Author: Peter N. Stearns File Type: pdf Shame varies as an individual experience and its manifestations across time and cultures. Groups establish identity and enforce social behaviors through shame and shaming, while attempts at shaming often provoke a social or political backlash. Yet historians often neglect shame s power to complicate individual, international, cultural, and political relationships. Peter N. Stearns draws on his long career as a historian of emotions to provide the foundational text on shame s history and how this history contributes to contemporary issues around the emotion. Summarizing current research, Stearns unpacks the major debates that surround this complex emotion. He also surveys the changing role of shame in the United States from the nineteenth century to today, including shame s revival as a force in the 1960s and its place in today s social media. Looking ahead, Stearns maps the abundant opportunities for future historical research and historically informed interdisciplinary scholarship. Written for interested readers and scholars alike, Shame combines significant new research with a wider synthesis.
Author: Ron Rosenbaum
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In this startling book, now in paperback, the bestselling author of Explaining Hitler warns that a nuclear World War III is not only the most massive and imminent threat to existence as we know it, but also one of the most ignored. While Russian aggression grows and North Korean nuclear ambitions increase unabated, tensions continue to escalate between India and Pakistan and in the Middle East. Meanwhile, Iran remains committed to developing its nuclear program despite international sanctions.No other writer has assembled the extraordinary array of sources and experiences that Ron Rosenbaum calls on to inform his examination of nuclear war. While working from both historical and contemporary perspectives to explore the people and events that could shape the form of a third world war, he suggests humans have never before been so close to annihilation. In this book, Rosenbaum examines both the paranoia and very real set of possibilities that informs our view of nuclear war and asks whether we can undream the nightmare.
Author: J. Scott Armstrong
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This book translates knowledge about persuasion into evidence-based principles. Useful knowledge about persuasion has been obtained over the last 100 years from the experience of advertising experts and from empirical studies in advertising and other fields including psychology, consumer behavior, law, mass communication, politics, and propaganda.The principles in Persuasive Advertising provide understandable and easy-to-access guidance for all types of advertising. Including still media such as print and Internet, and motion media such as TV, streaming video, Internet, and radio. They also apply to other types of persuasive communications such as management reports, speeches, and press releases.Wharton School Professor J. Scott Armstrong spent over 16 years on this book. In recent years, he was assisted by Gerry Lukeman, Chairman Emeritus of Ipsos-ASI and Sandeep Patnaik, Research Director at Gallup and Robinson. Altogether, more than 80 people contributed to Persuasive Advertising by obtaining relevant studies, analyzing data, editing and reviewing, and surveying researchers to ensure that the book correctly summarizes their findings.Persuasive Advertising summarizes findings from about 3,000 empirical studies and 50 books. It also presents new findings from previously unpublished studies. .Along with the AdPrin Audit software on AdPrin.com, Persuasive Advertising enables advertisers as well as agencies to quickly and inexpensively identify ways to improve ads or to determine which of a set of ads will be most effective. For example, it typically requires about an hour for an experienced user to obtain a persuasiveness index for a print ad along with a list of ways to improve the ad.,By using these principles, advertisers can improve their creativity and effectiveness.This book is supported by the AdPrin.com site httpadvertisingprinciples.com
Author: Langston Hughes
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In I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s.His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia, Japan, Spain (during its Civil War), through dictatorships, wars, revolutions. He meets and brings to life the famous and the humble, from Arthur Koestler to Emma, the Black Mammy of Moscow. It is the continuously amusing, wise revelation of an American writer journeying around the often strange and always exciting world he loves.
Author: Francis Spufford
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The Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was built on 20th-century magic called the planned economy, which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the penny-pinching lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working. Red Plenty is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away about the brief era when, under the rash leadership of Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Union looked forward to a future of rich communists and envious capitalists, when Moscow would out-glitter Manhattan, every Lada would be better engineered than a Porsche and sputniks would lead the way to the stars. And its about the scientists who did their genuinely brilliant best to make the dream come true, to give the tyranny its happy ending.ReviewWhat if the Soviet miracle had worked, and the communists had discovered the secret to prosperity, progress and happiness...? ReviewA hammer-and-sickle version of Altmans Nashville, with central committees replacing country music . . . [Spufford] has one of the most original minds in contemporary literature. --Nick Hornby, The Believer A thrilling book that all enthusiasts of the Big State should read. --Michael Burleigh, The Sunday Telegraph
Author: Jonathan Moss
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This book draws upon original research into womens workplace protest to deliver a new account of working-class womens political identity and participation in post-war England. Focusing on the voices and experiences of women who fought for equal pay, skill recognition and the right to work between 1968 and 1985, it explores why working-class women engaged in such action when they did, and it analyses the impact of workplace protest on womens political identity. A combination of oral history and written sources are used to illuminate how everyday experiences of gender and class antagonism shaped working-class womens political identity and participation. The book contributes a fresh understanding of the relationship between feminism, workplace activism and trade unionism during the years 1968-1985.
Author: Eleanor Dobson
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This book scrutinizes physical, temporal and psychological strata across early twentieth-century literature, focusing on geological and archaeological tropes and conceptions of the stratified psyche. The essays explore psychological perceptions, from practices of envisioning that mimic looking at a painting, photograph or projected light, to the comprehension of the palimpsestic complexities of language, memory and time. This collection is the first to see early twentieth-century physical, temporal and psychological strata interact across a range of canonical and popular authors, working in a variety of genres, from theatre to ghost stories, childrens literature to modernist magna opera. **
Author: Gemma Romain
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This is the first biography of the extraordinary, but ordinary life of, Patrick Nelson. His experiences touched on some of the most important and intriguing historical themes of the twentieth century. He was a black migrant to interwar Britain an aristocrats valet in rural Wales a Black queer man in 1930s London an artists model a law student, a recruit to the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps and Prisoner of War during the Second World War. Through his return to Jamaica after the war and his re-migrations to London in the late 1940s and the early 1960s, he was also witness to post-war Jamaican struggles and the independence movement as well as the development of Londons post-war multi-ethnic migrations. Drawing on a range of archival materials including letters sent to individuals such as Bloomsbury group artist Duncan Grant (his former boyfriend and life-long friend), as well as paintings and newspaper articles, Gemma Romain explores the intersections of these diverse aspects of Nelsons life and demonstrates how such marginalized histories shed light on our understanding of broader historical themes such as Black LGBTQ history, Black British history in relation to the London artworld, the history of the Second World War, and histories of racism, colonialism and empire. **Review Gemma Romains narrative of Patrick Nelsons life in Jamaica, London and beyond gives us valuable insights into a range of experiences of an ordinary black man in the mid-twentieth century. From growing up in Kingston in the 1920s, to working as a valet, to life in queer Bloomsbury as a lover and model for Duncan Grant, to his harsh years as a soldier and POW in the Second World War, he witnessed Jamaican and British histories of colonialism and decolonisation and reminds us of how much we need to know of the rich diversity of black lives. Professor Catherine Hall, Chair Emerita of the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership, University College London, UK Gemma Romains book is a feat of prodigious historical research and her fascinating subject, Patrick Nelson, emerges in its pages with richness, detail, and context. Romains attentiveness to the particular challenges of unfolding lives traditionally unattended to, and her sheer skill in finding hitherto obscure materials, are remarkable. This book changes our sense of what it is possible to know, and to say, about black queer Caribbean life in the early part of the twentieth century. Nadia Ellis, Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA About the Author Gemma Romain is a historian of the Caribbean and Black Britain. She researches, curates and writes on black British queer histories, and African-Caribbean diasporic histories with a focus on Grenada and Jamaica. She has recently worked at The Equiano Centre, Department of Geography, UCL, UK and is an Honorary Fellow of The Parkes Institute, University of Southampton, UK. She was the co-curator with Caroline Bressey, Emma Chambers and Inga Fraser of the Tate Britain display Spaces of Black Modernism London 191939 (2014-2015).
Author: Larry Gonick
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A refreshingly humorous but thorough ancillary guide to general chemistry from the author of the bestselling The Cartoon Guide to Physics and The Cartoon Guide to Genetics. The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry, a collaboration between pre-eminent scientist Professor Craig Criddle of Stanford University and cartoonist Larry Gonick, is a complete and up-to-date course in college level chemistry. In an engaging and humorous graphic style, the book covers both the history and the basics, including early ideas and techniques, electrochemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, environmental chemistry, physics as chemistry and much more. o Ideal for advanced high school students, university students and independent learners.o o Larry Gonicks bestselling Cartoon Guide series, comprised of eleven books, have sold more than a half a million copies and been translated into more than a dozen languages.o Teachers, researchers, and students around the world have embraced Larry Gonicks unique ability to make difficult subjects fun, interesting and easy-to-understand while still relaying the essential information in a clear, organized and accurate format. In 2003 Larry Gonick won the Harvey Award for the years best graphic album of original material for The Cartoon History of the Universe III. The prestigious award, named for Mad pioneer Harvey Kurtzman is considered to be the Oscar of the comic-book world.
Author: Cary Levine
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Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, and Raymond Pettibonthese Southern California artists formed a bad boy trifecta. Early purveyors of abject art, the trio produced work ranging from sculptures of feces to copulating stuffed animals, and gained notoriety from being perverse. Showing how their work rethinks transgressive art practices in the wake of the 1960s, Pay for Your Pleasures argues that their collaborations as well as their individual enterprises make them among the most compelling artists in the Los Angeles area in recent years. Cary Levine focuses on Kelleys, McCarthys, and Pettibons work from the 1970s through the 1990s, plotting the circuitous routes they took in their artistic development. Drawing on extensive interviews with each artist, he identifies the diverse forces that had a crucial bearing on their developmentsuch as McCarthys experiences at the University of Utah, Kelleys interest in the Detroit-based White Panther movement, Pettibons study of economics, and how all three participated in burgeoning subcultural music scenes. Levine discovers a common political strategy underlying their art that critiques both nostalgia for the 1960s counterculture and Reagan-era conservatism. He shows how this strategy led each artist to create strange and unseemly images that test the limits of not only art but also gender roles, sex, acceptable behavior, poor taste, and even the gag reflex that separates pleasure from disgust. As a result, their work places viewers in uncomfortable situations that challenge them to reassess their own values. The first substantial analysis of Kelley, McCarthy, and Pettibon, Pay for Your Pleasures shines new light on three artists whose work continues to resonate in the world of art and politics. **Review This is an extremely important and long-overdue analysis of the work of three key American artists. Cary Levine sets up a seductive contexthis discussion of the alternative music scene of the 1970s is nothing if not a compelling form of music journalismso that he can then drag us through the literal and metaphorical gore and excrescences of the artists actual output. The latter is both a harrowing and a pleasurable experiencewe learn to pay for our pleasures willingly and with gratitude. (Colin Gardner, University of California, Santa Barbara) Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, and Raymond Pettibon never constituted a movement, but starting in the late 1970s they worked separately as well as collaboratively to break the mold of conceptually driven image and object making in Southern Californiaand then extended their convention-shattering reach across the United States and the Atlantic Ocean. Wreaking havoc with the cultural politics of High and Low and the gender politics of traditional masculinity and femininity, this rambunctious threesomeat times augmented by friends such as Tony Ourslerrejuvenated American art by injecting it with the dark, furious humor and formal anarchy of minds freed from the hopeful illusions of the 1960s. Cary Levine admirably explores the background of this radical shift in the music, art, and social sciences of the late twentieth century. His is a valuable contribution to the growing literature on a current that still flows forcefully against the mainstreamand around the world. (Robert Storr, Dean, Yale University School of Art) About the Author Cary Levine is assistant professor of contemporary art history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.