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  • The Handbook of Therapeutic Care for Children

    Evidence-Informed Approaches to Working with Traumatized Children and Adolescents in Foster, Kinship and Adoptive Care

    by Martin H. Teicher, Orgilmaa Munkbaatar, Allan N. Schore, Kathomi Gatwiri, Bruce D. Perry, Glenda Kickett, Shaun Chandran, Elaine Farmer, Meredith Kiraly, Noel Macnamara, Daniel Hughes, Jonathan Baylin, Ms Cathy A Malchiodi, Kim S. Golding ...
    This innovative book brings together a wide range of therapeutic approaches, techniques and models to outline recent developments in the practice of supporting children in out-of-home care. It sheds light on the significance of schools, sports and peer relationships in the lives of traumatized children. It also draws particular attention to the vital importance of taking into account children's ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Ahab Unbound

    Melville and the Materialist Turn

    Edited by Meredith Farmer, Jonathan D. S. Schroeder ...
    Why Captain Ahab is worthy of our fear—and our compassionHerman Melville’s Captain Ahab is perennially seen as the paradigm of a controlling, tyrannical agent. Ahab Unbound leaves his position as a Cold War icon behind, recasting him as a contingent figure, transformed by his environment—by chemistry, electromagnetism, entomology, meteorology, diet, illness, pain, trauma, and neurons firing—in ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

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    A History of the Idea of Communication

    by John Durham Peters ...
    Communication plays a vital and unique role in society-often blamed for problems when it breaks down and at the same time heralded as a panacea for human relations. A sweeping history of communication, Speaking Into the Air illuminates our expectations of communication as both historically specific and a fundamental knot in Western thought."This is a most interesting and thought-provoking book. . ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Machine in the Garden : Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America

    Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America

    by Leo Marx ...
    For over four decades Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to define--and continues to give depth to--the area of American studies concerned with the links between scientific and technological advances and the way society and culture both determine these links. The Machine in the Garden fully examines ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness

    by Rowan Ricardo Phillips ...
    Series series Dalkey Archive Scholarly
    In When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness, Rowan Ricardo Phillips pushes African American poetry to its limits by unraveling “our desire to think of African American poetry as African American poetry.” Phillips reads African American poetry as inherently allegorical and thus “a successful shorthand for the survival of a poetry but unsuccessful shorthand for the sustenance of its poems.” Arguing in ... Read more

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  • The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner

    Edited by John T. Matthews ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner offers contemporary readers a sample of innovative approaches to interpreting and appreciating William Faulkner, who continues to inspire passionate readership worldwide. The essays here address a variety of topics in Faulkner's fiction, such as its reflection of the concurrent emergence of cinema, social inequality and rights movements, modern ways ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Abandoning Dead Metaphors: The Caribbean Phase of Derek Walcott's Poetry

    by Patricia Ismond ...
    This book deals with the Caribbean phase of Walcott's poetry. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Continuities in Cultural Evolution

    Edited by Margaret Mead ...
    Margaret Mead once said, "I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples--faraway peoples--so that Americans might better understand themselves." Continuities in Cultural Evolution is evidence of this devotion. All of Mead's efforts were intended to help others learn about themselves and work toward a more humane and socially responsible society. Scientist, writer, explorer, and ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • A Political Companion to Herman Melville

    Edited by Jason Frank ...
    Series series Political Companions to Great American Authors
    Herman Melville is widely considered to be one of America's greatest authors, and countless literary theorists and critics have studied his life and work. However, political theorists have tended to avoid Melville, turning rather to such contemporaries as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau to understand the political thought of the American Renaissance. While Melville was not an activist ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Melville and the Idea of Blackness

    Race and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Christopher Freeburg ...
    Series Book 164 - Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
    By examining the unique problems that 'blackness' signifies in Moby-Dick, Pierre, 'Benito Cereno' and 'The Encantadas', Christopher Freeburg analyzes how Herman Melville grapples with the social realities of racial difference in nineteenth-century America. Where Melville's critics typically read blackness as either a metaphor for the haunting power of slavery or an allegory of moral evil, Freeburg ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Blackpentecostal Breath

    The Aesthetics of Possibility

    by Ashon T. Crawley ...
    Series series Commonalities
    In this profoundly innovative book, Ashon T. Crawley engages a wide range of critical paradigms from black studies, queer theory, and sound studies to theology, continental philosophy, and performance studies to theorize the ways in which alternative or “otherwise” modes of existence can serve as disruptions against the marginalization of and violence against minoritarian lifeworlds and ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Prismatic Ecology

    Ecotheory beyond Green

    Edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen ...
    Emphasizing sustainability, balance, and the natural, green dominates our thinking about ecology like no other color. What about the catastrophic, the disruptive, the inaccessible, and the excessive? What of the ocean’s turbulence, the fecundity of excrement, the solitude of an iceberg, multihued contaminations? Prismatic Ecology moves beyond the accustomed green readings of ecotheory and maps a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD