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Revising the grammar and vocabulary from Hello Spanish - A
Beginner's Guide to Spanish, these simple activities build
confidence and encourage enthusiasm for language learning. Clear,
fun and familiar examples will spark a lifelong passion for
Spanish!
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A French Practice Workbook (Paperback)
Emilie Martin; Edited by Marie-Therese Bougard; Illustrated by Kim Hankinson
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Revising the grammar and vocabulary from Hello French - A
Beginner's Guide to French, these simple activities build
confidence and encourage enthusiasm for language learning. Clear,
fun and familiar examples will spark a lifelong passion for French!
Revising the grammar and vocabulary from Hello English - A
Beginner's Guide to English, these simple activities build
confidence and encourage enthusiasm for language learning. Clear,
fun and familiar examples will spark a lifelong passion for
English!
An inside view of the experimental practices of cognitive
psychology-and their influence on the addictive nature of social
media Experimental cognitive psychology research is a hidden force
in our online lives. We engage with it, often unknowingly, whenever
we download a health app, complete a Facebook quiz, or rate our
latest purchase. How did experimental psychology come to play an
outsized role in these developments? Experiments of the Mind
considers this question through a look at cognitive psychology
laboratories. Emily Martin traces how psychological research
methods evolved, escaped the boundaries of the discipline, and
infiltrated social media and our digital universe. Martin recounts
her participation in psychology labs, and she conveys their
activities through the voices of principal investigators, graduate
students, and subjects. Despite claims of experimental psychology's
focus on isolated individuals, Martin finds that the history of the
field-from early German labs to Gestalt psychology-has led to
research methods that are, in fact, highly social. She shows how
these methods are deployed online: amplified by troves of data and
powerful machine learning, an unprecedented model of human
psychology is now widespread-one in which statistical measures are
paired with algorithms to predict and influence users' behavior.
Experiments of the Mind examines how psychology research has shaped
us to be perfectly suited for our networked age.
This handbook explores the rich and as yet understudied field of
women’s writing during the nation-building years that
characterized the global politics of the long nineteenth century.
In the wake of the American and French Revolutions, the waning of
the Spanish Empire, subsequent Latin American uprisings, and the
Italian Risorgimento, nineteenth-century women writers cracked wide
open the myths of gender, race, and class that had sustained
the ancien régime. This volume shows that the transnational
networks of women writing about politics, sexuality, economics, and
the forging of the modern nation were much broader and more
inclusive at a global level than has previously been understood.
The handbook uniquely foregrounds French, Italian, Latin American,
and Spanish women writers, focusing on the transnational nature of
their relationships and cultural production within a growing body
of research that casts an ever-wider net in the effort to document
women’s voices.
An inside view of the experimental practices of cognitive
psychology-and their influence on the addictive nature of social
media Experimental cognitive psychology research is a hidden force
in our online lives. We engage with it, often unknowingly, whenever
we download a health app, complete a Facebook quiz, or rate our
latest purchase. How did experimental psychology come to play an
outsized role in these developments? Experiments of the Mind
considers this question through a look at cognitive psychology
laboratories. Emily Martin traces how psychological research
methods evolved, escaped the boundaries of the discipline, and
infiltrated social media and our digital universe. Martin recounts
her participation in psychology labs, and she conveys their
activities through the voices of principal investigators, graduate
students, and subjects. Despite claims of experimental psychology's
focus on isolated individuals, Martin finds that the history of the
field-from early German labs to Gestalt psychology-has led to
research methods that are, in fact, highly social. She shows how
these methods are deployed online: amplified by troves of data and
powerful machine learning, an unprecedented model of human
psychology is now widespread-one in which statistical measures are
paired with algorithms to predict and influence users' behavior.
Experiments of the Mind examines how psychology research has shaped
us to be perfectly suited for our networked age.
Today we live in times of proliferating fears. The daily updates on
the ongoing 'war on terror' amplify fear and anxiety as if they
were necessary and important aspects of our reality. Concerns about
the environment increasingly take center-stage, as stories and
images abound about deadly viruses, alien species invasions,
scarcity of oil, water, food; safety of GMOs, biological weapons,
and fears of overpopulation. Making Threats: Biofears and
Environmental Anxieties addresses how such environmental and
biological fears are used to manufacture threats to individual,
national, and global security. Contributors from environmental
studies, political science, international security, biology,
sociology and anthropology discuss what they share in common: the
view that fears should be critically examined to avoid unnecessary
alarm and scapegoating of people and nations as the 'enemy Other'.
In these highly original and thought-provoking essays, Making
Threats focuses on five themes: security, scarcity, purity,
circulation and terror. No other book has systematically examined
the proliferation of fear in the context of current world events
and from such a multidisciplinary perspective. It consolidates in
one place cutting edge research and reflection on how the
contemporary landscape of fear shapes and is shaped by
environmental and biological discourses. By uncovering the
linguistic tools that make fear resonate in the public
consciousness, by identifying the interests that create or are
sustained by fears, in short by giving fears histories, Making
Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties engages with some of
the most potent and disturbing political and cultural aspects of
the contemporary scene.
Manic behavior holds an undeniable fascination in American
culture today. It fuels the plots of best-selling novels and the
imagery of MTV videos, is acknowledged as the driving force for
successful entrepreneurs like Ted Turner, and is celebrated as the
source of the creativity of artists like Vincent Van Gogh and movie
stars like Robin Williams. "Bipolar Expeditions" seeks to
understand mania's appeal and how it weighs on the lives of
Americans diagnosed with manic depression.
Anthropologist Emily Martin guides us into the fascinating and
sometimes disturbing worlds of mental-health support groups, mood
charts, psychiatric rounds, the pharmaceutical industry, and
psychotropic drugs. Charting how these worlds intersect with the
wider popular culture, she reveals how people living under the
description of bipolar disorder are often denied the status of
being fully human, even while contemporary America exhibits a
powerful affinity for manic behavior. Mania, Martin shows, has come
to be regarded as a distant frontier that invites exploration
because it seems to offer fame and profits to pioneers, while
depression is imagined as something that should be eliminated
altogether with the help of drugs.
"Bipolar Expeditions" argues that mania and depression have a
cultural life outside the confines of diagnosis, that the
experiences of people living with bipolar disorder belong fully to
the human condition, and that even the most so-called rational
everyday practices are intertwined with irrational ones. Martin's
own experience with bipolar disorder informs her analysis and lends
a personal perspective to this complex story.
When Emily Martin delivered the annual Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
at the University of Rochester in 1986, she took as her subject the
meaning of money in China and the United States. Though the topic
is of perennial interest - and never more so than in our era, when
economic forecasts of China's growing economy generate shallow news
stories and public fear - the lectures were never edited for
publication, so their rich analysis has been unavailable to
anthropologists ever since. With this book - the first volume in a
collaboration between HAU Books and the University of Rochester -
Martin's lectures are brought back, fully edited and richly
illustrated. It features a new introduction by Martin herself
brings her analysis wholly up to date, while an afterword by Sidney
Mintz and Jane I. Guyer discusses Martin's work, influence, and
legacy. The Meaning of Money in China and the United States will
instantly assume its rightful place as a classic in the field, with
Martin's insights as germane and productive as they were nearly
thirty years ago.
Los amores de Hortensia, that initiates the cycle of novels by
Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera (1842-1909), owes some of its
characters' attributes of extreme sensibility, beauty and
intelligence to the longevity of Romanticism in Latin America
during the nineteenth-century. Yet, the protagonist's search for
independence, her intellectual superiority, and above all, her
lucid understanding of the dynamics of gender and class within the
asphyxiating atmosphere of Lima's upper-crust society, transgress
the limits of the romantic heroine and plant her firmly in the
tradition of the naturalistic narrative. Her tragic destiny is
sealed with a marriage of convenience at an early age. She
discovers true love, but also deception, selfishness and the basest
of instincts among those who surround her. After almost 125 years
of neglect, we offer this edition of the first novel By Cabello de
Carbonera, as an indispensable text for Latin American and gender
studies scholars and students to explore the complex relationship
the author held with the realist and naturalist movements of the
nineteenth-century. There has been much uncertainty about its date
of publication. It was first published in Lima in the newspaper, La
Nacion, (1887), and later on that same year, in book form, by the
Imprenta de Torres Aguirre. Ismael Pinto Vargas, her most recent
and thorough biographer, concluded in 2003 that the novel had been
published in Paris by the journal, El Correo de Ultramar, surely
before the publication's demise in early 1886. His conjectures are
supported by none other than the author herself in her dedication
of her novel, Sacrificio y recompensa (1886) to her friend and
mentor, the Argentinean writer, Juana Manuela Gorriti. This edition
confirms his findings, and echoes the renewed interest in the works
of Cabello de Carbonera as pioneer of the realist and naturalist
novel in Latin America.
As a result of the strength and dominance of the centralized state,
ritual action in China often takes its logic from political action.
In this book Emily Ahern explores the implications of this. She
argues that forms of control attempted ritually on non-human
persons (gods and other spirits) in China parallel those forms of
control which people regard as effective in ordinary life, namely
political control, and draws important conclusions from this. She
shows that in China it is possible to discard terms such as
'magic', which imply that acts directed to spirits operate on a
different basis from acts in ordinary life. She also challenges
claims in anthropology that, since they seem arbitrary and the
actions of participants in them highly predictable, rituals support
established authority. Her book will be of interest not only to
specialists in Chinese studies, but to social anthropologists and
others interested in the link between ritual and political
processes.
Emily Martin traces Americans' changing ideas about health and
immunity since the 1940s. She explores the implications of our
emphasis on 'flexibility' in contexts from medicine to the
corporate world, warning that we may be approaching a new form of
social Darwinism.
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