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Book It was Another Skin

Download or read book It was Another Skin written by Sian Supski and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study examines the meanings of the kitchen to women who were wives, mothers, housewives and homemakers in the 1950s in Western Australia. It uses qualitative data collected from oral history interviews with migrant and Australian born women. The book provides insight to women's everyday lives and analyses practices, such as cooking, ironing, budgeting, shopping, dishwashing and decorating which provide women with power. Central themes of this study explore the meaning of home and kitchen design and analyses how practices of the kitchen inform women's multiple identities. It also shows how dominant discourses, such as domesticity, femininity and efficiency reinforce gendered notions of women's work in the kitchen. Moreover, the book examines points of resistance, it shows that women perform their everyday practices, design their kitchens and decorate them in ways that perhaps were not always intended by domestic science experts, designers, architects and manufacturers."--GoogleBooks.

Book Race in Another America

Download or read book Race in Another America written by Edward E. Telles and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the increasingly important and controversial subject of race relations in Brazil. North American scholars of race relations frequently turn to Brazil for comparisons, since its history has many key similarities to that of the United States. Brazilians have commonly compared themselves with North Americans, and have traditionally argued that race relations in Brazil are far more harmonious because the country encourages race mixture rather than formal or informal segregation. More recently, however, scholars have challenged this national myth, seeking to show that race relations are characterized by exclusion, not inclusion, and that fair-skinned Brazilians continue to be privileged and hold a disproportionate share of wealth and power. In this sociological and demographic study, Edward Telles seeks to understand the reality of race in Brazil and how well it squares with these traditional and revisionist views of race relations. He shows that both schools have it partly right--that there is far more miscegenation in Brazil than in the United States--but that exclusion remains a serious problem. He blends his demographic analysis with ethnographic fieldwork, history, and political theory to try to "understand" the enigma of Brazilian race relations--how inclusiveness can coexist with exclusiveness. The book also seeks to understand some of the political pathologies of buying too readily into unexamined ideas about race relations. In the end, Telles contends, the traditional myth that Brazil had harmonious race relations compared with the United States encouraged the government to do almost nothing to address its shortcomings.

Book Re  Skin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Flanagan
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2009-01-23
  • ISBN : 0262512491
  • Pages : 371 pages

Download or read book Re Skin written by Mary Flanagan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009-01-23 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In re:skin, scholars, essayists, and short stort writers offer their perspectives on skin--as boundary and surface, as metaphor and physical reality."--Dust jacket front flap.

Book Second Skin

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  • Author : John Hawkes
  • Publisher : New Directions Publishing
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780811216449
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Second Skin written by John Hawkes and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "John Hawkes is an extraordinary writer. I have always admired his books. They should be more widely read."--Saul Bellow

Book Second Skin

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  • Author : Anne Anlin Cheng
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2023
  • ISBN : 0197748384
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book Second Skin written by Anne Anlin Cheng and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What does a black burlesque star have to do with some of the most enduring and passionate ideas in modern aesthetic theory? Josephine Baker emerges in this untold story as a principal figure in the drama behind the making of Euro-American Modernism. Instead of seeing her nude performances as a Primitivist given, Cheng argues that Baker's skin was central to debates about and desire for "pure surface" that crystalized at the convergence of modern art, architecture, machinery, and philosophy. Taking the reader across the Atlantic - through real stages and imagined houses; banana plantations and ocean lines; metallic bodies and radiant cities-this study tracks the ardent and protean conversa-tion between the making of a Modernist style and the staging of a new black visuality. In this account, Baker and the Modernists known to have adored and objectified her in fact share a common dream: the fantasy of remaking and wearing the skin of the other"--

Book Second Skin

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  • Author : Eric Van Lustbader
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2015-03-31
  • ISBN : 147677871X
  • Pages : 528 pages

Download or read book Second Skin written by Eric Van Lustbader and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An action novel featuring Nicholas Linnear, an Anglo-Japanese hero. He heads an international company which has developed a new cellular phone that can transmit the speaker's picture and which the Japanese underworld tries to steal. By the author of The Ninja.

Book The Second Skin

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  • Author : Helgard de Barros
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2008-08-08
  • ISBN : 1409222217
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book The Second Skin written by Helgard de Barros and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-08-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A conflict on a vast scale, with a heroine unique and fresh to the world of science fiction. A highly technical and believable universe, populated with rich characters and an immersive plot.

Book Stories in a New Skin

Download or read book Stories in a New Skin written by Keavy Martin and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age where southern power-holders look north and see only vacant polar landscapes, isolated communities, and exploitable resources, it is important to note that the Inuit homeland encompasses extensive philosophical, political, and literary traditions. Stories in a New Skin is a seminal text that explores these Arctic literary traditions and, in the process, reveals a pathway into Inuit literary criticism. Author Keavy Martin considers writing, storytelling, and performance from a range of genres and historical periods—the classic stories and songs of Inuit oral traditions, life writing, oral histories, and contemporary fiction, poetry and film—and discusses the ways in which these texts constitute an autonomous literary tradition. She draws attention to the interconnection between language, form and context and illustrates the capacity of Inuit writers, singers and storytellers to instruct diverse audiences in the appreciation of Inuit texts. Although Eurowestern academic contexts and literary terminology are a relatively foreign presence in Inuit territory, Martin builds on the inherent adaptability and resilience of Inuit genres in order to foster greater southern awareness of a tradition whose audience has remained primarily northern.

Book Second Skin

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  • Author : Jessica Wollman
  • Publisher : Delacorte Press
  • Release : 2009-07-14
  • ISBN : 0375892591
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Second Skin written by Jessica Wollman and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2009-07-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauty is only skin deep. Popularity goes much deeper. . . . Appearances can be deceiving. Sam Klein’s found that out firsthand. All she wanted was to be popular. But sometimes what we want is the absolute worst thing for us. Sam discovers that Kylie, It-girl of Woodlawn High, owes her popular status not to her expensive clothes, highlighted hair, and spot on the cheerleading squad but to a magical second skin. Nobody can actually see it—but they can feel it. And if you’re wearing the skin, you feel incredible. Invincible. Popularity is yours. So Sam stole the skin from Kylie. Now she’s the most popular girl at school, while Kylie’s social life takes a serious hit. Sam can barely recognize herself. Her old geek clique is history—but are her new friends really people she can count on? The skin is clinging tighter to her each day . . . can Sam get it off before it’s too late?

Book Second Skin

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  • Author : Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
  • Publisher : Muswell Press
  • Release : 2024-04-18
  • ISBN : 1739123883
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Second Skin written by Dugald Bruce-Lockhart and published by Muswell Press. This book was released on 2024-04-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1994, five years after a murderous encounter on the island of Paros, Alastair Haston's world is upended by a startling discovery: a son he never knew existed. Desperate to learn more, he travels to Athens, but his pursuit is intercepted when MI6 intervenes, coercing him into a high-stakes espionage mission – to infiltrate a suspected mafia operation intent on abducting his son. As the chase unravels across the Mediterranean, from Athens to Zakynthos and on to Crete, Alistair has a chilling revelation, could the spectre of his past be returning to taunt him? Does the answer lie in that fateful, deadly summer on Paros five years ago?

Book Second Skin

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  • Author : Michael Wiley
  • Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
  • Release : 2015-11-01
  • ISBN : 178010698X
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Second Skin written by Michael Wiley and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing mystery featuring homicide detective Daniel Turner in the second of this atmospheric crime noir series, following Blue Avenue. When one of her students is found dead, English teacher Lillian Turner and her husband, Navy war veteran Johnny Bellefleur, are drawn into the investigation. Having made a macabre discovery which throws a disturbing new light on the case, Johnny and Lillian find themselves involved in something darker and more dangerous than they could have imagined. With their marriage cracking under the strain and Johnny’s sanity under threat, the pair is warned to stay out of the case by Lillian’s brother, homicide detective Daniel Turner. Just what is Daniel’s connection to the dead girl? Does he know more than he’s letting on? Can Lillian trust her own brother?

Book Under Our Skin

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  • Author : Benjamin Watson
  • Publisher : NavPress
  • Release : 2015-11-17
  • ISBN : 1496413326
  • Pages : 189 pages

Download or read book Under Our Skin written by Benjamin Watson and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can it ever get better? This is the question Benjamin Watson is asking. In a country aflame with the fallout from the racial divide—in which Ferguson, Charleston, and the Confederate flag dominate the national news, daily seeming to rip the wounds open ever wider—is there hope for honest and healing conversation? For finally coming to understand each other on issues that are ultimately about so much more than black and white? An NFL tight end for the New Orleans Saints and a widely read and followed commentator on social media, Watson has taken the Internet by storm with his remarkable insights about some of the most sensitive and charged topics of our day. Now, in Under Our Skin, Watson draws from his own life, his family legacy, and his role as a husband and father to sensitively and honestly examine both sides of the race debate and appeal to the power and possibility of faith as a step toward healing.

Book 100 Questions   Answers About Melanoma and Other Skin Cancers

Download or read book 100 Questions Answers About Melanoma and Other Skin Cancers written by Edward McClay and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2004 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with skin cancer from a doctor's and a patient's perspective.

Book Coping With Melanoma and Other Skin Cancers

Download or read book Coping With Melanoma and Other Skin Cancers written by Wendy Long and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 1998-12-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the causes and treatment of melanoma and other skin cancers, including detection, prevention, and coping techniques.

Book New Therapies and Immunological Findings in Melanoma and Other Skin Cancers

Download or read book New Therapies and Immunological Findings in Melanoma and Other Skin Cancers written by Atsushi Otsuka and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New therapies are currently being developed in the field of skin cancer. In particular, advances in melanoma now represent the frontline of cancer immunotherapy, as immunological findings in the disease have led to the development of highly effective immune-checkpoint inhibitors. However, these immune-checkpoint inhibitors are only effective in a subset of patients, and may not work in other skin cancer types, thus highlighting the need for further innovation in the field of skin cancer treatment. The purpose of this Research Topic is therefore to provide an up-to-date overview of immune processes and new therapies for melanoma and other skin cancers in order to further stimulate the development of new and even more successful treatments.

Book Skin and Other Stories

Download or read book Skin and Other Stories written by Roald Dahl and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How would you get rid of a murder weapon without causing suspicion? Where would you hide a diamond where no one else would think of looking? What if you found out that the tattoo on your back was worth over a million dollars? You will discover that just about anything is possible in a Roald Dahl story, and here are eleven of his very best.

Book Second Skin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Simone Beaudelaire
  • Publisher : Next Chapter
  • Release : 2022-02-06
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Second Skin written by Simone Beaudelaire and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2022-02-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elisa Monroe’s controlling husband Alex declares it’s time for them to buy a house and start a family, but Elisa doesn’t want either. He manipulates her into buying the house anyway, and she realizes that the only way to have a life that belongs to her is to leave him. But how? Marshalling support from her colleagues, her therapist and domestic violence workers, Elisa begins the slow process of breaking free. But Alex is not willing to let her go, and he escalates from bullying to outright abuse, revealing that he is a much more dangerous creature than she could ever have imagined. Will Elisa escape with her life? Or will what lies beneath the second skin finally devour her alive? Trigger warning: This paranormal suspense novel contains scenes of reproductive rape and domestic violence. Reader discretion is advised.