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The Work of Art in the World

Civic Agency and Public Humanities

By: Doris Sommer

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The Work of Art in the World

Civic Agency and Public Humanities

By: Doris Sommer

Celebrating art and interpretation that take on social challenges, Doris Sommer steers the humanities back to engagement with the world. The reformist projects that focus her attention develop momentum and meaning as they circulate through society to inspire faith in the possible. Among the cases that she covers are top-down initiatives of political leaders, such as those launched by Antanas Mockus, former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, and also bottom-up movements like the Theatre of the Oppressed created by the Brazilian director, writer, and educator Augusto Boal. Alleging that we are all cultural agents, Sommer also takes herself to task and creates Pre-Texts, an international arts-literacy project that translates high literary theory through popular creative practices. The Work of Art in the World is informed by many writers and theorists. Foremost among them is the eighteenth-century German poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, who remains an eloquent defender of art-making and humanistic interpretation in the construction of political freedom. Schiller's thinking runs throughout Sommer's modern-day call for citizens to collaborate in the endless co-creation of a more just and more beautiful world.

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Duke University Press

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0822377128

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9780822377122

Foundational Fictions

The National Romances of Latin America

By: Doris Sommer

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Foundational Fictions

The National Romances of Latin America

By: Doris Sommer

National consolidation and romantic novels go hand in hand in Latin America. Foundational Fictions shows how 19th century patriotism and heterosexual passion historically depend on one another to engender productive citizens.

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Univ of California Press

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0520913868

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9780520913868

Cultural Agency in the Americas

By: Doris Sommer

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Cultural Agency in the Americas

By: Doris Sommer

“Cultural agency” refers to a range of creative activities that contribute to society, including pedagogy, research, activism, and the arts. Focusing on the connections between creativity and social change in the Americas, this collection encourages scholars to become cultural agents by reflecting on exemplary cases and thereby making them available as inspirations for more constructive theory and more innovative practice. Creativity supports democracy because artistic, administrative, and interpretive experiments need margins of freedom that defy monolithic or authoritarian regimes. The ingenious ways in which people pry open dead-ends of even apparently intractable structures suggest that cultural studies as we know it has too often gotten stuck in critique. Intellectual responsibility can get beyond denunciation by acknowledging and nurturing the resourcefulness of common and uncommon agents. Based in North and South America, scholars from fields including anthropology, performance studies, history, literature, and communications studies explore specific variations of cultural agency across Latin America. Contributors reflect, for example, on the paradoxical programming and reception of a state-controlled Cuban radio station that connects listeners at home and abroad; on the intricacies of indigenous protests in Brazil; and the formulation of cultural policies in cosmopolitan Mexico City. One contributor notes that trauma theory targets individual victims when it should address collective memory as it is worked through in performance and ritual; another examines how Mapuche leaders in Argentina perceived the pitfalls of ethnic essentialism and developed new ways to intervene in local government. Whether suggesting modes of cultural agency, tracking exemplary instances of it, or cautioning against potential missteps, the essays in this book encourage attentiveness to, and the multiplication of, the many extraordinary instantiations of cultural resourcefulness and creativity throughout Latin America and beyond. Contributors. Arturo Arias, Claudia Briones, Néstor García Canclini, Denise Corte, Juan Carlos Godenzzi, Charles R. Hale, Ariana Hernández-Reguant, Claudio Lomnitz, Jesús Martín Barbero, J. Lorand Matory, Rosamel Millamán, Diane M. Nelson, Mary Louise Pratt, Alcida Rita Ramos, Doris Sommer, Diana Taylor, Santiago Villaveces

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Duke University Press

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0822387484

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9780822387480

Proceed with Caution, when Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas

By: Doris Sommer

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Proceed with Caution, when Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas

By: Doris Sommer

Let the reader beware. Educated readers naturally feel entitled to know what they're reading--often, if they try hard enough, to know it with the conspiratorial intimacy of a potential partner. This book reminds us that cultural differences may in fact make us targets of a text, not its co-conspirators. Some literature, especially culturally particular or "minority" literature, actually uses its differences and distances to redirect our desire for intimacy toward more cautious, respectful engagements. To name these figures of cultural discontinuity--to describe a rhetoric of particularism in the Americas--is the purpose of Proceed with Caution. In a series of daring forays, from seventeenth-century Inca Garcilaso de la Vega to Julio Cortázar and Mario Vargas Llosa, Doris Sommer shows how ethnically marked texts use enticing and frustrating language games to keep readers engaged with difference: Gloria Estefan's syncopated appeal to solidarity plays on Whitman's undifferentiated ideal; unrequitable seductions echo through Rigoberta Menchú's protestations of secrecy, Toni Morrison's interrupted confession, the rebuffs in a Mexican testimonial novel. In these and other examples, Sommer trains us to notice the signs that affirm a respectful distance as a condition of political fairness and aesthetic effect--warnings that will be audible (and engaging for readings that tolerate difference) once we listen for a rhetoric of particularism.

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Harvard University Press

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0674536584

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9780674536586

Bilingual Aesthetics

A New Sentimental Education

By: Doris Sommer

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Bilingual Aesthetics

A New Sentimental Education

By: Doris Sommer

Knowing a second language entails some unease; it requires a willingness to make mistakes and work through misunderstandings. The renowned literary scholar Doris Sommer argues that feeling funny is good for you, and for society. In Bilingual Aesthetics Sommer invites readers to make mischief with meaning, to play games with language, and to allow errors to stimulate new ways of thinking. Today’s global world has outgrown any one-to-one correlation between a people and a language; liberal democracies can either encourage difference or stifle it through exclusionary policies. Bilingual Aesthetics is Sommer’s passionate call for citizens and officials to cultivate difference and to realize that the precarious points of contact resulting from mismatches between languages, codes, and cultures are the lifeblood of democracy, as well as the stimulus for aesthetics and philosophy. Sommer encourages readers to entertain the creative possibilities inherent in multilingualism. With her characteristic wit and love of language, she focuses on humor—particularly bilingual jokes—as the place where tensions between and within cultures are played out. She draws on thinking about humor and language by a range of philosophers and others, including Sigmund Freud, Immanuel Kant, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hannah Arendt, and Mikhail Bakhtin. In declaring the merits of allowing for crossed signals, Sommer sends a clear message: Making room for more than one language is about value added, not about remediation. It is an expression of love for a contingent and changing world.

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0822385791

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The Work of Art in the World

Civic Agency and Public Humanities

By: Doris Sommer

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0822377128

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Saguaro National Monument

By: Doris Evans

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Saguaro National Monument

By: Doris Evans

Introduces visitors to this Sonoran Desert preserve in southern Arizona, where diverse plant and animal communities thrive in a challenging land of little rain and torrid summers. Photos by George H. H. Huey, C. Allan Morgan, Edward McCain, and others.

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Western National Parks Association

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1877856363

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Twisted Cross

The German Christian Movement in the Third Reich

By: Doris L. Bergen

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Twisted Cross

The German Christian Movement in the Third Reich

By: Doris L. Bergen

How did Germany's Christians respond to Nazism? In Twisted Cross, Doris Bergen addresses one important element of this response by focusing on the 600,000 self-described 'German Christians,' who sought to expunge all Jewish elements from the Christian church. In a process that became more daring as Nazi plans for genocide unfolded, this group of Protestant lay people and clergy rejected the Old Testament, ousted people defined as non-Aryans from their congregations, denied the Jewish ancestry of Jesus, and removed Hebrew words like 'Hallelujah' from hymns. Bergen refutes the notion that the German Christians were a marginal group and demonstrates that members occupied key positions within the Protestant church even after their agenda was rejected by the Nazi leadership. Extending her analysis into the postwar period, Bergen shows how the German Christians were relatively easily reincorporated into mainstream church life after 1945. Throughout Twisted Cross, Bergen reveals the important role played by women and by the ideology of spiritual motherhood amid the German Christians' glorification of a 'manly' church.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807860344

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9780807860342

Reinterpreting the Spanish American Essay

Women Writers of the 19th and 20th Centuries

By: Doris Meyer

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Reinterpreting the Spanish American Essay

Women Writers of the 19th and 20th Centuries

By: Doris Meyer

Latin American women have long written essays on topics ranging from gender identity and the female experience to social injustice, political oppression, lack of educational opportunities, and the need for female solidarity in a patriarchal environment. But this rich vein of writing has often been ignored and is rarely studied. This volume of twenty-one original studies by noted experts in Latin American literature seeks to recover and celebrate the accomplishments of Latin American women essayists. Taking a variety of critical approaches, the authors look at the way women writers have interpreted the essay genre, molded it to their expression, and created an intellectual tradition of their own. Some of writers they treat are Flora Tristan, Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Victoria Ocampo, Alfonsina Storni, Rosario Ferre, Christina Peri Rossi, and Elena Poniatowska.

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University of Texas Press

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0292751672

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9780292751675

Traumberuf Pilot?

By: Doris Daily

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Traumberuf Pilot?

By: Doris Daily

Doris Daily zeigt in Ihren BuIE chern "e;Traumberuf Pilot?"e; und "e;Wo bleibt denn der Pilot?"e; alle Ausbildungsmoeglichkeiten, den Berufsalltag, die Jobsuche, aber auch die Schattenseiten der Pilotentaetigkeit auf.TRAUMBERUF PILOT? Alles ueber die Piloten Ausbildung, Jobsuche und den BerufsalltagAutor Doris Daily - in deutscher Sprache - fuer (angehende) Piloten in Europa Einer der beliebtesten Berufsziele wird in diesem Ratgeber sehr kritisch beleuchtet... In TRAUMBERUF PILOT? finden Sie all diese Informationen in Deutscher Sprache. Die "e;Bibel fuer angehende Piloten"e; geht nicht nur auf die europaeische Piloten-Ausbildung und die Berufsmoeglichkeiten ein, sondern zeigt auch die weltweiten Perspektiven auf.Der "e;Traum vom Fliegen"e; beeinflusst den Berufswunsch vieler junger Frauen und Maenner. Erstmals haben sie nun die Moeglichkeit, detaillierte und objective Hintergrundinformationen zu ihrer Berufswahl und den Ausbildungswegen weltweit zu finden.Das Buch Traumberuf Pilot? gliedert sich in drei Bereiche: Im ersten Teil werden die Einsatzmoeglichkeiten fuer Berufspiloten erklaert und der Berufsalltag beschrieben. Vom Nachtfrachtpiloten ueber den Executive-Flieger bis hin zum Langstreckenpilot berichten Cockpit-Crews ueber ihren Arbeitsbereich und den Pilotenalltag.** Der zweite Abschnitt beschreibt Ausbildungswege in Europa nach den neuesten europaeischen Ausbildungsvorschriften, den JAR-FCL's, aber auch den vielen Ausbildungsmoeglichkeiten in Canada, Australien, Sued Afrika und den USA - inklusive der Umschreibemodalitaeten beschrieben. Es wird ausfuehrlich auch auf die Ausbildung "e;ab initio"e; - die durchgehende Ausbildung - oder die Kombination mit einem Studium eingegangen.*Im letzten Teil werden Berufschancen besprochen, DLR Pilotentest-Vorbereitungskurse erklaert, Ausbildungskosten aufgelistet, Gehaelter - weltweit - benannt (gemaess den aktuell zur Verfuegung stehenden Informationsquellen), Moeglichkeiten der Jobsuche aufgezeigt (mit einer umfassenden Adressenliste fuer Ihre Bewerbung inclusive der derzeit eingesetzten Fluggeraete von europaeischen Airlines und Luftfahrtunternehmen). Zahlreiche Bewerbungs- und Vorstellungstips vervollstaendigen das Werk. Im Anhang wird der Luftfahrtjargon entschluesselt und Abkuerzungen werden erklaert, sowie zahlreiche Suchmoeglichkeiten fuer die weitere Online Recherche fuer den Leser aufgelistet.*Fuer dieses ausfuehrliche, und alle Aspekte der Berufsfliegerei umfassende Informationswerk waren jahrelange Recherchen und zahllosen Interviews notwendig. Eigene Erfahrungen als Berufspilotin und Fluglehrerin runden die Informationen ab. Vor- und vor allem Nachteile dieser Luftfahrt Berufe werden detailliert beschrieben.*Arbeitsbereiche und der Berufsalltag von Airline- und Helikopterpiloten, Executive-Flieger, Testpiloten und Fluglehrer werden in Erlebnisberichten aus der Luftfahrt dargestellt.Anforderungen der Flugschulen, Ausbildungswege, Marktchancen, ein komplettes Adressenverzeichnis von europaeischen Ausbildungsbetrieben und Luftverkehrsgesellschaften, sowie Tips zur Vorbereitung auf den Einstellungstest bei der DLR und die Stellensuche sollen kuenftigen PilotInnen bei der Entscheidungsfindung helfen. Ein umfangreicher Index erleichtert die Suche und das Vertiefen einzelner fuer Piloten interessanter Themen.Um den Lesern einen objektiven Leitfaden an die Hand zu geben, wurden natuerlich auch besonders die weniger positiven Seiten des Berufes detailliert aufgezeigt. Diese "e;Bibel fuer angehende Piloten"e; geht nicht nur auf die europaeische Piloten-Ausbildung und die Berufsmoeglichkeiten ein, sondern will auch die weltweiten Perspektiven aufzeigen.*.

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1988664047

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9781988664040

2010 Global Hunger Index

The Challenge of Hunger : Focus on the Crisis of Child Undernutrition

By: Klaus von Grebmer, Maximo Torero, Tolulope Olofinbiyi, Heidi Fritschel, Doris Wiesmann & Yisehac Yohannes

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2010 Global Hunger Index

The Challenge of Hunger : Focus on the Crisis of Child Undernutrition

By: Klaus von Grebmer, Maximo Torero, Tolulope Olofinbiyi, Heidi Fritschel, Doris Wiesmann & Yisehac Yohannes

As the world approaches the 2015 deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which include a goal of reducing the proportion of hungry people by half, the 2010 Global Hunger Index (GHI) offers a useful multidimensional overview of global hunger. The 2010 GHI is the fifth in an annual series that records the state of global, regional, and national hunger. The 2010 GHI shows some improvement over the 1990 GHI, falling by almost one-quarter, but overall the index for hunger in the world remains at a level characterized as serious. The GHI captures three dimensions of hunger: insufficient availability of calories, shortfalls in the nutritional status of children, and child mortality. Accordingly, the Index includes the following three equally weighted indicators: the proportion of people who are undernourished, as estimated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); the prevalence of underweight in children under the age of five, as compiled by the World Health Organization (WHO); and the under-five mortality rate, as reported by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). The 2010 Index reflects data from 2003 to 2008, the most recent global data available on the three GHI components.

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Intl Food Policy Res Inst

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0896299260

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9780896299269

Work Incentives and Welfare Provision

The 'Pathological' Theory of Unemployment

By: Doris Schroeder

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Work Incentives and Welfare Provision

The 'Pathological' Theory of Unemployment

By: Doris Schroeder

This title was first published in 2000: Over the past decade the welfare state has come under sustained attack not only from quarters which never approved of its policies, but also from political theorists who used to support it. With the collapse of communism, the policy of comprehensive welfare provision came under renewed scrutiny. It was argued that its impact on work incentives is most detrimental. Examining in detail current unemployment debates within Western welfare states, this book seeks to verify or refute the view that non-work is increasingly chosen by work shy individuals - the 'pathological' theory of unemployment. Drawing from a range of disciplinary perspectives - from social philosophy and the history of philosophy, to occupational psychology and feminist economics - this interdisciplinary analysis reveals that the "pathological" theory of unemployment, with its reliance on a deficient depiction of human nature and its disregard of non-pecuniary work incentives and empirical evidence on benefit fraud, cannot be upheld. Schroeder presents an alternative explanation for the phenomenon of widespread Western unemployment through new insights into an 'external barrier' theory of unemployment, namely technological displacement combined with a refusal to return to a two-tiered Victorian society. By effectively combining empirical data with philosophical deliberations, the book provides an important contribution to the welfare state debate.

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Routledge

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1351783572

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9781351783576

Women's Movements in Twentieth-Century Taiwan

By: Doris Chang

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Women's Movements in Twentieth-Century Taiwan

By: Doris Chang

This book is the first in English to consider women's movements and feminist discourses in twentieth-century Taiwan. Doris T. Chang examines the way in which Taiwanese women in the twentieth century selectively appropriated Western feminist theories to meet their needs in a modernizing Confucian culture. She illustrates the rise and fall of women's movements against the historical backdrop of the island's contested national identities, first vis-à-vis imperial Japan (1895-1945) and later with postwar China (1945-2000). In particular, during periods of soft authoritarianism in the Japanese colonial era and late twentieth century, autonomous women's movements emerged and operated within the political perimeters set by the authoritarian regimes. Women strove to replace the "Good Wife, Wise Mother" ideal with an individualist feminism that meshed social, political, and economic gender equity with the prevailing Confucian family ideology. However, during periods of hard authoritarianism from the 1930s to the 1960s, the autonomous movements collapsed. The particular brand of Taiwanese feminism developed from numerous outside influences, including interactions among an East Asian sociopolitical milieu, various strands of Western feminism, and even Marxist-Leninist women's liberation programs in Soviet Russia. Chinese communism appears not to have played a significant role, due to the Chinese Nationalists' restriction of communication with the mainland during their rule on post-World War II Taiwan. Notably, this study compares the perspectives of Madame Chiang Kai-shek, whose husband led as the president of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1949 to 1975, and Hsiu-lien Annette Lu, Taiwan's vice president from 2000 to 2008. Delving into period sources such as the highly influential feminist monthly magazine Awakening as well as interviews with feminist leaders, Chang provides a comprehensive historical and cross-cultural analysis of the struggle for gender equality in Taiwan.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252090810

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9780252090813

Shared Languages, Shared Identities, Shared Stories

A Qualitative Study of Life Stories by Immigrants from German-speaking Switzerland in Australia

By: Doris Schüpbach

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Shared Languages, Shared Identities, Shared Stories

A Qualitative Study of Life Stories by Immigrants from German-speaking Switzerland in Australia

By: Doris Schüpbach

This book explores how 15 immigrants from German-speaking Switzerland in Australia make sense of their migratory experience, of building a new life in a different language. It does so by examining their written and oral life stories. The analysis takes two complementary perspectives: Firstly, the construction of language identities is studied through the language practices and attitudes discussed and displayed by the participants. Secondly, the ways in which they create coherence in their life stories focuses on autobiographical identities where language is a medium of sense-making across their life course. The combined perspectives highlight the diversity among the participants and the complexities of language and identity construction in the context of migration.

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Peter Lang

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3631579470

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9783631579473

Kidnapper by Proxy

By: Doris M Holland

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Kidnapper by Proxy

By: Doris M Holland

Kaylas orderly life is turned into chaos by a precocious child who insists that Kayla is her mother. In her search for the childs mother, she is caught up in kidnapping, extortion, murder, and intrigue.

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AuthorHouse

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1524683817

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Hikes in the Southern Appalachians

Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee

By: Doris Gove

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Hikes in the Southern Appalachians

Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee

By: Doris Gove

32 hikes in Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee. Complete with elevation profiles, topo maps, itineraries.

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Stackpole Books

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0811726681

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9780811726689

Historical Studies on Folk and Traditional Music

ICTM Study Group on Historical Sources of Folk Music, Conference Report, Copenhagen, 24-28 April 1995

By: Doris Stockmann,International Council for Traditional Music. Study Group on Historical Sources of Folk Music. Conference

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Historical Studies on Folk and Traditional Music

ICTM Study Group on Historical Sources of Folk Music, Conference Report, Copenhagen, 24-28 April 1995

By: Doris Stockmann,International Council for Traditional Music. Study Group on Historical Sources of Folk Music. Conference

Since the 1960s historical studies of European folk and traditional music have had a centre in the 'Study Group on Historical Sources of Folk Music' within the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM). The new political situation in Europe in the 1990s has given this work topical interest, since folk and traditional music is often an important component in ethnic or even national identity. The Study Group held its eleventh conference in Copenhagen at the Danish Folklore archives (Dansk Folkemindesamling) from 24 to 28 April 1995. The local organisers of the meeting were Jens Henrik Koudal and Svend Nielsen. Around 30 participants from 15 countries (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy/Albania, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania and Sweden) attended the conference, presenting recent results of their research. The meeting concentrated on historical aspects of the following topics: (I) 'Traditional Music Between Urban and Rural Communities', and (II) 'Music and Working'. MAIN HEADINGS: Preface; THEME ONE -- Traditional Music Between Urban and Rural Communities; Central Europe; Balkans; On the Borderlines and Outside Europe. THEME TWO -- Music and Working.

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Museum Tusculanum Press

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8772894415

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9788772894416

The Libertine Colony

Creolization in the Early French Caribbean

By: Doris L Garraway

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The Libertine Colony

Creolization in the Early French Caribbean

By: Doris L Garraway

Presenting incisive original readings of French writing about the Caribbean from the inception of colonization in the 1640s until the onset of the Haitian Revolution in the 1790s, Doris Garraway sheds new light on a significant chapter in French colonial history. At the same time, she makes a pathbreaking contribution to the study of the cultural contact, creolization, and social transformation that resulted in one of the most profitable yet brutal slave societies in history. Garraway’s readings highlight how French colonial writers characterized the Caribbean as a space of spiritual, social, and moral depravity. While tracing this critique in colonial accounts of Island Carib cultures, piracy, spirit beliefs, slavery, miscegenation, and incest, Garraway develops a theory of “the libertine colony.” She argues that desire and sexuality were fundamental to practices of domination, laws of exclusion, and constructions of race in the slave societies of the colonial French Caribbean. Among the texts Garraway analyzes are missionary histories by Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre, Raymond Breton, and Jean-Baptiste Labat; narratives of adventure and transgression written by pirates and others outside the official civil and religious power structures; travel accounts; treatises on slavery and colonial administration in Saint-Domingue; the first colonial novel written in French; and the earliest linguistic description of the native Carib language. Garraway also analyzes legislation—including the Code noir—that codified slavery and other racialized power relations. The Libertine Colony is both a rich cultural history of creolization as revealed in Francophone colonial literature and an important contribution to theoretical arguments about how literary critics and historians should approach colonial discourse and cultural representations of slave societies.

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Duke University Press

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0822386518

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9780822386513

War and Genocide

A Concise History of the Holocaust

By: Doris L. Bergen

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War and Genocide

A Concise History of the Holocaust

By: Doris L. Bergen

In examining one of the defining events of the twentieth century, Doris L. Bergen situates the Holocaust in its historical, political, social, cultural, and military contexts. Unlike many other treatments of the Holocaust, this revised, fourth edition discusses not only the persecution of Jews, but also other groups targeted by the Nazis: people with disabilities, Roma, queer people, Poles in leadership positions, Soviet POWs, and others deemed unwanted. In clear and eloquent prose, Bergen explores the two interconnected goals that drove the Nazi German program of conquest and genocide—purification of the so-called Aryan race and expansion of its living space—and invites readers to reflect on how the Holocaust connects to histories of violence around the world. Replete with firsthand accounts from victims, survivors, and eyewitnesses, this book is immediate, human, and eminently readable.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538178079

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9781538178072

Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Southern Appalachians

2nd Edition

By: Doris Gove

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Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Southern Appalachians

2nd Edition

By: Doris Gove

How to use this book -- Hiking : the basics -- Packing your pack -- Finding your way -- Appalachian trail history -- Georgia -- North Carolina -- Tennesee/North Carolina -- Tennessee.

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Stackpole Books

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0811710637

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9780811710633

Doris Salcedo

The Materiality of Mourning

By: Mary Schneider Enriquez,Doris Salcedo,Narayan Khandekar

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Doris Salcedo

The Materiality of Mourning

By: Mary Schneider Enriquez,Doris Salcedo,Narayan Khandekar

In Context: Violence and Contemporary Art in Colombia -- Salcedo's Influences: Artists, Works, Practices -- The Six Visual Strategies -- Organic and Ephemeral: Materiality in Salcedo's Most Recent Works -- Inherent Vice and the Ship of Theseus / Narayan Khandekar -- Artist Biography and Exhibition History

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Yale University Press

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0300222513

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9780300222517

Clinical MR Spectroscopy

Techniques and Applications

By: Peter B. Barker,Alberto Bizzi,Nicola De Stefano,Rao Gullapalli,Doris D. M. Lin

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Clinical MR Spectroscopy

Techniques and Applications

By: Peter B. Barker,Alberto Bizzi,Nicola De Stefano,Rao Gullapalli,Doris D. M. Lin

In vivo magnetic resonance spectrosopy (MRS) is increasingly being used in the clinical setting, particularly for neurological disorders. Clinical MR Spectroscopy – Techniques and Applications explains both the underlying physical principles of MRS and provides a perceptive review of clinical MRS applications. Topics covered include an introduction to MRS physics, information content of spectra from different organ systems, spectral analysis methods, recommended protocols and localization techniques, and normal age- and region-related spectral variations in the brain. Clinical applications in the brain are discussed for brain tumors, hypoxic and ischemic injury, infectious, inflammatory and demyelinating diseases, epilepsy, neurodegenerative disorders, trauma and metabolic diseases. Outside of the brain, techniques and applications are discussed for MRS in the musculosketal system, breast and prostate. Written by leading MRS experts, this is an invaluable guide for anyone interested in in vivo MRS, including radiologists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, oncologists and medical researchers.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139483188

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The English Woman in History

By: Doris Mary Stenton

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The English Woman in History

By: Doris Mary Stenton

First published in 1957, The English Woman in History displays the place women have held and the influence they have exerted within the changing pattern of English society. Ever since the days of Queen Elizabeth I the position of women in English society has been a matter of general debate. In the seventeenth century many men produced books in praise of women, following the example of Thomas Heywood. Most of these books were devoted to the praises of individual women, but their authors generally produced arguments against subjection of all women to the unthinking dominance of men. While married women were still legally subject to their husbands and no women were allowed to take part in public affairs it was impossible to write objectively about women’s place in the world. The women who at the end of the seventeenth century began to write were generally fired by a sense of injustice, and men tended to write condescendingly of charm and beauty, which interested them more than intelligence and wit. Now that women are bearing public responsibilities with success it is possible for historians to look back dispassionately over the centuries and trace the stages by which this position has been won. It is a survey of this nature which Lady Stenton has attempted in this book. This is a must read for students and scholars of women’s history, gender studies and women’s movement.

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Routledge

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1000562387

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9781000562385

Proceed with Caution, when Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas

By: Doris Sommer

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Proceed with Caution, when Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas

By: Doris Sommer

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Harvard University Press

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0674536584

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Amalia

By: José Mármol,Doris Sommer

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Amalia

By: José Mármol,Doris Sommer

Concieved to protest the cut-throat dictatorship of Juan Manuel de Rosas during the tumultuous years of post-independence Argentina and to provide a picture of the political events during his regime. Recounts the story of Eduardo and Amalia, who fall in love while Eduardo convalesces from a death-squad attack in Amalia's home."--Jacket.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195122771

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Nutrition and Physical Fitness

By: George McSpadden Briggs,Doris Howes Calloway

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Nutrition and Physical Fitness

By: George McSpadden Briggs,Doris Howes Calloway

Abstract: An introductory college nutrition text is designed to provide basic knowledge and a foundation for independent and advanced study, The first two-thirds of the 25 text chapters primarily cover basic nutritio facts; practical applications of these facts are interspersed throughout the text. The last third of the book presents practical information on some of the more important applied nutrition topics not covered earlier (nutrition in athletics, pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood; nutrition and dental health; malnourished world populations; influence of food beliefs on eating habits; the applicatio n of nutritional theory to practice). Basic nutritional information is provided on macro-and nicronutrients, digestion, absorption, physical fitness requirements, electrolyte balance, food composition, and requisite and excessive energy intake. (wz).

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Holt McDougal

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0030585872

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