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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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
'In God We Trust?' The separation of church and state is a widely
contested topic in the American political arena. Whether for or
against, debaters frequently base their arguments in the
Constitution and the principles of the American founding. However,
Americans' perception of the founding has narrowed greatly over the
years, focusing on a handful of eminent statesmen. By exploring the
work of nine founding fathers, including often overlooked figures
like John Carroll and George Mason, The Founders on God and
Government provides a more complete picture of America's origins.
The contributors, all noted scholars, examine the lives of
individual founders and investigate the relationship between their
religious beliefs and political thought. Bringing together original
documents and analytical essays, this book is an excellent addition
to the library of literature on the founding, and sheds new light
on religion's contributions to American civic culture.
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A World-Systems Reader - New Perspectives on Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology (Paperback)
Tim Bartley, Albert Bergesen, Terry Boswell, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Wilma A. Dunaway, …
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This book brings together some of the most influential new research
from the world-systems perspective. The authors survey and analyze
new and emerging topics from a wide range of disciplinary
perspectives, from political science to archaeology. Each
analytical essay is written in accessible language so that the
volume serves as a lucid introduction both to the tradition of
world-systems thought and the new debates that are sparking further
research today.
In the quarter century since Wallerstein first developed world
systems theory (WST), scholars in a variety of disciplines have
adopted the approach to explain intersocietal interaction on a
grand scale. These essays bring to light archaeological data and
analysis to show that many historic and prehistoric states lacked
the mechanisms to dominate the distant (and in some cases, nearby)
societies with which they interacted. Core/periphery exploitation
needs to be demonstrated, not simply assumed, as the
interdisciplinary dialogue which occurs in this volume
demonstrates. World-Systems Theory in Practice will appeal to
individuals with an interest in the application of WST in both the
Old World and the New World. The papers in this volume reflect the
vitality of the debate concerning the use of such generalizing
theories and will be of interest to archeologists, anthropologists,
historians, sociologists, and those involved in the study of
civilizations.
Co-published with the Society for Economic Anthropology, this work
explores the social, political and economic contexts and
consequences of economic interaction beyond the local systems.
Because the focus of economic analysis is often local, particularly
in anthropology, this book specifically aims analysis beyond the
local system of economic interaction.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Communicating Mental Health: History, Contexts, and Perspectives
explores mental health through the lens of the communication
discipline. In the first section, contributors describe the major
contributions of the communication discipline as it pertains to a
broader perspective and stigma of mental health. In the second
section, contributors investigate mental health through various
narrative perspectives. In the third and fourth sections,
contributors consider many applied contexts such as media,
education, and family. At the conclusion, contributors discuss the
ways in which future inquiries regarding mental health in the
communication discipline can be investigated. Scholars of health
communication, mental health, psychology, history, and sociology
will find this volume particularly useful.
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