Jeremy Snyder's Books

Disability Studies and the Hebrew Bible

Figuring Mephibosheth in the David Story

By: Jeremy Schipper

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Disability Studies and the Hebrew Bible

Figuring Mephibosheth in the David Story

By: Jeremy Schipper

This unique interdisciplinary book uses a fresh approach to explore issues of disability in the Hebrew Bible. It examines how disability functions in the David Story (1 Samuel 16; 1 Kings 2) by paying special attention to Mephibosheth, the only biblical character with a disability as a sustained character trait. The David Story contains some of the Bible's most striking images of disability. Nonetheless, interpreters tend to focus on legal material rather than narratives when studying disability in the Hebrew Bible. Often, they neglect the David Story's complex use of disability. They overlook its use of disability imagery as open to critical interpretation because its stereotypical meanings may seem so commonplace and transparent. Yet recent work in the burgeoning field of disability studies presents disability as a complicated motif that demands more critical engagement than it typically receives. Informed by exciting developments in the field, it argues that the David Story employs disability imagery as a subtle mode of narrating and organizing various ideological positions regarding national identity.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

169

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

0567337510

ISBN 13

9780567337511

Triumph

The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics

By: Jeremy Schaap

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Triumph

The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics

By: Jeremy Schaap

This New York Times–bestselling author’s account of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin offers a “vivid portrait not just of Owens but of ’30s Germany and America” (Sports Illustrated). At the 1936 Olympics, against a backdrop of swastikas and goose-stepping storm troopers, an African American son of sharecroppers won a staggering four gold medals, single-handedly falsifying Hitler’s myth of Aryan supremacy. The story of Jesse Owens at the Berlin games is that of an athletic performance that transcends sports. It is also the intimate and complex tale of one remarkable man’s courage. Drawing on unprecedented access to the Owens family, previously unpublished interviews, and archival research, Jeremy Schaap transports us to Germany and tells the dramatic tale of Owens and his fellow athletes at the contest dubbed the Nazi Olympics. With incisive reporting and rich storytelling, Schaap reveals what really happened over those tense, exhilarating weeks in a “snappy and dramatic” work of sports history (Publishers Weekly). “A remarkable job of tackling a complex subject and bringing it to life.” —John Feinstein “Add[s] even more luster to the indelibly heroic achievements of Jesse Owens.” —Ken Burns

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

301

Publisher

HMH

Published Date

ISBN 10

0547527268

ISBN 13

9780547527260

Blood, Sweat, and Fear

Violence at Work in the North American Auto Industry, 1960–80

By: Jeremy Milloy

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Blood, Sweat, and Fear

Violence at Work in the North American Auto Industry, 1960–80

By: Jeremy Milloy

Going postal. We think of the rogue employee who snaps. But in Blood, Sweat, and Fear, Jeremy Milloy demonstrates that workplace violence never occurs in isolation. Using violence as a lens, he provides fresh and original insights into the everyday workings of capitalism, class conflict, race, and gender in the United States and Canada of the late twentieth century, bringing historical perspective to contemporary debates about North American violence. Milloy has produced the first full-length historical exploration of the origins and effects of individual violence in the automotive industry. His gripping analysis spans 1960 to 1980, when North American auto plants were routinely the sites of fights, assaults, and even murders, and argues that violence resulted primarily from workplace conditions including on-the-job exploitation, racial tension, bureaucratization, and hypermasculinity. This explosive book reveals that workplace violence has been a constant aspect of class conflict – and that our understanding needs to go deeper.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

229

Publisher

UBC Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0774834560

ISBN 13

9780774834568

Field Life

Science in the American West during the Railroad Era

By: Jeremy Vetter

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Field Life

Science in the American West during the Railroad Era

By: Jeremy Vetter

Field Life examines the practice of science in the field in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains of the American West between the 1860s and the 1910s, when the railroad was the dominant form of long-distance transportation. Grounded in approaches from environmental history and the history of technology, it emphasizes the material basis of scientific fieldwork, joining together the human labor that produced knowledge with the natural world in which those practices were embedded. Four distinct modes of field practice, which were shared by different field science disciplines, proliferated during this period—surveys, lay networks, quarries, and stations—and this book explores the dynamics that underpinned each of them. Using two diverse case studies to animate each mode of practice, as well as the making of the field as a place for science, Field Life combines textured analysis of specific examples of field science on the ground with wider discussion of the commonalities in the practices of a diverse array of field sciences, including the earth and physical sciences, the life and agricultural sciences, and the human sciences. By situating science in its regional environmental context, Field Life analyzes the intersection between the cosmopolitan knowledge of science and the experiential knowledge of people living in the field. Examples of field science in the Plains and Rockies range widely: geological surveys and weather observing networks, quarries to uncover dinosaur fossils and archaeological remains, and branch agricultural experiment stations and mountain biological field stations.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

464

Publisher

University of Pittsburgh Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0822981459

ISBN 13

9780822981459

Origins and Development of Musical Instruments

By: Jeremy Montagu

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Origins and Development of Musical Instruments

By: Jeremy Montagu

A survey of the origins and development of musical instruments world-wide from Paleolithic times to the present day. Illustrated with pictures of several hundred instruments from all over the world on 120 plates, with five maps for ease of reference to exotic places.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

282

Publisher

Scarecrow Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0810877708

ISBN 13

9780810877702

The Handbook of Student Affairs Administration

(Sponsored by NASPA, Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education)

By: George S. McClellan,Jeremy Stringer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Handbook of Student Affairs Administration

(Sponsored by NASPA, Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education)

By: George S. McClellan,Jeremy Stringer

What issues and trends affect higher education and student affairs today? In this fully updated handbook, leading experts discuss the answer to this and other essential questions. They provide a definitive reference for student affairs professionals at all levels of administration and management. The handbook offers specific, practical advice as well as broad approaches to planning and problem solving. It contains modernized discussions on such critical topics as institutional mission, institutional governance, understanding campus environments, finance and budgeting, assessment, program planning, staff selection, training and evaluation, and much more.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

758

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Published Date

ISBN 10

0787997331

ISBN 13

9780787997335

Dream Catcher

By: D. Jeremy Doraido

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Dream Catcher

By: D. Jeremy Doraido

David is only nine when Dad drowns on the last day of vacation. Haunted by what he witnessed, he thinks life can't get any worse. That is until Mom marries Mr. Fulton, Dad's business partner, a much older man. To escape the beatings and verbal abuse, David runs away for the sixth time. He is placed in foster care at the age of almost thirteen, until the Court can find out whom to blame. For a boy that has been accused of lying and stealing, no one will believe what he heard Mr. Fulton saying on the phone about his business dealings. DREAM CATCHER is a Christian novel that won second place with the West Virginia Writers Inc.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

148

Publisher

Lulu.com

Published Date

ISBN 10

1483440265

ISBN 13

9781483440262

The Problem of Evil

The Challenge to Essential Christian Beliefs

By: Jeremy A. Evans

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Problem of Evil

The Challenge to Essential Christian Beliefs

By: Jeremy A. Evans

For philosophy and theology scholars as well as their students, a thoughtful book offering holistic responses to the problem of evil that are philosophically and theologically maintainable.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

236

Publisher

B&H Publishing Group

Published Date

ISBN 10

1433671808

ISBN 13

9781433671807

Brotherhood in Combat

How African Americans Found Equality in Korea and Vietnam

By: Jeremy P. Maxwell

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Brotherhood in Combat

How African Americans Found Equality in Korea and Vietnam

By: Jeremy P. Maxwell

African American leaders such as Frederick Douglass long advocated military service as an avenue to equal citizenship for black Americans. Yet segregation in the U.S. armed forces did not officially end until President Harry Truman issued an executive order in 1948. What followed, at home and in the field, is the subject of Brotherhood in Combat, the first full-length, interdisciplinary study of the integration of the American military during the Korean and Vietnam Wars. Using a wealth of oral histories from black and white soldiers and marines who served in one or both conflicts, Jeremy P. Maxwell explores racial tension—pervasive in rear units, but relatively rare on the front lines. His work reveals that in initially proving their worth to their white brethren on the battlefield, African Americans changed the prevailing attitudes of those ranking officials who could bring about changes in policy. Brotherhood in Combat also illustrates the schism over attitudes toward civil-military relations that developed between blacks who had entered the service prior to Vietnam and those who were drafted and thus brought revolutionary ideas from the continental United States to the war zone. More important, Maxwell demonstrates how even at the height of civil rights unrest at home, black and white soldiers found a sense of brotherhood in the jungles of Vietnam. Incorporating military, diplomatic, social, racial, and ethnic topics and perspectives, Brotherhood in Combat presents a remarkably thorough and finely textured account of integration as it was experienced and understood in mid-twentieth-century America.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

288

Publisher

University of Oklahoma Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0806161167

ISBN 13

9780806161167

The Border Between Them

Violence and Reconciliation on the Kansas-Missouri Line

By: Jeremy Neely

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Border Between Them

Violence and Reconciliation on the Kansas-Missouri Line

By: Jeremy Neely

The most bitter guerrilla conflict in American history raged along the Kansas-Missouri border from 1856 to 1865, making that frontier the first battleground in the struggle over slavery. That fiercely contested boundary represented the most explosive political fault line in the United States, and its bitter divisions foreshadowed an entire nation torn asunder. Jeremy Neely now examines the significance of the border war on both sides of the Kansas-Missouri line and offers a comparative, cross-border analysis of its origins, meanings, and consequences. A narrative history of the border war and its impact on citizens of both states, The Border between Them recounts the exploits of John Brown, William Quantrill, and other notorious guerrillas, but it also uncovers the stories of everyday people who lived through that conflict. Examining the frontier period to the close of the nineteenth century, Neely frames the guerrilla conflict within the larger story of the developing West and squares that violent period with the more peaceful--though never tranquil--periods that preceded and followed it. Focusing on the countryside south of the big bend in the Missouri River, an area where there was no natural boundary separating the states, Neely examines three border counties in each state that together illustrate both sectional division and national reunion. He draws on the letters and diaries of ordinary citizens--as well as newspaper accounts, election results, and census data--to illuminate the complex strands that helped bind Kansas and Missouri together in post-Civil War America. He shows how people on both sides of the line were already linked by common racial attitudes, farming practices, and ambivalence toward railroad expansion; he then tells how emancipation, industrialization, and immigration eventually eroded wartime divisions and facilitated the reconciliation of old foes from each state. Today the "border war" survives in the form of interstate rivalries between collegiate Tigers and Jayhawks, allowing Neely to consider the limits of that reconciliation and the enduring power of identities forged in wartime. The Border between Them is a compelling account of the terrible first act of the American Civil War and its enduring legacy for the conflict's veterans, victims, and survivors, as well as subsequent generations.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

327

Publisher

University of Missouri Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

082626591X

ISBN 13

9780826265913

Quantum Profiles

Second Edition

By: Jeremy Bernstein

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Quantum Profiles

Second Edition

By: Jeremy Bernstein

What was Albert Einstein like as a person? How did J. Robert Oppenheimer's religious background impact his scientific endeavors? Why did John Stewart Bell get into physics in the first place? Prolific science writer Jeremy Bernstein has followed up on his original Quantum Profiles, published in 1990, with seven added profiles: Wendell Furry, Philipp Frank, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Victor Weisskopf, Tom Lehrer, Max Jammer, and Robert Serber. The profiles on John Stewart Bell, John Wheeler, and Albert Einstein from the first edition have been revised and expanded, as well. Bernstein presents each profile carefully, and the context provided in these historical profiles is revolutionary in each approach. Bernstein's unique academic and social background allows readers to fully grasp the character profiles in each chapter. With a conversational writing style, Bernstein lets readers get to know these ten prolific physicists-from personalities to historical and scientific significance-in a whole new way.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

229

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0190056878

ISBN 13

9780190056872

A Song For Molly

By: Jeremy Bernstein

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Song For Molly

By: Jeremy Bernstein

A Song for Molly is both a love story and a poetic homage to science. The subjects in this first-person novella range from encounters with Wittgenstein, Einstein and Gödel, to trying to live with a dog named Molly. The science is serious although the tone is whimsical. The spirit of this book can be demonstrated by a conversation between Einstein and his assistant Ernst Straus:' 'You know Gödel has really gone crazy.' So I said, 'Well, what worse could he have done?' 'He voted for Eisenhower.' 'Related Link(s)

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

148

Publisher

World Scientific

Published Date

ISBN 10

9811218218

ISBN 13

9789811218217

Warring Friends

Alliance Restraint in International Politics

By: Jeremy Pressman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Warring Friends

Alliance Restraint in International Politics

By: Jeremy Pressman

Allied nations often stop each other from going to war. Some countries even form alliances with the specific intent of restraining another power and thereby preventing war. Furthermore, restraint often becomes an issue in existing alliances as one ally wants to start a war, launch a military intervention, or pursue some other risky military policy while the other ally balks. In Warring Friends, Jeremy Pressman draws on and critiques realist, normative, and institutionalist understandings of how alliance decisions are made. Alliance restraint often has a role to play both in the genesis of alliances and in their continuation. As this book demonstrates, an external power can apply the brakes to an incipient conflict, and even unheeded advice can aid in clarifying national goals. The power differentials between allies in these partnerships are influenced by leadership unity, deception, policy substitutes, and national security priorities. Recent controversy over the complicated relationship between the U.S. and Israeli governments—especially in regard to military and security concerns—is a reminder that the alliance has never been easy or straightforward. Pressman highlights multiple episodes during which the United States attempted to restrain Israel's military policies: Israeli nuclear proliferation during the Kennedy Administration; the 1967 Arab-Israeli War; preventing an Israeli preemptive attack in 1973; a small Israeli operation in Lebanon in 1977; the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982; and Israeli action during the Gulf War of 1991. As Pressman shows, U.S. initiatives were successful only in 1973, 1977, and 1991, and tensions have flared up again recently as a result of Israeli arms sales to China. Pressman also illuminates aspects of the Anglo-American special relationship as revealed in several cases: British nonintervention in Iran in 1951; U.S. nonintervention in Indochina in 1954; U.S. commitments to Taiwan that Britain opposed, 1954-1955; and British intervention and then withdrawal during the Suez War of 1956. These historical examples go far to explain the context within which the Blair administration failed to prevent the U.S. government from pursuing war in Iraq at a time of unprecedented American power.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

196

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0801467128

ISBN 13

9780801467127

The 5-Minute Clinical Consult 2018

By: Frank J. Domino,Robert A. Baldor,Jeremy Golding,Mark B. Stephens

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The 5-Minute Clinical Consult 2018

By: Frank J. Domino,Robert A. Baldor,Jeremy Golding,Mark B. Stephens

Make the most effective diagnostic and therapeutic decisions in the least time! A best seller for over 25 years, The5-Minute Clinical Consult 2018 is a practical and useful resource for clinicians in primary care, family medicine, emergency medicine, nursing, and pediatrics. It provides rapid access to guidance on diagnosis, treatment, medications, follow-up, and associated factors for more than 540 diseases and conditions. The5-Minute Clinical Consult 2018 is designed to deliver maximum clinical confidence as efficiently as possible...allowing you to focus your valuable time on giving your patients the best possible care. Find the answers you need quickly thanks to an intuitive, at-a-glance format, with concise, bulleted text; hundreds of diagnostic and therapeutic algorithms; ICD-10 codes, DSM-5 criteria; and much more. Make confident decisions aided by current evidence-based designations in each topic. Written by esteemed internal medicine and family medicine practitioners and published by the leading publisher in medical content, The 5-Minute Clinical Consult 2018, 26th Edition includes a Free Trial to 5MinuteConsult.com.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

5117

Publisher

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Published Date

ISBN 10

1496390237

ISBN 13

9781496390233

Protestant Missionaries and Humanitarianism in the DRC

The Politics of Aid in Cold War Africa

By: Jeremy Rich

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Protestant Missionaries and Humanitarianism in the DRC

The Politics of Aid in Cold War Africa

By: Jeremy Rich

A significant contribution to the history of humanitarianism, Christianity and the politics of aid in Africa.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

278

Publisher

Boydell & Brewer

Published Date

ISBN 10

1847012582

ISBN 13

9781847012586

Child and Adolescent Therapy

Science and Art

By: Jeremy P. Shapiro

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Child and Adolescent Therapy

Science and Art

By: Jeremy P. Shapiro

Comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of therapy Child and Adolescent Therapy: Science and Art, Second Edition relies on both psychotherapy research and clinical expertise to create a comprehensive guide to evidence-based practice for providers of child and adolescent therapy. It includes explanations of all major theoretical orientations and the techniques associated with each, with application to the major diagnostic categories. This updated Second Edition includes a new chapter on Mindfulness-Based Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies (Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), incorporation of recent neuroscience research, instruction in Motivational Interviewing, and guidance in using therapeutic diagrams with young clients. The book models the thought process of expert therapists by describing how the science and art of therapy can be combined to provide a strong basis for treatment planning and clinical decision-making. Theoretical concepts, empirically supported treatments, and best practices are translated into concrete, detailed form, with numerous examples of therapist verbalizations and conversations between counselor and client. Child and Adolescent Therapy: Science and Art, Second Edition: Explains the work of therapists from the ground up, beginning with fundamentals and moving on to advanced theory and technique Covers the major theoretical approaches: behavioral, cognitive, mindfulness-based, psychodynamic, constructivist, and family systems Guides therapists in planning effective treatment strategies with balanced consideration of outcome research, cultural factors, and individual client characteristics Connects treatment planning with the diagnostic characteristics of the major child and adolescent disorders For both students and skilled clinicians looking for new ideas and techniques, Child and Adolescent Therapy: Science and Art, Second Edition offers a thorough, holistic examination of how best to serve young therapy clients.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

656

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Published Date

ISBN 10

1118722078

ISBN 13

9781118722077

Criminal Law

Core Concepts

By: G. Larry Mays,Jeremy Ball,Laura Fidelie

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Criminal Law

Core Concepts

By: G. Larry Mays,Jeremy Ball,Laura Fidelie

This author team had students in mind when they wrote the book on Criminal Law. Criminal Law: Core Concepts uses examples and case excerpts that are interesting and informative, along with logically organized, plain-English discussion of the Model Penal Code. This is the basis for developing a solid understanding of criminal law concepts. One look inside this book and you ll notice that every page promises unobstructed learning. You ll see an uncluttered page design, uncluttered coverage, writing uncluttered by legalese, and case excerpts uncluttered by extraneous detail Everything in this book serves a purpose. Criminal Law: Core Concepts features: A commitment to clarity, reflected in the writing style, organization, pedagogy, and design Shrewd case editing that hones in on salient themes and principles Engaging and informative examples throughout the text Plain English discussion of the Model Penal Code Timely coverage of contemporary topics, such as street crime

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

499

Publisher

Aspen Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1454846674

ISBN 13

9781454846673

Film Censorship in America

A State-by-State History

By: Jeremy Geltzer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Film Censorship in America

A State-by-State History

By: Jeremy Geltzer

Since the first films played in nickelodeons, controversial movies have been cut or banned across the United States. Far from Hollywood, regional productions such as Oscar Micheaux's provocative race films and Nell Shipman's wildlife adventures were censored by men like Major M.L.C. Funkhouser, the terror of Chicago's cinemas, and Myrtelle Snell, the Alabama administrator who made the slogan "Banned in Birmingham" famous. Censorship continues today, with Utah's case against Deadpool (2016) pending in federal court and Robert Rodriguez's Machete Kills (2013) versus the Texas Film Commission. This authoritative state-by-state account covers the history of film censorship and the battle for free speech in America.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

245

Publisher

McFarland

Published Date

ISBN 10

1476630127

ISBN 13

9781476630120

The sword is not enough

Arabs, Israelis, and the limits of military force

By: Jeremy Pressman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The sword is not enough

Arabs, Israelis, and the limits of military force

By: Jeremy Pressman

In this lucid and timely new book, Jeremy Pressman demonstrates that the default use of military force on both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict has prevented its peaceful resolution. Whether called deterrence or war, armed struggle or terrorism, the history of the conflict reveals that violence has been counterproductive. Drawing on historical evidence from the 1950s to the present, The sword is not enough pushes back against the dominant belief that military force leads to triumph while negotiations and concessions lead to defeat and further unwelcome challenges. Violence weakens the security situation, bolsters adversaries, and, especially in the case of Palestine, has sabotaged political aims. Studiously impartial and accessibly written, this book shows us that diplomacy is the only answer.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

309

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1526146169

ISBN 13

9781526146168

Diaphanous Bodies

Ability, Disability, and Modernist Irish Literature

By: Jeremy Colangelo

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Diaphanous Bodies

Ability, Disability, and Modernist Irish Literature

By: Jeremy Colangelo

Diaphanous Bodies: Ability, Disability, and Modernist Irish Literature examines ability, as a category of embodiment and embodied experience, and in the process opens up a new area of inquiry in the growing field of literary disability studies. It argues that the construction of ability arises through a process of exclusion and forgetting, in which the depiction of sensory information and epistemological judgment subtly (or sometimes un-subtly) elide the fact of embodied subjectivity. The result is what Colangelo calls “the myth of the diaphanous abled body,” a fiction that holds that an abled body is one which does not participate in or situate experience. The diaphanous abled body underwrites the myth that abled and disabled constitute two distinct categories of being rather than points on a constantly shifting continuum. In any system of marginalization, the dominant identity always sets itself up as epistemologically and experientially superior to whichever group it separates itself from. Indeed, the norm is always most powerful when it is understood as an empty category or a view from nowhere. Diaphanous Bodies explores the phantom body that underwrites the artificial dichotomy between abled and disabled, upon which the representation of embodied experience depends.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

227

Publisher

University of Michigan Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0472129511

ISBN 13

9780472129515

Exploiting Hope

How the Promise of New Medical Interventions Sustains Us--and Makes Us Vulnerable

By: Jeremy Snyder

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Exploiting Hope

How the Promise of New Medical Interventions Sustains Us--and Makes Us Vulnerable

By: Jeremy Snyder

We often hear stories of people in terrible and seemingly intractable situations who are preyed upon by someone offering promises of help. Frequently these cases are condemned in terms of "exploiting hope." These accusations are made in a range of contexts: human smuggling, employment relationships, unproven medical 'cures.' We hear this concept so often and in so many contexts that, with all its heavy lifting in public discourse, its actual meaning tends to lose focus. Despite its common use, it can be hard to understand precisely what is wrong about exploiting hope what can accurately be captured under this concept, and what should be done. In this book, philosopher Jeremy Snyder offers an in-depth study of hope's exploitation. First, he examines the concept in the abstract, including a close look at how this term is used in the popular press and analysis of the concepts of exploitation and hope. This theory-based section culminates in a definitive account of what it is to exploit hope, and when and why doing so is morally problematic. The second section of the book examines the particularly dangerous cases in which unproven medical interventions target the most vulnerable: for example, participants in clinical trials, purchasing unproven stem cell interventions, "right to try" legislation, and crowdfunding for unproven medical interventions. This book is essential reading for ethical theorists, policymakers, and health researchers, on a topic of growing visibility and importance.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

256

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0197501281

ISBN 13

9780197501283

Appealing to the Crowd

The Ethical, Political, and Practical Dimensions of Donation-based Crowdfunding

By: Jeremy Snyder

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Appealing to the Crowd

The Ethical, Political, and Practical Dimensions of Donation-based Crowdfunding

By: Jeremy Snyder

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This book offers a close examination of the ethical, political, and practical dimensions of donation-based online crowdfunding for basic needs including medical treatment, housing, food, and education. Crowdfunding uses online platforms and social networks to raise money from friends, family, and complete strangers for a variety of projects and needs. This practice has grown massively worldwide in recent years in terms of the numbers of crowdfunding campaigns and donors, money raised, visibility, and cultural influence. While the money raised through crowdfunding has helped millions of recipients, there is also reason for concern around how it may undermine campaigners' privacy and dignity, mirror and exacerbate social inequities, mask and deepen social injustice, defraud donors, and spread misinformation and hate. Author Jeremy Snyder places this discussion of crowdfunding in the wider historical and ethical context of giving practices. In doing so, Snyder shows that crowdfunding can repeat and exacerbate problems with traditional giving practices while creating other, new problems. Snyder concludes by presenting nine values that should guide donation-based crowdfunding: benefit, choice, solidarity, privacy, dignity, equity, social justice, non-maleficence, and accountability. These values can help crowdfunding donors, campaigners, recipients, platforms, and policy makers preserve the good that can come from crowdfunding while addressing some of its many negative aspects.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

273

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

019765813X

ISBN 13

9780197658130

The Byerley Turk

The Incredible Story of the World's First Thoroughbred

By: Jeremy James

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Byerley Turk

The Incredible Story of the World's First Thoroughbred

By: Jeremy James

Of the three horses that were the ancestors of the modern thoroughbred, the first and greatest was undoubtedly the Byerley Turk. This book gives an account of the life of this breed, extending from the palaces of the Ottoman Empire to the streets of London and beyond, and featuring a cast of historical figures. It begins in 1679 in a remote Balkan village, where a seyis - a penniless groom - finds himself caring for a remarkable young foal. Believing it destined for greatness, and seeing a chance to escape his own humble circumstances, he begins schooling the animal in the disciplines of war. Hewing closely to the historical record, the author goes on to trace the fortunes of the Turk and its new master: In 1682, they arrived in Istanbul, where the horse was selected for the Ottoman Empire's renowned cavalry. Ridden as a battle charger in the Turkish sieges on Vienna and Buda, it was captured, along with its groom, by a party of adventuring British aristocrats and taken back to England in 1686. In London, it was bought by Captain Robert Byerley, who rode the Turk to Ireland to take on the Jacobite forces in several pivotal encounters, including the Battle of the Boyne. Eventually, the Turk was put to stud, initiating what was to become its greatest legacy: first foundation sire of the thoroughbred line.--Publisher's description.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

992

Publisher

Stackpole Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

0811701557

ISBN 13

9780811701556

Book's by Jeremy Snyder

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email