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Articles 1 - 9 of 9
Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Eye Of The Tiger: Books, Geography, Movies, And Mascots, Michael J. Wurtz
Eye Of The Tiger: Books, Geography, Movies, And Mascots, Michael J. Wurtz
University Libraries Librarian and Staff Articles and Papers
No abstract provided.
My Own Private Library: A Peek Inside The Personal Library Of A Librarian, Bill Richards
My Own Private Library: A Peek Inside The Personal Library Of A Librarian, Bill Richards
Georgia Library Quarterly
The article offers information about the author's library, which consists of 3,500 volumes. The library is a systematic collection and an accumulation that reflects the changes in the author's personal and professional interests. The collection includes books dealing with politics, philosophy, literature and psychology which depicts the number of times the author has changed majors in college. The library also includes almost all of the Library of America titles such as "Great Books of the Western World," as well as history titles. It also includes children's collection like the books of Robert Sabuda.
My Own Private Library: A Peek Inside The Personal Library Of A Librarian, Dusty Gres
My Own Private Library: A Peek Inside The Personal Library Of A Librarian, Dusty Gres
Georgia Library Quarterly
The article focuses on the personal library collection of the author. She states that her first personal library collection included the books "Alice in Wonderland," "Little Women," and "Tom Sawyer." She mentions that her library has grown over the years which now houses reference collection and those from her husband's.
Bereavement In The Modern Western World, David San Filippo Ph.D.
Bereavement In The Modern Western World, David San Filippo Ph.D.
Faculty Publications
Bereavement is the process of suffering that follows the loss of a living being that is significant to someone. When one suffers, she or he has to endure an unpleasant experience, in the case of bereavement, the loss of something special to the person. This loss most often is a loved one but could also include the loss of a pet, relationship, or physical or mental capability. This state of suffering is called grief. In describing his grief, C. S. Lewis stated, after the loss of his wife, “No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear. …
Bereavement In The Modern Western World, David San Filippo Ph.D.
Bereavement In The Modern Western World, David San Filippo Ph.D.
David San Filippo Ph.D.
Bereavement is the process of suffering that follows the loss of a living being that is significant to someone. When one suffers, she or he has to endure an unpleasant experience, in the case of bereavement, the loss of something special to the person. This loss most often is a loved one but could also include the loss of a pet, relationship, or physical or mental capability. This state of suffering is called grief. In describing his grief, C. S. Lewis stated, after the loss of his wife, “No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear. …
My Own Private Library: A Peek Inside The Personal Library Of A Librarian, Betsy Griffies
My Own Private Library: A Peek Inside The Personal Library Of A Librarian, Betsy Griffies
Georgia Library Quarterly
The author describes her personal library and collection of books. She mentions that her parents enjoyed reading when they had time. She reveals that she collects fiction books by Robert Jordan, David Eddings, Juliet Marillier and Jack McDevitt, among others. Due to her interest in books about English writer Beatrix Potter, she spent a week at the Lindeth House in the Lake District, England where the Potter family had stayed.
Juki Girls, Good Girls: Gender And Cultural Politics In Sri Lanka's Global Garment Industry, Caitrin Lynch
Juki Girls, Good Girls: Gender And Cultural Politics In Sri Lanka's Global Garment Industry, Caitrin Lynch
Caitrin Lynch
When a government program brought garment factories to rural Sri Lanka, women workers found themselves caught between the pressures of a globalizing economy and societal expectations that villages are sanctuaries of tradition. These women learned quickly to resist the characterization of "Juki girls"—female garment workers already established in the urban sector—as vulgar and deracinated, instead asserting that they were "good girls" who could embody the nation's highest ideals of femininity.
Politics, Society And The Media, Paul Nesbitt-Larking
Politics, Society And The Media, Paul Nesbitt-Larking
Paul W Nesbitt-Larking
No abstract provided.
Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, A Haitian Anthropologist And Self-Making In Jamaica, Gina Ulysse
Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, A Haitian Anthropologist And Self-Making In Jamaica, Gina Ulysse
Gina Athena Ulysse
The Caribbean “market woman” is ingrained in the popular imagination as the archetype of black womanhood in countries throughout the region. Challenging this stereotype and other outdated images of black women, Downtown Ladies offers a more complex picture by documenting the history of independent international traders—known as informal commercial importers, or ICIs—who travel abroad to import and export a vast array of consumer goods sold in the public markets of Kingston, Jamaica. Both by-products of and participants in globalization, ICIs operate on multiple levels and, since their emergence in the 1970s, have made significant contributions to the regional, national, and …