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Incomplete Archaeologies takes a familiar archaeological concept -
assemblages - and reconsiders such groupings, collections and sets
of things from the perspective of the work required to assemble
them. The discussions presented here engage with the practices of
collection, construction, performance and creation in the past (and
present) which constitute the things and groups of things studied
by archaeologists - and examine as well how these things and
thing-groups are dismantled, rearranged, and even destroyed, only
to be rebuilt and recreated. The ultimate aim is to reassert an
awareness of the incompleteness of assemblage, and thus the
importance of practices of assembling (whether they seem at first
creative or destructive) for understanding social life in the past
as well as the present. The individual chapters represent critical
engagements with this aim by archaeologists presenting a broad
scope of case studies from Eurasia and the Mediterranean. Case
studies include discussions of mortuary practice from numerous
angles, the sociopolitics of metallurgy, human-animal
relationships, landscape and memory, the assembly of political
subjectivity and the curation of sovereignty. These studies
emphasise the incomplete and ongoing nature of social action in the
past, and stress the critical significance of a deeper
understanding of formation processes as well as contextual
archaeologies to practices of archaeology, museology, art history,
and other related disciplines. Contributors challenge
archaeologists and others to think past the objects in the
assemblage to the practices of assembling, enabling us to consider
not only plural modes of interacting with and perceiving things,
spaces, human bodies and temporalities in the past, but also to
perhaps discover alternate modes of framing these interactions and
relationships in our analyses. Ultimately then, Incomplete
Archaeologies takes aim at the perceived totality not only of
assemblages of artefacts on shelves and desks, but also that of
some of archaeology's seeming-seamless epistemological objects.
Blacks and Jews in Literary Conversation explores the works of a
range of black and Jewish writers, critics, and academics from the
1950s to the 1980s. By recording conversations both direct, such as
essays and letters, and indirect, such as the fiction of Bernard
Malamud, Philip Roth, Alice Walker, Cynthia Ozick, Toni Morrison,
and James Baldwin, this book shows how dialogue can engender
misperceptions and misunderstandings, and how blacks and Jews in
America have both sought and resisted assimilation. By analyzing
the history of this discourse, the author explores the ways in
which ethnic fiction works in interethnic America, the effects of
identity politics, and the tensions and bonds created as African
and Jewish Americans continue to construct their ethnic and
religious identities in the United States.
Fictional representations of horrific events run the risk of
undercutting efforts to verify historical knowledge and may
heighten our ability to respond intellectually and ethically to
human experiences of devastation. In this captivating study of the
epistemological, psychological, and ethical issues underlying
Holocaust fiction, Emily Miller Budick examines the subjective
experiences of fantasy, projection, and repression manifested in
Holocaust fiction and in the reader's encounter with it.
Considering works by Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman, Aharon
Appelfeld, Michael Chabon, and others, Budick investigates how the
reading subject makes sense of these fictionalized presentations of
memory and trauma, victims and victimizers.
In the wake of tragic shootings in Newtown and Aurora, the anti-gun
lobby has launched a campaign of lies, distortion,
misrepresentation, and emotional manipulation that is breathtaking
in its vitriol and its denial of basic facts. Their goal is to take
away our Second Amendment rights and then disarm law-abiding
Americans. Emily Miller tells her personal story of how being a
single, female victim of a home invasion drove her to try to obtain
a legally registered gun in Washington, D.C. The narrative
sometimes shocking, other times hilarious in its absurdity gives
the reader a real life understanding of how gun-control laws only
make it more difficult for honest, law-abiding people to get guns,
while violent crime continues to rise. Using facts and newly
uncovered research, Miller exposes the schemes politicians on
Capitol Hill, in the White House, and around the country are using
to deny people their Second Amendment rights. She exposes the myths
that gun grabbers and liberal media use to get new laws passed that
infringe on our right to keep and bear arms. The gun rights debate
isn't just about firearms. It's about protecting a fundamental
right that is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. It's about
politicians who lie, manipulate, and outright break existing laws
to get what they want. It's about President Obama wanting a bigger
federal government to control you. Not just your guns you. The
fight for gun rights is the fight for freedom. Emily Miller says
stand up and fight back now because your Second Amendment will only
be the first to go.
Collins Primary Science fully meets the requirements of the
Cambridge Assessment International Education Primary Science
Curriculum Framework and the material has been carefully developed
to meet the needs of primary science students and teachers in a
range of international contexts. Content is organised according to
the three main strands: Biology, Chemistry and Physics and the
skills detailed under the Scientific Enquiry strand are introduced
and taught in the context of those areas. For each of Stages 1 to 6
as detailed in the Cambridge Primary Science Framework, we offer: A
full colour, highly illustrated and photograph rich Student's Book
A write-in Workbook linked to the Student's Book This comprehensive
Teacher's Guide with clear suggestions for using the materials,
including the electronic components of the course A DVD-ROM which
contains slideshows, video clips, additional photographs and
interactive activities for use in the classroom. Provides support
as part of a set of resources for the Cambridge Primary curriculum
framework from 2011. This title is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment
International Education.
Collins Primary Science fully meets the requirements of the
Cambridge Assessment International Education Primary Science
Curriculum Framework and the material has been carefully developed
to meet the needs of primary science students and teachers in a
range of international contexts. Content is organised according to
the three main strands: Biology, Chemistry and Physics and the
skills detailed under the Scientific Enquiry strand are introduced
and taught in the context of those areas. For each of Stages 1 to 6
as detailed in the Cambridge Primary Science Framework, we offer: A
full colour, highly illustrated and photograph rich Student's Book
A write-in Workbook linked to the Student's Book This comprehensive
Teacher's Guide with clear suggestions for using the materials,
including the electronic components of the course A DVD-ROM which
contains slideshows, video clips, additional photographs and
interactive activities for use in the classroom. Provides support
as part of a set of resources for the Cambridge Primary curriculum
framework from 2011. This title is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment
International Education.
Contributing Authors Include Charles Harvey Brown, Hannah Severns,
Margery Doud, And Many Others.
Collins Primary Science fully meets the requirements of the
Cambridge Assessment International Education Primary Science
Curriculum Framework and the material has been carefully developed
to meet the needs of primary science students and teachers in a
range of international contexts. Content is organised according to
the three main strands: Biology, Chemistry and Physics and the
skills detailed under the Scientific Enquiry strand are introduced
and taught in the context of those areas. For each of Stages 1 to 6
as detailed in the Cambridge Primary Science Framework, we offer: A
full colour, highly illustrated and photograph rich Student's Book
A write-in Workbook linked to the Student's Book This comprehensive
Teacher's Guide with clear suggestions for using the materials,
including the electronic components of the course A DVD-ROM which
contains slideshows, video clips, additional photographs and
interactive activities for use in the classroom. Provides support
as part of a set of resources for the Cambridge Primary curriculum
framework from 2011. This title is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment
International Education.
Contributing Authors Include Charles Harvey Brown, Hannah Severns,
Margery Doud, And Many Others.
Over the past four decades Ruth R. Wisse has been a leading scholar
of Yiddish and Jewish literary studies in North America, and one of
our most fearless public intellectuals on issues relating to Jewish
society, culture, and politics. In this celebratory volume, edited
by four of her former students, Wisse's colleagues take as a
starting point her award-winning book "The Modern Jewish Canon"
(2000) and explore an array of topics that touch on aspects of
Yiddish, Hebrew, Israeli, American, European, and Holocaust
literature. "Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon" brings together
writers both seasoned and young, from both within and beyond the
academy, to reflect the diversity of Wisse's areas of expertise and
reading audiences. The volume also includes a translation of one of
the first modern texts on the question of Jewish literature, penned
in 1888 by Sholem Aleichem, as well as a comprehensive bibliography
of Wisse's scholarship. In its richness and heft, "Arguing the
Modern Jewish Canon" itself constitutes an important scholarly
achievement in the field of modern Jewish literature.
This collection features three peer-reviewed reviews on improving
the welfare of heifers and calves. The first chapter considers
optimising reproductive management as a means of maximising dairy
herd health and production. The chapter outlines the steps required
to identify reproductive problems and limitations, as well as the
emergence of monitoring technologies to detect changes to animal
behaviour and patterns which can indicate the presence of disease.
The second chapter summarises recent research addressing
behavioural needs of pre-weaned calves and post-weaned heifers,
encompassing aspects of social interactions and feeding, rest and
comfort, as well as opportunities for other behavioural expression.
The chapter also discusses the consequences of restricting these
behaviours, such as the development of abnormal oral behaviours.
The final chapter highlights the crucial role youngstock/calf
management can play in optimising dairy herd health and welfare in
the short-term and long-term. The chapter considers the impacts of
calfhood nutritional management and calfhood diseases on subsequent
dairy herd health, as well as the role of veterinarians in
communicating best practice in youngstock management.
Fictional representations of horrific events run the risk of
undercutting efforts to verify historical knowledge and may
heighten our ability to respond intellectually and ethically to
human experiences of devastation. In this captivating study of the
epistemological, psychological, and ethical issues underlying
Holocaust fiction, Emily Miller Budick examines the subjective
experiences of fantasy, projection, and repression manifested in
Holocaust fiction and in the reader's encounter with it.
Considering works by Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman, Aharon
Appelfeld, Michael Chabon, and others, Budick investigates how the
reading subject makes sense of these fictionalized presentations of
memory and trauma, victims and victimizers.
Collins Primary Science fully meets the requirements of the
Cambridge Assessment International Education Primary Science
Curriculum Framework and the material has been carefully developed
to meet the needs of primary science students and teachers in a
range of international contexts. Content is organised according to
the three main strands: Biology, Chemistry and Physics and the
skills detailed under the Scientific Enquiry strand are introduced
and taught in the context of those areas. For each of Stages 1 to 6
as detailed in the Cambridge Primary Science Framework, we offer: A
full colour, highly illustrated and photograph rich Student's Book
A write-in Workbook linked to the Student's Book This comprehensive
Teacher's Guide with clear suggestions for using the materials,
including the electronic components of the course A DVD-ROM which
contains slideshows, video clips, additional photographs and
interactive activities for use in the classroom. Provides support
as part of a set of resources for the Cambridge Primary curriculum
framework from 2011. This title is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment
International Education.
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Modern Hebrew Fiction (Paperback)
Gershon Shaked; Translated by Yael Lotan; Edited by Emily Miller Budick
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Gershon Shaked's history of modern Hebrew fiction traces the
emergence and development of a literature "against all odds" - from
its European roots in the 1880s, when it had neither a country nor
a spoken language, to the flowering of a literary culture on
Israeli soil from the founding of the State through the 1990s. The
product of more than twenty years of research, it is unique in its
scope, profiling four generations of Hebrew writers from I.L.
Peretz and Haim Nahman Bialik through SY Agnon, Aharon Appelfeld,
Amos Oz and AB Yehoshua, to the recent writings of David Grossman,
Meir Shalev, and Orly Castel-Bloom.Through detailed discussions of
themes and styles in specific texts, Shaked conveys the richness of
the Hebrew literary tradition. At the same time, through
biographical surveys, historical observations, and sociocultural
and political analyses, he illuminates the relationship of these
writings to the context in which they were produced, revealing the
complex intertextual play between Hebrew literature and life.
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"Flashcards in a book" provide a comprehensive yet concise review
for the obstetrics and gynecology clerkship Deja Review: Obstetrics
& Gynecology boils down your coursework to just the critical
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How can a fictional text adequately or meaningfully represent
the events of the Holocaust? Drawing on philosopher Stanley Cavell
s ideas about "acknowledgment" as a respectful attentiveness to the
world, Emily Miller Budick develops a penetrating philosophical
analysis of major works by internationally prominent Israeli writer
Aharon Appelfeld. Through sensitive discussions of the novels
Badenheim 1939, The Iron Tracks, The Age of Wonders, and Tzili, and
the autobiographical work The Story of My Life, Budick reveals the
compelling art with which Appelfeld renders the sights, sensations,
and experiences of European Jewish life preceding, during, and
after the Second World War. She argues that it is through
acknowledging the incompleteness of our knowledge and understanding
of the catastrophe that Appelfeld s fiction produces not only its
stunning aesthetic power but its affirmation and faith in both the
human and the divine. This beautifully written book provides a
moving introduction to the work of an important and powerful writer
and an enlightening meditation on how fictional texts deepen our
understanding of historical events.
Jewish Literature and Culture Alvin H. Rosenfeld, editor"
This engrossing book describes how four twentieth-century women
writers-Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Toni Morrison, and
Grace Paley-have inherited and adapted the classical tradition of
American romance fiction. Emily Miller Budick argues that this
tradition, exemplified by the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar
Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Henry James, William Faulkner, and
Ralph Ellison, is inherently skepticist, questioning whether and
how we know reality. It is also sharply critical of the patriarchal
bias of American culture, which is understood by these writers as a
way of evading or settling philosophical doubt. Analyzing such
works as The Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick, The Portrait of a Lady, The
Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Invisible Man, Budick
explores this antipatriarchal critique and shows how it enables the
twentieth-century women romancers to inherit the tradition. In
their writings, however-in McCullers's Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,
O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away, Morrison's Song of Solomon and
Beloved, and Paley's short stories-these writers do more than
further the concerns of the male authors. They also explore the
idea of maternal knowledge and think through alternatives not only
to the patriarchal organization of society but to matriarchal
constructions as well. Budick offers provocative insights into what
it means to inherit a tradition--in particular across lines of
gender, but also across lines of race--as she discusses the ways
these four women writers revise the genre of romance to accommodate
the exigencies of modern American society.
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