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Books by Ruth Barcan
  | | Academic Life and Labour in the New University(1st Edition) Hope and Other Choices (Paperback) by Ruth Barcan Paperback, 258 Pages, Published 2016 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-27379-5, ISBN: 1-138-27379-1 |
 | | Complementary and Alternative Medicine(1st Edition) Bodies, Therapies, Senses by Ruth Barcan Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2011 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-84520-743-4, ISBN: 1-84520-743-2 "Alternative medicine therapies have evolved from the province of the hippy counterculture movement in the 1960s to be firmly established in mainstream healthcare in the 21st century. This book critcally examines the alternative medicine phenomenon by asking Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) practitioners what makes these therapies so appealing, drawing on comprehensive interviews and the author's longstanding participation in ..." |
 | | Nudity(1st Edition) A Cultural Anatomy (Dress, Body, Culture) by Ruth Barcan, Joanne B. Eicher Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2004 by Berg Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-85973-872-6, ISBN: 1-85973-872-9 "Nudity features regularly in all major media. So why is it illegal to appear naked in public? Nudity has always been paradoxical. In modern consumer culture, it is actively encouraged in some contexts, but criminal or deviant in others. Images of nudity are everywhere. Advertising uses nudity to sell everything from housing loans to appliances, perfume to cars. Nudity has, in fact, become the latest fashion. This is not surprising. Adve ..." |
 | | Academic Life and Labour in the New University(1st Edition) Hope and Other Choices (New edition) by Ruth Barcan Hardcover, 264 Pages, Published 2013 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-4094-3621-8, ISBN: 1-4094-3621-7 "What does it mean to be an academic today? What kinds of experiences do students have, and how are they affected by what they learn? Why do so many students and their teachers feel like frauds? Can we learn to teach and research in ways that foster hope and deflate pretension? Academic Life and Labour in the New University: Hope and Other Choices addresses these big questions, discussing the challenges of te ..." |
 | | Complementary and Alternative Medicine Bodies, Therapies, Senses: Cultural Practice and the Boundaries of the Senses by Ruth Barcan Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2011 by Berg Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-84520-742-7, ISBN: 1-84520-742-4 |
 | | Modalities(Reprint) Philosophical Essays by Ruth Barcan Marcus Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1995 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-509657-6, ISBN: 0-19-509657-6 "Based on her earlier ground-breaking axiomatization of quantified modal logic, the papers collected here by the distinguished philosopher Ruth Barcan Marcus cover much ground in the development of her thought, spanning from 1961 to 1990. The first essay here introduces themes initially viewed as iconoclastic, such as the necessity of identity, the directly referential role of proper names as "tags", the Barcan Formula about the interpla ..." |
 | | Imagining Australian Space Cultural Studies and Spatial Inquiry by Ruth Barcan, Ian Buchanan Paperback, 150 Pages, Published 2000 by Uwa Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-876268-37-4, ISBN: 1-876268-37-9 "(McKechnie 6) The spatial predicament of which dance educator and advocate Shirley McKechnie speaks is a legacy of a colonial past. For McKechnie, Australian dance is defined through its displacement from European tradition and by the isolation of artist from artist within a vast and empty continent. Spatial dislocation, whatever its hardships, has positive aspects, however; it is productive of a distinctively Australian manner of ..." |
 | | Nudity(Updated) A Cultural Anatomy (Dress, Body, Culture) by Ruth Barcan Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2006 by Berg Publishers Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-85973-877-1, ISBN: 1-85973-877-X "Big business, a moral minefield and a fact of everyday life--this book exposes the conflicts and complexities of our most natural state." |
 | | Nudity - Incorrect ISBN, see 1859738729 A Cultural Anatomy (Dress, Body, Culture) by Ruth Barcan, Robert Gibb Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2005 by Berg Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-85973-827-6, ISBN: 1-85973-827-3 "Racism takes a range of different forms in contemporary France. The rise of the far-right National Front and attacks on Muslims are just two examples. What organisations have emerged to combat racism? What challenges do anti-racist activists currently face? How can anti-racist campaigns become more effective? Focusing on the past two decades, this book provides a clear account of the different forms of anti-racism in France today and co ..." |
 | | MODALITIES PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS. by Ruth Barcan Marcus Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 1993 by Oxford University Press Inc, Usa ISBN-13: 978-0-19-507698-1, ISBN: 0-19-507698-2 |
 | | The Temporalities of Waste Out of Sight, Out of Time by Fiona Allon, Ruth Barcan, Karma Eddison-Cogan 268 Pages, Published 2020 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-00-020907-5, ISBN: 1-00-020907-5 "Aleksandra Brylska is a participant in the international PhD program “Nature- Culture” at the Faculty “Artes Liberales” of the ... Myra J. Hird is Professor, Queen's National Scholar and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in the School of ..." |
 | | Complementary and Alternative Medicine Bodies, Therapies, Senses by Ruth Barcan 224 Pages, Published 2013 by Berg ISBN-13: 978-0-85785-093-5, ISBN: 0-85785-093-8 "To take just a few examples from the smattering of cultural studies of either alternative therapies, the New Age or the self-help genre: for Heidi Maria Rimke, the public sphere and public responsibility 'are negated by a life of self-help' ( 2000: 73); for ... the psychological disciplines produce governable selves 'obliged ' to be free (1999: 258); for Jackie Stacey, self-health culture is based on a desire for mastery (1997: 238); ..." |
 | | Complementary and Alternative Medicine Bodies, Therapies, Senses by Ruth Barcan 224 Pages, Published 2013 by Berg ISBN-13: 978-0-85785-312-7, ISBN: 0-85785-312-0 "... tales of the healing power of music, at least as a rhetorical strategy, but it has also worked to bolster its academic credibility via a theoretical and research base . Today, music therapy research papers tend to combine humanist or spiritual discourse about the power ofmusic to lift the spirit with social scientific, evidence- based data, including the clinical research ofMusicMedicine. For example, one of my interviewees, Kirs ..." |
 | | Will the real Australia please stand up- a travelogue by Christl Berg, Ruth Barcan 30 Pages, Published 1996 ISBN-13: 978-0-85901-665-0, ISBN: 0-85901-665-X |
 | | The Logical Enterprise(1st Edition) by Alan Ross Anderson, Ruth Barcan Marcus, Richard Milton Martin, Frederic Brenton Fitch, Richard M. Martin, Yale University Press Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 1975 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-01790-8, ISBN: 0-300-01790-1 |
 | | Modality, Morality and Belief(1st Edition) Essays in Honor of Ruth Barcan Marcus by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Nicholas Asher, Diana Raffman, Ruth Barcan Marcus Hardcover, 290 Pages, Published 1995 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-44082-0, ISBN: 0-521-44082-3 "Modality, morality and belief are among the most controversial topics in philosophy today, and few philosophers have shaped these debates as deeply as Ruth Barcan Marcus. Inspired by her work, a distinguished group of philosophers explore these issues, refine and sharpen arguments and develop new positions on such topics as possible worlds, moral dilemmas, essentialism, and the explanation of actions by beliefs. Together, this collecti ..." |
 | | The Temporalities of Waste(1st Edition) (Routledge Environmental Humanities) by Allon, Fiona, Barcan, Ruth, Eddison-Cogan, Karma Paperback, 286 Pages, Published 2023 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-367-56857-3, ISBN: 0-367-56857-8 |
 | | Complementary and Alternative Medicine Bodies, Therapies, Senses by Ruth Barcan 222 Pages, Published 2020 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-00-018068-8, ISBN: 1-00-018068-9 "This book is essential reading for students and scholars of cultural studies, anthropology, sensory studies and sociology." |
 | | The Temporalities of Waste Out of Sight, Out of Time by Fiona Allon, Ruth Barcan, Karma Eddison-Cogan 407 Pages, Published 2020 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-00-020911-2, ISBN: 1-00-020911-3 "This book investigates the complex and unpredictable temporalities of waste." |
 | | Academic Life and Labour in the New University Hope and Other Choices by Ruth Barcan 258 Pages, Published 2016 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-317-18594-9, ISBN: 1-317-18594-3 "Drawing on a range of international media sources, political discourse and many years’ professional experience, this volume explores approaches to teaching and research, with special emphasis on the importance of collegiality, ..." |
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