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Around the Hearth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Around the Hearth

From basic needs, such as lighting, heating or cooking, to symbolic or ritual engagement, hearths in indoor contexts serve as a focal point. This is especially evident, both spatially and architecturally, in structures containing central hearths. In assessing any gathering around a hearth, the types of social groups involved need to be determined and their interactions clearly assessed in each specific case. Beyond clearly domestic contexts, many rooms or buildings have been deemed religious or cultic places often based solely on the presence of a hearth, despite other possible interpretations. This volume appraises and contextualises diversity in practice centering on the hearth in the Aege...

Lamaze
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 265

Lamaze

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-03
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  • Publisher: OUP Us

Advocated as the oldest, most natural method of childbirth, Lamaze is a practice involving breathing techniques that help a woman work through contractions (psychoprophylaxis). It has been omnipresent in American culture since the 1970s, advocated by the medical community and mothers alike. While it would seem that it emerged from the back-to-the-earth culture of the 1960s and 1970s, Paula Michaels in this book reveals a shocking history: the Lamaze method was actually invented in the Cold War Soviet Union. Michaels discovers that a French obstetrician, Fernand Lamaze, saw the technique being used in Russia in the 1950s and brought it back to his maternity ward in Paris. In order to make the method more appealing to Americans, early U.S. advocates hid its Soviet origins and were able to spread it as a grassroots movement. This work involving multiple languages and archives in a range of nations promises to be eye-opening for scholars, the medical community, and general readers alike. In setting the practice of Lamaze into its context, it will shed light on the history of medicine, the history of feminism, and Cold War history.

Jeremy and Mom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

Jeremy and Mom

A collection of "Zits" comics featuring the adventures of fifteen-year-old Jeremy and his family and friends.

Thrashed
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 130

Thrashed

Another collection of the comic strip adventures of Jeremy Duncan and his family and friends as they all struggle to survive his teenage years.

Smoke and Mirrors
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

Smoke and Mirrors

When the truth burns away her illusions, only one man can break her fall. A few months ago, Skyler Fields didn’t believe witches were real. Until she was kidnapped and held prisoner in a facility that forced her to face the fact — she is one. And not just a run-of-the-broom witch with a cool party trick, either. She can control fire with a mere thought, and detect when other witches are nearby. Freed with the help of a fellow prisoner, she follows her thumb to Arizona, where, she’s told, the Wilcox clan will give her the help she needs. She never expected the first Wilcox she meets to make her pulse race. With his tall, dark good looks and smoke-gray eyes, Jasper Wilcox could easily di...

Crack of Noon
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 250

Crack of Noon

Collection of previously published Zits comic strips.

Zits: Supersized
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 270

Zits: Supersized

"Zits: Super-Sized" marks the third funny-strip treasury of the hilarious trials and tribulations of Jeremy and a dynamic cast of characters that includes girlfriend Sara, best friends Hector and Pierce, and parents Connie and Walt.

Drama High: Pushin'
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 223

Drama High: Pushin'

If only there was a potion to make all Jayd Jackson's troubles disappear. . . Even though Jayd's finished with the AP exams and finally has some space of her own at her mother's house, she's got to deal with the drama all around her. Mickey blames Jayd for her ruined baby shower; Rah, her ex, is bristling over her renewed relationship with beach boy Jeremy; and her #1 frenemy, Misty, is hard at work conjuring trouble. With so much going on, it's hard for Jayd to concentrate on her spirit lessons and hair braiding business. But Jayd's determined to push back and claim some peace for herself, 'cause focusing on the gift from her ancestors could hold the key to bringing the chaos under control for good. . .

Birth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

Birth

A journalist “explores the way childbirth has changed, from pre-history to the present” in this “fascinating, funny and occasionally shocking” historical survey (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). From midwives to the epidural and beyond, mother and former Boston Globe editor Tina Cassidy presents an intelligent, enlightening, and impeccably researched cultural history of how we handle the process of childbirth. Why is it that every culture and generation seems to have its own ideas about the best way to give birth? Touching on peculiar practices from across the globe as well as the very different experiences of mothers in her own family, Cassidy explores the physical, anthropological,...

Zits Unzipped
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 134

Zits Unzipped

Follows Jeremy's adventures as he continues through adolescence, coping with parents, school, friends, and other aspects of everyday teenage life.