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Love is Blind (Hardcover)
Ruth E; Edited by Jane Warren, Madeleine Leger
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Isolation.
The Alaskan Territory.
In the 1950s Alaska was not yet a state when a young woman, the
author Ruth Vincent, accompanied her biologist husband to remote
Afognak Island.
The two were alone with short-wave radio and bush pilots as their
only connection with the outside world. Months at a time would
elapse without Ruth even seeing another woman. Foxes became pets,
mail was delivered by bush pilots, snowshoes were essential, and
puffin eggs enhanced meals.
"In the Wake of the Frontier" vividly portrays this three-year
adventure. Life on Afognak Island included coping without
electricity or running water, facing Kodiak brown bears, and
dealing with life-threatening situations. At the same time, the
stunning Alaskan scenery and idyllic peacefulness were
breathtaking. Through the author's eyes, dealing with emergencies,
aloneness, and inconveniences all come alive in this engaging
historical memoir.
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Norton (Hardcover)
George Yelle, Ruth E Goold, Ruth Goold
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Ruth E. Carter is a living legend of costume design. For three
decades, she has shaped the story of the Black experience on screen
- from the eighties streetwear of DO THE RIGHT THING to the royal
regalia of COMING 2 AMERICA. Her work on Marvel's BLACK PANTHER not
only brought Afrofuturism to the mainstream, but also made her the
first Black winner of an Oscar in costume design. In 2021, she
became the second-ever costume designer to receive a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame. In this definitive book, Carter shares her
origins - recalling a trip to the sporting goods store with Spike
Lee to outfit the SCHOOL DAZE cast and a transformative moment
stepping inside history on the set of Steven Spielberg's AMISTAD.
She recounts anecdotes from dressing the greats: Eddie Murphy,
Samuel L. Jackson, Angela Bassett, Halle Berry, Chadwick Boseman,
and many more. She describes the passion for history that inspired
her period pieces - from MALCOLM X to WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT
- and her journey into Afrofuturism. Carter's wisdom and stories
are paired with deluxe visuals, including sketches, mood boards,
and film stills. Stunning photography by Awol Erizku reveals the
beautiful details of Carter's most iconic creations. Fans will even
get a glimpse behind the scenes of the highly anticipated BLACK
PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER. At its core, Carter's oeuvre celebrates
Black heroes and sheroes, whether civil rights leaders or Wakandan
warriors. She has brought the past to life and helped us imagine a
brighter future. This book is sure to inspire the next generation
of artists and storytellers.
Demonstrates the continued vital importance of feminism -
conceptually and theoretically, methodologically and politically -
to the development of animal studies; and to critical scholarship
more broadly Presents a range of new and innovative contributions
to theoretical debates in contemporary social sciences in the areas
of gender, species and the relations of these to and other
formations of social difference, such as sexuality, ethnicity and
embodiment. Showcase a range of cutting edge, international
scholarship in feminist animal studies, which includes both
established and emerging scholars and activist contributions
Demonstrates the continued vital importance of feminism -
conceptually and theoretically, methodologically and politically -
to the development of animal studies; and to critical scholarship
more broadly Presents a range of new and innovative contributions
to theoretical debates in contemporary social sciences in the areas
of gender, species and the relations of these to and other
formations of social difference, such as sexuality, ethnicity and
embodiment. Showcase a range of cutting edge, international
scholarship in feminist animal studies, which includes both
established and emerging scholars and activist contributions
Providing a comprehensive exposition of the transactional
interpretation (TI) of quantum mechanics, this book sheds new light
on long-standing problems in quantum theory such as the physical
meaning of the 'Born Rule' for the probabilities of measurement
results, and demonstrates the ability of TI to solve the
measurement problem of quantum mechanics. It provides robust
refutations of various objections and challenges to TI, such as
Maudlin's inconsistency challenge, and explicitly extends TI into
the relativistic domain, providing new insight into the basic
compatibility of TI with relativity and the meaning of 'virtual
particles.' It breaks new ground in approaches to interpreting
quantum theory and presents a compelling new ontological picture of
quantum reality. This substantially revised and updated second
edition is ideal for researchers and graduate students interested
in the philosophy of physics and the interpretation of quantum
mechanics.
This book examines the central structures in medicine-medical
knowledge, economics, technological innovation, and medical
authority-from the perspective of an ethics of care. The author
analyzes each of these structures in detail before considering the
challenges they present to end of life care. The perspective of an
ethics of care allows for a careful focus on how these structures
affect the capacity of the health care system to provide the care
patients need, on the impact they have on the relationships between
patients and care-givers, and on how they affect the care-givers in
terms of their own sense of identity and capacity for care. This
book offers one of the first focused discussions of an ethics of
care across a wide range of social issues and structures in
contemporary medicine. It will be of keen interest to advanced
students and scholars in bioethics and health care ethics who are
interested in these important issues.
This book provides a contemporary look at spaceports, not only from
relevant technological drivers, policies, and legal perspectives,
but also from impacts associated with airspace use and aviation
stakeholders. Economic, business, financial, and environmental
considerations; issues facing airports transitioning to air and
space ports; and spaceport planning are discussed. Through case and
event studies, research and analysis, along with information
obtained through professional experience, this book provides an
overview of the many benefits, unique challenges, and issues facing
commercial spaceports and spaceport operators. Each chapter is a
standalone key topic such that the reader can focus on the most
compelling issues relevant for them or can view the book as an
integrated whole for a full perspective. While examples and case
studies come largely from the United States, the reader can draw
conclusions that are independent of country and situation.
Information on other nation-state policies and advancements, among
other topics, is provided to give a global perspective, further
expanding the relevancy and benefits of the book to both domestic
and international audiences. An Introduction to the Spaceport
Industry: Runways to Space fills a gap in the literature, providing
professionals, government officials, researchers, professors, and
students deep insights into the fast-growing commercial spaceport
industry.
This title is a self-contained follow-up to Understanding Our
Unseen Reality: Solving Quantum Riddles (2015). Intended for the
general reader but including more advanced material and an appendix
of technical references for physics students and researchers, it
reviews the basics of the transactional interpretation of quantum
mechanics in its newer incarnation as a fully relativistic, realist
interpretation of quantum theory, while embarking on further
explorations of the implications of quantum theory. This
interpretation is applied to new experiments and alleged
'paradoxes' that are found to be fully explicable once various
misconceptions are identified.There is currently much disagreement
about the meaning of quantum theory, as well as confusion about the
implications of various experiments such as 'weak measurements,'
'quantum eraser,' and delayed choice. This book provides a clear
way forward, presenting new developments and elaborating a
promising interpretational approach that has completely nullified
earlier objections (such as the Maudlin objection). It also
explains why some prominent competing interpretations, such as
'decoherence' in an Everettian ('Many Worlds') approach, do not
work as advertised.Adventures in Quantumland: Exploring Our Unseen
Reality offers a fully relativistic interpretation of quantum
mechanics with no discontinuity between non-relativistic and
relativistic domains and shows how quantum theory allows for free
will and for reconciliation of science and spiritual
traditions.Related Link(s)
This new edition revisits the important role that school
counsellors play in the personal, social, academic, and career
development of students with disabilities. While school counsellors
play a critical role in the planning and distribution of services
to students with special needs, they may have very little training
in this area. Baumberger and Harper's essential handbook has been
updated throughout to help counsellors work confidently and
competently with students who may require special services. The
specific model they originally developed is even more useful today
as counsellors document the ways in which they connect student data
with appropriate interventions. The book chapters provide: * Clear
explanations of recent changes shaping the legal context for
working with students with disabilities * Tips to help counsellors
identify students eligible for special services * Suggestions for
designing realistic, measurable IEP goals * A number of case
studies that walk readers through effective counselling responses *
Insight into gaining parents' trust, involving families positively
in schools, and counselling siblings of students with disabilities
* Strategies for integrating the individual needs of students with
disabilities into comprehensive school counselling programs Every
school counsellor feeling the weight of accountability will welcome
this guide to measurable, improved service delivery for students
with special needs.
The structural aspects of composite quantum systems in the
foundation, interpretation and application of quantum theory is an
increasingly prominent topic of physics research. As an emerging
field, it seeks to understand the origins of the classical world of
experience from the quantum level.Quantum Structural Studies
presents conceptual fundamentals and mathematical methods for
investigating the structuring of quantum systems into subsystems.
Split into four sections, the topics covered include the historical
and philosophical aspects of quantum structures, specific
interpretive approaches and ontologies, and alternative
methodological approaches to quantum mechanics. Questions addressed
are: Specialists, graduate students and researchers seeking an
introduction to the field of emergent structures and new directions
for research and experimentation can use this book to find
up-to-date representative texts and reviews.
This captivating book presents a new, unified picture of the
everyday world around us. It provides rational, scientific support
for the idea that there may well be more to our reality than meets
the eye...Accessible and engaging for readers with no prior
knowledge of quantum physics, author Ruth Kastner draws on the
popular transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics to
explain our 'quantum reality.' Her book focuses on modern-day
examples and deals with big philosophical questions as well as
ideas from physics.If you have any interest in quantum physics,
this book is for you - whether you be a physics student or
academic, or simply an inquisitive reader who wants to delve deeper
into the reality of the world around you. Dr Ruth Kastner has
received two National Science Foundation awards for the study of
interpretational issues in quantum theory.
This book examines everyday stories of personal experience that are
published online in contemporary forms of social media. Taking
examples from discussion boards, blogs, social network sites,
microblogging sites, wikis, collaborative and participatory
storytelling projects, Ruth Page explores how new and existing
narrative genres are being (re)shaped in different online contexts.
The book shows how the characteristics of social media, which
emphasize recency, interpersonal connection and mobile
distribution, amplify or reverse different aspects of canonical
storytelling. The new storytelling patterns which emerge provide a
fresh perspective on some of the key concepts in narrative
research: structure, evaluation and the location of speaker and
audience in time and space. The online stories are profoundly
social in nature, and perform important identity work for their
tellers as they interact with their audiences - identities which
range from celebrities in Twitter, cancer survivors in the
blogosphere to creative writers convening storytelling projects or
local histories. Stories and Social Media brings together the
stories told in well-known sites like Facebook and lesser-known
community archives, providing a landmark survey and critique of
personal storytelling as it is being reworked online at the start
of the 21st century.
The body is a physical entity and a symbolic artifact. It is both
created in the world of nature and also physically reconstructed by
a culture. The body is both an internal, subjective environment and
simultaneously an object for others to observe and evaluate. Bodily
practices, woven within a dense web of social relationships, are
then both individual and collective- the individual body expresses
cultural values, rules, and regulations in the daily routine of
living. The American Body in Context: An Anthology is an
interdisciplinary investigation of these body relationships,
examining the American historical and contemporary constructions of
the body. Through readings and exercises, this new book allows
readers to explore interrelationships between the individualized
and the constructed nature of embodied experiences. This
comprehensive text draws together a wide variety of analyses and
demonstrates the interdependence between the individual and the
structural (re)productions of embodied experiences in the U.S. This
is an excellent text for courses in American studies, American
society, cultural and social anthropology, and gender studies.
This book examines everyday stories of personal experience that
are published online in contemporary forms of social media. Taking
examples from discussion boards, blogs, social network sites,
microblogging sites, wikis, collaborative and participatory
storytelling projects, Ruth Page explores how new and existing
narrative genres are being (re)shaped in different online contexts.
The book shows how the characteristics of social media, which
emphasize recency, interpersonal connection and mobile
distribution, amplify or reverse different aspects of canonical
storytelling. The new storytelling patterns which emerge provide a
fresh perspective on some of the key concepts in narrative
research: structure, evaluation and the location of speaker and
audience in time and space. The online stories are profoundly
social in nature, and perform important identity work for their
tellers as they interact with their audiences - identities which
range from celebrities in Twitter, cancer survivors in the
blogosphere to creative writers convening storytelling projects or
local histories.
Stories and Social Media brings together the stories told in
well-known sites like Facebook and lesser-known community archives,
providing a landmark survey and critique of personal storytelling
as it is being reworked online at the start of the 21st
century.
This book provides a contemporary look at spaceports, not only from
relevant technological drivers, policies, and legal perspectives,
but also from impacts associated with airspace use and aviation
stakeholders. Economic, business, financial, and environmental
considerations; issues facing airports transitioning to air and
space ports; and spaceport planning are discussed. Through case and
event studies, research and analysis, along with information
obtained through professional experience, this book provides an
overview of the many benefits, unique challenges, and issues facing
commercial spaceports and spaceport operators. Each chapter is a
standalone key topic such that the reader can focus on the most
compelling issues relevant for them or can view the book as an
integrated whole for a full perspective. While examples and case
studies come largely from the United States, the reader can draw
conclusions that are independent of country and situation.
Information on other nation-state policies and advancements, among
other topics, is provided to give a global perspective, further
expanding the relevancy and benefits of the book to both domestic
and international audiences. An Introduction to the Spaceport
Industry: Runways to Space fills a gap in the literature, providing
professionals, government officials, researchers, professors, and
students deep insights into the fast-growing commercial spaceport
industry.
Education in the New Millennium details- for parents, taxpayers,
and politicians, and those concerned about education- the
intricacies and complexities of "education" in America. Author
Michael F. Shaughnessy documents a number of different forms of
education in the U.S., by dividing "education" into a number of
groups, including gifted education, special education, vocational
education, and bilingual education. Educators are now dealing with
various educational programs such as mentoring, guidance, and
creativity programs, and are increasingly confronted with students
with a number of "exceptionalities," such as health problems and
emotional and behavioral disorders. In order to understand the
complexity of education and in order to ensure that "no child is
left behind," all involved in education should be aware of the
truly complex problems facing teachers, administrators, and
educational personnel in America. This book can help with this
crucial understanding.
Connected Lives examines the account of human nature that is
implicit in an ethics of care, a picture of human lives that
emphasizes interdependency, embodiment, and social connectedness.
The book makes important connections to the picture of human life
found in theorists of love such as St. Augustine and Emmanuel
Levinas, and shows that when care theory is articulated clearly, it
provides resources for thinking through some of the difficult moral
issues we face in the contemporary world, issues such as assisted
reproduction and the new genetic technologies.
Connected Lives examines the account of human nature that is
implicit in an ethics of care, a picture of human lives that
emphasizes interdependency, embodiment, and social connectedness.
The book makes important connections to the picture of human life
found in theorists of love such as St. Augustine and Emmanuel
Levinas, and shows that when care theory is articulated clearly, it
provides resources for thinking through some of the difficult moral
issues we face in the contemporary world, issues such as assisted
reproduction and the new genetic technologies.
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