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My Soul Is a Witness

The Traumatic Afterlife of Lynching

By: Mari N. Crabtree

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My Soul Is a Witness

The Traumatic Afterlife of Lynching

By: Mari N. Crabtree

An intimate look at the afterlife of lynching through the personal stories of Black victims and survivors who lived through and beyond its trauma Mari N. Crabtree traces the long afterlife of lynching in the South through the traumatic memories it left in its wake. She unearths how African American victims and survivors found ways to live through and beyond the horrors of lynching, offering a theory of African American collective trauma and memory rooted in the ironic spirit of the blues sensibility—a spirit of misdirection and cunning that blends joy and pain. Black southerners often shielded their loved ones from the most painful memories of local lynchings with strategic silences but also told lynching stories about vengeful ghosts or a wrathful God or the deathbed confessions of a lyncher tormented by his past. They protested lynching and its legacies through art and activism, and they mourned those lost to a mob’s fury. They infused a blues element into their lynching narratives to confront traumatic memories and keep the blues at bay, even if just for a spell. Telling their stories troubles the simplistic binary of resistance or submission that has tended to dominate narratives of Black life and reminds us that amid the utter devastation of lynching were glimmers of hope and an affirmation of life.

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Yale University Press

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0300268513

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9780300268515

A Guide for Using Sounder in the Classroom

By: Mari Lu Robbins

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A Guide for Using Sounder in the Classroom

By: Mari Lu Robbins

Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and through his relationship with his devoted dog Sounder.

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1557345309

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9781557345301

Cheyenne Autumn

By: Mari Sandoz

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Cheyenne Autumn

By: Mari Sandoz

In the autumn of 1878 a band of Cheyenne Indians set out from Indian Territory, where they had been sent by the U.S. government, to return to their homeland in Yellowstone country. Mari Sandoz tells the saga of their heartbreaking fifteen-hundred-mile flight. Alan Boye provides an introduction to this Bison Books edition.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803293410

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The Wrong of Injustice

Dehumanization and Its Role in Feminist Philosophy

By: Mari Mikkola

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The Wrong of Injustice

Dehumanization and Its Role in Feminist Philosophy

By: Mari Mikkola

The book offers a feminist examination of contemporary social injustices. It argues for a paradigm-shift away from feminist philosophy organized around the gender concept woman, and towards humanist feminism. The book further develops a notion of dehumanization that explicates social injustices, elucidates humanist feminism, and improves non-feminist analyses of injustice.

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Oxford University Press

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0190601086

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9780190601089

The American Newsroom

A History, 1920-1960

By: Will Mari

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The American Newsroom

A History, 1920-1960

By: Will Mari

The story of the American newsroom is that of modern American journalism. In this holistic history, Will Mari tells that story from the 1920s through the 1960s, a time of great change and controversy in the field, one in which journalism was produced in “news factories” by news workers with dozens of different roles, and not just once a day, but hourly, using the latest technology and setting the stage for the emergence later in the century of the information economy. During this time, the newsroom was more than a physical place—it symbolically represented all that was good and bad in journalism, from the shift from blue- to white-collar work to the flexing of journalism’s power as a watchdog on government and an advocate for social reform. Told from an empathetic, omnivorous, ground-up point of view, The American Newsroom: A History, 1920–1960 uses memoirs, trade journals, textbooks, and archival material to show how the newsroom expanded our ideas of what journalism could and should be.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826274595

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9780826274595

Mama Namibia

A Novel

By: Mari Serebrov

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Mama Namibia

A Novel

By: Mari Serebrov

Mama Namibia is based on the compelling, true story of an innocent Herero girl whose life portrays the suffering, perseverance, and resilience of the Herero and Nama people as they faced their most daunting test - a genocide that proved to be the training grounds for the Holocaust.

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African Books Collective

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999168896X

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9789991688961

Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?

By: Mari Carmen Ramirez,Tomas Ybarra-Frausto,Hector Olea

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Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?

By: Mari Carmen Ramirez,Tomas Ybarra-Frausto,Hector Olea

DIV This first volume of the Critical Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art series published by the International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents 168 crucial texts written by influential artists, critics, curators, journalists, and intellectuals whose writings shed light on questions relating to what it means to be "Latin American" and/or "Latino." Reinforced within a critical framework, the documents address converging issues, including: the construct of "Latin-ness" itself; the persistent longing for a continental identity; notions of Pan–Latin Americanism; the emergence of collections and exhibitions devoted specifically to "Latin American” or "Latino" art; and multicultural critiques of Latin American and Latino essentialism. The selected documents, many of which have never before been published in English, span from the late fifteenth century to the present day. They encompass key protagonists of this comprehensive history as well as unfamiliar figures, revealing previously unknown facets of the questions and issues at play. The book series complements the thousands of seminal documents now available through the ICAA Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art digital archive, http://icaadocs.mfah.org. Together they establish a much-needed intellectual foundation for the exhibition, collection, and interpretation of art produced in Latin America and among Latino populations in the United States. /div

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Yale University Press

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0300187157

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9780300187151

Hate Hunters

By: Mari Georgeson

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Hate Hunters

By: Mari Georgeson

*Originally published as “I Hate Hate!” in November 2022. Alma is a counselor at the Tolerance Department, known for being patient and kind with even her most difficult clients. But inside, she’s haunted by a feeling that something’s missing. She’s joined by a diverse cast of characters, all trying to make America a better place, including a newscaster whose fans police the streets using just their cell phones, a corporate lawyer battling emotional injustice in his spare time, and a Bangladeshi immigrant convinced—despite all evidence to the contrary—that he’s living the American dream. As the nation grows more and more zealous in its reckoning with its own past and present sins, they all stumble, they all struggle to adapt, and they all come perilously close to ending up on the wrong side of the ideals they so cherish. Hate Hunters takes an unflinching, satirical look at this moment in America, and poses timeless questions about the nature of guilt, shame, punishment, innocence, and redemption.

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Lake Avenue Press

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9798987204917

Crazy Horse

The Strange Man of the Oglalas : a Biography

By: Mari Sandoz

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Crazy Horse

The Strange Man of the Oglalas : a Biography

By: Mari Sandoz

Crazy Horse, the military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social nonconformity set him off as "strange," fought in many famous battles, including the one at the Little Bighorn. He held out boldly against the government's efforts to confine the Sioux on reservations. Finally, in the spring of 1877 he surrendered, one of the last important chiefs to do so, only to meet a violent death. Mari Sandoz, the noted author of Cheyenne Autumn and Old Jules, both available as Bison Books, has captured the spirit of Crazy Horse with a strength and nobility befitting his heroism.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803293194

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9780803293199

Social Security in Contemporary Japan

By: Mari Osawa

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Social Security in Contemporary Japan

By: Mari Osawa

The present study analyzes the livelihood security system of contemporary Japan in international comparison from a historical and gender perspective. It posits ‘livelihood security systems’ rather than ‘welfare states’ or ‘welfare regimes’ as its object of analysis to enter the role of non-governmental institutions and of governmental policies reaching beyond income transfers into vision. Based on rich statistical materials, the evolution of Japan’s livelihood security system in recent decades is traced to reveal a rigid male breadwinner orientation increasingly out of step with social realities. The need for remedying the gender bias built into Japan’s social insurance schemes has been politically highlighted since the late 1990s, but legislative action has continued to be deferred. The author argues that at present the livelihood security system of Japan is not only dysfunctional, but actually functioning in reverse, in a sense of furthering social exclusion. The study concludes with suggestions for a possible reconstruction of Japan’s social security system, arguing for an increased role of the ‘third sector’ or ‘social economy’ in livelihood security and care provision. This book will appeal to scholars and students with an interest in social policy, welfare economics and gender studies, as well as Japanese politics and society.

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Routledge

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1136701699

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9781136701696

Tuber & Root Crops

By: Mari Sivaswani Palaniswami,Kuruppacharil Varkey Peter

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Tuber & Root Crops

By: Mari Sivaswani Palaniswami,Kuruppacharil Varkey Peter

Tuber and root crops are the third important group of food crops after cereals and pulses, feeding about one fifth of the world population. With the burgeoning population coupled with limited land, water and other resources, the future beckons tuber and root crops in fulfilling the country's food requirements. These crops have higher biological efficiency and greater adoption with profound production potential per unit area per unit time. Tuber and root crops are well known from time immemorial as nature's energy bank and famine savior. This book is conceived to have an updated version on the tuber and root crops especially in the Indian context, including information on the history, biodiversity, geographical distribution, botany, neutraceutical and pharmaceutical values, new varieties, production technologies, IPM strategies, starches, post harvest technologies and value added products, bio-processing, biotechnology, ITK and future thrusts. Various aspects of cassava, sweet potato, elephant foot yam, taro, yams, coleus, yam bean and arrow root are elucidated in 17 s and appendices. This book will be of immense use to the policy makers, scientists, post graduate and under graduate students and officials concerned with tuber and root crops research, development and extension.

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New India Publishing

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8189422537

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9788189422530

Multicultural Children in the Early Years

Creative Teaching, Meaningful Learning

By: Peter Woods,Mari Boyle,Nick Hubbard

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Multicultural Children in the Early Years

Creative Teaching, Meaningful Learning

By: Peter Woods,Mari Boyle,Nick Hubbard

How do multicultural children and their parents experience the very beginning of their school careers? How do teachers mediate the demands of the educational system, and how do the children adapt? What kind of access to the National Curriculum is offered to multicultural children? In answering these questions the authors draw on two years' intensive research in three multi-ethnic institutions. They explore teachers' values and beliefs and how they attempt to put them into practice. They describe how, at times, teachers were constrained to get things done because of pressures operating on them, but at other times, taught creatively in a way particularly relevant to the children's concerns and cultures.

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Multilingual Matters

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1853594342

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9781853594342

Old Jules

By: Mari Sandoz

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Old Jules

By: Mari Sandoz

Recreates the life of a Swiss-born Nebraska homesteader, while reflecting on the character of the people who shaped the American nation

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803251734

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Words That Wound

Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, And The First Amendment

By: Mari J Matsuda

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Words That Wound

Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, And The First Amendment

By: Mari J Matsuda

In this book, the authors, all legal scholars from the tradition of critical race theory start from the experience of injury from racist hate speech and develop a theory of the first amendment that recognizes such injuries. In their critique of "first amendment orthodoxy", the authors argue that only a history of racism can explain why defamation, invasion of privacy and fraud are exempt from free-speech guarantees but racist verbal assault is not.

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Routledge

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0429982577

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9780429982576

Love Song to the Plains

By: Mari Sandoz

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Love Song to the Plains

By: Mari Sandoz

Love Song to the Plains is a lyric salute to the earth and sky and people who made the history of the Great Plains by the region's incomparable historian, Mari Sandoz. It is a story of men and women of many hues—courageous, violent, indomitable, foolish—their legends, failures, and achievements: of explorers and fur trappers and missionaries; of soldiers and army posts and Indian fighting; of California-bound emigrants who stopped off to become settlers; of cattlemen and bad men, boomers and land speculators, and their feuds and rivalries. Above all, this is a portrait of the true Plainsman, the man or woman who can stand to have the horizon far off and every day, every year, a gamble.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496240820

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9781496240828

Feminist Film Theory and Pretty Woman

By: Mari Ruti

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Feminist Film Theory and Pretty Woman

By: Mari Ruti

An overview of feminist film theory and how it explicates Pretty Woman.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501319469

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9781501319464

日本語NOW! NihonGO NOW!

Performing Japanese Culture - Level 2 Volume 1 Textbook and Activity Book

By: Mari Noda,Patricia J. Wetzel,Ginger Marcus,Stephen D. Luft,Shinsuke Tsuchiya

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日本語NOW! NihonGO NOW!

Performing Japanese Culture - Level 2 Volume 1 Textbook and Activity Book

By: Mari Noda,Patricia J. Wetzel,Ginger Marcus,Stephen D. Luft,Shinsuke Tsuchiya

NihonGO NOW! Level 2 is an intermediate level courseware package that takes a performed-culture approach to learning Japanese. This approach balances the need for an intellectual understanding of structural elements with multiple opportunities to experience the language within its cultural context. From the outset, learners are presented with samples of authentic language that are context-sensitive and culturally coherent. Instructional time is used primarily to rehearse interactions that learners of Japanese are likely to encounter in the future, whether they involve speaking, listening, writing, or reading. Level 2 comprises two textbooks with accompanying activity books. These four books in combination with audio files allow instructors to adapt an intermediate level course, such as the second or third year of college Japanese, to their students’ needs. They focus on language and modeled behavior, providing opportunities for learners to acquire language through performance templates. Online resources provide additional support for both students and instructors. Audio files, videos, supplementary exercises, and a teachers’ manual are available at www.routledge.com/9781138305304.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000371816

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9781000371819

The Image of Aleksandr Nevskiy in Medieval Russia

Warrior and Saint

By: Isoaho

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The Image of Aleksandr Nevskiy in Medieval Russia

Warrior and Saint

By: Isoaho

The present study examines the evolution of the image of Aleksandr Nevskiy in close connection with the dynamics of political and cultural history by demonstrating what influence the Life of Aleksandr Nevskiy had on popular historical consciousness in medieval Russia.

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BRILL

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9047409493

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9789047409496

A True Girl

100 marginal novelettes

By: Mari Poisson

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A True Girl

100 marginal novelettes

By: Mari Poisson

The true girl is old, but at the same time she is a teenager, too. She has died, but now she is living her second life. She often dwells on the words ”Work as a man, live as a woman”, written on the card, which is stuck on the mirror in her bathroom. She lives alone, but she has some sane people around her, who do their best to make her normal. She is trying hard to be normal herself, but at the same time detests being normal, either. She pretends everything is OK, but she is not so calm and self-confident as she seems to be. She has dedicated her life to falsification. Every day she transforms herself from a housewife into a writer. Oh, I have forgotten to mention she likes Nietzsche’s saying “Become what you are”, which a funny woman Anabelle has engraved on the ordinary wine glasses, though secretly she is fully confident that a basic truth lies in a simple sentence:” To be and to look is one and the same thing”. She has a teacher Lora, who is really very old and at the same time very odd. The true girl believes Lora is the devil but she still wants to be as Lora is. What a shame!

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Author House

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1449035078

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9781449035075

The Horsecatcher

By: Mari Sandoz

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The Horsecatcher

By: Mari Sandoz

Unable to kill, a young Cheyenne is scorned by his tribe when he chooses to become a horse catcher rather than a warrior.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803291604

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9780803291607

Native Americans

By: Mari Lu Robbins

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Native Americans

By: Mari Lu Robbins

Gives teachers the resources to teach about the complexity and diversity of Native Americans.

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1557346070

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Djehuti Institute Puplication Where Spirituality and Science Harmonize: Family and Community Focus Vol. 19 No. 2 July 1st-10th, 2012

By: Yehotifa Chesed Tau Mari

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Djehuti Institute Puplication Where Spirituality and Science Harmonize: Family and Community Focus Vol. 19 No. 2 July 1st-10th, 2012

By: Yehotifa Chesed Tau Mari

Join a monthly subscription to the Djehuti Institute Publication, for a tri-weekly journal sent to your home with little cost for you. You will find many useful articles that contain thought, and pro-active solution that you will find no where else. This publication is for the sharp mind, and avid reader, the seeker, and the student of the holistic Kemetic Arts, and a practical way of life. For our generation of people across the world, we are united in an attempt to free our minds. Amen.

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Lulu.com

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1105904156

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Offender Care and Support by Families in Contemporary Japan

The Nexus of Gender, Shame, and Ambivalence

By: Mari Kita

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Offender Care and Support by Families in Contemporary Japan

The Nexus of Gender, Shame, and Ambivalence

By: Mari Kita

Because people’s contact with the criminal justice system comes in different shapes and forms, scholars are now broadening their analytical scope and examining the overall repercussions of criminal justice contact on families of offenders. Compared to Western societies, Japan is known for its lower crime rates and more pronounced use of informal social control. Thus, it offers a useful research site for examining how families in a low-crime society experience criminal justice contact and how they function as an integral part of the nation’s crime control mechanism. This book considers the role of the family in the lives of offenders and the criminal justice system in Japan. Looking particularly at gender and patriarchal power relations, it reveals how cultural notions of femininity prompt the criminal justice system to rely on women as its proxy. This book explores how families of offenders often step in to fill the voids left by criminal justice institutions and social services to provide offenders with all-inclusive care. The burden of supervising and rehabilitating offenders on top of the expectation to atone for the crimes also renders families ambivalent and ashamed. Whereas the state and criminal justice authorities tend to see offenders’ families as a crucial resource for prisoner reentry, this book highlights the necessity for addressing families’ needs before automatically assuming their support. It also pushes the boundaries of feminist criminology by showing how women can be affected by male criminality and male-dominated criminal justice institutions, other than as victims and offenders. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, gender studies, Japanese culture and all those interested in learning more about the criminal justice system in Japan.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000936392

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Palliative Medicine E-Book

By: T. Declan Walsh,Augusto T. Caraceni,Robin Fainsinger,Kathleen M. Foley,Paul Glare,Cynthia Goh,Mari Lloyd-Williams,Juan Nunez Olarte,Lukas Radbruch

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Palliative Medicine E-Book

By: T. Declan Walsh,Augusto T. Caraceni,Robin Fainsinger,Kathleen M. Foley,Paul Glare,Cynthia Goh,Mari Lloyd-Williams,Juan Nunez Olarte,Lukas Radbruch

As a palliative medicine physician, you struggle every day to make your patients as comfortable as possible in the face of physically and psychologically devastating circumstances. This new reference equips you with all of today's best international approaches for meeting these complex and multifaceted challenges. In print and online, it brings you the world's most comprehensive, state-of-the-art coverage of your field. You'll find the answers to the most difficult questions you face every day...so you can provide every patient with the relief they need. Equips you to provide today's most effective palliation for terminal malignant diseases • end-stage renal, cardiovascular, respiratory, and liver disorders • progressive neurological conditions • and HIV/AIDS. Covers your complete range of clinical challenges with in-depth discussions of patient evaluation and outcome assessment • ethical issues • communication • cultural and psychosocial issues • research in palliative medicine • principles of drug use • symptom control • nutrition • disease-modifying palliation • rehabilitation • and special interventions. Helps you implement unparalleled expertise and global best practices with advice from a matchless international author team. Provides in-depth guidance on meeting the specific needs of pediatric and geriatric patients. Assists you in skillfully navigating professional issues in palliative medicine such as education and training • administration • and the role of allied health professionals. Includes just enough pathophysiology so you can understand the "whys" of effective decision making, as well as the "how tos." Offers a user-friendly, full-color layout for ease of reference, including color-coded topic areas, mini chapter outlines, decision trees, and treatment algorithms. Comes with access to the complete contents of the book online, for convenient, rapid consultation from any computer.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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143772194X

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9781437721942

The Buffalo Hunters

The Story of the Hide Men

By: Mari Sandoz

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The Buffalo Hunters

The Story of the Hide Men

By: Mari Sandoz

In 1867 the total number of buffaloes in the trans-Missouri region was conservatively estimated at fifteen million. By the end of the 1880s that figure had dwindled to a few hundred. The destruction of the great herds is the theme of this book. Mari Sandoz's canvas is vast, but it is charged with color and excitement—accounts of Indian ambushes, hairbreadth escapes, gambling and gunfights, military expeditions, famous frontier characters (Wild Bill Hickok, Lonesome Charlie Reynolds, Buffalo Bill, Sheridan, Custer, and Indian Chiefs Whistler, Yellow Wolf, Spotted Tail, and Sitting Bull).

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803258836

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9780803258839

Hostiles and Friendlies

Selected Short Writings of Mari Sandoz

By: Mari Sandoz

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Hostiles and Friendlies

Selected Short Writings of Mari Sandoz

By: Mari Sandoz

Here in one volume are Mari Sandoz's reminiscences of life in the Sandhills country; a study of the two Sitting Bulls (the Hunkpapa and the Oglala) and other Indian pieces; a novelette, Bone Joe and the Smokin' Woman; and nine short stories, mostly with a rural setting, including The Vine," her first to be published. Introducedøby an autogiographical sketch of the author's early years and linked by a commentary derived from her letters, articles, and interviews, the separate pieces coalesce into an illuminating picture both of the Niobrara River country and of Mari Sandoz's emergence as a major American writer.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803292082

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9780803292086

Musicians from a Different Shore

Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music

By: Mari Yoshihara

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Musicians from a Different Shore

Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music

By: Mari Yoshihara

Musicians of Asian descent enjoy unprecedented prominence in concert halls, conservatories, and classical music performance competitions. In the first book on the subject, Mari Yoshihara looks into the reasons for this phenomenon, starting with her own experience of learning to play piano in Japan at the age of three. Yoshihara shows how a confluence of culture, politics and commerce after the war made classical music a staple in middle-class households, established Yamaha as the world's largest producer of pianos and gave the Suzuki method of music training an international clientele. Soon, talented musicians from Japan, China and South Korea were flocking to the United States to study and establish careers, and Asian American families were enrolling toddlers in music classes. Against this historical backdrop, Yoshihara interviews Asian and Asian American musicians, such as Cho-Liang Lin, Margaret Leng Tan, Kent Nagano, who have taken various routes into classical music careers. They offer their views about the connections of race and culture and discuss whether the music is really as universal as many claim it to be. Their personal histories and Yoshihara's observations present a snapshot of today's dynamic and revived classical music scene.

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Temple University Press

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1592133347

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9781592133345

Tina's Mouth

An Existential Comic Diary

By: Keshni Kashyap,Mari Araki

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Tina's Mouth

An Existential Comic Diary

By: Keshni Kashyap,Mari Araki

In the tradition of Persepolis and American Born Chinese, a wise and funny high school heroine comes of age. Tina M., sophomore, is a wry observer of the cliques and mores of Yarborough Academy, and of the foibles of her Southern California intellectual Indian family. She's on a first-name basis with Jean-Paul Sartre, the result of an English honors class assignment to keep an “existential diary.” Keshni Kashyap’s compulsively readable graphic novel packs in existential high school drama—from Tina getting dumped by her smart-girl ally to a kiss on the mouth (Tina’s mouth, but not technically her first kiss) from a cute skateboarder, Neil Strumminger. And it memorably answers the pressing question: Can an English honors assignment be one fifteen-year-old girl’s path to enlightenment?

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0547607865

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9780547607863

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