More Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans
In a series of short and humorous essays, Insane Emperors, Sunken Cities, and Earthquake Machines features more answers to questions that ancient historian Garrett Ryan is frequently asked in the classroom, in online forums, and on his popular YouTube channel Told in Stone.
Looks behind the years of sporting triumph at the secrets of Australia's success. Describes what we have to do to stay on top and threats that could trip Australia at the next turn.
Opening address, Stuttgart, August 20, 191914 lectures, Stuttgart, August 21-September 5, 1919 (CW 293)2 lectures, Berlin, March 15 and 17, 1917 (CW 66). The Foundations of Human Experience is the most important text for studying and understanding the human developmental and psychological basis for Waldorf education.
This compelling account of how technology and development affect indigenous peoples throughout the world provides a provocative context in which students can think about civilization and its costs.
An interdisciplinary investigation into how kinship today is desired, pursued, produced, transformed, and regulated in a world characterized by increased (im)mobility and travel of people, bodies, reproductive substances, knowledge, and expertise.
A riveting indictment of a government that fails to help citizens in need of aid, protection, and humanity The Shaming State argues that Americans have been abandoned by a government that has relinquished its duties of care toward its citizens. Sara Salman describes a government that withholds care in times of need and instead shames the ......
This book offers a coherent synthesis of Loren Eiseley's works, showing how the naturalist and poet fosters readers' ecological consciousness by arguing against artificial divisions between humans and the environment.
This book brings a multi-disciplinary focus to discussions about children and young people's well-being, resilience, and enterprise to develop new ways of troubling these keywords at a time when planetary systems are in crisis.
Drawing on the authors' keen observations and decades of fieldwork, Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting combines a wide array of ethnographic evidence from around the globe to demonstrate conclusively how stigma undermines global health's basic goals to create both health and justice.
Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid
On a Thursday in November of 2013, Guadalupe Morales waited anxiously with her sister-in-law and their four small children. Every Latino man who drove away from their shared apartment above a small auto repair shop that day had failed to return'arrested, one by one, by ICE agents and local police. As the two women discussed what to do next, a ......
Nepali Migrant Sex Workers in an Anti-Trafficking Era
With a focus on women's agency, Susanne Asman provides an ethnographic account of how Tamang women and men in the Sindhupalchowk district, defined as severely affected by sex trafficking, understand what they describe as Bombay going or migration for sex work.
Using a set of case studies conducted in the United States, China, India, Nigeria, and Cambodia, Maryann McCabe and Elizabeth K. Briody examine cultural change in everyday life, or more specifically, the process of human perception and action in the instigation of change.
Outlines a method of inquiry that uses everyday experience as a lens to examine social relations and social organization. This book is of use as a foundational text for classes in sociology, ethnography, and women's studies.
The Tapestry of Culture provides the student with the basic concepts necessary to understand these different cultures while showing that cultural variations occur within certain limits.
The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients is an ethnography of the social process by which healthcare workers ration and rationalize the provision of care. Examining the social categorization of patients, this work documents the interactional production of exclusion at two emergency departments in Romania.
