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A Beginner's Guide to the End

Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death

By: BJ Miller,Shoshana Berger

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A Beginner's Guide to the End

Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death

By: BJ Miller,Shoshana Berger

“A gentle, knowledgeable guide to a fate we all share” (The Washington Post): the first and only all-encompassing action plan for the end of life. “There is nothing wrong with you for dying,” hospice physician B.J. Miller and journalist and caregiver Shoshana Berger write in A Beginner’s Guide to the End. “Our ultimate purpose here isn’t so much to help you die as it is to free up as much life as possible until you do.” Theirs is a clear-eyed and big-hearted action plan for approaching the end of life, written to help readers feel more in control of an experience that so often seems anything but controllable. Their book offers everything from step-by-step instructions for how to do your paperwork and navigate the healthcare system to answers to questions you might be afraid to ask your doctor, like whether or not sex is still okay when you’re sick. Get advice for how to break the news to your employer, whether to share old secrets with your family, how to face friends who might not be as empathetic as you’d hoped, and how to talk to your children about your will. (Don’t worry: if anyone gets snippy, it’ll likely be their spouses, not them.) There are also lessons for survivors, like how to shut down a loved one’s social media accounts, clean out the house, and write a great eulogy. An honest, surprising, and detail-oriented guide to the most universal of all experiences, A Beginner’s Guide to the End is “a book that every family should have, the equivalent of Dr. Spock but for this other phase of life” (New York Times bestselling author Dr. Abraham Verghese).

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Simon & Schuster

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1501157213

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9781501157219

When Biometrics Fail

Gender, Race, and the Technology of Identity

By: Shoshana Magnet

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When Biometrics Fail

Gender, Race, and the Technology of Identity

By: Shoshana Magnet

This book examines the proliferation of surveillance technologies&—such as facial recognition software and digital fingerprinting&—that have come to pervade our everyday lives. Often developed as methods to ensure "national security," these technologies are also routinely employed to regulate our personal information, our work lives, what we buy, and how we live.

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226

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Duke University Press

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0822351358

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9780822351351

The Expansion of Economics

Toward a More Inclusive Social Science

By: Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman,Christopher K. Clague

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The Expansion of Economics

Toward a More Inclusive Social Science

By: Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman,Christopher K. Clague

Economics, like most other social sciences, is not a pure discipline. Indeed, it has been enhanced by the fact that there is so much overlap between it and the related fields of business, industrial relations, political science, social psychology, and sociology. This book is the first attempt to explain how work in economics has influenced and benefited from a merging of economic analysis with the research practices of these related fields of study. With contributions from leading economists from around the world, it demonstrates how economics is leading the way toward a more unified social science.

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297

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Routledge

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1315499762

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9781315499765

Routine Emergency

The Meaning of Life for Israelis Living Along the Gaza Border

By: Julia Chaitin,Sharon Steinberg,Elad Avlagon,Shoshana Steinberg

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Routine Emergency

The Meaning of Life for Israelis Living Along the Gaza Border

By: Julia Chaitin,Sharon Steinberg,Elad Avlagon,Shoshana Steinberg

This book explores the meaning of life for Israelis from communities bordering the Gaza Strip, whose lives are bound to the intractable conflict between Israel and the Hamas regime. Based on a psychosocial qualitative study of narrative interviews, photographs, YouTube videos, and Facebook posts created by residents, the book presents the life stories of ordinary people, their perspectives of patriotism and Zionism, and their perceptions of the Gazan Palestinians. Routine Emergency captures these perspectives through analyses of residents’ interviews and photographs, the social media materials and poems fashioned from interviewees’ words. The results challenge simplistic notions of what it means to live in this warzone, offering a multi-layered analysis of life in this region, which alternates between being Heaven and Hell. Written in a reader-friendly format, Routine Emergency, offers new theoretical insights into societal beliefs connected to living in an intractable warzone on the personal, family, community and national levels.

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326

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Springer Nature

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303095983X

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9783030959838

The Juridical Unconscious

By: Shoshana Felman

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The Juridical Unconscious

By: Shoshana Felman

This book offers an account of the surprising interaction between trauma and justice. Moving from texts by Arendt, Benjamin, Freud, Zola, and Tolstoy to the Dreyfus and Nuremberg trials, and the trials of O. J. Simpson and Adolf Eichmann, Felman argues that the adjudication of collective traumas in the 20th century transformed both culture and law.

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Harvard University Press

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0674009312

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9780674009318

Dinner Talk

Cultural Patterns of Sociability and Socialization in Family Discourse

By: Shoshana Blum-Kulka

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Dinner Talk

Cultural Patterns of Sociability and Socialization in Family Discourse

By: Shoshana Blum-Kulka

Dinner Talk draws upon the recorded dinner conversations of, and extensive interviews with, native Israeli, American Israeli, and Jewish American middle-class families to explore the cultural styles of sociability and socialization in family discourse. The thesis developed is that family dinners in Western middle-class homes fulfill important functions of sociability for all participants and, at the same time, serve as crucial sites of socialization for children through language and for language use. The book demonstrates the way talk at dinner constructs, reflects, and invokes familial, social, and cultural identities and provides social support for easing the passage of children into adult discourse worlds. Family discourse at dinner emerges as a particularly rich site for discursive socialization and a highly meaningful enactment of sociable behavior in culturally patterned ways. Although all the families studied have a commom Eastern European background, Israeli and Jewish American families are shown to differ extensively in their interactional styles, in ways that enact historically different, community-related interpretations of the dialectics of continuity and change. Native Israeli, American Israeli, and Jewish American families differ culturally in the ways they negotiate issues of power, independence, and involvement through various speech activities such as the choice and initiation of topics, conversational story-telling, naming practices, metapragmatic discourse, politeness strategies, and in immigrant, bilingual families, language choice and code switching. Dinner Talk demonstrates the unique interactional style of each of the groups, linking the observed communication patterns to the ideological, sociocultural, and historical contexts of their respective communities. This innovative study of family discourse from a cross-cultural perspective will appeal to students and specialists in sociolinguistics, communication, anthropology, child language, and family and Jewish studies, as well as to all interested in patterns of communication within families.

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319

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Routledge

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1136486941

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9781136486944

The Support Economy

Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism

By: Shoshana Zuboff,James Maxmin

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The Support Economy

Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism

By: Shoshana Zuboff,James Maxmin

Today’s “managerial” capitalism has grown hopelessly out of touch with the people it should be serving. The Support Economy explores the chasm between people and corporations and reveals a new society of individuals who seek relationships of advocacy and trust that provide support for their complex lives. Unlocking the wealth of these new markets can unleash the next great wave of wealth creation, but it requires a radically new approach—“distributed” capitalism. The Support Economy is a call to action for every citizen who cares about the future.

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Penguin

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1101503157

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A Beginner's Guide to the End

Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death

By: BJ Miller,Shoshana Berger

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Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death

By: BJ Miller,Shoshana Berger

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A Beginner's Guide to the End

How to Live Life to the Full and Die a Good Death

By: B. J. Miller,BJ. BERGER MILLER (SHOSHANA.),Shoshana Berger

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A Beginner's Guide to the End

How to Live Life to the Full and Die a Good Death

By: B. J. Miller,BJ. BERGER MILLER (SHOSHANA.),Shoshana Berger

I wish I'd had this book when I needed it. Death and dying are not subjects that many people are comfortable talking about, but it's hugely important to be as prepared as you can be - emotionally, physically, practically, financially, and spiritually. This book may be the most important guide you could have." - Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love ___________ The end of a life can often feel like a traumatic, chaotic and inhuman experience. In this reassuring and inspiring book, palliative care physician Dr BJ Miller and writer Shoshana Berger provide a vision for rethinking and navigating this universal process. There are plenty of self-help books for mourners, but nothing in the way of a modern, approachable and above all useful field guide for the living. And all of us - young, old, sick and well - could use the help. After all, pregnant couples have ample resources available to them as they prepare to bring a new life into the world: Lamaze courses, elaborate birth plans, tons of manuals. Why don't we have a What to Expect When You're Expecting to Die book? An accessible, beautifully designed and illustrated companion, A Beginner's Guide to the End offers a clear-eyed and compassionate survey of the most pressing issues that come up when one is dying, and will bring optimism and practical guidance to empower readers with the knowledge, resources and tools they'll need to die better, maybe even with triumph.

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152940391X

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A Beginner's Guide to the End

A Beginner's Guide to the End

When Biometrics Fail

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The Expansion of Economics

The Expansion of Economics

Routine Emergency

Routine Emergency

The Juridical Unconscious

The Juridical Unconscious

Dinner Talk

Dinner Talk

The Support Economy

The Support Economy

A Beginner's Guide to the End

A Beginner's Guide to the End

A Beginner's Guide to the End

A Beginner's Guide to the End

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