Author: Louis Filler
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: anxieties, american
Number of Pages: 378
Published: 1993-01-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1560006722
ISBN-13: 9781560006725

Author: Yumna Siddiqi PhD
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: intrigue, fiction, empire, anxieties
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-12-05
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0231138083
ISBN-13: 9780231138086

Focusing on late nineteenth- and twentieth-century stories of detection, policing, and espionage by British and South Asian writers, Yumna Siddiqi presents an original and compelling exploration of the cultural anxieties created by imperialism. She suggests that while colonial writers use narratives of intrigue to endorse imperial rule, postcolonial writers turn the generic conventions and topography of the fiction of intrigue on its head, launching a critique of imperial power that makes the repressive and emancipatory impulses of postcolonial modernity visible.Siddiqi devotes the first part

Authors:Jonathan Berent, Amy Lemley,
Publisher: Fireside
Keywords: anxieties, social, conquer, shyness
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1994-04-28
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0671885251
ISBN-13: 9780671885250

Replace Rejection and Fear with Self-RespectAlmost everyone feels shy or slightly stressed in certain kinds of situations -- with new people, on a job interview, or on a first date. Jonathan Berent has helped thousands who suffer from shyness become calm, confident, and socially adept. He shows how even extremely shy people can overcome the low self-esteem and frustration that settle in after years of social disappointments and rejection, and gradually move toward mastery of the situations they find most difficult.* Learn about treatment for adults, teenagers, and children (with special advice

Author: Ann Laura Stoler
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: common, sense, colonial, anxieties, grain, epistemic, archival
Number of Pages: 314
Published: 2010-02-14
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0691146365
ISBN-13: 9780691146362

Along the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political content of archival forms. In a series of nuanced mediations on the nature of colonial documents from the nineteenth-century Netherlands Indies, Ann Laura Stoler identifies the social epistemologies that guided perception and practice, revealing the problematic racial ontologies of that confused epistemic space. Navigating familiar and extraordinary paths through the lettered lives of those who ruled, she seizes on moments when common sense failed and

Author: Danielle S. Allen
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: board, education, brown, citizenship, strangers, anxieties, talking
Number of Pages: 286
Published: 2006-11-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0226014673
ISBN-13: 9780226014678

"Don’t talk to strangers" is the advice long given to children by parents of all classes and races. Today it has blossomed into a fundamental precept of civic education, reflecting interracial distrust, personal and political alienation, and a profound suspicion of others. In this powerful and eloquent essay, Danielle Allen, a 2002 MacArthur Fellow, takes this maxim back to Little Rock, rooting out the seeds of distrust to replace them with "a citizenship of political friendship."Returning to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954 and to the famous photograph of Elizab

Author: Daniel Horowitz
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Keywords: consumer, culture, american, critques, affluence, anxieties
Number of Pages: 339
Published: 2005-09-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1558495045
ISBN-13: 9781558495043

This book charts the reactions of prominent American writers to the unprecedented prosperity of the decades following World War II. It begins with an examination of Lewis Mumford’s wartime call for "democratic" consumption and concludes with an analysis of the origins of President Jimmy Carter’s "malaise" speech of 1979. Between these bookends, Daniel Horowitz documents a broad range of competing views, each in its own way reflective of a deep-seated ambivalence toward consumer culture—a persistent but shifting tension between a commitment to self-restraint and the pursuit of personal sa

Authors:Jerilyn Ross, Robin Cantor-Cooke,
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: coping, common, anxieties, wisdom, uncommon, thing, worry, one
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-04-14
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0345503066
ISBN-13: 9780345503060

When it comes to having anxiety, women outnumber men two to one. Fluctuations in levels of estrogen and other hormones, as well as physiological factors unique to women, seem to cause us not only to experience anxiety differently at different times in our lives, but also to worry about different things in different ways. Now a pioneer in the field presents a new perspective on the way women worry, showing that anxiety isn’t something that just happens to us, but rather something that involves action and reaction–something with which we have a relationship–and that we can learn to manage.