Rebecca Richards: 8 books

Book cover of Biomedical Engineering for Global Health
by Rebecca Richards-Kortum
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009

Can technology and innovation transform world health? Connecting undergraduate students with global problems, Rebecca Richards-Kortum examines the interplay between biomedical technology design and the medical, regulatory, economic, social and ethical issues surrounding global health. Driven by case...
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Understanding Statebuilding

Traditional Governance and the Modern State in Somaliland

by Rebecca Richards
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016

Much analysis of state building focusses on dissecting specific projects and attempting to identify what has gone ’wrong’ in states such as Afghanistan and Iraq. What draws less attention is what has gone ’right’ in non-interventionist statebuilding projects within 'unrecognised’ states....
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Harassed

Gender, Bodies, and Ethnographic Research

by Rebecca Hanson, Patricia Richards
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2019

Researchers frequently experience sexualized interactions, sexual objectification, and harassment as they conduct fieldwork. These experiences are often left out of ethnographers’ “tales from the field” and remain unaddressed within qualitative literature. Harassed argues that the androcentric,...
Book cover of Reflective Practice in Mental Health

Reflective Practice in Mental Health

Advanced Psychosocial Practice with Children, Adolescents and Adults

by Paul Richards, Florian Ruths, Tony West
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010

Reflective Practice in Mental Health is the authoritative, definitive guide to psycho-social theory and practice in mental health. Featuring contributions from eminent experts, the book uses case studies to illustrate and address the complexities and dilemmas faced by practitioners involved...
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Hillary Rodham Clinton and the 2016 Election

Her Political and Social Discourse

by Diane M. Blair, A. Fletcher Cole, Farris Lee Francis
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015

Hillary Rodham Clinton and the 2016 Election: Her Political and Social Discourse is anedited collection that demonstrates the ways in which Clinton has used political rhetoric and discourse to provide and assert her right to leadership in her many roles as First Lady, Senator from New York, and Secretary...
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Van Gogh among the Philosophers

Painting, Thinking, Being

by Pauline E. Erickson, Alina N. Feld, Stephen A. Erickson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017

This volume brings Continental philosophical interpretations of Van Gogh into dialogue with one another to explore how for Van Gogh, art places human beings in their world, and yet in other ways displaces them, not allowing them to belong to that world.
Book cover of Political Women

Political Women

Language and Leadership

by Diane M. Blair, Kenneth Campbell, William Carney
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013

This collection examines the ways in which women have used political rhetoric and political discourse to provide leadership, or assert their right to leadership, at the national level. While over the years women have broken through traditional roles, they are still underrepresented in political leadership....
Book cover of Transnational Feminist Rhetorics and Gendered Leadership in Global Politics
by Rebecca S. Richards
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014

Transnational Feminist Rhetorics and Gendered Leadership in Global Politics examines the rhetorical performances of women who hold or have held the highest office of a nation-state. This project analyzes how political women rhetorically perform—discursively, visually, and physically—their positions...
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