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Author : Nick Tosches
Publisher : Saint Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 9780312357160
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (571 download)
Download or read book Hall and Oates written by Nick Tosches and published by Saint Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth J. Gergen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195305388
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Relational Being written by Kenneth J. Gergen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book builds on two current developments in psychology scholarship and practice. The first centers on broad discontent with the individualist tradition in which the rational agent, or autonomous self, is considered the fundamental atom of social life. Critique of individualism spring not only from psychologists working in the academy, but also from communities of therapy and counseling. The second, and related development from which this work builds, is the search for alternatives to individualist understanding. Thus, therapists such as Steve Mitchell, along with feminists at the Stone Center, expand the psychoanalytic tradition to include a relational orientation to therapy.The present volume will give voice to the critique of individualism, but its major thrust is to develop and illustrate a far more radical and potentially exciting landscape of relational thought and practice that now exists. Most existing attempts to build a relational foundation remain committed to a residual form of individualist psychology. The present work carves out a space of understanding in which relational process stands prior to the very concept of the individual. More broadly, the book attempts to develop a thoroughgoing relational account of human activity. In doing so, Gergen reconstitutes 'the mind' as a manifestation of relationships and bears out these ideas in a range of everyday professional practices, including family therapy, collaborative classrooms, and organizational psychology.
Author : Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805057232
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (572 download)
Download or read book Dancing in the Streets written by Barbara Ehrenreich and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a bestselling social commentator and cultural historian comes a fascinating exploration of one of humanity's oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing.
Author : Conn Iggulden
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062874977
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)
Download or read book The Dangerous Book for Boys written by Conn Iggulden and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling book—more than 1.5 million copies sold—for every boy from eight to eighty, covering essential boyhood skills such as building tree houses*, learning how to fish, finding true north, and even answering the age old question of what the big deal with girls is—now a Prime Original Series created by Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Greg Mottola (Superbad). In this digital age, there is still a place for knots, skimming stones and stories of incredible courage. This book recaptures Sunday afternoons, stimulates curiosity, and makes for great father-son activities. The brothers Conn and Hal have put together a wonderful collection of all things that make being young or young at heart fun—building go-carts and electromagnets, identifying insects and spiders, and flying the world's best paper airplanes. Skills covered include: The Greatest Paper Airplane in the World The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World The Five Knots Every Boy Should Know Stickball Slingshots Fossils Building a Treehouse* Making a Bow and Arrow Fishing (revised with US Fish) Timers and Tripwires Baseball's "Most Valuable Players" Famous Battles-Including Lexington and Concord, The Alamo, and Gettysburg Spies-Codes and Ciphers Making a Go-Cart Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary Girls Cloud Formations The States of the U.S. Mountains of the U.S. Navigation The Declaration of Independence Skimming Stones Making a Periscope The Ten Commandments Common US Trees Timeline of American History *For more information on building treehouses, visit www.treehouse-books.com and www.stilesdesigns.com or see “Treehouses You Can Actually Build” by David Stiles.
Author : Franca Tamisari
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1805392417
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Enacted Relations written by Franca Tamisari and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2024-01-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Yolngu Indigenous people in the Northeast Arnhem Land of Australia respond to neo-colonial challenges by continuing to affirm their political autonomy and transmit ‘Yolngu Law’, which are ways of knowing and being with the younger generation. They deal with non-indigenous institutions, through participation of bodies, language, things, images of movement and notions of mutual care, feelings and accountability. This book explores the Yolngu relational ontology and epistemology in the context of everyday practices, ritual ceremonies, bicultural education, vernacular Christianity and the production of popular music.
Author : Rae Beth Gordon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351946420
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Dances with Darwin, 1875–1910 written by Rae Beth Gordon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the extraordinary influence of Darwin's theory of evolution on French thought from 1875 to 1910, Rae Beth Gordon argues for a reconsideration of modernism both in time and in place that situates its beginnings in the French café-concert aesthetic. Gordon weaves the history of medical science, ethnology, and popular culture into a groundbreaking exploration of the cultural implications of gesture in dance performances at late-nineteenth-century Parisian café-concerts and music halls. While art historians have studied the ties between primitivism and modernism, their convergence in fin-de-siècle popular entertainment has been largely overlooked. Gordon argues that while the impact of Darwinism was unprecedented in science, it was no less present in popular culture through the popular press and popular entertainment, where it constituted a kind of "evolutionist aesthetic" on display in the café-concert, circus, and music-hall as well as in the spectator's reception of the representations on the stage. Modernity in these sites, Gordon contends, was composed by the convergence of contemporary medical theory with representations of the primitive, staged in entertainments that ranged from the can-can, Missing Links, and epileptic singers to the Cake-Walk. Her anthropology of gesture uncovers in these dislocations of the human form an aesthetic of disorder a half century before the eruptions of Dada and Surrealism.
Author : Frank Hoffmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135839638
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Rock Music in American Popular Culture written by Frank Hoffmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does rock music impact culture? According to authors B. Lee Cooper and Wayne S. Haney, it is central to the definition of society and has had a great impact on shaping American culture. In Rock Music in American Popular Culture, insightful essays and book reviews explore ways popular culture items can be used to explore American values. This fascinating book is arranged alphabetically for quick and easy reference to specific topics, but the book is equally enjoyable to read straight through. The influence of rock era music is evident throughout the text, demonstrating how various topics in the popular culture field are interconnected. Students in popular culture survey courses and American studies classes will be fascinated by these unique explorations of how family businesses, games, nursery rhymes, rock and roll legends, and other musical ventures shed light on our society and how they have shaped American values over the years.
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Total Pages : 1294 pages
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Download or read book Film Year Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 1294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Kaplan
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300183216
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Irving Berlin written by James Kaplan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a fast†‘moving, musically astute portrait of arguably the greatest composer of American popular music Irving Berlin (1888–1989) has been called—by George Gershwin, among others—the greatest songwriter of the golden age of the American popular song. “Berlin has no place in American music,” legendary composer Jerome Kern wrote; “he is American music.” In a career that spanned an astonishing nine decades, Berlin wrote some fifteen hundred tunes, including “Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” “God Bless America,” and “White Christmas.” From ragtime to the rock era, Berlin’s work has endured in the very fiber of American national identity. Exploring the interplay of Berlin’s life with the life of New York City, noted biographer James Kaplan offers a visceral narrative of Berlin as self†‘made man and witty, wily, tough Jewish immigrant. This fast†‘paced, musically opinionated biography uncovers Berlin’s unique brilliance as a composer of music and lyrics. Masterfully written and psychologically penetrating, Kaplan’s book underscores Berlin’s continued relevance in American popular culture. About Jewish Lives: Jewish Lives is a prizewinning series of interpretative biography designed to explore the many facets of Jewish identity. Individual volumes illuminate the imprint of Jewish figures upon literature, religion, philosophy, politics, cultural and economic life, and the arts and sciences. Subjects are paired with authors to elicit lively, deeply informed books that explore the range and depth of the Jewish experience from antiquity to the present. In 2014, the Jewish Book Council named Jewish Lives the winner of its Jewish Book of the Year Award, the first series ever to receive this award. More praise for Jewish Lives: “Excellent.” – New York times “Exemplary.” – Wall St. Journal “Distinguished.” – New Yorker “Superb.” – The Guardian
Author : St Francis De Sales
Publisher : St Pauls BYB
ISBN 13 : 9788171095742
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (957 download)
Download or read book Introduction To The Devout Life written by St Francis De Sales and published by St Pauls BYB. This book was released on with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Masterpiece of Mystical and Devotional Literature
Author : Bathroom Readers' Institute
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1607109247
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Uncle John's Bathroom Reader: Germophobia written by Bathroom Readers' Institute and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 25 years, there’s always been a home in Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader for those stories about doctor visits or routine surgeries gone horribly wrong--the wrong limb getting amputated, the wrong person getting a transplant, the nurse who didn’t notice her patient had died...for three days. Because we never get tired of reading about big boo-boos (as long as they’re happening to someone else), here is a whole book of the troubling and funny stories of when good health care goes bad. Read all about:* The woman who needed her gall bladder out...so she removed it herself* The man who waited in an emergency room...for three weeks* The heart surgeon who got caught drawing his signature on his work* And many more stories of dreadful doctors, hospital horrors, and bad medicine.
Author : Helen Bartlett Bridgman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Last Passion written by Helen Bartlett Bridgman and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Thomas Earnshaw Bradley
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 846 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Lamp [ed. by T.E. Bradley]. written by Thomas Earnshaw Bradley and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Alan Trobridge
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329854195
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (298 download)
Download or read book TRINKETS of REGULUS written by Richard Alan Trobridge and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Trinkets that surround my mind, Regulus the blue star in the constellation LEO, collects its Trinkets too. Pages of odd and frightfully strange poetics.
Author : Yolanda Covington-Ward
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822374846
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Gesture and Power written by Yolanda Covington-Ward and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Gesture and Power Yolanda Covington-Ward examines the everyday embodied practices and performances of the BisiKongo people of the Lower Congo to show how their gestures, dances, and spirituality are critical in mobilizing social and political action. Conceiving of the body as the center of analysis, a catalyst for social action, and as a conduit for the social construction of reality, Covington-Ward focuses on specific flash points in the last ninety years of Congo's troubled history, when embodied performance was used to stake political claims, foster dissent, and enforce power. In the 1920s Simon Kimbangu started a Christian prophetic movement based on spirit-induced trembling, which swept through the Lower Congo, subverting Belgian colonial authority. Following independence, dictator Mobutu Sese Seko required citizens to dance and sing nationalist songs daily as a means of maintaining political control. More recently, embodied performance has again stoked reform, as nationalist groups such as Bundu dia Kongo advocate for a return to precolonial religious practices and non-Western gestures such as traditional greetings. In exploring these embodied expressions of Congolese agency, Covington-Ward provides a framework for understanding how embodied practices transmit social values, identities, and cultural history throughout Africa and the diaspora.
Author : Janice Hocker Rushing
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315429470
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Erotic Mentoring written by Janice Hocker Rushing and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They’re everywhere in the academy: young, bright women mentored by older scholars, usually men, who attempt to mold them into their own masculine ideals. Janice Hocker Rushing’s study of over 200 women and their life transformations is the subject of this eloquent book. Using the tropes of mythology and Jungian psychology, the author characterizes the many paths these women’s academic lives take: as Muse for a faltering older scholar, as Mistress or wife, as the dutiful academic daughter. Their resistance to this power differential also takes many forms: as a Veiled Woman, silent in public but active in private, or the Siren, using her sexuality to beat the system. Ultimately, Rushing arrives at the myth of Eros and Psyche, where women’s self understanding and personal development turns her erotic mentoring into an autonomous, whole, and free life, unfettered by any man. These women’s stories and Rushing’s literary and literate framing of their lives will ring true to many in the university.
Author : Derek B. Scott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190294892
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Sounds of the Metropolis written by Derek B. Scott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phrase "popular music revolution" may instantly bring to mind such twentieth-century musical movements as jazz and rock 'n' roll. In Sounds of the Metropolis, however, Derek Scott argues that the first popular music revolution actually occurred in the nineteenth century, illustrating how a distinct group of popular styles first began to assert their independence and values. He explains the popular music revolution as driven by social changes and the incorporation of music into a system of capitalist enterprise, which ultimately resulted in a polarization between musical entertainment (or "commercial" music) and "serious" art. He focuses on the key genres and styles that precipitated musical change at that time, and that continued to have an impact upon popular music in the next century. By the end of the nineteenth century, popular music could no longer be viewed as watered down or more easily assimilated art music; it had its own characteristic techniques, forms, and devices. As Scott shows, "popular" refers here, for the first time, not only to the music's reception, but also to the presence of these specific features of style. The shift in meaning of "popular" provided critics with tools to condemn music that bore the signs of the popular-which they regarded as fashionable and facile, rather than progressive and serious. A fresh and persuasive consideration of the genesis of popular music on its own terms, Sounds of the Metropolis breaks new ground in the study of music, cultural sociology, and history.
