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My Blob Feelings Workbook A Toolkit for Exploring Emotions

My Blob Feelings Workbook A Toolkit for Exploring Emotions

My Blob Feelings Workbook provides the reader with a series of unique visual reflective exercises that help to reveal one’s own emotional portrait. Using a combination of Blob characters and open questions the reader can gradually build up an image of themselves across a wide range of ‘who I am’ subjects and real-life scenarios. Packed with well-loved blob illustrations this book includes a wealth of downloadable pages and will enable the individual to ‘draw’ a picture of themselves emotionally through the series of exercises. Sections covered include: My Charts My Feeling Scales My Scenarios Myself Scales Best used as a personal toolkit for self-awareness this book is also a rich resource for professionals working in the field of feelings to use with their own clients. It is suitable for all ages from secondary school upwards and ideal for individuals couples groups and all who wish to go deeper in understanding their emotional strengths and areas for development. | My Blob Feelings Workbook A Toolkit for Exploring Emotions

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Canine-Assisted Interventions A Comprehensive Guide to Credentialing Therapy Dog Teams

Canine-Assisted Interventions A Comprehensive Guide to Credentialing Therapy Dog Teams

Covering principles of therapy dog team training assessment skills and ongoing monitoring Canine-Assisted Interventions provides guidance on the most evidence-based methods for therapy dog team welfare training and assessment. The authors offer a linear approach to understanding all aspects of the screening assessment and selection of dog-handler teams by exploring the journey of dog therapy teams from assessment of canines and handlers to the importance of ongoing monitoring recredentialing and retirement. In addition to reviewing key findings within the field of human-animal interactions each chapter emphasizes skills on both the human and dog ends of the leash and makes recommendations for research-informed best practices. To support readers the book culminates with checklists and training resources to serve as a quick reference for readers. This book will be of great interest for practitioners in-service professionals and researchers in the fields of canine-assisted interventions and counseling. | Canine-Assisted Interventions A Comprehensive Guide to Credentialing Therapy Dog Teams

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Fire Under My Feet History Race and Agency in African Diaspora Dance

Fire Under My Feet History Race and Agency in African Diaspora Dance

Fire Under My Feet seeks to expose the diverse significant and often under-researched historical and developmental phenomena revealed by studies in the dance systems of the African Diaspora. In the book written documentation and diverse methodologies are buttressed by the experiences of those whose lives are built around the practice of African diaspora dance. Replete with original perspectives this book makes a significant contribution to dance and African diaspora scholarship simultaneously. Most important it highlights the work of researchers from Ecuador India Puerto Rico the United States and the United Kingdom and it exposes under-researched and omitted voices of the African diaspora dance world of the aforesaid locations and Puerto Rico Columbia and Trinidad as well. This study showcases a blend of scholars dance practitioners and interdisciplinarity and engages the relationship between African diaspora dance and the fields of history performance studies critical race theory religion identity and black agency. | Fire Under My Feet History Race and Agency in African Diaspora Dance

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Speaking my Soul Race Life and Language

Speaking my Soul Race Life and Language

Speaking My Soul is the honest story of linguist John R. Rickford’s life from his early years as the youngest of ten children in Guyana to his status as Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Stanford of the transformation of his identity from colored or mixed race in Guyana to black in the USA and of his work championing Black Talk and its speakers. This is an inspiring story of the personal and professional growth of a black scholar from his life as an immigrant to the USA to a world-renowned expert who has made a leading contribution to the study of African American life history language and culture. In this engaging memoir Rickford recalls landmark events for his racial identity like being elected president of the Black Student Association at the University of California Santa Cruz; learning from black expeditions to the South Carolina Sea Islands Jamaica Belize and Ghana; and meeting or interviewing civil rights icons like Huey P. Newton Rosa Parks and South African Dennis Brutus. He worked with Rachel Jeantel Trayvon Martin’s good friend and key witness in the trial of George Zimmerman for his murder—Zimmerman’s exoneration sparked the Black Lives Matter movement. With a foreword by poet John Agard this is the account of a former Director of African and African American Studies whose work has increased our understanding of the richness of African American language and our awareness of the education and criminal justice challenges facing African Americans. It is key reading for students and faculty in linguistics mixed race studies African American studies and social justice. | Speaking my Soul Race Life and Language

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Out of My Great Sorrows The Armenian Genocide and Artist Mary Zakarian

Out of My Great Sorrows The Armenian Genocide and Artist Mary Zakarian

Out of My Great Sorrows is the story of Philadelphia artist Mary Zakarian whose life and work were shaped by the experiences of her mother a survivor of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. Written by Mary Zakarian's niece and nephew the narrative examines the complexities of the artist's life as they relate to many issues including ethnicity gender immigration and assimilation. Above all this is a story of trauma - its effects on the survivor its transmission through the generations and its role in the artistic experience. Zakarian painted obsessively throughout her life. As she gained recognition for her artwork she became increasingly haunted by her mother's untold story and was driven to express the tragedy of the Armenian Genocide in her art. Zakarian's attempt to deal openly with the issues of trauma and guilt caused conflicts in her relationship with her mother. These emotions became a driving force behind her art as well as the basis for her personal difficulties. By examining Mary Zakarian's life and art the authors bring new insights to the study of the Armenian experience. This moving story will inspire all those who have struggled to express themselves in the face of injustice and oppression. | Out of My Great Sorrows The Armenian Genocide and Artist Mary Zakarian

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The Dog in the Dickensian Imagination

The Dog in the Dickensian Imagination

Fascinated by them unable to ignore them and imaginatively stimulated by them Charles Dickens was an acute and unsentimental reporter on the dogs he kept and encountered during a time when they were a burgeoning part of the nineteenth-century urban and domestic scene. As dogs inhabited Dickens’s city so too did they populate his fiction journalism and letters. In the first book-length work of criticism on Dickens’s relationship to canines Beryl Gray shows that dogs real and invented were intrinsic to Dickens’s vision and experience of London and to his representations of its life. Gray draws on an array of reminiscences by Dickens’s friends family and fellow writers and also situates her book within the context of nineteenth-century attitudes towards dogs as revealed in the periodical press newspapers and institutional archives. Integral to her study is her analysis of Dickens’s texts in relationship to their illustrations by George Cruikshank and Hablot Knight Browne and to portraiture by late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists like Thomas Gainsborough and Edwin Landseer. The Dog in the Dickensian Imagination will not only enlighten readers and critics of Dickens and those interested in his life but will serve as an important resource for scholars interested in the Victorian city the treatment of animals in literature and art and attitudes towards animals in nineteenth-century Britain.

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All My Relations: Understanding the Experiences of Native Americans with Disabilities

All My Relations: Understanding the Experiences of Native Americans with Disabilities

Native Americans suffer disproportionately from many social and health disparities. High rates of poverty exposure to environmental toxins and various forms of violence all increase the risk of health problems including disabilities yet there is very little published scholarship concerning Native American experiences with disabilities. In collecting contributions on various aspects of disability in Native American populations in one volume this book seeks to redress this lack of attention. Writing about regions of the United States Canada and Australia and spanning a diverse range of settings from remote rural areas to reservations to college campuses the authors are attentive to the impact of specific environments on their inhabitants. Taking into account both physical and social environment and recognizing the importance of cultural context this book is a good starting point for anyone interested in developing a better understanding of the experience of Native peoples living with disabilities. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Social Work in Disability & Rehabilitation. | All My Relations: Understanding the Experiences of Native Americans with Disabilities

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I Answer with My Life Life Histories of Women Teachers Working for Social Change

I Answer with My Life Life Histories of Women Teachers Working for Social Change

Originally published in 1993. This book shows through the oral histories of ordinary women teachers that effective prescriptions for change do not come simply from policy-makers. The author focuses on the narratives of three groups of teachers in the USA: Catholic nuns; secular Jewish women; and Black women. For each of these the individual teachers’ narratives have been examined for constructions common to the group and these patterns are assembled into a discourse. Teachers’ self-identities are considered as are their assessments of the institutions in which they have worked and their relationships with the pupils. The text examines how the social role of the teacher is constructed by the lives of these women. Incorporating this perspective of diversity into the educational debate this book argues that these less dominant but important voices shouldn’t be ignored. | I Answer with My Life Life Histories of Women Teachers Working for Social Change

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Being Lived by My Life A Sort of Autobiography

Being Lived by My Life A Sort of Autobiography

Originally published in 1957 this book was a new departure in autobiographies. It is both enlightening and entertaining. There is a happy blending of narrative reflection and occasional extracts from case histories which gives it a delightfully human character. But it is more than this. It is a story of the profound inward adventure of an exceptionally inquiring mind. From childhood to professional maturity it proceeds through economic difficulties love and tribulation to science and general medical practice. It tells how Dr Berg became so convinced of the psychogenesis of human suffering that with great courage he gave up his practice and personal security to search for the causes in mental conflict. The story proceeds through specialisation in psychiatry to analytical training and analytic practice building up in the later chapters to a description of the troubled mind in all its manifestations and of the medical analyst’s daily work. There is a new explanation of the psychology of love with the inclusion of personal as well as professional experiences. Here as throughout conclusions have an astonishing difference from orthodox or familiar speculation and this is because they are based strictly on knowledge professional and personal. The style is natural lively and lucid. Here is an opportunity to combine learning with entertainment for Dr Berg has an extraordinary flair for presenting difficult things attractively without sacrifice of scientific essentials. This book is a re-issue originally published in 1957. The language used is a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication. | Being Lived by My Life A Sort of Autobiography

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The World is My Home A Hamid Dabashi Reader

The World is My Home A Hamid Dabashi Reader

As recent events indicate Iranian Middle Eastern and Islamic politics more broadly have been deeply influential in world affairs. Hamid Dabashi has been a highly visible and prominent commentator on these affairs explaining interpreting and providing a critical perspective. This volume gathers together his most influential and insightful writings. As one of the foremost contemporary public intellectuals and scholars of our time Dabashi's interests and writings span subjects ranging from Islamic philosophy and political ideology to Iranian art and Persian literature from Sufism and Orientalism to Iranian and world cinema and contemporary Arab and Muslim visual arts; and from postcolonial theory and globalization to imperialism and public affairs. There is a direct connection between his theoretical innovations and the angle of his public interventions on the urgent global issues of the day. This book brings together some of his most important writings especially those that offer new ways of understanding Islam Iran Islamist ideology global art and the condition of global modernity. The book shows the underlying conceptual themes that unify Dabashi's wide-ranging and brilliantly insightful corpus. Dabashi combines deep knowledge of the subject matter about which he writes and highly refined sociological hermeneutical and cultural interpretive skills moving far beyond the limiting distorted and intellectually stifling character of reigning absolutist conventions. He places existing authoritative frameworks under close scrutiny in order to produce novel and penetrating insights. These essays reflect historical and geographical worlds that are best viewed when Hamid Dabashi's work is read as a whole which this one- volume work makes possible for the first time. | The World is My Home A Hamid Dabashi Reader

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Locked-in Syndrome after Brain Damage Living within my head

Locked-in Syndrome after Brain Damage Living within my head

The newest title in the series Survivor Stories this book tells the story of Paul Allen a photographer who likes opera and was a good baritone singer. At the age of 56 he sustained a stroke that left him paralysed and speechless. He has Locked-In Syndrome (LIS) a rare consequence of brain damage. Although Paul is fully conscious and his cognitive abilities are intact he is unable to move or speak due to the paralysis of nearly all his voluntary muscles. However Paul is keen to communicate and through his eye movements he tells his story from his early life career singing and other interests to the details of his stroke and the effects it has had on his life. The book also includes contributions from Paul’s wife Liz who tells the story from her point of view along with Paul’s physiotherapists occupational therapists speech therapists psychologists and others from the Raphael Hospital who have assisted in Paul’s rehabilitation. In telling of his frustrations his successes his views on life and how he sees his future Paul raises awareness of the quality of life possible for those with LIS. Combining scientific knowledge with personal narrative this unique and optimistic book is of huge importance to any professional involved in the care of someone with a brain injury and to the individuals and families touched by LIS. | Locked-in Syndrome after Brain Damage Living within my head

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The History of Pompey the Little Or The Life and Adventures of a Lap-Dog

The History of Pompey the Little Or The Life and Adventures of a Lap-Dog

Originally published in 1974 this volume of The History of Pompey the Little includes a critical introduction and a biographical sketch of the author based on new material from unpublished documents together with explanatory notes for the novel's many classical and contemporary allusions. Francis Coventry's The History of Pompey the Little was the talk of London in 1751; it continued to captivate readers throughout the century. Satirizing notable persons and events of its day it startled the public by having as its 'hero' a Bologna lapdog and created a new and popular form in English fiction - the 'spy'-novel with a non-human observer. | The History of Pompey the Little Or The Life and Adventures of a Lap-Dog

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The Cia's Secret Operations Espionage Counterespionage And Covert Action

The Cia's Secret Operations Espionage Counterespionage And Covert Action

I am grateful to those of my colleagues in this first generation of American spymasters who were willing to share their experiences with me even after I retired to my unclassified farm . I am indebted to Howard Roman who worked with Allen Dulles on his intelligence writings for his assistance in the preparation of the early chapters and to Nancy Kelly my editor at Reader's Digest Press for the sharp edge of her pruning shears . | The Cia's Secret Operations Espionage Counterespionage And Covert Action

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Living with a Spinal Cord Injury My life as a Quadriplegic

Living with a Spinal Cord Injury My life as a Quadriplegic

Joseph English was living his best life when a car accident changed everything. He suffered life changing injuries and the doctors told him there was no chance of recovery. Facing life as a quadriplegic Joe lost his business his romantic partner and for a while his will to carry on. His story told with extensive contributions from his family and friends charts his journey from being dead at the roadside to finding something to live for as he recounts his progress from injury to survival. With absolute candour Joe tells the whole story of his accident his rehabilitation and his recovery. Full of advice and suggestions from professionals in the rehabilitation journey this book is remarkably frank about the struggles Joe has endured and the times when he felt as if life wasn’t worth living. It addresses all the most difficult issues around life after paralysis including loss of identity and letting go of the past as well as providing practical information on topics such as assistive technology financial claims and legal support. It also outlines the various roles of those in the rehabilitation team. His doctors and specialist practitioners give their unique perspectives into their processes and procedures helping to demystify them while Joe’s family and friends ask the kinds of questions readers will be asking too making this an invaluable guide to what to expect for anyone going through a similar experience. The book shows – by lived example – that there is always more to live for. It is essential reading for those with paraplegia quadriplegia and other spinal injuries and their families friends and care-givers. It is also valuable for neuropsychologists neurologists and other rehabilitation therapists as well as students in medicine nursing allied health and neuropsychology. | Living with a Spinal Cord Injury My life as a Quadriplegic

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An Autoethnography of African American Motherhood Things I Tell My Daughter

An Autoethnography of African American Motherhood Things I Tell My Daughter

This is the first full-length explicitly identified autoethnographic text on African American motherhood. It shows the lived experiences of Black motherhood when mothering is shaped by race gender and class and mothers must navigate not only their own but also their children's positions in society. Ferdinand takes an intimate look at her mothering strategies spanning ten years (from 2007 to 2017) preparing her daughter to traverse a racist and sexist society. It is a multi-generational text that blends the author’s experience with that of her own mother grandmother and her daughter to engage in a larger discussion of African American/Black mother/womanhood. It is grounded within Black Feminist Theory which centers the experiences of Black women within the domains of intersecting oppressions. It is from a very personal position that Ferdinand provides a glimpse into the minutiae of mothering that reveal the everyday intricacies of Black women as mothers. It highlights specific strategies Black mothers use to combat discrimination and oppression from teaching their children about the n-word to choosing positive representations of Black identity in movies books dolls daycares elementary schools and even extra-curricular activities. It shows the impact that stereotypical manifestations of Black femininity have on Black women’s experience of motherhood and how this affects Black women and girls' understanding of themselves especially their skin color body shape and hair texture. As an interdisciplinary text this book will be reading for academics and students in a broad range of fields including Education African American Studies Communication Studies Women Studies Psychology and Health Studies. It is also a handbook of lived experience for Black mothers grandmothers and daughters and for all mothers grandmothers and daughters irrespective of color. | An Autoethnography of African American Motherhood Things I Tell My Daughter

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Beggars Banquet and the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Revolution ‘They Call My Name Disturbance'

Beggars Banquet and the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Revolution ‘They Call My Name Disturbance'

The Rolling Stones’ Beggars Banquet is one of the seminal albums in rock history. Arguably it not only marks the advent of the ‘mature’ sound of the Rolling Stones but lays out a new blueprint for an approach to blues-based rock music that would endure for several decades. From its title to the dark themes that pervade some of its songs Beggars Banquet reflected and helped define a moment marked by violence decay and upheaval. It marked a move away from the artistic sonic flourishes of psychedelic rock towards an embrace of foundational streams of American music – blues country – that had always underpinned the music of the Stones but assumed new primacy in their music after 1968. This move coincided with and anticipated the ‘roots’ moves that many leading popular music artists made as the 1960s turned toward a new decade; but unlike many of their peers whose music grew more ‘soft’ and subdued as they embraced traditional styles the music and attitude of the Stones only grew harder and more menacing and their status as representatives of the dark underside of the 60s rock counterculture assumed new solidity. For the Rolling Stones the 1960s ended and the 1970s began with the release of this album in 1968. | Beggars Banquet and the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Revolution ‘They Call My Name Disturbance'

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Terrorist Decision-Making A Leader-Centric Approach

Terrorist Decision-Making A Leader-Centric Approach

This book analyzes a series of decisions by leaders of three major terrorist organizations and identifies a unique Decision DNA for each of them. The authors use the Applied Decision Analysis methodology to examine organizational and operational decisions made by the leaders of three major groups: Hezbollah (Hassan Nasrallah) Hamas (Khaled Mashal) and al-Qaeda (Osama bin Laden). Decisions that were of critical importance to each organization are identified and anaylzed to uncover the particular decision rule employed by the leader in question and to establish their Decision DNA. A Decision DNA is unique to each leader and can be used to explain previous decisions or predict future choices. The authors demonstrate that the findings presented can be used to promote effective counterterrorism measures and they provide a series of policy implications that arise from their examination of each leader. This book will be of much interest to students of terrorist studies political violence security studies and Middle Eastern politics. | Terrorist Decision-Making A Leader-Centric Approach

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A Narrative of my Professional Adventures by Sir William Henry Dillon 1790-1839 Vol. I

A Narrative of my Professional Adventures by Sir William Henry Dillon 1790-1839 Vol. I

Sir William Henry Dillon (1780-1857) was born in Birmingham the illegitimate son of the distinguished writer and traveller John Talbot Dillon (1734-1806) a baron of the Holy Roman Empire. The elder Dillon had briefly served in the Royal Navy apparently obtaining his discharge in a fit of pique after being ejected when a midshipman from the Parade Coffee House in Portsmouth a hostelry reserved for captains. Sir William’s long enjoyable and informative memoirs edited by Professor Michael A Lewis one of the doyens of naval historians are arguably the best by any naval officer of the period and for anyone seeking an intimate glimpse into the workings of the Georgian navy and the professional concerns and vexations of its officer corps they are essential reading. The narrative never dull is enhanced by the editor’s erudite and where appropriate witty commentaries by the sense we derive of the author’s personal foibles and by his numerous exasperated references to ‘Mrs V’ (Matilda Voller) a middle-aged widow who ensnared Dillon into marriage when he was a young lieutenant recently returned from incarceration in France. Other illuminative Georgian memoirs in the NRS series of publications are those of Admiral Sir Thomas Byam Martin (vols 12 19 24) Captain John Harvey Boteler (vol 82) and Commander James Anthony Gardner (vol 31) Gardner’s being like Dillon’s especially vivid. William Dillon entered the navy in 1790 and saw action on the Glorious First of June in 1794 in Lord Bridport’s engagement off the Île de Groix in 1795 and at the capture of St Lucia in 1796. Commissioned lieutenant in 1797 he served off the coast of Wexford during the Irish rebellion. This volume takes his career up to 1802. | A Narrative of my Professional Adventures by Sir William Henry Dillon 1790-1839 Vol. I

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Social Policy In A Nondemocratic Regime The Case Of Public Housing In Brazil

Social Policy In A Nondemocratic Regime The Case Of Public Housing In Brazil

This book had its origins in my doctoral research at the London School of Economics. It developed more rapidly than expected thanks to the good will and collective efforts of various people and institutions who provided help and support-material intellectual and moralthroughout four years at the LSE and two years at Tel Aviv University. I am most grateful to George Philip and Patrick Dunleavy who have patiently read the many drafts and offered their comments and suggestions at various stages of this work. I would also like to thank Peter Dawson who during my early days at the LSE as a research and MSc student supervised advised and above all encouraged my intentions to carry out research on developing countries. Henrique Rattner of the Fundacao Getulio Vargas provided me not only with technical support but also introduced me to the complex Brazilian bureaucracy. Gabriel Bolaffi of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Sao Paulo made it possible for me to gain access to the otherwise restricted public housing agencies. I also extend my gratitude to the officials at COHAB/SP CODESPAULO INOCOOP and the BNH (in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo) who spared precious time to be interviewed and supplied me with published and unpublished documents. The IPT (Sao Paulo Institute of Technological Research) provided the primary material on ltaquera and enabled me to use their computing facilities and process the data. Special thanks are due to Ros Mari Kaupatez. The friends we made in Sao Paulo whose welcome and warmth surpassed all expectations made a long stay more bearable. This project could not have been carried out without the moral and financial support of both my grandfather and my parents who took a deep interest in my studies and encouraged me during difficult periods. A debt of thanks is also owed to the Publication Committee of the London School of Economics especially P. C. Davis. Anthony Hall's comments were very valuable. Thanks are due to the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Department of Political Science at Tel Aviv University for financial help in preparing this work for publication. Finally this study is dedicated to my wife Sarah who interrupted her studies to accompany me to Brazil and helped me in ways I cannot adequately acknowledge. | Social Policy In A Nondemocratic Regime The Case Of Public Housing In Brazil

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California’s Recall Election of Gavin Newsom COVID-19 and the Test of Leadership

California’s Recall Election of Gavin Newsom COVID-19 and the Test of Leadership

California went through a political earthquake of sorts when the state recalled Governor Gray Davis in 2003. In 2021 the state faced another political turning point with the threatened recall of Governor Gavin Newsom. Less than two years after Newsom’s overwhelming election victory more than two million Californians signed on to the recall effort hoping to expel him from office in a special election. How could such a monumental turnabout be possible? Normally the political headwinds would be much too strong for a movement to oust a governor who had decisively vanquished his opponent. But-with the COVID-19 pandemic dominating every aspect of society including politics-these weren’t normal times. Organizing a recall election is a demanding enterprise: it takes abundant political energy tremendous amounts of anger with the status quo and mounds of money. Yet for the second time in less than two decades such wheels were set in motion. What is it that makes California so dynamic yet so fragile? This book explains that paradox and in the process enlightens readers about the recall process the challenges of federalism and the pitfalls of direct democracy. It examines the underlying conditions that expose a state with poorly linked institutions a bitterly divided society and a governor who had to act under nearly impossible conditions demonstrating his strengths and vulnerabilities along the way. It’s a story that could happen only in California a state with a history of only stories. Designed to be useful in a variety of college courses this book is the first to unveil the Newsom backstory and will appeal to pundits and politicos as well as interested general readers. | California’s Recall Election of Gavin Newsom COVID-19 and the Test of Leadership

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Pregnancy Delivery Childbirth A Gender and Cultural History from Antiquity to the Test Tube in Europe

Pregnancy Delivery Childbirth A Gender and Cultural History from Antiquity to the Test Tube in Europe

This book reconstructs the history of conception pregnancy and childbirth in Europe from antiquity to the 20th century focusing on its most significant turning points: the emergence of a medical-scientific approach to delivery in Ancient Greece the impact of Christianity the establishment of the man-midwife in the 18th century the medicalisation of childbirth the emergence of a new representation of the foetus as unborn citizen and finally the revolution of reproductive technologies. The book explores a history that far from being linear progressive or homogeneous is characterised by significant continuities as well as transformations. The ways in which a woman gives birth and lives her pregnancy and the postpartum period are the result of a complex series of factors. The book therefore places these events in their wider cultural social and religious contexts which influenced the forms taken by rituals and therapeutic practices religious and civil prescriptions and the regulation of the female body. The investigation of this complex experience represents a crucial contribution to cultural social and gender history as well as an indispensable tool for understanding today’s reality. It will be of great use to undergraduates studying the history of childbirth the history of medicine the history of the body as well as women's and gender history more broadly. | Pregnancy Delivery Childbirth A Gender and Cultural History from Antiquity to the Test Tube in Europe

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State–Society Relations around the World through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic Rapid Test

State–Society Relations around the World through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic Rapid Test

The collection examines state–society relations during the COVID-19 pandemic from governance at the outset of the pandemic to vaccine rollouts via a series of case studies from around the world. With a focus on the Global South the book includes chapters on the experiences of – Angola Zimbabwe South Africa Bolivia Argentina Brazil Jamaica and Indonesia as well as contributions from the Global North – on Sweden Canada Czech Republic and New Zealand. The collection demonstrates that the effects of the pandemic can only be properly revealed by looking at the regional and local contexts in which states and societies experienced it. Contributors examine themes such as the nature of contemporary democracy state capacity the legitimacy of state institutions and trust in government questions of social solidarity and forms and impacts of inequality. Focusing on national (or sub-national) cases each chapter analyses the underlying forces and structures revealed when the authority of the state is brought to bear on the agency of citizens under emergency conditions. In doing so contributors embed analysis of pandemic governance in the historical context of each country or region highlighting how political choices histories of the state’s treatment of citizens and the orientations of a region’s elites shaped the actions taken by the state. The book will be of interest to those looking to understand how the pandemic was interpreted accepted or contested at the local (national or sub-national) level and to those interested in state–society relations more generally. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in questions of pandemic government from a social scientific point of view and especially to those interested in perspectives from the Global South. | State–Society Relations around the World through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic Rapid Test

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Opera In The Flesh Sexuality In Operatic Performance

Opera In The Flesh Sexuality In Operatic Performance

Verdi Wagner polymorphous perversion Puccini Brunnhilde Pinkerton and Parsifal all rub shoulders in this delightful poetic insightful sexual book sprung by one man's physical response to the power and exaggeration we call opera. Sam Abel applies a light touch as he considers the topic of opera and the eroticized body: Why do audiences respond to opera in a visceral way? How does opera like no other art form physically move watchers? How and why does opera arouse feelings akin to sexual desire? Abel seeks the answers to these questions by examining homoerotic desire the phenomenon of the castrati operatic cross-dressing and opera as presented through the media. In this deeply personal book Abel writes ‘These pages map my current struggles to pin down my passion for opera my intense admiration for its aesthetic forms and beauties but much more they express my astonishment at how opera makes me lose myself how it consumes me. ’ In so doing Abel uncovers what until now through dry musicology and gossipy history has been left behind a wall of silence: the physical and erotic nature of opera. Although Abel can speak with certainty only about his own response to opera he provides readers with a language and a resonance with which to understand their own experiences. Ultimately Opera in the Flesh celebrates the power of opera to move audiences as no other book has done. It is indeed a treasure of scholarship passion and poetry for everyone with even a passing interest in this fascinating art form. | Opera In The Flesh Sexuality In Operatic Performance

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