Textbooks and War: Historical and Multinational Perspectives
Author: Eugenia Roldán Vera File Type: pdf This volume reflects on the role played by textbooks in the complex relationship between war and education from a historical and multinational perspective, asking how textbook content and production can play a part in these processes. It has long been established that history textbooks play a key role in shaping the next generations understanding of both past events and the concept of friend and foe. Considering both current and historical textbooks, often through a bi-national comparative approach, the editors and contributors investigate various important aspects of the relationships between textbooks and war, including the role wars play in the creation of national identities (whether the country is on the winning or losing side), the effacement of international wars to highlight a countrys exceptionalism, or the obscuring of intra-national conflict through the ways in which a civil war is portrayed. This pioneering book will be of interest and value to students and scholars of textbooks, educational media and the relationships between curricula and war. **About the Author Eugenia Roldan Vera is Professor of History of Education at the Department of Educational Research in the Center for Research and Advanced Studies (CINVESTAV), Mexico. Her research interests include the history of education in Mexico and Latin America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially the history of textbooks, transnational dissemination of educational models and the ritual and performative aspects of schooling. Eckhardt Fuchs is Director of the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research and Professor of History of Education and Comparative Education at the Technical University Braunschweig (Brunswick), Germany. His research interests include the global history of modern education, international education policies, and curriculum and textbook development.
Author: Bill Sweetman
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Why did the Pentagon retire the SR-71 spyplane in 1990? What has caused sonic booms over the California desert since 1991? What was the triangular craft spotted over the North Sea in 1989? In this groundbreaking book, journalist Bill Sweetman argues these mysteries can be traced to a U.S. spyplane called AURORA, the existence of which--denied by officials--lies buried in a secret military budget.**
Author: Thomas Foster Barham
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Author: Jules Heller
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An illustrated reference that provides accurate, concise, and accessible biographical and bibliographic information on women artists from Canada, Mexico, and the US. Some 1,500 alphabetical entries cover widely recognized professional artists born before 1960 who work in a broad range of fields painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, ceramics, fibers, metals, and performance art. A particularly noteworthy feature is the inclusion of Mexican and Inuit artists. Some 100 bandw illustrations--many of which have seldom been reproduced--represent the contributions of the artists Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Lynne Vanderpot
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Challenging an exclusively medical approach to mental health and illness, this book considers the impact psychiatric drugs can have on spirituality. In the last thirty years, a dramatic rise in medication as a treatment for mental illness has occurred in tandem with increasing numbers of people entering treatment with a spiritually-oriented understanding of their suffering. The unforeseen result is that some people taking psychiatric drugs are engaging with them in ways that can have a profound impact on the course and outcome of treatment. Based on interviews with people on psychiatric medication who regard spirituality as significant in their lives, this book reveals how medication can be perceived as both helpful and harmful to spirituality. The author argues that spirituality must be considered in debates around psychopharmacology.**ReviewSocietal debate about psychiatric drugs usually focuses on whether the drugs are effective or do more good than harm. In this well-written, thoughtful book, Lynne Vanderpot explores the effects of psychiatric medications through a different lens how do the medications affect ones subjective experience of being alive, and more particularly, ones internal experience of a spiritual life? Hers is a thoughtful, clear exploration of an important subject, and on every page her respect for the users of these medications and the diversity of their experiences shines through - Robert Whitaker, journalist and author of Anatomy of an Epidemic Drawing on twenty compelling personal stories, Vanderpot attends to a fundamental, yet neglected problem - how and why psychiatric medications either enhance or inhibit healing spiritual responses to profound emotional suffering.The data highlight the troubling myopia of exclusively biological explanations and treatments of mental illness. Here you will learn just how a range of life contingencies differently shape our perceptions and experiences of pain, pills and personhood. Many readers, grabbed by its numerous striking insights, will themselves be transformed by this innovative volume - David A. Karp, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Boston College and author of Is It Me or My Meds?Living with AntidepressantsUnlike doctors, people who take psychiatric medication measure the success of their treatment not just on clinical outcomes, but on how the drugs affect the totality of their lives. That includes spirituality - the search for meaning and purpose, as well as the feeling of connectedness to self, others, and the divine. Vanderpots book is sensitively written and uniquely focused, a valuable addition to the conversation about the use of medication in the real world - Katherine Sharpe, author of Coming of Age on Zoloft (Harper Perennial, 2012)Book Description Reveals how psychiatric medication can impact spirituality
Author: Paul Park
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Paul Park is one of modern fictions major innovators. With exotic settings and characters truly alien and disturbingly normal, his novels and stories explore the shifting interface between traditional narrative and luminous dream, all in the service of a deeper humanism. Climate Change, original to this volume, is an intimate and erotic take on a global environmental crisis. A Resistance to Theory chronicles the passionate (and bloody) competition between the armed adherents of postmodern literary schools. A Conversation with the Author gives readers a harrowing look behind the curtains of an MFA program. In A Brief History of SF a fan encounters the ruined man who first glimpsed the ruined cities of Mars. Creative Nonfiction showcases a professors eager collaboration with a student intent on wrecking his career. The only nonfiction piece, A Homily for Good Friday, was delivered to a stunned congregation at a New England church. Plus A bibliography, and our candid and colorful Outspoken Interview with one of todays most accomplished and least conventional authors, in which personal truth is evaded, engaged, and altered, all in one shot. **
Author: Élisabeth Anstett
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This collection presents a ground-breaking account of the treatment and commemoration of dead bodies resulting from incidents of genocide and mass violence. Whether reburied, concealed, stored, abandoned or publicly displayed, human remains raise a vast number of questions regarding social, legal and ethical uses by communities, public institutions and civil society organisations. Through a diverse range of international case studies, across multiple continents, this highly innovative book brings together pioneering research from social scientists, historians and archaeologists into the role of mass crimes most visible evidence. It explores the effect of dead bodies or body parts, either desired or unintended, on various political, cultural or religious practices. How, for instance, do issues of confiscation, concealment or the destruction of human remains in mass crime impact on transitional processes, commemoration or judicial procedures? When are dead bodies hidden from view and when are they publicly reintegrated into society? Multidisciplinary in scope, Human remains and society will appeal to readers interested in the crucial phase of post-conflict reconciliation and the ways in which a society comes to terms with its violent past. This includes students and researchers of history, anthropology, sociology, archaeology, law, politics and modern warfare.
Author: Sir Brian Barder
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What do diplomats actually do? That is what this text seeks to answer by describing the various stages of a typical diplomats career. The book follows a fictional diplomat from his application to join the national diplomatic service through different postings at home and overseas, culminating with his appointment as ambassador and retirement. Each chapter contains case studies, based on the authors thirty year experience as a diplomat, Ambassador, and High Commissioner. These illustrate such key issues as the role of the diplomat during emergency crises or working as part of a national delegation to a permanent conference as the United Nations. Rigorously academic in its coverage yet extremely lively and engaging, this unique work will serve as a primer to any students and junior diplomats wishing to grasp what the practice of diplomacy is actually like.
Author: Ron Welburn
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Upholds Ann Plato as a noteworthy nineteenth-century writer, while reexamining her life and writing from an American Indian perspective.Who was Ann Plato? Apart from circumstantial evidence, theres little information about the author of Essays Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry, published in 1841. Plato lived in a milieu of colored Hartford, Connecticut, in the early nineteenth century. Although long believed to have been African American herself, she may also, Ron Welburn argues, have been American Indian, like the father in her poem The Natives of America. Combining literary criticism, ethnohistory, and social history, Welburn uses Plato as an example of how Indians in the Long Island Sound region adapted and prevailed despite the contemporary rhetoric of Indian disappearance. This study seeks to raise Platos profile as an author as well as to highlight the dynamics of Indian resistance and isolation that have contributed to her enigmatic status as a literary figure.Hartfords Ann Plato and the Native Borders of Identity is a brilliant and fascinatingly imaginative work of research and speculation. The research is forbiddingly wide, deep, learned, determined, and resourceful. The book is fascinating as a work of speculative scholarship not only about Ann Plato but also about eighteenth- and nineteenth-century New England and Long Island American Indians, who continued to live more or less in the region of their ancestors, and often continued to uphold Indian culture, while at the same time disappearing from the written record. Welburns work will speak to audiences interested in American Indian studies, New England history, nineteenth-century African American history and literary studies, and the history of American poetry. Robert Dale Parker, editor of Changing Is Not Vanishing A Collection of American Indian Poetry to 1930