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Drawing from many disciplinary areas, this edited volume explores
how the Coronavirus pandemic has disproportionately harmed
vulnerable and marginalized people in the U.S. Chapters address
harm to people of color that exacerbated structural racism and harm
to low-wage workers that highlighted existing inequalities. In
addition, the volume provides strategies that have been successful
in mitigating these harms and recommendations for a postpandemic
more peaceful and just future.
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Damnable Heresy (Hardcover)
David M. Powers; Foreword by David D. Hall
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Estimation of the metabolite complement of plant material involves
a wide range of techniques and technologies and that breadth
continues to increase. Metabolomics research typically involves
multiple sites for material preparation and analysis and most
investigations are "high throughput", meaning that chemical
analysis of sample sets are inevitably carried out over an extended
period of time. In, Plant Metabolomics: Methods and Protocols
expert researchers in the field detail many of the stages which are
now commonly used to study plant metabolomics workflow. Stages of
this workflow, up to and including the statistical analysis,
accurate and detailed collection of meta-data are also essential
for good process management, to satisfy reporting requirements and
to ensure wider interpretability and reuse results.Written in the
highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology (TM) series format,
chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of
the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily
reproducible laboratory protocols, and key tips on troubleshooting
and avoiding known pitfalls. Through and intuitive Plant
Metabolomics: Methods and Protocols, seeks to aid scientists in the
further study of the methods for all the stages of the plant
metabolomics workflow.
Nanotechnology is the science of designing and building machines at
the molecular and atomic levels.Dr. Hall - a leading researcher on
the frontiers of nanotechnology who has designed for NASA -
describes nanotechnology in a very accessible way, so that anyone
can understand what it's about, what it could do, and what it can't
do. He puts it into historical context, explaining how previous
technological developments have affected us, how nanotechnology
fits into the historical trends for technologies ranging from
motors to medicine, and how the continuation of these trends, with
nanotechnology as a strong determining factor, will have a profound
impact on the future. Together with its sister science of
biotechnology, nanotechnology has the potential to alter the very
human race, change who we are. Can this possibly be good? Should it
be encouraged or opposed? No one knows for sure, but the basis for
informed thought can be found in these exciting, stimulating pages,
which will open the doors of the future to you.
Fixing Patriarchy: Feminism and Mid-Victorian Male Novelists
explores representations of monstrous women in mid-Victorian
literature, tracing anxious male responses to the feminist movement
of the era. It argues that Victorian patriarchy was a fluid theory
and set of practices through which Victorian men attempted
unsuccessfully to fix gender definitions and their own positions of
power. In Victorian novels written by men, the thorough instability
of contemporary conceptions of both masculinity and femininity is
revealed, as an entire society struggled with new forms of
self-awareness and new threats to traditional social structures and
systems of belief.
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Land (Hardcover)
D. Hall
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Land is one of the world's most emotionally resonant resources, and
control over it is fundamental to almost all human activity. From
the local level to the global, we are often in conflict over the
ground beneath our feet. But because human relationships to land
are so complex, it can be difficult to think them through in a
unified way. This path-breaking book aims to change that by
combining insights from multiple disciplines to develop a framework
for understanding the geopolitics of land today.Struggles over
land, argues Derek Hall, relate to three basic principles: its role
as territory, its status as property, and the ways in which its use
is regulated. This timely introduction explores key dimensions of
these themes, including inter-state wars over territory, the
efforts of non-governmental organizations to protect property
rights and environments in the global South, and the 'land grabs'
attempted by contemporary corporations and governments. Drawing on
a wide range of cases and examples - from the Afghanistan-Pakistan
border to the Canadian Arctic, China's urban fringe to rural
Honduras - the book provides new ways of thinking about the
political dynamics of land in the 21st century.This richly detailed
and authoritative guide will be of interest to students across the
social sciences, as well as anyone interested in current affairs
and contemporary geopolitics.
This book examines diverse ways in which young people from around
the world envision and prepare for their future education, careers,
and families. The book features cutting-edge anthropological essays
including ethnographic accounts of schooling in India, South
Africa, the US, Bhutan, Tanzania, and Nigeria. Each chapter focuses
on today's generation of students and on students' use of education
to create new possibilities for themselves. This volume will be of
particular interest to practicing teachers and anthropologists and
to readers who seek an ethnographic understanding of the world as
seen through the eyes of students.
Originally published in 1990, this massive work of scholarship
provides an invaluable reference tool for efficient textual
investigation to a medieval masterpiece and one of the most
significant Middle High German poems. Function words and selected
high frequency words with related forms, omitted from many
concordances, are given in single verse context in the Verse
Concordance. The shorter format offers enough information for most
research needs, and certainly enough to indicate where recourse to
the text itself is required. While the Key Word in Context (KWIC)
concordance is in traditional text-order, headwords in the verse
concordance are sorted on neighbouring words to the right to reveal
patterns which would otherwise remain undisclosed because of sheer
numbers.
Recent literature has suggested that famines are complex,
long-drawn-out and political processes, rather than sudden, natural
phenomena. This book is among the first to examine such a process
in detail, by studying poor peasants in Ahmednagar district,
Western India, between 1870 and 1884. It does so by investigating
their factors of production - land, capital and labour - as well as
markets in credit and the cheap foodgrains they produced and, above
all, their relationship with the colonial state.
A groundbreaking workbook to help you develop healthy coping
strategies, build a solid support network, and stay on the path to
recovery. If you've been in therapy for an eating disorder, such as
anorexia nervosa or bulimia, your past treatment may have focused
on helping you control your emotions and contain your behaviors.
However, research now shows that many people with eating disorders
actually suffer from emotional overcontrol. Based on more than
twenty years of research, this breakthrough workbook offers skills
based in radically open dialectical behavior therapy (RO DBT), a
proven-effective, transdiagnostic approach for treating disorders
of overcontrol (OC). With this compassionate workbook, you'll learn
how to move beyond the unhealthy coping strategies that keep you
feeling isolated and lonely, find tips for building a solid support
network and enriching social connections, and develop your own
personalized plan for staying on the path to recovery. You'll also
find assessments to help you determine the root cause of your OC
disorder, exercises for increasing social engagement, and skills
for improving social flexibility, trust, and intimacy. Having an
eating disorder can make you feel like you're alone in the world.
Even if you're in recovery, you may have days when feelings of
isolation are too much, and you may feel tempted to fall back into
unhealthy patterns of eating or restrictive eating. This workbook
will help you build your own "treatment tribe," a group of people
that help lift you up and support you as you find your way to a
full recovery and a rich, meaningful life.
This work explores essential debates on globalization and
world-systems analysis. It begins with a review of theoretical
insights from world-systems analysis and explains the evolution of
its terminology. The book subsequently seeks to answer several
important questions: When did globalization begin and what insights
into contemporary globalization may be gained from older forms? How
does globalization differ in different places, and how can
different instances of globalization be compared? Who is affected
by globalization, how are they affected, and how do these effects
vary, if at all, over time and space? As world-systems analysis and
studies of globalization require interdisciplinary expertise, the
contributing authors draw on many fields, including anthropology,
economics, geography, philosophy, political science, sociology, and
world history. The book's overall goal is to facilitate the
dialogue between approaches that, at times, seem to "talk at
cross-purposes," and to extend an invitation to scholars from many
different areas to explore globalization.
The proliferation of herbal remedies worldwide has most dangerously
outpaced quality information on their safe use. This book fills a
tremendous void by offering authoritative information on the
actions of herbal remedies and the results of their interactions
with standard medications. It offers specific, authoritative
information with a conceptual approach that focuses not only on the
specific interactions, but also on the mechanisms behind those
interactions and their clinical significance. With contributions
from leading experts on herb-drug interactions, the text examines
the overall use of herbs, includes sections on individual herbs,
and considers regulatory issues and concerns.
Originally published in 1990, this massive work of scholarship
provides an invaluable reference tool for efficient textual
investigation to a medieval masterpiece and one of the most
significant Middle High German poems. Function words and selected
high frequency words with related forms, omitted from many
concordances, are given in single verse context in the Verse
Concordance. The shorter format offers enough information for most
research needs, and certainly enough to indicate where recourse to
the text itself is required. While the Key Word in Context (KWIC)
concordance is in traditional text-order, headwords in the verse
concordance are sorted on neighbouring words to the right to reveal
patterns which would otherwise remain undisclosed because of sheer
numbers.
The issues native peoples face intensify with globalization.
Through case studies from around the world, Hall and Fenelon
demonstrate how indigenous peoples movements can be understood only
by linking highly localized processes with larger global and
historical forces. The authors show that indigenous peoples have
been resisting and adapting to encounters with states for
millennia. Unlike other antiglobalization activists, indigenous
peoples primarily seek autonomy and the right to determine their
own processes of adaptation and change, especially in relationship
to their origin lands and community. The authors link their
analyses to current understandings of the evolution of
globalization.
A panoramic history of Puritanism in England, Scotland, and New
England This book is a sweeping transatlantic history of Puritanism
from its emergence out of the religious tumult of Elizabethan
England to its founding role in the story of America. Shedding
critical new light on the diverse forms of Puritan belief and
practice in England, Scotland, and New England, David Hall provides
a multifaceted account of a cultural movement that judged the
Protestant reforms of Elizabeth's reign to be unfinished. Hall's
vivid and wide-ranging narrative describes the movement's deeply
ambiguous triumph under Oliver Cromwell, its political demise with
the Restoration of the English monarchy in 1660, and its perilous
migration across the Atlantic to establish a "perfect reformation"
in the New World. A breathtaking work of scholarship by an eminent
historian, The Puritans examines the tribulations and doctrinal
dilemmas that led to the fragmentation and eventual decline of
Puritanism. It presents a compelling portrait of a religious and
political movement that was divided virtually from the start. In
England, some wanted to dismantle the Church of England entirely
and others were more cautious, while Puritans in Scotland were
divided between those willing to work with a troublesome king and
others insisting on the independence of the state church. This
monumental book traces how Puritanism was a catalyst for profound
cultural changes in the early modern Atlantic world, opening the
door for other dissenter groups such as the Baptists and the
Quakers, and leaving its enduring mark on what counted as true
religion in America.
The issues native peoples face intensify with globalization.
Through case studies from around the world, Hall and Fenelon
demonstrate how indigenous peoples? movements can only be
understood by linking highly localized processes with larger global
and historical forces. The authors show that indigenous peoples
have been resisting and adapting to encounters with states for
millennia. Unlike other antiglobalization activists, indigenous
peoples primarily seek autonomy and the right to determine their
own processes of adaptation and change, especially in relationship
to their origin lands and community. The authors link their
analyses to current understandings of the evolution of
globalization.
Robert Hall and a panel of expert researchers present a
comprehensive collection of the most frequently used and broadly
applicable techniques for plant cell and tissue culture. Readily
reproducible and extensively annotated, the methods cover culture
initiation, maintenance, manipulation, application, and long-term
storage, with emphasis on techniques for genetic modification and
micropropagation. Many of these protocols are currently used in
major projects designed to produce improved varieties of important
crop plants. Plant Cell Culture Protocols's state-of-the-art
techniques are certain to make the book today's reference of
choice, an indispensable tool in the development of new transgenic
plants and full-scale commercial applications.
In Lives in Translation, Kathleen Hall investigates the cultural
politics of immigration and citizenship, education and
identity-formation among Sikh youth whose parents migrated to
England from India and East Africa. Legally British, these young
people encounter race as a barrier to becoming truly "English."
Hall breaks with conventional ethnographies about immigrant groups
by placing this paradox of modern citizenship at the center of her
study, considering Sikh immigration within a broader analysis of
the making of a multiracial postcolonial British nation. The
postwar British public sphere has been a contested terrain on which
the politics of cultural pluralism and of social incorporation have
configured the possibilities and the limitations of citizenship and
national belonging. Hall's rich ethnographic account directs
attention to the shifting fields of power and cultural politics in
the public sphere, where collective identities, social statuses,
and cultural subjectivities are produced in law and policy,
education and the media, as well as in families, peer groups,
ethnic networks, and religious organizations. Hall uses a blend of
interviews, fieldwork, and archival research to challenge the
assimilationist narrative of the traditional immigration myth,
demonstrating how migrant people come to know themselves and others
through contradictory experiences of social conflict and solidarity
across different social fields within the public sphere. Lives in
Translation chronicles the stories of Sikh youth, the cultural
dilemmas they face, the situated identities they perform, and the
life choices they make as they navigate their own journeys to
citizenship.
Fixing Patriarchy: Feminism and Mid-Victorian Male Novelists
explores representations of monstrous women in mid-Victorian
literature, tracing anxious male responses to the feminist movement
of the era. It argues that Victorian patriarchy was a fluid theory
and set of practices through which Victorian men attempted
unsuccessfully to fix gender definitions and their own positions of
power. In Victorian novels written by men, the thorough instability
of contemporary conceptions of both masculinity and femininity is
revealed, as an entire society struggled with new forms of
self-awareness and new threats to traditional social structures and
systems of belief.
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