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Writing Strategies

Reaching Diverse Audiences

by Laurel Richardson ...

Series series Qualitative Research Methods
You′ve finished your research and have reached the point of writing it up. You know your findings are important both for your colleagues and for a more general public. But how do you write this material to appeal to different audiences? In Writing Strategies, Laurel Richardson shows you how. Drawing on her own experiences, she carefully outlines strategies for writing up the same research in ... Read more

$36.89 USD

You′ve finished your research and have reached the point of writing it up. You know your findings are important both for your colleagues and for a more general public. But how do you write this material to appeal to different audiences? In Writing Strategies, Laurel Richardson shows you how. Drawing on her own experiences, she carefully outlines strategies for writing up the same research in
... Read more
A Story of a Marriage Through Dementia and Beyond

Love in a Whirlwind

by Laurel Richardson ...

Series series Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives
A Story of a Marriage Through Dementia and Beyond is the extraordinary, unflinching account from sociologist Laurel Richardson of her love and caregiving through the last period of her husband Ernest Lockridge's life - from his transient amnesia to his death from Lewy Body Dementia.Focusing on the lived experience of the caregiver through the loved one’s journey from mild cognitive impairment to ... Read more

$55.99 USD

A Story of a Marriage Through Dementia and Beyond is the extraordinary, unflinching account from sociologist Laurel Richardson of her love and caregiving through the last period of her husband Ernest Lockridge's life - from his transient amnesia to his death from Lewy Body Dementia.Focusing on the lived experience of the caregiver through the loved one’s journey from mild cognitive impairment to
... Read more
After a Fall

A Sociomedical Sojourn

by Laurel Richardson ...

For renowned sociologist and writer Laurel Richardson, a broken foot led to a month as a patient in an extended care facility. In this compelling description of her lived experience in one of these institutions, she addresses key questions of health delivery and behavior: nurses who can be angelic or cruel, institutional policies often structured to maximize income over care, and patients whose ... Read more

$57.99 USD

For renowned sociologist and writer Laurel Richardson, a broken foot led to a month as a patient in an extended care facility. In this compelling description of her lived experience in one of these institutions, she addresses key questions of health delivery and behavior: nurses who can be angelic or cruel, institutional policies often structured to maximize income over care, and patients whose
... Read more
Last Writes

A Daybook for a Dying Friend

by Laurel Richardson ...

Series series Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives
Betty Frankel Kirschner succumbed to emphysema one day in June. She had been a long-term professor at Kent State University, founding member of the feminist caucus in sociology, a political activist, a chain smoker. Close friend Laurel Richardson, a key figure in literary turn in ethnographic writing, kept a daybook, relating their conversations and interactions over Betty’s last few months. Rich ... Read more

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Betty Frankel Kirschner succumbed to emphysema one day in June. She had been a long-term professor at Kent State University, founding member of the feminist caucus in sociology, a political activist, a chain smoker. Close friend Laurel Richardson, a key figure in literary turn in ethnographic writing, kept a daybook, relating their conversations and interactions over Betty’s last few months. Rich
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9/11 in American Culture

by Mary Weems, Henry A. Giroux, Douglas Kellner, Peter McLaren, Jack Z. Bratich, Arnold, Shepperson Tomaselli, Patricia Tacineto Clough, Michelle Fine, Joanne Robertson, Karen Staller, Greg Dimitriadis, Angharad N. Valdivia, Laurel Richardson, Heidi Marie Brush, Robert W. McChesney, Dierde Glenn Paul, Joe L. Kincheloe, Shirley Steinberg, Birgit Richard, Cameron McCarthy, Virginia Olesen, Cary Nelson, Kenneth J. Gergen, William L. Miller, Anton J. Kuzel, Mary Gergen, Kathy Charmaz, Davydd J. Greenwood, Shulamit Reinharz, Staceyann Chin, Lois Weis, Arthur P. Bochner, Carolyn Ellis, Ivan Brady, William G. Tierney, Gerardo R. Lopez, H.L Goodall Jr, Karen Scott-Hoy, Tracy K. Lewis, Patricia Geist Martin, James Joseph Scheurich, Dr. Christopher N. Poulos, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Stephen John Hartnett ...

Series series Crossroads in Qualitative Inquiry
In response to the events following September 11, a number of leading cultural studies and interpretive qualitative researchers write from their own experiences and hearts. Their essays-by noted scholars Kellner, Fine, McLaren, Richardson, Denzin, Giroux and others-are collected in this volume, and were written in crisis within days and weeks of September 11. The immediacy of their writing is ... Read more

$43.79 USD

In response to the events following September 11, a number of leading cultural studies and interpretive qualitative researchers write from their own experiences and hearts. Their essays-by noted scholars Kellner, Fine, McLaren, Richardson, Denzin, Giroux and others-are collected in this volume, and were written in crisis within days and weeks of September 11. The immediacy of their writing is
... Read more
Symbolic Interaction

An Introduction to Social Psychology

by Patricia A. Adler, Peter Adler, Leon Anderson, Herbert Blumer, David G. Bromley, Richard A. Brymer, Steven L. Buban, Spencer Cahill, Charles H. Cooley, Carl Couch0, John Dewey1, Mary Lorenz Dietz2, Andrea Fontana3, George M. Gmelch4, Erving Goffman5, Peter M. Hall6, Bill Hanson7, Michael A. Katovich8, Lewis M. Killian9, David R. Maines0, Jerome Manis1, Joseph Marolla2, Don Martindale3, Bernard N. Meltzer4, Charlene Miall5, Dan E. Miller6, Warren R. Paap7, C Eddie Palmer8, Robert Perinbanayagam9, John W.Petras0, Robert Prus1, Larry T. Reynolds2, Laurel Richardson4, Diana Scully5, William Shaffir6, Tamotsu Shibutani7, Anson D. Shupe Jr8, David A. Snow9, Stephan Spitzer0, John Stratton1, W.I Thomas2, Scott Thumma3, Ruth A. Wallace4, Alison Wolf5 ...

Series series The Reynolds Series in Sociology
This reader shows the rich history and wide contemporary application of symbolic interaction theory. ... Read more

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This reader shows the rich history and wide contemporary application of symbolic interaction theory.
... Read more
Travels with Ernest

Crossing the Literary/Sociological Divide

by Laurel Richardson, Ernest Lockridge ...

Series series Ethnographic Alternatives
In Travels with Ernest: Crossing the Literary/Sociological Divide, Laurel Richardson and Ernest Lockridge_accomplished sociologist and published novelist_explore the fascinating interplay between literary and ethnographic writing. The exciting result is an intriguing experimental text that simultaneously delves into, reveals, simplifies, and complicates methodologies of writing and conveying ... Read more

$121.49 USD

In Travels with Ernest: Crossing the Literary/Sociological Divide, Laurel Richardson and Ernest Lockridge_accomplished sociologist and published novelist_explore the fascinating interplay between literary and ethnographic writing. The exciting result is an intriguing experimental text that simultaneously delves into, reveals, simplifies, and complicates methodologies of writing and conveying
... Read more
Ethnographically Speaking

Autoethnography, Literature, and Aesthetics

by Carolyn Ellis, Michael V. Angrosino, Arthur P. Bochner, Kathryn Church, Teresa Beverly Dent, Douglas Flemons, Arthur Frank, Kenneth Gergen, Mary Gergen0, H. L. Goodall1, Ross Gray2, Shelley Green3, Scott Hoy4, Vrenia Ivonoffski5, Elaine Jenks6, Stacy Holman Jones7, Christine Kiesinger8, Lesa Lockford9, Ernest Lockridge0, Ron Pelias1, Picart Kay2, Laurel Richardson3, Janice Rushing4, Christina Sinding5, Andrew C. Sparkes6, Paul Stoller7, Lisa Tillmann-Healy8 ...

Series series Ethnographic Alternatives
This volume presents the latest explorations of the literary turn in ethnographic work by many of the leading people in the area. Centering on autoethnography, personal narrative, ethnographic performance, and the blending of social science and the arts, the articles collected here emphasize embodiment, experiential understanding, participatory ways of knowing, sensuous engagement, and intimate ... Read more

$30.79 USD

This volume presents the latest explorations of the literary turn in ethnographic work by many of the leading people in the area. Centering on autoethnography, personal narrative, ethnographic performance, and the blending of social science and the arts, the articles collected here emphasize embodiment, experiential understanding, participatory ways of knowing, sensuous engagement, and intimate
... Read more

Prozac Nation

Young and Depressed in America

by Elizabeth Wurtzel ...

**Elizabeth Wurtzel's New York Times best-selling memoir, with a new afterword"Sparkling, luminescent prose . . . A powerful portrait of one girl's journey through the purgatory of depression and back." —New York Times"A book that became a cultural touchstone." —New Yorker**Elizabeth Wurtzel writes with her finger on the faint pulse of an overdiagnosed generation whose ruling icons are Kurt Cobain ... Read more

$11.99 USD

**Elizabeth Wurtzel's New York Times best-selling memoir, with a new afterword"Sparkling, luminescent prose . . . A powerful portrait of one girl's journey through the purgatory of depression and back." —New York Times"A book that became a cultural touchstone." —New Yorker**Elizabeth Wurtzel writes with her finger on the faint pulse of an overdiagnosed generation whose ruling icons are Kurt Cobain
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Send Yourself Roses

Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles

by Kathleen Turner, Gloria Feldt ...

Kathleen Turner is one of the most admired actresses of her generation, but she's led a very private life. Here is the bestselling candid and humorous account of her personal and professional life--including the truth about her recently-ended marriage, her inspiring recovery from rheumatoid arthritis, and her award-winning return to the stage.From her film debut as the sultry schemer in Body Heat ... Read more

$12.99 USD

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Kathleen Turner is one of the most admired actresses of her generation, but she's led a very private life. Here is the bestselling candid and humorous account of her personal and professional life--including the truth about her recently-ended marriage, her inspiring recovery from rheumatoid arthritis, and her award-winning return to the stage.From her film debut as the sultry schemer in Body Heat
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Dancing at the Shame Prom

Sharing the Stories That Kept Us Small

Edited by Amy Ferris, Hollye Dexter ...

Shame is a powerful thing. It can weigh on your heart and mind, diminish your sense of self-worth, and impact the way you live in the world. But what happens when you share that secret burden?Amy Ferris, Hollye Dexter, and the writers they brought together are all ready to let go of shame. In Dancing at the Shame Prom, twenty-six extraordinary women-Lyena Strelkoff, Teresa Stack, Monica Holloway, ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Shame is a powerful thing. It can weigh on your heart and mind, diminish your sense of self-worth, and impact the way you live in the world. But what happens when you share that secret burden?Amy Ferris, Hollye Dexter, and the writers they brought together are all ready to let go of shame. In Dancing at the Shame Prom, twenty-six extraordinary women-Lyena Strelkoff, Teresa Stack, Monica Holloway,
... Read more
Because I Love Her

by Andrea N. Richesin ...

This profound and poignant collection highlights some of the best literary writers of our time in an era when the roles of mothers and daughters are constantly being questioned and redefined. Because I Love Her explores the deepest bonds and truths of motherhood by sharing stories and secrets of becoming a mother and grandmother. Ranging from established and bestselling authors to exciting new ... Read more

$6.99 USD

This profound and poignant collection highlights some of the best literary writers of our time in an era when the roles of mothers and daughters are constantly being questioned and redefined. Because I Love Her explores the deepest bonds and truths of motherhood by sharing stories and secrets of becoming a mother and grandmother. Ranging from established and bestselling authors to exciting new
... Read more

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