The Skin Of Meaning

Author : Keith Flynn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781597098489
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Skin of Meaning written by Keith Flynn and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Skin of Meaning is award-winning poet Keith Flynn's sixth and most wide-ranging collection, seeking to find the tangible analogs and visceral meanings behind the daily bombardment of digital information, hoping to restore the mystery in our involvement with language, constantly challenging our assumptions about the world we think we see, and providing evidence of another invisible one bristling like an underground river beneath our feet.

Author : Racheal Harris
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787564215
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skin, Meaning, and Symbolism in Pet Memorials written by Racheal Harris and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at changes to the ways Western culture memorialises the dead. Specifically, it considers the changing relationship between people and domestic animals. Rather than focusing on how these bonds have changed in day to day life, it examines these relationships by considering how, after death, these animals are remembered.

Author : Nina G. Jablonski
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520953770
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Color written by Nina G. Jablonski and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living Color is the first book to investigate the social history of skin color from prehistory to the present, showing how our body’s most visible trait influences our social interactions in profound and complex ways. In a fascinating and wide-ranging discussion, Nina G. Jablonski begins with the biology and evolution of skin pigmentation, explaining how skin color changed as humans moved around the globe. She explores the relationship between melanin pigment and sunlight, and examines the consequences of rapid migrations, vacations, and other lifestyle choices that can create mismatches between our skin color and our environment. Richly illustrated, this book explains why skin color has come to be a biological trait with great social meaning— a product of evolution perceived by culture. It considers how we form impressions of others, how we create and use stereotypes, how negative stereotypes about dark skin developed and have played out through history—including being a basis for the transatlantic slave trade. Offering examples of how attitudes about skin color differ in the U.S., Brazil, India, and South Africa, Jablonski suggests that a knowledge of the evolution and social importance of skin color can help eliminate color-based discrimination and racism.

Author : Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0425284638
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skin in the Game written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A bold work from the author of The Black Swan that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility In his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost thinkers of our time redefines what it means to understand the world, succeed in a profession, contribute to a fair and just society, detect nonsense, and influence others. Citing examples ranging from Hammurabi to Seneca, Antaeus the Giant to Donald Trump, Nassim Nicholas Taleb shows how the willingness to accept one’s own risks is an essential attribute of heroes, saints, and flourishing people in all walks of life. As always both accessible and iconoclastic, Taleb challenges long-held beliefs about the values of those who spearhead military interventions, make financial investments, and propagate religious faiths. Among his insights: • For social justice, focus on symmetry and risk sharing. You cannot make profits and transfer the risks to others, as bankers and large corporations do. You cannot get rich without owning your own risk and paying for your own losses. Forcing skin in the game corrects this asymmetry better than thousands of laws and regulations. • Ethical rules aren’t universal. You’re part of a group larger than you, but it’s still smaller than humanity in general. • Minorities, not majorities, run the world. The world is not run by consensus but by stubborn minorities imposing their tastes and ethics on others. • You can be an intellectual yet still be an idiot. “Educated philistines” have been wrong on everything from Stalinism to Iraq to low-carb diets. • Beware of complicated solutions (that someone was paid to find). A simple barbell can build muscle better than expensive new machines. • True religion is commitment, not just faith. How much you believe in something is manifested only by what you’re willing to risk for it. The phrase “skin in the game” is one we have often heard but rarely stopped to truly dissect. It is the backbone of risk management, but it’s also an astonishingly rich worldview that, as Taleb shows in this book, applies to all aspects of our lives. As Taleb says, “The symmetry of skin in the game is a simple rule that’s necessary for fairness and justice, and the ultimate BS-buster,” and “Never trust anyone who doesn’t have skin in the game. Without it, fools and crooks will benefit, and their mistakes will never come back to haunt them.”

Author : Racheal Harris
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787564193
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skin, Meaning, and Symbolism in Pet Memorials written by Racheal Harris and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at changes to the ways Western culture memorialises the dead. Specifically, it considers the changing relationship between people and domestic animals. Rather than focusing on how these bonds have changed in day to day life, it examines these relationships by considering how, after death, these animals are remembered.

Author : Jane Katch
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807031292
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under Deadman's Skin written by Jane Katch and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2002-02-18 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The five-and six-year-olds in my class have invented a new game they call suicide. I have never seen a game I hate so much in which all the children involved are so happy. So begins Under Deadman's Skin, a deceptively simple-and compellingly readable-teachers' tale. Jane Katch, in the tradition of Vivian Paley and Jonathan Kozol, uses her student's own vocabulary and storytelling to set the scene: a class of five-and six-year-olds obsessed with what is to their teacher hatefully violent fantasy play. Katch asks, 'Can I make a place in school for understanding these fantasies, instead of shutting them out?' Over the course of the year she holds group discussions to determine what kind of play creates or calms turmoil; she illustrates (or rather the children illustrate) the phenomenon of very young children needing to make sense of exceptionally violent imagery; and she consults with older grade-school boys who remember what it was like to be obsessed by violence and tell Katch what she can do to help. Katch's classroom journey-one that leads her to rules and limits that keep children secure-is an enabling blueprint for any teacher or parent disturbed by violent children's play.

Author : Lovick Pierce Anthony
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Dental Science written by Lovick Pierce Anthony and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Dennis Hoblyn
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Terms Used in Medicine and the Collateral Sciences written by Richard Dennis Hoblyn and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3052 pages
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Download or read book New International Dictionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 3052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Thomas
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 860 pages
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Download or read book A Complete Pronouncing Medical Dictionary written by Joseph Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: