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Safer Sex in Personal Relationships: The Role of Sexual Scripts in HIV Infection and Prevention (LEA's Series on Personal Relationships)
by Mike Allen Tara M. Emmers-SommerThis book focuses on safer sex discussion and practice in close, personal relationships, emphasizing research on individuals in personal relationship types that are experiencing a rise in HIV infection and AIDS. Moving beyond studies of gay adult males and IV drug-users, this work paints a clear picture of the very real risk that exists for these less-studied, more general populations, so individuals may better personalize the risk and engage in more preventative measures. Authors Tara M. Emmers-Sommer and Mike Allen examine issues surrounding safer sex, utilizing research that focuses on how individuals struggle with personalizing the HIV and AIDS risk and how they cope with safer sex issues.Safer Sex in Personal Relationships takes readers on a journey through a variety of close relationship types. It begins by highlighting awareness to the global enormity of HIV and AIDS and providing a link between the global and personal, and the need to make HIV and AIDS awareness part of everyday talk and personal relationship structure. It then focuses on:*safer sex in close relationships, both heterosexual and homosexual;*marital relationships and the importance of safe sex discussion and awareness in marriages;*HIV and AIDS from a multicultural perspective;*HIV and AIDS in aged populations; and*increasing awareness, understanding, and compassion of those living with HIV and AIDS.This book will appeal to scholars and students concerned with HIV and AIDS in personal relationships. It will be an invaluable text for courses on interpersonal communication and relationships; family, marital, human sexuality, sex and gender, gay and lesbian relationships, and sexual education; and relational conflict across communication, psychology, and sociology disciplines.
Saffron Shadows and Salvaged Scripts
by Ellen WilesUntil 2012, Myanmar had been ruled for fifty years by one of the most paranoid and repressive censorship regimes in history. The military junta enforced strict reading and writing restrictions in line with their socialist ideology and was terrified of writers who could trigger change.Transition has lifted the worst restrictions, initiating a new era in the country's literature and literary culture. Inspired by Ellen Wiles's hunt for contemporary writing while living in Myanmar in 2013, this book explores the experiences and recent output of nine Myanmar writers spanning three generations, featuring interviews and English-language translations of their work, along with political, legal, and artistic analyses. Wiles includes men and women, fiction and poetry, capturing the effects of political and cultural change as they rippled across different groups and genres. Her work contributes both to the general study of art under censorship and beyond to Myanmar's democratic renaissance.
Saffron Shadows and Salvaged Scripts: Literary Life in Myanmar Under Censorship and in Transition
by Ellen WilesThis book tells an ethnographic story of a secret literary culture that has recently emerged from its cocoon. Until 2012, Myanmar (also known as Burma) was ruled for fifty years by one of the most paranoid and repressive censorship regimes in history. The military junta enforced strict reading and writing restrictions in line with their ideology, feared writers' potential to trigger change, and did their best to keep Western books and influences out of the country. As part of an unexpected move toward democracy, the government has recently lifted the worst restrictions on reading and writing, giving rise to a new era in the country's literature and literary culture. While living in Myanmar in 2013, Ellen Wiles sought out the best of its contemporary writers and writing to begin uncovering the country's remarkable literary life and history. This book contains the experiences and recent output of nine Myanmar writers spanning three generations, featuring interviews and English-language translations of their work, along with political, legal, and artistic explorations. It includes men and women, fiction and poetry, reflecting the ripples of political and cultural change as they have moved across different groups and genres. A rare portrait of a people and place in transition, Wiles's work contributes both to the study of literature and culture in Myanmar and to the general study of art under censorship.
Sag mal: An Introduction to German Language and Culture
by Tobias Barske Christinae AntonSag mal gives introductory students a comprehensive overview of German language and culture. Students incorporate structures and vocabulary from a variety of sources including text, video, and live communication practice, with opportunities for skill-building in every lesson.
Sagas and Myths of the Northmen
by Jesse ByockIn a land of ice, great warriors search for glory...When a dragon threatens the people of the north, only one man can destroy the fearsome beast. Elsewhere, a mighty leader gathers a court of champions, including a noble warrior under a terrible curse. The Earth's creation is described; tales of the gods and evil Frost Giants are related; and the dark days of Ragnarok foretold.Journey into a realm of legend, where heroes from an ancient age do battle with savage monsters, and every man must live or die by the sword ...
Sagas of Warrior-poets
by Leifur EirickssonKormak's Saga, The Saga of Hallfred Troublesome-Poet, The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue, The Saga of Bjorn, Champion of the Hitardal People, Viglund's Saga Set in the farmsteads of Viking age Iceland at a time when the old ethos of honour and heroic adventure merged with new ideas of romantic infatuation, each of these sagas features poet heroes, complex love triangles, and travels to foreign lands.
Sahayak Vachan class 8 - SCERT Raipur - Chhattisgarh Board: सहायक वाचन ८वीं कक्षा - एस.सी.ई.आर.टी. रायपुर - छत्तीसगढ़
by Raipur C. G. Rajya Shaikshik Anusandhan Aur Prashikshan Parishadपाठ्य सामग्री का चुनाव छात्रों की मानसिक क्षमता व रूचि को ध्यान में रखकर किया गया है। केन्द्रित शिक्षाक्रम में सम्मिलित मूल्यों के समावेश का पाठों के चयन में विशेष ध्यान रखा गया है। कक्षा 8वीं में अध्ययनरत् विद्यार्थियों के लिए इस पुस्तक को विषय 'हिन्दी - छत्तीसगढ़ भारती' में सहायक पुस्तक के रूप में स्वीकृत किया गया है, इससे बच्चों में पठन, वाचन, तर्क एवं चिंतन क्षमता विकसित होगी। प्रत्येक पाठ के अन्त में विस्तृत प्रश्न और अभ्यास दिए गए है जिनसे छात्रों को पठित वस्तु को समझने, उस पर विचार करने की योग्यता और भाषा का प्रभावी प्रयोग करने में सहायता मिलेगी व क्रियात्मक अभ्यासों की गतिविधियाँ करने से भाषाई दक्षताओं का विकास हो सकेगा। पुस्तक के अन्त में शब्दार्थ भी दिए गए हैं। भाषा शिक्षण का मुख्य उद्देश्य छात्रों को ज्ञान और आनन्द की प्राप्ति हो। यह एक संकलित दस्तावेज है और दस्तावेजों (पुस्तक) में प्रयुक्त शब्दों में बदलाव नही किया जा सकता है, अतः माननीय न्यायालय के निर्णय का सम्मान करते हुए दस्तावेज में प्रयुक्त मूल शब्दों के साथ ही इसे मुद्रित कराया गया है।
Sahitya Srijan First Semester FYBA New NEP Syllabus - SPPU: साहित्य सृजन पहला सत्र एफ.वाय.बी.ए. नया एन.इ.पी. पाठ्यक्रम - सावित्रीबाई फुले पुणे यूनिवर्सिटी
by Prof. Dr. Sadanand Bhosale"साहित्य सृजन" पुस्तक सावित्रीबाई फुले पुणे विश्वविद्यालय (SPPU) द्वारा तैयार की गई है और इसे नवीन राष्ट्रीय शैक्षणिक धोरण (NEP) 2020 के अंतर्गत पाठ्यक्रम में शामिल किया गया है। संपादक प्रो. डॉ. सदानंद भोसले और सह-संपादकों के निर्देशन में तैयार इस संग्रह में हिंदी साहित्य की विभिन्न विधाओं को प्रासंगिक उदाहरणों और चयनित कृतियों के माध्यम से प्रस्तुत किया गया है। यह पुस्तक अध्ययन, अध्यापन और मूल्यांकन के लिए उपयोगी है, जिसमें साहित्य के विविध पक्षों का विस्तार से विश्लेषण किया गया है। संपादकीय दृष्टि से और छात्र उपयोगिता को ध्यान में रखते हुए, इसे हिंदी साहित्य के अध्ययन के लिए एक प्रभावी संसाधन के रूप में संजोया गया है।
Sahityamela Bangla class 6 - West Bengal Board: সাহিত্যমেলা বাংলা ষষ্ঠ শ্রেণি
by West Bengal Board of Secondary Educationসাহিত্যমেলা-VI হল ষষ্ঠ শ্রেণির বাংলা সাহিত্য পাঠ্যপুস্তক, যা পশ্চিমবঙ্গ মধ্যশিক্ষা পর্ষদ কর্তৃক প্রকাশিত। এটি বাংলা সাহিত্যকে ছাত্র-ছাত্রীদের জন্য সহজ ও আকর্ষণীয় করে তোলার উদ্দেশ্যে রচিত হয়েছে। বইটি জাতীয় পাঠ্যক্রমের রূপরেখা ২০০৫ এবং শিক্ষার অধিকার আইন ২০০৯ অনুসারে তৈরি করা হয়েছে। এতে বাংলা ভাষার বিশিষ্ট সাহিত্যিকদের গল্প, কবিতা, প্রবন্ধ এবং আন্তর্জাতিক ও ভারতীয় সাহিত্যের অনুবাদ সংকলিত হয়েছে। বইটির বিশেষ আকর্ষণ হলো "হাতে-কলমে" বিভাগ, যা শিক্ষার্থীদের সৃজনশীলতা ও বিশ্লেষণ ক্ষমতা বৃদ্ধিতে সহায়ক। বইটি পাঠকদের কল্পনাশক্তি বিকাশ, সাহিত্য অনুরাগ গঠন এবং ভাষা দক্ষতা উন্নত করার লক্ষ্য নিয়ে পরিকল্পিত হয়েছে।
Sailing without Ahab: Ecopoetic Travels
by Steve MentzJourney through uncharted literary waters and explore Melville’s epic in bold new lightCome sail with I.We’re not taking the same trip, though you might recognize the familiar course. This time, the Pequod’s American voyage steers its course across the curvature of the Word Ocean without anyone at the helm. We are leaving one man and his madness on shore. Our ship overflows with glorious plurality—multiracial, visionary, queer, conflicted, polyphonic, playful, violent. But on this voyage something is different. Today we sail headless without any Captain. Instead of binding ourselves to the dismasted tyrant’s rage, the ship’s crew seeks only what we will find: currents teeming with life, a blue-watered alien globe, toothy cetacean smiles from vasty deeps. Treasures await those who sail without.This cycle of one hundred thirty-eight poems—one for each chapter in Moby-Dick, plus the Etymology, Extracts, and Epilogue—launches into oceanic chaos without the stabilizing mad focus of the Nantucket captain. Guided by waywardness and curiosity, these poems seek an alien ecopoetics of marine depths, the refraction of light, the taste of salt on skin. Directionless, these poems reach out to touch oceanic expanse and depth. It’s not an easy voyage, and not a certain one. It lures you forward. It has fixed its barbed hook in I.Sailing without means relinquishing goals, sleeping at the masthead, forgetting obsessions. I welcome you to trace wayward ways through these poems. Read them any way you can—back to front, at random, sideways, following the obscure promptings of your heart. It’s the turning that matters. It’s a blue wonder world that beckons.
Sails of the Herring Fleet
by Herbert BlauSails of the Herring Fleet traces esteemed director and theorist Herbert Blau's encounters with the work of Samuel Beckett. Blau directed Beckett's plays when they were still virtually unknown, and for more than four decades has remained one of the leading interpreters of his work. In addition to now-classic essays, the collection includes early program notes and two remarkable interviews -- one from Blau's experience directing Waiting for Godot at San Quentin prison, and one from his last visit with Beckett, just before the playwright's death. Herbert Blau is Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor of the Humanities, University of Washington.
Saint Aldhelm's 'Riddles'
by Juster A. M. Saint AldhelmThe first and one of the finest Latin poets of Anglo-Saxon England, the seventh-century bishop Saint Aldhelm can justly be called "Britain's first man of letters." Among his many influential poetic texts were the hundred riddles that made up his Aenigmata. In Saint Aldhelm's Riddles, A.M. Juster offers the first verse translation of this text in almost a century, capturing the wit, warmth, and wonder of the first English riddle collection.One of today's finest formalist poets, A.M. Juster brings the same exquisite care to this volume as to his translations of Horace ("The best edition available of the Satires in English" -Choice), Tibullus ("An excellent new translation" -The Guardian), and Petrarch. Juster's translation is complemented by a newly edited version of the Latin text and by the first scholarly commentary on the Aenigmata, the result of exhaustive interdisciplinary research into the text's historical, literary, and philological context. Saint Aldhelm's Riddles will be essential for scholars and a treasure for lovers of Tolkien, Beowulf, and Harry Potter.
Saint Augustine (SparkNotes Philosophy Guide)
by SparkNotesSaint Augustine (SparkNotes Philosophy Guide) Making the reading experience fun! SparkNotes Philosophy Guides are one-stop guides to the great works of philosophy–masterpieces that stand at the foundations of Western thought. Inside each Philosophy Guide you&’ll find insightful overviews of great philosophical works of the Western world.
Saint Marks: Words, Images, and What Persists
by Jonathan GoldbergSaint Marks invokes and pluralizes the figure of Mark in order to explore relations between painting and writing. Emphasizing that the saint is not a singular biographical individual in the various biblical and hagiographic texts that involve someone so named, the book takes as its ultimate concern the kinds of material life that outlive the human subject.From the incommensurate, anachronic instances in which Saint Mark can be located—among them, as Evangelist or as patron saint of Venice—the book traces Mark’s afterlives within art, sacred texts, and literature in conversation with such art historians and philosophers as Aby Warburg, Giorgio Agamben, Georges Didi-Huberman, T. J. Clark, Adrian Stokes, and Jean-Luc Nancy. Goldberg begins in sixteenth-century Venice, with a series of paintings by Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, Tintoretto, and others, that have virtually nothing to do with biblical texts. He turns then to the legacy of John Ruskin’s Stones of Venice and through it to questions about what painting does as painting. A final chapter turns to ancient texts, considering the Gospel of St. Mark together with its double, the so-called Secret Gospel that has occasioned controversy for its homoerotic implications.The posthumous persistence of a life is what the gospel named Mark calls the Kingdom of God. Saints have posthumous lives; but so too do paintings and texts. This major interdisciplinary study by one of our most astute cultural critics extends what might have been a purely theological subject to embrace questions central to cultural practice from the ancient world to the present.
Saint Paul
by Pier Paolo PasoliniPresented here for the first time in English is a remarkable screenplay about the apostle Paul by Pier Paolo Pasolini, legendary filmmaker, novelist, poet, and radical intellectual activist. Written between the appearance of his renowned film Teorema and the shocking, controversial Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, St Paul was deemed too risky for investors. At once a political intervention and cinematic breakthrough, the script forces a revolutionary transformation on the contemporary legacy of Paul. In Pasolini's kaleidoscope, we encounter fascistic movements, resistance fighters, and faltering revolutions, each of which reflects on aspects of the Pauline teachings. From Jerusalem to Wall Street and Greenwich Village, from the rise of SS troops to the death of Martin Luther King, Jr, here--as Alain Badiou writes in the foreword--'Paul's text crosses all these circumstances intact, as if it had foreseen them all'. This is a key addition to the growing debate around St Paul and to the proliferation of literature centred on the current turn to religion in philosophy and critical theory, which embraces contemporary figures such as Alain Badiou, Slavoj i ek and Giorgio Agamben.From the Hardcover edition.
Saint Perpetua across the Middle Ages: Mother, Gladiator, Saint (The New Middle Ages)
by Margaret Cotter-LynchThis study traces the genealogy of Saint Perpetua’s story with a straightforward yet previously overlooked question at its center: How was Perpetua remembered and to what uses was that memory put? One of the most popular and venerated saints from 200 CE to the thirteenth century, the story of Saint Perpetua was retold in dramatically different forms across the European Middle Ages. Her story begins in the arena at Carthage: a 22-year-old nursing mother named Vibia Perpetua was executed for being a Christian, leaving behind a self-authored account of her time in prison leading up to her martyrdom. By turns loving mother, militant gladiator, empathic young woman, or unattainable ideal, Saint Perpetua’s story ultimately helps to trace the circulation of texts and the transformations of ideals of Christian womanhood between the third and thirteenth centuries.
Saint-Evremond: A Voice from Exile - Unpublished Letters to Madame De Gouville and the Abbe De Hautefeuille 1697-1701
by Denys Potts"The celebrated French critic and thinker Charles de Saint-Evremond (1614-1703) spent much of his life in exile in London, where he wrote most of his major works. The letters in the present collection, long thought to have been lost, were rescued from obscurity by Denys Potts, and are published here for the first time. Written to Madame de Gouville, whose friendship he happily rediscovered in his declining years, and to the Abbe de Hautefeuille, secretary to the Duchesse de Bouillon, the two series of interwoven letters form a single narrative which, for sheer spontaneity and verve, is matched only by the letters of Madame de Sevigne. This edition represents the largest single discovery of Saint-Evremond letters, and includes many that were previously inaccessible in private collections."
Saintly Women: Medieval Saints, Modern Women, and Intimate Partner Violence (Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture)
by Beverly Mayne Kienzle Nancy NienhuisThis ground-breaking volume assesses the contemporary epidemic of intimate partner violence and explores how and why cultural and religious beliefs serve to excuse battering and to work against survivors’ attempts to find safety. Theological interpretations of sacred texts have been used for centuries to justify or minimize violence against women. The authors recover historical and especially medieval narratives whose protagonists endure violence that is framed by religious texts or arguments. The medieval theological themes that redeem battering in saints’ lives—suffering, obedience, ownership and power—continue today in most religious traditions. This insightful book emphasizes Christian history and theology, but the authors signal contributions from interfaith studies to efforts against partner violence. Examining medieval attitudes and themes sharpens the readers’ understanding of contemporary violence against women. Analyzing both historical and contemporary narratives from a religious perspective grounds the unique approach of Nienhuis and Kienzle, one that forges a new path in grappling with partner violence. Medieval and contemporary narratives alike demonstrate that women in abusive relationships feel the burden of religious beliefs that enjoin wives to endure suffering and to maintain stable marriages. Religious leaders have reminded women of wives’ responsibility for obedience to husbands, even in the face of abuse. In some narratives, however, women create safe places for themselves. Moreover, some exemplary communities call upon religious belief to support their opposition to violence. Such models of historical resistance reveal precedents for response through intervention or protection.
Saints and Symposiasts
by Jason KönigGreek traditions of writing about food and the symposium had a long and rich afterlife in the first to fifth centuries CE, in both Greco-Roman and early Christian culture. This book provides an account of the history of the table-talk tradition, derived from Plato's Symposium and other classical texts, focusing among other writers on Plutarch, Athenaeus, Methodius and Macrobius. It also deals with the representation of transgressive, degraded, eccentric types of eating and drinking in Greco-Roman and early Christian prose narrative texts, focusing especially on the Letters of Alciphron, the Greek and Roman novels, especially Apuleius, the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles and the early saints' lives. It argues that writing about consumption and conversation continued to matter: these works communicated distinctive ideas about how to talk and how to think, distinctive models of the relationship between past and present, distinctive and often destabilising visions of identity and holiness.
Sakuntala: Texts, Readings, Histories (Anthem South Asian Studies)
by Romila ThaparThe figure of Sakuntala appears in many forms throughout South Asian literature, most famously in the Mahabharata and in Kalidisa's fourth-century Sanskrit play, Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection. In these two texts, Sakuntala undergoes a critical transformation, relinquishing her assertiveness and autonomy to become the quintessentially submissive woman, revealing much about the performance of Hindu femininity that would come to dominate South Asian culture. Through a careful analysis of sections from Sakuntala and their various iterations in different contexts, Romila Thapar explores the interactions between literature and history, culture and gender, that frame the development of this canonical figure, as well as a distinct conception of female identity.
Salem Is My Dwelling Place: A Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne
by Edwin Haviland MillerFrom the Preface: "hortly after the death of Nathaniel Hawthorne's father in 1808 the son composed tales which always concluded, "I'm never coming home again." The inevitable truth, however, was that despite Thomas Wolfe's claim that "you can't go home again" and Hawthorne's understandable ambivalence to Salem, he never left his dwelling place except physically, even though he returned there only rarely after incurring the wrath of the townspeople whom he savaged in the prologue to The Scarlet Letter." This well written, fully researched biography of a brilliant author is an excellent read. It details Hawthorne's life, (including his early years,) in a way that not only gives insight into Hawthorne's character, but into his writing as well.
Salience in Second Language Acquisition (Second Language Acquisition Research Series)
by Susan M. Gass Patti Spinner Jennifer BehneySalience in Second Language Acquisition brings together contributions from top scholars of second language acquisition (SLA) in a comprehensive volume of the existing literature and current research on salience. In the first book to focus exclusively on this integral topic, the editors and contributors define and explore what makes a linguistic feature salient in sections on theory, perpetual salience, and constructed salience. They also provide a history of SLA theory and discussion on its contemporary use in research. An approachable introduction to the topic, this book is an ideal supplement to courses in SLA, and a valuable resource for researchers and scholars looking for a better understanding of the subject.
Salience of Information in Japanese: Discourse and the Syntax–Pragmatics Interface
by Mitsuaki Shimojo'Salience' is a linguistic phenomenon whereby information that is 'given', or 'new', is distributed and presented within a sentence in particular ways that convey its relevance. Although it has been widely described as the speaker's linguistic choices based on the hearer's perspective, it has received less attention as the speaker's manipulations of the hearer's cognitive states. This timely study redresses that balance by analysing several morphosyntactic phenomena in Japanese, drawing on a wide range of authentic language examples. Taking a functionalist perspective, it brings together studies of grammar and discourse, which are often described separately, and deploys the combined grammar-discourse approach in Role and Reference Grammar, the structural-functionalist theory in which syntax, semantics, and pragmatics are equally central to our understanding of language. It also offers an analysis of second language (L2) learners' Japanese discourse, and demonstrates the relevance of that analysis to issues outside of traditional second language research.