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The life-like depiction of the body became a central interest and
defining characteristic of the European Early Modern period that
coincided with the establishment of which images of the body were
to be considered 'decent' and representable, and which disapproved,
censored, or prohibited. Simultaneously, artists and the public
became increasingly interested in the depiction of specific body
parts or excretions. This book explores the concept of indecency
and its relation to the human body across drawings, prints,
paintings, sculptures, and texts. The ten essays investigate
questions raised by such objects about practices and social norms
regarding the body, and they look at the particular function of
those artworks within this discourse. The heterogeneous media,
genres, and historical contexts north and south of the Alps studied
by the authors demonstrate how the alleged indecency clashed with
artistic intentions and challenges traditional paradigms of the
historiography of Early Modern visual culture.
Combining a fascinating history of the first U.S. high school for
African Americans with an unflinching analysis of urban
public-school education today, First Class explores an
underrepresented and largely unknown aspect of black history while
opening a discussion on what it takes to make a public school
successful. In 1870, in the wake of the Civil War, citizens of
Washington, DC, opened the Preparatory High School for Colored
Youth, the first black public high school in the United States; it
would later be renamed Dunbar High and would flourish despite Jim
Crow laws and segregation. Dunbar attracted an extraordinary
faculty: its early principal was the first black graduate of
Harvard, and at a time it had seven teachers with PhDs, a medical
doctor, and a lawyer. During the school's first 80 years, these
teachers would develop generations of highly educated, successful
African Americans, and at its height in the 1940s and '50s, Dunbar
High School sent 80 percent of its students to college. Today, as
in too many failing urban public schools, the majority of Dunbar
students are barely proficient in reading and math. Journalist and
author Alison Stewart-whose parents were both Dunbar
graduates-tells the story of the school's rise, fall, and possible
resurgence as it reopens a new, state-of-the-art campus.
Realizing Autonomy: Practice and Reflection in Language Education
Contexts presents critical practitioner research into innovative
approaches to language learner autonomy. Writing about experiences
in a range of widely differing contexts, the authors offer fresh
insights and perspectives on the challenges and contradictions of
learner autonomy.
Realizing Autonomy: Practice and Reflection in Language Education
Contexts presents critical practitioner research into innovative
approaches to language learner autonomy. Writing about experiences
in a range of widely differing contexts, the authors offer fresh
insights and perspectives on the challenges and contradictions of
learner autonomy.
Genetics, Health Care and Public Policy is an introduction to the
new discipline of public health genetics. It brings together the
insights of genetic and molecular science as a means of protecting
and improving the health of the population. Its scope is wide and
requires an understanding of genetics, epidemiology, public health
and the principles of ethics, law and the social sciences. This
book sets out the basic principles of public health genetics for a
wide audience from those providing health care to those involved in
establishing policy. The emphasis throughout the text is on
providing an accessible introduction to the field. The content
moves from the basic concepts, including definitions and history,
through chapters on genetics, genetic technology, epidemiology,
genetics in medicine, genetics in health services, ethical, legal
and social implications, to the implications for health policy. It
provides one-stop, introductory coverage of this rapidly developing
and multidisciplinary field.
This book presents the career narratives of an under-researched
group of teachers: immigrant Filipino teachers of English working
mainly with young and very young learners in Japan. It provides a
nuanced and revealing critique of poststructuralist views of
identity and proposes recognition theories as an alternative
perspective. It explores the role of the community found in
language teacher associations in the formation and strengthening of
language teacher identity and reveals new insights into morality
and social justice in language teacher identity. The narratives of
the teachers and the communities of which they are part demonstrate
how prejudice affects these teachers' lives, and how speaking about
and celebrating success can affirm individual and group identity.
Junk has become ubiquitous in America today. Who doesn’t have a
basement, attic, closet, or storage unit filled with stuff too good
to throw away? Or, more accurately, stuff you think is too good to
throw away. When journalist and author Alison Stewart was
confronted with emptying her late parents’ overloaded basement, a
job that dragged on for months, it got her thinking: How did it
come to this? Why do smart, successful people hold on to old
Christmas bows, chipped knick-knacks, VHS tapes, and books they
would likely never reread? She discovered she was not alone. Junk
details Stewart’s three-year investigation into America’s
stuff, lots and lots and lots of stuff. Stewart rides along with
junk removal teams from around the country such as Trash Daddy,
Annie Haul, and Junk Vets. She goes backstage to a taping of
Antiques Roadshow, and learns what makes for compelling junk-based
television with the executive producer of Pawn Stars. And she even
investigates the growing problem of space junk—23,000 pieces of
manmade debris orbiting the planet at 17,500 mph, threatening both
satellites and human space exploration. But it’s not all dire.
There are creative solutions to America’s overburdened consumer
culture. Stewart visits with Deron Beal, founder of FreeCycle, an
online community of people who would rather give away than throw
away their no-longer-needed possessions. She spends a day at a
Repair CafÉ, where volunteer tinkerers bring new life to broken
appliances, toys, and just about anything. Stewart also explores
communities of “tiny houses” without attics and basements in
which to stash the owners’ trash.
Junk is a delightful journey through 250-mile-long yard sales, and
packrat dens, both human and rodent, that for most readers will
look surprisingly familiar.
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