The Trauma Mantras is a memoir written by medical anthropologist, teacher, and writer Adrie Kusserow, who has worked with refugees and humanitarian projects in Bhutan, Nepal, India, Uganda, South Sudan, and the United States. It is a memoir of witness and humility, and ultimately a way to critique and gain a fresh perspective on Western approaches to the self, suffering, and healing. Kusserow interrogates the way American culture prizes a psychologized individualism, the supposed fragility of the self. In relentlessly questioning the Western tribe of individualism with a hunger to bust out of such narrow confines, she hints at the importance of widening the American self. As she delves into humanity’s numerous social and political ills, she does not let herself off the hook, rigorously reflecting on her own position and commitments. Kusserow travels the world in these poetic meditations, exploring the desperate fictions that “East” and “West” still cling to about each other, the stories we tell about ourselves and obsessively weave from what dominant cultural meanings surround us.

What are hard and soft individualisms? In this detailed ethnography of three communities in Manhattan and Queens, Kusserow interviews parents and teachers (from wealthy to those on welfare) on the types of hard and soft individualisms they encourage in their children and students. "American Individualisms" explores the important issue of class differences in the socialization of individualism in America. It presents American individualism not as one single homogeneous, stereotypic life-pattern as often claimed to be, but as variable, class-differentiated models of individualism instilled in young children by their parents and preschool teachers in Manhattan and Queens. By providing rich descriptions of the situational, class-based individualisms that take root in communities with vastly different visions of the future, Kusserow brings social inequality back into previously bland and generic discussions of American individualism.

A rich exploration of American artworks that reframes them within current debates on race, gender, the environment, and more Object Lessons in American Art explores a diverse gathering of Euro-American, Native American, and African American art from a range of contemporary perspectives, illustrating how innovative analysis of historical art can inform, enhance, and afford new relevance to artifacts of the American past. The book is grounded in the understanding that the meanings of objects change over time, in different contexts, and as a consequence of the ways in which they are considered. Inspired by the concept of the object lesson, the study of a material thing or group of things in juxtaposition to convey embodied and underlying ideas, Object Lessons in American Art examines a broad range of art from Princeton University's venerable collections as well as contemporary works that imaginatively appropriate and reframe their subjects and style, situating them within current social, cultural, and artistic debates on race, gender, the environment, and more. Distributed for the Princeton University Art Museum

Die magnetisch aktive Sonne steht im Zentrum unseres Sonnensystems. Aus ihrer Korona strömt der Sonnenwind stetig in alle Richtungen und formt eine großräumige magnetisierte Plasmahülle um unser Zentralgestirn: die Heliosphäre. Zusammen mit der aus dem Interstellaren Medium eindringenden kosmischen Partikelstrahlung prägt der Sonnenwind die Entwicklung des Weltraumwetters im Interplanetaren Raum sowie in den Magnetosphären und Ionosphären der Planeten. Wie entstehen Kometenschweife und Polarlichter? Welchen Einfluss hat der Sonnenwind auf das Leben im Erdsystem? Unterstützt durch faszinierende Abbildungen astronomischer Himmelsobjekte, durch erklärende Grafiken, wissenschaftliche Originaldaten sowie durch die Verknüpfungshinweise zu Videosequenzen werden die zugrundeliegenden physikalischen Prozesse und neuesten Erkenntnisse didaktisch aufbereitet und mit wenigen mathematischen Herleitungen anschaulich erläutert. Dieses Sachbuch wendet sich allgemein an die gebildete Öffentlichkeit, an Amateurastronomen aber auch an junge Studierende, die sich einen umfassenden Überblick über die generelle Bedeutung magnetischer Vorgänge sowie ein tieferes Verständnis der Prozesse in den Weltraumplasmen unseres Sonnensystems verschaffen möchten.

A diverse set of contributions to the expanding field of ecocritical studies Seeking a broad reexamination of visual culture through the lenses of ecocriticism, environmental justice, and animal studies, Picture Ecology offers a diverse range of art historical criticism formulated within an ecological context. This book brings together scholars whose contributions extend chronologically and geographically from eleventh-century Chinese painting to contemporary photography of California wildfires. The book's fifteen interdisciplinary essays provide a dynamic, cross-cultural approach to an increasingly vital area of study, emphasizing the environmental dimensions inherent in the content and materials of aesthetic objects. Picture Ecology provides valuable new approaches for considering works of art in ways that are timely, intellectually stimulating, and universally significant. With contributions by Alan C. Braddock, Maura Coughlin, Rachael Z. DeLue, T. J. Demos, Monica Dominguez Torres, Finis Dunaway, Stephen F. Eisenman, Emily Gephart, Karl Kusserow, De-nin D. Lee, Gregory Levine, Anne McClintock, James Nisbet, Andrew Patrizio, Sugata Ray, and Greg M. Thomas. Distributed for the Princeton University Art Museum

What are hard and soft individualisms? In this detailed ethnography of three communities in Manhattan and Queens, Kusserow interviews parents and teachers (from wealthy to those on welfare) on the types of hard and soft individualisms they encourage in their children and students. "American Individualisms" explores the important issue of class differences in the socialization of individualism in America. It presents American individualism not as one single homogeneous, stereotypic life-pattern as often claimed to be, but as variable, class-differentiated models of individualism instilled in young children by their parents and preschool teachers in Manhattan and Queens. By providing rich descriptions of the situational, class-based individualisms that take root in communities with vastly different visions of the future, Kusserow brings social inequality back into previously bland and generic discussions of American individualism.

Drawing from her work in comparative religion and cultural anthropology, Adrie Kusserow offers a collection of portraits of Westerners in the East and Easterners in the West struggling to relearn and relive their ideas of culture, religion, and God. These poems expose the human craving for the nourishment of a spiritual life. Celebrated poet Karen Swenson has written the Foreword. Adrie Kusserow received her Ph.D. in social anthropology from Harvard University in 1996 and is currently associate professor of cultural anthropology at St. Michael's College in Vermont. She continues to do cross-cultural field work on the spread of Eastern philosophies to the West.

The almost three hundred portraits that once composed the New York Chamber of Commerce's renowned collection capture the giants of American business with aesthetic and symbolic power. The images of civic leaders and entrepreneurs, carefully assembled over two hundred years, tell the story of American industry as shaped and reflected in the life of a major institution. Interpreting these images as historical documents, "Picturing Power" traces the establishment, growth, and eventual decline of the nation's most powerful business organization. Lavishly illustrated, this book also charts the social and aesthetic course of institutional portraiture in the United States.

From its inception in 1768, the Chamber regulated and codified commercial practice, provided business interests with a unified means of forming and advancing their agendas, and consolidated and elevated the status of its members and their professions. By linking commercial development to social and cultural progress, portraiture did much to support these ends. Whether enhancing, sanitizing, or stabilizing the reputations of business leaders; downplaying their wealth; or whitewashing their questionable practices, portraiture fashioned a public identity that matched corporate and civic needs as they evolved over time.

By following changes in the use of these images, "Picturing Power" reveals the strategies and preoccupations of an American business culture that strove for egalitarian virtue while remaining firmly committed to the principles of competitive capitalism. Americans' shifting and ambivalent relationship to commerce situates these portraits -- representations of the human face of business -- at the critical intersection of enduring contests in American life, between self-interest and the greater good, between equality and the social hierarchy that wealth engenders.

An extraordinary case study of a home healthcare business turnaround delivers actionable strategies for driving profit and growth in your organization When Paul Kusserow began working as a consultant for Amedisys, the company was on the brink of collapse. Its stock had fallen to under $11 per share, and it had to borrow money to pay a massive government fine. Six months later, Kusserow became its CEO. Under his leadership, the company dramatically improved operations, increased its stock value to as high as $325 per share, and took its place among the top home care and hospice businesses in the country. In this inspiring in-depth case study, Kusserow explains how he achieved the seemingly impossible, providing invaluable lessons you can use to breathe new life into your organization. Unlocking unrealized human potential has the highest return of any and all strategic investments. The keys, Kusserow explains, are a recommitment to the core mission of caring and the implementation of a Golden Rule managerial model that emphasizes treating employees well and listening to their performance improvement advice. These twin governing principles were essential to delivering great outcomes, retaining and attracting staff, as well as turbocharging organizational performance and profitability. Amedisys reimagined and redefined the home care industry, and its people had powered its transformation. Kusserow reveals concrete leadership and life lessons that were responsible for the four phases of Amedisys’s evolution—turnaround, stability, growth, and transformation—into the nation’s leading and most innovative home care company. It’s a proven framework for any business turnaround.

Seit Jahrzehnten befindet sich die Landwirtschaft in einem Strukturwandel, der mit zahlreichen Entwicklungen einhergeht. Neben einer veranderten Arbeitsstruktur und -organisation nimmt der Strukturwandel auch Einfluss auf die (Erwerbs-)Biographien der Menschen, die in der Landwirtschaft arbeiten. Auf Grundlage qualitativer Interviews mit Betriebsleiter*innen aus Niedersachsen sowie Vertreter*innen landwirtschaftlicher Organisationen befasst sich das vorliegende Buch mit den aktuellen und zukunftigen Rahmenbedingungen fur die Lebensgestaltung im hoeheren Alter von selbststandigen Landwirt*innen und analysiert diese vor dem Hintergrund biographietheoretischer Konzepte.

The Trauma Mantras is a memoir written by medical anthropologist, teacher, and writer Adrie Kusserow, who has worked with refugees and humanitarian projects in Bhutan, Nepal, India, Uganda, South Sudan, and the United States. It is a memoir of witness and humility, and ultimately a way to critique and gain a fresh perspective on Western approaches to the self, suffering, and healing. Kusserow interrogates the way American culture prizes a psychologized individualism, the supposed fragility of the self. In relentlessly questioning the Western tribe of individualism with a hunger to bust out of such narrow confines, she hints at the importance of widening the American self. As she delves into humanity’s numerous social and political ills, she does not let herself off the hook, rigorously reflecting on her own position and commitments. Kusserow travels the world in these poetic meditations, exploring the desperate fictions that “East” and “West” still cling to about each other, the stories we tell about ourselves and obsessively weave from what dominant cultural meanings surround us.

A groundbreaking ecocritical exploration of American art that examines the complex and evolving relationship between art and the environment Public awareness of environmental issues has never been greater, nor has the need for imagining more sustainable and ethical habits of human action and thought, including environmentally informed ways of understanding art history. This multidisciplinary book offers the first broad ecocritical review of American art and examines the environmental contexts of artistic practice from the colonial period to the present day. Tracing how visions of the environment have changed from the Native-European encounter to the emergence of modern ecological activism, more than a dozen scholars and practitioners discuss how artists have both responded to and actively instigated changes in ecological understanding. Far-reaching in its interpretive approach, Nature's Nation looks at artworks across genres and media-including painting, sculpture, prints, photography, decorative arts, and video-revealing important new discoveries about creative encounters with environmental history and politics through materials, techniques, subjects, and ideas. The book features work by more than one hundred artists, from Charles Willson Peale, Thomas Cole, and Winslow Homer to Georgia O'Keeffe, Jacob Lawrence, and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. Providing a fascinating and timely reframing of more than three centuries of American art, this volume is a powerful example of how greater ecological consciousness can expand and enrich the discipline of art history. Distributed for the Princeton University Art Musuem Exhibition Schedule: Princeton University Art Museum (10/13/18-01/06/19) Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts (02/02/19-05/05/19) Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas (05/25/19-09/09/19)

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is an office that is part of the Cabinet departments and independent agencies of the United States federal government as well as some state and local governments. Each office includes an Inspector General and employees charged with identifying, auditing, and investigating, fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement within the parent agency. The Office of Evaluation and Inspections (OEI) conducts management and program evaluations that focus on issues of concern to HHS, the Congress and the public. OEI publishes reports, studies, research and books to better inform the people. Some of these documents include titles like: Dietary Supplement Labels: Key Elements, Electronic Media Claims and Contractors' For-Profit Subsidiaries, and Child Support and the Military. This document is an OEI publication.

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is an office that is part of the Cabinet departments and independent agencies of the United States federal government as well as some state and local governments. Each office includes an Inspector General and employees charged with identifying, auditing, and investigating, fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement within the parent agency. The Office of Evaluation and Inspections (OEI) conducts management and program evaluations that focus on issues of concern to HHS, the Congress and the public. OEI publishes reports, studies, research and books to better inform the people. Some of these documents include titles like: Dietary Supplement Labels: Key Elements, Electronic Media Claims and Contractors' For-Profit Subsidiaries, and Child Support and the Military. This document is an OEI publication.

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is an office that is part of the Cabinet departments and independent agencies of the United States federal government as well as some state and local governments. Each office includes an Inspector General and employees charged with identifying, auditing, and investigating, fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement within the parent agency. The Office of Evaluation and Inspections (OEI) conducts management and program evaluations that focus on issues of concern to HHS, the Congress and the public. OEI publishes reports, studies, research and books to better inform the people. Some of these documents include titles like: Dietary Supplement Labels: Key Elements, Electronic Media Claims and Contractors' For-Profit Subsidiaries, and Child Support and the Military. This document is an OEI publication.

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is an office that is part of the Cabinet departments and independent agencies of the United States federal government as well as some state and local governments. Each office includes an Inspector General and employees charged with identifying, auditing, and investigating, fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement within the parent agency. The Office of Evaluation and Inspections (OEI) conducts management and program evaluations that focus on issues of concern to HHS, the Congress and the public. OEI publishes reports, studies, research and books to better inform the people. Some of these documents include titles like: Dietary Supplement Labels: Key Elements, Electronic Media Claims and Contractors' For-Profit Subsidiaries, and Child Support and the Military. This document is an OEI publication.

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is an office that is part of the Cabinet departments and independent agencies of the United States federal government as well as some state and local governments. Each office includes an Inspector General and employees charged with identifying, auditing, and investigating, fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement within the parent agency. The Office of Evaluation and Inspections (OEI) conducts management and program evaluations that focus on issues of concern to HHS, the Congress and the public. OEI publishes reports, studies, research and books to better inform the people. Some of these documents include titles like: Dietary Supplement Labels: Key Elements, Electronic Media Claims and Contractors' For-Profit Subsidiaries, and Child Support and the Military. This document is an OEI publication.

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is an office that is part of the Cabinet departments and independent agencies of the United States federal government as well as some state and local governments. Each office includes an Inspector General and employees charged with identifying, auditing, and investigating, fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement within the parent agency. The Office of Evaluation and Inspections (OEI) conducts management and program evaluations that focus on issues of concern to HHS, the Congress and the public. OEI publishes reports, studies, research and books to better inform the people. Some of these documents include titles like: Dietary Supplement Labels: Key Elements, Electronic Media Claims and Contractors' For-Profit Subsidiaries, and Child Support and the Military. This document is an OEI publication.

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is an office that is part of the Cabinet departments and independent agencies of the United States federal government as well as some state and local governments. Each office includes an Inspector General and employees charged with identifying, auditing, and investigating, fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement within the parent agency. The Office of Evaluation and Inspections (OEI) conducts management and program evaluations that focus on issues of concern to HHS, the Congress and the public. OEI publishes reports, studies, research and books to better inform the people. Some of these documents include titles like: Dietary Supplement Labels: Key Elements, Electronic Media Claims and Contractors' For-Profit Subsidiaries, and Child Support and the Military. This document is an OEI publication.

As an anthropologist, Adrie Kusserow's ethnographic poetry probes culture and globalization with poems about Sudanese refugees based in Uganda, Sudan, and the United States, especially the "Lost Boys of Sudan." The poet struggles with how to respond to suffering, poverty, displacement, and the brutal aspects of war. Much of this exploration is based in poems in which a mother is also bringing her family to a larger global arena.

Adrie Kusserow is a professor of cultural anthropology at St. Michael's College. Her international fieldwork supports girls' education in South Sudan and youth media literacy in Bhutan. She lives in Underhill Center, Vermont.