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Within hours of cities like New York, Philadelphia, and Washington,
DC lie thousands of miles of trails accessible to tens of millions
of residents and visitors. The Mid-Atlantic region offers a wide
variety of terrain and possible expeditions, and "AMC's Best
Backpacking in the Mid-Atlantic" is an easy-to-use guide""that will
help hikers experience 30 of the best multi-day trips. Ranging in
difficulty from intermediate to expert, these trails take hikers
through forests of wild rhododendron at Dolly Sods, across the
beaches of Assateague, and over the peaks of New York's Catskill
Mountains. Basic topographic maps, a region-specific planning
guide, photos, and GPS waypoints of parking lots and points of
interest will help hikers plan their trips. Complementing AMC's
successful "Best Backpacking New England," this new guide is an
essential backpacking tool complete with turn-by-turn directions
and expert advice on how to best experience the Mid-Atlantic.
Within hours of the sinking of RMS Lusitania by a German submarine
off the Cork coast in May 1915, a narrative was created which over
time became the accepted truth of the incident. Many people today
still believe the sinking of the Lusitania was a savage attack on
an innocent vessel that brought America into the war. In this book,
author and historian Michael Martin raises a series of disturbing
questions that challenge this longheld perspective. Examining a
raft of old and new evidence suggesting a more sinister function of
RMS Lusitania, this book explores the widespread use of civilian
vessels within the war effort; it shines a light on the operational
response of the Royal Navy in the immediate aftermath of the
incident; and it looks at the nature of the response of the United
States at this crucial juncture. And, above all, this book
questions the narrative that has grown up around one of the most
pivotal junctures in the war to end all wars.
In late nineteenth-century German academic circles, the term
verstehen (literally, understanding, or comprehension) came to be
associated with the view that social phenomena must be understood
from the point of view of the social actor. Advocates of this
approach were opposed by positivists who stressed the unity of
method between the social and natural sciences and an external,
experimental, and quantitative knowledge. Although modified over
time, the dispute between positivists and antipositivists--nowadays
called naturalists and antinaturalists--has persisted and still
defines many debates in the field of philosophy of social sciences.
In this volume, Michael Martin offers a critical appraisal of
verstehen as a method of verification and discovery as well as a
necessary condition for understanding. In its strongest forms,
verstehen entails subjectively reliving the experience of the
social actor or at least rethinking his or her thoughts, while in
its weaker forms it only involves reconstructing the rationale for
acting. Martin's opening chapter offers a reconsideration of the
debate between the classical verstehen theorists--Wilhelm Dilthey,
Max Weber, R.G. Collingwood--and the positivists. Chapters 2 and 3
deal with positivist critiques of verstehen as a method of social
scientific verification and understanding. In the subsequent
chapters Martin considers contemporary varieties of the verstehen
position and argues that they like the classical positions, they
conflict with the pluralistic nature of social science. Chapter 4
discusses Peter Winch's and William Dray's variants of verstehen,
while chapters 5 through 9 consider recent theorists--Karl Popper,
Charles Taylor, Clifford Geertz--whose work can be characterized in
verstehenist terms: In his conclusion Martin defines the
limitations of the classical and recent verstehen positions and
proposes a methodological pluralism in which verstehen is justified
pragmatically in terms of the purposes and contexts of inquiry.
This volume is the only comprehensive and sustained critique of
verstehen theory currently available. It will be of interest to
sociologists, philosophers, political scientists, and
anthropologists.
Each of the figures examined in this study"John Dee, John Donne,
Sir Kenelm Digby, Henry and Thomas Vaughan, and Jane Lead"is
concerned with the ways in which God can be approached or
experienced. Michael Martin analyzes the ways in which the
encounter with God is figured among these early modern writers who
inhabit the shared cultural space of poets and preachers, mystics
and scientists. The three main themes that inform this study are
Cura animarum, the care of souls, and the diminished role of
spiritual direction in post-Reformation religious life; the rise of
scientific rationality; and the struggle against the disappearance
of the Holy. Arising from the methods and commitments of
phenomenology, the primary mode of inquiry of this study resides in
contemplation, not in a religious sense, but in the realm of
perception, attendance, and acceptance. Martin portrays figures
such as Dee, Digby, and Thomas Vaughan not as the eccentrics they
are often depicted to have been, but rather as participating in a
religious mainstream that had been radically altered by the
disappearance of any kind of mandatory or regular spiritual
direction, a problem which was further complicated and exacerbated
by the rise of science. Thus this study contributes to a
reconfiguration of our notion of what 'religious orthodoxy' really
meant during the period, and calls into question our own
assumptions about what is (or was) 'orthodox' and 'heterodox.'
Each of the figures examined in this study"John Dee, John Donne,
Sir Kenelm Digby, Henry and Thomas Vaughan, and Jane Lead"is
concerned with the ways in which God can be approached or
experienced. Michael Martin analyzes the ways in which the
encounter with God is figured among these early modern writers who
inhabit the shared cultural space of poets and preachers, mystics
and scientists. The three main themes that inform this study are
Cura animarum, the care of souls, and the diminished role of
spiritual direction in post-Reformation religious life; the rise of
scientific rationality; and the struggle against the disappearance
of the Holy. Arising from the methods and commitments of
phenomenology, the primary mode of inquiry of this study resides in
contemplation, not in a religious sense, but in the realm of
perception, attendance, and acceptance. Martin portrays figures
such as Dee, Digby, and Thomas Vaughan not as the eccentrics they
are often depicted to have been, but rather as participating in a
religious mainstream that had been radically altered by the
disappearance of any kind of mandatory or regular spiritual
direction, a problem which was further complicated and exacerbated
by the rise of science. Thus this study contributes to a
reconfiguration of our notion of what 'religious orthodoxy' really
meant during the period, and calls into question our own
assumptions about what is (or was) 'orthodox' and 'heterodox.'
Protecting the natural environment and promoting sustainability
have become important objectives, but achieving such goals presents
myriad challenges for even the most committed environmentalist.
American Environmentalism: Philosophy, History, and Public Policy
examines whether competing interests can be reconciled while
developing consistent, coherent, effective public policy to
regulate uses and protection of the natural environment without
destroying the national economy. It then reviews a range of
possible solutions. The book delves into key normative concepts
that undergird American perspectives on nature by providing an
overview of philosophical concepts found in the western
intellectual tradition, the presuppositions inherent in
neoclassical economics, and anthropocentric (human-centered) and
biocentric (earth-centered) positions on sustainability. It traces
the evolution of attitudes about nature from the time of the
Ancient Greeks through Europeans in the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance, the Enlightenment and the American Founders, the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and up to the present. Building
on this foundation, the author examines the political landscape as
non-governmental organizations (NGOs), industry leaders, and
government officials struggle to balance industrial development
with environmental concerns. Outrageous claims, silly
misrepresentations, bogus arguments, absurd contentions, and
overblown prophesies of impending calamities are bandied about by
many parties on all sides of the debate-industry spokespeople,
elected representatives, unelected regulators, concerned citizens,
and environmental NGOs alike. In lieu of descending into this
morass, the author circumvents the silliness to explore the crucial
issues through a more focused, disciplined approach. Rather than
engage in acrimonious debate over minutiae, as so often occurs in
the context of "green" claims, he recasts the issue in a way that
provides a cohesive look at all sides. This effort may be quixotic,
but how else to cut the Gordian knot?
Brown Gold is a compelling history and analysis of African-American
children's picturebooks from the mid-nineteenth century to the
present. At the turn of the nineteenth century, good children's
books about black life were hard to find - if, indeed, young black
readers and their parents could even gain entry into the bookstores
and libraries. But today, in the "Golden Age" of African-American
children's picturebooks, one can find a wealth of titles ranging
from Happy to be Nappy to Black is Brown is Tan. In this book,
Michelle Martin explores how the genre has evolved from problematic
early works such as Epaminondas that were rooted in minstrelsy and
stereotype, through the civil rights movement, and onward to
contemporary celebrations of blackness. She demonstrates the
cultural importance of contemporary favorites through keen
historical analysis - scrutinizing the longevity and proliferation
of the Coontown series and Ten Little Niggers books, for example -
that makes clear how few picturebooks existed in which black
children could see themselves and their people positively
represented even up until the 1960s. Martin also explores how
children's authors and illustrators have addressed major issues in
black life and history including racism, the civil rights movement,
black feminism, major historical figures, religion, and slavery.
Brown Gold adds new depth to the reader's understanding of
African-American literature and culture, and illuminates how the
round, dynamic characters in these children's novels, novellas, and
picturebooks can put a face on the past, a face with which many
contemporary readers can identify.
In late nineteenth-century German academic circles, the term
"verstehen" (literally, understanding, or comprehension) came to be
associated with the view that social phenomena must be understood
from the point of view of the social actor. Advocates of this
approach were opposed by positivists who stressed the unity of
method between the social and natural sciences and an external,
experimental, and quantitative knowledge. Although modified over
time, the dispute between positivists and antipositivists--nowadays
called naturalists and antinaturalists--has persisted and still
defines many debates in the field of philosophy of social sciences.
In this volume, Michael Martin offers a critical appraisal of
"verstehen" as a method of verification and discovery as well as a
necessary condition for understanding. In its strongest forms,
"verstehen" entails subjectively reliving the experience of the
social actor or at least rethinking his or her thoughts, while in
its weaker forms it only involves reconstructing the rationale for
acting. Martin's opening chapter offers a reconsideration of the
debate between the classical "verstehen" theorists--Wilhelm
Dilthey, Max Weber, R.G. Collingwood--and the positivists. Chapters
2 and 3 deal with positivist critiques of "verstehen" as a method
of social scientific verification and understanding. In the
subsequent chapters Martin considers contemporary varieties of the
"verstehen" position and argues that they like the classical
positions, they conflict with the pluralistic nature of social
science. Chapter 4 discusses Peter Winch's and William Dray's
variants of "verstehen," while chapters 5 through 9 consider recent
theorists--Karl Popper, Charles Taylor, Clifford Geertz--whose work
can be characterized in "verstehen"ist terms: In his conclusion
Martin defines the limitations of the classical and recent
"verstehen" positions and proposes a methodological pluralism in
which "verstehen" is justified pragmatically in terms of the
purposes and contexts of inquiry. This volume is the only
comprehensive and sustained critique of "verstehen" theory
currently available. It will be of interest to sociologists,
philosophers, political scientists, and anthropologists.
In the 1880s, there wasn't much in Anson, Texas, in the way of
entertainment for the area's cowhands. But Star Hotel operator M.
G. Rhodes changed that when he hosted a Grand Ball the weekend
before Christmas. A restless traveling salesman, rancher, and poet
from New York named William Lawrence Chittenden, a guest at the
Star Hotel, was so impressed with the soiree that he penned his
observances in the poem "The Cowboys' Christmas Ball." Re-enacted
annually since 1934 based on Chittenden's poem, the contemporary
dances attract people from coast to coast, from Canada, and from
across Europe and elsewhere. Since 1993 Grammy Award-winning
musical artist Michael Martin Murphey has played at the popular
event. Far more than a history of the Jones County dance, Paul
Carlson analyses the long poem, defining the many people and events
mentioned and explaining the Jones County landscape Chittenden lays
out in his celebrated work. The book covers the evolution of cowboy
poetry and places Chittenden and his poem chronologically within
the ever-changing western genre. Dancin' in Anson: A History of the
Texas Cowboys' Christmas Ball is a novel but refreshing look at a
cowboy poet, his poem, and a joyous Christmas-time family event
that traces its roots back nearly 130 years.
Arts and crafts are a core part of the Steiner-Waldorf curriculum,
helping children to develop emotionally, physically, socially and
spiritually, as well as learning practical skills. This
comprehensive book addresses every aspect of arts and crafts,
including woodwork, forestry, metalwork, stone carving, clay
modelling, pottery and much more. Written by experienced Waldorf
craft teachers, this comprehensive book is an invaluable tool and
resource for Middle and Upper School (Classes 5 to 13).
Contents: Chapter 1: "Hey, Who's the Kid with the Green Umbrella?": Re-evaluating the Black-a-Moor and Little Black Sambo Chapter 2: Children's Picture Books and the Civil Rights Movement Chapter 3: Three Decades of Strong Women: the Coretta Scott King Awards Chapter 4: From Margin to Center: African-American Illustrators at Work Chapter 5: Historical America through the Eyes of the Black Child Chapter 6: "Everybody Say Amen": Signifying and Postmodern African-American Picture Books Chapter 7: "Just Build me a Cabin in the Corner of Glory Land": Bridges to Heaven in African-American Picturebooks Chapter 8: "They stole my Name": Historical Fiction and the Slave Narrative.
Libertines seeks to understand why public figures sometimes take
extraordinary risks, sullying their good names, humiliating their
families, placing themselves in legal jeopardy, and potentially
destroying their political careers as they seek to gratify their
sexual desires. From Hamilton to Trump and the many in between,
each case of sexual misconduct in this book shows the seamy side of
political lives, with calculations about covering discretions or
portraying them favorably occurring only after the fact.
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Cosy Crime Short Stories (Hardcover)
Martin Edwards; Contributions by Stephanie Bedwell-Grime, Joshua Boyce, Sarah Holly Bryant, Jeffrey B Burton, …
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Cosy crime fiction is a popular phenomenon, with its safe but
intriguing boundaries. This latest addition to the Gothic Fantasy
series is packed with armchair detectives, murders in the vicarage,
family secrets unravelling in gossipy ears, and the ingredients of
a genteel bloodbath in an otherwise delightful village. Contains a
fabulous mix of classic and brand new writing, with contemporary
authors from the US, Canada, and the UK. Classic authors include:
Arnold Bennett, Ernest Bramah, Anton Chekhov, Arthur Conan Doyle,
Andrew Forrester, R. Austin Freeman, Anna Katherine Green, Maurice
Leblanc, Arthur Morrison, Baroness Orczy, Catherine Louisa Pirkis,
Edgar Wallace, Israel Zangwill, G.K. Chesterton.
A suite of poems that channels the life of the legendary
singer-songwriter Ritchie Valens to examine and question
mid-twentieth-century conceptions of race and art, identity and
sexuality Ragged and raging across the spectrums of cognition,
race, and gender, Tarta Americana lyrically envisions forms of
survival outside neuronormative perceptions and histories. Against
the recent tide of white nationalism in the United States, Tarta
Americana finds a rhinestone in Ritchie Valens, the rock and roll
legend, surfacing across time and bodies, genders and sounds,
displacing the linear unfolding of desire and biography. Valens,
the embodiment of corporeal transcendence, guides Martinez as he
expresses his own neurodiversity, his struggles and triumphs,
interrogating AI, history, gender, and race, traversing pain in
search of compassion and joy. Tarta Americana, tarred and
glittering, melodic in its screams, overdrives text and space in
chase of American politics that could, at last, harmonize love with
redemption.
Child abuse and neglect (CAN) continues to be a serious public
health problem in the United States, affecting approximately 19% of
victims and costing approximately $124 billion to society. When a
child is removed from their parent's custody due to parental abuse
or neglect, the child is sometimes placed in temporary custody
through dependency court. Difficult and emotionally laden legal
decisions occur within dependency court, including determining
whether (and where) a child should be temporarily placed or whether
a child should be returned to the parent's custody. Over 6 million
children experienced some type of child maltreatment in 2013, with
144,000 receiving foster care services (Child Maltreatment, 2013).
Legal decision-makers, including judges, case workers, and social
workers have the important task of determining what placement is in
the best interest of the child. What factors shape decisions in
child custodial cases? Chapter One of this book reviews empirical
evidence suggesting that the race of the child and parent plays a
role in shaping child custodial decisions. Chapter Two presents a
feminist, social constructionist theoretical conceptualisation,
entitled relational trust theory, that describes the effects of
gendered power dynamics on the perception of the other partner as
trustworthy in adult-survivor couple interactions; and expounds on
the findings of a longitudinal grounded theory study that
identified clinical processes of Socio-Emotional Relationship
Therapy (SERT) that helped adult-survivor couples transform their
gendered power disparities and engage in relationally safe ways
that supported a trusting emotional culture. Chapter Three provides
a description of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), a
rationale for its use with parents and children who have
experienced CAN, and an overview of PCIT's evidence base for both
intervening with and preventing future CAN.
Superlubricity - the state between sliding systems where friction
is reduced to almost immeasurable amounts - holds great potential
for improving both the economic and environmental credentials of
moving mechanical systems. Research in this field has progressed
tremendously in recent years, and there now exist several
theoretical models, recognised techniques for computational
simulations and interesting experimental evidence of superlubricity
in practise. Superlubricity, Second Edition, presents an
extensively revised and updated overview of these important
developments, providing a comprehensive guide to the physical
chemistry underpinning molecular mechanisms of friction and
lubrication, current theoretical models used to explore and assess
superlubricity, examples of its achievement in experimental
systems, and discussion of potential future applications. Drawing
on the extensive knowledge of its expert editors and global team of
authors from across academia and industry, Superlubricity, Second
Edition, is a great resource for all those with a need to
understand, model or manipulate surface interactions for improved
performance.
The dominant star shaped fortress on Spike Island testifies to it's
strategic importance in the once heavily fortified bastion of
British military might that was Cork Harbour. Beneath and around
this edifice however lies the story of an island steeped in
extensive Irish heritage that stretches further back into the mists
of Irelands past beyond the arrival of the Normans and on through
to the darkest period of Irish history. From an island of
ecclesiastical retreat and contemplation to a dark and godforsaken
destination of victims of Ireland's Great Famine, Spike Island has
been a part of two contrasting periods in Irish history. The era of
saints and scholars during which Spike was described as a Holy
Island is set against a later backdrop of famine, disease and death
and the dark judicial practice that saw men and boys transported
from it to the penal colonies of distant Australia.This book
explores the island through these two very different environments
from the founding of the monastery there by Saint Carthage to the
use of the island as a place of detention, punishment and
undignified death. From saints to starvation, 'Spike Island'
embodies a part of the brightest a darkest legacy of Ireland's
history.
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Victorian Women Poets (Hardcover, New)
Alison Chapman; Contributions by Patricia Pulham, Marjorie Stone, Alison Chapman, Glennis Byron, …
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Specially commissioned essays offer revisionary readings of
canonical poets and bring into focus rediscovered writers. The
specially commissioned essays in Victorian Women Poets, written by
scholars from Britain and North America, offer revisionary readings
of canonical poets and bring into focus re-discovered writers. The
volume both engages critically with the political and aesthetic
agenda behind the project of recovery, and also presents a
pioneering approach to reading poets who have slipped out of the
canon. The work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and ChristinaRossetti
is re-assessed and given surprising and innovative literary,
political and intellectual contexts that will change the way we
interpret their poetry. Writers of emerging significance, such as
Theodosia Garrow Trollope, Augusta Webster, Mathilde Blind, Michael
Field and Margaret Veley, are given prominence in groundbreaking
analysis that situates their writing within the wider debates of
the period. The themes interwoven throughout the essays - literary
history and canonicity, political poetics, nationhood, print
culture, and genre - provide a radically new understanding of
Victorian women's poetry that maps an agenda for future research.
JOSEPH BRISTOW, SUSAN BROWN, GLENNIS BYRON, ALISON CHAPMAN, NATALIE
M. HOUSTON, MICHELE MARTINEZ, PATRICIA PULHAM, MARJORIE STONE.
ALISON CHAPMAN lectures in English literature at the University of
Glasgow.
The story of Wilhelmina Yazzie and her son's effort to seek an
adequate education in New Mexico schools revealed an educational
system with poor policy implementation, inadequate funding, and
piecemeal educational reform. The 2018 decision in the
Yazzie/Martinez lawsuit proved what has always been known: the
educational needs of Native American students were not being met.
In this superb collection of essays, the contributors cover the
background and significance of the lawsuit and its impact on racial
and social politics. The Yazzie Case provides essential reading for
educators, policy analysts, attorneys, professors, and students to
understand the historically entrenched racism and colonial barriers
impacting all Native American students in New Mexico's public
schools. It constructs a new vision and calls for transformational
change to resolve the systemic challenges plaguing Native American
students in New Mexico's public education system. Contributors
Georgina Badoni Cynthia Benally Rebecca Blum Martínez Nathaniel
Charley Melvatha R. Chee Shiv Desai Donna Deyhle Terri Flowerday
Wendy S. Greyeyes Alex Kinsella Lloyd L. Lee Tiffany S. Lee Nancy
López Hondo Louis (photographer) Glenabah Martinez Natalie
Martinez Jonathan Nez Carlotta Penny Bird Preston Sanchez Karen C.
Sanchez-Griego Christine Sims Leola Tsinnajinnie Paquin Vincent
Werito Wilhelmina Yazzie
The Congress of the United States operates in the shadow of the
American presidency, which can make the legislative branch appear
less important than the executive in our constitutional system of
government. And yet Congress is a co-equal branch of government,
deriving its powers from Article I of the United States
Constitution. Love it or hate it, the institution is a source of
incredible power. It behooves all Americans to learn more about
Congress. Although a single slender volume cannot provide
information on all there is to know about Congress, it can begin
the journey. In Congressional Giants, political scientist J.
Michael Martinez explores the careers and achievements of 14
influential leaders of Congress-men who either held formal
positions within the chambers of Congress, such as speaker of the
House of Representatives or Senate majority leader, or who served
on important committees--to determine how they shaped the course of
American history.
Superlubricity is defined as a sliding regime in which friction or
resistance to sliding vanishes. It has been shown that energy can
be conserved by further reducing/removing friction in moving
mechanical systems and this book includes contributions from
world-renowned scientists who address some of the most fundamental
research issues in overcoming friction. Superlubricity reviews the
latest methods and materials in this area of research that are
aimed at removing friction in nano-to-micro scale machines and
large scale engineering components. Insight is also given into the
atomic-scale origins of friction in general and superlubricity
while other chapters focus on experimental and practical aspects or
impacts of superlubricity that will be very useful for broader
industrial community.
* Reviews the latest fundamental research in superlubricity
today
* Presents 'state-of-the-art' methods, materials, and experimental
techniques
* Latest developments in tribomaterials, coatings, and lubricants
providing superlubricity
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