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edited by Amy K. LevinPublication Details
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Defining Memory : Local Museums And The Construction Of History In America’s Changing Communities
Remembering Our Childhood : How Memory Betrays Us
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by Karl SabbaghPublication Details
BookOxford University Press2009Description
Through closely examining memories culled from his interviews, as well as psychologists’ and neuroscientists’ studies of memory, it becomes clear that, whatever individuals might claim, memories of the first two years of our lives are simply not accessible to us. Drawing on extensive research, including transcribed interviews presented at court, Remembering Our Childhood presents a scientific understanding of memory and a compelling argument for the critical role of scientific evidence in cases involving the memory of witnesses. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
The Young Child’s Memory For Words : Developing First And Second Language And Literacy
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Daniel R. MeierPublication Details
BookTeachers College Press2004Description
Presents effective, research-based ways for preschool and kindergarten teachers to strengthen their children’s first and second language and literacy learning. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) P118.7 .M45 2004 NEW BOOK(MAIN)
Marking The Mind : A History Of Memory
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Kurt DanzigerPublication Details
BookCambridge University Press2008Description
He explores historical discontinuities, showing how different kinds of memory became prominent at different times, and examines these changes in the context of specific themes including the question of truth in memory, distinctions between kinds of memory, the project of memory experimentation and the physical localization and conceptual location of memory. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) BF371 .D36 2008 NEW BOOK(MAIN)
The Amputated Memory : A Song-novel
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Werewere Liking ; translated from the French by Marjolijn de Jager ; afterword by Michelle MiellyPublication Details
BookFeminist Press at the City University of New York2007Description
A modern-day Things Fall Apart, The Amputated Memory explores the ways in which an African woman’s memory preserves, and strategically forgets, moments in her tumultuous past as well as the cultural past of her country, in the hopes of making a healthier future possible. Winner of the Noma Award-previous honorees include Mamphela Ramphele, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, and Ken Saro-Wiwa-The Amputated Memory was called by the Noma jury “a truly remarkable achievement . (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) PQ3989.2.L54 M4513 2007 AVAILABLE
Memory, Print, And Gender In England, 1653-1759
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Harold WeberPublication Details
BookPalgrave Macmillan2008Description
This study contributes to the current pursuit?in both literary studies and the social sciences?of histories of memory in Western culture, employing current scholarship from the social and natural sciences to delineate the nature of modern memory. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
Can’t Remember What I Forgot : The Good News From The Front Lines Of Memory Research
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Sue HalpernPublication Details
Book1st edHarmony Books2008Description
Like many of us who have had a relative or friend succumb to memory loss, who are getting older, who are hearing statistics about our own chances of falling victim to dementia, who worry that each lapse of memory portends disease, Halpern wanted to ?nd out what the experts really knew, what the bench scientists were working on, how close science is to a cure, to treatment, to accurate early diagnosis, and, of course, whether the crossword puzzles, sudokus, and ballroom dancing we?ve been told to take up can really keep us lucid or if they?re just something to do before the inevitable overtakes us. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) RC394.M46 H35 2008 AVAILABLE
Remapping The Humanities : Identity, Community, Memory, (post)modernity
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edited by Mary Garrett, Heidi Gottfried, and Sandra F. Vanburkleo ; with the assistance of Walter EdwardsPublication Details
BookWayne State University Press2008Links
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Remapping the Humanities celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Wayne State University Humanities Center by bringing together essays that illustrate the richness of public conversations developed in interdisciplinary humanities centers. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) AZ182 .R46 2008 AVAILABLE
Red, White, And Blue Letter Days : An American Calendar
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Matthew DennisPublication Details
BookCornell University Press2002Description
The Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, Washington?s Birthday, Memorial Day, Columbus Day, Labor Day, Martin Luther King?s Birthday, and other celebrations matter to Americans and reflect the state of American local and national politics. In six engaging chapters?assaying particular political holidays over the course of their histories, Red, White, and Blue Letter Days examines how Americans have shaped and been shaped by their calendar. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) GT4803.A2 D46 2002 AVAILABLE
Museums And Their Communities
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edited by Sheila WatsonPublication Details
BookRoutledge2007Links
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Looking at the current debates about the role of the museum, she considers contested values in museum functions and examines provision, power, ownership, responsibility, (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) AM7 .M8825 2007 ON HOLDSHELF
Owning Memory : How A Caribbean Community Lost Its Archives And Found Its History
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Jeannette Allis BastianPublication Details
BookLibraries Unlimited2003Links
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This book examines the relationships between archives, communities and collective memory through both the lens of a postcolonial society, the United States Virgin Islands, a former colony of Denmark, now a United States territory, and through an archival perspective on the relationship between communities and the creation of records. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) CD3985.V5 B37 2003 AVAILABLE
Be Near Me
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Andrew O’HaganPublication Details
Book1st U.S. edHarcourt, Inc2006Links
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Half a life later, David is Father Anderton, a Catholic priest with a small parish in Scotland. Their company stirs memories of earlier happiness?his days at a Catholic school in Yorkshire, the student revolt in 1960s Oxford, and a choice he once made in the orange groves of Rome. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PR6065.H18 B42 2006 AVAILABLE
Cultural Amnesia : Necessary Memories From History And The Arts
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Clive JamesPublication Details
Book1st edW.W. Norton & Co2007Links
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Forty years in the making, a new cultural canon that celebrates truth over hypocrisy, literature over totalitarianism. Soaring to Montaigne-like heights, Cultural Amnesia is precisely the book to burnish these memories of a Western civilization that James fears is nearly lost. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) CB245 .J338 2007 AVAILABLE
Remembrance Of Repasts : An Anthropology Of Food And Memory
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David E. SuttonPublication Details
BookBerg2001Description
Cultural practices of feasting and fasting, global flows of food as both gifts and commodities, the rise of processed food and the relationship of orally transmitted recipes to the vast market in speciality cookbooks tie traditional anthropological mainstays such as ritual, exchange and death to more current concerns with structure and history, cognition and the ‘anthropology of the senses’. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) GT2850 .S888 2001 AVAILABLE
The Selling Of 9/11 : How A National Tragedy Became A Commodity
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edited and with an introduction by Dana HellerPublication Details
Book1st edPalgrave Macmillan2005Links
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LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HV6432.7 .S366 2005 AVAILABLE
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