Search Results - "Self"

Mothering the self mothers, daughters, subjects / by Lawler, Steph, 1958-

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Self and school sucess [sic] voices and lore of inner-city students / by Farrell, Edwin William

“…Self and school success…”
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Ilan Stavans eight conversations / by Stavans, Ilan

Table of Contents: “…The self and the world -- The uses of catastrophe -- The task of the intellectual -- Translation and its discontents -- Onto "la hispanidad" -- Lexicomania -- A biographer in Macondo -- Of rabbis, books, and mirrors.…”
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Listening For A Life A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through Her Songs and Stories / by Sawin, Patricia

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : dialogism and subjectivity -- "That was before I ever left home" : complex accounts of a simple childhood -- "If you had to work as hard as I did, it would kill you" : work, narrative, and self-definition -- "I said, 'don't you do it'" : tracing development as an empowered speaker through reported speech in narrative -- "He never did say anything about my dreams that would worry me after that" : negotiating gender and power in ghost stories -- "I'm a bad one to go pulling jokes on people" : practical joking as a problematic vehicle for oppositional self-definition -- "My singing is my life" : repertoire and performance -- Epilogue.…”
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Listening For A Life : A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through Her Songs and Stories / by Sawin, Patricia

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : dialogism and subjectivity -- "That was before I ever left home" : complex accounts of a simple childhood -- "If you had to work as hard as I did, it would kill you" : work, narrative, and self-definition -- "I said, 'don't you do it'" : tracing development as an empowered speaker through reported speech in narrative -- "He never did say anything about my dreams that would worry me after that" : negotiating gender and power in ghost stories -- "I'm a bad one to go pulling jokes on people" : practical joking as a problematic vehicle for oppositional self-definition -- "My singing is my life" : repertoire and performance -- Epilogue.…”
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Conversations with Paolo Soleri by Soleri, Paolo, 1919-

Table of Contents: “…Soleri : architecture as evolutionary quest / Lissa McCullough -- Writings from Soleri's notebooks -- Autobiographical musings -- Orchid and forest -- Responsibility of the architectural profession -- The city as hyperorganism -- The urban effect -- The concept of arcology -- Self-creating reality -- The lean alternative -- Esthetogenesis -- The love project -- A conversation with Paolo Soleri / Lissa McCullough, interviewer -- Soleri's architecture in contemporary context / Marco Felici -- Soleri's lean alternative in developing countries / Youngsoo Kim -- Biographical overview : Paolo Soleri (b. 1919).…”
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Muslim American youth understanding hyphenated identities through multiple methods / by Sirin, Selcuk R.

Table of Contents: “…Growing up in the shadow of moral exclusion -- Muslim-Americans : history, demography, and diversity -- Moral exclusion in a "nation of immigrants" : an American paradox -- The weight of the hyphen : discrimination and coping -- Negotiating the Muslim American hyphen : integrated, parallel, and conflictual paths -- Contact zones : negotiating the space between self and others -- Researching hyphenated selves across contexts -- Appendix A: Survey measures -- Appendix B: Individual interview protocol -- Appendix C: Focus-group protocols -- Appendix D: Identity maps coding sheet.…”
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Interviews : insights and introspection on doctoral research in architecture /

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Desertion and the American soldier, 1776-2006 by Fantina, Robert

Table of Contents: “…The Revolutionary War -- Corporal punishment -- Arduous military duty -- Lack of food -- Lack of clothing and related provisions -- Illness -- Lack of pay -- Homesickness -- Economic need -- British enticement -- British prisoners of war -- Bounty-jumping -- Ambivalence to the cause -- Fear -- Self-preservation -- 2. The War of 1812 -- Problems with pay -- Lack of supplies -- Lack of food -- Illness -- Poor leadership -- Inadequate weaponry -- 3. …”
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Conversations with contemporary cinematographers : the eye behind the lens / by Frost, Jacqueline B., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Maryse Alberti, ASC (Collateral beauty, Creed, The wrestler) -- John Bailey, ASC (Ordinary people, In the line of fire, The greatest) -- Robert Elswit, ASC (There will be blood, The Bourne legacy, Salt) -- Kirsten Johnson (Fahrenheit 9/11, Cameraperson, Trapped) -- Kira Kelly (Queen sugar, 13th, Self made) -- Ellen Kuras, ASC (Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Blow, Bamboozled) -- Edward Lachman, ASC (Dark waters, Carol, Erin Brockovich) -- Matthew Libatique, ASC (A star is born, Black Swan, Venom) -- John Lindley, ASC (Reservation Road, You've got mail, Pleasantville) -- Seamus McGarvey, ASC, BSC (The greatest showman, Atonement, The hours) -- Reed Morano, ASC (The handmaid's tale, I think we're alone now, The godmother) -- Polly Morgan, ASC, BSC (A quiet place II, Lucy in the sky, Legion) -- Rachel Morrison, ASC (Mudbound, Black Panther, Seberg) -- Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC (The Irishman, Brokeback Mountain, Wolf of Wall Street) -- Cynthia Pusheck, ASC (CSI Miami, Good girls revolt, Brother and sisters) -- Harris Savides, ASC (Zodiac, American gangster, Milk) -- Nancy Schrieber, ASC (Mapplethorpe, Motherhood, The Nines) -- John Seale, ASC, ACS (The tourist, The English patient, City of angels) -- Sandi Sissel, ASC, ACS (Salaam Bombay, Mother Teresa, Master and commander) -- Dante Spinotti, ASC, AIC (Public enemies, Red Dragon, Wonder boys) -- Salvatore Totino, ASC, AIC (Everest, The Davinchi Code, Frost/Nixon) -- Amy Vincent, ASC (Footloose, Eves Bayou, Hustle and flow) -- Mandy Walker, ACS, ACS (Australia, Hidden figures, Mulan).…”
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