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Richmond Independent Press: A History of the Underground Zine Scene
by Dale M BrumfieldAn acclaimed local author recounts the evolution of Richmond&’s alternative newspapers, comics, and small presses beginning in the Civil Rights Era. As the political and social upheaval of the 1960s took hold across the United States, even the sleepy town of Richmond, Virginia, experienced a countercultural shift. New attitudes about the value of journalism spurred an underground movement in the press. &“The Sunflower,&” Richmond&’s first underground newspaper, appeared in 1967 and set the stage for a host of alternative local media lasting into the 1990s and beyond. Publications such as the &“Richmond Chronicle,&” &“Richmond Mercury,&” and &“Commonwealth Times,&” as well as numerous minority-focused presses such as &“Richmond Afro-American,&” served the progressive-minded citizens of the River City. In Richmond Independent Press, the historian, activist and former &“ThroTTle&” editor Dale Brumfield reveals the untold story of this cultural revolution in the River City.</
The Richmond Slave Trade: The Economic Backbone of the Old Dominion (American Heritage)
by Jack TrammellThis historical study examines the slave trade in Richmond, Virginia, and its impact on the city&’s economy, culture and politics. Richmond&’s 15th Street was known as Wall Street in antebellum times, and like its New York counterpart, it was a center of commerce. But the business done here was unspeakable and the scene heart wrenching. With over sixty-nine slave dealers and auction houses, the Wall Street area saw tens of millions of dollars and countless human lives change hands, fueling the southern economy. Local historian and author Jack Trammell traces the history of the city&’s slave trade, from the origins of African slavery in Virginia to its destruction at the end of the Civil War. Stories of seedy slave speculators and corrupt traders are placed alongside detailed accounts of the economic, political and cultural impact of a system representing the most immense, concentrated human suffering in our nation's history.
‚Richtig‘ Essen – Grenzziehungen im Diskurs um gesunde Ernährung
by Tanja RobnikDie vorliegende Studie fokussiert auf die diskursive Herstellung ‚richtiger‘ Ernährung und deren Bedeutung für die Ordnung moderner Gesellschaften. Sie analysiert gegenwärtige massenmediale Thematisierungen von Ernährung anhand der Leitfrage, wie entlang von Ernährungsdebatten die Normierung und Moralisierung sozialer Ordnung empirisch geschieht. Die Frage nach der ‚richtigen‘ Ernährung wird als Diskurs verortet, der die empirischen Verhandlungen des ‚was‘ (das ‚richtige‘ Essen), ‚wie‘ (‚richtige‘ Körper) und ‚wer‘ (die ‚Essenden‘) des Essens bzw. der Ernährung sichtbar macht. Das Forschungsvorhaben zielt dabei darauf ab, die eine ‚richtige‘ Ernährung im Sinne einer Baukastenanleitung herauszuarbeiten. Es beobachtet vielmehr, dass Ernährung gesellschaftlich erklärungsbedürftig ist. Essverhalten und -entscheidungen brauchen Begründungen und sind nicht immer gleich akzeptiert. Der diskurstheoretische Blick auf diese Auseinandersetzungen zeigt, welche Wissensformationen sich durchsetzen, in welcher Form sich Ernährungswissen plausibilisiert und wie sich dadurch ein hegemonialer Diskurs über die ‚richtige‘ Ernährung und die Essenden zeigt.
Rick Steves Hunger and Hope
by Rick StevesIn his one-hour public television special, Rick Steves' Hunger and Hope, travel expert Rick Steves ventures beyond Europe to learn about the key realities of extreme poverty. Inside this companion e-book, you'll uncover Rick's firsthand insights on:How ending world hunger in our lifetime is an attainable goal The importance of water access, education, women's empowerment, and financial literacy in creating long-term independence How communities are using smart development to rise out of povertyJoin Rick Steves in Ethiopia and Guatemala and discover how you can make a difference.
Rick Steves Travel as a Political Act
by Rick StevesTravel connects people with people. It helps us fit more comfortably and compatibly into a shrinking world, and it inspires creative new solutions to persistent problems facing our nation. We can't understand our world without experiencing it. Rick Steves Travel as a Political Act helps us take that first step.There's more to travel than good-value hotels, great art, and tasty cuisine. Americans who "travel as a political act" can have the time of their lives and come home smarter-with a better understanding of the interconnectedness of today's world and just how our nation fits in.In the second edition of this award-winning book, acclaimed travel writer Rick Steves explains how to travel more thoughtfully-to any destination. With updated information on Europe, Central America, and Asia; an expanded discussion of the Middle East; and a brand-new chapter on the Holy Land that covers Israelis and Palestinians today, Rick shows readers how his travels have shaped his politics and broadened his perspective.The royalties from the sale of this edition will be donated by Rick Steves to Bread for the World, a Christian organization working to end hunger around the world.
The Riddle of Amish Culture (Center Books in Anabaptist Studies)
by Donald B. KraybillRevised edition of this classic work brings the story of the Amish into the 21st century.Since its publication in 1989, The Riddle of Amish Culture has become recognized as a classic work on one of America's most distinctive religious communities. But many changes have occurred within Amish society over the past decade, from westward migrations and a greater familiarity with technology to the dramatic shift away from farming into small business which is transforming Amish culture. For this revised edition, Donald B. Kraybill has taken these recent changes into account, incorporating new demographic research and new interviews he has conducted among the Amish. In addition, he includes a new chapter describing Amish recreation and social gatherings, and he applies the concept of "social capital" to his sensitive and penetrating interpretation of how the Amish have preserved their social networks and the solidarity of their community.
The Riddle of Gender Science, Activism, and Transgender Rights
by Deborah RudacilleWhen Deborah Rudacille learned that a close friend had decided to transition from female to male, she felt compelled to understand why. Coming at the controversial subject of transsexualism from several angles-historical, sociological, psychological, medical-Rudacille discovered that gender variance is anything but new, that changing one's gender has been met with both acceptance and hostility through the years, and that gender identity, like sexual orientation, appears to be inborn, not learned, though in some people the sex of the body does not match the sex of the brain. Informed not only by meticulous research, but also by the author's interviews with prominent members of the transgender community,The Riddle of Genderis a sympathetic and wise look at a sexual revolution that calls into question many of our most deeply held assumptions about what it means to be a man, a woman, and a human being. From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Riddle of Organismal Agency: New Historical and Philosophical Reflections (History and Philosophy of Biology)
by Gregory Radick Jan Baedke Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda Guido I. PrietoThe Riddle of Organismal Agency brings together historians, philosophers, and scientists for an interdisciplinary re-assessment of one of the long-standing problems in the scientific understanding of life.Marshalling insights from diverse sciences including physiology, comparative psychology, developmental biology, and evolutionary biology, the book provides an up-to-date survey of approaches to non-human organisms as agents, capable of performing activities serving their own goals such as surviving or reproducing, and whose doings in the world are thus to be explained teleologically. From an Integrated History and Philosophy of Science perspective, the book contributes to a better conceptual and theoretical understanding of organismal agency, advancing some suggestions on how to study it empirically and how to frame it in relation to wider scientific and philosophical traditions. It also provides new historical entry points for examining the deployment, trajectories, and challenges of agential views of organisms in the history of biology and philosophy.This book will be of interest to philosophers of biology; historians of science; biologists interested in analysing the active roles of organisms in development, ecological interactions, and evolution; philosophers and practitioners of the cognitive sciences; and philosophers and historians of philosophy working on purposiveness and teleology.
The Riddle of Racism
by S. Carl HirschFor thousands of years men have known that the inhabitants of different parts of the world are often visibly different. But in America, for the first time anywhere on earth, three great racial groups met in large numbers on the same continent. White colonizers took the land from the native population they called Indians, whose physical traits linked them to Asian origins. Black people were brought here from Africa to serve the white settlers as slaves. "Under this set of conditions," observes S. Carl Hirsch, "the meeting of the three great races on America's soil was not likely to he a happy one." In this bold, challenging book, the author examines the historical record for the roots of the race hatred that has troubled our nation since its inception. Within a chronological framework, the book traces the search for scientific knowledge of race as a biological phenomenon against the background of political events that reveal its sociological aspects. The scientific struggle was focussed on the question of "superior" and "inferior races, from a time when white supremacy was the prevailing view of America's political, social, and religious leaders, including those opposed to slavery, to today's understanding of a concept of race its biological and cultural significance. Along the way the reader meets many individuals whose personal stories illuminate the perpetual questions underlying that irrational force which still continues to pervade our land: racism.<P><P> A Jane Addams Children's Book Award Winner.
Riddle Of The Riddle
by SenderovichFirst Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Riddle Of The Scrolls
by DelFirst published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Riddle of the Rainbow: From Early Legends and Symbolism to the Secrets of Light and Colour (Copernicus Books)
by John NaylorRainbows have been a source of fascination since time immemorial. They have been the subject of myth and superstition, an inspiration to poets, a challenge to painters, the object of intense scientific interest and a touchstone for ideas about the nature of light and colour. Above all, the rainbow has been the embodiment of wonder from the earliest times to the present day.Beginning with the circumstances in which you are likely to see a rainbow and descriptions of its salient features, this book recounts and explains the myths and superstitions about rainbows, and describes how poets, painters and, above all, leading scientists in every age have sought to discover and understand the rainbow’s secrets.Readers with a love of nature and art and an interest in the history of science will enjoy this attractive and informative book.
The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs
by Jed Z. Buchwald Diane Greco JosefowiczA major new history of the race between two geniuses to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century EuropeIn 1799, a French Army officer was rebuilding the defenses of a fort on the banks of the Nile when he discovered an ancient stele fragment bearing a decree inscribed in three different scripts. So begins one of the most familiar tales in Egyptology—that of the Rosetta Stone and the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs. This book draws on fresh archival evidence to provide a major new account of how the English polymath Thomas Young and the French philologist Jean-François Champollion vied to be the first to solve the riddle of the Rosetta.Jed Buchwald and Diane Greco Josefowicz bring to life a bygone age of intellectual adventure. Much more than a decoding exercise centered on a single artifact, the race to decipher the Rosetta Stone reflected broader disputes about language, historical evidence, biblical truth, and the value of classical learning. Buchwald and Josefowicz paint compelling portraits of Young and Champollion, two gifted intellects with altogether different motivations. Young disdained Egyptian culture and saw Egyptian writing as a means to greater knowledge about Greco-Roman antiquity. Champollion, swept up in the political chaos of Restoration France and fiercely opposed to the scholars aligned with throne and altar, admired ancient Egypt and was prepared to upend conventional wisdom to solve the mystery of the hieroglyphs.Taking readers from the hushed lecture rooms of the Institut de France to the windswept monuments of the Valley of the Kings, The Riddle of the Rosetta reveals the untold story behind one of the nineteenth century's most thrilling discoveries.
The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone: Key to Ancient Egypt
by James Cross GiblinDescribes how the discovery and deciphering of the Rosetta Stone unlocked the secrets of Egyptian hieroglyphs.
The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle
by Anna Shechtman"A surprising and ambitious investigation of language and the varied ways women resist the paradoxes of patriarchy both on and off the page."—New York TimesCombining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queen’s Gambit, a renowned puzzle creator’s compulsively readable memoir and history of the crossword puzzle as an unexpected site of women’s work and feminist protest.The indisputable “queen of crosswords,” Anna Shechtman published her first New York Times puzzle at age nineteen, and later, helped to spearhead the The New Yorker’s popular crossword section. Working with a medium often criticized as exclusionary, elitist, and out-of-touch, Anna is one of very few women in the field of puzzle making, where she strives to make the everyday diversion more diverse.In this fascinating work—part memoir, part cultural analysis—she excavates the hidden history of the crossword and the overlooked women who have been central to its creation and evolution, from the “Crossword Craze” of the 1920s to the role of digital technology today. As she tells the story of her own experience in the CrossWorld, she analyzes the roles assigned to women in American culture, the boxes they’ve been allowed to fill, and the ways that they’ve used puzzles to negotiate the constraints and play of desire under patriarchy.The result is an unforgettable and engrossing work of art, a loving and revealing homage to one of our most treasured, entertaining, and ultimately political pastimes.
The Ride: The Jeffrey Curley Murder and Its Aftermath
by Brian Macquarrie"The Ride" tells the shocking true story of the 1997 abduction and gruesome murder of ten-year-old Massachusetts resident Jeffrey Curley, and how his father, Bob, healed the deep wounds of rage and emerged to become an outspoken critic of the death penalty.
Ride or Die: A Feminist Manifesto for the Well-Being of Black Women
by Shanita HubbardCultural criticism and pop culture history intertwine in this important book, which dissects how hip hop has sidelined Black women's identity and emotional well-being. A &“ride-or-die chick&” is a woman who holds down her family and community. She&’s your girl that you can call up in the middle of the night to bail you out of jail, and you know she&’ll show up and won&’t ask any questions. Her ride-or-die trope becomes a problem when she does it indiscriminately. She does anything for her family, friends, and significant other, even at the cost of her own well-being. &“No&” is not in her vocabulary. Her self-worth is connected to how much labor she can provide for others. She goes above and beyond for everyone in every aspect of her life—work, family, church, even if it&’s not reciprocated, and doesn&’t require it to be because she&’s a &“strong Black woman&” and everyone&’s favorite ride-or-die chick. To her, love should be earned, and there&’s no limit to what she&’ll do for it. In this book, author, adjunct professor of sociology, and former therapist Shanita Hubbard disrupts the ride-or-die complex and argues that this way of life has left Black women exhausted, overworked, overlooked, and feeling depleted. She suggests that Black women are susceptible to this mentality because it&’s normalized in our culture. It rings loud in your favorite hip-hop songs, and it even shows up in the most important relationship you will ever have—the one with yourself. Compassionate, candid, hard-hitting, and 100 percent unapologetic, Ride or Die melds Hubbard&’s entertaining conversations with her Black girlfriends and her personal experiences as a redeemed ride-or-die chick and a former &“captain of the build-a-brother team&” to fervently dismantle cultural norms that require Black women to take care of everyone but themselves. Ride or Die urges you to expel the myth that your self-worth is connected to how much labor you provide others and guides you toward healing. Using hip hop as a backdrop to explore norms that are harmful to Black women, Hubbard shows the ways you may be unknowingly perpetuating this harm within your relationships. This book is an urgent call for you to pull the plug on the ride-or-die chick.
Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul
by Joscelyn Godwin Julius Evola Constance FontanaJulius Evola’s final major work, which examines the prototype of the human being who can give absolute meaning to his or her life in a world of dissolution• Presents a powerful criticism of the idols, structures, theories, and illusions of our modern age• Reveals how to transform destructive processes into inner liberationThe organizations and institutions that, in a traditional civilization and society, would have allowed an individual to realize himself completely, to defend the principal values he recognizes as his own, and to structure his life in a clear and unambiguous way, no longer exist in the contemporary world. Everything that has come to predominate in the modern world is the direct antithesis of the world of Tradition, in which a society is ruled by principles that transcend the merely human and transitory.Ride the Tiger presents an implacable criticism of the idols, structures, theories, and illusions of our dissolute age examined in the light of the inner teachings of indestructible Tradition. Evola identifies the type of human capable of “riding the tiger,” who may transform destructive processes into inner liberation. He offers hope for those who wish to reembrace Traditionalism.
Rider: The Rider Quintet, vol. 1 (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
by Mark RudmanMark Rudman - poet, essayist, translator, and teacher - has consistently pursued questions of human relationship and identity, and in Rider he takes the poetry of autobiography and confessional to a new plane. In a polyphonic narrative that combines verse with lyrical prose and often humorous dialogue, Rudman examines his own coming-of-age through the lens of his relationships with his grandfather, father, step-father, and son. These memories emerge against the background of a family history anchored in the traditions of Judaism and the culture of the diaspora.
The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-up in Oakland
by Ali Winston Darwin BondGrahamFrom the Polk Award–winning investigative duo comes a critical look at the systematic corruption and brutality within the Oakland Police Department, and the more than two-decades-long saga of attempted reforms and explosive scandals.No municipality has been under court oversight to reform its police department as long as the city of Oakland. It is, quite simply, the edge case in American law enforcement. The Riders Come Out at Night is the culmination of over twenty-one years of fearless reporting. Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham shine a light on the jackbooted police culture, lack of political will, and misguided leadership that have conspired to stymie meaningful reform. The authors trace the history of Oakland since its inception through the lens of the city&’s police department, through the Palmer Raids, McCarthyism, and the Civil Rights struggle, the Black Panthers and crack eras, to Oakland&’s present-day revival. Readers will be introduced to a group of sadistic cops known as &“The Riders,&” whose disregard for the oath they took to protect and serve is on full, tragic, infuriating display. They will also meet Keith Batt, a wide-eyed rookie cop turned whistleblower, who was unwittingly partnered with the leader of the Riders. Other compelling characters include Jim Chanin and John Burris, two civil rights attorneys determined to see reform through, in spite of all obstacles. And Oakland&’s deep history of law enforcement corruption, reactionary politics, and social movement organizing is retold through historical figures like Black Panther Huey Newton, drug kingpin Felix Mitchell, district attorney and future Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren, and Mayor Jerry Brown. The Riders Come Out at Night is the story of one city and its police department, but it&’s also the story of American policing—and where it&’s headed.
Riders West
by Ernest HaycoxA MAN ON THE PROD—A RANGE AT WARNeel St. Could, forced by his vendetta with Dan Bellew, had a plan to turn the peaceful valley into an outlaw strip ruled by flaming guns.First he put his own crooked sheriff into office. Then he imported an army of gunslicks, took over Trail City and burned out the nesters. With the remaining spreads isolated, St. Cloud made his move.And on a storm-lashed night a hundred guns fought it out—with St. Cloud and Dan Bellew clashing head-on in their own personal battle.“Fast and Breathless”—New York Times
Riding Fury Home: A Memoir
by Chana WilsonIn 1958, when Chana Wilson was seven, her mother held a rifle to her head and pulled the trigger. The gun jammed and she was taken away to a mental hospital. On her return, Chana became the caretaker of her heavily medicated, suicidal mother. It would be many years before she learned the secret of her mother’s anguish: her love affair with another married woman, and the psychiatric treatment aimed at curing her of her lesbianism. Riding Fury Homespans forty years of the intense, complex relationship between Chana and her mother-the trauma of their early years together, the transformation and joy they found when they both came out in the 1970s, and the deep bond that grew between them. From the intolerance of the '50s to the exhilaration of the women’s movement of the '70s and beyond, the book traces the profound ways in which their two lives were impacted by the social landscape of their time. Exquisitely written and devastatingly honest,Riding Fury Homeis a shattering account of one family’s struggle against homophobia and mental illness-and a powerful story of healing, forgiveness, and redemption.
Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)
by Miriam ThaggertMiriam Thaggert illuminates the stories of African American women as passengers and as workers on the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century railroad. As Jim Crow laws became more prevalent and forced Black Americans to "ride Jim Crow" on the rails, the train compartment became a contested space of leisure and work. Riding Jane Crow examines four instances of Black female railroad travel: the travel narratives of Black female intellectuals such as Anna Julia Cooper and Mary Church Terrell; Black middle-class women who sued to ride in first class "ladies’ cars"; Black women railroad food vendors; and Black maids on Pullman trains. Thaggert argues that the railroad represented a technological advancement that was entwined with African American attempts to secure social progress. Black women's experiences on or near the railroad illustrate how American technological progress has often meant their ejection or displacement; thus, it is the Black woman who most fully measures the success of American freedom and privilege, or "progress," through her travel experiences.
Riding the Black Ram
by Susan Sage HeinzelmanHeinzelman (English, U. of Texas at Austin) juxtaposes legal and literary narratives within their historical contexts in order to demonstrate how they are mutually constitutive and in order to reveal how both narrative approaches are articulated within a nomos, as understood in Robert M. Cover's 1983 essay "Foreword: Nomos and Narrative" as the overall normative universe. However, finding Cover's regulating nomos to exclude women's experiences and to privilege male kinship relationships, she coins the term nostos as a necessary supplement to nomos that articulates its gendered nature and, in contrast to nomos's production of narratives of regulation and equity, identifies and produces otherwise unarticulated and gendered narratives of desire. Chapters discuss the juxtaposition of the Chaucer's "Man of Law's Tale" with the "Wife of Bath's Tale, the juxtaposition of 17th and 18th-century romance novels by French and English women writers with juridical narratives, how the disciplinary and generic formation and policing of novelistic and legal discourses in the 17th and 18th centuries are disturbed and gendered by Mary Delarivier Manley's 1714 novel Rivella, the operation of discursive boundaries in three narratives of a 1752 trial of a woman for the murder of her father, and the gendered and sexualized tropes found in cultural representations of three queens (including a cartoon of Queen Caroline published during her 1820 trial for treasonous adultery that depicts the queen as riding a black ram into the House of Lords, which Heinzelman reads as a metaphor for women's disruptive presence). Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo Disneyland
by Aviad E. RazIn 1996 over 16 million people visited Tokyo Disneyland, making it the most popular of the many theme parks in Japan. Since it opened in 1983, Tokyo Disneyland has been analyzed mainly as an example of the globalization of the American leisure industry and its organizational culture, particularly the "company manual." By looking at how Tokyo Disneyland is experienced by employees, management, and visitors, Aviad Raz shows that it is much more an example of successful importation, adaptation, and domestication and that it has succeeded precisely because it has become Japanese even while marketing itself as foreign. Rather than being an agent of Americanization, Tokyo Disneyland is a simulated "America" showcased by and for the Japanese. It is an "America" with a Japanese meaning.