Susan Herbst's Books

Reading Public Opinion

How Political Actors View the Democratic Process

By: Susan Herbst

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Reading Public Opinion

How Political Actors View the Democratic Process

By: Susan Herbst

Public opinion is one of the most elusive and complex concepts in democratic theory, and we do not fully understand its role in the political process. Reading Public Opinion offers one provocative approach for understanding how public opinion fits into the empirical world of politics. In fact, Susan Herbst finds that public opinion, surprisingly, has little to do with the mass public in many instances. Herbst draws on ideas from political science, sociology, and psychology to explore how three sets of political participants—legislative staffers, political activists, and journalists—actually evaluate and assess public opinion. She concludes that many political actors reject "the voice of the people" as uninformed and nebulous, relying instead on interest groups and the media for representations of public opinion. Her important and original book forces us to rethink our assumptions about the meaning and place of public opinion in the realm of contemporary democratic politics.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

278

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0226327469

ISBN 13

9780226327464

Rude Democracy

Civility and Incivility in American Politics

By: Susan Herbst

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Rude Democracy

Civility and Incivility in American Politics

By: Susan Herbst

How American politics can become more civil and amenable to public policy solutions, while still allowing for effective argument.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

217

Publisher

Temple University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1439903379

ISBN 13

9781439903377

A Troubled Birth

The 1930s and American Public Opinion

By: Susan Herbst

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Troubled Birth

The 1930s and American Public Opinion

By: Susan Herbst

Introduction: Birth of a Public -- President in the Maelstrom: FDR as Public Opinion Theorist -- Twisted Populism: Pollsters and Delusions of Citizenship -- A Consuming Public: The Strange and Magnificent New York World's Fair -- Radio Embraces Race and Immigration, Awkwardly -- Interlude: A Depression Needn't Be So Depressing -- Public Opinion and Its Problems: Some Ways Forward.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

311

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

022681310X

ISBN 13

9780226813103

Numbered Voices

How Opinion Polling Has Shaped American Politics

By: Susan Herbst

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Numbered Voices

How Opinion Polling Has Shaped American Politics

By: Susan Herbst

How are numbers generated by public opinion surveys used to describe the national mood? Why have they gained such widespread respect and power in American life? Do polls enhance democracy, or simply accelerate the erosion of public discourse? Quantifying the American mood through opinion polls has come to seem an unbiased means for assessing what people want. But in Numbered Voices Susan Herbst demonstrates that how public opinion is measured affects the ways that voters, legislators, and journalists conceive of it. Exploring the history of public opinion in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, Herbst analyzes how quantitative descriptions of public opinion became so authoritative. She shows how numbers served instrumental functions, but symbolic ones as well: public opinion figures convey authority and not only neutral information. Case studies and numerous examples illustrate how and why quantitative public opinion data have been so critical during and between American elections. Herbst then addresses how the quantification of public opinion has affected contemporary politics, and its implications for the democratic process. She shows that opinion polling is attractive because of its scientific aura, but that surveys do not necessarily enhance public debate. On the contrary, Herbst argues, polling often causes us to ignore certain dimensions of public problems by narrowing the bounds of public debate. By scrutinizing the role of opinion polling in the United States, Numbered Voices forces us to ask difficult but fundamental questions about American politics - questions with important implications for the democratic process.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

252

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0226327426

ISBN 13

9780226327426

To Do No Harm

Des and the Dilemmas of Modern Medicine

By: Roberta J. Apfel,Susan M. Fisher

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

To Do No Harm

Des and the Dilemmas of Modern Medicine

By: Roberta J. Apfel,Susan M. Fisher

Recounts the testing, introduction, and popularization of DES, a synthetic estrogen hormone, describes how its harmful effects were discovered, and suggests ways to avoid the premature introduction of unproven new drugs.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

220

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0300036191

ISBN 13

9780300036190

Corruption and Government

Causes, Consequences, and Reform

By: Susan Rose-Ackerman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Corruption and Government

Causes, Consequences, and Reform

By: Susan Rose-Ackerman

How high levels of corruption limit investment and growth can lead to ineffective government.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

292

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521659124

ISBN 13

9780521659123

DES Daughters, Embodied Knowledge, and the Transformation of Women's Health Politics in the Late Twentieth Century

By: Susan E. Bell

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

DES Daughters, Embodied Knowledge, and the Transformation of Women's Health Politics in the Late Twentieth Century

By: Susan E. Bell

How the DES catastrophe created the feminist health movement.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

232

Publisher

Temple University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1592139205

ISBN 13

9781592139200

George Gallup in Hollywood

By: Susan Ohmer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

George Gallup in Hollywood

By: Susan Ohmer

Explores the use of George Gallup's opinion polling techniques by the film industry in the 1930's and '40's. Traces Gallup's intellectual and methodological developments, examining his comprehensive approach to market research from his early education in the advertising industry to his later work in Hollywood.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

304

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0231121334

ISBN 13

9780231121330

The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950

By: Susan Schulten

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950

By: Susan Schulten

Schulten examines four enduring institutions of learning that produced some of the most influential sources of geographic knowledge in modern history: maps and atlases, the National Geographic Society, the American university, and public schools."--BOOK JACKET.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

348

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0226740552

ISBN 13

9780226740553

Politics of Education

Essays from Radical Teacher

By: Susan Gushee O'Malley,Robert C. Rosen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Politics of Education

Essays from Radical Teacher

By: Susan Gushee O'Malley,Robert C. Rosen

This book brings together thirty of the best essays from Radical Teacher. The journal is devoted to feminist and socialist approaches to teaching--to showing teachers how to democratize the classroom and empower students. The articles included here have been chosen for their continuing usefulness to school and college teachers with emphasis on critical pedagogy as well as radical course content. These essays provide not only a wealth of ideas for teachers already involved in radical education but also an accessible, readable, and wide-ranging introduction for those new to it.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

384

Publisher

SUNY Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0791403556

ISBN 13

9780791403556

Editing Music in Early Modern Germany

By: Susan Lewis Hammond

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Editing Music in Early Modern Germany

By: Susan Lewis Hammond

Editing Music in Early Modern Germany argues that editors played a critical role in the transmission and reception of Italian music outside Italy. Like their counterparts in the world of classical learning, Renaissance music editors translated texts and reworked settings from Venetian publications, adapting them to the needs of northern audiences. Their role is most evident in the emergence of the anthology as the primary vehicle for the distribution of madrigals outside Italy. The book suggests that music editors defined the appropriation of Italian music through the same processes of adaptation, transformation and domestication evident in the broader reception of Italy north of the Alps. Through these studies, Susan Lewis Hammond's work reassesses the importance of northern Europe in the history of the madrigal and its printing.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

302

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published Date

ISBN 10

0754655733

ISBN 13

9780754655732

The Guardians

The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire

By: Susan Pedersen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Guardians

The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire

By: Susan Pedersen

Winner of the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize At the end of the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference saw a battle over the future of empire. The victorious allied powers wanted to annex the Ottoman territories and German colonies they had occupied; Woodrow Wilson and a groundswell of anti-imperialist activism stood in their way. France, Belgium, Japan and the British dominions reluctantly agreed to an Anglo-American proposal to hold and administer those allied conquests under "mandate" from the new League of Nations. In the end, fourteen mandated territories were set up across the Middle East, Africa and the Pacific. Against all odds, these disparate and far-flung territories became the site and the vehicle of global transformation. In this masterful history of the mandates system, Susan Pedersen illuminates the role the League of Nations played in creating the modern world. Tracing the system from its creation in 1920 until its demise in 1939, Pedersen examines its workings from the realm of international diplomacy; the viewpoints of the League's experts and officials; and the arena of local struggles within the territories themselves. Featuring a cast of larger-than-life figures, including Lord Lugard, King Faisal, Chaim Weizmann and Ralph Bunche, the narrative sweeps across the globe-from windswept scrublands along the Orange River to famine-blighted hilltops in Rwanda to Damascus under French bombardment-but always returns to Switzerland and the sometimes vicious battles over ideas of civilization, independence, economic relations, and sovereignty in the Geneva headquarters. As Pedersen shows, although the architects and officials of the mandates system always sought to uphold imperial authority, colonial nationalists, German revisionists, African-American intellectuals and others were able to use the platform Geneva offered to challenge their claims. Amid this cacophony, imperial statesmen began exploring new means - client states, economic concessions - of securing Western hegemony. In the end, the mandate system helped to create the world in which we now live. A riveting work of global history, The Guardians enables us to look back at the League with new eyes, and in doing so, appreciate how complex, multivalent, and consequential this first great experiment in internationalism really was.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

498

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0190226404

ISBN 13

9780190226404

Hugo Wolf

The Vocal Music

By: Susan Youens

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Hugo Wolf

The Vocal Music

By: Susan Youens

A groundbreaking look at one of the great song composers of the late Romantic period In the virtual cottage industry of works on fin de siècle Vienna, Hugo Wolf (1860–1903) has been somewhat neglected, perhaps because he was the master of a small genre—the late Romantic lied—and never truly made his mark in the larger forms that command greater public attention. But in the realm of song, he is among the greatest inheritors of Schubert and Schumann, one who was both a traditionalist and a modernist. When the Viennese critic Eduard Hanslick disapprovingly dubbed Wolf “the Richard Wagner of the lied,” he was paying oblique homage to Wolf’s genius as a song composer in the most modern manner. In this book, Susan Youens examines five aspects of Wolf’s compositional art, each exemplifying a different synthesis of traditionalism and modernity and spanning his entire, tragically brief creative life, from his first efforts to his lapse into insanity in 1897. She discusses Wolf’s youthful imitations of Schumann, his genius for comic songs of a kind unlike any of his predecessors, his part in the ballad revival of the late nineteenth century, Wolf in relation to his contemporaries, and his pursuit of operatic fame. Youens looks as closely at the poetic texts as she does the music and includes numerous previously unpublished sketches and fragments, examples from songs now long out of print and difficult to obtain, and citations from Wolf’s vivid letters and other sources of the period.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

422

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0691265011

ISBN 13

9780691265018

Normal at Any Cost

Tall Girls, Short Boys, and the Medical Industry's Quest to Manipulate Height

By: Susan Cohen,Christine Cosgrove

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Normal at Any Cost

Tall Girls, Short Boys, and the Medical Industry's Quest to Manipulate Height

By: Susan Cohen,Christine Cosgrove

Cohen and Cosgrove present a fascinating story of medical experimentation, parental love, and the extreme measures taken to make children fit within the normal height range.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

420

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

1585426830

ISBN 13

9781585426836

THE HISTORY OF WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE - Complete 6 Volumes (Illustrated)

Everything You Need to Know about the Biggest Victory of Women's Rights and Equality in the United States – Written By the Greatest Social Activists, Abolitionists & Suffragists

By: Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Susan B. Anthony,Matilda Gage,Harriot Stanton Blatch,Ida H. Harper

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

THE HISTORY OF WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE - Complete 6 Volumes (Illustrated)

Everything You Need to Know about the Biggest Victory of Women's Rights and Equality in the United States – Written By the Greatest Social Activists, Abolitionists & Suffragists

By: Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Susan B. Anthony,Matilda Gage,Harriot Stanton Blatch,Ida H. Harper

Experience the American feminism in its core. Learn about the decades long fight, about the endurance and the strength needed to continue the battle against persistent indifference and injustice. Go back in time and get to know the founders and the followers, the characters of all the strong women involved in the movement. Find out what was the spark which started it all and kept the flame going. Learn about the organization, witness the backdoor conversations and discussions, read their personal correspondence, speeches and planned tactics. Learn about the relationship between great activists and what caused the fraction. See the movement in its full light and learn what it took to obtain most basic civil rights. Know your history! This six volumes edition covers the women's suffrage movement from 1848 to 1922. Originally envisioned as a modest publication that would take only four months to write, it evolved into a work of more than 5700 pages written over a period of 41 years and was completed in 1922, long after the deaths of its visionary authors and editors, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. However, realizing that the project was unlikely to make a profit, Anthony had already bought the rights from the other authors. As a sole owner, she published the books herself and donated many copies to libraries and people of influence. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) was an American suffragist, social reformer and women's rights activist. Harriot Stanton Blatch (1856-1940) was a suffragist and daughter of Elizabeth Stanton. Matilda Gage (1826–1898) was a suffragist, a Native American rights activist and an abolitionist. Ida H. Harper (1851–1931) was a prominent figure in the United States women's suffrage movement. She was an American author, journalist and biographer of Susan B. Anthony.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

4391

Publisher

e-artnow

Published Date

ISBN 10

8026874730

ISBN 13

9788026874737

The Stories Children Tell

Making Sense of the Narratives of Childhood

By: Susan Engel

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Stories Children Tell

Making Sense of the Narratives of Childhood

By: Susan Engel

Whether presenting their versions of real events or making up tales of adventure and discovery, children enchant us with their stories. But the value of those stories goes beyond their charm. Storytelling is an essential form through which children interpret their own experiences and communicate their view of the world. Each narrative presented by a child is a brushstroke on an evolving self-portrait - a self-portrait the child can reflect on, refer to, and revise. In The Stories Children Tell, developmental psychologist Susan Engels examines the methods and meanings of children's narratives. She offers a fascinating look at one of the most exciting areas in modern psychology and education. What is really going on when a child tells or writes a story? Engel's insights into this provocative question are drawn from the latest research findings and dozens of actual children's tales - compelling, funny, sometimes disturbing stories often of unexpected richness and beauty. In The Stories Children Tell, Susan Engel examines: - the different functions of storytelling - the way the storytelling process changes as children develop - the contributions of parents and peers to storytelling - the different types of stories children tell - the development of a child's narrative voice - the best way of nurturing a child's storytelling skills Throughout these discussions, Engel presents compelling evidence for what is perhaps her most intriguing idea: that in constructing stories, children are constructing themselves.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

269

Publisher

Macmillan + ORM

Published Date

ISBN 10

146681313X

ISBN 13

9781466813137

Discovery from Current and Former Employees

By: Susan Becker

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Discovery from Current and Former Employees

By: Susan Becker

A unique handbook for litigators that describes and anallyzes an often tricky area of discovery: dealing with the current and former employees of one's opponent. It provides overall guidance and discusses cases from all fifty states in order to point the practicing litigator in the right direction.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

394

Publisher

American Bar Association

Published Date

ISBN 10

1590314859

ISBN 13

9781590314852

The Ideology of Failed States

Why Intervention Fails

By: Susan L. Woodward

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Ideology of Failed States

Why Intervention Fails

By: Susan L. Woodward

What do we mean when we use the term 'failed states'? This book presents the origins of the term, how it shaped the conceptual framework for international development and security in the post-Cold War era, and why. The book also questions how specific international interventions on both aid and security fronts - greatly varied by actor - based on these outsiders' perceptions of state failure create conditions that fit their characterizations of failed states. Susan L. Woodward offers details of international interventions in peacebuilding, statebuilding, development assistance, and armed conflict by all these specific actors. The book analyzes the failure to re-order the international system after 1991 that the conceptual debate in the early 1990s sought - to the serious detriment of the countries labelled failed or fragile and the concept's packaging of the entire 'third world', despite its growing diversity since the mid-1980s, as one.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

327

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1316820238

ISBN 13

9781316820230

Hitler's Art Thief

Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the Looting of Europe's Treasures

By: Susan Ronald

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Hitler's Art Thief

Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the Looting of Europe's Treasures

By: Susan Ronald

The sensational story of a cache of masterpieces not seen since they vanished during the Nazi terror—a bizarre tale of a father and aged son, of secret deals, treachery and the search for truth.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

401

Publisher

Macmillan

Published Date

ISBN 10

1250061091

ISBN 13

9781250061096

The Matriarch

Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty

By: Susan Page

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Matriarch

Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty

By: Susan Page

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[The] rare biography of a public figure that's not only beautifully written, but also shockingly revelatory." -- The Atlantic A vivid biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush, one of the most influential and under-appreciated women in American political history. Barbara Pierce Bush was one of the country's most popular and powerful figures, yet her full story has never been told. THE MATRIARCH tells the riveting tale of a woman who helped define two American presidencies and an entire political era. Written by USA TODAY's Washington Bureau chief Susan Page, this biography is informed by more than one hundred interviews with Bush friends and family members, hours of conversation with Mrs. Bush herself in the final six months of her life, and access to her diaries that spanned decades. THE MATRIARCH examines not only her public persona but also less well-known aspects of her remarkable life. As a girl in Rye, New York, Barbara Bush weathered criticism of her weight from her mother, barbs that left lifelong scars. As a young wife, she coped with the death of her three-year-old daughter from leukemia, a loss that changed her forever. In middle age, she grappled with depression so serious that she contemplated suicide. And as first the wife and then the mother of American presidents, she made history as the only woman to see -- and advise -- both her husband and son in the Oval Office. As with many women of her era, Barbara Bush was routinely underestimated, her contributions often neither recognized nor acknowledged. But she became an astute and trusted political campaign strategist and a beloved First Lady. She invested herself deeply in expanding literacy programs in America, played a critical role in the end of the Cold War, and led the way in demonstrating love and compassion to those with HIV/AIDS. With her cooperation, this book offers Barbara Bush's last words for history -- on the evolution of her party, on the role of women, on Donald Trump, and on her family's legacy. Barbara Bush's accomplishments, struggles, and contributions are many. Now, Susan Page explores them all in THE MATRIARCH, a groundbreaking book certain to cement Barbara Bush as one of the most unique and influential women in American history.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

501

Publisher

Twelve

Published Date

ISBN 10

1538713659

ISBN 13

9781538713655

Rebels, Scholars, Explorers

Women in Vertebrate Paleontology

By: Annalisa Berta,Susan Turner

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Rebels, Scholars, Explorers

Women in Vertebrate Paleontology

By: Annalisa Berta,Susan Turner

Illuminating the discoveries, collections, and studies of fossil vertebrates conducted by women in vertebrate paleontology, Rebels, Scholars, Explorers will be on every paleontologist's most-wanted list and should find a broader audience in the burgeoning sector of readers from all backgrounds eager to learn about women in the sciences.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

345

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1421439700

ISBN 13

9781421439709

Canadian Maternity and Pediatric Nursing

By: Jessica Webster,Caroline Sanders,Susan Ricci,Theresa Kyle,Susan Carmen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Canadian Maternity and Pediatric Nursing

By: Jessica Webster,Caroline Sanders,Susan Ricci,Theresa Kyle,Susan Carmen

Canadian Maternity and Pediatric Nursing prepares your students for safe and effective maternity and pediatric nursing practice. The content provides the student with essential information to care for women and their families, to assist them to make the right choices safely, intelligently, and with confidence.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

3734

Publisher

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Published Date

ISBN 10

1975102061

ISBN 13

9781975102067

Art Deco and Modernist Carpets

By: Susan Day

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Art Deco and Modernist Carpets

By: Susan Day

In 1927, the critic Rene Chavance identified carpet production as the most successful of the decorative arts in achieving 'the more visionary aims of the times'. Susan Day's book, a work of original scholarship accompanied throughout by illustrations both of the carpets themselves and of contemporary interiors, demonstrates that these Art Deco carpets have lost none of their decorative power. A significant number of the carpets are shown precisely as they were meant to be seen, within the rooms for which they were made." "The fruits of the remarkable Art Deco efflorescence throughout Europe form the first part of the book. In the second, the focus turns to the reaction against the artistes-decorateurs by the champions of modernism. In France, the designs of Sonia Delaunay, Eileen Gray and Jean Lurcat evoked collage and Cubism; the Bauhaus and Scandinavia provided different influences. The fashion for abstract and modernist rugs was further stimulated by limited editions of rugs woven from works by such artists as Picasso, Klee and Miro, while in the USA, designers developed a style that was distinctly American." "This visual feast, of appeal not only to carpet collectors and textile specialists but to anyone with an interest in 20th-century design, ranges from the supremely imaginative achievements of Paul Poiret's unique weaving studio, the Ecole Martine, to the Scandinavian folk traditions of Marta Maas-Fjetterstrom, the innovations of Frank Lloyd Wright and Donald Deskey in the USA and Gunta Stolzl's handwoven carpets in Germany. The book's invaluable reference section includes detailed information on artists, manufacturers and retailers, their signatures and monograms, and a glossary and bibliography." --Book Jacket.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

232

Publisher

Chronicle Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

0811836134

ISBN 13

9780811836135

Plants and Animals of Hawaii

By: Susan Scott

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Plants and Animals of Hawaii

By: Susan Scott

A thorough treatment of the many plant and animal species found in Hawai'i.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

186

Publisher

Bess Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0935848932

ISBN 13

9780935848939

Gustav and Alma Mahler

A Research and Information Guide

By: Susan Melanie Filler

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Gustav and Alma Mahler

A Research and Information Guide

By: Susan Melanie Filler

This revised edition of Garland's 1989 publication updates the core bibliography on Gustave Mahler (as well as his spouse and fellow composer Alma Mahler) by incorporating new research gathered over the past dozen years on his life and professional works. Gustave Mahler, renowned conductor and composer of symphonies and song cycles, is one of the foremost musical figures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His symphonies continue to be widely performed and studied through the twenty-first century. Organized in sections according to subject matter, references are arranged alphabetically by the names of authors or editors. Filler’s research has produced sources for musicologists and students in nineteen languages, offering a resource that expands traditional English-language music scholarship.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

418

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

0415943884

ISBN 13

9780415943888

Core Curriculum for Maternal-Newborn Nursing E-Book

By: AWHONN,Susan Mattson,Judy E. Smith

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Core Curriculum for Maternal-Newborn Nursing E-Book

By: AWHONN,Susan Mattson,Judy E. Smith

New evidence-based practice content includes the latest research and best practice standards for maternal-newborn patient care. New National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) terminology fosters interdisciplinary communication and ensures greater accuracy and precision. New patient safety and risk management strategies help in improving outcomes, reducing complications, and increasing patient safety. New information on the latest assessment and monitoring devices describes new applications of technology and the resulting benefits to patient care.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

732

Publisher

Elsevier Health Sciences

Published Date

ISBN 10

1437737730

ISBN 13

9781437737738

Corpus Approaches to Evaluation

Phraseology and Evaluative Language

By: Susan Hunston

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Corpus Approaches to Evaluation

Phraseology and Evaluative Language

By: Susan Hunston

This book applies a set of corpus investigation techniques to the study of evaluation, or stance, or affect, in naturally-occurring discourse. Evaluative language indicates opinions, attitudes, and judgments. It is an important part of activities such as persuading someone that a particular viewpoint is correct, or in constructing knowledge from a different number of theories. This book argues that phraseology--regularities or patterns in language identifiable from corpus studies--is important to the study of evaluative language. It makes a number of more specific arguments: that modal meaning is expressed through particular phrases and not only through modal verbs; that figurative phrases are used to intensify evaluation; and that patterns of use may be exploited to achieve an automatic identification of evaluations. It also builds on the author’s previous work in exploring how films and journalism use language and images to build knowledge from ideas.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

313

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1136900446

ISBN 13

9781136900440

Cape Fear Beaches

By: Susan Taylor Block

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Cape Fear Beaches

By: Susan Taylor Block

In Cape Fear Beaches, with more than 200 rare, black-and-white photographs, you will step back into affectionate memory, when early residents slept in hammocks in precarious beach shacks, when grand buildings, such as Lumina and the Oceanic Hotel, dotted the beachscape, when road repair meant a shovelful of oyster shells to mend a pothole, and when bathing suits left almost everything to the imagination. This volume also recounts the black communitys experiences along these beaches, primarily at Seabreeze and Shell Island, and shares their personal stories and triumphs in a changing social scene, in which Reconstruction values slowly gave way to Civil Rightsera equality. Throughout the book, scenes of proud fishermen, both amateur and professional, with their daily catches, snapshots of family picnics on the beach, and photographs of friends posed with the ocean as a backdrop remind us that at the beach, the pace of life is measured not by the hands of a clock, but by the steady, changing tides.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

138

Publisher

Arcadia Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1439610746

ISBN 13

9781439610749

Grand River and Joy

By: Susan Messer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Grand River and Joy

By: Susan Messer

With unsparing candor, Susan Messer thrusts us into a time when racial tensions sundered friends and neighbors and turned families upside down. The confrontations in Grand River and Joy are complex, challenging, bitterly funny, and---painful though it is to acknowledge it---spot-on accurate." ---Rosellen Brown, author of Before and After and Half a Heart "Grand River and Joy is a rare novel of insight and inspiration. It's impossible not to like a book this well-written and meaningful---not to mention as historically significant, humorous, and meditative." ---Laura Kasischke, author of The Life Before Her Eyes and Be Mine Halloween morning 1966, Harry Levine arrives at his wholesale shoe warehouse to find an ethnic slur soaped on the front window. As he scavenges around the sprawling warehouse basement, looking for the supplies he needs to clean the window, he makes more unsettling discoveries: a stash of Black Power literature; marijuana; a new phone line running off his own; and a makeshift living room, arranged by Alvin, the teenaged tenant who lives with his father, Curtis, above the warehouse. Accustomed to sloughing off fears about Detroit's troubled inner-city neighborhood, Harry dismisses the soaped window as a Halloween prank and gradually dismantles “Alvin's lounge” in a silent conversation with the teenaged tenant. Still, these events and discoveries draw him more deeply into the frustrations and fissures permeating his city in the months leading up to the Detroit riots. Grand River and Joy, named after a landmark intersection in Detroit, follows Harry through the intersections of his life and the history of his city. It's a work of fiction set in a world that is anything but fictional, a novel about the intersections between races, classes and religions exploding in the long, hot summers of Detroit in the 1960s. Grand River and Joy is a powerful and moving exploration of one of the most difficult chapters of Michigan history. Susan Messer's fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous publications, including Glimmer Train Stories, North American Review, and Colorado Review. She received an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in prose, an Illinois Arts Council literary award for creative nonfiction, and a prize in the Jewish Cultural Writing Competition of the Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture. Cover photograph copyright © Bill Rauhauser and Rauhauser Photographic Trust

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

242

Publisher

University of Michigan Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0472022105

ISBN 13

9780472022106

The Construction of the Self

Developmental and Sociocultural Foundations

By: Susan Harter

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Construction of the Self

Developmental and Sociocultural Foundations

By: Susan Harter

An important work from a leading scholar, this book explores self-development from early childhood to adulthood. Susan Harter traces the normative stages that define the emergence of many self-processes, including self-esteem. She also addresses individual differences and societal influences on self-development. Presenting pioneering empirical research, Harter shows that increasingly mature features of the self have both benefits and liabilities for psychological adjustment. The book highlights the causes and consequences of different types of self-representations, including those that are unrealistically negative or positive. New to This Edition *Reflects more than a decade of conceptual, empirical, and methodological advances. *Provides a broader sociocultural framework for understanding self-development. *Chapters on emerging adulthood, self-esteem and physical appearance, self-processes in the classroom, motivation, cross-cultural issues, and the quest for authenticity. *Expanded chapters on childhood, adolescence, and the self-conscious emotions. *Increased attention to the liabilities of our contemporary preoccupation with the self.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

465

Publisher

Guilford Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1462502997

ISBN 13

9781462502998

Feminism, Film, Fascism

Women's Auto/biographical Film in Postwar Germany

By: Susan E. Linville

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Feminism, Film, Fascism

Women's Auto/biographical Film in Postwar Germany

By: Susan E. Linville

German society's inability and/or refusal to come to terms with its Nazi past has been analyzed in many cultural works, including the well-known books Society without the Father and The Inability to Mourn. In this pathfinding study, Susan Linville challenges the accepted wisdom of these books by focusing on a cultural realm in which mourning for the Nazi past and opposing the patriarchal and authoritarian nature of postwar German culture are central concerns—namely, women's feminist auto/biographical films of the 1970s and 1980s. After a broad survey of feminist theory, Linville analyzes five important films that reflect back on the Third Reich through the experiences of women of different ages—Marianne Rosenbaum's Peppermint Peace, Helma Sanders-Brahms's Germany, Pale Mother, Jutta Brückner's Hunger Years, Margarethe von Trotta's Marianne and Juliane, and Jeanine Meerapfel's Malou. By juxtaposing these films with the accepted theories on German culture, Linville offers a fresh appraisal not only of the films' importance but especially of their challenge to misogynist interpretations of the German failure to grieve for the horrors of its Nazi past.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

212

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0292746970

ISBN 13

9780292746978

50 Places in Rome, Florence and Venice Every Woman Should Go

Includes Budget Tips, Online Resources, & Golden Days

By: Susan Van Allen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

50 Places in Rome, Florence and Venice Every Woman Should Go

Includes Budget Tips, Online Resources, & Golden Days

By: Susan Van Allen

Following the critically acclaimed 100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go, Susan Van Allen adds new gems to her selection of the best spots for female travelers in Italy's most popular cities, (Rome, Florence, and Venice), along with enticing Golden Day itineraries to make vacation dreams come true. Like a savvy traveler girlfriend whispering in your ear, she guides readers to masterpieces where women are glorified — from Rome's Pieta to Florence's Birth of Venus, best spots for wine tasting, chocolate, and gelato, artisan shopping experiences to meet leather craftsmen or glass blowers, and places for adventures — from rolling pasta to rowing like a gondolier. Plus, there are fresh, practical tips, giving readers insider's secrets for what to pack, the best places to get their hair styled, and how to bargain for souvenirs. Whatever your mood or budget, whether it's your first or 21st visit to Italy, 50 Places in Rome, Florence, and Venice Every Woman Should Go opens the door to extraordinary experiences that fully immerse travelers in the beautiful, fascinating, and delicious pleasures of the Bel Paese.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

201

Publisher

Travelers' Tales

Published Date

ISBN 10

1609520971

ISBN 13

9781609520977

Women and the Nineteenth-Century Lied

By: Aisling Kenny,Susan Wollenberg

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Women and the Nineteenth-Century Lied

By: Aisling Kenny,Susan Wollenberg

This book bridges a gap in existing scholarship by foregrounding the contribution of women to the nineteenth-century Lied. Building on the pioneering work of scholars in recent years, it consolidates recent research on women’s achievements in the genre, and develops an alternative narrative of the Lied that embraces an understanding of the contributions of women, and of the contexts of their engagement with German song and related genres. Lieder composers including Fanny Hensel, Clara Schumann, Pauline Viardot-Garcia and Josephine Lang are considered with a stimulating variety of analytical approaches. In addition to the focus on composers associated with history and theory of the Lied, the various chapters explore the cultural and sociological background to the Lied’s musical environment, as well as engaging with gender studies and discussing performance and pedagogical contexts. The range of subject matter reflects the interdisciplinary nature of current research in the field, and the energy it generates among scholars and performers. Women and the Nineteenth-Century Lied aims to widen readers’ perception of the genre and help promote awareness of women’s contribution to nineteenth-century musical life through critical appraisal of the cultural context of the Lied, encouraging acquaintance with the voices of women composers, and the variety of their contributions to the repertoire.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

315

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1134773870

ISBN 13

9781134773879

Industrial Religion

The Saucer Pyres of the Athenian Agora

By: Susan I. Rotroff

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Industrial Religion

The Saucer Pyres of the Athenian Agora

By: Susan I. Rotroff

This study focuses on the "saucer pyres," a series of 70 deposits excavated in the residential and industrial areas bordering the Athenian Agora. Each consisted of a shallow pit, its floor sometimes marked by heavy burning, with a votive deposit of pottery and fragments of burnt bone, ash, and charcoal. Most of the pots were miniatures (including the eponymous saucers) but a few larger vessels were found, along with offerings associated with funerary cult. The deposits represent a largely Athenian phenomenon, with few parallels elsewhere. When first found in the 1930s, the deposits were interpreted as baby burials. Recent zooarchaeological analysis of the bones, however, reveals that they are the remains of sheep and goats, and that the deposits were sacrificial rather than funerary. The present study investigates the nature of those sacrifices, taking into account the contents of the pyres, their spatial distribution, and their relationship to buildings around the Agora and elsewhere. In light of a strong correlation between pyres and industrial activity, the author argues that the pyres document workplace rituals designed to protect artisans and their enterprises.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

249

Publisher

American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Published Date

ISBN 10

1621390152

ISBN 13

9781621390152

Book's by Susan Herbst

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email