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I'm Lost

By: Elizabeth Crary

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I'm Lost

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Presents a situation where a child is lost at the zoo and encourages critical thinking on the part of the reader to resolve the problem.

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1884734243

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I Want to Play

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I Want to Play

By: Elizabeth Crary

A young boy considers eight ways to get someone to play with him. Text encourages problem solving by looking at alternatives and possible consequences.

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1884734189

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Mommy, Don't Go

By: Elizabeth Crary

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Mommy, Don't Go

By: Elizabeth Crary

Matthew's mom is going on a trip. He feels sad and scared. You can help Matthew decide how to solve his problem. If you don't like what happens, you can make a different choice.

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1884734200

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I Can't Wait

By: Elizabeth Crary

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I Can't Wait

By: Elizabeth Crary

A little boy considers eight things to do while he waits to take his turn. Presents questions about behavior and feelings for an adult to ask the child as each alternative in the story is considered.

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1884734227

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I Want It

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I Want It

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A little girl considers seven different ways to get the toy she wants from her playmate. Includes questions about feelings and making choices as each alternative in the story is considered.

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I Want to Play

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I Want to Play

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A young boy considers eight ways to get someone to play with him. Text encourages problem solving by looking at alternatives and possible consequences.

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I Can't Wait

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A little boy considers eight things to do while he waits to take his turn. Presents questions about behavior and feelings for an adult to ask the child as each alternative in the story is considered.

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I'm Furious

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I'm Furious

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The author provides options children can use to diffuse their anger without denying it or feeling shame about it.

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I'm Lost

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Presents a situation where a child is lost at the zoo and encourages critical thinking on the part of the reader to resolve the problem.

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Poetry and the Thought of Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By: Elizabeth K. Helsinger

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Poetry and the Thought of Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By: Elizabeth K. Helsinger

In arguing for the crucial importance of song for poets in the long nineteenth century, Elizabeth Helsinger focuses on both the effects of song on lyric forms and the mythopoetics through which poets explored the affinities of poetry with song. Looking in particular at individual poets and poems, Helsinger puts extensive close readings into productive conversation with nineteenth-century German philosophic and British scientific aesthetics. While she considers poets long described as "musical"—Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Gerard Manly Hopkins, Emily Brontë, and Algernon Charles Swinburne—Helsinger also examines the more surprising importance of song for those poets who rethought poetry through the medium of visual art: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, and Christina Rossetti. In imitating song’s forms and sound textures through lyric’s rhythm, rhyme, and repetition, these poets were pursuing song’s "thought" in a double sense. They not only asked readers to think of particular kinds of song as musical sound in social performance (ballads, national airs, political songs, plainchant) but also invited readers to think like song: to listen to the sounds of a poem as it moves minds in a different way from philosophy or science. By attending to the formal practices of these poets, the music to which the poets were listening, and the stories and myths out of which each forged a poetics that aspired to the condition of music, Helsinger suggests new ways to think about the nature and form of the lyric in the nineteenth century.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813938015

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The Complete History of Women's Suffrage â All 6 Volumes in One Edition (Illustrated Edition)

Everything You Need to Know about the Biggest Victory of Women's Rights and Equality in the United States – Written By the Greatest Social Activists, Abolitionists & Suffragists

By: Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Susan B. Anthony,Matilda Gage,Harriot Stanton Blatch,Ida H. Harper

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The Complete History of Women's Suffrage â All 6 Volumes in One Edition (Illustrated Edition)

Everything You Need to Know about the Biggest Victory of Women's Rights and Equality in the United States – Written By the Greatest Social Activists, Abolitionists & Suffragists

By: Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Susan B. Anthony,Matilda Gage,Harriot Stanton Blatch,Ida H. Harper

This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Experience the American feminism in its core. Learn about the decades long fight, about the endurance and the strength needed to continue the battle against persistent indifference and injustice. Go back in time and get to know the founders and the followers, the characters of all the strong women involved in the movement. Find out what was the spark which started it all and kept the flame going. Learn about the organization, witness the backdoor conversations and discussions, read their personal correspondence, speeches and planned tactics. Learn about the relationship between great activists and what caused the fraction. This six volumes edition covers the women's suffrage movement from 1848 to 1922. Originally envisioned as a modest publication that would take only four months to write, it evolved into a work of more than 5700 pages written over a period of 41 years and was completed in 1922, long after the deaths of its visionary authors and editors, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. However, realizing that the project was unlikely to make a profit, Anthony had already bought the rights from the other authors. As a sole owner, she published the books herself and donated many copies to libraries and people of influence. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) was an American suffragist, social reformer and women's rights activist. Harriot Stanton Blatch (1856-1940) was a suffragist and daughter of Elizabeth Stanton. Matilda Gage (1826–1898) was a suffragist, a Native American rights activist and an abolitionist. Ida H. Harper (1851–1931) was a prominent figure in the United States women's suffrage movement and biographer of Susan B. Anthony.

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8027224802

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The Collected Works

The Woman's Bible, The History of Women's Suffrage From 1848 to 1885, Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897

By: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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The Collected Works

The Woman's Bible, The History of Women's Suffrage From 1848 to 1885, Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897

By: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited Elizabeth Cady collection. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 – 1902) was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the Seneca Falls Convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is often credited with initiating the first organized women's rights and women's suffrage movements in the United States. Stanton was president of the National Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 until 1900. Contents: The Woman's Bible Comments on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy Comments on the Old and New Testaments from Joshua to Revelation The History of Women's Suffrage From 1848 to 1885 Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897

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The Suffragettes – Complete History Of the Movement (6 Volumes in One Edition)

The Battle for the Equal Rights: 1848-1922 (Including Letters, Newspaper Articles, Conference Reports, Speeches, Court Transcripts & Decisions)

By: Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Susan B. Anthony,Matilda Gage,Harriot Stanton Blatch,Ida H. Harper

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The Suffragettes – Complete History Of the Movement (6 Volumes in One Edition)

The Battle for the Equal Rights: 1848-1922 (Including Letters, Newspaper Articles, Conference Reports, Speeches, Court Transcripts & Decisions)

By: Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Susan B. Anthony,Matilda Gage,Harriot Stanton Blatch,Ida H. Harper

Find out what was the spark which started it all and kept the flame going. Learn about the decades long fight, about the endurance and the strength needed to continue the battle against persistent indifference and injustice. Go back in time and get to know the founders and the followers, the characters of all the strong women involved in the movement. Learn about the organization, witness the backdoor conversations and discussions, read their personal correspondence, impressions and planned tactics. Learn about the relationship between great activists and what caused the fraction. See the movement in its full light and learn what it took to obtain most basic civil rights. Know your history! Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) was an American suffragist, social reformer and women's rights activist. Harriot Stanton Blatch (1856-1940) was a suffragist and daughter of Elizabeth Stanton. Matilda Gage (1826–1898) was a suffragist, a Native American rights activist and an abolitionist. Ida H. Harper (1851–1931) was a prominent figure in the United States women's suffrage movement. She was an American author, journalist and biographer of Susan B. Anthony.

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My Name is Not Dummy

By: Elizabeth Crary

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My Name is Not Dummy

By: Elizabeth Crary

Using a story about two friends, Jenny and Eduardo, explores the various ways Jenny might react when Eduardo calls her a dummy, and the consequences of her possible reactions.

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1884734162

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The Everest Effect

Nature, Culture, Ideology

By: Elizabeth Mazzolini

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The Everest Effect

Nature, Culture, Ideology

By: Elizabeth Mazzolini

The Everest Effect is an accessibly written cultural history of how nature, technology, and culture have worked together to turn Mount Everest into a powerful and ubiquitous physical measure of Western values.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817318933

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Without Spanking Or Spoiling

A Practical Approach to Toddler and Preschool Guidance

By: Elizabeth Crary

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Without Spanking Or Spoiling

A Practical Approach to Toddler and Preschool Guidance

By: Elizabeth Crary

If you feel trapped between extremes when you're disciplining your children, you'll appreciate the time-tested advice in this classic guide. You don't have to spank your children to get them to behave--and you don't have to worry that you're spoiling them, either. Drawing from four major child guidance philosophies, parent educator Elizabeth Crary provides dozens of examples and exercises to help you find the best way to rear your children. Without Spanking or Spoling will also help you understand:

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0943990742

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I'm Proud

By: Elizabeth Crary

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I'm Proud

By: Elizabeth Crary

Emphasizes to children and parents that self-esteem depends on knowing the value of one's own accomplishments, even if these are not recognized by others.

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0943990661

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Finders, Keepers?

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Finders, Keepers?

By: Elizabeth Crary

You and your friend Jerry find a wallet with money in it. You must decide what to do with the wallet. You decide what happens next.

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Clinical Case Studies for Nutrition Care Process (eBook)

By: Elizabeth Zorzanello Emery

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Clinical Case Studies for Nutrition Care Process (eBook)

By: Elizabeth Zorzanello Emery

Clinical Case Studies for the Nutrition Care Process presents realistic scenarios for a variety of cases organized in the format of the Nutrition Care Process (NCP). The ideal resource for use in the Medical Nutrition Therapy or Clinical Nutrition course, readers will find cases drawn from the author’s experience and also collected from practitioners who are experts in their field, providing a variety of relevant, interesting cases. Along with providing necessary real-world content, these cases help students meet standard put forth by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND). In using these cases, students will learn how to utilize standardized terms, develop a nutrition diagnosis, and apply the standardized language to specific clinical cases. In addition to the cases, the text also presents a brief introduction to the Nutrition Care Process, as well as a new section focused on applying the NCP in clinical practice.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284211703

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9781284211702

Mathematics and the Body

Material Entanglements in the Classroom

By: Elizabeth de Freitas,Nathalie Sinclair

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Mathematics and the Body

Material Entanglements in the Classroom

By: Elizabeth de Freitas,Nathalie Sinclair

This book expands the landscape of research in mathematics education by analyzing how the body influences mathematical thinking.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107039487

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Henry Adams

A Biography

By: Elizabeth Stevenson

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Henry Adams

A Biography

By: Elizabeth Stevenson

His great grandfather and his grandfather had been presidents of the United States, and to a small boy this seemed a matter of course in his family. But Henry Adams, belonging to a later generation, coming to maturity at the time of the Civil War, found himself in an age uncongenial to the leadership of such men as his ancestors. In the changing world of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, Adams found his rightful place as an observer and critic rather than a participant in public life. But no time and no country ever had a keener mind to take note of the comic and tragic qualities embedded in the political, economic, and human drama upon which he gazed. And his writings appeal timelessly in their incisive wit, their warm charm, and in the way they speak to us of a very individual personality. When Stevenson's book first appeared, the New York Times called it 'One of the noteable biographies of recent years,' and it won the Bancroft Prize that year. It remains an engrossing portrait of a remarkable man.It is good to take note of the sage he became in his late, great books: Mont-St. Michel and Chartres and The Education of Henry Adams. This biography explains how Henry Adams became the man both admired and feared in his later years. He was first a bright, unformed young man who was a diplomatic assistant to his father; then an ambitious journalist, a writer of several 'sensational' newspaper and magazine articles. Next he became a provocative and innovative teacher, and a historian unequalled in his presentation of the Jeffersonian period. Until his wife's tragic death, he was a willing actor on the social scene of his beloved Washington, D.C. Throughout, he remained a friend and instigator of the careers of friends in artistic and scientific fields. His writings speak to us still and seem contemporary in their tone as well as their view of cycles of culture and their warnings of decline and achievement.

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1000661474

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Columbia College

By: Charles Israel,Elizabeth DuRant

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Columbia College

By: Charles Israel,Elizabeth DuRant

In 1854, founders of the South Carolina Methodist Conference established an all-female school in Columbia, South Carolina. Known originally as Columbia Female College, today's Columbia College has suffered and survived hardships, faced challenges, and flourished during its almost 150-year history as an institution of higher learning. The college has succeeded in its mission to provide quality liberal arts education for women and has become one of the leading establishments of its kind in the South. Included within these pages are vintage images of the school throughout the past century and a half. The ever-changing physical attributes of the college--classrooms, administration buildings, ornate gates, and dormitories--as well as the students and faculty who helped shape the college into what it is today are commemorated here in both word and image. From the trials of campus fires and the closing of the school during the Civil War to the triumphs of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe's tenure and the receipt of honors such as the prestigious Hesbergh award, Columbia College has emerged as a well-respected school for women.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738506893

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Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth

By: Janet Beer,Pamela Knights,Elizabeth Nolan

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Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth

By: Janet Beer,Pamela Knights,Elizabeth Nolan

Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth (1905) is a sharp and satirical, but also sensitive and tragic analysis of a young, single woman trying to find her place in a materialistic and unforgiving society. The House of Mirth offers a fascinating insight into the culture of the time and, as suggested by the success of recent film adaptations, it is also an enduring tale of love, ambition and social pressures still relevant today. Including a selection of illustrations from the original magazine publication, which offers a unique insight to what the contemporary reader would have seen, this volume also provides: an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of The House of Mirth a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present a selection of new critical essays on the The House of Mirth, by Edie Thornton, Katherine Joslin, Janet Beer, Elizabeth Nolan, Kathy Fedorko and Pamela Knights, providing a range of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key critical approaches identified in the survey section cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of The House of Mirth and seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Wharton’s text.

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Routledge

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0415350107

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Fashioning Faces

The Portraitive Mode in British Romanticism

By: Elizabeth A. Fay

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Fashioning Faces

The Portraitive Mode in British Romanticism

By: Elizabeth A. Fay

A fresh look at how literary and visual portraiture in the Romantic era embodied a newly commercial culture

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UPNE

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1584657782

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Fearless Women

Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé

By: Elizabeth Cobbs

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Fearless Women

Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé

By: Elizabeth Cobbs

This passionate and inspiring book by the New York Times bestselling author of The Hello Girls shows us that the quest for women’s rights is deeply entwined with the founding story of the United States. When America became a nation, a woman had no legal existence beyond her husband. If he abused her, she couldn’t leave without abandoning her children. Abigail Adams tried to change this, reminding her husband John to “remember the ladies” when he wrote the Constitution. He simply laughed—and women have been fighting for their rights ever since. Fearless Women tells the story of women who dared to take destiny into their own hands. They were feminists and antifeminists, activists and homemakers, victims of abuse and pathbreaking professionals. Inspired by the nation’s ideals and fueled by an unshakeable sense of right and wrong, they wouldn’t take no for an answer. In time, they carried the country with them. The first right they won was the right to learn. Later, impassioned teachers like Angelina Grimké and Susan B. Anthony campaigned for the right to speak in public, lobby the government, and own property. Some were passionate abolitionists. Others fought just to protect their own children. Many of these women devoted their lives to the cause—some are famous—but most pressed their demands far from the spotlight, insisting on their right to vote, sit on a jury, control the timing of their pregnancies, enjoy equal partnerships, or earn a living. At every step, they faced fierce opposition. Elizabeth Cobbs gives voice to fearless women on both sides of the aisle, most of whom considered themselves patriots. Rich and poor, from all backgrounds and regions, they show that the women’s movement has never been an exclusive club.

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Harvard University Press

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0674293347

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William Bartram's Visual Wonders

The Drawings of an American Naturalist

By: Elizabeth A. Athens

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William Bartram's Visual Wonders

The Drawings of an American Naturalist

By: Elizabeth A. Athens

Pennsylvania naturalist William Bartram (1739–1823) is best known as the author of a travelogue describing his botanizing journey through the American South in the late eighteenth century. Writing was not, however, Bartram’s only or even preferred method of recording the natural world around him. His deeply unconventional drawings, depicting sentient plants and hybrid organic forms, lie at the heart of his understanding of nature. With this book, Elizabeth Athens considers the strangeness of Bartram’s graphic enterprise, exploring the essential role his renderings played in his natural history. For Bartram, the making and interpretation of figures on a surface was a dynamic and collaborative relationship between nature, the observing artist-naturalist, and the audience. This book offers the first in-depth investigation of Bartram’s drawing practice as central to his understanding of nature. Through an examination of Bartram’s approach to botanical and zoological representation, Athens highlights the struggle between different modes of seeing nature in eighteenth-century Enlightenment science.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822991497

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9780822991496

Britain's Chinese Eye

Literature, Empire, and Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By: Elizabeth Chang

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Britain's Chinese Eye

Literature, Empire, and Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By: Elizabeth Chang

This book traces the intimate connections between Britain and China throughout the nineteenth century and argues for China's central impact on the British visual imagination. Chang brings together an unusual group of primary sources to investigate how nineteenth-century Britons looked at and represented Chinese people, places, and things, and how, in the process, ethnographic, geographic, and aesthetic representations of China shaped British writers' and artists' vision of their own lives and experiences. For many Britons, China was much more than a geographical location; it was also a way of seeing and being seen that could be either embraced as creative inspiration or rejected as contagious influence. In both cases, the idea of China's visual difference stood in negative contrast to Britain's evolving sense of the visual and literary real. To better grasp what Romantic and Victorian writers, artists, and architects were doing at home, we must also understand the foreign "objects" found in their midst and what they were looking at abroad.

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Stanford University Press

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0804775877

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9780804775878

Raw Histories

Photographs, Anthropology and Museums

By: Elizabeth Edwards

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Raw Histories

Photographs, Anthropology and Museums

By: Elizabeth Edwards

Photographs have had an integral and complex role in many anthropological contexts, from fieldwork to museum exhibitions. This book explores how approaching anthropological photographs as 'history' can offer both theoretical and empirical insights into these roles. Photographs are thought to make problematic history because of their ambiguity and 'rawness'. In short, they have too many meanings. The author refutes this prejudice by exploring, through a series of case studies, precisely the potential of this raw quality to open up new perspectives. Taking the nature of photography as her starting point, the author argues that photographs are not merely pictures of things but are part of a dynamic and fluid historical dialogue, which is active not only in the creation of the photograph but in its subsequent social biography in archive and museum spaces, past and present. In this context, the book challenges any uniform view of anthropological photography and its resulting archives. Drawing on a variety of examples, largely from the Pacific, the book demonstrates how close readings of photographs reveal not only western agendas, but also many layers of differing historical and cross-cultural experiences. That is, photographs can 'spring leaks' to show an alternative viewpoint. These themes are developed further by examining the dynamics of photographs and issues around them as used by contemporary artists and curators and presented to an increasingly varied public. This book convincingly demonstrates photographs' potential to articulate histories other than those of their immediate appearances, a potential that can no longer be neglected by scholars and institutions.

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1000181294

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The Medicine of Art

Disease and the Aesthetic Object in Gilded Age America

By: Elizabeth L. Lee

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The Medicine of Art

Disease and the Aesthetic Object in Gilded Age America

By: Elizabeth L. Lee

In 1901, the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens proclaimed in a letter to Will Low, “Health-is the thing!” Though recently diagnosed with intestinal cancer, Saint-Gaudens was revitalized by recreational sports, having realized midcareer “there is something else in life besides the four walls of an ill-ventilated studio.” The Medicine of Art puts such moments center stage in order to consider the role of health and illness in the way art was produced and consumed. Not merely beautiful or entertaining objects, works by Gilded-Age artists such as John Singer Sargent, Abbott Thayer, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens are shown to function as balm for the ill, providing relief from physical suffering and pain. Art did so by blunting the edges of contagious disease through a process of visual translation. In painting, for instance, hacking coughs, bloody sputum, and bodily enervation were recast as signs of spiritual elevation and refinement for the tuberculous, who were shown with a pale, chalky pallor that signalled rarefied beauty rather than an alarming indication of death. Works of art thus redirected the experience of illness in an era prior to the life-saving discoveries that would soon become hallmarks of modern medical science to offer an alternate therapy. The first study to address the place of organic disease-cancer, tuberculosis, syphilis-in the life and work of Gilded-Age artists, this book looks at how well-known works of art were marked by disease and argues that art itself functioned in medicinal terms for artists and viewers in the late 19th century.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501346881

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His Song

The Musical Journey of Elton John

By: Elizabeth J. Rosenthal

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His Song

The Musical Journey of Elton John

By: Elizabeth J. Rosenthal

A comprehensive overview of the musical career of Elton John provides the full story behind all of the musician's recordings, a complete chronicle of his concert tours, an assessment of his musical odyssey, and a study of his sometimes turbulent personal life, along with more than forty photographs and a complete discography.

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This Year's Model

Fashion, Media, and the Making of Glamour

By: Elizabeth Wissinger

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This Year's Model

Fashion, Media, and the Making of Glamour

By: Elizabeth Wissinger

Over the last four decades, the fashion modeling industry has become a lightning rod for debates about Western beauty ideals, the sexual objectification of women, and consumer desire. Yet, fashion models still captivate, embodying all that is cool, glam, hip, and desirable. They are a fixture in tabloids, magazines, fashion blogs, and television. Why exactly are models so appealing? And how do these women succeed in so soundly holding our attention? In This Year’s Model, Elizabeth Wissinger weaves together in-depth interviews and research at model castings, photo shoots, and runway shows to offer a glimpse into the life of the model throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Once an ad hoc occupation, the “model life” now involves a great deal of physical and virtual management of the body, or what Wissinger terms “glamour labor.” Wissinger argues that glamour labor—the specialized modeling work of self-styling, crafting a ‘look,’ and building an image—has been amplified by the rise of digital media, as new technologies make tinkering with the body’s form and image easy. Models can now present self-fashioning, self-surveillance, and self-branding as essential behaviors for anyone who is truly in the know and ‘in fashion.’ Countless regular people make it their mission to achieve this ideal, not realizing that technology is key to creating the unattainable standard of beauty the model upholds—and as Wissinger argues, this has been the case for decades, before Photoshop even existed. Both a vividly illustrated historical survey and an incisive critique of fashion media, This Year’s Model demonstrates the lasting cultural influence of this unique form of embodied labor.

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