Tamara Metz's Books

Untying the Knot

Marriage, the State, and the Case for Their Divorce

By: Tamara Metz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Untying the Knot

Marriage, the State, and the Case for Their Divorce

By: Tamara Metz

Marriage is at the center of one of today's fiercest political debates. Activists argue about how to define it, judges and legislators decide who should benefit from it, and scholars consider how the state should protect those who are denied it. Few, however, ask whether the state should have anything to do with marriage in the first place. In Untying the Knot, Tamara Metz addresses this crucial question, making a powerful argument that marriage, like religion, should be separated from the state. Rather than defining or conferring marriage, or relying on it to achieve legitimate public welfare goals, the state should create a narrow legal status that supports all intimate caregiving unions. Marriage itself should be bestowed by those best suited to give it the necessary ethical authority--religious groups and other kinds of communities. Divorcing the state from marriage is dictated by nothing less than basic commitments to freedom and equality. Tracing confusions about marriage to tensions at the heart of liberalism, Untying the Knot clarifies today's debates about marriage by identifying and explaining assumptions hidden in widely held positions and common practices. It shows that, as long as marriage and the state are linked, marriage will be a threat to liberalism and the state will be a threat to marriage. An important and timely rethinking of the relationship between marriage and the state, Untying the Knot will interest political theorists, legal scholars, policymakers, sociologists, and anyone else who cares about the fate of marriage or liberalism.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

217

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1400832225

ISBN 13

9781400832224

Justice, Politics, and the Family

By: Daniel Engster,Tamara Metz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Justice, Politics, and the Family

By: Daniel Engster,Tamara Metz

At a time when same-sex marriage, gay adoption, and the rise of single-parent households challenge traditional views of the family, this innovative volume helps readers put such issues into social and legal perspective. Engster and Metz bring together essential readings in political and legal theory and organise them to illuminate pressing contemporary debates on the family: gender and justice, parents and children, the state and globalisation. Justice, Politics, and the Family is an engaging and a diverse addition to the area of critical legal theory and sociology.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

320

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317257103

ISBN 13

9781317257103

Building Meaning

An Architecture Studio Primer on Design, Theory, and History

By: Tamara Metz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Building Meaning

An Architecture Studio Primer on Design, Theory, and History

By: Tamara Metz

Building Meaning: An Architecture Studio Primer on Design, Theory, and History is an essential introduction to the complex relationship between form making, historical analysis, and conceptual explorations. This book focuses on the relationship and interdependence between design, theory, and history for an innovative and holistic studio approach. Rather than suggest a singular narrative, this book draws from a diverse range of thinkers and designers to highlight the many interpretations of key architectural concepts, and provides readers with the context essential for developing their own approaches to any design problem. Building Meaning is organized to reflect the typical studio process, with stand-alone chapters that provide flexibility for use at any stage of design. The ideal book for beginning and intermediate architecture students, it gives specific methods to apply in the studio to make the most of the design process, as well as focused exercises to creatively explore each concept presented. Illustrated with more than 250 color images, it enables readers to engage and understand critically the genesis of architectural ideas and their role in our social and cultural experience.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

374

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000505995

ISBN 13

9781000505993

Michelangelo in the New Millennium

Conversations about Artistic Practice, Patronage and Christianity

By: Tamara Smithers

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Michelangelo in the New Millennium

Conversations about Artistic Practice, Patronage and Christianity

By: Tamara Smithers

Michelangelo in the New Millennium presents six paired studies in dialogue with each other that offer new ways of looking at Michelangelo’s art as a series of social, creative, and emotional exchanges where artistic intention remains flexible; probe deeper into the artist’s formal borrowing and how it affects meaning regarding his early religious works; and consider the making and significance of his late papal painting projects commissioned by Paul III and Paul IV for chapels at the Vatican Palace. Contributors are: William E. Wallace, Joost Keizer, Eric R. Hupe, Emily Fenichel, Jonathan Kline, Erin Sutherland Minter, Margaret Kuntz, Tamara Smithers and Marcia B. Hall

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

262

Publisher

BRILL

Published Date

ISBN 10

900431363X

ISBN 13

9789004313637

Victorian Narratives of Failed Emigration

Settlers, Returnees, and Nineteenth-Century Literature in English

By: Tamara S Wagner

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Victorian Narratives of Failed Emigration

Settlers, Returnees, and Nineteenth-Century Literature in English

By: Tamara S Wagner

In her study of the unsuccessful nineteenth-century emigrant, Tamara S. Wagner argues that failed emigration and return drive nineteenth-century writing in English in unexpected, culturally revealing ways. Wagner highlights the hitherto unexplored subgenre of anti-emigration writing that emerged as an important counter-current to a pervasive emigration propaganda machine that was pressing popular fiction into its service. The exportation of characters at the end of a novel indisputably formed a convenient narrative solution that at once mirrored and exaggerated public policies about so-called 'superfluous' or 'redundant' parts of society. Yet the very convenience of such pat endings was increasingly called into question. New starts overseas might not be so easily realizable; emigration destinations failed to live up to the inflated promises of pro-emigration rhetoric; the 'unwanted' might make a surprising reappearance. Wagner juxtaposes representations of emigration in the works of Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Frances Trollope, and Charlotte Yonge with Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian settler fiction by Elizabeth Murray, Clara Cheeseman, and Susanna Moodie, offering a new literary history not just of nineteenth-century migration, but also of transoceanic exchanges and genre formation.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

296

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317002172

ISBN 13

9781317002178

Pagan and Witch Elders of the World

Past and Present

By: Tamara Von Forslun

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Pagan and Witch Elders of the World

Past and Present

By: Tamara Von Forslun

The Pagan or Witch Elder is a leader who has lead by example, and teaches their wisdom to those that will listen, they have cleared the path for those to follow. We must remember and know who these Spiritual and Magical Warriors were and are, some who are still fighting in the world for our acceptance and understanding. This book is filled with hundreds of Elders (some known and some not well known) who stood tall and fought the establishment with compassion and strength, endurance and wisdom, courage, and determination, to share an ancient knowledge that has been awakened by them in the 21st century. I write this book so that our Pagan community remembers and knows who these brave Spiritual Earth Warriors were and are, and what they have given, sacrificed, and shared for the future of our world. This book is to honour all our Elders, so they are never forgotten and always honoured. MERRY WE MEET, MERRY WE PART, AND MERRY WE MEET AGAIN!

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

365

Publisher

Xlibris Corporation

Published Date

ISBN 10

1984507257

ISBN 13

9781984507259

Untying the Knot

Marriage, the State, and the Case for Their Divorce

By: Tamara Metz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Untying the Knot

Marriage, the State, and the Case for Their Divorce

By: Tamara Metz

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

217

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1400832225

ISBN 13

9781400832224

Handbook of Minority Aging

By: Keith E. Whitfield, PhD,Tamara A. Baker, PhD

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Handbook of Minority Aging

By: Keith E. Whitfield, PhD,Tamara A. Baker, PhD

The array of topics covered is amazing, making this book a valuable, significant resource for many disciplines...This multidisciplinary review of the literature on minority aging presents the scholarship related to public health and 'social, behavioral, and biological concerns' of aged minorities like no other publication. Graduate students will certainly be well-served by this book, as would faculty teaching aging at both undergraduate and graduate levels...Highly recommended."--Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries "...while practitioners of gerontology, family medicine, and any professional involved in the care of the elderly will find some practical guidance in the second part of the book, it will really earn a place on the bookshelf of anyone and everyone with an interest in US sociology and the development of public policy for the elderly. With the general aging of the population and the book’s accentuation of current issues, this outstanding review will become an indispensable tool."Healthy Aging Research This text provides up-to-date, multidisciplinary, and comprehensive information about aging among diverse racial and ethnic populations in the United States. It is the only book to focus on paramount public health issues as they relate to older minority Americans, and addresses social, behavioral, and biological concerns for this population. The text distills the most important advances in the science of minority aging and incorporates the evidence of scholars in gerontology, anthropology, psychology, public health, sociology, social work, biology, medicine, and nursing. Additionally, the book incorporates the work of both established and emerging scholars to provide the broadest possible knowledge base on the needs of and concerns for this rapidly growing population. Chapters focus on subject areas that are recognized as being critical in understanding the well being of minority elders. These include sociology (Medicare, SES, work and retirement, social networks, context/neighborhood, ethnography, gender, demographics), psychology (cognition, stress, mental health, personality, sexuality, religion, neuroscience, discrimination), medicine/nursing/public health (mortality and morbidity, disability, health disparities, long-term care, genetics, dietary issues, health interventions, physical functioning), social work (caregiving, housing, social services, end-of-life care), and many other topics. The book focuses on the needs of four major ethnic groups: Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic/Latino, African American, and Native American. Key Features: Provides current, comprehensive information about minority aging through a multidisciplinary lens Integrates information from scholars in gerontology, anthropology, psychology, public health, sociology, social work, biology, medicine, and nursing Emphasizes the principal public health issues concerning minority elders Offers “one-stop shopping” regarding the development of a substantial knowledge base about minority aging Includes recent progressive research pertaining to the social, cultural, psychological and health needs of elderly minority adults in the US

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

589

Publisher

Springer Publishing Company

Published Date

ISBN 10

0826109640

ISBN 13

9780826109644

Envisioning Family

A photographer's guide to making meaningful portraits of the modern family

By: Tamara Lackey

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Envisioning Family

A photographer's guide to making meaningful portraits of the modern family

By: Tamara Lackey

FAMILY – A small word with powerful meaning. Most of us trace the roots of our own personal identity back to our experience of being part of a family. The definition of what a family is can vary widely, but most family photography is anything but varied. We are used to the basic posing of a group, assembled and smiling like they never do in real life. This doesn't offer much visual or emotional impact. Create an image that captures the spirit of a family – as well as the individualism of the members – and you start at a magical place. That family now feels something when they view the photograph. In Tamara Lackey's Envisioning Family: A photographer's guide to making meaningful portraits of the modern family, Lackey reinvents the family photo for photographers. A top portrait photographer and sought-after speaker, Lackey reveals her techniques for getting each member of the family to feel at home in front of the camera – whether they're in her studio, at home, or on location. With this book you'll learn how to use backgrounds that complement your subjects, set up and shoot in-studio, light your images anywhere with straightforward lighting setups and diagrams, pose your subjects in a beautiful but natural way, nail your exposure, and create meaningful family portraits that leave everyone feeling and looking their honest best. For professional portrait photographers looking to inject some new vitality into their work or aspiring family photographers who would like to take more authentic images, this guide will help capture the modern family.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

550

Publisher

New Riders

Published Date

ISBN 10

0132853108

ISBN 13

9780132853101

Ecclesial Boundaries and National Identity in the Orthodox Church

By: Tamara Grdzelidze

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Ecclesial Boundaries and National Identity in the Orthodox Church

By: Tamara Grdzelidze

Grdzelidze’s study evaluates the present state of ecclesiology in the Orthodox Church, focusing on the history of autocephaly and its relationship with the rise of religious nationalism. To date, the Orthodox Church has not sufficiently addressed the pressing problem of religious nationalism. Tamara Grdzelidze’s Ecclesial Boundaries and National Identity in the Orthodox Church fills this lacuna, offering a solution to the ecclesiological problems posed by the rise of group-related sentiment in Orthodox communities. Grdzelidze’s monograph begins with an examination of the history of autocephaly and synodality in the Orthodox Church. As she explains, the political autonomy of local churches in the Eastern Roman Empire, which was later transformed into autocephaly, instinctively carried the kernel of group-related sentiments, whether national or ethnic. Over time, such sentiments have given rise to religious nationalism, which has further resulted in the inability of autocephalous churches to disengage from their national political involvements. Consequently, Orthodox Churches are unable to conduct a conversation on the hermeneutics of authority. After sketching this historical background, Grdzelidze offers a solution to this ecclesiological problem, proposing a eucharistic hermeneutics by which the concepts of autocephaly and synodality might be preserved from misappropriation by religious nationalists. This proposal is centered on the principle that the Church represents the Body of Christ and thus embraces the whole people of God and the whole of God’s creation through the sacramental life. Ultimately, this eucharistic mode of visioning the Church furnishes a solution to the crisis of borders and boundaries in the Orthodox Church.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

328

Publisher

University of Notre Dame Pess

Published Date

ISBN 10

0268204977

ISBN 13

9780268204976

Western European Illuminated Manuscripts

By: Anrdei Sterligov,Tamara Voronova

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Western European Illuminated Manuscripts

By: Anrdei Sterligov,Tamara Voronova

Anyone fortunate enough to have actually held a medieval manuscript in his hands must have felt excited at this immediate contact with the past. Both famous and unknown authors wrote philosophical, natural scientific and theological treatises, romances about knights and courtly love; humanists and theologists translated and commented upon the classical literature of antiquity; travellers wrote descriptions of their incredible journeys; and ascetic chroniclers recorded and kept alive the historic events of their times for future generations.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

739

Publisher

Parkstone International

Published Date

ISBN 10

1644617943

ISBN 13

9781644617946

The Ancient Egyptian Daybook (PB)

By: Tamara L. Siuda

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Ancient Egyptian Daybook (PB)

By: Tamara L. Siuda

The history and use of the ancient Egyptian calendar: holidays, festivals, religious observances, the gods of every day of the year, and more. Translated from hieroglyphic sources by Tamara L. Siuda and richly illustrated by Megan Zane.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

362

Publisher

Lulu.com

Published Date

ISBN 10

1365587878

ISBN 13

9781365587870

Illuminated Manuscripts 120 illustrations

By: Tamara Woronowa,Andrej Sterligow

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Illuminated Manuscripts 120 illustrations

By: Tamara Woronowa,Andrej Sterligow

Those who have had the chance to hold a medieval manuscript in their hands cannot fail to have been impressed by the feeling of being in touch with a long-passed epoch. Back when a book was a true handicraft and every copy the result of a laborious process, the object was more a work of art than a volatile commercial product. The Mega Square Illuminated Manuscripts puts the reader in touch with amazing medieval illustrations and unique adornments, which document the imaginative power of their creators.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

260

Publisher

Parkstone International

Published Date

ISBN 10

1781608652

ISBN 13

9781781608654

Encyclopedia of the Divine Feminine

Goddess of 10,000 Names

By: Tamara Von Forslun

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Encyclopedia of the Divine Feminine

Goddess of 10,000 Names

By: Tamara Von Forslun

No matter what land, culture, country or faith, the Goddess is alive and well and attracting not only women to Her many paths and Her Mysteries but also men who have realised and awakened the feminine within and without as needed in this time of great uncertainty. It is time not to suppress the feminine, but Empower Her, so the world can see the true beauty in everything that She stands for and represents. She is not separate from the world, She is the world, and everything has a little light of the Goddess within them if they only take off their blinkers and let Her shine forth. Let us all now honour the Great Mother and in this great hour of need for a Mother, let us honour all Mothers throughout women’s forgotten past and listen to Her-story not his-story. It is the Patriarchal religions of the world that have created a world of uncertainty, imbalance, and fear. Let us NOW through the Divine Feminine remove the imbalance of the patriarchal warring world and assist our own community in EMPOWERING women and men to awaken to a world of harmony, peace and equilibrium, The Golden Age of Harmony and Equilibrium is NOW!. Let us as a sisterhood, daughters, nieces, sisters, mothers, grandmothers and all women and men under the Light of the Goddess in all Her cultures, names, and differences awaken Her to our world, and through us let Her shine. In honouring the Great Mother we shall spread Her love and honour all Mothers, all women of every faith, culture, and path. “May The Goddess hold you gently in the palms of Her hands, And always close to Her heart!” Lady Tamara Von Forslun Elder High Priestess of the Clan of Boskednan – Tribe of the Crow

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

390

Publisher

Xlibris Corporation

Published Date

ISBN 10

1664105697

ISBN 13

9781664105690

The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory

Alexandre Brongniart and the Triumph of Art and Industry, 1800-1847

By: Beatrice Pannequin,Tamara Préaud,Karole Bezut,Antoine D'Albis,Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts,Laurie Dahlberg,Anne Lajoix,Sylvie Millasseau

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory

Alexandre Brongniart and the Triumph of Art and Industry, 1800-1847

By: Beatrice Pannequin,Tamara Préaud,Karole Bezut,Antoine D'Albis,Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts,Laurie Dahlberg,Anne Lajoix,Sylvie Millasseau

The tumultuous years of the French Revolution left France’s prestigious decorative arts industries poised on the brink of ruin. It was not until after the fall of the monarchy and the ascendancy of the Consulat and Empire under Napoleon that they began to recover so that by the middle of the nineteenth century they stood at the pinnacle of their achievement. This book is the first in depth study of the renowned porcelain works at Sèvres during its virtual rebirth under the 47 year direction of the scientist, teacher, and administrator Alexandre Brongniart. Some 110 working drawings from the Sèvres Archive are reproduced here for the first time in color. They celebrate the high skill of the artists whose work often documented contemporary events in France. There are table services in the 'Egyptian' and 'Etruscan' taste as well as individual pieces that recall Napoleonic military campaigns. There are also exquisite Neoclassical decorations using motifs such as birds, butterflies, and insects that reflect the century’s early fascination with the natural sciences. The repertoire of nineteenth century eclecticism is evident in the output of Sèvres from the revival of Gothic and renaissance motifs to the outburst of naturalism. Eleven essays by leading authorities assess this dynamic period.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

431

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0300073380

ISBN 13

9780300073386

Program Your Baby's Health

The Pregnancy Diet for Your Child's Lifelong Well-Being

By: Barbara Luke,Tamara Eberlein

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Program Your Baby's Health

The Pregnancy Diet for Your Child's Lifelong Well-Being

By: Barbara Luke,Tamara Eberlein

The most important period of your child's health is the nine months before birth. Cutting edge research in a new field known as "metabolic programming" reveals a startling new fact: what a mother eats during pregnancy has a far greater effect on her child's future development, overall health, and resistance to disease than was previously thought. In fact, adult chronic illnesses long blamed on an unhealthy lifestyle or genetic influences are now believed to be a direct result of the uterine environment during pregnancy. Now, thanks to this pioneering new book, you can "program" your baby's future health by eating right, gaining the appropriate amount of weight, and avoiding toxins--starting even before conceiving. Dr. Barbara Luke, a nationally recognized expert in the field of public-health nutrition, provides a complete, practical nutrition and lifestyle program that covers your entire pregnancy, month by month--and the first two years of your baby's life. Here is everything you need to know to raise the healthiest baby possible, including: - What to eat when you're trying to conceive and when you are pregnant - Practical strategies that protect your child against hypertension, diabetes, and obesity - Special dietary needs for women in every age group, from under 25 to over 40 - Quick, easy menus, helpful charts, and checklists - Replenishing fluids: how much do you need to drink? - The nutritional needs of mothers carrying twins or "super-twins" - New strategies for overcoming morning sickness - Helping your growing child eat right and stay healthy Pregnancy is your window of opportunity to boost your baby's health at birth, through childhood, and beyond. Let this book help you take the most advanced, scientific approach to preventing disease and optimizing health!

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

436

Publisher

Wellspring/Ballantine

Published Date

ISBN 10

0345441990

ISBN 13

9780345441997

Building Meaning

An Architecture Studio Primer on Design, Theory, and History

By: Tamara Metz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Building Meaning

An Architecture Studio Primer on Design, Theory, and History

By: Tamara Metz

Introduction 1. Context 2. Inhabitation 3. Building Organization 4. Form 5. Nature 6. Tectonics and Materiality 7. Representation 8. Design Methodologies

Average ratings

N/A