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Ghost Sign

By: Al Ortolani,Melissa Fite Johnson,Adam Jameson,JT Knoll

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Ghost Sign

By: Al Ortolani,Melissa Fite Johnson,Adam Jameson,JT Knoll

In the 1920s and 1930s, Pittsburg, KS was a major coal-mining town, attracting various ethnic groups from southeast Europe and beyond. The often belligerent and divisive spirit of the miners--and the unpredictable politics of Southeast Kansas--earned the region the nickname, "The Little Balkans." The four poets (Al Ortolani, Melissa Fite Johnson, Adam Jameson, JT Knoll) appearing in this collection carry forward that same proud, independent spirit. They call themselves White Buffalo, after a now-defunct café in Pittsburg that offered writers, poets, artists, musicians, and friends a place of warmth and community, which in turn fostered an environment of challenge and diversity. Ghost Sign epitomizes honest work that is both lyrical and painful while simultaneously joyous and sad. It is rooted in folklore and mystery, and its place is informed by powerful imagery: sunlight on the crater of a strip pit, the shadow of an owl at Camp 50, junkyard mechanics, railroad men, and a grandfather at a piano plunking out Methodist hymns. With craft and passion, the Ghost Sign poets, who each know how to remember, resurrect those indomitable, lost places, folks, and ghosts from the forgotten past of Southeast Kansas. Published in partnership with Spartan Press.

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39 West Press

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0990864960

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9780990864967

All We Knew Was to Farm

Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919-1941

By: Melissa Walker

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All We Knew Was to Farm

Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919-1941

By: Melissa Walker

Winner of the Willie Lee Rose Prize from the Southern Association for Women Historians In the years after World War I, Southern farm women found their world changing. A postwar plunge in farm prices stretched into a twenty-year agricultural depression and New Deal programs eventually transformed the economy. Many families left their land to make way for larger commercial farms. New industries and the intervention of big government in once insular communities marked a turning point in the struggle of upcountry women—forcing new choices and the redefinition of traditional ways of life. Melissa Walker's All We Knew Was to Farm draws on interviews, archives, and family and government records to reconstruct the conflict between rural women and bewildering and unsettling change. Some women adapted by becoming partners in farm operations, adopting the roles of consumers and homemakers, taking off-farm jobs, or leaving the land. The material lives of rural upcountry women improved dramatically by midcentury—yet in becoming middle class, Walker concludes, the women found their experiences both broadened and circumscribed.

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724

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JHU Press

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0801869242

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9780801869242

Becoming Creole

Nature and Race in Belize

By: Melissa A. Johnson

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Becoming Creole

Nature and Race in Belize

By: Melissa A. Johnson

Becoming Creole explores how people become who they are through their relationships with the natural world, and it shows how those relationships are also always embedded in processes of racialization that create blackness, brownness, and whiteness. Taking the reader into the lived experience of Afro-Caribbean people who call the watery lowlands of Belize home, Melissa A. Johnson traces Belizean Creole peoples’ relationships with the plants, animals, water, and soils around them, and analyzes how these relationships intersect with transnational racial assemblages. She provides a sustained analysis of how processes of racialization are always present in the entanglements between people and the non-human worlds in which they live.

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249

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Rutgers University Press

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0813597005

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9780813597003

Psychiatric Rehabilitation

By: Carlos W. Pratt,Kenneth J. Gill,Nora M. Barrett,Melissa M. Roberts

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Psychiatric Rehabilitation

By: Carlos W. Pratt,Kenneth J. Gill,Nora M. Barrett,Melissa M. Roberts

The third edition of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, discusses interventions to help individuals with mental illness improve the quality of their life, achieve goals, and increase opportunities for community integration so they can lead full and productive lives. This person centered approach emphasizes strengths, skill development, and the attainment of valued social roles. The third edition has been fully updated with new coverage indicating how to address medical problems while treating for mental illness, wellness and recovery, evidence based practices, and directions for future research. Retaining the easy to read, engaging style, each chapter includes key terms with definitions, case studies, profiles of leaders in the field, special issues relating to treatment and ethics, and class exercises. Providing a comprehensive overview of this growing field, the book is suitable as an undergraduate or graduate textbook, as well as a reference for practitioners and academic researchers. Special Features: - Provides new coverage on comorbid medical disorders, evidence based practices, wellness and recovery, and direction for future research - Identifies controversial issues relating to treatment and ethics - Supplies case study examples to illustrate chapter points - Highlights key terms with definitions and key topics - Offers focus questions and class exercises as a teaching tool - New coverage of DSM-V diagnosis, evidence-based treatment, and daily living skills training - Retains case studies, boxed controversial issues, glossary

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569

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Academic Press

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0123870089

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9780123870087

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