Author: Sean S. Findlay
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1452089973
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
"The Human Show" is a collection of poignant and eloquent poetry about a variety of riveting, vital matters. The book is split into chapters and includes poetry that is enlightening and inspiring as well as poetry that is disheartening and empathy provoking. The reader will go on a personal journey in which their values, opinions, and perspectives on many things in life may be challenged. This is especially true in the poetry about worldly issues. This chapter includes pieces on child abuse, terrorism, domestic violence, inequality, apathy, drunk driving, and many other unfortunate realities that humanity as a whole faces today. Poetry about the human experience, the psyche, and philosophy will inspire the reader to think outside of the box and expand on the stale, monotonous thought processes that today's society has confined us to. The poetry will remind the reader of how amazing it is simply being alive and ignite a new curious aspiration to discover how and why we lead our lives the way that we do. The writings about love and relationships will allow the reader to delve into infinite wonder about life's most captivating and powerful emotion: love. This poetry tells of how brilliant and enthralling the experience of falling in love can be, as well as how painstaking and demoralizing losing a love can be. The reader will become enticed and aroused, as they experience the sensual ambience of these alluring and stimulating poems about lust and desire. The passionate ecstasy of finally embracing a mate you have longed pined for, is nothing short of invigorating. Lastly, the poetry about nature and earth will soothe and bestow upon the reader a serene contentment, as they partake in reading these artistic, dynamic pieces about how remarkable and beautiful the natural world truly is.
The Human Show
Author: Sean S. Findlay
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1452089973
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
"The Human Show" is a collection of poignant and eloquent poetry about a variety of riveting, vital matters. The book is split into chapters and includes poetry that is enlightening and inspiring as well as poetry that is disheartening and empathy provoking. The reader will go on a personal journey in which their values, opinions, and perspectives on many things in life may be challenged. This is especially true in the poetry about worldly issues. This chapter includes pieces on child abuse, terrorism, domestic violence, inequality, apathy, drunk driving, and many other unfortunate realities that humanity as a whole faces today. Poetry about the human experience, the psyche, and philosophy will inspire the reader to think outside of the box and expand on the stale, monotonous thought processes that today's society has confined us to. The poetry will remind the reader of how amazing it is simply being alive and ignite a new curious aspiration to discover how and why we lead our lives the way that we do. The writings about love and relationships will allow the reader to delve into infinite wonder about life's most captivating and powerful emotion: love. This poetry tells of how brilliant and enthralling the experience of falling in love can be, as well as how painstaking and demoralizing losing a love can be. The reader will become enticed and aroused, as they experience the sensual ambience of these alluring and stimulating poems about lust and desire. The passionate ecstasy of finally embracing a mate you have longed pined for, is nothing short of invigorating. Lastly, the poetry about nature and earth will soothe and bestow upon the reader a serene contentment, as they partake in reading these artistic, dynamic pieces about how remarkable and beautiful the natural world truly is.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1452089973
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
"The Human Show" is a collection of poignant and eloquent poetry about a variety of riveting, vital matters. The book is split into chapters and includes poetry that is enlightening and inspiring as well as poetry that is disheartening and empathy provoking. The reader will go on a personal journey in which their values, opinions, and perspectives on many things in life may be challenged. This is especially true in the poetry about worldly issues. This chapter includes pieces on child abuse, terrorism, domestic violence, inequality, apathy, drunk driving, and many other unfortunate realities that humanity as a whole faces today. Poetry about the human experience, the psyche, and philosophy will inspire the reader to think outside of the box and expand on the stale, monotonous thought processes that today's society has confined us to. The poetry will remind the reader of how amazing it is simply being alive and ignite a new curious aspiration to discover how and why we lead our lives the way that we do. The writings about love and relationships will allow the reader to delve into infinite wonder about life's most captivating and powerful emotion: love. This poetry tells of how brilliant and enthralling the experience of falling in love can be, as well as how painstaking and demoralizing losing a love can be. The reader will become enticed and aroused, as they experience the sensual ambience of these alluring and stimulating poems about lust and desire. The passionate ecstasy of finally embracing a mate you have longed pined for, is nothing short of invigorating. Lastly, the poetry about nature and earth will soothe and bestow upon the reader a serene contentment, as they partake in reading these artistic, dynamic pieces about how remarkable and beautiful the natural world truly is.
Freak Show
Author: Robert Bogdan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022622743X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This cultural history of the travelling freak show in America chronicles the rise and fall of the industry as attitudes about disability evolved. From 1840 until 1940, hundreds of freak shows crisscrossed the United States, from the smallest towns to the largest cities, exhibiting their casts of dwarfs, giants, Siamese twins, bearded ladies, savages, snake charmers, fire eaters, and other oddities. By today’s standards such displays would be considered cruel and exploitative—the pornography of disability. Yet for one hundred years the freak show was widely accepted as one of America’s most popular forms of entertainment. Robert Bogdan’s fascinating social history brings to life the world of the freak show and explores the culture that nurtured and, later, abandoned it. In uncovering this neglected chapter of show business, he describes in detail the flimflam artistry behind the shows, the promoters and the audiences, and the gradual evolution of public opinion from awe to embarrassment. Freaks were not born, Bogdan reveals; they were manufactured by the amusement world, usually with the active participation of the freaks themselves. Many of the "human curiosities" found fame and fortune, until the ascent of professional medicine transformed them from marvels into pathological specimens.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022622743X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This cultural history of the travelling freak show in America chronicles the rise and fall of the industry as attitudes about disability evolved. From 1840 until 1940, hundreds of freak shows crisscrossed the United States, from the smallest towns to the largest cities, exhibiting their casts of dwarfs, giants, Siamese twins, bearded ladies, savages, snake charmers, fire eaters, and other oddities. By today’s standards such displays would be considered cruel and exploitative—the pornography of disability. Yet for one hundred years the freak show was widely accepted as one of America’s most popular forms of entertainment. Robert Bogdan’s fascinating social history brings to life the world of the freak show and explores the culture that nurtured and, later, abandoned it. In uncovering this neglected chapter of show business, he describes in detail the flimflam artistry behind the shows, the promoters and the audiences, and the gradual evolution of public opinion from awe to embarrassment. Freaks were not born, Bogdan reveals; they were manufactured by the amusement world, usually with the active participation of the freaks themselves. Many of the "human curiosities" found fame and fortune, until the ascent of professional medicine transformed them from marvels into pathological specimens.
Team Human
Author: Douglas Rushkoff
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393651703
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Porchlight’s Management and Workplace Culture Book of The Year “[A] thoroughly fascinating exploration of the long interplay between power and the technologies of communication.” —Adam Frank, NPR Team Human is a manifesto—a fiery distillation of preeminent digital theorist Douglas Rushkoff’s most urgent thoughts on civilization and human nature. In one hundred lean and incisive statements, he argues that we are essentially social creatures, and that we achieve our greatest aspirations when we work together—not as individuals. Yet today society is threatened by a vast antihuman infrastructure that undermines our ability to connect. Money, once a means of exchange, is now a means of exploitation; education, conceived as way to elevate the working class, has become another assembly line; and the internet has only further divided us into increasingly atomized and radicalized groups. Team Human delivers a call to arms. If we are to resist and survive these destructive forces, we must recognize that being human is a team sport. In Rushkoff’s own words: “Being social may be the whole point.” Harnessing wide-ranging research on human evolution, biology, and psychology, Rushkoff shows that when we work together we realize greater happiness, productivity, and peace. If we can find the others who understand this fundamental truth and reassert our humanity—together—we can make the world a better place to be human.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393651703
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Porchlight’s Management and Workplace Culture Book of The Year “[A] thoroughly fascinating exploration of the long interplay between power and the technologies of communication.” —Adam Frank, NPR Team Human is a manifesto—a fiery distillation of preeminent digital theorist Douglas Rushkoff’s most urgent thoughts on civilization and human nature. In one hundred lean and incisive statements, he argues that we are essentially social creatures, and that we achieve our greatest aspirations when we work together—not as individuals. Yet today society is threatened by a vast antihuman infrastructure that undermines our ability to connect. Money, once a means of exchange, is now a means of exploitation; education, conceived as way to elevate the working class, has become another assembly line; and the internet has only further divided us into increasingly atomized and radicalized groups. Team Human delivers a call to arms. If we are to resist and survive these destructive forces, we must recognize that being human is a team sport. In Rushkoff’s own words: “Being social may be the whole point.” Harnessing wide-ranging research on human evolution, biology, and psychology, Rushkoff shows that when we work together we realize greater happiness, productivity, and peace. If we can find the others who understand this fundamental truth and reassert our humanity—together—we can make the world a better place to be human.
Why the World Needs Anthropologists
Author: Dan Podjed
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000182738
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Why does the world need anthropology and anthropologists? This collection of essays written by prominent academic, practising and applied anthropologists aims to answer this provocative question. In an accessible and appealing style, each author in this volume inquires about the social value and practical application of the discipline of anthropology. Contributors note that the problems the world faces at a global scale are both new and old, unique and universal, and that solving them requires the use of long-proven tools as well as innovative approaches. They highlight that using anthropology in relevant ways outside academia contributes to the development of a new paradigm in anthropology, one where the ability to collaborate across disciplinary and professional boundaries becomes both central and legitimate. Contributors provide specific suggestions to anthropologists and the public at large on practical ways to use anthropology to change the world for the better. This one-of-a-kind volume will be of interest to fledgling and established anthropologists, social scientists and the general public.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000182738
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Why does the world need anthropology and anthropologists? This collection of essays written by prominent academic, practising and applied anthropologists aims to answer this provocative question. In an accessible and appealing style, each author in this volume inquires about the social value and practical application of the discipline of anthropology. Contributors note that the problems the world faces at a global scale are both new and old, unique and universal, and that solving them requires the use of long-proven tools as well as innovative approaches. They highlight that using anthropology in relevant ways outside academia contributes to the development of a new paradigm in anthropology, one where the ability to collaborate across disciplinary and professional boundaries becomes both central and legitimate. Contributors provide specific suggestions to anthropologists and the public at large on practical ways to use anthropology to change the world for the better. This one-of-a-kind volume will be of interest to fledgling and established anthropologists, social scientists and the general public.
Human Magnetism; its claims to dispassionate inquiry. Being an attempt to show the utility of its application for the relief of human suffering
Author: William NEWNHAM (Surgeon.)
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 450
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The Human Figure
Author: John Henry Vanderpoel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anatomy, Artistic
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anatomy, Artistic
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The Human Eye
Interview with the Vampire
Author: Anne Rice
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345337662
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The spellbinding classic that started it all, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author—the inspiration for the hit television series “A magnificent, compulsively readable thriller . . . Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth—the education of the vampire.”—Chicago Tribune Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly sensual, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force—a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345337662
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The spellbinding classic that started it all, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author—the inspiration for the hit television series “A magnificent, compulsively readable thriller . . . Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth—the education of the vampire.”—Chicago Tribune Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly sensual, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force—a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write.
To Err Is Human
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309068371
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Experts estimate that as many as 98,000 people die in any given year from medical errors that occur in hospitals. That's more than die from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDSâ€"three causes that receive far more public attention. Indeed, more people die annually from medication errors than from workplace injuries. Add the financial cost to the human tragedy, and medical error easily rises to the top ranks of urgent, widespread public problems. To Err Is Human breaks the silence that has surrounded medical errors and their consequenceâ€"but not by pointing fingers at caring health care professionals who make honest mistakes. After all, to err is human. Instead, this book sets forth a national agendaâ€"with state and local implicationsâ€"for reducing medical errors and improving patient safety through the design of a safer health system. This volume reveals the often startling statistics of medical error and the disparity between the incidence of error and public perception of it, given many patients' expectations that the medical profession always performs perfectly. A careful examination is made of how the surrounding forces of legislation, regulation, and market activity influence the quality of care provided by health care organizations and then looks at their handling of medical mistakes. Using a detailed case study, the book reviews the current understanding of why these mistakes happen. A key theme is that legitimate liability concerns discourage reporting of errorsâ€"which begs the question, "How can we learn from our mistakes?" Balancing regulatory versus market-based initiatives and public versus private efforts, the Institute of Medicine presents wide-ranging recommendations for improving patient safety, in the areas of leadership, improved data collection and analysis, and development of effective systems at the level of direct patient care. To Err Is Human asserts that the problem is not bad people in health careâ€"it is that good people are working in bad systems that need to be made safer. Comprehensive and straightforward, this book offers a clear prescription for raising the level of patient safety in American health care. It also explains how patients themselves can influence the quality of care that they receive once they check into the hospital. This book will be vitally important to federal, state, and local health policy makers and regulators, health professional licensing officials, hospital administrators, medical educators and students, health caregivers, health journalists, patient advocatesâ€"as well as patients themselves. First in a series of publications from the Quality of Health Care in America, a project initiated by the Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309068371
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Experts estimate that as many as 98,000 people die in any given year from medical errors that occur in hospitals. That's more than die from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDSâ€"three causes that receive far more public attention. Indeed, more people die annually from medication errors than from workplace injuries. Add the financial cost to the human tragedy, and medical error easily rises to the top ranks of urgent, widespread public problems. To Err Is Human breaks the silence that has surrounded medical errors and their consequenceâ€"but not by pointing fingers at caring health care professionals who make honest mistakes. After all, to err is human. Instead, this book sets forth a national agendaâ€"with state and local implicationsâ€"for reducing medical errors and improving patient safety through the design of a safer health system. This volume reveals the often startling statistics of medical error and the disparity between the incidence of error and public perception of it, given many patients' expectations that the medical profession always performs perfectly. A careful examination is made of how the surrounding forces of legislation, regulation, and market activity influence the quality of care provided by health care organizations and then looks at their handling of medical mistakes. Using a detailed case study, the book reviews the current understanding of why these mistakes happen. A key theme is that legitimate liability concerns discourage reporting of errorsâ€"which begs the question, "How can we learn from our mistakes?" Balancing regulatory versus market-based initiatives and public versus private efforts, the Institute of Medicine presents wide-ranging recommendations for improving patient safety, in the areas of leadership, improved data collection and analysis, and development of effective systems at the level of direct patient care. To Err Is Human asserts that the problem is not bad people in health careâ€"it is that good people are working in bad systems that need to be made safer. Comprehensive and straightforward, this book offers a clear prescription for raising the level of patient safety in American health care. It also explains how patients themselves can influence the quality of care that they receive once they check into the hospital. This book will be vitally important to federal, state, and local health policy makers and regulators, health professional licensing officials, hospital administrators, medical educators and students, health caregivers, health journalists, patient advocatesâ€"as well as patients themselves. First in a series of publications from the Quality of Health Care in America, a project initiated by the Institute of Medicine
Human Animals
Author: Stef Smith
Publisher: NHB Modern Plays
ISBN: 9781848425286
Category : Dystopian plays
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the overcrowded city, nature is getting out of control. The mice are scratching between walls, the pigeons are diseased and the foxes are beginning to rule the streets. The problem is growing. It's contagious. It has to be stopped, before it's too late. Stef Smith's play Human Animals premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in May 2016, in a production directed by Hamish Pirie.
Publisher: NHB Modern Plays
ISBN: 9781848425286
Category : Dystopian plays
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the overcrowded city, nature is getting out of control. The mice are scratching between walls, the pigeons are diseased and the foxes are beginning to rule the streets. The problem is growing. It's contagious. It has to be stopped, before it's too late. Stef Smith's play Human Animals premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in May 2016, in a production directed by Hamish Pirie.