toward a New Horizon: The Discovery of Linear Time and the Idea of ProgressThe Threat of Doomsday Comes to an End • Circularity and Linearity • Progress as the Advancement of Knowledge • Turgot and the Progress of the Human MindCondorcet: From the Linear Perspective Worldview to the Development Mind-setA Life of Science, Action, and Tragedy • Social Mathematics • The Esquisse: The Philosophy of Future Progress • The Future and the Others • Mathematics, the Future, and ActionThe Notion of the “Other” prior to the EsquisseAlternative Views of Otherness • Slavery and the Société des Amis des Noirs The Development Mind-set Further Concretized: The Idea of Civilizing and CivilizationThe Meaning of Civilization • The Destiny of All Nations • The Need for Education and Educators • Civilizing by Teaching PerspectiveLinear Perspective and the Development Mind-set: A Summary of Key Concepts3. Modern DevelopmentThe Contemporary Development Mind-setUs and Them • Endless and Dynamic Progress • The Aim of All AidEducating the “Others”Development as Knowledge Transfer • Knowledge Transfer in Historical PerspectiveThe “Rage de Vouloir Conclure”Knowledge Transfer as a Hindrance to Development and Change • The Visiting Economist Syndrome 115 • Anthropological Views • The Earth Is Not Flat • Planners • Unhelpful Helpers • Summary4. CounterperspectivesResistance to the Perspective WorldviewAntiperspective Movements in Art HistoryArab Views • The Perspective Wars of Paris • Through the Eye of a Cow: Rationalist versus Empiricist Perspective • SummaryProposals for Development AlternativesReversals • Searchers • Midwives • PossibilismA Nonlinear ApproachNonlinearity • Challenges • The Way Forward: Self-Critical Historical Awareness and Knowledge CoalitionsConclusionNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisA practical and lighthearted guide to planning, designing, and delivering a presentation.Table of Contents Preface Part I: General Principles of Public Speaking Chapter 1: Speaking (and Stammering) About Psychology Chapter 2: The First Commandment of Public Speaking: Know Thine Audience Chapter 3: Preparing and Delivering Your Talk Chapter 4: Answering Questions Chapter 5: Managing Anxiety Chapter 6: When Disaster Strikes: Handling Problems With Humor and Grace Part II: Help With Specific Presentations Chapter 7: Research Talks Chapter 8: Poster Presentations Chapter 9: Job Talks Chapter 10: Presentations for Lay Audiences Epilogue References Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisCow Puppet from the new Eco Puppet Buddies range is made from 100% recycled plastic bottles. This beautiful collection features embroidered eyes, and wonderfully soft materials and offers a lot of fun at an excellent price point. With its distinctive colours of black and white and its soft body, the Cow puppet captures a delightful, gentle representation of this iconic farm animal. Ideal for children.

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Book SynopsisEnriched by vivid photographs of MSF operations and by ironic, self-critical cartoons drawn by a member of the Communications Department of MSF France, Doctors Without Borders highlights the bold mission of the renowned international humanitarian organization even as it demonstrates the intrinsic dilemmas of humanitarian action.Trade ReviewCarefully researched and delightfully written, Doctors Without Borders establishes a new bar for those who would cover Medecins Sans Frontieres in the future. This book will take its due place as one of the most comprehensive works on MSF. Science A commendably reflective work of sociology that, more importantly, tells a remarkable history of care. Publishers Weekly Generally interested readers will find Fox's thoughtful and thought-provoking overview ambitious and well worth the effort, while anyone focused on health care and medicine will be deeply fascinated. Booklist A treasured and monumental depiction of MSF's courageous and persistent commitment to millions of people in distress. South African Medical Journal A remarkable story of healing, conflict, and the journey of an organization once dismissed as a bunch of 'medical commandos' [and now] one of the most important health care humanitarian organizations in the world. Hospitals and Health Networks Doctors Without Borders: Humanitarian Quests, Impossible Dreams of Medecins Sans Frontieres provides detailed insights on the Doctors Without Borders medical ideals and culture... The result is a blend of organizational history and development and observations of the group's struggles to combat third world nation diseases, making for an outstanding social and health history. Midwest Book Review The author tells an exquisite story of the organization's origins and challenges... This book, honoring those who provide such important humanitarian assistance, will enrich a wide audience. Choice The author provides a well written ethnographic account of the often conflictual internal dynamics of inclusion and exclusion among various factions within MSF. This book is original in its scope, taking seriously the opinions and personal history of past and current MSF members, from the more prominent and infamous leaders to veterans of humanitarian aid and newcomers alike. -- Sadia Habib The Sociological Imagination Sociologist Renee C. Fox has written an eloquent, sensitive, and complex ethnographic profile based on extensive fieldwork. Fox conducted numerous interviews, site visits, and attended a number of major meetings and conferences; she ended her fieldwork at a landmark event, the first meeting of a newly created International General Assembly which also marked MSF's 40th anniversary. She describes her role as an "insider-outsider" combining access to internal information, public documents, and a staff blog. These multiple methods allowed her to become a sensitive yet detached and objective observer of the social relationships and culture of MSF. -- Susan M. Chambre Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly The first extensive social scientific description in English of MSF, its origins and action in the field, and its cultural identity...Reaching beyond the history of the organization-the schisms and tensions that it has undergone-the book aims to explore how these tensions are related to the field of operations and to what happens in the field. -- Johanna Simeant European Journal of Sociology How has MSF come to occupy this role as canary in the coalmine, as the embodiment of humanitarian ideals and as a provocative moral force for medical ethics and human rights around the world? This question is answered in Renee Fox's rich sociological and historical text... A must-read for anyone considering a medical mission abroad or studying humanitarian assistance. -- Lauren Carruth Global Public Health Sociologist Renee C. Fox has written an eloquent, sensitive, and complex ethnographic profile based on extensive fieldwork. Fox conducted numerous interviews and site visits, and attended a number of major meetings and conferences; she ended her fieldwork at a landmark event, the first meeting of a newly created International General Assembly which also marked MSF's 40th anniversary. She describes her role as an "insider-outsider" combining access to internal information, public documents, and a staff blog. These multiple methods allowed her to become a sensitive yet detached and objective observer of the social relationships and culture of MSF. -- Susan M. Chambre Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly Over half a million people contribute $10 or $20 to MSF each month... Doctors Without Borders will enlighten them about how hard yet rewarding this work is. Springer: Sociology ... a must-read for anyone considering a medical mission abroad or studying humanitarian assistance. Global Public Health Whether you like MSF or not, and whether you already know it or not, Doctors Without Borders provides a refreshing and unusual perspective of this larger-than life organization. Without complacency, but with the candor and attention to detail a social scientist can marshal, Fox takes us backstage where MSFers breathe, agonize, exult, or fulminate to defend a complex and imperfect idea of humanitarian action. Perspectives in Biology and MedicineTable of ContentsThe QuestsPart I1. Voices from the FieldPart II2. Origins, Schisms, and Crises3. "Nobel or Rebel?"4. MSF Greece Ostracized5. The Return of MSF GreecePart III6. La ManchaPart IV7. Struggling with HIV/ AIDS8. In Khayelitsha9. A "Non-Western Entity" Is BornPart V10. Reaching Out to the Homeless and Street Children of Moscow with Olga Shevchenko11. Confronting TB in Siberian Prisons with Olga ShevchenkoCodaAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Science of Conjecture provides a history of rational methods of dealing with uncertainty and explores the coming to consciousness of the human understanding of risk.Trade ReviewA remarkable book. Mr. Franklin writes clearly and exhibits a wry wit. But he also ranges knowledgeably across many disciplines and over many centuries. Wall Street Journal The Science of Conjecture opens an old chest of human attempts to draw order from havoc and wipes clean the rust from some cast-off classical tools that can now be reused to help build a framework for the unpredictable future. Science Franklin's style is clear and fluent, with an occasional sly Gibbonian aside to make the reader chuckle. New Criterion An admirably accessible study written in a crisp prose. It presents the reader with anarching historical perspective throughout many a century of human action. -- Giora Hon Centaurus Franklin gives a magisterial account of matters as diverse as the Talmud, Justinian's Digest, torture, witch hunts, Tudor treason trials, ancient and medieval astronomy and physics, humanist historiography, scholastic philosophy, speculations in public debt, and 17th century mathematics. His treatment of medieval law is among the best I have ever read. International Journal of Evidence and Proof Franklin's book is magnificent... Think of [it] as a non-fiction equivalent of Tolstoy's War and Peace. -- Peter Tillers The Jurist The Science of Conjecture is a masterly work, beautifully written, and based on encyclopaedic research... It is simply a tour de force that is unlikely to be surpassed for many a year. -- Barry Miller The Thomist Statistics teachers who like to sprinkle a little history and philosophy into their classes will find much here to delight and challenge them... This is a serious and scholarly work that I expect often will inform my teaching. -- Richard J. Cleary Journal of the American Statistical Association [This book has given me] sheer enjoyment in its density of strange information, in the wit and clarity if its writing, and in the vigour of its argumentation. I recommend it unreservedly to all interested in its subject. -- Oliver Mayo Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics This is the intellectual book of the year, and it ought to become one of the great classics of intellectual history. -- Scott Campbell Interdisciplinary Science Reviews The strength of The Science of Conjecture lies in its panoramic exposition of developments across the centuries and across intellectual disciplines and human endeavors. It is, as one reviewer wrote, 'a magesterial account of matters as diverse as the Talmud, Justinian's Digest, torture, witch hunts, Tudor treason trials, ancient and medieval astronomy and physics, humanist histriography, scholastic philosophy, speculations in public debt, and 17th century mathematics.' -- D. H. Kaye Law and History Review A remarkable book. Mr. Franklin writes clearly and exhibits a wry wit. But he also ranges knowledgeably across many disciplines and over many centuries. There are several reasons to read this book, but perhaps the best reason is its contemporary relevance. The lessons he discusses have pertinence to an age like ours, which has witnessed a gradual waning of faith in the objectivity of the relation of uncertain evidence to conclusion. Wall Street Journal In The Science of Conjecture, James Franklin shows us how deeply and subtly jurists and philosophers from ancient Greece onwards have explored how we can deal rationally with real-life cases (law cases, for instance, or scientific experiments) where the link between cause and effect is not obvious. -- J.M. Coetzee The Australian Since many in the nominalist/empiricist/positivist tradition deny that we can know natures, this book has a place in teacher education as well as legal education for the challenges it poses the reader on how we know, and how well we know, through induction, perception and abstraction. Metascience The text has an even wider importance in that it signals the need for more, not less, study of the history, philosophy and social studies in science to occupy a greater space in undergraduate degrees so that an educated electorate is better able to evaluate what the STEM community tells us is good for the progress of society. MetascienceTable of ContentsContents: Preface Chapter 1: The Ancient Law of Proof Egypt and Mesopotamia; The Talmud; Roman Law; Proof and Presumptions; Indian LawChapter 2: The Medieval Law of Evidence: Suspicion, Half-proof, and the Inquisition Dark Age Ordeals; The Gregorian Revolution; The Glossators Invent Half-Proof; Presumptions in Canon Law; Grades of Evidence and Torture; The Postglossators Bartolus and Baldus; The Competed Theory; The Inquisition; Law in the EastChapter 3: Renaissance Law Henry VIII Presumed Wed; Tudor Treason Trials; Continental Laws: The Treatises on Presumptions; The Witch Inquisitors; English Legal Theory and the Reasonable ManChapter 4: The Doubting Conscience and Moral Certainty Penance and Doubts; The Doctrine of Probabilism; Suarez: Negative and Positive Doubt; Grotius, Silhon, and the Morality of the State; Hobbes and the Risk of Attack; The Scandal of Laxism; English Casuists Pursue the Middle Way; Juan Caramuel Lobkowitz, Prince of Laxists; Pascal's Provincial LettersChapter 5: Rhetoric, Logic, Theory The Greek Vocabulary of Probability; The Sophists and the Art of Persuasion; Aristotle's Rhetoric and Logic; The Rhetoric to Alexander; Roman Rhetoric: Cicero and Quintilian; Islamic Logic; The Scholastic Dialectical Syllogism; Probability in Ordinary Language; Humanist Rhetoric; Late Scholastic LogicChapter 6: Hard Science Observation and Theory; Aristotle's Not-by-Chance Argument; Averaging of Observations in Greek Astronomy; The Simplicity of Theories; Nicole Oresme on Relative Frequency; Copernicus; Kepler Harmonizes Observations; Galileo on the Probability of Copernican HypothesisChapter 7: Soft Science and History The Physiognomics; Divination and Astrology; The Empiric School of Medicine on Drug Testing; The Talmud and Maimonides on Majorities; Vernacular Averaging and Quality Control; Experimentation in Biology; The Authority of Histories; The Authenticity of Documents; Valla and the Donation of Constantine; Cano and the Signs of True HistoriesChapter 8: Philosophy: Action and Induction Carneades's Mitigated Skepticism; The Epicureans on Inference from Signs; Inductive Skepticism and Avicenna's Reply; Aquinas on Tendencies; Scotus and Ockham on Induction; Nicholas of Autrecourt; The Decline of the West; Bacon and Descartes: Certainty? or Moral Certainty?; The Jesuits and Hobbes on Induction; Pascal's Deductivist Philosophy of ScienceChapter 9: Religion: Laws of God, Laws of Nature The Argument from Design; The Church Fathers; Inductive Skepticism by Revelation; John of Salisbury; Maimonides on Creation; Are Laws of Nature Necessary?; The Reasonableness of Christianity; Pascal's WagerChapter 10: Aleatory Contracts: Insurance, Annuities, and Bets The Price of Peril; Doubtful Claims in Jewish Law; Olivi on Usury and Future Profits; Pricing Life Annuities; Speculation in Public Debt; Insurance Rates; Renaissance Bets and Speculation; Lots and Lotteries; Commerce and the CasuistsChapter 11: Dice Games of Chance in Antiquity; The Medieval Manuscript on the Interrupted Game; Cardano; Gamblers and Casuists; Galileo's Fragment; De Mere and Roberval; The Fermat-Pascal Correspondence; Huygens' Reckoning in Games of Chance; CaramuelChapter 12: Conclusion Subsymbolic Probability and the Transition to Symbols; Kinds of Probability and the Stages of Discovering Them; Why Not Earlier?; Two Parallel Histories; The Genius of the Scholastics and the Orbit of Aristotle; The Place of Law in the history of IdeasEpilogue: The Survival of Unquantified Probability The Port-Royal Logic; Leibniz's Logic of Probability; To the PresentAppendix: Review of Work before 1660

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Book SynopsisA compelling, harrowing, but ultimately uplifting story of resilience and self-discovery. A Two-Spirit Journey is Ma-Nee Chacaby's extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From her early, harrowing memories of life in a remote Ojibwa community, Chacaby's story is one of overcoming the social, economic, and health legacies of colonialism.

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Book SynopsisThis 700 x 500mm poster features a stunning illustration and lyrical text celebrating one of our best-loved wild creatures, the hare, their defining qualities and the many names and descriptions they have gained through the centuries. Jackie Morris''s beautiful piece of art work is ideal for giving as a gift. Supplied in a recyclable tube.

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Book SynopsisThe Macrae Modern Red tartan pocket notebook is bound in cloth made in the UK. Notebook (9cm x 14cm). It has 176 pages with one page blank, and the next lined.

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Book SynopsisProvides a comprehensive study of the design of Australian electoral systems. This book focuses on the two electoral systems, both 'preferential', that are most closely associated with Australia: namely the alternative vote and the single transferable vote. It examines voter reaction to these systems, both in Australia and also cross-nationally.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Australian electoral system design; Australian electoral systems: origins and variation; Studying the operation of Australia's electoral systems; Locating preferential electoral systems in Australia; Assessing Australia's electoral systems; 2 Australia's national electoral systems, 1902-83; Early debates over electoral system design; The 1902 Commonwealth Electoral Act; The adoption of AV for House of Representatives; Reform of the Senate electoral system, 1918-83; Conclusion: accident and intent in electoral system design; 3 Australia's contemporary electoral systems; Australia's evolving electoral systems; The alternative vote and its variants; The single transferable vote and its variants; Australia's experiments with alternatives to AV and STV; Conclusion; 4 Preferential systems and their consequences; AV as a non-proportional system; STV as a proportional system; Preferential systems and the fate of individual candidates; Conclusion; 5 The voter versus the party; Party service among election candidates; Candidates views of their representative roles; Campaign activity by Australian parliamentary candidates; Conclusion; 6 Compulsory voting, party control and the voter; Compulsory voting in Australia; Preferential voting and the strategic voter; Ticket voting and the 'preferential voter'; Compulsion, complexity and voter engagement; Conclusion; 7 Preferential systems and voter satisfaction; Ballot structures and democracy; Preferential Systems and voter satisfaction with democracy; Electoral systems and political attitudes; Conclusion; 8 Preferential voting and electoral system design; The politics of electoral system design; Variations in electoral system families; Electoral and behavioural consequences; From innovation to stagnation: electoral system design; Where to now?; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisESV Scripture Journal: Nehemiahis designed to facilitate in-depth study ofNehemiah, providing all the guidance, tools, and space needed to dig deep into the biblical text.

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Book SynopsisThis indispensable resource covers all aspects of plant design - from concept to pilot plant to full-scale production. Valuable guidance is provided on overall project management, and on the design, optimization, and control of all related processes.

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Book SynopsisOriginally published by Yale University Press, 1970. To order accompanying CDs for this book, contact the Language Resource Center at Cornell University...

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Book SynopsisThis collection of interviews with James Baldwin covers the period 1961 to 1987, from the year of the publication of Nobody Knows My Names, his fourth book, to just a few weeks before his death. It includes the last formal conversation with him.

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Book SynopsisDuring the last two decades, a decline in public investment has undermined some of the national values and institutions of Costa Rica. The resulting sense of dislocation and loss is usually projected onto Nicaraguan “immigrants.”Threatening

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Book SynopsisSwahili was once an obscure dialect of an East African Bantu language. Today more than one hundred million people use it: Swahili is to eastern and central Africa what English is to the world.Trade Review“The story of Swahili is one of globalization, cosmopolitanism, and creolization over the past 500 years. This book will stand on the shelf next to works such as Paul Gilroy’s Black Atlantic and Abdul Sheriff’s Dhow Cultures of the Indian Ocean: Cosmopolitanism, Commerce and Islam.”

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Book SynopsisJudaism makes the bold argument that the very concept of a religion of ‘Judaism’ is an invention of the Christian church. The intellectual odyssey of world-renowned Talmud scholar Daniel Boyarin, this book will change the study of Judaism—an essential key word in Jewish Studies—as we understand it today.Trade Review"A brilliant book that marks a fresh beginning for scholarly conversations about Judaism, religion, and even the historical utility of categories." -- Annette Yoshiko Reed * author of Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire *"A significant and radical contribution." -- Michael Satlow * author of How the Bible Became Holy *"This book offers a reflective, and even-meta reflective discussion of the term 'Judaism.' Boyarin, as always, offers provocative, trail blazing insights to reckon with." -- Dina Stein * author of Textual Mirrors: Reflexivity, Midrash, and the Rabbinic Self *"What Boyarin does in Judaism is offer us a complex map, a detailed topography, of how the term Judaism came to be used to define Jewish 'doings,' and for some, to define Jews....One of the greatest things a scholar of Boyarin’s stature can do is make arguments that create the requisite space for future scholars to do their work. A book of this scope can never, and should never, close a conversation, but rather open one. Judaism is a term we all use reflexively but do not quite know what it actually means. Boyarin’s contribution to that reflexivity is a major contribution to scholarship." * H-Judaic *"Boyarin’s book provide[s] [the reader] to think through some of these theoretical questions, and to continue our ongoing conversation about the ancient individuals, groups, and ideas that continue to resonate down to the present." * Marginalia *" Boyarin’s provocative new book... succeeds at its primary goal: to destabilize the automatic use of 'Judaism' by scholars." * Marginalia *"A wonderfully clever argument that demands we reconsider much of what we write and teach about Judaism." * Marginalia *"Provocative and challenging." * Marginalia *"What we thus have from Boyarin’s philological genealogy is one reading of 'Judaism' that begins as a negative, is turned into a positive, and then becomes irrelevant, except for those who share it with something else....Boyarin’s genealogy teaches us that Judaism can never stand alone or be alone. If Judaism is all there is, then the term 'Judaism' ceases to exist, mostly because it is no longer necessary." * Marginalia *"Brief and powerful." * Marginalia *"Judaism: The Genealogy of a Modern Notion attests once again to Daniel Boyarin’s restlessly inquisitive mind and to his persistent need to challenge commonly held assumptions in a manner meant to be provocative and contrarian." * Marginalia *"How Christians Invented 'Judaism,' According to a Top Talmud Scholar," by Tomer Persico https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-how-christians-invented-judaism-according-to-a-top-talmud-scholar-1.7417536 * Haaretz *"Boyarin has created a very interesting argument." * Histoire sociale/Social History *Table of ContentsContentsPreface What Are We Talking About When We Talk About “Judaism”?Part 1 The Terms of the DebateChapter 1 Debate of the TermsPart 2 The State of the Lexicon: Questioning the ArchiveChapter 2 Jewry without Judaism: The Stakes of the QuestionChapter 3 Getting Medieval YahadutPart 3: A New Dispensation: The Christian Invention of “Judaism”Chapter 4 “Judaism” out of the Entrails of ChristianityChapter 5 From Yiddishkayt to Judentum; From Judentum to Yahadut;, or Philology and the Transformation of a FolkEpilogueBibliography

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsTranslator’s Note xiii Preface to the English-Language Edition xv Opening: The Isenheim Altarpiece or “The Taking on Board of Suffering” xvii Introduction: Shifting Understandings of Anxiety 1 PART I: THE FACE-TO-FACE OF FINITUDE 1 From the Burden of Death to Flight before Death 7 §1 The Burden of Death, 7 ■ §2 Fleeing from Death, 8 2 The Face of Death or Anxiety over Finitude 10 §3 Death “for Us” Humans, 10 ■ §4 Genesis and Its Symbolism, 11 ■ §5 The Mask of Perfection, 12 ■ §6 The Image of Finitude in Man, 13 ■ §7 Finitude: Finite and Infinite, 16 ■ §8 Finitude and Anxiety, 16 ■ §9 The Eclipse of Finitude, 17 ■ §10 The Face of Death, 18 ■ §11 To Die “with,” 19 3 The Temptation of Despair or Anxiety over Sin 22 §13 Inevitable Death, 22 ■ §14 The Conquest of Sin, 22 ■ §15 Sin and Anxiety, 23 ■ §16 The Temptation of Despair, 24 4 From the Affirmation of Meaninglessness to the Suspension of Meaning 26 §17 The Life Sentence, 26 ■ §18 The Christian Witness, 27 ■ §19 Meaninglessness and the Suspension of Meaning, 27 PART II: CHRIST FACED WITH ANXIETY OVER DEATH §20 Two Meditations on Death, 29 ■ §21 Alarm and Anxiety, 31 5 The Fear of Dying and Christ’s “Alarm” 33 §22 Taking on Fear and Abandonment, 33 ■ §23 The Cup, Sadness, and Sleep, 34 ■ §24 Resignation, Waiting, and Heroism, 35 ■ §25 The Silence at the End, 36 ■ §26 The Scenarios of Death, 37 ■ §27 The Triple Failure of the Staging, 38 ■ §28 From Alarm to Anxiety, 39 6 God’s Vigil 41 §29 Remaining Always Awake, 41 ■ §30 The Passage of Death, the Present of the Passion, the Future of the Resurrection, 42 ■ §31 Theological Actuality and Phenomenological Possibility, 43 7 The Narrow Road of Anxiety 45 §32 Indefiniteness, Reduction to Nothing, and Isolation, 45 ■ §33 The Strait Gate, 46 ■ §34 Anxiety over “Simply Death,” 47 ■ §35 Indefiniteness (Putting off the Cup) and the Powerless Power of God, 47 ■ §36 Reduction to Nothing and Kenosis, 52 ■ §37 The Isolation of Humankind and Communion with the Father, 54 ■ §38 Of Anxiety Endured on the Horizon of Death, 55 8 Death and Its Possibilities 57 §39 Manner of Living, Possibility of the Impossibility, and Death as “Mineness,” 57 ■ §40 Being Vigilant at Gethsemane, 59 ■ §41 From the Actuality of the Corpse to Possibilities for the Living, 60 ■ §42 The Death That Is Always His: Suffering in God; The Gift of His Life and Refusal of Mastery, 63 ■ §43 The Flesh Forgotten, 66 PART III: THE BODY-TO-BODY OF SUFFERING AND DEATH §44 Disappropriation and Incarnation, 69 ■ §45 Embedding in the Flesh and Burial in the Earth, 70 9 From Self-Relinquishment to the Entry into the Flesh 73 §46 Suffering the World, 73 ■ §47 Living in the World, 74 ■ §48 Otherness and Corruptibility, 74 ■ §49 Self-Relinquishment, 75 ■ §50 Passing to the Father, 76 ■ §51 Oneself as an Other, 77 ■ §52 Destitution and Auto-Affection, 78 ■ §53 Alterity and Fraternity, 79 ■ §54 Entry into the Flesh, 80 ■ §55 The Anxiety “in” the Flesh, 81 ■ §56 Toward Dumb Experience, 82 10 Suffering Occluded 84 §57 An Opportunity Thwarted, 84 ■ §58 Called into Question, 86 ■ §59 Toward a Phenomenology of Suffering, 86 11 Suffering Incarnate 88 §60 Perceiving, or the Challenge of the Toucher-Touching, 88 ■ §61 The Modes of the Incarnate Being, 91 ■ §62 The Excess of the Suffering Body, 94 12 The Revealing Sword 97 §63 Sobbing and Tears, 97 ■ §64 Fleshly Exodus, 99 ■ §65 The Vulnerable Flesh, 100 ■ §66 The Non-Substitutable Substitution, 101 ■ §67 The Act of Surrendering Oneself, 103 ■ §68 Toward a Revelation, 104 ■ §69 Useless Suffering, 104 Conclusion: The In-Fans [without-Speech] or the Silent Flesh 107 Epilogue: From One Triptych to Another 111 Notes 115 Index 157

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Book Synopsis'What is the meaning of a word?' In this thought-provoking book, Hagberg demonstrates how this questionwhich initiated Wittgenstein's later work in the philosophy of languageis significant for our understanding not only of linguistic meaning but of the meaning of works of art and literature as...

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Pamela Long's wonderful book brings the reader into the streets and squares of late Renaissance Rome, and recreates the lost cultures of knowledge and practice that took shape there. She shows in vivid detail how scholars and engineers, artists and prelates struggled to recreate ancient Rome and rebuild the infrastructure of the modern city."--Anthony T. Grafton, Princeton University "In Engineering the Eternal City, Pamela Long recaptures the energy and efflorescence of the Eternal City in the late sixteenth century, when Rome appeared to many visitors to be a vast and never-ending construction site. During these crucial decades after the Sack of Rome popes, architects, engineers, physicians, antiquarians, humanists, and city officials devised numerous solutions to the problems of repairing an ancient city as part of making an early modern city a magnificent expression of Rome's unique legacy as the heart of an ancient empire renewed by faith. Readers who love this city and want to learn more about it will enjoy this book."--Paula Findlen, Stanford University

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Book SynopsisSpecific Models Covered:CB250 64-74; CL350 68-73; CL250 64-74; SL350 69-73; CB350 68-73

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Book SynopsisStunning aerial photographs taken during a 3,822 mile-circumnavigation of Texas offer fresh views of the beauty and diversity of the state’s natural and human landscapes.Trade ReviewFrom sprawling cities to coastlines to deserts, Sauceda’s 3,822-mile journey in the course of five days presents a view of Texas like you have never seen it before. * Alcalde *The photographer's collection of aerial images shot from a single-engine Cessna will have you seeing the Lone Star State from a whole new angle. * Texas Monthly *Wherever you look, A Mile Above Texas provides a fresh perspective on our state. * Austin Chronicle *[Sauceda's] images illustrate the stunning diversity of the state's landscape. * Zócalo Public Square *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"By getting to know Noah Brooks, readers will learn a great deal about Abraham Lincoln, thanks to the careful attention of the devoted scholar, Wayne C. Temple."--Samuel Wheeler, Illinois State Historian"Temple's biography of Brooks is first-rate. The density and breadth of his primary source research is unmatched. Nobody else has presented as thorough a portrait of Brooks from such a wide array of sources."--Matthew Pinsker, author of Lincoln's Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home"The complete story of a reporter's interesting life . . . with dutiful attention to detail." --Wall Street Journal"Lincoln's Confidant is the work of a rigorous scholar. Temple excels at describing the friendship between Lincoln and Brooks." --Annals of Iowa"Temple presents a fascinating story about Brooks and California patronage." --H-Net Reviews

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Michèle Lamont (co-author), Winner of the 2017 Erasmus Prize, Praemium Erasmianum Foundation""Original. . . . This far-reaching survey seeks to understand people's experiences of discrimination, and it is particularly welcome in view of the fact that discrimination is different from injustice, such as the social injustice related to the distribution of goods and wealth. . . . While maintaining its demonstrative purpose, Getting Respect is equally rigorous in its description of individual experiences and societal characteristics. . . . A brilliant example of comparative sociology."---Francois Dubet, Books and Ideas

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Book SynopsisA leader's guide to driving enterprise innovation through the strategic and design-inspired practice of Business Design. Includes valuable frameworks, inspiring stories and practical tools to drive innovation and value creation in any type of organization.Table of ContentsIntroduction PART ONE THE PRACTICE OF BUSINESS DESIGN 1 Overview of Business Design 2 Preparing for Your Quest 3 Contextualizing Your Challenge 4 Gear 1: Empathy & Deep Human Understanding 5 Gear 2: Concept Visualization 6 Gear 3: Strategic Business Design & Activation 7 Leading Innovation & Transformation PART TWO TOOL KIT Preparing for Your Quest Contextualizing Your Challenge Gear 1: Empathy & Deep Human Understanding Gear 2: Concept Visualization Gear 3: Strategic Business Design & Activation Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAn illustrated guide to new approaches to woodturning and carving. Three basic chapters are followed by 12 illustrated projects covering decorative marks, lettering, low-relief and pierced-relief carving, working in the round and shaping. Advice is given on tools and how to sharpen them.

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Book SynopsisWith over 50 original essays by leading scholars, artists, critics, and curators, this is the first book to trace the “unwatchable” across our contemporary media environment, in which viewers encounter difficult content on various screens and platforms. The volume offers multidisciplinary approaches to the vast array of troubling images that circulate in global visual culture.Trade Review"Confronting the Unwatchable," by Maggie Hennefeld and Nicholas Baer https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/confronting-the-unwatchable/#!— Los Angeles Review of Books "Carefully edited to allow multiple voices and experiences to be in dialogue and sometimes challenge each other, Unwatchable shows how productive the unwatchable is as a moral and aesthetic category and also reveals that when it comes to these images, our watch has just begun."— Aurore Spiers, Discourse "The tone of the writing is refreshing—sometimes experimental and at others painfully reflective. Readers embark on deeply personal and highly politicised journeys with contributors, recalling harrowing moments from cinematic, televisual, world, and personal history."— Moveable Type "A substantial collection of essays, bristling with anxiety about the social impact of the kind of mediations broadcasting the news requires of us daily."— Times Literary Supplement "This book will find its greatest connections in studies of both the ethics and aesthetics of visual culture at its fringes."— Communication Booknotes Quarterly "A compelling foray into the bio- and necropolitics of spectacle, suffering, and violence. The short pieces in this weighty collection linger uncomfortably, highlighting the incommensurability of the unwatchable and the unthinkable."— Jasbir K. Puar, author of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times "The anthology is an impressive collection of essays written by over fifty scholars and artists working on issues in film and media studies from a variety of disciplines and professional (as well as personal) perspectives, each of whom attempts to struggle with sharing what it means for something to be 'unwatchable' for them. Researchers on related issues in film, media, gender, politics, and philosophy broadly construed will find much that is both new and old to consider anew and to reconsider, while those new to such debates may find another space within which to theorize."— Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism "A socially urgent and intellectually galvanizing book. Unwatchable opens up a vital critical space for sharing the burden of navigating the difficult, often painful terrain of the twenty-first century visual regime. Highly readable, and productively challenging, it is a book that will inform our discussions of the politics of watching (and not watching) for a long time to come."— Journal of Cinema and Media Studies "This anthology does nothing less than challenge us to grapple with the criteria and ramifications of the unwatchable. It does not offer any one-dimensional or easily digestible answers to the complex questions raised in individual contributions. Though its richness and variety, it instead makes possible a deeper understanding of the concept of the unwatchable, which has become a crucial category across global media and politics."— MEDIENwissenschaft: Rezensionen New Books Network: New Books in Popular Culture -- New Books in film podcast interview withNicholas Baer, Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, and Gunnar Iversen— New Books Network - New Books in Film "By posing a seemingly modest question—what visual experiences in our media-saturated world are 'unwatchable?'—the editors of this remarkable volume have elicited an astonishing range of intensely felt responses. They reveal the most potent anxieties of our troubled times, forcing us to attend to what we cannot bear to witness directly."— Martin Jay, author of Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought "This is a volume edited by the discipline’s top scholars and featuring some of our most brilliant theorists. Film scholars will doubtless be citing the essays in this volume for a long time to come. I know I will. What is likely to impress students, and what this collection gifts so gorgeously, is its demonstration of the way theory and film alike can crack open the most pressing issues of our day and offer moral support and ethical guidance for thinking through a life lived as citizen and spectator."— The Communication Review "While many edited anthologies boast interdisciplinarity and intermediality, Unwatchable stands out for the astounding reach of the media and discourses marshalled under its theme. Its implications are manifold, evidence that 'unwatchable' is more than just an aesthetic category. Unwatchable’s editors suggest that the currently unobservable, whether expressly repudiated or involuntarily rendered invisible, will surely linger and haunt the public imagination for years—if not generations—to come." — Film Quarterly "This thoughtfully curated anthology of short essays comes at a classical aesthetic problem with a fresh sense of historical urgency and from a number of truly new, often surprising directions. Radically extending the conceptual reach of its title, Unwatchable offers readers real traction on core questions in media and cultural studies surrounding taste, identity, and embodied experience as it navigates deftly across the dizzying landscape of contemporary spectatorship."— Sianne Ngai, author of Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting "Unwatchable is a powerful, potent collection because of its mission to crack our fingers apart just a little bit wider to see more of what we're averse to. Look for this book."— Jump CutTable of ContentsContents Introduction: Envisioning the Unwatchable Part I: Violence and Testimony Theorizing the Unwatchable 1. W. J. T. Mitchell, Unwatchable 2. Boris Groys, The Gaze from Within 3. Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, The Unwatchable and the Unwatchable 4. Alenka Zupančič, Melting Into Visibility 5. Meghan Sutherland, Pro Forma Spectacles of Destruction 6. Jonathan Crary, Terminal Radiance 7. Poulomi Saha, Unwatched/Unmanned: Drone Strikes and the Aesthetics of the Unseen 8. Alex Bush, Breakaway 9. Meir Wigoder, The Watchability of the Unwatchable: Television Disaster Coverage Bearing Witness 10. Peter Geimer, The Incommensurable 11. Leshu Torchin, Not Seeing is Believing: The Unwatchable in Advocacy 12. Frances Guerin, Even If She Had Been a Criminal: A Past Unwatched 13. Federico Windhausen, Deframing Evidence: A Transmission from Los ingrávidos 14. Emily Regan Wills, Alan Kurdi’s Body on the Shore Visual Regimes of Racial Violence 15. Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Held Helpless in the Breach: On American History X 16. Jared Sexton, The Flash of History: On the Unwatchable in Get Out 17. Alexandra Juhasz, Nothing is Unwatchable for All 18. Michael Boyce Gillespie, Empathy. Complicity. Spectacularization and Resistance 19. Alok Vaid-Menon, Entertainment Value 20. Alec Butler, Holocausts, Hallowe’en, and Headdresses 21. Danielle Peers, Unwitnessable: Outrageous Ableist Impersonations and Unwitnessed Everyday Violence Part II: Histories and Genres The Tradition of Provocateurs 22. Asbjørn Grønstad, The Two Unwatchables 23. Akira Lippit, Real Horrorshow 24. Mauro Resmini, Asymmetries of Desire: Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom 25. Mattias Frey, Unstomachable: Irréversible and the Extreme Cinema Tradition Enduring the Avant-Garde 26. Christophe Wall-Romana, Unwatchability by Choice: Isou’s Venom and Eternity 27. Kenneth Berger, The Refusal of Spectacle: Debord’s Howls for Sade 28. J. Hoberman, Warhol’s Empire: Unwatched and Unwatchable 29. Noël Carroll, Warhol's Empire 30. Erika Balsom, Watching Paint Dry Visceral Responses to Horror 31. Vivian Sobchack, “Peekaboo”: Thoughts on (Maybe Not) Seeing Two Horror Films 32. B. Ruby Rich, Why I Cannot Watch 33. Genevieve Yue, Apotropes Pornography and the Question of Pleasure 34. Susie Bright, I Am Curious (Butterball) 35. Bill Nichols, At the Threshold to the Void Archives and the Disintegrating Image 36. Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi, Restoring Blood Money 37. Jan Olsson, Turning Garbo Watchable: From Swedish Bread Bun to Hollywood Goddess 38. Philipp Stiasny and Bennet Togler, Twilight of the Dead Part III: Spectators and Objects Passionate Aversions 39. Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Sad!”: Why I Won’t Watch Antichrist 40. Nathan Lee, Transforming Nihilism 41. Julian Hanich, Oh, Inventiveness! Oh, Imaginativeness! Precious Cinema and Its Discontents: A Rant 42. Jeffrey Sconce, The Biopic is an Affront to the Cinema Tedious Whiteness 43. Jack Halberstam, White Men Behaving Sadly 44. Brandy Monk-Payton, “You is Kind, You is Smart, You is Important” or, Why I Can't Watch The Help 45. Mel Y. Chen, Two Tables and a Ladder: WCGW? Reality Trumpism 46. Lynne Joyrich, TV Trumps 47. Abigail De Kosnik, The Once and Future Hillary: Why I Won't Watch Any Fictionalizations of the 2016 Election Pedagogy and Campus Politics 48. Raúl Pérez, Why We Can’t Take a Joke 49. Jennifer Malkowski, The Bridge and Unteachable Films 50. Katariina Kyrölä, Squirming in the Classroom: Fat Girl and the Ethical Value of Extreme Discomfort The Triggered Spectator 51. E. Ann Kaplan, What is an “Unwatchable” Film? (With Reference to Amour and Still Alice) 52. Barbara Hammer, Watch at Your Own Peril 53. Samuel England, Sects, Fries, and Videotape 54. Rebecca Schneider, Off Watch Acknowledgments Filmography Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Buscaglia's Spanish-English edition of Siguenza y Gongora's greatest work is a magnificent illustration of what the fields of history and literature can offer when they are brought together. And it is fun to read, to boot! The text takes readers on a fascinating, whirlwind tour through the interlocking worlds of seventeenth-century Mexico and Southeast Asia." -- Camilla Townsend * author of Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico *“Buscaglia-Salgado’s bilingual edition of Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez/The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramirez is an essential contribution. Multi-faceted and meticulously researched, it situates the story in the context of a global history of empires and piracy, opening new channels for further analysis and research. Deftly deciphering documents in colonial archives, questioning editorial practices, sketching maps, and revisiting his own sailing voyages, Buscaglia-Salgado has tracked Ramírez’s routes, uncovering some of the mysteries surrounding the protagonist and making visible a global historical process.” -- Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones * Princeton University *Table of ContentsTable of Contents In the Footsteps of Alonso Ramírez: A decade in pursuit of the most elusive American pirate Maps and Illustrations Acknowledgements Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez About the translation To the most excellent gentleman don Gaspar de Sandoval Cerda Silva y Mendoza Approval of the licentiate [in canonic law] don Francisco de Ayerra Santa María, chaplain of the King our lord in his Royal Convent of Jesús María in Mexico [City]. Summary of licenses Motives he had for leaving his home country. Jobs [he had] and travels he made through New Spain. Of his presence in México until crossing over to the Philippines. He leaves Acapulco for the Philippines . An account of the route of this voyage and of how he spent the time until he was captured by the English. A summary is given of the plundering and cruelties carried out by these pirates on land and sea until arriving in America. He is set free by the pirates and he remembers what he endured as their captive. Alonso Ramírez, and his shipmates, sails without knowing where they were or where they were going. The troubles and frights they suffered until running aground are retold. Thirst, hunger, disease, and death that aggrieved them in this coast. Unexpectedly they find Catholic folk and know themselves to be in Yucatan, on the mainland of North America. They go to Tihosuco and from there to Valladolid where they experience hardships. They arrive in Mérida. Alonso Ramírez returns to Valladolid and the hardships are greater. The reason why he came to Mexico City and what resulted from it. The history of the first American of universal standing: How Alonso Ramírez, a.k.a Felipe Ferrer, turned the world on its head by circumnavigating the globe. The discovery of Americanness and the presage of the end to empire Consummate impostors always tell the best piratical stories On motherhood, mentoring and being the best at what you do How Ramírez stole the name and reimagined the character of Felipe Ferrer An American con man takes on the English "King of the Sea" Lost at sea, or sailing the West Indies as an Englishman? The story comes together on the Coast of Bacalar From pirate to slave owner in search of legitimacy Putting to paper what "will be very advisable for the printing press to eternalize" Reader beware If and only "If" Bibliography About the Author Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez Acerca de la transcripción Al excelentísimo señor don Gaspar de Sandoval Cerda Silva y Mendoza Aprobación del licenciado don Francisco de Ayerra Santa María, capellán del Rey nuestro señor en su Convento Real de Jesús María de México Suma de las licencias Motivos que tuvo para salir de su patria. Ocupaciones y viajes que hizo por la Nueva España. [De] su asistencia en México hasta pasar a las Filipinas. Sale de Acapulco para las Filipinas. Dícese la derrota de este viaje y en lo que gastó el tiempo hasta que lo apresaron ingleses. Pónense en compendio los robos y crueldades que hicieron estos piratas en mar y tierra hasta llegar a la América. Danle libertad los piratas y trae a la memoria lo que toleró en su prisión. Navega Alonso Ramírez y sus compañeros sin saber dónde estaban ni la parte a que iban. Dícense los trabajos y sustos que padecieron hasta varar en tierra. Sed, hambre, enfermedades, [y] muertes con que fueron atribulados en esta costa. Hallan inopinadamente gente católica y saben estar en tierra firme de Yucatán en la Septentrional América. Pasan a Tihosuco [y] de allí a Valladolid donde experimentan molestias. Llegan a Mérida. Vuelve Alonso Ramírez a Valladolid y son aquellas [molestias] mayores. Causa por [la] que vino a México y lo que de ello resulta.

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Book SynopsisChallenges long-accepted historical orthodoxy about relations between the Spanish and the Indians in the borderlands separating what are now Mexico and the United States. While most scholars describe the decades after 1790 as a period of relative peace, Mark Santiago argues it was a period of sustained, widespread, and bloody conflict.

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