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Publication Date: 2021
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Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities offers a course on programming without prerequisites. It covers both the essentials of computing and the main areas in which computing applies to the arts and humanities--
Publication Date: 2020
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Exposition is the first in a triptych of books by the award-winning writer and archivist Nathalie Léger that includes Suite for Barbara Loden and The White Dress. In each, Léger sets the story of a female artist against the background of her own life and research--an archivist's journey into the self, into the lives that history hides from us.
Publication Date: 2024
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Fashion, Disability and Co-design shows how collaborative, inclusive design techniques can produce garments and accessories that increase social inclusion for people with disabilities. Grace Jun outlines practical techniques to help designers create their own inclusive collections, with detailed examples from interviews with professionals. 14 illustrated case studies show how engagement with disability communities to co-design adaptive clothing and accessories can lead to functional, wearable solutions for people of all abilities without compromising style--
Publication Date: 2024
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A sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies It has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and men do other things. Hasn't it always been so? When evolutionary science came along, it rubber-stamped this venerable division of labor: mammalian males evolved to compete for status and mates, while females were purpose-built to gestate, suckle, and otherwise nurture the victors' offspring. But come the twenty-first century, increasing numbers of men are tending babies, sometimes right from birth.
Publication Date: 2019
Publication Date: 2023
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The United States is currently home to six generations of people: -the Silents, born 1925-1945; -Baby Boomers, born 1946-1964; -Gen X, born 1965-1979; -Millennials, born 1980-1994; -Gen Z, born 1995-2012; -and the still-to-be-named cohorts born after 2012. They have had vastly different life experiences and thus, one assumes, they must have vastly diverging beliefs and behaviors. But what are those differences, what causes them, and how deep do they actually run?
Publication Date: 2024
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Why do religious militants think their actions are right or righteous? What keeps me from acting like them? Why do some religious persons act on their beliefs in charitable, inspiring and deeply humane ways? Is secularism the solution to religious violence, or is it part of the problem? This Element explores the vexed issue of violence done in the name of God, looking at the topic through the lens of peace and conflict studies, religious studies and historical studies.
Publication Date: 2024
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Good Guys, Bad Guys: The Perils of Men's Gender Activism explores questions of masculinity, privilege, and identity to explain why some men become feminists while others become men's rights activists. The surprising similarities between these groups of men reveal why men's feminist allyship is not enough to solve gender inequality--
Publication Date: 2010
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Composed entirely of specially commissioned chapters by some of the outstanding scholars in medical sociology, this edition reflects important changes in the study of health and illness.
Publication Date: 2017
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Voici une histoire de France, de toute la France, en très longue durée. Une histoire qui mène de la grotte Chauvet aux événements de 2015, sans s'embarrasser de la question des origines. Une histoire qui prend au large le destin d'un pays qui n'existe pas séparément du monde, même si parfois il prétend l'incarner tout entier. Une histoire qui n'abandonne pas pour autant la chronologie ni le plaisir du récit, puisque c'est par dates qu'elle s'organise et que chaque date est traitée comme une petite intrigue.
Publication Date: 2014
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Shlomo Sand was born in 1946, in a displaced person's camp in Austria, to a Jewish mother and non-Jewish father; the family later migrated to Palestine. As a young man, Sand came to question his Jewish identity, even that of a secular Jew. With this meditative and thoughtful mixture of essay and personal recollection, he articulates the problems at the center of modern Jewish identity. How I Stopped Being a Jew discusses the negative effects of the Israeli exploitation of the chosen people myth and its holocaust industry.
Publication Date: 2021
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In this witty how-to guide, Wisława Szymborska has nothing but sympathy for the labors of would-be writers generally: I myself started out with rotten poetry and stories, she confesses in this collection of pieces culled from the advice she gave-anonymously-for many years in the well-known Polish journal Literary Life. She returns time and again to the mundane business of writing poetry properly, that is to say, painstakingly and sparingly. I sigh to be a poet, Miss A. P. from Bialogard exclaims. I groan to be an editor, Szymborska responds.
Publication Date: 1977
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Numerous references to various aspects of Aboriginal physical anthropology based on secondary sources.
Publication Date: 2024
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Cognitive dissonance is a historical amnesia caused by the falsification of history, epistemicides and cultural genocides, manifests in forms of inferiority complex, self-hate, and self-alienation of the black people and the sense of superiority as natural to the white race. It manifests in dichotomy, affects both white race and black people, it can be called coloniality of being. Therefore this situation led to racism, exploitations, political nihilism, exploitation of woman, oppression of the margins therefore the need to confront cognitive dissonance.
Publication Date: 2023
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A picture book celebrating both the highs and lows that everyone experiences in the course of a life.
Publication Date: 2021
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With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of an entire century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of an ordinary family that somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century. The family's pursuit of a quiet, civilized, ordinary life--during such atrocious times--is itself a strange odyssey. In dialogue with thinkers like Roland Barthes, W. G.
Publication Date: 2024
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Institutional Racism investigates the factors that created and maintain institutional racism through exploring the role of epistemicide, white frames, and white privilege in sustaining the illusionary status of equality and justice in a perpetrator perspective of institutional racism. The book uses critical race theory, post colonialism and insidious trauma to reveal a victim perspective that documents the cumulative psychological and physical harms of institutional racism.
Publication Date: 2024
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Insurrection offers a profound and incisive analysis of the underlying factors that culminated in the assault on Washington's Capitol on that fateful day in January 2021. Going far beyond journalistic accounts, this book delves into structural trends within the United States, providing a broader and deeper context for comprehending the magnitude for the uprising. It explores the crisis of democracy, escalating violence, widening inequality, and the prominence of conspiratorial discourse within American politics.
Publication Date: 2022
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Intercultural Communication : Globalization and Social Justice, Third Edition, introduces students to the study of communication among cultures within the broader context of globalization. Kathryn Sorrells highlights history, power, and global institutions as central to understanding the relationships and contexts that shape intercultural communication. Based on a framework that promotes critical thinking, reflection, and action, this text takes a social justice approach that provides students with the skills and knowledge to create a more equitable world through communication.--
Publication Date: 2022
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Around the turn of the nineteenth century, a steady stream of young German poets and thinkers coursed to the town of Jena to make history. The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars had dealt a one-two punch to the dynastic system. Confidence in traditional social, political, and religious norms had been replaced by a profound uncertainty that was as terrifying for some as it was exhilarating for others.
Publication Date: 2023
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Jovita didn't want to cook and clean like her sisters, and she especially didn't want to wear the skirts her abuela gave her. She wanted to race her brothers and climb the tallest mesquite trees in Rancho Palos Blancos, ride horses, and wear pants! When her father and brothers joined the Cristeros War to fight for the right to practice religion, she wanted to help. She wasn't allowed to fight, but that didn't stop her from observing how her father strategized and familiarizing herself with the terrain.
Publication Date: 2024
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The making of fashionable women's dress in Georgian England necessitated an inordinate amount of manual labour. From the mantuamakers and seamstresses who wrought lengths of silk and linen into garments, to the artists and engravers who disseminated and immortalised the resulting outfits in print and on paper, Georgian garments were the products of many busy hands. This Element centres the sartorial hand as a point of connection across the trades which generated fashionable dress in the eighteenth century.
Publication Date: 2024
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This book investigates a fundamental tension in Hasidic studies: How did a religious movement known to be radical in its views about God, revelation, and personal religiosity simultaneously produce commitment to the structures and obligations of Jewish law? Exploring the movement from its emergence in the mid-1700s until 1815, Ariel Evan Mayse argues that nomos, eros, and mystical piety merged in Hasidism to produce a daring and highly original theory of the commandments and their significance.
Publication Date: 2020
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In the wake of white nationalist attacks, the ongoing debate over reparations, and the controversy surrounding Confederate monuments and the contested memories they evoke, Susan Neiman's Learning from the Germans delivers an urgently needed perspective on how a country can come to terms with its historical wrongdoings. Neiman is a white woman who came of age in the civil rights-era South and a Jewish woman who has spent much of her adult life in Berlin.
