Victoria Johnson

"Whether collecting specimens along the banks of the Hudson River, lecturing before a class of rapt medical students, or breaking the fever of a young Philip Hamilton, David Hosack was an American visionary who has been too long forgotten. Alongside other towering figures of the post-Revolutionary generation, he took the reins of a nation. In unearthing the dramatic story of his life, [the author] offers a lush depiction of the man who gave a new voice to the powers and perils of nature"--Amazon.com.

David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic

American Eden

This compelling true-life story details the abuse nine children had suffered at the hand of their father, a well-liked church pastor. After his death, each child returns to the house that holds so many secrets of the past.

In My Father's House

"Über das Buch" Wie der MINIMALISMUS zu einem bewussten Leben führt: Ballast über Bord werfen befreit! Ein einfaches Leben mit mehr Erfolg, Freiheit, Glück, Geld, Liebe und Zeit - irgendwie wünschen wir uns das alle. Doch in unserer modernen leistungsorientierten Gesellschaft bleibt diese Einfachheit oft auf der Strecke: Konsum, Besitz und Leistung scheinen zumindest vordergründig die wichtigeren Werte zu sein. Der "Minimalismus als Lebensstil" bezeichnet eine Art und Weise des Lebens, die es jedem ermöglicht, sich auf die wesentlichen Dinge zu konzentrieren. Der Minimalismus kann, muss aber nicht alle Lebensbereiche umfassen. Wer sich dazu entscheidet, minimalistisch leben zu wollen, tut dies meist sehr bewusst. Die Beweggründe sind dabei fast immer ähnlich: • Leistungsdruck und Karrierezwang: Zu viel Stress am Arbeitsplatz, im Studium und in der Freizeit • Exzessiver Lebensstil...Körperkult, Shoppen und Social-Media-Kommunikation: Überforderung durch Maßlosigkeit und Überfluss • Manipulation durch die Marketing-Industrie: Der gesellschaftliche Zwang bestimmte Konsumgüter besitzen zu müssen Minimalismus bedeutet Selbstbestimmung und Selbstverwirklichung. Sich nicht von anderen Personen oder der Gesellschaft vorschreiben lassen, wie ein gutes und richtiges Leben auszusehen hat. Das Lösen vom Schwarz-Weiss-Denken, die Reduzierung von Besitz und Pflichten, um Zeit und Geld zu sparen und mehr Energie für Familie, Freunde, Hobbys und Reisen zu haben. Minimalismus-Guide: Ein Leben mit mehr Erfolg, Freiheit, Glück, Geld, Liebe und Zeit... # Minimalismus pur: Ballast über Bord werfen befreit! # Minimalismus als Lebensprinzip & Lebensstil # Minimalismus im Alltag: Vereinfache bewusst deine Alltagsroutine # Minimalismus in den eigenen Wohn(t)räumen # Reise zu deinem perfekten Kleiderschrank & Modestil # Minimalismus und die lieben Finanz(angelegenheit)en # Minimalismus im Büro & Home Office # Minimalistisch auf (Welt)Reisen mit Handgepäck

Ballast über Bord werfen befreit! (Minimalismus-Guide: Ein Leben mit mehr Erfolg, Freiheit, Glück, Geld, Liebe und Zeit)

Wie der MINIMALISMUS zu einem bewussten Leben führt

Jane F. Fulcher

Thomas Ertman

This edited volume brings together academic specialists writing on the multi-media operatic form from a range of disciplines: comparative literature, history, sociology, and philosophy. The presence in the volume's title of Pierre Bourdieu, the leading cultural sociologist of the late twentieth century, signals the editors' intention to synthesise advances in social science with advances in musicological and other scholarship on opera. Through a focus on opera in Italy and France, the contributors to the volume draw on their respective disciplines both to expand our knowledge of opera's history and to demonstrate the kinds of contributions that stand to be made by different disciplines to the study of opera. The volume is divided into three sections, each of which is preceded by a concise and informative introduction explaining how the chapters in that section contribute to our understanding of opera.

Opera and Society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu

Jo Freeman

This book updates and adds to the classic Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies, showing how social movement theory has grown and changed_from an earlier emphasis on collective behavior, to the resource mobilization approach, and currently to analyses that emphasize culture, ideology, and collective identity. Top social scientists combine insiders' insights with critical analyses to examine a wide variety of social movements active in the most recent U.S. cycle of protest. Waves of Protest is a must-read for students of social movements, social change, political sociology, and American studies.

Social Movements Since the Sixties

Waves of Protest

Edda Ivan-Smith

Gill Gordon

Presents the key issues and challenges involved in facilitating children and young people's participation. Essential reading for professionals, agencies and institutions working with and for children, and in development, as well as professionals involved in participatory approaches.

Children and Young People's Participation in the Development Process

Stepping Forward

Finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction A New York Times Editors' Choice Selection The untold story of Hamilton’s—and Burr’s—personal physician, whose dream to build America’s first botanical garden inspired the young Republic. On a clear morning in July 1804, Alexander Hamilton stepped onto a boat at the edge of the Hudson River. He was bound for a New Jersey dueling ground to settle his bitter dispute with Aaron Burr. Hamilton took just two men with him: his “second” for the duel, and Dr. David Hosack. As historian Victoria Johnson reveals in her groundbreaking biography, Hosack was one of the few points the duelists did agree on. Summoned that morning because of his role as the beloved Hamilton family doctor, he was also a close friend of Burr. A brilliant surgeon and a world-class botanist, Hosack—who until now has been lost in the fog of history—was a pioneering thinker who shaped a young nation. Born in New York City, he was educated in Europe and returned to America inspired by his newfound knowledge. He assembled a plant collection so spectacular and diverse that it amazes botanists today, conducted some of the first pharmaceutical research in the United States, and introduced new surgeries to American. His tireless work championing public health and science earned him national fame and praise from the likes of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander von Humboldt, and the Marquis de Lafayette. One goal drove Hosack above all others: to build the Republic’s first botanical garden. Despite innumerable obstacles and near-constant resistance, Hosack triumphed when, by 1810, his Elgin Botanic Garden at last crowned twenty acres of Manhattan farmland. “Where others saw real estate and power, Hosack saw the landscape as a pharmacopoeia able to bring medicine into the modern age” (Eric W. Sanderson, author of Mannahatta). Today what remains of America’s first botanical garden lies in the heart of midtown, buried beneath Rockefeller Center. Whether collecting specimens along the banks of the Hudson River, lecturing before a class of rapt medical students, or breaking the fever of a young Philip Hamilton, David Hosack was an American visionary who has been too long forgotten. Alongside other towering figures of the post-Revolutionary generation, he took the reins of a nation. In unearthing the dramatic story of his life, Johnson offers a lush depiction of the man who gave a new voice to the powers and perils of nature.

American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic

On July 14, 1789, a crowd of angry French citizens en route to the Bastille broke into the Paris Opera and helped themselves to any sturdy weapon they could find. Yet despite its long association with the royal court, its special privileges, and the splendor of its performances, the Opera itself was spared, even protected, by Revolutionary officials. Victoria Johnson’s Backstage at the Revolution tells the story of how this legendary opera house, despite being a lightning rod for charges of tyranny and waste, weathered the most dramatic political upheaval in European history. Sifting through royal edicts, private letters, and Revolutionary records of all kinds, Johnson uncovers the roots of the Opera’s survival in its identity as a uniquely privileged icon of French culture—an identity established by the conditions of its founding one hundred years earlier under Louis XIV. Johnson’s rich cultural history moves between both epochs, taking readers backstage to see how a motley crew of singers, dancers, royal ministers, poet entrepreneurs, shady managers, and the king of France all played a part in the creation and preservation of one of the world’s most fabled cultural institutions.

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