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Asbestos and Fire

Technological Tradeoffs and the Body at Risk

By: Rachel Maines

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Asbestos and Fire

Technological Tradeoffs and the Body at Risk

By: Rachel Maines

For much of the industrial era, asbestos was a widely acclaimed benchmark material. During its heyday, it was manufactured into nearly three thousand different products, most of which protected life and property from heat, flame, and electricity. It was used in virtually every industry from hotel keeping to military technology to chemical manufacturing, and was integral to building construction from shacks to skyscrapers in every community across the United States. Beginning in the mid-1960s, however, this once popular mineral began a rapid fall from grace as growing attention to the serious health risks associated with it began to overshadow the protections and benefits it provided. In this thought-provoking and controversial book, Rachel Maines challenges the recent vilification of asbestos by providing a historical perspective on Americans’ changing perceptions about risk. She suggests that the very success of asbestos and other fire-prevention technologies in containing deadly blazes has led to a sort of historical amnesia about the very risks they were supposed to reduce. Asbestos and Fire is not only the most thoroughly researched and balanced look at the history of asbestos, it is also an important contribution to a larger debate that considers how the risks of technological solutions should be evaluated. As technology offers us ever-increasing opportunities to protect and prevent, Maines urges that learning to accept and effectively address the unintended consequences of technological innovations is a growing part of our collective responsibility.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813570239

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Hedonizing Technologies

Paths to Pleasure in Hobbies and Leisure

By: Rachel P. Maines

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Hedonizing Technologies

Paths to Pleasure in Hobbies and Leisure

By: Rachel P. Maines

Rachel P. Maines’s latest work examines the rise of hobbies and leisure activities in Western culture from antiquity to the present day. As technologies are "hedonized," consumers find increasing pleasure in the hobbies’ associated tools, methods, and instructional literature. Work once essential to survival and comfort—gardening, hunting, cooking, needlework, home mechanics, and brewing—have gradually evolved into hobbies and recreational activities. As a result, the technologies associated with these pursuits have become less efficient but more appealing to the new class of leisure artisans. Maines interprets the growth and economic significance of hobbies in terms of broad consumer demand for the technologies associated with them. Hedonizing Technologies uses bibliometric and retail census data to show the growth in world markets for hobby craft tools, books, periodicals, and materials from the late 18th century to today. The book addresses basic issues in the history of labor and industry and makes an original contribution to the discussion of how technology and people interact.

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JHU Press

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0801897947

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Asbestos and Fire

Technological Tradeoffs and the Body at Risk

By: Rachel Maines

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Technological Tradeoffs and the Body at Risk

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Situational Analysis

Grounded Theory After the Interpretive Turn

By: Adele E. Clarke,Carrie Friese,Rachel S. Washburn

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Situational Analysis

Grounded Theory After the Interpretive Turn

By: Adele E. Clarke,Carrie Friese,Rachel S. Washburn

The Second Edition offers an innovative extension of grounded theory useful in qualitative research projects that draws on interviews, observations, and visual, narrative, and historical discourse materials. To engage the dense complexities of real world situations, Situational Analysis (SA) braids together Strauss's ecological social worlds/arenas theory, Foucault's discourse analysis, and Deleuze and Guattari's rhizomes and assemblages. The book will serve as an invaluable resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate-level students, as well as professional researchers and consultants from diverse backgrounds pursuing qualitative projects.

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SAGE Publications

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1483311945

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Power Button

A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing

By: Rachel Plotnick

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Power Button

A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing

By: Rachel Plotnick

Push a button and turn on the television; tap a button and get a ride; click a button and “like” something. The touch of a finger can set an appliance, a car, or a system in motion, even if the user doesn't understand the underlying mechanisms or algorithms. How did buttons become so ubiquitous? Why do people love them, loathe them, and fear them? In Power Button, Rachel Plotnick traces the origins of today's push-button society by examining how buttons have been made, distributed, used, rejected, and refashioned throughout history. Focusing on the period between 1880 and 1925, when “technologies of the hand” proliferated (including typewriters, telegraphs, and fingerprinting), Plotnick describes the ways that button pushing became a means for digital command, which promised effortless, discreet, and fool-proof control. Emphasizing the doubly digital nature of button pushing—as an act of the finger and a binary activity (on/off, up/down)—Plotnick suggests that the tenets of precomputational digital command anticipate contemporary ideas of computer users. Plotnick discusses the uses of early push buttons to call servants, and the growing tensions between those who work with their hands and those who command with their fingers; automation as “automagic,” enabling command at a distance; instant gratification, and the victory of light over darkness; and early twentieth-century imaginings of a future push-button culture. Push buttons, Plotnick tells us, have demonstrated remarkable staying power, despite efforts to cast button pushers as lazy, privileged, and even dangerous.

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MIT Press

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0262551950

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The Law of the Police

By: Rachel Harmon

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The Law of the Police

By: Rachel Harmon

This important new book provides materials and analysis for law school classes on policing and the law. It offers a resource for students and others seeking to understand and evaluate how American law governs police interactions with the public. The book provides primary materials, including cases, statutes, and departmental policies, and commentary and questions designed to help readers explore policing practices; the law that governs them; and the law’s consequences for the costs, benefits, fairness, and accountability of policing. Among other issues, the notes and questions encourage readers to consider the form and content of the law; how it might change; who is making it; and how the law affects policing. Part I introduces local policing—its history, its goals, and its problems; Part II considers the law that regulates criminal investigations; Part III addresses the law that governs street policing; and Part IV looks at policing’s legal remedies and reforms. Professors and students will benefit from: Chapters and notes designed to allow flexibility—allow professors to assign materials selectively according to the needs of the course. As a result, the casebook can serve as materials for a range of lecture and discussion-based courses on the law regulating police conduct; on legal remedies and reforms for problems in policing; or on more specific topics, such as the use of force or constitutional rules governing police conduct. Descriptions of controversial policing encounters and links to and discussion of videos of such incidents—help students practice applying the law, consider its policy implications, and gain awareness of contemporary controversies on policing. Diverse primary materials, including federal and state cases and statutes and police department policies—provide a broad exposure to the types of law that govern public policing. Photos, links to videos, protest art, and charts—pique student interest, enable richer discussions, and provide additional context for legal materials in the book. Integration of scholarly work on policing, on the law, and on the impact of police practices—enables students to make more sophisticated assessments of the law. Notes and questions—designed to (a) highlight alternative strategies lawyers might use to change the law, and (b) raise comparative institutional questions about who is best suited to regulate the police. Discussion of legal topics relevant to contemporary discussions of policing—studied nowhere else in the law school curriculum.

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Aspen Publishing

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1454891130

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The Culturally Complex Individual

Franz Werfel's Reflections on Minority Identity and Historical Depiction in The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

By: Rachel Kirby

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The Culturally Complex Individual

Franz Werfel's Reflections on Minority Identity and Historical Depiction in The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

By: Rachel Kirby

This book examines Werfel's concerns regarding the status and possibilities of individual identity. It follows Werfel's changing views on identity as he explored different community identifications.

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Bucknell University Press

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0838753930

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Quinceañera Style

Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities

By: Rachel Valentina González

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Quinceañera Style

Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities

By: Rachel Valentina González

Winner of the Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work in Women's Studies, Popular Culture Association Co-winner of the Elli Kongas Maranda Prize, Women's Section of the American Folklore Society (AFS) A dynamic study of social negotiation and consumerism in the coming-of-age quinceañera celebration and the impact of normalizing spectacles of luxury. Quinceañera celebrations, which recognize a girl’s transition to young womanhood at age fifteen, are practiced in Latinx communities throughout the Americas. But in the consumer-driven United States, the ritual has evolved from a largely religious ceremony to an elaborate party where social status takes center stage. Examining the many facets of this contemporary debut experience, Quinceañera Style reports on ethnographic fieldwork in California, Texas, the Midwest, and Mexico City to reveal a complex, compelling story. Along the way, we meet a self-identified transwoman who uses the quinceañera as an intellectual space in her activist performance art. We explore the economic empowerment of women who own barrio boutiques specializing in the quinceañera’s many accessories and made-in-China gowns. And, of course, we meet teens themselves, including a vlogger whose quince-planning tips have made her an online sensation. Disrupting assumptions, such as the belief that Latino communities in the United States can’t desire upward mobility without abandoning ethnoracial cultural legacies, Quinceañera Style also underscores the performative nature of class and the process of constructing a self in the public, digital sphere.

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University of Texas Press

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1477319719

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Too Much

How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today

By: Rachel Vorona Cote

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Too Much

How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today

By: Rachel Vorona Cote

Lacing cultural criticism, Victorian literature, and storytelling together, "TOO MUCH spills over: with intellect, with sparkling prose, and with the brainy arguments of Vorona Cote, who posits that women are all, in some way or another, still susceptible to being called too much." (Esmé Weijun Wang) A weeping woman is a monster. So too is a fat woman, a horny woman, a woman shrieking with laughter. Women who are one or more of these things have heard, or perhaps simply intuited, that we are repugnantly excessive, that we have taken illicit liberties to feel or fuck or eat with abandon. After bellowing like a barn animal in orgasm, hoovering a plate of mashed potatoes, or spraying out spit in the heat of expostulation, we've flinched-ugh, that was so gross. I am so gross. On rare occasions, we might revel in our excess--belting out anthems with our friends over karaoke, perhaps--but in the company of less sympathetic souls, our uncertainty always returns. A woman who is Too Much is a woman who reacts to the world with ardent intensity is a woman familiar to lashes of shame and disapproval, from within as well as without. Written in the tradition of Shrill, Dead Girls, Sex Object and other frank books about the female gaze, TOO MUCH encourages women to reconsider the beauty of their excesses-emotional, physical, and spiritual. Rachel Vorona Cote braids cultural criticism, theory, and storytelling together in her exploration of how culture grinds away our bodies, souls, and sexualities, forcing us into smaller lives than we desire. An erstwhile Victorian scholar, she sees many parallels between that era's fixation on women's "hysterical" behavior and our modern policing of the same; in the space of her writing, you're as likely to encounter Jane Eyre and Lizzie Bennet as you are Britney Spears and Lana Del Rey. This book will tell the story of how women, from then and now, have learned to draw power from their reservoirs of feeling, all that makes us "Too Much.

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Grand Central Publishing

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1538729717

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Harlequin Romantic Suspense February 2021 Box Set

By: Lisa Childs,Tara Taylor Quinn,Rachel Lee,Lara Lacombe

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Harlequin Romantic Suspense February 2021 Box Set

By: Lisa Childs,Tara Taylor Quinn,Rachel Lee,Lara Lacombe

Looking for heart-racing romance and breathless suspense? Want stories filled with life-and-death situations that cause sparks to fly between adventurous, strong women and brave, powerful men? Harlequin® Romantic Suspense brings you all that and more with four new full-length titles in one collection! COLTON 911: UNLIKELY ALIBI (A Colton 911: Chicago novel) by Lisa Childs Kylie Givens has been Heath Colton’s right hand ever since she joined his family’s company, but when he’s accused of murder in order to take over the business, she becomes his false alibi. As the real killer threatens them both, they’re forced into very close quarters. COLTON’S KILLER PURSUIT (A Coltons of Grave Gulch novel) by USA TODAY bestselling author Tara Taylor Quinn First Everleigh Emerson was framed for murder, then someone tried to kill her—twice. But the real threat comes when she falls for the man who exonerated her, PI Clarke Colton. Only time will tell if she emerges unscathed…or more endangered than ever. HUNTED IN CONARD COUNTY (A Conard County: The Next Generation novel) by Rachel Lee Kerri Addison, a disabled former cop now teaching criminal law, teams up with Officer Stuart Canady to hunt a rapist who is stalking women in Conard County, Wyoming. But can Kerri let Stuart close enough to her before the perpetrator ends them—permanently? RANGER’S FAMILY IN DANGER (A Rangers of Big Bend novel) by Lara Lacombe One night of passion results in a pregnancy, but Sophia doesn’t tell Carter he’s going to be a dad right away. Now she’s back in town with his son, and someone is threatening them. Can he keep the woman he loves and his baby safe, despite his broken heart?

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148807156X

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The Absence of Work

Marcel Broodthaers, 1964-1976

By: Rachel Haidu

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The Absence of Work

Marcel Broodthaers, 1964-1976

By: Rachel Haidu

A provocative investigation of Marcel Broodthaers's work as a reflection on the uses and abuses of language.

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MIT Press

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0262014505

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Hunted in Conard County

By: Rachel Lee

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Hunted in Conard County

By: Rachel Lee

New York Times Bestselling Author When she goes after a killer He’s by her side, every step of the way Injury has left ex-cop Kerri Addison with seizures, diminished self-confidence and a dread of relationships. Now she teaches criminal law in a town where a cunning rapist is at large. Drawn to investigate with Sergeant Stuart Canady, Kerri knows there is much to fear. But with fear comes grit, an effective weapon against this monster. Falling for her handsome new partner—now that’s another danger entirely…and one that might get her killed. From Harlequin Romantic Suspense: Danger. Passion. Drama. Conard County: The Next Generation Guardian in Disguise The Widow’s Protector Rancher’s Deadly Risk What She Saw Rocky Mountain Lawman Killer’s Prey Deadly Hunter Snowstorm Confessions Undercover Hunter Playing with Fire Conard County Witness A Secret in Conard County A Conard County Spy Conard County Marine Undercover in Conard County Conard County Revenge Conard County Watch Stalked in Conard County Hunted in Conard County

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1488071373

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Hedonizing Technologies

Paths to Pleasure in Hobbies and Leisure

By: Rachel P. Maines

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Paths to Pleasure in Hobbies and Leisure

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I'm Beautiful, Dammit!

Waging Your Own Curvolution

By: Rachel Ann Caplin

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I'm Beautiful, Dammit!

Waging Your Own Curvolution

By: Rachel Ann Caplin

In a country where the majority of women are dissatisfied with their bodies, the revolutionary way of thinking contained in these pages is critical in developing new attitudes towards body image. Teaching women to feel genuine, unconditional love for their bodies through laugh-out-loud funnies, poignant stories, and proactive and effective tools, this book reiterates with force that women's bodies needn't be made bigger or smaller or otherwise fixed, changed, starved, buffed, clipped, nipped, or tucked. The author's personal stories of self discovery are combined with research on body image and quotes from female writers and celebrities, all intended to help women break free from body obsession.

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0965327590

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Lost Woods

The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson

By: Rachel Carson

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Lost Woods

The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson

By: Rachel Carson

When Rachel Carson died of cancer in 1964, her four books, including the environmental classic Silent Spring, had made her one of the most famous people in America. This trove of previously uncollected writings is a priceless addition to our knowledge of Rachel Carson, her affinity with the natural world, and her life.

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Beacon Press

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0807085472

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The Long-Lost Rachel Wild;: Or, Seeking Diamonds in the Rough

By: Rachel Wild Peterson

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The Long-Lost Rachel Wild;: Or, Seeking Diamonds in the Rough

By: Rachel Wild Peterson

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Sagwan Press

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1376795566

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9781376795561

My Name is Rachel Corrie

Taken from the Writings of Rachel Corrie

By: Rachel Corrie

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My Name is Rachel Corrie

Taken from the Writings of Rachel Corrie

By: Rachel Corrie

THE STORY: On March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie, a twenty-three-year-old American, was crushed to death by an Israeli Army bulldozer in Gaza as she was trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home. MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE is a one-woman play

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

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0822222221

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Redemption

By: Rachel Cox

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Redemption

By: Rachel Cox

Middle-aged Simone LeBlanc has been tormented her entire adult life with the suspicion that she had been gang-raped in college. Fearful of learning the truth and lacking emotional support from her parents, Simone is haunted by nightmares of may have happened that fateful night. Simone’s life is transformed when she meets Roger Peterson, a contemporary who also attended the same university as Simone. With Roger’s love and support, Simone starts to recover from her trauma—until she discovers how Roger was involved that night, and how their destines are interwoven.

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