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This innovative book reveals the full extent of electricity's
significance in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century culture.
Ranging across a vast array of materials, Sam Halliday shows how
electricity functioned as both a means of representing "other"
things--from love and solidarity to embodiment and temporality--and
as an object of representation in its own right. As well as
Hawthorne, Melville, Twain and James, the book considers other
major American writers such as Whitman, Margaret Fuller and Henry
Adams; English writers such as Hardy and Kipling; and a galaxy of
scientists and social commentators, including mesmerists,
physicians, conspiracy theorists, psychologists and theologians.
Buy Black examines the role American Black women play in Black
consumption in the US and worldwide, with a focus on their pivotal
role in packaging Black feminine identity since the 1960s. Through
an exploration of the dolls, princesses, and rags-to-riches stories
that represent Black girlhood and womanhood in everything from
haircare to Nicki Minaj's hip-hop, Aria S. Halliday spotlights how
the products created by Black women have furthered Black women's
position as the moral compass and arbiter of Black racial progress.
Far-ranging and bold, Buy Black reveals what attitudes inform a
contemporary Black sensibility based in representation and
consumerism. It also traces the parameters of Black symbolic power,
mapping the sites where intraracial ideals of blackness, womanhood,
beauty, play, and sexuality meet and mix in consumer and popular
culture.
This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in
Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. It
provides in-depth coverage of a wide range of canonical American
authors from the American Renaissance onwards. As well as many
fascinating hitherto under-studied writers.
Silencing Gender, Age, Ethnicity and Cultural Biases in Leadership
is an edited volume containing eight chapters, each a real-life
account from a Latina in a leadership position in the United
States. These women discuss how their professional goals may
conflict with their culture's expectations for them, and they
describe the complexity of life choices for Latinas in the
workplace, including their struggles in challenging such social
assumptions. Although some of the contributors come from Latin
American countries and others were born in the United States, all
eight women share similar backgrounds in regards to gender, age,
ethnicity, or other forms of cultural biases they have encountered
in both their professional and social experiences. The theme
presented in this book is extremely relevant to the modern
workplace-not only where men and women of different ages, ethnic,
and religious backgrounds come together, attempting to be effective
in their professional setting, but also where biases that try to
silence minorities still prevail. This book is not a compilation of
victimizing stories; on the contrary, it serves as a statement of
success despite adversities.
Buy Black examines the role American Black women play in Black
consumption in the US and worldwide, with a focus on their pivotal
role in packaging Black feminine identity since the 1960s. Through
an exploration of the dolls, princesses, and rags-to-riches stories
that represent Black girlhood and womanhood in everything from
haircare to Nicki Minaj's hip-hop, Aria S. Halliday spotlights how
the products created by Black women have furthered Black women's
position as the moral compass and arbiter of Black racial progress.
Far-ranging and bold, Buy Black reveals what attitudes inform a
contemporary Black sensibility based in representation and
consumerism. It also traces the parameters of Black symbolic power,
mapping the sites where intraracial ideals of blackness, womanhood,
beauty, play, and sexuality meet and mix in consumer and popular
culture.
The Harvard Cocaine Recovery Project, a National Institute on Drug
Abuse-funded randomized clinical trial, was initiated in 1986 to
compare different approaches for treating cocaine abusers. Modified
Dynamic Group Therapy (MDGT), one of the models used in the study,
is a short-term supportive-expressive psychodynamic group approach
specifically adapted for cocaine addicts. While many previous
studies of substance abuse treatment were compromised by
extraordinarily high dropout rates, this approach retained nearly
70% of group members for the entire length of treatment. This book
describes MDGT and provides a practical guide to implementation.
Based on an understanding of the psychological vulnerabilities of
addicts, the MDGT model addresses the modifications in
psychodynamic technique that are necessary for addicts' needs. It
focuses on four main areas of difficulty involving self-regulation;
affect, self-esteem, relationship, and self-care problems. Both
supportive and expressive, the approach helps group members
identify, process, and modify the characterological traits that
mask addict's vulnerabilities. With this approach, a well-led group
can heighten self-esteem, improve self-care, combat feelings of
isolation and shame, and strengthen the individual's capacity for
positive change. Concomitant involvement with an individual
therapist/counselor is encouraged as a means to support and
facilitate the group therapy, especially early in group treatment,
and to maintain a flexible individual and group treatment context
for self-exploration and understanding. Bringing the model to life
are detailed vignettes and transcripts of groups in different
phases of recovery. These casesdemonstrate techniques, illustrate
technical issues, and illuminate major themes that unfold during
treatment.
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