|
Showing 1 - 25 of
198 matches in All Departments
|
The Bookie (Paperback)
Renee Rose
|
R364
R319
Discovery Miles 3 190
Save R45 (12%)
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
|
The Hacker (Paperback)
Renee Rose
|
R411
R343
Discovery Miles 3 430
Save R68 (17%)
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
|
The Fixer (Paperback)
Renee Rose
|
R407
R338
Discovery Miles 3 380
Save R69 (17%)
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
|
Alpha's Sun (Paperback)
Renee Rose, Lee Savino
|
R380
R317
Discovery Miles 3 170
Save R63 (17%)
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
|
Alpha's War (Paperback)
Renee Rose, Lee Savino
|
R406
R337
Discovery Miles 3 370
Save R69 (17%)
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
Sequestered within the heart of a cosmopolitan city is an exotic
world-a place where diamonds, astronomically priced, are bought and
sold on the strength of a handshake, and business disputes are
resolved according to ancient Jewish principles of arbitration. Yet
it is also a modern industry facing the same fundamental global
changes affecting all businesses today.In Diamond Stories, Renee
Rose Shield leads us into the unexamined realm of wholesale diamond
traders in New York. Related to several well-respected traders, she
had unprecedented access to a society normally closed to outside
inquiry. Here she deftly blends her personal relationship and her
anthropological training to provide an insightful exploration of
this tradition-bound industry, the new challenges it faces, and the
ways both industry and individuals adapt to and endure
change.Shield begins with a fascinating history of diamond mining,
combining the story of the De Beers cartel, the role of Jews in the
trade, and the part diamonds have played both in war and
liberation. Throughout, she incorporates commentary by current
diamond traders. Succeeding chapters explore the evolving nature of
both the global trade and the New York diamond district. Shield
takes a close look at the increasingly complex ethnic makeup of the
district, illuminates the rarely documented work done by women,
chronicles the resilient system of arbitration, and reveals the
ways in which many traders work well into their eighties and
nineties. Their long lives of work, cushioned by the trade's social
environment, offer hints for successful aging in general.
Never before in human existence have the aged been so numerous -
and for the most part - healthy. In this important new book, two
professionals, an anthropologist and a physician, wrestle with the
complex subject of aging. Is it inevitable? Is it a burden or gift?
What is successful aging? Why are some people better at aging than
others? Where is aging located? How does it vary among individuals,
within and between groups, cultures, societies, and indeed, over
the centuries? Reflecting on these and other questions, the authors
comment on the impact age has in their lives and work. Two unique
viewpoints are presented. While medicine approaches aging with
special attention given to the body, its organs, and its functions
over time, anthropology focuses on how the aged live within their
cultural settings. As this volume makes clear, the two disciplines
have a great deal to teach each other, and in a spirited exchange,
the authors show how professional barriers can be surmounted. In a
novel approach, each author explores a different aspect of aging in
alternating chapters. These chapters are in turn followed by a
commentary by the other. Further, the authors interrupt each other
within the chapters - to raise questions, contradict, ask for
clarification, and explore related ideas - with these interjections
emphasizing the dynamic nature of their ideas about age. Finally, a
third "voice" - that of a random old man - periodically inserts
itself into the text to remind the authors of their necessarily
limited understanding of the subject.
Never before in human existence have the aged been so numerous -
and for the most part - healthy. In this important new book, two
professionals, an anthropologist and a physician, wrestle with the
complex subject of aging. Is it inevitable? Is it a burden or gift?
What is successful aging? Why are some people better at aging than
others? Where is aging located? How does it vary among individuals,
within and between groups, cultures, societies, and indeed, over
the centuries? Reflecting on these and other questions, the authors
comment on the impact age has in their lives and work. Two unique
viewpoints are presented. While medicine approaches aging with
special attention given to the body, its organs, and its functions
over time, anthropology focuses on how the aged live within their
cultural settings. As this volume makes clear, the two disciplines
have a great deal to teach each other, and in a spirited exchange,
the authors show how professional barriers can be surmounted. In a
novel approach, each author explores a different aspect of aging in
alternating chapters. These chapters are in turn followed by a
commentary by the other. Further, the authors interrupt each other
within the chapters - to raise questions, contradict, ask for
clarification, and explore related ideas - with these interjections
emphasizing the dynamic nature of their ideas about age. Finally, a
third "voice" - that of a random old man - periodically inserts
itself into the text to remind the authors of their necessarily
limited understanding of the subject.
Sequestered within the heart of a cosmopolitan city is an exotic
world -- a place where diamonds, astronomically priced, are bought
and sold on the strength of a handshake, and business disputes are
resolved according to ancient Jewish principles of arbitration. Yet
it is also a modern industry facing the same fundamental global
changes affecting all businesses today.
In Diamond Stories, Renee Rose Shield leads us into the
unexamined realm of wholesale diamond traders in New York. Related
to several well-respected traders, she had unprecedented access to
a society normally closed to outside inquiry. Here she deftly
blends her personal relationship and her anthropological training
to provide an insightful exploration of this tradition-bound
industry, the new challenges it faces, and the ways both industry
and individuals adapt to and endure change.
Shield begins with a fascinating history of diamond mining,
combining the story of the De Beers cartel, the role of Jews in the
trade, and the part diamonds have played both in war and
liberation. Throughout, she incorporates commentary by current
diamond traders. Succeeding chapters explore the evolving nature of
both the global trade and the New York diamond district. Shield
takes a close look at the increasingly complex ethnic makeup of the
district, illuminates the rarely documented work done by women,
chronicles the resilient system of arbitration, and reveals the
ways in which many traders work well into their eighties and
nineties. Their long lives of work, cushioned by the trade's social
environment, offer hints for successful aging in general.
|
Alphas Befehl
Lee Savino; Translated by Stephanie Kotz; Renee Rose
|
R475
Discovery Miles 4 750
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
|
Le gardien
Agathe M; Renee Rose
|
R418
Discovery Miles 4 180
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
"If we continue, we grow old, and this is how it could be for us,"
writes Renee Rose Shield in her candid and sympathetic account of
life in one American nursing home. Drawing on anthropological
methods and theory to illuminate institutional life, she probes the
sources of the profound sense of unease she found at the place she
calls "The Franklin Nursing Home."For fourteen months Shield
participated in life at a nursing home in the northeastern United
States. She got to know many of the people associated with the
home-doctors, nurses, custodians, kitchen workers, administrators,
social workers, visiting relatives, and above all, the residents,
who emerge in this book as the individuals they are. Sections in
which the residents speak poignantly in their own voices are woven
throughout her richly detailed observations of everyday routines
and events. We see them using guile and humor to get by, struggling
to approach the end of their lives with a measure of autonomy and
dignity, and we meet an often conscientious and caring staff
constrained by conflicting professional perspectives and by the
bureaucratic structure in which they work.There are no villains
here. Rather, Shield explains how conditions in the nursing home
create a difficult and uncomfortable "liminality"-the transition
from an accustomed role to a new one-for the residents. In
characterizing nursing-home existence, she goes beyond Erving
Goffman's classic definition of the "total institution" to show how
residents pass from adulthood to death without the comfort of
ritual or community support common in rites of passage. In addition
to the isolation created by this solitary passage, she finds
restrictions on "reciprocity"-the old people are always recipients
whose need and obligation to repay are seen as unnecessary and
difficult to satisfy. The system encourages their passivity, which
deepens their dependency and helps to explain why they are often
perceived as children. Offering concrete suggestions for improving
the quality of nursing-home life, Uneasy Endings will find a broad
audience among those who work with the aged.
|
|