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The Making of an Imperial Polity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 269

The Making of an Imperial Polity

This significant reassessment of Jacobean political culture reveals how colonizing America transformed English civility in early seventeenth-century England. This title is also available as Open Access.

Bodies of Violence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 265

Bodies of Violence

International Relations, in both theory and practice, has been increasingly concerned with a proliferation of modes of violence that use, target, and construct bodies in complex ways that challenge notions of security. The central argument of this work is that the bodies that practices of violence take as their object are deeply unnatural bodies, constituted in reference to historical political conditions as well as acting upon our world.

Did That Just Happen?!
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 218

Did That Just Happen?!

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-06-15
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  • Publisher: Beacon Press

An accessible guide showing all people how to create and sustain diversity and inclusivity in the workplace—no matter your identity, industry, or level of experience Offering real-life accounts that illustrate common workplace occurrences around inclusivity and answers to questions like “How do I identify and handle diversity landmines at work?” and “What can I do when I’ve made a mistake?” this handbook breaks down ways that organizations (and all people) can improve their cultural awareness and become more equitable in their work and personal relationships. We know that diverse teams are stronger, smarter, and more profitable, and many companies are attempting to hire more dive...

Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England
  • Language: en

Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England

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  • Published: 2021-07-27
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  • Publisher: Unknown

(1) Essays on terms and concepts that capture the conceptualisation of identity, race, migration, and transculturality in early modern England. (2) Wide-ranging relevance across multiple disciplines and readerships, from specialist scholars of early modern literature, history, and culture, to non-specialists interested in the development of issues of race, human mobility, and belonging in this crucial period of voyages and nation-formation. (3) Emphasis on approachability, readability, as well as scholarly thoroughness, supported by full bibliographical apparatus.

Teaching Gradually
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 303

Teaching Gradually

Teaching Gradually is a guide for anyone new to teaching and learning in higher education. Written for graduate student instructors, by graduate students with substantive teaching experience, this resource is among the first of its kind to speak to graduate students as comrades-in-arms with voices from alongside them in the trenches, rather than from far behind the lines. Each author featured in this book was a graduate student at the time they wrote their contribution. Consequently, the following chapters give scope to a newer, diverse generation of educators who are closer in experience and professional age to the book’s intended audience. The tools, methods, and ideas discussed here are...

Inside the Tudor Court
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

Inside the Tudor Court

A first-hand perspective on Henry VIII’s court and relationships

Flaneuse
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 275

Flaneuse

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-07-28
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  • Publisher: Random House

*Shortlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay* Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 by the Financial Times, Guardian, New Statesman, Observer, The Millions and Emerald Street 'Flâneuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from the French. Feminine form of flâneur [flanne-euhr], an idler, a dawdling observer, usually found in cities. That is an imaginary definition.' If the word flâneur conjures up visions of Baudelaire, boulevards and bohemia – then what exactly is a flâneuse? In this gloriously provocative and celebratory book, Lauren Elkin defines her as ‘a determined resourceful woman keenly attuned to the creative potential of the city, and the liberating possibi...

Emotions in Plato
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 402

Emotions in Plato

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-05-11
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Emotions in Plato, through a detailed analysis of emotions such as shame, anger, fear, and envy, but also pity, wonder, love and friendship, offers a fresh account of the role of emotions in Plato’s psychology, epistemology, ethics and political theory.

How the Immune System Works
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 160

How the Immune System Works

How the Immune System Works has helped thousands of students understand what’s in their big, thick, immunology textbooks. In his book, Dr. Sompayrac cuts through the jargon and details to reveal, in simple language, the essence of this complex subject. In fifteen easy-to-read chapters, featuring the humorous style and engaging analogies developed by Dr. Sompayrac, How the Immune System Works explains how the immune system players work together to protect us from disease – and, most importantly, why they do it this way. Rigorously updated for this fifth edition, How the Immune System Works includes the latest information on subjects such as vaccines, the immunology of AIDS, and cancer. A ...

The Fifth Trimester
  • Language: en

The Fifth Trimester

Packed with honest, funny, and comforting advice—“a book you MUST read if you are returning to work after the birth of a child…. I loved it and you will too.” —New York Times bestselling author Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D. The first three trimesters (and the fourth—those blurry newborn days) are for the baby, but the Fifth Trimester is when the working mom is born. A funny, tells-it-like-it-is guide for new mothers coping with the demands of returning to the real world after giving birth, The Fifth Trimester contains advice from 800 moms, including: •The boss-approved way to ask for flextime (and more money!) •How to know if it’s more than “just the baby blues” •How to pump breastmilk on an airplane (or, if you must, in a bathroom) •What military science knows about working through sleep deprivation •Your new sixty-second get-out-of-the-house beauty routine •How to turn your commute into a mini–therapy session •Your daycare tour or nanny interview, totally decoded