David M Turner: 12 books

Book cover of Disability in Eighteenth-Century England

Disability in Eighteenth-Century England

Imagining Physical Impairment

by David M. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012

This is the first book-length study of physical disability in eighteenth-century England. It assesses the ways in which meanings of physical difference were formed within different cultural contexts, and examines how disabled men and women used, appropriated, or rejected these representations in making...
Book cover of Disability in the Industrial Revolution

Disability in the Industrial Revolution

Physical impairment in British coalmining, 1780–1880

by David M. Turner, Daniel Blackie
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018

An electronic version of this book is also available under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) license, thanks to the support of the Wellcome Trust. The Industrial Revolution produced injury, illness and disablement on a large scale and nowhere was this more visible than in coalmining. Disability in...
Book cover of Aging Heroes

Aging Heroes

Growing Old in Popular Culture

by Patrice M. Buzzanell, Paul Haridakis, Cynthia J. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015

Despite the increasing number and variety of older characters appearing in film, television, comics, and other popular culture, much of the understanding of these figures has been limited to outdated stereotypes of aging. These include depictions of frailty, resistance to modern life, and mortality....
Book cover of In the Wake of the Crisis

In the Wake of the Crisis

Leading Economists Reassess Economic Policy

by Guillermo Ortiz, Otmar Issing, Parthasarathi Shome
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012

Prominent economists reconsider the fundamentals of economic policy for a post-crisis world. In 2011, the International Monetary Fund invited prominent economists and economic policymakers to consider the brave new world of the post-crisis global economy. The result is a book that captures...
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Achieving sustainable production of milk Volume 3

Dairy herd management and welfare

by Prof. Jeffrey Rushen, Dr Jan Hultgren, Dr Jennie E. Pryce
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017

Reviews advances in understanding and improving the welfare of dairy cattle;  Summarises current research on rumen biology, digestion and ways of optimising nutrition of dairy cattle from grazing to feed and feed supplements;  Discusses latest developments in maintaining the health of dairy cattle, including the genetics of disease resistance and dairy herd health management
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The Battlefield and Beyond

Essays on the American Civil War

by Orville Vernon Burton, Paul D. Escott, Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012

In The Battlefield and Beyond leading Civil War historians explore a tragic part of our nation's history though the lenses of race, gender, leadership, politics, and memory. The essays in this strong collection shed new light on the defining issues of the Civil War era. Orville Vernon Burton, Leonne...
Book cover of Religion, Culture, and International Conflict
by David Bloom, David Brooks, Peter Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2005

As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often...
Book cover of EXIT EARTH
by Duncan Abel, Virginia Ballesty, Erik Bergstrom
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017

From Trumpocalypse to Brexit Britain, brick by brick the walls are closing in. But don’t despair. Bulldoze the borders. Conquer freedom not fear. EXIT EARTH explores all life – past, present, or future – on, or off – this beautiful, yet fragile, world of ours. Final embraces beneath a sky...
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Indigenous Homelessness

Perspectives from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

by Paul Andrew, Tim Aubry, Yale Belanger
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016

Being homeless in one’s homeland is a colonial legacy for many Indigenous people in settler societies. The construction of Commonwealth nation-states from colonial settler societies depended on the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their lands. The legacy of that dispossession and related...
Book cover of Key States, High Stakes

Key States, High Stakes

Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, and the 2010 Elections

by Charles S. Bullock III, Dante J. Scala, Daniel C. Reed
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011

The 2010 elections were one of the most highly anticipated midterm elections in our nation's recent history. After the historic 2008 election, in which America elected its first black president, Sarah Palin's involvement and the emergence of the Tea Party in the 2010 congressional elections had the...
Book cover of Food and Everyday Life
by Stephanie Greene, Joanna Henryks, David Livert
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014

Food and Everyday Life provides a qualitative, interpretive, and interdisciplinary examination of food and food practices and their meanings in the modern world. Edited by Thomas M. Conroy, the book offers a number of complementary approaches and topics around the parameters of the “ordinary, everyday”...
Book cover of Commonplace Commitments

Commonplace Commitments

Thinking through the Legacy of Joseph P. Fell

by Kenneth L. Anderson, Scott D. Churchill, Vincent M. Colapietro
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016

Joseph P. Fell proposes that the solution to the problem of nihilism is found in the common experience of persons and the everyday commitments that one makes to people, practices, and institutions. In his landmark 1979 book Heidegger and Sartre, and in his subsequent essays, Fell describes a quiet...
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