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The Arts of Living explores the range, depth and beauty of the
V&A's European collections from 1600-1815, the period that laid
the foundations for the world we know today. At the heart of the
book is in investigation into the objects of everyday life, and the
ways that art and design both reflected and changed how people
lived. The works of art and manufactured goods with which men and
women surrounded themselves defined their identity and role in
society - from monarchs to merchants, craftsmen to housewives.
Singular masterpieces by painters and sculptors including Boucher
and Bernini, along with the work of such leading manufacturers as
the Gobelins, Boulle and Meissen, illustrate a great diversity of
subjects, from Louis XIV and Catherine the Great to male adornment
and fashionable silks, from Jewish traditions and the Dutch
interior to the East India trade and Africans in European art.
Nearly twenty years ago Beth Miller moved with her husband and four
young kids from suburban New Jersey to a 200-year-old Federal
period house and barn in rural Maine. She didn't garden, she didn't
keep chickens or bees, she didn't know how to preserve food, and
she didn't know how to make soap or hook rugs. She embarked on a
journey to learn these heritage skills that have been largely
forgotten, and today she owns and operates Parris House Wool Works,
a traditional rug-hooking company serving both crafters and end
buyers. It is also a working village homestead and workshop where
she practices and teaches heritage skills, including all aspects of
gardening, beekeeping, rug hooking, preserving, and soap making.
Seasons at the Parris House is separated into seasonal sections and
includes historical context and homestead related activities for
each season, plus instructions for a set of related projects and
recipes.
Human trafficking is an increasingly large issue in medicine,
particularly for the adolescent population. The pubertal and
neurologic development of early- and mid-adolescence may serves as
a foothold for trauma bonds and human trafficking. To date, there
are few case studies of human trafficking in the medical
literature. More often, these cases are missed, and human
trafficking patients are unlikely to disclose their victimization
to their physicians for multiple reasons. As a result, physicians
fail to ask key questions and fail to notice important red flags
for human trafficking. Research shows that this is primarily due to
a lack of medical training and awareness and a resultant denial on
the part of many physicians that victims of human trafficking
present to their clinics or specialties. This book provides
clinicians with a case-based guide to scenarios they may encounter
in their practice that involve human trafficking. These cases
include those involving sex trafficking and labor trafficking; male
and female and transgender victims; victims from a range of racial,
ethnic, geographic and socioeconomic backgrounds; as well as
presentations of adolescent and young adult victims to fields such
as adolescent medicine, general pediatrics, neonatology,
rheumatology, transplant medicine, and obstetrics-gynecology, in
addition to the stereotypical presentations to emergency
departments. Each case is followed by a discussion that highlights
key aspects of human trafficking in adolescent and young adult
patients. These discussions also reference the growing body of
research on human trafficking, orient the reader to medico-legal
aspects of reporting human trafficking in the adolescent and young
adult populations, and feature useful questions, exercises, and
resources to promote discussion among those medical professionals
who interact with adolescent medicine and young adult patients.
Written by physicians, legal advocates and lawyers, Medical
Perspectives on Human Trafficking in Adolescents is the definitive
guide for all clinicians who care for adolescent patients. It is
also a useful resource for mental health professionals and social
workers.
Disability and literacy are often understood as incompatible.
Disability is taken to be a sign of illiteracy, and illiteracy to
be a sign of disability. These oppositions generate damaging
consequences for disabled students (and those labeled as such) who
are denied full literacy education and for nonliterate adults who
are perceived as lacking intelligence, knowledge, and ability. What
It Means to Be Literate turns attention to disabled writers
themselves, exposing how the cultural oppositions between
disability and literacy affect how people understand themselves as
literate and even as fully human. Drawing on interviews with
individuals who have experienced strokes and brain injuries causing
the language disability aphasia, Elisabeth L. Miller argues for the
importance of taking a disability materiality approach to literacy
that accounts for the embodied, material experiences of disabled
people writing and reading. This approach reveals how aphasic
writers’ literate practices may reinscribe, challenge, or even
exceed scripts around the body in literacy (how brains, hands,
eyes, mouths, voice boxes, and more operate to make reading and
writing happen) as well as what and how spaces, activities, tools,
and materials matter in literate practice. Miller pushes for a
deeper understanding of how individuals’ specific bodies always
matter for literate practice and identity, enabling researchers to
better account for, and counter, ableist literate norms.
Going Public responds to the urgent need to expand current thinking
on what it means to co-create and to actively involve the public in
research activities. Drawing on conversations with over thirty
practitioners across multiple cultures and disciplines, this book
examines the ways in which oral historians, media producers, and
theatre artists use art, stories, and participatory practices to
engage creatively with their publics. It offers insights into
concerns related to voice, appropriation, privilege, and the ethics
of participation, and it reveals that the shift towards
participatory research and creative practices requires a commitment
to asking tough questions about oneself and the ways that
people’s stories are used.
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