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The widow returned to her familys home in Sandwich, Massachusetts, where she refused all marriage proposals and died wealthy in 1917.<br>This is the way Burgess recorded her story in her prodigious journals and registers, which she donated to the local historical society upon her death, but there is no other evidence that this dramatic event occurred exactly this way. In The Captains Widow of Sandwich, Megan Taylor Shockley examines how Burgess constructed her own legend and how the town of Sandwich embraced that history as its own. 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Does the punishment of offenders do more harm than good for American society? In The Case against Punishment, Deirdre Golash addresses these and other questions about the value of punishment in contemporary society.<br> Drawing on both empirical evidence and philosophical literature, this book argues that the harm done by punishing criminal offenders is ultimately morally unjustified. Asserting that punishment inflicts both intended and unintended harms on offenders, Golash suggests that crime can be reduced by addressing social problems correlated with high crime rates, such as income inequality and local social disorganization. Punishment may reduce crime, but in so doing, causes a comparable amount of harm to offenders. 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Low-wage workers and their families experienced a profound sense of exclusion from the techno-entrepreneurial culture, while middle class residents, witnessing up close the seemingly overnight success of a new entrepreneurial class, negotiated both new and seemingly unattainable standards of personal success and the erosion of their own economic security. <br>The Burdens of Aspiration explores the imprint of the regions success-driven public culture, the realities of increasing social and economic insecurity, and models of success emphasized in contemporary public schools for the regions working and middle class youth. Focused on two disparate groups of studentslow-income, at-risk Latino youth attending a specialized program exposing youth to high tech industry within an under-performing public high school, and middle-income white and Asian students attending a high-performing public school with informal connections to the tech eliteElsa Davidson offers an in-depth look at the process of forming aspirations across lines of race and class. 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A unique combination of pseudoscientific theories of health and the publics rudimentary understanding of energy created an age in which sources of industrial power seemed capable of curing the physical limitations and ill health that plagued Victorian bodies. Licensed and quack physicians alike promoted machines, electricity, and radium as invigorating cures, veritable fountains of youth that would infuse the body with energy and push out disease and death.<br>The Body Electric is the first book to place changing ideas about fitness and gender in dialogue with the popular culture of technology. Whether through wearing electric belts, drinking radium water, or lifting mechanized weights, many Americans came to believe that by embracing the nation's rapid march to industrialization, electrification, and radiomania, their bodies would emerge fully powered. Only by uncovering this beliefs passions and products, Thomas de la Pena argues, can we fully understand our cultures twentieth-century energy enthusiasm.</p>", "author": "Carolyn Thomas de la Pena", "slug": "the-body-electric-251622-9780814721483-carolyn-thomas-de-la-pena", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9780814721483.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "251622", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/251622/the-body-electric-251622-9780814721483-carolyn-thomas-de-la-pena", "bisac_codes": [ "HIS036000" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780814719831", "EISBN13": "9780814721483", "EISBN10": "0814721486" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023472830" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000251621", "attributes": { "name": "The Bully Society", "subtitle": "School Shootings and the Crisis of Bullying in Americas Schools", "description": "<p>Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013 <br><br>Through interviews and case studies, Klein develops an explanation for bully behavior in America's schools<br><br>In todays schools, kids bullying kids is not an occasional occurrence but rather an everyday reality where children learn early that being sensitive, respectful, and kind earns them no respect. Jessie Klein makes the provocative argument that the rise of school shootings across America, and childhood aggression more broadly, are the consequences of a society that actually promotes aggressive and competitive behavior. The Bully Society is a call to reclaim Americas schools from the vicious cycle of aggression that threatens our children and our society at large.<br><br>Heartbreaking interviews illuminate how both boys and girls obtain status by acting masculinedisplaying aggression at one anothers expense as both students and adults police one another to uphold gender stereotypes. 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Another critic described her as rude, impertinent, blasphemous, a destroyer not only of beliefs but of esteemed values.<br><br>In this first full-length biography, Bryan F. Le Beau offers a penetrating assessment of OHairs beliefs and actions and a probing discussion of how she came to represent both what Americans hated in their enemies and feared in themselves. Born in 1919, OHair was a divorced mother of two children born out of wedlock. She launched a crusade against God, often using foul language as she became adept at shocking people and making effective use of the media in delivering her message. She first gained notoriety as one of the primary litigants in the 1963 case Murray v. Curlett which led the Supreme Court to ban school prayer. 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At last Rilke has met a critic whose insight, courage, and humanity are worthy of his life and work.\"<br>Leslie Epstein Director, Graduate Creative Writing Program, Boston University<br> \"[A] well-reasoned, fairly fascinating, and illuminating study which soundly and convincingly applies Freudian and particularly post-Freudian insights into the self, to Rilke's life and work, in a way which enlightens us considerably as to the relationship between life and work in original ways. Kleinbard takes off where Hugo Simenauer's monumental psycho- biography of Rilke (1953) left off. . . . He succeeds in giving us a psychic portrait of the poet which is more illuminating and which . . . does greater justice to its subject than any of his predecessors.. . . . Any reader with strong interest in Rilke would certainly welcome the availability of this study.\"<br>Walter H. 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As an adult, s/he lives a double life as Marion/Mario, passing undetected as a lesbian in the literary salons of the times, and as a gay man in the cocaine dens made famous by Colette.<br> Delarue-Mardrus's novel belongs to a category of literature, written between the turn of the century and approximately 1930, which depicted lesbians as members of a third sex. The hermaphrodite became the visual representation of the ways in which lesbians were different from their heterosexual sisters, and Rene Vivien, Natalie Clifford Barney, Rachilde, and Colette, among others, shared Delarue-Mardrus's fascination with the topic.This is the first translation into English of The Angel and the Perverts. In an astute introduction, Anna Livia rereads Lucie Delarue-Mardrus as a prolific and significant writer, despite the fact that previous scholars viewed her primarily as the wife of the scholar and translator Joseph-Charles Mardrus. 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