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A Kind of Grace
Ron Rapoport, popular commentator on National Public Radio's "Weekend Edition" and Deputy Sports Editor at the Chicago Sun-Times, brings together sixty-six of America's top women sports-writers in this remarkable anthology.
I Should Have Just Stayed Home
Yes, the co-pilot on this morning's flight moonlights as a barber. There was a little explosion outside the lobby of your hotel. One wall of your hotel room just disappeared. The maitre d' was just arrested under the Patriot Act. And there's a gumball flasher showing up in your rear view mirror. Chill, baby. Just sit back, relax and be glad you weren't with...
Ethnographic Fieldwork
Newly revised, Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader Second Edition provides readers with a picture of the breadth, variation, and complexity of fieldwork. The updated selections offer insight into the ethnographer’s experience of gathering and analyzing data, and a richer understanding of the conflicts, hazards and ethical challenges of pursuing fieldwork around the globe. Offers an international collection of classic and contemporary readings to provide students with a broad understanding of historical, methodological, ethical, reflexive and stylistic issues in fieldwork Features 16 new articles and revised part introductions, with additional insights into the experience of conducting ethnographic fieldwork Explores the importance of fieldwork practice in achieving the core theoretical and methodological goals of anthropology Highlights the personal and professional challenges of field researchers, from issues of professional identity, fieldwork relations, activism, and the conflicts, hazards and ethical concerns of community work.
The Collapse of a Pastoral Economy
This research unravels the economic collapse of the Datoga pastoralists of central and northern Tanzania from the 1830s to the beginning of the 21st century. The research builds from the broader literature on continental African pastoralism during the past two centuries. Overall, the literature suggests that African pastoralism is collapsing due to changing political and environmental factors. My dissertation aims to provide a case study adding to the general trends of African pastoralism, while emphasizing the topic of competition as not only physical, but as something that is ethnically negotiated through historical and collective memories. There are two main questions that have guided thi...
I Really Should Have Stayed Home
"Looking forward to your summer rental? Think again."- Publisher's Weekly Book of The Day "A funny and insightful book that reminds all travelers that sometimes worst-case scenarios do come true. While all relate nightmare trips abroad, each is told with a sense of humor that ultimately transforms the nightmare into a useful lesson for us all." - Santa Cruz Sentinel Rapoport's anthology goes straight for the belly laugh. - St. Petersburg Times "What makes this collection so appealing is the ordinariness of the victims."- New York Times
Critical Approaches to Science and Religion
Critical Approaches to Science and Religion offers a new direction for scholarship on science and religion that examines social, political, and ecological concerns long part of the field but never properly centered. The works that make up this volume are not preoccupied with traditional philosophical or theological issues. Instead, the book draws on three vital schools of thought: critical race theory, feminist and queer theory, and postcolonial theory. Featuring a diverse array of contributors, it develops critical perspectives by examining how histories of empire, slavery, colonialism, and patriarchy have shaped the many relationships between science and religion in the modern era. In so doing, this book lays the groundwork for scholars interested in speaking directly to matters such as climate change, structural racism, immigration, health care, reproductive justice, and sexual identity.
The Oxford History of Science
Histories you can trust. The first part of the book tells the story of science in both East and West from antiquity to the Enlightenment: from the ancient Mediterranean world to ancient China; from the exchanges between Islamic and Christian scholars in the Middle Ages to the Chinese invention of gunpowder, paper, and the printing press; from the Scientific Revolution of sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe to the intellectual ferment of the eighteenth century. The chapters that follow focus on the increasingly specialized story of science since end of the eighteenth century, covering experimental science in the laboratory from Michael Faraday to CERN; the exploration of nature, from intrepid Victorian explorers to twentieth century primatologists; the mapping of the universe, from the discovery of Uranus to Big Bang theory; the impact of evolutionary ideas, from Lamarck, Darwin, and Wallace to DNA; and the story of theoretical physics, from James Clark Maxwell to Quantum Theory and beyond. A concluding chapter reflects on how scientists have communicated their work to a wider public, from the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the internet in the early twenty-first century.
The Getaway Guide to California
Each chapter offers a daily itinerary to one of California's most fascinating destinations. You can follow each of the 22 daily itineraries by themselves or in combination for a weekend, a week or much longer. The book, by travel expert Roger Rapoport is a travel guide with up-to-date information on prime tourist attractions one can visit in the great state of California. The book is a fact-packed and handy resource which is ideal for any California bound vacationer. "Sightseeing for travel in all price brackets. Each recommendation has been personally inspected by the author, assuring you a pleasant trip. Mile by mile travel itineraries make your trip a breeze whether you are driving or going by rail or coach. Destinations covered include San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Barbrara, Monterey, Yosemite, San Francisco, Napa Sonoma, The Gold Country, Mendocino and The Redwoods. This book reveals the kinds of secrets travel writers keep to themselves." - Midwest Book Review
Getaway Guide to the American Southwest
One of America's leading travel writers takes you on a grand tour of the Southwest from Mesa Verde to the Canyonlands and the Grand Canyon. From national parks to the top restaurants in Santa Fe, this guide to the very bests of Southwestern Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico includes big cities like Las Vegas and Phoenix, as well as legendary Native American ruins. Organized with easy-to-follow daily itineraries, each trip is ideal for travelers of all ages.Veteran travel writer Richard Harris uses here the self-guided itinerary format that he co-ceveloped with Rick Steves and Roger Rapport in the '80s...employing an updated approach." - Chicago Tribune
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