"Why do people cry, how do we manage horror, what do facial expressions tell us about a person? The answers to these questions and many more can be found in the Encyclopedia of Human Emotions, which brings to gether what is known about the nature, causes, expressions, and societal role of emotions. The 146 alphabetically arranged articles are sprinkled with photos, illustrations, and references to literature. Also covered are biographies, emotions that have been the subject of scientific study, and how emotions relate to society (e.g., hate crimes). The plain language of this unique encyclopedia makes it accessible to high-school students and the general user, while the level of scholarship makes this a useful resource to researchers as well."--"Outstanding reference sources 2000", American Libraries, May 2000. Comp. by the Reference Sources Committee, RUSA, ALA.

Encyclopedia of Human Emotions

David Levinson

Reference

Gale/Cengage Learning

American Immigrant Cultures. Builders of a Nation. Volume 1: A-J [Hardcover]

American Immigrant Cultures: Builders of a Nation: 1

Macmillan

Portraits of Culture: Ethnographic Originals

PRENTICE/HALL

Most of Us Are Here Against Our Will is a strikingly accomplished debut story collection about love, loss, sex, and survival in the hard heart of Texas. In "Jaguar," a young woman recently back from a stint in the Peace Corps believes that she's the cause of the breast cancer that led to her sister's double mastectomy. A wife and mother, mourning the loss of her son by burning the boxes that contained his life, must also come to terms with a visit from her son's lover and her husband's infidelity in "Things You Can Expect From Your Loved Ones." In "Quite Cold In Alaska," a promising road trip up the California coast turns into a meditation on familial expectation and disappointment when the addled matriarch goes missing. And in the eponymous title story, "Most Of Us Are Here Against Our Will," which won an award in The Atlantic Monthly, an hysterical young man, unable to move past a torturous family secret, finds help and solace in a therapy group full of others just like him.Peopled with reluctant porn stars and directors, failing actors, a misguided cheerleader, a murderous, vengeful writer, and many others, these nine stories are, according to Bret Easton Ellis, "direct, emotional, and compulsively readable." Mary Gaitskill, of Don't Cry and Veronica, has said that "they are about an engaging variety of nuts and sluts, and you actually read them wondering what is going to happen next. Levinson's talent is as big as the state about which he's writing. I'm a big fan." And Edmund White, of A Boy's Own Story, has called Levinson's world "acetylene hot...There's something as raw and frightening and egotistical in these men and women as in Homeric heroes. Read them and love them as much as I do."

Most of Us Are Here Against Our Will

Penguin??Books

Encyclopedia Of Modern Asia

Karen Christensen

The 6th Volume of a set of 6 - the introduction contains information related to each of the volumes, a list of maps, a list of countries. This volume discusses Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam

Encyclopedia of Modern Asia - Turkic Language to Zuo Zongtang (Volume 6)

Thomson/Gale

Toward Explaining Human Culture: A Critical Review of the Findings of Worldwide Cross-Cultural Research

Politics & Social Sciences

Martin J. Malone

Social Sciences

Human Relations Area Files

"Covers the whole world of sport, from major professional sports and sporting events to community and youth sport, as well as the business of sports and key social issues"--Provided by publisher.

Berkshire Encyclopedia of World Sport (4 Volume Set)

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Berkshire Pub Group

Elizabeth Freeman was a slave for the first forty-odd years of her life, until, in 1781, with the help of Theodore Sedgwick, an attorney in Sheffield, Mass., she went to court and won her freedom. Inspired to take action after hearing her owner, Colonel John Ashley, and his guests discussing the ideals of freedom and equality embodied in Revolutionary War era documents such as the Sheffield Resolves, the Declaration of Independence, and the Massachusetts Constitution, Freeman took a courageous step toward ending slavery in Massachusetts. This inspirational story of the woman also known as Mumbet is recounted in One Minute a Free Woman: Elizabeth Freeman and the Struggle for Freedom, a new biography by Emilie Piper and David Levinson. After winning her freedom, Freeman, who was not only a servant but a skilled nurse and midwife, went to work for the Sedgwick family and was employed by them until about 1808. (She was held in such esteem that she is buried in the clan's cemetery plot in Stockbridge, Mass.) After leaving the Sedgwick household, Freeman, who was a mother and a grandmother, purchased her own home, a remarkable accomplishment for a woman and an African American at the time. She lived to be about eighty-five years old, dying in 1829. Piper and Levinson put Freeman's life in the context of the times, sharing the accounts of early settlements in the Housatonic River valley, the work of local patriots leading up to the American Revolution, the history of Stockbridge, the saga of the Sedgwick family, and the significant contributions of other African Americans who lived in the area. They even chronicle the Upper Housatonic Valley African American Heritage Trail, created in 2006, which includes six sites associated with Freeman's life, including the Ashley House museum in Sheffield.

One Minute a Free Woman

Emilie Piper

Housatonic Heritage

Encyclopedia of World Sport: From Ancient Times to the Present

ABC-CLIO Ltd

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