Feeling The Strain

Author : Jill Kirby
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526123312
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feeling the strain written by Jill Kirby and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the popular discourse of nerves and stress, this book provides a historical account of how ordinary Britons understood, explained and coped with the pressures and strains of daily life during the twentieth century. It traces the popular, vernacular discourse of stress, illuminating not just how stress was known, but the ways in which that knowledge was produced. Taking a cultural approach, the book focuses on contemporary popular understandings, revealing continuity of ideas about work, mental health, status, gender and individual weakness, as well as the changing socio-economic contexts that enabled stress to become a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the century. With accounts from sufferers, families and colleagues it also offers insight into self-help literature, the meanings of work and changing dynamics of domestic life, delivering a complementary perspective to medical histories of stress.

Author : Jill Kirby
Publisher : Social Histories of Medicine
ISBN 13 : 9781526123299
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feeling the Strain written by Jill Kirby and published by Social Histories of Medicine. This book was released on 2019-07-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the popular discourse of nerves and stress, this book provides a historical account of how ordinary Britons understood, explained and coped with the pressures and strains of daily life during the twentieth century. It traces the popular, vernacular discourse of stress, illuminating not just how stress was known, but the ways in which that knowledge was produced. Taking a cultural approach, the book focuses on contemporary popular understandings, revealing continuity of ideas about work, mental health, status, gender and individual weakness, as well as the changing socio-economic contexts that enabled stress to become a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the century. With accounts from sufferers, families and colleagues it also offers insight into self-help literature, the meanings of work and changing dynamics of domestic life, delivering a complementary perspective to medical histories of stress.

Author : Guillermo Del Toro
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061558249
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Strain written by Guillermo Del Toro and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one week, Manhattan will be gone. In one month, the country. In two months . . . the world. At New York's JFK Airport an arriving Boeing 777 taxiing along a runway suddenly stops dead. All the shades have been drawn, all communication channels have mysteriously gone quiet. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of a CDC rapid-response team investigating biological threats, boards the darkened plane . . . and what he finds makes his blood run cold. A terrifying contagion has come to the unsuspecting city, an unstoppable plague that will spread like an all-consuming wildfire—lethal, merciless, hungry . . . vampiric. And in a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem an aged Holocaust survivor knows that the war he has been dreading his entire life is finally here . . .

Author : Michael R. Strain
Publisher : Templeton Foundation Press
ISBN 13 : 1599475588
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Dream Is Not Dead written by Michael R. Strain and published by Templeton Foundation Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Populists on both sides of the political aisle routinely announce that the American Dream is dead. According to them, the game has been rigged by elites, workers can’t get ahead, wages have been stagnant for decades, and the middle class is dying. Michael R. Strain, director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, disputes this rhetoric as wrong and dangerous. In this succinctly argued volume, he shows that, on measures of economic opportunity and quality of life, there has never been a better time to be alive in America. He backs his argument with overwhelming—and underreported—data to show how the facts favor realistic optimism. He warns, however, that the false prophets of populism pose a serious danger to our current and future prosperity. Their policies would leave workers worse off. And their erroneous claim that the American Dream is dead could discourage people from taking advantage of real opportunities to better their lives. If enough people start to believe the Dream is dead, they could, in effect, kill it. To prevent this self-fulfilling prophecy, Strain’s book is urgent reading for anyone feeling the pull of the populists. E. J. Dionne and Henry Olsen provide spirited responses to Strain’s argument.

Author : Karen Sternheimer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780393419481
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everyday Sociology Reader written by Karen Sternheimer and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative readings and blog posts show how sociology can help us understand everyday life.

Author : Gabriel N. Mendes
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150170138X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under the Strain of Color written by Gabriel N. Mendes and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Under the Strain of Color, Gabriel N. Mendes recaptures the history of Harlem's Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic, a New York City institution that embodied new ways of thinking about mental health, race, and the substance of citizenship. The result of a collaboration among the psychiatrist and social critic Dr. Fredric Wertham, the writer Richard Wright, and the clergyman Rev. Shelton Hale Bishop, the clinic emerged in the context of a widespread American concern with the mental health of its citizens. Mendes shows the clinic to have been simultaneously a scientific and political gambit, challenging both a racist mental health care system and supposedly color-blind psychiatrists who failed to consider the consequences of oppression in their assessment and treatment of African American patients. Employing the methods of oral history, archival research, textual analysis, and critical race philosophy, Under the Strain of Color contributes to a growing body of scholarship that highlights the interlocking relationships among biomedicine, institutional racism, structural violence, and community health activism.

Author : Gigi Amateau
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763630098
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Certain Strain of Peculiar written by Gigi Amateau and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tired of the miserable life she lives, Mary Harold leaves her mother behind and moves back to Alabama and her grandmother, where she receives support and love and starts to gain confidence in herself and her abilities.

Author : Guillermo Del Toro
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061558257
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fall written by Guillermo Del Toro and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Last week they invaded Manhattan. This week they will destroy the world. The vampiric virus is spreading and soon will envelop the globe. Amid the chaos, Eph Goodweather—head of the Centers for Disease Control's team—leads a band out to stop these bloodthirsty monsters. But it may be too late. Ignited by the Master's horrific plan, a war has erupted between Old and New World vampires. Caught between these warring forces, powerless and vulnerable, humans find themselves no longer the consumers but the consumed. At the center of the conflict lies an ancient text that contains the vampires' entire history . . . and their darkest secrets. Whoever finds the book can control the outcome of the war and, ultimately, the fate of us all.

Author : William James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Principles of Psychology written by William James and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Principles of Psychology written by William James and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: