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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Helena Lopata
Widowhood in an American City focuses on the roles and lifestyles of urban American widows fifty years of age or older. These women form a segment of two generations of one society; they present a historical instance of people born and brought up under conditions that are not likely to be duplicated. Not only the U.S., but many other countries are undergoing modifications in the degrees and forms of urbanization, industrialization, and social complexity.Helena Znaniecki Lopata argues that the way women re-engage society following the death of a husband is different due to their location in the modern social system. She notes that the trends in social structure are toward increasingly voluntaristic engagement in achieved, functionally oriented social roles that are performed in large groups and contain secondary social relations. The cultural background of many societal members prevents the utilization of most resources of the complex urban world, restricting them to a small social life space, with almost automatically prescribed social relations.Those who argue that the elderly are socially isolated contend that this is a result of the natural process of withdrawal of the person and the society from each other. These arguments focus on those who are isolated or lonely and those who lack the skills, money, health, and transportation for engaging or re-engaging society. Lopata's study indicates that this assumption is false for many widows. If such people are to be helped, a fresh view of the relation between the urban, industrial, and complex modern world and its residents is required, and new action programs must be creatively developed. This is a timely, ground-breaking work that addresses and shatters common myths associated with growing old alone in an urban society.
Widowhood in an American City focuses on the roles and lifestyles of urban American widows fifty years of age or older. These women form a segment of two generations of one society; they present a historical instance of people born and brought up under conditions that are not likely to be duplicated. Not only the U.S., but many other countries are undergoing modifications in the degrees and forms of urbanization, industrialization, and social complexity.Helena Znaniecki Lopata argues that the way women re-engage society following the death of a husband is different due to their location in the modern social system. She notes that the trends in social structure are toward increasingly voluntaristic engagement in achieved, functionally oriented social roles that are performed in large groups and contain secondary social relations. The cultural background of many societal members prevents the utilization of most resources of the complex urban world, restricting them to a small social life space, with almost automatically prescribed social relations.Those who argue that the elderly are socially isolated contend that this is a result of the natural process of withdrawal of the person and the society from each other. These arguments focus on those who are isolated or lonely and those who lack the skills, money, health, and transportation for engaging or re-engaging society. Lopata's study indicates that this assumption is false for many widows. If such people are to be helped, a fresh view of the relation between the urban, industrial, and complex modern world and its residents is required, and new action programs must be creatively developed. This is a timely, ground-breaking work that addresses and shatters common myths associated with growing old alone in an urban society.
The Empress Helena made the historic pilgrimage to Palestine, found pieces of wood from the true Cross, and built churches at Bethlehem and Olivet. Her life coincided with one of the great turning-points of history: the recognition of Christianity as the religion of the Roman Empire. The enormous conflicting forces of the age, and the corruption, treachery, and madness of Imperial Rome combine to give Evelyn Waugh the theme for one of his most arresting and memorable novels.
Evelyn Waugh's personal favorite of his novels and "a superlatively well done book" (Chicago Tribune) set in the age of Emperor Constantine. Helena is the intelligent, horse-mad daughter of a British chieftain who is thrown into marriage with the man who will one day become the Roman emperor Constantius. Leaving home for lands unknown, she spends her adulthood seeking truth in the religions, mythologies, and philosophies of the declining ancient world, and becomes initiated into Christianity just as it is recognized as the religion of the Roman Empire. Helena--a novel that Evelyn Waugh considered to be his favorite, and most ambitious, work--deftly traverses the forces of corruption, treachery, enlightenment, and political intrigue of Imperial Rome as it brings to life an inspiring heroine.
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 1984.
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 1984.
Bem-vindo ao maravilhoso mundo de Machado de Assis. Nesta edi o cl ssica do seu romance Helena, trazemos at si esta admir vel pe a liter ria do final do s culo XIX e in cio do s culo XX. Helena terceiro romance de Machado de Assis, datando de 1876. O romance come a com o an ncio da morte do Conselheiro Vale, pai de Est cio e irm o de Dona rsula. O Conselheiro retratado como homem de boas rela es, relativa fortuna e certo gosto pela vida bo mia. Em seu testamento, ele reconhecia uma filha natural chamada Helena, pedindo para a fam lia que a recebe-se assim que a menina sa sse da escola. J que a exist ncia da mo a era at ent o desconhecida para Est cio e Dona rsula, eles a recebem com sentimentos mistos. Assim se desenrola toda a ac o do romance, com as v rias tramas que rodeiam esta nova personagem, Helena. Em muitos aspectos, Helena a figura transicional entre valores aristocr tivo-senhoriais do Brasil Imp rio, fundado na perpetua o do nome da fam lia, e da classe m dia urbana, mais focada na intimidade e nos v nculos amorosos e extra-estamentais, ou seja, fora do seu grupo social. Machado de Assis resgata tamb m em Helena um tema caro ao romantismo, o do amor proibido pela sociedade e pela religi o Esperamos que tenha tanto prazer a ler esta obra cl ssica quanto aquele que n s, na Mogul Edi es Cl ssicas, tivemos a trazer-lha at si.
Bem-vindo ao universo extraordinario de Machado de Assis, um dos maiores vultos da literatura Luso-Brasileira de sempre. Nesta edi o de Helena, trazemos at si a melhor edi o esta admir vel pe a liter ria do final do s culo XIX. Helena terceiro romance de Machado de Assis, datando de 1876. O romance come a com o an ncio da morte do Conselheiro Vale, pai de Est cio e irm o de Dona rsula. O Conselheiro retratado como homem de boas rela es, relativa fortuna e certo gosto pela vida bo mia. Em seu testamento, ele reconhecia uma filha natural chamada Helena, pedindo para a fam lia que a recebe-se assim que a menina sa sse da escola. J que a exist ncia da mo a era at ent o desconhecida para Est cio e Dona rsula, eles a recebem com sentimentos mistos. Assim se desenrola toda a ac o do romance, com as v rias tramas que rodeiam esta nova personagem, Helena. Em muitos aspectos, Helena a figura transicional entre valores aristocr tivo-senhoriais do Brasil Imp rio, fundado na perpetua o do nome da fam lia, e da classe m dia urbana, mais focada na intimidade e nos v nculos amorosos e extra-estamentais, ou seja, fora do seu grupo social. Machado de Assis resgata tamb m em Helena um tema caro ao romantismo, o do amor proibido pela sociedade e pela religi o Esperamos que tenha tanto prazer a ler esta obra cl ssica quanto aquele que n s, Cascais Classic Editions, tivemos a trazer-lha at si. Deixe-se levar pelos sonhos... Oliver Garrett
Quando mais nada resta, h que partir e come ar de novo...mas o que Helena n o esperava era ir parar ao lugar mais estranho de Lisboa.Por via de segredos familiares Helena obrigada a abandonar a casa onde cresceu e perde o contacto com toda uma realidade que conhecia desde que nascera, para al m do homem que amava: Ricardo Santana. Ao chegar a Lisboa, entregue a si pr pria, cai numa armadilha e enceta uma dura luta par escapar ao seu destino. Sem que ela se aperceba um homem com tanto de belo como de misterioso, Alexander Steel, aparece do nada e resgata-a para a vida. E a partir desse dia que as coisas se complicam mais ainda para Helena...HELENA a hist ria de uma jovem que, na d cada de quarenta enfrenta uma alta sociedade portuguesa moralista e perversa, resultado do obscurantismo em que o pa s vive mergulhado, consequ ncia da ditadura.2a edi o revista ( revisada)