The relationship between anthropologists Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict is revealed here, with details of their unconventional sexual relationship and their efforts to combat sexism, racism, xenophobia, and homophobia. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.[...]
Contains the text of letters that the famed author wrote to children, as he shared his feelings about school, writing, and animals, among other topics, and demonstrated his deep understanding of young people. Reprint.[...]
Rarely do science and literature come together in the same book. When they do -- as in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, for example -- they become classics, quoted and studied by scholars and the general public alike.Margaret Mead accomplished this remarkable feat not once but several time[...]
Following the sensational success of her first book, Coming of Age in Samoa, Margaret Mead continued her brilliant work in Growing Up in New Guinea, detailing her study of the Manus, a New Guinea people still untouched by the outside world when she visited them in 1928. She lived in their noisy fish[...]
"Good government" is commonly seen either as a formidable challenge, a distant dream, or an oxymoron, and yet it is the reason why Wisconsin led America toward welfare reform. In this book, Lawrence Mead shows in depth what the Badger State did and - just as important - how it was done. Wisconsin's [...]
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world."--Margaret Mead This quotation--found on posters and bumper stickers, and adopted as the motto for hundreds of organizations worldwide--speaks to the global influence and legacy of the American anthropologist Mar[...]
Printed book plus Pageburst(TM) access - you will receive a printed book and access to the complete book content electronically. Pageburst(TM) enhances learning by not only bringing world class content to your fingertips but also letting you add to it, annotate it, and categorize it all in a way tha[...]
If you have ever wanted to learn to play all sorts of Guitar styles from Pop and Rock to Jazz and Blues, then this book is for you! "Learn To Play Guitar In 24 Hours" offers you 24 clear, self-contained lessons fully illustrated with photographs, diagrams and musical examples, for you too take at yo[...]
This volume is composed of extended versions of selected papers presented at an international conference held in June 2011 at Opole University-the seventh in a series of annual American and European Values conferences organized by the Institute of Philosophy, Opole University, Poland. The papers wer[...]
Offering coverage of the major points of the CIMA 2006 certificate syllabus, these revision cards use diagrams and bulleted lists to display the key points.[...]
Georgina, a succubus who draws her power from other men's pleasure, finds her personal life in chaos as she deals with a possessed co-worker, her immortal best friend's obsession with an ultra-conservative talk radio star, and a rising evil. Original.[...]
In this posthumous volume, renowned sociologist Herbert Blumer analyzes George Herbert MeadOs position in the study of human conduct. Engaged with MeadOs work for over half a century, Blumer explored MeadOs ideas for developing the theoretical and methodological position of symbolic interactionism, [...]
Mead may have been "discovered," as some suggest, when one of our not-yet-upright forebears stuck their hand in a fermenting bee hive and came away with a honeycomb containing a little more than they bargained for. Whatever the truth, brewers have brought this beverage into the twenty-first century,[...]
With fantastical narratives, home-brewing instructions, and original craft cocktail recipes, Mead is the ultimate exploration of the resurgent alcoholic beverage that is nearly as old as time itself. Beloved by figures as diverse as Queen Elizabeth and Thor, the Vikings and the Greek gods, mead is o[...]
As anthropologists, public intellectuals, and feminists, Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead played remarkable roles in twentieth-century life and thought-and far beyond the academy. Their work helped to popularize anthropology while introducing such terms as culture and racism into common parlance. At [...]