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Katya's Book of Mushrooms

Fungi, Fauna, Facts & Folklore

By: Katya Arnold,Sam Swope

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Katya's Book of Mushrooms

Fungi, Fauna, Facts & Folklore

By: Katya Arnold,Sam Swope

Mushrooms are exciting to find, beautiful to look at, fascinating to identify, and delicious to eat. When you know what to look for, a mushroom hunt is as safe and enjoyable as a treasure hunt. Katya Arnold ranges through the world to find hundreds of varieties of mushrooms, as well as fascinating anecdotes and fun facts that make these wonders of nature exciting and immediate. A walk in the woods will never be the same!

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Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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162779915X

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9781627799157

Everyday Aesthetics

Prosaics, the Play of Culture and Social Identities

By: Katya Mandoki

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Everyday Aesthetics

Prosaics, the Play of Culture and Social Identities

By: Katya Mandoki

Katya Mandoki advances in this book the thesis that it is not only possible but crucial to open up the field of aesthetics (traditionally confined to the study of art and beauty) toward the richness and complexity of everyday life. She argues that in every process of communication, whether face to face or through the media, fashion, and political propaganda, there is always an excess beyond the informative and functional value of a message. This excess is the aesthetic. Following Huizinga's view of play as an ingredient of any social environment, Mandoki explores how various cultural practices are in fact forms of playing since, for the author, aesthetics and play are Siamese twins. One of the unique contributions of this book is the elaboration and application of a semiotic model for the simultaneous analysis of social interactions in the four registers, namely visual, auditory, verbal and body language, to detect the aesthetic strategies deployed in specific situations. She argues that since the presentation of the self is targeted towards participants' sensibilities, aesthetics plays a key role in these modes of exchange. Consequently, the author updates important debates in this field to clear the way for a socio-aesthetic inquiry through contexts such as the family, school, medical, artistic or religious traditions from which social identities emerge.

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344

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Routledge

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131713849X

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9781317138495

Black, Jewish, and Interracial

It’s Not the Color of Your Skin, but the Race of Your Kin, and Other Myths of Identity

By: Katya Gibel Mevorach

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Black, Jewish, and Interracial

It’s Not the Color of Your Skin, but the Race of Your Kin, and Other Myths of Identity

By: Katya Gibel Mevorach

How do adult children of interracial parents—where one parent is Jewish and one is Black—think about personal identity? This question is at the heart of Katya Gibel Azoulay’s Black, Jewish, and Interracial. Motivated by her own experience as the child of a Jewish mother and Jamaican father, Gibel Azoulay blends historical, theoretical, and personal perspectives to explore the possibilities and meanings that arise when Black and Jewish identities merge. As she asks what it means to be Black, Jewish, and interracial, Gibel Azoulay challenges deeply ingrained assumptions about identity and moves toward a consideration of complementary racial identities. Beginning with an examination of the concept of identity as it figures in philosophical and political thought, Gibel Azoulay moves on to consider and compare the politics and traditions of the Black and Jewish experience in America. Her inquiry draws together such diverse subjects as Plessy v. Ferguson, the Leo Frank case, "passing," intermarriage, civil rights, and anti-Semitism. The paradoxical presence of being both Black and Jewish, she argues, leads questions of identity, identity politics, and diversity in a new direction as it challenges distinct notions of whiteness and blackness. Rising above familiar notions of identity crisis and cultural confrontation, she offers new insights into the discourse of race and multiculturalism as she suggests that identity can be a more encompassing concept than is usually thought. Gibel Azoulay adds her own personal history and interviews with eight other Black and Jewish individuals to reveal various ways in which interracial identities are being lived, experienced, and understood in contemporary America.

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Duke University Press

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082238230X

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9780822382300

Embodied Histories

New Womanhood in Vienna, 1894-1934

By: Katya Motyl

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Embodied Histories

New Womanhood in Vienna, 1894-1934

By: Katya Motyl

In Embodied Histories, historian Katya Motyl explores the everyday acts of defiance that formed the basis for new, unconventional forms of womanhood in turn-of-the-century Vienna. The figures Motyl brings back to life dressed however they pleased, defied gender conformity, behaved brashly, and expressed themselves freely, overturning assumptions about what it meant to exist as a woman. Motyl delves into the ways in which these women inhabited and reshaped the urban landscape of Vienna, an increasingly modern, cosmopolitan city. Specifically, she focuses on how easily overlooked quotidian practices such as loitering outside cafés, striking up conversations with strangers, and taking dogs for walks helped create novel conceptions of gender. Exploring the emergence of a new womanhood, Embodied Histories presents a new account of how the gender, the body, and the city merge with and transform each other, showing how our modes of being are radically intertwined with the spaces we inhabit"--

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University of Chicago Press

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0226832163

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9780226832166

Teacher Guide for the Sk'ad'a Stories Series

Intergenerational Learning and Storytelling in the Classroom

By: Katya Adamov Ferguson,Sara Florence Davidson

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Teacher Guide for the Sk'ad'a Stories Series

Intergenerational Learning and Storytelling in the Classroom

By: Katya Adamov Ferguson,Sara Florence Davidson

From the creators of Potlatch as Pedagogy: Learning Through Ceremony, the Sḵ'ad'a Stories series brings intergenerational learning to life. Haida children learn important life lessons from their Elders through real-life situations, cultural traditions, and experiences out on the land. Written by Sḵ'ad'a Stories author Sara Florence Davidson and educator Katya Adamov Ferguson, the Teacher Guide for the Sḵ'ad'a Stories helps teachers engage their students through the lens of intergenerational learning and authentic experiences. This guide outlines the Sḵ'ad'a principles found in the stories shows how to use the Sḵ'ad'a principles in your classroom provides the behind-the-scenes thinking of the authors and illustrator explains the significance of this series as part of Haida cultural resurgence and preservation provides critical perspectives on the impact of colonialism on Haida knowledges includes resources and inspirations for educators This teacher guide is appropriate for all grade levels.

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Portage & Main Press

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1553799909

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9781553799900

Writing at Russia's Borders

By: Katya Hokanson

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Writing at Russia's Borders

By: Katya Hokanson

It is often assumed that cultural identity is determined in a country’s metropolitan centres. Given Russia’s long tenure as a geographically and socially diverse empire, however, there is a certain distillation of peripheral experiences and ideas that contributes just as much to theories of national culture as do urban-centred perspectives. Writing at Russia’s Border argues that Russian literature needs to be reexamined in light of the fact that many of its most important nineteenth-century texts are peripheral, not in significance but in provenance. Katya Hokanson makes the case that the fluid and ever-changing cultural and linguistic boundaries of Russia’s border regions profoundly influenced the nation’s literature, posing challenges to stereotypical or territorially based conceptions of Russia’s imperial, military, and cultural identity. A highly canonical text such as Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin (1831), which is set in European Russia, is no less dependent on the perspectives of those living at the edges of the Russian Empire than is Tolstoy’s The Cossacks (1863), which is explicitly set on Russia’s border and has become central to the Russian canon. Hokanson cites the influence of these and other ‘peripheral’ texts as proof that Russia’s national identity was dependent upon the experiences of people living in the border areas of an expanding empire. Produced at a cultural moment of contrast and exchange, the literature of the periphery represented a negotiation of different views of Russian identity, an ingredient that was ultimately essential even to literature produced in the major cities. Writing at Russia’s Border upends popular ideas of national cultural production and is a fascinating study of the social implications of nineteenth-century Russian literature.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442691816

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9781442691810

A Woman’s Empire

Russian Women and Imperial Expansion in Asia

By: Katya Hokanson

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A Woman’s Empire

Russian Women and Imperial Expansion in Asia

By: Katya Hokanson

A Woman’s Empire explores a new dimension of Russian imperialism: women actively engaged in the process of late imperial expansion. The book investigates how women writers, travellers, and scientists who journeyed to and beyond Central Asia participated in Russia’s "civilizing" and colonizing mission, utilizing newly found educational opportunities while navigating powerful discourses of femininity as well as male-dominated science. Katya Hokanson shows how these Russian women resisted domestic roles in a variety of ways. The women writers include a governor general’s wife, a fiction writer who lived in Turkestan, and a famous Theosophist, among others. They make clear the perspectives of the ruling class and outline the special role of women as describers and recorders of information about local women, and as builders of "civilized" colonial Russian society with its attendant performances and social events. Although the bulk of the women’s writings, drawings, and photography is primarily noteworthy for its cultural and historical value, A Woman’s Empire demonstrates how the works also add dimension and detail to the story of Russian imperial expansion and illuminates how women encountered, imagined, and depicted Russia’s imperial Other during this period.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487545614

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9781487545611

The Indispensable Excess of the Aesthetic

Evolution of Sensibility in Nature

By: Katya Mandoki

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The Indispensable Excess of the Aesthetic

Evolution of Sensibility in Nature

By: Katya Mandoki

TheIndispensable Excess of the Aesthetic: Evolution of Sensibility in Nature traces the evolution of sensibility from the most primal indications detectable at the level of cellular receptors and plant tendril sensitivity, animal creativity and play to cultural ramifications. Taking on Darwin’s insistence against Wallace that animals do have a sense of beauty, and on recent evolutionary observations, this book compellingly argues that sensibility is a biological faculty that emerges together with life. It argues that there is appreciation and discernment of quality, order, and meaning by organisms in various species determined by their morphological adaptations and environmental conditions. Drawing upon Baumgarten’s foundational definition of aesthetics as scientia cognitionis sensitivae, this book proposes a non-anthropocentric approach to aesthetics as well as the use of empirical evidence to sustain its claims updating aesthetic understanding with contemporary biosemiotic and evolutionary theory. The text leads us along three distinct but entwined areas: from the world of matter to that of living matter to the realm of cultivated living matter for exploring how and why sensibility could have evolved. It points out that aspects traditionally used to demarcate and characterize human aesthetics—such as appreciation of symmetry, proportion and color, as well as pleasure, valuation and empathy, sensory seduction, creativity, and skills for representation, even fiction—are present not only in humans but among a variety of plant and animal species.

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Lexington Books

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1498503071

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9781498503075

The Long Shadow of the Past

Contemporary Austrian Literature, Film, and Culture

By: Katya Krylova

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The Long Shadow of the Past

Contemporary Austrian Literature, Film, and Culture

By: Katya Krylova

Examines key contemporary Austrian literary texts, films, and memorials that treat Nazism and the Holocaust for what they reveal about the country's contemporary politics of memory.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1571139397

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9781571139399

The Laban Workbook for Actors

A Practical Training Guide with Video

By: Katya Bloom,Barbara Adrian,Tom Casciero,Jennifer Mizenko,Claire Porter

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The Laban Workbook for Actors

A Practical Training Guide with Video

By: Katya Bloom,Barbara Adrian,Tom Casciero,Jennifer Mizenko,Claire Porter

The Laban Workbook is a compendium of unique exercises inspired by the concepts and principles of movement theorist and artist, Rudolf Laban. Written by five internationally recognized movement experts, this textbook is divided into single-authored chapters, each of which includes a short contextual essay followed by a series of insight-bearing exercises. These expert views, honed in the creation of individual approaches to training and coaching actors, provide a versatile range of theory and practice in the creative process of crafting theatre. Readers will learn: Enhanced expressivity of body and voice; Clearer storytelling, both physical and vocal, facilitating the embodiment of playwrights' intentions; Imaginative possibilities for exploring an existing play or for creating devised theatre. Featuring many exercises exploring the application of Laban Movement Studies to text, character, scene work, and devised performances - as well as revealing the creative potential of the body itself - The Laban Workbook is ideal for actors, teachers, directors and choreographers.

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297

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474220681

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9781474220682

The London Bible

A Guide to Living and Working in the Capital

By: Katherine Harlow,Katya Holloway

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The London Bible

A Guide to Living and Working in the Capital

By: Katherine Harlow,Katya Holloway

Covering everything visitors (and residents) need to know about accommodation, transportation, sightseeing, and employment, this just may be the definitive companion for those who want to experience all that London has to offer. Area by area, and pub by pub, it's here. Photos.

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Interlink Publishing Group

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1566565243

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9781566565240

Book's by Katya Arnold

Katya's Book of Mushrooms

Katya's Book of Mushrooms

Everyday Aesthetics

Everyday Aesthetics

Black, Jewish, and Interracial

Black, Jewish, and Interracial

Embodied Histories

Embodied Histories

Teacher Guide for the Sk'ad'a Stories Series

Teacher Guide for the Sk'ad'a Stories Series

Writing at Russia's Borders

Writing at Russia's Borders

A Woman’s Empire

A Woman’s Empire

The Indispensable Excess of the Aesthetic

The Indispensable Excess of the Aesthetic

The Long Shadow of the Past

The Long Shadow of the Past

The Laban Workbook for Actors

The Laban Workbook for Actors

The London Bible

The London Bible

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