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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Harry Haft Survivor of Auschwitz Challenger of
Book SynopsisAlan Scott Haft provides the first-hand testimony of his father, Harry Haft, a holocaust victim with a singular story of endurance, desperation, and unrequited love. Haft's account, at once dispassionate and deeply absorbing, is an extraordinary story and an invaluable contribution to Holocaust literature.Trade ReviewThis fascinating account deserves recognition as a distinctive contribution to the literature on the Holocaust, the plight of Jewish survivors in post-war Poland and Germany, and, more generally, European and American Jewish history." - East European Jewish AffairsTable of Contents Forewords The Threat Part One: Nightmares Born Lucky The Occupation Captured Lost Hope The Beating Jew Animal The Cannibals The Escape The Whorehouse Heavyweight Champion Part Two: Dreams Uncle Sam Training Harlem Washington, D.C. Career Bouts Training for Marciano Fighting Rocky Moving On Finding Leah Afterword
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Random House USA Inc The Happy Hormone Tracker: A Women's Wellness
Book SynopsisTrack your hormonal patterns and get to know your menstrual cycle in a more intimate way using this stylish and functional personal wellness planner for women. This first-of-its-kind 90-day hormone tracker journal gives women the guidance and space they need to track their monthly cycles and monitor how diet, exercise, moods, sleep, supplements, and more impact their hormonal fluctuations. On a basic level, natural hormone tracking is incredibly helpful for knowing when your period will come and end, when you should use protection or avoid sex to prevent pregnancy, and for gaining a fundamental connection to your flow. And if you're trying to conceive, it's essential for fertility tracking and fertility health. On a deeper level, tracking can strengthen your body awareness (physically and emotionally) and connection to nature. After 90 days of tracking, you'll have a strong foundational knowledge of your personal cycle patterns and how your hormones affect your mood, motivation levels, cravings, and more. The Happy Hormone Tracker includes: - Health primer explaining the four phases of a woman's cycle and what to expect during those times of the month - 90 days of daily tracker pages for monitoring ovulation, overall mood, digestion, hours slept, food cravings, stress level, exercise, motivation level, and more. - Weekly reflections for keeping track of personal habits, self-care, and more. - Food charts to help you know the best foods to eat for each phase of the month - And other tips from Shannon Leparski, author of the 2019 bestselling book The Happy Hormone Guide
£21.74
University of Texas Press Gobetweens and the Colonization of Brazil
Book SynopsisA historically rich account of how “go-betweens”--individuals who could bridge indigenous and European cultures--helped shape Brazilian society in the sixteenth century.Trade Review"Based on a broad array of sources, including extensive archival research, this book presents a provocatively new interpretation of indigenous-European relations in Portuguese America, as they unfolded over the course of the sixteenth century... The topic is fascinating and the sources extremely rich and suggestive." --John Monteiro, Anthropology Department, UNICAMP, Brazil, and Visiting Professor of History, Harvard UniversityTable of Contents A Note on Spelling and Citation Acknowledgments 1. Go-betweens 2. Encounter 3. Possession 4. Conversion 5. Biology 6. Slavery 7. Resistance 8. Power Notes Bibliography Index
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Indiana University Press Hannah Arendt and Human Rights The Predicament
Book SynopsisHannah Arendt's most important contribution to political thought may be her well-known and often-cited notion of the "right to have rights." This book explores the theoretical and social foundations of Arendt's philosophy on human rights. It considers Arendt's key philosophical works along with her literary writings.Trade ReviewPeg Birmingham explores the theoretical and social foundations of Arendt's philosophy on human rights. Devoting special consideration to questions and issues surrounding Arendt's ideas of common humanity, human responsibility, and natality, Birmingham explains how these basic concepts support Arendt's theory of human rights. -- Joseph Haberer * SHOFAR *A new reading of Hannah Arendt's philosophy of human rights Hannah Arendt and Human Rights is to demonstrate how closely Arendt's account of the human condition . . . can figure into demonstrating that the discourse on human rights is not wholly negative, not wholly an empirical upshot of the disasters of the twentieth century. The idea of human rights we now possess articlates what, plausibly, might be thought to be involved in recognizing all others as members of the human community, thereby underwriting the political structures necessary to hold the fragile framework of the conditions of humanity in place. Birmingham can thus be thought to have demonstrated, at the very least, that pursuing the goal of realizing human rights is one direct way of pursuing an Arendtian politics.38 2008 -- J.M. Bernstein * New School for Social Research *The achievement of Birmingham's book is that it situates Arendt's much cited discussion of the right to have rights within the broader context of her later work. She persuasively shows that the political predicament of stateless people exemplified the problematic of modern politics with which she was implicitly preoccupied in her later work on freedom and praxis. . .Vol. 18.2 2009 -- ANDREW SCHAAP * University of Exeter, UK *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: The Problem of Human Rights1. The Event of Natality: The Ontological Foundation of Human Rights2. The Principle of Initium: Freedom, Power, and the Right to Have Rights3. The Principle of Givenness: Appearance, Singularity, and the Right to Have Rights4. The Predicament of Common ResponsibilityConclusion: The Political Institution of the Right to Have RightsNotesWorks CitedIndex
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MH - Indiana University Press Plato and the Question of Beauty
Book SynopsisReveals the intimate connection between beauty and the philosophical life. What Plato meant by beauty is not easily characterized, this work shows that Plato ultimately gives up on the possibility of a definition. It provides a serious investigation into the meaning of beauty and places it at the very heart of philosophy.Trade ReviewIf beauty, as Hyland shows to be the case in the dialogues, is the phenomenon most suited to awaken and energize the philosophic eros of the soul, then not only are Plato's dialogues beautiful, but so too is Hyland's new book about the dialogues, and precisely because it so clearly reveals their beauty. . . . Hyland has brought the spirit of philosophy in the dialogues to life as few others have done—and so given us a gift very much in the spirit of Plato's own. Vol. 17, No. 2, June 2010 * International Journal of the Classical Tradition *Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Question of Beauty in the Hippias Major2. The Question of Beauty in the Symposium3. The Question of Beauty in the Phaedrus4. The Second and Seventh Letters5. The Critique of Rhetoric and Writing in the PhaedrusNotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press OntologyThe Hermeneutics of Facticity
Book SynopsisIncludes Heidegger's lectures, which review and makes critical appropriations of the hermeneutic tradition from Plato, Aristotle, and Augustine to Schleiermacher and Dilthey in order to reformulate the question of being on the basis of facticity and the everyday world.Trade ReviewWith thematic trajectories pointing both toward and beyond Being and Time, this translation . . . is of enormous significance for students of the development of Heidegger's early thought. -- Daniel O. Dahlstrom * Boston University *John van Buren's translation should be read by anyone looking for an access point into Heidegger's work because of his faithful and comprehensible way of rendering this difficult text. Any careful reader of Heidegger who is looking to better understand his work should also read this translation if for no other reason than to see, in nuce, the beginnings of Heidegger's thought. Basically, anyone reading Heidegger should be reading this text.Volume 15 Issue 7 2010 * European Legacy *
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MH - Indiana University Press The Origins of Responsibility
Book SynopsisIdentifies the decisive moments in the development of the concept of responsibility, retrieves its origins, and explores the reflections on it. This book states that responsibility is less about a sovereign subject establishing a sphere of power and control than about exposure to an event that does not come from us and yet calls to us.Trade ReviewRaffoul provides a rich genealogy of concepts of responsibility from thinkers in the Continental tradition. . . . Recommended. * Choice *Raffoul is very persuasive in arguing . . . that Sartre, Heidegger, Levinas, and Derrida's philosophies, even when apparently involved in other not immediately ethical pursuits – existentialism, fundamental ontology, metaphysics,deconstruction – contain a fundamentally ethical concern. . . . [A] very fine book.Nov. 2014 * Derrida Today *Raffoul displays throughout considerable skills of reading and exegesis, and he has an important story to tell about the history of responsibility. . . . There is a great deal to admire in this book and one can only look forward to [his] future work. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Origins of Responsibility1. Aristotle and What Is "Up to Us": Responsibility as Voluntariness2. Responsibility as Absolute Spontaneity: Kant and Transcendental Freedom3. The Genealogy of Responsibility: Nietzsche's Deconstruction of Accountability4. The Paradoxical Paroxysm of Responsibility: Sartre's Hyperbolic Responsibility 5. For The Other: Levinas' Reversal of Responsibility6. Heidegger's Originary Ethics7. Heidegger and the Ontological Origins of Responsibility8. Derrida and the Impossible Origins of ResponsibilityConclusion: The Future of Responsibility: The Impossible and the EventNotesIndex
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MH - Indiana University Press Communication and Noncommunication by Cephalopods
Book SynopsisSummarizes the state of our knowledge about communication in cephalopods, including squids, cuttlefishes, octopuses, and related forms, and assesses the comparative and theoretical implications of what we know.Trade Review"Moynihan's book is not merely an attractive and readable descriptive synthesis, but an acute commentary on the development of current theory, opening new areas and refreshingly examining cherished models." W. John Smith, University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChapter I Introduction: Objectives, Background, and ScopePhylogenies, Systematics, and DistributionsHabits and StrategiesThe Known Players Characteristics and ReferencesChapter II The DataSome DefinitionsSenses and MeansRitualized and Unritualized BehaviorThe General Nature of the InformationFiguresIllustrations Comments on the Drawings and Photographs Comments on Tables 2-4Chapter III Social and Ecological Correlations and NoncorrelationsThe Meagerness of the ObviousStability and ChangeChpater IV Confidence LimitsChapter V Rules and SyntaxRepertoriesThe Multiplication of Ritualized PatternsDesign FeaturesMotivation-Structural RulesPossible GrammarManipulation and ChoiceChapter VI Partial RecapitulationChapter VII What Is to Be Done?BibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Focal Impulse Theory
Book SynopsisMusic is surrounded by movement, from the arching back of the guitarist to the violinist swaying with each bow stroke. To John Paul Ito, these actions are not just a visual display; rather, they reveal what it really means for musicians to move with the beat, organizing the flow of notes from beat to beat and shaping the sound produced. By developing focal impulse theory, Ito shows how a performer's choices of how to move with the meter can transform the music's expressive contours. Change the dance of the performer's body, and you change the dance of the notes. AsFocal Impulse Theorydeftly illustrates, bodily movements carry musical meaning and, in a very real sense,aremeaning.Trade ReviewJohn Paul Ito introduces the central concept of his latest book, Focal Impulse Theory: Musical Expression, Meter, and the Body, with an anecdote familiar to musicians: a fellow musician stops during a rehearsal and suggests the music should feel in two rather than four. How and why does the suggestive, more prominent beat in two versus four make such a difference in musical interpretation? Throughout the rest of the book, Ito untangles the abstract and hazy notions around meter, pulse, and feel. . . . Ito has clearly done extensive data collection and research for his book. If asked whether Focal Impulse Theory is better suited as a performance or teaching guide, I would classify it as a study on feel, what happens between large and small beats, and large and small measures. Succinctly put, it's an in-depth guide to the practical aspects of the role meter plays in musical performances for musicians. -- Laurel Yu * Journal of the American Viola Society *For music theorists, performers, and students alike, this remarkable book will open up new ways of feeling and thinking about meter, expression, and embodied performance. -- Jonathan De Souza - Western University * MTO - a journal of the Society of Music Theory *Table of ContentsAccessing Audiovisual MaterialsPrefaceCopyright AcknowledgmentsPart I: Introduction1. Introducing the Focal Impulse and its Theory2. Foundations in Music Theory and Cognitive SciencePart II: Basic Focal Impulse Theory3. The Basic Concept of the Focal Impulse4. Focal Impulses and Meter: The Simplest Cases5. The Sound of Focal Impulses6. More on Focal Impulses and Meter7. A Taxonomy of SyncopationsPart III: Expanding Focal Impulse Theory8. Special Cases of Focal Impulse Placement9. Anticipations and Secondary Focal Impulses10. Inflecting Focal Impulses Downward and Upward11. More Advanced Uses of Inflected Impulse Cycles12. Performing Metrical DissonancePart IV: Connecting Focal Impulse Theory13. Connections with Psychology14. Connections with Other Music ScholarshipPart V: Applying Focal Impulse Theory15. Metrical Dissonance in Brahms16. The First Movements of the Brahms Sonatas op. 120Conclusions: Placing Focal Impulse Theory in Larger ContextsGlossary: Focal Impulse Symbols and Their DefinitionsReferencesDiscographyIndex
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University of Illinois Press Framing the Black Panthers The Spectacular Rise
Book SynopsisTrade Review"By tracing the history of the Black Panther Party through the evolution of its popular imagery, Jane Rhodes has made a major contribution to scholarship. Her treatment of this controversial organization is well-researched, admirably balanced, singularly insightful, and a pleasure to read."--Clayborne Carson, Director, Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute"No scholar has better documented and explained the Black Panther Party 's continuing hold on the popular imagination than Jane Rhodes. In a moment when black men and women dying at the hands of police is once again in the public eye, and insurgent political confrontation takes form through mediated images and pithy slogans, the republication of Framing the Black Panthers is both timely and relevant."--Nikhil Pal Singh, author of Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy
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HarperCollins Publishers The Times Su Doku Book 12 150 original puzzles
Book SynopsisQuiz your family at home with crosswords, puzzles and games. Su Doku is the classic number puzzle.
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Fordham University Press The American Museum of Natural History and How It
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Penn State University The Arras Witch Treatises
Book SynopsisEnglish translations of two major treatises, Tinctor’s Invectives and the anonymous Recollectio, that arose from the famous Arras witch hunts and trial in the mid-fifteenth century in France. Trade Review“[This] sourcebook presents a valuable contribution to the study of witchcraft and devil worship in the late medieval imagination. It is intelligible to lay readers, while scholars may find it useful as a brief overview of the Arras affair, with multiple references to more detailed studies on the topic.”—František Novotný Correspondences“This new volume offers readable translations with helpful outlines and notes. Reading the accounts written by churchmen whose learning and conviction made them very partial jurors, one gets an eerie picture of the mindset behind the witch craze in late medieval Europe.”—Thomas Willard Mediaevistik“The editors’ additions of modern subheadings and the wide, empty margins make the book well-suited to the classroom; the novelty and accessibility of these English translations render the book critical to researchers in the field. The Arras Witch Treatises will hopefully usher Tinctor and du Bois’ texts into the canon of demonological treatises, expanding our grasp of this chilling historical episode and forcing scholars to look afresh at received knowledge.”—Rachel Daphne Weiss Comitatus“Provides a well-articulated introduction and excellent primary sources for undergraduate and graduate courses on the topic of witchcraft and the European witch hunts.”—Amanda Pipkin Sixteenth Century Journal“The potential of the new edition of the Arras treatises promises to transcend its already valuable contribution for classroom use. It will surely contribute to fine-tuning existing assumptions about fifteenth-century demonology, and students and scholars alike will benefit from its publication.”—Tamar Herzig Renaissance Quarterly“There can be no argument, therefore, that a complete translation of Tinctor’s treatise and the anonymous Recollectio, which may have come from the pen of Jacques du Bois, one of the judges in the Arras trials, helps considerably in providing much-needed evidence to fill a gap in our knowledge of an important episode a century or so before the major waves of witchcraft prosecution in Western Europe began to make themselves felt.”—P. G. Maxwell-Stuart Speculum“This important work sheds much light on the fifteenth-century origins of the witch craze. The ‘elaborated theory’ of witchcraft described here is absolutely fascinating, not just because it predates the classic era of witch hunting by a century but also because it was so incoherent and contentious and yet terrifyingly relevant to changing social and political conditions. This is a story about medieval superstition as well as the modernity of print and law and state building.”—Malcolm Gaskill,University of East Anglia“A fascinating glimpse into the mind-set of two promoters of witch hunting who defined demonic heresy and justified the use of cruel tactics to extract confessions. Revealing both similarity to and significant differences from other demonological works, The Arras Witch Treatises offers an exciting new resource for both teaching and scholarship.”—Gary K. Waite,University of New BrunswickTable of Contents Contents AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Arras Witch Treatises in ContextAnonymous of Arras, A History of the Case, State and Condition of Waldensian Heretics (Witches)Johannes Tinctor, Treatise Against the Sect of Waldensians (Witches)BibliographyIndex
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Organizarse o morir
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University of California Press Startup Campus How UC Berkeley Became an Unexpected Leader in Entrepreneurship and Startups
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Galison Mudpuppy Electric Confetti Neon 300pc Puzzle
Book SynopsisThe Electric Confetti 300 Piece Puzzle from Galison features a grid of 12 images of neon signs from Electric Confetti, a world-leading specialist LED neon design located in Melbourne, Australia. Piece together brightly colored messages such as Here Comes the Fun, Bright Lights Big City, and Be Nice. Galison puzzles are packaged in matte-finish sturdy boxes, perfect for gifting, reuse, and storage. An insert of the full puzzle image is also included. - 300 pieces- Box Size: 8 x 8 x 1.5, 203 x 203 x 38 mm- Puzzle Size: 21.25 x 16.14, 540 x 410 mm- Includes Puzzle Insert
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University of Chicago Press The United States Governed by Six Hundred
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Ohio University Press Acholi Intellectuals
Book SynopsisPatrick William Otim argues that the Acholi people of northern Uganda, who helped Europeans spread colonial rule and Christianity, were far more politically savvy than previously understood.Trade ReviewA landmark study in African intellectual history. Patrick William Otim’s Acholi Intellectuals puts the acquisition and deployment of erudition and skill at the center of the contradictions and ironies shaping this region’s political-cultural history. In accessible prose and well-chosen detail, Otim demonstrates that complex networks of elder men and women cultivated skill and ambition among a small number of exceptional Africans who reinvented power in a fractious nineteenth century, a short colonial century of administration and bureaucracy, and a later twentieth century of nationalist frictions. -- David Schoenbrun, Northwestern UniversityEngagingly and intimately written, Acholi Intellectuals reveals how Acholi cultivated talent across a broad sweep of nineteenth and twentieth century East African history, and how historical actors both seized the opportunities and navigated the perils that successive political regimes offered. Focused on the lives of healers, war leaders, and royal messengers—who became clerks, translators, converts, writers, and elders—Patrick William Otim has written a masterful study that sets a new standard for the study of exemplary individuals in African history. -- Daniel Magaziner, Yale UniversityPatrick William Otim has written a fascinating, innovative, and meticulously documented account of Acholi history. He shows that intellectuals who played major roles before conquest worked to create an Acholi-inflected version of colonial society. We were mistaken to imagine that the most important post-conquest transformations revolved around chiefs. Instead, people who were already influential in the realm of symbolism and knowledge reimagined and recreated their own society. -- Steven Feierman, University of PennsylvaniaPatrick William Otim’s definitive history of Acholi intellectuals analyzes their embodied knowledge, revealing their centrality in Acholiland’s colonial history. Deeply researched, Otim’s clear, engaging, and imaginative analysis interweaves rich sources and historiographies, yielding fresh critical insights on Acholi intellectuals’ intermediary roles within Acholiland’s politics. -- Michelle Moyd, Michigan State UniversityWith this book, Patrick William Otim becomes a leader in rethinking Uganda’s intellectual history. Drawing deeply from ethnographic and Acholi archival sources, Otim moves us beyond the political terrain of chiefs into the inner worlds of war leaders, royal messengers, public healers, poets, musicians, and aspiring historians. This work also manages to push Ugandan history writing beyond its obsession with kingdoms toward a more inclusive vision of republican history writing. Scholars and students of Ugandan and African political thought owe Otim a tremendous debt of gratitude. -- Jonathon L. Earle, Centre CollegePatrick William Otim’s evidence...refutes the division of African history into precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial periods....Otim’s work invites historians of Africa to think again about history we thought we knew. -- Holly Elisabeth Hanson, Mount Holyoke College“An important project … an impressive achievement.” -- Joel Cabrita, author of Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church
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Indiana University Press The Panama Railroad
Book Synopsis-The first comprehensive account of the construction of the Panama Railroad, the forerunner to the Panama Canal. - The narrative focuses on the ordinary Irish workers that built the railroad. -The only other monograph on the Panama Railroad was published in the 1960s and has numerous factual errors.Trade ReviewThe first thing that readers will notice about this book is that it is the result of a very thorough examination of the railroad's construction. The extensive research that Pyne undertook in order to present this comprehensive story is commendable. -- Bill Hough * NRHS Bulletin *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Construction1. The Grand Design2. A False Start3. Slow Progress4. A New Departure5. Hopes Dashed6. The Final PushPart II: The Workers7. The Men Who Built the Railroad8. Working Conditions9. Workers' Amenities10. MortalityPart III: The Irish11. The American Irish12. The Men from CorkPart IV: Epilogue13. Railroad-Government Relations14. The AftermathConclusion
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John Wiley & Sons Fraudulent Lives Imagining Welfare Cheats from
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Seagull Books London Ltd On the Royal Road
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In a near-perfect echo of today's world, Nobel Prize-winning Elfriede Jelinek's On the Royal Road is stuffed breathless with metaphors, innuendoes, and anecdotes as it satirises US President Donald Trump. . . . The play reveals unflinchingly how complicit everyone has been in the entire spectacle of the Trump presidency. And because Jelinek never actually names the country nor the leader, it becomes a raw and scary tale of power left unchecked which can apply anywhere in the world." * The Daily Star (India) *"Honegger’s translation fizzes with the intellectual rigour and linguistic command. . ." * Translation and Literature *Table of ContentsN
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The University of Chicago Press Epidemic Empire Colonialism Contagion and Terror
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The connection between terror and contagion is the explicit subject of Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb’s Epidemic Empire. . . [This work] illuminates the experience of living through a metaphor made real. . . . Epidemic Empire [offers] valuable lessons in the importance of metaphor to cultural analysis. . . . In showing how we disseminate cultural biases and the social and geopolitical inequities they perpetuate, [this work] open this process to inspection." -- Priscilla Wald * Public Books *“In her forceful and timely debut book. . . Raza Kolb describes a 200-year history during which politicians, Supreme Court justices, policymakers, and novelists have described terrorism as 'a cancer, an infection, an epidemic, a plague.' Identifying the metaphor’s origin during the Indian Mutiny of 1857, she traces it and epidemiology’s coterminous evolution through a rich and unexpected archive of texts including novels by Rudyard Kipling, Bram Stoker, Albert Camus, and Salman Rushdie, as well as colonial epidemiologists' writings and The 9/11 Commission Report. . . . [The book is] a pedagogical lesson, in which epidemiology [is] not just a science but a mode of reading.” -- Charles Shafaieh * Los Angeles Review of Books *"[Epidemic Empire] will likely become one of this moment’s iconic works of academic literature. . . The prose is lucid and, quite often, lovely: Raza Kolb presents us with a counter-poetics of the disease poetics she is excavating. But this counter-poetics is also a rigorous examination of its object of study. . . . This book is a joy to read. Epidemic Empire borders on the sublime." -- Joshua Moufawad-Paul * Marx and Philosophy Review of Books *“Epidemic Empire is a book with which to reconsider the possibilities of criticism in our terrible time… Raza Kolb is a beautiful reader, careful and wickedly smart.” * Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry *“Epidemic Empire is grippingly told—a fantastic story of the coemergence of the epidemiological, colonial, and ‘terrorist’ imaginaries. Raza Kolb's close readings are superb and revealing, and it is urgent that these arguments and methodologies and this archive make their way into the public debate. These debates become more pressing every day, as the long histories of colonial and white national violence become less and less ‘merely’ historical, in the United States and globally.” * Jacques Lezra, University of California, Riverside *“Moving well beyond viral transmission as a metaphor in social, political, or economic life, Raza Kolb’s book offers us an innovative account of violence as a form of contagion in its own right. Showing how medical and political thinking were intertwined in British and French imperialism, she traces the legacy of its distinctive history down to the present day.” * Faisal Devji, University of Oxford *“Raza Kolb renders a startling account of the extent to which figures of illness, disease, and virality saturate quotidian discourses on terrorism and race from the nineteenth century to the present. Uncannily prescient yet historically profound, Epidemic Empire allows us to glimpse the future of pandemics from the racial prisms of the past. The temporal arc is sublime, and the writing, exquisite.” * Jasbir K. Puar, Rutgers University *"It is surprising that no one else has identified the ubiquity of this metaphor until now, and we all should be grateful for Raza Kolb’s demonstrated ingenuity, passion, and eloquence in taking up this formidable challenge. Epidemic Empire, read amidst a global pandemic and the rise of anti-Asian racism in the United States, paves the way for more interventions on how colonial medicine and literary cultures continue to inform our troubled present." * Literature and Medicine *"[A] powerful and challenging study. . . . The book proposes an interesting re-reading of the Foucauldian concept of biopolitics, comparing the different gradations assumed by epidemiological and immune metaphors in specific colonial and imperial events and domains: British India, Algeria during the war of national liberation (thus with France as a counterpart), the United States and more generally the West after 9/11, within the folds of the global wars on terror and their effects." * Postcolonial Interventions *"Epidemic Empire is truly a multidisciplinary, visionary work—part history of epidemics, part literary criticism, part postcolonial studies, part terror studies. Few ambitious books live up to their potential in the way that this book does. It should be required reading today as we continue to manage and mismanage the COVID-19 pandemic. But Epidemic Empire is not just a book of the present, and will surely help to define scholarship for many years to come." * Modern Philology *"The publication of Epidemic Empire is timely not only because it coincides with the ongoing pandemic, but because it also deals with the continued misperception of Muslims as terrorists and Islam as an epidemic of global threat. The book combines a study of famous and little-known literary works with numerous archival documents exclusively from two erstwhile powerful colonizing nations, Britain and France, and their colonies, India, and Algeria. In so doing, it unravels the idea of the epidemic of terrorism in seven impressive chapters." * Journal of Postcolonial Writing *"Epidemic Empire is intricately structured and lofty, offering a timely contribution to the history of medicine and postcolonial studies . . . [It] is an audacious book and both a profound theoretical narrative and a moral reflection on what it means to medicalize discourses of terror. It is an astute critique of narrative, documenting the literary and public health fervour which is promulgated in Western societies." * Journal of Contemporary History *Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface: Politics and Scholarship in a Time of Pandemic Introduction: “Islam,” Terrorism, and the Epidemic ImaginaryPart One: The Disease Poetics of Empire Chapter 1: Great Games Chapter 2: The Blue Plague Chapter 3: Circulatory LogicPart Two: The Body Allegorical in French Algeria Chapter 4: The Brown Plague Chapter 5: Algeria UngownedPart Three: Viral Diaspora and Global Security Chapter 6: Selfistan Chapter 7: Cures from Within Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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MI - New York University Forbidden
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Purdue University Press Playing with My Dog Katie
Book SynopsisThe relationship between dogs and humans has been contemplated since the start of human culture, with lasting expressions found in art, philosophy, literature and science. It is only within the past decade that sociologists have shown a concerted interest in the social organization of dog-human interaction; this book is an example of this movement.
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John Wiley & Sons Montessori for Elder and Dementia Care
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F.A. Davis Company Reading Understanding and Applying Nursing
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University of Washington Press Nisei Radicals
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Nisei Radicals is an important addition to Asian American history texts and creates likable heroes out of Yasutake and Yamada." * International Examiner *"All in all, Nisei Radicals is not only a book well worth reading as a joint biography of two remarkable Nikkei, but I hope will act as a springboard for larger discussions of social justice." * Nichi Bei Weekly *"Nisei Radicals offers a model for historical biography…The lives [Fujino] portrays offer a model of how to make activism sustainable, most notably, by staying in community and partnering with like-minded others to fight for justice." * Pacific Historical Review *
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Merrymakers, Inc Dog Man Bark Knight Doll
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MP-CUA Catholic Uni of Amer The Natural Law A Beginners Thomistic Guide
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The Catholic University of America Press Supplement to Introduction to Classical and New
Book SynopsisMore than a simple answer key, this supplemental guide is designed to guide both instructors and those using this book for self-study. Understanding Greek is to understand that there is never a single correct translation. Multiple translations are given for each sentence along with commentary on the pros and cons of each translation. By introducing the reader to different philosophies of translation, this volume gives the why behind different translations and encourages the reader to think of translation as a way to better understand the intricacies of the original language. This supplementary volume contains an introduction, multiple translations and commentary on the sentences in the 40 chapters, as well as answers to the supplementary exercises.
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Princeton University Press Representing God
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A fascinating, well-researched, cogently argued study. . . . A valuable contribution to understanding how people navigate their lives amid rapidly changing religious and legal contexts."---Candy Gunther Brown, Journal of Religion
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Insight Editions Gratitude Sewn Notebook Collection: Set of 3
Book SynopsisExpress your thoughts, affirmations and memories of gratitude with this beautiful set of linen-textured notebooks. Featuring three unique designs, 64 pages each, this notebook collection will inspire you to live each day with gratitude. SET OF THREE: Includes three beautiful notebooks ready to fill with notes, musings, thoughts, and memories. BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED: Each journal features beautiful and inspiring design.
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New York University Press Postcards from Auschwitz
Book SynopsisThe uneasy link between tourism and collective memory at Holocaust museums and memorials Each year, millions of people visit Holocaust memorials and museums, with the number of tourists steadily on the rise. What lies behind the phenomenon of Holocaust tourism and what role do its participants play in shaping how we remember and think about the Holocaust? In Postcards from Auschwitz, Daniel P. Reynolds argues that tourism to former concentration camps, ghettos, and other places associated with the Nazi genocide of European Jewry has become an increasingly vital component in the evolving collective remembrance of the Holocaust. Responding to the tendency to dismiss tourism as commercial, superficial, or voyeuristic, Reynolds insists that we take a closer look at a phenomenon that has global reach, takes many forms, and serves many interests. The book focuses on some of the most prominent sites of mass murder in Europe, and then expands outward to more recent memorial museums. Reynolds pTrade ReviewAgraphic journey of discovery that reveals . . . many troubling questions: Do Holocaust tourists come as casual sightseers or as pilgrims? Where is evidence, in those dedicated places, of redemption? Soon there will be no survivors of the Holocaust; what will the places, monuments, and museums tell future generations? * Kirkus Reviews *Incisively scrutinizes the intersection of tourism and Holocaust remembrance . . . raises important questions about history, tourism, and genocide. * STARRED Publishers Weekly *This should be required reading for anyone contemplating a trip to places of remembrance, such as the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum or the Auschwitz and Dachau death camps in Europe. Reynolds effectively tells how history and tourism intersect. * Library Journal *Postcards from Auschwitz is an important intervention into the vexed topic of Holocaust 'tourism.' Reynolds deftly challenges the various criticisms of the 'Shoah business'its presumed commercialization of suffering, conversion of horror into kitsch, and its putative role in evacuating Holocaust memory of substance. He addresses such received wisdom not by denying its power, but by way of a compelling exploration of the experience of Holocaust memorialization in Warsaw, Berlin, Jerusalem, and Washington, D.C that does not only analyze various national narratives of the event, but also defines the tourist's experience in surprisingly textured and nuanced terms. The book is a real eye-opener and should be read by anyone with an interest in contemporary Holocaust memory. -- Carolyn J. Dean,Charles J. Stille Professor of History and French, Yale UniversityReynolds lays bare the faulty assumptions about tourism and tourists that undergird the criticisms leveled at sites of Holocaust commemoration. His own scholarship, by contrast, takes seriously the abilities of tourists to reflect just as critically as any of the scholars who write about the topic, and shows how their presence (including their own discomfort with the idea of tourism) helps Holocaust tourism remain an open-ended process of meaning-making. This is tourism studies at its finest. Reynolds' authorial voice is pitch perfect - sophisticated without being pedantic, readable without being simplistic. -- Shaul Kelner,author of Tours That Bind: Diaspora, Pilgrimage and Israeli Birthright TourismPostcards stand for the superficiality of tourism, but also have a flip side in which the viewer can express agency, sometimes undercutting the message of the glossy picture. Reynolds is one of the few scholars to take both Holocaust memory and tourism seriously. Among the questions the book explores are: How does one portray the victims suffering without turning it into a spectacle? How do memorial sites negotiate between historical verities and traumatic experience? What agency do tourist publics have in reading and interpreting Holocaust sites and what are the responsibilities of site managers in responding to them? Where does one draw the line between knowledge-seeking and voyeurism? The result is a thought-provoking, multi-disciplinary account of the ethics of memory and responsibility in an age of snapshots and selfie shares. -- Jackie Feldman,author of Above the Death-Pits, beneath the FlagReynolds’ theoretically informed selection of cases allows for both breadth and depth in analyzing the promises and pitfalls of Holocaust tourism. Postcards from Auschwitz does not lay to rest ethical questions, but rather raises new ones for future scholarship. This book will appeal to scholars within the interdisciplinary realms of tourism studies, museum studies, public history, and Holocaust studies, as well as the staples of history, anthropology, philosophy, and literary studies. Reynolds’ courage in broaching a controversial and understudied subject will no doubt inspire continued scholarship on Holocaust tourism’s complexity and transformative potential. * The Polish Review *
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