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LSU Press The Elephant of Silence
Book SynopsisA poem is an act of faith because the poet believes in it, contends John Wall Barger in The Elephant of Silence, a collection of essays exploring forms of knowing (and not knowing) that awaken a poetic mind.Trade ReviewWhat a pleasure to follow poet John Wall Barger's singular, brilliant, unpretentious, generous mind, as he writes in an utterly natural and precise way about subjects notoriously difficult to discuss: poetry, film, writing, marriage, even silence." - Matthew Zapruder, author of Story of a Poem"If you can't go to the movies with Barger, do the next best thing and enjoy these sensitive, playful essays on what he's watched, read, and observed, with a poet's blend of thought and feeling." - Adrienne Su, author of Peach State"Barger's essays are all, in some way, about the creative process itself and the audience's role as a vital participant in that process. An author has defined a set of parameters, yet it is up to us, the viewer, to bring our own lived experience to bear it out. Barger navigates this terrain with the ease and imagination of an expert tour guide, a 'Stalker'—in the spirit of Tarkovsky—who understands our own pivotal involvement in helping to create this world we inhabit." - Bill Morrison, director of Dawson City: Frozen Time
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Legare Street Press Musical Grammar in Four Parts
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Legare Street Press A A Musical Grammar In Four Parts
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Hardpress Publishing Experiments and Observations on the Malvern Waters the Third Edition Enlarged With an Additional Appendix Containing Several Remarkable Histories of Their Effects by J Wall 1
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Hardpress Publishing Experiments and Observations on the Malvern Waters 1
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Give Children the Vote
Book SynopsisThroughout history, the right to vote has been extended to landowning men, the poor, minorities, women, and young adults. In each case, the meaning of democracy itself has been transformed. The one major group still denied suffrage is the third of humanity who are under 18 years of age. However, children are becoming increasingly active in political movements for climate regulation, labor rights, gun control, transexual identity, and racial justice. And these have led to a growing global movement to eliminate minimum ages of enfranchisement. This book argues that it is time to give children the vote. Using political theory and drawing on childhood studies, it shows why suffrage cannot legitimately be limited according to age, as well as why truly universal voting is beneficial to all and can help save today's crumbling democratic norms. It carefully responds to a wide range of objections concerning competence, knowledge, adult rights, power relations, harms to children, and much morTrade Review[T]he book is written in such a way that it makes it easy for readers to weigh up the various proposals for children's right to vote and to come to their own judgment. It is also a creative contribution to counteract the still prevalent adultism in today's societies. * socialnet (Bloomsbury translation) *Future generations will ponder why children were for so long denied the right to have their views represented at the ballot box, just as we wonder why societies argued against the right of women and people of colour to vote. Professor John Wall has written a scholarly work that is also a gripping read. * Neena Modi, Professor of Neonatal Medicine, Imperial College London, UK *Is it time to give children the vote? In a nuanced, deeply thought and challenging way, this book combines political theory and childhood studies and demonstrates why the constraining of suffrage rights according to age can be profoundly problematic. It undercuts simplistic comprehensions about adult voting rights, competence, knowledge and how age structure power relations. John Wall extends the argument to a claim for proxy voting for all children. It contains both a vision of how proxy voting can help to redeem deteriorating democratic values and an insightful and novel social critique. This book will stimulate new thinking in a wide range of areas and deserves a broad audience among academic scholars, politicians, activists for extension of voting rights – simply anyone interested in the future of our democracies. * Bengt Sandin, Professor Emeritus of Child Studies, Linköping University, Sweden *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Voting over History 2. Competence 3. Knowledge 4. Power 5. Outcomes for Children 6. Outcomes for Societies 7. The Proxy-Claim Vote Manifesto References Index
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HardPress Publishing Four Sermons
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Louisiana State University Press Resurrection Pie
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Johns Hopkins University Press Streamliner
Book SynopsisThe true story of Raymond Loewy, whose designs are still celebrated for their unerring ability to advance American consumer taste. Born in Paris in 1893 and trained as an engineer, Raymond Loewy revolutionized twentieth-century American industrial design. Combining salesmanship and media savvy, he created bright, smooth, and colorful logos for major corporations that included Greyhound, Exxon, and Nabisco. His designs for Studebaker automobiles, Sears Coldspot refrigerators, Lucky Strike cigarette packs, and Pennsylvania Railroad locomotives are iconic. Beyond his timeless designs, Loewy carefully built an international reputation through the assiduous courting of journalists and tastemakers to become the face of both a new profession and a consumer-driven vision of the American dream. In Streamliner, John Wall traces the evolution of an industry through the lens of Loewy's eclectic life, distinctive work, and invented persona. How, he asks, did Loewy build a business while transfoTrade ReviewThis book adds another important chapter to the legendary work of the man who essentially created the field of industrial design, thus making the corpus of his career's work available to a new generation of readers.—Ed Garten, Society of Automotive Historians JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. New Shores: Creating a Biography on the Fly Chapter 2. Portrait of the Young Engineer as an ArtistChapter 3. The Artist (and Others) Shape the Things to Come Chapter 4. Birth of a Salesman: Cold Calls, Clients, and Creativity Chapter 5. Big Engines: Emergence of a Design Genius Chapter 6. Constructing an Image while Building a Business Chapter 7. Engines of Industry: Tractors, Tour Buses, and Ships Chapter 8. Studebaker Beginnings: Internal Combustion, Internal Dissention, External Design Chapter 9. The Starliner Coupe: Studebaker’s Breakthrough Design Chapter 10. Avanti: Car Design Leaps Forward Chapter 11. Becoming a Businessman: Building an Industry Chapter 12. The Sales Curve Wanes Chapter 13. The Long Road Down Chapter 14. Legacy Notes Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Paul Ricoeur and Contemporary Moral Thought
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood
Book SynopsisSARADA BALAGOPALAN is Associate Professor of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University, USA.JOHN WALL is Professor and Chair of Philosophy and Religion with Joint Appointment in the Department of Childhood Studies, and Director of the Childism Institute at Rutgers University, USA.KAREN WELLS is Professor of International Development and Childhood Studies and the Director of the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.Trade ReviewA wonderful new resource for researchers and students interested in leading edge concepts in childhood studies. -- John Horton, Professor and Research Leader in the Faculty of Health, Education & Society, University of Northampton, UKTable of Contents1. Introduction, Sarada Balagopalan (Rutgers University, USA), John Wall (Rutgers University, USA), and Karen Wells (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) Part I: Subjectivities 2. Mission Impossible: Investing Children with Literary Authorities, Anna Mae Duane (University of Connecticut, USA) 3. Democracy and Developmentalism: The Logics of Child Exclusion, Toby Rollo (Lakehead University, Canada) 4. Why Theorize 'Difference'?: Postcolonialism and Childhood Studies, Sarada Balagopalan (Rutgers University, USA) 5. Thinking with Ontology in Childhood Studies, Spyros Spyrou (European University Cyprus, Cyprus) 6. Childhoods, Materialities, and Spatialities: Theorising 'Beyond' the Subject, Peter Kraftl (University of Birmingham, UK) 7. Inviting Disability: Disabled Children and Studies of Childhood, Katherine Runswick-Cole, Dan Goodley and Kirsty Liddiard (University of Sheffield, UK) 8. Queer Theory and Childhood Studies, Utsa Mukerjee (University of Southampton, UK) 9. Locating Children's Moral Subjectivities and 'Voice' in Research with Children and Young People, Ilina Singh (University of Oxford, UK) Part II: Relationalities 10. Children, Childhoods and Decolonial Theory, Lucia Rabello de Castro (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 11. Drawing Back from Children's Agency: Assemblage as Ontology, Description and Relationality, David Oswell (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) 12. Toward a Black Feminism for Black Girls, Aria S. Halliday (University of Kentucky, USA) 13. Living Rights Theory, Olga Nieuwenhuys and Karl Hanson (University of Geneva, Switzerland) 14. Protagonismo and Power: Building Political Theory with Young Activists, Jessica Taft (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) 15. Childhood Prism Research, Hanne Warming (Roskilde University, Denmark) 16. Childism: Transforming Critical Theory in Response to Children, John Wall (Rutgers University, USA) 17. Queer Aesthetics and Childhood Stories, Hannah Dyer (Brock University, Canada) Part III: Structures 18. Children and Power Relations: The Contribution of Governmentality Theory to Childhood Studies, Karen Smith (University College Dublin, Ireland) 19. Critical Realism and Theories of Babies’ Rights, Priscilla Alderson (University College London, UK) 20. Theorizing Racialisation, Epistemic Violence and Children’s Intersectional Positioning, Ann Phoenix (University College London, UK) 21. Childhood in and Through Social Reproduction Theory, Rachel Rosen (University College London, UK) 22. Coloniality and the Geographies of Children and Youth in Rural Northern Turtle Island and Beyond, Onyx Sloan Morgan, Christine Añonuevo, Richel Donaldson, Marion Erickson, Kimberley Thomas, Margo Greenwood, and Sarah de Leeuw (University of Northern British Colombia, Canada) 23. Theorizing ‘Surplus Populations’ in Racial Capitalism Through Juvenile Justice, Karen Wells (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) 24. Growing Up Jim Crow: Child Science, Racial Segregation, and Black Children’s Ways of Knowing, Paula Austin (Boston University, USA) 25. Theorizing Child Migration: Experiences, Governance, Normativity, Jonathan Josefsson (Linköping University, Sweden) 26. Critical Childhood Studies Meets Critical Legal Scholarship, Hedi Viterbo (Queen Mary University London, UK) Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Paul Ricoeur and Contemporary Moral Thought
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Rowman & Littlefield Childrens Rights
Book SynopsisThis accessible and authoritative book provides the first systematic overview of the global children's rights movement. It introduces both beginners and experts to child and youth rights in all their theoretical, historical, cultural, political, and practical complexity. In the process, the book examines key controversies about globalization, cultural relativism, social justice, power, economics, politics, freedom, ageism, and more. Combining vivid examples with cutting-edge scholarship, Children's Rights: Today's Global Challenge lifts up the rights of the youngest third of humanity as the major human rights challenge of the twenty-first century.Trade ReviewJohn Wall is right when stating that this is the century of children’s rights. His book guides us through the many challenges we need to take up to ensure that human rights can be understood and practiced in creative new ways that are fully inclusive of children. This is a must read for academics, students, and professionals as it inspires and motivates by bringing together theoretical, historical, and practical debates. -- Bruno Vanobbergen, University of Ghent, Children’s Rights Commissioner for the European Network of Ombudspersons for Children (ENOC)John Wall builds on his work on morality and ethics to refresh our views on children’s rights. He moves the reader away from a minority world perspective to explore the ways children’s rights are interpreted and reinterpreted in specific contexts across the world. His blend of history, philosophy, and sociology presents an up-to-date analysis of ongoing debates around cultural relativism, education, child labor, and exploitation. He presents a new argument on aspirations to children’s voting rights. This is a useful book for anyone who is interested in the plight of children globally. -- Tom Cockburn, Edge Hill UniversityChildren’s Rights is a remarkable achievement. It is unique in presenting contrasting perspectives on the various issues related to children’s rights. While on one hand discussing the place of children in human rights theories, it also gives a number of very concrete and heart-wrenching stories. While providing a narrative with a broad historical and geographical scope, the book sets out the most important contemporary problems children face in societies around the world with examples from education, slavery, and the right to vote. And most striking, while addressing a litany of problems and challenges facing children even now, Wall strikes an optimistic tone throughout the book, including in the last chapter when looking forward to a better future for children. This book is indispensable to anybody who wants a better understanding of children’s rights in all its facets. -- Joseph Rikhof, University of OttawaEthicist and philosopher John Wall tackles some of the most intriguing and important questions posed by the concept of rights for children. In addition to articulating a persuasive and coherent theory of children's rights that builds on the experiences of prior emerging rights movements, Wall explores how children's rights play out in specific contexts from the right to vote to the right to be free from exploitive labor. Free of jargon and a pleasure to read, this is a book for every reader who cares about the future of human rights. -- Barbara Bennett Woodhouse, LQC Lamar Professor of Law, Emory University; director, Child Rights ProjectTable of Contents1. Why Children’s Rights 2. Theoretical Controversies 3. Historical Ambiguities 4. Education in an Age of Globalization 5. The New Child Slavery 6. The Right to Vote 7. Today’s Global Challenge
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Georgetown University Press Ethics in Light of Childhood
Book SynopsisChildhood faces humanity with its own deepest and most perplexing questions. An ethics that truly includes the world's childhoods would transcend pre-modern traditional communities and modern rational autonomy with a postmodern aim of growing responsibility. It would understand human relations in a poetic rather than universalistic sense as openly and interdependently creative. As a consequence, it would produce new understandings of moral being, time, and otherness, as well as of religion, rights, narrative, families, obligation, and power. "Ethics in Light of Childhood" fundamentally reimagines ethical thought and practice in light of the experiences of the third of humanity who are children. Much like humanism, feminism, womanism, and environmentalism, Wall argues, a new childism is required that transforms moral thinking, relations, and societies in fundamental ways. Wall explores childhood's varied impacts on ethical thinking throughout history, advances the emerging interdisciplinary field of childhood studies, and reexamines basic assumptions in contemporary moral theory and practice. In the process, he does not just apply ethics to childhood but applies childhood to ethics - in order to imagine a more expansive humanity.Trade ReviewThe author takes us on a stimulating journey through considerations of history, theory and practice, and frequently relies on the perceptions of children themselves to illustrate the points he wants to make. He does this through the device of recounting children's stories of their own experience... It is rare for an adult to put a moral and ethical case quite so succinctly. Children & Society Creative, thought-provoking book ... will interest psychologists and philosophers and any others with a serious interest in developmental psychology and ethics. Choice A game-changing book for the field of Christian ethics... Ethics should be read widely, and not only bythose who are explicitely conducting research involving children and childhood. While it has much to offer these scholars, Ethics real benefit lies in the possibilities that it opens up for both fundamental and practical ethics more broadly conceived. Conversations in Religion and TheologyTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I. History 1. Three Enduring Models Part II. Theory 2. What is Human Being? 3. What Is the Ethical Aim? 4. What Is Owed Each Other? Part III. Practice 5. Human Rights in Light of Childhood 6. The Generative Family 7. The Art of Ethical Thinking Conclusion Notes Index
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Springer International Publishing AG Exploring Children's Suffrage: Interdisciplinary
Book SynopsisThis edited volume offers a critical, thorough, and interdisciplinary examination of arguments for eliminating the minimum democratic voting age. As children and youth increasingly assert their political voices on issues such as climate change, gun legislation, Black Lives Matter, and education reform, calls for youth enfranchisement merit further academic conversation. Leading scholars in childhood studies, political science, philosophy, history, law, medicine, and economics come together in this collection to explore the diverse assumptions behind excluding children from voting rights and why these are open to question. While arriving at different and sometimes competing conclusions, each chapter deconstructs the idea of voting as necessarily tied to age while reconstructing a more democratic imagination able to enfranchise the third of humanity made up by children and youth. Thus, this book defines and establishes a new field of academic study and public debate around children's suffrage. Chapter “The Reform that never happened: a history of children's suffrage restrictions” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.Table of Contents1 Introduction: Children’s Suffrage Studies Part I Theoretical Frameworks 2 Silence Is Poison: Explaining and Curing Adult “Apathy” 3 How Low Can You Go? The Capacity to Vote Among Young Citizens 4 The Case for Children’s Voting Part II Historical Contexts 5 The Enfranchisement of Women Versus the Enfranchisement of Children 6 De-Colonizing Children’s Suffrage: Engagements with Dr B R Ambedkar’s Ideas on Democracy 7 The Reform that Never Happened: A History of Children’s Suffrage Restrictions Part III Practical Considerations 8 Generational Economics 9 Legality of Age Restrictions on Voting: A Canadian Perspective 10 A View from Paediatric Medicine: Competence, Best Interests, and Operational Pragmatism
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Rowman & Littlefield Childrens Rights
Book SynopsisThis accessible and authoritative book provides the first systematic overview of the global children's rights movement. It introduces both beginners and experts to child and youth rights in all their theoretical, historical, cultural, political, and practical complexity. In the process, the book examines key controversies about globalization, cultural relativism, social justice, power, economics, politics, freedom, ageism, and more. Combining vivid examples with cutting-edge scholarship, Children's Rights: Today's Global Challenge lifts up the rights of the youngest third of humanity as the major human rights challenge of the twenty-first century.Trade ReviewJohn Wall is right when stating that this is the century of children’s rights. His book guides us through the many challenges we need to take up to ensure that human rights can be understood and practiced in creative new ways that are fully inclusive of children. This is a must read for academics, students, and professionals as it inspires and motivates by bringing together theoretical, historical, and practical debates. -- Bruno Vanobbergen, University of Ghent, Children’s Rights Commissioner for the European Network of Ombudspersons for Children (ENOC)John Wall builds on his work on morality and ethics to refresh our views on children’s rights. He moves the reader away from a minority world perspective to explore the ways children’s rights are interpreted and reinterpreted in specific contexts across the world. His blend of history, philosophy, and sociology presents an up-to-date analysis of ongoing debates around cultural relativism, education, child labor, and exploitation. He presents a new argument on aspirations to children’s voting rights. This is a useful book for anyone who is interested in the plight of children globally. -- Tom Cockburn, Edge Hill UniversityChildren’s Rights is a remarkable achievement. It is unique in presenting contrasting perspectives on the various issues related to children’s rights. While on one hand discussing the place of children in human rights theories, it also gives a number of very concrete and heart-wrenching stories. While providing a narrative with a broad historical and geographical scope, the book sets out the most important contemporary problems children face in societies around the world with examples from education, slavery, and the right to vote. And most striking, while addressing a litany of problems and challenges facing children even now, Wall strikes an optimistic tone throughout the book, including in the last chapter when looking forward to a better future for children. This book is indispensable to anybody who wants a better understanding of children’s rights in all its facets. -- Joseph Rikhof, University of OttawaEthicist and philosopher John Wall tackles some of the most intriguing and important questions posed by the concept of rights for children. In addition to articulating a persuasive and coherent theory of children's rights that builds on the experiences of prior emerging rights movements, Wall explores how children's rights play out in specific contexts from the right to vote to the right to be free from exploitive labor. Free of jargon and a pleasure to read, this is a book for every reader who cares about the future of human rights. -- Barbara Bennett Woodhouse, LQC Lamar Professor of Law, Emory University; director, Child Rights ProjectTable of Contents1. Why Children’s Rights 2. Theoretical Controversies 3. Historical Ambiguities 4. Education in an Age of Globalization 5. The New Child Slavery 6. The Right to Vote 7. Today’s Global Challenge
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