Author : William A. Schwartz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,33 MB
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0520329732
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.
Author : Jonathan P. Binstock
Publisher : Corcoran Gallery Of Art
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 42,31 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN :
Edited by Jonathan P. Binstock. Essays by Milena Kalinovska, Barbara London and Howard Morland Foreword by Jacquelyn Days Serwer.
Author : Robert R. Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 12,37 MB
Release : 2012-08-03
Category : History
ISBN :
This book presents a compelling account of atomic development over the last century that demonstrates how humans have repeatedly chosen to ignore the associated impacts for the sake of technological, scientific, military, and economic expediency. In 1945, Albert Einstein said, "The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind." This statement seems more valid today than ever. Romancing the Atom: Nuclear Infatuation from the Radium Girls to Fukushima presents compelling moments that clearly depict the folly and shortsightedness of our "atomic mindset" and shed light upon current issues of nuclear power, waste disposal, and weapons development. The book consists of ten nonfiction historical vignettes, including the women radium dial painters of the 1920s, the expulsion of the Bikini Island residents to create a massive "petri dish" for post-World War II bomb and radiation testing, the government-subsidized uranium rush of the 1950s and its effects on Native American communities, and the secret radioactive material development facilities in residential neighborhoods. In addition, the book includes original interviews of prominent historians, writers, and private citizens involved with these poignant stories. More information is available online at www.romancingtheatom.com.
Author : Jann Matlock
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 42,24 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780231072076
Jann Matlock's study of prostitution, hysteria, and the novel in nineteenth-century France considers, for the first time, the three topics together with their links to constructions of female marginality and desire. Made increasingly accessible to a large public by inexpensive printing methods, new forms of circulation like the roman-feuilleton, and rising literacy rates among women and workers, the novel became the medium for exchanges over women's bodies and desires. Matlock reveals the coincident traffic of the novel in the subjects of women on the fringe of society - prostitutes, hysterics, and madwomen- and the invitations extended to its new readers to explore new worlds of sexuality and intrigue. In addition, Matlock examines debates on the tolerance of prostitution, sexual continence, the relationship between female sexuality and madness, and the "dangers" of literature by incorporating into her study material from a myriad of archives, including medical case studies, police reports, newspaper editorials, and memoirs. Against this rich background, she discusses the novels of Balzac, Dumas fils, Sand, Soulié, and Sue, many of which were directed at a female audience.
Author : Jean Baudrillard
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,70 MB
Release : 1991-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780312052942
Examines modern critical theory, feminism, and psychoanalysis, and discusses the modern concept of sex roles and the political aspect of human sexuality.
Author : Elaine Sciolino
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 34,4 MB
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1429933291
The hidden truth about the French way of life: it's all about seduction—its rules, its pleasures, its secrets France is a seductive country, seductive in its elegance, its beauty, its sensual pleasures, and its joie de vivre. But Elaine Sciolino, the longtime Paris bureau chief of The New York Times, has discovered that seduction is much more than a game to the French: it is the key to understanding France. Seduction plays a crucial role in how the French relate to one another—not just in romantic relationships but also in how they conduct business, enjoy food and drink, define style, engage in intellectual debate, elect politicians, and project power around the world. While sexual repartee and conquest remain at the heart of seduction, for the French seduction has become a philosophy of life, even an ideology, that can confuse outsiders. In La Seduction, Sciolino gives us an inside view of how seduction works in all areas, analyzing its limits as well as its power. She demystifies the French way of life in an entertaining and personal narrative that carries us from the neighborhood shops of Paris to the halls of government, from the gardens of Versailles to the agricultural heartland. La Seduction will charm you and encourage you to lower your defenses about the French. Pull up a chair and let Elaine Sciolino seduce you.
Author : Silvan S. Tomkins
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 1350 pages
File Size : 25,13 MB
Release : 2008-02-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 082614408X
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Author : Grant Burns
Publisher :
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 17,57 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
...thorough and complete...well-written annotations...recommended to libraries at all levels. --CHOICE An exceptionally thorough guide.--JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY
Author : Silvan S. Tomkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 42,74 MB
Release : 1995-01-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780521448321
A comprehensive introduction to the work of Silvan Tomkins - a leading theorist of human emotion and motivation.
Author : Gordon Fellman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 21,30 MB
Release : 1998-07-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1438402554
Rambo and the Dalai Lama suggests that the assumption that human life is based on conflicts of interest, wars, and the opposition of people to each other and to nature exists as a paradigm that supplies meaning and orientation to the world. An alternative paradigm sees cooperation, caring, nurturing, and loving as equally viable ways of organizing relationships of humans to each other and to nature. Fellman sees this shifting emphasis from adversarialism to mutuality as essential to the survival of our species and nature itself.
