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Putting the Barn Before the House - Nancy Grey Osterud - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

Putting the Barn Before the House - Nancy Grey Osterud - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

Putting the Barn Before the House features the voices and viewpoints of women born before World War I who lived on family farms in south-central New York. As she did in her previous book, Bonds of Community, for an earlier period in history, Grey Osterud explores the flexible and varied ways that families shared labor and highlights the strategies of mutuality that women adopted to ensure they had a say in family decision making. Sharing and exchanging work also linked neighboring households and knit the community together. Indeed, the culture of cooperation that women espoused laid the basis for the formation of cooperatives that enabled these dairy farmers to contest the power of agribusiness and obtain better returns for their labor. Osterud recounts this story through the words of the women and men who lived it and carefully explores their views about gender, labor, and power, which offered an alternative to the ideas that prevailed in American society. Most women saw "putting the barn before the house"—investing capital and labor in productive operations rather than spending money on consumer goods or devoting time to mere housework—as a necessary and rational course for families who were determined to make a living on the land and, if possible, to pass on viable farms to the next generation. Some women preferred working outdoors to what seemed to them the thankless tasks of urban housewives, while others worked off the farm to support the family. Husbands and wives, as well as parents and children, debated what was best and negotiated over how to allocate their limited labor and capital and plan for an uncertain future. Osterud tells the story of an agricultural community in transition amid an industrializing age with care and skill.

DKK 959.00
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Nestwork - Jennifer Clary Lemon - Bog - Pennsylvania State University Press - Plusbog.dk

Nestwork - Jennifer Clary Lemon - Bog - Pennsylvania State University Press - Plusbog.dk

As more and more species fall under the threat of extinction, humans are not only taking action to protect critical habitats but are also engaging more directly with species to help mitigate their decline. Through innovative infrastructure design and by changing how we live, humans are becoming more attuned to nonhuman animals and are making efforts to live alongside them. Examining sites of loss, temporal orientations, and infrastructural mitigations, Nestwork blends rhetorical and posthuman sensibilities in service of the ecological care. In this innovative ethnographic study, rhetorician Jennifer Clary-Lemon examines human-nonhuman animal interactions, identifying forms of communication between species and within their material world. Looking in particular at nonhuman species that depend on human development for their habitat, Clary-Lemon examines the cases of the barn swallow, chimney swift, and bobolink. She studies their habitats along with the unique mitigation efforts taken by humans to maintain those habitats, including building “barn swallow gazebos” and artificial chimneys and altering farming practices to allow for nesting and breeding. What she reveals are fascinating forms of rhetoric not expressed through language but circulating between species and materials objects. Nestwork explores what are in essence nonlinguistic and decidedly nonhuman arguments within these local environments. Drawing on new materialist and Indigenous ontologies, the book helps attune our senses to the tragedy of species decline and to a new understanding of home and homemaking.

DKK 780.00
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Messages from an Owl - Max R. Terman - Bog - Princeton University Press - Plusbog.dk

Messages from an Owl - Max R. Terman - Bog - Princeton University Press - Plusbog.dk

When zoologist Max Terman came to the rescue of a great horned owlet in a Kansas town park, he embarked on an adventure that would test his scientific ingenuity and lead to unprecedented observations of an owl''s hidden life in the wild. In Messages from an Owl , Terman not only relates his experiences nursing the starving owlet, "Stripey," back to health and teaching it survival skills in his barn, but also describes the anxiety and elation of letting a companion loose into an uncertain world. Once Terman felt that Stripey knew how to dive after prey, he set the owl free. At this point his story could have ended, with no clue as to what the young bird''s fate would be--had it not been for Terman''s experimentation with radio tags. By strapping the tags to Stripey, he actually managed to follow the owl into the wild and observe for himself the behavior of a hand-reared individual reunited with its natural environment.Through this unique use of telemetry, Terman tracked Stripey for over six years after the bird left the scientist''s barn and took up residence in the surrounding countryside on the Kansas prairie. The radio beacon provided Terman with information on the owl''s regular patterns of playing, hunting, exploring, and protecting. It enabled him to witness the moments when Stripey was bantered and mobbed by crows, when other owls launched fierce attacks, and when a prospective mate caught Stripey''s eye. On occasional returns to the barn, the owl would follow Terman around as he performed chores, usually waiting for a handout.Until now, scientists have generally believed that an owl nurtured by humans becomes ill-adapted for meeting the challenges of life in the wild. Terman''s research proves otherwise. Stripey surpassed all expectations by becoming a totally independent wild creature. With Terman, however, Stripey remained tame, allowing the author to explore something one rarely sees in owls: a warm interest in humanity. Terman engagingly re-creates this dimension of Stripey as he describes with humor and compassion the daily challenges of probing the life of a "phantom winged tiger."Originally published in 1996.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

DKK 935.00
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Det man husker - Bent Haller - Bog - Saga - Plusbog.dk

Det man husker - Bent Haller - Bog - Saga - Plusbog.dk

Bag fortællingen om, hvordan Bent fra Bangsbostrand blev til forfatteren og kunstneren Bent Haller, ligger en knugende beretning om et skæbnesvangert venskab: Bent er født ind i Frederikshavns arbejderklasse, mens barndomsvennen Uffe er barn af det moderne borgerskab. Uffe hører Elvis, siger "Okay" og "Hej" og åbner Bents verden. Gradvist indtager Bent Uffes plads i familien, Uffe går til bunds, og Bent finder sine ben som forfatter og familiefar. Som gamle mødes de igen efter i årevis ikke at have vekslet et ord."Det man husker" er Bent Hallers selvportræt og et unikt indblik i den private forfatter bag nogle af Danmarks mest populære børne- og ungdomsbøger som "Fuglekrigen" og "Kaskelotternes sang".Udgivelsen er en storskrift-udgave til svagsynede i serien MAGNUMBØGER Lindhardt og Ringhof.Bent Haller (f. 1946) er en af Danmarks mest produktive og elskede forfattere. Han har et imponerende forfatterskab bag sig bestående af både romaner og børne- og ungdomsbøger.

DKK 888.00
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Intuition, Imagination, and Philosophical Methodology - Tamar Szabo Gendler - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Intuition, Imagination, and Philosophical Methodology - Tamar Szabo Gendler - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Concerns about philosophical methodology have emerged as a central issue in contemporary philosophical discussions. In this volume, Tamar Gendler draws together fourteen essays that together illuminate this topic. Three intertwined themes connect the essays. First, each of the chapters focuses, in one way or another, on how we engage with subject matter that we take to be imaginary. This theme is explored in a wide range of cases, including scientific thought experiments, early childhood pretense, thought experiments concerning personal identity, fictional emotions, self-deception, Gettier and fake barn cases, the relation of belief to other attitudes, and the connection between conceivability and possibility. Second, each of the chapters explores, in one way or another, the implications of this for how thought experiments and appeals to intuition can serve as mechanisms for supporting or refuting scientific or philosophical claims. Third, each of the chapters self-consciously exhibits a particular philosophical methodology: that of drawing both on empirical findings from contemporary psychology, and on classic texts in the philosophical tradition (particularly the work of Aristotle and Hume.) By exploring and exhibiting the fruitfulness of these interactions, Gendler promotes the value of engaging in such cross-disciplinary conversations to illuminate philosophical questions.

DKK 1010.00
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Language Down the Garden Path - - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Language Down the Garden Path - - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Thomas G. Bever''s now iconic sentence, The horse raced past the barn fell, first appeared in his 1970 paper "The Cognitive Basis of Linguistic Structures". This ''garden path sentence'', so-called because of the way it leads the reader or listener down the wrong parsing path, helped spawn the entire subfield of sentence processing. It has become the most often quoted element of a paper which spanned a wealth of research into the relationship between the grammatical system and language processing. Language Down the Garden Path traces the lines of research that grew out of Bever''s classic paper. Leading scientists review over 40 years of debates on the factors at play in language comprehension, production, and acquisition (the role of prediction, grammar, working memory, prosody, abstractness, syntax and semantics mapping); the current status of universals and narrow syntax; and virtually every topic relevant in psycholinguistics since 1970. Written in an accessible and engaging style, the book will appeal to all those interested in understanding the questions that shaped, and are still shaping, this field and the ways in which linguists, cognitive scientists, psychologists, and neuroscientists are seeking to answer them.

DKK 1045.00
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Alle Blomsterne i Paris, GAD STOR MAGNAPRINT - Sarah Jio - Bog - Gads Forlag - Plusbog.dk

Alle Blomsterne i Paris, GAD STOR MAGNAPRINT - Sarah Jio - Bog - Gads Forlag - Plusbog.dk

To kvinder er adskilt af tiden men forbundet via tragiske livshistorier - og byen Paris. Alle blomsterne i Paris er en forførende roman med to tidsspor til dig, der var vild med Sarahs nøgle, Nattergalen og Hotellet ved Skyggesøen. Caroline vågner på et hospital i Paris, men husker intet. Hun er forvirret over at få at vide, at hun i årevis har ført en ensom tilværelse i en herskabelig lejlighed i Rue de Cler. Langsomt vender hendes hukommelse tilbage, og vage minder om en mand og et barn dukker frem af tågen. Hun forsøger at få styr på sit liv, men hun har en fornemmelse af at være i fare. Et spirende venskab med en kok i nærheden af hendes lejlighed får dog ledt tankerne bort fra fortiden, og det samme gør et gammelt mysterium. I det naziokkuperede Paris forsøger en ung, jødisk enke ved navn Céline at skabe en ny tilværelse for sig selv. Hun arbejder i sin fars blomsterbutik og håber at finde kærligheden på ny. Men da en tysk officer får et godt øje til hende, bliver hun tvunget til at spille et farligt spil for at beskytte sine nærmeste, ikke mindst det menneske hun elsker allerhøjst: sin datter. De to kvinders liv er forbundet på overraskende vis, og deres historie væver sig sammen til et forførende drama om menneskets styrke, en mors kærlighed og ikke mindst evnen til at tilgive. Sarah Jios romaner udkommer i 27 lande og ligger på bestsellerlisterne overalt, heriblandt i Norge, hvor hendes bøger er solgt i mere end en halv mio. eksemplarer.

DKK 1500.00
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Rethinking Roundhouses - D. W. Harding - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Rethinking Roundhouses - D. W. Harding - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Excavated plans of roundhouses may compound multiple episodes of activity, design, construction, occupation, repair, and closure, reflecting successive stages of a building''s biography. What does not survive archaeologically, through use of materials or methods that leave no tangible trace, may be as important for reconstruction as what does survive, and can only be inferred from context or comparative evidence. The great diversity in structural components suggests a greater diversity of superstructure than was implied by the classic Wessex roundhouses, including split-level roofs and penannular ridge roofs. Among the stone-built houses of the Atlantic north and west there likewise appears to have been a range of regional and chronological variants in the radial roundhouse series, and probably within the monumental Atlantic roundhouses too.Important though recognition of structural variants may be, morphological classification should not be allowed to override the social use of space for which the buildings were designed, whether their structural footprint was round or rectangular. Atlantic roundhouses reveal an important division between central space and peripheral space, and a similar division may be inferred for lowland timber roundhouses, where the surviving evidence is more ephemeral. Some larger houses were evidently byre-houses or barn houses, some with upper or mezzanine floor levels, in which livestock might be brought in or agricultural produce stored. Such ''great houses'' doubtless served community needs beyond those of the resident extended family. The massively-increased scale of development-led excavations of recent years has resulted in an increased database that enables evaluation of individual sites in a wider landscape environment than was previously possible. Circumstances of recovery and recording in commercially-driven excavations, however, are not always compatible with research objectives, and the undoubted improvements in standards of environmental investigation are sometimes offset by shortcomings in the publication of basic structural or stratigraphic detail.

DKK 946.00
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A History of the County of Gloucester - N. M. Herbert - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

A History of the County of Gloucester - N. M. Herbert - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

This volume gives the history of the six parishes in Westbury hundred and the sixteen in Whitstone hundred. Both hundreds abut the River Severn. Westbury hundred, on the right bank, adjoins the Forest of Dean: the landscape is relatively wild and large areas of woodland survive. The hundred lies in two parts, including at its north-eastern end the crossing of the Severn at Over Bridge and at its south-western end the crossing of the Wye at Chepstow Bridge.The new Severn Bridge, replacing the ancient ferry from Beachley to Aust, crosses the south--western extremity. Most of the parishes are large, and settlement within them tends to be scattered. Highnam Court (in Churcham parish)and the former Westbury Court, from which the unusual water-garden survives, were two of the county's more notable country houses. The small town of Newnham, squeezed between river and forest, had a Norman castle and was the placefrom which Henry II left England for his conquest of Ireland. The history of Lancaut, the remote little parish lying on the Wye outside Offa's Dyke, is included in this volume under Tidenham. Whitstone hundred, on the left bank of the Severn, is mainly flat agricultural land, but the eastern parishes climb the Cotswold escarp-ment and were part of the Stroud Valley clothing district. The area is one of varied settlement and economy, including riverside hamlets as in Longney and Saul, former weaving hamlets like Randwick, and scattered moated sites, such as those of Haresfield, Moreton Valence, and Quedgeley. Among buildings that recall monas-tic connexions are the fine 12th-century church of Leonard Stanley, the great tithe-barn at Frocester, and the manor-house at Standish; secular buildings include among country houses Hardwicke Court, Frampton Court, Whit-minster House, and the demolished 19th-century mansion at Fretherne, and large clothing mills at Eastington, King's Stanley, and Stonehouse.

DKK 804.00
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Craft Class - Christopher Kempf - Bog - Johns Hopkins University Press - Plusbog.dk

Craft Class - Christopher Kempf - Bog - Johns Hopkins University Press - Plusbog.dk

The hidden history of the creative writing workshop and the socioeconomic consequences of the craft labor metaphor. In a letter dated September 1, 1912, drama professor George Pierce Baker recommended the term "workshop" for an experimental course in playwriting he had been planning with former students at Harvard and Radcliffe. This was the first time that term, now ubiquitous, was used in the context of creative writing pedagogy. Today, the MFA (master of fine arts) industry is a booming one, with more than 200 programs and thousands of residencies and conferences for aspiring writers nationwide. Almost all of these offerings operate on the workshop model. In Craft Class, Christopher Kempf argues that the primary institutional form of creative writing studies, the workshop, has remained invisible before our scholarly eyes. While Baker and others marshaled craft toward economic critique, craft pedagogies consolidated the authority of elite educational institutions as the MFA industry grew. Transcoding professional-managerial soft skills—linguistic facility, social and emotional discernment, symbolic fluency—in the language of manual labor, the workshop nostalgically invokes practices that the university itself has rendered obsolete. The workshop poem or short story thus shares discursive space with the craft IPA or hand-loomed Pottery Barn rug—a space in which one economic practice rewrites itself in the language of another, just as right-wing corporatism continuously rewrites itself in the language of populism. Delineating an arc that extends from Boston's fin de siècle Society of Arts and Crafts through 1930s proletarian workshops to the pedagogies of Black Mountain College and the postwar MFA, Craft Class reveals how present-day creative writing restructures transhistorical questions of labor, education, and aesthetic and economic production. With the rise of the workshop in American culture, Kempf shows, manual and mental labor have been welded together like steel plates. What fissures does that weld seal shut? And on whose behalf does the poet punch in?

DKK 841.00
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