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Disability is defined by hierarchy. Regardless of culture or
context, persons with disabilities are almost always pushed to the
bottom of the social hierarchy. With the advent of the Convention
on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006), disability human
rights seemingly provided a path forward for tearing down ableist
social hierarchies and ensuring that all persons with disabilities
everywhere were treated equally. Despite important progress, the
disability human rights project not only remains incomplete, but
has often created new hierarchies among persons with disabilities
themselves or across the human rights it promotes. Certain groups
of persons with disabilities have gained new voices while others
remain silenced and certain rights are prioritized over others
depending on what states, international organizations, or advocates
want rather than what those on the ground need most. This volume
was inspired both by the continued need to expose human rights
violations against persons with disabilities, but to also explore
the nuanced role that hierarchies play in the spread,
implementation, and protection of disability human rights. The
enjoyment of human rights is not equal nor is the recognition of
specific individuals and groups’ rights. In order to change this
situation, inequalities across the disability human rights movement
must be explored. Divided into five parts Who counts as disabled?
Political, social, and cultural context Which rights on top, whose
rights on bottom? Pushed to the periphery in the disability rights
movement Representations of disability and comprised of 34
newly-written chapters including case-studies from the Anglophone
Caribbean, Bangladesh, Bosnia-Herzegovina, China, Ghana, Haiti,
Hungary, India, Israel, Kenya, Latin America, Poland, Russia,
Scotland, Serbia and South Africa, and other countries, this book
will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability
studies, sociology, human rights law and social policy.
As both a distinct genre and a particular mode of filmmaking, the
idea of the epic has been central to the history of cinema.
Including contributions from both established and emerging film
music scholars, the ten essays in Music in Epic Film: Listening to
Spectacle provide a cross-section of contemporary scholarship on
the subject. They explore diverse topics, including the function of
music in epic narratives, the socio-political implications of
cinematic music, and the use of pre-existing music in epic films.
Intended for students and scholars in film music, film
appreciation, and media studies, the wide range of topics and the
diversity of the films that the authors discuss make Music in Epic
Film: Listening to Spectacle an ideal introduction to the field of
music in epic film.
Before Gertrude Stein became the twentieth century's preeminent
experimental writer, she spent a decade conducting research in both
the leading psychological laboratory and the leading medical school
in the United States. This book unearths the turn-of-the-century
scientific and philosophical worlds in which the young Stein was
immersed, demonstrating how her extensive scientific training
continued to exert a profound influence on the development of her
extraordinary literary practices. As an undergraduate, Stein worked
with the philosopher William James and the psychologist Hugo
MĂĽnsterberg at the Harvard Psychological Laboratory, investigating
secondary personalities and automatic writing. Later, at Johns
Hopkins Medical School, she was involved in cutting-edge
neuroanatomical research in the laboratory of Franklin Mall, the
leading anatomist and embryologist of the day, and his assistant
Lewellys Barker, the author of the first English-language textbook
to describe the nervous system from the standpoint of the newly
established neuron doctrine. Just as scientists reconceived
relations among neurons as a function of contact or contiguity,
rather than of organic connection, Stein radically reconceptualized
language to place equal weight on the conjunctive and disjunctive
relations among words. In the course of a broad reevaluation of
Stein's career, the author situates this major postromantic thinker
in the lineage of poet-scientists such as Wordsworth, Goethe, and
Shelley, as well as in an important line of speculative thinkers
that extends from Emerson to William James, Alfred North Whitehead,
and Ludwig Wittgenstein, and emerges today in figures as disparate
as the bioaesthetician Suzanne Langer, the technoscience theorist
Donna Haraway, and the neuroscientists Francisco Varela, Gerald
Edelman, and J. Allan Hobson. These two lines share the perspective
that William James designated radical empiricism. A groundbreaking
interdisciplinary study, Irresistible Dictation aims both to
explicate Stein's radically experimental compositions and to bring
the radical empiricist philosophical tradition into focus through
the lens of her writing.
This book describes guidelines prepared by the U.S. Country Studies
Program for the evaluation of options to mitigate greenhouse gas
emissions. The U.S. Country Studies Program developed these
guidelines in collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory to provide developing countries and countries with
economies in transition with reference materials for national
mitigation assessments. Over 50 countries participating in the
program have used the guidelines, which have been refined to
reflect their comments. The guidelines delineate a step-wise
methodology for evaluating greenhouse gas mitigation options for
the energy and non-energy sectors and describe the applications of
common analytical tools. The U.S. Country Studies Program uses
these guidelines in conjunction with intensive training workshops
and follow up technical assistance during the lifetime of each
country's study. The program uses similar reference materials to
assist counties with their greenhouse gas emission inventories and
evaluations of climate change vulnerability and adaptive responses.
These guidelines serve three purposes: to assist countries in
making decisions about the scope and methodology for mitigation
assessments; to provide countries with guidance and step-by-step
instructions on each element of a mitigation assessment; and to
help countries determine which analytical tools are best suited to
their needs and describe procedures for applying these tools. This
book describes the application of the most common and readily
available methods and analytical tools. Countries are encouraged,
where appropriate, to use their own methods."
As both a distinct genre and a particular mode of filmmaking, the
idea of the epic has been central to the history of cinema.
Including contributions from both established and emerging film
music scholars, the ten essays in Music in Epic Film: Listening to
Spectacle provide a cross-section of contemporary scholarship on
the subject. They explore diverse topics, including the function of
music in epic narratives, the socio-political implications of
cinematic music, and the use of pre-existing music in epic films.
Intended for students and scholars in film music, film
appreciation, and media studies, the wide range of topics and the
diversity of the films that the authors discuss make Music in Epic
Film: Listening to Spectacle an ideal introduction to the field of
music in epic film.
Before Gertrude Stein became the twentieth century's preeminent
experimental writer, she spent a decade conducting research in both
the leading psychological laboratory and the leading medical school
in the United States. This book unearths the turn-of-the-century
scientific and philosophical worlds in which the young Stein was
immersed, demonstrating how her extensive scientific training
continued to exert a profound influence on the development of her
extraordinary literary practices.
As an undergraduate, Stein worked with the philosopher William
James and the psychologist Hugo Munsterberg at the Harvard
Psychological Laboratory, investigating secondary personalities and
automatic writing. Later, at Johns Hopkins Medical School, she was
involved in cutting-edge neuroanatomical research in the laboratory
of Franklin Mall, the leading anatomist and embryologist of the
day, and his assistant Lewellys Barker, the author of the first
English-language textbook to describe the nervous system from the
standpoint of the newly established neuron doctrine. Just as
scientists reconceived relations among neurons as a function of
contact or contiguity, rather than of organic connection, Stein
radically reconceptualized language to place equal weight on the
conjunctive and disjunctive relations among words.
In the course of a broad reevaluation of Stein's career, the author
situates this major postromantic thinker in the lineage of
poet-scientists such as Wordsworth, Goethe, and Shelley, as well as
in an important line of speculative thinkers that extends from
Emerson to William James, Alfred North Whitehead, and Ludwig
Wittgenstein, and emerges today in figures as disparate as the
bioaesthetician Suzanne Langer, the technoscience theorist Donna
Haraway, and the neuroscientists Francisco Varela, Gerald Edelman,
and J. Allan Hobson. These two lines share the perspective that
William James designated "radical empiricism."
A groundbreaking interdisciplinary study, "Irresistible Dictation"
aims both to explicate Stein's radically experimental compositions
and to bring the radical empiricist philosophical tradition into
focus through the lens of her writing.
Despite the commonly held perception that most northern citizens
embraced racial equality, As Long As They Don't Move Next Door
graphically demonstrates the variety of methods including violence
and intimidation, unjust laws, restrictive covenants,
discrimination by realtors and mortgage lenders, and white flight
to suburban enclaves used by whites to thwart the racial
integration of their neighborhoods. Author Stephen Meyer offers the
first full length national history of American race relations
examined through the lens of housing discrimination, and he forces
readers to confront and re-evaluate the deep and enduring division
between the races. Although this is a discomforting analysis, which
concludes that housing discrimination still exists, it is only a
clearer understanding of our shared racial past that will enable
Americans to create a successful prescription for fighting
intolerance. An original and captivating study that illuminates
overlooked groups and individuals committed to the national
struggle for civil rights, this is important reading for anyone
interested in African-American history."
Stephen Meyer charts the complex vagaries of men reinventing
manhood in twentieth century America. Their ideas of masculinity
destroyed by principles of mass production, workers created a
white-dominated culture that defended its turf against other racial
groups and revived a crude, hypersexualized treatment of women that
went far beyond the shop floor. At the same time, they recast
unionization battles as manly struggles against a system killing
their very selves. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Meyer
recreates a social milieu in stunning detail--the mean labor and
stolen pleasures, the battles on the street and in the soul, and a
masculinity that expressed itself in violence and sexism but also
as a wellspring of the fortitude necessary to maintain one's
dignity while doing hard work in hard world.
Stephen Meyer charts the complex vagaries of men reinventing
manhood in twentieth century America. Their ideas of masculinity
destroyed by principles of mass production, workers created a
white-dominated culture that defended its turf against other racial
groups and revived a crude, hypersexualized treatment of women that
went far beyond the shop floor. At the same time, they recast
unionization battles as manly struggles against a system killing
their very selves. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Meyer
recreates a social milieu in stunning detail--the mean labor and
stolen pleasures, the battles on the street and in the soul, and a
masculinity that expressed itself in violence and sexism but also
as a wellspring of the fortitude necessary to maintain one's
dignity while doing hard work in hard world.
In 1959, C. P. Snow lamented the presence of what he called the
'two cultures': the apparently unbridgeable chasm of understanding
and knowledge between modern literature and modern science. In
recent decades, scholars have worked diligently and often with
great ingenuity to interrogate claims like Snow's that represent
twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature and science as
radically alienated from each other. The Cambridge Companion to
Literature and Science offers a roadmap to developments that have
contributed to the demonstration and emergence of reciprocal
connections between the two domains of inquiry. Weaving together
theory and empiricism, individual chapters explore major figures -
Shakespeare, Bacon, Emerson, Darwin, Henry James, William James,
Whitehead, Einstein, Empson, and McClintock; major genres and modes
of writing - fiction, science fiction, non-fiction prose, poetry,
and dramatic works; and major theories and movements - pragmatism,
critical theory, science studies, cognitive science, ecocriticism,
cultural studies, affect theory, digital humanities, and expanded
empiricisms. This book will be a key resource for scholars,
graduate students, and undergraduate students alike.
Despite there being deep lines of convergence between the
philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead, C. S. Peirce, William
James, John Dewey, and other classical American philosophers, it
remains an open question whether Whitehead is a pragmatist, and
conversation between pragmatists and Whitehead scholars have been
limited. Indeed, it is difficult to find an anthology of classical
American philosophy that includes Whitehead's writings. These camps
began separately, and so they remain. This volume questions the
wisdom of that separation, exploring their connections, both
historical and in application. The essays in this volume embody
original and creative work by leading scholars that not only
furthers the understanding of American philosophy, but seeks to
advance it by working at the intersection of experience and reality
to incite novel and creative thought. This exploration is long
overdue. Specific questions that are addressed are: Is Whitehead a
pragmatist? What contrasts and affinities exist between American
pragmatism and Whitehead's thought? What new questions, strategies,
and critiques emerge by juxtaposing their distinct perspectives?
This book, sponsored by the Stockholm Environment Institute and
first published in 1992, presents a detailed analysis of changes in
world energy use over the past twenty years. It considers the
future prospects of energy demand, and discusses ways of
restraining growth in consumption in order to meet environmental
and economic development goals. Based on a decade of research by
the authors and their colleagues at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in
collaboration with the Stockholm Environment Institute, it presents
a wealth of information on energy use and the forces shaping it in
the industrial, developing, and formerly planned economies. The
book provides an invaluable overview of the potential for improving
energy efficiency, and discusses the policies that could help
realize the potential. While calling for strong action by
governments and the private sector, the authors stress the
importance of considering the full range of factors that will shape
realization of the energy efficiency potential around the world.
This book focuses on the evolution of energy-using activities in a dozen industrialized countries and many developing countries as well, with particular attention paid to the energy-intensive branches of manufacturing, automobiles, air travel, home heating, and electric appliances. The authors draw scenarios of future energy efficiency improvements, based on their findings about past improvements, and their survey of the potential for change. The study concludes that only massive improvement in energy efficiency in the near and medium term can provide the world with breathing room to develop and deploy a mix of relatively clean energy sources that will not further aggravate environmental or climate problems.
Authored by renowned neuro-radiologist Steven P. Meyers,
Differential Diagnosis in Neuroimaging: Head and Neck is a stellar
guide for identifying and diagnosing head and neck disease based on
location and neuroimaging results. The succinct text reflects more
than 25 years of hands-on experience gleaned from advanced training
and educating residents and fellows in radiology, neurosurgery, and
otolaryngology. The high-quality MRI and CT scans have been
collected over Dr. Meyers's lengthy career, presenting an
unsurpassed visual learning tool. The distinctive 'three-column
table plus images' format is easy to incorporate into clinical
practice, setting this book apart from larger, disease-oriented
radiologic tomes. This layout enables readers to quickly recognize
and compare abnormalities based on more than 1,500 high-resolution
images. Chapters cover skull imaging, temporal bone imaging,
orbital imaging, paranasal imaging, suprahyoid neck imaging, and
infrahyoid neck imaging, for a full spectrum of head and neck
pathologies. Key Highlights Tabular columns organized by anatomical
abnormality include neck, facial, and skull based imaging findings
and a summary of key clinical data that correlate to the images
Congenital/developmental and acquired abnormalities including
solitary or multiple orbital lesions; and solitary, multifocal, or
diffuse sinonasal disease Abnormalities of the skull,
craniovertebral junction, tempormandibular joint, infrahyoid neck,
anterior and posterior cervical space, perivertebral space, and
brachial plexus This visually rich resource is a must-have
diagnostic tool for residents, fellows, and practitioners in
radiology, otolaryngology-head and neck surgery, and neurosurgery.
The highly practical format makes it ideal for daily rounds, as
well as a robust study guide for physicians preparing for board
exams.
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