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This book addresses heteronormativism, a concept that is extremely
important for understanding visitors' ability to feel welcome in
our spaces. It looks at homophobia and queer identities: the lack
of a material culture to represent what is unique about sexual
identity in society.
This book addresses heteronormativism, a concept that is extremely
important for understanding visitors' ability to feel welcome in
our spaces. It looks at homophobia and queer identities: the lack
of a material culture to represent what is unique about sexual
identity in society.
Combining anecdotes with scientific data, this book is a
journalistic inquiry into what is currently known about zoos and
aquariums as sociocultural intersections of mission, public
perception, and on-site meaning making. The authors draw on
conservation psychology and other social science research to
explore how zoos might develop and deliver more effective learning
experiences to promote and nurture conservation values and
collective action. While people use zoos with specific priorities
and motivations in mind, these are social settings. Indeed, it is
because they represent an important, vast, and trusted social
enterprise that zoos have such powerful opportunities to change how
diverse public audiences view, value, identify, and engage with
animals and the broader biophysical environment.
Combining anecdotes with scientific data, this book is a
journalistic inquiry into what is currently known about zoos and
aquariums as sociocultural intersections of mission, public
perception, and on-site meaning making. The authors draw on
conservation psychology and other social science research to
explore how zoos might develop and deliver more effective learning
experiences to promote and nurture conservation values and
collective action. While people use zoos with specific priorities
and motivations in mind, these are social settings. Indeed, it is
because they represent an important, vast, and trusted social
enterprise that zoos have such powerful opportunities to change how
diverse public audiences view, value, identify, and engage with
animals and the broader biophysical environment.
John Fraser explores a major paradox about the USA: that after the
Civil War, in a country now officially dedicated to rational,
pacific, industrial progress and equality, there was a growing
enthusiasm in the North for chivalric values. With a wealth of
examples, modern and medieval, he shows how those values had not
simply made for high-toned violence and romantic fictions, but,
when transposed into college life, crusading reformism, and the
radical labor movement, were powerful modifiers of the Gilded Age
ethos of unbridled capitalism. The permeation of American fiction,
from Twain to The Great Gatsby and beyond, and the whole of popular
culture, especially the movies, by the recognition that behaviors,
while legal, could be morally unacceptable because dishonorable, is
one of the many admirable things about this country. Fraser has
written a book that will move its readers as well as instruct,
enlighten, and entertain them.
This selection from John Fraser's essays forms a triptych with his
Violence in the Arts and America and the Patterns of Chivalry
(published by the Press in 1974 and 1982) and, like them, explores
conflicting attitudes towards self-affirmation and social order.
Important concerns in all three works are ideas of energy, power,
and personal plenitude, and the way in which idealism and heroic
intensity can sometimes lead to overstrain and collapse. Yet the
dominant emphasis is positive. In this volume the author offers
some of his finest analyses both of the workings of heroic and
pastoral ideals and of the dangers of irony and nihilism in a
violent world. The essays range in subject from Shakespeare to
Atget's photographs of Paris, by way of American fiction,
sadomasochism, literary theory and patterns of rural culture. Their
implicit argument is subtle and absorbing.
There are few factual books written about poltergeist phenomena,
John's Fraser's Poltergeist! A New Investigation Into Destructive
Haunting fills that void, advancing and updating Colin Wilson's
work Poltergeist!, this study's namesake from over 38 years ago.
Fraser takes readers on a journey from the Borley Rectory to the
Isle of Man, and grounds his readers in an historical overview of
'Poltergeist phenomena'. He examines where such events overlap with
other paranormal investigations of 'apparitional' ghosts. What do
they have in common, what do they differ? To answer this, Fraser
looks to new research on paranormal events, never before published
in book form. Fraser contends, perhaps controversially, that ghost
sightings are and always will be ambiguous and near-impossible to
prove, that only Poltergeist phenomena can be empirically verified.
This book summarizes a range of psychological research into how
zoos and aquariums operate in the minds of visitors and the broader
public. Bringing together core findings from emerging international
research, the book provides data-based summaries that situate the
content in the larger context of how cultural institutions shape
public understanding. The focus of this book is to bring into a
single resource, the major strains of research that have explored
how zoos and aquariums are situated in public consciousness, to
ground the discourses around what zoos and aquariums do in the
empirical data and evidence, and to find opportunities to summarize
well-established fact to support future research expanding on the
known. Among the topics discussed: History of zoo and aquarium
development The role of zoos and aquariums in environmental
literacy Empathy development at zoos Applying behavior change
theories to the zoo visitor's experience Social radiation of ideas
from cultural institutions Professional practitioners, zoo industry
professionals, and business leaders will find this book an
invaluable guide to the psychological literature surrounding the
zoo industry.
The current cycle of urban growth dates from the 1970s and is
likely to persist into the 2020s. Some of the world's most eminent
urban geographers bring their expertise to bear on the American
urban scene. They describe how cities have evolved, assess their
current characters, and look ahead to the momentous changes yet to
come.
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Valley of Song (DVD)
Mervyn Johns, Clifford Evans, Maureen Swanson, John Fraser, Rachel Thomas, …
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A luckless choirmaster unwittingly causes local rivalries to bubble
to the surface when he returns home to his Welsh roots. Accepting
the post of choirmaster in the village where he grew up, Geraint
Llewellyn (Clifford Evans) returns from London, and sets about
planning the choir's latest production, Handel's 'Messiah'. But
when it comes to choosing the soloist, Geraint's choice of Mrs.
Davies (Betty Cooper) over the seasoned talents of resident leading
lady Mrs Lloyd (Rachel Thomas) goes down like a lead balloon,
instigating a split not only between the respective families, but
between the village itself.
Have you ever wondered why Minnesota's forests grow in the north
and not in the West? Why gaming casinos are prospering? Why
producers raise chickens instead of cows? Why some towns grow while
others fail? Minnesota's natural wonders have had an effect on and
been changed by the people who call this complex mosaic of lakes
and forests, rivers and fields home. Through engaging, in-depth
text and copious illustrations, John Fraser Hart and Susy Svatek
Ziegler explore the human and environmental characteristics that
define the state in "Landscapes of Minnesota,"
Illustrated with hundreds of maps and color photographs that reveal
the changing character of Minnesota, this stunning geography traces
the development of the state's natural environment, how the land
formations, plants, and animals became a part of its fabric, and
how they have changed over time. Focusing on small towns, the
authors document patterns of growth and decline, offering striking
commentary on these once-key bastions of Minnesota-ness. Turning to
the Twin Cities, they analyze the expanding urban arc and the
surprising growth of a baby boomer retirement belt. "Landscapes of
Minnesota" explores how the lives and livelihoods of Minnesotans
have affected what the state has become and what it will one day
be.
John Fraser Hart
is a professor of geography at the University of Minnesota and a
Guggenheim Fellow. Susy Svatek Ziegler is an assistant professor of
geography at the University of Minnesota and a Fulbright Scholar.
Recent architecture has found itself having to cope with new social
and cultural complexities that demand networked systems that are
time- based, reconfigurable and evolutionary, and a corresponding
model of urbanism defined as an adaptive ecology. It is against
this backdrop that the AA's graduate Design Research Lab (DRL) has
pursued its recent studio agenda through project-based research
focusing on alternative models of housing. Integral to this
research is a notion of architecture that looks towards designing
systems that seek higher ordered goals emerging through an intimate
correlation of material and computational interaction. This book
presents the results of this research and with it constructs a
generative view of space and structure and the exploration of
behaviourbased models of living through patterns found in nature.
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The Beach
John Fraser
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R668
Discovery Miles 6 680
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The Holy Crow.... How do you change one of Canada's most
politically sensitive policies?" Retiring the Crow Rate "is an
exacting study in the process of changing an entrenched public
policy that many in the West saw as their birthright. It is also a
rewarding work of memoir and a tribute to Jean-Luc Pepin's prowess
as an engaging politician. Arthur Kroeger's deft narration of the
events which led to the end of the "The Crow" in the early 1980s
also reveals his character as an exemplary public servant.
Political scientists and students, western historians, politically
engaged Canadians, and those who fondly remember Arthur Kroeger as
Canada's 'dean of deputy ministers' will want "Retiring the Crow
Rate "on their bookshelves.
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