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Is Harpo Free?

And Other Questions of the Metaphysical Screen

By: Matthew Cipa

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Is Harpo Free?

And Other Questions of the Metaphysical Screen

By: Matthew Cipa

Is Harpo Free? is a lively appreciation of film and television's ability to artistically explore concepts typical of philosophical metaphysics, such as free will, causality, and personal identity. Rather than using films and television programs as vehicles for philosophical arguments, the book instead celebrates the artistic ways in which they give life to various metaphysical concepts and how the artistic expression of these concepts and ideas helps us understand ourselves, the world, and our place within it. Through close analysis of a varied selection of works and their use of narrative, form, and style, Is Harpo Free? exemplifies a novel approach to appreciating the philosophical substance of films and television programs. Films and television programs discussed include A Night at the Opera; Run, Lola, Run; Shane; Harvey; Three Colours: Blue; The Americans; Dark; and Fargo.

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State University of New York Press

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1438497369

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Cultural and Political Nostalgia in the Age of Terror

The Melancholic Sublime

By: Matthew Leggatt

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Cultural and Political Nostalgia in the Age of Terror

The Melancholic Sublime

By: Matthew Leggatt

This book re-examines the role of the sublime across a range of disparate cultural texts, from architecture and art, to literature, digital technology, and film, detailing a worrying trend towards nostalgia and arguing that, although the sublime has the potential to be the most powerful uniting aesthetic force, it currently spreads fear, violence, and retrospection. In exploring contemporary culture, this book touches on the role of architecture to provoke feelings of sublimity, the role of art in the aftermath of destructive events, literature’s establishment of the historical moment as a point of sublime transformation and change, and the place of nostalgia and the returning of past practices in digital culture from gaming to popular cinema.

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255

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Routledge

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1315411474

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9781315411477

Cinemeducation

Using Film and Other Visual Media in Graduate and Medical Education

By: Alexander Matthew,Patricia Lenahan,Anna Pavlov

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Cinemeducation

Using Film and Other Visual Media in Graduate and Medical Education

By: Alexander Matthew,Patricia Lenahan,Anna Pavlov

Companion volume to Cinemeducation Volume 1 Cinemeducation, Volume 2 outlines a comprehensive approach to using film in graduate and medical education. It provides readers with a wide array of film excerpts ready for immediate application in the classroom. Each excerpt includes the counter time, year of release, names of actors, a short description of the movie and the scene being highlighted as well as discussion questions. Entire chapters are dedicated to reality television, mainstream television, music videos, documentaries and YouTube. Clearly structured, this second volume dives deep into human experiences. Authors from five continents have composed 49 chapters devoted to a wide assortment of new topics relevant to medical and postgraduate healthcare education. Some of the specific issues covered include substance abuse, gambling, dealing with tragedy, diabetes, heart disease, chronic illness and obstetrics as well as mental health problems. Some films portray health care professionals both positively and negatively and these are presented with rich detail. A wide variety of specialties and different health careers are covered. All of these areas converge on the common ground of compassion in the medical experience. This book is ideal for the undergraduate or postgraduate classroom. All healthcare educators will appreciate its comprehensive scope and innovative approach, including those in psychology, social services, dentistry and veterinary science.

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823

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CRC Press

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104029510X

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9781040295106

Archaeology below the Cliff

Race, Class, and Redlegs in Barbadian Sugar Society

By: Matthew C. Reilly

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Archaeology below the Cliff

Race, Class, and Redlegs in Barbadian Sugar Society

By: Matthew C. Reilly

First book-length archaeological study of a nonelite white population on a Caribbean plantation Archaeology below the Cliff: Race, Class, and Redlegs in Barbadian Sugar Society is the first archaeological study of the poor whites of Barbados, the descendants of seventeenth-century European indentured servants and small farmers. “Redlegs” is a pejorative to describe the marginalized group who remained after the island transitioned to a sugar monoculture economy dependent on the labor of enslaved Africans. A sizable portion of the “white” minority, the Redlegs largely existed on the peripheries of the plantation landscape in an area called “Below Cliff,” which was deemed unsuitable for profitable agricultural production. Just as the land on which they resided was cast as marginal, so too have the poor whites historically and contemporarily been derided as peripheral and isolated as well as idle, alcoholic, degenerate, inbred, and irrelevant to a functional island society and economy. Using archaeological, historical, and oral sources, Matthew C. Reilly shows how the precarious existence of the Barbadian Redlegs challenged elite hypercapitalistic notions of economics, race, and class as they were developing in colonial society. Experiencing pronounced economic hardship, similar to that of the enslaved, albeit under very different circumstances, Barbadian Redlegs developed strategies to live in a harsh environment. Reilly’s investigations reveal that what developed in Below Cliff was a moral economy, based on community needs rather than free-market prices. Reilly extensively excavated households from the tenantry area on the boundaries of the Clifton Hall Plantation, which was abandoned in the 1960s, to explore the daily lives of poor white tenants and investigate their relationships with island economic processes and networks. Despite misconceptions of strict racial isolation, evidence also highlights the importance of poor white encounters and relationships with Afro-Barbadians. Historical data are also incorporated to address how an underrepresented demographic experienced the plantation landscape. Ultimately, Reilly’s narrative situates the Redlegs within island history, privileging inclusion and embeddedness over exclusion and isolation.

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University Alabama Press

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0817320288

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9780817320287

The Earthwise Herbal, Volume I

A Complete Guide to Old World Medicinal Plants

By: Matthew Wood

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The Earthwise Herbal, Volume I

A Complete Guide to Old World Medicinal Plants

By: Matthew Wood

The first part in a comprehensive two-volume guide on the use of medicinal plants in Western herbal medicine—from an author who has almost forty years of clinical experience The first in a two-volume set, The Earthwise Herbal profiles Old World plants (volume two will treat American plants). Organized alphabetically, the book encompasses all the major, and many of the secondary, herbs of traditional and modern Western herbalism. Author Matthew Wood describes characteristic symptoms and conditions in which each plant has proved useful in the clinic, often illustrated with appropriate case histories. He also takes a historical view based on his extensive study of ancient and traditional herbal literature. Written in an easy, engaging, non-technical style, The Earthwise Herbal offers insight into the “logic” of the plant: how it works; in what areas of the body it works; how it has been used in the past; what its pharmacological constituents indicate about its use; and how all these different factors hang together to produce a portrait of the plant as a whole entity. Ideal for beginners, serious students, or advanced practitioners, The Earthwise Herbal is also useful for homeopaths and flower essence practitioners as it bridges these fields in its treatment of herbal medicines.

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North Atlantic Books

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1583944249

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Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine: Sixteenth Edition

By: Matthew L. Boulton,Robert H. Wallace

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Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine: Sixteenth Edition

By: Matthew L. Boulton,Robert H. Wallace

Now in full color, the #1 text spanning the fields of public health and preventive medicine brings you fully up to date on the issues and topics you need to know A Doody's Core Title for 2023! Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine has been updated and revised for the first time in more than a decade. This highly anticipated and extensive edition provides the most current information and insights available on evidence-based public health and preventive medicine, from basic methodologies of public health to principles of epidemiology and infection control to environmental toxicology to global health. The most comprehensive resource of its kind, Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine is the clear choice for anyone seeking a career in public health. Features: • Edited and written by a who's who of global experts • 384 photos and illustrations • New full-color format and improved artwork • Significantly expanded coverage of diseases and preventive methods common in international markets • Greater use of tables and summary lists for easier reading and retention

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McGraw Hill Professional

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1259644529

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9781259644528

Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 2000

By: Matthew J. Bruccoli

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Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 2000

By: Matthew J. Bruccoli

Updates entries already published and supplements the Dictionary of Literary Biography series with entries on newly prominent writers.

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Dictionary of Literary Biograp

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0787625221

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9780787625221

From Mushrooms to the Messiah

One Man’S Journey up a Mountain Called “Commitment”

By: Matthew Jones

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From Mushrooms to the Messiah

One Man’S Journey up a Mountain Called “Commitment”

By: Matthew Jones

How do you define success? Is it a flourishing family life, prosperous career, healthy marriage, scholastic achievement, or physical fitness? Maybe your idea of success is a combination of the above. No matter how you define success, your journey to the top of that mountain requires commitment. From Mushrooms to the Messiah follows one mans journey to discover how to make and keep commitments that will ultimately provide the success and fulfillment that many of us desire. Prepare yourself for a wild ride through fraternity life and into the drug abuse that brought one man face-to-face with the God who would turn his life upside down. No matter your religion or worldview, From Mushrooms to the Messiah will test your understanding of God and redefine faith while offering a timeless and unique love story the world has never known. What are you waiting for? An adventure awaits the willing.

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WestBow Press

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1512720402

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9781512720402

Molecular Heterogeneous Catalysis

A Conceptual and Computational Approach

By: Rutger A. van Santen,Matthew Neurock

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Molecular Heterogeneous Catalysis

A Conceptual and Computational Approach

By: Rutger A. van Santen,Matthew Neurock

An integrated approach to the molecular theory of reaction mechanism in heterogeneous catalysis, largely based on the knowledge among the growing theoretical catalysis community over the past half century, and covering all major catalytic systems. The authors develop a general conceptual framework, including in-depth comparisons with enzyme catalysis, biomineralisation, organometallic and coordination chemistry. A chapter dedicated to molecular electrocatalysis addresses the molecular description of reactions at the liquid-solid interphase, while studies range from a quantum-chemical treatment of individual molecular states to dynamic Monte-Carlo simulations, including the full flexibility of the many-particle systems. Complexity in catalysis is explained in chapters on self-organization and self-assembly of catalysts, and other sections are devoted to evolutionary, combinatorial techniques as well as artificial chemistry.

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John Wiley & Sons

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3527608346

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9783527608348

Consumer Sourcebook

By: Matthew Miskelly

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Consumer Sourcebook

By: Matthew Miskelly

P IConsumer Sourcebook /I provides a comprehensive digest of accessible resources and advisory information for the American consumer. This new edition identifies and describes some 23,000 programs and services available to the general public at little or no cost. These services are provided by federal, state, county, and local governments and their agencies as well as by organizations and associations. PConsumer affairs and customer services departments for corporations are also listed as well as related publications, multimedia products, general tips and recommendations for consumers. The master index is arranged alphabetically by name and by subject term.

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Gale Cengage

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0787680931

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9780787680930

Archaeology below the Cliff

Race, Class, and Redlegs in Barbadian Sugar Society

By: Matthew C. Reilly

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Race, Class, and Redlegs in Barbadian Sugar Society

By: Matthew C. Reilly

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Book's by Matthew C. Reilly

Is Harpo Free?

Is Harpo Free?

Cultural and Political Nostalgia in the Age of Terror

Cultural and Political Nostalgia in the Age of Terror

Cinemeducation

Cinemeducation

Archaeology below the Cliff

Archaeology below the Cliff

The Earthwise Herbal, Volume I

The Earthwise Herbal, Volume I

Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine: Sixteenth Edition

Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine: Sixteenth Edition

Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 2000

Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 2000

From Mushrooms to the Messiah

From Mushrooms to the Messiah

Molecular Heterogeneous Catalysis

Molecular Heterogeneous Catalysis

Consumer Sourcebook

Consumer Sourcebook

Archaeology below the Cliff

Archaeology below the Cliff

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