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This book provides a state of the art review of selected areas and topics in cross-cultural psychology written by eminent figures in the field.Each chapter not only reviews the latest research in its respective area, but also goes further in integrating and synthesizing across areas. The Handbook of Culture and Psychology is a unique and timely contribution that should serve as a valuable reference and guide for beginning researchers and scholars alike. ... Read more

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This book covered a range of issues and a variety of cultures.The fact that it is an edited book contributed to the breadth of the information provided. I used this book as a reference in my study of Multicultural issues in a course I was taking through Fielding Graduate University and found it an invaluable resource.I would encourage anyone who is interested in culture and the psychology of culture to read it and gain a better understanding of the social underpinnings from which we all operate. ... Read more

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This is a fascinating book about the history of Wales, but it is not a history of Wales. It does not seek to retell historical events, but to interpret them in a unique way. A very good read for anyone interested in Wales and written in the years just before the First World War. ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1906Original Publisher: Twentieth Century Self Culture AssociationDescription: "Andrew Sloan Draper, editor-in-chief ; Charles Welsh, managing editor."Subjects: SportsPhysical education and trainingAmusementsNotes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free.Excerpt:FOOTBALL, CRICKET, ARCHERY, LACROSSEFootball. Penn's ball on her own 30-yard line. Cricket. Bowled by Barnes. Louis W. Maxson. (N. A. A. Champion 1889-1898.) Football -- The line up, showing the neutral zone required by the new rules. The men's bodies must be clear ofthe ball except the snapper back. Lacrosse.Hits as well as score are counted, and in deciding the winner in a match hits and score at each distance count 1 each, gross hits and score at all distances counting 2. Where two archers have the same number of points the one having the highest gross score wins.Every arrow passing through or rebounding from the target shall be scored, one hit, one point, and no arrow should be withdrawn from the target till its value has been entered on the score card.If the archers tire of target shooting let them try rovers or shooting at chance marks at different distances, the one coming nearest the mark selecting that next to be shot at.In turtle-back shooting the arrow is shot high in the air, preferably over a tree or some other intervening object, at a target prone upon the ground. The arrow falling nearest the centre of the target scores.In flight shooting the archer seeks to cast his arrow the greatest possible distance.As archery is a deliberate game of precision it cultivates an even disposition; hence, be ever courteous and fair, doing nothing to distract your fellow-... ... Read more

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The steam railway epitomized modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of train technology, and how it was represented in British society. Why, for example, did Britain possess no great railway novel? He compares fiction and images by some canonical British figures (Turner, Dickens, Arnold Bennett) with selected French and Russian competitors: Tolstoy, Zola, Monet, Manet. Detailed discussions of comic fiction, crime fiction and cartoons reveal a popular fascination with railways tumbling from vast (and hitherto unexplored) stores of critically overlooked genres. ... Read more

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The first in a three-volume sequence, this book covers the period between 1900 and 1929, providing a perceptive and thorough analysis of British literature within its historical, cultural and artistic context. It identifies the crucial, interwoven relationships between literature and the visual arts, modern poetry, popular fiction, journalism, cinema, music and radio. Much factual detail and a literary chronology guide the reader through the text. ... Read more

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The death of Raymond Williams in January 1988 brought to an end the career of a critic whose work on culture and the politics of literature has enjoyed a widespread influence. In this study, Alan O'Connor provides an elucidation of Williams' complex oeuvre. An important focus of his account is Williams' interrogation of "keywords", their shifting meanings charting cultural and historical changes and instabilities. A second crucial focus is Williams' analysis of written forms - the "knowable community" in the English novel and "complex seeing" in drama. While analyzing the social and political content of Williams' writings, whether dealing with television, drama or the novel, O'Connor also provides a "cultural history" of the critic himself as a politically engaged writer and activist. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This volume of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture offers a special cluster of essays on literature and medicine, "Allegories of Healing," that considers at length the different ways the physician-patient relationship was configured in France and Great Britain. Other essays discuss the unspoken politics of ocular observation, family relations and family values in Defoe and Frances Burney, ideals of polite marriage in France, portraiture as a record of the career of actress Sarah Siddons, period contexts for the works of dramatist Joanna Baillie and novelist Maria Edgeworth, and the phenomenology of rereading Richardson. The volume concludes with a reconsideration by Robert Wokler and Bruce Mazlish of Ernst Cassirer's classic study, The Philosophy of the Enlightenment.

"Each of these marvelous essays was selected to reflect the wide intellectual scope and keen local interests of students of the period. Several ask and answer interdisciplinary questions about the relation of the literary arts to the science of healing. Still others present workable ways of reconciling the discursive play of values to more traditional forms of historiography. All of them offer ideas that deserve to be much better known." -- Timothy Erwin