Julia Diane Harrison's Books

Being a Tourist

Finding Meaning in Pleasure Travel

By: Julia Diane Harrison

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Being a Tourist

Finding Meaning in Pleasure Travel

By: Julia Diane Harrison

What feeds the impulse to explore new horizons? What makes travel meaningful? In Being a Tourist, Julia Harrison explores the motivations of a large group of middle-class travelers to find out why people invest their financial, emotional, psychological, and physical resources in this activity. She suggests that they are fueled by several desires: to find intimacy and connection, to express a personal aesthetic, to explore the idea of "home," and to make sense of a globalized world. Engagingly and thoughtfully written for readers of travel writing, tourism studies, anthropology, cultural studies, and sociology, Being a Tourist goes beyond current debates about authenticity and consumption to analyze the nuanced moral and political complexity of privileged travel.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

276

Publisher

UBC Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0774809787

ISBN 13

9780774809788

A Timeless Place

The Ontario Cottage

By: Julia Harrison

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Timeless Place

The Ontario Cottage

By: Julia Harrison

As Julia Harrison's first summer of living in Ontario approached, she became aware of the culture of the cottage. Friends talked of nothing but languid afternoons on the dock, but Harrison marveled at the investment of money and labour that the idyllic escapes demanded. Curious about the rich and passionate meaning these places seemed to hold, she studied cottagers in the Haliburton region over the course of seven years. Thoughtfully and engagingly written, A Timeless Place considers the family cottage as a place where memories are treasured, national identity is celebrated, spiritual balance is restored, and a few dark secrets are kept.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

310

Publisher

UBC Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0774826096

ISBN 13

9780774826099

State of Mind

New California Art Circa 1970

By: Constance Lewallen,Karen Moss,Julia Bryan-Wilson,Anne Rorimer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

State of Mind

New California Art Circa 1970

By: Constance Lewallen,Karen Moss,Julia Bryan-Wilson,Anne Rorimer

There is not a trace of the provincial nor the apologetic in the tone of the State of Mind texts. Rather there is a justified claim for the sophisticated originality of this Californian art—sophisticated because the authors have convincingly argued that the artists, for the most part, had many conscious connections and familiarity with art from the rest of the country and Europe, yet were driven by a desire to be independent and different." —Moira Roth, editor and contributor, The Amazing Decade: Women and Performance Art in America 1970-1980 "State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970 is an essential overview of the rich and complex moment when California assumed its role as a leading center for the making and exhibition of the kind of adventurous and progressive art that immediately fascinated the world, and over the years has come to define a generation and a region. An unmatched source of hard-to-find primary images combined with thought-provoking critical essays, this book can easily function as a standard text on this subject.” —David Ross, former director of SFMOMA and the Whitney Museum of American Art, and currently Chairman of the MFA program in Art Practice at The School of Visual Arts

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

296

Publisher

Univ of California Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0520270614

ISBN 13

9780520270619

In Mixed Company

Taverns and Public Life in Upper Canada

By: Julia Roberts

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

In Mixed Company

Taverns and Public Life in Upper Canada

By: Julia Roberts

In Mixed Company explores taverns as colonial public space and how men and women of diverse backgrounds � Native and newcomer, privileged and labouring, white and non-white � negotiated a place for themselves within them. The stories that emerge unsettle comfortable certainties about who belonged where in colonial society. Colonial taverns were places where labourers enjoyed libations with wealthy Aboriginal traders like Captain Thomas, who also treated a Scotsman to a small bowl of punch; where white soldiers rubbed shoulders with black colonists out to celebrate Emancipation Day; where English ladies and their small children sought refuge for a night. The records of the past tell stories of time spent in mixed company but also of the myriad, unequal ways that colonists found room in taverns and a place in Upper Canadian culture and society. Reconstructed from tavern-keepers' accounts, court records, diaries, travelogues, and letters, In Mixed Company is essential reading for tavern aficionados and anyone interested in the history of gender, race, and culture in Canadian or colonial society.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

242

Publisher

UBC Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0774858672

ISBN 13

9780774858670

Matchstick Man

By: Julia Kelly

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Matchstick Man

By: Julia Kelly

Julia Kelly met a charismatic and successful artist, Charlie Whisker, while she was working on her first novel. He was twenty years older than her. Their relationship was passionate and extraordinary; each of them inspired the other. Their friends were writers, artists and rock stars; they lived a glamorous life of exhibitions, parties and concerts. They became parents to a daughter they adored. But Charlie suddenly changed, becoming hopelessly forgetful, angry and confused. This is an unbearably honest, unsentimental and heartbreaking description of a brilliant man's mental disintegration and its effects on his family. Charlie's disturbing behaviour is described in a series of terrible, understated revelations. An unforgettable telling of a story that will be familiar to many thousands of people in the UK and Ireland.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

201

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1788540131

ISBN 13

9781788540131

Risk and the English Novel

From Defoe to McEwan

By: Julia Hoydis

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Risk and the English Novel

From Defoe to McEwan

By: Julia Hoydis

Taking the cue from the currency of risk in popular and interdisciplinary academic discourse, this book explores the development of the English novel in relation to the emergence and institutionalization of risk, from its origins in probability theory in the late seventeenth century to the global ‘risk society’ in the twenty-first century. Focussing on 29 novels from Defoe to McEwan, this book argues for the contemporaneity of the rise of risk and the novel and suggests that there is much to gain from reading the risk society from a diachronic, literary-cultural perspective. Tracing changes and continuities, the fictional case studies reveal the human preoccupation with safety and control of the future. They show the struggle with uncertainties and the construction of individual or collective ‘logics’ of risk, which oscillate between rational calculation and emotion, helplessness and denial, and an enabling or destructive sense of adventure and danger. Advancing the study of risk in fiction beyond the confinement to dystopian disaster narratives, this book shows how topical notions, such as chance and probability, uncertainty and responsibility, fears of decline and transgression, all cluster around risk.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

674

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published Date

ISBN 10

311061541X

ISBN 13

9783110615418

McCance & Huether’s Pathophysiology - E-Book

The Biologic Basis for Disease in Adults and Children

By: Julia Rogers

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

McCance & Huether’s Pathophysiology - E-Book

The Biologic Basis for Disease in Adults and Children

By: Julia Rogers

NEW! More than 50 new or revised illustrations visually reinforce pathophysiology concepts. NEW! Emerging Science boxes highlight the most current research and clinical developments.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1738

Publisher

Elsevier Health Sciences

Published Date

ISBN 10

0323789897

ISBN 13

9780323789899

Ritual and Power in Stone

The Performance of Rulership in Mesoamerican Izapan Style Art

By: Julia Guernsey

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Ritual and Power in Stone

The Performance of Rulership in Mesoamerican Izapan Style Art

By: Julia Guernsey

The ancient Mesoamerican city of Izapa in Chiapas, Mexico, is renowned for its extensive collection of elaborate stone stelae and altars, which were carved during the Late Preclassic period (300 BC-AD 250). Many of these monuments depict kings garbed in the costume and persona of a bird, a well-known avian deity who had great significance for the Maya and other cultures in adjacent regions. This Izapan style of carving and kingly representation appears at numerous sites across the Pacific slope and piedmont of Mexico and Guatemala, making it possible to trace political and economic corridors of communication during the Late Preclassic period. In this book, Julia Guernsey offers a masterful art historical analysis of the Izapan style monuments and their integral role in developing and communicating the institution of divine kingship. She looks specifically at how rulers expressed political authority by erecting monuments that recorded their performance of rituals in which they communicated with the supernatural realm in the persona of the avian deity. She also considers how rulers used the monuments to structure their built environment and create spaces for ritual and politically charged performances. Setting her discussion in a broader context, Guernsey also considers how the Izapan style monuments helped to motivate and structure some of the dramatic, pan-regional developments of the Late Preclassic period, including the forging of a codified language of divine kingship. This pioneering investigation, which links monumental art to the matrices of political, economic, and supernatural exchange, offers an important new understanding of a region, time period, and group of monuments that played a key role in the history of Mesoamerica and continue to intrigue scholars within the field of Mesoamerican studies.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

233

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0292713231

ISBN 13

9780292713239

African Names

Names from the African Continent for Children and Adults

By: Julia Stewart

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

African Names

Names from the African Continent for Children and Adults

By: Julia Stewart

Names From The African Continent for Children and Adults From Aba to Zuri AFRICAN NAMES offers more than a thousand names from all corners of the African continent - as well as more than 175 surnames - for adults of African descent to use in naming their children or to substitute for their own Westernized names. Names are listed alphabetically and include country of origin, English translation also included is information on cultures and rulers of this diverse country.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

208

Publisher

Citadel Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0806513861

ISBN 13

9780806513867

Contemporary Musicians

Profiles of the People in Music

By: Julia Rubiner

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Contemporary Musicians

Profiles of the People in Music

By: Julia Rubiner

Contemporary Musicians provides comprehensive information on more than 4,500 musicians and groups from around the world. Entries include a detailed biographical essay, selected discographies, contact information and a list of sources.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

344

Publisher

Contemporary Musicians

Published Date

ISBN 10

081032217X

ISBN 13

9780810322172

From Adjoa to Zahara

More Than 1000 African Names to Affirm Your Cultural Pride

By: Julia Stewart

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

From Adjoa to Zahara

More Than 1000 African Names to Affirm Your Cultural Pride

By: Julia Stewart

FROM ADJOA TO ZAHARA is a treasure trove for anyone looking for a unique name that evokes a rich heritage for a baby or an adult, as well as anyone interested in African culture. Here are more than 1000 names with pronunciation, meaning, gender, country of origin, and general background information, including: · Adwin — a Akan of Ghana male name meaning “artist” or “thinker” · Farida — a Muslim female name meaning “precious pearl, only one, unique” · Juma — a Swahili name for males born on Friday · Lomela — a river in central Zaire, and a name for girls · Mandisa — Xhosa of South Africa female name meaning “sweet” · Rakanja — a male name of the Muarusha people of Tanzania · Tanala — a girls’ name meaning “people of the forest,” a group from eastern Madagascar · Zesiro — a Buganda of Uganda name for the firstborn of twins Brimming with fascinating facts about the cultures and rulers of the vast and diverse African nation, FROM ADJOA TO ZAHARA offers, in addition to the myriad name suggestions, quotes, proverbs, and poems about names and birth. There is also a section on cross-cultural references and meanings for the many African names that share Arabic, Hebrew, Spanish, and other heritage. In the appendices is a list of modern African rulers, a list of suggested reading and places to go for further research, and a description of several African language families. Also included is practical information on changing names, including naming trends and the legalities of name changing. There is even a section on fun and silly African names for children, cherished friends, or pets. This comprehensive and fascinating book is an invaluable guide to the incredibly diverse names from the vast and varied African continent.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

216

Publisher

Gramercy

Published Date

ISBN 10

0517229218

ISBN 13

9780517229217

Julia Williams 3 Book Bundle

By: Julia Williams

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Julia Williams 3 Book Bundle

By: Julia Williams

Three warm, witty and uplifting novels from best-selling author Julia Williams.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1050

Publisher

HarperCollins UK

Published Date

ISBN 10

0007527063

ISBN 13

9780007527069

Book's by Julia Diane Harrison

Being a Tourist

Being a Tourist

A Timeless Place

A Timeless Place

State of Mind

State of Mind

In Mixed Company

In Mixed Company

Matchstick Man

Matchstick Man

Risk and the English Novel

Risk and the English Novel

McCance & Huether’s Pathophysiology - E-Book

McCance & Huether’s Pathophysiology - E-Book

Ritual and Power in Stone

Ritual and Power in Stone

African Names

African Names

Contemporary Musicians

Contemporary Musicians

From Adjoa to Zahara

From Adjoa to Zahara

Julia Williams 3 Book Bundle

Julia Williams 3 Book Bundle

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email