Freaks

Author : Mark Blumberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198043430
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freaks of Nature written by Mark Blumberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-16 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In most respects, Abigail and Brittany Hensel are normal American twins. Born and raised in a small town, they enjoy a close relationship, though each has her own tastes and personality. But the Hensels also share a body. Their two heads sit side-by-side on a single torso, with two arms and two legs. They have not only survived, but have developed into athletic, graceful young women. And that, writes Mark S. Blumberg, opens an extraordinary window onto human development and evolution. In Freaks of Nature, Blumberg turns a scientist's eye on the oddities of nature, showing how a subject once relegated to the sideshow can help explain some of the deepest complexities of biology. Why, for example, does a two-headed human so resemble a two-headed minnow? What we need to understand, Blumberg argues, is that anomalies are the natural products of development, and it is through developmental mechanisms that evolution works. Freaks of Nature induces a kind of intellectual vertigo as it upends our intuitive understanding of biology. What really is an anomaly? Why is a limbless human a "freak," but a limbless reptile-a snake-a successful variation? What we see as deformities, Blumberg writes, are merely alternative paths for development, which challenge both the creature itself and our ability to fit it into our familiar categories. Rather than mere dead-ends, many anomalies prove surprisingly survivable-as in the case of the goat without forelimbs that learned to walk upright. Blumberg explains how such variations occur, and points to the success of the Hensel sisters and the goat as examples of the extraordinary flexibility inherent in individual development. In taking seriously a subject that has often been shunned as discomfiting and embarrassing, Mark Blumberg sheds new light on how individuals-and entire species-develop, survive, and evolve.

Author : Annette Curtis Klause
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439115664
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freaks written by Annette Curtis Klause and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If this is a dream, why does she seem so real? Though Abel Dandy was born to circus performers and grew up in a troupe of odd and inexplicable people, he has never felt limited by his normalcy--until now. Realizing he'll never be more amazing than the talented oddities around him, Abel can only dream of living a life richer than his own. But in his dreams a mysterious woman beckons him, calling him passionately by a name he doesn't know and speaking in a language he's never heard, but fully understands. Compelled by these visions and yearning to be more than ordinary, Abel embarks on a journey more frightening and wondrous than he ever imagined....

Author : Dustin Kidd
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429972911
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pop Culture Freaks written by Dustin Kidd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love it or hate it, popular culture permeates every aspect of contemporary society. In this accessibly written introduction to the sociology of popular culture, Dustin Kidd provides the tools to think critically about the cultural soup served daily by film, television, music, print media, and the internet. Utilizing each chapter to present core topical and timely examples, Kidd highlights the tension between inclusion and individuality that lies beneath mass media and commercial culture, using this tension as a point of entry to an otherwise expansive topic. He systematically considers several dimensions of identity (race, class, gender, sexuality, disability) to provide a broad overview of the field that encompasses classical and contemporary theory, original data, topical and timely examples, and a strong pedagogical focus on methods. Pop Culture Freaks encourages students to develop further research questions and projects from the material. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses are brought to bear in Kidd's examination of the labor force for cultural production, the representations of identity in cultural objects, and the surprising differences in how various audiences consume and use mass culture in their everyday lives.

Author : Jonathan Levy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674071123
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freaks of Fortune written by Jonathan Levy and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the early nineteenth century, “risk” was a specialized term: it was the commodity exchanged in a marine insurance contract. Freaks of Fortune tells the story of how the modern concept of risk emerged in the United States. Born on the high seas, risk migrated inland and became essential to the financial management of an inherently uncertain capitalist future. Focusing on the hopes and anxieties of ordinary people, Jonathan Levy shows how risk developed through the extraordinary growth of new financial institutions—insurance corporations, savings banks, mortgage-backed securities markets, commodities futures markets, and securities markets—while posing inescapable moral questions. For at the heart of risk’s rise was a new vision of freedom. To be a free individual, whether an emancipated slave, a plains farmer, or a Wall Street financier, was to take, assume, and manage one’s own personal risk. Yet this often meant offloading that same risk onto a series of new financial institutions, which together have only recently acquired the name “financial services industry.” Levy traces the fate of a new vision of personal freedom, as it unfolded in the new economic reality created by the American financial system. Amid the nineteenth-century’s waning faith in God’s providence, Americans increasingly confronted unanticipated challenges to their independence and security in the boom and bust chance-world of capitalism. Freaks of Fortune is one of the first books to excavate the historical origins of our own financialized times and risk-defined lives.

Author : Luke Jackson
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781843100980
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome written by Luke Jackson and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers insights by a teenager with Asperger's syndrome into the difficulties of the disorder, including information on fascinations and obsessions, sensory perception, sleep, bullies, moral dilemmas, eating, and socializing.

Author : William Edward Shepard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fads, Fakes, Freaks, Frauds, and Fools written by William Edward Shepard and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Les Parrott
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780842337939
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Control Freak written by Les Parrott and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2001-01-29 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting practical strategies, this guide is for everyone who has a control freak in their lives--or who is a control freak. Parrott helps readers discover how God gives them grace to deal with difficult people and also face their own need to control.

Author : Anna Kérchy
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443846422
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows and ‘Enfreakment’ written by Anna Kérchy and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers cultural historical analyses of enfreakment and freak shows, examining the social construction and spectacular display of wondrous, monstrous, or curious Otherness in the formerly relatively neglected region of Continental Europe. Forgotten stories are uncovered about freak-show celebrities, medical specimen, and philosophical fantasies presenting the anatomically unusual in a wide range of sites, including curiosity cabinets, anatomical museums, and traveling circus acts. The essays explore the locally specific dimensions of the exhibition of extraordinary bodies within their particular historical, cultural and political context. Thus the impact of the Nazi eugenics programs, state Socialism, or the Chernobyl catastrophe is observed closely and yet the transnational dimensions of enfreakment are made obvious through topics ranging from Jesuit missionaries’ diabolization of American Indians, to translations of Continental European teratology in British medical journals, and the Hollywood silver screen’s colonization of European fantasies about deformity. Although Continental European freaks are introduced as products of ideologically-infiltrated representations, they also emerge as embodied subjects endowed with their own voice, view, and subversive agency.

Author : Rodman Philbrick
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545600278
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freak the Mighty (Scholastic Gold) written by Rodman Philbrick and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freak the Mighty joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!It has been over twenty years -- and more than two million copies, eight foreign editions, and a popular Miramax feature film -- since the world was introduced to this powerful story of a unique friendship between a troubled, oversized boy and the tiny, physically challenged genius who proves that courage comes in all sizes. This simple yet timeless story explores many themes, including bullying -- an important topic in today's schools. Freak the Mighty is sure to remain fresh, dramatic, and memorable for the next twenty years and beyond!

Author : Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freaks and Marvels of Plant Life; Or, Curiosities of Vegetation written by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: