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The first edition of Life and Death Matters was a breakthrough
text, centralizing the experiences of those on the front lines of
environmental crises and forging new paradigms for understanding
how crises emerge and how different groups of actors respond to
them. This second edition, fully updated with both expanded and new
chapters, once again provides a benchmark for the field and opens
important pathways for further research. Authors reassess the state
of scholarship and grassroots activism in a new century when social
and environmental systems are being reconceptualised within
post-9/11 security and biosecurity frameworks, when global warming
and resource scarcity are not fears but realities, when global
power and politics are being realigned, and when ecocide,
ethnocide, and genocide are daily tragedies. This bold new edition
of Life and Death Matters will be a widely used textbook and
essential reading for students, scholars, and policy makers.
The first edition of Life and Death Matters was a breakthrough
text, centralizing the experiences of those on the front lines of
environmental crises and forging new paradigms for understanding
how crises emerge and how different groups of actors respond to
them. This second edition, fully updated with both expanded and new
chapters, once again provides a benchmark for the field and opens
important pathways for further research. Authors reassess the state
of scholarship and grassroots activism in a new century when social
and environmental systems are being reconceptualised within
post-9/11 security and biosecurity frameworks, when global warming
and resource scarcity are not fears but realities, when global
power and politics are being realigned, and when ecocide,
ethnocide, and genocide are daily tragedies. This bold new edition
of Life and Death Matters will be a widely used textbook and
essential reading for students, scholars, and policy makers.
Humans are good at making war-and much less successful at making
peace. Genocide, torture, slavery, and other crimes against
humanity are gross violations of human rights that are frequently
perpetrated and legitimized in the name of nationalism, militarism,
and economic development. This book tackles the question of how to
make peace by taking a critical look at the primary political
mechanism used to "repair" the many injuries suffered in war. With
an explicit focus on reparations and human rights, it examines the
broad array of abuses being perpetrated in the modern era, from
genocide to loss of livelihood. Based on the experiences of
anthropologists and others who document abuses and serve as expert
witnesses, case studies from around the world offer insight into
reparations proceedings; the ethical struggles associated with
attempts to secure reparations; the professional and personal risks
to researchers, victims, and human rights advocates; and how to
come to terms with the political compromises of reparations in the
face of the human need for justice. Waging War, Making Peace
promises to be a major contribution to public policy, political
science, international relations, and human rights and peace
research.
Humans are good at making war--and much less successful at making
peace. Genocide, torture, slavery, and other crimes against
humanity are gross violations of human rights that are frequently
perpetrated and legitimized in the name of nationalism, militarism,
and economic development. This book tackles the question of how to
make peace by taking a critical look at the primary political
mechanism used to "repair" the many injuries suffered in war. With
an explicit focus on reparations and human rights, it examines the
broad array of abuses being perpetrated in the modern era, from
genocide to loss of livelihood. Based on the experiences of
anthropologists and others who document abuses and serve as expert
witnesses, case studies from around the world offer insight into
reparations proceedings; the ethical struggles associated with
attempts to secure reparations; the professional and personal risks
to researchers, victims, and human rights advocates; and how to
come to terms with the political compromises of reparations in the
face of the human need for justice. Waging War, Making Peace
promises to be a major contribution to public policy, political
science, international relations, and human rights and peace
research.
The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in
1954, had enormous consequences for the Rongelap people.
Anthropologists Barbara Rose Johnston and Holly Barker provide
incontrovertible evidence of physical and financial damages to
individuals and cultural and psycho-social damages to the community
through use of declassified government documents, oral histories
and ethnographic research, conducted with the Marshallese community
within a unique collaborative framework. Their work helped produce
a $1 billion award by the Nuclear Claims Tribunal and raises issues
of bioethics, government secrecy, human rights, military testing,
and academic activism. The report, reproduced here with
accompanying materials, should be read by everyone concerned with
the effects of nuclear war and is an essential text for courses in
history, environmental studies, bioethics, human rights, and
related subjects.
The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in
1954, had enormous consequences for the Rongelap people.
Anthropologists Barbara Rose Johnston and Holly Barker provide
incontrovertible evidence of physical and financial damages to
individuals and cultural and psycho-social damages to the community
through use of declassified government documents, oral histories
and ethnographic research, conducted with the Marshallese community
within a unique collaborative framework. Their work helped produce
a $1 billion award by the Nuclear Claims Tribunal and raises issues
of bioethics, government secrecy, human rights, military testing,
and academic activism. The report, reproduced here with
accompanying materials, should be read by everyone concerned with
the effects of nuclear war and is an essential text for courses in
history, environmental studies, bioethics, human rights, and
related subjects.
South and Central Asia is a region of extraordinary cultural and
environmental diversity and home to nearly one-quarter of the
earth's population. Among these diverse peoples are some whose ways
of life are threatened by the accelerating assault of forces of
change including environmental degradation, population growth, land
loss, warfare, disease, and the penetration of global markets. This
volume examines twelve Asian groups whose way of life is
endangered. Some are "indigenous" peoples, some are not; each group
represents a unique answer to the question of how to survive and
thrive on the planet earth, and illustrates both the threats and
the responses of peoples caught up in the struggle to sustain
cultural meaning, identity, and autonomy. Each chapter, written by
an expert scholar for a general audience, offers a cultural
overview, explores both threats to survival and the group's
responses, and provokes discussion and further research with "food
for thought." This powerful documentation of both tragedy and hope
for the twenty-first-century survival of centuries-old cultures is
a key reference for anyone interested in the region, in cultural
survival, or in the interplay of diversification and
homogenization.
South and Central Asia is a region of extraordinary cultural and
environmental diversity and home to nearly one-quarter of the
earth's population. Among these diverse peoples are some whose ways
of life are threatened by the accelerating assault of forces of
change including environmental degradation, population growth, land
loss, warfare, disease, and the penetration of global markets. This
volume examines twelve Asian groups whose way of life is
endangered. Some are "indigenous" peoples, some are not; each group
represents a unique answer to the question of how to survive and
thrive on the planet earth, and illustrates both the threats and
the responses of peoples caught up in the struggle to sustain
cultural meaning, identity, and autonomy. Each chapter, written by
an expert scholar for a general audience, offers a cultural
overview, explores both threats to survival and the group's
responses, and provokes discussion and further research with "food
for thought." This powerful documentation of both tragedy and hope
for the twenty-first-century survival of centuries-old cultures is
a key reference for anyone interested in the region, in cultural
survival, or in the interplay of diversification and
homogenization.
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Larry Poons (Hardcover)
David Anfam, David Ebony, Barbara Rose
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Larry Poons (b. 1937) shot to fame while still in his twenties, on
the strength of his “dot paintings,” in which dots or ellipses
were meticulously arranged on brightly coloured fields, creating a
rhythmic, pulsating effect. But within a few years, Poons first
loosened the hard-edged precision of the dot paintings and then
abandoned them entirely for an organic mode of abstraction based on
vertical drips of flung paint. This marked the beginning of an
uncompromising five-decade evolution that has finally led the
artist back to a more intimate mode of painting with brushes —
and his own hands. At every stage, Poons's career has compelled the
attention of critics and, in particular, other artists. This
handsome volume, the first full-length biocritical monograph on
Poons, reproduces more than 140 of his most important works in full
colour, some as spectacular gatefolds. The incisive text — a
collaboration between four leading critics and historians —
traces the development of the artist’s extraordinary career.
Larry Poons is a necessary addition to the library of anyone with
an interest in American art.
The long Cold War of the twentieth century has ended, but only now
are the poisonous legacies of that "first nuclear age" coming to
light. Activists and anthropologists, the authors of this volume
reveal the devastating, complex, and long-term environmental health
problems afflicting the people who worked in uranium mining and
processing, lived in regions dedicated to the construction of
nuclear weapons or participated, often unknowingly, in radiation
experiments. The nations and individuals, many of them members of
indigenous or ethnic minority communities, are now demanding
information about how the United States and the Soviet Union
poisoned them and meaningful remedies for the damage done to them
and the generations to come. As nuclear proliferation accelerates,
this struggle takes on ever greater urgency.
Painting after Postmodernism: Belgium - USA investigates why so
many believed Marcel Duchamp when he made his infamous statement of
1918: that painting was dead. After all, as this book goes on to
show, Duchamp was wrong. In the decades before and after World War
II, Picasso, Matisse, Miro and the New York School continued to
make monumental mural scale paintings on the level of the greatest
art of the past. However, in the politically radical 1960s and
1970s it once again became fashionable to toll the death knell for
painting, now perceived as the product of bourgeois culture. In its
place galleries and museums defined the avant-garde as conceptual
art, video, mixed media and installations, all of which denied
painting its position of pre-eminence. Painting was reduced to just
another form of Postmodernist endeavour. Barbara Rose investigates
how contemporary artists rediscovered the art of painting,
juxtaposing works from Belgian and American artists to create a
cross-cultural dialogue.
Ad Reinhardt is probably best known for his black paintings, which
aroused as much controversy as admiration in the American art world
when they were first exhibited in the 1950s. Although his ideas
about art and life were often at odds with those of his
contemporaries, they prefigured the ascendance of minimalism.
Reinhardt's interest in the Orient and in religion, his strong
convictions about the value of abstraction, and his disgust with
the commercialism of the art world are as fresh and valid today as
they were when he first expressed them.
In her book Soul Mates Courtship with Destiny Dr. Barbara Sherry
Rose brings you face to face with all aspects of Soul Mate
Relationships. An indisputable thorough guide for anyone who is
either with or searching for their Soul Mate. You are given the
pinnacle of answers to questions asked from people globally as well
as what to watch out for and what to embrace in a Soul Mate union
or reunion. This in depth book is the ultimate guide on this topic
where real answers await you that will make the most immeasurable
difference in your life.
If you have been sad over the passing of a loved one, the
transformational wisdom that is at the forefront of our evolving
understanding of the afterlife is awaiting you in this breakthrough
book. Dr. Barbara Sherry Rose shares sincere examples from her own
personal life written in a manner anyone can relate to and
understand. And yet, the depth of higher guidance and explanations
in this text are purely fascinating. This groundbreaking book
contains the keys to transform grief after the passing of a loved
one. The pioneering wisdom facilitates authentic transformation
from the deepest grief and despair to genuine understanding and
inner peace. Once you gift yourself with the wisdom in this
breakthrough book it will certainly transform your grief in the
most pure, authentic ways.
THE NOVEL THAT PROVES THERE'S PLENTY OF LIFE-- AND HOT SEX--AFTER
SIXTY
Just because Anny Applebaum qualifies for a senior discount doesn't
mean she's ready for retirement. But if she wants to keep her job
at the "San Francisco Times, "she'll have to find a way to spice up
her lifestyle column. Even if it means posting her profile as an
eligible single on JDate .com. Sure, Anny's a little out of
practice. She hasn't been with a man since she found Viagra in her
ex-husband's suit pocket, and he wasn't taking it for her. But
she's got her friends to help her fumble her way through the
strange and intriguing world of online dating.
After hearing cautionary tales from the trenches--about "boomer
oldies" who drag around pictures of their dead wives and
fixed-income misers who wine and dine their dates at chain
restaurants--Anny is relieved to meet Marv Rothstein, a charming .
. . 75-year-old diamond dealer. Unfortunately, he's also a Digital
Age Don Juan who prowls singles sites for younger women. Not be
outdated by this "Serial JDater," Anny realizes Marv is the perfect
subject for her flagging column and chronicles his sexcapades for
the reading public. But when the new column becomes an overnight
hit, Anny can't help but feel conflicted--because now she's having
sex with Mr. X . . . and it's nothing less than extraordinary.
If you have ever wondered why someone who seems to have everything
to live for suddenly takes his or her life, or how someone with so
much zest for life chooses to end this incarnation Tempted by Death
delivers spellbinding answers from the deeply personal memoire of
Dr. Barbara Sherry Rose. She took down the walls of humiliation and
shame to bear all for you and anyone who ever thinks "death" is an
escape or the end of emotional agony. Shocked by Divine
communication, Barbara shares what she was told that resulted in an
immediate reversal of her own decision to take her life. Whether
you feel as if you no longer want to be here, or are interested in
this topic you will receive authentic truth, awareness and
fantastic realizations from a person who has been through this
whole process firsthand resulting in this groundbreaking book. It
is a must read.
In this groundbreaking book outstanding guidance is given to teens
and adults unraveling the complex relationship issues they face.
World renowned Life Transformation Specialist Dr. Barbara Rose
focuses on relationships, including relationships with sex, drugs,
abuse, acceptance, peers, self esteem and much more in a
"tell-it-like-it-is" approach jam packed with answers. Teen
Relationships Adult Choices delivers real solutions young adults
face in a no holds barred manner. The results can deter school
shootings, abusive relationships, suicide, crime, and a host of
other issues that makes this a "must read" for teens and college
age adults globally. If you have been looking for real answers that
deal with complex issues this book truly delivers them.
Still in love after a break-up? Have you tried everything you can
think of to get over him only to find yourself still crying
yourself to sleep?
If you're looking for real solutions that actually work to get
over the pain, "Get OVER Him FAST" is "the" book that will give you
immediate answers and fantastic insights to swiftly guide you out
of Misery Valley.
Dr. Barbara Rose reveals how she got over the same misery. The
unparalleled insight and transformational process in this book is
one that no other relationship book has revealed, ever.
* You will quickly learn what works.
* Learn the biggest mistake people make after a break-up that
actually perpetuates the pain.
* You will learn the most astounding process that works EVERY time
you need it.
* You will learn the guidelines you have never been taught so
crying yourself to sleep is HISTORY!
If you're ready to kiss your break-up agony goodbye, this is
the book that works every time!
How would you like to feel that you are good enough right NOW,
exactly as you are, this moment? If this is your desire you have
just found the transformational goldmine that delivers the
solutions you need. World renowned Life Transformation Specialist
and Spiritual Teacher Dr. Barbara Rose shares exactly how she
transformed being "earth's biggest doormat and people pleaser" to
feeling one hundred percent pure self value and acceptance. You
will quickly learn the keys that will transform the lies you have
adopted as truth. The search for how to feel you measure up is
about to become history! Get ready to feel plenty good enough and
then watch your life transforms as a result. The wisdom in this
simple yet profound book will be a major turning point that guides
you with the answers you have been searching for all along.
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