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Oxford held a special place in Evelyn Waugh's imagination. So
formative were his Oxford years that the city never left him,
appearing again and again in his novels in various forms. This book
explores in rich visual detail the abiding importance of Oxford as
both location and experience in his literary and visual works.
Drawing on specially commissioned illustrations and previously
unpublished photographic material, it provides a critically robust
assessment of Waugh's engagement with Oxford over the course of his
literary career. Following a brief overview of Waugh's life and
work, subsequent chapters look at the prose and graphic art Waugh
produced as an undergraduate together with Oxford's portrayal in
Brideshead Revisited and A Little Learning as well as broader
conceptual concerns of religion, sexuality and idealised time. A
specially commissioned, hand-drawn trail around Evelyn Waugh's
Oxford guides the reader around the city Waugh knew and loved
through locations such as the Botanic Garden, the Oxford Union and
The Chequers. A unique literary biography, this book brings to life
Waugh's Oxford, exploring the lasting impression it made on one of
the most accomplished literary craftsmen of the twentieth century.
Unintended Consequences of Electronic Medical Records: An Emergency
Room Ethnography argues that, while electronic medical records
(EMRs) were supposed to improve health care delivery, EMRs'
unintended consequences have affected emergency medicine providers
and patients in alarming ways. Higher health care costs, decreased
physician productivity, increased provider burnout, lower levels of
patient satisfaction, and more medical mistakes are just a few of
the unintended consequences Barbara Cook Overton observes while
studying one emergency room's EMR adoption. With data collected
over six years, Cook Overton demonstrates how EMRs harm health care
organizations and thrust providers into the midst of incompatible
rule systems without appropriate strategies for coping with these
challenges, thus robbing them of agency. Using structuration theory
and its derivatives to frame her analysis, Cook Overton explores
ways providers communicatively and performatively receive and
manage EMRs in emergency rooms. Scholars of communication and
medicine will find this book particularly useful.
One of the greatest American singers and actresses of her
generation looks back on a magical and turbulent life spanning a
half century of theatrical history from the golden age of the
Broadway musical to the present day. A legend of the American
theater, Barbara Cook burst upon the scene to become Broadway's
leading ingenue in roles such as Cunegonde in Leonard Bernstein's
Candide, Amalia Balash in Jerry Bock's She Loves Me, and her
career-defining, Tony-winning role as the original Marian the
librarian in Meredith Willson's The Music Man. But in the late
1960s, Barbara's extraordinary talent onstage was threatened by
debilitating depression and alcoholism that forced her to step away
from the limelight and out of the public life. Emerging from the
shadows in the early 1970s, Barbara reinvented herself as the
country's leading concert and cabaret artist, performing the songs
of Stephen Sondheim and other masters, while establishing a
reputation as one of the greatest and most acclaimed interpreters
of the American songbook. Taking us deep into her life and career,
from her childhood in the South to the Great White Way, Then and
Now candidly and poignantly describes both her personal
difficulties and the legendary triumphs, detailing the
extraordinary working relationships she shared with many of the key
composers, musicians, actors and performers of the late twentieth
century, among them Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein, Elaine Stritch,
and Robert Preston. Hailed by the Financial Times of London as "the
greatest singer in the world", but preferring to think of herself
as "a work in progress", Barbara Cook here delivers a powerful,
personal tale of pain and triumph, as straight forward,
unflinchingly honest, and open hearted as her singing.
For the first time, Tim Cook's sermons are now available in book
form. You Hold Us While We Grow is an important celebration of
Tim's significant contribution to contemplative Christianity in our
era. Timely, poignant and personal, Tim's sermons and prayers are a
witness to God's love and unending desire for our personal healing,
growth and transformation in Christ.
We think that we experience the world objectively, but the
existence of dreams, clairvoyance, out-of-body experiences, and
other phenomena of parapsychology tell us we must look more deeply
at what we call "reality." Barbara Cook Loy's "The Half-Remembered
Reality" updates C.G. Jung's concept of synchronicity and uses it
as a framework to study the very long border between the realms of
psyche and nature. Her work explores ancient wisdom, modern
science, world religious beliefs, philosophy, psychology, and the
arts in search of the inner meaning of life, to provide a framework
for spiritual healing and self-transformation. It is an
intelligent, readable, and insightful guide for all of us caught up
in the human predicament. About parapsychology Cook Loy concludes,
"It is not that God intervenes in miraculous ways to upset the
natural order, but rather that the natural order reveals itself as
far richer and more mysterious than we have allowed ourselves to
think." "In synchronicities," she says, "we discover a mysterious
kind of activity in the world that happens at the very margins of
our consciousness, like a strange sound in the night that stops as
we come to wakefulness. What was that? we want to say. . . . Some
half-remembered reality?" About the Author Completed in her
ninetieth year, drawing on a lifetime of experience as a
psychotherapist, Barbara Cook Loy's book lays out her life's work
as a healer and scholar of the soul. She is a graduate cum laude of
the University of Chicago and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. After
raising her twin boys, she trained to be a psychotherapist at the
C. G. Jung Institute in Los Angeles. Upon receiving her MFT, she
practiced for many decades in Claremont, California, where she
still resides. She has been an active member of the Claremont Jung
Club and the Claremont Religious Society of Friends.
Viewpoints on Media Effects: Pseudo-reality and Its Influence on
Media Consumers continues the ongoing research of media effects by
illuminating not only the negative effects of media consumption,
but also some of the pro-social aspects, with a special focus on
social media. Recommended for scholars and researchers with an
interest in media studies, specifically the exploration of media
effects in various media. Also relevant scholars and researchers
within the fields of communication studies, English, education, and
sociology.
Since Silent Spring was published in 1962, the number of texts
about the natural world written by women has grown exponentially.
The essays in Women Writing Nature: A Feminist View argue that
women writing in the 20th century are utilizing the historical
connection of women and the natural world in diverse ways. For
centuries women have been associated with nature but many feminists
have sought to distance themselves from the natural world because
of dominant cultural representations which reflect women as
controlled by powerful natural forces and confined to domestic
spaces. However, in the spirit of Rachel Carson, some writers have
begun to invoke nature for feminist purposes or have used nature as
an agent of resistance. This collection considers women's writings
about the natural world in light of recent and current feminist and
ecofeminist theory and finds a variety of approaches and
perspectives, both by the scholars and by the authors discussed,
culminating with the voices of two women, activist and scientist
Joan Maloof and Irish poet Rosemarie Rowley, who both write about
the natural world from a feminist perspective.
Since Silent Spring was published in 1962, the number of texts
about the natural world written by women has grown exponentially.
The essays in Women Writing Nature: A Feminist View argue that
women writing in the 20th century are utilizing the historical
connection of women and the natural world in diverse ways. For
centuries women have been associated with nature but many feminists
have sought to distance themselves from the natural world because
of dominant cultural representations which reflect women as
controlled by powerful natural forces and confined to domestic
spaces. However, in the spirit of Rachel Carson, some writers have
begun to invoke nature for feminist purposes or have used nature as
an agent of resistance. This collection considers women's writings
about the natural world in light of recent and current feminist and
ecofeminist theory and finds a variety of approaches and
perspectives, both by the scholars and by the authors discussed,
culminating with the voices of two women, activist and scientist
Joan Maloof and Irish poet Rosemarie Rowley, who both write about
the natural world from a feminist perspective.
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