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When Birds Are Near
In this dazzling literary collection, writers explore and
celebrate their lives with and love for birds-detailing experiences
from Alaska to Bermuda, South Dakota to Panama. In When Birds
Are Near , fresh new voices as well as seasoned authors offer
tales of adventure, perseverance, and fun, whether taking us on a
journey down Highway 1 to see a rare California Condor, fighting
the destruction of our grasslands, or simply watching the feeder
from a kitchen window.
But these essays are more than just field notes. The authors
reflect on love, loss, and family, engaging a broad array of
emotions, from wonder to amusement. As Rob Nixon writes, \"Sometimes
the best bird experiences are defined less by a rare sighting than
by a quality of presence, some sense of overall occasion that sets
in motion memories of a particular landscape, a particular light, a
particular choral effect, a particular hiking partner.\" Or, as the
poet Elizabeth Bradfield remarks, \"We resonate with certain
animals, I believe, because they are a physical embodiment of an
answer we are seeking. A sense of ourselves in the world that is
nearly inexpressible.\"
When Birds Are Near gives us the chance to walk
alongside these avid appreciators of birds and reflect on our own
interactions with our winged companions.
Contributors: Christina Baal, Thomas Bancroft, K. Bannerman, R.
A. Behrstock, Richard Bohannon, Elizabeth Bradfield, Christine Byl,
Susan Cerulean, Sara Crosby, Jenn Dean, Rachel Dickinson, Katie
Fallon, Jonathan Franzen, Andrew Furman, Tim Gallagher, David
Gessner, Renata Golden, Ursula Murray Husted, Eli J. Knapp, Donald
Kroodsma, J. Drew Lanham, John R. Nelson, Rob Nixon, Jonathan
Rosen, Alison Townsend, Alison Világ
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When Birds Are Near
In this dazzling literary collection, writers explore and celebrate their lives with and love for birds—detailing experiences from Alaska to Bermuda, South Dakota to Panama. In When Birds Are Near , fresh new voices as well as seasoned authors offer tales of adventure, perseverance, and fun, whether taking us on a journey down Highway 1 to see a rare California Condor, fighting the destruction of our grasslands, or simply watching the feeder from a kitchen window. But these essays are more than just field notes. The authors reflect on love, loss, and family, engaging a broad array of emotions, from wonder to amusement. As Rob Nixon writes, Sometimes the best bird experiences are defined less by a rare sighting than by a quality of presence, some sense of overall occasion that sets in motion memories of a particular landscape, a particular light, a particular choral effect, a particular hiking partner. Or, as the poet Elizabeth Bradfield remarks, We resonate with certain animals, I believe, because they are a physical embodiment of an answer we are seeking. A sense of ourselves in the world that is nearly inexpressible. When Birds Are Near gives us the chance to walk alongside these avid appreciators of birds and reflect on our own interactions with our winged companions. Contributors: Christina Baal, Thomas Bancroft, K. Bannerman, R. A. Behrstock, Richard Bohannon, Elizabeth Bradfield, Christine Byl, Susan Cerulean, Sara Crosby, Jenn Dean, Rachel Dickinson, Katie Fallon, Jonathan Franzen, Andrew Furman, Tim Gallagher, David Gessner, Renata Golden, Ursula Murray Husted, Eli J. Knapp, Donald Kroodsma, J. Drew Lanham, John R. Nelson, Rob Nixon, Jonathan Rosen, Alison Townsend, Alison Világ
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Handbook of psychology.: (Forensic psychology)
Psychology is of interest to academics from many fields, as well as to the thousands of academic and clinical psychologists and general public who can't help but be interested in learning more about why humans think and behave as they do. This award-winning twelve-volume reference covers every aspect of the ever-fascinating discipline of psychology and represents the most current knowledge in the field. This ten-year revision now covers discoveries based in neuroscience, clinical psychology's new interest in evidence-based practice and mindfulness, and new findings in social, developmental, and forensic psychology.
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The Futures of American Studies
Originating as a proponent of U.S. exceptionalism during
the Cold War, American Studies has now reinvented itself,
vigorously critiquing various kinds of critical hegemony and
launching innovative interdisciplinary endeavors.
The Futures of American Studies considers the field
today and provides important deliberations on what it might yet
become. Essays by both prominent and emerging scholars provide
theoretically engaging analyses of the postnational impulse of
current scholarship, the field's historical relationship to
social movements, the status of theory, the state of higher
education in the United States, and the impact of ethnic and
gender studies on area studies. They also investigate the
influence of poststructuralism, postcolonial studies, sexuality
studies, and cultural studies on U.S. nationalist-and
antinationalist-discourses. No single overriding paradigm
dominates the anthology. Instead, the articles enter into a
lively and challenging dialogue with one another. A major
assessment of the state of the field,
The Futures of American Studies is necessary reading for
American Studies scholars.
Contributors. Lindon Barrett, Nancy Bentley, Gillian
Brown, Russ Castronovo, Eric Cheyfitz, Michael Denning, Winfried
Fluck, Carl Gutierrez-Jones, Dana Heller, Amy Kaplan, Paul
Lauter, Günter H. Lenz, George Lipsitz, Lisa Lowe, Walter
Benn Michaels, José Estaban Muñoz, Dana D. Nelson,
Ricardo L. Ortiz, Janice Radway, John Carlos Rowe, William V.
Spanos
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