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The Richness of Life

The Essential Stephen Jay Gould

By: Stephen Jay Gould

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The Richness of Life

The Essential Stephen Jay Gould

By: Stephen Jay Gould

This spotlight on an extraordinary mind collects the most entertaining and enlightening writings by the beloved paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and celebrant of the wonder of life. 20 illustrations.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393064980

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I Have Landed

By: Stephen Jay Gould

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I Have Landed

By: Stephen Jay Gould

Gould’s final essay collection is based on his remarkable series for Natural History magazine—exactly 300 consecutive essays, with never a month missed, published from 1974 to 2001. Both an intellectually thrilling journey into the nature of scientific discovery and the most personal book he ever published.

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Harvard University Press

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0674061624

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9780674061620

An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas

By: Stephen Jay Gould

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An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas

By: Stephen Jay Gould

What pleasure to see the dishonest, the inept, and the misguided deftly given their due, while praise is lavished on the deserving—for reasons well and truly stated."—Kirkus Reviews Ranging as far as the fox and as deep as the hedgehog (the urchin of his title), Stephen Jay Gould expands on geology, biological determinism, "cardboard Darwinism," and evolutionary theory in this sparkling collection.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393340902

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9780393340907

Jim Henson

The Biography

By: Brian Jay Jones

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Jim Henson

The Biography

By: Brian Jay Jones

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For the first time ever—a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century’s most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irreplaceable Jim Henson He was a gentle dreamer whose genial bearded visage was recognized around the world, but most people got to know him only through the iconic characters born of his fertile imagination: Kermit the Frog, Bert and Ernie, Miss Piggy, Big Bird. The Muppets made Jim Henson a household name, but they were just part of his remarkable story. This extraordinary biography—written with the generous cooperation of the Henson family—covers the full arc of Henson’s all-too-brief life: from his childhood in Leland, Mississippi, through the years of burgeoning fame in America, to the decade of international celebrity that preceded his untimely death at age fifty-three. Drawing on hundreds of hours of new interviews with Henson's family, friends, and closest collaborators, as well as unprecedented access to private family and company archives, Brian Jay Jones explores the creation of the Muppets, Henson’s contributions to Sesame Street and Saturday Night Live, and his nearly ten-year campaign to bring The Muppet Show to television. Jones provides the imaginative context for Henson’s non-Muppet projects, including the richly imagined worlds of The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth—as well as fascinating misfires like Henson’s dream of opening an inflatable psychedelic nightclub. An uncommonly intimate portrait, Jim Henson captures all the facets of this American original: the master craftsman who revolutionized the presentation of puppets on television, the savvy businessman whose dealmaking prowess won him a reputation as “the new Walt Disney,” and the creative team leader whose collaborative ethos earned him the undying loyalty of everyone who worked for him. Here also is insight into Henson’s intensely private personal life: his Christian Science upbringing, his love of fast cars and expensive art, and his weakness for women. Though an optimist by nature, Henson was haunted by the notion that he would not have time to do all the things he wanted to do in life—a fear that his heartbreaking final hours would prove all too well founded. An up-close look at the charmed life of a legend, Jim Henson gives the full measure to a man whose joyful genius transcended age, language, geography, and culture—and continues to beguile audiences worldwide. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BOOKPAGE “Jim Henson vibrantly delves into the magnificent man and his Muppet methods: It’s an absolute must-read!”—Neil Patrick Harris “An exhaustive work that is never exhausting, a credit both to Jones’s brisk style and to Henson’s exceptional life.”—The New York Times “[A] sweeping portrait that is a mix of humor, mirth and poignancy.”—Washington Independent Review of Books “A meticulously researched tome chock-full of gems about the Muppets and the most thorough portrait of their creator ever crafted.”—Associated Press

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Ballantine Books

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0345526120

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9780345526120

The Mismeasure of Man (Revised and Expanded)

By: Stephen Jay Gould

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The Mismeasure of Man (Revised and Expanded)

By: Stephen Jay Gould

The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve. When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits. And yet the idea of innate limits—of biology as destiny—dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so effectively anticipated and thoroughly undermined by Stephen Jay Gould. In this edition Dr. Gould has written a substantial new introduction telling how and why he wrote the book and tracing the subsequent history of the controversy on innateness right through The Bell Curve. Further, he has added five essays on questions of The Bell Curve in particular and on race, racism, and biological determinism in general. These additions strengthen the book's claim to be, as Leo J. Kamin of Princeton University has said, "a major contribution toward deflating pseudo-biological 'explanations' of our present social woes.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393340406

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9780393340402

Their Gilded Cage

The Jekyll Island Club Members

By: Richard Jay Hutto

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Their Gilded Cage

The Jekyll Island Club Members

By: Richard Jay Hutto

Author Hutto presents the quintessential stories of America's oldest money. Readers will meet Joseph Pulitzer, J.P. Morgan, Vanderbilt, and other members in the parlors of the Jekyll Island Club, a pristine Georgia retreat.

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Indigo Custom Publishing

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0977091228

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9780977091225

The Uncontrolling Love of God

An Open and Relational Account of Providence

By: Thomas Jay Oord

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The Uncontrolling Love of God

An Open and Relational Account of Providence

By: Thomas Jay Oord

Rarely does a new theological position emerge to account well for life in the world, including not only goodness and beauty but also tragedy and randomness. Drawing from Scripture, science, philosophy and various theological traditions, Thomas Jay Oord offers a novel theology of providence—essential kenosis—that emphasizes God's inherently noncoercive love in relation to creation.

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InterVarsity Press

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0830840842

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9780830840847

The Trouble with Twin Studies

A Reassessment of Twin Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

By: Jay Joseph

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The Trouble with Twin Studies

A Reassessment of Twin Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

By: Jay Joseph

The Trouble with Twin Studies questions popular genetic explanations of human behavioral differences based upon the existing body of twin research. Psychologist Jay Joseph outlines the fallacies of twin studies in the context of the ongoing decades-long failure to discover genes for human behavioral differences, including IQ, personality, and the major psychiatric disorders. This volume critically examines twin research, with a special emphasis on reared-apart twin studies, and incorporates new and updated perspectives, analyses, arguments, and evidence.

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Routledge

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1317605918

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9781317605911

Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science

Volume 17 - Malawi: Libraries in to Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency (METRO)

By: Allen Kent,Harold Lancour,Jay E. Daily

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Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science

Volume 17 - Malawi: Libraries in to Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency (METRO)

By: Allen Kent,Harold Lancour,Jay E. Daily

The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science provides an outstanding resource in 33 published volumes with 2 helpful indexes. This thorough reference set--written by 1300 eminent, international experts--offers librarians, information/computer scientists, bibliographers, documentalists, systems analysts, and students, convenient access to the techniques and tools of both library and information science. Impeccably researched, cross referenced, alphabetized by subject, and generously illustrated, the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science integrates the essential theoretical and practical information accumulating in this rapidly growing field.

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CRC Press

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0824720172

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9780824720179

Literature, Science, and Public Policy

From Darwin to Genomics

By: Jay Clayton

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Literature, Science, and Public Policy

From Darwin to Genomics

By: Jay Clayton

Literature, Science, and Public Policy shows how literature can influence scientific controversies and shape policy concerning evolution, genetics, and genomics.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009263528

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The Gordian Knot

Political Gridlock on the Information Highway

By: W. Russell Neuman,Richard Jay Solomon,Lee W. McKnight

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The Gordian Knot

Political Gridlock on the Information Highway

By: W. Russell Neuman,Richard Jay Solomon,Lee W. McKnight

Veterans of the high-definition TV wars of the 1980s, the authors, social scientists as well as technologists, came to see themselves as "chroniclers and students of an intriguing and serious techno-economic conflict." Why, they asked, did so few understand the rules of the game? In a broad account accessible to generalist and specialist alike, they address the current national debate about the development of a national information infrastructure, locating the debate in a broad historical narrative that illuminates how we got here and where we may be going, and outlining a bold vision of an open communications infrastructure that will cut through the political gridlock that threatens this "information highway."Technical change the authors argue is creating a new paradigm that fits neither the free market nor regulatory control models currently in play. They detail what is wrong with the political process of the national information infrastructure policy-making and assess how different media systems (telecommunications, radio, television broadcasting,) were originally established, spelling out the technological assumptions and organizational interests on which they were based and showing why the old policy models are now breaking down. The new digital networks are not analogous to railways and highways or their electronic forebears in telephony and broadcasting; they are inherently unfriendly to centralized control of any sort, so the old traditions of common carriage and public trustee regulation and regulatory gamesmanship no longer apply. The authors' technological and historical analysis leads logically toward a policy proposal for a reformed regulatory structure that builds and protects meaningful competition, but that abandons its role as arbiter of tariffs and definer of public service and public interest.

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MIT Press

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0262263912

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9780262263917

Most Humble Servants

The Advisory Role of Early Judges

By: Stewart Jay

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Most Humble Servants

The Advisory Role of Early Judges

By: Stewart Jay

This text challenges the assumption that throughout the history of the United States, the role of judges was limited to adjudicating cases and that they did not perform other official functions for the government. It investigates the separation of the powers of judges developed only after 1793.

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Yale University Press

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0300070187

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9780300070187

Bristol Rovers

The Official Definitive History

By: Stephen Byrne,Mike Jay

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Bristol Rovers

The Official Definitive History

By: Stephen Byrne,Mike Jay

The official, definitive history of Bristol Rovers FC, from its origins in 1883 to the present day.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445636476

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9781445636474

Criminalising the Purchase of Sex

Lessons from Sweden

By: Jay Levy

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Criminalising the Purchase of Sex

Lessons from Sweden

By: Jay Levy

In an attempt to abolish prostitution, Sweden criminalised the purchase of sex in 1999, while simultaneously decriminalising its sale. In so doing, it set itself apart from other European states, promoting itself as the pioneer of a radical approach to prostitution. What has come to be referred to as ‘the Swedish model’ has been enormously influential, and has since been adopted and proposed by other countries. This book establishes the outcomes of this law – and the law’s justifying narratives – for the dynamics of Swedish sex work, and upon the lives of sex workers. Drawing on recent fieldwork undertaken in Sweden over several years, including qualitative interviewing and participant observation, Jay Levy argues that far from being a law to be emulated, the Swedish model has had many detrimental impacts, and has failed to demonstrably decrease levels of prostitution. Criminalising the Purchase of Sex: Lessons from Sweden utilises a wealth of respondent testimony and secondary research to redress the current lack of primary academic research and to contribute to academic discussion on this politically-charged and internationally relevant topic. This original and timely work will be of interest to sex worker rights organisations, policy makers and politicians, as well as researchers, academics and students across a number of related disciplines, including law, sociology, criminology, human geography and gender studies.

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Routledge

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1317811437

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9781317811435

The War on People who Use Drugs

The Harms of Sweden's Aim for a Drug-Free Society

By: Jay Levy

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The War on People who Use Drugs

The Harms of Sweden's Aim for a Drug-Free Society

By: Jay Levy

Opposition to harm reduction -- Needle and syringe programmes -- Opposition to needle and syringe programmes -- Injection paraphernalia availability -- Education -- Safer drug use -- Information on blood-borne infections -- Opiate substitution therapy -- Opposition to substitution therapy -- Substitution therapy availability -- The Malmö model - a second 'Swedish model'? -- Summary: variability of services and harm exacerbation -- 5. Experiences of service and healthcare provision -- Spatial segregation -- Social services -- Opiate substitution therapy -- Gaining access -- Disciplining and conditionality -- High threshold substitution therapy: barriers to seeking assistance -- Compulsory treatment -- Disseminating dominant discourse: biopower, geopower, discipline -- Summary: conditionality and discipline -- 6. The outcomes of Sweden's war on people who use drugs -- Impacts of the criminalisation of drug use -- Stigma -- Arrests and fines -- Disincentives to seek assistance: losing child custody, compulsory care, criminalisation -- Results of 'harm exacerbation' policies -- High threshold methadone -- Illegal needles, needle sharing, and needle reusing -- Blood-borne infections -- Ineligibility for hepatitis C treatment -- People who use drugs and the Swedish police and security forces -- Good intentions? -- Difficulties in reporting crime -- Violence -- Summary: exacerbated harm, danger, and violence for people who use drugs -- Conclusions: Harm exacerbation, social exclusion, and violence -- Summary of research: the Swedish model of drug prohibition -- Silencing -- pathologisation -- displacement -- The outcomes of law and policy: service provision, harm exacerbation, and violence -- Sweden's 'drug-free society': a utopian solution for all the world? -- In summary: Sweden's war on people who use drugs -- Bibliography -- Index

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Taylor & Francis

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1351677101

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Mind Ecologies

Body, Brain, and World

By: Matthew Crippen,Jay Schulkin

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Mind Ecologies

Body, Brain, and World

By: Matthew Crippen,Jay Schulkin

Pragmatism—a pluralistic philosophy with kinships to phenomenology, Gestalt psychology, and embodied cognitive science—is resurging across disciplines. It has growing relevance to literary studies, the arts, and religious scholarship, along with branches of political theory, not to mention our understanding of science. But philosophies and sciences of mind have lagged behind this pragmatic turn, for the most part retaining a central-nervous-system orientation, which pragmatists reject as too narrow. Matthew Crippen, a philosopher of mind, and Jay Schulkin, a behavioral neuroscientist, offer an innovative interdisciplinary theory of mind. They argue that pragmatism in combination with phenomenology is not only able to give an unusually persuasive rendering of how we think, feel, experience, and act in the world but also provides the account most consistent with current evidence from cognitive science and neurobiology. Crippen and Schulkin contend that cognition, emotion, and perception are incomplete without action, and in action they fuse together. Not only are we embodied subjects whose thoughts, emotions, and capacities comprise one integrated system; we are living ecologies inseparable from our surroundings, our cultures, and our world. Ranging from social coordination to the role of gut bacteria and visceral organs in mental activity, and touching upon fields such as robotics, artificial intelligence, and plant cognition, Crippen and Schulkin stress the role of aesthetics, emotions, interests, and moods in the ongoing enactment of experience. Synthesizing philosophy, neurobiology, psychology, and the history of science, Mind Ecologies offers a broad and deep exploration of evidence for the embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended nature of mind.

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Psychology: From Inquiry to Understanding

By: Scott Lilienfeld,Steven Jay Lynn,Laura Namy,Nancy Woolf,Graham Jamieson,Anthony Marks,Virginia Slaughter

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Psychology: From Inquiry to Understanding

By: Scott Lilienfeld,Steven Jay Lynn,Laura Namy,Nancy Woolf,Graham Jamieson,Anthony Marks,Virginia Slaughter

Psychology: from inquiry to understanding 2e continues its commitment to emphasise the importance of scientific-thinking skills. It teaches students how to test their assumptions, and motivates them to use scientific thinking skills to better understand the field of psychology in their everyday lives. With leading classic and contemporary research from both Australia and abroad and referencing DSM-5, students will understand the global nature of psychology in the context of Australia’s cultural landscape.

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Pearson Higher Education AU

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1486016405

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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

By: Stephen Jay Gould

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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

By: Stephen Jay Gould

[An] extraordinary book. . . . Mr. Gould is an exceptional combination of scientist and science writer. . . . He is thus exceptionally well placed to tell these stories, and he tells them with fervor and intelligence."—James Gleick, New York Times Book Review High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived—a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail. In this book Stephen Jay Gould explores what the Burgess Shale tells us about evolution and the nature of history.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393245209

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9780393245202

Eight Little Piggies

Reflections in Natural History

By: Stephen Jay Gould

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Eight Little Piggies

Reflections in Natural History

By: Stephen Jay Gould

Biology/Natural History.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393311392

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9780393311396

Soldier Snapshots

Masculinity, Play, and Friendship in the Everyday Photographs of Men in the American Military

By: Jay Mechling

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Soldier Snapshots

Masculinity, Play, and Friendship in the Everyday Photographs of Men in the American Military

By: Jay Mechling

In Soldier Snapshots Jay Mechling explores how American men socially construct their performance of masculinity in everyday life in all-male friendship groups during their service in the military. The evidence Mechling analyzes is a collection of vernacular photographs, “snapshots,” of and by American soldiers, sailors, Marines, and aviators. Since almost all of the snapshots are photographs taken of men by other men, this book offers a unique view into the social construction, performance, and repair of American masculinity. Mechling guides the reader from the snapshots to ideas about the everyday lives of male soldiers to ideas about the lives of men in groups to ideas about American culture. In his introduction Mechling offers his thoughts about how to undertake the interdisciplinary study of American culture; he draws from history, folklore, anthropology, sociology, rhetoric, psychology, gender and sexuality studies, ethnic studies, popular culture studies, and visual studies to reveal the intricacies of how men use their folk practices in an all-male group to manage the paradoxes of their friendship and comradeship under sometimes stressful conditions. Soldier Snapshots begins with a brief history of war photography and establishes the nature of vernacular photography: the snapshot. This is followed by a jargon-free discussion of the key ideas about masculinity and the vernacular practices of men in groups, exploring male friendship, the important role of play in men’s relationships, and the ways “animal buddies” adopted by male friendship groups actually tell us even more about male friendship and issues of trust. In the final section Mechling’s careful analysis reveals how the men employ different folk practices—including rough-and-tumble playfighting, building human pyramids, bathing naked in public, cross-dressing, hazing, and gallows humor—in order to manage their relationships. Regardless of the man’s sexual orientation and sexual identity, the strong heterosexual norm in the military means that the men must find ways to understand and even enact or perform their feelings of bonding while still defining those feelings and acts as heterosexual.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700632921

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Reflections on the Musical Mind

An Evolutionary Perspective

By: Jay Schulkin

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Reflections on the Musical Mind

An Evolutionary Perspective

By: Jay Schulkin

What's so special about music? We experience it internally, yet at the same time it is highly social. Music engages our cognitive/affective and sensory systems. We use music to communicate with one another--and even with other species--the things that we cannot express through language. Music is both ancient and ever evolving. Without music, our world is missing something essential. In Reflections on the Musical Mind, Jay Schulkin offers a social and behavioral neuroscientific explanation of why music matters. His aim is not to provide a grand, unifying theory. Instead, the book guides the reader through the relevant scientific evidence that links neuroscience, music, and meaning. Schulkin considers how music evolved in humans and birds, how music is experienced in relation to aesthetics and mathematics, the role of memory in musical expression, the role of music in child and social development, and the embodied experience of music through dance. He concludes with reflections on music and well-being. Reflections on the Musical Mind is a unique and valuable tour through the current research on the neuroscience of music.

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Princeton University Press

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1400849039

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Marilyn Monroe: a Case for Murder

By: Jay Margolis

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Marilyn Monroe: a Case for Murder

By: Jay Margolis

It is one of the greatest mysteries of the twentieth century. How did Marilyn Monroe die? Although no pills were found in her stomach during the autopsy, it was still documented in the Los Angeles coroner's report that she had swallowed sixty-four sleeping pills prior to her demise. In Marilyn Monroe: A Case for Murder, biographer Jay Margolis presents the most thorough investigation of Marilyn Monroe's death to date and shares how he reached the definitive conclusion that she was murdered. Margolis meticulously dissects the events leading up to her death, revealing a major conspiracy and countless lies. In an exclusive interview with actress Jane Russell three months before her death, he reveals Russell's belief that Monroe was murdered and points the finger at the man she held responsible. While examining the actions of Peter Lawford, Bobby Kennedy, and Monroe's psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson, Margolis establishes a timeline of her last day alive that leads to shocking revelations. In August 1962, Marilyn Monroe's lifeless body was found on her bed, leaving all to wonder what really happened to the beautiful young starlet. Marilyn Monroe: A Case for Murder provides a fascinating examination of one of the most puzzling deaths of all time.

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iUniverse

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1462017576

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Friends, Neighbors, and other Mysterious Creatures

A Short Story Collection

By: Jay Osman

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Friends, Neighbors, and other Mysterious Creatures

A Short Story Collection

By: Jay Osman

Fourteen entertaining stories exploring the human condition . . . and not so human condition. Herein, you will find science fiction, family drama, the unexplainable, a peek inside the criminal mind, and more. From childhood antics, to Christmas, to falling in love, to proactive senior citizens and beyond. Learn about a paranormal hug of death, and how to build a boat from a door, or how two nurses become instant mothers. Above all else, you will be entertained reading about the world we live in and the people we share it with. Maybe, you will even see yourself.

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1641148934

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9781641148931

Viruses

By: Arnold Jay Levine

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Viruses

By: Arnold Jay Levine

Discusses the enormous scientific and medical contributions that have come from the field of virology.

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Macmillan

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0716750317

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The Irish Americans

A History

By: Jay P. Dolan

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The Irish Americans

A History

By: Jay P. Dolan

Jay Dolan of Notre Dame University is one of America's most acclaimed scholars of immigration and ethnic history. In THE IRISH AMERICANS, he caps his decades of writing and teaching with this magisterial history of the Irish experience in the United States. Although more than 30 million Americans claim Irish ancestry, no other general account of Irish American history has been published since the 1960s. Dolan draws on his own original research and much other recent scholarship to weave an insightful, colorful narrative. He follows the Irish from their first arrival in the American colonies through the bleak days of the potato famine that brought millions of starving immigrants; the trials of ethnic prejudice and "No Irish Need Apply;" the rise of Irish political power and the heyday of Tammany politics; to the election of John F. Kennedy as president, a moment of triumph when an Irish American ascended to the highest office in the land. Dolan evokes the ghastly ships crowded with men and women fleeing the potato blight; the vibrant life of Catholic parishes in cities like New York and Chicago; the world of machine politics, where ward bosses often held court in the local saloon. Rich in colorful detail, balanced in judgment, and the most comprehensive work of its kind yet published, THE AMERICAN IRISH is a lasting achievement by a master historian that will become a must-have volume for any American with an interest in the Irish-American heritage.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1608192407

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Medical Decisions, Estrogen and Aging

By: Jay Schulkin

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Medical Decisions, Estrogen and Aging

By: Jay Schulkin

The decision making process that underlies ovarian hormone therapy (HT) is fallible. Thus, the decision for women to go on HT remains controversial. At a time when confusion still permeates the decision making with regard to HT, this book bridges diverse features that surround the decision making concerning HT. The book is written for both specialists and generalists in the field.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1402066864

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Some Necessary Angels

Essays on Writing and Politics

By: Jay Parini

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Some Necessary Angels

Essays on Writing and Politics

By: Jay Parini

Distinguished poet and novelist Jay Parini presents some of his best essays--both classic and unpublished works--on topics ranging from baseball to Frost and Emerson to the culture of creative writing. For aspiring writers, Some Necessary Angels is an illuminating glimpse into the workshop of a distinguished novelist and critic. For readers who share Parini's love of language, it is an invigorating expression of faith.

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0231110715

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Ink & Anguish

A Jay Lynch Anthology

By: Jay Lynch,Ed Piskor,Patrick Rosenkranz

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Ink & Anguish

A Jay Lynch Anthology

By: Jay Lynch,Ed Piskor,Patrick Rosenkranz

The career of Jay Lynch―cartoonist, satirist, and counterculture archivist―spanned more than six decades. All his signature Nard ‘n’ Pat stories from Bijou Funnies are featured in this volume. There are also samples of his trading card illustrations (for Garbage Pail Kids and other Topps Chewing Gum series) and his paintings. Lynch also narrates his life story throughout the book, from his dysfunctional childhood to the day he selected his coffin and headstone, in a half-century series of interviews and correspondence with comic historian Patrick Rosenkranz.

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Fantagraphics Books

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1683961463

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The Privileged Planet

How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery

By: Guillermo Gonzalez,Jay W. Richards

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The Privileged Planet

How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery

By: Guillermo Gonzalez,Jay W. Richards

The Provocative Classic The Privileged Planet in a Fully Revised, 20th Anniversary Edition! Are we just an accident of cosmic evolution? Is Earth a “lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark” as the late Carl Sagan put it? Or is there more to the story? In this provocative book, Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards marshal a staggering array of scientific evidence to counter the modern dogma that Earth is nothing more than the winner of a blind cosmic lottery. When The Privileged Planet was first published in 2004, it garnered both praise and rage. But its argument has stood the test of time. In this completely revised 20th anniversary edition, Gonzalez and Richards show how thousands of discoveries of extrasolar planets over the last two decades have only strengthened their case. They take readers on a mind-expanding journey through our solar system and beyond. Along the way, they explore the mystery of total solar eclipses, the crucial role of water and carbon, the fine-tuning of physics that makes advanced life possible, and the beginning of cosmic time. From our cozy blue planet to the edge of the known universe, they show how earthlike planets are exquisitely fit not only to sustain life but to provide the best platform to discover the hidden wonders of the cosmos. The Privileged Planet compels us to reconsider our place in the universe. Far from a cosmic fluke, our world is ingeniously designed not just for life but for discovery.

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Simon and Schuster

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1596987073

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature

By: Jay Parini

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature

By: Jay Parini

This set treats the whole of American literature, from the European discovery of America to the present, with entries in alphabetical order. Each of the 350 substantive essays is a major interpretive contribution. Well-known critics and scholars provide clear and vividly written essays thatreflect the latest scholarship on a given topic, as well as original thinking on the part of the critic. The Encyclopedia is available in print and as an e-reference text from Oxford's Digital Reference Shelf.At the core of the encyclopedia lie 250 essays on poets, playwrights, essayists, and novelists. The most prominent figures (such as Whitman, Melville, Faulkner, Frost, Morrison, and so forth) are treated at considerable length (10,000 words) by top-flight critics. Less well known figures arediscussed in essays ranging from 2,000 to 5,000 words. Each essay examines the life of the author in the context of his or her times, looking in detail at key works and describing the arc of the writer's career. These essays include an assessment of the writer's current reputation with abibliography of major works by the writer as well as a list of major critical and biographical works about the writer under discussion.A second key element of the project is the critical assessments of major American masterworks, such as Moby-Dick, Song of Myself, Walden, The Great Gatsby, The Waste Land, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Death of a Salesmanr, or Beloved. Each of these essays offers a close reading of the given work,placing that work in its historical context and offering a range of possibilities with regard to critical approach. These fifty essays (ranging from 2,000 to 5,000 words) are simply and clearly enough written that an intelligent high school student should easily understand them, but sophisticatedenough that a college student or general reader in a public library will find the essays both informative and stimulating.The final major element of this encyclopedia consists of fifty-odd essays on literary movements, periods, or themes, pulling together a broad range of information and making interesting connections. These essays treat many of the same authors already discussed, but in a different context; they alsogather into the fold authors who do not have an entire essay on their work (so that Zane Grey, for example, is discussed in an essay on Western literature but does not have an essay to himself). In this way, the project is truly "encyclopedic," in the conventional sense. These essays aim forcomprehensiveness without losing anything of the narrative force that makes them good reading in their own right.In a very real fashion, the literature of the American people reflects their deepest desires, aspirations, fears, and fantasies. The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature gathers a wide range of information that illumines the field itself and clarifies many of its particulars.

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