Author: Cameron Lynne Macdonald File Type: pdf Shadow Mothers shines new light on an aspect of contemporary motherhood often hidden from view the need for paid childcare by women returning to the workforce, and the complex bonds mothers forge with the shadow mothers they hire. Cameron Lynne Macdonald illuminates both sides of an unequal and complicated relationship. Based on in-depth interviews with professional women and childcare providers immigrant and American-born nannies as well as European au pairsShadow Mothers locates the roots of individual skirmishes between mothers and their childcare providers in broader cultural and social tensions. Macdonald argues that these conflicts arise from unrealistic ideals about mothering and inflexible career paths and work schedules, as well as from the devaluation of paid care work. **

Author: Charles H. Smith File Type: pdf Although Alfred Russel Wallace (18231913) was one of the most famous scientists in the world at the time of his death at the age of ninety, today he is known to many as a kind of almost-Darwin, a secondary figure relegated to the footnotes of Darwins prodigious insights. But this diminution could hardly be less justified. Research into the life of this brilliant naturalist and social critic continues to produce new insights into his significance to history and his role in helping to shape modern thought. Wallace declared his eight years of exploration in southeast Asia to be the central and controlling incident of his life. As 2019 marks one hundred and fifty years since the publication of The Malay Archipelago , Wallaces canonical work chronicling his epic voyage, this collaborative book gathers an interdisciplinary array of writers to celebrate Wallaces remarkable life and diverse scholarly accomplishments. Wallace left school at the age of fourteen and was largely self-taught, a voracious curiosity and appetite for learning sustaining him throughout his long life. After years as a surveyor and builder, in 1848 he left Britain to become a professional natural history collector in the Amazon, where he spent four years. Then, in 1854, he departed for the Malay Archipelago. It was on this voyage that he constructed a theory of natural selection similar to the one Charles Darwin was developing, and the two copublished papers on the subject in 1858, some sixteen months before the release of Darwins On the Origin of Species. But as the contributors to the Companion show, this much-discussed parallel evolution in thought was only one epoch in an extraordinary intellectual life. When Wallace returned to Britain in 1862, he commenced a career of writing on a huge range of subjects extending from evolutionary studies and biogeography to spiritualism and socialism. An Alfred Russel Wallace Companion provides something of a necessary reexamination of the full breadth of Wallaces thoughtan attempt to describe not only the history and present state of our understanding of his work, but also its implications for the future.

Author: Reinhold Niebuhr File Type: epub A definitive collection of the theologian and public intellectual who was the conscience of the American Century. One of my favorite philosophers, remarked Barack Obama about the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr (18921971) in 2007. President Obama is but one of the many American political leadersincluding Jimmy Carter and Martin Luther King Jr.to be influenced by Niebuhrs writings. Throughout the Depression, World War II, and the Cold War, Niebuhr was one of the most prominent public voices of his time, probing with singular style the question of how to act morally in a fallen world. This Library of America volume, prepared by Niebuhrs daughter, Elisabeth Sifton, collects four indispensable books Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic (1929), Moral Man and Immoral Society (1932), The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness (1944), and The Irony of American History (1952), along with a selection of essays, sermons, lectures, prayers, including his world-famous Serenity Prayer, and writings on current eventsProhibition, the Allied bombing of Germany, apartheid in South Africa, the Vietnam Warmany of which are collected here for the first time. LIBRARY OF AMERICAis an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nations literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, Americas best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.**ReviewThe indispensable Library of America, the most useful publishing venture in American letters, has produced an edition of Niebuhrs major works, annotated by Niebuhrs daughter, Elisabeth Sifton, a highly regarded editor and publisher.It belongs in the library of every student of U. S. foreign policy.*Walter Russell Mead,Foreign Affairs hrReading his work today, amid our own challenges of social inequality and imperial hubris, suggests we still need Niebuhrs insight as much as ever.Adam Kirsch,*The New York Review of Books* A fine introduction to one of the 20th centurys most influential intellectuals. Barton Swaim,*The Wall Street Journal*From the Back Cover One of my favorite philosophers, remarked Barack Obama about the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr (18921971) in 2007. President Obama is but one of the many American political leadersincluding Jimmy Carter and Martin Luther King Jr.to be influenced by Niebuhrs writings. Throughout the Depression, World War II, and the Cold War, Niebuhr was one of the most prominent public voices of his time, probing with singular style the question of how to act morally in a fallen world. This Library of America volume, prepared by Niebuhrs daughter, Elisabeth Sifton, collects four indispensable books Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic (1929),Moral Man and Immoral Society (1932), The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness (1944), andThe Irony of American History (1952), along with a selection of essays, sermons, lectures, prayers, including his world-famous Serenity Prayer, and writings on current eventsProhibition, the Allied bombing of Germany, apartheid in South Africa, the Vietnam Warmany of which are collected here for the first time.

Author: Donald A. Bullough File Type: pdf In this major intellectual biography of Alcuin (d. 804), the most prominent Anglo-Saxon scholar at the court of Charlemagne, Donald Bullough deploys a lifetimes expertise in the study of early medieval manuscripts. Concentrating on Alcuins early years in Northumbria and then his time at the Carolingian court, Bullough reassesses the chronology of Alcuins career and writings, assesses his use of patristic and insular writings, and explores the contemporary significance of his large output. At the core of this book lies a fundamental reassessment of the dating of Alcuins letters in so doing, it reveals the patterns of intellectual exchange and textual community that characterised the first phase of the Carolingian Renaissance. It thus offers a uniquely detailed and nuanced exploration of the life and ideas of the most influential early medieval scholar.About the AuthorDonald A. Bullough was Professor of Medieval History at the University of Nottingham (1966-1973) and then at the University of St Andrews (1973-91). An expert on early medieval manuscript and cultural history, he is also the author of The Age of Charlemagne (1965) and Carolingian Renewal Sources and Heritage (1991).