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Publisher
The School of Life
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
371 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A Therapeutic Journey is a collection of essays about mental challenge and health. Written with kindness, knowledge and sympathy, it is a practical guide to well-being and a source of consolation and companionship in what might be some of our loneliest, most anguished moments. Alain de Botton explores how we can cope with a variety of forms of mental pain and illness, from the mild to the severe. It considers how and why we might become ill; how...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"From the American Revolution to Black Lives Matter, Americans have come to associate freedom with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. Few ideas are as central to the national mythos. But whenever the federal government has taken a stand for racial minorities, however halfhearted, white Americans have been quick to weaponize the concept of freedom, framing the state itself as a tyrannical obstacle to their own liberties. In Freedom's Dominion,...
8) White enough to be American?: race mixing, indigenous people, and the boundaries of state and nation
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiv, 238 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
148 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are the real experts when it comes to technology and disability. When bioethicist and professor Ashley Shew became a self-described "hard-of-hearing chemo-brained amputee with Crohn's disease and tinnitus," there was no returning to "normal." Suddenly well-meaning people called her an "inspiration" while grocery shopping, or viewed her as a needy recipient...
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
344 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"White working-class conservatives have played a decisive role in American history, particularly in their opposition to social justice movements, radical critiques of capitalism, and government help for the poor and sick. While this pattern is largely seen as a post-1960s development, 'Poor Man's Fortune' tells a different story, excavating the long history of white working-class conservatism in the century from the Civil War to World War II. With...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
©1995
Physical Desc
xiv, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Delinquent Daughters explores the gender, class, and racial tensions that fueled campaigns to control female sexuality in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. Mary Odem looks at these moral reform movements from a national perspective, but she also undertakes a detailed analysis of court records to explore the local enforcement of regulatory legislation in Alameda and Los Angeles Counties in California. From these legal proceedings...
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