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From Water to Wine: Angola's Transformation

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From Water to Wine: Angola's Transformation

By: Jess Auerbach

From Water to Wine explores how Angola has changed since the end of its civil war in 2002. Its focus is on the middle class— defined as those with a house, a car, and an education—and their consumption, aspirations, and hopes for their families. It takes as its starting point “what is working in Angola?” rather than “what is going wrong?” and makes a deliberate, political choice to give attention to beauty and happiness in everyday life in a country that has had an unusually troubled history. Each chapter focuses on one of the five senses, with the introduction and conclusion provoking reflection on proprioception (or kinesthesia) and curiosity. Various media are employed—poetry, recipes, photos, comics, and other textual experiments—to engage readers and their senses. Written for a broad audience, this text is an excellent addition to the study of Africa, the lusophone world, international development, sensory ethnography, and ethnographic writing.

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African Sun Media

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1928314767

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From Water to Wine

Becoming Middle Class in Angola

By: Jess Auerbach

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Becoming Middle Class in Angola

By: Jess Auerbach

From Water to Wine explores how Angola has changed since the end of its civil war in 2002. Its focus is the middle class - defined in the book as those with a house, a car, and an education - and their consumption, aspirations, and hopes for their families. It is a book that takes as its starting point 'what is working in Angola?' rather than 'what is going wrong?' and makes a deliberate, political choice to give attention to beauty and happiness in everyday life in a country that has had an unusually troubled history. The book is uniquely structured: each chapter focuses on one of the five senses (smell, touch, taste, hearing, and sight, respectively) with the introduction and conclusion provoking reflection on proprioception (kinesthesia) and empathy respectively. A variety of media are employed - poetry, recipes, photos, comics, and other textual experiments - to engage readers and the senses. Written for a broad audience, this text is an excellent addition to classes on Africa, the Lusophone world, international development, sensory ethnography, and ethnographic writing.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487524331

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9781487524333

Planning Democracy

Agrarian Intellectuals and the Intended New Deal

By: Jess Gilbert

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Planning Democracy

Agrarian Intellectuals and the Intended New Deal

By: Jess Gilbert

Late in the 1930s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture set up a national network of local organizations that joined farmers with public administrators, adult-educators, and social scientists. The aim was to localize and unify earlier New Deal programs concerning soil conservation, farm production control, tenure security, and other reforms, and by 1941 some 200,000 farm people were involved. Even so, conservative anti–New Dealers killed the successful program the next year. This book reexamines the era’s agricultural policy and tells the neglected story of the New Deal agrarian leaders and their visionary ideas about land, democratization, and progressive social change.

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Yale University Press

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0300213395

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9780300213393

From Water to Wine: Angola's Transformation

By: Jess Auerbach

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African Sun Media

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1928314759

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9781928314752

Gowned and Gloved Orthopaedics E-Book

Introduction to Common Procedures

By: Neil P. Sheth,Jess H. Lonner

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Introduction to Common Procedures

By: Neil P. Sheth,Jess H. Lonner

Performing well and learning effectively during your clinical rotations in orthopaedic surgery are challenges you face everyday, and that are equally important in caring for patients and earning the grade. Time constraints and last minute assignments in the OR make reading the necessary material difficult and can jeopardize your evaluation by senior residents and attendings on your rotation. The Gowned and Gloved series provides a concise review of the most common orthopaedic procedures and relevant surgical anatomy to help you “shine in the OR, without getting bogged down in theory and extraneous information that is typical in more expansive text books. It provides the edge you need in the OR, delivering not only the information necessary to do well during your rotation, but also a plan on how to maximize your time, make the best impression, and ace your rotation. Features case studies with appropriate images in each chapter to illustrate the types of clinical scenarios you may experience. Gives you the necessary details you need to understand all aspects of each procedure. Includes the surgical indications and relative contraindications to specific procedures, giving you the big picture principles for each procedure. Discusses standard post-operative protocols and patient rehabilitation that extends your knowledge outside the OR. Uses intra-operative pictures, illustrations, and treatment algorithms to highlight the important details of common surgical procedures, ranging from positioning, prepping, and draping the patient, to the surgical exposure and pertinent applied surgical anatomy, to the intricate aspects of the techniques. Uses call-out boxes throughout every chapter that emphasize pertinent anatomy and surgical cautions, and reflect common questions that the attending may ask you or that you may want to ask your attending in the OR. Presents a consistent chapter organization, including bulleted lists and treatment algorithms that make reference a snap.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1455704105

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9781455704101

The Victorian Bookshelf

An Introduction to 61 Essential Novels

By: Jess Nevins

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The Victorian Bookshelf

An Introduction to 61 Essential Novels

By: Jess Nevins

This introductory guide to the canon of Victorian literature covers 61 novels by authors from Jane Austen to Emile Zola. Brief critical essays describe what each book is about and argue for its cultural, historical and literary importance. Literary canons remain a subject of debate but critics, readers and students continue to find them useful as overviews--and examinations--of the great works within a given period or culture. The Victorian canon is particularly rich with splendid novels that educate, enlighten and entertain. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

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McFarland

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147662433X

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9781476624334

Film Sequels

By: Carolyn Jess-Cooke

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Film Sequels

By: Carolyn Jess-Cooke

A study of sequel production within recent Hollywood and beyond in terms of its industrial, cultural and global implications.

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176

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748689478

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9780748689477

Nervous Fictions

Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience

By: Jess Keiser

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Nervous Fictions

Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience

By: Jess Keiser

The brain contains ten thousand cells," wrote the poet Matthew Prior in 1718, "in each some active fancy dwells." In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, just as scientists began to better understand the workings of the nerves, the nervous system became the site for a series of elaborate fantasies. The pineal gland is transformed into a throne for the sovereign soul. Animal spirits march the nerves like parading soldiers. An internal archivist searches through cerebral impressions to locate certain memories. An anatomist discovers that the brain of a fashionable man is stuffed full of beautiful clothes and billet-doux. A hypochondriac worries that his own brain will be disassembled like a watch. A sentimentalist sees the entire world as a giant nervous system comprising sympathetic spectators. Nervous Fictions is the first account of the Enlightenment origins of neuroscience and the "active fancies" it generated. By surveying the work of scientists (Willis, Newton, Cheyne), philosophers (Descartes, Cavendish, Locke), satirists (Swift, Pope), and novelists (Haywood, Fielding, Sterne), Keiser shows how attempts to understand the brain’s relationship to the mind produced in turn new literary forms. Early brain anatomists turned to tropes to explicate psyche and cerebrum, just as poets and novelists found themselves exploring new kinds of mental and physical interiority. In this respect, literary language became a tool to aid scientific investigation, while science spurred literary invention.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813944791

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9780813944791

From Water to Wine

Becoming Middle Class in Angola

By: Jess Auerbach

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From Water to Wine

Becoming Middle Class in Angola

By: Jess Auerbach

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University of Toronto Press

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Book's by Jess Auerbach

From Water to Wine: Angola's Transformation

From Water to Wine: Angola's Transformation

From Water to Wine

From Water to Wine

Planning Democracy

Planning Democracy

From Water to Wine: Angola's Transformation

From Water to Wine: Angola's Transformation

Gowned and Gloved Orthopaedics E-Book

Gowned and Gloved Orthopaedics E-Book

The Victorian Bookshelf

The Victorian Bookshelf

Film Sequels

Film Sequels

Nervous Fictions

Nervous Fictions

From Water to Wine

From Water to Wine

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