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Political Manhood
Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2008
In a 1907 lecture to Harvard undergraduates, Theodore Roosevelt warned against becoming "too fastidious, too sensitive to take part in the rough hurly-burly of the actual work of the world." Roosevelt asserted that colleges should never "turn out mollycoddles instead of vigorous men,"...
Crowds and Democracy
The Idea and Image of the Masses from Revolution to Fascism
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Between 1918 and 1933, the masses became a decisive preoccupation of European culture, fueling modernist movements in art, literature, architecture, theater, and cinema, as well as the rise of communism and fascism and experiments in radical democracy.
Spanning aesthetics, cultural studies,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
When community and family support systems are weak or unavailable, and when internal resources fail, populations that struggle with chronic, persistent, acute, and/or unexpected problems become vulnerable to physical, cognitive, emotional, and social deterioration. Yet despite numerous risk factors,...
by Judith Bula Wise
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2005
For more than 150 years, empowering practices have been used by social workers in their work with families, but the techniques of today differ significantly from those of the pioneers or even from those of a few years ago. Today's practitioners recognize that empowering others is impossible; social...
Proposing Prosperity?
Marriage Education Policy and Inequality in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
"Fragile families"—unmarried parents who struggle emotionally and financially—are one of the primary targets of the Healthy Marriage Initiative, a federal policy that has funded marriage education programs in nearly every state. These programs, which encourage marriage by teaching relationship...
Wearing My Tutu to Analysis and Other Stories
Learning Psychodynamic Concepts from Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
There couldn't be a more appropriate method for illustrating the dynamics of psychoanalysis than the vehicle of story. In this book, Kerry L. Malawista, Anne J. Adelman, and Catherine L. Anderson share amusing, poignant, and sometimes difficult stories from their personal and professional lives, inviting...
Animals and the Human Imagination
A Companion to Animal Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Human beings have long imagined their subjectivity, ethics, and ancestry with and through animals, yet not until the mid-twentieth century did contemporary thought reflect critically on animals' significance in human self-conception. Thinkers such as French philosopher Jacques Derrida, South African...
Animals and the Moral Community
Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Gary Steiner argues that ethologists and philosophers in the analytic and continental traditions have largely failed to advance an adequate explanation of animal behavior. Critically engaging the positions of Marc Hauser, Daniel Dennett, Donald Davidson, John Searle, Martin Heidegger, and Hans-Georg...
Contemporary Chinese Short-Short Stories
A Parallel Text
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This book presents Chinese short-short stories in English and Chinese, integrating language learning with cultural studies for intermediate to advanced learners of Mandarin Chinese and students of contemporary Chinese literature. Each chapter begins with a critical introduction, followed by two or...
by Geoffrey Greif, Michael Woolley
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
The bond siblings develop in childhood may be vastly different from the relationship that evolves in adulthood. Driven by affection but also characterized by ambivalence and ambiguity, adult sibling relationships can become hurtful, uncertain, competitive, or exhausting though the undercurrents of...
Home- and Community-Based Services for Older Adults
Aging in Context
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
As older adults and their families opt out of nursing homes, a range of home and community-based services (HCBS) have risen up to provide care. HCBS span platforms and approaches, from home health care to assisted living to community-based hospice to adult day services. These models are, for most,...
Nutritionism
The Science and Politics of Dietary Advice
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Popularized by Michael Pollan in his best-selling In Defense of Food, Gyorgy Scrinis's concept of nutritionism refers to the reductive understanding of nutrients as the key indicators of healthy food—an approach that has dominated nutrition science, dietary advice, and food marketing. Scrinis argues...
Intoxicating Minds
How Drugs Work
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2001
Why do smokers claim that the first cigarette of the day is the best? What is the biological basis behind some heavy drinkers' belief that the "hair-of-the-dog" method alleviates the effects of a hangover? Why does marijuana seem to affect ones problem-solving capacity? Intoxicating Minds...
by Rich Furman
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
Treating men as a culturally distinct group, Rich Furman integrates key conceptions of masculinity into culturally sensitive social work practice with men. Focusing on veterans, displaced workers, substance abusers, mental health consumers, and other groups that might be unlikely to seek help, Furman...