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Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, ed. Arlene Shechet: Blow by blow. Saratoga Springs, NY: Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, 2010.

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1974-, Sykes Tom, ed. Blow by Blow: The story of Isabella Blow. London: HarperCollins, 2011.

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Blow, Detmar. Blow by Blow: The story of Isabella Blow. New York: It Books, 2010.

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Oxford, Modern Art, and Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, eds. A blow by blow account of stonecarving in Oxford. Oxford]: Modern Art Oxford, 2014.

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Eggleton, B. Blow by blow: A history of Shrewton Silver Band. Shrewton: Shrewton Silver Band, 1999.

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Beaten by a blow: A shearer's story. Camberwell, Vic: Penguin, 2009.

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McIntosh, Dennis. Beaten by a blow: A shearer's story. Camberwell, Vic: Penguin, 2009.

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Gill, Ranjit. Anwar Ibrahim, Mahathir's dilemma: A blow-by blow account of the sacking of Anwar Ibrahim as Deputy Prime Minister, his dismissal from UMNO, and the launch of his reform movement. Singapore: Epic Management Services, 1998.

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Paglia, Camille. Break, blow, burn. New York: Pantheon Books, 2005.

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Break, blow, burn. New York: Pantheon Books, 2005.

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Robbins, D. V. Embarrassed by the light: A terminal-death experience : when the white light at the end of the tunnel is Jimmy Hoffa wielding a blow torch, yipes! Virginia Beach: Raven House, 1995.

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Richard, Brautigan, ed. Revenge of the lawn: The abortion ; So the wind won't blow it all away. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.

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Walker, Keith Thomas. Blow by Blow. KeithWalkerBooks, 2019.

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Demme, Ted. Blow by Blow. Vision On Publishing, 2001.

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McIntosh, Dennis. Beaten by a Blow: A Shearer's Story. Viking, 2008.

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Blow, Steve. Blow by Blow : A Collection of Steve Blow's Award-Winning Columns from The Dallas Morning News. Three Forks Press, 2000.

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The golden age of boxing on radio and television: A blow-by-blow history from 1921-1964. Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2017.

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Spragg, Iain. The Reduced History of Sex: The Blow-by-Blow Story of Fleshly Delights Squeezed into 101 Steamy Encounters. Andre Deutsch, 2008.

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USA, Blow Buddies, ed. What's the risk of cocksucking?: A compilation of recent articles published by Blow Buddies. San Francisco, Calif: Blow Buddies USA, 1989.

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What Not to Do at Work! (Don't Blow Your Big Break By Breaching Workplace Etiquette.). Sweet Water Press, 2005.

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Kramer, Anne. Learn How to Blow Glass: Glass Blowing Techniques, Step by Step Instructions, Necessary Tools and Equipment. Psylon Press, 2010.

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Blow Off. Oberon Books, Limited, 2016.

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M, Blow D., Fersht Alan, Winter G, and Royal Society, eds. Design, construction and properties of novel protein molecules: A discussion organized and edited by D. M. Blow, A. R. Fersht, and G. Winter. London: The Royal Society, 1986.

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Ayyar, R. V. Vaidyanatha. Restoration. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199474943.003.0013.

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This chapter describes the policy initiatives undertaken in school education during the second stint of Arjun Singh as Minister, MHRD, which was a continuation of the political offensive against the BJP during his first stint. It outlines the work of the CABE Committee on textbooks used in all types of schools including schools run by religious and social organizations. It critiques the National Curricular Framework (NCF), 2005, and describes the criticism that NCF elicited from historians of the Marxist-Secular school who were hitherto allies of Arjun Singh. It describes the controversy generated by cartoons a NCERT textbook prepared after NCF, 2005, particularly a cartoon on Ambedkar. It gives a blow-by-blow account of the development of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Elementary Education (RTE) Bill, and highlights the competing conceptualizations of the Bill as well as the politics underlying that policy development.
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Parker, Philip M. The 2007-2012 World Outlook for Processing New or Recycled Plastics Resins into Intermediate or Final Products by Casting or Compression, Extrusion, Injection, or Blow Molding. ICON Group International, Inc., 2006.

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The 2006-2011 World Outlook for Processing New or Recycled Plastics Resins into Intermediate or Final Products by Casting or Compression, Extrusion, Injection, or Blow Molding. Icon Group International, Inc., 2005.

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Evans, Daisy. Artisan Bread: A Complete Beginner's Cookbook for Delicious Homemade Bread. Bake Loaves, Baguettes, Bagels, and Pizza with Easy, Step-By-Step Recipes That Will Blow Your Mind! Independently Published, 2020.

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Kim, Sungmoon. State Coercion and Criminal Punishment. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190671235.003.0005.

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This chapter proposes a novel normative framework for criminal punishment, called the value theory of criminal punishment, as an alternative to desert-based retributivism. Contrary to retributivists who see criminal desert as pre-social and purely individualistic, the value theory understands it as embedded in communal values and social norms, and thus sees crime not in virtue of its pre-socially evaluated wrongness but in terms of a “normative blow” to the political community undergirded by such values and norms. In the Confucian society in particular, a normative blow to the community complexly implicates both the wrongdoer and the victim, as they are thought to exist not as independent rights-bearing individuals but as quasi-family members of the community. The chapter then singles out family crimes as the gravest moral violation in a Confucian society and justifies enhanced punishment for them from the perspective of the Confucian value theory.
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Allen, Nicholas, and John Bartle, eds. None past the post. Manchester University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526133281.001.0001.

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This book tells the story of the unexpected 2017 British general election and its equally unexpected outcome: the Conservatives’ loss of their parliamentary majority and Theresa May’s return at the head of a minority government. As with previous volumes in the Britain at the polls series, it provides readers with a series of interpretations of the election and expert accounts of the major political parties, including their responses to the 2016 Brexit referendum. Again in keeping with previous volumes, the book does not seek to provide a blow-by-blow account of the 2017 election campaign, nor does it seek to provide a detailed survey-based account of voting behaviour. Instead, it offers readers a broad analysis of recent political, economic and social developments and assesses their impact on the election outcome. It also addresses questions about the state of the political parties and the party system in the wake of the election, and reflects on the future of British electoral and party politics.
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Stanley-Mallett, Keith, and Elizabeth Stanley-Mallett. So Blow the Winds: A Few Late Words. Stockwell Limited, Arthur H., 2019.

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Kartomi, Margaret. “Only if a Man Can Kill a Buffalo With One Blow Can He Play a Rapa’I Pasè”. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036712.003.0013.

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This chapter examines how the ergology and morphology of the variants of the rapa'i Pasè, the largest kind of frame drum in Aceh, relate to its performance practice, the genres in which it is used, the cultural memory, and the sense of Acehnese cultural identity among its makers, performers, and audiences. The rapa'i Pasè was traditionally played in ensembles with the singing of improvised texts at lifecycle and religious feasts and in intervillage competitions. It is said that only a man who can kill a buffalo with one sharp blow can play a rapa'i Pasè. This chapter first considers the defining and distinctive elements of Acehnese identity in its connection to rapa'i before discussing the loss of thousands of rapa'i Pasè during Aceh's armed conflict of 1976–2005. It also describes the attempts by Indonesian governments to appropriate, secularize, and aestheticize rapa'i and other forms of the traditional arts, as well as the various elite and nonelite views of identity.
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Ayyar, R. V. Vaidyanatha. The Mikado and the Shogun (P.V. Narasimha Rao and Arjun Singh). Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199474943.003.0006.

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This chapter describes the personality and politics of Arjun Singh who was Minister of MHRD for about nine years in two spells (1991–95 and 2004–9), and left a deep imprint on Indian education policies. It also describes the developments during 1991–6, a watershed in Indian economic and political history which among others marked the end of Nehruvian era and the unquestioned sway of hegemony of the liberal-left ideas about nationalism, identity, and secularism which were regnant from Independence. It outlines how Arjun Singh built his political career around a fiery commitment to secularism, leftist economic ideology, and social justice, and how that commitment served him well in his battles with political rivals including the Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao. It also outlines Arjun Singh’s strategic use of MHRD to cultivate ‘progressive’ intellectuals, and further his political agenda. It elaborates the conceptual underpinnings of the perennial controversy about school history books, and offers a blow by blow account of the controversy during period 1967–1996 which includes the reign of Indira Gandhi, Janata Party, and P.V. Narasimha Rao.
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Blockley, David. 4. Understanding structure. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199671939.003.0004.

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‘Understanding structure’ considers the science of how structures work. How do structures resist all of the demands made on them by forces of self-weight, people moving about, or wind that may blow a hurricane? These forces have to ‘flow-though’ the components of the structure. Some simple structures are statically determinate so the internal forces can be calculated by just making sure all of the forces are in equilibrium. More complex structures have too many unknowns to be solved this way—they are statically indeterminate. The internal forces in these structures are found by satisfying the three conditions of equilibrium, constitutive relations, and compatibility of displacements when the total potential is a minimum.
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Goggin, Claire. Principles of Effective Intervention with Incarcerated Offenders. Edited by John Wooldredge and Paula Smith. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199948154.013.20.

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This essay summarizes the literature regarding the principles of effective correctional programming-offender risk, needs, and responsivity (RNR)-and the contribution of these principles to establishing “what works” in correctional rehabilitation. Origins of the rehabilitative ideal are reviewed, followed by its progress through the 1960s and 1970s, including the near-fatal blow dealt by Martinson in the mid-1970s. The research response to Martinson is discussed in conjunction with the role of meta-analyses in resuscitating the rehabilitative ideal and developing the RNR principles. Issues surrounding effective prison treatment programs are presented followed by descriptions of several exemplary institutional treatment programs currently in use. Next steps for research and practice in the area are also reviewed.
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Party, Workers', ed. Results of a survey concerning the detrimental effects of Windsor Park on the lives of local residents - in particular, the problems of smoke blow-down, caused by erection of the New Stand in 1984. Belfast: South Belfast Branch of Workers' Party, 1989.

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Lorence, James J. The Web of Consequences. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037559.003.0009.

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This chapter examines how Jencks' experiences after being cut loose from Mine-Mill only confirmed the worldview that had shaped his career as a social activist since his college years. Now, although he no longer had ties with the institutional party, he never gave up his commitment to the goal of creating a Socialist society in the United States. Even after he and Virginia were shaken by the brutality of the Soviets in Eastern Europe, Jencks looked to the future. However, his optimism suffered another blow in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he continued to face job discrimination rooted in his personal history of labor militancy and resistance to governmental pressures.
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Ferguson, Gillum. Headwinds. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036743.003.0010.

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This chapter explores how the loss of Prairie du Chien dealt a heavy blow at the British stronghold on Mackinac Island. Construction of Fort Shelby threatened the route by which the British supplied their Indian allies on the Mississippi. Supplies could still be distributed at Green Bay, Chicago, but for western tribes such as the Sioux and the Sauk, the Wisconsin River route was essential. Even to supply his own soldiers with food proved a constant struggle for the British commandant at Mackinac, and the constant throng of hungry allied Indians, usually accompanied by their families, often forced him to choose between depriving his own troops and alienating the Indians. The other danger threatening Mackinac was an American task force gathering under the command of Colonel George Croghan to retake the island.
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Callaghan, Helen. Britain. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198815020.003.0003.

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Chapters 3, 4, and 5 examine empirically why markets for corporate control expanded even though incumbents resisted exposure to competition. The British case, presented in Chapter 3, illustrates the doubly self-reinforcing feedback effects of market-enabling takeover rules. Even in Britain, rules conducive to takeover bids did not emerge until after World War II. The first regulatory blow to the entrenched position of corporate insiders was dealt not by shareholder-oriented market liberals, but by stakeholder-oriented parties to their left. Marketization was an unintended side-effect eagerly snatched up by incumbents’ symbionts, namely merchant banks, who abandoned their former allies to become profiteers. Marketization gathered speed not only because the pro-market clienteles grew, but also because opposition waned as competition intensified. I attribute this to feedback effects of marketization on the power resources, attitudes, and behavior of politically relevant groups, including institutional investors, bankers, managers, and trade unions.
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Tretkoff, Paula. Existence of Ball Quotients Covering Line Arrangements. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691144771.003.0007.

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This chapter justifies the assumption that ball quotients covering line arrangements exist. It begins with the general case on the existence of finite covers by ball quotients of weighted configurations, focusing on log-canonical divisors and Euler numbers reflecting the weight data on divisors on the blow-up X of P2 at the singular points of a line arrangement. It then uses the Kähler-Einstein property to prove an inequality between Chern forms that, when integrated, gives the appropriate Miyaoka-Yau inequality. It also discusses orbifolds and b-spaces, weighted line arrangements, the problem of the existence of ball quotient finite coverings, log-terminal singularity and log-canonical singularity, and the proof of the main existence theorem for line arrangements. Finally, it considers the isotropy subgroups of the covering group.
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Pilmis, Olivier. Escaping the Reality Test. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198820802.003.0006.

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Economic crises regularly give rise to criticisms of economists and forecasters for having failed to blow the whistle. Forecasters’ efforts to deal with ‘errors’ and events that contradict their predictions show analogies between forecasting and magic as analysed by Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss in the early twentieth century. The way forecasters depict the process of forecast production pinpoints three different sets of explanations for errors that together seek to discard ‘reality’ (‘what actually happened’) as a relevant criterion for judging forecasts (‘what had been predicted’). Forecasters argue that the ontological indeterminacy of economies and the presence of unanticipated shocks absolve them from blame; they emphasize the value of identifying causal narratives and scenarios even when point forecasts are wrong; and they stress the importance of adhering to professional methods or rituals.
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Morrell, Kit. The equites and the extortion law. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198755142.003.0006.

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This chapter examines the aftermath of Marcus Crassus’ defeat in Parthia in 53. The Parthian threat was real, as was the defence response, but there was no move to avenge Crassus in these years. Instead, Rome disowned Crassus’ aggressive campaign while embracing principles of ethical governance long advocated by Pompey and Cato. The blow to Rome’s military supremacy, combined with endemic misgovernment, created the threat of rebellion within Roman provinces; we therefore find Cicero, Gaius Cassius, Marcus Bibulus, and others striving not only to defend against Parthian attack but also to secure the loyalty of the allies by means of fair and upright governance. In this way, Crassus’ defeat provided the catalyst for an ongoing programme of provincial reform. Another product was the senatus consultum of 53, passed probably with Cato’s backing, which became the lex Pompeia de provinciis of 52 (the subject of chapter 7).
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Allen, John L. The Catholic Church. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780199379804.001.0001.

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Roman Catholicism stands at a crossroads, a classic ''best of times, worst of times'' moment. On the one hand, the Catholic Church remains by far the largest branch of the worldwide Christian family, and is growing at a remarkable clip. Yet the Church has also been rocked by a series of scandals related to the sexual abuse of minors by clergy, and, even more devastating, the cover-up by the Church hierarchy. The decade-long crisis has taken a massive financial toll, but the blow to both the internal morale and the external moral standing of the Church has been even steeper. Today, the Church has enormous residual strength and exciting future prospects, but also faces steep internal and external challenges. The question of ''whither Catholicism'' is of vital public relevance, for believers and non-believers alike. In The Catholic Church: What Everyone Needs to Know, John L. Allen, Jr., one of the world's leading authorities on the Vatican, offers an authoritative and accessible guide to the past, present, and future of the Church. This updated edition includes a new chapter on the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, the election of Pope Francis, and his extraordinary tenure thus far.
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Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems. Vintage, 2006.

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Feldmann, Doug, and Mike Ditka. A View from Two Benches. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501749988.001.0001.

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Bob Thomas got his start in football at the University of Notre Dame, kicking for the famed “Fighting Irish” in the early 1970s. Claimed off waivers by the Chicago Bears in 1975, Thomas helped to take the franchise from their darkest days to their brightest. Yet, on the cusp of the team's greatest moment, he was struck with a shocking blow that challenged his fortitude. This dramatic retelling of Bob Thomas's fascinating life, shows how neither football nor the law was part of Thomas's dreams while growing up the son of Italian immigrants in Rochester, New York, in the 1960s. Chasing excellence on both the gridiron and in the courtroom, however, would require resilience in ways he could not have imagined. As the book shows us, Bob Thomas reached the top of two separate and distinct professions, guided by a bedrock of faith that has impacted his decisions and actions as both a football player and a judge, helping him navigate the peaks and valleys of life. As the book reveals, Bob Thomas has always stayed true to the values he learned in his earliest days. The book shows us that determination and resilience go a long way to a successful and impactful life.
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Pomerance, Murray. Cinema, If You Please. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474428682.001.0001.

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Cinema is a prime example of contemporary experience. However, film viewers seem infrequently to express their engagement with this experience in terms of rapt pleasure or plain delight. This book seeks to move beyond the purely rational language of meaning and “interest,” to regard some examples of cinematic work with the sort of pleasured rapture in which people partook in certain eighteenth century experiences of the aesthetic. In-depth analysis of sequences from Vertigo, A Matter of Life and Death, Clouds of Sils Maria, Personal Shopper, Blow-up, and many other films, urges readers to think and move beyond narrative storytelling; beyond contemporary cultural relevance; beyond moral and political stricture; and into a serious consideration of what it is to be “swept away” by a film. A guiding principle of this text is that new light can be thrown on beloved films by consideration of certain culturally established ways of achieving aesthetic delight that took form in or around the eighteenth century, including but not limited to: viewing Dutch oil paintings; listening to the music of Mozart; strolling through the English Pleasure Garden and public promenade, and reading of the voyages of Captain James Cook. Such socially organized pleasures are cast as historical foundations from which we might draw a better understanding of the pleasure and delight filmic moments can offer.
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Metcalf, Allan. The Life of Guy. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190669201.001.0001.

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This book is about the name “Guy” and its slow, mostly unnoticed development over four centuries since it began on November 5, 1605, with the suddenly famous Guy Fawkes, who was arrested just in time just before he could light the fuse on 36 barrels of gunpowder to blow up the House of Lords. During those four centuries, “Guy” became “guy,” the name for an effigy of Guy Fawkes burned at bonfires every November 5 since. The effigy was called a “guy,” so that more than one effigy would be “guys,” Then, slowly, “guy” extended its signification into a name for a ragged, lower-class male, then any strangely dressed male, then a neutral everyday word for just any male, a “guy.” To top it off, the 20th century extended the plural “guys” or “you guys” to include all human beings, even women speaking to groups of women. None of these developments were made deliberately; the word just quietly slipped by, except for opposition from some Southerners and feminists who objected to it on the grounds that it wasn’t “y’all” and it wasn’t gender neutral. It has become all the more entrenched because now it’s the standard second-person plural pronoun for most of us who speak English.
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Judah, Tim. Kosovo. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780195376739.001.0001.

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On February 17, 2008, Kosovo declared its independence, becoming the seventh state to emerge from the break-up of the former Yugoslavia. A tiny country of just two million people, 90% of whom are ethnic Albanians, Kosovo is central - geographically, historically, and politically - to the future of the Western Balkans and, in turn, its potential future within the European Union. But the fate of both Kosovo, condemned by Serbian leaders as a “fake state” and the region as a whole, remains uncertain. In Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know, Tim Judah provides a straight-forward guide to the complicated place that is Kosovo. Judah, who has spent years covering the region, offers succinct, penetrating answers to a wide range of questions: Why is Kosovo important? Who are the Albanians? Who are the Serbs? Why is Kosovo so important to Serbs? What role does Kosovo play in the region and in the world? Judah reveals how things stand now and presents the history and geopolitical dynamics that have led to it. The most important of these is the question of the right to self-determination, invoked by the Kosovo Albanians, as opposed to right of territorial integrity invoked by the Serbs. For many Serbs, Kosovo's declaration of independence and subsequent recognition has been traumatic, a savage blow to national pride. Albanians, on the other hand, believe their independence rights an historical wrong: the Serbian conquest (Serbs say “liberation”) of Kosovo in 1912. For anyone wishing to understand both the history and possible future of Kosovo at this pivotal moment in its history, this book offers a wealth of insight and information in a uniquely accessible format.
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McLaughlin, Sean J. JFK and de Gaulle. University Press of Kentucky, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813177748.001.0001.

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This book explores French president Charles de Gaulle’s frank, persistent, and discrete campaign to dissuade President Kennedy from expanding the American military/economic aid program in Vietnam from their first summit meeting between in May 1961 up until Kennedy green-lit a coup against South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem in the late summer of 1963. There were many thorny issues that complicated the Franco-American relationship in the early 1960s—ranging from nuclear policy, British entry into the European Economic Community (EEC), and conditions for negotiating with Moscow—but Vietnam was the one case where de Gaulle was unquestionably right and Kennedy terribly wrong in hindsight. Kennedy’s decision to ignore de Gaulle on this matter was far costlier than any other, setting off a chain of events that resulted in the deaths of over 58,000 American soldiers, turned hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese into refugees, and dealt a massive blow to American prestige across the globe. Despite de Gaulle’s efforts to constructively share French experience and use his resources to help engineer an American exit, the Kennedy administration responded to his peace initiatives with bitter silence and inaction. In the end, the Kennedy administration assumed that it was uniquely qualified to win “hearts and minds” in the Third World, while the discredited imperialists in the Élysée in Paris had lost their right to formulate Western policy in Southeast Asia by virtue of a long string of humiliating military defeats in their former colonies.
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Ayyar, R. V. Vaidyanatha. Winds of Change Begin to Blow (Stints of Madhavrao Scindia and S.R. Bommai). Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199474943.003.0010.

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This chapter describes how the Indian education system began to undergo a systemic transformation from 1990s, how ‘international’ schools made their appearance, how private-unaided institutions (self-financing institutions) began to dominate professional education, how the idea of private universities begins to acquire traction, and how India began to be increasingly exposed to the ongoing globalization of education. It critiques the functioning of the AICTE and NCTE. It outlines the policy initiatives undertaken by Madhavrao Scindia and S.R. Bommai as Ministers, MHRD. It narrates the controversy aroused by the proposal to set up a world class National Science University. It describes the salient features of the Private Universities (Establishment and Regulation) Bill, 1995, introduced in the Rajya Sabha by Scindia, and the efforts made by Bommai to amend the Constitution so as to make elementary education a Fundamental Right.
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Randall, Ian. Baptists. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199683710.003.0003.

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Early in the nineteenth century, British Quakers broke through a century-long hedge of Quietism which had gripped their Religious Society since the death of their founding prophet, George Fox. After 1800, the majority of Friends in England and Ireland gradually embraced the evangelical revival, based on the biblical principle of Jesus Christ’s atoning sacrifice as the effective source of salvation. This evangelical vision contradicted early Quakerism’s central religious principle, the saving quality of the Light of Christ Within (Inward Light) which led human beings from sinful darkness into saving Light. The subsequent, sometimes bitter struggles among British Quakers turned on the question of whether the infallible Bible or leadings from the Light should be the primary means for guiding Friends to eternal salvation. Three of the most significant upheavals originated in Manchester. In 1835 Isaac Crewdson, a weighty Manchester Friend, published A Beacon to the Society of Friends which questioned the authority of the Inward Light and the entire content of traditional Quaker ministry as devoid of biblical truth. The ensuing row ended with Crewdson and his followers separating from the Friends. Following this Beacon Separation, however, British Quakerism was increasingly dominated by evangelical principles. Although influenced by J.S. Rowntree’s Quakerism, Past and Present, Friends agreed to modify their Discipline, a cautious compromise with the modern world. During the 1860s a new encounter with modernity brought a second upheaval in Manchester. An influential thinker as well as a Friend by marriage, David Duncan embraced, among other advanced ideas, higher criticism of biblical texts. Evangelical Friends were not pleased and Duncan was disowned by a special committee investigating his views. Duncan died suddenly before he could take his fight to London Yearly Meeting, but his message had been heard by younger British Friends. The anti-intellectual atmosphere of British Quakerism, presided over by evangelical leader J.B. Braithwaite, seemed to be steering Friends towards mainstream Protestantism. This tendency was challenged in a widely read tract entitled A Reasonable Faith, which replaced the angry God of the atonement with a kinder, gentler, more loving Deity. A clear sign of changing sentiments among British Friends was London Yearly Meeting’s rejection of the Richmond Declaration (1887), an American evangelical manifesto mainly written by J.B. Braithwaite. But the decisive blow against evangelical dominance among Friends was the Manchester Conference of 1895 during which John Wilhelm Rowntree emerged as leader of a Quaker Renaissance emphasizing the centrality of the Inward Light, the value of social action, and the revival of long-dormant Friends’ Peace Testimony. Before his premature death in 1905, J.W. Rowntree and his associates began a transformation of British Quakerism, opening its collective mind to modern religious, social, and scientific thought as the means of fulfilling Friends’ historic mission to work for the Kingdom of God on earth. During the course of the nineteenth century, British Quakerism was gradually transformed from a tiny, self-isolated body of peculiar people into a spiritually riven, socially active community of believers. This still Dissenting Society entered the twentieth century strongly liberal in its religious practices and passionately confident of its mission ‘to make all humanity a society of Friends’.
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