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An Ordinary Future

Margaret Mead, the Problem of Disability, and a Child Born Different

By: Thomas W Pearson

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An Ordinary Future

Margaret Mead, the Problem of Disability, and a Child Born Different

By: Thomas W Pearson

This vivid portrait of contemporary parenting blends memoir and cultural analysis to explore evolving ideas of disability and human difference. An Ordinary Future is a deeply moving work that weaves an account of Margaret Mead's path to disability rights activism with one anthropologist's experience as the parent of a child with Down syndrome. With this book, Thomas W. Pearson confronts the dominant ideas, disturbing contradictions, and dramatic transformations that have shaped our perspectives on disability over the last century. Pearson examines his family's story through the lens of Mead's evolving relationship to disability—a topic once so stigmatized that she advised Erik Erikson to institutionalize his son, born with Down syndrome in 1944. Over the course of her career, Mead would become an advocate for disability rights and call on anthropology to embrace a wider understanding of humanity that values diverse bodies and minds. Powerful and personal, An Ordinary Future reveals why this call is still relevant in the ongoing fight for disability justice and inclusion, while shedding light on the history of Down syndrome and how we raise children born different.

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221

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Univ of California Press

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0520388291

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9780520388291

Analysis of Categorical Data with R

By: Christopher R. Bilder,Thomas M. Loughin

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Analysis of Categorical Data with R

By: Christopher R. Bilder,Thomas M. Loughin

Analysis of Categorical Data with R, Second Edition presents a modern account of categorical data analysis using the R software environment. It covers recent techniques of model building and assessment for binary, multicategory, and count response variables and discusses fundamentals, such as odds ratio and probability estimation. The authors give detailed advice and guidelines on which procedures to use and why to use them. The second edition is a substantial update of the first based on the authors’ experiences of teaching from the book for nearly a decade. The book is organized as before, but with new content throughout, and there are two new substantive topics in the advanced topics chapter—group testing and splines. The computing has been completely updated, with the "emmeans" package now integrated into the book. The examples have also been updated, notably to include new examples based on COVID-19, and there are more than 90 new exercises in the book. The solutions manual and teaching videos have also been updated. Features: Requires no prior experience with R, and offers an introduction to the essential features and functions of R Includes numerous examples from medicine, psychology, sports, ecology, and many other areas Integrates extensive R code and output Graphically demonstrates many of the features and properties of various analysis methods Offers a substantial number of exercises in all chapters, enabling use as a course text or for self-study Supplemented by a website with data sets, code, and teaching videos Analysis of Categorical Data with R, Second Edition is primarily designed for a course on categorical data analysis taught at the advanced undergraduate or graduate level. Such a course could be taught in a statistics or biostatistics department, or within mathematics, psychology, social science, ecology, or another quantitative discipline. It could also be used by a self-learner and would make an ideal reference for a researcher from any discipline where categorical data arise.

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1029

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CRC Press

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1040087760

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9781040087763

Schizophrenia: Human and Animal Studies

By: Thomas W. Weickert,Dorota Frydecka

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Schizophrenia: Human and Animal Studies

By: Thomas W. Weickert,Dorota Frydecka

This volume contains research articles and reviews describing behavioral, cognitive, computational, genetic, and pharmacological studies of schizophrenia. Articles will include reports on the latest research on neural substrates of positive, negative, and cognitive symptoms in schizophrenia; computational theory; behavioral neurogenetic, and neuropsychological studies of schizophrenia. We also welcome research articles reporting effects of medications, including antipsychotics, on schizophrenia symptoms and behavior.

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244

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Frontiers Media SA

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2889763536

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9782889763535

The Places of God in an Age of Re-Embodiments

What is Culture?

By: Ruth Thomas-Pellicer

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The Places of God in an Age of Re-Embodiments

What is Culture?

By: Ruth Thomas-Pellicer

In an age of ecological decay, Western ontological and epistemological assumptions have to be revisited. This book offers such a revision. It opens with a critical analysis of the paradigm of sustainable development and problematically situates it within the ecocidal trajectory of Western metaphysics. In search of some tools for examining the ecological conundrum, the book develops a pool of new categories of knowledge called “transpositions”. Though of cross-disciplinary nature, this work must be situated within the tradition of the post-Kantian critique of reason. To develop its own framework of analysis, it relies heavily upon Nietzsche’s oeuvre and that of part of his entourage (including Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, and Plotnitsky). Major inputs also come from the work of the ecophilosopher of science Patrick Curry and ecofeminism at large. It will appeal to students and established scholars in environmental studies, ecology and philosophy.

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392

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443893730

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9781443893732

From Jazz to Swing

African-American Jazz Musicians and Their Music, 1890-1935

By: Thomas J. Hennessey

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From Jazz to Swing

African-American Jazz Musicians and Their Music, 1890-1935

By: Thomas J. Hennessey

Black jazz musicians transformed their art - a series of regional musics - into America's most popular music. From Jazz to Swing examines the historical context of jazz within the changing situation of the African-American community and notes the tensions created by the structures of segregation, stereotypes, and prejudice. Making use of the files of African-American newspapers, such as the Chicago Defender, as well as published and archival oral history interviews, Thomas Hennessey explores the contradictions that musicians often faced as African Americans, as trained professional musicians, and as the products of differing regional experiences. From Jazz to Swing follows jazz from its beginnings in the regional black musics of the turn of the century in New Orleans, Chicago, New York, and the territories that make up the rest of the country. Superstars of jazz such as Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins, and Duke Ellington come to life, as do James Reese Europe, King Oliver, Don Redman, Fletcher Henderson, and others.

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228

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Wayne State University Press

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0814321798

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9780814321799

Revolutionary Economies

What Archaeology Reveals about the Birth of American Capitalism

By: Thomas W. Cuddy

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Revolutionary Economies

What Archaeology Reveals about the Birth of American Capitalism

By: Thomas W. Cuddy

Revolutionary Economies explores the roots of American capitalism through the archaeology and history of the Chesapeake Bay region. Thomas W. Cuddy looks at the archaeological evidence concerning revolutionary-period bakeries and bakers (some of whom had been students of Adam Smith in Scotland) in Annapolis, Maryland and Alexandria, Virginia to examine the development of local production systems that characterized these important early American urban centers. Revolutionary Economies charts the stages of production from household manufacturing to larger workshops to mechanized factories and opens a window on the country's economic history. The volume's blend of archaeology, history, and economics makes it a prototypical study in historical archaeology.

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