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Today's critical establishment assumes that sentimentalism is an
eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literary mode that all but
disappeared by the twentieth century. In this book, Jennifer
Williamson argues that sentimentalism is alive and well in the
modern era. By examining working-class literature that adopts the
rhetoric of "feeling right" in order to promote a proletarian or
humanist ideology as well as neo-slave narratives that wrestle with
the legacy of slavery and cultural definitions of African American
families, she explores the ways contemporary authors engage with
familiar sentimental cliches and ideals. Williamson covers new
ground by exploring authors who are not generally read for their
sentimental narrative practices, considering the proletarian novels
of Grace Lumpkin, Josephine Johnson, and John Steinbeck alongside
neo-slave narratives written by Margaret Walker, Octavia Butler,
and Toni Morrison. Through careful close readings, Williamson
argues that the appropriation of sentimental modes enables both
sympathetic thought and systemic action in the proletarian and
neo-slave novels under discussion. She contrasts appropriations
that facilitate such cultural work with those that do not,
including Kathryn Stockett's novel and film The Help. The book
outlines how sentimentalism remains a viable and important means of
promoting social justice while simultaneously recognizing and
exploring how sentimentality can further white privilege.
Sentimentalism is not only alive in the twentieth century. It is a
flourishing rhetorical practice among a range of twentieth-century
authors who use sentimental tactics in order to appeal to their
readers about a range of social justice issues. This book
demonstrates that at stake in their appeals is who is inside and
outside of the American family and nation.
As space applications become central to modern interaction, more
and more entities are becoming involved in space activities.
Consequently, strategies to establish the coordinated, ethically
justifiable and sustainable conduct of space activities have to be
found. Such an endeavour requires addressing current questions
regarding the use of space, dealing with fair rules in orbit and
discussing the way towards achieving truly global engagement on
space security issues. The book outlines the current situation and
identifies key challenges from the policy perspective. Taking this
one step further, it also formulates principles and recommendations
for global action. Nineteen eminent personalities from the space
sector have united for this project, which is based on a conference
organised at the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) in November
2008 in Vienna.
for SATB and piano or organ This uplifting setting of words from
Psalms 24 and 118 is bold and energetic, whilst still easy to
prepare. Passages for unison voices flower into harmony over a
supportive accompaniment for piano or organ. The anthem would be
particularly well-suited to a Palm Sunday or Advent service.
Technology transfer has played an increasingly important role in
historic preservation during the latter half of the twentieth
century, a situation attested to by the undertaking of an important
congressional study in 1986 that assessed the role of federal
agencies in the field. In this book leading researchers update the
earlier findings and contribute state-of-the-art reviews and
evaluations of technological progress in their areas of expertise.
Occupational injury is a major and often preventable health problem
in the work environment. Each year throughout the world millions
are affected by traumatic occupational injuries and many thousands
are actually killed in work-related incidents. This book provides a
diverse and multi-faceted look at some of the themes directing
late-1990s research and intervention within the area of
occupational injury and safety.
The book is divided into seven thematic parts with an introduction
provided for each section. The topics include estimating the size
of the problem, with discussions of different analytical techniques
and their efficacy; the nature of causal agents the relative roles
of risk, behaviour and organization processes; and the role played
by compensation processes. Together the book brings into focus
twenty chapters which address some of the issues of occupational
injury and safety.
Occupational injury is a major and often preventable health problem in the work environment. Each year throughout the world millions are affected by traumatic occupational injuries and many thousands are actually killed in work-related incidents. This book provides a diverse and multi-faceted look at some of the themes directing late-1990s research and intervention within the area of occupational injury and safety.; The book is divided into seven thematic parts with an introduction provided for each section. The topics include estimating the size of the problem, with discussions of different analytical techniques and their efficacy; the nature of causal agents the relative roles of risk, behaviour and organization processes; and the role played by compensation processes. Together the book brings into focus twenty chapters which address some of the issues of occupational injury and safety.
As space applications become central to modern interaction, more
and more entities are becoming involved in space activities.
Consequently, strategies to establish the coordinated, ethically
justifiable and sustainable conduct of space activities have to be
found. Such an endeavour requires addressing current questions
regarding the use of space, dealing with fair rules in orbit and
discussing the way towards achieving truly global engagement on
space security issues. The book outlines the current situation and
identifies key challenges from the policy perspective. Taking this
one step further, it also formulates principles and recommendations
for global action. Nineteen eminent personalities from the space
sector have united for this project, which is based on a conference
organised at the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) in November
2008 in Vienna.
Technology transfer has played an increasingly important role in
historic preservation during the latter half of the twentieth
century, a situation attested to by the undertaking of an important
congressional study in 1986 that assessed the role of federal
agencies in the field. In this book leading researchers update the
earlier findings and contribute state-of-the-art reviews and
evaluations of technological progress in their areas of expertise.
As the extent of mental illness in the population becomes clear, so
the provision of care becomes one of the major tasks facing
healthcare teams. As a result, a growing army of people is being
trained to offer emotional and psychological support in primary
care settings. This practical guide to using brief psychological
interventions within a short consultation draws together techniques
from a number of approaches including CBT, Solution Focus, Brief
Therapy, NLP and hypnosis.
This is a new release of the original 1957 edition.
The Rev. Jermain Wesley Loguen was a pioneering figure in early
nineteenthcentury abolitionism and African American literature. A
highly respected leader in the AME Zion Church, Rev. Loguen was
popularly known as the ""Underground Railroad King"" in Syracuse,
where he helped over 1,500 fugitives escape from slavery. With a
charismatic and often controversial style, Loguen lectured
alongside Frederick Douglass and worked closely with well-known
abolitionists such as Harriet Tubman, William Wells Brown, and
William Lloyd Garrison, among others. Originally published in 1859,
The Rev. J. W. Loguen chronicles the remarkable life of a tireless
young man and a passionate activist. The narrative recounts
Loguen's early life in slavery, his escape to the North, and his
successful career as a minister and abolitionist in New York and
Canada. Given the text's third-person narration and novelistic
style, scholars have long debated its authorship. In this edition,
Williamson uncovers new research to support Loguen as the author,
providing essential biographical information and buttressing the
significance of his life and writing. The Rev. J. W. Loguen
represents a fascinating literary hybrid, an experiment in voice
and style that enlarges our understanding of the slave narrative.
One of the most important developments of the twentieth century has
been the movement of humanity into space with machines and people.
The underpinnings of that movement-why it took the shape it did;
which individuals and organizations were involved; what factors
drove a particular choice of scientific objectives and technologies
to be used; and the political, economic, managerial, and
international contexts in which the events of the space age
unfolded-are all important ingredients of this epoch transition
from an Earthbound to a spacefaring people. This desire to
understand the development of spaceflight in the United States
sparked this documentary history series. The extension of human
activity into outer space has been accompanied by a high degree of
self-awareness of its historical significance. Few large-scale
activities have been as extensively chronicled so closely to the
time they actually occurred. Many of those who were directly
involved were quite conscious that they were making history, and
they kept full records of their activities. Because most of the
activity in outer space was carried out under government
sponsorship, it was accompanied by the documentary record required
of public institutions, and there has been a spate of official and
privately written histories of most major aspects of space
achievement to date. When top leaders considered what course of
action to pursue in space, their deliberations and decisions often
were carefully put on the record. There is, accordingly, no lack of
material for those who aspire to understand the origins and
evolution of U.S. space policies and programs. This reality forms
the rationale for this series. Precisely because there is so much
historical material available on space matters, the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) decided in 1988 that it
would be extremely useful to have a selective collection of many of
the seminal documents related to the evolution of the U.S. civilian
space program that was easily available to scholars and the
interested public. While recognizing that much space activity has
taken place under the sponsorship of the Department of Defense and
other national security organizations, within the U.S. private
sector, and in other countries around the world, NASA felt that
there would be lasting value in a collection of documentary
material primarily focused on the evolution of the U.S.
government's civil space program, most of which has been carried
out since 1958 under the agency's auspices. As a result, the NASA
History Office contracted with the Space Policy Institute of George
Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs to
prepare such a collection. This is the fourth volume in the
documentary history series; two additional ones detailing
programmatic developments with respect to space science and human
spaceflight will follow. The documents selected for inclusion in
this volume are presented in four major chapters, each covering a
particular aspect of access to space and the manner in which it has
developed over time. These chapters focus on the evolution toward
the giant Saturn V rocket, the development of the Space Shuttle,
space transportation commercialization, and future space
transportation possibilities. Volume I in this series covered the
antecedents to the U.S. space program, as well as the origins and
evolution of U.S. space policy and of NASA as an institution.
Volume II addressed the relations between the U.S. civil space
program and the space activities of other countries, between the
U.S. civil program and national security space and military
efforts, and between NASA and industry and academic institutions.
Volume III provided documents on satellite communications, remote
sensing, and the economic of space applications. As mentioned
above, the remaining two volumes of the series will cover space
science and human spaceflight.
Today's critical establishment assumes that sentimentalism is an
eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literary mode that all but
disappeared by the twentieth century. In this book, Jennifer
Williamson argues that sentimentalism is alive and well in the
modern era. By examining working-class literature that adopts the
rhetoric of "feeling right" in order to promote a proletarian or
humanist ideology as well as neo-slave narratives that wrestle with
the legacy of slavery and cultural definitions of African American
families, she explores the ways contemporary authors engage with
familiar sentimental cliches and ideals. Williamson covers new
ground by exploring authors who are not generally read for their
sentimental narrative practices, considering the proletarian novels
of Grace Lumpkin, Josephine Johnson, and John Steinbeck alongside
neo-slave narratives written by Margaret Walker, Octavia Butler,
and Toni Morrison. Through careful close readings, Williamson
argues that the appropriation of sentimental modes enables both
sympathetic thought and systemic action in the proletarian and
neo-slave novels under discussion. She contrasts appropriations
that facilitate such cultural work with those that do not,
including Kathryn Stockett's novel and film The Help. The book
outlines how sentimentalism remains a viable and important means of
promoting social justice while simultaneously recognizing and
exploring how sentimentality can further white privilege.
Sentimentalism is not only alive in the twentieth century. It is a
flourishing rhetorical practice among a range of twentieth-century
authors who use sentimental tactics in order to appeal to their
readers about a range of social justice issues. This book
demonstrates that at stake in their appeals is who is inside and
outside of the American family and nation.
This is a new release of the original 1957 edition.
This research project is an attempt to demonstrate that it is in
America's best interest to support a strong and prosperous Islamic
world. It utilizes a literature review of available Islamic,
Western, and American perspectives concerning the cultural,
economic, religious, and historic conflicts which have caused
instability in the Islamic world. The following steps are proposed:
withdraw American military withdrawal from Islamic holy lands,
reduce world demand for oil, assist non-petroleum based economic
development of Middle East, allow bad ideas to naturally fail, see
growing non-petroleum based economic, political, military, and
cultural strength as a source of stability and success for global
and American interests.
The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International
Law, 1600-1926, brings together foreign, comparative, and
international titles in a single resource. Its International Law
component features works of some of the great legal theorists,
including Gentili, Grotius, Selden, Zouche, Pufendorf,
Bijnkershoek, Wolff, Vattel, Martens, Mackintosh, Wheaton, among
others. The materials in this archive are drawn from three
world-class American law libraries: the Yale Law Library, the
George Washington University Law Library, and the Columbia Law
Library.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.+++++++++++++++The below data was compiled
from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of
this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping
to insure edition identification: +++++++++++++++Columbia
University Law LibraryLP3C000690019120101The Making of Modern Law:
Foreign, Comparative, and International Law, 1600-1926London:
Stevens and Sons, Limited, 1912xi, 1], 224 p. 22 cmUnited Kingdom
The Eastern Front is likely the least appreciated and least
understood component of the Second World War. This is especially
unfortunate since it contains some of the richest lessons about
strategy and the application of airpower while faced with an
imminent and existential threat. This study investigates several of
these lessons and concludes that, despite the significant impact
allied efforts had on the Western Front, their efforts were
ultimately of secondary importance compared to the costly and more
grueling efforts of the Soviet Union in defeating Germany.
Furthermore, despite the fact that Soviet airpower diverged from
patterns preferred by US strategic airpower thinkers, the Soviet
air force (VVS) developed into an enormously successful and
competent air arm which warrants further study, investigation, and
consideration. The VVS utilized airpower very differently than did
the United States, and yet its ability to reestablish air
superiority and decisively contribute to national victory was truly
impressive. While allied strategic bombing efforts increased
friction, reduced German freedom of action, and reduced available
German resources, it was ultimately unable to produce the decisive
results they had hoped. Instead, the fortuitous combination of the
Red Army, VVS direct and indirect support and deep interdiction
operations, time, distance, and the unforgiving Soviet winter
produced the most tangible strategic effect: the destruction of 6.5
million German soldiers on the Eastern Front.
Title: Views & Reminiscences of Old Greenock. With letterpress
by A. Williamson.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print
EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United
Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries
holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats:
books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps,
stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14
million books, along with substantial additional collections of
manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The
HISTORY OF EUROPE collection includes books from the British
Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection includes works
chronicling the development of Western civilisation to the modern
age. Highlights include the development of language, political and
educational systems, philosophy, science, and the arts. The
selection documents periods of civil war, migration, shifts in
power, Muslim expansion into Central Europe, complex feudal
loyalties, the aristocracy of new nations, and European expansion
into the New World. ++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++ British Library Anonymous; Williamson,
A.; 1891. 4 . 10370.i.3.
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