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Congress adjourned on 18 May 1852 for Louisa Catherine Adams's
funeral, according her an honor never before offered a first lady.
But her life and influence merited this extraordinary tribute. She
had been first the daughter-in-law and then the wife of a
president. She had assisted her husband as a diplomat at three of
the major capitals of Europe. She had served as a leading hostess
and significant figure in Washington for three decades. And yet, a
century and a half later, she is barely remembered. A Traveled
First Lady: Writings of Louisa Catherine Adams seeks to correct
that oversight by sharing Adams's remarkable experiences in her own
words. These excerpts from diaries and memoirs recount her early
years in London and Paris (to this day she is the only foreign-born
first lady), her courtship and marriage to John Quincy Adams, her
time in the lavish courts of Berlin and St. Petersburg as a
diplomat's wife, and her years aiding John Quincy's political
career in Washington. Emotional, critical, witty, and, in the Adams
tradition, always frank, her writings draw sharp portraits of
people from every station, both servants and members of the
imperial court, and deliver clear, well-informed opinions about the
major issues of her day. Telling the story of her own life,
juxtaposed with rich descriptions of European courts, Washington
political maneuvers, and the continuing Adams family drama, Louisa
Catherine Adams demonstrates why she was once considered one of the
preeminent women of the nineteenth century.
This edited volume is the first publication to tackle the issue of
researching human-technology relations from a methodological
postphenomenological perspective. While the 'traditional'
phenomenology of the 20th century, with figures like Husserl,
Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, provided valuable insights into the
formal structures of essence, being and embodiment, etc. their mode
of philosophizing mostly involved abstract 'pure' thinking.
Although rooted in this tradition, the postphenomenological
approach to the study of human-technology relations emphasizes the
"empirical turn" and interdisciplinary work in the field of
philosophy - and reaches out to other disciplines like
anthropology, education, media studies, and science and technology
studies (STS). The contributors discuss what it means for the field
of postphenomenology to be empirically based and what kind of
methodology is required in order for researchers to go out and
study human-technology relations in this perspective. In many
disciplines, methodology refers to the analytical approach taken -
e.g. the analytical concepts you employ to make an analysis; in
postphenomenology, these might include concepts such as
multistability, variation, or mediation. In a discipline like
anthropology, it also refers to reflections over the methods
researchers use to approach an empirical field. Methods can include
interviews of different kinds, participant observations, surveys,
and auto-ethnography. Furthermore, methodology can include ethical
issues tied to doing research in an empirical field. These
practical aspects are not separate from, but rather connected to,
theoretical approaches. This book ties together the methods,
ethics, and theories of postphenomenology in a groundbreaking
volume on methodology. With postphenomenological studies of
education, digital media, biohacking, health, robotics, and
skateboarding as points of reference, the authors of this volume,
in twelve chapters, provide new perspectives on what a
comprehensive postphenomenological research methodology must
consist of.
This book provides a practical approach for applying posthumanist
insights to qualitative research inquiry. Adams and Thompson invite
readers to embrace their inner - and outer - cyborg as they
consider how today's professional practices and everyday ways of
being are increasingly intertwined with digital technologies.
Drawing on posthuman scholarship, the authors offer eight
heuristics for "interviewing objects" in an effort to reveal the
unique - and sometimes contradictory - contributions the digital is
making to work, learning and living. The heuristics are drawn from
Actor Network Theory, phenomenology, postphenomenology, critical
media studies and related sociomaterial approaches. This text
offers a theoretically informed yet practical approach for asking
critical questions of digital and non-digital things in
professional and personal spaces, and ultimately, for considering
the ethical and political implications of a technology mediated
world. A thought-provoking and innovative study, this book will be
of great interest to scholars and researchers of technology
studies, digital learning, and sociology.
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My Little Book of Bugs (Board book)
Julia Kasper, Phil Sirvid; Photographs by Jean-Claude Stahl; Translated by Stephanie Tibble; Designed by Catherine Adam
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R374
Discovery Miles 3 740
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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An appealing board book that helps young readers learn about bugs.
A beautiful board book for babies and toddlers, featuring amazing
photos of New Zealand bugs in the collection of Museum of New
Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. With text in both English and te reo
Maori, it is a perfect gift for any baby and its family.
Cet ouvrage developpe une reflexion scientifique a propos du
bilinguisme scolaire du jeune enfant, a partir d'un cas d'etude
particulier, celui de la scolarisation de jeunes enfants en classes
bilingues breton-francais en Bretagne au XXIeme siecle. Il s'agit
de mieux comprendre, a travers les discours de parents et
d'enfants, les mecanismes a l'origine d'une politique linguistique
familiale atypique et ses influences sur l'appropriation
sociolangagiere des enfants. Cette recherche originale s'insere
dans une thematique de recherche plus large, celle de l'individu
bilingue, en explorant ses origines et son devenir. Les analyses
devoilent des dynamiques et des processus a l'oeuvre, dans ces
discours et pratiques, qu'il apparait essentiel de prendre en
compte tant du point de vue theorique qu'au niveau d'actions sur le
terrain.
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Alihume (Paperback)
Catherine Adams Webb
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R281
Discovery Miles 2 810
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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