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A Textured Life

Author : Alison Pedlar
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889203350
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book A Textured Life written by Alison Pedlar and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 1999-04-16 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on an extensive Canadian survey of support services for adults with developmental disabilities, and 141 interviews with such adults, their families, and support staff, this book discusses the empowerment through community which developmentally disabled people can experience in today's post-deinstitutionalized society. The Canadian origins of the work do not prevent it from being relevant to professionals working with these populations in the United States and elsewhere. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Textured Lives

Author : Claudia Schaefer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Textured Lives written by Claudia Schaefer and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexican culture has long been the object of scholarly interest and popular curiosity, notably since the 1910 Revolution and most recently in the 1990 Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit "Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries". During these eight decades in the evolution of the modern Mexican nation, shifting relations of power have constantly met with voices of opposition that have challenged the national vision of progress and unity. Textured Lives explores some of these cracks in the Mexican national edifice by examining the works of women in literature and the arts, with focus on individuals who represent crucial phases in Mexico's cultural history: Frida Kahlo and postrevolutionary nationalism, Rosario Castellanos and the promises of institutionalized revolution, Elena Poniatowska and the legacy of 1968, and Angeles Mastretta and the "golden age" of the oil boom. Schaefer argues that exploring the social context of cultural representation highlights the tensions between master narratives and these women's transgressive forays into those spaces of power. Combining literary theory, cultural analysis, gender study, and theories of artistic representation, her book embraces painting, literary journalism, the epistolary novel, and autobiographical narrative to question the traditional forms of these genres as well as to debate the boundaries between the self and the national identity.

Angeles Mastretta

Author : Jane Elizabeth Lavery
Publisher : Tamesis Books
ISBN 13 : 9781855661172
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book Angeles Mastretta written by Jane Elizabeth Lavery and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major study on the works of the Mexican novelist, Angeles Mastretta, demonstrating the rich complexity and range of the author's fiction and essays. The Mexican novelist, Angeles Mastretta [b. 1949], has only recently received serious critical attention largely because her work has been seen as 'popular' and therefore inappropriate for academic study. This first major work tobe published on Mastretta seeks to demonstrate the rich complexity and range of the author's fiction and essays. In the tradition of Post-Boom Latin American women's writing, Mastretta's texts are motivated by a desire to speak primarily of the silenced experiences and voices of women. Two of her novels, referential and testimonial in style, can be placed within the Mexican Revolutionary Novel tradition and explore the Revolutionary period and its consequences in the light of female experiences and perspectives. The hitherto unexplored themes of female sexuality and bodily erotics in Mastretta's texts are also considered in this volume. Her feminist works avoid facile simplifications: heterogeneous and dialogical, they interweave the historical and the fictional, the everyday and the fantastic. The originality of Mastretta's writing lies in its elusive postmodern ambiguities: shimmering surfacesare often interrupted by unexpected depths and proliferating meanings cannot be fully circumscribed by critical analysis. Jane Elizabeth Lavery lectures in Latin American Studies at the University of Kent.

Mexico

Author : Don M. Coerver
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1851095179
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Mexico written by Don M. Coerver and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-09-22 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise overview of 20th- and 21st-century Mexico, this volume explores the political, economic, social, and cultural history of the world's largest Spanish-speaking country. From NAFTA to narcotics, from immigration to energy, the ties that bind our nation and Mexico are varied and strong. Mexico uncovers the real Mexico that lies behind the stereotypes of tacos, tequila, and tourist hotels. Compiled by leading scholars of Mexican history and society, its more than 150 entries examine the nation in all its fascinating contradictions and complexity. This concise yet thorough study, covering the last 100 years of Mexican history, is the only one volume, A–Z reference work available to students, scholars, and readers curious about one of the world's most diverse and dynamic societies. What was the Mexican Revolution all about? Who are the Zapatistas? And why do Mexicans celebrate Cinco de Mayo? Mexicans are America's largest immigrant group and Mexico is America's favorite tourist destination. Yet we need to learn more and understand better our fascinating neighbor to the south. Mexico—comprehensive and accessible—is the best place to start.

In the Moment

Author : Harvey Rich
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062013459
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book In the Moment written by Harvey Rich and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-08-17 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebration has the power to carry us through the joys and adversities of life, and to connect us to our spiritual center. Drawing upon his own experiences and training, psychoanalyst Harvey Rich describes the celebratory process that unfolds when we recognize a moment as special and open ourselves to the fullest sensory experience of it. Rich shows us how we can capture the moments of our lives and bring our own histories and aspirations to bear up those moments -- a celebration that is the antidote to the blur of our often high-tech, fast-paced lives.

Is the Planet Full?

Author : Ian Goldin
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191017450
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Is the Planet Full? written by Ian Goldin and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the impacts of population growth? Can our planet support the demands of the ten billion people anticipated to be the world's population by the middle of this century? While it is common to hear about the problems of overpopulation, might there be unexplored benefits of increasing numbers of people in the world? How can we both consider and harness the potential benefits brought by a healthier, wealthier and larger population? May more people mean more scientists to discover how our world works, more inventors and thinkers to help solve the world's problems, more skilled people to put these ideas into practice? In this book, leading academics with a wide range of expertise in demography, philosophy, biology, climate science, economics and environmental sustainability explore the contexts, costs and benefits of a burgeoning population on our economic, social and environmental systems.

Strategic Occidentalism

Author : Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810137577
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Strategic Occidentalism written by Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic Occidentalism examines the transformation, in both aesthetics and infrastructure, of Mexican fiction since the late 1970s. During this time a framework has emerged characterized by the corporatization of publishing, a frictional relationship between Mexican literature and global book markets, and the desire of Mexican writers to break from dominant models of national culture. In the course of this analysis, Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado engages with theories of world literature, proposing that “world literature” is a construction produced at various levels, including the national, that must be studied from its material conditions of production in specific sites. In particular, he argues that Mexican writers have engaged in a “strategic Occidentalism” in which their idiosyncratic connections with world literature have responded to dynamics different from those identified by world-systems or diffusionist theorists. Strategic Occidentalism identifies three scenes in which a cosmopolitan aesthetics in Mexican world literature has been produced: Sergio Pitol’s translation of Eastern European and marginal British modernist literature; the emergence of the Crack group as a polemic against the legacies of magical realism; and the challenges of writers like Carmen Boullosa, Cristina Rivera Garza, and Ana García Bergua to the roles traditionally assigned to Latin American writers in world literature.

Contemporary Mexican Women Writers

Author : Gabriella de Beer
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292789548
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Mexican Women Writers written by Gabriella de Beer and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexican women writers moved to the forefront of their country's literature in the twentieth century. Among those who began publishing in the 1970s and 1980s are Maria Luisa Puga, Silvia Molina, Brianda Domecq, Carmen Boullosa, and Angeles Mastretta. Sharing a range of affinities while maintaining distinctive voices and outlooks, these are the women whom Gabriella de Beer has chosen to profile in Contemporary Mexican Women Writers. De Beer takes a three-part approach to each writer. She opens with an essay that explores the writer's apprenticeship and discusses her major works. Next, she interviews each writer to learn about her background, writing, and view of herself and others. Finally, de Beer offers selections from the writer's work that have not been previously published in English translation. Each section concludes with a complete bibliographic listing of the writer's works and their English translations. These essays, interviews, and selections vividly recreate the experience of being with the writer and sharing her work, hearing her tell about and evaluate herself, and reading the words she has written. The book will be rewarding reading for everyone who enjoys fine writing.

Love’s Shadow

Author : Paul A. Bové
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674977157
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Love’s Shadow written by Paul A. Bové and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A case for literary critics and other humanists to stop wallowing in their aestheticized helplessness and instead turn to poetry, comedy, and love. Literary criticism is an agent of despair, and its poster child is Walter Benjamin. Critics have spent decades stewing in his melancholy. What if instead we dared to love poetry? To choose comedy over Hamlet’s tragedy, romance over Benjamin’s suicide on the edge of France, of Europe, of civilization? Paul Bové challenges young lit critters to throw away their shades and let the sun shine in. Love’s Shadow is his three-step manifesto for a new literary criticism that risks sentimentality and melodrama and eschews self-consciousness. The first step is to choose poetry. There has been since the time of Plato a battle between philosophy and poetry. Philosophy has championed misogyny, while poetry has championed women, like Shakespeare’s Rosalind. Philosophy is ever so stringent; try instead the sober cheerfulness of Wallace Stevens. Bové’s second step is to choose the essay. He praises Benjamin’s great friend and sometime antagonist Theodor Adorno, who gloried in the writing of essays, not dissertations and treatises. The third step is to choose love. If you want a Baroque hero, make it Rembrandt, who brought lovers to life in his paintings. Putting aside passivity and cynicism would amount to a revolution in literary studies. Bové seeks nothing less, and he has a program for achieving it.

A Companion to Mexican Studies

Author : Peter Standish
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781855661349
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Mexican Studies written by Peter Standish and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2006 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This most recent of the Tamesis Companion series traces the evolution of the major creative aspects of Mexican culture from pre-Columbian times to the present. Dealing in turn with the cultures of Mesoamerica, the colonial period, the onset of independence and the modern era, the author explores Aztec arts, the role of the performing arts in the process of evangelisation, manifestations of cultural dependence, of the search for national identity, and the struggle for modernity, drawing examples from such diverse activities as architecture, painting, music, dance, literature, film and media. There is also a brief account of the distinctive characteristics of Mexican Spanish. Maps, a chronology, a bibliographical essay and a lengthy bibliography round off this comprehensive guide, making it an indispensable research tool for those seriously interested in Mexican culture. Peter Standish is Professor of Spanish at East Carolina University, a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina.

Bodies and Biases

Author : David William Foster
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452900964
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Bodies and Biases written by David William Foster and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of Modern Soy Protein Ingredients - Isolates, Concentrates, and Textured Soy Protein Products (1911-2016)

Author : William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher : Soyinfo Center
ISBN 13 : 1928914837
Total Pages : 1669 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book History of Modern Soy Protein Ingredients - Isolates, Concentrates, and Textured Soy Protein Products (1911-2016) written by William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi and published by Soyinfo Center. This book was released on 2016-01-17 with total page 1669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographical index. 405 photographs and illustrations - mostly color. Free of charge in digital PDF format on Google Books.

False Twist Textured Yarns

Author : C Atkinson
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0857095595
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book False Twist Textured Yarns written by C Atkinson and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A false twist textured yarn is a continuous filament yarn that has been processed to introduce crimps, coils, loops and other fine distortions along the yarn’s length. These distortions give synthetic yarns such as nylon, polyester and polypropylene improved properties such as stretch, bulk, improved thermal insulation and an appearance similar to natural fibres. This important book summarises the key principles, technologies and process issues in the manufacture of high-quality false twist textured yarns. After an introductory chapter on the development of textured yarns, the book reviews yarn texturing machine designs and twist application methods, including air jet mingling and machine variants for draw textured speciality yarns. It also reviews common process performance and quality problems and how they can be resolved, as well process control, quality assurance and costs. The final chapters look at applications of false twist textured nylon, polyester and polypropylene yarns as well as the future of false twist texturing. Based on the author’s extensive experience in the textile industry, False twist textured yarns is a standard reference on the key technologies and process issues involved in the manufacture of high-quality false twist textured yarns. Discusses the development of textured yarns, the basic principles of texturing and the process of false twist texturing Summarises the key principles, technologies and process issues in the manufacture of high-quality false twist textured yarns Chapters include texturing machine design, applications of textured yarns and the future opportunities for false twist texturing

Textured Tresses

Author : Diane Da Costa
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439100276
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Textured Tresses written by Diane Da Costa and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twist it! Braid it! Loc it! Enjoy the freedom and beauty of naturally textured hair. Textured hair styles like Locs, Braids, Twists, Cornrows, and Knots are all the rage, adorning the heads of celebrities, athletes, and everyday folk now more than ever before. Yet, the actual caring, styling, and maintenance of textured hair still remains a mystery to many. Now, Diane Da Costa, celebrity stylist and master designer of natural hair, unravels the tresses of textured hair, providing readers with information on the proper care of natural hair as well as a step-by-step guide on achieving various exciting styles. Textured Tresses will help you: -Identify and celebrate the texture you were born with (whether it's wavy, curly, very curly, or tightly coiled) -Keep your hair healthy and strong by using hair products and tools correctly and managing stress effectively -Select the right stylist and salon to suit your hair care needs -Transition from chemically relaxed hair to natural hair safely -Experiment with color, weaves, and chemicals -Achieve the styles you admire on your favorite movie stars and recording artists Packed throughout with photos, illustrations, and special celebrity sections, Textured Tresses is a must-have whether you already twist, coil, loc, or want to learn how to begin.

Exploring the Texture of Texts

Author : Vernon K. Robbins
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781563381836
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (818 download)

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Download or read book Exploring the Texture of Texts written by Vernon K. Robbins and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1996-11-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Vernon K. Robbins provides an accessible introduction to socio-rhetorical criticism, illustrating the method by guiding the reader through the study of specific New Testament texts and stories. An opening chapter outlines this new approach and its focus on values, convictions, and beliefs both in the text we read and in the world in which we live. Then follow studies and exercises dealing with specific textural features: inner texture, intertexture, social and cultural texture, ideological texture, and sacred texture.

Builders' Homes for Better Living

Author : Archie Quincy Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Builders' Homes for Better Living written by Archie Quincy Jones and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Latin-American Women Writers

Author : Myriam Yvonne Jehenson
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791425596
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Latin-American Women Writers written by Myriam Yvonne Jehenson and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes how Latin-American women writers of all classes, from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present, ironize masculinist, classicist, and racist cliches in their narratives.