“…"This collection of essays examines the lives of women across Russia--from wealthy noblewomen in St Petersburg to desperately poor peasants in Siberia--discussing their interaction with the Church and the law, and their rich contribution to music, art, literature and theatre. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Joseph: An Eighteenth-Century Mission-Garrison-Trading Post Complex on the Edge of Empire -- People in Objects: Individuality and the Quotidian in the Material Culture of War -- A Biography of a Stoneware Ginger Beer Bottle: The Biucchi Brothers and the Ticinese Community in Nineteenth-Century London -- Folk Housing in the Middle of the Pacific: Architectural Lime, Creolized Ideologies, and Expressions of Power in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii -- The Lens of Personal Objects -- Bodkin Biographies -- Material Manipulations: Beads and Cloth in the French Colonies -- Mission Santa Catalina’s Mondadiente de Plata (Silver Toothpick): Materiality and the Construction of Self in Spanish La Florida -- Single Shoes and Individual Lives: The Mill Creek Shoe Project -- Personal Impacts: Seeing Sites through the Individual -- Beyond Consumption: Social Relationships, Material Culture, and Identity -- Widow Pratt’s Possessions: Individuality and Georgianization in Newport, Rhode Island -- Consuming Individuality: Collective Identity Along the Color Line…”

“…Across the OECD, nearly 19 million people are living with dementia. Millions of family members and friends provide care and support to loved ones with dementia throughout their lives. …”

“…"- Keith Devlin, Stanford University, National Public Radio's "Math Guy" and author of The Math Gene and The Unfinished GameFrom probable improbabilities to regular irregularities, Probabilities: The Little Numbers That Rule Our Lives, Second Edition investigates the often surprising effects of risk and chance in our lives. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction : Beyond the human -- Chapter 1 : A presocratic trajectory : from the origin of the world to animals and plants -- Chapter 2 : Creatures of chance and logos -- Chapter 3 : Being in the world : animal's sensations and thought -- Chapter 4 : Plants : animals upside down -- Chapter 5 : Animals and the soul -- Chapter 6 : Plato's timaeus : the world as a living animal and the specializations of the soul…”

“…In Hacking Life , Joseph Reagle examines these attempts to systematize living and finds that they are the latest in a long series of self-improvement methods. …”

“…Imagination is an important outcome of semiotic processes and enables us to deal with daily constraints and transitions, and promotes the transformation of social representation and symbolic systems - giving each person a unique style, or 'melody', of living. The book concludes by questioning the methodology and epistemology of current life course studies…”

“….: This book encompasses three major areas of work with elderly clients aged 60 years and older:.; Living in nursing homes; Living in assisted living…”

“…Narrative Therapy: Making Meaning, Making Lives offers a comprehensive introduction to the history and theory of narrative therapy. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 1: The Structure And Function Of Living Organisms -- Chapter 2: Energy In Biology – Demand And Use -- Chapter 3: Information – Its Role And Meaning In Organism -- Chapter 4: Regulation In Biological Systems -- Chapter 5: Interrelationship In Organized Biological Systems. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Reading things, senses, and meanings -- Intricate things on the page : the modernist short fiction of Djuna Barnes, Katherine Mansfield, and Jean Rhys -- Powerful things -- Ironical spirits and living mannequins : Jean Rhys, magic, and surrealism -- Dolls, boots, and madames : Djuna Barnes rewrites fetishism -- Lively things -- Djuna Barnes's piled-up and entangled assemblages -- Katherine Mansfield writing a nonhuman life -- Touching things -- Nice things : materiality and positive affect in Katherine Mansfield's and Jean Rhys's stories -- The affective journeys of Djuna Barnes's and Katherine Mansfield's stories -- Making sense of things -- Masses and vividnesses : the aesthetics and ethics of The Left bank -- At the indifferent bay : nonhuman perspectives and meaning in Katherine Mansfield's stories -- Djuna Barnes's detail and the materiality of the symbolic -- Conclusion: Reading affective materiality…”