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Citizenship in the nineteenth-century United States was an
ever-moving target. The Constitution did not specify its exact
meaning, leaving lawmakers and other Americans to struggle over the
fundamental questions of who could be a citizen, how a person
attained the status, and the particular privileges citizenship
afforded. Indeed, as late as 1862, U.S. Attorney General Edward
Bates observed that citizenship was "now as little understood in
its details and elements, and the question as open to argument and
speculative criticism as it was at the founding of the Government."
Black people suffered under this ambiguity, but also seized on it
in efforts to transform their nominal freedom. By claiming that
they were citizens in their demands for specific rights, they were,
Christopher James Bonner argues, at the center of creating the very
meaning of American citizenship. In the decades before and after
Bates's lament, free African Americans used newspapers, public
gatherings, and conventions to make arguments about who could be a
citizen, the protections citizenship entailed, and the obligations
it imposed. They thus played a vital role in the long, fraught
process of determining who belonged in the nation and the terms of
that belonging. Remaking the Republic chronicles the various ways
African Americans from a wide range of social positions throughout
the North attempted to give meaning to American citizenship over
the course of the nineteenth century. Examining newpsapers, state
and national conventions, public protest meetings, legal cases, and
fugitive slave rescues, Bonner uncovers a spirited debate about
rights and belonging among African Americans, the stakes of which
could determine their place in U.S. society and shape the terms of
citizenship for all Americans.
This new edition of a well-established textbook covers the
environmental and engineering aspects of the management of
rainwater and wastewater in areas of human development. Urban
Drainage deals comprehensively not only with the design of new
systems, but also the analysis and upgrading of existing
infrastructure. Keeping its balance of principles, practice and
research, this new edition has significant new material on
modelling, resilience, smart systems, and the global and local
context. The two new authors bring further research and
practice-based experience. This is an essential text for
undergraduate and graduate students, lecturers and researchers in
water engineering, environmental engineering, public health
engineering, engineering hydrology, and related non-engineering
disciplines. It also serves as a dependable reference for drainage
engineers in water service providers, local authorities, and for
consulting engineers. Extensive examples are used to support and
demonstrate the key issues throughout the text.
Written by internationally acclaimed artist and photographer
Christopher James, THE BOOK OF ALTERNATIVE PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES:
3rd Edition is the definitive text for students and professionals
studying alternative photographic processes and the art of
hand-made photographic image making. This innovative Third Edition
brings the medium up to date with new and historic processes that
are integrated with the latest contemporary innovations,
adaptations, techniques, and art work. This 800 page edition is
packed with more than 700 exquisite illustrations featuring
historical examples as well as the art that is currently being made
by professional alternative process, artists, teachers, and
students of the genre. The third edition is the complete and
comprehensive technical and aesthetic resource exploring and
delving into every aspect of alternative photographic process
photography. Each chapter introduces the history of a technique,
presents an overview of the alternative photographic process that
will be featured, reviews its chemistry, and provides practical and
easy to follow guidance in how to make it work. In his
conversational writing style, James also explores the
idiosyncrasies, history, and cultural connections that are such a
significant part of the history of photography. Featuring
traditional and digital contact negative production as well as an
array of processes, spread out over 28 chapters, THE BOOK OF
ALTERNATIVE PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES: 3RD EDITION delivers clear
instructions, practical workflows and advice, humor, history, art,
and immeasurable inspiration.
Kamila is a cornucopia of dreadfulness. Her works at once beautiful
and terrible, each piece like being tickled by Death’s cold
little fingers, every bewitching creation a world I want to know
more about. — Brom Welcome to the mind of Canadian horror-art
sensation Kamila Mlynarczyk (better known as @WoodedWoods).
Featuring art created between 2017–2019 this art book charts her
progression from teaching herself how to draw to creating one-panel
illustration art. It also features a chapter on her famous art
dolls. Her artist notes and narrative describe her fascinating
creative process and many of the inspirations behind her countless
creepy, unsettling, yet poignant (and often hilarious) sketches.
While the rhyme and reason behind why everyone needs a little snail
friend, why cute poops make this world a better place, and why
werewolves always hesitate before devouring the sacrificial
girl-child can at times simply be chalked-up to mischief, Kamila is
truly funny and relatable. To Kamila, nothing fictional can ever be
as frightening as reality, and so much of her inspiration comes
from the right here and now. She strives to depict the most
terrible things in a sympathetic light, and in that way they become
more beautiful than reality, more light-hearted than realistically
possible, and through their relatability they become cheeky and
charming—they become cathartic. Features: table of
contents, introductions by James O’Barr, creator of The Crow, and
Neil Christopher, writer and publisher, photos, sketches,
paintings, illustrations, and even on post-it note piece (see if
you can spot it!), also contains Kamila's list of things you should
read or watch to become well versed in the language of
horror. Â
This new edition of a well-established textbook covers the
environmental and engineering aspects of the management of
rainwater and wastewater in areas of human development. Urban
Drainage deals comprehensively not only with the design of new
systems, but also the analysis and upgrading of existing
infrastructure. Keeping its balance of principles, practice and
research, this new edition has significant new material on
modelling, resilience, smart systems, and the global and local
context. The two new authors bring further research and
practice-based experience. This is an essential text for
undergraduate and graduate students, lecturers and researchers in
water engineering, environmental engineering, public health
engineering, engineering hydrology, and related non-engineering
disciplines. It also serves as a dependable reference for drainage
engineers in water service providers, local authorities, and for
consulting engineers. Extensive examples are used to support and
demonstrate the key issues throughout the text.
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Human Documents - Eight Photographers (Hardcover)
Robert Gardner; Edited by Charles Warren; Photographs by Michael Rockefeller, Adelaide de Menil, Kevin Bubriski, …
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In "Human Documents," Robert Gardner introduces the work of
photographers with whom he has worked over a period of nearly fifty
years under the auspices of the Film Study Center at Harvard. Their
images achieve the status of what Gardner calls "human documents":
visual evidence that testifies to our shared humanity. In images
and words, the book adds to the already significant literature on
photography and filmmaking as ways to gather both fact and insight
into the human condition. In nearly 100 images spanning geographies
and cultures including India, New Guinea, Ethiopia, and the United
States, Human Documents demonstrates the important role photography
can play in furthering our understanding of human nature and
connecting people through an almost universal visual language.
Author and cultural critic Eliot Weinberger contributes the
essay "Photography and Anthropology (A Contact Sheet)," in which he
provides a new and intriguing context for viewing and thinking
about the images presented here.
With photographs by Michael Rockefeller, Robert Gardner, Kevin
Bubriski, Adelaide de Menil, Christopher James, Jane Tuckerman,
Susan Meiselas, and Alex Webb.
Examines the increasing significance of the volunteer and
volunteerism in African societies, and their societal impact within
precarious economies in a period of massive unemployment and
faltering trajectories of social mobility. Across Africa today, as
development activities animate novel forms of governance, new
social actors are emerging, among them the volunteer. Yet, where
work and resources are limited, volunteer practices have
repercussions that raise contentious ethical issues. What has been
the real impact of volunteers economically, politically and in
society? The interdisciplinary experts in this collection examine
the practices of volunteers - both international and local - and
ideologies of volunteerism. They show the significance of
volunteerism to processes of social and economic transformation,
and political projects of national development and citizenship, as
well as to individual aspirations in African societies. These case
studies - from South Africa, Lesotho, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia,
Sierra Leone and Malawi - examine everyday experiences of
volunteerism and trajectories of voluntary work, trace its
broaderhistorical, political and economic implications, and situate
African experiences of voluntary labour within global exchanges and
networks of resources, ideas and political technologies. Offering
insights into changing configurations of work, citizenship,
development and social mobility, the authors offer new perspectives
on the relations between labour, identity and social value in
Africa. Ruth Prince is Associate Professor in Medical Anthropology
at the University of Oslo; with her co-author Wenzel Geissler, she
won the 2010 Amaury Talbot Prize for their book The Land is Dying:
Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya. Hannah Brown
is a lecturer in Anthropology at Durham University.
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Observations
Christopher James Wray
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R221
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Citizenship in the nineteenth-century United States was an
ever-moving target. The Constitution did not specify its exact
meaning, leaving lawmakers and other Americans to struggle over the
fundamental questions of who could be a citizen, how a person
attained the status, and the particular privileges citizenship
afforded. Indeed, as late as 1862, U.S. Attorney General Edward
Bates observed that citizenship was "now as little understood in
its details and elements, and the question as open to argument and
speculative criticism as it was at the founding of the Government."
Black people suffered under this ambiguity, but also seized on it
in efforts to transform their nominal freedom. By claiming that
they were citizens in their demands for specific rights, they were,
Christopher James Bonner argues, at the center of creating the very
meaning of American citizenship. In the decades before and after
Bates's lament, free African Americans used newspapers, public
gatherings, and conventions to make arguments about who could be a
citizen, the protections citizenship entailed, and the obligations
it imposed. They thus played a vital role in the long, fraught
process of determining who belonged in the nation and the terms of
that belonging. Remaking the Republic chronicles the various ways
African Americans from a wide range of social positions throughout
the North attempted to give meaning to American citizenship over
the course of the nineteenth century. Examining newpsapers, state
and national conventions, public protest meetings, legal cases, and
fugitive slave rescues, Bonner uncovers a spirited debate about
rights and belonging among African Americans, the stakes of which
could determine their place in U.S. society and shape the terms of
citizenship for all Americans.
Examines the increasing significance of the volunteer and
volunteerism in African societies, and their societal impact within
precarious economies in a period of massive unemployment and
faltering trajectories of social mobility. Across Africa today, as
development activities animate novel forms of governance, new
social actors are emerging, among them the volunteer. Yet, where
work and resources are limited, volunteer practices have
repercussions that raise contentious ethical issues. What has been
the real impact of volunteers economically, politically and in
society? The interdisciplinary experts in this collection examine
the practices of volunteers - both international and local - and
ideologies of volunteerism. They show the significance of
volunteerism to processes of social and economic transformation,
and political projects of national development and citizenship, as
well as to individual aspirations in African societies. These case
studies - from South Africa, Lesotho, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia,
Sierra Leone and Malawi - examine everyday experiences of
volunteerism and trajectories of voluntary work, trace its
broaderhistorical, political and economic implications, and situate
African experiences of voluntary labour within global exchanges and
networks of resources, ideas and political technologies. Offering
insights into changing configurations of work, citizenship,
development and social mobility, the authors offer new perspectives
on the relations between labour, identity and social value in
Africa. Ruth Prince is Associate Professor in Medical Anthropology
at the University of Oslo; with her co-author Wenzel Geissler, she
won the 2010 Amaury Talbot Prize for their book The Land is Dying:
Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya. Hannah Brown
is a lecturer in Anthropology at Durham University.
The relationship between early Mormons and the United States was
marked by anxiety and hostility, heightened over the course of the
nineteenth century by the assassination of Mormon leaders, the
Saints' exile from Missouri and Illinois, the military occupation
of the Utah territory, and the national crusade against those who
practiced plural marriage. Nineteenth-century Latter-day Saints
looked forward to apocalyptic events that would unseat corrupt
governments across the globe, particularly the tyrannical
government of the United States. The infamous "White Horse
Prophecy" referred to this coming American apocalypse as "a
terrible revolution… in the land of America, such as has never
been seen before; for the land will be literally left without a
supreme government." Mormons envisioned divine deliverance by way
of plagues, natural disasters, foreign invasions, American Indian
raids, slave uprisings, or civil war unleashed on American cities
and American people. For the Saints, these violent images promised
a national rebirth that would vouchsafe the protections of the
United States Constitution and end their oppression. In Terrible
Revolution, Christopher James Blythe examines apocalypticism across
the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
particularly as it took shape in the writings and visions of the
laity. The responses of the church hierarchy to apocalyptic lay
prophecies promoted their own form of separatist nationalism during
the nineteenth century. Yet, after Utah obtained statehood, as the
church sought to assimilate to national religious norms, these same
leaders sought to lessen the tensions between themselves and
American political and cultural powers. As a result, visions of a
violent end to the nation became a liability to disavow and
regulate. Ultimately, Blythe argues that the visionary world of
early Mormonism, with its apocalyptic emphases, continued in the
church's mainstream culture in forms but continued to maintain
separatist radical forms at the level of folk-belief.
Featuring chapters written by scholars with experience in a wide
range of policing-related activities, Current Issues in Policing
provides students with diverse perspectives regarding timely issues
in policing. Students learn not only about the function of police
in society and the operations of a police organization, but also
about the most important related topics within the field. The book
begins with a chapter exploring the intersection of policing and
private security, followed by a brief history of the profession. It
then examines specific topics, including technology and privacy,
use of force, and the importance of quality leadership in law
enforcement. Additional chapters address training and education,
mental health issues, police-minority relations, police suicide,
and the challenge of responding to domestic violence calls.
Students read about efforts to humanize the police to improve
community relations, the role of body cameras in modern policing,
and the threat of criminal manufacturing enterprises. The book
concludes with a chapter assessing the future of policing. The
second edition features new content on the protests and civil
unrest of 2020, the Homeland Security and Social Justice Eras, the
concept of defunding the police, facial recognition, biometrics,
robotics, ShotSpotter technology, license plate reader technology,
3D printing, and more. Highlighting relevant and timely issues,
Current Issues in Policing is an excellent resource for courses and
programs in criminal justice and law enforcement.
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Teuton (Paperback)
Christopher James Riethmüller
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Teuton (Hardcover)
Christopher James Riethmüller
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