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Among numerous ancient Western tropes about gender and procreation, ""the seed and the soil"" is arguably the oldest, most potent, and most invisible in its apparent naturalness. In Gender Vendors: Sex and Lies from Abraham to Freud, Al Jones de-naturalizes the proto-theory of "seed-and-soil" procreation and deconstructs its contemporary legacy.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Underground Whales: An Energy Archaeology -- Part 1. Loomings -- 1. Built-In Obsolescence: Energy and Limits to Growth in the Whaling World of Moby-Dick -- Part 2. Whaling Entertainment -- 2. The Invention of Quaintness: Nantucket Tourism and the Logics of Energy and Exhaustion -- 3. Pioneer Inland Whaling: A Whale on a Train, a Ship Called Progress, and the Transformation of Whaling Culture in the Inland United States -- Part 3. Whaling Nostalgia -- 4. Extinction Burst: White Supremacy and Yankee Whaling Heritage at the End of the Industry -- 5. Nostalgia for the Wooden World: Energy, the Melville Revival, and Rockwell Kent's Moby-Dick -- Epilogue. The Bone in Our Teeth -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Editor's Introduction -- The Background -- The Springs of Agricultural Productivity -- General -- Advances in Husbandry Technique -- Improvements in Agrarian Organitation -- Contributions to Economic Development -- The Supply of Food and Raw Materials -- The Release of Factors of Production -- Income Effects of Agricultural Change and Development of a Market for Industrial Goods -- Conclusions -- 1 Obstacles to Progress -- 2 Agricultural Progress in Open-Field Oxfordshire -- 3 Agriculture and the Brewing and Distilling Industries in the Eighteenth Century -- 4 Enclosure and Labour Supply in the Industrial Revolution -- 5 The Cost of Parliamentary Enclosure in Warwickshire -- 6 Agriculture and Economic Growth in England, 1660-1750: Agricultural Change -- 7 Agricultural Productivity and Economic Growth in England 1700-1760 -- Select Bibliography.

Professions and politics in crisis - a MacIntyrean response -- Composing the stories of our lives - pursuing our good through human flourishing -- Flourishing in practices - common goods and the pursuit of excellence -- Living in Piscopolis Part I - Fishing crews, their common goods, and their everyday relationships with other inhabitants -- Living in Piscopolis Part II - Political conversation and the greater common good in the fishing village polis -- Living in the liberal democratic state - contrasts and prospects -- Living in Juropolis - trawling for justice in the fishing village of the law -- Beyond Juropolis - toward the liberal democratic state as a republic of virtue.

This book applies an economic and environmental perspective to the history of landscape and the rural economy, highlighting their inter-connections through specific case studies. After explaining how the author made his discoveries and when they started, it analyses relations between documentary and landscape evidence. It is based on exceptional first-hand observation of a dozen sites and close consideration of topics in the ecological and economic history of southern England. They range from reclaiming chalk down-land, occupying low-lying heaths and reconstructing parkland, to wool-stapling and the manufacture of gunstocks for the African slave trade. Additional themes include the tension between ecology and institutions in decisions about the location of economic activity; the decay of communal farming ahead of enclosure; and other interesting puzzles in rural economic history. This book offers an original approach to questions in economic history through its synthesis of different types of evidence. It will be of interest to a diverse range of readers because it addresses how economic change was registered in the landscape, and how that change was influenced by landscape. It is a book with highly original features, contributing simultaneously to economic, agricultural, environmental, and landscape history.

This volume presents the first collection of essays dedicated to women as producers of visual and material culture in the Early Modern European courts, offering fresh insights into the careers of, among others, Caterina van Hemessen, Sofonisba Anguissola, Luisa Roldán, and Diana Mantuana. Also considered are groups of female makers, such as ladies-in-waiting at the seventeenth-century Medici court. Chapters address works by women who occupied a range of social and economic positions within and around the courts and across media, including paintings, sculpture, prints, and textiles. Both individually and collectively, the texts deepen understanding of the individual artists and courts highlighted and, more broadly, consider the variety of experiences of female makers across traditional geographic and chronological distinctions. The book is also accompanied by the "Global Makers: Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts" digital humanities project (www.globalmakers.ua.edu), extending and expanding the work begun here

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for Barriers to Growth -- Contents -- Part I The Erosion of Obstacles -- 1 Barriers and Push Forces -- 2 Military and Ecclesiastical Building -- 3 Dissolution of the Monasteries -- 4 Civil War -- 5 Communal Farming and Underused Land -- 6 Tithes -- 7 Archaic Institutions -- 8 Obstructive Infrastructure -- 9 Maladministration -- Part II Coping with Shocks -- 10 Disease -- 11 Insults to Agriculture -- 12 Storms and Adverse Seasons -- 13 Floods -- 14 Fires -- Conclusion -- Index.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Last Capitalist -- Real Farmers: -- Shaky Ed: Neatness as a Virtue I -- Big Machinery - Big Feeler -- Farmer Grable: Frugality as a Duty -- Organic Vertegration -- All Cattlemen Are Crazy -- Harry the Hog Man -- Slumming with Sheep -- Modem Slavery in the World of Milk -- Crazy Billy the Fantasy Farmer -- Sherman the Scalper -- Why Aren't There More Irish Farmers? -- Larry the Lip: Wheeling and Dealing -- The Farming Game: -- The Smart Boys -- The Irrational World of Farm Finance -- How to Beat the System -- Will There Be Any Plowjockeys in Heaven? -- Afterword to the Bison Book Edition -- Back Cover

I entered a doctoral program in social work to better understand how to use applied research to address emergent social issues. This case will describe the process of choosing and employing a methodology (ultimately a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods) to answer a newly emergent social question, "Who will care for people in the community who are no longer able to exercise decision-making capacity for themselves?" I knew of a program that recruited and trained volunteers to provide legal guardianship services to people in their community who were no longer able to make important decisions about their lives. Without assistance, people who have illnesses such as Alzheimer's disease may neglect their own health and safety and may jeopardize the safety of people in their community. Assuming legal guardianship is a very responsible task. Most people who chose to volunteer would prefer a less burdensome task, such as coaching, physical therapist assistant (PTA) work, or assisting with a fundraiser. I wanted to understand who accepted this very responsible volunteer task, why they chose to do this, and why they continued in this capacity. Understanding the demographic characteristics and motivations of these volunteers may help to replicate this program in other areas. This case study will help students understand the process of choosing a methodology that will address the research questions and how to engage both an academic audience and the public audience including the research participants in this study.

The music industry is undergoing immense change. This book argues that the transformations occurring across the various music industries - recording, live performance, publishing - can be characterised as much by continuity as by change, raising complex questions about the value of music commodities