Carti McGraw Hill Humanities

Marianne Maynard (Author)

A Journey in Higher Conscious Awakening

Editura: MCGRAW HILL BOOK CO

Anul aparitiei: 2012

Read about the planetary events and the evolutional shift occurring on Earth that will lead humanity to a higher conscious awakening. Gain insight and reassurance about the death process and souls' journey to higher planes. Discover your multidimensional nature and ability to journey to heavenly planes with dreams, and guidance from divine spirit, and spiritual masters and teachers. Experience the joy of communicating with your angels, and deceased love ones. Discover how you can change your earthly reality by serving as coworkers with Divine Spirit.Book reviewers state that this book provides guidance for those on a spiritual quest for answers about one's life purpose, the transformation of planet Earth, and humanities journey to higher conscious awakening. Additional statements from recent readers include: I was fascinated by how relevance this book is to our world today. Dr. Maynard offers a message of hope as we connect to the Divine source readily available to all. This book was given to a friend who recently passed from cancer, and in her last days she was greatly comforted by the words in chapter - 'Ascension to Higher Planes', on death and ascension to higher planes.This ...

Kathleen Berge Entenmann (Author)

Channeling Mr. Rogers and Warhol

Editura: MCGRAW HILL BOOK CO

Anul aparitiei: 2011

As a young boy about to enter school, Bobby Anderson discovers Fred Rogers and his neighborhood and decides to emulate him. In order to instill a love of baseball in his son, Bobby's father introduces him to the game via the great Roberto Clemente. Later in school, Bobby is led to George Romero and the fun of movie making. Finally, in high school he finds Andy Warhol while studying humanities. Along the way, Bobby and his family fight intolerance and bullying as Bobby channels these heroes, learns compassion and tolerance.

Jacinto Steinhardt (Author)

Science and the Modern World: One of a Series of Lectures Presented at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. on the Occasion of Its 175th Annivers

Editura: MCGRAW HILL BOOK CO

Anul aparitiei: 2012

During the period September 1963 to December 1964. Georgetown University commemorated the 175th anniversary of its founding by presenting a series of special lectures in the various disciplines appropriate to a university. Among the subjects covered. in separate and coherent series. were the humanities. the arts. medicine. law. and religion. One of the series. entitled as a group. "Science and Society." is represented by this book. The ten papers presented here must be looked at in context: an effort was made to present to a largely lay audi- ence a cross section of those aspects of recent advances in science and technology that were considered to haye the most striking or inclusive effects on man's view of his world. on desirable public policy. and on man's antici- pations as to how further advances and applications of these advances were likely to change his environment. Clearly. so ambitious an undertaking could not be carried out within the compass of ten brief lectures. Within a general structure. it was necessary to use a sampling technique. The general plan was adopted of having three lectures representative of the philosophical sector. three of the public policy structure. ...

Stephen H. Schneider (Author)

The Primordial Bond: Exploring Connections Between Man and Nature Through the Humanities and Sciences

Editura: MCGRAW HILL BOOK CO

Anul aparitiei: 2012

Does the solution to our energy crisis depend upon the de- velopment of coal, nuclear, solar, or some other energy source? Are we better off because science and technology have made us less vulnerable to natural catastrophes? How, in fact, do we see ourselves now in relation to our natural world? The answers to these questions lie as much within the humanities as in the sciences. Problems as seemingly unrelated as our vulnerability to OPEC oil price hikes or a smog alert in Los Angeles or Tokyo often have common, hidden causes. One of these causes is simply the way our society sees its place in nature. There are many reasons for the heavy demand for oil. Among these we vii viii I PREFACE can include desire for industrial growth, hopes for improved living standards, mobility through automobiles and rapid transportation systems, and, not least, an attempt to loosen the constraints on man imposed by nature. These constraints and man's concomitant dependence upon nature are exam- ples of the intense and finely interwoven relationship be- tween man and nature, a relationship that constitutes a pri- mordial bond forged long before the era of modem technology. Similarly, man has explored ...

Nevin S. Scrimshaw (Author)

Nutrition Policy Implementation: Issues and Experience

Editura: MCGRAW HILL BOOK CO

Anul aparitiei: 2012

The MIT International Nutrition Planning Program (INP) was initiated in the fall of 1972 with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, later supplemented by funds from USAID under the 2110 Program. Con- ceived as a multidisciplinary undertaking, the INP was a joint effort of the Department of Nutrition and Food Science and the Center for Inter- national Studies at MIT that also included representatives of the Depart- ments of Economics, Political Science, Urban Studies, Humanities (Anthropology), and Civil Engineering. It has been successful in attract- ing graduate students and conducting research on various international food and nutrition problems, including the design of intervention pro- grams. A condition of the original grant from the Rockefeller Foundation was the organization of a meeting to summarize and evaluate the prog- ress of the program. It was ultimately decided that the best approach would be a workshop that would attempt to assess what had been learned about the implementation of food and nutrition policies since the start of the INP. Out of concern for food and nutrition policy issues, the World Hunger Programme of The United Nations University (UNU) and the ...

Marilyn Englander (Author)

How the Courts Work: A Plain English Explanation of the American Legal System, Paperback Edition

Editura: BIBLIOBAZAAR

Anul aparitiei: 2008

How the Courts Work provides a plain English, straightforward explanation of the American court system. The authors take the reader step by step through both a civil and a criminal trial, revealing what actually happens in a courtroom from the perspective of the lawyers, the parties, and the judge. Along the way, the reader will learn the difference between federal and state courts, and between the work of trial judges and appellate judges such as those on the Supreme Court. The authors explain how judges get their jobs, basic constitutional rights that apply in criminal cases, plea bargaining, significant pre-trial procedures, and the difference between criminal and civil law issues. Importantly, this book eliminates much of the mystery of courtroom proceedings. It is an invaluable guide for anyone who has a case, or is thinking about having a case, in our courts. The book provides an overview of the entire litigation process, and so meets an urgent need for law students, paralegals, and new lawyers who have never handled a case from beginning to end. About the Author: Marilyn Englander received her bachelor's degree from Harvard University, where she met co-author Curtis Karnow. ...

Alan Malachowski (Author)

Richard Rorty

Editura: MCGRAW HILL BOOK CO

Anul aparitiei: 2002

Richard Rorty is notorious for contending that the traditional, foundation-building and truth-seeking ambitions of systematic philosophy should be set aside in favour of a more pragmatic, conversational, hermeneutically guided project. This challenge has not only struck at the heart of philosophy but has ricocheted across other disciplines, both contesting their received self-images and opening up new avenues of inquiry in the process. Alan Malachowski provides an authoritative overview of Rorty's considerable body of work and a general assessment of his impact both within philosophy and in the humanities more broadly. He begins by explaining the genesis of Rorty's central ideas, tracking their development from suggestions in his early papers through their crystallization in his groundbreaking book, "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature". Malachowski evaluates some of the common criticisms of Rorty's position and his ensuing pragmatism. The book examines the subsequent evolution of his ideas, focusing particularly on the main themes of his second major work, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity. The political and cultural impact of Rorty's writings on such diverse fields as feminism, ...

John, Professor Simons (Author)

Rossetti's Wombat: Pre-Raphaelites and Australian Animals in Victorian London

Editura: MCGRAW HILL/IRWIN PROFESSIONAL

Anul aparitiei: 2008

Rossetti's Wombat tells the story of Top, a wombat who belonged to the Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti for a few months in 1869. The book also describes the strange history of the European fascination with the wildlife of Australia, from the late 18th century onwards. By 1860, most well-to-do people could buy a pet kangaroo from a London pet shop - and many of them did. Wombats were rarer and more expensive but the tradition of wombat owning was well established by the turn of the 19th century. Napoleon had a pet wombat, as did the Duke of Edinburgh. Rossetti's Wombat is a light-hearted account of an improbable side of Victorian England. It examines the way a wombat participated in the delicate relationships between the men and women in the Pre-Raphaelite circle - particularly Rossetti's emotional affair with Jane Morris, wife of his friend and colleague William Morris. Fully illustrated with drawings and etchings of the period, Rossetti's Wombat will appeal to those with an interest in Victorian England and the Pre-Raphaelites - and to wombat lovers everywhere. John Simons is Professor of English and Dean of the Faculty of Media, Humanities and Technology at the ...

Ben Anderson (Author)

Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions

Editura: MCGRAW HILL BOOK CO

Anul aparitiei: 2014

Since the mid-1990s, affect has become central to the social sciences and humanities. Debates abound over how to conceptualise affect, and how to understand the interrelationships between affective life and a range of contemporary political transformations. In Encountering Affect, Ben Anderson explores why understanding affect matters and offers one account of affective life that hones in on the different ways in which affects are ordered. Intervening in debates around non-representational theories, he argues that affective life is always-already 'mediated' - the never finished product of apparatuses, encounters and conditions. Through a wide range of examples including dread-debility-dependency in torture, ordinary hopes, and precariousness, Anderson shows the significance of affect for understanding life today.

Morgan Holmes (Editor)

Critical Intersex

Editura: MCGRAW HILL/IRWIN PROFESSIONAL

Anul aparitiei: 2009

To date, intersex studies has not received the scholarly attention it deserves as research in this area has been centred around certain key questions, scholars and geographical regions. Exploring previously neglected territories, this book broadens the scope of intersex studies, whilst adopting perspectives that turn the gaze of the liberal, humanist, scientific outlook upon itself, in order to reconfigure debates about rights, autonomy and subjectivity, and challenges the accepted paradigms of intersex identity politics. Presenting the latest theoretical and empirical research from an international group of experts, this is a truly interdisciplinary volume containing critical approaches from both the humanities and social sciences. With its contributions to sociology, anthropology, medicine, law, history, cultural studies, psychology and psychoanalysis, Critical Intersex will appeal to scholars and clinical practitioners alike.

Duncan Fuller (Author)

Interrogating Alterity: Alternative Economic and Political Spaces

Editura: MCGRAW HILL/GLENCOE DIVISION

Anul aparitiei: 2010

Alternative ways of thinking, analysing and performing economic geographies have become increasingly significant in recent years, partly due to the recent financial crisis, which has had social and political consequences throughout the world. Yet there is a danger that the debate about alternatives may become simply a way of fixing global capitalism in its present crisis-ridden form. Instead, the analysis of alternative economic spaces must continue to offer a critique of the very notion of capitalism as a universal, if variable, set of social relations. This important book brings together critical analyses of alterity from across the social sciences and humanities, refining and advancing what alternative economies and polities are, how they are formed, what difficulties and problems they face, and how they might be sustained. A central theme is the need to examine critically both the material contexts and the conceptual categories deployed in the making of alternative economies.

Cressida J. Heyes (Author)

Cosmetic Surgery: A Feminist Primer

Editura: MCGRAW HILL BOOK CO

Anul aparitiei: 2009

Practices of cosmetic surgery have grown exponentially in recent years in both over-developed and developing worlds. What comprises cosmetic surgery has also changed, with a plethora of new procedures and an extraordinary rise of non-surgical operations. As the practices of cosmetic surgery have multiplied and diversified, so have feminist approaches to understanding them. For the first time leading feminist scholars including Susan Bordo, Kathy Davis, Vivian Sobchack and Kathryn Pauly Morgan, have been brought together in this comprehensive volume to reveal the complexity of feminist engagements with the phenomenon that still remains vastly more popular among women. Offering a diversity of theoretical, methodological and political approaches Cosmetic Surgery: A Feminist Primer presents not only the latest, cutting-edge research in this field but a challenging and unique approach to the issue that will be of key interest to researchers across the social sciences and humanities.

Robert C. Holub (Author)

Jurgen Habermas: Critic in the Public Sphere

Editura: MCGRAW HILL BOOK CO

Anul aparitiei: 2016

The most important intellectual in the Federal Republic of Germany for the past three decades, Habermas has been a seminal contributor to fields ranging from sociology and political science to philosophy and cultural studies. Although he has stood at the centre of concern in his native land, he has been less readily accepted outside Germany, particularly in the humanities. His theoretical work postulates the centrality of communication and understanding, and as such his strategy of debate is marked by a politically informed unity of theory and practice. Holub's book is the first detailed account of the major debates in which Habermas has engaged since the early sixties. It stems from the conviction that his critics have not understood the political strategy behind his various interventions, or the consistency that informs his intellectual activities. Habermas is viewed in dialogue with important philosophical, sociological and political currents in West Germany. Holub demonstrates how Habermas pursues a course that incorporates various aspects of his opponents' positions, while simultaneously defending perceived threats to democracy and open discussion.

M. Okome (Editor)

West African Migrations: Transnational and Global Pathways in a New Century

Editura: MCGRAW HILL BOOK CO

Anul aparitiei: 2015

Drawing on the interdisciplinary research projects of scholars from various social science and humanities disciplines, this book explores how African migration to Western countries after the neo-liberal economic reforms of the 1980s transformed West African states and their new transnational populations in Western countries.

Marilyn Englander (Author)

How the Courts Work: A Plain English Explanation of the American Legal System, Hardcover Edition

Editura: JOVE

Anul aparitiei: 2008

How the Courts Work provides a plain English, straightforward explanation of the American court system. The authors take the reader step by step through both a civil and a criminal trial, revealing what actually happens in a courtroom from the perspective of the lawyers, the parties, and the judge. Along the way, the reader will learn the difference between federal and state courts, and between the work of trial judges and appellate judges such as those on the Supreme Court. The authors explain how judges get their jobs, basic constitutional rights that apply in criminal cases, plea bargaining, significant pre-trial procedures, and the difference between criminal and civil law issues. Importantly, this book eliminates much of the mystery of courtroom proceedings. It is an invaluable guide for anyone who has a case, or is thinking about having a case, in our courts. The book provides an overview of the entire litigation process, and so meets an urgent need for law students, paralegals, and new lawyers who have never handled a case from beginning to end. About the Author: Marilyn Englander received her bachelor's degree from Harvard University, where she met co-author Curtis Karnow. ...

Gloria K. Fiero (Author)

Loose Leaf for Landmarks in Humanities

Editura: MCGRAW HILL BOOK CO

Anul aparitiei: 2020

All travelers appreciate a personal guide. For humanities students, LANDMARKS provides a chronological journey through the history of culture in one semester. Focusing on prominent landmarks from prehistory to the present, LANDMARKS introduces students to the creative endeavors of the human imagination and to the prominent ideas and issues that have shaped the course and character of the world's cultures. The landmarks that mark this journey are the great works of their place and time; they have been transmitted from generation to generation as a living legacy. Understanding that a global humanities course is taught in varying ways, Gloria Fiero redefines the discipline for greater flexibility via a variety of personalized digital tools that meet and refine your teaching goals in less time. Enhanced by McGraw-Hill Education's SmartBook 2.0, Fiero delivers a learning experience tailored to the needs of each institution, instructor, and student. With the ability to incorporate new extended readings, streaming music, and artwork, LANDMARKS renews the understanding of the relationship between world cultures and humankind's creative legacy. LANDMARKS is unique in several ways: -It is ...

Landmarks in Humanities: Hum 1020 Introduction to Humanities

Editura: MCGRAW HILL BOOK CO

Anul aparitiei: 2020