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A description of the family in rural, its traditions, principles of kinship, and place in society. It focuses on topics such as family composition, individuals within the family, lineage in clans and society, ancestral worship, non-relatives as kin, and how these ideals changed throughout the 20th century

""Stick it, Canada! Buy more Victory Bonds!" The First World War demanded deep personal sacrifice in the field and at home--even when home was far from the front. It also made unrelenting financial demands on both the governments and populations of Canada and Newfoundland. Boosters and Barkers is a highly original examination of the drive to finance Canadian participation in the conflict: Ottawa's calls for direct public contributions in the form of war bonds; the intersections with imperial funding, taxation, and conventional revenue; and the substantial fiscal implications of participation in the conflict during and after the war. Canada's six bond-selling campaigns received an astounding response, generating revenue that covered almost a third of the country's total war costs, which were estimated at 6.6 billion. This amount was modest in comparison with the burdens placed on European countries, but it was still a dramatic contribution from a dominion so distant from the front. This story is one of inexorable need, shrewd propaganda, resistance, engagement, and long-term consequence. Boosters and Barkers mines a wide range of sources in Canada, the United States, and Britain to reveal how bond campaigns used coercive, modern marketing techniques--encompassing print, images, and music--to sell both the war and wide public participation."--

"The book explores the demise of the grand narrative of European modernity. That once commanding narrative located the meaning of the past in the present and the meaning of the present in an ever-receding future. Today, instead, the present defines both the past and the future. The 'contemporary' has replaced 'modern' and 'post-modern' self-understandings. The times of the past and the future have been transformed into versions of 'now' while the present has acquired its own history. History of the Present describes the emergence of this 'contemporary' historical consciousness across a wide spectrum of cultural phenomena ranging from historiography to heritage and museum studies, and from the globalization of the novel to the rise of science fiction. The culture of the 'contemporary' appears particularly clearly in the merging of high and low culture along with art and fashion. The book will appeal to scholars of sociology, cultural and social theory, museum and heritage studies, and literary history and criticism"--

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Dedication -- Chapter 1: It's So Funny How We Don't Talk Anymore -- Chapter 2: Unsettled -- Chapter 3: Longing -- Chapter 4: Longing to Find a Tribe -- Chapter 5: Hiding in Our Chosen Type -- Chapter 6: Relational Intimacy-The Missing Piece -- Chapter 7: Words -- Chapter 8: Trust -- Chapter 9: Humility -- Chapter 10: Self-Disclosure -- Chapter 11: Curiosity -- Chapter 12: Respect -- Chapter 13: Middle Ground -- Chapter 14: Affirmation -- Chapter 15: Truth, Beauty and Real Love -- Study Guide -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author.

Deals with our refusal to confront the millions of avoidable deaths of women and children each year. This book argues that such deaths are caused by the man-made structures of neoliberalism and 'andrarchy' and argues that the debate on human security can be reinvigorated by looking at the civilian role in causing the deaths of innocent people

Kierkegaard's analysis of radical evil: the intensification of despair / by David A. Roberts -- An historical introduction : Kant and Schelling on radical evil -- Kant -- Schelling -- The struggle of self-becoming : spiritless self-evasion -- The self as a relation -- The spiritless evasion of the self -- The despair that abides in infinitude -- The despair that abides in finitude -- The despair of the aesthetic stage of existence -- The aesthetic stage of existence -- The ethical stage of existence : self-choice -- Ethical self-choice -- The positive self-choice -- The self as a task -- The despair of the ethical stage of existence -- The final movement toward defiance : infinite resignation -- The self's primary object of relation -- The initial expression of an existential pathos : infinite resignation -- The essential expression of an existential pathos : suffering -- The decisive expression of an existential pathos : guilt -- The despair of religiousness a (infinite resignation) -- Defiance : the essence of radical evil -- Transparent despair -- Conclusion: the category of offense.