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Untangling Lives

A Psychiatrist Remembers

By: Nathan Billig

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Untangling Lives

A Psychiatrist Remembers

By: Nathan Billig

Untangling Lives: A Psychiatrist Remembers" is a memoir that focuses on how a psychiatrist separates his own personal history and experiences from the narratives of his patients in psychotherapy, particularly around the issues of loss and recovery. Dr. Nathan Billig, a psychiatrist, provides autobiographical material, patient therapy descriptions (identities and circumstances disguised), and remembered excerpts from his own personal psychoanalysis to demonstrate the importance of the therapist understanding his own past as he treats patients in psychotherapy. This compelling memoir shares a set of memories, reminiscences, and descriptions of therapist and patient interactions, showing the importance of the therapeutic relationship and alliance in the treatment situation.

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1667800868

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Growing Older and Wiser

Coping with Expectations, Challenges, and Change in the Later Years

By: Nathan Billig

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Growing Older and Wiser

Coping with Expectations, Challenges, and Change in the Later Years

By: Nathan Billig

Identifies three elements, or "lifelines," for successful aging and coping: our view of aging, our storehouse of relationships and experiences, and our inherent personality characteristics.

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248

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Lexington Books

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0669276782

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9780669276787

Disparagement Humor in Social Life

Competition vs. Subjugation

By: Nathan Miczo

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Disparagement Humor in Social Life

Competition vs. Subjugation

By: Nathan Miczo

In this book, Nathan Miczo demonstrates that humor operates at different levels of identity, exploring how within- and between-group dynamics shape the creation and reception of disparagement humor. While positive forms of humor arise in interpersonal settings, negative forms reflect the activation of group-based, communal identities. Building on this dual sociality view, Miczo critiques the superiority theory of disparagement humor, rooted in Hobbes’s definition of laughter, and tied to his notion of a “war of all against all.” Miczo employs the agōn (Greek for contest) to replace the Hobbesian metaphor with a view that groups use disparagement humor to pursue rival goals. This perspective forwards the multifunctional utility of humor in social life, analyzing examples of naturally occurring interaction drawn from studies in Communication, Psychology, and Anthropology. Scholars of humor studies, communication, and anthropology, will find this book of particular interest.

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187

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Rowman & Littlefield

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166690113X

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9781666901139

A Threatened Rural Idyll? Informal social control, exclusion and the resistance to change in the English countryside

By: Nathan Aaron Kerrigan

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A Threatened Rural Idyll? Informal social control, exclusion and the resistance to change in the English countryside

By: Nathan Aaron Kerrigan

Issues concerning globalisation, protection of identity and resistance to change at the national level (e.g., Brexit) have been the cause of much public and scholarly debate. With this in mind, this book demonstrates how these national, and indeed global narratives, have impacted on and are influenced by ‘going-ons’ in local contexts. By situating these national narratives within a rural context, Kerrigan expertly explores, through ethnographic research, how similar consequences of informal social control and exclusion are maintained in rural England in order to protect rural identity from social and infrastructural change. Drawing on observation, participant observation, and in-depth interviews, ‘A Threatened Rural Idyll’ illustrates how residents from a small but developing rural town in the South of England perceived changes associated with globalisation, such as population growth, inappropriate building developments, and the influx of service industries. For many of the residents, particularly those of middle-class status and long-standing in the town, these changes were seen as a direct threat to the rural character of the town. The investigation highlights how community dynamics and socio-spatial organisation of daily life work to protect the rural traditions inherent in the social and spatial landscape of the town and to maintain the dominance of its largely white, middle-class character. As a result, Kerrigan contends that the resistance to change has the consequence of constructing a social identity that attempts to reinforce the notions of a rural idyll to the exclusion of processes and people seen as representing different values and ideals.

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268

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Vernon Press

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1622736125

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9781622736126

Ennobling Japan's Savage Northeast

Tōhoku as Japanese Postwar Thought, 1945–2011

By: Nathan Hopson

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Ennobling Japan's Savage Northeast

Tōhoku as Japanese Postwar Thought, 1945–2011

By: Nathan Hopson

Ennobling Japan’s Savage Northeast is the first comprehensive account in English of the discursive life of the Tōhoku region in postwar Japan from 1945 through 2011. The Northeast became the subject of world attention with the March 2011 triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown. But Tōhoku’s history and significance to emic understandings of Japanese self and nationhood remain poorly understood. When Japan embarked on its quest to modernize in the mid-nineteenth century, historical prejudice, contemporary politics, and economic calculation together led the state to marginalize Tōhoku, creating a “backward” region in both fact and image. After 1945, a group of mostly local intellectuals attempted to overcome this image and rehabilitate the Northeast as a source of new national values. This early postwar Tōhoku recuperation movement has proved to be a critical source for the new Kyoto school’s neoconservative valorization of native Japanese identity, fueling that group’s antimodern, anti-Western discourse since the 1980s.Nathan Hopson unravels the contested postwar meanings of Tōhoku to reveal the complex and contradictory ways in which that region has been incorporated into Japan’s shifting self-images since World War II.

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383

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BRILL

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1684175828

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9781684175826

With Ballots and Bullets

Partisanship and Violence in the American Civil War

By: Nathan P. Kalmoe

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With Ballots and Bullets

Partisanship and Violence in the American Civil War

By: Nathan P. Kalmoe

Durable, acrimonious partisanship profoundly shapes contemporary American politics, yet scholars and analysts have been slow to consider the latent capacity of party leaders to mobilize violence.

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305

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Cambridge University Press

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1108834930

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9781108834933

A Laughable Empire

The US Imagines the Pacific World, 1840–1890

By: Todd Nathan Thompson

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A Laughable Empire

The US Imagines the Pacific World, 1840–1890

By: Todd Nathan Thompson

In the nineteenth-century United States, jokes, comic anecdotes, and bons mots about the Pacific Islands and Pacific Islanders tried to make the faraway and unfamiliar either understandable or completely incomprehensible (i.e., “other”) to American readers. A Laughable Empire examines this substantial archival corpus, attempting to make sense of nineteenth-century American humor about Hawai‘i and the rest of the Pacific world. Todd Nathan Thompson collects and interprets these comic, sometimes racist depictions of Pacific culture in nineteenth-century American print culture. Drawing on an archive of almanac and periodical humor, sea yarns, jest books, and literary comedy, Thompson demonstrates how jokes and humor functioned sometimes in the service of and sometimes in resistance to US imperial ambitions. Thompson also includes Indigenous voices and jokes lampooning Americans and their customs to show how humor served as an important cultural contact zone between the United States and the Pacific world. He considers how nineteenth-century Americans and Pacific Islanders alike used humor to employ stereotypes or to question them, to “other” the unknown or to interrogate, laughingly, the process by which “othering” occurs and is disseminated. Incisive and detailed, A Laughable Empire documents American humor about Pacific geography, food, dress, speech, and customs. Thompson sheds new light not only on nineteenth-century America’s imperial ambitions but also on its deep anxieties.

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328

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Penn State Press

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0271096616

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9780271096612

Deutsche Geistliche Lieder: The Hymns of Martin Luther Set to their Original Melodies, with an English Version

By: Martin Luther,Leonard Woolsey Bacon,Nathan H. Allen

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Deutsche Geistliche Lieder: The Hymns of Martin Luther Set to their Original Melodies, with an English Version

By: Martin Luther,Leonard Woolsey Bacon,Nathan H. Allen

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385310458

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9783385310452

Neither Liberal nor Conservative

Ideological Innocence in the American Public

By: Donald R. Kinder,Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Neither Liberal nor Conservative

Ideological Innocence in the American Public

By: Donald R. Kinder,Nathan P. Kalmoe

Congress is crippled by ideological conflict. The political parties are more polarized today than at any time since the Civil War. Americans disagree, fiercely, about just about everything, from terrorism and national security, to taxes and government spending, to immigration and gay marriage. Well, American elites disagree fiercely. But average Americans do not. This, at least, was the position staked out by Philip Converse in his famous essay on belief systems, which drew on surveys carried out during the Eisenhower Era to conclude that most Americans were innocent of ideology. In Neither Liberal nor Conservative, Donald Kinder and Nathan Kalmoe argue that ideological innocence applies nearly as well to the current state of American public opinion. Real liberals and real conservatives are found in impressive numbers only among those who are deeply engaged in political life. The ideological battles between American political elites show up as scattered skirmishes in the general public, if they show up at all. If ideology is out of reach for all but a few who are deeply and seriously engaged in political life, how do Americans decide whom to elect president; whether affirmative action is good or bad? Kinder and Kalmoe offer a persuasive group-centered answer. Political preferences arise less from ideological differences than from the attachments and antagonisms of group life.

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University of Chicago Press

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022645259X

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9780226452593

Daboll's Schoolmaster's Assistant, Improved and Enlarged

By: Nathan Daboll

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Daboll's Schoolmaster's Assistant, Improved and Enlarged

By: Nathan Daboll

Book, leather; front cover nearly detached, covers worn

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Applewood Books

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1429043210

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9781429043212

Growing Older and Wiser

Coping with Expectations, Challenges, and Change in the Later Years

By: Nathan Billig

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Growing Older and Wiser

Coping with Expectations, Challenges, and Change in the Later Years

By: Nathan Billig

Identifies three elements, or "lifelines," for successful aging and coping: our view of aging, our storehouse of relationships and experiences, and our inherent personality characteristics.

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Untangling Lives

Untangling Lives

Growing Older and Wiser

Growing Older and Wiser

Disparagement Humor in Social Life

Disparagement Humor in Social Life

A Threatened Rural Idyll? Informal social control, exclusion and the resistance to change in the English countryside

A Threatened Rural Idyll? Informal social control, exclusion and the resistance to change in the English countryside

Ennobling Japan's Savage Northeast

Ennobling Japan's Savage Northeast

With Ballots and Bullets

With Ballots and Bullets

A Laughable Empire

A Laughable Empire

Deutsche Geistliche Lieder: The Hymns of Martin Luther Set to their Original Melodies, with an English Version

Deutsche Geistliche Lieder: The Hymns of Martin Luther Set to their Original Melodies, with an English Version

Neither Liberal nor Conservative

Neither Liberal nor Conservative

Daboll's Schoolmaster's Assistant, Improved and Enlarged

Daboll's Schoolmaster's Assistant, Improved and Enlarged

Growing Older and Wiser

Growing Older and Wiser

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