Both scholarly and readable, "The Unseen Elderly" provides a fascinating study of elderly persons who live in the marginal social and economic environments of single-room occupancy hotels in America's inner cities. Urban anthropologist J. Kevin Eckert lived and worked in such hotels in the redeveloping area of downtown San Diego for over a year while he conducted this unique examination of the lives, values, norms, and special problems of the elderly residents and persons with whom they interacted. This book gives new information and fresh insight into the lives of a little studied category of the elderly and a unique perspective on the total environment of the downtown area of a major city. Originally published in 1980.

The Unseen Elderly: A Study of Marginally Subsistent Hotel Dwellers

J Kevin Eckert

Science & Math

San Diego State Univ

Noam Chomsky uses the historical background and nature of cognitive psychology to enable us to better understand several important problems of human thought and perception and the interrelationship of the body and the mind. Noam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania and began teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1955. Widely published, he's considered a father of modern linguistics. Chomsky spoke out against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and has continued to publically criticize U.S. foreign policy. American theoretical linguist whose work from the 1950s revolutionized the field of linguistics by treating language as a uniquely human, biologically based cognitive capacity. Through his contributions to linguistics and related fields, including cognitive psychology and the philosophies of mind and language, Chomsky helped to initiate and sustain what came to be known as the "cognitive revolution." Chomsky also gained a worldwide following as a political dissident for his analyses of the pernicious influence of economic elites on U.S. domestic politics, foreign policy, and intellectual culture.

Modular Approaches to the Study of the Mind

CHOMSKY, Noam.

Behavioral Sciences

Minority Aging and Long Term Care

Borderlands literature : towards an integrated perspective = Encuentro internacional de la literatura de la frontera / edited by Harry Polkinhorn, José Manuel Di Bella, Rogelio Reyes; Publisher San Diego : Institute for Regional Studies of the Californias, San Diego State University ; Mexicali, B.C. : XIII Ayuntamiento de Mexicali, 1990; Descript'n x, 338 p. ; 22 cm; Note(s) English or Spanish; Subject(s) American literature -- Mexican-American Border Region; Mexican literature -- Mexican-American Border Region; American literature -- 20th century; Mexican literature -- 20th century

Encuentro Internacional De Literature De LA Frontera, Borderlands Literature, Towards an Integrated Perspective (Spanish and English Edition)

Literature & Fiction

United States

San Diego Tijuana in Transition: A Regional Analysis

The body is in pain. The collective body is in agony. As much as the isolated inner cities, as much as U. S. foreign policy, as much as institutionalized voodoo economics, it is the flesh and blood body which is a site of oppression and potential rebellion in the United States. Consider this image recalled by Dennis Barrie, director of the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati. One day in 1990, while the Center was displaying Robert Mapplethorpe's "The Perfect Moment," about forty uniformed police officers walked into the Center and forcibly removed the patrons simply because they were looking at Mapplethorpe's photos. It is that image, Barrie says, "that's going to haunt me for the rest of my life. Because that isn't our country, or it shouldn't be our country."

Fiction International 22: Pornography & Censorship

Joyce Carol Oates

et.al.

Samuel R. Delany

Robert, Coover

Kathy Acker

Harold Jaffe

Edith, Wharton

Raymond Federman

Ronald Sukenik

Contemporary

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