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Encounters with American Culture

Volume 2, 1973-1985

By: Peter Prescott

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Encounters with American Culture

Volume 2, 1973-1985

By: Peter Prescott

Peter S. Prescott was one of the most informed and incisive American literary critics to write for the general public. Never content merely to summarize or to pronounce quick judgments, Prescott's reviews are witty and delightful essays to be enjoyed for their own sake as examples of civilized discourse. Whether he is exploring a well-known novelist's outlook and methods, or the peculiar deficiencies of a work of nonfiction, Prescott's grace, elegance, and insights make each piece proof that real criticism need not be pedantic, obscure, or interminably long. The focus in this second volume of Prescott's writings published by Transaction is on both fiction by American authors and on nonfiction reflecting our American unease. He casts an ironic eye on how we in this country think we live now; on what we are saying about ourselves in our fiction, our history, and our biography. Prescott considers some of our century's classic writers: Hemingway and Henry Miller; John Cheever and Thornton Wilder. He offers new insights regarding those who are still at work: Mailer, John Irving, Oates, Updike, Ozick, and Alice Walker. Some authors do not fare well. With his customary flair; Prescott explains why the reputations of Kurt Vonnegut and Barbara Tuchman, the Encyclopedia Britannica, and John Gardner, urgently need deflation. He includes essays on writers and books not generally noticed in collections of criticism: Stephen King, The Joy of Sex, fairy tales, science fiction, thrillers, books on survival and etiquette. Here is a critic with a personal voice and a sense of style. For essays published in this collection, Prescott received the most highly regarded prize in journalism: the rarely presented George Polk Award for Criticism. This is a chronicle of our contemporary American culture as revealed by its books, written with verve, intelligence, wisdom, and wit by a critic who's cruel only when appropriate. Encounters with American Culture is, quite simply, literary journalism at its urbane best.

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Routledge

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1351311905

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9781351311908

Making School Maths Engaging

The Maths Inside Project

By: Anne Prescott,Mary Coupland,Marco Angelini,Sandra Schuck

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Making School Maths Engaging

The Maths Inside Project

By: Anne Prescott,Mary Coupland,Marco Angelini,Sandra Schuck

This book provides an account of a large-scale, national STEM initiative in Australia, the Maths Inside Project, which is designed to increase secondary school students’ engagement and participation in mathematics. The project’s modules include videos illustrating how scientists use mathematics to find solutions to real-world problems, as well as themed activities linked to the school curriculum for mathematics. Outlining the current debates concerning mathematics education in Australia and beyond, the book describes the development and implementation of the modules to guide their use by teachers in year 8-12 Australian mathematics classrooms. It concludes with a discussion of the research, showing how the project increased student engagement. The book discusses the partners involved in the project, including scientists, a national mathematics teachers’ association and the authors’ university. It also offers insights into how to embark on pedagogical improvement through collaboration between individual institutional stakeholders. Providing details of the modules to enable teachers and teacher educators to help their students better understand and utilise the curriculum resources of Maths Inside, the book is a useful resource for educators around the globe wanting to make mathematics engaging, topical and relevant for secondary school students.

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Springer Nature

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9811591512

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9789811591518

Eat London

All About Food

By: Sir Terence Conran,Peter Prescott

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Eat London

All About Food

By: Sir Terence Conran,Peter Prescott

London is a city brimful of culinary possibilities, from lively markets to Michelin-starred restaurants. This third edition of Eat London is completely revised and updated, with entries highlighting the very best food stops not to be missed on a tour of London in 14 chapters. This is much more than a restaurant guide - it is a book all about food and the people who make, sell and care about it. From the best fish and chip shops of East London to haute cuisine and artisan food stores in Mayfair, every entry has been assessed for quality, originality, convivial ambience and consistency. Also featured are recipes from some of the capital's favourite restaurants including A. Wong, Balthazar, Morito and The Palomar. Special photography by Lisa Linder illustrates the wonderful food and everyday streetlife of the city.

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613

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Conran Octopus

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1840917695

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9781840917697

Student Bodies

The Influence of Student Health Services in American Society & Medicine

By: Heather Munro Prescott

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Student Bodies

The Influence of Student Health Services in American Society & Medicine

By: Heather Munro Prescott

Explores the fascinating connections between university health centers and the evolution of American health and medicine

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266

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University of Michigan Press

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0472116088

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9780472116089

Reviewing Shakespeare

Journalism and Performance from the Eighteenth Century to the Present

By: Paul Prescott

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Reviewing Shakespeare

Journalism and Performance from the Eighteenth Century to the Present

By: Paul Prescott

Paul Prescott presents an engaging account of the ways in which theatre critics have responded to Shakespeare over four centuries.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107021499

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9781107021495

Chemical Examination of Alcoholic Liquors

By: Albert Benjamin Prescott

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Chemical Examination of Alcoholic Liquors

By: Albert Benjamin Prescott

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385378729

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9783385378728

Children and Youth in Sickness and in Health

A Historical Handbook and Guide

By: Janet Golden,Richard Meckel,Heather Munro Prescott

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Children and Youth in Sickness and in Health

A Historical Handbook and Guide

By: Janet Golden,Richard Meckel,Heather Munro Prescott

Six original essays reflect the growing scholarly interest in the history of childhood and youth, particularly issues affecting child health and welfare. These important new essays show how changing patterns of health and disease have responded to and shaped notions of childhood and adolescence as life stages. Until the early 20th century, life-threatening illnesses were a sinister presence in the lives of children of all social classes. Today, many diseases and threats to child health have been eliminated or alleviated. Yet critical problems remain. New threats such as AIDS and violence take a steady toll. Child health remains an active concern for all families. Despite the development of health care policies, social welfare policies, and effective medication, the home remains—as it was in the Colonial period—the most critical site of care. Parents are still central to the preservation of children's health. This work imposes a holistic view of this experience for children and families. By examining the child's perspective of illness, the authors make an important contribution to the understanding of illness as part of the developmental process of growing up.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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ISBN 10

0313053006

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9780313053009

The History of Gilmanton: Embracing the Proprietary, Civil, Literary, Ecclesiastical, Biographical, Genealogical, and Miscellaneous History, from the First Settlement to the Present Time: Including what is Now Gilford, to the Time It was Disannexed

By: Daniel Lancaster,Alfred Prescott

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The History of Gilmanton: Embracing the Proprietary, Civil, Literary, Ecclesiastical, Biographical, Genealogical, and Miscellaneous History, from the First Settlement to the Present Time: Including what is Now Gilford, to the Time It was Disannexed

By: Daniel Lancaster,Alfred Prescott

Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.

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336887277X

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9783368872779

Women, Authorship and Literary Culture 1690 - 1740

By: S. Prescott

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Women, Authorship and Literary Culture 1690 - 1740

By: S. Prescott

Sarah Prescott discusses the careers of a number of key women writers of the period from 1690 to 1740, exploring the role played by geographical location, literary circles, patronage, the literary marketplace, and subscription publication in shaping patterns of female authorship. The volume also provides a wealth of detail about the circumstances which affected the careers of individual women as well as investigating the marketing, reception, and self-representation of women writers in general.

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245

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Springer

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0230597084

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9780230597082

The Great Plains, Second Edition

By: Walter Prescott Webb

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The Great Plains, Second Edition

By: Walter Prescott Webb

Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University This iconic description of the interaction between the vast central plains of the continent and the white Americans who moved there in the mid-nineteenth century has endured as one of the most influential, widely known, and controversial works in western history since its first publication in 1931. Arguing that “the Great Plains environment . . . constitutes a geographic unity whose influences have been so powerful as to put a characteristic mark upon everything that survives within its borders,” Walter Prescott Webb identifies the revolver, barbed wire, and the windmill as technological adaptations that facilitated Anglo conquest of the arid, treeless region. Webb draws on history, anthropology, geography, demographics, climatology, and economics in arguing that the 98th Meridian constitutes an institutional fault line at which “practically every institution that was carried across it was either broken and remade or else greatly altered.” This new edition of one of the foundational works of western American history features an introduction by Great Plains historian Andrew R. Graybill and a new index and updated design.

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654

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496232607

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9781496232601

Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier

By: Cynthia Culver Prescott

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Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier

By: Cynthia Culver Prescott

Prescott traces long-term ideological changes, arguing that favorable farming conditions enabled Oregon families to progress from accepting flexible frontier roles to participating in a national consumer culture in only one generation. As settlers' children came of age, participation in this new culture of consumption and refined leisure became the marker of the middle class. Middle-class culture shifted from the first generation's emphasis on genteel behavior to a newer genteel consumption."--BOOK JACKET.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816525439

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9780816525430

The Morning After

A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States

By: Heather Munro Prescott

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The Morning After

A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States

By: Heather Munro Prescott

Since 2006, when the “morning-after pill” Plan B was first sold over the counter, sales of emergency contraceptives have soared, becoming an $80-million industry in the United States and throughout the Western world. But emergency contraception is nothing new. It has a long and often contentious history as the subject of clashes not only between medical researchers and religious groups, but also between different factions of feminist health advocates. The Morning After tells the story of emergency contraception in America from the 1960s to the present day and, more importantly, it tells the story of the women who have used it. Side-stepping simplistic readings of these women as either radical feminist trailblazers or guinea pigs for the pharmaceutical industry, medical historian Heather Munro Prescott offers a portrait of how ordinary women participated in the development and popularization of emergency contraception, bringing a groundbreaking technology into the mainstream with the potential to alter radically reproductive health practices.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813552176

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9780813552170

Tracing Invisible Lines

An Experiment in Mystoriography

By: David Prescott-Steed

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Tracing Invisible Lines

An Experiment in Mystoriography

By: David Prescott-Steed

TRACING INVISIBLE LINES is a critical autoethnographic text built around Gregory Ulmer’s concept of the “Mystory.” Dedicated to the enhancement of imagination and innovation in a digital-media saturated society, Ulmer’s Mystory is a creative research method that draws narratives from three domains of discourse (personal, professional, popular). Analysing these domains means generating fresh insight into the deep-seated emblems that drive the creative disposition, or “invariant principle,” of the practice-led researcher. Here, the mystoriographical approach has mobilized an exploration of the interrelations between self and society, between memory and imagination, as well as between industry-driven design-arts education and experimental sound-art practice (prioritizing the sonic, the perambulatory, careering). As a result, the Mystory fosters critical awareness of the socio-cultural instruments of creative inspiration and perspiration. Reflexive in intent and experimental in approach, David Prescott-Steed’s hybrid writing style moves freely between art historical, biographical and autobiographical, academic and speculative moods. This book’s emphasis on an electronic, investigative sound-based practice finds it treading new ground between the sonic arts and the field of electracy; through its addition of sound and music to the genre, this book extends the scope of studies into Ulmer’s work beyond English literature and the ocularcentric arts, offering a new handbook for sonic conceptual art practice.

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Parlor Press LLC

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1643170783

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9781643170787

Demography at the Edge

Remote Human Populations in Developed Nations

By: Rasmus Ole Rasmussen,Prescott Ensign,Lee Huskey

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Demography at the Edge

Remote Human Populations in Developed Nations

By: Rasmus Ole Rasmussen,Prescott Ensign,Lee Huskey

Addressing the methodological and topical challenges facing demographers working in remote regions, this book compares and contrasts the research, methods and models, and policy applications from peripheral regions in developed nations. With the emphasis on human populations as dynamic, adaptive, evolving systems, it explores how populations respond in different ways to changing environmental, cultural and economic conditions and how effectively they manage these change processes. Theoretical understandings and policy issues arising from demographic modelling are tackled including: competition for skilled workers; urbanisation and ruralisation; population ageing; the impacts of climate change; the life outcomes of Indigenous peoples; globalisation and international migration. Based on a strong theoretical framework around issues of heterogeneity, generational change, temporariness and the relative strength of internal and external ties, Demography at the Edge provides a common set of approaches and issues that benefit both researchers and practitioners.

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Routledge

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1317152891

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9781317152897

History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic

Vol. I

By: William Hickling Prescott

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History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic

Vol. I

By: William Hickling Prescott

Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.

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3385572320

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Making School Maths Engaging

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Student Bodies

Reviewing Shakespeare

Reviewing Shakespeare

Chemical Examination of Alcoholic Liquors

Chemical Examination of Alcoholic Liquors

Children and Youth in Sickness and in Health

Children and Youth in Sickness and in Health

The History of Gilmanton: Embracing the Proprietary, Civil, Literary, Ecclesiastical, Biographical, Genealogical, and Miscellaneous History, from the First Settlement to the Present Time: Including what is Now Gilford, to the Time It was Disannexed

The History of Gilmanton: Embracing the Proprietary, Civil, Literary, Ecclesiastical, Biographical, Genealogical, and Miscellaneous History, from the First Settlement to the Present Time: Including what is Now Gilford, to the Time It was Disannexed

Women, Authorship and Literary Culture 1690 - 1740

Women, Authorship and Literary Culture 1690 - 1740

The Great Plains, Second Edition

The Great Plains, Second Edition

Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier

Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier

The Morning After

The Morning After

Tracing Invisible Lines

Tracing Invisible Lines

Demography at the Edge

Demography at the Edge

History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic

History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic

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