The essays in this book demonstrate the breadth and vitality of American intellectual history. Their core theme is the diversity of both American intellectual life and of the frameworks that we must use to make sense of that diversity. The Worlds of American Intellectual History has at its heart studies of American thinkers. Yet it follows these thinkers and their ideas as they have crossed national, institutional, and intellectual boundaries. The volume explores ways in which American ideas have circulated in different cultures. It also examines the multiple sites-from social movements, museums, and courtrooms to popular and scholarly books and periodicals-in which people have articulated and deployed ideas within and beyond the borders of the United States. At these cultural frontiers, the authors demonstrate, multiple interactions have occurred - some friendly and mutually enriching, others laden with tension, misunderstandings, and conflict. The same holds for other kinds of borders, such as those within and between scholarly disciplines, or between American history and the histories of other cultures. The richness of contemporary American intellectual history springs from the variety of worlds with which it must engage. Intellectual historians have always relished being able to move back and forth between close readings of particular texts and efforts to make sense of broader cultural dispositions. That range is on display in this volume, which includes essays by scholars as fully at home in the disciplines of philosophy, literature, economics, sociology, political science, education, science, religion, and law as they are in history. It includes essays by prominent historians of European thought, attuned to the transatlantic conversations in which Europeans and Americans have been engaged since the seventeenth century, and American historians whose work has carried them not only to different regions in North America but across the North Atlantic to Europe, across the South Atlantic to Africa, and across the Pacific to South Asia.

This volume, written by leading African and Western specialists, is among the first to provide a broad interdisciplinary view of African culture that allows contemporary Africa to be understood on its own terms--freed from Western ethnocentric preconceptions and values. The book begins with an overview of current African scholarship, followed by Philip Curtin's historical essay on Africa's 400-year relationship with European culture, with special emphasis on the mass migrations brought about by the slave trade. Discussions of indigenous cultural symbols and religious belief systems reveal a rich and continuing heritage and deepen our understanding of modern African society. Several chapters are devoted to the intellectual and cultural life of Francophone Africa--its major writers and scholars and the deep cultural conflict experienced by French-speaking African elites. A chapter by Leopold Senghor, former president of Senegal and a leading cultural figure in Francophone Africa, offers an eloquent statement of the post-colonial African world view. A new form of imperialism--the control of the mass media by powerful industrial nations--and the dangers it poses to African identity and autonomy are examined. Other topics covered are the evolution of African legal and judicial systems and recent developments in African musicology.

Broken Bones is the story of Michael Rinnovi, a distraught 25-year-old: 5'11, 95 pounds. He has barely eaten or slept in months. Michael wakes up nearly dead in an emergency room, and the doctors say he's too far gone; he needs extensive rehabilitation. Michael signs himself into a psychiatric ward for people with eating disorders. Broken Bones is his journal. "With shades of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Baker brings the reader into the cold concrete of an eating disorder ward, ferrying him through a month of constant observation, brutal rigidity, and rationed showers, of drug-clouded nights and mornings of cold eggs and watered-down coffee. In such an oppressive environment, an institution where those tasked with making the inpatients whole don't even see them as people, small victories evolve into epic celebrations and minor setbacks can become soul-crushing defeats. Baker is adept at making the reader ride everyone one of those ups and downs, and with a few simple sentences can turn fifteen minutes of sunshine into the raucous, unburdened relief of the end of a bloody, years-long war." Based on the author's own experience with mental distress and anorexia, "Broken Bones is a truly mesmerizing and engrossing novel, fraught with humor, anger, and pathos; a gripping and personal story of one man's struggle against himself and seemingly everything around him." - Eirik Gumeny, author of Exponential Apocalypse, former editor of Jersey Devil Press.

Paul Isaacs was diagnosed with Autism in 2010 and later diagnosed with Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome by James in 2012. He has worked for Autism Oxford since 2010 presenting speeches and training sessions all around the UK. He has currently released his autobiography through Chipmunka entitled "Living Through The Haze." This book explores the visual differences and difficulties Paul has experienced for over 26 years. For Paul it was a moving moment of clarity and realisation when with the correct lenses he looked outside and said "Oh, the tree has a middle bit " James Billett has worked and taught in the field of special education for 30 years and has used the Irlen method with clients across the spectrum of learning differences since 1991.

Title: Providence Displayed: or, the remarkable adventures of Alexander Selkirk, who lived four years and four months by himself, on the island of Juan Fernandez ... To which is added a supplement, containing the history of P. Serrano, E. How, and others left in similar situations.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Also included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library James, Isaac 1800 p. x. 194.; 12 . 792.d.5.

Who Lived Four Years And Four Months By Himself, On The Island Of Juan Fernandez; From Whence He Returned With Captain Woodes Rogers, Of Bristol, And On Whose Adventures Was Founded The Celebrated Novel Of Robinson Crusoe.

Who Lived Four Years And Four Months By Himself, On The Island Of Juan Fernandez; From Whence He Returned With Captain Woodes Rogers, Of Bristol, And On Whose Adventures Was Founded The Celebrated Novel Of Robinson Crusoe.

Who Lived Four Years And Four Months By Himself, On The Island Of Juan Fernandez; From Whence He Returned With Captain Woodes Rogers, Of Bristol, And On Whose Adventures Was Founded The Celebrated Novel Of Robinson Crusoe.

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT099983With a half-title.Bristol: printed by Biggs and Cottle: sold by I. James; also by Hazard, and Cruttwell, Bath; Button, Burford and Matthews, London, 1800. 2], x,194p., plate: ill., map; 12

Who Lived Four Years And Four Months By Himself, On The Island Of Juan Fernandez; From Whence He Returned With Captain Woodes Rogers, Of Bristol, And On Whose Adventures Was Founded The Celebrated Novel Of Robinson Crusoe.