Making Modern Lives

Author : Julie McLeod,Lyn Yates
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780791481745

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Making Modern Lives by Julie McLeod,Lyn Yates Pdf

Making Modern Lives looks at how young people shape their lives as they move through their secondary school years and into the world beyond. It explores how they develop dispositions, attitudes, identities, and orientations in modern society. Based on an eight-year study consisting of more than 350 in-depth interviews with young Australians from diverse backgrounds, the book reveals the effects of schooling and of local school cultures on young people's choices, future plans, political values, friendships, and attitudes toward school, work, and sense of self. Making Modern Lives uncovers who young people are today, what type of identities and inequalities are being formed and reformed, and what processes and politics are at work in relation to gender, class, race, and the framing of vocational futures.

Author : James Hinton,Mass-Observation
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199574667

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Nine Wartime Lives by James Hinton,Mass-Observation Pdf

A fascinating re-evaluation of the social history of the second world war, looking at the diaries kept by nine 'ordinary' people in wartime Britain for the Mass Observation social research organization.

Author : Larry Laveman
Publisher : Larry Laveman
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781591139607

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Mysticism and Modern Life by Larry Laveman Pdf

Mysticism and Modern Life is a compelling examination of the relationship between mysticism and human development. The book provides a step-by-step approach to transcending personal constraints in order to achieve higher levels of personality development.

Author : Michel Carmona
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015054427318

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Haussmann by Michel Carmona Pdf

"In 1853, Napoleon III appointed to the Paris city hall an administrator who had already proved himself in a number of provincial posts, most notably at Bordeaux, and whose name would come to symbolize the modernization of Paris. In barely fifteen years, Baron Haussmann completed the enormous task entrusted to him by the emperor: to transform an unruly capital into a prestigious metropolis. Dozens of building sites were opened in the streets of the capital; thousands of houses were pulled down; wide straight boulevards were cut through the city with blocks of apartments built alongside them; new theatres and churches sprang up along with public gardens; water, sewage, and gas systems were modernized." "Mr. Carmona has exhaustively examined the historical record and has written a superb biography that will be welcomed by all who have savored the avenues, parks, public buildings, monuments, and byways of the City of Light. Haussman will be a treasure too for architects, urban planners, and those readers who are interested in the life of great cities."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : AndrŽ Dombrowski
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520273399

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CŽzanne, Murder, and Modern Life by AndrŽ Dombrowski Pdf

"Cézanne, Murder and Modern Life changes the way we think about—and see—Cézanne’s entire oeuvre. Dombrowski’s arguments are convincing and bold, especially on the theme of murder as a vehicle for representation. Modern Olympia has never before been so satisfactorily analyzed." Susan Sidlauskus, Rutgers University, author of Cezanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense “Exciting and intelligent, Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life will be important for modernists, and essential for scholars of Cézanne, early Impressionism, and painting in the 1860s. Dombrowski shows us a Cézanne we did not know.” Nancy Locke, author of Manet and the Family Romance

Author : Vaclav Smil
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781119942535

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Making the Modern World by Vaclav Smil Pdf

How much further should the affluent world push its material consumption? Does relative dematerialization lead to absolute decline in demand for materials? These and many other questions are discussed and answered in Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization. Over the course of time, the modern world has become dependent on unprecedented flows of materials. Now even the most efficient production processes and the highest practical rates of recycling may not be enough to result in dematerialization rates that would be high enough to negate the rising demand for materials generated by continuing population growth and rising standards of living. This book explores the costs of this dependence and the potential for substantial dematerialization of modern economies. Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization considers the principal materials used throughout history, from wood and stone, through to metals, alloys, plastics and silicon, describing their extraction and production as well as their dominant applications. The evolving productivities of material extraction, processing, synthesis, finishing and distribution, and the energy costs and environmental impact of rising material consumption are examined in detail. The book concludes with an outlook for the future, discussing the prospects for dematerialization and potential constrains on materials. This interdisciplinary text provides useful perspectives for readers with backgrounds including resource economics, environmental studies, energy analysis, mineral geology, industrial organization, manufacturing and material science.

Author : Barry Schwartz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1987-08-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780393609288

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The Battle for Human Nature: Science, Morality and Modern Life by Barry Schwartz Pdf

“Provocative and richly textured. . . .Schwartz’s analyses of the inadequacies of contemporary scientific views of human nature are compelling, but the consequences are even more worthy of note.” —Los Angeles Times Out of the investigations and speculations of contemporary science, a challenging view of human behavior and society has emerged and gained strength. It is a view that equates “human nature” utterly and unalterably with the pursuit of self-interest. Influenced by this view, people increasingly appeal to natural imperatives, instead of moral ones, to explain and justify their actions and those of others.

Author : Wenda Trevathan, Ph.D.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-27
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780190452797

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Ancient Bodies, Modern Lives by Wenda Trevathan, Ph.D. Pdf

Winner of the 2011 W.W. Howells Book Award of the American Anthropological Association How has bipedalism impacted human childbirth? Do PMS and postpartum depression have specific, maybe even beneficial, functions? These are only two of the many questions that specialists in evolutionary medicine seek to answer, and that anthropologist Wenda Trevathan addresses in Ancient Bodies, Modern Lives. Exploring a range of women's health issues that may be viewed through an evolutionary lens, specifically focusing on reproduction, Trevathan delves into issues such as the medical consequences of early puberty in girls, the impact of migration, culture change, and poverty on reproductive health, and how fetal growth retardation affects health in later life. Hypothesizing that many of the health challenges faced by women today result from a mismatch between how their bodies have evolved and the contemporary environments in which modern humans live, Trevathan sheds light on the power and potential of examining the human life cycle from an evolutionary perspective, and how this could improve our understanding of women's health and our ability to confront health challenges in more creative, effective ways.

Author : Mark Skousen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317455868

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The Making of Modern Economics by Mark Skousen Pdf

Here is a bold history of economics - the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built today's rigorous social science. Noted financial writer and economist Mark Skousen has revised and updated this popular work to provide more material on Adam Smith and Karl Marx, and expanded coverage of Joseph Stiglitz, 'imperfect' markets, and behavioral economics.This comprehensive, yet accessible introduction to the major economic philosophers of the past 225 years begins with Adam Smith and continues through the present day. The text examines the contributions made by each individual to our understanding of the role of the economist, the science of economics, and economic theory. To make the work more engaging, boxes in each chapter highlight little-known - and often amusing - facts about the economists' personal lives that affected their work.

Author : A. M. Fairbairn
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725296626

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Religion in History and in Modern Life by A. M. Fairbairn Pdf

Author : Alan Watts
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781577311805

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Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life by Alan Watts Pdf

Alan Watts introduced millions of Western readers to Zen and other Eastern philosophies. But he is also recognized as a brilliant commentator on Judeo-Christian traditions, as well as a celebrity philosopher who exemplified the ideas — and lifestyle — of the 1960s counterculture. In this compilation of controversial lectures that Watts delivered at American universities throughout the sixties, he challenges readers to reevaluate Western culture's most hallowed constructs. Watts treads the familiar ground of interpreting Eastern traditions, but he also covers new territory, exploring the counterculture's basis in the ancient tribal and shamanic cultures of Asia, Siberia, and the Americas. In the process, he addresses some of the era's most important questions: What is the nature of reality? How does an individual's relationship to society affect this reality? Filled with Watts's playful, provocative style, the talks show the remarkable scope of a philosopher at his prime, exploring and defining the sixties counterculture as only Alan Watts could.

Author : Moshe Halbertal,Donniel Hartman
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780826496683

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Judaism and the Challenges of Modern Life by Moshe Halbertal,Donniel Hartman Pdf

This collection of essays, authored by scholars of the Shalom Hartman Institute, addresses three critical challenges posed to Judaism by modernity: the challenge of ideas, the challenge of diversity, and the challenge of statehood, and provides insights and ideas for the future direction of Judaism.

Author : Seth Kim-Cohen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9798765101339

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Rock and Roll vs. Modern Life by Seth Kim-Cohen Pdf

No Boomeresque celebration of the "music that defined an era," Rock and Roll vs. Modern Life is instead a deeply critical analysis of rock and roll as a chaotic, caterwauling project to upend the foundational presumptions of postwar values. What we have here is the closest thing yet to a unified field theory of rock and roll. In seminal performances, films, and recordings, Iggy Pop, James Brown, Patti Smith, the Last Poets, and the Sex Pistols disrupt the implicit ontologies of modernism and late-stage capitalism. With its comrades, conceptual art, Black power, and poststructuralism, rock and roll strips back the linoleum surface of modern life to reveal a feral sensibility unwilling to be boxed up for clean consumption.

Author : Tim Hitchcock,Robert Shoemaker,Robert Brink Shoemaker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107025271

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London Lives by Tim Hitchcock,Robert Shoemaker,Robert Brink Shoemaker Pdf

This book surveys the lives and experiences of hundreds of thousands of eighteenth-century non-elite Londoners in the evolution of the modern world.

Author : Paul B. Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134884414

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The Spirit of the Soil by Paul B. Thompson Pdf

The Spirit of the Soil challenges environmentalists to think more deeply and creatively about agriculture. Paul B. Thompson identifies four `worldviews' which tackle agricultural ethics according to different philosophical priorities; productionism, stewardship, economics and holism. He examines current issues such as the use of pesticides and biotechnology from these ethical perspectives. This book achieves an open-ended account of sustainability designed to minimise hubris and help us to recapture the spirit of the soil.