Author: David M. Newman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498553990
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
This book examines the iconic presence of second chances in everyday life. David Newman explores its various iterations in popular culture, commercial marketplaces, religion, intimate relationships, education, criminal justice, and human bodies. He analyzes how this concept—as a cultural aspiration, driver of policy, and lived personal experience—has become part and parcel of our individual sense of self and our collective national identity. While the rhetoric of redemption is familiar and ubiquitous, Newman uncovers the costs and constraints of second chances, paying particular attention to the factors that affect judgments of deservedness. Informed by an array of data sources including personal interviews, mission statements of nonprofit recovery agencies, images in popular culture, stories from the news, plot summaries of novels, and scriptural texts, Newman frames the second chance experience as the quintessential cultural paradox: a concept that simultaneously represents the pinnacle of our shared hopes for renewal and our deepest suspicions about the intransigence of human nature.
A Culture of Second Chances
Author: David M. Newman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498553990
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
This book examines the iconic presence of second chances in everyday life. David Newman explores its various iterations in popular culture, commercial marketplaces, religion, intimate relationships, education, criminal justice, and human bodies. He analyzes how this concept—as a cultural aspiration, driver of policy, and lived personal experience—has become part and parcel of our individual sense of self and our collective national identity. While the rhetoric of redemption is familiar and ubiquitous, Newman uncovers the costs and constraints of second chances, paying particular attention to the factors that affect judgments of deservedness. Informed by an array of data sources including personal interviews, mission statements of nonprofit recovery agencies, images in popular culture, stories from the news, plot summaries of novels, and scriptural texts, Newman frames the second chance experience as the quintessential cultural paradox: a concept that simultaneously represents the pinnacle of our shared hopes for renewal and our deepest suspicions about the intransigence of human nature.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498553990
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
This book examines the iconic presence of second chances in everyday life. David Newman explores its various iterations in popular culture, commercial marketplaces, religion, intimate relationships, education, criminal justice, and human bodies. He analyzes how this concept—as a cultural aspiration, driver of policy, and lived personal experience—has become part and parcel of our individual sense of self and our collective national identity. While the rhetoric of redemption is familiar and ubiquitous, Newman uncovers the costs and constraints of second chances, paying particular attention to the factors that affect judgments of deservedness. Informed by an array of data sources including personal interviews, mission statements of nonprofit recovery agencies, images in popular culture, stories from the news, plot summaries of novels, and scriptural texts, Newman frames the second chance experience as the quintessential cultural paradox: a concept that simultaneously represents the pinnacle of our shared hopes for renewal and our deepest suspicions about the intransigence of human nature.
G.'s Handbook of practical gardening ... including landscape gardening
Author: George GLENNY (the Elder.)
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America
Author: Andrew Jackson Downing
Publisher:
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Category : Landscape gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Publisher:
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Category : Landscape gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Magnetic Fields
Author: Heinz E. Knoepfel
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 3527617426
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 643
Book Description
A unique resource for physicists and engineers working with magnetic fields An understanding of magnetic phenomena is essential for anyone working on the practical application of electromagnetic theory. Magnetic Fields: A Comprehensive Theoretical Treatise for Practical Use provides physicists and engineers with a thorough treatment of the magnetic aspects of classical electromagnetic theory, focusing on key issues and problems arising in the generation and application of magnetic fields. From magnetic potentials and diffusion phenomena to magnetohydrodynamics and properties of matter-topics are carefully selected for their relevance to the theoretical framework as well as current technologies. Outstanding in its organization, clarity, and scope, Magnetic Fields: * Examines a wide range of practical problems, from magnetomechanical devices to magnetic acceleration mechanisms * Opens each chapter with reference to pertinent engineering examples * Provides sufficient detail enabling readers to follow the derivation of the results * Discusses solution methods and their application to different problems * Includes more than 300 graphs, 40 tables, 2,000 numbered formulas, and extensive references to the professional literature * Reviews the essential mathematics in the appendices
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 3527617426
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 643
Book Description
A unique resource for physicists and engineers working with magnetic fields An understanding of magnetic phenomena is essential for anyone working on the practical application of electromagnetic theory. Magnetic Fields: A Comprehensive Theoretical Treatise for Practical Use provides physicists and engineers with a thorough treatment of the magnetic aspects of classical electromagnetic theory, focusing on key issues and problems arising in the generation and application of magnetic fields. From magnetic potentials and diffusion phenomena to magnetohydrodynamics and properties of matter-topics are carefully selected for their relevance to the theoretical framework as well as current technologies. Outstanding in its organization, clarity, and scope, Magnetic Fields: * Examines a wide range of practical problems, from magnetomechanical devices to magnetic acceleration mechanisms * Opens each chapter with reference to pertinent engineering examples * Provides sufficient detail enabling readers to follow the derivation of the results * Discusses solution methods and their application to different problems * Includes more than 300 graphs, 40 tables, 2,000 numbered formulas, and extensive references to the professional literature * Reviews the essential mathematics in the appendices
The Garden
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
The Bookseller
Author:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
Book Description
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
Book Description
Classification and Catalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture ...
Author: Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture. Library
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
A Catalogue of Works in All Departments of English Literature, Classified
Author: Longman (Firm)
Publisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
An Encyclopaedia of Gardening
Author: John Claudius Loudon
Publisher:
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 1454
Book Description
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 1454
Book Description
The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
Author:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1588
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1588
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.