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Carnalities: The Art of Living in Latinidad
by Mariana OrtegaIn Carnalities, Mariana Ortega presents a phenomenological study of aesthetics grounded in the work of primarily Latinx artists. She introduces the idea of carnal aesthetics informed by carnalities, creative practices shaped by the self’s affective attunement to the material, cultural, historical, communal, and spiritual. For Ortega, carnal aesthetics offers a way to think about the affective and bodily experiences of racialized selves. Drawing on Gloria Anzaldúa, Chela Sandoval, José Esteban Muñoz, Alia Al-Saji, Helen Ngo, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Roland Barthes, and others, Ortega examines photographic works on Latinx subjects. She analyzes the photography of Laura Aguilar, Verónica Gabriela Cárdenas, and Susan Meiselas, among others, theorizing photography as a carnal, affective medium that is crucial for processes of self-formation, resistance, and mourning in Latinx life. She ends with an intimate reading of photography through a reflection of her own crossing from Nicaragua to the United States in 1979. Motivated by her experience of loss and exile, Ortega argues for the importance of carnal aesthetics in destabilizing and transforming normative, colonial, and decolonial subjects, imaginaries, and structures.
Psychedelics and Mental Health: Neuroscience and the Power of Psychoactives in Therapy
by Irene de Caso• Details how psychedelics alter our experience from a neurological perspective, including what neurons they interact with, their effects on cognitive and emotional processing, and why those effects can be therapeutic• Looks at clinical results with LSD, psilocybin from magic mushrooms, and DMT from ayahuasca, as well as empathogens such as MDMA, found in ecstasy• Provides an illustrated introduction to neuroscience and a vision for a new model of psychotherapy where psychedelics help bring lasting healingPresenting a comprehensive guide to the new and evolving landscape of psychedelic-assisted mental health treatment, neuroscientist Irene de Caso takes you on a journey through the brain, revealing how psychedelics and empathogens, if taken in a safe and therapeutic environment, can lead to positive and lasting changes.Providing an illustrated introduction to neuroscience and molecular actions in the body and brain, the author details how psychedelics alter our experience, including their effects on cognitive and emotional processing and how those effects can be therapeutic. She explores the wide body of evidence behind the psychedelic revolution in psychiatry and psychotherapy and looks at clinical studies on hallucinogens such as LSD, psilocybin from magic mushrooms, and DMT from ayahuasca as well as empathogens such as MDMA found in ecstasy. She reviews the efficacy of psychedelics in treating alcoholism and other addictions, post-traumatic stress disorder, social anxiety in autistic individuals, treatment-resistant depression, and other conditions, offering statistical comparisons to conventional antidepressants and mood-enhancing drugs. She also explores the psychedelic experience through neuroimaging and phenomenological experience, considering mystical states, synesthesia, and the therapeutic benefits of momentary ego-dissolution.Laying the foundation for a new model of psychotherapy, de Caso shows how psychedelics can help break down our defense mechanisms, offer direct access to the subconscious, and provide a path to deeper, lasting healing.
The Radical Path of Somatic Dharma: Radiant Body, Radiant Mind
by Will Johnson• Shares practices to show how sitting meditation can be reconnected to lived, bodily experience and help you rediscover your natural somatic radiance• Explores how the modern thought-focused frame of mind introduces patterns of holding and tension into our bodies• Draws on techniques from the Buddhist, Sufi, and somatic wisdom traditions as well as insights from the author&’s own teachers and collaborators, including Ida Rolf and Judith AstonThe modern practice of seated meditation is in serious need of reformation. What began as a living, vibrant, and felt practice—the primary practice of the Buddhist path to spiritual realization—has painted itself into a corner of frozen stillness, divorced from lived, bodily experience.Presenting an accessible and deeply felt guide to sitting meditation as an active exploration, Will Johnson offers a revitalized understanding of this essential spiritual practice through deeper connection with the body. Johnson argues that the thought-focused mode of consciousness of modern rigid seated meditation introduces patterns of holding and tension into our bodies and virtually guarantees that awakening will not occur. He explains how our focus on thought, rather than embodied experience, results in a numbing of our connection to our physical self and the dimming of the body&’s natural somatic radiance, which in turn leads to the nagging presence of chronic pain, a general sense of malaise, and the inability to get comfortable in our own bodies.However, this &“consciousness of separation&” can be overcome. Johnson presents a wide range of practices, including 14 meditations, to support the awakening of breath and presence in the body, drawing on techniques from Buddhist, Sufi, and somatic wisdom traditions as well as methods from his studies with Ida Rolf and Judith Aston.Through the radical path of conscious sitting, Johnson shows how to transform your sitting meditation practice into a fully natural mudra of greater grace from which radiance will naturally flow. As the egoic perspective is dissolved, and chronic pain and discomfort are lessened, practitioners begin to feel a new, enlightened, bodily radiance—what Johnson calls &“The Great Wide Open.&”
Activating Our 12-Stranded DNA: Secrets of Dodecahedral DNA for Completing Our Human Evolution
by Ruslana Remennikova• Reveals how vibration and intention can transform DNA from the standard double helix to its 12-stranded form, unlocking your physical and spiritual potential• Explores the intimate relationship of water and DNA and how they both react to sound and consciousness• Shares ten specific frequencies that resonate with DNA as well as techniques and meditations to activate your 12-stranded DNA for emotional and physical healing, resolution of ancestral trauma, and conscious evolutionIn this vibrant guidebook, sound healer and former corporate scientist Ruslana Remennikova reveals how, through vibration and intention, you can shapeshift DNA from the standard double helix to its 12-stranded, dodecahedral form—thereby unlocking your spiritual potential and opening the way for deep healing of the past, the present, and the future of your deeper self.Examining the alchemy behind the 12 strands of our DNA, the author looks at the intimate relationship between water and DNA, showing how both respond to vibrational frequencies as well as to consciousness. She also shows how unresolved grief creates oxidative stress in the body that targets our cellular mitochondrial DNA, leading to psychological and physical illnesses. She explains how sound can transform our DNA into an evolutionary activator and healing mechanism, helping the body to detox, resolve grief and trauma, and address stress-induced imbalances at the cellular level.Sharing techniques and meditations that help you activate all 12 strands of your DNA, the author reveals the revolutionary healing powers inherent in each of us for personal healing, spiritual transformation, and the completion of our human evolution.
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Heart is a Star: A Novel
by Megan RogersDive into the heart of Australia with this blockbuster debut as one woman confronts her past, family secrets, and her own identity amid the chaos of midlife, offering a poignant exploration of love, loss, and self-discovery.Layla Byrnes is exhausted. She's juggling a demanding job as an anesthesiologist, a disintegrating marriage, her young kids, and a needy lover. And most particularly she's managing her histrionically unstable mother, who repeatedly threatens to kill herself. But this year, it's different. When her mother calls just before Christmas, she doesn't follow the usual script. Instead, she tells Layla that there's something she needs to tell her about her much-loved father. In response, Layla drops everything to rush to her childhood home on the wild west coast of Tasmania. She's determined to finally confront her mother - and find out what really happened to her father - and lay some demons to rest.The Heart is a Star is an engrossing, lyrical and powerfully absorbing novel about the complicated and beautiful messiness of midlife; about the ways in which we navigate an intricate, complicated world; and about how we can uncover our true selves when we are forced to face the myths that make us.
At the Borders of the Wondrous and Magical: Nature Spirits, Shapeshifters, and the Undead in the Never-Ending Middle Ages
by Claude Lecouteux• Examines the esoteric side of texts and tales from the Middle Ages, including the enduring presence of haunted areas and power places and the roles of witches, house spirits, rune priests, shapeshifters, and the undead• Discusses the dividing line between magic and deviltry, as well as the significance of grimoires, bells, blacksmiths, storm callers, and more• Serves as a guide to a still-present magical and imaginal realm, pointing readers to the borderlands and liminal thresholds that enable access to the other worldIn this new collection of his writings, scholar and Sorbonne professor Claude Lecouteux reveals that the magical world of the distant past is real and still very present—if you know where to look. Explaining how he makes the texts he studies reveal their hidden teachings, Lecouteux directly explores the esoteric side of medieval myths and tales, peeling back the Christian veneer to show the enduring presence of haunted areas and power places, witches, house spirits, rune carvers, vampires, shapeshifters, and the undead.In tales originating from Greenland and Iceland to Saxony, Romania, and beyond, the author discusses the dividing line between magic and diablerie as well as the significance of grimoires, bells, blacksmiths, and other magical objects and characters. He explores magic in the elements of nature and as illustrated by the art of witches and magicians specializing in weather magic—storm callers and storm dispellers. He examines the medieval mythology surrounding clouds and the mythic significance of mountains in the haunted world of our ancestors, which is still as close to us today as it was to them in the past. Looking at borderlands and liminal thresholds that can serve as gateways to other worlds, the author also discusses land spirits and the rituals needed to engage with them, recognizing how their ownership of the land can never fully be usurped.Through these writings Lecouteux acts as a ferryman, transporting readers into the realms of the wondrous and magical. He enables us to see how the haunted magic of the Middle Ages never ended and how the imaginal realm, standing just beyond the borders of our own, is as vividly real as the material world.
Runas para la bruja verde: Un grimorio de hierbas
by Nicolette Miele• Examina las conexiones entre hierbas y plantas de cada una de las 24 runas del futhark antiguo, así como las correspondencias con deidades, astrología, tarot y cristales• Proporciona ejemplos y consejos sobre cómo se pueden combinar runas y plantas en hechizos y rituales para manifestar, proteger, curar, desterrar y más• Explica cómo se puede trabajar con runas y plantas para el proceso conmovedor de reconstruir y conectarse con la madre naturalezaEn este grimorio mágico, la bruja herbolaria Nicolette Miele sumerge a los lectores en la sabiduría y el folclore de las 24 runas del futhark antiguo, así como en sus correspondencias con deidades, astrología, tarot, cristales y plantas. Cada capítulo abre discutiendo la etimología, significados, mitología, adivinación, correspondencias y magia de una runa en particular y cierra con perfiles de varias hierbas y plantas que poseen energías mágicas similares. El perfil de cada planta profundiza en sus aplicaciones mágicas, metafísicas, tradicionales y medicinales, además en la manera de trabajar con estas increíbles plantas aliadas.Por ejemplo, la autora conecta fehu, la runa de la riqueza y valor, con la práctica de construir altares, hacer ofrendas, y con la alfalfa, el cedro, el diente de león y otras plantas utilizadas tradicionalmente en la magia de la abundancia y prosperidad. En el capítulo sobre kenaz, la runa del calor y la iluminación, la conexión con la naturaleza se nutre a través del elemento fuego y un ritual con velas bindrune. Las plantas relacionadas con kenaz son aquellas que encarnan las características del fuego, como la pasión, la ferocidad y la sexualidad, e incluyen el clavo, la damiana y la kava kava.Al guiar a la bruja verde a través de los beneficios y fortalezas de la magia sinérgica, este libro ayuda a los practicantes de magia ecléctica a avanzar en su oficio a través de la magia y la medicina popular, rituales, meditaciones, hechizos y el proceso conmovedor de renaturalización y conectarse con la Madre Naturaleza.
Crystals for Psychic Self-Defense: 145 Gemstones for Banishing, Binding, and Magickal Protection
by Nicholas Pearson• Presents magickal techniques with crystals for warding off harmful energies, binding, and curse breaking, including crystal grids, amulets, spells, and rituals• Explains how to discern the symptoms of psychic attack and offers multiple methods for cleansing your energy field and your crystals• Includes an in-depth directory of 145 of the most powerful and effective crystals and gemstones for protection, banishing, and recovery from psychic attackIn this full-color guide, crystal healing teacher Nicholas Pearson shows how crystals are ideally suited for confronting negative energies and providing enduring protection as he demonstrates how to partner with the mineral kingdom for protection, cleansing, and countermagick.In the realm of protection, Pearson explores passive approaches—such as psychic shields, jewelry, and carrying gemstones—as well as more active practices—such as spells, meditations, and rituals. He shares magickal techniques for warding your home, vehicle, and work space and for counteracting geopathic stress, EMF pollution, and ill-wishing from those around you. To combat and neutralize psychic attack, he examines the necessary yet challenging territory of binding, banishing, reversal, curse-breaking, and exorcism, sharing crystal spells, grid layouts, and rituals for spirit release. He also looks at special techniques aimed at strengthening the boundaries of empaths and highly sensitive people.The author&’s in-depth directory of 145 of crystals and gemstones describes the uses of the most powerful and effective traditional gems and stones as well as more recent additions to the healer&’s tool kit, teaching you everything you need to know to protect yourself and recover from psychic and magickal attacks.
The Great Architects of Mars: Evidence for the Lost Civilizations on the Red Planet
by George J. Haas• Explores a wide variety of anomalous structures on Mars&’s surface that display a high degree of geometric and pictographic design• Examines sites such as the Elysium pyramid famously described by Carl Sagan and city complexes in the Nepenthes Mensae and Atlantis Chaos regions• Argues that Mayan creation stories of a Star War and Sumerian myths of the Anunnaki provide ancient evidence for the existence of a Martian cultureExploring evidence of a lost Martian civilization and its contact with Earth, investigator George Haas examines a wide variety of anomalous structures and geoglyphs on Mars&’s surface that display a high degree of geometric and symbolic design that reveal an ancient bond between Earth and Mars. He takes a closer look at Carl Sagan&’s famous pyramid of Elysium, including high-resolution images released after Sagan&’s death. Investigating a pair of city complexes in the Nepenthes Mensae region of the Red Planet, Haas shows how the settlements include geometric formations of a five-sided star and a hexagonal pyramid, along with geoglyphic formations representing a dove, a killer whale, and a bat. Examining the Libya Montes region, he reveals a keyhole-shaped formation identical in design to ancient tombs built in Japan. In the Atlantis Chaos region, he investigates the remains of an ancient city nestled along a dead lake, an urban-like array of gridded broken walls and shattered foundations. He then explores a detailed parrot-shaped geoglyph in the large-impact crater known as Argyre Basin that four veterinarians found to possess 22 points of anatomical correctness with terrestrial parrots.Providing an ancient Mesoamerican connection to the civilizations of Mars, Haas looks at a lesser-known Mayan creation story about a Star-War that occurred 800,000 years ago. He reveals parallels between this story and ancient Sumerian stories of the Anunnaki occupation of Earth and Mars as documented by Zecharia Sitchin. Haas also shows how there is a direct correlation between the ruins on Mars and the art and architecture of Mesoamerican cultures, providing clear evidence of a long-disappeared Martian civilization that we are only now rediscovering.
Brain Development and the Law: Neurolaw in Theory and Practice (Palgrave Studies in Law, Neuroscience, and Human Behavior)
by Stephan SchleimThis open access book is the first to offer a systematic overview of the different methods for assessing brain development and a comparative review of how such assessments have already influenced the law. Lawmakers prefer to draw clear distinctions, but biology is characterized by continua: both in terms of how development proceeds within a person and how it differs from other people. However, this does not mean that age limits are arbitrary. This book extends the author's previous research on the Dutch juvenile criminal law, which was founded on the brain development of adolescents and has been in use for more than a decade. The role of age limits in death and life sentences in the US and the new cannabis legislation in Germany are also analyzed in depth. This project combines biological, psychological and social knowledge and puts forward a pragmatic proposal to connect the two fields of brain development and law. It will be of interest to researchers, professionals (e.g. judges, legislators) and students alike.
Translanguaging in Multicultural Societies: Beyond Borders
by Lucila María Pérez FernándezThis book delves into the multifaceted concept of translanguaging, offering a comprehensive examination from its foundational theories to its practical applications. The author provides a nuanced understanding of translanguaging, differentiating it from code-switching and elucidating its core premises, then explores translanguaging practices in early multilingual societies, colonial contexts, and postcolonial and globalized settings. Theoretical foundations are thoroughly explored in the second part of the book, covering sociolinguistic theories and their application to translanguaging, cognitive approaches emphasizing metacognition and cognitive flexibility, psycholinguistic perspectives, and sociocultural theories aligning with translanguaging. Part III examines practical aspects of translanguaging, focusing on its implementation in multilingual classrooms, multicultural communities, and professional settings. The book demonstrates translanguaging's role in community development, cultural heritage preservation, and fostering social cohesion through case studies in diverse contexts, including business, healthcare, and legal settings. Strategies and best practices for integrating translanguaging into language teaching are discussed, along with its benefits and challenges in education. The final section, Part IV, anticipates future directions for translanguaging, exploring emerging technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. The book also examines translanguaging's potential in linguistic preservation, particularly in the context of indigenous languages, as well as its role in achieving Sustainable Development Goals, including multilingual education and reducing linguistic inequalities. This book will be of interest to researchers, scholars, and educators interested in language studies, sociolinguistics, education, and interdisciplinary fields.
Elemente der Leadership-Ethik
by Florian Demont-BiaggiDieses Buch begibt sich auf eine wissenschaftliche Suche, um die Eckwerte und Grundlagen einer Ethik der strategischen Führung zu finden und auszuarbeiten. Ausgehend vom Phänomen der Macht und des Machtmissbrauchs und seiner Beziehung zum Problem der Leadership entwickelt der Autor seine Führungsethik einerseits in der Auseinandersetzung mit Ansätzen aus der Sozialpsychologie, der Moral- und der allgemeinen Psychologie, der Psychotherapie und der Technikphilosophie, andererseits in der Kritik bereits etablierter Debatten, z. B. der Theorie der authentischen Führung. In das Buch gehen auch neuere Aspekte zum Thema ein, so die Frage nach der Digitalisierung als Führungswerkzeug.
Simultaneously Transmitting and Reflecting Surfaces for Wireless Communications (Wireless Networks)
by Junshan Zhang Yuanwei Liu Xidong Mu Jiaqi XuThis book begins with discussing the fundamentals of Simultaneously Transmitting and Reflecting Surfaces (STARS) from the electromagnetic (EM) and communication perspectives. The basic signal and channel models for employing STARS in wireless communications is introduced as well. Then, the different categories and possible hardware implementation of STARS are highlighted. Next, the authors focus on attention to the STARS-aided wireless communications. The authors provide a comprehensive performance analysis of STARS with the outage probability, diversity gain and power scaling laws. Moreover, the operating protocols and corresponding beamforming design of STARS are discussed under different phase-shift models. As a further advance, the application of machine learning tools in STAR-aided wireless communications is introduced for addressing the beamforming design and resource allocation problems. The novel STARS-aided integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) in future wireless networks are also discussed with several case studies. Within this book, readers will find an extensive exploration of the STARS concept. The content encompasses a thorough survey of STARS research, covering principles, implementation, performance evaluation and applications. By presenting a comprehensive review of the STARS family, this book serves as a valuable resource for gaining insight into the complete pipeline of STARS research. Finally, the authors conclude the book by highlighting several future research directions for STARS. This book targets graduate, undergraduate, and postgraduate students as well as researchers working in wireless communications. Wireless communication engineers in industry and government will also want to purchase this book.
The Evolutionary History of Witch-hunting: A Qualitative Darwinian Approach
by Steije HofhuisWhy did early modern Europeans hunt for witches? Were these persecutions a shrewd tool to oppress women or the poor, or were they just a way of making money? Or were witch-hunters primarily driven by a genuine belief in witchcraft? The witches’ sabbath, the diabolical pact, and the nightly flight were elements in the early modern concept of witchcraft that seem to have been intelligently designed to trigger persistent witch persecutions. But in contrast to what many past historical scholars presumed, witch-hunts were not based on intelligent design. So how to explain them? This book proposes a new model: Darwinian cultural evolution. It contends that witch-hunting’s apparent design emerged from a hidden evolutionary process in which cultural variants which accidentally unleashed larger persecutions were cumulatively preserved. Witch-hunting did not so much evolve to serve human interests but to ensure its own ‘selfish’ reproduction. Historians have often compared witch persecutions to the outbreaks of contagious disease, but only as a figure of speech. But shouldn’t we take the similarities more seriously? This book argues that witch-hunting was a cultural ‘virus’ that spread at the expense of its human hosts, and thus bridges the gap between qualitative history and the burgeoning field of Darwinian cultural evolution.
MATLAB Lessons, Examples, and Exercises: A Tutorial for Beginners and Experts
by Mehdi Rahmani-AndebiliMATLAB Lessons, Examples, and Exercises: A Tutorial for Beginners and Experts is a book for anyone interested in learning MATLAB, a popular programming language used in mathematics, engineering, and science. Whether you’re a student, instructor, engineer, or technical professional, this book provides easy-to-follow lessons, examples, and exercises in each section of every chapter, emphasizing writing and executing code to help you become proficient in programming with MATLAB. Different colors make the code, outputs, and program descriptions more straightforward to read to improve reader comprehension. The book covers all the essential functions of MATLAB that are needed in math, engineering, and science, and it explains the math behind each function so you can apply them to solve real-world problems. Whether you’re new to programming or an expert, this book offers clear explanations, diverse examples, and hands-on exercises to help you improve your MATLAB programming skills and understand how to use MATLAB in various fields.
How to Launch a Token: An Essential Guide for the Uninitiated
by Alexander Rees-EvansTake a deep dive into the intricacies of launching and successfully managing a cryptocurrency token. This book is an indispensable resource, providing invaluable insights and practical advice. Spanning 12 chapters, the book begins with the fundamentals, explaining the different types of tokens and the core concepts of crypto projects, guiding readers through the critical decision-making process about the necessity and role of a token in their venture. As the narrative progresses, you are taken on a journey through the lifecycle of a crypto project. It emphasizes the importance of a well-thought-out roadmap, a compelling pitch deck, and the crucial process of assembling a skilled team. Diving deeper, the book explores the complex world of tokenomics, reviewing the various economic models behind tokens and how to tailor them to specific projects. A key aspect of this guide is its focus on go-to-market strategies, including targeting the right audience, effective marketing techniques, and the vital role of community building. Additionally, it addresses the essentials of fundraising in the crypto space, highlighting the types of investors to approach and strategies for engaging them effectively. Security and stability are paramount in the crypto world. The book provides a detailed analysis of the storage and custody of funds, comparing centralized and decentralized mechanisms and emphasizing the importance of robust security measures. This is crucial for ensuring liquidity and accessibility of the token in the market. The guide culminates with a focus on the launch day, detailing the preparation, organization, and key considerations to ensure a successful token launch. When done you’ll be well-equipped to navigate the complex and exciting world of cryptocurrency token launches. What You’ll Learn Develop a successful launch strategy for a token. Prepare the decks and documents for a successful token campaign. Discover negotiation tactics required to reduce fees for all your counterparts. Explore techniques required to maintain the health and popularity of your token. Who This Book Is For Those considering launching a token, companies looking to tokenize assets, accelerators and incubators, advisors and blockchain teachers/professors, and crypto firms as part of their onboarding material.
Post-Apartheid Community-Based Activism: Mandla Majola and the Struggle for Social, Economic, and Health Equity (Alternatives and Futures: Cultures, Practices, Activism and Utopias)
by Rajini Srikanth Louise PennerThis book provides a timely study of community-based activism in contemporary South Africa. Grounded in oral history, the book examines the acquired expertise and life experiences of an impactful South African activist, Mandla Majola, within the context of the people, circumstances, and affiliations that have shaped his strategic thinking and practice. The authors situate Mandla Majola’s activist and everyday experiences within histories of the complex connections between post-apartheid political and social movements and human rights discourse as they emerged after 1994. The book illuminates the relationship of state power to public health activism for HIV, tuberculosis and COVID-19 and for a life of basic human dignity, including access to sanitation and housing. Mandla Majola’s life spotlights the inspiring, sometimes grueling, and tireless quotidian work of thousands of “invisible” community-based activists whose collective actions have impacted the entire spectrum of social and economic rights of untold numbers of people in South Africa and beyond.
Motivation Science: A Machine-Generated Literature Overview
by Myint Swe KhineThis volume explores human-machine collaboration and provides machine-generated auto-summaries of emerging research trends in motivation science. Each chapter presents summaries of pre-defined themes and includes an editor-written introduction. It covers various topics, from classic theories such as Maslow's hierarchy of needs to cutting-edge research in neuroscience and cultural influences on motivation. The book offers valuable insights into what makes us tick and how to harness motivation to improve our lives. The book is organized into six chapters covering interrelated topics such as the motivation science, emotion-based motivation, educational motivation, self-regulated learning, motivation and technology, and motivation and neuroscience. The auto-summaries have been generated by a recursive clustering algorithm via the Dimensions Auto-summarizer by Digital Science. The editor of this book selected which SN content should be auto-summarized and decided its order of appearance. Please note that these are extractive auto-summaries, consisting of original sentences, but are not representative of the original paper, since we do not show the full length of the publication. Please note that only published SN content is represented here, and that machine-generated books are still at an experimental stage.
Reimagining the International: Chinese World Ordering before the West (Bristol Studies in East Asian International Relations)
by Yongjin ZhangA rich and enlightening study of Chinese international relations, this book examines Chinese world ordering before the West as both intellectual history and institutional practices in deep world history. It shows how engaging China’s historical pursuit of ordering the world can contribute to our search for global foundations of international thought. Offering a distinctive English School perspective, this volume is a call to put studies of Chinese international relations in their proper historical context. It argues that such an approach leads to a better understanding of Chinese ideas and statecraft and contends that reimagining the international is indispensable for a fruitful pursuit of knowledge production in the construction of global IR.
Critical Theory for Social Work: A Simple Introduction
by Joe WhelanCovering a range of important social theorists – from W.E.B. Du Bois to Judith Butler – this accessibly written textbook encourages critical thinking and critical approaches to social work, providing an entry point for anyone interested in thinking theoretically about practice. Key features include: • essential terms explained throughout; • end-of-chapter prompts to promote further thinking from students; • suggestions for further reading complete with commentary; and • companion website with links to videos, a lesson plan and additional resources. Written for introductory audiences and experts alike, this book will appeal to students studying social work or other related social and allied professions at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as practitioners engaged in professional development.
The Politics of Food Insecurity in Canada and the United Kingdom
by Zsofia Mendly-Zambo, Dennis Raphael and Dave BeckAddressing a neglected area in academic research, media coverage and public understanding, this book takes a critical political economy approach to understanding food insecurity in Canada and the UK. It examines how current economic and political systems create food insecurity and why food charity does little to address the problem, diverting the attention of policy makers, the media and the public from the sources of food insecurity. This book provides a vision of a future whereby public control over the distribution of resources –including food – will eliminate food insecurity and other conditions that threaten health.
A Brave and Lovely Woman: Mamah Borthwick and Frank Lloyd Wright
by Mark BorthwickMamah Borthwick was an energetic, intelligent, and charismatic woman who earned a master’s degree at a time when few women even attended college, translated writings by a key figure of the early feminist movement, and taught at one of Germany’s best schools for boys. She is best known, however, as the mistress of the famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and for her shocking murder at the renowned Wisconsin home he built for her, Taliesin. A Brave and Lovely Woman offers an important corrective to the narrative of Wright and Borthwick, a love story as American in character as it is Shakespearean in conclusion. Little of Wright’s life and work has been left untouched by his many admirers, critics, and biographers. And yet the woman who stood at the center of his emotional life, Mamah Borthwick, has fallen into near obscurity. Mark Borthwick—a distant relative—recenters Mamah Borthwick in her own life, presenting a detailed portrait of a fascinating woman, a complicated figure who was at once a dedicated mother and a faithless spouse, a feminist and a member of a conservative sorority, a vivacious extrovert and a social pariah. Careful research and engaging prose at last give Borthwick, an obscure but crucial character in one of America’s most famous tragedies, center stage.
Plain: A Memoir of Mennonite Girlhood (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)
by Mary Alice HostetterPlain tells the story of Mary Alice Hostetter’s journey to define an authentic self amid a rigid religious upbringing in a Mennonite farm family. Although endowed with a personality “prone toward questioning and challenging,” the young Mary Alice at first wants nothing more than to be a good girl, to do her share, and—alongside her eleven siblings—to work her family’s Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, farm. She feels fortunate to have been born into a religion where, as the familiar hymn states, she is “safe in the arms of Jesus.” As an adolescent, that keen desire for belonging becomes focused on her worldly peers, even though she knows that Mennonites consider themselves a people apart. Eventually she leaves behind the fields and fences of her youth, thinking she will finally be able to grow beyond the prohibitions of her church. Discovering and accepting her sexuality, she once again finds herself apart, on the outside of family, community, and societal norms. This quietly powerful memoir of longing and acceptance casts a humanizing eye on a little-understood American religious tradition and a woman’s striving to grow within and beyond it.
The Dryad Storm
by Laurie ForestThe New York Times bestselling series!Magical forces clash and Erthia hovers on the brink of ruin in the can't-miss finale of Laurie Forest&’s epic fantasy series, The Black Witch Chronicles!Who can survive the Shadow storm? Black Witch of prophecy Elloren Gardner Grey has unleashed her powers and embraced her legacy as a Dryad and guardian of the Forest. But the losses—of life, of love—have been almost too great to withstand as the Shadow continues to devour the world. With only a tattered shred of hope remaining, the Bearers of the Wand of Myth must battle their way back to each other to mount a final stand.But Elloren and her allies are not only facing Mage Vogel's advancing forces—the armies of the Eastern Realm will stop at nothing to see the Black Witch struck down. With Elloren's bonded mate prophesied to kill her, Shadow demons rising, and the ties between allies unraveling, can this fracturing world unite to face down the coming storm?Read all the books in the Black Witch Chronicles! The Black Witch The Iron Flower The Shadow Wand The Demon Tide The Dryad Storm Wandfasted (prequel ebook)* Light Mage (prequel ebook)**Also available in print in The Rebel Mages anthology