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Author : Helen Caddick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Africa, Central
ISBN : NYPL:33433082463344
Author : Jacob A.C. Remes,Andy Horowitz
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812299724
This book announces the new, interdisciplinary field of critical disaster studies. Unlike most existing approaches to disaster, critical disaster studies begins with the idea that disasters are not objective facts, but rather are interpretive fictions—and they shape the way people see the world. By questioning the concept of disaster itself, critical disaster studies reveals the stakes of defining people or places as vulnerable, resilient, or at risk. As social constructs, disaster, vulnerability, resilience, and risk shape and are shaped by contests over power. Managers and technocrats often herald the goals of disaster response and recovery as objective, quantifiable, or self-evident. In reality, the goals are subjective, and usually contested. Critical disaster studies attends to the ways powerful people often use claims of technocratic expertise to maintain power. Moreover, rather than existing as isolated events, disasters take place over time. People commonly imagine disasters to be unexpected and sudden, making structural conditions appear contingent, widespread conditions appear local, and chronic conditions appear acute. By placing disasters in broader contexts, critical disaster studies peels away that veneer. With chapters by scholars of five continents and seven disciplines, Critical Disaster Studies asks how disasters come to be known as disasters, how disasters are used as tools of governance and politics, and how people imagine and anticipate disasters. The volume will be of interest to scholars of disaster in any discipline and especially to those teaching the growing number of courses on disaster studies.
Author : George E. Thomas
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568983158
Benjamin Franklin, founder of America's first university, the University of Pennsylvania, hoped that its students would learn "everything that is useful and everything that is ornamental." The same might be said of the architecture of its campus, both useful and ornamental. The newest title in our highly acclaimed Campus Guide Series takes readers on an insider's tour of this historic school, unique in the Ivy League for its single urban campus. The guide presents architectural walks of a campus that is distinguished by landmark buildings. Thomas traces the university's rich history from its founding in 1749 to the present wave of construction on the modern campus. Hand-colored maps and detailed descriptions of the buildings guide to readers on their tour.
Author : Sean-Michael Green
Publisher : Theleigh Publishing Company
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : College environment
ISBN : 0692603174
Reveals what life is like for students who are able to study in the Ivy League and explores the myths and secrets of the institutions.
Author : George E. Thomas,David B. Brownlee
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000-05-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0812235150
"More than a guide, this is a thorough and engaging study of a great American institution."--Choice
Author : Anne Berg
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812298413
On Screen and Off shows that the making of Nazism was a local affair and the Nazi city a product of more than models and plans emanating from Berlin. In Hamburg, film was key in turning this self-styled "Gateway to the World" into a "Nazi city." The Nazi regime imagined film as a powerful tool to shape National Socialist subjects. In Hamburg, those very subjects chanced upon film culture as a seemingly apolitical opportunity to articulate their own ideas about how Nazism ought to work. Tracing discourses around film production and film consumption in the city, On Screen and Off illustrates how Nazi ideology was envisaged, imagined, experienced, and occasionally even fought over. Local authorities in Hamburg, from the governor Karl Kaufmann to youth wardens and members of the Hamburg Film Club, used debates over cinema to define the reach and practice of National Socialism in the city. Film thus engendered a political space in which local activists, welfare workers, cultural experts, and administrators asserted their views about the current state of affairs, articulated criticism and praise, performed their commitment to the regime, and policed the boundaries of the Volksgemeinschaft. Of all the championed "people's products," film alone extended the promise of economic prosperity and cultural preeminence into the war years and beyond the city's destruction. From the ascension of the Nazi regime through the smoldering rubble, going to the movies grounded normalcy in the midst of rupture.
Author : W. E. B. Du Bois
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812201802
In 1897 the promising young sociologist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was given a temporary post as Assistant in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania in order to conduct a systematic investigation of social conditions in the seventh ward of Philadelphia. The product of those studies was the first great empirical book on the Negro in American society. More than one hundred years after its original publication by the University of Pennsylvania Press, The Philadelphia Negro remains a classic work. It is the first, and perhaps still the finest, example of engaged sociological scholarship—the kind of work that, in contemplating social reality, helps to change it. In his introduction, Elijah Anderson examines how the neighborhood studied by Du Bois has changed over the years and compares the status of blacks today with their status when the book was initially published.
Author : Martin E. P. Seligman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780743222983
Argues that happiness can be a learned and cultivated behavior, explaining how every person possesses at least five of twenty-four profiled strengths that can be built on in order to improve life.
Author : Caren Beilin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : College stories
ISBN : 1934819379
Fiction. Olivia Knox has womb duplicatum, a rare affliction of continuous menstruation. Blood--it is not just blood! --tumbles unstoppably during her freshman year at the University of Pennsylvania. This problem of excess--blood full of marbles and beans, something thick enough to be black, sometimes sick enough to be brown, sometimes wild, almost violet again--foregrounds Beilin's revision (queer and erotic) of Pennsylvania's foundations. Tracing a relationship between George Fox and William Penn, Bethlehem's industrial boom, Jewish suburbia and Amish farming, and the origins of surgical education in America, THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA convenes at the University of Pennsylvania, where Olivia Knox confronts a surgical solution. Caren Beilin's prose isn't like other people's prose--or other people's anything. Her engine is the sentence, but it runs on fuel from other worlds. THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA is unhinged, just the thing to remove your skin. Everything will feel intense because it is. How many books can reroute your dreams like this?--Ander Monson A book from the future to be savored again and again.--Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon No one writes like Caren Beilin. If Angela Carter got commingled with Gary Lutz in Lara Glenum's Miraculating Machine, they might have produced the kinds of sentences found in THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. Part family gothic, part queer historiography, Beilin's book conjures a Pennsylvania made of butter, gelatin, and blood, a murderzone in which bleeding girls and boneless horses, patricides and founding fathers interpenetrate, become portmanteau creatures that gorge on taboo. Prepare to feel language at its most vandalous, its most painfully exciting. I had to read parts aloud, to use my mouth as a release valve, or I would have exploded on the spot. Finally, language has an orgasm.--Joanna Ruocco The novel's prose is astonishing. An important new voice has just entered the literary party. Listen.--Lance Olsen
Author : Amey A. Hutchins
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0738535222
By the time photography was invented in the 1830s, the University of Pennsylvania, America's first university, was nearly a century old. University of Pennsylvania, a unique photographic collection, focuses on the school's history at its present campus in West Philadelphia beginning shortly after the end of the Civil War and provides images of more than a century of student life inside and outside the classroom. In every category, from campus landmarks to the student body to the traditions that bind the community together, these photographs demonstrate the close connections between Penn's present and its past. They also reveal historical aspects of the Penn experience that have since vanished.
Author : Francis Newton Thorpe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Universities and colleges
ISBN : UOM:39015068124802
Author : David Y. Cooper III,Marshall A. Ledger
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781512801279
From the time of its establishment in the eighteenth century until late in the nineteenth century, the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine was the most respected medical institution in the United States. Today it is among the leaders in medical education in the U.S. It continues to play a crucial role in the development of medical education, the practice of medicine, and medical research in America. Innovation and Tradition at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine: An Anecdotal Journey presents a thoroughly researched, readable history of this important institution. Tracing its growth from a couple of courses at the College of Philadelphia to its 225th anniversary in 1990, the authors highlight the truly remarkable contributions to science and medicine made by members of the school's distinguished faculty. including Benjamin Rush, Caspar Wistar, Joseph Leidy, Simon Flexner, lsador Ravdin, and Britton Chance.
Author : Vassos Karageorghis,Terence Brennan
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 0924171758
The 17 figurines published here are but a small sample of the objects excavated more than 100 years ago at the Bronze Age necropolis at the site of Ayia Paraskevi in Cyprus. Vassos Karageorghis introduces the volume with an insightful essay on the significance of the site and one of its early excavators, Max Ohnefalsch-Richter. Terence Brennan contributes information on the history of the Museum's acquisition of these pieces based on a 12-year correspondence between Sara Yorke Stevenson, one of the Museum's early founders, and Ohnefalsch-Richter. The volume contains a detailed catalogue of the 17 figurines, including bibliography and comparanda.
Author : University of Pennsylvania
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Universities and colleges
ISBN : UIUC:30112113309857
Author : University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,Lucy Fowler Williams
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003-04-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1931707324
Totaling approximately 40,000 objects, the University Museum's ethnographic holdings represent native peoples from ten North American culture areas—the Arctic, Subarctic, Northwest Coast, California, Plateau, Great Basin, Southwest, Great Plains, Northeast, and the Southeast. This guide highlights the strength of the collections and demonstrates how objects are tied to history and people living within different cultural and social contexts. It also underscores that objects have different multiple meanings. Some objects illustrate intertribal relations; others best reflect collecting attitudes at the turn of the century when much of the Museum's collections was acquired. Visitors and off-site readers will learn about such related archival resources as documentation and photographs, past and present Museum exhibitions, current research, repatriation, and contemporary collections development.