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cover of A Book of Consolation: Seeing Our Quests for Love, Success, and Meaning in a New Light

A Book of Consolation

Seeing Our Quests for Love, Success, and Meaning in a New Light

Andrew Stark

University of Chicago Press, 2027

An invitation to rest in the mystery that there is no single route to fulfillment, but many—often contradictory, unpredictable, endlessly available.

Our lives are restless. Though we strive for meaning, we are often unfulfilled: our loves fail, our careers stall, and our purpose eludes us. We may temporarily ease our frustration by blaming our methods or embracing our limitations, and we may even embrace the self-defeating lie that we must discover the one linear path for success in love, work, or life. In A Book of Consolation, Andrew Stark offers a liberating third way between self-abandonment and complacency, revealed through a simple mystery: for each road where someone found fulfillment, someone else walked the opposite path to the same end.

Drawing on literature, popular culture, philosophy, and more, A Book of Consolation invites us to appreciate, even marvel at, the possibility that the routes to love, success, and meaning are so various that even inverse lives can satisfy us. Stark holds up a series of opposing journeys for consideration—from the contradictory loves in modern romantic comedies, to the regrets of Dolly Parton and Ernest Hemingway, to the mindsets behind Tiger Woods’s and Richard Nixon’s success. In juxtaposing these lives, Stark expands our sense of what counts as fulfillment and what alternatives may be available when our own paths falter. Rich in possibility but without prescription, A Book of Consolation encourages us to navigate the frustrations of our finitude by cultivating a faith that the paths to fulfillment are far more pluralized—and often more contradictory—than we know.

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Crow-Omaha

New Light on a Classic Problem of Kinship Analysis

Edited by Thomas R. Trautmann and Peter M. Whiteley

University of Arizona Press, 2012

The “Crow-Omaha problem” has perplexed anthropologists since it was first described by Lewis Henry Morgan in 1871. During his worldwide survey of kinship systems, Morgan learned with astonishment that some Native American societies call some relatives of different generations by the same terms. Why? Intergenerational “skewing” in what came to be named “Crow” and “Omaha” systems has provoked a wealth of anthropological arguments, from Rivers to Radcliffe-Brown, from Lowie to Lévi-Strauss, and many more. Crow-Omaha systems, it turns out, are both uncommon and yet found distributed around the world. For anthropologists, cracking the Crow-Omaha problem is critical to understanding how social systems transform from one type into another, both historically in particular settings and evolutionarily in the broader sweep of human relations.

This volume examines the Crow-Omaha problem from a variety of perspectives—historical, linguistic, formalist, structuralist, culturalist, evolutionary, and phylogenetic. It focuses on the regions where Crow-Omaha systems occur: Native North America, Amazonia, West Africa, Northeast and East Africa, aboriginal Australia, northeast India, and the Tibeto-Burman area. The international roster of authors includes leading experts in their fields.

The book offers a state-of-the-art assessment of Crow-Omaha kinship and carries forward the work of the landmark volume Transformations of Kinship, published in 1998. Intended for students and scholars alike, it is composed of brief, accessible chapters that respect the complexity of the ideas while presenting them clearly. The work serves as both a new benchmark in the explanation of kinship systems and an introduction to kinship studies for a new generation of students.

Series Note: Formerly titled Amerind Studies in Archaeology, this series has recently been expanded and retitled Amerind Studies in Anthropology to incorporate a high quality and number of anthropology titles coming in to the series in addition to those in archaeology.
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The Ethical Engineer

An "Ethics Construction Kit" Places Engineering in a New Light

Eugene Schlossberger

Temple University Press, 1993

On occasion, professionals need to use moral reasoning as well as engineering skills to function effectively in their occupation. Eugene Schlossberger has created a practical guide to ethical decision-making for engineers, students, and workers in business and industry.

The Ethical Engineer sets out the tools and materials essential to dealing with whistle-blowing, environmental and safety concerns, bidding, confidentiality, conflict of interest, sales ethics, advertising, employer-employee relations, when to fight a battle, and when to break the rules.

The author offers recommendations and techniques as well as rules, principles, and values that can guide the reader. Lively examples, engaging anecdotes, witty comments, and well-reasoned analysis prove his conviction that "ethics is good business."

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