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The Gift of Thanks

The Roots and Rituals of Gratitude

By: Margaret Visser

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The Gift of Thanks

The Roots and Rituals of Gratitude

By: Margaret Visser

“A scholarly, many-angled examination of what gratitude is and how it functions in our lives” from the bestselling author of The Rituals of Dinner (The New York Times). Known as an “anthropologist of everyday life,” Margaret Visser has won numerous awards for illuminating the unexpected meanings of everyday objects and rituals. Now she turns her keen eye to another custom so ubiquitous that it often escapes notice: saying “Thank you.” What do we really mean by these two simple words? This fascinating inquiry into all aspects of gratitude explores such topics as the unyielding determination of parents to teach their children to thank; the difference between speaking the words and feeling them; and the ways different cultures handle the complex matters of giving, receiving, and returning favors and presents. Visser elucidates the fundamental opposition in our own culture between gift-giving and commodity exchange, as well as the similarities between gratitude and its opposite, vengefulness. The Gift of Thanks considers cultural history, including the modern battle of social scientists to pin down the notion of thankfulness and account for it, and the newly awakened scientific interest in the biological and evolutionary roots of emotions. With characteristic wit and erudition, Visser once again reveals the extraordinary in the everyday. “An anthropological and philosophical account of how and why we give thanks. . . . All delivered in elegant, clear prose. A book to be thankful for—sympathetic to human foible, deeply learned and a pleasure to read.” —Kirkus Reviews “A delightful and graceful gift of a book, for which any fortunate recipient will be thankful.” —Publishers Weekly

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469

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HMH

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0547428448

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9780547428444

White Mother to a Dark Race

Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940

By: Margaret D. Jacobs

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White Mother to a Dark Race

Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940

By: Margaret D. Jacobs

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, indigenous communities in the United States and Australia suffered a common experience at the hands of state authorities: the removal of their children to institutions in the name of assimilating American Indians and protecting Aboriginal people. Although officially characterized as benevolent, these government policies often inflicted great trauma on indigenous families and ultimately served the settler nations? larger goals of consolidating control over indigenous peoples and their lands. White Mother to a Dark Racetakes the study of indigenous education and acculturation in new directions in its examination of the key roles white women played in these policies of indigenous child-removal. Government officials, missionaries, and reformers justified the removal of indigenous children in particularly gendered ways by focusing on the supposed deficiencies of indigenous mothers, the alleged barbarity of indigenous men, and the lack of a patriarchal nuclear family. Often they deemed white women the most appropriate agents to carry out these child-removal policies. Inspired by the maternalist movement of the era, many white women were eager to serve as surrogate mothers to indigenous children and maneuvered to influence public policy affecting indigenous people. Although some white women developed caring relationships with indigenous children and others became critical of government policies, many became hopelessly ensnared in this insidious colonial policy.

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592

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803211007

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9780803211001

Power and Influence in Organizations

By: Roderick Moreland Kramer,Margaret A. Neale

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Power and Influence in Organizations

By: Roderick Moreland Kramer,Margaret A. Neale

This volume is a readily accessible compilation of current, original scholarly research in the area of power and influence in organizations. It offers a rich exploration of emerging trends and new perspectives.

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412

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SAGE

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0761908617

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9780761908616

Being Human

The Problem of Agency

By: Margaret S. Archer

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Being Human

The Problem of Agency

By: Margaret S. Archer

A revindication of the concept of humanity and the primacy of practice over language.

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334

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Cambridge University Press

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0521795648

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9780521795647

Affect and Emotion

A New Social Science Understanding

By: Margaret Wetherell

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Affect and Emotion

A New Social Science Understanding

By: Margaret Wetherell

Absolutely essential reading for those wanting to understand the recent ′turn′ to affect. Offering an extensive analysis of all the perspectives available, including the psycho, neuro, bio and social, Margie Wetherell treads a magisterial path through the radically different offerings, one that illuminates key ideas and will save the uninitiated wandering down many pointless avenues. A path-setting book." - Professor Beverley Skeggs, Goldsmiths In recent years there has been a huge surge of interest in affect and emotion. Scholars want to discover how people are moved, and understand embodied social action, feelings and passions. How do social formations ′grab′ people? How do roller coasters of contempt, patriotism, hate and euphoria power public life? A new social science understanding of affect and emotion is long overdue and Margaret Wetherell′s voice is timely, providing a coherent and pragmatic text. It will be invaluable reading for those interested in this fascinating field across the social and behavioural sciences.

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194

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SAGE

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1446290638

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9781446290637

Poverty, Riches and Social Citizenship

By: Margaret Melrose,H. Dean

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Poverty, Riches and Social Citizenship

By: Margaret Melrose,H. Dean

At a time when the gap between rich and poor has been increasing, Poverty, Riches and Social Citizenship provides an accessible introduction to current debates about inequality, exclusion and the nature of citizenship, while also presenting an innovative exploration of popular beliefs and values in Britain. The authors develop a series of conceptual models by which to understand the competing traditions which have informed ideas about citizenship, and the contradictory moral notions that currently inform popular expectations of the welfare state.

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226

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Springer

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0230377955

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9780230377950

Organizational Behavior

A Management Challenge

By: Linda K. Stroh,Gregory B. Northcraft,Margaret A. Neale,(Co-author) Mar Kern,(Co-author) Chr Langlands

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Organizational Behavior

A Management Challenge

By: Linda K. Stroh,Gregory B. Northcraft,Margaret A. Neale,(Co-author) Mar Kern,(Co-author) Chr Langlands

This second edition is a revision of a successful reader in organizational behavior, edited by Jerald Greenberg. This volume describes the latest advances in the field of organizational behavior. Each chapter is a description of "what was," "what is," and "what will be" as envisioned by leading researchers and experts. Topics covered include: affect, stress, self-fulfilling prophecies, diversity, justice, reputations, deviant behavior, conflict, construct validity, and cross-cultural behavior. The book concludes with a commentary chapter by Ed Locke--a distinguished senior scholar--who offers directions and guidance on the field's future. This book will appeal to professors and scholars in industrial-organizational psychology, organizational behavior, human resource management, and social psychology. It is an invaluable compendium reporting on the state of the science in a rapidly developing field.

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481

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Psychology Press

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1135641439

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9781135641436

Offending Youth

Sex, Crime and Justice

By: Kerry Carrington,Margaret Pereira

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Offending Youth

Sex, Crime and Justice

By: Kerry Carrington,Margaret Pereira

Rates of female delinquency, especially for violent crimes, are increasing in most common law countries. At the same time the growth in cyber-bullying, especially among girls, appears to be a related global phenomenon.While the gender gap in delinquency is narrowing in Australia, United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, boys continue to dominate the youth who commit crime and have a virtual monopoly over sexually violent crimes. Indigenous youth continue to be vastly over-represented in the juvenile justice system in every Australian jurisdiction. The Indigenisation of delinquency is a persistent problem in other countries such as Canada and New Zealand.Young people who gather in public places are susceptible to being perceived as somehow threatening or riotous, attracting more than their share of public order policing. Professional football has been marred by repeated scandals involving sexual assault, violence and drunkenness. Given the cultural significance of footballers as role models to thousands, if not millions, of young men around the world, it is vitally important to address this problem. Offending Youth explores these key contemporary patterns of delinquency, the response to these by the juvenile justice agencies and moreover what can be done to address these problems.The book also analyses the major policy and legislative changes from the nineteenth to twenty first centuries, chiefly the shift the penal welfarism to diversion and restorative justice. Using original cases studied by Carrington twenty years ago, Offending Youth illustrates how penal welfarism criminalised young people from socially marginal backgrounds, especially Aboriginal children, children from single parent families, family-less children, state wards and young people living in poverty or in housing commission estates. A number of inquiries in Australia and the United Kingdom have since established that children committed to these institutions, supposedly for their own good, experienced systemic physical, sexual and psychological abuse during their institutionalisation. The book is dedicated to the survivors of these institutions who only now are receiving official recognition of the injustices they suffered.The underlying philosophy of juvenile justice has fundamentally shifted away from penal welfarism to embrace positive policy responses to juvenile crime, such as youth conferencing, cautions, warnings, restorative justice, circle sentencing and diversion examined in the concluding chapter.Offending Youth is aimed at a broad readership including policy makers, juvenile justice professionals, youth workers, families, teachers, politicians as well as students and academics in criminology, policing, gender studies, masculinity studies, Indigenous studies, justice studies, youth studies and the sociology of youth and deviance more generally.

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228

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Federation Press

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1862877599

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9781862877597

The Division of Love

Stories

By: Margaret Barbalet,Sara Dowse,Suzanne Edgar,Marian Eldridge,Marion Halligan,Dorothy Horsfield,Dorothy Johnston

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The Division of Love

Stories

By: Margaret Barbalet,Sara Dowse,Suzanne Edgar,Marian Eldridge,Marion Halligan,Dorothy Horsfield,Dorothy Johnston

A collection of stories funded by the Australian Bicentennial Authority to celebrate Australia's Bicentenary in 1988 and originally published in that year as 'Canberra Tales'. The authors are part of a group of writers known as the 'Seven Writers' who first met in Canberra in 1980 to support and critically encourage each other. The stories cover a wide range of experiences including a man's strange pact with his dying daughter and sadism which erupts out of the commonplaces of a broken marriage. Between the authors they have published seven books.

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0140246436

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9780140246438

Reggie Queen of the Street

Mini Puffin

By: Margaret Barbalet

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Reggie Queen of the Street

Mini Puffin

By: Margaret Barbalet

Reggie is the queen of her street! All the children love Reggie. Until one day her owners decide to move to another house far away from all Reggie's friends. But can this new house ever be Reggie's home?

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Picture Puffin

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0143501712

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9780143501718

The Life and Times of Margaret Bourgeoys (the Venerable)

By: Margaret Mary Drummond

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The Life and Times of Margaret Bourgeoys (the Venerable)

By: Margaret Mary Drummond

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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312

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Pratt Press

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1446083950

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9781446083956

The Ancestors of Elmer Edwards

By: Steven G. Mariano

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The Ancestors of Elmer Edwards

By: Steven G. Mariano

A memoir consisting of episodes in the life of Margaret Benham. Its genesis was in the author's participation in "Save Your Life," a memoir-writing group.

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445

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1604589922

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9781604589924

Margaret Mead

The Complete Bibliography, 1925-1975

By: Margaret Mead

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Margaret Mead

The Complete Bibliography, 1925-1975

By: Margaret Mead

The book contains a full bibliography, missing only the last few years, and an introduction by Mead on her writings.

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216

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Walter de Gruyter

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9027930260

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9789027930262

Family Vista

The Memoirs of Margaret Chanler Aldrich

By: Margaret Chanler Aldrich

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Family Vista

The Memoirs of Margaret Chanler Aldrich

By: Margaret Chanler Aldrich

First published in 1958, these are the memoirs of Margaret Chanler Aldrich, a descendant of the prominent Astor family. A nurse for the American Red Cross during the Spanish-American War, and later the Philippine-American War, Aldrich joined the woman’s suffrage movement and became notable as one of Carrie Chapman Catt’s capable officials in the campaign for suffrage in New York State. A fascinating autobiography!

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343

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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178912767X

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9781789127676

Essays and Studies in Honor of Margaret Barclay Wilson

By: Margaret Barclay Wilson

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Essays and Studies in Honor of Margaret Barclay Wilson

By: Margaret Barclay Wilson

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Wentworth Press

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0469098201

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9780469098206

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The Gift of Thanks

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White Mother to a Dark Race

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Power and Influence in Organizations

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Being Human

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Affect and Emotion

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Poverty, Riches and Social Citizenship

Poverty, Riches and Social Citizenship

Organizational Behavior

Organizational Behavior

Offending Youth

Offending Youth

The Division of Love

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Reggie Queen of the Street

Reggie Queen of the Street

The Life and Times of Margaret Bourgeoys (the Venerable)

The Life and Times of Margaret Bourgeoys (the Venerable)

The Ancestors of Elmer Edwards

The Ancestors of Elmer Edwards

Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead

Family Vista

Family Vista

Essays and Studies in Honor of Margaret Barclay Wilson

Essays and Studies in Honor of Margaret Barclay Wilson

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