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McGurl, Barry. Purification and characterisation of putative protein allergens from the seeds of the castor oil plant, "Ricinus communis". typescript, 1986.

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Institute of Economic and Market Research., ed. Status and prospects of selected oils and oilseeds in India: Safflower, niger, cotton seed, coconut, palm oil, rice bran, linseed, castor, tree oils. Institute of Economic & Market Research, 1993.

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Group, The Castor Oil Seeds Research. 2000 World Market Forecasts for Imported Castor Oil Seeds. Icon Group International, 2000.

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Group, The Castor Oil Seeds Research. The 2000 Import and Export Market for Castor Oil Seeds in Brazil. 2nd ed. Icon Group International, Inc., 2001.

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The World Market for Castor Oil Seeds: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective. Icon Group International, Inc., 2005.

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The Castor Oil Seeds Research Group. The 2000 Import and Export Market for Castor Oil Seeds in Germany. 2nd ed. Icon Group International, Inc., 2001.

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The Castor Oil Seeds Research Group. The 2000 Import and Export Market for Castor Oil Seeds in Paraguay. 2nd ed. Icon Group International, Inc., 2001.

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The Castor Oil Seeds Research Group. The 2000 World Forecasts of Castor Oil Seeds Export Supplies (World Trade Report). 2nd ed. Icon Group International, 2000.

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Group, The Castor Oil Seeds Research. The 2000 Import and Export Market for Castor Oil Seeds in Asia (World Trade Report). 2nd ed. Icon Group International, 2000.

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The Castor Oil Seeds Research Group. The 2000 Import and Export Market for Castor Oil Seeds in Europe (World Trade Report). 2nd ed. Icon Group International, 2000.

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The Castor Oil Seeds Research Group. The 2000 Import and Export Market for Castor Oil Seeds in Africa (World Trade Report). 2nd ed. Icon Group International, 2000.

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Group, The Castor Oil Seeds Research. The 2000 Import and Export Market for Castor Oil Seeds in Latin America (World Trade Report). 2nd ed. Icon Group International, 2000.

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The Castor Oil Seeds Research Group. The 2000 Import and Export Market for Castor Oil Seeds in N. America & Caribbean (World Trade Report). 2nd ed. Icon Group International, 2000.

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The Castor Oil Seeds Research Group. The 2000 Import and Export Market for Castor Oil Seeds in The Middle East (World Trade Report). 2nd ed. Icon Group International, 2000.

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Vazhacharickal, Prem Jose, Ravathy Krishna, and John Joseph. Evaluation of Anti-Microbial and Anti-Inflammatory Action of Castor and Papaya Seed Extracts Against Staphylococcus Aureus. Independently Published, 2018.

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Bloomer, Kristin C. Authenticity and Double Trouble. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190615093.003.0004.

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Nancy, a follower of Jecintho from a lower-caste Hindu-Christian family, claims also to be possessed by Mātā and exhibits stigmata. This chapter examines Nancy’s story and her circumstances, as well as the dismissal of her claims by Rosalind and her community at the Our Lady of Jecintho Prayer House. What do Nancy’s and Rosalind’s competing claims mean about authenticity and agency? Caste, gender, and family roles appear to influence Nancy’s possession as she tries to decide whether or not to enter an arranged marriage, and she seems to be ambivalent about sex. Nancy is also influenced by her

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Schabas, William A. Kaiserdämmerung. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198833857.003.0003.

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As the war ends, Kaiser Wilhelm leaves Berlin for German military headquarters in Spa, Belgium, where his generals tell him that the troops will not follow him and that his life may even be threatened. He flees to the Netherlands in his private train, possibly after receiving an ‘all clear’ from Queen Wilhelmina. The Dutch Government persuades a local aristocrat, Count Bentinck, to take him in for a few days to his castle in Amerongen, but the visit ends up lasting nearly eighteen months. Britain’s Ambassador to The Hague sends his wife to spy on the Kaiser’s arrival, but attempts without succ

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Brar, T. S., M. A. Kamal, and S. Singh. 3D Concrete Printing Technology. Materials Research Forum LLC, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.21741/9781644902158.

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The book presents a detailed comparison between traditional construction techniques and 3D printing construction. The comparison focuses on four primary parameters: mechanism, composition, time and cost. The operational details of each technology (cast-in situ, pre-stress, post-tension) are reviewed and comparison criteria for all techniques are formulated. In conclusion, 3D printing seems to be well on its way to transform the whole construction industry.

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Tibble, Steve. The Crusader Strategy. Yale University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300253115.001.0001.

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Medieval states, and particularly crusader societies, often have been considered brutish and culturally isolated. It seems unlikely that they could develop “strategy” in any meaningful sense. However, the crusaders were actually highly organized in their thinking and their decision making was rarely random. This book draws on a rich array of primary sources to reassess events on the ground and patterns of behavior over time. The book shows how, from aggressive castle building to implementing a series of invasions of Egypt, crusader leaders tenaciously pursued long-term plans and devoted single

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Bajpai, Rochana, and Carlo Bonura. South Asian and Southeast Asian Ideologies. Edited by Michael Freeden and Marc Stears. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199585977.013.0032.

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The chapter examines how transnational currents of political thought and national ideological formations are intertwined, in the context of South and Southeast Asia. Focusing on trajectories of liberalism; communism; nationalism; religious ideologies; and ideologies of race, indigenity, and caste, it suggests that ideology constitutes an important terrain for analysing the dynamics of colonial and postcolonial politics. Rather than provide an exhaustive survey, this chapter seeks to diagnose the broad contours of the principal ideological fields across the regions and establish a basis for fur

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Ellis, Andrew. Mixed Electoral Systems: Design and Practice. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA), 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.31752/idea.2023.13.

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Thirty years on from its initial democratic transition and after several changes of system, Mongolians are still seeking to improve the electoral process by addressing the mechanism for converting votes cast in elections to seats gained in the Great Hural. There is particular interest in mixed systems. The report seeks neither to advocate, nor to discourage the adoption of a mixed system instead, it describes the detailed design choices that flow from the adoption of a mixed system, and illuminates their possible effects both generally and in the specific Mongolian context.

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Rosenberg, Michael. Struck by Wood, Struck by God. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190845896.003.0006.

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Two second-century works—one Christian, one Rabbinic—reflect anxiety about strictly anatomical definitions of virginity. The Protevangelium of James, even as it extols Mary’s physical virginity, casts doubt on medical standards of virginity by appealing to faith-based standards of virginity testing. One sees a similar pattern emerge in the the Rabbinic Mishnah, which introduces a dissenting view at a critical juncture to disrupt the dominant paradigm. Late antique Syriac poetry builds on the nascent anxiety of the Protevangelium in verses that closely resemble the themes and the stories of the

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Carnes, Natalie. Attunement. Oxford University PressNew York, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197765616.001.0001.

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Abstract What is a feminist theologian to do with Christianity’s patriarchal inheritance? Two time-honored approaches in feminist theology are critiquing the most patriarchal aspects of the theological tradition and avoiding them. Both approaches have merits and yet, by themselves, reaffirm that theological tradition does not belong to women and the gender-marginalized. But within feminist theology are the seeds of another approach, aimed at the transformation of theological discourse. This book identifies and develops a third, generative path for feminist theologians. It elaborates attunement

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Jodhka, Surinder S., and Jules Naudet, eds. Mapping the Elite. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199491070.001.0001.

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India is being widely seen as an emerging economic and political power on the global scene. Despite having the largest population of chronically poor in the world today, it is home to a sizeable number of thriving rich and flourishing middle classes. They are reshaping the country’s popular image and its self-imagination. Equally important are its political dynamics. With increasing participation of erstwhile-marginalized sections in the electoral process, the social profile of India’s political elite has been changing, making way for those coming from the middle and lower strata of the tradit

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Guru, Gopal. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar’s Modern Moral Idealism. Edited by Jonardon Ganeri. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199314621.013.41.

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This chapter explains why aspects of the social philosophy of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) deserve sustained philosophical attention. Ambedkar lays bare the paradoxical relationship between the hegemony of Manu’s superman as an ideal and its logical opposite or repulsive real. Ambedkar asks the core question: if the Hindu ideal is ritually hierarchical rather than egalitarian, why is that it has so many supporters among the lower castes? The chapter’s final section discusses what constitutes Ambedkar’s conception of modern moral idealism, and what is the nature of constructivism that he

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Meier, Benjamin Mason, and Lawrence O. Gostin. Afterword. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190672676.003.0027.

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Out of the ashes of the Second World War, institutions of global health and human rights have brought the world together in unprecedented cooperation over the past seventy years, giving rise to the successes and opportunities detailed throughout this volume; however, the current populist age casts new doubts on many of these governance successes and raises debilitating obstacles to future progress. In challenging the shared goals of global governance in responding to a globalizing world, populism—abetted by the resurgent horrors of racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and Islamophobia—seeks to r

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Abraham, William J. Unmasking the Grammar of Divine Agency and Divine Action. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786504.003.0011.

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In this chapter, the author engages another stream of recent theology similar to the analytic Thomism in Chapter 10: the theology of Kathryn Tanner. Tanner casts her proposals on divine agency and divine action largely in terms of a debate about the grammar of Christian discourse, a trope that has its provenance in the history of twentieth-century analytic theology. This chapter thus supplements the previous one, but develops its central concerns in two ways. First, the author attempts to show that Tanner’s work, despite appearances to the contrary, pursues the same themes of the Thomist tradi

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Bhatia, Varuni. Untidy Realms. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190686246.003.0003.

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The chapter maps the field of Vaishnava traditions in nineteenth-century Bengal to show the plural and myriad worlds that these traditions operated in—worlds that the emerging middle-class and educated Bengali Vaishnava would actively seek to disciple and define. The chapter follows closely from the argument extended in the first chapter, about the discursive nature of the “decline” thesis, and seeks to fill in the gaps that the reader may have about precisely what was being read as “decline” in the first place. Weaving together colonial sources alongside biographies, autobiographies, fiction,

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Lukas, Scott A. Heritage as Remaking. Edited by Angela M. Labrador and Neil Asher Silberman. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190676315.013.10.

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This chapter argues for a new perspective on heritage, one that is informed by the contexts of remaking. Traditionally, heritage has referred to specific types of architectural, material, and cultural forms and processes that carry with them a sense of monumentality. This writing argues for a new sense of heritage that takes into account the dynamic processes of the contemporary world. A series of five heritage metaphors (and their replacement metaphors) is considered in terms of the main premises of heritage as a cultural and political process. These include the tree (rhizome), battery (Rube

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Weslake, Brad. Difference-making, Closure, and Exclusion. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198746911.003.0011.

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This chapter discusses Peter Menzies’ work on mental causation and the causal exclusion argument. The author shares with Menzies the conviction that an interventionist account of causation can cast new light on this complex of issues, but his view diverges from Menzies at several points, including the role of proportionality considerations in the characterization of causation. This chapter seeks to clarify the role that proportionality considerations should play in the interventionist account of causation. The author develops a number of arguments for the claim that proportionality considerati

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Mariani, Giorgio. “Cain’s Ring”. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039751.003.0005.

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This chapter examines the juxtaposition of war and sacrifice in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. Melville has been often identified as a forerunner of later anti-war writers—as an artist engaged from early on in his literary career in denouncing the destruction unleashed on the world by “the most ferocious animal on the face of the earth”: “white, civilized man.” Moby-Dick casts serious doubts regarding the possibility of curbing a violence that keeps frustrating mankind's best hopes from time immemorial. This chapter first considers Father Mapple's sermon and the concept of monstrous double in Mo

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Maslon, Laurence. History Has Its Eyes on You. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199832538.003.0014.

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A generational change at the beginning of the twenty-first century intersected with the technological advance of the Internet to provide a renaissance of Broadway music in popular culture. Downloading playlists allowed the home listener to become, in essence, his/her own record producer; length, narrative, performer were now all in the hands of the consumer’s personal preference. Following in the footsteps of Rent (as a favorite of a younger demographic), Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton emerged as the greatest pop culture/Broadway musical phenomenon of the twenty-first century; its cast album an

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Hooghe, Marc. Trust and Elections. Edited by Eric M. Uslaner. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190274801.013.17.

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Political trust is closely related to various forms of electoral behavior. First, political trust tends to stimulate voter turnout, as distrusting citizens are less motivated to cast a vote. Second, low levels of political trust have been associated with an anti-incumbent vote and with populist voting. Third, taking part in elections can actually boost levels of political trust, although it is debatable whether this effect is limited to supporters of the winning party in elections. The occurrence of this winner-loser gap, however, seems to depend strongly on specific characteristics of elector

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Allen, Douglas. Gandhi after 9/11. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199491490.001.0001.

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The author sees Gandhi, in his writings and his life, as offering the most profound and influential theory, philosophy, and engaged practices of ahimsa. Embracing Gandhi’s insightful critiques of modernity, the book sees his approach as a creative and challenging catalyst to rethink our positions today. As expressed in the book’s title, we live in a post-9/11 world that is defined by widespread physical, psychological, economic, political, cultural, religious, technological, and environmental violence and that is increasingly unsustainable. The author’s central claim is Gandhi’s writings, phil

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Wright, Tom F. Britain as Prophecy. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190496791.003.0005.

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Chapter 4 explores the idea of the “choreography of reform” in performances by the Horace Mann and Horace Greeley. Upon returning from a tour of Britain in 1845, Mann felt compelled to tell his fellow Americans about the failings of the English education system. Five years later, Greeley returned from the 1851 Great Exhibition, proclaiming that he had witnessed the future. They toured the United States over the course of the next decade performing pieces that cast them as seers and oracles, using British futurity as a means of imagining starkly distinct national futures for the republic. In do

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Grimm, Stephen R. Wisdom in Theology. Edited by William J. Abraham and Frederick D. Aquino. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199662241.013.33.

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Several of the great religious faiths have an ambiguous attitude towards wisdom. While sometimes it is said to be ‘more precious than rubies’, in other passages the desire for wisdom seems almost like a betrayal of God. More exactly, it is often cast as a pagan, perhaps peculiarly Greek, aspiration that somehow blinds people to what is really important—either acting with steadfast love and justice (Jeremiah) or proclaiming Christ crucified (St Paul). This chapter develops a general conception of wisdom that tries to make sense of these various attitudes. It also applies the view to a variety o

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Lehmann, Courtney. Can the Subaltern Sing? Edited by James C. Bulman. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199687169.013.21.

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Completed in 1966, Liz White’s Othello is the first and only Shakespeare film directed by a black woman, as well as the first cinematic adaptation of a Shakespeare play to feature an all-black cast and crew. When production began in 1962, White was intent on using her landmark adaptation to assert a place for women within the male-dominated black nationalist movements of the 1960s. By focusing on the (mis)treatment of women in Othello, White links their struggle—or lack thereof—to the double displacement of black women within the burgeoning civil rights movement. Particularly in this context,

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Sommerville, Diane Miller. Aberration of Mind. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469643304.001.0001.

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Aberration of Mind is a social history of suicide in the American South during the Civil War era. The book casts a wide net, focusing on Confederate soldiers and veterans and their families, and the enslaved and newly freed. The central question is, how did the Civil War and the suffering it generated shape suicidal thoughts and behavior? The author seeks to understand how the suffering experienced by southerners living in a war zone contributed to psychological distress that, in extreme cases, led southerners to contemplate or act on suicidal thoughts. The unprecedented human toll the war too

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Kramer, Zachary. Outsiders. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190682743.001.0001.

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What is the future of civil rights? Like a living thing, discrimination evolves, adapting to its time. As discrimination becomes more individualized, as difference becomes more pronounced, we need a civil rights that is attuned to the way identity is performed today. Outsiders: Why Difference Is the Future of Civil Rights is filled with stories that demand attention, stories of people whose search for identity has cast them to the margins. Their stories reveal that we need to refresh our vision of civil rights. Instead of dealing in protected traits, civil rights law should take its cue from r

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Barnes, Victoria, Nora Honkala, and Sally Wheeler, eds. Women, Their Lives, and the Law. Hart Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781509962112.

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This collection of essays honours Rosemary Auchmuty, Professor of Law at the University of Reading, UK. She has fostered the study of women’s legal careers and, more politically, advanced progress on gender and equality issues including same-sex marriage and property law. Her research promotes the case of feminist legal history as a way of revealing the place of women and challenging dominant historical narratives that cast them aside. Just as Rosemary’s work does, the book seeks to end the marginalisation and exclusion of women in the legal world, by including them. The book begins fittingly

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Lawther, Cheryl. Constructing Victimhood. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780191938634.001.0001.

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Abstract This book seeks to go ‘beyond innocence and guilt’ to expand the criminological, victimological, and transitional justice imagination with regard to who we ‘see’ as victims, what we ‘hear’ as experiences of victimisation, and who makes these determinations. The book argues that the construction, reproduction, and politicisation of victimhood is structured not only by notions of innocence and guilt and the existence of complex victims, but by larger questions concerning the existence of hierarchies of victimhood, the exercise of voice and agency, the role of silence and the silencing o

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Fratantuono, Lee. Reading of Petronius' Satyrica. Lexington Books, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666983234.

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Few surviving works of classical literature have cast the haunting, hilarious, insightful, and eerie spell conjured by the Satyricon of the Neronian courtier and eventual victim Petronius. Fragmentary, opaque, and enigmatic, at times it seems that deception and obfuscation are the favorite tricks of its author. A Reading of Petronius’ Satyricon offers a fresh look at this genre-defying masterpiece, proceeding episode by episode and scene by scene through a vision of the hell that humanity has fashioned for itself. Petronius mercilessly and exactingly appraises Rome’s embrace of the Golden Age

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Olivelle, Patrick, and Donald R. Davis, eds. The Oxford History of Hinduism: Hindu Law. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198702603.001.0001.

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The foundation of Hindu law is the voluminous textual tradition called Dharmaśāstra, the expert tradition on dharma. This book seeks to delineate the historical development of Dharmaśāstra, even though the tradition presented dharma as timeless and ahistorical. The volume establishes the importance of law for the history and study of Hinduism by providing interpretive descriptions of all the major topics of Hindu dharma according to this tradition. First, two broad introductions to the historical development of the textual sources of Hindu law suggest new ways to understand both the original t

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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 thin

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Goss, Nina, and Eric Hoffman, eds. Tearing the World Apart. University Press of Mississippi, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496813329.001.0001.

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Bob Dylan is many things to many people. Folk prodigy. Rock poet. Quiet gentleman. Dionysian impresario. Cotton Mather. Stage hog. Each of these Dylan creations comes with its own accessories, including a costume, a hairstyle, a voice, a lyrical register, a metaphysics, an audience, and a library of commentary. Each Bob Dylan joins a collective cast that has made up his persona for over fifty years. No version of Dylan turns out uncomplicated, but the postmillennial manifestation seems peculiarly contrary—a tireless and enterprising antiquarian; a creator of singular texts and sounds through p

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Derman, Joshua, and Peter E. Gordon, eds. Max Weber at 100. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780197604953.001.0001.

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Abstract The year 2020 marked the centennial of the death of Max Weber, the German sociologist, scholar of world religions, economic historian, social philosopher, and theoretician of modern political life. This volume presents a collection of essays on the legacy and relevance of his thought. The authors, an international array of distinguished scholars, are drawn from various disciplines—philosophy, political science, intellectual history, and sociology. They comprise both experts who have contributed to the ongoing study of Weber’s oeuvre and theorists who discern his enduring bond with key

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Albert, Richard, and Richard Stacey, eds. The Limits and Legitimacy of Referendums. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198867647.001.0001.

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This innovative and timely book explores how referendums manage the tension between liberalism and democracy, and whether this decision-making device holds promise for reconciling these two commitments. Featuring an outstanding cast of scholars from around the world, the contributors expose how referendums may be abused on one hand to achieve short-term political or even personal gains, and how, on the other, they may aspire to reflect the best traditions of deliberative, inclusive, democracy-enhancing popular choice. The possibility of democracy-enhancing uses and anti-democratic abuses of re

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Godwin, John. Juvenal Satires. Liverpool University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781910572320.001.0001.

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Juvenal's fourth book of Satires consists of three poems which are all concerned with contentment in various forms. The poems use humour and wit to puncture the pretensions of the foolish and the wicked, urging an acceptance of our lives and a more positive stance towards life and death by mockery of the pompous and comic description of the rich and famous. In Satire 10, Juvenal examines the human desire to be rich, famous, attractive and powerful and dismisses all these goals as not worth striving for. In Satires 11 and 12, he argues for the simple life which can deliver genuine happiness rat

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Haberly, Daniel, and Dariusz Wójcik. Sticky Power. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198870982.001.0001.

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Modern civilization revolves around money. However, money is a paradox. It is nothing more than a representation of and medium for decentralized networks of social trust, but its production is controlled by highly centralized networks of firms, places, and governments, and there is never enough of it to go around. Moreover, given that the creation of money, as credit, is based on expectations, money is at its heart an instrument for human agency to change the future. At the same time, however, the financial systems that produce money are deeply rooted in the past, and perpetuate themselves thr

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McDevitt, Michael. Where Ideas Go to Die. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190869953.001.0001.

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Where Ideas Go to Die explores the troubled relationship of US journalism and intellect. A defender of common sense, the press is irked at intellect yet often dependent on its critical autonomy. A postwar observation from Richard Hofstadter applies to contemporary journalists: “Men do not rise in the morning, grin at themselves in their mirrors, and say: ‘Ah, today I shall torment an intellectual and strangle an idea!’ ” The book nevertheless documents the prowess of news media in policing intellect. Control extends beyond suppression of ideas and ways of thinking to the aggressive rendering o

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