Lauren Segal's Books

The Advent of Pluralism

Diversity and Conflict in the Age of Sophocles

By: Lauren J. Apfel

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Advent of Pluralism

Diversity and Conflict in the Age of Sophocles

By: Lauren J. Apfel

In this study of the relationship between a modern philosophical idea and an ancient historical moment, Lauren Apfel explores how the notion of pluralism, made famous by Isaiah Berlin, features in the Classical Greek world and, more specifically, in the thought of three of its most prominent figures: Protagoras, Herodotus, and Sophocles.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

397

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0199600627

ISBN 13

9780199600625

Cognitive Vulnerability to Emotional Disorders

By: Lauren B. Alloy,John H. Riskind

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Cognitive Vulnerability to Emotional Disorders

By: Lauren B. Alloy,John H. Riskind

In this book, which advances clinical science and clinical practice, experts present the broad synthesis of what we have learnt about nature, origins, and clinical ramifications of the general and specific cognitive factors that seem to play a crucial role in creating and maintaining vulnerability across the spectrum of emotional disorders.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

462

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1135648786

ISBN 13

9781135648787

The Plot Thickens

By: Lawrence Block,Mary Higgins Clark,Edna Buchanan,Carol Higgins Clark,Nelson Demille,Janet Evanovich,Linda Fairstein,Walter Mosley,Nancy Pickard

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Plot Thickens

By: Lawrence Block,Mary Higgins Clark,Edna Buchanan,Carol Higgins Clark,Nelson Demille,Janet Evanovich,Linda Fairstein,Walter Mosley,Nancy Pickard

A collection of eleven wonderfully imaginative tales that both chill the spine and warm the heart. Each tale features a thick fog, a thick book, and a thick steak.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

276

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

0671015575

ISBN 13

9780671015572

Warring Factions

Interest Groups, Money, and the New Politics of Senate Confirmation

By: Lauren Cohen Bell

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Warring Factions

Interest Groups, Money, and the New Politics of Senate Confirmation

By: Lauren Cohen Bell

Warring Factions focuses on the United States Senate's confirmation process, the constitutional process the Senate uses to approve or reject the president's choices to fill federal government positions. It is a book about history, the evolution, and, argubly, the decline of the process. Most significantly, it is a book that demonstrates the extent to which interest groups and money have transformed the Senate's confirmation process into a virtual circus. Based on in-depth research, including two dozen original interviews with United States senators, former senators and Senate staff members and interest group leaders, this volume demonstrates that today's confirmation process is nothing more than an extension of the Senate's legislative work. Changes to internal Senate norms in the 1960s and 1970s, coupled with changes to the external political environment, have allowed interest groups to dominate the Senate confirmation process.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

226

Publisher

Ohio State University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0814208916

ISBN 13

9780814208915

Field Research in Political Science

Practices and Principles

By: Diana Kapiszewski,Lauren M. MacLean,Benjamin L. Read

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Field Research in Political Science

Practices and Principles

By: Diana Kapiszewski,Lauren M. MacLean,Benjamin L. Read

Field research - leaving one's home institution in order to acquire data, information or insights that significantly inform one's research - remains indispensable, even in a digitally networked era. This book, the first of its kind in political science, reconsiders the design and execution of field research and explores its role in producing knowledge. First, it offers an empirical overview of fieldwork in the discipline based on a large-scale survey and extensive interviews. Good fieldwork takes diverse forms yet follows a set of common practices and principles. Second, the book demonstrates the analytic benefits of fieldwork, showing how it contributes to our understanding of politics. Finally, it provides intellectual and practical guidance, with chapters on preparing for field research, operating in the field and making analytic progress while collecting data, and on data collection techniques including archival research, interviewing, ethnography and participant observation, surveys, and field experiments.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

471

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1316194183

ISBN 13

9781316194188

Sole's Introduction to Critical Care Nursing - E-Book

By: Mary Beth Flynn Makic,Lauren T Morata

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Sole's Introduction to Critical Care Nursing - E-Book

By: Mary Beth Flynn Makic,Lauren T Morata

- NEW! Content on the implications of the global COVID-19 pandemic for critical care nursing includes new content on proning as a standard critical care procedure and expanded coverage of nursing self-care — including new Nursing Self-Care boxes, consistent with the 2021 Future of Nursing report. - NEW! Expanded tools for the Next-Generation NCLEX® (NGN) Exam includes more coverage of the six cognitive skills of NCSBN's Clinical Judgment Measurement Model, with new use of the cognitive skills along with nursing process terminology, expanded use of clinical judgment terminology, and expanded, newly interactive NGN-style case studies on the Evolve website. - NEW! Updated content reflects the latest evidence-based developments as well as national and international guidelines. - NEW! Integration of the 2021 AACN Essentials features special emphasis on Clinical Judgment and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, including the use of non-gendered language and illustrations with enhanced diversity. - NEW! Key Points bulleted lists reinforce the most important content in each chapter.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

675

Publisher

Elsevier Health Sciences

Published Date

ISBN 10

044311238X

ISBN 13

9780443112386

Power And Prejudice

The Politics And Diplomacy Of Racial Discrimination, Second Edition

By: Paul Gordon Lauren

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Power And Prejudice

The Politics And Diplomacy Of Racial Discrimination, Second Edition

By: Paul Gordon Lauren

Since it first appeared, Power and Prejudice has been hailed as a bold, pioneering work dealing with one of the central and most controversial issues of our time?the relationship between racial prejudice and global conflict. Powerfully written and based on documents from archives on several continents, this award-winning book convincingly demonstrates that the racial issue, or what W.E.B. Du Bois called ?the problem of the twentieth century,? has profoundly influenced most major developments in international politics and diplomacy.Lauren begins with a thought-provoking discussion of the heavy burden of history's pattern of conquest and slavery wherin skin color identified master and slave, conqueror and conquered. He then examines bitter twentieth-century conflicts over race, including immigration exclusion and the ?Yellow Peril,? the ?Final Solution? of the Holocaust, decolonization, the impact of the Cold War on the civil rights movement, and the global struggle against racial prejudice. In this new edition, Lauren adds dimensions about Asia, Latin America, and the Pacific, exploring the racial dimensions of immigration exclusion and warfare. He contributes significant new material about international issues regarding indigenous peoples around the world, including self-determination, sovereignty, and discrimination. And finally, he examines the dramatic events surrounding the end of apartheid in South Africa.Eloquent, provocative, and informed by first-rate scholarship, the insights of this highly original work will appeal to general readers as well as to students and scholars from a broad range of disciplines.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

416

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

0429972148

ISBN 13

9780429972140

The Evolution of International Human Rights

Visions Seen

By: Paul Gordon Lauren

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Evolution of International Human Rights

Visions Seen

By: Paul Gordon Lauren

This widely acclaimed and highly regarded book, used extensively by students, scholars, policymakers, and activists, now appears in a new third edition. Focusing on the theme of visions seen by those who dreamed of what might be, Lauren explores the dramatic transformation of a world patterned by centuries of human rights abuses into a global community that now boldly proclaims that the way governments treat their own people is a matter of international concern—and sets the goal of human rights "for all peoples and all nations." He reveals the truly universal nature of this movement, places contemporary events within their broader historical contexts, and explains the relationship between individual cases and larger issues of human rights with insight. This new edition incorporates material from recently declassified documents and the most recent scholarship relating to the creation of the new Human Rights Council and its Universal Periodic Review, the International Criminal Court, the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), terrorism and torture, the impact of globalization and modern technology, and activists in NGOs devoted to human rights. It provides perceptive assessments of the process of change, the power of visions and visionaries, politics and political will, and the evolving meanings of sovereignty, security, and human rights themselves.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

430

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0812209915

ISBN 13

9780812209914

Cambridge Guide to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

By: Adam Polnay,Rhiannon Pugh,Victoria Barker,David Bell,Allan Beveridge,Adam Burley,Allyson Lumsden,C. Susan Mizen,Lauren Wilson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Cambridge Guide to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

By: Adam Polnay,Rhiannon Pugh,Victoria Barker,David Bell,Allan Beveridge,Adam Burley,Allyson Lumsden,C. Susan Mizen,Lauren Wilson

An engaging and accessible guide to contemporary psychodynamic therapy and its applications, for both novice and experienced therapists.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

351

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1009108506

ISBN 13

9781009108508

Lights Camera Booze

Drinking Games for Your Favorite Movies including Anchorman, Big Lebowski, Clueless, Dirty Dancing, Fight Club, Goonies, Home Alone, Karate Kid and Many, Many More

By: Kourtney Jason,Lauren Metz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Lights Camera Booze

Drinking Games for Your Favorite Movies including Anchorman, Big Lebowski, Clueless, Dirty Dancing, Fight Club, Goonies, Home Alone, Karate Kid and Many, Many More

By: Kourtney Jason,Lauren Metz

“A volume of movie-themed drinking games, promising hours of adult and alcoholic fun.” —My Daily Cocktails MAKE MOVIE NIGHT EPIC Invite friends over, mix some drinks, press play and drink, drink, drink every time Lights Camera Booze tells you to. It’s eighty-proof fun in front of the big screen when this book turns your favorite movies into drinking game parodies, including: Hand-drawn game boards Rules on when to drink Themed cocktails for each flick Post-movie sobriety challenges Movies featured include: American Pie, Anchorman, National Lampoon’s Animal House, Back to the Future, The Big Lebowski, The Breakfast Club, Bring It On, Clerks, Clueless, Dirty Dancing, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Fight Club, Ghostbusters, The Goonies, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, The Hangover, Home Alone, The Karate Kid, Legally Blonde, Magic Mike, Mean Girls, Monty Python & the Holy Grail, Napoleon Dynamite, Office Space, The Princess Bride, Pulp Fiction, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Sandlot, Scream, Sex and the City, Superbad, Tommy Boy, and Wayne’s World

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

293

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1612432549

ISBN 13

9781612432540

The Economics of Talent

Human Capital, Precarity and the Creative Economy

By: Roberta Comunian,Lauren England,Alessandra Faggian,Charlotta Mellander

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Economics of Talent

Human Capital, Precarity and the Creative Economy

By: Roberta Comunian,Lauren England,Alessandra Faggian,Charlotta Mellander

To date, research into urban economics, regional science and economic geography has predominantly focused on the firm and industry as the key units of analysis in order to understand economic development; however, the past few decades have seen a growing interest in the role played by talent in the knowledge economy. This book provides an essential overview of the skills revolution. It presents key milestones of the changes in economic development in the past few decades and explains the motivation behind the rise of talent, as well as its importance for cities and economies. It also offers advice on how to attract and manage talent – a major determinant of competitiveness for countries and regions around the world. In closing, the book explains the underlying theories and provides practical examples for students, researchers and practitioners alike.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

132

Publisher

Springer Nature

Published Date

ISBN 10

3319951246

ISBN 13

9783319951249

Chronic Disease Management, An Issue of Primary Care Clinics in Office Practice

By: Brooke Salzman,Lauren Collins,Emily R Hajjar

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Chronic Disease Management, An Issue of Primary Care Clinics in Office Practice

By: Brooke Salzman,Lauren Collins,Emily R Hajjar

This issue covers topics central to the management of the patient with a chronic disease by taking a comprehenisve look at: Successful/Innovative Models in Chronic Disease Management, The Patient-Centered Medical Home, Self-Management Education and Support, Major Pharmacologic Issues in Chronic Disease Management, Health Information Technology, Community-Based Partnerships for Improving Chronic Disease Management, and Effective Strategies for Behavioral Change, Diabetes Management, CHF Management, Asthma Management, and Depression Management.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

264

Publisher

Elsevier Health Sciences

Published Date

ISBN 10

1455744336

ISBN 13

9781455744336

Maverick

Extraordinary women from South Africa’s past

By: Lauren Beukes

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Maverick

Extraordinary women from South Africa’s past

By: Lauren Beukes

From Africa’s first black movie star to a stylish commie revolutionary, showgirls and soccer stars, writers and poets, activists, artists, a pop princess, a prophetess and a cold-blooded killer, Maverick explores the riveting, true tales of women who broke with convention. Updated, expanded, and now with photographs, this edition of Lauren Beukes’s first book casts light onto the fascinating lives of some of South Africa’s most famous – and notorious – women.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

317

Publisher

Penguin Random House South Africa

Published Date

ISBN 10

1415206724

ISBN 13

9781415206720

God, Guns, Gold and Glory

American Character and its Discontents

By: Lauren Langman,George Lundskow

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

God, Guns, Gold and Glory

American Character and its Discontents

By: Lauren Langman,George Lundskow

America, beginning as a small group of devout Puritan settlers, ultimately became the richest, most powerful Empire in the history of the world, but having reached that point, is now in a process of implosion and decay. This book, inspired by Frankfurt School Critical Theory, especially Erich Fromm, offers a unique historical, cultural and characterological analysis of American national character and its underlying psychodynamics. Specifically, this analysis looks at the persistence of Puritan religion, as well as the extolling of male toughness and America's unbridled pursuit of wealth. Finally, its self image of divinely blessed exceptionalism has fostered vast costs in lives and wealth. But these qualities of its national character are now fostering both a decline of its power and a transformation of its underlying social character. This suggests that the result will be a changing social character that enables a more democratic, tolerant and inclusive society, one that will enable socialism, genuine, participatory democracy and a humanist framework of meaning. This book is relevant to understanding America’s past, present and future.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

394

Publisher

BRILL

Published Date

ISBN 10

9004328637

ISBN 13

9789004328631

Social Justice at Storytime

Promoting Inclusive Children's Programs

By: Shannon Adams,Lauren Hough

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Social Justice at Storytime

Promoting Inclusive Children's Programs

By: Shannon Adams,Lauren Hough

Youth librarians and early literacy educators will find this book a helpful tool for making storytimes more inclusive and better representative of their community and the world at large. Written by two experienced librarians from one of the nation's most diverse metroplexes, Social Justice at Storytime provides a real-world, hands-on guide to storytimes that will help young people become more socially aware, empathetic, and confident. Storytimes can be a welcoming space for all members of the community. Anyone presenting storytime to young children can use these suggestions to broaden children's understanding of the often-confusing situations they see and hear around them. It is possible to discuss race, gender/sexuality, and diverse abilities in a child-appropriate way. Making social justice a part of an existing or new storytime practice provides an early literacy approach to including children in timely conversations. Readers of this thoughtful book will not only become more socially aware and empathetic, but they will also be equipped to choose diverse books and songs, make thoughtful and inclusive language choices, become more in tune with their diverse communities, and handle concerns from caregivers or administrators.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

163

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

1440876401

ISBN 13

9781440876400

Blue Dreams

The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds

By: Lauren Slater

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Blue Dreams

The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds

By: Lauren Slater

The explosive story of the discovery and development of psychiatric medications, as well as the science and the people behind their invention, told by a riveting writer and psychologist who shares her own experience with the highs and lows of psychiatric drugs. Although one in five Americans now takes at least one psychotropic drug, the fact remains that nearly seventy years after doctors first began prescribing them, not even their creators understand exactly how or why these drugs work -- or don't work -- on what ails our brains. Lauren Slater's revelatory account charts psychiatry's journey from its earliest drugs, Thorazine and lithium, up through Prozac and other major antidepressants of the present. Blue Dreams also chronicles experimental treatments involving Ecstasy, magic mushrooms, the most cutting-edge memory drugs, placebos, and even neural implants. In her thorough analysis of each treatment, Slater asks three fundamental questions: how was the drug born, how does it work (or fail to work), and what does it reveal about the ailments it is meant to treat? Fearlessly weaving her own intimate experiences into comprehensive and wide-ranging research, Slater narrates a personal history of psychiatry itself. In the process, her powerful and groundbreaking exploration casts modern psychiatry's ubiquitous wonder drugs in a new light, revealing their ability to heal us or hurt us, and proving an indispensable resource not only for those with a psychotropic prescription but for anyone who hopes to understand the limits of what we know about the human brain and the possibilities for future treatments.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

361

Publisher

Little, Brown

Published Date

ISBN 10

0316370584

ISBN 13

9780316370585

Fashioning Character

Style, Performance, and Identity in Contemporary American Literature

By: Lauren S. Cardon

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Fashioning Character

Style, Performance, and Identity in Contemporary American Literature

By: Lauren S. Cardon

It’s often said that we are what we wear. Tracing an American trajectory in fashion, Lauren Cardon shows how we become what we wear. Over the twentieth century, the American fashion industry diverged from its roots in Paris, expanding and attempting to reach as many consumers as possible. Fashion became a tool for social mobility. During the late twentieth century, the fashion industry offered something even more valuable to its consumers: the opportunity to explore and perform. The works Cardon examines—by Sylvia Plath, Jack Kerouac, Toni Morrison, Sherman Alexie, and Aleshia Brevard, among others—illustrate how American fashion, with its array of possibilities, has offered a vehicle for curating public personas. Characters explore a host of identities as fashion allows them to deepen their relationships with ethnic or cultural identity, to reject the social codes associated with economic privilege, or to forge connections with family and community. These temporary transformations, or performances, show that identity is a process constantly negotiated and questioned, never completely fixed.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

335

Publisher

University of Virginia Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0813945909

ISBN 13

9780813945903

A Primer on Theatre and Aesthetics

Performance and Social Change

By: Lauren Friesen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Primer on Theatre and Aesthetics

Performance and Social Change

By: Lauren Friesen

A Primer on Theatre and Aesthetics explores the philosophy of arts from the Ancient Greeks to our contemporary world. What began as a debate in a monoculture eventually mushroomed into a vision for aesthetic diversity and inclusion as declarative statements receded in importance and subjective perceptions became fundamental. Studies in aesthetics often focus on music or the visual arts whereas this volume explores the nexus between philosophical perspectives and theatre. The purpose for theatre is wholeness (catharsis) and philosophy is the guide for that analysis.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

133

Publisher

Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published Date

ISBN 13

9798385214327

The Psychology of Sympathy

By: Lauren Wispé

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Psychology of Sympathy

By: Lauren Wispé

The origins of this book probably go back to Gordon Allport's seminar in social psychology at Harvard during the late 1940s and to the invitation from Gardner Lindzey, some years later, to contribute a section on "Sympathy and Empathy" to the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (1968). Since those early beginnings, the book has been "in the process of becoming. " During that time I have benefited greatly from the knowledge and assistance of many colleagues, especially the following, who read and commented upon portions of the manuscript: Raymond Gastil, the late Joseph Katz, David McClelland, Jitendra Mohanty, Paul Mussen, Richard Solomon, and Bernard Weiner. To Kenneth Merrill for a close reading of the Hume material and to M. Brewster Smith for a careful reading of and suggestions on Chapters 7 and 8, I am especially indebted. Beverly Joyce withstood constant interruptions to provide much-needed library assistance, and Vivian Wheeler gave generously of her excellent editorial experience and knowledge. A fellowship at the Battelle Research Center in Seattle and an appointment as a visiting scholar at Harvard were of incalculable help, providing opportunity, stimulation, and freedom from teaching responsibilities. To all of the above I am deeply indebted. Just a few words about the organization of this book.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

230

Publisher

Springer Science & Business Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

147576779X

ISBN 13

9781475767797

The Maternal Imagination of Film and Film Theory

By: Lauren Bliss

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Maternal Imagination of Film and Film Theory

By: Lauren Bliss

This book challenges common sense understandings of the unconscious effects of cinema and visual culture. It explores the castrating power of the early modern witch and the historical belief that pregnant women could manipulate and distort body image as figurative analogies for feminist theories of objectification and the male gaze. Through developing this history as an impure but lively analogy, this book serves as a provocation against the dominant imagining of objectification. It offers innovative analyses of a wide-ranging selection of films and topics including Joyce Wieland’s Water Sark (1964) and its resonance with the works of John Cage and Stan Brakhage; the documentary Histoires d’A (History of Abortion, 1973), which contributed to the successful legalisation of abortion in France; the Hong Kong horror film Dumplings (Jiaozi, 餃子 2004), where foetal cannibalism serves up an image of censorship; and the dual productions The Book of Mary (Le livre de Marie) and Hail Mary (Je vous salue, Marie, 1985) by Anne-Marie Miéville and Jean-Luc Godard that figure a self-reproducing virgin who hears herself while remaining a virgin, unseen.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

187

Publisher

Springer Nature

Published Date

ISBN 10

3030458970

ISBN 13

9783030458973

The Financing of Small Business

A Comparative Study of Male and Female Small Business Owners

By: Lauren Helena Read

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Financing of Small Business

A Comparative Study of Male and Female Small Business Owners

By: Lauren Helena Read

A detailed empirical study of how small business owners finance their enterprises, this volume compares the experiences of women with those of men. The author redresses an over-reliance on subjective and anecdotal evidence of discrimination in this area with a controlled study of forty matched pairs of male/female owners and their strategies for raising finances. The research reveals the importance of adopting a theoretical framework in which the role of gender in the financing of small businesses is considered, and the practical implications for female entrepreneurs, banks and policy-makers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

246

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1134700954

ISBN 13

9781134700950

Selling Sexy

Victoria’s Secret and the Unraveling of an American Icon

By: Lauren Sherman,Chantal Fernandez

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Selling Sexy

Victoria’s Secret and the Unraveling of an American Icon

By: Lauren Sherman,Chantal Fernandez

The story of how Victoria’s Secret skyrocketed from a tiny chain of boutiques to a retail phenomenon with more than $8 billion in annual sales at its peak—all while defining an impossible beauty standard for generations of American women—before the brand’s tight grip on the industry finally slipped Victoria’s Secret is one of the most influential and polarizing brands to ever infiltrate the psyche of the American consumer. Almost right at its start in the late 1970s, the company developed a cult following for its glamorous catalogs. Back then, shoppers had few alternatives to the stodgy department stores that sold most of the nation’s intimate apparel. By 1982, the founders of Victoria’s Secret avoided bankruptcy by selling to Les Wexner, the fast-fashion pioneer behind the Limited, whose empire of mall brands would go on to dominate American retail for forty years. Wexner turned Victoria’s Secret into a multibillion-dollar business, and the brand’s cultural influence soared thanks to its airbrushed advertisements and annual televised fashion show, which drew millions of viewers each year. Its supermodel spokeswomen, the sweet but sultry Angels, personified a new American beauty standard. But as our definition of beauty expanded, Victoria’s Secret failed to evolve and reached a crisis point. Meanwhile, Wexner became increasingly known for his complicated relationship with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, his former financial adviser and confidant. Selling Sexy expertly draws from sources within Victoria’s Secret and across the industry to examine the unprecedented rise of one of the most innovative brands in retail history—a brand that today, under new ownership, is desperately trying to seduce shoppers again.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

233

Publisher

Henry Holt and Company

Published Date

ISBN 10

1250850959

ISBN 13

9781250850959

Lonely Planet Pocket London

By: Damian Harper,Steve Fallon,Lauren Keith,MaSovaida Morgan,Tasmin Waby

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Lonely Planet Pocket London

By: Damian Harper,Steve Fallon,Lauren Keith,MaSovaida Morgan,Tasmin Waby

Lonely Planet's Pocket London is your guide to the citys best experiences and local life - neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Explore modern museums and galleries, rise over the city on the London Eye, and shop until you drop on Regent Street; all with your trusted travel companion. Uncover the best of London and make the most of your trip! Inside Lonely Planet's Pocket London: Up-to-date information - all businesses were rechecked before publication to ensure they are still open after 2020s COVID-19 outbreak Full-colour maps and travel photography throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sightseeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Convenient pull-out London map (included in print version), plus over 8 colour neighborhood maps User-friendly layout with helpful icons, and organised by neighbourhood to help you pick the best spots to spend your time Covers Westminster Abbey & Westminster, National Gallery & Covent Garden, British Museum & Bloomsbury, St Paul's & the City, Tate Modern & South Bank, Kensington Museums, Regent's Park & Camden, Shoreditch & the East End and more The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Pocket London, an easy-to-use guide filled with top experiences - neighbourhood by neighbourhood - that literally fits in your pocket. Make the most of a quick trip to London with trusted travel advice to get you straight to the heart of the city. Looking for a comprehensive guide that recommends both popular and offbeat experiences, and extensively covers all of London's neighbourhoods? Check out Lonely Planet's London city guide. Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planet's England guide for a comprehensive look at all that the country has to offer. About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and phrasebooks for 120 languages, and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, videos, 14 languages, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more, enabling you to explore every day. 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' Fairfax Media (Australia)

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

305

Publisher

Lonely Planet

Published Date

ISBN 10

1838692738

ISBN 13

9781838692735

Staging Memory, Staging Strife

Empire and Civil War in the Octavia

By: Lauren Donovan Ginsberg

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Staging Memory, Staging Strife

Empire and Civil War in the Octavia

By: Lauren Donovan Ginsberg

The turbulent decade of the 60s CE brought Rome to the brink of collapse. It began with Nero's ruthless elimination of Julio-Claudian rivals and ended in his suicide and the civil wars that followed. Suddenly Rome was forced to confront an imperial future as bloody as its Republican past and a ruler from outside the house of Caesar. The anonymous historical drama Octavia is the earliest literary witness to this era of uncertainty and upheaval. In Staging Memory, Staging Strife, Lauren Donovan Ginsberg offers a new reading of how the play intervenes in the contests over memory after Nero's fall. Though Augustus and his heirs had claimed that the Principate solved Rome's curse of civil war, the play reimagines early imperial Rome as a landscape of civil strife with a ruling family waging war both on itself and on its people. In doing so, the Octavia shows how easily empire becomes a breeding ground for the passions of discord. In order to rewrite the history of Rome's first imperial dynasty, the Octavia engages with the literature of Julio-Claudian Rome, using the words of Rome's most celebrated authors to stage a new reading of that era and its ruling family. In doing so, the play opens a dialogue about literary versions of history and about the legitimacy of those historical accounts. Through an innovative combination of intertextual analysis and cultural memory theory, Ginsberg contextualizes the roles that literature and the literary manipulation of memory play in negotiating the transition between the Julio-Claudian and Flavian regimes. Her book claims for the Octavia a central role in current debates over both the ways in which Nero and his family were remembered as well as the politics of literary and cultural memory in the early Roman empire.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

249

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0190275952

ISBN 13

9780190275952

The Manner Born

Birth Rites in Cross-Cultural Perspective

By: Lauren Dundes

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Manner Born

Birth Rites in Cross-Cultural Perspective

By: Lauren Dundes

This essential collection on maternal and child health focuses on the rites of giving birth from a cross-cultural perspective. The distinguished list of contributors describe the many customs surrounding birth through infancy, such as attitudes and techniques in childbirth, the influence of societal factors that differentiate Western from non-Western maternal birthing positions, the art of midwifery, customs and beliefs regarding breastfeeding, weaning, swaddling. This book will be valuable for courses in medical sociology and anthropology, public health or behavioral sciences, psychology and psychiatry, and for pre-med students.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

248

Publisher

AltaMira Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0585459657

ISBN 13

9780585459653

Entertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern Theater

Stage Spectacle and Audience Response

By: Lauren Robertson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Entertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern Theater

Stage Spectacle and Audience Response

By: Lauren Robertson

Lauren Robertson's original study shows that the theater of Shakespeare and his contemporaries responded to the crises of knowledge that roiled through early modern England by rendering them spectacular. Revealing the radical, exciting instability of the early modern theater's representational practices, Robertson uncovers the uncertainty that went to the heart of playgoing experience in this period. Doubt was not merely the purview of Hamlet and other onstage characters, but was in fact constitutive of spectators' imaginative participation in performance. Within a culture in the midst of extreme epistemological upheaval, the commercial theater licensed spectators' suspension among opposed possibilities, transforming dubiety itself into exuberantly enjoyable, spectacular show. Robertson shows that the playhouse was a site for the entertainment of uncertainty in a double sense: its pleasures made the very trial of unknowing possible.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

269

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

100922512X

ISBN 13

9781009225120

The Material Life of Roman Slaves

By: Sandra R. Joshel,Lauren Hackworth Petersen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Material Life of Roman Slaves

By: Sandra R. Joshel,Lauren Hackworth Petersen

The Material Life of Roman Slaves retrieves and represents the physical environment and lives of Roman slaves.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

303

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521191645

ISBN 13

9780521191647

Performing Arts Medicine

By: Lauren E. Elson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Performing Arts Medicine

By: Lauren E. Elson

Covering the full spectrum of treatment guidance for dance artists, circus artists, musicians, and more, this practical title by Dr. Lauren E. Elson expertly explores the intersection of sports medicine and performing arts medicine. Ideal for practicing and trainee physiatrists, physical and occupational therapists, and sports medicine physicians, it addresses a wide range of relevant topics including auditory symptoms in musicians; management of the dancer’s foot and ankle, hip, and spine; return-to-dance or return-to-performance guidelines; and much more.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

187

Publisher

Elsevier Health Sciences

Published Date

ISBN 10

0323581838

ISBN 13

9780323581837

Improving the Quality of Child Custody Evaluations

A Systematic Model

By: Lauren Woodward Tolle,William O'Donohue

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Improving the Quality of Child Custody Evaluations

A Systematic Model

By: Lauren Woodward Tolle,William O'Donohue

This book resolves a key problem that all evaluators need to attend to:, i.e., what constructs ought to be measured?, all the while giving them practical ways of doing this. It also presents data showing family court judges like the model, and it does this fairly briefly but in a way that is nicely embedded in the research literature.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

192

Publisher

Springer Science & Business Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

146143405X

ISBN 13

9781461434054

On Coordination in Non-Cooperative Game Theory

Explaining How and Why an Equilibrium Occurs and Prevails

By: Lauren Larrouy

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

On Coordination in Non-Cooperative Game Theory

Explaining How and Why an Equilibrium Occurs and Prevails

By: Lauren Larrouy

By offering a critical assessment of the evolution of standard game theory, this book argues for a shift in the ontology and methodology of game theory for appraising games, one based on understanding the players’ strategic reasoning process. Analyzing the history of economic thought, the book highlights the methodological issues faced by standard game theory in its treatment of strategic reasoning and the consequence it has on the status of players’ beliefs. It also highlights how the two original contributions of T. C. Schelling and M. Bacharach can be applied to these issues. Furthermore, the book assesses the intersubjective dimension in games by applying the cognitive sciences and by integrating simulation theory into game theory. Consequently, this book offers an interdisciplinary approach for reassessing the nature of the intersubjectivity involved in strategic reasoning. It shows that the analysis of games should involve the study and identification of the reasoning process that leads the players to a specific outcome, i.e., to a specific solution. A game should not be understood (as is done in standard game theory) as a mathematical representation of an individual choice at equilibrium. This requires investigating the players’ capacity for coordination. Understanding the process of coordination allows us to understand strategic reasoning and ultimately to provide new answers to the indeterminacy problem, one of the central hurdles in game theory, and one that underscores its normative difficulties.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

355

Publisher

Springer Nature

Published Date

ISBN 10

3031361717

ISBN 13

9783031361715

The Ten

The stories behind the fashion classics

By: Lauren Cochrane

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Ten

The stories behind the fashion classics

By: Lauren Cochrane

White T-shirt, Miniskirt, Hoodie, Jeans, Ballet flat, Breton top, Biker jacket, Little black dress, Stiletto, Trench. What are you wearing? In all likelihood, your outfit will feature at least one of these 10 items. Familiar, commonplace, ubiquitous - each piece has become an emblem of a certain style, carrying its own connotations and historical significance. Our social history is contained within these perfect 10 pieces - while trends may come and go, these are here to stay. The Perfect 10 includes deep dive explorations into each item's history, how it gained its reputation, and what it means today, accompanied by stylish photography and illustrations, as well as interviews with notable proponents of each item. From the evolution of the white T-shirt from army staple to symbol of achingly cool simplicity, the hoodie's birth in the monasteries of Rome to its domination of streetwear, and the transition of the stiletto from the feet of fifteenth-century Iranian equestrians to those of New York businesswomen, The Perfect 10 puts fashion in context. Showing how certain pieces are just as ubiquitous on the catwalk as on the street, Lauren Cochrane's crucial volume defines the fashion items that make up your wardrobe, and how they got there, providing the perfect excuse for the reader to wear them time and time again. "A deeper-than-deep dive into fashion’s enduring classics" – Navaz Batliwalla, DISNEYROLLERGIRL

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

256

Publisher

Welbeck

Published Date

ISBN 10

1802790543

ISBN 13

9781802790542

Book's by Lauren Segal

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email