An Encyclopedia of Seven is a fascinating and fun-filled compendium celebrating all things relating to the number seven. Author Marty Cooling has transformed a personal quest to compile and document interesting lists with seven component items, alongside countless registers of seven-related matters, into this delightful volume of trivia, facts, and fictions. If you are already a septomaniac-a person who loves the number seven-you will be surprised to discover just how much you know, and will marvel over how much there is yet to learn about the number seven. Everyone else in the world will invariably find upon reading An Encyclopedia of Seven that the number is a boundless source of intriguing convergence, inspired utility, and improbable good fortune. It is a topic that has remained a subject of ardent fascination dating back to the beginning of recorded history, and Marty Cooling brings a fresh perspective that embraces all of the number seven's wonderful and particular qualities. Carefully steering clear of academic jargon and proselytizing cliches, the author has created a work of good will and good humor in the form of this unprecedented comprehensive and coherent reference devoted to the number seven. An Encyclopedia of Seven is an indispensible companion for readers who count seven among their favorite numbers. Here are fun facts and anecdotes to learn and share, memorable and informative bits of trivia, and revelatory items relating to the number that you thought you knew correctly, only to discover you were actually mistaken or misinformed.

The role of objects and images in everyday life are illuminated incisively in Material Vernaculars, which combines historical, ethnographic, and object-based methods across a diverse range of material and visual cultural forms. The contributors to this volume offer revealing insights into the significance of such practices as scrapbooking, folk art produced by the elderly, the wedding coat in Osage ceremonial exchanges, temporary huts built during the Jewish festival of Sukkot, and Kiowa women's traditional roles in raiding and warfare. While emphasizing local vernacular culture, the contributors point to the ways that culture is put to social ends within larger social networks and within the stream of history. While attending to the material world, these case studies explicate the manner in which the tangible and intangible, the material and the meaningful, are constantly entwined and co-constituted.

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Nathan Coppedge, previously the author of The Dimensional Psychologist's Toolkit and Nathan Coppedge's Perpetual Motion Machine Designs & Theory, here presents a variety of unique graphic symbols and archetypes. Short and sweet, this text is bound to confound its readers with its sense of originality and meaning as deep as the sea of Odysseus. This book is periodically updated with new images. Recent additions include 'Maze, ' 'Wit, ' and 'King's Highway' archetypes. The textual index of unique concepts is also updated occasionally, but is still undergoing work. For now it is, as I say, short and sweet.

The role of objects and images in everyday life are illuminated incisively in Material Vernaculars, which combines historical, ethnographic, and object-based methods across a diverse range of material and visual cultural forms. The contributors to this volume offer revealing insights into the significance of such practices as scrapbooking, folk art produced by the elderly, the wedding coat in Osage ceremonial exchanges, temporary huts built during the Jewish festival of Sukkot, and Kiowa women's traditional roles in raiding and warfare. While emphasizing local vernacular culture, the contributors point to the ways that culture is put to social ends within larger social networks and within the stream of history. While attending to the material world, these case studies explicate the manner in which the tangible and intangible, the material and the meaningful, are constantly entwined and co-constituted.

"Find your one true love and live happily ever after." The trials of love and desire provide perennial story material, from the Biblical Song of Songs to Disney's princesses, but perhaps most provocatively in the romance novel, a genre known for tales of fantasy and desire, sex and pleasure. Hailed on the one hand for its women-centered stories that can be sexually liberating, and criticized on the other for its emphasis on male/female coupling and mythical happy endings, romance fiction is a multi-million dollar publishing phenomenon, creating national and international societies of enthusiasts, practitioners, and scholars. Catherine M. Roach, alongside her romance-writer alter-ego, Catherine LaRoche, guides the reader deep into Romancelandia where the smart and the witty combine with the sexy and seductive to explore why this genre has such a grip on readers and what we can learn from the romance novel about the nature of happiness, love, sex, and desire in American popular culture.

On any given day in America's news cycle, stories and images of disgraced politicians and celebrities solicit our moral indignation, their misdeeds fueling a lucrative economy of shame and scandal. Shame is one of the most coercive, painful, and intriguing of human emotions. Only in recent years has interest in shame extended beyond a focus on the subjective experience of this emotion and its psychological effects. The essays collected here consider the role of shame as cultural practice and examine ways that public shaming practices enforce conformity and group coherence. Addressing abortion, mental illness, suicide, immigration, and body image among other issues, this volume calls attention to the ways shaming practices create and police social boundaries; how shaming speech is endorsed, judged, or challenged by various groups; and the distinct ways that shame is encoded and embodied in a nation that prides itself on individualism, diversity, and exceptionalism. Examining shame through a prism of race, sexuality, ethnicity, and gender, these provocative essays offer a broader understanding of how America's discourse of shame helps to define its people as citizens, spectators, consumers, and moral actors.