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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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Realm of the Black Mountain

A History of Montenegro

By: Elizabeth Roberts

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Realm of the Black Mountain

A History of Montenegro

By: Elizabeth Roberts

Montenegro was admitted to the UN as its 192nd member in June 2006, thus recovering the independence it had lost nearly ninety years earlier at the Versailles Peace Conference. This is the first full-length history of the country in English for a century, tracing the history of the tiny Balkan state from its earliest roots in the medieval empire of Zeta through its consistently ambiguous and frequently problematic relationship with its larger neighbour Serbia, the emergence of a priest/warrior ruler in the shape of the Vladika and its emergence from Ottoman suzerainty at the Congress of Berlin. In more recent history, the book focuses on Montenegro’s troubled twentieth century, its prominent role in the Balkan wars, its unique deletion from world maps as an independent state despite being on the winning side in the Great War, its ignominious role in the wars leading to the disintegration of Yugoslavia and its final reemergence as a member of the international community on the anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo in 2006. Since independence, Montenegro has grappled with the question of Euro-Atlantic integration, including membership of NATO (achieved) and the EU (applicant). Even as it has fought to define its identity, it has gone from being one of the poorest nations in the Western Balkans to having the highest per capita income of the region. It successfully navigated democratic transition in 2020.

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Hurst Publishers

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1805263811

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9781805263814

The Anatomy Museum

Death and the Body Displayed

By: Elizabeth Hallam

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The Anatomy Museum

Death and the Body Displayed

By: Elizabeth Hallam

Anatomy museums around the world showcase preserved corpses in service of education and medical advancement, but they are little-known and have been largely hidden from the public eye. Elizabeth Hallam here investigates the anatomy museum and how it reveals the fascination and fears that surround the dead body in Western societies. Hallam explores the history of these museums and how they operate in the current cultural environment. Their regulated access increasingly clashes with evolving public mores toward the exposed body, as demonstrated by the international popularity of the Body Worlds exhibition. The book examines such related topics as artistic works that employ the images of dead bodies and the larger ongoing debate over the disposal of corpses. Issues such as aesthetics and science, organ and body donations, and the dead body in Western religion and ritual are also discussed here in fascinating depth. The Anatomy Museum unearths a strange and compelling cultural history that investigates the ideas of preservation, human rituals of death, and the spaces that our bodies occupy in this life and beyond.

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Reaktion Books

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1861893752

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9781861893758

Fighting King Coal

The Challenges to Micromobilization in Central Appalachia

By: Shannon Elizabeth Bell

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Fighting King Coal

The Challenges to Micromobilization in Central Appalachia

By: Shannon Elizabeth Bell

An examination of why so few people suffering from environmental hazards and pollution choose to participate in environmental justice movements. In the coal-mining region of Central Appalachia, mountaintop-removal mining and coal-industry-related flooding, water contamination, and illness have led to the emergence of a grassroots, women-driven environmental justice movement. But the number of local activists is small relative to the affected population, and recruiting movement participants from within the region is an ongoing challenge. In Fighting King Coal, Shannon Elizabeth Bell examines an understudied puzzle within social movement theory: why so few of the many people who suffer from industry-produced environmental hazards and pollution rise up to participate in social movements aimed at bringing about social justice and industry accountability. Using the coal-mining region of Central Appalachia as a case study, Bell investigates the challenges of micromobilization through in-depth interviews, participant observation, content analysis, geospatial viewshed analysis, and an eight-month “Photovoice” project—an innovative means of studying, in real time, the social dynamics affecting activist involvement in the region. Although the Photovoice participants took striking photographs and wrote movingly about the environmental destruction caused by coal production, only a few became activists. Bell reveals the importance of local identities to the success or failure of local recruitment efforts in social movement struggles, ultimately arguing that, if the local identities of environmental justice movements are lost, the movements may also lose their power.

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MIT Press

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0262528800

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9780262528801

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

Foundations of Family Resource Management

By: Elizabeth B. Goldsmith

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Foundations of Family Resource Management

By: Elizabeth B. Goldsmith

Foundations of Family Resource Management uses the lenses of consumer science, management, and economics, and beyond to help students make intelligent decisions about resources, time, and energies at the individual and family level. It has a strong interdisciplinary, global, and multicultural focus. This sixth edition brings in new material on millennials, delayed marriage, household composition, neuroscience, behavioral economics, sustainable consumption, technology, and handling crises. It has been updated in line with the latest census data and academic literature. The text contains lots of features to support student learning, including chapter summaries, "Did You Know?" questions, glossary of key terms, examples and cases, critical thinking activities, and review questions for discussion and reflection. Lecture slides and an instructor manual are available as digital supplements. This textbook meets the standards and criteria for the Certified Family Life Educator (CFLE) designation of the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) and will be suitable for resource management courses in family and consumer science, human ecology, and human environmental science programs.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000563316

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9781000563313

The Contested Theological Authority of Thomas Aquinas

The Controversies Between Hervaeus Natalis and Durandus of St. Pourcain, 1307-1323

By: Elizabeth Lowe

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The Contested Theological Authority of Thomas Aquinas

The Controversies Between Hervaeus Natalis and Durandus of St. Pourcain, 1307-1323

By: Elizabeth Lowe

This book explains how the authority Thomas Aquinas's theological teachings grew out of the doctrinal controversies surrounding it within the Dominican Order. The adoption and eventual promotion of the teachings of Aquinas by the Order of Preachers ran counter to every other current running through the late thirteenth-century Church; most scholastics, the Dominican Order included, were wary of the his unconventional teachings. Despite this, the Dominican Order was propelled along their solitary via Thomas by conflicts between two groups of magistri: Aquinas's early Dominican followers and their more conservative neo-Augustinian brethren. This debate reached its climax in a series of bitter polemical battles between Hervaeus Natalis, the most prominent of early defenders, and Durandus of St. Pourçain, the last major Dominican thinker to attack Aquinas's teachings openly. Elizabeth Lowe offers a vivid illustration of this major shift in the Dominican intellectual tradition.

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Routledge

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1135384355

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9781135384357

Anatomy Museum

Death and the Body Displayed

By: Elizabeth Hallam

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Anatomy Museum

Death and the Body Displayed

By: Elizabeth Hallam

The wild success of the traveling Body Worlds exhibition is testimony to the powerful allure that human bodies can have when opened up for display in gallery spaces. But while anatomy museums have shown their visitors much about bodies, they themselves are something of an obscure phenomenon, with their incredible technological developments and complex uses of visual images and the flesh itself remaining largely under researched. This book investigates anatomy museums in Western settings, revealing how they have operated in the often passionate pursuit of knowledge that inspires both fascination and fear. Elizabeth Hallam explores these museums, past and present, showing how they display the human body—whether naked, stripped of skin, completely dissected, or rendered in the form of drawings, three-dimensional models, x-rays, or films. She identifies within anatomy museums a diverse array of related issues—from the representation of deceased bodies in art to the aesthetics of science, from body donation to techniques for preserving corpses and ritualized practices for disposing of the dead. Probing these matters through in-depth study, Anatomy Museum unearths a strange and compelling cultural history of the spaces human bodies are made to occupy when displayed after death.

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Reaktion Books

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1780236042

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9781780236049

Why Good People Do Bad Environmental Things

By: Elizabeth R. DeSombre

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Why Good People Do Bad Environmental Things

By: Elizabeth R. DeSombre

Why do people behave in ways that cause environmental harm? Despite not wanting to create environmental problems, we all do so regularly in the course of living our everyday lives. This book looks at how social structures, incentives, information, habits, attitudes, norms, and the inherent characteristics of environmental resources explain and influence how we behave, and how those causes influence what we can do to change behavior.

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Oxford University Press

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0190636270

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The Epidemiology of Quality

By: Vahé A. Kazandjian,Elizabeth Sternberg

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The Epidemiology of Quality

By: Vahé A. Kazandjian,Elizabeth Sternberg

Here is a "how-to" approach for exploring the essentials of common qua lity measurement standards. Readers will learn how to translate qualit y management concepts into the decision-making process.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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0834205335

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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

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The Everest Effect

The Everest Effect

Realm of the Black Mountain

Realm of the Black Mountain

The Anatomy Museum

The Anatomy Museum

Fighting King Coal

Fighting King Coal

William Bartram's Visual Wonders

William Bartram's Visual Wonders

Foundations of Family Resource Management

Foundations of Family Resource Management

The Contested Theological Authority of Thomas Aquinas

The Contested Theological Authority of Thomas Aquinas

Anatomy Museum

Anatomy Museum

Why Good People Do Bad Environmental Things

Why Good People Do Bad Environmental Things

The Epidemiology of Quality

The Epidemiology of Quality

The Everest Effect

The Everest Effect

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