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Shadows of Empire

Colonial Discourse and Javanese Tales

By: Laurie Jo Sears

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Shadows of Empire

Colonial Discourse and Javanese Tales

By: Laurie Jo Sears

Shadows of Empire explores Javanese shadow theater as a staging area for negotiations between colonial power and indigenous traditions. Charting the shifting boundaries between myth and history in Javanese Mahabharata and Ramayana tales, Laurie J. Sears reveals what happens when these stories move from village performances and palace manuscripts into colonial texts and nationalist journals and, most recently, comic books and novels. Historical, anthropological, and literary in its method and insight, this work offers a dramatic reassessment of both Javanese literary/theatrical production and Dutch scholarship on Southeast Asia. Though Javanese shadow theater (wayang) has existed for hundreds of years, our knowledge of its history, performance practice, and role in Javanese society only begins with Dutch documentation and interpretation in the nineteenth century. Analyzing the Mahabharata and Ramayana tales in relation to court poetry, Islamic faith, Dutch scholarship, and nationalist journals, Sears shows how the shadow theater as we know it today must be understood as a hybrid of Javanese and Dutch ideas and interests, inseparable from a particular colonial moment. In doing so, she contributes to a re-envisioning of European histories that acknowledges the influence of Asian, African, and New World cultures on European thought--and to a rewriting of colonial and postcolonial Javanese histories that questions the boundaries and content of history and story, myth and allegory, colonialism and culture. Shadows of Empire will appeal not only to specialists in Javanese culture and historians of Indonesia, but also to a wide range of scholars in the areas of performance and literature, anthropology, Southeast Asian studies, and postcolonial studies.

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Duke University Press

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0822316978

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9780822316978

The Family

A World History

By: Mary Jo Maynes,Ann Waltner

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The Family

A World History

By: Mary Jo Maynes,Ann Waltner

People have always lived in families, but what that means has varied dramatically across time and cultures. The family is not a "natural" phenomenon but an institution with a dynamic history stretching 10,000 years into the past. Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner tell the story of this fundamental unit from the beginnings of domestication and human settlement. They consider the codification of rules governing marriage in societies around the ancient world, the changing conceptions of family wrought by the heightened pace of colonialism and globalization in the modern world, and how state policies shape families today. The authors illustrate ways in which differences in gender and generation have affected family relations over the millennia. Cooperation between family members--by birth or marriage--has driven expansions of power and fusions of culture in times and places as different as ancient Mesopotamia, where kings' daughters became priestesses who mediated among the various cultures and religions of their fathers' kingdom, and sixteenth-century Mexico, in which alliances between Spanish men and indigenous women variously allowed for consolidation of colonial power or empowered resistance to colonial rule. But family discord has also driven - and been driven by - historical events such as China's 1919 May Fourth Movement, in which young people seeking an end to patriarchal authority were key participants. Maynes's and Waltner's view of the family as a force of history brings to light processes of human development and patterns of social life and allows for new insights into the human past and present.

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164

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Oxford University Press

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0199929998

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9780199929993

The History Manifesto

By: Jo Guldi,David Armitage

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The History Manifesto

By: Jo Guldi,David Armitage

How should historians speak truth to power – and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years better than five months or five years as a planning horizon? And why is history – especially long-term history – so essential to understanding the multiple pasts which gave rise to our conflicted present? The History Manifesto is a call to arms to historians and everyone interested in the role of history in contemporary society. Leading historians Jo Guldi and David Armitage identify a recent shift back to longer-term narratives, following many decades of increasing specialisation, which they argue is vital for the future of historical scholarship and how it is communicated. This provocative and thoughtful book makes an important intervention in the debate about the role of history and the humanities in a digital age. It will provoke discussion among policymakers, activists and entrepreneurs as well as ordinary listeners, viewers, readers, students and teachers. This title is also available as Open Access.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316165256

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9781316165256

The Place of War in English History, 1066-1214

By: J. O. Prestwich

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The Place of War in English History, 1066-1214

By: J. O. Prestwich

A leading medievalist of his generation studies Anglo-Norman practice in the raising and maintaining of armed forces, and its effect on the government and economy.

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Boydell Press

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1843830981

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9781843830986

Helping Relationships in Mental Health

By: Steve Morgan,Jo Campling

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Helping Relationships in Mental Health

By: Steve Morgan,Jo Campling

How do you respond to the distress of a man who is sitting before you, in his own flat, towels draped around his shoulders, newspaper wedged beneath the brim of his hat, an upturned frying pan over his hat and a partially filled washing-up bowl balanced on top of the frying pan? He holds the bowl with one hand and a cigarette in the other, while he force fully proclaims the secret services have placed someone in the flat above to drop radioactive dust down on him all day and all night. To start with, you could offer him a light for his cigarette. The most likely medical response would be to consider increasing his antipsychotic medicine, though a cursory glance at his medical history suggests that inpatient admissions and large mUltiple prescriptions of injections and tablets have failed to eradicate the distressing fears that the secret services have occupied the ward above. Perhaps all the increased medication will achieve is to stop him going upstairs intent on retribu tion. It may even leaden his limbs sufficiently to make his current balanc ing act too difficult to sustain.

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Springer

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1489932240

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9781489932242

Counselling Skills for Health Professionals

By: Philip Burnard,Jo Campling

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Counselling Skills for Health Professionals

By: Philip Burnard,Jo Campling

This is the second edition of a book that I hope continues to be of practical value. For counselling must always be that: practical. No amount of talking, on its own, can really make a difference if people do not end up doing something as a result of counselling. The practical thread remains an important one throughout this edition. Counselling Skills for Health Professionals is not just a 'how to do it' book: people are probably too complicated for that approach to be of much use. Counselling is never simply a matter of learning a range of skills which you then apply in a range of settings. In the end, counselling is about facing the person in front of you, listening to them carefully and then supporting them as they work through their problems. For many problems, there are no easy answers and counselling doesn't offer any 'quick fixes'. It is essentially a supportive process. There are many things it cannot do. It cannot change certain social and political situations. It cannot cure diseases. On the other hand, what it can do is offer people more hope. Often, just the fact that there is somone who is prepared to hear your story and to listen to you is all that is needed. I remain convinced that the key issue in all types of counselling is the ability to listen.

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266

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Springer

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1489933344

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9781489933348

Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia

By: Laurie Jo Sears

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Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia

By: Laurie Jo Sears

Presenting dialogues between prominent scholars of and from Indonesia and Indonesian women working in professional, activist, religious, and literary domains, the book dissolves essentialist notions of "women" and "Indonesia" that have arisen out of the tensions of empire.

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372

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Duke University Press

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082231696X

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9780822316961

Don't Shoot the Clowns

Taking a Circus to the Children of Iraq

By: Jo Wilding

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Don't Shoot the Clowns

Taking a Circus to the Children of Iraq

By: Jo Wilding

As a human rights observer, Jo Wilding, a young British trainee lawyer and solidarity activist, witnessed and recorded some of the worst atrocities committed against ordinary civilians. As the occupation started, she joined a group of performers to put on circus shows in squatter camps, hospitals, schools and orphanages. Jo Wilding is not a journalist but a new kind of citizen reporter', instinctively recording events and publishing directly online.

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274

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New Internationalist

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1904456480

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9781904456483

Midwifery Practice

A Research-Based Approach

By: Jo Alexander,Valerie Levy,Sarah Roch

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Midwifery Practice

A Research-Based Approach

By: Jo Alexander,Valerie Levy,Sarah Roch

This latest volume in the immensely popular Midwifery Practice Series deals with a further set of important issues, this time drawn from all three stages of care during pregnancy. The chapter structure adopted in the first three books is retained, and, as before, presentation of a broad-ranging survey and analysis of key research literature placed in the context of clinical practice is the guiding philosophy behind the whole book.

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214

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1349129364

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9781349129362

Pleasant Garden

By: Nancy Jo Smith

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Pleasant Garden

By: Nancy Jo Smith

The 20th century brought dramatic change to the closely knit yet independent-minded farming community of Pleasant Garden, North Carolina. Although descendants of the families who migrated from the Eastern Shore of Maryland still lived on the lands of their ancestors, they welcomed progress. As housing developments and recreational and retail opportunities evolved, and as many baby boomer families began commuting to nearby cities for work, Pleasant Garden became a bedroom community. In 1997, it incorporated as a town.

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128

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467133833

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9781467133838

Readings for Writers

By: Jo Ray McCuen,Anthony C. Winkler

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Readings for Writers

By: Jo Ray McCuen,Anthony C. Winkler

This best-selling rhetorical reader teaches rhetorical principles and exemplifies them by using a comprehensive of essays.

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Harcourt Brace College Publishers

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0155758314

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9780155758315

Greeting Card Magic with Rubber Stamps

By: Mary Jo McGraw

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Greeting Card Magic with Rubber Stamps

By: Mary Jo McGraw

Discover great new tricks for creating extra-special greeting cards! Pick up your stamp, follow along with the illustrated, step-by-step directions inside, and ta-da! - you'll amaze everyone (including yourself!) with your beautiful and original creations. This book features 21 quick and imaginative projects in styles from the classic to the dazzling. The techniques are easy - from basic folds and simple cuts to extravagant embellishment with silk threads, glass beads, dried flowers, seashells, embossing powder, watercolor washes?even your own handmade charms! Galleries at the end of each chapter are filled with colorful examples to inspire you to create your own greeting card magic.

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North Light Books

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0891349790

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9780891349792

Book's by Jo Smail

Shadows of Empire

Shadows of Empire

The Family

The Family

The History Manifesto

The History Manifesto

The Place of War in English History, 1066-1214

The Place of War in English History, 1066-1214

Helping Relationships in Mental Health

Helping Relationships in Mental Health

Counselling Skills for Health Professionals

Counselling Skills for Health Professionals

Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia

Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia

Don't Shoot the Clowns

Don't Shoot the Clowns

Midwifery Practice

Midwifery Practice

Pleasant Garden

Pleasant Garden

Readings for Writers

Readings for Writers

Greeting Card Magic with Rubber Stamps

Greeting Card Magic with Rubber Stamps

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