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Theatre and Protest

By: Lara Shalson

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How does protest engage with theatre? What does theatre have to gain from protest? Theatre and protest are often closely interlinked in the contemporary cultural and political landscape, and the line between protest and performance is often difficult to draw. Yet this relationship is also beset with doubts about theatre's capacity to intervene in the social world. This fresh and insightful text thinks through the intersections and tensions between theatre and protest. Exploring the cross-fertilization of international theatre and protest across the 12th and 21st centuries, Lara Shalson illuminates how and why these two are mutually influencing and enriching forms.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137443103

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Radical Moves

Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age

By: Lara Putnam

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Radical Moves

Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age

By: Lara Putnam

Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age

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UNC Press Books

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080783582X

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Struggles for the Human

Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights

By: Lara Montesinos Coleman

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Struggles for the Human

Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights

By: Lara Montesinos Coleman

In Struggles for the Human, Lara Montesinos Coleman blends ethnography, political philosophy, and critical theory to reorient debates on human rights through attention to understandings of legality, ethics, and humanity in anticapitalist and decolonial struggle. Drawing on her extensive involvement with grassroots social movements in Colombia, Coleman observes that mainstream expressions of human rights have become counterparts to capitalist violence, even as this discourse disavows capitalism’s deadly implications. She rejects claims that human rights are inherently tied to capitalism, liberalism, or colonialism, instead showing how human rights can be used to combat these forces. Coleman demonstrates that social justice struggles that are rooted in marginalized communities’ lived experiences can reframe human rights in order to challenge oppressive power structures and offer a blueprint for constructing alternative political economies. By examining the practice of redefining human rights away from abstract universals and contextualizing them within concrete struggles for justice, Coleman reveals the transformative potential of human rights and invites readers to question and reshape dominant legal and ethical narratives.

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Duke University Press

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1478027681

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9781478027683

Grand Designs

Labor, Empire, and the Museum in Victorian Culture

By: Lara Kriegel

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Grand Designs

Labor, Empire, and the Museum in Victorian Culture

By: Lara Kriegel

With this richly illustrated history of industrial design reform in nineteenth-century Britain, Lara Kriegel demonstrates that preoccupations with trade, labor, and manufacture lay at the heart of debates about cultural institutions during the Victorian era. Through aesthetic reform, Victorians sought to redress the inferiority of British crafts in comparison to those made on the continent and in the colonies. Declaring a crisis of design and workmanship among the British laboring classes, reformers pioneered schools of design, copyright protections, and spectacular displays of industrial and imperial wares, most notably the Great Exhibition of 1851. Their efforts culminated with the establishment of the South Kensington Museum, predecessor to the Victoria and Albert Museum, which stands today as home to the world’s foremost collection of the decorative and applied arts. Kriegel’s identification of the significant links between markets and museums, and between economics and aesthetics, amounts to a rethinking of Victorian cultural formation. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including museum guidebooks, design manuals, illustrated newspapers, pattern books, and government reports, Kriegel brings to life the many Victorians who claimed a stake in aesthetic reform during the middle years of the nineteenth century. The aspiring artists who attended the Government School of Design, the embattled provincial printers who sought a strengthened industrial copyright, the exhibition-going millions who visited the Crystal Palace, the lower-middle-class consumers who learned new principles of taste in metropolitan museums, and the working men of London who critiqued the city’s art and design collections—all are cast by Kriegel as leading cultural actors of their day. Grand Designs shows how these Victorians vied to upend aesthetic hierarchies in an imperial age and, in the process, to refashion London’s public culture.

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Duke University Press

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0822390531

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9780822390534

Debating Dissent

Canada and the 1960s

By: Lara A. Campbell,Dominique Clement,Gregory S. Kealey

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Debating Dissent

Canada and the 1960s

By: Lara A. Campbell,Dominique Clement,Gregory S. Kealey

Although the 1960s are overwhelmingly associated with student radicalism and the New Left, most Canadians witnessed the decade’s political, economic, and cultural turmoil from a different perspective. Debating Dissent dispels the myths and stereotypes associated with the 1960s by examining what this era’s transformations meant to diverse groups of Canadians – and not only protestors, youth, or the white middle-class. With critical contributions from new and senior scholars, Debating Dissent integrates traditional conceptions of the 1960s as a ‘time apart’ within the broader framework of the ‘long-sixties’ and post-1945 Canada, and places Canada within a local, national, an international context. Cutting-edge essays in social, intellectual, and political history reflect a range of historical interpretation and explore such diverse topics as narcotics, the environment, education, workers, Aboriginal and Black activism, nationalism, Quebec, women, and bilingualism. Touching on the decade’s biggest issues, from changing cultural norms to the role of the state, Debating Dissent critically examines ideas of generational change and the sixties.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442667214

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9781442667211

Rectify

The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction

By: Lara Bazelon

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Rectify

The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction

By: Lara Bazelon

A powerful argument for adopting a model of restorative justice as part of the Innocence Movement—so exonerees, crime victims, and their communities can come together to heal In Rectify, a former Innocence Project director and journalist Lara Bazelon puts a face to the growing number of men and women exonerated from crimes that kept them behind bars for years—sometimes decades—and that devastate not only the exonerees but also their families, the crime victims who mistakenly identified them as perpetrators, the jurors who convicted them, and the prosecutors who realized too late that they helped convict an innocent person. Bazelon focuses on Thomas Haynesworth, a teenager arrested for multiple rapes in Virginia, and Janet Burke, a rape victim who mistakenly IDed him. It took over two decades before he was exonerated. Conventional wisdom points to an exoneration as a happy ending to tragic tales of injustice, such as Haynesworth’s. However, even when the physical shackles are left behind, invisible ones can be profoundly more difficult to unlock. In the midst of Bazelon’s frustration over the blatant limitations of courts and advocates, her hope is renewed by the fledgling but growing movement to apply the centuries-old practice of restorative justice to wrongful conviction cases. Using the stories of Thomas Haynesworth, Janet Burke, and other crime victims and exonerees, she demonstrates how the transformative experience of connecting isolated individuals around mutual trauma and a shared purpose of repairing harm unite unlikely allies. Movingly written and vigorously researched, Rectify takes to task the far-reaching failures of our criminal justice system and offers a window into a future where the power it yields can be used in pursuit of healing and unity rather than punishment and blame.

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Beacon Press

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080702919X

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The History of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, 1943–2016

Between the State and the Arts

By: Lara Cuny

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The History of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, 1943–2016

Between the State and the Arts

By: Lara Cuny

This book presents the history of the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA) in Northern Ireland from its conception in 1943, and its successor organisation, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI). Exploring the political and social impact of cultural policy in Northern Ireland, the book illustrates how the arts developed during the twentieth century and sheds light on the relationship between politics and culture. The author takes a closer look at the responsibilities of ACNI, and examines its interaction with the unionist government, which sought to influence how the organisation distributed its grants. Spanning the outbreak of the Troubles in the 1960s and the Peace Process in the 1990s, the ACNI evolved through a period of conflict and change, and therefore this book argues that there was an undeniable link between the changing political environment and the management of the arts in Northern Ireland. The arm’s length principle is analysed in relation to ACNI, examining the influence that the state had upon its management and governance. Offering a unique historical overview of the arts in Northern Ireland, this interdisciplinary book fills a gap in Irish history and presents insights into cultural policy, conflict resolution and political history.

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Springer Nature

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3031134095

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Class, Culture and Suburban Anxieties in the Victorian Era

By: Lara Baker Whelan

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Class, Culture and Suburban Anxieties in the Victorian Era

By: Lara Baker Whelan

This book demonstrates how representations of the Victorian suburb in mid- to late-nineteenth century British writing occasioned a literary sub-genre unique to this period, one that attempted to reassure readers that the suburb was a place where outsiders could be controlled and where middle-class values could be enforced. Whelan explores the dissonance created by the differences between the suburban ideal and suburban realities, recognizing the persistence of that ideal in the face of abundant evidence that it was hardly ever realized. She discusses evidence from primary and secondary sources about perceptions and realities of suburban living, showing what it meant to live in a "real" Victorian suburb. The book also demonstrates how the suburban ideal (with its elements of privacy, cleanliness, rus in urbe, and respectability), in its relation to culturally embedded ideas about the Beautiful and Picturesque, gained such a strong foothold in the Victorian middle class that contemplating its failure caused intense anxiety. Whelan goes on to trace the ways in which this anxiety is represented in literature.

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Routledge

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113517718X

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Mathematics Rebooted

A Fresh Approach to Understanding

By: Lara Alcock

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Mathematics Rebooted

A Fresh Approach to Understanding

By: Lara Alcock

Would you like to understand more mathematics? Many people would. Perhaps at school you liked mathematics for a while but were then put off because you missed a key idea and kept getting stuck. Perhaps you always liked mathematics but gave it up because your main interest was music or languages or science or philosophy. Or perhaps you studied mathematics to advanced levels, but have now forgotten most of what you once knew. Whichever is the case, this book is for you. It aims to build on what you know, revisiting basic ideas with a focus on meaning. Each chapter starts with an idea from school mathematics - often primary school mathematics - and gradually builds up a network of links to more advanced material. It explores fundamental ideas in depth, using insights from research in mathematics education and psychology to explain why people often get confused, and how to overcome that confusion. For nervous readers, it will build confidence by clarifying basic ideas. For more experienced readers, it will highlight new connections to more advanced material. Throughout, the book explains how mathematicians think, and how ordinary people can understand and enjoy mathematical ideas and arguments. If you would like to be better informed about the intrinsic elegance of mathematics, this engaging guide is the place to start.

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Oxford University Press

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0192525948

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What Can I Take Off Your Plate?

A Structural-and Sustainable-approach to Countering Teacher Burnout

By: Jill Handley,Lara Donnelly

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What Can I Take Off Your Plate?

A Structural-and Sustainable-approach to Countering Teacher Burnout

By: Jill Handley,Lara Donnelly

The authors provide school leaders with strategies to counter teacher burnout and implement structural changes that support and retain all teachers"--

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1416633014

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Beyond the Public Sphere

Film and the Feminist Imaginary

By: Maria Pia Lara

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Beyond the Public Sphere

Film and the Feminist Imaginary

By: Maria Pia Lara

In Beyond the Public Sphere: Film and the Feminist Imaginary, the renowned philosopher and critical theorist María Pía Lara challenges the notion that the bourgeois public sphere is the most important informal institution between social and political actors and the state. Drawing on a wide range of films—including The Milk of Sorrow, Ixcanul, Wadja, The Stone of Patience, Marnie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Talk to Her—Lara dissects cinematic images of women’s struggles and their oppression. She builds on this analysis, developing a concept of the feminist social imaginary as a broader and more complex space that provides a way of thinking through the possibilities for emancipatory social transformation in response to forms of domination perpetuated by patriarchal capitalism.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810142910

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Performing Endurance

Art and Politics since 1960

By: Lara Shalson

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Performing Endurance

Art and Politics since 1960

By: Lara Shalson

In Performing Endurance, Lara Shalson offers a new way of understanding acts of endurance in art and political contexts. Examining a range of performances from the 1960s to the present, including influential performance art works by Marina Abramović, Chris Burden, Tehching Hsieh, Linda Montano, Yoko Ono, and others, as well as protest actions from the lunch counter sit-ins of the US civil rights movement to protest camps in the twenty-first century, this book provides a formal account of endurance and illuminates its ethical and political significance. Endurance, Shalson argues, raises vital questions about what it means to exist as a body that both acts and is acted upon, from ethical questions about how we respond to the bodies of others to political questions about how we live in relation to institutions that shape life in fundamental ways. In addition, Performing Endurance rethinks how performance itself endures over time.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108589383

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Metropolitan Maternity

Maternal and Infant Welfare Services in Early Twentieth Century London

By: Lara V. Marks

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Metropolitan Maternity

Maternal and Infant Welfare Services in Early Twentieth Century London

By: Lara V. Marks

For centuries London has been at the centre of the social and economic fabric of British life, and its empire. London has not only been renowned for its pivotal role in the world of finance and politics, but also for its acute problems of overcrowding and social and economic dislocation. Starting in 1902 and ending just before the outbreak of the Second World War, Metropolitan Maternity highlights the distinct role London played in these years within the debates and policies concerning the economic and military future and physical welfare of the nation. Focusing on the expansion of maternal and child health and welfare services in the early twentieth century, this book shows that London mothers and children tended to be better served than those in provincial cities or rural areas. Yet even in London some areas were better served than others. A central theme of the book is the complexity of socio-economic and political forces that determined the differing levels of provision and health standards within the city. The book also examines the increasing emphasis placed on state sponsorship of health services in the early twentieth century and the growing willingness to involve and listen to mothers and their needs in the planning and development of services.

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9004418458

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9789004418455

The Crimean War and its Afterlife

By: Lara Kriegel

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The Crimean War and its Afterlife

By: Lara Kriegel

Rescuing the Crimean War from the shadows, Lara Kriegel demonstrates the centrality of a Victorian war to the making of modern Britain.

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1108842224

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Hollywood and China in the Post-postclassical Era

By: Lara Herring

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Hollywood and China in the Post-postclassical Era

By: Lara Herring

This book examines the contemporary relationship between Hollywood and China as case studies that help to define a new era in Hollywood film industry, style, and economics, which is termed the ‘post‐postclassical’ period. Centred around a case study of Legendary Entertainment, the analysis shows how the studio adopted and adapted its global strategies in order to gain access to and favour within the Chinese film market, and how issues of censorship and financial performance affected the choices they made. Demonstrating Legendary’s identity as a ‘post‐postclassical’ studio and examining how this plays into its China‐strategy, this book explores how this particular case and the necessary analysis of wider political economic relations offer a periodisation of the contemporary Hollywood‐China relationship. This book will interest students and scholars of media and film studies, as well as academics whose research interests include global cinema, Hollywood, Chinese cinema, transnational cinema, and film industry studies.

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1040002269

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Uses and Abuses of Plant-Derived Smoke

Its Ethnobotany as Hallucinogen, Perfume, Incense, and Medicine

By: Marcello Pennacchio,Lara Jefferson,Kayri Havens

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Uses and Abuses of Plant-Derived Smoke

Its Ethnobotany as Hallucinogen, Perfume, Incense, and Medicine

By: Marcello Pennacchio,Lara Jefferson,Kayri Havens

Plants provide the food, shelter, medicines, and biomass that underlie sustainable life. One of the earliest and often overlooked uses of plants is the production of smoke, dating to the time of early hominid species. Plant-derived smoke has had an enormous socio-economic impact throughout human history, being burned for medicinal and recreational purposes, magico-religious ceremonies, pest control, food preservation, and flavoring, perfumes, and incense.This illustrated global compendium documents and describes approximately 2,000 global uses for over 1,400 plant species. The Uses and Abuses of Plant-Derived Smoke is accessibly written and provides a wealth of information on human uses for smoke. Divided into nine main categories of use, the compendium lists plant-derived smoke's medicinal, historical, ceremonial, ritual and recreational uses. Plant use in the production of incense and to preserve and flavor foods and beverages is also included. Each entry includes full binomial names and family, an identification of the person who named the plant, as well as numerous references to other scholarly texts. Of particular interest will be plants such as Tobacco (Nicotiana tabaccum), Boswellia spp (frankincense), and Datura stramonium (smoked as a treatment for asthma all over the world), all of which are described in great detail.

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OUP USA

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0195370015

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Pregnant by the Colton Cowboy

A Western Romantic Suspense Novel

By: Lara Lacombe

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Pregnant by the Colton Cowboy

A Western Romantic Suspense Novel

By: Lara Lacombe

A cowboy puts his life on the line in Lara Lacombe’s thrilling Coltons of Shadow Creek romance! A night of passion leads to a baby surprise…and unforeseen danger… Determined to steer clear of the horrors his villainous mother brought on his family, rancher Thorne Colton keeps to himself. That means resisting Maggie Lowell. The last time he succumbed, passion took control. But when an explosion nearly claims her life, Thorne discovers their night together yielded more than sizzling memories. Pregnant and under Thorne’s protection in Shadow Creek, Maggie isn’t sure where the bigger threat lies. Out in the open, she’s a killer’s target. On his ranch, she’s in close quarters with the man who’s driven to keep her and their child safe but broke her heart once—and might do it again… From Harlequin Romantic Suspense: Danger. Passion. Drama. Uplifting romances, stories that will have you on the edge of your seat, find it all in The Coltons of Shadow Creek! Book 1: Colton’s Secret Son by Carla Cassidy Book 2: Colton Undercover by Marie Ferrarella Book 3: Pregnant by the Colton Cowboy by Lara Lacombe Book 4: Cold Case Colton by Addison Fox Book 5: The Colton Marine by Lisa Childs Book 6: Capturing a Colton by C.J. Miller Book 7: Mission: Colton Justice by Jennifer Morey Book 8: Colton K-9 Cop by Addison Fox Book 9: The Billionaire’s Colton Threat by Geri Krotow Book 10: Killer Colton Christmas by Regan Black and Lara Lacombe

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1488016429

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The Fabrication of American Literature

Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture

By: Lara Langer Cohen

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The Fabrication of American Literature

Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture

By: Lara Langer Cohen

Literary histories typically celebrate the antebellum period as marking the triumphant emergence of American literature. But the period's readers and writers tell a different story: they derided literature as a fraud, an imposture, and a humbug, and they likened it to inflated currency, land bubbles, and quack medicine. Excavating a rich archive of magazine fiction, verse satires, comic almanacs, false slave narratives, minstrel song sheets, and early literary criticism, and revisiting such familiar figures as Edgar Allan Poe, Davy Crockett, Fanny Fern, and Herman Melville, Lara Langer Cohen uncovers the controversies over literary fraudulence that plagued these years and uses them to offer an ambitious rethinking of the antebellum print explosion. She traces the checkered fortunes of American literature from the rise of literary nationalism, which was beset by accusations of puffery, to the conversion of fraudulence from a national dilemma into a sorting mechanism that produced new racial, regional, and gender identities. Yet she also shows that even as fraudulence became a sign of marginality, some authors managed to turn their dubious reputations to account, making a virtue of their counterfeit status. This forgotten history, Cohen argues, presents a dramatically altered picture of American literature's role in antebellum culture, one in which its authority is far from assured, and its failures matter as much as its achievements.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812205197

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9780812205190

The Future of Higher Education

Rhetoric, Reality, and the Risks of the Market

By: Frank Newman,Lara Couturier,Jamie Scurry

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The Future of Higher Education

Rhetoric, Reality, and the Risks of the Market

By: Frank Newman,Lara Couturier,Jamie Scurry

A powerful look at the risks inherent in the trend toward making higher education a market rather than a regulated public sector, The Future of Higher Education reveals the findings of an extensive four-year investigation into the major forces that are transforming our American system of higher education. The book explores the challenges of intensified competition among institutions, globalization of colleges and universities, the expansion of the new for-profit and virtual institutions, and the influence of technology on learning. This important resource offers college and university leaders and policy makers an analysis of the impact of these forces of change and includes suggestions for creating an effective higher education market as well as a call for a renewed focus on the public purposes of higher education.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470730625

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The Lock and Key of Medicine

Monoclonal Antibodies and the Transformation of Healthcare

By: Lara Marks

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The Lock and Key of Medicine

Monoclonal Antibodies and the Transformation of Healthcare

By: Lara Marks

This book is the first to tell the extraordinary yet unheralded history of monoclonal antibodies, or Mabs. Though unfamiliar to most nonscientists, these microscopic protein molecules are everywhere, quietly shaping our lives and healthcare. They have radically changed understandings of the pathways of disease, enabling faster, cheaper, and more accurate clinical diagnostic testing. And they lie at the heart of the development of genetically engineered drugs such as interferon and blockbuster personalized therapies such as Herceptin. Lara V. Marks recounts the risks and opposition that a daring handful of individuals faced while discovering and developing Mabs, and she addresses the related scientific, medical, technological, business, and social challenges that arose. She offers a saga of entrepreneurs who ultimately changed the healthcare landscape and brought untold relief to millions of patients. Even so, controversies over Mabs remain, which the author explores through the current debates on their cost-effectiveness.

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Yale University Press

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0300167733

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9780300167733

Respectable Citizens

Gender, Family, and Unemployment in Ontario's Great Depression

By: Lara A. Campbell

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Respectable Citizens

Gender, Family, and Unemployment in Ontario's Great Depression

By: Lara A. Campbell

High unemployment rates, humiliating relief policy, and the spectre of eviction characterized the experiences of many Ontario families in the Great Depression. Respectable Citizens is an examination of the material difficulties and survival strategies of families facing poverty and unemployment, and an analysis of how collective action and protest redefined the meanings of welfare and citizenship in the 1930s. Lara Campbell draws on diverse sources including newspapers, family and juvenile court records, premiers' papers, memoirs, and oral histories to uncover the ways in which the material workings of the family and the discursive category of 'respectable' citizenship were invested with gendered obligations and Anglo-British identity. Respectable Citizens demonstrates how women and men represented themselves as entitled to make specific claims on the state, shedding new light on the cooperative and conflicting relationships between men and women, parents and children, and citizen and state in 1930s Canada.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442697040

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9781442697041

The Regime of Demetrius of Phalerum in Athens, 317-307 BCE

A Philosopher in Politics

By: Lara O'Sullivan

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The Regime of Demetrius of Phalerum in Athens, 317-307 BCE

A Philosopher in Politics

By: Lara O'Sullivan

Erudite and urbane, a scion of the Peripatos, Demetrius of Phalerum dominated Athenian political life for a decade (317-307 B.C.E.) with Macedonian support. Viewed by some as the embodiment of the longed-for 'philosopher-king', Demetrius has been seen a test case for the interplay of philosophical training and political praxis in antiquity. This book, through a close re-examination of the fragmentary and diffuse testimonia for Demetrius decade, argues that such a view misunderstands his legislative, constitutional and financial reforms, which should rather be seen within the context of Macedonian suzerainty, Athenian self-interest, and contemporary social changes. Such a context also affords a better understanding of the dynamic relations between the Macedonian generals and the preeminent Greek city at the dawn of the Hellenistic era.

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9004178880

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9789004178885

Zora Neale Hurston

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By: Lara Antal

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Zora Neale Hurston

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By: Lara Antal

One of the first African American anthropologists, and a talented writer, Zora Neale Hurstons body of work was an important part of the Harlem Renaissance. Learn about her life, her work, and her influence.

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1502610388

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9781502610386

Climate Savvy

Adapting Conservation and Resource Management to a Changing World

By: Lara J. Hansen,Jennifer Ruth Hoffman

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Climate Savvy

Adapting Conservation and Resource Management to a Changing World

By: Lara J. Hansen,Jennifer Ruth Hoffman

Climate change demands a change in how we envision, prioritize, and implement conservation and management of natural resources. Addressing threats posed by climate change cannot be simply an afterthought or an addendum, but must be integrated into the very framework of how we conceive of and conduct conservation and management. In Climate Savvy, climate change experts Lara Hansen and Jennifer Hoffman offer 18 chapters that consider the implications of climate change for key resource management issues of our time—invasive species, corridors and connectivity, ecological restoration, pollution, and many others. How will strategies need to change to facilitate adaptation to a new climate regime? What steps can we take to promote resilience? Based on collaboration with a wide range of scientists, conservation leaders, and practitioners, the authors present general ideas as well as practical steps and strategies that can help cope with this new reality. While climate change poses real threats, it also provides a chance for creative new thinking. Climate Savvy offers a wide-ranging exploration of how scientists, managers, and policymakers can use the challenge of climate change as an opportunity to build a more holistic and effective philosophy that embraces the inherent uncertainty and variability of the natural world to work toward a more robust future.

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Island Press

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1597266868

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9781597266864

The Ranger's Reunion Threat

By: Lara Lacombe

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The Ranger's Reunion Threat

By: Lara Lacombe

Full of twists and turns, delve into this second-chance romance from Lara Lacombe, part of the Rangers of Big Bend series. Can two exes survive long enough to have a second chance at love? Wyatt Spalding was the first man Isabel Cruz ever loved. She figured moving away cured her of her passion for him, but now that she’s back home, she knows better. And Isabel needs Wyatt’s help to find out who’s threatening her and her family. Sparks from their past and present fly as they investigate, but Isabel and Wyatt must take down a murderous monster to save the Cruz clan. From Harlequin Romantic Suspense: Danger. Passion. Drama. Rangers of Big Bend: Book 1: Ranger’s Justice Book 2: Ranger’s Baby Rescue Book 3: The Ranger’s Reunion Threat

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1488063974

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Biotechnology

By: Lara Wiggert

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Biotechnology

By: Lara Wiggert

323 citations on the topic of biotechnology - ti-plasmids, plant vectors, phytopathogenic microorganisms, genes, transgenic, etc. Author & subject index.

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DIANE Publishing

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0788122517

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Language, Literacy, and Health

Discourse in Brazil’s National Health System

By: Izabel Magalhães,Kênia Lara da Silva

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Language, Literacy, and Health

Discourse in Brazil’s National Health System

By: Izabel Magalhães,Kênia Lara da Silva

Language, Literacy, and Health: Discourse in Brazil’s National Health System analyzes language, literacy, and health as social practices in Brazil’s national health system, the Unified Health System (SUS), with a particular focus on the Family Health Strategy program. The SUS was established in the 1990s, offering free consultations, health promotion activities, and home visits by a professional team to the Brazilian population. Using research conducted in two different Brazilian regions, the Northeast and the Southeast, Izabel Magalhães and Kênia Lara da Silva discuss language and literacy as discourse—a very important dimension of health practice—and different uses of texts, including multimodal texts. The research, analysis, and the authors’ ethnographic approach bring to light some issues with SUS practices, and the authors suggest improvements. This book contributes to the debate about language and literacy in health practices, in which patients are partly responsible for keeping well.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793600899

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The Avenging-Woman On-Screen

Female Empowerment and Feminist Possibilities

By: Lara C. Stache,Rachel D. Davidson

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The Avenging-Woman On-Screen

Female Empowerment and Feminist Possibilities

By: Lara C. Stache,Rachel D. Davidson

This book demonstrates how the avenging-woman character on-screen represents cultural conversations about female agency and feminism. This critical feminist analysis analyzes the construction of female empowerment in the American avenging-woman narrative to uncover how we can understand messages about women and power in contemporary culture.

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1666915564

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Smith's Recognizable Patterns of Human Deformation E-Book

By: John M. Graham,Pedro A. Sanchez-Lara

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Smith's Recognizable Patterns of Human Deformation E-Book

By: John M. Graham,Pedro A. Sanchez-Lara

**Selected for Doody's Core Titles® 2024 in Pediatrics**The only reference devoted to the diagnoses and management of birth defects resulting from mechanical forces, Smith's Recognizable Patterns of Human Deformation, 5th Edition, provides evidence-based management for a range of common pediatric problems affecting the limbs and craniofacial region. Continuing the tradition of excellence established by Dr. Smith's research and teaching, this title supplies highly readable, well-illustrated guidance needed for timely intervention and effective treatment in order to avoid long-term adverse secondary consequences. It's an ideal resource offering comprehensive, systematic coverage for residents, pediatricians, practitioners, or parents seeking further information in this complex area. - Examines the initial clinical approach to suspected deformation problems, and then walks you through pathogenesis, diagnostic features, management, prognosis, and counseling for each condition. - Addresses a full range of lower extremity deformations; joint dislocations; nerve palsies; chest and spinal deformations; head and neck deformations; craniosynostosis and cranial bone variations; problems associated with abnormal birth presentation, birth palsies, and procedure-related defects; infant head shape variations; and torticollis. - Includes new chapters on early embryonic disruption and fetal disruption, new Key Points boxes throughout, new insights and references in every chapter, and a new video on the physical examination of a patient with a congenital radial nerve palsy. - Distinguishes deformations from malformations for appropriate management. - Utilizes four consistent sections in every chapter—Genesis, Features, Management and Prognosis, and Differential Diagnosis—to provide concise yet comprehensive information on 50 common pediatric conditions. - Provides evidence-based management recommendations on common fetal complications such as oligohydramnios, pulmonary hypoplasia, and uterine structural abnormalities, and discusses current management techniques for each. - Offers essential information to a range of professionals, including neonatologists, pediatricians, family practitioners, nurses, physical and occupational therapists, rehabilitative specialists, pediatric nurse practitioners, and residents in all fields. - Any additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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044311384X

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Redistributing the Poor

Jails, Hospitals, and the Crisis of Law and Fiscal Austerity

By: Armando Lara-Millán

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Redistributing the Poor

Jails, Hospitals, and the Crisis of Law and Fiscal Austerity

By: Armando Lara-Millán

This book argues that we have drastically misunderstood the changes taking place in our nation's largest jails and public hospitals. And more generally, the way that states govern urban poverty at the turn of the 21st century. It is widely believed that because we as a society have divested in public health the sick and poor now find themselves subject to powerful criminal justice institutions. Rather than focus on the underinvestment of health and overinvestment of criminal justice, this book argues that the fundamental problem of the state is a persistent crisis between budgetary catastrophe and expansive new legal rules. Redistributing the Poor pushes us to think about the circulation of people for the purposes of generating absent revenue, absolving new legal demands, and projecting illusions that crisis have been successfully resolved. This book takes us into the heart of the state: the day-to-day operations of the largest hospital and jail system in the world. It is only by centring the states use of redistribution that we can understand how certain forms of social suffering-the premature death of mainly poor, people of color-are not a result of the state's failure to act, but instead the necessary outcome of so-called successful policy"--

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0197507891

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Repatriation, Exchange, and Colonial Legacies in the Gulf of Papua

Moving Pictures

By: Lara Lamb,Christopher Lee

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Repatriation, Exchange, and Colonial Legacies in the Gulf of Papua

Moving Pictures

By: Lara Lamb,Christopher Lee

This book explores the people of the Kikori River Delta, in the Gulf of Papua, as established historical agents of intercultural exchange. One hundred years after they were made, Frank Hurley’s colonial-era photographic reproductions are returned to the descendants of the Kerewo and Urama peoples, whom he photographed. The book illuminates how the movement, use, and exchange of objects can produce distinctive and unrecognised forms of value. To understand this exchange, a nuanced history of the conditions of the exchange is necessary, which also allows a reconsideration of the colonial legacies that continue to affect the social and political worlds of people in the twenty-first century.

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Springer Nature

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3031155793

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How to Think About Analysis

By: Lara Alcock

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How to Think About Analysis

By: Lara Alcock

Analysis (sometimes called Real Analysis or Advanced Calculus) is a core subject in most undergraduate mathematics degrees. It is elegant, clever and rewarding to learn, but it is hard. Even the best students find it challenging, and those who are unprepared often find it incomprehensible at first. This book aims to ensure that no student need be unprepared. It is not like other Analysis books. It is not a textbook containing standard content. Rather, it is designed to be read before arriving at university and/or before starting an Analysis course, or as a companion text once a course is begun. It provides a friendly and readable introduction to the subject by building on the student's existing understanding of six key topics: sequences, series, continuity, differentiability, integrability and the real numbers. It explains how mathematicians develop and use sophisticated formal versions of these ideas, and provides a detailed introduction to the central definitions, theorems and proofs, pointing out typical areas of difficulty and confusion and explaining how to overcome these. The book also provides study advice focused on the skills that students need if they are to build on this introduction and learn successfully in their own Analysis courses: it explains how to understand definitions, theorems and proofs by relating them to examples and diagrams, how to think productively about proofs, and how theories are taught in lectures and books on advanced mathematics. It also offers practical guidance on strategies for effective study planning. The advice throughout is research based and is presented in an engaging style that will be accessible to students who are new to advanced abstract mathematics.

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OUP Oxford

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0191035386

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How to Think About Abstract Algebra

By: Lara Alcock

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How to Think About Abstract Algebra

By: Lara Alcock

How to Think about Abstract Algebra provides an engaging and readable introduction to its subject, which encompasses group theory and ring theory. Abstract Algebra is central in most undergraduate mathematics degrees, and it captures regularities that appear across diverse mathematical structures - many people find it beautiful for this reason. But its abstraction can make its central ideas hard to grasp, and even the best students might find that they can follow some of the reasoning without really understanding what it is all about. This book aims to solve that problem. It is not like other Abstract Algebra texts and is not a textbook containing standard content. Rather, it is designed to be read before starting an Abstract Algebra course, or as a companion text once a course has begun. It builds up key information on five topics: binary operations, groups, quotient groups, isomorphisms and homomorphisms, and rings. It provides numerous examples, tables and diagrams, and its explanations are informed by research in mathematics education. The book also provides study advice focused on the skills that students need in order to learn successfully in their own Abstract Algebra courses. It explains how to interact productively with axioms, definitions, theorems and proofs, and how research in psychology should inform our beliefs about effective learning.

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0192581422

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