Partial Stories
Title | Partial Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Claire L. Wendland |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 365 |
Release | 2022-04-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0226816885 |
"Partial Stories takes readers to Malawi, where roughly one in twenty women can expect to die of a pregnancy or childbirth complication, despite decades of safe-motherhood programs. The stories of these mothers are told in hospitals and villages, by chiefs and doctors, herbalists and nurses, epidemiologists and healers, and competing explanations proliferate. The mothers' stories are used by elders for technical education and moral instruction at a coming-of-age-ritual, a district hospital's mortality review, and in the reflected glow of a computer screen at an international conference. After orienting readers to urban Malawi's context of therapeutic pluralism and material scarcity, Claire Wendland discusses the ways various experts account for maternal death, showing how their diverse explanations reflect competing visions of the past and shared concerns about social change. She looks to a series of pregnancy-related deaths in order to consider bodies as biosocial phenomena, shaped from before birth by history and social inequality. Wendland reveals an uneven therapeutic landscape that pushes experts to improvise, clinically and ethically. Their creative, essential, and sometimes deadly improvisations ask us to reconsider the "best practice" dogmas of global health and transnational research, as well as the nature of medical authority and expertise. Wendland demonstrates how strategies of legitimation render care more dangerous and knowledge more partial than it might otherwise be"--
Tell Me a Story
Title | Tell Me a Story PDF eBook |
Author | Roger C. Schank |
Publisher | Northwestern University Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 9780810113138 |
In this study by an expert on learning and computers, the author argues that artificial intelligence must be based on real human intelligence.
Partial Genius
Title | Partial Genius PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Biddinger |
Publisher | |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 2019-08-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781625570062 |
Poetry. "I love this book so much. A work of meticulous craft and profound originality, Mary Biddinger's newest collection of prose poems is one of the best books I've read on our historical moment and the decades that led to it. PARTIAL GENIUS reads like a dossier of the psychological landscape of late capitalist America and the end of empire. In the tradition of John Ashbery, but wholly original in her own vision and voice, Biddinger draws from a deep well of poetic intellect and wit to illuminate the existential threats and imaginative possibilities of our collective self-destruction. In 'The Subject Pool' the speaker watches a man tattoo AU COURANT around her thigh. The tattoo artist has no idea. Every poem is chock-full of revelations in every detail. Reading this book felt like sitting by the fire in some secret location with a double agent, smoking her pipe telling tales of all that went down right in front of our faces, while we were all driven to distraction by outrage. To paraphrase Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth, She's got it all in this book."--Heather Derr-Smith "'How many days since you began your last panic...?' Mary Biddinger asks in her latest collection. Quirky, imaginative, and wry in tone, PARTIAL GENIUS is a book that thwarts expectation, turns convention on its head, surprises and delights. Within a narrative scaffolded like a twisting stairway or maze-like hall, these fascinating poems feature high school reunions, job interviews, broken dioramas, and birth control pills; they showcase apologies, parlor games, and consolation prizes, intricacies, illusions, and tricks. Comfort is found in a bar of bathroom soap. An assistant manager wonders why a blazer is named for fire. A radio is implanted in the chest as a companion to the heart. Spheres of uncertainty juxtaposed against landscapes of failure create the book's complex beauty and dangerous edge, as Biddinger claims, 'The best part of figure skating was getting cut.' PARTIAL GENIUS comes to us as both a study of despair and a gleaming beacon of hope."--Jennifer Militello
12th Annual Conference. C.S.S. Pod
Title | 12th Annual Conference. C.S.S. Pod PDF eBook |
Author | John R. Anderson |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 563 |
Release | 2022-03-30 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1317782968 |
The first volume of a series on Cognition. Looking at Memory, Catergorization, Causal Inference and Problem Solving. First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Beyond the Great Story
Title | Beyond the Great Story PDF eBook |
Author | Robert F. Berkhofer |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Historia |
ISBN | 9780674069084 |
What legitimate form can history take when faced by the severe challenges issued in recent years by literary, rhetorical, multiculturalist, and feminist theories? That is the question considered in this pathbreaking book. Robert Berkhofer addresses the essential practical concern of contemporary historians.
Partial List of People to Bleach
Title | Partial List of People to Bleach PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Lutz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 114 |
Release | 2013-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781892061454 |
Interactive Storytelling
Title | Interactive Storytelling PDF eBook |
Author | Hartmut Koenitz |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2013-10-31 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 3319027565 |
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Interactive Storytelling, ICIDS 2013, Istanbul, Turkey, November 2013. The 14 revised full papers presented together with 10 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on theory and aesthetics; authoring tools and applications; evaluation and user experience reports; virtual characters and agents; new storytelling modes; workshops.