Author: Dorothy Pinch
Publisher: Fireside
Keywords: horsemanship, happy
Number of Pages: 182
Published: 1998-12-21
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0684852152
ISBN-13: 9780684852157

For you to enjoy me (and for me to enjoy you, too) there are some important facts about me which you should know before you try to handle or ride me. "I am a Horse. "My name in Latin is Equus. From this name comes the word ’equine’ which means something to do with a horse, and the word ’equestrian,’ which means one who rides a horse." With this, Happy Horsemanship starts you and your child on a most wonderful journey. Told from the point of view of the horse, this little gem introduces every aspect of riding and caring for horses -- from body to mind, from tack to r

Author: Kenzaburo Oe
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Keywords: memorandum, runner, pinch
Number of Pages: 265
Published: 1993-11
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1563241846
ISBN-13: 9781563241840

Author: Kenzaburo Oe
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Keywords: memorandum, runner, pinch
Number of Pages: 265
Published: 1997-04
List price: $78.95
ISBN-10: 1563241838
ISBN-13: 9781563241833

This novel offers a contemporary and explosive picture of the nuclear family, which pivots on the bizarre odyssey of a Japanese father and son.

Author: Geraldine Pinch
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Keywords: egypt, ancient, magic
Number of Pages: 191
Published: 1994
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0292765592
ISBN-13: 9780292765597

The Egyptians were famous in the ancient world for their knowledge of magic. Religion, medicine, technology, and what we would call magic coexisted without apparent conflict, and it was not unusual for magical and "practical" remedies for illness, for example, to be used side by side. Everyone resorted to magic, from the pharaoh guarding his country with elaborate magical rituals to the expectant mother wearing amulets to safeguard her unborn child. In this book, Geraldine Pinch examines the connections between myth and magic and the deities--such as the goddess Isis, and the protective lion

Author: William R. Pinch
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: india, british, monks, peasants
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1996-06-18
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0520200616
ISBN-13: 9780520200616

In this compelling social history, William R. Pinch tackles one of the most important but most neglected fields of the colonial history of India: the relation between monasticism and caste. The highly original inquiry yields rich insights into the central structure and dynamics of Hindu society--insights that are not only of scholarly but also of great political significance.Perhaps no two images are more associated with rural India than the peasant who labors in an oppressive, inflexible social structure and the ascetic monk who denounces worldly concerns. Pinch argues that, contrary to these

Author: Adela Pinch
Publisher: Stanford University Pre
Keywords: hume, austen, emotion, epistemologies, fits, passion, strange
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1997-03-01
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0804725489
ISBN-13: 9780804725484

This book contends that when late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writers sought to explain the origins of emotions, they often discovered that their feelings may not really have been their own. It explores the paradoxes of representing feelings in philosophy, aesthetic theory, gender ideology, literature, and popular sentimentality, and it argues that this period’s obsession with sentimental, wayward emotion was inseparable from the dilemmas resulting from attempts to locate the origins of feelings in experience.The book shows how these epistemological dilemmas became gendered by s

Authors:David Gooding, Trevor Pinch, Simon Schaffer,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: sciences, natural, studies, experiment, uses
Number of Pages: 500
Published: 1989-06-30
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0521337682
ISBN-13: 9780521337687

Experiment is widely regarded as the most distinctive feature of natural science and essential to the way scientists find out about the world. Yet there has been little study of the way scientists actually make and use experiments. The Uses of Experiment fills this gap in our knowledge about how science is practised. Presenting 14 original case studies of important and often famous experiments, the book asks the questions: What tools do experimenters use? How do scientists argue from experiments? What happens when an experiment is challenged? How do scientists check that their experiments are