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Everybody Has a Body

Science from Head to Toe : Activities for Teachers of Children Ages 3-6

By: Robert E. Rockwell,Robert A. Williams,Elizabeth A. Sherwood

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Everybody Has a Body

Science from Head to Toe : Activities for Teachers of Children Ages 3-6

By: Robert E. Rockwell,Robert A. Williams,Elizabeth A. Sherwood

Children will gain mastery of the basic science process skills--observation, inference, and prediction--while exploring the first environment they encounter--their very own bodies. This unique book connects literacy to science in the early childhood classroom, and promotes the development of systematic decision-making in young children.

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Gryphon House, Inc.

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0876591586

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Hug a Tree

And Other Things to Do Outdoors with Young Children

By: Robert E. Rockwell,Elizabeth A. Sherwood,Robert A. Williams

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Hug a Tree

And Other Things to Do Outdoors with Young Children

By: Robert E. Rockwell,Elizabeth A. Sherwood,Robert A. Williams

Ideas and activities involving the natural environment.

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Gryphon House, Inc.

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0876591055

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A Cultural History of Medical Vitalism in Enlightenment Montpellier

By: Elizabeth A. Williams

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A Cultural History of Medical Vitalism in Enlightenment Montpellier

By: Elizabeth A. Williams

One of the key themes of the Enlightenment was the search for universal laws and truths that would help illuminate the workings of the universe. It is in such attitudes that we trace the origins of modern science and medicine. However, not all eighteenth century scientists and physicians believed that such universal laws could be found, particularly in relation to the differences between living and inanimate matter. From the 1740s physicians working in the University of Medicine of Montpellier began to contest Descartes's dualist concept of the body-machine that was being championed by leading Parisian medical 'mechanists'. In place of the body-machine perspective that sought laws universally valid for all phenomena, the vitalists postulated a distinction being living and other matter, offering a holistic understanding of the physical-moral relation in place of mind-body dualism. Their medicine was not based on mathematics and the unity of the sciences, but on observation of the individual patient and the harmonious activities of the 'body-economy'. Vitalists believed that Illness was a result of disharmony in this 'body-economy' which could only be remedied on an individual level depending on the patient's own 'natural' limitations. The limitations were established by a myriad of factors such as sex, class, age, temperament, region, and race, which negated the use of a single universal treatment for a particular ailment. Ultimately Montpelier medicine was eclipsed by that of Paris, a development linked to the dynamics of the Enlightenment as a movement bent on cultural centralisation, acquiring a reputation as a kind of anti-science of the exotic and the mad. Given the long-standing Paris-centrism of French cultural history, Montpellier vitalism has never been accorded the attention it deserves by historians. This study repairs that neglect.

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Routledge

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1351962566

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9781351962568

The Physical and the Moral

Anthropology, Physiology, and Philosophical Medicine in France, 1750-1850

By: Elizabeth A. Williams

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The Physical and the Moral

Anthropology, Physiology, and Philosophical Medicine in France, 1750-1850

By: Elizabeth A. Williams

This book explores the tradition of the "science of man" in French medicine of the era 1750-1850, focusing on controversies about the nature of the "physical-moral" relation and their effects on the role of medicine in French society. Its chief purpose is to recover the history of a holistic tradition in French medicine that has been neglected, because it lay outside the mainstream themes of modern medicine, which include experimental, reductionist, and localistic conceptions of health and disease. Professor Williams also challenges existing historiography, which holds that the "anthropological" approach to medicine was a short-term by-product of the leftist politics of the French Revolution. This work argues instead that the medical science of man long outlived the revolution, that it spanned traditional ideological divisions, and that it reflected the shared aim of French physicians, whatever their politics, to claim broad cultural authority in French society.

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306

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Cambridge University Press

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0521524628

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9780521524629

Black Women and Breast Cancer

A Cultural Theology

By: Elizabeth A. Williams

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Black Women and Breast Cancer

A Cultural Theology

By: Elizabeth A. Williams

Christian theology at its core is a story about someone being in trouble. In response to this trouble, the triune God intervenes. God identifies with those in trouble, walking with them through the experience. Yet, the God of Christian theology goes a step further. God prevails over trouble. God is an overcomer. Black women with breast cancer identify with this God. They also see themselves in this theological narrative. They see themselves in the midst of troubles, troubles like racism, poverty and environmental exposures that create the disease affecting their bodies. They see the troubles of breast cancer, their biological disposition towards more aggressive cancers, later stage diagnoses, poorer prognoses, diminished quality of care and worse outcomes. Black women also palpably feel the troubles breast cancer brings like fear, physical disfigurement, social isolation, being stereotyped for treatment decisions, abandonment and even death. Black women feel the myriad troubles breast cancer brings. But, Black women also know God in their troubles. They know an active God who identifies with and prioritizes their needs. They know this God, through scripture and experience, as God who puts them front and center. And because they know God as an overcomer and creative force, they know themselves as overcomers. For with God, their troubles do not last always. Black women with breast cancer construct a cultural theology of breast cancer out of knowing God. Borne out of experiences of the Black Church, womanist theology and their intersectional identities of race, class and gender, this theological investigation, informed by anthropology, examines how Black women construct an ontology of who God is and how God operates and gain a God consciousness that shapes their response to the disease. Using pain, faith and testimony as tools to struggle against breast cancer Black survivors’ theology transforms them from victims of breast cancer to change agents. Out of their lives as survivors comes a theology of complex hope- one cognizant of Black women’s breast cancer disparities, yet oriented towards Black women’s achievement of health in the present and the future– a sufficient hope to sustain Black women through it all.

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183

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498561071

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9781498561075

Mencken

The American Iconoclast

By: Marion Elizabeth Rodgers

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Mencken

The American Iconoclast

By: Marion Elizabeth Rodgers

Here is the definitive biography of Mencken, the most illuminating book ever published about this giant of American letters. We see the prominent role he played in the Scopes Monkey Trial, his long crusade against Prohibition, his fierce battles against press censorship, and his constant exposure of pious frauds and empty uplift. The champion of our tongue in The American Language, Mencken also played a pivotal role in defining the shape of American letters through The Smart Set and The American Mercury, magazines that introduced such writers as James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Langston Hughes.

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Oxford University Press

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019533129X

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9780195331295

Transforming Nursing Education Through Problem-based Learning

By: Elizabeth Rideout

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Transforming Nursing Education Through Problem-based Learning

By: Elizabeth Rideout

With the growing interest in problem-based learning among nurse educators worldwide comes the need for a book that will be a comprehensive guide and resource for anyone considering its implementation in nursing education. This book is that resource. Its strength is its integration of relevant theory, research, and practical information. It is an invaluable resource for nursing faculty contemplating the use of the problem-based learning model.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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0763714275

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9780763714277

Encounters at the Heart of the World

A History of the Mandan People

By: Elizabeth A. Fenn

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Encounters at the Heart of the World

A History of the Mandan People

By: Elizabeth A. Fenn

This Pulitzer Prize–winning work pieces together the lost history of the Mandan Native Americans and their thriving society on the Upper Missouri River. The Mandan people’s bustling towns in present-day North Dakota were at the center of the North American universe for centuries. Yet their history has been nearly forgotten, maintained in fragmentary documents and the journals of white visitors such as Lewis and Clark. In this extraordinary book, Elizabeth A. Fenn pieces together those fragments along with important new discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, geology, climatology, epidemiology, and nutritional science. The result is a bold new perspective on early American history, a new interpretation of the American past. By 1500, more than twelve thousand Mandans were established on the northern Plains, and their commercial prowess, agricultural skills, and reputation for hospitality became famous. Recent archaeological discoveries show how they thrived—and how they collapsed. The damage wrought by imported diseases like smallpox and the havoc caused by the arrival of horses and steamboats were tragic for the Mandans, yet, as Fenn makes clear, their sense of themselves as a people with distinctive traditions endured.

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Macmillan + ORM

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0374711070

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9780374711078

A Complete Guide to Quality in Small-Scale Wine Making

By: John Anthony Considine,Elizabeth Frankish

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A Complete Guide to Quality in Small-Scale Wine Making

By: John Anthony Considine,Elizabeth Frankish

As the wine industry has experienced a period of rapid global expansion, there is a renewed emphasis on quality and consistency even within the small winery industry. Written for the small production program, A Complete Guide to Quality in Small-Scale Wine Making is for the novice to intermediate level winemaker seeking foundational information in chemistry and sensory science as they relate to wine quality at a technical level. Drawing from personal experience as well as scientific literature, this book introduces the core concepts of winemaking before delving into methods and analysis to provide practical insights into creating and maintaining quality in the wine product. - Understand the chemistry and sensory science at the foundation of quality wines - Explore real-world examples of key analysis and application of concepts - Practice methods and exercises for hands-on experience

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Academic Press

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0124079172

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9780124079175

Mudpies to Magnets

A Preschool Science Curriculum

By: Robert A. Williams,Robert E. Rockwell,Elizabeth A. Sherwood

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Mudpies to Magnets

A Preschool Science Curriculum

By: Robert A. Williams,Robert E. Rockwell,Elizabeth A. Sherwood

224 hands-on science experiments and ideas with step-by-step instructions delight and amaze children as they experience nature, the human body, electricity, floating and sinking, and more. Children participate in projects such as making a tornado in a jar, creating constellations and growing crystals. Categorized by curriculum areas, each activity includes a list of vocabulary words and easily accessible materials.

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Gryphon House, Inc.

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0876591128

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9780876591123

Raymond Williams: From Wales to the World

By: Stephen Woodhams,Elizabeth Allen,Derek Tatton,Hywel Dix

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Raymond Williams: From Wales to the World

By: Stephen Woodhams,Elizabeth Allen,Derek Tatton,Hywel Dix

Raymond Williams came from Wales, and was brought up in a working-class family. These facts of place and class are the start of a thread which runs throughout his life and work. In Raymond Williams: From Wales to the World his writing, whether theoretical, historical, critical or as fiction has been treated as a single whole, recognising that his ideas were interwoven as a literary and intellectual engagement with Wales and the world over several decades. This collection of essays, edited by Stephen Woodhams, serves to further engage and extend his ideas of class and society.

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Parthian Books

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1913640930

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9781913640934

The Burden of History

Colonialism and the Frontier Myth in a Rural Canadian Community

By: Elizabeth Furniss

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The Burden of History

Colonialism and the Frontier Myth in a Rural Canadian Community

By: Elizabeth Furniss

This book is an ethnography of the cultural politics of Native/non-Native relations in a small interior BC city -- Williams Lake -- at the height of land claims conflicts and tensions. Furniss analyses contemporary colonial relations in settler societies, arguing that 'ordinary' rural Euro- Canadians exercise power in maintaining the subordination of aboriginal people through 'common sense' assumptions and assertions about history, society, and identity, and that these cultural activities are forces in an ongoing, contemporary system of colonial domination. She traces the main features of the regional Euro-Canadian culture and shows how this cultural complex is thematically integrated through the idea of the frontier. Key facets of this frontier complex are expressed in diverse settings: casual conversations among Euro-Canadians; popular histories; museum displays; political discourse; public debates about aboriginal land claims; and ritual celebrations of the city's heritage.

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UBC Press

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0774842180

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9780774842181

Appetite and Its Discontents

Science, Medicine, and the Urge to Eat, 1750-1950

By: Elizabeth A. Williams

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Appetite and Its Discontents

Science, Medicine, and the Urge to Eat, 1750-1950

By: Elizabeth A. Williams

Why do we eat? Is it instinct? Despite the necessity of food, anxieties about what and how to eat are widespread and persistent. In Appetite and Its Discontents, Elizabeth A. Williams explores contemporary worries about eating through the lens of science and medicine to show us how appetite—once a matter of personal inclination—became an object of science. Williams charts the history of inquiry into appetite between 1750 and 1950, as scientific and medical concepts of appetite shifted alongside developments in physiology, natural history, psychology, and ethology. She shows how, in the eighteenth century, trust in appetite was undermined when researchers who investigated ingestion and digestion began claiming that science alone could say which ways of eating were healthy and which were not. She goes on to trace nineteenth- and twentieth-century conflicts over the nature of appetite between mechanists and vitalists, experimentalists and bedside physicians, and localists and holists, illuminating struggles that have never been resolved. By exploring the core disciplines in investigations in appetite and eating, Williams reframes the way we think about food, nutrition, and the nature of health itself..

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University of Chicago Press

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022669318X

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9780226693187

Book's by Elizabeth A. Williams

Everybody Has a Body

Everybody Has a Body

Hug a Tree

Hug a Tree

A Cultural History of Medical Vitalism in Enlightenment Montpellier

A Cultural History of Medical Vitalism in Enlightenment Montpellier

The Physical and the Moral

The Physical and the Moral

Black Women and Breast Cancer

Black Women and Breast Cancer

Mencken

Mencken

Transforming Nursing Education Through Problem-based Learning

Transforming Nursing Education Through Problem-based Learning

Encounters at the Heart of the World

Encounters at the Heart of the World

A Complete Guide to Quality in Small-Scale Wine Making

A Complete Guide to Quality in Small-Scale Wine Making

Mudpies to Magnets

Mudpies to Magnets

Raymond Williams: From Wales to the World

Raymond Williams: From Wales to the World

The Burden of History

The Burden of History

Appetite and Its Discontents

Appetite and Its Discontents

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