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Five for Freedom: A Study of Feminism in Fiction (Routledge Revivals)
By Geoffrey Wagner. 1972
First published in 1972 Five for Freedom is a candid study of five European fictional heroines as anticipatory of contemporary…
feminism: Madame de Merteuil of Choderlos de Laclos’ Les Liaisons dangereuses, Jane Eyre, Emma Bovary, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, and Tony Buddenbrook. Professor Wagner clearly believes that, in the first place, the role of women in the development of fiction has been underestimated, while the claims to originality of many recent female liberationists have been equally overestimated. This is a far-ranging, lightly-handled book with insights into both mode of fiction, as it developed and answered women’s demands, and into the role of some of its leading heroines; for Professor Wagner’s studies do not limit themselves strictly to the ‘five for freedom’ but foray into Balzac’s Cousine Bette, Catherine Earnshaw of Wuthering Heights, Anna Karenina, and Eca de Queiroz’s Portuguese Bovary in Cousin Bazilio. This brilliant little study is topical, readable, yet learned. It will be useful for scholars and researchers of literature, Women’s studies, and Gender studies.Pero aun así: Elogios y despedidas
By María Moreno. 2023
Compilación de una década de ensayos sobre literatura, escritura, lectura, autoras y autores de la genial cronista argentina. Desde el…
futurismo radical de la omnipresente Virginia Woolf hasta el misterio intacto que sobrevive al suicidio de Alfonsina Storni. El amor por Chile, con la grafía exaltada de la oda a Gabriela Mistral, a Pedro Lemebel, a Raúl Zurita. Como él, María Moreno atestigua: "Yo vi a las mejores mentes de mi generación...". Ricardo Piglia, Fogwill y Horacio González, algunas de ellas: la etiqueta periodística reserva a las amistades o a las obcecaciones la redacción del obituario. Pero aun así reúne una década de intervenciones críticas dispersas, publicadas en distintos medios, y las ponencias, discursos y presentaciones de libros leídas en voz alta tiempo atrás. María Moreno ha reescrito cada uno de estos microensayos que, en un solo volumen, reafirman su fenomenal erudición, su indispensable insolencia intelectual, su indómita vigencia. La crítica dijo: «Somos muchos los que consideramos a María Moreno la mejor cronista argentina de todos los tiempos y una de las voces documentales más lúcidas de la lengua, entre otras hipérboles razonables».Jorge Carrión, The New York Times «Sus análisis desgarran el texto sobre el que se posa su mirada. La elaborada ingeniería crítica elude la solemnidad que suelen ostentar los aparatos críticos académicos ortodoxos. No porque la autora los desconozca; tan solo por elección de tono y configuración».Andrés Tejada Gómez, Otra Parte «El cruce permanente, la sorna y la mirada al detalle literario y extraliterario imprevisto hacen también a la particularidad de su escritura».Natalí Schejtman, Radar «...una poética de la lectura y una política de la crítica que, en vez de justificarse en la arrogancia del Juicio, se compromete en la reinvención de sus objetos. Su táctica es metódica y eficaz».Revista Ñ «Lo que parece repetición se revela otra cosa. Leer será, incesantemente, el arte de ese desvío».Gabriel Giorgi, Bazar AmericanoThe Type 2 Diabetes Revolution: A Cookbook and Complete Guide to Managing Type 2 Diabetes
By Diana Licalzi, Jose Tejero. 2023
Discover how you can reverse the root cause of type 2 diabetes with this innovative, easy-to-follow guide, which includes a…
4-week meal plan and over 100 delicious, high-fiber, plant-based recipes.If you have prediabetes or type 2 diabetes, this approach can help you achieve non-diabetic blood sugar within weeks. The simple lifestyle changes outlined in this book focus on the reversal of insulin resistance—the root cause of high blood sugar.Developed by a registered dietitian and exercise physiologist, The Type 2 Diabetes Revolution uses a revolutionary, science-based program to provide:Daily meal plans for 4 weeks, designed to minimize your time in the kitchen Simple grocery shopping lists for every week of the meal plan and tips for meal prep100+ high-fiber, plant-based recipes that keep your blood sugar balanced Advice on how to create a balanced diet that includes whole, plant-based foods and meat, if desiredTips for grocery shopping and how to read nutritional labels Guidance on stocking your pantry and knowing which foods to always have on hand Useful lessons and tips on how nutrition, exercise, sleep, and stress impact your diabetes healthStart reversing the root cause of type 2 diabetes, eliminate or reduce your need for medication, and lower your blood sugar with The Type 2 Diabetes Revolution.Spanish translation of this book will be available in Spring 2024. ISBN: 9781958803622The Essence of Reality: A Defense of Philosophical Sufism (Library of Arabic Literature)
By ʿAyn Al-Quḍāt. 2023
A groundbreaking exposition of Islamic mysticism The Essence of Reality was written over the course of just three days in…
514/1120, by a scholar who was just twenty-four. The text, like its author ʿAyn al-Quḍāt, is remarkable for many reasons, not least of which that it is in all likelihood the earliest philosophical exposition of mysticism in the Islamic intellectual tradition. This important work would go on to exert significant influence on both classical Islamic philosophy and philosophical mysticism. Written in a terse yet beautiful style, The Essence of Reality consists of one hundred brief chapters interspersed with Qurʾanic verses, prophetic sayings, Sufi maxims, and poetry. In conversation with the work of the philosophers Avicenna and al-Ghazālī, the book takes readers on a philosophical journey, with lucid expositions of questions including the problem of the eternity of the world; the nature of God’s essence and attributes; the concepts of “before” and “after”; and the soul’s relationship to the body. All these discussions are seamlessly tied into ʿAyn al-Quḍāt’s foundational argument—that mystical knowledge lies beyond the realm of the intellect.The Poet and the Sailor: The Story of My Friendship with Carl Sandburg
By Kenneth Dodson. 2006
Two friends, a lifetime of letters, and an intimate look at a literary icon Carl Sandburg first encountered Kenneth Dodson…
through a letter written at sea during World War II. Though Dodson wrote the letter to his wife, Letha, Sandburg read it in tears and told her, "I've got to meet this man." Composed primarily of their correspondence that continued until Sandburg's death in 1967, The Poet and the Sailor is a chronicle of the deep friendship that followed. Ranging over anything they found important, from writing to health and humor, the letters are arranged by Richard Dodson and are accompanied by a foreword from Sandburg's noted biographer, Penelope Niven.A practical, empowering guide to managing and reversing prediabetes through diet and exercise, from a registered dietitian. Affecting 96 million…
Americans, prediabetes often develops into full-blown type 2 diabetes, one of the leading causes of death in the United States. Increasingly diagnosed by doctors, prediabetes is a condition in which blood sugar levels are elevated, but not yet high enough to be labeled diabetes. While diabetes cannot be cured, prediabetes can be reversed, so it is critical to take action at an early stage. In straightforward, jargon-free language, The Prediabetes Diet Plan explains insulin resistance (the underlying cause of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes) and offers a comprehensive strategy of diet and lifestyle change, which has been proven more effective than medication. With sections on meal planning, grocery shopping, dining out, supplements, and exercise, this book empowers you to make healthier everyday choices that can effect real change on your insulin levels and overall well-being.Stories on a String: The Brazilian Literatura de Cordel
By Candace Slater. 2023
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out…
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.Frederic William Maitland, Historian: Selections from His Writings
By Frederic William Maitland. 2023
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out…
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1960.Spokesmen
By T. K. Whipple. 2023
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out…
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1928.Dear Carnap, Dear Van: The Quine-Carnap Correspondence and Related Work: Edited and with an introduction by Richard Creath
By Rudolf Carnap, W. V. Quine. 2023
Rudolf Carnap and W. V. Quine, two of the twentieth century's most important philosophers, corresponded at length—and over a long…
period of time—on matters personal, professional, and philosophical. Their friendship encompassed issues and disagreements that go to the heart of contemporary philosophic discussions. Carnap (1891-1970) was a founder and leader of the logical positivist school. The younger Quine (1908-) began as his staunch admirer but diverged from him increasingly over questions in the analysis of meaning and the justification of belief. That they remained close, relishing their differences through years of correspondence, shows their stature both as thinkers and as friends. The letters are presented here, in full, for the first time.The substantial introduction by Richard Creath offers a lively overview of Carnap's and Quine's careers and backgrounds, allowing the nonspecialist to see their writings in historical and intellectual perspective. Creath also provides a judicious analysis of the philosophical divide between them, showing how deep the issues cut into the discipline, and how to a large extent they remain unresolved.María Sabina: Selections (Poets for the Millennium #2)
By Maria Sabina. 2003
A shaman and visionary—not a poet in any ordinary sense—María Sabina lived out her life in the Oaxacan mountain village…
of Huautla de Jiménez, and yet her words, always sung or spoken, have carried far and wide, a principal instance and a powerful reminder of how poetry can arise in a context far removed from literature as such. Seeking cures through language—with the help of Psilocybe mushrooms, said to be the source of language itself—she was, as Henry Munn describes her, "a genius [who] emerges from the soil of the communal, religious-therapeutic folk poetry of a native Mexican campesino people." She may also have been, in the words of the Mexican poet Homero Aridjis, "the greatest visionary poet in twentieth-century Latin America." These selections include a generous presentation from Sabina's recorded chants and a complete English translation of her oral autobiography, her vida, as written and arranged in her native language by her fellow Mazatec Alvaro Estrada. Accompanying essays and poems include an introduction to "The Life of María Sabina" by Estrada, an early description of a nighttime "mushroom velada" by the ethnomycologist R. Gordon Wasson, an essay by Henry Munn relating the language of Sabina's chants to those of other Mazatec shamans, and more.Walt Whitman and the Civil War: America’s Poet during the Lost Years of 1860-1862
By Ted Genoways. 2023
Shortly after the third edition of Leaves of Grass was published, in 1860, Walt Whitman seemed to drop off the…
literary map, not to emerge again until his brother George was wounded at Fredericksburg two and a half years later. Past critics have tended to read this silence as evidence of Whitman's indifference to the Civil War during its critical early months. In this penetrating, original, and beautifully written book, Ted Genoways reconstructs those forgotten years—locating Whitman directly through unpublished letters and never-before-seen manuscripts, as well as mapping his associations through rare period newspapers and magazines in which he published. Genoways's account fills a major gap in Whitman's biography and debunks the myth that Whitman was unaffected by the country's march to war. Instead, Walt Whitman and the Civil War reveals the poet's active participation in the early Civil War period and elucidates his shock at the horrors of war months before his legendary journey to Fredericksburg, correcting in part the poet's famous assertion that the "real war will never get in the books."This Is Not a Pipe (Quantum Books #24)
By Michel Foucault. 1983
What does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? René…
Magritte's famous canvas provides the starting point for a delightful homage by French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault. Much better known for his incisive and mordant explorations of power and social exclusion, Foucault here assumes a more playful stance. By exploring the nuances and ambiguities of Magritte's visual critique of language, he finds the painter less removed than previously thought from the pioneers of modern abstraction.Hart Crane and Yvor Winters: Their Literary Correspondence
By Thomas Parkinson. 2023
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out…
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out…
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963.Modern Brazilian Short Stories
By William L. Grossman. 2023
The seventeen stories in this anthology have been carefully chosen to provide a wide, representative range of recent and contemporary…
Brazilian themes and styles. The scenes vary from a nearly abandoned village or a ranch in the northeastern backlands to the streets of Rio and Sao Paulo. The characters, equally diverse, embrace wealthy land-owners, middle-class merchants, cowboys, thieves and prostitues. There is a diversity too in modd. Especially striking is the irony found in most of these stories. Characteristic of much of the best Brazilian fiction from Machado de Assis to Guimaraes Rosa, this irony tempers the underlying warmth of the stories with a certain wryness. Incidentally, Guimaraes Rosa, the giant of contemporary Brazilian fiction, is represented in this collection by an unconventional and unforgettable little masterpiece, "The Third Bank of the River." Brazilian humor is siad to be much like North American humor. In any case, it is here in abundance, variously mordant, hilarious, casual, homely, nostalgic, and, in Graciliano Ramos's story of an inept thief, almost Chaplinesque. But there is also a certain voluptuous melancholy, the much bruited tristeza brasileira. In such stories as "My Father's Hat," it blend with the humor to produce and enchantment profoundly Brazilian in ton and feeling. "The Crime of the Mathematics Professor" is a strange plunge into the mystery of a man's sense of guilt. With this sole exception, the stories in the present anthology are thoroughly Brazilian and yet, by a sort of mass literary miracle, universal. The reader may find the setting and the manners exotic at times, but he will understand the people. For there is a pervasive humanity in Brazil's best writers and, even when the "local color" is striking, they are never merely parochial. When their settings are provincial it is because the provinces are where they can see the human comedy most vividly. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.Alexis de Tocqueville: Selected Letters on Politics and Society
By Alexis De Tocqueville. 2023
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out…
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985.Familial Endocrine Cancer Syndromes: Navigating the Transition of Care for Pediatric and Adolescent Patients
By Fady Hannah-Shmouni. 2023
This book is composed of 13 informative chapters written by world-renowned healthcare providers and researchers in the fields of endocrinology,…
pharmacy, radiology, infertility, pediatrics, internal medicine, psychology and genetics. From topics covering psychosocial impacts to pharmacokinetic and homecare resources, the intent of this book is to provide guiding principles for a safe and informative transition of care for pediatric and adolescent patients with various familial endocrine cancer syndromes that are transitioning from pediatric to adult health care. It provides an in-depth exploration of the diagnostic and therapeutic strategies, survivorship navigation intervention, patient, caregiver and primary care provider challenges, and multidisciplinary care plans for conditions such as MEN1, MEN2 and other familial and genetic endocrine neoplasias.Familial Endocrine Cancer Syndromes: Navigating the Transition of Care for Pediatric and Adolescent Patients is a much-needed resource, as the literature currently lacks a comprehensive publication to facilitate pediatric patients’ transition to adult clinics and resources following endocrine cancer diagnosis and treatment.Vanishing Acts
By Joe Haldeman, Avram Davidson, Karen Joy Fowler, Ted Chiang, David J. Schow, Michael Cadnum, Daniel Abraham, M. Shayne Bell, Brian M. Stableford, Paul McAuley, Suzy McKee Charnas, Bruce McAllister, Ian McDowell, A. R. Morlan, William Shunn, Mark W. Tiedemann. 2000
&“A diverse and thoughtful array of 16 stories written around the theme of endangered species—be they human or animal, mythical…
or alien.&” —Publishers Weekly In this poignant yet uplifting anthology about extinction, science fiction stories draw you into compelling, adventurous, and even humorous tales that will make you think about the future of animals, humanity, and the world around us. You&’ll find bugs and buffalo, humans and aliens, creatures that have never existed in our universe and genetically-engineered ones that shouldn&’t. In &“Seventy-Two Letters&” by national bestselling author Ted Chiang—praised by Strange Horizons as &“one of the finest representations of the SF subgenre of steampunk&”—a discovery reveals that humanity has only a fixed number of generations to survive. A project is embarked upon that could save the species—or open it up to a most inhuman manipulation. A Joe Haldeman poem called &“Endangered Species&” encapsulates his concerns about war and its effect on the human race. And in &“Listening to Brahms&” by Suzy McKee Charnas, the last humans alive make first contact with an alien race of lizard-like creatures who appropriate Earth culture at their own peril. In Vanishing Acts, these tales and others &“make the reader stop and think about endangered species—including humanity—which is, after all, the point&” (Rambles.NET). &“[A] splendid new original anthology.&” —The Washington PostEnvironment Impact on Reproductive Health: A Translational Approach
By Roberto Marci. 2023
This open access book focuses on of the impact of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) on human reproduction. It comprehensively discusses…
the three most important topics in the field: the basic biology of EDCs; the effects of EDCs on human reproduction and human reproductive systems; and potential interventions and practical advice for dealing with the problems caused by EDCs.Presenting a translational approach to endocrine disrupting chemicals research, spanning both basic biology and clinical applications, the book provides a critical link between laboratory investigations and clinical practice. Written by international experts in the field, it is a valuable reference resource for gynaecologists, obstetricians, endocrinologists and experts in reproductive medicine, and a useful tool for anyone interested in the impact of the environment on human reproduction.