Title search results
Showing 3221 - 3240 of 4493 items
Mamá sana, bebé sano
By Aliza Lifshitz. 2006
De parte de uno de los nombres más respetados en la medicina, surge la guía más importante para las futuras…
madres, ayudando a asegurar el éxito no solamente de un embarazo saludable sino también del recién nacido. Este recurso cultural y esencial incluye información vital como:Prepararse para el embarazo y cómo encontrar al doctor adecuadoPeso, dieta y ejercicio: mantenerse saludable durante esos nueve mesesLos cambios corporales mes a mesEl nacimiento del bebé: El parto, las incomodidades posparto y cómo cuidar del recién nacidoUna lista esencial de servicios para ayudar a la futura madreChildbirth, Midwifery And Concepts Of Time
By Christine Mccourt. 2010
All cultures are concerned with the business of childbirth so much so that it can never be described as…
a purely physiological or even psychological event This volume draws together work from a range of anthropologists and midwives who have found anthropological approaches useful in their work Using case studies from a variety of cultural settings the writers explore the centrality of the way time is conceptualized marked and measured to the ways of perceiving and managing childbirth how women midwives and other birth attendants are affected by issues of power and control but also actively attempt to change established forms of thinking and practice The stories are engaging as well as critical and invite the reader to think afresh about time and about reproductionThe Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America's Law Enforcement
By Matthew Horace, Ron Harris. 2018
CNN contributor offers a searing indictment of America's law enforcement."This is a must-read.... Telling this story demonstrates nothing but raw…
courage for a black police officer who wants the truth to prevail." --John Lewis"[T]his [is a] hard-hitting, convincing indictment of the biases in today's law enforcement.... A must-read for anyone interested in understanding and solving these problems." --Booklist (starred review)Matthew Horace was an officer at the federal, state, and local level for 28 years working in every state in the country. Yet it was after seven years of service when Horace found himself face-down on the ground with a gun pointed at his head by a white fellow officer, that he fully understood the racism seething within America's police departments. Using gut-wrenching reportage, on-the-ground research, and personal accounts garnered by interviews with police and government officials around the country, Horace presents an insider's examination of police tactics, which he concludes is an "archaic system" built on "toxic brotherhood." Horace dissects some of the nation's most highly publicized police shootings and communities highlighted in the Black Lives Matter movement and beyond to explain how these systems and tactics have had detrimental outcomes to the people they serve. Horace provides fresh analysis on communities experiencing the high killing and imprisonment rates due to racist policing such as Ferguson, New Orleans, Baltimore, and Chicago from a law enforcement point of view and uncovers what has sown the seeds of violence.Timely and provocative, The Black and The Blue sheds light on what truly goes on behind the blue line.Nurturing the Unborn Child: A Nine-Month Program for Soothing, Stimulating, and Communicating with Your Baby
By Thomas Verny, Pamela Weintraub. 1991
Pregnancy can be a tense time for a mother and her partner, but Dr. Thomas Verny and Pamela Weintraub have…
outlined ways for parents to communicate with their child in order to relieve stress and create a lasting bond. NURTURING THE UNBORN CHILD diagrams a nine-month program involving such exercises as massage, music and dance to stimulate the relationship between parents and child. Through these techniques parents can learn how to analyze their fears during pregnancy and create ways to alleviate them permanently. NURTURNING THE UNBORN CHILD is an essential guide to learning how to communicate with and stimulate your baby before it commences its journey to the outside world.Hunting Caribou: Subsistence Hunting along the Northern Edge of the Boreal Forest
By Karyn Sharp, Henry S. Sharp. 2015
Denésuliné hunters range from deep in the Boreal Forest far into the tundra of northern Canada. Henry S. Sharp, a…
social anthropologist and ethnographer, spent several decades participating in fieldwork and observing hunts by this extended kin group. His daughter, Karyn Sharp, who is an archaeologist specializing in First Nations Studies and is Denésuliné, also observed countless hunts. Over the years the father and daughter realized that not only their personal backgrounds but also their disciplinary specializations significantly affected how each perceived and understood their experiences with the Denésuliné.In Hunting Caribou, Henry and Karyn Sharp attempt to understand and interpret their decades-long observations of Denésuliné hunts through the multiple disciplinary lenses of anthropology, archaeology, and ethnology. Although questions and methodologies differ between disciplines, the Sharps’ ethnography, by connecting these components, provides unique insights into the ecology and motivations of hunting societies.Themes of gender, women’s labor, insects, wolf and caribou behavior, scale, mobility and transportation, and land use are linked through the authors’ personal voice and experiences. This participant ethnography makes an important contribution to multiple fields in academe while simultaneously revealing broad implications for research, public policy, and First Nations politics.The Canadian Grain Trade, 1931-1951
By Duncan MacGibbon. 1952
p This book traces in an accurate and objective manner the sequence of events during the last twenty years which…
have influenced the organization fo the Canadian grain trade During these years problems arising out of the production and marketing of western grain have been under continuous review in Canada leading at different times to royal commissions of inquiry The production and sale of cereals have become such a vital part of the economic life of the three prairie provinces and indeed of Canada that anything affecting this great industry becomes at once a subject of general interest p These twenty years have witnessed momentous changes The period marks a shift from free trading on the open market to the compulsory marketing of Canadian wheat and other grains through the medium of a Federal board endowed with wide powers Basically this change stems from conditions arising out of the Great Depression and World War II And in one form or another the Canadian Wheat Board will continue to be a significant factor in the marketing of Canadian wheat Noteworth also have been the dramatic recovery of the Pools and the negotiation of international agreements and on the farm front the establishment of a permit system to control deliveries of grain to country elevators and the enactment of legislation to protect producers against losses arising from the hazards of nature pBattlefield America: The War On the American People
By John W. Whitehead. 2015
In Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the follow-up to his award-winning book A Government of Wolves: The…
Emerging American Police State, constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead paints a terrifying portrait of a nation at war with itself and which is on the verge of undermining the basic freedoms guaranteed to the citizenry in the Constitution.Indeed, police have been transformed into extensions of the military, towns and cities have become battlefields, and the American people have been turned into enemy combatants, to be spied on, tracked, scanned, frisked, searched, subjected to all manner of intrusions, intimidated, invaded, raided, manhandled, censored, silenced, shot at, locked up, and denied due process. Yet this police state did not come about overnight. As Whitehead notes, this shift into totalitarianism cannot be traced back to a single individual or event. Rather, the evolution has been so subtle that most American citizens were hardly even aware of it taking place. Yet little by little, police authority expanded, one weapon after another was added to the police arsenal, and one exception after another was made to the standards that have historically restrained police authority. Add to this mix the merger of Internet megacorporations with government intelligence agencies, and you have the making of an electronic concentration camp that not only sees the citizenry as databits but will attempt to control every aspect of their lives. And if someone dares to step out of line, they will most likely find an armed SWAT team at their door.The Canadian Sioux, Second Edition (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians)
By James H. Howard. 2014
The Canadian Sioux are descendants of Santees, Yanktonais, and Tetons from the United States who sought refuge in Canada during…
the 1860s and 1870s. Living today on eight reserves in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, they are the least studied of all the Sioux groups. This book, originally published in 1984, helps fill that gap in the literature and remains relevant even in the twenty-first century. Based on Howard’s fieldwork in the 1970s and supplemented by written sources, The Canadian Sioux, Second Edition descriptively reconstructs their traditional culture, many aspects of which are still practiced or remembered by Canadian Sioux although long forgotten by their relatives in the United States. Rich in detail, it presents an abundance of information on topics such as tribal divisions, documented history and traditional history, warfare, economy, social life, philosophy and religion, and ceremonialism. Nearly half the book is devoted to Canadian Sioux religion and describes such ceremonies as the Vision Quest, the Medicine Feast, the Medicine Dance, the Sun Dance, warrior society dances, and the Ghost Dance. This second edition includes previously unpublished images, many of them photographed by Howard, and some of his original drawings.In their growing awareness of the need to keep alive Canada's heritage, individuals, community groups, and small historical societies have…
long felt the need for a basic guide to the preservation of buildings, particularly buildings which, though they may not warrant provincial or federal protection, are nevertheless important to the history and values of their communities. Using the knowledge gained from many years of experience in various government departments and her familiarity with several successful building conversation projects, Ann Falkner has written this practical handbook for those concerned about preserving heritage structures. She covers clearly and in detail the various problems to be faced and actions to be taken, and analyses the assistance available through legislation at all three levels of government. Without Our Past? deals with inventories and how they are conducted, and, through a series of concrete examples, with the evaluation and selection of worthwhile buildings. It explains acquisition procedures for all types of properties, municipal powers under provincial planning acts, and control through specific zoning. It offers suggestions on how to re-use an outdated structure and how to create a compatible environment around a building, and it points out the value of publicity and local interest in gaining general support and cooperation. In a separate chapter expenses and finances are covered, including fund raising and the increasing monetary benefits of conservation.Knight of the Holy Spirit: A study of William Lyon Mackenzie King
By Joy Esberey. 1980
This study of the personality of William Lyon Mackenzie King challenges the view that he led 'a double life. '…
Through a blending of psycho-biography and political analysis, Joy Esberey shows how King 's personality traits influenced his political behaviour, and how his personal and public life were an integrated whole, neither contradictory nor unrelated. She explores the various traumas of his early family life, resulting in difficulties with autonomy and adequate occupational and sexual roles. She also discusses the dimensions of neurotic trends, including problems associated with his mother 's death, the significance of his religious beliefs and need for spiritualism, the cult of money, and obsessive-compulsive defence mechanisms. King was greatly concerned with the Tennysonian ideal of knightly conduct -- pure and heroic social leadership. This trait is defined in terms of relationships with women and with such men as Lord Tweedsmuir, Loring Christie, and Vincent Massey. His role as policy maker is considered in light of the assertion that consensus rather than compromise characterized his behaviour. This hypothesis is explored through a study of tariff policy and relations with Britain, and through the model of King as peacemaker and his visit to Hitler.Throughout the book, the author makes extensive use of King 's letters and diary, illuminating his personality and showing how, despite his quirks and oddities, he managed to keep himself in balance. This fresh view of King concludes with a brief description of consistencies and repetitions in his personal and political conduct in his declining years. Short Description - This study of the personality of William Lyon Mackenzie King challenges the view that he led 'a double life. ' Through a blending of psycho-biography and political analysis, Joy Esberey shows how King 's personality traits influenced his political behaviour, and how his personal and public life were an integrated whole, neither contradictory nor unrelated.Gifts from the Thunder Beings examines North American Aboriginal peoples’ use of Indigenous and European distance weapons in big-game hunting…
and combat. Beyond the capabilities of European weapons, Aboriginal peoples’ ways of adapting and using this technology in combination with Indigenous weaponry contributed greatly to the impact these weapons had on Aboriginal cultures. This gradual transition took place from the beginning of the fur trade in the Hudson’s Bay Company trading territory to the treaty and reserve period that began in Canada in the 1870s.Technological change and the effects of European contact were not uniform throughout North America, as Roland Bohr illustrates by comparing the northern Great Plains and the Central Subarctic—two adjacent but environmentally different regions of North America—and their respective Indigenous cultures. Beginning with a brief survey of the subarctic and Northern Plains environments and the most common subsistence strategies in these regions around the time of contact, Bohr provides the context for a detailed examination of social, spiritual, and cultural aspects of bows, arrows, quivers, and firearms. His detailed analysis of the shifting usage of bows and arrows and firearms in the northern Great Plains and the Central Subarctic makes Gifts from the Thunder Beings an important addition to the canon of North American ethnology.American Constitutional Law: Introductory Essays and Selected Cases
By Alpheus Thomas Mason, Grier Stephenson. 2012
This classic collection of carefully selected and edited Supreme Court case excerpts and comprehensive background essays explores constitutional law and…
the role of the Supreme Court in its development and interpretation. Well-grounded in both theory and politics, it endeavors to heighten students' understanding of and interest in these critical areas of our governmental system.International Handbook of Adolescent Pregnancy
By Mary Dillon. 2014
The rates are on the decline worldwide. But adolescent pregnancies still occur, placing millions of girls each year at risk…
for medical complications and social isolation and their babies for severe health problems-especially when prenatal care is inadequate or nonexistent. But as the opportunity for young women and girls increases around the world, adolescent pregnancy will continue to decline. Featuring reports from countries across the developed and developing worlds, the International Handbook of Adolescent Pregnancy analyzes the scope of the problem and the diversity of social and professional responses. Its biological/ecological perspective identifies factors influencing childhood pregnancy, as well as outcomes, challenges and needs of very young mothers as they differ across nations and regions. Salient comparisons are made as cultural contexts and community support vary widely and attention is paid to issues such as child marriage, LGBT concerns and the impact of religion and politics on health care, particularly access to contraception, abortion and other services. This global coverage heightens the understanding of readers involved in care, education and prevention programs and otherwise concerned with the psychosocial development, reproductive health and general well-being of girls. Included in the Handbook: Biological influences of adolescent pregnancy. Adolescent maternal health and childbearing. Adolescent pregnancy and mental health. International perspectives on adolescent fathers. Adolescent pregnancy as a feminist issue. Adolescent pregnancy as a social problem. Plus viewpoints from more than thirty countries. As a unique source of up-to-date findings and clear-headed analysis, the International Handbook of Adolescent Pregnancy is a go-to reference for practitioners and researchers in maternal and child health, pediatrics, adolescent medicine and global health.Guía para madres rebeldes
By Agustina Guerrero, Marga Durá. 2018
Un libro imprescindible para futuras mamás que aspiran a que el bebé no las cambie a ellas del todo. ¿Cansada…
de prohibiciones absurdas? Cuando estás embarazada, y especialmente de tu primer hijo, familiares, amigos y hasta conocidos no suelen reprimirse en ofrecer muchos consejos y advertencias -todos ellos bien intencionados, claro está, pero a veces contradictorios- sobre lo que debes o no debes hacer. Las recomendaciones del tipo «por si acaso, mejor no lo hagas» se están convirtiendo para muchas madres en una verdadera dictadura. Algunas se constriñen en el papel de víctimas, otras reniegan de todo y entre medio, estamos las gestantes corrientes y molientes que únicamente aspiramos a obtener información para ir tomando nuestras propias decisiones sin hacer demasiado ruido. Marga Durá nos ayuda a tomar esas decisiones con ritmo y salero. Toma la descripción más irónica imaginable de un embarazo, el suyo, añade varios testimonios de eminencias médicas y riégalo con una pizca de contexto histórico. ¿Es resultado? Un cóctel hilarante que pretende demostrar que muchos de los sacrificios que se nos quieren imponer durante el embarazo no tienen ni pies ni cabeza.An Excellent Choice: Panic and Joy on My Solo Path to Motherhood
By Emma Brockes. 2018
From the author of She Left Me The Gun an explosive and hilarious memoir about the exceptional and life-changing…
decision to conceive a child on one s own via assisted reproduction When British journalist memoirist and New York-transplant Emma Brockes decides to become pregnant she quickly realizes that being single 37 and in the early stages of a same-sex relationship she s going to have to be untraditional about it From the moment she decides to stop futzing around have her eggs counted and get cracking through multiple trials of IUI which she is intrigued to learn can be purchased in bulk packages just like Costco to the births of her twins which her girlfriend gamely documents with her iPhone and selfie-stick Brockes is never any less than bluntly and bracingly honest about her extraordinary journey to motherhood She quizzes her friends on the pros and cons of personally knowing one s sperm donor grapples with esoteric medical jargon and the existential brain-melt of flipping through donor catalogues and conjures with the politics of her Libertarian OB GYN all the while exploring the cultural circumstances and choices that have brought her to this point Brockes writes with charming self-effacing humor about being a British woman undergoing fertility treatment in the US poking fun at the starkly different attitude of Americans Anxious that biological children might not be possible she wonders should she resent society for how it regards and treats women who try and fail to have children Brockes deftly uses her own story to examine how and why an increasing number of women are using fertility treatments in order to become parents and are doing it solo Bringing the reader every step of the way with mordant wit and remarkable candor Brockes shares the frustrations embarrassments surprises and finally joys of her momentous and excellent choice From the Hardcover editionLocal Library, Global Passport: The Evolution of a Carnegie Library
By J Patrick Boyer. 2008
Limited time offer. A local library, passport to a larger world for its individual patrons, is also a democratic institution…
whose contribution to the strength of a community is out of all proportion to its size or membership. Several thousand Carnegie libraries were built a century ago when Andrew Carnegie, who had risen from poverty to become "the richest man in the world" vowed to donate all his money before he died and set about giving millions of people around the world the same "gift of reading" he had with access to a library as a factory working boy. Across the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and other corners of the English-speaking world, he created "the free republic" of libraries. This is the story of one of them. By tracing evolution of library service in the Canadian town of Bracebridge from 1874 to the present day within the broad sweep of larger cultural and economic patterns, Boyer’s engaging book provides a specific example of the universal transformation of books and information technologies and the libraries that house them from the 19th to 21st centuries. Most readers will find endearing and tantalizing parallels with their own library experience, wherever they live. Written to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Andrew Carnegie Library in Bracebridge in 2008, Boyer’s book is an inspired and engaging effort to show patterns and perils that probably hold true for most local libraries although some of the dramatic and comedic episodes here are surely unique. This story is so rich it could be a feature movie.Whose National Security?: Canadian State Surveillance and the Creation of Enemies
By Mercedes Steedman, Gary Kinsman. 2000
Would you believe that RCMP operatives used to spy on Tupperware parties In the 1950s and …
60s they did They also monitored high school students gays and lesbians trade unionists left-wing political groups feminists consumer s associations Black activists First Nations people and Quebec sovereignists The establishment of a tenacious Canadian security state came as no accident On the contrary the highest levels of government and the police along with non-governmental interests and institutions were involved in a concerted campaign The security state grouped ordinary Canadians into dozens of political stereotypes and labelled them as threats Whose National Security probes the security state s ideologies and hidden agendas and sheds light on threats to democracy that persist to the present day The contributors varied approaches open up avenues for reconceptualizing the nature of spying Including APEC Days at UBC Student Protests and National Security in an Era of Trade Liberalization Karen Pearlston Remembering Federal Police Surveillance in Quebec 1940s-70s Madeleine Parent The Red Petticoat Brigade Mine Mill Women s Auxiliaries and the Threat from Within 1940s-70s Mercedes Steedman Spymasters Spies and their Subjects The RCMP and Canadian State Repression 1914-39 Gregory S Kealey In Whose Public Interest The Canadian Union of Postal Workers and National Security Evert HoogersUp at the Lake: Summer Cottage Memories
By Robert Amos. 2017
Canadian artist Robert Amos opens his scrapbook of watercolor paintings, sketches and old family photographs to give us a poetic…
and personal account of early childhood memories at a Muskoka Lakes cottage. Up at The Lake features read-along narration, natural soundscapes and music. Ages 4 - 8Discounted Life: The Price of Global Surrogacy in India
By Sharmila Rudrappa. 2015
India is the top provider of surrogacy services in the world, with a multi-million dollar surrogacy industry that continues to…
grow exponentially, as increasing numbers of couples from developed nations look for wombs in which to grow their babies. Some scholars have exulted transnational surrogacy for the possibilities it opens for infertile couples, while others have offered bioethical cautionary tales, rebuked exploitative intended parents, or lamented the exploitation of surrogate mothers--but very little is known about the experience of and transaction between surrogate mothers and intended parents outside the lens of the many agencies that control surrogacy in India. Drawing from rich interviews with surrogate mothers and egg donors in Bangalore, as well as twenty straight and gay couples in the U.S. and Australia, Discounted Life focuses on the processes of social and market exchange in transnational surrogacy. Sharmila Rudrappa interrogates the creation and maintenance of reproductive labor markets, the function of agencies and surrogacy brokers, and how women become surrogate mothers. Is surrogacy solely a labor contract for which the surrogate mother receives wages, or do its meanings and import exceed the confines of the market? Rudrappa argues that this reproductive industry is organized to control and disempower women workers and yet her interviews reveal that, by and large, the surrogate mothers in Bangalore found the experience life affirming. Rudrappa explores this tension, and the lived realities of many surrogate mothers whose deepening bodily commodification is paradoxically experienced as a revitalizing life development. A detailed and moving study, Discounted Life delineates how local labor markets intertwine with global reproduction industries, how Bangalore's surrogate mothers make sense of their participation in reproductive assembly lines, and the remarkable ways in which they negotiate positions of power for themselves in progressively untenable socio-economic conditions.Parkin: Canada's Most Famous Forgotten Man
By William Christian. 2008
George Parkin was born the thirteenth child of an immigrant New Brunswick farmer and died a knight of the realm…
and perhaps the most famous Canadian in the world. Charismatic, charming, eloquent and dedicated, Parkin devoted his immense energy to two causes. As an orator and journalist, he worked to strengthen the bonds between the English-speaking peoples; as Principal of Upper Canada College and Founding Secretary of the Rhodes Scholarships he promoted a vision of education primarily as the formation of character, not the training of the intellect. This beautifully written and witty biography is a story of ideas lived through Parkin and those in his wide circle of influence with leaders of many countries. He was one of the first Canadians to see the development of globalization, and produced that famous map to demonstrate his vision, the British Empire all in red, Canada huge and dominating in the centre. His passionate opposition to free trade and eventual annexation by the United States mark him as an eloquent and prophetic visionary of Canada’s fate under NAFTA. Author William Christian’s own life in Parkin’s footsteps and rich sensitivity to Parkin’s story is on full display in this masterful biography. Political science professor at University of Guelph, well-known journalist and political commentator, Christian is an acknowledged authority on the intersection of philosophy, political life, communication theory and public purpose.