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by Katherine MansfieldLos mejores cuentos de una de las plumas más brillantes del modernismo anglosajón Introducción de Paula Ducay Figura clave del modernismo anglosajón, Katherine Mansfield perdura como una de las grandes maestras del cuento moderno. El presente volumen incluye una cuidada selección de sus mejores relatos, desde las sátiras de juventud hasta las comedias de madurez, caracterizadas por la franqueza y la melancolía. En escenas de familia, historias de parejas, episodios intimistas o crónicas de viajes, la autora evoca tanto su infancia en Nueva Zelanda como la bohemia europea de principios del siglo XX, siempre en busca de momentos reveladores para sus personajes. El conjunto celebra los gestos, sobreentendidos y punzadas que conforman nuestra vida cotidiana. Sobre la autora y su obra: «Sus cuentos desafiaron y alteraron en gran medida la naturaleza y la forma de la narrativa literaria».Ali Smith «Cualquier relato suyo es un espectáculo de osadía. [...] Relatos pulidos hasta la perfección, pero llenos de momentos sentidos que evocan sentimientos».Cristina Domenech «Su voz era la voz de la modernidad».Claire Tomalin, Katherine Mansfield. Una vida secreta «Escribía los cuentos a vuelapluma, en pocas horas, casi en trance [...] Ponía las manos sobre la esencia del tiempo».Pietro Citati, La vida breve de Katherine Mansfield «Yo envidiaba su escritura, la única escritura de la que he sentido envidia alguna vez [...] Probablemente teníamos algo en común que no encontraré en nadie más».Virginia Woolf «La admiro muchísimo, y me siento afín a ella en muchas cosas».Philip Larkin
Cuentos para entender el mundo 3 (edición ilustrada con contenido extra)
by Eloy MorenoDel autor de Invisible, llega el segundo volumen de la colección «Cuentos para comprender el mundo» que ya lleva más de cien mil ejemplares vendidos. Esta edición se presenta en un formato precioso: con cuentos e ilustraciones ineditos. ¿Y si la felicidad está en lo que ya tienes? Para todos aquellos que siguen siendo niños, aunque los adultos les obliguen a disimularlo.Del autor de Invisible, os presentamos este libro que ya lleva más de cien mil ejemplares vendidos, en un formato precioso, de coleccionista. «Durante estos años los lectores me habéis dado tanto que me sentía en deuda con vosotros. Por eso he decidido entregaros una parte de mí. Estos textos que os traigo han modelado de alguna manera mi forma de ser. Son pequeños cuentos con una preciosa esencia: esa que nos ayuda a entender el mundo».
Cuentos para leer con lupa del detective Picard
by Pedro MañasSiete cuentos, siete misterios. Ayuda al detective Picard y a su hija Ágata a resolverlos buscando pistas en las divertidas ilustraciones. Todos piensan que el señor Picard es el mejor detective de la ciudad, pero se equivocan. El mejor detective de la ciudad tiene casi siete años, dos trenzas pelirrojas y un pijama de unicornios. Se llama Ágata y es la hija del señor Picard. Cada noche, Picard vuelve a casa para arroparla y leerle un cuento. Pero Ágata no es una niña cualquiera. Ella no quiere que le lean cuentos, ¡bueno, sí, también!, pero lo que más le gusta es ¡ayudar a su padre a resolver los misterios que le encargan! ¿Estás listo para ser un detective más de la familia? Agudiza tu ingenio, presta atención a las pistas y ayuda al detective Picard y a su hija Ágata a resolver estos SIETE misterios:- Un misterio color rosa: La señora Rubí está muy preocupada: Chichifú, su querido caniche rosa, único en el mundo, ha desaparecido. ¿Quién ha podido llevárselo? - Pasteles de brócoli: Alguien está copiando las recetas de la famosa pastelería Suspiros de merengue. ¿Cómo las han conseguido? - Un fantasma con plumas: La ciudad entera está aterrorizada por un fantasma. Por más que todos atrancan puertas y ventanas, cada noche desaparecen joyas. ¿Te atreves a encontrar al peligroso fantasma? - El crimen del abrelatas: ¿Quién está asaltando las tiendas de conservas de la ciudad? Al mismo tiempo, alguien ha robado un famoso diamante del museo. ¿Estarán ambos casos relacionados?- Escándalo en 3ºB: Algo ha desaparecido en la taquilla de la pequeña Lily en el colegio Pequeños salvajes. ¿El qué? ¿Y quién se lo ha llevado? Y lo que es más importante: ¿por qué? - La condesa y la criada: Es la noche del estreno de la obra Ladesaparición de la condesa, pero ¡qué coincidencia!, la actriz principal ha desaparecido. ¿Dónde está? ¿La habrá raptado alguien? - Cumple-casos feliz: El detective Picard nunca descansa. Incluso el día del cumpleaños de Ágata hay un caso que resolver. Un libro antiguo muy valioso ha desaparecido de la librería del barrio. ¿Qué libro ha sido y por qué se lo han llevado?EL LIBRO IDEAL PARA PEQUEÑOS DETECTIVES A PARTIR DE 6 AÑOS: *leer jugando ayuda a desarrollar el amor por la lectura *alimenta la imaginación y estimula el poder de concentración y de observación al tener que resolver los misterios a la vez que entrena el pensamiento analítico y lógico.
Cueva de la joya (Circulos #3)
by Elizabeth NobleUn peligroso ascenso al amor. Después de diez maravillosos años juntos, a pesar de los desafíos y cambios, tanto buenos como malos, Griff Diamond y Clint Bishop aún se aman, pero su relación física ha perdido la chispa que alguna vez tuvo. La carrera de Griff como Marshall de EE. UU. se está fortaleciendo, pero después de ser despedido de su trabajo, Clint sigue una carrera como escritor y se convierte en un autor publicado. Cuando otro escritor convierte su relación amistosa con Clint en una obsesión, la vida de Clint corre peligro. Secuestrado y llevado al sistema Jewel Cave en Dakota del Sur, Clint debe usar las habilidades que ha aprendido a lo largo de los años de Griff, un espeleólogo experimentado, para mantenerse con vida. Usando todas las habilidades que tiene, Griff corre contra el tiempo para salvar a Cliff de su secuestrador enloquecido. ¿Recuperará el amor que temía haber perdido?
Cuidarme bien. Quererte mejor: Aprende a relacionarte de manera sana y responsable
by Desirée LlamasAprende a cuidar y cuidarte en tus relaciones íntimas - de amistad, familia y parejas - para construir vínculos más sanos y responsables. Ghosting, zombieing, orbiting... son solo algunas de las nuevas conductas que impactan negativamente en nuestras relaciones. Sin embargo, los comportamientos irresponsables han estado presentes desde siempre en la manera en que nos vinculamos. Pasamos por alto muchísimas actitudes que nos hacen sentir mal e, incluso, nos cuesta detectar cuando somos nosotras quienes actuamos de manera poco respetuosa con las personas que nos importan. En este libro, la psicóloga Desirée Llamas nos enseña a construir relaciones afectivas sanas a partir del difícil equilibrio entre expresar cómo nos sentimos y ser conscientes del impacto que nuestros actos tienen en las demás. Este comportamiento -lo que en psicología se conoce como responsabilidad afectiva- nos ayuda a comunicar nuestras necesidades emocionales, siendo respetuosos con las emociones de las demás, para mejorar la calidad de nuestras relaciones. Cuidarme bien, quererte mejor es una guía para aprender a reconocer y evitar comportamientos tóxicos, en nosotras mismas y en las demás, y para reforzar nuestros vínculos afectivos a partir de la comunicación asertiva, del respeto mutuo y de la empatía.
Culpeper's Complete Astrology: The Lost Art of Astrological Medicine
by Nicholas CulpeperDelve into the astrological herbalism of Nicholas Culpeper, the 17th-century physician, herbalist, and astrologer whose writing about health and herbs made a mark on medicine that resonates to the present day. His astute eye, keen wit, and encyclopedic knowledge led him to create his definitive English Physitian, more commonly known today as Culpeper's Complete Herbal. Planetary influences were key to his understanding of herbal medicine. In his philosophy, each plant is governed by a planet, and the time at which a person takes to their sickbed is significant to their diagnosis and healing. His Semeiotica uranica, or, An astrological judgment of diseases from the decumbiture of the sick was a seminal early work of medical astrology and is published here as a historical document of great fascination to astrologers as well as to historians of herbalism and medicine. This edition includes modernized English spelling and expert guidance on how to decipher the work and consider Culpeper's influence in modern context.Also included are a foreword by Alice Sparkly Kat, author of Postcolonial Astrology, and an introduction by Judith Hill, author of Medical Astrology.
Cult Classic (Eric Carter #9)
by Stephen BlackmooreThe ninth book of this dark urban fantasy series follows necromancer Eric Carter through a world of vengeful gods and goddesses, mysterious murders, and restless ghosts. Eric Carter has a lot on his plate.He's hunting the Oracle of Las Vegas, a literal talking head that manipulates the future to make its prophecies come true. But it has a new trick. It can change the past, too.Now Jazz Age Los Angeles is invading the present. Long gone buildings suddenly restored, decommissioned Red Car trains appearing on paved over tracks, miles of the city changing back to orange groves.Throw in a hundred-year-old doomsday cult, time magic, and a terrifyingly powerful spell to raise the dead and it makes for a busy week. Carter knows the Oracle is behind it all but he can't figure out how. Or why.But he better figure it out soon or he, the city, and everyone he knows might be wiped from existence.Cult Classic is noir urban fantasy at its finest, with a cutting voice, sharp wit, and a plot that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Cult Classic (Eric Carter #9)
by Stephen BlackmooreThe past is coming for necromancer Eric Carter—and the rest of the world—in the latest novel in the darkly comic noir fantasy thriller seriesEric Carter has lost his head.Well, not his head in particular, but rather the incredibly powerful talking head (seriously, that’s all it is) known as the Oracle of Las Vegas, which Carter himself made. The Oracle has always had the ability to affect the future to make its “predictions” come true. But now it’s playing with the past.All over Los Angeles, realities are colliding—historic buildings appearing, city streets turning to orange groves, scores of Prohibition-era corpses popping up and eerily chanting in unison—and it all seems to be linked to a century-old cult of apocalyptic lunatics who are just about ready to cut loose.Now, with the Oracle trying to kill him in a variety of creative ways, his few allies growing more impatient, and a seriously out-of-control rookie cop/mage as his unwanted shadow, Carter must find a way to stop his own creation from unleashing complete and utter destruction.
Cultivate: The Six Non-Negotiable Traits of a Winning Team
by Walter Bond Antoinette BondRecruit, develop, and retain a high-performing team Cultivate: The Six Non-Negotiable Traits of a Winning Team is a robust and empowering narrative about three corporate team leaders discovering how to build a high-performing team. Over the course of the story, you’ll follow these frustrated leaders as they take an introspective look into their own flaws, strengths, fears, habits, and shortcomings and learn firsthand how they impact their teams’ cultures. The authors demonstrate how leaders build the cultures they work in and explain why it’s up to them to manage and improve it. The book is packed with tried-and-true teamwork fundamentals that are simple to understand and apply. Readers will also find: Explanations of why companies are struggling to recruit, develop, and retain strong teams Practical and applicable tips for employee and team member retention Explorations of the six traits of high-performing teams that are the signature of all elite business unitsA can’t-miss journey through the fundamentals of recruiting, building, and maintaining a high-performing team in your own organization, Cultivate will earn a place in the libraries of executives, managers, and other business leaders struggling to adapt to the human resources and retention challenges posed by the new economy. In business, Winning, Losing, or Championship organizations are totally dependent on a leader’s ability to CULTIVATE!
Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes: Gardening for Prevention, Restoration, and Equity (Geographies of Health Series)
by Allison Williams Pauline MarshCultivated Therapeutic Landscapes provides an in-depth and critical explora-tion of the impact of gardens and gardening on health and wellbeing. In this book we explore the ways in which gardens and gardening prevent illness and restore wellbeing, and how they improve social and health equity via tradi-tional and innovative mechanisms and across a range of sites. Therapeutic landscapes are relational, reciprocal, and evolving. In this book, leading scholars from across the globe demonstrate how therapeutic landscapes research and practice is expanded through and around the pro-cesses of cultivation. Deliberately interdisciplinary, the book explores how tending and caring for green spaces, collectively and individually, works to pre-vent and restore health and wellbeing, as well as impact upstream factors de-termining social justice and equity. A unique combination of academics, clinicians, and practitioners deliver theoretical and practical insights into wide-ranging health-enabling factors, based on new evidence and autoethno-graphic experiences in home gardens, school, and community gardens, clinical settings, public green spaces, and sites of conservation and wildness. This book pushes concepts of cultivation and horticulture into underexplored spatial, on-tological, and wellbeing territories. Despite long-term practical interest, thera-peutic horticulture is only now establishing a strong theoretical and research foundation. This book provides much-needed critical insights into the impact on the key drivers of health, wellbeing, and social equity, with a focus on practical skills for utilising horticulture or designing for particular health needs. It will be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners in the areas of health geogra-phy; cultural geography; cultural studies; therapeutic horticulture; environ-mental studies; community development and planning; landscape architecture; social work; health studies; and health policy.
Cultivating Capstones: Designing High-Quality Culminating Experiences for Student Learning (Series on Engaged Learning and Teaching)
by Peter Felten Jessie L. Moore Caroline J. Ketcham Anthony G. WeaverCapstones have been a part of higher education curriculum for over two centuries, with the goal of integrating student learning to cap off their undergraduate experience. In practice, capstones are most often delivered as a course or include a significant project that addresses a problem or contributes new knowledge. This edited collection draws on multi-year, multi-institutional, and mixed-methods studies to inform the development of best practices for cultivating capstones at a variety of higher education institutions. The book is divided into three parts: Part One offers typographies of capstones, illustrating the diversity of experiences included in this high-impact practice while also identifying essential characteristics that contribute to high-quality culminating experiences for students. Part Two shares specific culminating experiences with examples from multiple institutions and strategies for adapting them for readers’ own campus contexts. Part Three offers research-informed strategies for professional development to support implementation of high-quality student learning experiences across a variety of campus contexts. Cultivating Capstones is an essential resource for faculty who teach or direct disciplinary or interdisciplinary capstone experiences, as well as for faculty developers and administrators seeking ways to offer high-quality, high-impact learning experiences for diverse student populations.Visit the Cultivating Capstones Companion Page, hosted by the Center for Engaged Learning.
Cultivating Organizational Excellence: A Practitioner’s View (Management for Professionals)
by Albert Ferdinand AaldersThis book offers a comprehensive approach to organizational excellence based on the author’s vast experience in managing excellence at highly innovative and dynamic organizations. It integrates various approaches into a consistent view of achieving excellence in the context of dynamic technological and societal developments. Starting from purpose and mission, it describes stakeholder mapping and analysis, and process and quality management. In turn, it sheds light on how to deal with business dynamics of various types and demonstrates how quantum-mechanical models can help to understand and manage dynamic organizational processes. The book then introduces readers to result measuring and performance management, followed by organizational learning and rewards and recognition. Moreover, it discusses (innovation) ecosystem leverage and organizational culture management as further important capabilities of excellent organizations. Best practices in corporate social responsibility and environmental, social and governance aspects are fully integrated throughout the book, which concludes by explaining how the UN Sustainable Development Goals can be applied to optimize business initiatives. The book is intended as a source of inspiration for managers working under highly dynamic organizational conditions, helping them take their businesses to higher levels. It also provides valuable industrial insights for scholars with an interest in organizational excellence.
Cultivating Professional Identity in Design: Empathy, Creativity, Collaboration, and Seven More Cross-Disciplinary Skills
by Monica W. Tracey John BaakiCultivating Professional Identity in Design is a nuanced, comprehensive companion for designers across disciplines honing their identities, self-perception, personal strengths, and essential attributes. Designers’ identities, whether rooted in education, workforce training, digital technology, arts and graphics, built environment, or other fields, are always evolving, influenced by any combination of current mindset, concrete responsibilities, team dynamics, and more. Applicable to designers of all contexts, this inspiring yet rigorous book guides practitioners and students to progress with ten key traits: empathy, uncertainty, creativity, ethics, diversity/equity/inclusion, reflection, learning, communication, collaboration, and decision-making. Though it details a complete journey from start to finish, this book acknowledges the varying paths of designers’ roles and is structured for a flexible, highly iterative reading experience. Segments can be read individually or out of order and revisited for new insights. Current and future stages of development – education experience, early-career opportunities, mid-career accomplishments, and/or career transitions – are factored in without hierarchy. Specific takeaways, activities, and reflection exercises are intended to work across settings and levels of experience. Design hopefuls and experts alike will find a new way to participate in and persevere through their work.
Cultivating Professional Identity in Design: Empathy, Creativity, Collaboration, and Seven More Cross-Disciplinary Skills
by Monica W. Tracey John BaakiCultivating Professional Identity in Design is a nuanced, comprehensive companion for designers across disciplines honing their identities, self-perception, personal strengths, and essential attributes. Designers’ identities, whether rooted in education, workforce training, digital technology, arts and graphics, built environment, or other fields, are always evolving, influenced by any combination of current mindset, concrete responsibilities, team dynamics, and more. Applicable to designers of all contexts, this inspiring yet rigorous book guides practitioners and students to progress with ten key traits: empathy, uncertainty, creativity, ethics, diversity/equity/inclusion, reflection, learning, communication, collaboration, and decision-making.Though it details a complete journey from start to finish, this book acknowledges the varying paths of designers’ roles and is structured for a flexible, highly iterative reading experience. Segments can be read individually or out of order and revisited for new insights. Current and future stages of development – education experience, early-career opportunities, mid-career accomplishments, and/or career transitions – are factored in without hierarchy. Specific takeaways, activities, and reflection exercises are intended to work across settings and levels of experience. Design hopefuls and experts alike will find a new way to participate in and persevere through their work.
Cultivating Reasonableness in Education: Community of Philosophical Inquiry (Integrated Science #17)
by Marella Ada V. Mancenido-Bolaños Cathlyne Joy P. Alvarez-Abarejo Leander Penaso MarquezThis book focuses on the real-world application of the Philosophy for/with Children (P4wC) pedagogy to cultivate reasonableness in individuals through communities of philosophical inquiry. It presents a collection not only of theories but, more importantly, of experiences, discoveries, and innovations on P4wC by scholars, trainers, advocates, and practitioners around the world. Each chapter provides readers with insights and lessons that have resulted from the continuous application, exploration, and enrichment of the concepts, principles, and practices that were developed by Matthew Lipman and Ann Margaret Sharp into what P4wC is today - a dialogic pedagogical approach that may just be what is needed at a time when reasonableness and dialogue are essential to maintaining global stability and progress. In this light, this book also looks into how the P4wC approach can be practiced with adults such as when it is employed in various settings or contexts such as in business consulting, textbook writing, peace education, and extremism prevention, among others. Furthermore, this book also features chapters that discuss how the P4wC pedagogy can be beneficial once integrated into processes such as classroom teaching, teacher education, bioethics, and employee education. This book provides valuable insights about how reasonableness that is cultivated through building communities of philosophical inquiry in education can be a powerful tool for nation-building and social transformation.
Cultivating a Sustainable Core: A Framework Integrating Body, Mind, and Breath into Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation
by Elizabeth DuncansonIntegrating holistic treatments into movement and wellness practices, Cultivating a Sustainable Core is an indispensable guide for initiating and organizing assessments and interventions for patients with multiple injuries.Drawing on clinical research and years of experience in physical therapy, sports medicine, athletic conditioning and yoga, this book explains why the author first addresses the body's dynamic central motor stability and efficiency when treating clients. Cultivating a Sustainable Core demonstrates how the application of breathing, mindful movement and cognitive reframing practices can counteract the effects of detrimental postural and movement habits, breath and thought patterns, pain, and chronic stress. Extensive research backs up the author's discoveries while illustrations and user-friendly practices bring the theory and practical techniques to life.
Cultivating the Confucian Individual: The Confucian Education Revival in China (Palgrave Studies on Chinese Education in a Global Perspective)
by Canglong WangThis book explores the complexities of cultivating ‘Confucian individuals’ through classics study in contemporary China by drawing on the individualization thesis and its implications for the Confucian education revival. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted at a Confucian classical school, three topics are investigated: parents’ narratives and actions related to ‘dis-embedding’ their children from mainstream state education and transferring them to Confucian education as an alternative; the specific discourses and practices of teaching and learning the classics in everyday school life, guided by the aim of training students to become autonomous learners; and the institutional and subjective dilemmas that arise when parents and students seek to ‘re-embed’ themselves in either the state education system or further Confucian studies at an advanced academy for the next stage of education. The research presented in this book contributes to understanding the hidden dynamics of individualization in the Confucian education revival and the intricacies of subject-making through Confucian teaching and learning in the socialist state of China.
Cultivation and Drought Management in Agriculture: Climate Change Adaptation
by Md. Shafiqul IslamThis book represents the background of the Barind Tract of Bangladesh with the proximity of drought information, conceptual and logic of the books, history, definition and perception on drought and climate scenario and how people understand underlying causes, impacts and consequences of drought in agriculture, environment, human health and society. It also states the trend and severity of drought of Barind Tract. This book gives the local response to cope, mitigation and adaptation to agricultural drought. The book also addresses the gender response in the hardship of drought in the rural areas. It also elicits the local and indigenous methods of drought prediction and sustainable cultivation and management of drought in agriculture.
Cultivation for Climate Change Resilience, Volume 1: Tropical Fruit Trees
by Jameel M. Al-Khayri Adel A. Abul-SoadThis book focuses on various tropical fruit tree species management for climate change including mitigation strategies and technological countermeasures taken by researchers, progressive growers and commercial companies to overcome the adverse changes. It can be considered as a unique source emphasizing the fruit species solitary not by subject as usual to enable readers reaching directly to their crop of interest. The content includes genetic resources conservation, remote sensing and environmental certification. Increasing attention of the society toward information and measures taken by various stakeholders about climate change risks and threats makes this book very timely. Key points covered: Provides a contemporary view of the impact of climate change on cultivation of individual fruit species Offers modern approaches for mitigating the adverse impact of climate change on fruits cultivation Describes research progress of understanding and combating the impact of climate change on fruits production Illustrates presented concepts with relevant figures and tabulated data
Cultivation for Climate Change Resilience, Volume 2: Temperate Fruit Trees
by Adel A. Abul-Soad Jarneel M. Al-KhayriThis book focuses on various tropical fruit tree species management for climate change including mitigation strategies and technological countermeasures taken by researchers, progressive growers and commercial companies to overcome the adverse changes. It can be considered as a unique source emphasizing the fruit species solitary not by subject as usual to enable readers reaching directly to their crop of interest. The content includes genetic resources conservation, remote sensing and environmental certification. Increasing attention of society toward information and measures taken by various stakeholders about climate change risks and threats makes this book very timely. Key points • Provides a contemporary view of the impact of climate change on cultivation of individual fruit species. • Offers modern approaches for mitigating the adverse impact of climate change on fruits cultivation. • Describes research progress of understanding and combating the impact of climate change on fruits production. • Illustrates presented concepts with relevant figures and tabulated data.
Cultural Approaches to Disgust and the Visceral (Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies)
by Max Ryynänen Susanne C. Ylönen Heidi S. KosonenThis edited volume traces cultural appearances of disgust and investigates the varied forms and functions disgust takes and is given in both established and vernacular cultural practices. Contributors focus on the socio-cultural creation, consumption, reception, and experience of disgust, a visceral emotion whose cultural situatedness and circulation has historically been overlooked in academic scholarship. Chapters challenge and supplement the biological understanding of disgust as a danger reaction and as a base emotion evoked by the lower senses, touch, taste and smell, through a wealth of original case studies in which disgust is analyzed in its aesthetic qualities, and in its cultural and artistic appearances and uses, featuring visual and aural media. Because it is interdisciplinary, the book will be of interest to scholars in a wide range of fields, including visual studies, philosophy, aesthetics, sociology, history, literature, and musicology.
Cultural Capital and Creative Communication: (Anti-)Modern and (Non-)Eurocentric Perspectives (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)
by Oana ȘerbanInspired by Bourdieu’s thought, this book explores the notion of cultural capital, offering insights into its various definitions, its evolution and the critical theories that engage with it. Designed for use by students and teachers, it addresses the limitations and expansion of Bourdieu's theory of capital and power, considering the relationship between cultural, social and human capital, the distinctions between capital and capitalism, and the conflicts that exist among theories that have emerged in response to – or can be brought to bear on – Bourdieu’s work. Engaging with the thought of Max Weber, Fernand Braudel, Daniel Bell, Herbert Marcuse, Jean Baudrillard, Theodore Adorno, Max Horkheimer and Gilles Lipovetsky, Cultural Capital and Creative Communication represents the first book to develop a field of research and study that is devoted to cultural capital. Richly illustrated with empirical examples and offering assessment exercises, it will appeal not only to scholars and students of sociology, philosophy and social theory, but also to corporate communities who seek to develop training modules on the increase of their cultural capital.
Cultural Capital and Parental Involvement: A Comparison of Students’ Music Participation between Beijing and Hong Kong
by Siu-hang KongThis book uses Pierre Bourdieu’s cultural capital model as a theoretical framework for exploring how students in Beijing and Hong Kong perceive parental influences—their parents’ cultural capital and support—on their participation in musical activities. By studying students’ perceptions of their parents’ cultural capital and support for their musical activities, this book revisits the applicability of Bourdieu’s cultural capital model in the contemporary Chinese context and reveals how inequality in terms of parental cultural capital governs parents’ support and influences the intergenerational transmission of cultural capital, which in turn contributes to inequality in terms of students’ cultural capital.
Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation
by John GuilloryAn enlarged edition to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of John Guillory’s formative text on the literary canon. Since its publication in 1993, John Guillory’s Cultural Capital has been a signal text for understanding the codification and uses of the literary canon. Cultural Capital reconsiders the social basis for aesthetic judgment and exposes the unequal distribution of symbolic and linguistic knowledge on which culture has long been based. Drawing from Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology, Guillory argues that canon formation must be understood less as a question of the representation of social groups and more as a question of the distribution of cultural capital in schools, which regulate access to literacy, to the practices of reading and writing. Now, as the crisis of the canon has evolved into the so-called crisis of the humanities, Guillory’s groundbreaking, incisive work has never been more urgent. As scholar and critic Merve Emre writes in her introduction to this enlarged edition: “Exclusion, selection, reflection, representation—these are the terms on which the canon wars of the last century were fought, and the terms that continue to inform debates about, for instance, decolonizing the curriculum and the rhetoric of antiracist pedagogy.”
Cultural Christians in the Early Church: A Historical and Practical Introduction to Christians in the Greco-Roman World
by Nadya WilliamsIn the middle of the third century CE, one North African bishop wrote a treatise for the women of his church, exhorting them to resist such culturally normalized yet immodest behaviors in their cosmopolitan Roman city as mixed public bathing in the nude, and wearing excessive amounts of jewelry and makeup. The treatise appears even more striking, once we realize that the scandalous virgins to whom it was addressed were single women who had dedicated their virginity to Christ.Stories like this one challenge the general assumption among Christians today that the earliest Christians were zealous converts who were much more counterculturally devoted to their faith than typical church-goers today. Too often Christians today think of cultural Christianity as a modern concept, and one most likely to occur in areas where Christianity is the majority culture, such as the American "Bible Belt." The story that this book presents, refutes both of these assumptions.Cultural Christians in the Early Church, which aims to be both historical and practical, argues that cultural Christians were the rule, rather than the exception, in the early church. Using different categories of sins as its organizing principle, the book considers the challenge of culture to the earliest converts to Christianity, as they struggled to live on mission in the Greco-Roman cultural milieu of the Roman Empire. These believers blurred and pushed the boundaries of what it meant to be a saint or sinner from the first to the fifth centuries CE, and their stories provide the opportunity to get to know the regular people in the early churches. At the same time, their stories provide a fresh perspective for considering the difficult timeless questions that stubbornly persist in our own world and churches: when is it a sin to eat or not eat a particular food? Are women inherently more sinful than men? And why is Christian nationalism a problem and, at times, a sin? Ultimately, recognizing that cultural sins were always a part of the story of the church and its people is a message that is both a source of comfort and a call to action in our pursuit of sanctification today.