Matokeo ya Utafutaji
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Language: ENG -
Life in the Iron-Mills; Or, The Korl Woman
A cloudy day: do you know what that is in a town of iron-works? The sky sank down before dawn, muddy, flat, immovable. The air is thick, clammy with the breath of crowded human beings. It stifles me. I open the window, and, looking out, can scarcely see through the rain the grocer's shop opposite, w... More
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Life in the Iron Mills (Xist Classics Ser.)
A shocking rendering of poverty, tragedy, and desperation in the American North This shocking depiction of the lives of impoverished Welsh miners in the American North was one of the first novels to expose the brutal realities facing the nation’s poor. Rebecca Harding Davis casts an unflinching gaze... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2017 -
A Law Unto Herself: A Novel (Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers)
A scathing critique of the legal status of women and their property rights in nineteenth-century America, Rebecca Harding Davis’s 1878 novel A Law Unto Herself chronicles the experiences of Jane Swendon, a seemingly naïve and conventional nineteenth-century protagonist struggling to care for her eld... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2015 -
Health Humanities Reader
by Mark Vonnegut • Audrey Shafer • Martha Stoddard Holmes • Howard Brody • Jeff Nisker • Bradley Lewis • Rosemarie Tong • Ian Williams • Sander L. Gilman • Rafael Campo • Daniel Goldberg • Michael Rowe • Thomas R. Cole • Alice Dreger • Joseph N. Straus • Jonathan M. Metzl • Arthur W. Frank • E. Ann Kaplan • Rebecca Hester • John Lantos • Shelley Wall • Alan Bleakley • Marjorie Levine-Clark • Michael Sappol • Mark Clark • Professor Therese Jones • Professor Delese Wear • Professor Lester D. Friedman • David H. Flood • Rhonda L. Soricelli • Lisa Keränen • Martin F. Norden • Professor Lisa I. Iezzoni • Felicia Cohn • Martha Montello • Amy Haddad • Rebecca Garden • Jack Coulehan • Professor Bernice Hausman • Gretchen A. Case • Allen Peterkin • Susan M. Squier • Sayantani DasGupta • Maren Grainger-Monsen • Benjamin Saxton • Jerald Winakur • Anne Hudson Jones • Tod Chambers • Raymond C. Barfield • Lucy Selman • Jeffrey P. Bishop • Catherine Belling • Paul Root Wolpe • Professor Allison B. Kavey • Julie M. Aultman • Michael Blackie • Erin Gentry Lamb • Jay BaruchOver the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2014 -
How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality
by Paul Erickson • Michael D. Gordin • Lorraine Daston • Judy L. Klein • Rebecca Lemov • Thomas SturmIn the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top military brass. Its home was the human sciences--psycho... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2013