Marcia: 774 books
Queen for a Day
Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Queen for a Day connects the logic of Venezuelan modernity with the production of a national femininity. In this ethnography, Marcia Ochoa considers how femininities are produced, performed, and consumed in the mass-media spectacles of international beauty pageants, on the runways of the Miss Venezuela...
Timefulness
How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Why an awareness of Earth’s temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survival
Few of us have any conception of the enormous timescales in our planet’s long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating for ourselves. The passage of...
Dispatches from Planet 3
Thirty-Two (Brief) Tales on the Solar System, the Milky Way, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
An award-winning science writer presents a captivating collection of cosmological essays for the armchair astronomer
The galaxy, the multiverse, and the history of astronomy are explored in this engaging compilation of cosmological “tales” by multiple award†‘winning science writer Marcia...
by Marcia Stephenson
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
In Andean Bolivia, racial and cultural differences are most visibly marked on women, who often still wear native dress and speak an indigenous language rather than Spanish. In this study of modernity in Bolivia, Marcia Stephenson explores how the state's desire for a racially and culturally homogenous...
Rancheros in Chicagoacán
Language and Identity in a Transnational Community
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Rancheros hold a distinct place in the culture and social hierarchy of Mexico, falling between the indigenous (Indian) rural Mexicans and the more educated city-dwelling Mexicans. In addition to making up an estimated twenty percent of the population of Mexico, rancheros may comprise the majority...
by Marcia Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2011
Written by a physical therapist, Wheelchair Freedom! presents a progressive home exercise program for wheelchair patients. It includes a step-by-step exercise program, tips on car transfers, wheelchair safety, accessories, and how to get through tight places. Track your progress and discover how wheelchair...
by Marcia Borell
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
We all walk and live somewhere between the light and the storm. I hope that these unique guided imagery meditations will take you on joyful journeys. They are filled with warmth and a touch of playful humor. Two introductory meditations are followed by four possible endings. This allows you the freedom...
The Adventure of the Flying Blue Pidgeon
Sherlock Holmes' London Through the Eyes of Scotland Yard
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Lestrade panted, getting to his feet as the gang of Cheathams fell back. “Right now I can think of worse things than rescue by an amateur detective.”“My dear Lestrade, we’re simply ensuring the fight is fair.” Sherlock Holmes somehow dissuaded the truth of that by the way his lips were coiling...
Video Keno
Winning $$$ with Marcia
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
I've written a Video Keno booklet to help increase your odds of winning at the casinos. Take a trip with me in my over 30 years of experience of playing Keno and we'll go fishin' and catch those WINNING keno numbers!!!
by Marcia J. Citron
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
Opera can reveal something fundamental about a film, and film can do the same for an opera, argues Marcia J. Citron. Structured by the categories of Style, Subjectivity, and Desire, this volume advances our understanding of the aesthetics of the opera/film encounter. Case studies of a diverse array...
Carville
Remembering Leprosy in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2004
Mysterious and misunderstood, distorted by biblical imagery of disfigurement and uncleanness, Hansen's disease or leprosy has all but disappeared from America's consciousness. In Carville, Louisiana, the closed doors of the nation's last center for the treatment of leprosy open to reveal stories of...
by Marcia Tiburi
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: August 20, 2014
"Naquele dia escolhemos mal a otária. A otária é reconhecida no meio da multidão dentre outras que trafegam indo de um lugar para o outro pelas falhas na camuflagem. Batom rosa no lugar de lábios secos, meias de seda no lugar da pele. Não gostamos das safadas, as que olham de esguelha....
Paterson Great Falls
From Local Landmark to National Historical Park
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
The story of Paterson is the story of its Great Falls. European settlers were awed by the natural wonder that the Lenni-Lenape called Acquackanonk. Fulfilling Alexander Hamilton's vision, the Falls fueled Paterson's development into the leader of the nation's Industrial Revolution, powering mills and...
Understanding Organization Through Culture and Structure
Relational and Other Lessons From the African American Organization
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2003
Understanding Organization Through Culture and Structure: Relational and Other Lessons From the African American Organization presents an innovative view of organizations and the communication processes that constitute them. Arguing that human beings are communicatively embedded in their cultures,...