Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community By Margo DeMello
2000 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0822324326 | PDF | 31 MB
Since the 1980s, tattooing has emerged anew in the United States as a widely appealing cultural, artistic, and social form. In Bodies of Inscription Margo DeMello explains how elite tattooists, magazine editors, and leaders of tattoo organizations have downplayed the working-class roots of tattooing in order to make it more palatable for middle-class consumption. She shows how a completely new set of meanings derived primarily from non-Western cultures has been created to give tattoos an exotic, primitive flavor. Community publications, tattoo conventions, articles in popular magazines, and DeMello's numerous interviews illustrate the interplay between class, culture, and history that orchestrated a shift from traditional Americana and biker tattoos to new forms using Celtic, tribal, and Japanese images. DeMello's extensive interviews reveal the divergent yet overlapping communities formed by this class-based, American-style repackaging of the tattoo. After describing how the tattoo has moved from a mark of patriotism or rebellion to a symbol of exploration and status, the author returns to the predominantly middle-class movement that celebrates its skin art as spiritual, poetic, and self-empowering. Recognizing that the term "community" cannot capture the variations and class conflict that continue to thrive within the larger tattoo culture, DeMello finds in the discourse of tattooed people and their artists a new and particular sense of community and explores the unexpected relationship between this discourse and that of other social movements. This ethnography of tattooing in America makes a substantive contribution to the history of tattooing in addition to relating how communities form around particular traditions and how the traditions themselves change with the introduction of new participants. Bodies of Inscription will have broad appeal and will be enjoyed by readers interested in cultural studies, American studies, sociology, popular culture, and body art.

Bobbie Kalman, "Insect Bodies"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0778723747, 0778723402 | PDF | pages: 32 | 4.1 mb
There are more than a million species of insects living on Earth, and all insects have similar bodies. In Insect Bodies, children will learn the major physical features of insects and the importance of each body part. Close-up photographs and clearly labeled illustrations help explain - an insect's three main body sections - the different kinds of insect mouthparts - how insects use their eyes and antennae - why and how insects molt as they grow - how insects move Teacher's guide available.

Composing Media Composing Embodiment: Bodies, technologies, writing, the teaching of writing By Kristin L Arola (editor), Anne Wysocki (editor)
2012 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0874218802 | PDF | 3 MB
"What any body is-and is able to do-cannot be disentangled from the media we use to consume and produce texts." ---from the Introduction.Kristin Arola and Anne Wysocki argue that composing in new media is composing the body-is embodiment. In Composing (Media) = Composing (Embodiment), they havebrought together a powerful set of essays that agree on the need for compositionists-and their students-to engage with a wide range of new media texts. These chapters explore how texts of all varieties mediate and thereby contribute to the human experiences of communication, of self, the body, and composing. Sample assignments and activities exemplify how this exploration might proceed in the writing classroom.Contributors here articulate ways to understand how writing enables the experience of our bodies as selves, and at the same time to see the work of (our) writing in mediating selves to make them accessible to institutional perceptions and constraints. These writers argue that what a body does, and can do, cannot be disentangled from the media we use, nor from the times and cultures and technologies with which we engage. To the discipline of composition, this is an important discussion because it clarifies the impact/s of literacy on citizens, freedoms, and societies. To the classroom, it is important because it helps compositionists to support their students as they enact, learn, and reflect upon their own embodied and embodying writing.

Michael Ian Black, "Navel Gazing: True Tales of Bodies, Mostly Mine"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1476748829, 1476748837 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 1.9 mb
New York Times bestselling author and stand-up comedian Michael Ian Black (author of A Child's First Book of Trump) delivers a "memorable and funny" (Kirkus Reviews) memoir about confronting his genetic legacy as he hits his forties.

Royce Mahawatte, "Dangerous Bodies: New Global Perspectives on Fashion and Transgression "
English | ISBN: 3031062078 | 2023 | 251 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This edited book brings together new perspectives on fashion, the body, and politics. The intention of this collection is to explore the cultural intersection between bodies, fashion, and transgression, often in the most unlikely of locations. Bodies are political players in culture and the authors gathered here ask a range of pressing questions. What role do fashioned bodies play in resistance, in meeting governmental boundaries or institutional power? Arguably, fashion is an aspect of modern warfare and style can defend and attack in cultural space. So, how do fashioned bodies occupy the grey area between social control and the resistance to power? This book is interdisciplinary and international, with contributors situated within a broad range of disciplines including Art History and Critical Practice, Cultural Studies, Fashion Critical Studies, Film and Literary Studies, Performance Studies, Politics and International Studies, Sociology, Gender, Queer, LGBTI, and Critical Race Studies.

Incorruptible Bodies: Christology, Society, and Authority in Late Antiquity (Christianity in Late Antiquity) by Yonatan Moss
English | May 3, 2016 | ISBN: 0520289994 | True EPUB | 264 pages | 1.8 MB
In the early sixth-century eastern Roman empire, anti-Chalcedonian leaders Severus of Antioch and Julian of Halicarnassus debated the nature of Jesus's body: Was it corruptible prior to its resurrection from the dead?

Dinty W. Moore, "Bodies of Truth: Personal Narratives on Illness, Disability, and Medicine"
English | ISBN: 1496203607 | 2019 | 210 pages | PDF | 3 MB
2019 Foreword INDIES Award, Gold for Anthologies

David Bell, Pleasure Zones Jon Binnie, Pleasure Zones Ruth Holliday, "Pleasure Zones: Bodies, Cities, Spaces (Space, Place, and Society"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0815628978, 0815628986 | PDF | pages: 167 | 2.9 mb
The essays collected in this volume apply queer theory in a consideration of the human body as a vehicle for understanding relationships between people and place. The book examines the body as an entity constructed by gender, sexuality, race, class, nationality and disability.

José A. Sánchez, "The Bodies of Others: Essays on Ethics and Representation "
English | ISBN: 1350250627 | 2022 | 240 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Available in English for the first time, The Bodies of Others investigates, through a series of close readings of several theatrical and film productions in Europe and South America, the relationship between "representation" (including theatrical representation) and ethics (defined as an ongoing relational negotiation, as opposed to a set of universal moral laws).

Inclusion Bodies
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1071629298 | 501 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 24 MB
This detailed volume presents a series of protocols dealing with different aspects of inclusion body (IB) processing, from cloning procedures to purification of refolded product. Commencing with chapters on upstream processing, looking into different expression strategies for IB production, the book continues with downstream applications, highlighting early protein purification and subsequent analytics, as well as success stories of IB-based processes. Written for the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step and readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.