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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literature, Modern
ISBN : PURD:32754081118758
Author : Wendell Mayo,Mark Brazaitis,Alfred Corn,Nicole Cuddeback,Stephen Dixon,Edwin Gallaher,Sarah Getty,Lise Goett,Scott Hightower,Anthony LaBranche,Phillis Levin,Richard Lyons,Gardner McFall,W. Dale Nelson,Joyce Carol Oates,Darren Tofts,Rod Townley,William F. Van Wert,Terence Winch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literature, Modern
ISBN : OCLC:999314208
Author : Roy T. Matthews,F. DeWitt Platt
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0072556315
This chronologically organized introduction to the Western humanities (art, music, history, literature, and drama) establishes the historical context of each era before the arts are discussed. Hundreds of illustrations appear throughout the text, "Personal Perspectives" boxes bring to life the events of the day, and brief sections at the end of each chapter describe the cultural legacy of the era discussed. Volume II ofThe Western Humanitiescovers the period from the Renaissance through the present.
Author : Wendell Mayo,Judith Anne Greenberg,Bruce Bond,Ron Carlson,John Drury,James Harms,Sharon Klander,John Latta,Wendy Lesser,Geraldine C. Little,Mary Maxwell (Poet),Amanda Pecor,D. J. Pink,Robyn Selman,Julie Turley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literature, Modern
ISBN : OCLC:994748871
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCAL:B3643817
Author : Roy Matthews,DeWitt Platt,Thomas Noble
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-22
Category : Civilization, Western
ISBN : 0073376620
Chronologically organized, The Western Humanities presents the cultural achievements of western civilization--art and architecture, music, history, literature, philosophy, theater, film and the other arts--within their historical context. By examining the historical and material conditions that influenced the form and content of the arts and humanities, the authors provide students with a clear framework, a deeper understanding of the meaning of cultural works, and a broader basis for analyzing and appreciating the cultural achievements of the West. Hundreds of illustrations bring the arts and humanities to life, while extensive pedagogy consistently asks students to think about, interpret, and apply the information throughout the text and at the end of each chapter.
Author : Roy T. Matthews,F. DeWitt Platt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 1559349670
Author : Emmanuel X. Belena
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1465240322
Author : Hisham Bustani
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780815653486
This award winning collection of seventy-eight pieces of flash fiction presents an intense and powerful vision of today's world seen through the eyes of an alienated and sardonic author. The Perception of Meaning reads like an alternative history to our world—a collage of small nightmares brought to life by a canon of unlikely historical figures, including Mark Zuckerberg, the lead singer of Megadeth, Stanley Kubrick, the Korean activist Lee Kyoung Hae, and the Mayan poet Humberto Akabal, among others. A dazzling exemplar of contemporary experimental Arabic literature, The Perception of Meaning deftly captures a historical moment in which Arab societies are increasingly questioning the status quo and rebelling against it. Bustani’s stories speak powerfully to the present, and look to the future with a wary eye.
Author : Lisa Sanders
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780767922470
A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis," the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.D. "The experience of being ill can be like waking up in a foreign country. Life, as you formerly knew it, is on hold while you travel through this other world as unknown as it is unexpected. When I see patients in the hospital or in my office who are suddenly, surprisingly ill, what they really want to know is, ‘What is wrong with me?’ They want a road map that will help them manage their new surroundings. The ability to give this unnerving and unfamiliar place a name, to know it—on some level—restores a measure of control, independent of whether or not that diagnosis comes attached to a cure. Because, even today, a diagnosis is frequently all a good doctor has to offer." A healthy young man suddenly loses his memory—making him unable to remember the events of each passing hour. Two patients diagnosed with Lyme disease improve after antibiotic treatment—only to have their symptoms mysteriously return. A young woman lies dying in the ICU—bleeding, jaundiced, incoherent—and none of her doctors know what is killing her. In Every Patient Tells a Story, Dr. Lisa Sanders takes us bedside to witness the process of solving these and other diagnostic dilemmas, providing a firsthand account of the expertise and intuition that lead a doctor to make the right diagnosis. Never in human history have doctors had the knowledge, the tools, and the skills that they have today to diagnose illness and disease. And yet mistakes are made, diagnoses missed, symptoms or tests misunderstood. In this high-tech world of modern medicine, Sanders shows us that knowledge, while essential, is not sufficient to unravel the complexities of illness. She presents an unflinching look inside the detective story that marks nearly every illness—the diagnosis—revealing the combination of uncertainty and intrigue that doctors face when confronting patients who are sick or dying. Through dramatic stories of patients with baffling symptoms, Sanders portrays the absolute necessity and surprising difficulties of getting the patient’s story, the challenges of the physical exam, the pitfalls of doctor-to-doctor communication, the vagaries of tests, and the near calamity of diagnostic errors. In Every Patient Tells a Story, Dr. Sanders chronicles the real-life drama of doctors solving these difficult medical mysteries that not only illustrate the art and science of diagnosis, but often save the patients’ lives.
Author : Perry M. Rogers
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12
Category : Civilization, Western
ISBN : 0130480533
Covering the period from 1600 to the Post-Modern Era, this book is part of an innovative two-volume primary source anthology that presents some of the greatest ideas and creative expressions of humanity. The anthology features an exceptionally diverse and unique variety of selections reflecting artistic, musical, literary, political, social, religious, intellectual, and scientific issues that encompass the study of Humanities. Chronological in format--with individual units focused on time periods, specific events, and historical questions, it is internally organized around five major themes--The Institution and the Individual; Social and Spiritual Values; Revolution and Transition; The Varieties of Truth; and Women in History and the Humanities. Each piece of literature, poetry or art, each diary entry, philosophical excerpt, or religious proviso is juxtaposed against the tapestry of history so that it can be viewed within the context of its time. Throughout, readers are confronted with basic questions regarding historical development, human nature, moral action, and practical necessity. KEY TOPICS: Major period covered include: The Baroque Age (1600-1715). Enlightenment and Revolution (1715-1800). The Birth of the Modern: Nationalism and Romanticism (1750- 1830). Changing Dimensions: Social Conflict and Realism (1830-1870). The Belle Epoque (1870-1914). "The Abyss Also Looks Into You" The West in Crisis (1914-1945). The Individual Apart: The Abstract World and the Post-Modern Era. Includes excerpts from drama and literature, short stories, speeches, letters, diary accounts, poems, newspaper articles, philosophical tracts, propaganda flyers, and works of art and architecture. Includes not only the traditional primary documents essential to the study of the Humanities, but also the more unusual which are not found in similar texts. MARKET: For anyone interested in the great ideas and artistic expressions of humanity.
Author : Joshua Kira,Sandra S. Yang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-30
Category : Christianity and art
ISBN : 1792469381
Provides an introduction to the philosophy, visual arts, music, and theatre of Western civilization from Ancient Greece to our own times.
Author : Sara L. Spurgeon
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781603445924
The frontier and Western expansionism are so quintessentially a part of American history that the literature of the West and Southwest is in some senses the least regional and the most national literature of all. The frontier--the place where cultures meet and rewrite themselves upon each other's texts--continues to energize writers whose fiction evokes, destroys, and rebuilds the myth in ways that attract popular audiences and critics alike. Sara L. Spurgeon focuses on three writers whose works not only exemplify the kind of engagement with the theme of the frontier that modern authors make, but also show the range of cultural voices that are present in Southwestern literature: Cormac McCarthy, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Ana Castillo. Her central purposes are to consider how the differing versions of the Western "mythic" tales are being recast in a globalized world and to examine the ways in which they challenge and accommodate increasingly fluid and even dangerous racial, cultural, and international borders. In Spurgeon's analysis, the spaces in which the works of these three writers collide offer some sharply differentiated visions but also create new and unsuspected forms, providing the most startling insights. Sometimes beautiful, sometimes tragic, the new myths are the expressions of the larger culture from which they spring, both a projection onto a troubled and troubling past and an insistent, prophetic vision of a shared future
Author : Robert B. Heilman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780820332659
The Ghost on the Ramparts presents fourteen of R. B. Heilman's essays on the teaching of English and the profession of the humanities. These essays deal with such diverse topics as administrative ways and means, pedagogical shibboleths and heresies, uses and abuses of literacy, clichés of style, moot issues of history and criticism, and above all the nature of the humanities and their continuing significance. The persuasive discussions of all these subjects reflect the author's wide professional experience, his wit and wisdom, and his superb sense of style. The chairman of a distinguished English department for over twenty years, Heilman well knew the ins and outs of administration. He considers not only the practical problems of maintaining a large department but also the more complex matters involving a chairman's attitude toward deans, toward colleagues of many kinds, and toward oneself as a committed teacher and administrator. Also a literary critic of established reputation, Heilman's explicative side appears in most of these essays as he provides illustrative examples from many different sources while discussing the nature of history and criticism in the humanities. The unity of these essays is no less impressive than the mind of their maker, who instances a remarkable capacity for seeing life in the humanities steadily and whole.
Author : John Martin Ellis
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300075790
In the span of less than a generation, university humanities departments have experienced an almost unbelievable reversal of attitudes, now attacking and undermining what had previously been considered best and most worthy in the Western tradition. John M. Ellis here scrutinizes the new regime in humanistic studies. He offers a careful, intelligent analysis that exposes the weaknesses of notions that are fashionable in humanities today. In a clear voice, with forceful logic, he speaks out against the orthodoxy that has installed race, gender, and class perspectives at the center of college humanities curricula. Ellis begins by showing that political correctness is a recurring impulse of Western society and one that has a discouraging history. He reveals the contradictions and misconceptions that surround the new orthodoxy and demonstrates how it is most deficient just where it imagines itself to be superior. Ellis contends that humanistic education today, far from being historically aware, relies on anachronistic thinking; far from being skeptical of Western values, represents a ruthless and unskeptical Western extremism; far from being valuable in bringing political perspectives to bear, presents politics that are crude and unreal; far from being sophisticated in matters of "theory," is largely ignorant of the range and history of critical theory; far from valuing diversity, is unable to respond to the great sweep of literature. In a concluding chapter, Ellis surveys the damage that has been done to higher education and examines the prospects for change.