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Culture in the Clinic
After the 1959 Cuban Revolution, hundreds of thousands of Cuban refugees came to Miami. With this influx, the city’s health care system was overwhelmed not just by the number of patients but also by the differences in culture. Mainstream medicine was often inaccessible or inadequate to Miami’s growing community of Latin American and Caribbean immigrants. Instead, many sought care from alternative, often unlicensed health practitioners. During the 1960s, a recently arrived Cuban feeling ill might have visited a local clínica, a quasi-legal storefront doctor’s office, or a santero, a priest in the Afro-Cuban religion of Lukumí or Santería. This exceptionally diverse medical scene woul...
Our NHS
An engaging, inclusive history of the NHS, exploring its surprising survival--and the people who have kept it running In recent decades, a wave of appreciation for the NHS has swept across the UK. Britons have clapped for frontline workers and championed the service as a distinctive national achievement. All this has happened in the face of ideological opposition, marketization, and workforce crises. But how did the NHS become what it is today? In this wide-ranging history, Andrew Seaton examines the full story of the NHS. He traces how the service has changed and adapted, bringing together the experiences of patients, staff from Britain and abroad, and the service's wider supporters and opponents. He explains not only why it survived the neoliberalism of the late twentieth century but also how it became a key marker of national identity. Seaton emphasizes the resilience of the NHS--perpetually "in crisis" and yet perennially enduring--as well as the political values it embodies and the work of those who have tirelessly kept it afloat.
The Triumph of Pleasure
With a particular focus on the court ballet, comedy-ballet, opera, and opera-ballet, Georgia J. Cowart tells the long-neglected story of how the festive arts deployed an intricate network of subversive satire to undermine the rhetoric of sovereign authority.
Post-Pandemic Social Studies
COVID-19 offers a unique opportunity to transform the K–12 social studies curriculum, but history suggests that changes to the formal curriculum will not come easily or automatically. This book was conceived in the space between the dismantling of our old way of life and the anticipation of what comes next. The authors in this volume—leading voices in social studies education—make the case that COVID-19 has exposed deficiencies in much of the traditional narrative found in textbooks and state curriculum standards, and they offer guidance for how educators can use the pandemic to pursue a more justice-oriented, critical examination of contemporary society. Divided into two sections, thi...
Mademoiselle Benoir
Inspired by a true story, this is the saga of Tim Reinhart, a former New York teacher, who enters a wondrous new world the moment he buys a farmhouse in the country of France and falls in love with Mademoiselle Benoir, a beautiful, aristocratic woman 20 years his senior.
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Deadpan
Explores expressionlessness, inscrutability, and emotional withholding in Black cultural production Arguing that inexpression is a gesture that acquires distinctive meanings in concert with blackness, Deadpan tracks instances and meanings of deadpan—a vaudeville term meaning “dead face”—across literature, theater, visual and performance art, and the performance of self in everyday life. Tina Post reveals that the performance of purposeful withholding is a critical tool in the work of black culture makers, intervening in the persistent framing of African American aesthetics as colorful, loud, humorous, and excessive. Beginning with the expressionless faces of mid-twentieth-century doc...
A noiva do xeque - Rendição incondicional
A noiva do xeque Caroline Cross Ela era a escolhida, mas estava disposta a fazer-se difícil! Com arrogância, o xeque Kaj al bin Russard conseguia que os homens acatassem as suas ordens e com o seu aspeto deslumbrante fazia com que as mulheres caíssem rendidas aos seus pés. Mas tinha chegado o momento em que necessitava de ambos os dons para conquistar a princesa Catherine de Altaria e levá-la até ao altar. Sendo uma das poucas virgens da realeza, Catherine cumpria todos os requisitos do testamento do pai de Kaj. Mas era preciso muito mais do que os encantos do xeque para derreter a "princesa de gelo", que tinha jurado nunca se apaixonar. Talvez Kaj, com a sua incrível masculinidade, f...
