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Untimely Sacrifices

Author : Daena Aki Funahashi
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501768093
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Untimely Sacrifices written by Daena Aki Funahashi and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Untimely Sacrifices questions why individuals may give their time and energy to the collective against their own self-interest. Turning to Finland where public health officials named occupational burnout as a "new hazard" of the new economy, Daena Funahashi asks: What moves people to work to the point of pathological stress? Contrary to health experts who highlight the importance of self-management and energetic conservation, Funahashi questions the very economic premise of cognitive psychology that one could "economize" one's energy and thus save oneself. By pitting anthropological takes on sacrifice next to the clinical discourses on pressure, work, and coping, Funahashi offers ways to rethink what drives stress. Untimely Sacrifices also provides a compelling critique of state welfare and political economy, contesting the tendency to treat the gift economy as something separate from the force that makes redistributive mechanisms of state welfare work. It is a book essential to those interested in how forces unassimilable to conventional economy come to matter in issues of labor, stress, and welfare.

Legalizing Marijuana

Author : Rudolph J. Gerber
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313085420
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Legalizing Marijuana written by Rudolph J. Gerber and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-06-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a frontal assault on the federal government's almost century-long campaign against marijuana in all its forms—cultivation, growing, selling, and recreational and medicinal use. Beginning with the anti-pot campaign of the first unofficial drug czar, Harry Anslinger, in the 1930s and continuing wiht only minor differences in emphasis through the recent Reagan, Clinton, and two Bush administrations, federal efforts to stamp out every form of marijuana use involve ignoring the independent reports of numerous federal commissions; supporting provably false claims about marijuana's effects; acquiescing to conservative law enforcement and religious groups' condemnatory agendas; generating a climate of fear in the electorate in order to cultivate messianic images for politicians; and ultimately governing in a way that does a disservice to all involved.

Zuo Tradition / Zuozhuan

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Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295806737
Total Pages : 2243 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Zuo Tradition / Zuozhuan written by and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 2243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan; sometimes called The Zuo Commentary) is China�s first great work of history. It consists of two interwoven texts - the Spring and Autumn Annals (Chunqiu, a terse annalistic record) and a vast web of narratives and speeches that add context and interpretation to the Annals. Completed by about 300 BCE, it is the longest and one of the most difficult texts surviving from pre-imperial times. It has been as important to the foundation and preservation of Chinese culture as the historical books of the Hebrew Bible have been to the Jewish and Christian traditions. It has shaped notions of history, justice, and the significance of human action in the Chinese tradition perhaps more so than any comparable work of Latin or Greek historiography has done to Western civilization. This translation, accompanied by the original text, an introduction, and annotations, will finally make Zuozhuan accessible to all.

Executive and Legislative Documents

Author : North Carolina
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (956 download)

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Download or read book Executive and Legislative Documents written by North Carolina and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Biennial report of the North Carolina State Board of Health. 1899/1900-1907/08

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biennial report of the North Carolina State Board of Health. 1899/1900-1907/08 written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Biennial Report

Author : North Carolina. State Board of Health
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Biennial Report written by North Carolina. State Board of Health and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker

Author : Jane Barker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195358767
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker written by Jane Barker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-03-27 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novelist, poet, manager of farm property, convert to Roman Catholicism, Jacobite in exile in France, and woman unmarried by choice, Jane Barker (1652-1732) wrote on a remarkable variety of subjects and displayed an equally remarkable variety of genres. Her multifaceted work is important in understanding the woman artist, the shifting literary marketplace, and the response of women to a society torn apart by endless wars, religious intolerance, and a legal and economic system that consistently disadvantaged them. Love Intrigues (1713), A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies (1723) and The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen (1726), the three novels that comprise The Galesia Trilogy, attest to her talents. In all three works, Galesia is Barker's semi- autobiographical narrator and heroine, whose voice becomes like that of a friend to the reader. The first work, an anti-romance celebrated for its psychological realism, captures the confusion and ambivalence of the young Galesia as she is courted by her rakish cousin. The second and third works include a dynamic range of pieces: popular tales of seduced nuns and lust for the high life in London, and more personal poems about Galesia's choice of the artistic life and her practice of the healing arts. Barker brilliantly structures the narratives of the second and third novels as an embroidered patchwork screen, worked harmoniously by a community of women, to which Galesia stitches her artistic productions. This literary conceit, Barker asserts, equals anything developed by her male contemporaries in conveying the truths of human experience. Following the Trilogy, this edition includes several Barker poems, never before published, which prove particularly powerful in capturing life in exile after James II was deposed from the English throne by William of Orange in 1688. This latest addition to the Women Writers in English series will have strong appeal for scholars working in the history of the novel and the literary marketplace, Restoration and eighteenth-century literature, women's history, and the relation of women's textile arts to imaginative literature.

Woman Against Woman ...

Author : Florence Marryat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Woman Against Woman ... written by Florence Marryat and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Woman Against Woman

Author : Florence Marryat
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3375038518
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Woman Against Woman written by Florence Marryat and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1865.

Mekong Dreaming

Author : Andrew Alan Johnson
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478012358
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Mekong Dreaming written by Andrew Alan Johnson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mekong River has undergone vast infrastructural changes in recent years, including the construction of dams across its main stream. These projects, along with the introduction of new fish species, changing political fortunes, and international migrant labor, have all made a profound impact upon the lives of those residing on the great river. It also impacts how they dream. In Mekong Dreaming, Andrew Alan Johnson explores the changing relationship between the river and the residents of Ban Beuk, a village on the Thailand-Laos border, by focusing on the effect that construction has had on human and inhuman elements of the villagers' world. Johnson shows how inhabitants come to terms with the profound impact that remote, intangible, and yet powerful forces—from global markets and remote bureaucrats to ghosts, spirits, and gods—have on their livelihoods. Through dreams, migration, new religious practices, and new ways of dwelling on a changed river, inhabitants struggle to understand and affect the distant, the inassimilable, and the occult, which offer both sources of power and potential disaster.

Dissolving Views in the History of Judaism

Author : Solomon Schindler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Dissolving Views in the History of Judaism written by Solomon Schindler and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Animal and the Daemon in Early China

Author : Roel Sterckx
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791489159
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book The Animal and the Daemon in Early China written by Roel Sterckx and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the cultural perception of animals in early Chinese thought, this careful reading of Warring States and Han dynasty writings analyzes how views of animals were linked to human self perception and investigates the role of the animal world in the conception of ideals of sagehood and socio-political authority. Roel Sterckx shows how perceptions of the animal world influenced early Chinese views of man's place among the living species and in the world at large. He argues that the classic Chinese perception of the world did not insist on clear categorical or ontological boundaries between animals, humans, and other creatures such as ghosts and spirits. Instead the animal realm was positioned as part of an organic whole and the mutual relationships among the living species—both as natural and cultural creatures—were characterized as contingent, continuous, and interdependent.

The British review and London critical journal

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The British review and London critical journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Perspectives in Twentieth-Century Polish Literature

Author : Stanislaw Eile
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349123315
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book New Perspectives in Twentieth-Century Polish Literature written by Stanislaw Eile and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992-06-18 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serves as an introduction to contemporary Polish literature, developed through critical discussion of key problems and representative writers. It includes poetry, fiction and drama. Some essays are devoted to individual writers including, Milosz, Herbert, Gombrowicz, Schulz, Konwicki and Mrozek.

The Physiology of Taste

Author : Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486837998
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book The Physiology of Taste written by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are," declares French author Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in one of the aphorisms that introduces this 1825 masterpiece on the subject of cooking as an art and eating as a pleasure. Humorous, satirical, and convivial, this extended paean to the joys of food and drink has earned an enduring place in the world's literature. Brillat-Savarin found his true passion in gastronomy, asserting that "the discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of mankind than the discovery of a new star." In his sparkling anecdotal style, he offers witty meditations on the senses, the science of gastronomy, the erotic virtue of truffles, hunting wild turkeys in America, Parisian restaurants, the history of cooking, corpulence, diets, the best ways of making coffee and chocolate, and a hundred other engaging topics. He also shares some of his best recipes, including tunny omelette, pheasant, and Swiss fondue. No cook, chef, gourmet, or lover of fine food should miss this landmark in the gastronomic literature, a timeless work that has charmed and informed two centuries of epicures.

The Life of Robert Pollok

Author : David Pollok
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Robert Pollok written by David Pollok and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Selections from Unpublished Records of Government for the Years 1748-1767 Inclusive Relating Mainly to the Social Condition of Bengal, with a Map of Calcutta in 1784

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Author : James Long
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 654 pages
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Download or read book Selections from Unpublished Records of Government for the Years 1748-1767 Inclusive Relating Mainly to the Social Condition of Bengal, with a Map of Calcutta in 1784 written by James Long and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: