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Petticoats and Prejudice - Women's Press Classics

Women and Law in Nineteenth-Century Canada

By: Constance Backhouse

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Petticoats and Prejudice - Women's Press Classics

Women and Law in Nineteenth-Century Canada

By: Constance Backhouse

Drawing on historical records of women’s varying experiences as litigants, accused criminals, or witnesses, this book offers critical insight into women’s legal status in nineteenth-century Canada. In an effort to recover the social and political conditions under which women lobbied, rebelled, and in some cases influenced change, Petticoats and Prejudice weaves together forgotten stories of achievement and defeat in the Canadian legal system. Expanding the concept of “heroism” beyond its traditional limitations, this text gives life to some of Canada’s lost heroines. Euphemia Rabbitt, who resisted an attempted rape, and Clara Brett Martin, who valiantly secured entry into the all-male legal profession, were admired by their contemporaries for their successful pursuits of justice. But Ellen Rogers, a prostitute who believed all women should be legally protected against sexual assault, and Nellie Armstrong, a battered wife and mother who sought child custody, were ostracized for their ideas and demands. Well aware of the limitations placed upon women advocating for reform in a patriarchal legal system, Constance Backhouse recreates vivid and textured snapshots of these and other women’s courageous struggles against gender discrimination and oppression. Employing social history to illuminate the reproductive, sexual, racial, and occupational inequalities that continue to shape women’s encounters with the law, Petticoats and Prejudice is an essential entry point into the gendered treatment of feminized bodies in Canadian legal institutions. This book was co-published with The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.

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Canadian Scholars’ Press

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0889615225

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9780889615229

The Rise of a Warrior

One Man's Journey

By: Constance V. Culbreth

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The Rise of a Warrior

One Man's Journey

By: Constance V. Culbreth

Nicholas is a person that lives a passive life in darkness. He is forced to face the reality about his marriage, children, and where he stands in life. Then he begins to embark on a journey. He has no understanding about faith or even his purpose in life. Upon his journey of discovery, he unknowingly finds his purpose. He finds out that he has free will. Nicholas is no longer in the dark about his future. He will have to choose to be a leader of darkness or a leader in the light. It is his free will.

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Page Publishing Inc

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9798886549317

Morning Sky

By: Constance Bennett

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Morning Sky

By: Constance Bennett

From the author of Blossom and Moonsong—a historical western romance of a righteous quest for justice and of a desire set free . . . The lovely widow Lacey Spencer has launched a solo campaign to expose the crooked cattle ranchers that are threatening to overtake her hometown. Even her sophisticated beauty and elegant demeanor cannot erase the townspeople's evident disapproval of her most unladylike behavior. When a dark stranger arrives in town, Lacey discovers that she may not be alone in her battle. But she doesn't understand why this handsome, mysterious man is helping her. Morgan is every woman's dream: powerful and compelling, yet calm and levelheaded. But when his brutal past comes back to haunt him, Lacey begins to question the truth of his intentions. She can either fight the corruption by herself, or trust Morgan—and build an explosive love that knows no limits.

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Open Road Media

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1497634326

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9781497634329

Colour-Coded

A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950

By: Constance Backhouse

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Colour-Coded

A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950

By: Constance Backhouse

Historically Canadians have considered themselves to be more or less free of racial prejudice. Although this conception has been challenged in recent years, it has not been completely dispelled. In Colour-Coded, Constance Backhouse illustrates the tenacious hold that white supremacy had on our legal system in the first half of this century, and underscores the damaging legacy of inequality that continues today. Backhouse presents detailed narratives of six court cases, each giving evidence of blatant racism created and enforced through law. The cases focus on Aboriginal, Inuit, Chinese-Canadian, and African-Canadian individuals, taking us from the criminal prosecution of traditional Aboriginal dance to the trial of members of the 'Ku Klux Klan of Kanada.' From thousands of possibilities, Backhouse has selected studies that constitute central moments in the legal history of race in Canada. Her selection also considers a wide range of legal forums, including administrative rulings by municipal councils, criminal trials before police magistrates, and criminal and civil cases heard by the highest courts in the provinces and by the Supreme Court of Canada. The extensive and detailed documentation presented here leaves no doubt that the Canadian legal system played a dominant role in creating and preserving racial discrimination. A central message of this book is that racism is deeply embedded in Canadian history despite Canada's reputation as a raceless society. Winner of the Joseph Brant Award, presented by the Ontario Historical Society

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University of Toronto Press

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1442690852

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9781442690851

The Colour of Angels

Cosmology, Gender and the Aesthetic Imagination

By: Constance Classen

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The Colour of Angels

Cosmology, Gender and the Aesthetic Imagination

By: Constance Classen

The Colour of Angels uncovers the gender politics behind our attitude to the senses. Using a wide variety of examples, ranging from the sensuous religious visions of the middle ages through to nineteenth-century art movements, this book reveals a previously unexplored area of womens history.

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Routledge

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1134678207

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9781134678204

Dice and Gods on the Silk Road

Chinese Buddhist Dice Divination in Transcultural Context

By: Brandon Dotson,Constance A. Cook,Zhao Lu

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Dice and Gods on the Silk Road

Chinese Buddhist Dice Divination in Transcultural Context

By: Brandon Dotson,Constance A. Cook,Zhao Lu

What do dice and gods have in common? What is the relationship between dice divination and dice gambling? This interdisciplinary collaboration situates the tenth-century Chinese Buddhist “Divination of Maheśvara” within a deep Chinese backstory of divination with dice and numbers going back to at least the 4th century BCE. Simultaneously, the authors track this specific method of dice divination across the Silk Road and into ancient India through a detailed study of the material culture, poetics, and ritual processes of dice divination in Chinese, Tibetan, and Indian contexts. The result is an extended meditation on the unpredictable movements of gods, dice, divination books, and divination users across the various languages, cultures, and religions of the Silk Road.

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BRILL

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9004464379

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9789004464377

The Love Child

a sweeping historical novel set in Russia and England in the 1870s

By: Constance Heaven

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The Love Child

a sweeping historical novel set in Russia and England in the 1870s

By: Constance Heaven

Lose yourself in this beautifully written, emotional and enthralling novel from much loved author Constance Heaven. It conjures up the glittering society and changing times of the 1870s in London and Russia so wonderfully, you'll feel as if you are there yourself! 'Heady romance with glittering background' -- SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Readable and atmospheric' -- DUBLIN TIMES 'Excellent! Difficult to put down' - ***** Reader review 'Exciting read' - ***** Reader review 'A great novel from a great writer' - ***** Reader review *************************************************************************** Louise Defour's life is idyllic: as the love-child of a British diplomat and Russian dancer, she wants for nothing. But when her parents are killed, she finds herself penniless and alone, and must travel to England to meet a half-sister who does not even know of her existence. There, she becomes part of the world of the mysterious Daniel and Christine Hunter - with a potentially destructive effect.

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Random House

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1448107660

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9781448107667

Encyclopedia of Hinduism

By: Constance Jones,James D. Ryan

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Encyclopedia of Hinduism

By: Constance Jones,James D. Ryan

An illustrated A to Z reference containing more than 700 entries providing information on the theology, people, historical events, institutions and movements related to Hinduism.

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Infobase Publishing

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0816075646

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9780816075645

The Science We Have Loved and Taught

Dartmouth medical School's First Two Centuries

By: Constance Putnam

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The Science We Have Loved and Taught

Dartmouth medical School's First Two Centuries

By: Constance Putnam

Dartmouth Medical School (DMS), the fourth oldest medical school in the United States, was founded in 1797 in Hanover, New Hampshire, by Nathan Smith. An entrepreneurial doctor with his own special brand of patient-centered medical care, Smith saw the fledgling Dartmouth College as a "literary institution" that would give status to his medical school and enhance his efforts to train physicians to care for rural patients. The College and the Medical School have followed intertwined paths ever since, as Constance Putnam shows in her account of the School's first two centuries. Like all medical schools, DMS has had to learn how to get along with its parent institution. At Dartmouth, this has meant repeatedly sorting out just how independent the "Medical Department" (as it was initially known) should be of Dartmouth College itself. Yet it is the strong personalities and the unique way Dartmouth responded to changes in fashion for medical education that sets the DMS story apart. Putnam brings to life the men who helped make Dartmouth Medical School important in the history of medical education. The unique path followed by Dartmouth Medical School in the aftermath of the Flexner Report is also thoroughly explored. The book concludes with an assessment of DMS at the end of its second century and a look at the way Nathan Smith's early vision had grown to something far greater and more useful to the health of that rural population he sought to serve than even he could have imagined.

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Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

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1611688728

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9781611688726

Plato

By: Constance Meinwald

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Plato

By: Constance Meinwald

In this engaging introduction, Constance Meinwald shows how Plato has shaped the landscape of Western philosophy. She provides much-needed historical context, and helps readers grapple with Plato’s distinctive use of highly crafted literary masterpieces for philosophical purposes. Meinwald examines some of Plato’s most famous discussions of human questions, concerning erōs, the capacities and immortality of our psyche, human excellence and the good life, and Plato’s controversial ideas about culture, society, and political organization. She shows how Plato makes a sketch of his theory of Forms foundational in this work, and she offers illuminating readings of texts concerned with the development of the theory and its relationship to Greek science and mathematics. Throughout, Meinwald draws expertly on Plato’s dialogues to present a lively and accessible picture of his philosophy. Including a chronology, glossary of terms, and suggestions for further reading, Plato is an ideal introduction to arguably the greatest of all Western philosophers, and is essential reading for students of ancient philosophy and classics.

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Routledge

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1136184430

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9781136184437

Castle Nowhere

And Other Sketches

By: Constance Fenimore Woolson

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Castle Nowhere

And Other Sketches

By: Constance Fenimore Woolson

Regarded by scholars and fans alike as an important female author of the nineteenth century, Constance Fenimore Woolson -- a relative of the great chronicler of early American life, James Fenimore Cooper -- was known for her uniquely compelling characterizations, particularly of the women in her stories. This collection of sketches and tales highlights Woolson's strengths as a literary artist.

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The Floating Press

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1775458458

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9781775458456

The Real Thing

Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company

By: Constance L. Hays

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The Real Thing

Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company

By: Constance L. Hays

A definitive history of Coca-Cola, the world's best-known brand, by a New York Times reporter who has followed the company and who brings fresh insights to the world of Coke, telling a larger story about American business and culture.

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Random House Trade Paperbacks

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081297364X

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9780812973648

Charmed Again

By: Elizabeth Lenhard,Constance M. Burge

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Charmed Again

By: Elizabeth Lenhard,Constance M. Burge

Piper and Phoebe Halliwell are devastated by the lossof their big sister, Prue. But even in their grief they can't forget that they, too, are in mortal danger.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743442644

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9780743442640

Better Red

The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur

By: Constance Coiner

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Better Red

The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur

By: Constance Coiner

Better Red is an interdisciplinary study addressing the complicated intersection of American feminism and the political left as refracted in Tillie Olsen's and Meridel Le Sueur's lives and literary texts. The first book-length study to explore these feminist writers' ties to the American Communist Party, it contributes to a re-envisioning of 1930s U.S. Communism as well as to efforts to promote working-class writing as a legitimate category of literary analysis. At once loyal members of the male-dominated Communist Party and emerging feminists, Olsen and Le Sueur move both toward and away from Party tenets and attitudes - subverting through their writing formalist as well as orthodox Marxist literary categories. Olsen and Le Sueur challenge the bourgeois assumptions - often masked as classless and universal - of much canonical literature; and by creating working-class women's writing, they problematize the patriarchal nature of the Left and the masculinist assumptions of much proletarian literature, anticipating the concerns of second wave feminists a generation later.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252066952

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9780252066955

Gold Digger

The Outrageous Life and Times of Peggy Hopkins Joyce

By: Constance Rosenblum

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Gold Digger

The Outrageous Life and Times of Peggy Hopkins Joyce

By: Constance Rosenblum

A sparkling biography of the original blonde whom gentlemen preferred, a woman who made a career of marrying millionaires and became the first tabloid celebrity. One of America's most talked about personalities during the Jazz Age, Peggy Hopkins Joyce was the quintessential gold digger, the real-life Lorelei Lee. Married six times, to several millionaires and even a count, Joyce had no discernible talent except self-promotion. A barber's daughter from Norfolk, Virginia, who rose to become a Ziegfeld Girl and, briefly, a movie star, Joyce was the precursor of the modern celebrity-a person famous for being famous. Her scandalous exploits-spending a million dollars in a week, conducting torrid love affairs with the likes of Charlie Chaplin and Walter Chrysler-were irresistible to the new breed of tabloid journalists in search of sensation and to audiences hungry for the possibilities her life seemed to promise. Joyce's march across Broadway, Hollywood, and the nation's front pages was only slowed by the true nemesis of the glamour girl: old age. She died in 1957, alone and forgotten-until now. In prose as vibrant as its subject, Constance Rosenblum's Gold Digger brings to life the woman who singularly epitomized this confident and hedonistic era.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1627798242

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9781627798242

Death in Ancient China

The Tale of One Man's Journey

By: Constance Cook

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Death in Ancient China

The Tale of One Man's Journey

By: Constance Cook

This richly illustrated book provides a glimpse into the belief system and the material wealth of the social elite in pre-Imperial China through a close analysis of tomb contents and excavated bamboo texts. The point of departure is the textual and material evidence found in one tomb of an elite man buried in 316 BCE near a once wealthy middle Yangzi River valley metropolis. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of cosmological symbolism and the nature of the spirit world. The author shows how illness and death were perceived as steps in a spiritual journey from one realm into another. Transmitted textual records are compared with excavated texts. The layout and contents of this multi-chambered tomb are analyzed as are the contents of two texts, a record of divination and sacrifices performed during the last three years of the occupant’s life and a tomb inventory record of mortuary gifts. The texts are fully translated and annotated in the appendices. A first-time close-up view of a set of local beliefs which not only reflect the larger ancient Chinese religious system but also underlay the rich intellectual and artistic life of pre-Imperial China. With first full translations of texts previously unknown to all except a small handful of sinologists.

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BRILL

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9047410637

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9789047410638

The Flight of the Arctic Tern

By: Helmericks, Constance

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The Flight of the Arctic Tern

By: Helmericks, Constance

The Flight of the Arctic Tern, first published in 1952, chronicles the travels and adventures of husband and wife Constance and Harmon Helmericks. Beginning in Connecticut, then flying across Canada to the north of Alaska in a Cessna 140, the couple begin a lifelong pioneering adventure of living simply in the wilds of Alaska.

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Epicenter Press

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193534790X

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9781935347903

Trickery Treat

By: Diana G. Gallagher,Constance M. Burge

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Trickery Treat

By: Diana G. Gallagher,Constance M. Burge

Preparing the Manor for Halloween festivities, the Charmed Ones cast a spell designed to honor wandering spirits only to have their party interrupted by gate-crashing poltergeists and a not-so-friendly ghost intent on haunting their home and killing a ghost hunter. Original. (A CW series, starring Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano, & Rose McGowan) (Fantasy)

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Simon and Schuster

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141693670X

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9781416936701

Pioneers of the Old Southwest; A Chronicle of the Dark and Bloody Ground

Volume 18 of the Chronicles of America Series - in large print

By: Constance Lindsay Skinner

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Pioneers of the Old Southwest; A Chronicle of the Dark and Bloody Ground

Volume 18 of the Chronicles of America Series - in large print

By: Constance Lindsay Skinner

Reproduction of the original.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368457845

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9783368457846

Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch: Let Verbs Power Your Writing

By: Constance Hale

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Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch: Let Verbs Power Your Writing

By: Constance Hale

Helps aspiring writers understand the importance of using powerful verbs in their work through examples of brilliant writing and presents a linguistic history to demonstrate how language and writing has evolved over time.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393081168

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9780393081169

Voluntary Associations; Perspectives on the Literature

By: Constance E. Smith,Anne E. Freedman

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Voluntary Associations; Perspectives on the Literature

By: Constance E. Smith,Anne E. Freedman

This informative bibliographic study provides the most thorough survey available of the literature on voluntary associations. The authors first sketch major theories on the origin, growth, and functions of voluntary associations and discuss the place of associations in political theory, viewing especially the unproven assumption that voluntary associations are beneficial to a democratic society. They then survey the findings on the role of voluntary associations in the political and social structure (abroad as well as in the United States). The specific organizations themselves are covered and the final chapter views a recent development in the field--volunteers in government service, such as the Peace Corps. The final section of each chapter is an annotated bibliography of works cited in the text or related to its subject; over 600 items are listed.

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Harvard University Press

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0674943104

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9780674943100

Ways of Sensing

Understanding the Senses In Society

By: David Howes,Constance Classen

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Ways of Sensing

Understanding the Senses In Society

By: David Howes,Constance Classen

Ways of Sensing is a stimulating exploration of the cultural, historical and political dimensions of the world of the senses. The book spans a wide range of settings and makes comparisons between different cultures and epochs, revealing the power and diversity of sensory expressions across time and space. The chapters reflect on topics such as the tactile appeal of medieval art, the healing power of Navajo sand paintings, the aesthetic blight of the modern hospital, the role of the senses in the courtroom, and the branding of sensations in the marketplace. Howes and Classen consider how political issues such as nationalism, gender equality and the treatment of minority groups are shaped by sensory practices and metaphors. They also reveal how the phenomenon of synaesthesia, or mingling of the senses, can be seen as not simply a neurological condition but a vital cultural mode of creating social and cosmic interconnections. Written by leading scholars in the field, Ways of Sensing provides readers with a valuable and engaging introduction to the life of the senses in society.

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Routledge

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1317929470

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9781317929475

Search for the Blue Goose

J. Dewey Soper : the Arctic Adventures of a Canadian Naturalist

By: Constance Martin

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J. Dewey Soper : the Arctic Adventures of a Canadian Naturalist

By: Constance Martin

Record of an ecologist's 50,000 km Arctic trek in search of the nesting place of the 'Blue Goose'.

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Calgary : Bayeux Arts

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1896209149

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9781896209142

New York Stories

The Best of the City Section of the New York Times

By: Constance Rosenblum

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New York Stories

The Best of the City Section of the New York Times

By: Constance Rosenblum

A charmed collection of some of the best essays from the widely-known "City" section of the New York Times “There are eight million stories in the Naked City.” This famous line from the 1948 film The Naked City has become an emblem of New York City itself. One publication cultivating many of New York City's greatest stories is the City section in The New York Times. Each Sunday, this section of The New York Times, distributed only in papers in the five boroughs, captivates readers with tales of people and places that make the city unique. Featuring a cast of stellar writers—Phillip Lopate, Vivian Gornick, Thomas Beller and Laura Shaine Cunningham, among others—New York Stories brings some of the best essays from the City section to readers around the country. New Yorkers can learn something new about their city, while other readers will enjoy the flavor of the Big Apple. New York Stories profiles people like sixteen-year-old Barbara Ott, who surfs the waters off Rockaway in Queens, and Sonny Payne, the beloved panhandler of the F train. Other essays explore memorable places in the city, from the Greenwich Village townhouse blown up by radical activists in the 1970s to a basketball court that serves as the heart of its Downtown neighborhood. The forty essays collected in New York Stories reflect an intimate understanding of the city, one that goes beyond the headlines. The result is a passionate, well-written portrait of a legendary and ever-evolving place.

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NYU Press

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0814777236

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9780814777237

Ancestral Genomics

African American Health in the Age of Precision Medicine

By: Constance B. Hilliard

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Ancestral Genomics

African American Health in the Age of Precision Medicine

By: Constance B. Hilliard

A leading evolutionary historian offers a radical solution to racial health disparities in the United States. Constance B. Hilliard was living in Japan when she began experiencing joint pain. Her doctor diagnosed osteoarthritis—a common ailment for someone her age. But her bloodwork showed something else: Hilliard, who had never had kidney problems, appeared to be suffering from renal failure. When she returned to Texas, however, a new round of tests showed that her kidneys were healthy. Unlike the Japanese doctor, her American primary care provider had checked a box on her lab report for “African American.” As a scholar of scientific racism, Hilliard was perplexed. Why should race, which experts agree has no biological basis, matter for getting accurate test results? Ancestral Genomics is the result of Hilliard’s decade-long quest to solve this puzzle. In a masterful synthesis of evolutionary history, population genetics, and public health research, she addresses the usefulness of race as a heuristic in genomic medicine. Built from European genetic data, the Human Genome Project and other databases have proven inadequate for identifying disease-causing gene variants in patients of African descent. Such databases, Hilliard argues, overlook crucial information about the environments to which their ancestors’ bodies adapted prior to the transatlantic slave trade. Hilliard shows how, by analyzing “ecological niche populations,” a classification model that combines family and ecological histories with genetic information, our increasingly advanced genomic technologies, including personalized medicine, can serve African Americans and other people of color, while avoiding racial essentialism. Forcefully argued and morally urgent, Ancestral Genomics is a clarion call for the US medical community to embrace our multigenomic society.

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Harvard University Press

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067429677X

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9780674296770

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