Authors:Sarah W. Tracy, Sarah W. Tracy, Caroline Jean Acker,
Publisher: Univ. of Massachusetts Press
Keywords: drug, united, states, alcohol, history, american, consciousness, altering
Number of Pages: 414
Published: 2004-05-31
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1558494251
ISBN-13: 9781558494251

Virtually every American alive has at some point consumed at least one, and very likely more, consciousness altering drug. Even those who actively eschew alcohol, tobacco, and coffee cannot easily avoid the full range of psychoactive substances pervading the culture. With many children now taking Ritalin for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, professional athletes relying on androstenidione to bulk up, and the chronically depressed resorting to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors such as Prozac, the early twenty-first century appears no less rife with drugs than previous periods.Yet

Authors:Caroline Carlisle, Tom Mason, Caroline Watkins, Eliza
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: healthcare, exclusion, social, stigma
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-08-08
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 0415221994
ISBN-13: 9780415221993

Stigma and Social Exclusion in Healthcare provides practical solutions to problems, recommendations for training and a blue print for the future. Invaluable reference for all those wanting to deal with the issues of stigmatisation.

Authors:Caroline Carlisle, Tom Mason, Caroline Watkins, Eliza
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: healthcare, exclusion, social, stigma
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-08-08
List price: $51.95
ISBN-10: 0415222001
ISBN-13: 9780415222006

Stigma and Social Exclusion in Healthcare provides practical solutions to problems, recommendations for training and a blue print for the future. Invaluable reference for all those wanting to deal with the issues of stigmatisation.

Author: Kathy Acker
Publisher: Grove Pre
Keywords: kathy, acker, novel, expectations
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1994-01-18
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0802131557
ISBN-13: 9780802131553

Using postmodern form, Kathy Acker’s Great Expectations moves her narrator through time, gender, and identity as it examines our era’s cherished beliefs about life and art.

Author: Kathy Acker
Publisher: Grove Pre
Keywords: kathy, acker, novel, quixote, don
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1994-01-18
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0802131921
ISBN-13: 9780802131928

In this extraordinary and unique novel, Don Quixote is an indomitable woman on an intractable quest to become a knight and defeat the evil enchanters of modern America.

Author: Bryan Acker
Publisher: CreateSpace
Keywords: america, discussion, sense, common
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2009-05-14
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 1441465731
ISBN-13: 9781441465733

"...Shattering the bonds that hold us despondent, that keep us silent to the fates of our fellow man is the most important idea of this book. The cycle of fear, poverty and ignorance are but a few of the things that distract us from asking and answering the questions of "who we are and why are we here". This may be a very easy answer to some, not even imagined by others. We seem to be taking the choices given to us instead of creating the choices we know are right. To Live by Example. ..."

Author: Paul Acker
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: old, verse, garland, studies, literature, medieval, icelandic, english, oral, theory, formulaic, composition, revising
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 1998-04-01
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0815331029
ISBN-13: 9780815331025

Focusing on the Old English poem "Beowulf", on various Old Norse rune poems, and on the Old Icelandic mythological and legendary poems of the Elder Edda, this study addresses the following questions: what does it mean to compose with formulas; was repetition in these poems fixed or flexible; how do formulas relate to more large-scale poetic strategies and motifs; and in what sense are such formulas a part of oral tradition? The introductory essay places oral-formulaic theory into a larger theoretical context, relating it to structuralist activities in folklore and mythology. The author then co