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World-renowned canopy biologist Nalini Nadkarni has climbed trees on four continents with scientists, students, artists, clergymen, musicians, activists, loggers, legislators, and Inuits, gathering diverse perspectives. In Between Earth and Sky, a rich tapestry of personal stories, information, art, and photography, she becomes our captivating guide to the leafy wilderness above our heads. Through her luminous narrative, we embark on a multifaceted exploration of trees that illuminates the profound connections we have with them, the dazzling array of goods and services they provide, and the powerful lessons they hold for us. Nadkarni describes trees' intricate root systems, their highly evolved and still not completely understood canopies, their role in commerce and medicine, their existence in city centers and in extreme habitats of mountaintops and deserts, and their important place in folklore and the arts. She explains tree fundamentals and considers the symbolic role they have assumed in culture and religion. In a book that reawakens our sense of wonder at the fascinating world of trees, we ultimately find entry to the entire natural world and rediscover our own place in it.

Trees --- Social aspects. --- Religious aspects. --- Environmental aspects. --- activists. --- artists. --- biology. --- canopy biology. --- clergymen. --- commerce. --- cultural studies. --- culture. --- fauna. --- habitats. --- legal issues. --- legislation. --- life lessons. --- loggers. --- medicine. --- musicians. --- natural world. --- nature. --- religion. --- religious studies. --- science. --- scientific. --- students. --- symbolic. --- symbolism. --- tree animals. --- tree dwelling animals. --- trees. --- true story.

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Periods of transition are often symbolically associated with death, making the latter the paradigm of liminality. Yet, many volumes on death in the social sciences and humanities do not specifically address liminality. This book investigates these “ultimate ambiguities,” assuming they can pose a threat to social relationships because of the disintegrating forces of death, but they are also crucial periods of creativity, change, and emergent aspects of social and religious life. Contributors explore death and liminality from an interdisciplinary perspective and present a global range of historical and contemporary case studies outlining emotional, cognitive, artistic, social, and political implications.

Death --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Liminality --- Social aspects --- Religious aspects --- ancestors. --- anthropology. --- case studies. --- cemeteries. --- change. --- coming of age. --- creativity. --- death and dying. --- death. --- destiny. --- diplomacy. --- evolution. --- experiments. --- explore death. --- funeral. --- good and evil. --- hardship. --- humanity. --- interdisciplinary perspective. --- life and death. --- life changes. --- life lessons. --- liminality. --- political implications. --- psychology. --- realistic. --- religious life. --- revolutionaries. --- social relationships. --- social sciences. --- social. --- theoretical. --- tragedy. --- transition.

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The aftermath of graduate school can be particularly trying for those under pressure to publish their dissertations. Written with good cheer and jammed with information, this lively guide offers hard-to-find practical advice on successfully turning a dissertation into a book or journal articles that will appeal to publishers and readers. It will help prospective authors master writing and revision skills, better understand the publishing process, and increase their chances of getting their work into print. This edition features new tips and planning tables to facilitate project scheduling, and a new foreword by Sandford G. Thatcher, Director of Penn State University Press.

Dissertations, Academic. --- Academic writing. --- Scholarly publishing. --- Academic publishing --- Publishers and publishing --- Learned writing --- Scholarly writing --- Authorship --- Academic dissertations --- Programs, Academic --- Theses --- Thesis writing --- Universities and colleges --- Academic disputations --- Dissertations --- academia. --- academic journals. --- career advice. --- career. --- dissertation committee. --- editing and publishing. --- engaging. --- journal articles. --- learning to revise my work. --- life after grad school. --- life lessons. --- lively guide. --- phd program. --- practical advice. --- publishing my dissertation. --- publishing process. --- revision skills. --- school. --- students and teachers.

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Written for study abroad practitioners, this book introduces theoretical understandings of key study abroad terms including “the global/national,” “culture,” “native speaker,” “immersion,” and “host society.” Building theories on these notions with perspectives from cultural anthropology, political science, educational studies, linguistics, and narrative studies, it suggests ways to incorporate them in study abroad practices. Through attention to daily activities via the concept of immersion, it reframes study abroad not as an encounter with cultural others but as an occasion to analyze constructions of “differences” in daily life, backgrounded by structural arrangements.

Foreign study. --- Educational change. --- anthropology. --- college students. --- cultural anthropology. --- culture. --- education. --- educational studies. --- engaging. --- host society. --- immersion. --- immersive environment. --- learning in a new context. --- learning in another country. --- life changes. --- life lessons. --- linguistics. --- lively. --- meaningful travel. --- narrative studies. --- native speaker. --- political science. --- realistic. --- students and teachers. --- study abroad practices. --- study abroad practitioners. --- study abroad terms. --- study abroad. --- the global. --- the national. --- travel. --- undergraduate students. --- university students.

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Taking stock of a century of pervasive loss-of warfare, disease, and political strife-this eloquent book opens a new view on both the past and the future by considering "what is lost" in terms of "what remains." Such a perspective, these essays suggest, engages and reanimates history. Plumbing the cultural and political implications of loss, the authors--political theorists, film and literary critics, museum curators, feminists, psychoanalysts, and AIDS activists--expose the humane and productive possibilities in the workings of witness, memory, and melancholy. Among the sites of loss the authors revisit are slavery, apartheid, genocide, war, diaspora, migration, suicide, and disease. Their subjects range from the Irish Famine and the Ottoman slaughter of Armenians to the aftermath of the Vietnam War and apartheid in South Africa, problems of partial immigration and assimilation, AIDS, and the re-envisioning of leftist movements. In particular, Loss reveals how melancholia can lend meaning and force to notions of activism, ethics, and identity.

Social history --- Loss (Psychology) --- Psychic trauma --- Melancholy --- Melancholy in literature. --- Dejection --- Emotions --- Depression, Mental --- Sadness --- Emotional trauma --- Injuries, Psychic --- Psychic injuries --- Trauma, Emotional --- Trauma, Psychic --- Psychology, Pathological --- Psychology --- Social aspects. --- Social history - 20th century --- Loss (Psychology) - Social aspects --- Psychic trauma - Social aspects --- Melancholy - Social aspects --- Melancholy in literature --- aids. --- anthology. --- apartheid. --- culture of grief. --- diaspora. --- disease. --- ethics. --- feminists. --- film critics. --- genocide. --- grief. --- history. --- human condition. --- identity. --- irish famine. --- life lessons. --- literary critics. --- memory. --- migration. --- mourning. --- nonfiction essays. --- ottoman slaughter. --- overcoming loss. --- personal journey. --- political activists. --- political issues. --- political theorists. --- psychology of loss. --- realistic. --- slavery. --- social politics. --- suicide. --- tragic. --- vietnam war. --- warfare. --- witness.