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“diane goldstein”

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  • The Quantum World

    Quantum Physics for Everyone

    by Kenneth W. Ford, Diane Goldstein ...
    As Kenneth W. Ford shows us in The Quantum World, the laws governing the very small and the very swift defy common sense and stretch our minds to the limit. Drawing on a deep familiarity with the discoveries of the twentieth century, Ford gives an appealing account of quantum physics that will help the serious reader make sense of a science that, for all its successes, remains mysterious. In order ... Read more

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  • Haunting Experiences

    Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore

    by Diane Goldstein, Sylvia Grider, Jeannie Banks Thomas ...
    Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and ... Read more

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  • Mixtec Evangelicals

    Globalization, Migration, and Religious Change in a Oaxacan Indigenous Group

    by Mary I. O'Connor ...
    Mixtec Evangelicals is a comparative ethnography of four Mixtec communities in Oaxaca, detailing the process by which economic migration and religious conversion combine to change the social and cultural makeup of predominantly folk-Catholic communities. The book describes the effects on the home communities of the Mixtecs who travel to northern Mexico and the United States in search of wage labor ... Read more

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  • Facing the Center

    Toward an Identity Politics of One-to-One Mentoring

    by Harry C. Denny ...
    In the diversity of their clients as well as their professional and student staff, writing centers present a complicated set of relationships that inevitably affect the instruction they offer. In Facing the Center, Harry Denny unpacks the identity matrices that enrich teachable moments, and he explores the pedagogical dynamics and implications of identity within the writing center.The face of the ... Read more

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  • Healing Logics

    Culture and Medicine in Modern Health Belief Systems

    by Erika Brady ...
    Scholars in folklore and anthropology are more directly involved in various aspects of medicine—such as medical education, clinical pastoral care, and negotiation of transcultural issues—than ever before. Old models of investigation that artificially isolated "folk medicine," "complementary and alternative medicine," and "biomedicine" as mutually exclusive have proven too limited in exploring the ... Read more

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  • Landscaping on the New Frontier

    Waterwise Design for the Intermountain West

    by Susan E. Meyer, Roger K. Kjelgren, Darrel G. Morrison, William A. Varga, Bettina Schultz ...
    A practical volume for the home or business owner on landscaping with native, drought-tolerant plants in the Rocky Mountain West. Filled with color illustrations, photos, and design sketches, over 100 native species are described, while practical tips on landscape design, water-wise irrigation, and keeping down the weeds are provided.In this book you will learn how to use natural landscapes to ... Read more

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  • On Being Human

    Folklore of Mormon Missionaries

    by William Wilson ...
    A collection of narratives, humorous stories, and songs from Mormon missionaries that has become a classic study of narrative folklore. The 64th annual Faculty Honor Lecture, in the Humanities, Utah State University. ... Read more

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  • Jesus in America and Other Stories from the Field

    by Claudia Gould ...
    Drawing on ethnographic field work she conducted among Christians in her home state of North Carolina, Claudia Gould crafts stories that lay open the human heart and social complications of fundamentalist belief. These stories and the compelling characters who inhabit them draw us into the complex essence of religious experience among southern American Christians. ... Read more

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  • Roll Away Saloon

    by Deirdre Paulsen ...
    Series series Western Experience Series
    With his animated tales of Zane Grey, Butch Cassidy, and the Robbers Roost gang, Rider creates an engaging and believable picture of the joys and hardships of cowboy life. ... Read more

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  • Japanese Demon Lore

    Oni from Ancient Times to the Present

    by Noriko T. Reider ...
    Oni, ubiquitous supernatural figures in Japanese literature, lore, art, and religion, usually appear as demons or ogres. Characteristically threatening, monstrous creatures with ugly features and fearful habits, including cannibalism, they also can be harbingers of prosperity, beautiful and sexual, and especially in modern contexts, even cute and lovable. There has been much ambiguity in their ... Read more

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  • Tomorrow's Living Room

    by Jason Whitmarsh ...
    Series Book 13 - Swenson Poetry Award
    Volume 13 in the Swenson Award Series, Tomorrow's Living Room offers a pleasantly disorienting verbal territory. The collection is alternately wry and dark, hopeful and bleak, full of unexpected light and laugh-out-loud incongruities. We begin to see that the shape and the furniture of Jason Whitmarsh's world reflect our own (they may in fact be universal), but we're considering them through ... Read more

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  • Exploring Desert Stone

    John N. Macomb's 1859 Expedition to the Canyonlands of the Colorado

    by Steven K. Madsen ...
    The confluence of the Green and Colorado Rivers, now in Canyonlands National Park, near popular tourist destination Moab, still cannot be reached or viewed easily. Much of the surrounding region remained remote and rarely visited for decades after settlement of other parts of the West. The first U.S. government expedition to explore the canyon country and the Four Corners area was led by John ... Read more

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