12 Ergebnisse.

Keine Beschreibung.

For counselor Nancy Wainer Cohen, this book is the sibling to Silent Knife: Cesarean Prevention and Vaginal Birth after Cesarean (Bergin & Garvey, 1983) her critically-acclaimed expose on America's growing reliance on cesarean sections. Open Season provides fresh insights and new information on the subject, offering guidance to childbearing couples, educators, health professionals, and scholars who value the natural path of childbirth. Reader...

Presents the first comprehensive survey of the entire field of resource allocation, production, and distribution, proposing an economic logistics that joins the elements of the supply process together into large analytic structures.

Keine Beschreibung.

Offers a study of Latino political coalitions, which are acquiring increasing power in US politics and which are seen by the Latinos as a major road to political empowerment. The book illuminates the historical and cyclical changes that have occurred in the life of the Latino community.

Figures of Resistance" is not simply the best English-language study of Heian prose texts now available, but also one of the two or three most important studies of Japanese literature ever written. It will become not so much the 'standard' . . . as the critical point of departure in the field of Japanese narrative studies for years to come." --Edward Fowler, University of California, Irvine

In a series of detailed studies ranging from political economy to missionary ethnography, Mayhew, and Trollope's fiction, Herbert then focuses on the intellectual and historical circumstances that gave to 'culture' the appearance of a secure category of scientific analysis despite its apparent logical incoherence. What he describes is an intimate relationship between the idea of culture and its antithesis, the myth of fantasy of a state of bou...

Keine Beschreibung.

In this revisionist study of texts from the mid-Heian period in Japan, H. Richard Okada offers new readings of three well-known tales: The Tale of the Bamboo-cutter, The Tale of Ise, and The Tale of Genji. Okada contends that the cultural and gendered significance of these works has been distorted by previous commentaries and translations belonging to the larger patriarchal and colonialist discourse of Western civilization. He goes on to sugge...

This book shows how, once we have adjusted to the unitive state, the spiritual journey moves on to yet another more final ending.

Men have long been considered difficult to engage in psychotherapy, often being described as resistant, unworkable, and unfeeling. The few available books that deal specifically with men's issues tend to lack a central theoretical focus, are highly psychoanalytic in content, or simply do not provide specific guidelines for working with men. This unique and timely volume fills an important gap in the literature by demonstrating why change is of...

Fresh insights and new information on the subject of caesarean sections, offering guidance to childbearing couples, educators, health professionals and scholars who value the natural path of childbirth.