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Book History of the Body

    Book Details:
  • Author : Willemijn Ruberg
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2019-09-27
  • ISBN : 135200769X
  • Pages : 158 pages

Download or read book History of the Body written by Willemijn Ruberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-27 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The body has come to occupy a central place in cultural history, with historians consistently exploring such themes as the history of disease, disability, beauty, and sexuality. This engaging and concise book offers a clear introduction to the history of the body, introducing a wide array of conceptual approaches to the field. It delineates the topic of body history and its origins in cultural history and gender history, distinguishing it from related disciplines such as the history of the self, the history of medicine, the history of emotion and gender history. Bringing in a wealth of thought-provoking examples from historical writing, it goes on to explore a range of themes, including racism, anorexia, gender and sexuality, psychoanalysis and agency. With further reading and explanations of key concepts provided throughout, this wide-ranging yet accessible text is the first introductory book to address this vibrant field from a theoretical perspective. It is ideal for students of historiography, medical history or the history of the body.

Book Coastal Environments in Popular Song

Download or read book Coastal Environments in Popular Song written by Glenn Fosbraey and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how popular music is able to approach subjects of bio-politics, climate change, solastalgia, and anthropomorphisation, alongside its more common diet of songs about love, dancing, and break-ups – all while satisfying its primary remit of being entertaining and listenable. Nearly a thousand books have been published on bioethics since Van Rensselaer Potter’s Bioethics Bridge to the Future (1971), with a marked increase in the past 20 years. However, not one of these books has focused itself on popular music, something Christopher Partridge describes as ‘central to the construction of [our] identities, central to [our] sense of self, central to [our] well-being and, therefore, central to [our] social relations’. This edited collection examines popular music through a range of topics, from romance to climate change. Coastal Environments in Popular Song is perfect for students, scholars, and researchers alike interested in bioethics, social history, and the history of music.

Book Bodies of Information

    Book Details:
  • Author : Chris Mounsey
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2019-10-31
  • ISBN : 9780367360481
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book Bodies of Information written by Chris Mounsey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bodies of Information initiates the Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics series by encompassing interdisciplinary Bioethical discussions on a wide range of descriptions of bodies in relation to their contexts from varying perspectives: including literary analysis, sociology, criminology, anthropology, osteology and cultural studies, to read a variety of types of artefacts, from the Romano-British period to Hip Hop. Van Renslaer Potter coined the phrase Global Bioethics to define human relationships with their contexts. This and subsequent volumes return to Potter's founding vision from historical perspectives, and asks, how did we get here from then?

Book Body Psychotherapy  History  Concepts  and Methods

Download or read book Body Psychotherapy History Concepts and Methods written by Michael C. Heller and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 871 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From yoga to neuroscience, a tour of major ideas about the body and mind. Body psychotherapy, which examines the relationship of bodily and physical experiences to emotional and psychological experiences, seems at first glance to be a relatively new area and on the cutting edge of psychotherapeutic theory and practice. It is, but the major concepts of body/mind treatment are actually drawn from a wide range of historical material, material that spans centuries and continents. Here, in a massively comprehensive book, Michael Heller summarizes all the major concepts, thinkers, and movements whose work has led to the creation of the field we now know as body/mind psychotherapy. The book covers everything from Eastern and Western thought—beginning with yoga and Taosim and moving to Plato and Descartes. It also discusses major developments in biology—how organisms are defined—and neuroscience. This is truly a comprehensive reference for anyone interested in the origins of the idea that the mind and body are not separate and that both must be understood together in order to understand people and their behavior.

Book Primate Societies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barbara B. Smuts
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2008-06-03
  • ISBN : 022622046X
  • Pages : 591 pages

Download or read book Primate Societies written by Barbara B. Smuts and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primate Societies is a synthesis of the most current information on primate socioecology and its theoretical and empirical significance, spanning the disciplines of behavioral biology, ecology, anthropology, and psychology. It is a very rich source of ideas about other taxa. "A superb synthesis of knowledge about the social lives of non-human primates."—Alan Dixson, Nature

Book Those They Called Idiots

    Book Details:
  • Author : Simon Jarrett
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2025-04-12
  • ISBN : 1789143020
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book Those They Called Idiots written by Simon Jarrett and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2025-04-12 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensitive and sweeping, this is a history of the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities from the communities of eighteenth-century England, to the nineteenth-century asylum, to care in today’s society. Those They Called Idiots traces the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities from the communities of eighteenth-century England to the nineteenth-century asylum, to care in today’s society. Using evidence from civil and criminal courtrooms, joke books, slang dictionaries, novels, art, and caricature, it explores the explosive intermingling of ideas about intelligence and race, while bringing into sharp focus the lives of people often seen as the most marginalized in society.

Book The History of Philosophy  Ancient philosophy

Download or read book The History of Philosophy Ancient philosophy written by George Henry Lewes and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sensations of History

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  • Author : James J. Hodge
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2019-10-01
  • ISBN : 1452960585
  • Pages : 235 pages

Download or read book Sensations of History written by James J. Hodge and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A phenomenological investigation into new media artwork and its relationship to history What does it mean to live in an era of emerging digital technologies? Are computers really as antihistorical as they often seem? Drawing on phenomenology’s investigation of time and history, Sensations of History uses encounters with new media art to inject more life into these questions, making profound contributions to our understanding of the digital age in the larger scope of history. Sensations of History combines close textual analysis of experimental new media artworks with in-depth discussions of key texts from the philosophical tradition of phenomenology. Through this inquiry, author James J. Hodge argues for the immense significance of new media art in examining just what historical experience means in a digital age. His beautiful, aphoristic style demystifies complex theories and ideas, making perplexing issues feel both graspable and intimate. Highlighting underappreciated, vibrant work in the fields of digital art and video, Sensations of History explores artists like Paul Chan, Phil Solomon, John F. Simon, and Barbara Lattanzi. Hodge’s provocative interpretations, which bring these artists into dialogue with well-known works, are perfect for scholars of cinema, media studies, art history, and literary studies. Ultimately, Sensations of History presents the compelling case that we are not witnessing the end of history—we are instead seeing its rejuvenation in a surprising variety of new media art.

Book The History of Philosophy  Ancient philosophy   Vol  2  Modern philosophy

Download or read book The History of Philosophy Ancient philosophy Vol 2 Modern philosophy written by George Henry Lewes and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Medicine and the History of the Body

Download or read book Medicine and the History of the Body written by Yasuo Otsuka and published by Ishiyaku EuroAmerica, Incorporated. This book was released on 1999 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Human stem history or phylogeny

Download or read book Human stem history or phylogeny written by Ernst Haeckel and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Experience Variables

Download or read book The Experience Variables written by Joseph Olin Chassell and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Naturalist

Download or read book The American Naturalist written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dynamic State Variable Models in Ecology

Download or read book Dynamic State Variable Models in Ecology written by Colin W. Clark and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-10 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces readers to a set of powerful and extremely flexible modeling techniques, starting at "square one" and continuing with carefully chosen applications. Some of these applications of methodology include insect oviposition behavior, overwinter survival of birds and fish, avian migration, resource management, conservation biology, agroecology, and human behavior. This book also explains how to construct, test, and use dynamic state variable models in a wide range of contexts in evolutionary ecology, and its complete and up-to-date coverage allows readers to immediately begin using the described techniques. Dynamic State Variable Models in Ecology is designed for self-instruction or for use in upper division undergraduate or graduate courses. It is ideal for students and scientists interested in behavior, ecology, anthropology, conservation biology, and related fields.

Book The Stakes of History

    Book Details:
  • Author : David N. Myers
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2018-01-09
  • ISBN : 0300231407
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book The Stakes of History written by David N. Myers and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading scholar of Jewish history’s bracing and challenging case for the role of the historian today Why do we study history? What is the role of the historian in the contemporary world? These questions prompted David N. Myers’s illuminating and poignant call for the relevance of historical research and writing. His inquiry identifies a number of key themes around which modern Jewish historians have wrapped their labors: liberation, consolation, and witnessing. Through these portraits, Myers revisits the chasm between history and memory, revealing the middle space occupied by modern Jewish historians as they work between the poles of empathic storytelling and the critical sifting of sources. History, properly applied, can both destroy ideologically rooted myths that breed group hatred and create new memories that are sustaining of life. Alive in these investigations is Myers’s belief that the historian today can and should attend to questions of political and moral urgency. Historical knowledge is not a luxury to society but an essential requirement for informed civic engagement, as well as a vital tool in policy making, conflict resolution, and restorative justice.

Book Creative Learning  Teaching  and Assessment for Arts and Humanities Higher Education

Download or read book Creative Learning Teaching and Assessment for Arts and Humanities Higher Education written by Glenn Fosbraey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-10-31 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Higher education should be a place for students to innovate, create, and expand their horizons, and in order to create an environment which allows for all these things, tutors need to be able and willing to do the same. This practical and informative book explores how a diverse range of tutors working in the Arts and Humanities disciplines have succeeded in thinking creatively about their teaching, module design, and extra-curricular activities without losing sight of necessary academic rigour. The book explores: · experimental learning environments · student and lecturer collaborations · the development of students' employability and transferable skills · creative and imaginative assessment design · embedding mental wellbeing techniques into curricula The varied roles, subjects, and locations of the contributors enables rigorous and diverse international exploration of creative pedagogy in higher education and the book will particularly appeal to those looking to bring creativity to higher education.