Author: Baldwin MaxwellPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Studies in Beaumont, Fletcher, and Massinger
Author: Baldwin MaxwellPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Report of the Survey of the Schools of Beaumont, Texas
Author: Columbia University. Teachers College. Institute of Educational Research. Division of Field StudiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beaumont (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The Beaumont Twins
Author: David CrouchPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521090131
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This book combines a study of Waleran of Meulan and Robert of Leicester with an exploration of the exercise of power in twelfth-century Normandy and England.
Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice, and the Physiology of Digestion
Author: William BeaumontPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Digestion
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Open Wound
Author: Jason KarlawishPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472028049
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
A shotgun misfires inside the American Fur Company store in Northern Michigan, and Alexis St. Martin's death appears imminent. It's 1822, and, as the leaders of Mackinac Island examine St. Martin's shot-riddled torso, they decide not to incur a single expense on behalf of the indentured fur trapper. They even go so far as to dismiss the attention of U.S. Army Assistant Surgeon William Beaumont, the frontier fort's only doctor. Beaumont ignores the orders and saves the young man's life. What neither the doctor nor his patient understands—yet—is that even as Beaumont's care of St. Martin continues for decades, the motives and merits of his attention are far from clear. In fact, for what he does to his patient, Beaumont will eventually stand trial and be judged. Rooted deeply in historic fact, Open Wound artfully fictionalizes the complex, lifelong relationship between Beaumont and his illiterate French Canadian patient. The young trapper's injury never completely heals, leaving a hole into his stomach that the curious doctor uses as a window to understand the mysteries of digestion. Eager to rise up from his humble origins and self-conscious that his medical training occurred as an apprentice to a rural physician rather than at an elite university, Beaumont seizes the opportunity to experiment upon his patient's stomach in order to write a book that he hopes will establish his legitimacy and secure his prosperity. As Jason Karlawish portrays him, Beaumont, always growing hungrier for more wealth and more prestige, personifies the best and worst aspects of American ambition and power.
Studies in Beaumont
Author: Baldwin MaxwellPerforming Nuclear Weapons
Author: Paul BeaumontPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030675769
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This book investigates the UK’s nuclear weapon policy, focusing in particular on how consecutive governments have managed to maintain the Trident weapon system. The question of why states maintain nuclear weapons typically receives short shrift: its security, of course. The international is a perilous place, and nuclear weapons represent the ultimate self-help device. This book seeks to unsettle this complacency by re-conceptualizing nuclear weapon-armed states as nuclear regimes of truth and refocusing on the processes through which governments produce and maintain country-specific discourses that enable their continued possession of nuclear weapons. Illustrating the value of studying nuclear regimes of truth, the book conducts a discourse analysis of the UK’s nuclear weapons policy between 1980 and 2010. In so doing, it documents the sheer imagination and discursive labour required to sustain the positive value of nuclear weapons within British politics, as well as providing grounds for optimism regarding the value of the recent treaty banning nuclear weapons.
Studies in the History of the Renaissance
Author: Walter PaterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Childhood in Ancient Athens
Author: Lesley A. BeaumontPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136486690
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Childhood in Ancient Athens offers an in-depth study of children during the heyday of the Athenian city state, thereby illuminating a significant social group largely ignored by most ancient and modern authors alike. It concentrates not only on the child's own experience, but also examines the perceptions of children and childhood by Athenian society: these perceptions variously exhibit both similarities and stark contrasts with those of our own 21st century Western society. The study covers the juvenile life course from birth and infancy through early and later childhood, and treats these life stages according to the topics of nurture, play, education, work, cult and ritual, and death. In view of the scant ancient Greek literary evidence pertaining to childhood, Beaumont focuses on the more copious ancient visual representations of children in Athenian pot painting, sculpture, and terracotta modelling. Notably, this is the first full-length monograph in English to address the iconography of childhood in ancient Athens, and it breaks important new ground by rigorously analysing and evaluating classical art to reconstruct childhood’s social history. With over 120 illustrations, the book provides a rich visual, as well as narrative, resource for the history of childhood in classical antiquity.
A Crucible Moment
Author: National Task Force on Civic Learning and Democratic EngagementPublisher:
ISBN: 9780982785058
Category : Civics
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
This report from the National Task Force on Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement calls on the nation to reclaim higher education's civic mission. Commissioned by the Department of Education and released at a White House convening in January 2012, the report pushes back against a prevailing national dialogue that limits the mission of higher education to workforce preparation and training while marginalizing disciplines basic to democracy. It calls on educators and public leaders to advance a 21st century vision of college learning for all students, a vision with civic learning and democratic engagement an expected part of every student's college education. The report documents the nation's anemic civic health and includes recommendations for action that address campus culture, general education, and civic inquiry as part of major and career fields as well as hands on civic problem solving across differences. This report was prepared at the invitation of the U.S. Department of Education under the leadership of the Global Perspective Institute, Inc. (GPI) and AAC&U. It was developed with input from a series of national roundtables involving leaders from all parts of the higher education and civic renewal communities.