Letter from James Winthrop to William Bentley, 1783 January 27

Two octavo-sized leaves containing a one-page handwritten letter from Winthrop to Bentley containing cryptic gossip regarding an upcoming election of Winthrop and the claim of a "certain clergyman."

Memories and portraits,

Author's edition.

Birds and man,

Printed in Great Britain.

Essays :

Ordered south (1874) -- On the enjoyment of unpleasant places (1874) -- Walking tours (1876) -- Virginibus puerisque. -- An apology for idlers (1877) -- Æs triplex (1878) -- Walt Whitman (1878) -- Crabbed age and youth (1878) -- Henry David Thoreau (1880) -- Samuel Pepys (1881) -- Talk and talkers (1882) -- A gossip on romance (1882) -- The character of dogs (1883) -- A note on realism (1883) -- A humble remonstrance (1884) -- Old mortality (1884) -- The manse (1887) -- A college magazine (1887) -- Books which have influenced me (1887) -- The lantern bearers (1888) -- Pulvis et umbra (1888)

Book notes.

Consisting of literary gossip, criticisms of books and local historical matters connected with Rhode Island.

Tales of a physician.

The victim.--The curate.--The gossip.--The fate of a genius.--Disappointments.--The neglected wife.--The Jew.--The stranger guest.--The smuggler.

Knowledge.

Subtitle varies.

A harmony of the essays, etc. of Francis Bacon.

Prologue [on the essay] Dr. Rawley's life of Lord Bacon. Ben Jonson's testimony. Aubrey's gossip. Introduction. Contemporary bibliography. Later bibliography. Lists of texts comprised in this harmony.--I. A harmony of the first group of ten essays.--II. Meditiations sacræ.--III. Of the colours of good and evil.--IV. A harmony of the second group of twenty-four essays.--V. A harmony of the third group of six essays.--VI. A harmony of the fourth group of eighteen essays.--VII. The fragment of an essay, Of fame.--Additional notes.

Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson;

"The text of the following essays is taken from the Thistle ed. of Stevenson's works, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, in New York."--Pref.

The complete chess-guide,

Each part has been published separately.

The chess pocket manual; a pocket-guide for beginners and advanced players.

Mode of access: Internet.

Theory of the chess openings.

Mode of access: Internet.

Management are aliens! Rumors and stress during organizational change

Rumors collected from a large public hospital undergoing change were content analyzed, and a typology comprising the following five broad types of change-related rumors was developed: rumors about changes to job and working conditions, nature of organizational change, poor change management, consequences of the change for organizational performance, and gossip-rumors. Rumors were also classified as positive or negative on the basis of their content. As predicted, negative rumors were more prevalent than positive rumors. Finally, employees reporting negative rumors also reported more change-related stress as compared to those who reported positive rumors and those who did not report any rumors. The authors propose that rumors be treated as verbal symbols and expressions of employee concerns during organizational change.

Boundary maintenance in Qatar: Interpretation of domination, segregation and subordination

This study explores the interaction of expatriates in Qatar and their perception of their subordination. The study design included participant observation in an all female University and University housing as well as interviews with Qatari government agencies and ministries, expatriate embassies and expatriates. Semi-structured interviews were conducted across seven expatriate groups: domestic workers, unskilled laborers, semiskilled, professionals, housewives, second-generation expatriates with host country other than Qatar, second-generation expatriates with host country Qatar, and Gulf Cooperation Council citizens. Forty-two subjects completed the interview schedule while 87 interviews were incomplete. ^ Physical control of expatriates occurs through the Gulf practice of sponsorship (The Kafeel System), and local cultural and Islamic related controls intertwined with the Arab Code of honor. Interviews and observations revealed rankings of Arabs and foreigners which emphasize Qatari superiority such as tribal identity, moral ranking of female groups by dress, legal protection and power, sexual consideration and desexualization and salaries and job opportunities based on nationality and ethnicity. Individuals who desire to transcend boundaries into the Qatari realm through citizenship or marriage view Qataris as possessing the “image of the unlimited good” and have acquired Qatari social and cultural capital. Members from all expatriate groups engaged in various forms of resistance to labor and gender domination which ranged from forms of “exit,” expressing a hidden transcript in the privacy of their own group, disguised resistance in public, and occasionally, direct confrontation with the Qatari. Although the legal arena created the appearance that worker's needs were being addressed, laborers engaged in forms of “exit” to escape their oppression. Omani students in the hostel disguised their resistance by spreading gossip, nick-naming homosexual Qatari students at the University, acting out a skit depicting their exclusion from Qatari privilege, spreading rumors of impending freedom, and singing songs of despair in the courtyard. Other sites of resistance were expatriate embassies, the road, the newspaper and technology. This study emphasizes that blaming oppression of the expatriate worker on globalization is a simplistic view of oppression in the Gulf, and ignores complex issues within Qatari society and other Gulf States. Sponsorship, servitude, and gender segregation intersect in Qatar to create a system of segregation and domination of expatriates. ^

"Vender as carnes": prostituição no litoral norte paraibano

This thesis aims to contribute to reflections on female prostitution in the Paraíba`s North Coast in specific regions of the Baía da Traição and Indian villages Potiguara constant cultural flow region between indigenous and non-indigenous. Within this hemisphere intend to analyze the transits, the body boundaries, sexuality, identity and ethnic category as central to understanding of prostitution practices inaugurate the possibility to study the gender and blurred places, border, mixed. Specifically, I discuss the experience of articulated gender border between urban and rural, indigenous and non-indigenous, to show and hide, visible and not visible. Analyze the social relations among women who prostitute themselves and the community they inhabit, mobility, economic and symbolic exchanges, conflicts and situations of violence, since the social environment is permeated by these dimensions and the way these women includes complex situations and individuals. Analyze the ethnic and flow of people and relationships that are built differently inside and outside the indigenous community, such as women who prostitute themselves build their indigenous and prostitutes identities. Analyze this mobility in prostitution relationships and the reason for this mobility, indigenous women prostitutes avoid this practice in the indigenous area in order to protect their identities because the community is small, there is the fear on the probability of gossip and malaise in the community. However, the region is characterized as a heterogeneous whole, requiring a procedural analysis to cover the whole specificity of these practices in the covered area.