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In 2014, Jeremy Ward began to research and collate information with the aim of writing his family history. The result was Dressmakers, Preachers and Cockies, a Family History Memoir (Boolarong Press, Brisbane, Australia, 2018). When searching through family records, Jeremy came across a diary kept by his mother, Mena Ward, during the first four years of her marriage to Jeremy’s father, Bryan Ward, an Anglican parish Rector in Ingham, North Queensland, prior to World War II. Reading the entries, Jeremy saw his mother’s personality, humour and caustic turn of phrase leap out at him, but was surprised by how open and emotionally revealing his mother was, as she recorded her struggles to come to terms with her new life. She was far away from metropolitan Sydney, where she had trained to become a nurse, and even further from Urana in rural NSW, where she had spent her childhood. In Dressmakers, Preachers and Cockies, Jeremy quoted extensively from his mother’s diary and, while doing so, came to see the importance of bringing the whole diary to a wider readership. The result is his annotated transcription, Mena’s Diary: An Anglican Rector’s Wife in Ingham, North Queensland 1937–1940. Jeremy doubts that his mother, who died in 1974, would approve of his bringing her personal diary out in the open, but believes the dearth of stories about the life experiences of women like Mena justifies his decision. He is happy to live with the feeling of her sitting on his shoulder and scoffing at why he would think anyone would be interested.
Creative Writing is a complete writing course that will jump-start your writing and guide you through your first steps towards publication. Suitable for use by students, tutors, writers’ groups or writers working alone, this book offers: a practical and inspiring section on the creative process, showing you how to stimulate your creativity and use your memory and experience in inventive ways in-depth coverage of the most popular forms of writing, in extended sections on fiction, poetry and life writing, including biography and autobiography, giving you practice in all three forms so that you might discover and develop your particular strengths a sensible, up-to-date guide to going public, to help you to edit your work to a professional standard and to identify and approach suitable publishers a distinctive collection of exciting exercises, spread throughout the workbook to spark your imagination and increase your technical flexibility and control a substantial array of illuminating readings, bringing together extracts from contemporary and classic writings in order to demonstrate a range of techniques that you can use or adapt in your own work. Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings presents a unique opportunity to benefit from the advice and experience of a team of published authors who have also taught successful writing courses at a wide range of institutions, helping large numbers of new writers to develop their talents as well as their abilities to evaluate and polish their work to professional standards. These institutions include Lancaster University and the University of East Anglia, renowned as consistent producers of published writers.
Investigates First Boston Corp.'s sponsorship of AEC-Mississippi Valley Generating Co. contract, the so-called Dixon-Yates contract, and Presidential aid Sherman Adams' alleged interference in SEC investigation of the contract.
Investigates First Boston Corp.'s sponsorship of AEC-Mississippi Valley Generating Co. contract, the so-called Dixon-Yates contract, and Presidential aid Sherman Adams' alleged interference in SEC investigation of the contract.
Tauber, a leading figure in history and philosophy of science, offers a unique autobiographical overview of how science as a discipline of thought has been characterized by philosophers and historians over the past century. He frames his account through science’s – and his own personal – quest for explanatory certainty. During the 20th century, that goal was displaced by the probabilistic epistemologies required to characterize complex systems, whether in physics, biology, economics, or the social sciences. This “triumph of uncertainty” is the inevitable outcome of irreducible chance and indeterminate causality. And beyond these epistemological limits, the interpretative faculties of the individual scientist (what Michael Polanyi called the “personal” and the “tacit”) invariably affects how data are understood. Whereas positivism had claimed radical objectivity, post-positivists have identified how a web of non-epistemic values and social forces profoundly influence the production of knowledge. Tauber presents a case study of these claims by showing how immunology has incorporated extra-curricular social elements in its theoretical development and how these in turn have influenced interpretive problems swirling around biological identity, individuality, and cognition. The correspondence between contemporary immunology and cultural notions of selfhood are strong and striking. Just as uncertainty haunts science, so too does it hover over current constructions of personal identity, self knowledge, and moral agency. Across the chasm of uncertainty, science and selfhood speak.
Born into a male-dominated society, southern women often chose to support patriarchy and their own celebrated roles as mothers, wives, and guardians of the home and humane values. George C. Rable uncovers the details of how women fit into the South's complex social order and how Southern social assumptions shaped their attitudes toward themselves, their families, and society as a whole. He reveals a bafflingly intricate social order and the ways the South's surprisingly diverse women shaped their own lives and minds despite strict boundaries. Paying particular attention to women during the Civil War, Roble illuminates their thoughts on the conflict and the threats and challenges they faced and looks at their place in both the economy and politics of the Confederacy. He also ranges back to the antebellum era and forward to postwar South, when women quickly acquiesced to the old patriarchal system but nonetheless lived lives changed forever by the war.
Attempting to restore subtlety and nuance to the study of southern religion, The Sacred Flame of Love ranges across the entire nineteenth century to chronicle the evolution of the institutions, theology, and social attitudes of Georgia Methodists in light of such phenomena, trends, and events as slavery, class prejudice, republicanism, population growth, economic development, sectional politics, war, emancipation, and urban growth. In connecting Methodist history with the larger social transformation of nineteenth-century Georgia, Christopher H. Owen uncovers a story of considerable complexity and variety. Because Georgia Methodists included people from every social class, few generalizations apply properly to all of them. For many years they were loosely united by common adherence to the ideals of Wesleyan evangelicalism, but economic and political developments would gradually accentuate Methodist social divisions and weaken even this bond. Indeed, deviating far from the conception of unchanging and asocial southern religion often held by scholars, Owen sees both church and society undergoing enormous change in the nineteenth century.