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Book Unmasked

    Book Details:
  • Author : Emily Mendenhall
  • Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
  • Release : 2022-03-15
  • ISBN : 0826504531
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Unmasked written by Emily Mendenhall and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unmasked is the story of what happened in Okoboji, a small Iowan tourist town, when a collective turn from the coronavirus to the economy occurred in the COVID summer of 2020. State political failures, local negotiations among political and public health leaders, and community (dis)belief about the virus resulted in Okoboji being declared a hotspot just before the Independence Day weekend, when an influx of half a million people visit the town. The story is both personal and political. Author Emily Mendenhall, an anthropologist at Georgetown University, grew up in Okoboji, and her family still lives there. As the events unfolded, Mendenhall was in Okoboji, where she spoke formally with over 100 people and observed a community that rejected public health guidance, revealing deep-seated mistrust in outsiders and strong commitments to local thinking. Unmasked is a fascinating and heartbreaking account of where people put their trust, and how isolationist popular beliefs can be in America's small communities. This book is the recipient of the 2022 Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize from Vanderbilt University Press for the best book in the area of art or medicine.

Book Rethinking Diabetes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Emily Mendenhall
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2019-07-15
  • ISBN : 1501738313
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Rethinking Diabetes written by Emily Mendenhall and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rethinking Diabetes, Emily Mendenhall investigates how global and local factors transform how diabetes is perceived, experienced, and embodied from place to place. Mendenhall argues that the link between sugar and diabetes overshadows the ways in which underlying biological processes linking hunger, oppression, trauma, unbridled stress, and chronic mental distress produce diabetes. The life history narratives in the book show how deeply embedded these factors are in the ways diabetes is experienced and (re)produced among poor communities around the world. Rethinking Diabetes focuses on the stories of women living with diabetes near or below the poverty line in urban settings in the United States, India, South Africa, and Kenya. Mendenhall shows how women's experiences of living with diabetes cannot be dissociated from their social responsibilities of caregiving, demanding family roles, expectations, and gendered experiences of violence that often displace their ability to care for themselves first. These case studies reveal the ways in which a global story of diabetes overlooks the unique social, political, and cultural factors that produce syndemic diabetes differently across contexts. From the case studies, Rethinking Diabetes clearly provides some important parallels for scholars to consider: significant social and economic inequalities, health systems that are a mix of public and private (with substandard provisions for low-income patients), and rising diabetes incidence and prevalence. At the same time, Mendenhall asks us to unpack how social, cultural, and epidemiological factors shape people's experiences and why we need to take these differences seriously when we think about what drives diabetes and how it affects the lives of the poor.

Book The Mendenhall Family

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  • Author : Thomas A. Valentine
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 524 pages

Download or read book The Mendenhall Family written by Thomas A. Valentine and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cultural and Religious Creativity of Ancient Israel

Download or read book The Cultural and Religious Creativity of Ancient Israel written by George E. Mendenhall and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on the history of the biblical tradition by George E. Mendenhall (1916-2016). Includes studies on law, covenant, and the Hebrew conquest of Palestine, as well as excerpts from Mendenhall's own autobiography.

Book Gant Family Genealogy   Second Edition

Download or read book Gant Family Genealogy Second Edition written by Mary Gant Bell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-01-27 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the Gant family in this journey through time. The story begins with the James and Dina Gant and documents each generation through today. You will also learn about the families related to the Gant clan, including the Allen, Bickers, Bix, Carmichael, Cooper, Cox, Dixon, Frank, Gade, Hadley, Halverson, Jackson, Lightfoot, Mendenhall, Miller, Moellenberndt, Newlin, Nissalka, Richards, Starr, Stewart, Wasley, White, and many others. If you are related to any Gant's or are a history buff, this book is for you! The whole family will enjoy reading this family's history through the generations. Visit http: //MaryGantBell.com for more titles by this author.

Book Natchez Area Family History Book

Download or read book Natchez Area Family History Book written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description of Natchez flag, general history of Adams County, Mississippi, general overveiw of Natchez history, overview of businesses, organizations, churches as well as local residents bios. Many photos.

Book Joseph   Hyrum

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark E. Mendenhall
  • Publisher : Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9780842527545
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Joseph Hyrum written by Mark E. Mendenhall and published by Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center. This book was released on 2010 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book pays tribute to Joseph and Hyrum's shared leadership-and challenges us to carry on their legacy. The stories and examples of shared leadership illustrate how they honored agency and exerted righteous influence, grew through adversity, forged bonds of obligation and love, governed conflict, and organized through councils.

Book Love Fast Live Slow

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  • Author : Nick Mendenhall
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-06-02
  • ISBN : 9781735035703
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Love Fast Live Slow written by Nick Mendenhall and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You don't have to carry the weight of the world on your shoulders. Just love fast and live slow. NO MORE WONDERING IF YOU'VE DONE ENOUGH. NO MORE QUESTIONING GOD'S PURPOSE FOR YOU. NO MORE OVERTHINKING EVERY DECISION. Humanity is overwhelmed with feelings of distress now more than ever. The world is looking for a solution to the angst. A trending solution to this overarching misalignment is to fill our lives with more. More stuff. More money. More exercise. More volunteering. More prestige. We look outward to satisfy our hunger for happiness. When the pendulum swings too far in our pursuit for more, it leads us to counter that busyness with a desperate evacuation: having less, doing less, spending less, conquering less. However, owning less or doing less is still an external solution to an internal problem. Have you ever come to God begging for rest and clarity? I have. And He's told me (multiple times), "I'll let you know what you need to know, when you need to know it. In the meantime, do what I've already told you." And what we know we should be doing, rain or shine, clear or foggy, is to live like Jesus did. That is why Love Fast Live Slow exists.

Book Bird Love

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  • Author : Wenfei Tong
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-03-03
  • ISBN : 1782407480
  • Pages : 195 pages

Download or read book Bird Love written by Wenfei Tong and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the sex life of birds and their wide range of fascinating mating and parenting habits, this comprehensive study gives you a detailed insight into bird family life. Discover the amazing array of courtship techniques employed by birds around the world, such as ospreys bringing gifts of food in exchange for sex, male skylarks performing aerial acrobatics to impress females, or long-tailed widowbirds showing off their tails to advertise the quality of their genes. But it's not all about males seeking to impress or dominate females: sex roles can be reversed, and the book includes examples such as the black coucal, whose females leave the males to perform all childcare duties. The essential guide to bird family life, Bird Love is richly illustrated with stunning colour photographs, and regular Backyard Bird boxes in each chapter showcase familiar species from around the world. There is also an index and further reading at the back of the book for those wanting to learn more about the many different species of birds in this book! Bird Love covers a whole host of unique bird mating and parenting habits, from practical to peculiar, and is divided into sections on: Ecology and Mating Systems, Courtship, Nests and Eggs, Raising Chicks, Sex Role Reversals, Group Breeding, Brood Parasitism. From female hornbills who seal themselves in to their tree hollow nests, relying on their mates to deliver food through a narrow slit, to the eclectus parrots of Melanesia, whose females fight each other to secure a home due to the limited availability of nesting spots, and who can if succesful enjoy up to seven mates, this book is filled with wild stories of the lengths birds will go to survive and thrive in the wild. Varying levels of parental care are revealed, from both parents having to provide constant care to allowing an insurance chick to die to ensure at least one survives. And either sex can desert the nest in search of further matings to secure another clutch of chicks and the continuation of their family line. Brood parasitism, where birds such as cuckoos and cowbirds lay their eggs in other birds' nests, takes absentee parenting to the extreme and the book explores how these species have evolved to delegate all parental care. Alongside, it also shows how host species have cleverly developed a wide range of tactics to defend their nests and their own families. This complete guide is the ultimate study in the mating and parenting lives of birds of all kinds, and is the perfect gift for either a seasoned ornithologist or an amateur bird fancier. Stunning photographs accompany the deep scientific knowledge of author Wenfei Tong, making this a must have for anyone interestered in avian life!

Book Book Dealers  Weekly

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1925
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1394 pages

Download or read book Book Dealers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Albin Sketo Family Genealogy Book

Download or read book Albin Sketo Family Genealogy Book written by Eugene Franklin McLin and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiefly a record of some of the ancestors and descendants of George Walter Albin. He was born 3 Apr 1822 in Illinois to James Thomas Albin and Margaret "Peggy" Smith. He married Eliza Carolina Wright 18 Aug 1842 in Corydon, Indiana. She was born 26 Sep 1829 in Harrison County, Indiana, to Thomas Wright and Susan Gwartney. He died 4 Jul 1875 in Perry County, Indiana. She died 2 Jul 1916 in Wall, South Dakota. They were the parents of eleven children. Descendants and relatives lived in Indiana, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Kentucky, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Utah, Wisconsin, Oregon, Arizona, Washington, Texas, Kansas, Ohio, California and elsewhere.

Book The Ancestry Family Historian s Address Book

Download or read book The Ancestry Family Historian s Address Book written by Juliana Szucs Smith and published by Ancestry Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A directory of contact information for organizations in genealogical research and how to find them.

Book Syndemic Suffering

Download or read book Syndemic Suffering written by Emily Mendenhall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a major contribution to the study of diabetes, this book is the first to analyze the disease through a syndemic framework, offering a model study of chronic disease disparity among the poor in high income countries.

Book The Shreve Family Genealogy

Download or read book The Shreve Family Genealogy written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Sheriff/Shreve was born before 1620 in England and died in 1675 in Rhode Island. His wife, Martha died after 1691. One descendant, Thomas Curtis Shreve (1800-1878), was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania and was married in 1828 in Stark County, Ohio to Ann Gilbert Coates. They moved to White Cloud, Kansas in 1857. Descendants lived in Kansas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and elsewhere.

Book Catalogue of the Library of the Long Island Historical Society  1863 1893

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Long Island Historical Society 1863 1893 written by Long Island Historical Society. Library and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Book Prices Current

Download or read book American Book Prices Current written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.

Book Quakers and the American Family

Download or read book Quakers and the American Family written by Barry Levy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brilliant study shows the pivotal role the Quakers played in the origins and development of America's family ideology. Levy argues that the Quakers brought a new vision of family and social life to America--one that contrasted sharply with the harsh, formal world of the New England Puritans. The Quakers stressed affection, friendship and hospitality, the importance of women in the home, and the value of self-disciplined, non-coercive childrearing. This book explains how and why the Quakers have had such a profound cultural impact on America and what the Quakers' experience with their own radical family system tells us about American families.