1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464938503321

Autore

Sweeney Kate <1978->

Titolo

American afterlife : encounters in the customs of mourning / / Kate Sweeney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, Georgia : , : The University of Georgia Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8203-4689-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Disciplina

393

Soggetti

Funeral rites and ceremonies - United States

Mourning customs - United States

Undertakers and undertaking - United States

Electronic books.

United States Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1 American Ways of Death; CHAPTER 2 Gone, but Not Forgotten; DISMAL TRADE: Sarah Peacock, Memorial Tattoo Artist: Under the Skin; CHAPTER 3 The Cemetery's Cemetery; DISMAL TRADE: Kay Powell, Obituary Writer: The Doyenne Speaks; CHAPTER 4 The Last Great Obit Writers' Conference; CHAPTER 5 Give Me That Old-Time Green Burial; DISMAL TRADE: Oana Hogrefe, Memorial Photographer Memory Maker; CHAPTER 6 The House Where Death Lives; DISMAL TRADE: Lenette Hall, Owner, The Urngarden: The Business at the Back of the Closet; CHAPTER 7 With the Fishes

DISMAL TRADE: Anne Gordon, Funeral Chaplain: Funerals Are FunCHAPTER 8 Death by the Roadside; AFTERWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sommario/riassunto

Someone dies. What happens next?. One family inters their matriarch's ashes on the floor of the ocean. Another holds a memorial weenie roast each year at a greenburial cemetery. An 1898 ad for embalming fluid promises, ""You can make mummies with it!"" while a leading contemporary burial vault is touted as impervious to the elements. A grieving mother, 150 years ago, might spend her days tending a



garden at her daughter's grave. Today, she might tend the roadside memorial she erected at the spot her daughter was killed. One mother wears a locket containing her daughter's hair; the other, a nec

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910346906603321

Autore

Feofanov Alexey

Titolo

Experiments on flux qubits with pi-shifters

Pubbl/distr/stampa

KIT Scientific Publishing, 2011

ISBN

1000022237

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 110 p. p.)

Collana

Experimental Condensed Matter Physics / Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Physikalisches Institut

Soggetti

Physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The results of the research re-ported in this work show that tunable gap flux qubits have a potential for building quantum registers. Cavities coupled to flux qubits can be used for in-formation storage and transfer between qubits. SFS π-shifters provide a simple approach to bias multi-qubit circuits. A possibility to change the qubit resonance frequency while preserving qubit coherence enables implementation of switchable coupling between qubits and cavities.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910906192203321

Autore

Zajda Joseph

Titolo

Globalisation and Multicultural Education / / edited by Joseph Zajda, Suzanne Majhanovich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024

ISBN

9783031671371

3031671376

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 pages)

Collana

Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, , 2543-0572 ; ; 47

Altri autori (Persone)

MajhanovichSuzanne

Disciplina

370.117

Soggetti

International education

Comparative education

Education and state

Religion and culture

Educational sociology

Teaching

Social justice

International and Comparative Education

Educational Policy and Politics

Cross-cultural Studies

Sociology of Education

Pedagogy

Social Justice

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Globalisation and Cultural Identity: The Role of Intercultural Dialogue -- 2. The Evolution of Canadian Identity as reflected through the Ontario secondary school curriculum -- 3. Fostering Multiculturalism: Projects in an Ontario Schoolboard to promote inclusion and multicultural citizenship -- 4. Language ideologies and identities in Mexico: the case of return migrants studying in a public Mexican university -- 5. Human Rights Education and Social Cohesion in South Asia in times of COVID-19 -- 6. Intercultural preschools in Sweden:



Principals’ views on challenges and opportunities -- 7. Literacy and identity in cross-border educational space: Students’ lived experience in a Canadian offshore school in a metropolitan city in China -- 8. Emancipatory Knowledges Enhance Pluralism and Develop Social Responsibility among Tribal Youth in Balochistan -- 9. Multiculturalism in Literature as a Vehicle for Promoting Social Justice and Empowerment -- 10. Globalisations and multiculturalism: Research trends.

Sommario/riassunto

This book analyses dominant discourses of globalisation, multiculturalism and schooling. The chapters advance further the discussions on globalisation and its impact on cultural diversity and multiculturalism in a globalised world. Multicultural education, as presented in this volume, is seen in a broad context. It includes factors such as race, ethnicity, gender, socio-economic status, culture, age, and physical ability, as well as a variety of beliefs and values. Zajda has argued that globalisation represents a synthesis of technology, ideology, and organisation, specifically related to border crossings of people, global finance, trade, IT convergence, as well as cross-cultural communication. The reality of multiculturalism has been brought into stronger focus because of globalisation. Multiculturalism is more evident today because of globalisation. The book contributes in a very scholarly way, to a more holistic understanding of the nexus between globalisation and dominant models of multicultural education, and their impact on students’ engagement, and academic achievement.