The study of households and everyday life is increasinglyrecognized as fundamental in social archeological analysis. Thisvolume is the first to address the household as a process and as aconceptual and analytical means through which we can interpretsocial organization from the bottom up. Using detailed case studiesfrom Neolithic Greece, Stella Souvatzi examines how the householdis defined socially, culturally, and historically; she discusseshousehold and community, variability, production and reproduction,individual and collective agency, identity, change, complexity, andintegration. Her study is enriched by an in-depth discussion of theframework for the household in the social sciences and thesynthesis of many anthropological, historical, and sociologicalexamples. It reverses the view of the household as passive,ahistorical, and stable, showing it instead to be active, dynamic,and continually shifting.
This is the story of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights,through its extraordinary fifty years at the heart of the civilrights movement and the struggle for justice in America. Mary Frances Berry, the commission’s chairperson for more than adecade, author of My Face Is Black Is True (“An essential chapterin American history from a distinguished historian”—Nell Painter),tells of the commission’s founding in 1957 by President Eisenhower,in response to burgeoning civil rights protests; how it wasdesigned to be an independent bipartisan Federal agency—made up ofsix members, with no more than three from one political party, freeof interference from Congress and presidents—beholden to nogovernment body, with full subpoena power, and free to decide whatit would investigate and report on. Berry writes that the commission, rather than producing reportsthat would gather dust on the shelves, began to hold hearings evenas it was under attack from Southern segregationists. Sh
Stowe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Twain: these are just a few ofthe world-class novelists of nineteenth-century America. Thenineteenth-century American novel was a highly fluid form,constantly evolving in response to the turbulent events of theperiod and emerging as a key component in American identity,growth, expansion and the Civil War. Gregg Crane tells the story ofthe American novel from its beginnings in the early republic to theend of the nineteenth century. Treating the famous and many lesswell-known works, Crane discusses the genre's major figures, themesand developments. He analyses the different types of Americanfiction - romance, sentimental fiction, and the realist novel - indetail, while the historical context is explained in relation tohow novelists explored the changing world around them. Thiscomprehensive and stimulating introduction will enhance students'experience of reading and studying the whole canon of Americanfiction.
Greco-Roman Culture and the Galilee of Jesus, a book-lengthinvestigation of this topic, challenges the conventional scholarlyview that first-century Galilee was thoroughly Hellenised.Examining architecture, in*ions, coins and art from Alexanderthe Great's conquest until the early fourth century CE, Chanceyargues that the extent of Greco-Roman culture in the time of Jesushas often been greatly exaggerated. Antipas's reign in the earlyfirst century was indeed a time of transition, but the moredramatic shifts in Galilee's cultural climate happened in thesecond century, after the arrival of a large Roman garrison. Muchof Galilee's Hellenisation should thus be understood within thecontext of its Romanisation. Any attempt to understand the Galileansetting of Jesus must recognise the significance of the region'shistorical development as well as how Galilee fits into the largercontext of the Roman East.
Albert Einstein has quit his university teaching position and works six days a week as a second-class clerk in a patent office. With a wife and a newborn child, he’s struggling for money and isolated from academia. Yet out of this upheaval will come the basis for his greatest work, and one of the most spectacular discoveries of all time--the Theory of Relativity--leading the scientific community to refer to 1905 as annus mirabilis, or "the miracle year." In this fascinating account, renowned science writers John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin delve into the year that brought the world into the nuclear age. Covering Einstein’s scientific achievements--the completion of a doctoral degree and the three papers that form the basis of the Theory of Relativity--as well as his tumultuous personal life, the Gribbins present the historical context that led to this,the most famous equation of all time, and that changed the world as we know it. 作者简介： MARY GRIBBIN trained in psychology at the Unive
A groundbreaking biography of Milton’s formative years that provides a new account of the poet’s political radicalization John Milton (1608–1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both Paradise Lost , the greatest narrative poem in English, and prose defences of the execution of Charles I that influenced the French and American revolutions. Tracing Milton’s literary, intellectual, and political development with unprecedented depth and understanding, Poet of Revolution is an unmatched biographical account of the formation of the mind that would go on to create Paradise Lost ―but would first justify the killing of a king. Biographers of Milton have always struggled to explain how the young poet became a notorious defender of regicide and other radical ideas such as freedom of the press, religious toleration, and republicanism. In this groundbreaking intellectual biography of Milton’s formative years, Nicholas McDowell draws on recent arc
How disputes over privacy and security have shaped the relationship between the European Union and the United States and what this means for the future We live in an interconnected world, where security problems like terrorism are spilling across borders, and globalized data networks and e-commerce platforms are reshaping the world economy. This means that states’ jurisdictions and rule systems clash. How have they negotiated their differences over freedom and security? Of Privacy and Power investigates how the European Union and United States, the two major regulatory systems in world politics, have regulated privacy and security, and how their agreements and disputes have reshaped the transatlantic relationship. The transatlantic struggle over freedom and security has usually been depicted as a clash between a peace-loving European Union and a belligerent United States. Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman demonstrate how this misses the point. The real dispute was between two transnational
This comprehensive guide introduces Body-Mind Centering, theinternationally recognized field pioneered by dancer andoccupational therapist Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Devotingthirty-five years to a systematic investigation of the relationsbetween bodily experience and the anatomical maps of science,Bainbridge Cohen independently discovered many of the principlesthat underlie Feldenkrais work, cranial osteopathy, Rolfing, dancetherapy, and Zero Balancing. Experienced BMC practitioner LindaHartley demonstrates the basic philosophy and key elements ofBody-Mind Centering. Drawing on animal and infant movements, shetakes readers through the wondrous realms of Bainbridge Cohen’spantheon—from the 'minds' of the skeletal and muscular systems tothe quite different inner lives of digestive, lymphatic, urinary,respiratory, vocal, circulatory, endocrine, and reproductiveorgans. Her choreography ultimately brings us into the states ofconsciousness of skins, cells, blood, fat, cerebrospinal fluid,nervous system, an
PAT CONROY–AMERICA’S MOST BELOVED STORYTELLER -- ISBACK! “I was born to be a point guard, but not a verygood one. . . .There was a time in my life when I walked throughthe world known to myself and others as an athlete. It was part ofmy own definition of who I was and certainly the part I mostrespected. When I was a young man, I was well-built and agile andready for the rough and tumble of games, and athletics provided thesingle outlet for a repressed and preternaturally shy boy toexpress himself in public....I lost myself in the beauty of sportand made my family proud while passing through the silent eye ofthe storm that was my childhood.” So begins Pat Conroy’s journey back to 1967 and his startlingrealization “that this season had been seminal and easily the mostconsequential of my life.” The place is the Citadel in Charleston,South Carolina, that now famous military college, and in memoryConroy gathers around him his team to relive their few triumphs andhumiliating defeats. In a nar
Mark Twain is a central figure in nineteenth-century Americanliterature, and his novels are among the best-known and most oftenstudied texts in the field. This clear and incisive introductionprovides a biography of the author and situates his works in thehistorical and cultural context of his times. Peter Messent givesaccessible but penetrating readings of the best-known writingsincluding Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He pays particularattention to the way Twain's humour works and how it underpins hisprose style. The final chapter provides up-to-date analysis of therecent critical reception of Twain's writing, and summarises thecontentious and important debates about his literary and culturalposition. The guide to further reading will help those who wish toextend their research and critical work on the author. This bookwill be of outstanding value to anyone coming to Twain for thefirst time.
《南来的挑战》是大众报业集团（大众日报社）社长梁国典从事新闻工作30年来的作品选集，精选了作者撰写的通讯和论文的代表作品。作者从记者干起，全身心投入新闻工作，紧跟时代发展潮流，采写和组织策划了孔繁森、李登海、朱彦夫、王乐义等重大典型人物报道，推出了如莱芜市乡镇简政放权、莱西市村级组织建设、文登农村精神文明建设、荣成市实践“三个代表”的经验以及海尔经验、“南巡第三春的汇报系列述评”等等重大经验性报道，挖掘重大典型、新闻事件、英模人物身上的时代价值，捕捉新闻背后的丰盈内涵，多篇作品获得中国新闻奖。实践证明，这些通讯报道的典型，经住了时间的检验，到现在仍具有典型意义，是做好新时期典型宣传的生动教材。作者走上管理岗位后，注重加强对新闻实践的总结提升，撰写了大量业务论文，内容涉及采编业
How organizations developed in history, how they operate, and how research on them has evolved Organizations are all around us: government agencies, multinational corporations, social-movement organizations, religious congregations, scientific bodies, sports teams, and more. Immensely powerful, they shape all social, economic, political, and cultural life, and are critical for the planning and coordination of every activity from manufacturing cardboard boxes to synthesizing new drugs and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. To understand our world, we must understand organizations. The Power of Organizations defines the features of organizations, examines how they operate, traces their rise over the course of a millennium, and explains how research on organizations has evolved from the mid-nineteenth century to today. Heather Haveman shows how almost all contemporary research on organizations fits into three general perspectives: demographic, relational, and cultural. She offers constructive c
Terrorism is the most clear and present danger we confront today, yet no phenomenon is more poorly understood by policymakers, the media, and the general public. The Faces of Terrorism is the first serious interdisciplinary examination of terrorism in all its facets. What gives rise to it, who are its proponents and how do they think, and how--and why--does it work? Neil Smelser begins by tackling the fundamental problem of defining what exactly terrorism is. He shows why a precise definition has eluded us until now, and he proposes one that takes into account the full complexities of this unconventional and politically charged brand of violence. He explores the root causes and conditions of terrorism, and examines the ideologies that inspire and fuel it throughout the world. Smelser looks closely at the terrorists themselves--their recruitment, their motivations, the groups they form, their intended audiences, and their uses of the media in pursuing their agendas. He studies the target societ
Drawing on a broad range of research and developmental theoryand focusing on infants during their first year of life, MariaLegerstee asserts that they have an innate sense of people atbirth, which is activated through sympathetic emotions. Shequestions the idea that infants use physical parameters such ascontingencies or motion to distinguish people from objects, andrejects the assumption that infants are mechanical creatures beforethey become psychological ones. She argues persuasively that beforeinfants learn to speak, interactions with others are possiblebecause infants have a primitive pre-linguistic 'theory ofmind'.
This new edition is a comprehensive manual of the rules ofprocedure for the conduct of business at the UN General Assembly,at international conferences and at assemblies ofinter-governmental organisations such as the IAEA, ICAO, ILO, IMOand WHO. It examines the legal basis of these rules, the history oftheir development and the attempts at their codification. At theheart of the book is an examination of the practical applicationsof rules of procedure. Sabel also considers whether certainprocedural rules and applications have become so well establishedthat they have now attained the status of customary internationallaw. The book is of interest to those involved in internationallaw, international relations and international organisations. Italso serves as a practical manual for delegates to the UN GeneralAssembly and to international conferences.
Beginning with Latin America in the fifteenth century, thisbook is a social history of the experiences of African Muslims andtheir descendants throughout the Americas, including the Caribbean.The record under slavery is examined, as is the post-slavery periodinto the twentieth century. The experiences vary, arguably due tosome extent to the Old World context. Muslim revolts in Brazil arealso discussed, especially in 1835, by way of a nuanced analysis.The second part of the book looks at the emergence of Islam amongthe African-descended in the United States in the twentiethcentury, with successive chapters on Noble Drew Ali, ElijahMuhammad, and Malcolm X, with a view to explaining how orthodoxyarose from varied unorthodox roots.
“I have a bomb here and I would like you to sit by me.” That was the note handed to a stewardess by a mild-manneredpassenger on a Northwest Orient flight in 1971. It was the start ofone of the most astonishing whodunits in the history of Americantrue crime: how one man extorted $200,000 from an airline, thenparachuted into the wilds of the Pacific Northwest and intooblivion. D. B. Cooper’s case has become the stuff of legend andobsessed and cursed his pursuers with everything from bankruptcy tosuicidal despair. Now with Skyjack, journalist Geoffrey Gray delvesinto this unsolved mystery uncovering new leads in the infamouscase. Starting with a tip from a private investigator into a promisingsuspect (a Cooper lookalike, Northwest employee, and trainedparatrooper), Gray is propelled into the murky depths of adecades-old mystery, conducting new interviews and obtaining afirst-ever look at Cooper’s FBI file. Beginning with aheartstopping and unprecedented recreation of the crime itself,f
An authoritative introduction to the latest comparative methods in evolutionary biology Phylogenetic comparative methods are a suite of statistical approaches that enable biologists to analyze and better understand the evolutionary tree of life, and shed vital new light on patterns of divergence and common ancestry among all species on Earth. This textbook shows how to carry out phylogenetic comparative analyses in the R statistical computing environment. Liam Revell and Luke Harmon provide an incisive conceptual overview of each method along with worked examples using real data and challenge problems that encourage students to learn by doing. By working through this book, students will gain a solid foundation in these methods and develop the skills they need to interpret patterns in the tree of life. Covers every major method of modern phylogenetic comparative analysis in R Explains the basics of R and discusses topics such as trait evolution, diversification, trait-dependent divers
