practical essays

Resisting Representation

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Scarry, Elaine, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, Renowned scholar Elaine Scarry's book, The Body in Pain, has been called by Susan Sontag "extraordinary...large-spirited, heroically truthful." The Los Angeles Times called it "brilliant, ambitious, and controversial." Now Oxford has collected some of Scarry's most provocative writing. This collection of essays deals with the complicated problems of representation in diverse literary and cultural genres--from her beloved sixth-century philosopher Boethius, through the nineteenth-century novel, to twentieth-century advertising. qWe often assume that all areas of experience are equally available for representation. On the contrary, these essays present discussions of experiences and concepts that challenge, defeat, or block representation. Physical pain, physical labor, the hidden reflexes of cognition and its judgments about the coherence or incoherence of the world are all phenomena that test the resources of language. Using primarily literary sources (works by Hardy, Beckett, Boethius, Thackeray, and others), Scarry also draws on painting, medical advertising, and philosophic dialogue to probe the limitations of expression and representation. Resisting Representation celebrates language. It looks at the problematic areas of expression not at the moment when representation is resisted, but at the moment when that resistance is at last overcome, thus suggesting a domain of plenitude and inclusion.

The Early Days of Yeast Genetics

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hall, Michael N. / Linder, Patrick, PUBLISHER: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Hall and Linder have assembled the reminiscences of many early investigators whose pioneering studies in the years before brought yeast biology to its current maturity. These illustrated essays about the science, the events and the personalities involved capture a fascinating era, in the informal style made famous by Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology.

Knowing the Will of God

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Waltke, Bruce / MacGregor, Jerry, PUBLISHER: Harvest House Publishers, Discerning God's will can be a frustrating guessing game, but Drs. Waltke and MacGregor explore the biblical definition of "God's will" and give readers a practical, multistep process to better understand God's purpose for life.

Keeping Students in Higher Education

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Dumbrigue, Ceci / Dumbrigue Cecille (Admissions Director S / Moxley David (Professor School of Social, PUBLISHER: Routledge, This text examines the issues surrounding student drop-outs and presents a practical guide to identifying reasons for drop out and developing solutions to the problem of retaining students in higher education.

Island Sounds in the Global City: Caribbean Popular Music

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Flores, Juan / Manuel, Peter / Kasinitz, Philip, PUBLISHER: New York Folklore Society, The Big Apple has been a crossroads for Caribbean music and culture since the early years of this century. This collection of critical essays surveys a rich mosaic of popular Caribbean styles and explores the fascinating relationship between music and cultural identity in America's largest, most diverse urban center.

DNA Cloning: A Practical Approach Volume III

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Glover, David M. / Glover, D. M., PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, This volume presents for the first time in a single book a variety of current techniques for cloning and expressing DNA molecules. Protocols are described in sufficient detail for immediate use in the laboratory.

Counseling Treatment for Children and Adolescents with

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Erk, Robert R., PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall, Designed to give readers a better understanding of children and adolescents who have been diagnosed with an emotional, behavioral, or mental disorder. Disorders are approached from the perspective of the child/adolescent and examined in context; and, each discussion includes practical guidance for assessment and treatment based on the most recent research in the field. To the expertise of the main author are added contributions by several counselor educators, psychologists, and clinicians who directly practice, teach, and focus on key topics addressed in the book. Provides a thorough discussion of the most-commonly diagnosed disorders of children and adolescents, and examines the biological, developmental, and environmental causes of these disorders. Key focus is on psychopathology, DSM-IV, child psychopathology, and child/adolescent counseling. Coverage emphasizes the importance of viewing children and adolescents with DSM-IV-TR disorders within a sound developmental framework. Contains two chapters on treatment planning--one that discusses practical guidelines for planning and one consisting of four case studies. For future counselor educators, psychologists, and clinicians.

Troubling Intersections of Race and Sexuality: Queer

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kumashiro, Kevin K. / Chan, Kayla, PUBLISHER: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, By combining autobiographical accounts with qualitative and quantitative research on queer students of different racial backgrounds, the essays collected here not only trouble the ways we think about the intersections of race and sexuality, they also offer theoretical insights and educational strategies to educators committed to bringing about change. Visit our website for sample chapters

Fatigue Life Analyses of Welded Structures: Flaws

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lassen, Tom / Recho, Naman, PUBLISHER: Iste Publishing Company, Practical problems in structural design and service inspection are addressed in this handbook to dealing with fatigue design of welded structures. Details of how to use calculation tools on an Excel spreadsheet are included for application in realistic industrial cases.

In Pursuit of the Prize: Finding God in the Great Outdoors

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Grassi, James E. / Grassi, Jim / Ogilvie, Lloyd John, PUBLISHER: Harvest House Publishers, From successfully stalking trophy elk to "hooking" a skunk, this visually stunning book (with dramatic, full-color pictures by wildlife photographer Tim Christie) offers real-life stories and practical principles to entertain, inspire, and challenge Christian sportsmen.

It's the Thought That Counts: Grades K-8

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lowery, Lawrence, PUBLISHER: Dale Seymour Publications, Activities correlated to Piaget's stages of mental development. More than 250 practical "starter" ideas for concrete, pictorial, and abstract experiences in conservation of number, length, solid and liquid amounts, area, weight, volume, and displaced volume. Reproducible worksheets and ideas for additional activities.

Per Barclay

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bonnet, Frederick / Barclay, Per, PUBLISHER: Hopeful Monster, Scandinavian artist Per Barclay's work deals in daily tensions, in those anxieties that we experience due to the discrepancies and contrasts between beauty and comfort, between the great possibilities of our time and the extreme precariousness of the contemporary political situation. A retrospective monograph, this book features selections of the artist's work since alongside critical essays and a bibliography.

Interactive Image Processing for Machine Vision

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Batchelor, Bruce G. / Waltz, Frederick, PUBLISHER: Springer, Machine vision systems offer great potential in a large number of areas of manufacturing industry and are used principally for Automated Visual Inspection and Robot Vision. This publication presents the state of the art in image processing. It discusses techniques which have been developed for designing machines for use in industrial inspection and robot control, putting the emphasis on software and algorithms. A comprehensive set of image processing subroutines, which together form the basic vocabulary for the versatile image processing language IIPL, is presented. This language has proved to be extremely effective, working as a design tool, in solving numerous practical inspection problems. The merging of this language with Prolog provides an even more powerful facility which retains the benefits of human and machine intelligence. The authors bring together the practical experience and the picture material from a leading industrial research laboratory and the mathematical foundations necessary to understand and apply concepts in image processing. Interactive Image Processing is a self-contained reference book that can also be used in graduate level courses in electrical engineering, computer science and physics.

Grandmother's Journal

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Running Press, PUBLISHER: Running Press Book Publishers, Printed on deluxe recycled parchment paper, the best-selling Running Press journals are enhanced by lovely 2-color illustrations. Nearly all journals are highlighted by thoughtful, provocative, often witty quotes. Ample space is provided in each, allowing the reader to record personal reflections and practical notes on special themes.

The Couch and the Tree: Dialogues in Psychoanalysis and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Molino, Anthony, PUBLISHER: North Point Press, A provocative and trailblazing cross-disciplinary anthology. With the growing interest in the relationship between Buddhism and psychoanalysis, it is surprising that no book has replaced the classic Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis, with essays by D. T. Suzuki, Erich Fromm, and Richard De Martino. Now, in this new alchemical collection, psychoanalyst Anthony Molino offers a bold new alloy of these two major disciplines. Both ambitious and timely, "The Couch and the Tree "is a two-part anthology that spans and documents a unique cross-fertilization of Eastern and Western thought. While Part One provides a historical overview of the classic writings in this far-reaching, adventurous dialogue (including the works of Fromm, Suzuki, Jung, Hisamatsu, Watts, and Horney, to name only a few), Part Two features a series of brilliant contemporary works, many appearing here for the first time. Included are essays by such innovative thinkers as Adam Phillips, Mark Epstein, Masao Abe, Polly Young-Eisendrath, Nina Coltart, and Michael Eigen. Most notable perhaps is a conversation--on the question "Is There an Unconscious in Buddhist Teaching?"--between the psychoanalyst Joyce McDougall and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. A truly essential collection, unique in both conception and scope, "The Couch and the Tree" marks a watershed in interdisciplinary and cross-cultural exploration.

Side by Side: A Multicultural Reader

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wiener, Harvey S. / Bazerman, Charles, PUBLISHER: Wadsworth Publishing Company, Side by Side is a multicultural reader that emphasizes reading and writing through 51 readings which represent a broad range of both voices and subject matter. Writing instruction guides students through the development of short, responsive essays, while fostering critical thinking and collaborative learning skills. The "Handbook for Writers" addresses students' questions about grammar, mechanics, and style.

100 Bright Ideas for Your Home

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Weston, Tamsin, PUBLISHER: Betterway Books, Now anyone can change the look of their home in a day or less This series makes it easy with quick, inexpensive ideas perfects for readers decorating their homes for the first time. Each title is packed with practical advice and inspirational photos that illustrate 100 great design ideas.

Slavery's Ghost: The Problem of Freedom in the Age of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Follett, Richard / Foner, Eric / Johnson, Walter, PUBLISHER: Johns Hopkins University Press, President Abraham Lincoln freed millions of slaves in the South in , rescuing them, as history tells us, from a brutal and inhuman existence with the promise of freedom and equal rights. This is a moment to celebrate and honor, to be sure, but what of the darker, more troubling side of this story? "Slavery's Ghost" explores the dire, debilitating, sometimes crushing effects of slavery on race relations in American history. In three conceptually wide-ranging and provocative essays, the authors assess the meaning of freedom for enslaved and free Americans in the decades before and after the Civil War. "Slavery's Ghost" asks important and challenging questions: How did slaves and freedpeople respond to the promise and reality of emancipation? How committed were white southerners to the principle of racial subjugation? And in what ways can we best interpret the actions of enslaved and free Americans during slavery and Reconstruction? Collectively, these essays offer fresh approaches to questions of local political power, the determinants of individual choices, and the discourse that shaped and defined the history of black freedom. Written by three prominent historians of the period, "Slavery's Ghost" forces readers to think critically about the way we study the past, the depth of racial prejudice, and how African Americans won and lost their freedom in nineteenth-century America. Acquista Ora

Basic Mathematics

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Brown, Walter C. / Brown, Theodore E., PUBLISHER: Goodheart-Wilcox Publisher, Basic Mathematics provides instruction to improve basic mathematics skills. This combination text and workbook tells and shows "how", while providing exercises and drills that enable students to develop accuracy and speed in the various math competencies. Practical problems offer application of mathematics skills to various occupations.

Divorce

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Retief, Frank / Frank, Retief, PUBLISHER: Christian Focus Publications, The break up of marriage is traumatic to both parents and children. The pent-up anger and frustration also affects the quality of relationships in the rest of society. Frank Retief has a wealth of pastoral experience with which to help us. His approach is compassionate, biblical and practical.

Motivational Leadership in Early Childhood Education [With

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Marotz, Lynn / Lawson, Amy, PUBLISHER: Delmar Thomson Learning, This unique resource addresses one of the most challenging workplace issues facing employers today- the ability to encourage employeesa creativity, productivity, and long-term commitment to an organization. Written specifically for the early childhood field, this text respects and acknowledges the unique challenges faced in early education settings. It is written in a reader-friendly style and offers a wealth of everyday strategies and innovative ideas for motivating employee performance. The basic principles of motivational theory are explained in an easy-to-understand manner and practical ideas for increasing staff morale, encouraging quality performance and retaining employees are discussed. Each chapter of the text includes connecting points, case studies, and application activities to illustrate and reinforce the content. Quotes by notable individuals add to reader interest and emphasize the critical importance of motivational leadership skills. Several chapters are devoted to how-to strategies (monetary and non-monetary) and simple, practical ideas for motivating employees. Additional references (books, articles, and web resources) are also provided, making this text a must-have resource for anyone in a supervisory role.

An OT and SLP Team Approach: Sensory and Communication

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kashman, Nancy / Mora, Janet, PUBLISHER: Sensory Resources, A speech/language pathologist and an occupational therapist combine years of experience to bring practical advice and workable strategies to treat dysfunction in sensory integration and communication disorders. Their team approach offers an impressive set of activities for social, motor, learning and living skills.

The Vegetarian Society's Vegetarian Food for Friends: 130

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Weller, Lyn, PUBLISHER: HarperCollins UK, A text for people who love to entertain but who need some inspiration and practical advice on putting together a vegetarian menu. This book features recipes, complete menus and menu suggestions, wine notes, and advice on choosing ingredients, planning timetables and achieving a well-balanced meal.

Spiritual Workout of a Former Saint

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Abramowicz, Danny, PUBLISHER: Our Sunday Visitor, Here, based on proven NFL workout techniques, is a practical, encouraging, step-by-step method to help you: - increase your spiritual strength - add new life to your relationships with your spouse, family, and friends - re-energize your soul as you deepen your love of Christ and His Church.

Advances in Therapies for Children

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Schaefer, Charles E. / Sichel, Steven M. / Millman, Howard L., PUBLISHER: Jossey-Bass, Guidebooks for Therapeutic Practice Series Provides today's therapists and counselors with the practical, current information they require to keep abreast of the dynamic field of child therapy. Supplements the best-selling Therapies for Children (), providing all new material on the most recent therapeutic advances.

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