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The Life of Paper

The Life of Paper

Sharon Luk

University of California Press
2017
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The Life of Paper offers a wholly original and inspiring analysis of how people facing systematic social dismantling have engaged in letter correspondence to remake themselves, from bodily integrity to subjectivity to collective and spiritual being. Exploring the evolution of racism and confinement in California history, this ambitious investigation disrupts common understandings of the early detention of Chinese migrants (1880s-1920s), the internment of Japanese Americans (1930s-1940s), and the mass incarceration of African Americans (1960s-present) in its meditation on modern development and imprisonment as a way of life. Situating letters within global capitalist movements, racial logics, and overlapping modes of social control, Luk demonstrates how correspondence among the incarcerated becomes a poetic act of reinvention and a means for living.
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Liberalism in Modern Japan

Liberalism in Modern Japan

Sharon Nolte

University of California Press
2022
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.
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Liberalism in Modern Japan

Liberalism in Modern Japan

Sharon Nolte

University of California Press
2022
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.
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Literature and Dissent in Milton's England

Literature and Dissent in Milton's England

Sharon Achinstein

Cambridge University Press
2008
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The England of John Milton's great poems was the England of Dissenters, those who refused to join the state Church after the return of monarchy in 1660, seen as dangerous outcasts and rebels. Sharon Achinstein's book shows how a literary tradition of dissent was produced by those who suffered political defeat and religious exclusion in Restoration England, bringing to view a range of writing that has been largely, and unjustly, neglected. Considering authors both inside and outside the dissenting tradition, including Milton, John Bunyan, Richard Baxter, Mary Mollineux, John Dryden, Andrew Marvell, Elizabeth Singer Rowe and Isaac Watts, and other little-known dissenting writers, Achinstein shows how a distinctive Dissenting cultural legacy challenges our notions of literary history, aesthetic value and the relation between literature and politics. This important study will be of interest to Milton scholars and seventeenth-century literary and religious historians.
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Autobiography and Gender in Early Modern Literature

Autobiography and Gender in Early Modern Literature

Sharon Cadman Seelig

Cambridge University Press
2009
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Early modern autobiographies and diaries provide a unique insight into women's lives and how they remembered, interpreted and represented their experiences. Sharon Seelig analyses the writings of six seventeenth-century women: diaries by Margaret Hoby and Anne Clifford, more extended narratives by Lucy Hutchinson, Ann Fanshawe, and Anne Halkett, and the extraordinarily varied and self-dramatising publications of Margaret Cavendish. Combining an account of the development of autobiography with close and attentive reading of the texts, Seelig explores the relation between the writers' choices of genre and form and the stories they chose to tell. She demonstrates how, in the course of the seventeenth century, women writers progressed from quite simple forms based on factual accounts to much more imaginative and persuasive acts of self-presentation. This important contribution to the fields of early modern literary studies and gender studies illuminates the interactions between literature and autobiography.
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Migrant Laborers

Migrant Laborers

Sharon Stichter

Cambridge University Press
1985
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First published in 1985, Migrant Laborers surveys the literature on labor migration in east, west and southern Africa and interprets it from a political economy perspective. It addresses the controversies as to the origins of migrancy and its effects on the rural economy, emphasizing the differences in the response of various African pre-capitalist societies to wage labor, and the regional variations in the effects on the rural economy and on the division of labor within the rural household. Male migrants' experiences with forced labor, recruitment systems, advance payments and compound controls are described, and the rather different character of women's migration is examined. A central concern is the development of migrant workers' consciousness and forms of resistance. Labor protest among dockers, miners and domestic workers is examined with respect to these questions. Finally, the persistence of migrancy in South Africa is contrasted to the decline of labor migrancy in other parts of the continent
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Dryland Climatology

Dryland Climatology

Sharon E. Nicholson

Cambridge University Press
2011
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A comprehensive review of dryland climates and their relationship to the physical environment, hydrology, and inhabitants. Chapters are divided into five major sections on background meteorology and climatology; the nature of dryland climates in relation to precipitation and hydrology; the climatology and climate dynamics of the major dryland regions on each continent; and life and change in the world's drylands. It includes key topics such as vegetation, geomorphology, desertification, micro-habitats, and adaptation to dryland environments. This interdisciplinary volume provides an extensive review of the primary literature (covering nearly 2000 references) and the conventional and satellite datasets that form key research tools for dryland climatology. Illustrated with over 300 author photographs, it presents a unique view of dryland climates for a broad spectrum of researchers, environmental professionals and advanced students in climatology, meteorology, geography, environment science, earth system science, ecology, hydrology and geomorphology.
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Kierkegaard on Faith and Love

Kierkegaard on Faith and Love

Sharon Krishek

Cambridge University Press
2009
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Kierkegaard's writings are interspersed with remarkable stories of love, commonly understood as a literary device that illustrates the problematic nature of aesthetic and ethical forms of life, and the contrasting desirability of the life of faith. Sharon Krishek argues that for Kierkegaard the connection between love and faith is far from being merely illustrative. Rather, love and faith have a common structure, and are involved with one another in a way that makes it impossible to love well without faith. Remarkably, this applies to romantic love no less than to neighbourly love. Krishek's original and compelling interpretation of the Works of Love in the light of Kierkegaard's famous analysis of the paradoxicality of faith in Fear and Trembling shows that preferential love, and in particular romantic love, plays a much more important and positive role in his thinking than has usually been assumed.
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Land Settlement in Early Tasmania

Land Settlement in Early Tasmania

Sharon Morgan

Cambridge University Press
2003
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This is the first detailed examination of land alienation and land use by white settlers in an Australian colony. It treats the first decades of settlement in Van Diemen’s Land, encompassing the effects of the European invasion on Aboriginal society, the early history of environmental degradation, the island’s society history and the growth of primary industry. The book presents vivid insights into nineteenth-century society, where wool was so useless that it was burnt, and farmers lived in fear of bushrangers and Aborigines. We see how individuals were constrained by the rigid expectations of race, class and gender in a society where no white man ever stood trial for rape or murder of a black. Drawing on contemporary diaries and letters, as well as government statistics, manuals for intending settlers and newspaper reports, Sharon Morgan has built up a comprehensive picture of the significance of landscape and land use in early colonial society.
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Religion and War Resistance in the Plowshares Movement

Religion and War Resistance in the Plowshares Movement

Sharon Erickson Nepstad

Cambridge University Press
2008
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As the nuclear arms race exploded in the 1980s, a group of U.S. religious pacifists used radical nonviolence to intervene. Armed with hammers, they broke into military facilities to pound on missiles and pour blood on bombers, enacting the prophet Isaiah's vision: 'Nations shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.' Calling themselves the Plowshares movement, these controversial activists received long prison sentences; nonetheless, their movement grew and expanded to Europe and Australia. In this book, Sharon Erickson Nepstad documents the emergence and international diffusion of this unique form of high-risk collective action. Drawing on interviews, original survey research, and archival data, Nepstad explains why some Plowshares groups have persisted over time while others have struggled or collapsed. Comparing the U.S. movement with less successful Plowshares groups overseas, Nepstad reveals how decisions about leadership, organization, retention, and cultural adaptations influence movements' long-term trajectories.
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Reduplication

Reduplication

Sharon Inkelas; Cheryl Zoll

Cambridge University Press
2005
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This groundbreaking new study takes a novel approach to reduplication, a phenomenon whereby languages use repetition to create new words. Sharon Inkelas and Cheryl Zoll argue that the driving force in reduplication is identity at the morphosyntactic, not the phonological level, and present a new model of reduplication - Morphological Doubling Theory - that derives the full range of reduplication patterns. This approach shifts the focus away from the relatively small number of cases of phonological overapplication and underapplication, which have played a major role in earlier studies, to the larger class of cases where base and reduplicant diverge phonologically. The authors conclude by arguing for a theoretical shift in phonology, which entails more attention to word structure. As well as presenting the authors’ pioneering work, this book also provides a much-needed overview of reduplication, the study of which has become one of the most contentious in modern phonological theory.
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Literature and Dissent in Milton's England

Literature and Dissent in Milton's England

Sharon Achinstein

Cambridge University Press
2003
sidottu
The England of John Milton's great poems was the England of Dissenters, those who refused to join the state Church after the return of monarchy in 1660, seen as dangerous outcasts and rebels. Sharon Achinstein's book shows how a literary tradition of dissent was produced by those who suffered political defeat and religious exclusion in Restoration England, bringing to view a range of writing that has been largely, and unjustly, neglected. Considering authors both inside and outside the dissenting tradition, including Milton, John Bunyan, Richard Baxter, Mary Mollineux, John Dryden, Andrew Marvell, Elizabeth Singer Rowe and Isaac Watts, and other little-known dissenting writers, Achinstein shows how a distinctive Dissenting cultural legacy challenges our notions of literary history, aesthetic value and the relation between literature and politics. This important study will be of interest to Milton scholars and seventeenth-century literary and religious historians.
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Rural Lives and Landscapes in Late Byzantium

Rural Lives and Landscapes in Late Byzantium

Sharon E. J. Gerstel

Cambridge University Press
2015
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This is the first book to examine the late Byzantine peasantry through written, archaeological, ethnographic and painted sources. Investigations of the infrastructure and setting of the medieval village guide the reader into the consideration of specific populations. The village becomes a micro-society, with its own social and economic hierarchies. In addition to studying agricultural workers, mothers and priests, lesser-known individuals, such as the miller and witch, are revealed through written and painted sources. Placed at the center of a new scholarly landscape, the study of the medieval villager engages a broad spectrum of theorists, including economic historians creating predictive models for agrarian economies, ethnoarchaeologists addressing historical continuities and disjunctions, and scholars examining power and female agency.
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Autobiography and Gender in Early Modern Literature

Autobiography and Gender in Early Modern Literature

Sharon Cadman Seelig

Cambridge University Press
2006
sidottu
Early modern autobiographies and diaries provide a unique insight into women's lives and how they remembered, interpreted and represented their experiences. Sharon Seelig analyses the writings of six seventeenth-century women: diaries by Margaret Hoby and Anne Clifford, more extended narratives by Lucy Hutchinson, Ann Fanshawe, and Anne Halkett, and the extraordinarily varied and self-dramatising publications of Margaret Cavendish. Combining an account of the development of autobiography with close and attentive reading of the texts, Seelig explores the relation between the writers' choices of genre and form and the stories they chose to tell. She demonstrates how, in the course of the seventeenth century, women writers progressed from quite simple forms based on factual accounts to much more imaginative and persuasive acts of self-presentation. This important contribution to the fields of early modern literary studies and gender studies illuminates the interactions between literature and autobiography.
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Religion and War Resistance in the Plowshares Movement

Religion and War Resistance in the Plowshares Movement

Sharon Erickson Nepstad

Cambridge University Press
2008
sidottu
As the nuclear arms race exploded in the 1980s, a group of U.S. religious pacifists used radical nonviolence to intervene. Armed with hammers, they broke into military facilities to pound on missiles and pour blood on bombers, enacting the prophet Isaiah's vision: 'Nations shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.' Calling themselves the Plowshares movement, these controversial activists received long prison sentences; nonetheless, their movement grew and expanded to Europe and Australia. In this book, Sharon Erickson Nepstad documents the emergence and international diffusion of this unique form of high-risk collective action. Drawing on interviews, original survey research, and archival data, Nepstad explains why some Plowshares groups have persisted over time while others have struggled or collapsed. Comparing the U.S. movement with less successful Plowshares groups overseas, Nepstad reveals how decisions about leadership, organization, retention, and cultural adaptations influence movements' long-term trajectories.
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The Boat People

The Boat People

Sharon Bala

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
2018
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Globe and Mail bestseller, The Boat People is an extraordinary novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage only to face the threat of deportation amid accusations of terrorism When a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody civil war reaches Vancouver's shores, the young father thinks he and his six-year-old son can finally start a new life. Instead, the group is thrown into a detention processing center, with government officials and news headlines speculating that among the "boat people" are members of a separatist militant organization responsible for countless suicide attacks--and that these terrorists now pose a threat to Canada's national security. As the refugees become subject to heavy interrogation, Mahindan begins to fear that a desperate act taken in Sri Lanka to fund their escape may now jeopardize his and his son's chance for asylum. Told through the alternating perspectives of Mahindan; his lawyer, Priya, a second-generation Sri Lankan Canadian who reluctantly represents the refugees; and Grace, a third-generation Japanese Canadian adjudicator who must decide Mahindan's fate as evidence mounts against him, The Boat People is a spellbinding and timely novel that provokes a deeply compassionate lens through which to view the current refugee crisis.
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The Beauty of Living Twice

The Beauty of Living Twice

Sharon Stone

VINTAGE
2022
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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - Sharon Stone tells her own story: a journey of healing, love, and purpose. - "Not your typical Hollywood autobiography. Brutally honest, restless and questing." --O, The Oprah Magazine Sharon Stone, one of the most renowned actresses in the world, suffered a massive stroke that cost her not only her health, but her career, family, fortune, and global fame. In The Beauty of Living Twice, Stone chronicles her efforts to rebuild her life and writes about her slow road back to wholeness and health. In a business that doesn't accept failure, in a world where too many voices are silenced, Stone found the power to return, the courage to speak up, and the will to make a difference in the lives of men, women, and children around the globe. Over the course of these intimate pages, as candid as a personal conversation, Stone talks about her pivotal roles, her life-changing friendships, her worst disappointments, and her greatest accomplishments. She reveals how she went from a childhood of trauma and violence to a career in an industry that in many ways echoed those same assaults, under cover of money and glamour. She describes the strength and meaning she found in her children, and in her humanitarian efforts. And ultimately, she shares how she fought her way back to find not only her truth, but her family's reconciliation and love. Stone made headlines not just for her beauty and her talent, but for her candor and her refusal to "play nice," and it's those same qualities that make this memoir so powerful. The Beauty of Living Twice is a book for the wounded and a book for the survivors; it's a celebration of women's strength and resilience, a reckoning, and a call to activism. It is proof that it's never too late to raise your voice and speak out.
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Balladz

Balladz

Sharon Olds

Knopf Publishing Group
2022
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - Songs from our era of communal grief and reckoning--by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner, called a poet for these times, a powerful woman who won't back down (San Francisco Chronicle). At the time of have-not, I look at myself in this mirror, writes Olds in this self-scouring, exhilarating volume, which opens with a section of quarantine poems, and at its center boasts what she calls Amherst Balladz (whose syntax honors Emily Dickinson: she was our Girl - our Woman - / Man enough - for me) and many more in her own contemporary, long-flowing-sentence rhythm. Olds sings of her childhood, young womanhood, and maturity all mixed up together, seeing an early lover in the one who is about to buried; seeing her whiteness, seeing her privilege; seeing her mother (whom her readers will recognize) flushed exalted at Punishment time; seeing how we've spoiled the earth but carrying a stray indoor spider carefully back out to the garden. It is Olds's gift to us that in the richly detailed exposure of her sorrows she can still elegize songbirds, her true kin, and write that heaven comes here in life, not after it.
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The Event-related Potential "P3"

The Event-related Potential "P3"

Sharon Sandridge

Dissertation Discovery Company
2019
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Abstract: The growth of the older population in America brings with it a new set of problems. One such problem is the loss of hearing sensitivity and speech perception. For many, the ability to hear decreases with advancing age. For a percentage of those adults, this decreased ability to hear involves a greater reduction in understanding speech than would be expected based solely on the amount of hearing loss. This reduction has has been termed the "central auditory aging affect." Assessment of central auditory impairment involves the administration of specific tests designed to evaluate the integrity of the central auditory nervous system. One such test used clinically is the Synthetic Sentence Identification test. Another test, an event-related potential test known as the P3 component, has been suggested as a potential central auditory test. It was the purpose of this study to investigate the use of the P3 as a measure of central auditory function. Thirty-one healthy and cognitively intact male veterans received a battery of behavioral audiometric testing and P3 testing. The subjects were classified as either centrally impaired (CI) or peripherally impaired (PI) based on the results of the behavioral tests. The data from the P3 testing, according to group classification, were submitted for statistical analysis. Within the limits imposed by the design of the study, the following conclusions were drawn: (a) The latency of the component invoked in a quiet condition supported the placement of the groups. The PI group latency was consistent with previously reported age-related norms. The CI group latency, however, was longer than the PI groups indicating an increased processing time or extended stimulus evaluation time. (b) The introduction of a medium band noise served to increase the complexity of the stimulus or introduced noise into the system as evidenced by increased latencies for both groups. (c) While both groups demonstrated an effect of the noise, the PI group appeared to be more affected by the noise than the CI group. (d) The results of this investigation suggest that an internal noise already existed in the CI group so the addition of the external noise had minimal effect on their speech processing time; whereas the addition of the external noise for the PI group caused a significant delay in processing speed. Clinically, the results suggest that speech processing in some older adults with hearing loss maybe more compromised than in others due to the presence of more neural noise in the system which decreases their speech processing time, and hence their ability to understand speech. Dissertation Discovery Company and University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "The Event-related Potential "P3"" by Sharon Ann Sandridge, was obtained from University of Florida and is being sold with permission from the author. A digital copy of this work may also be found in the university's institutional repository, IR@UF. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation.
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The Event-related Potential "P3"

The Event-related Potential "P3"

Sharon Sandridge

Dissertation Discovery Company
2019
sidottu
Abstract: The growth of the older population in America brings with it a new set of problems. One such problem is the loss of hearing sensitivity and speech perception. For many, the ability to hear decreases with advancing age. For a percentage of those adults, this decreased ability to hear involves a greater reduction in understanding speech than would be expected based solely on the amount of hearing loss. This reduction has has been termed the "central auditory aging affect." Assessment of central auditory impairment involves the administration of specific tests designed to evaluate the integrity of the central auditory nervous system. One such test used clinically is the Synthetic Sentence Identification test. Another test, an event-related potential test known as the P3 component, has been suggested as a potential central auditory test. It was the purpose of this study to investigate the use of the P3 as a measure of central auditory function. Thirty-one healthy and cognitively intact male veterans received a battery of behavioral audiometric testing and P3 testing. The subjects were classified as either centrally impaired (CI) or peripherally impaired (PI) based on the results of the behavioral tests. The data from the P3 testing, according to group classification, were submitted for statistical analysis. Within the limits imposed by the design of the study, the following conclusions were drawn: (a) The latency of the component invoked in a quiet condition supported the placement of the groups. The PI group latency was consistent with previously reported age-related norms. The CI group latency, however, was longer than the PI groups indicating an increased processing time or extended stimulus evaluation time. (b) The introduction of a medium band noise served to increase the complexity of the stimulus or introduced noise into the system as evidenced by increased latencies for both groups. (c) While both groups demonstrated an effect of the noise, the PI group appeared to be more affected by the noise than the CI group. (d) The results of this investigation suggest that an internal noise already existed in the CI group so the addition of the external noise had minimal effect on their speech processing time; whereas the addition of the external noise for the PI group caused a significant delay in processing speed. Clinically, the results suggest that speech processing in some older adults with hearing loss maybe more compromised than in others due to the presence of more neural noise in the system which decreases their speech processing time, and hence their ability to understand speech. Dissertation Discovery Company and University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "The Event-related Potential "P3"" by Sharon Ann Sandridge, was obtained from University of Florida and is being sold with permission from the author. A digital copy of this work may also be found in the university's institutional repository, IR@UF. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation.
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