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Mutuality
Anthropology's Changing Terms of Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Why do people do social-cultural anthropology? Beyond professional career motivations, what values underpin anthropologists' commitments to lengthy training, fieldwork, writing, and publication? Mutuality explores the values that anthropologists bring from their wider social worlds, including the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Underfunded pension liabilities threaten the fiscal stability of many cities. While Detroit's bankruptcy has dominated the headlines, the problem is widespread. With ongoing battles in many localities, policymakers are increasingly turning their attention to the legacy issues surrounding the funding...
The Terror That Comes in the Night
An Experience-Centered Study of Supernatural Assault Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
David Hufford's work exploring the experiential basis for belief in the supernatural, focusing here on the so-called Old Hag experience, a psychologically disturbing event in which a victim claims to have encountered some form of malign entity while dreaming (or awake). Sufferers report feeling suffocated,...
by Edward L. Bradley III, Editors of Consumer Reports Books
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
In a Patient's Guide to Surgery, Dr. Edward L. Bradley III explains all you need to know to prepare yourself for the surgical experience. This book describes how you can actively participate in the decision-making process and, as a result, improve your chances for successful surgery and recovery.
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Force and Freedom
Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
From its origins in the 1750s, the white-led American abolitionist movement adhered to principles of "moral suasion" and nonviolent resistance as both religious tenet and political strategy. But by the 1850s, the population of enslaved Americans had increased exponentially, and such legislative...
Mourning Glory
The Will of the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Mourning Glory sheds light on troubled times as it shows how passion and prejudice, grief and denial all contributed to the continuing creation of a revolutionary legacy that still affects our understanding of the nature of language and history.
by Anne Trubek
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
There are many ways to show our devotion to an author besides reading his or her works. Graves make for popular pilgrimage sites, but far more popular are writers' house museums. What is it we hope to accomplish by trekking to the home of a dead author? We may go in search of the point of inspiration,...
The Next Economic Disaster
Why It's Coming and How to Avoid It
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Current debates about economic crises typically focus on the role that public debt and debt-fueled public spending play in economic growth. This illuminating and provocative work shows that it is the rapid expansion of private rather than public debt that constrains growth and sparks economic calamities...
by Steven Conn
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
"We live in a museum age," writes Steven Conn in Do Museums Still Need Objects? And indeed, at the turn of the twenty-first century, more people are visiting museums than ever before. There are now over 17,500 accredited museums in the United States, averaging approximately 865 million visits...
Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters
The Struggle over Segregated Recreation in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Throughout the twentieth century, African Americans challenged segregation at amusement parks, swimming pools, and skating rinks not only in pursuit of pleasure but as part of a wider struggle for racial equality. Well before the Montgomery bus boycott, mothers led their children into segregated amusement...
Daughters of the Trade
Atlantic Slavers and Interracial Marriage on the Gold Coast
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Severine Brock's first language was Ga, yet it was not surprising when, in 1842, she married Edward Carstensen. He was the last governor of Christiansborg, the fort that, in the eighteenth century, had been the center of Danish slave trading in West Africa. She was the descendant of Ga-speaking women...
Bring Out Your Dead
The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
In 1793 a disastrous plague of yellow fever paralyzed Philadelphia, killing thousands of residents and bringing the nation's capital city to a standstill. In this psychological portrait of a city in terror, J. H. Powell presents a penetrating study of human nature revealing itself. Bring Out Your...
A Sufi-Jewish Dialogue
Philosophy and Mysticism in Bahya ibn Paquda's "Duties of the Heart"
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Written in Judeo-Arabic in eleventh-century Muslim Spain but quickly translated into Hebrew, Bahya Ibn Paquda's Duties of the Heart is a profound guidebook of Jewish spirituality that has enjoyed tremendous popularity and influence to the present day. Readers who know the book primarily in its Hebrew...
The Sabermetric Revolution
Assessing the Growth of Analytics in Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
From the front office to the family room, sabermetrics has dramatically changed the way baseball players are assessed and valued by fans and managers alike. Rocketed to popularity by the 2003 bestseller Moneyball and the film of the same name, the use of sabermetrics to analyze player performance...