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Grosse Ruse-Khan, Henning. The Systemic Character of International Law. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199663392.003.0002.

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This chapter examines various conflict resolution approaches. The question of how the heterogeneous and pluralistic character of international law as a whole and the resulting overlaps, linkages, and tensions amongst different rules and rule-systems can be addressed depends much on how international law as such is perceived and understood. This chapter thus examines several distinct approaches to this issue in order to develop a functional method for the purpose of analysing legal relationships. It first discusses the International Law Commission (ILC) approach, which provides a set of general

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Manning, George C. Anger in the Sagas of Icelanders. Oxford University PressOxford, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198970637.001.0001.

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Abstract Anger in the Sagas of Icelanders examines the presentation of anger in the Íslendingasögur (‘Sagas of Icelanders’) and associated Íslendingaþættir (‘Tales of Icelanders’), a remarkable Old Norse–Icelandic corpus of texts written down in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries that detail conflicts and feuds of Icelanders during the late ninth, tenth, and early eleventh centuries. It first shows how various unqualified involuntary somatic responses, facial expressions, and bodily movements frequently indicate angry experience in the sagas, before arguing that anger’s mode of expression

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Jeffs, Kathleen. (Un)Familiar Faces, Places, and Conflicts. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198819349.003.0005.

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When rehearsing a play for performance, it is never as simple as preparing a ‘type’ or a ‘rounded’ character. In The Dog in the Manger and Pedro, the Great Pretender, characterization took many forms, including the portrayal of manipulative masters and servants, a mayor commonly recognizable in the Golden Age but perhaps foreign to English audiences, and psychological warfare between a woman, her honour, and her secretary. During the rehearsal process of both of these productions, academic research—generated from a wide variety of sources and scholarly approaches—fed the actors’ and directors’

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Sambaluk, Nicholas Michael. Myths and Realities of Cyber Warfare. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400689178.

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This illuminating book examines and refines the commonplace “wisdom” about cyber conflict? its effects, character, and implications for national and individual security in the 21st century. "Cyber warfare" evokes different images to different people. This book deals with the technological aspects denoted by "cyber" and also with the information operations connected to social media's role in digital struggle. The author discusses numerous mythologies about cyber warfare, including its presumptively instantaneous speed, that it makes distance and location irrelevant, and that victims of cyber at

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Heins, Laura. Introduction. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037740.003.0001.

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This introductory chapter briefly characterizes Nazi cinema and its preoccupation with the domestic sphere. It argues that, when considering the affinity of the melodramatic mode to propagandistic rhetoric, the Third Reich film industry's interest in melodrama becomes a logical choice. Melodrama, in its most classic form, is a binary mode in which narratives and characters alternate between action and pathos, between vengeance and the submission to fate. Like propaganda, melodrama describes conflict in a polemical manner, avoiding elaboration of the low-contrast shades of facts and details. Fu

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Jeutner, Valentin. Irresolvable Norm Conflicts in International Law. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808374.001.0001.

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Conventionally, international legal scholarship concerned with norm conflicts focusses on identifying how international law can or should resolve them. This book adopts a different approach. It focusses on identifying those norm conflicts that law cannot and should not resolve. The book offers an unprecedented, controversial, yet sophisticated, argument in favour of construing such irresolvable conflicts as legal dilemmas. Legal dilemmas exist when a legal actor confronts a conflict between at least two legal norms that cannot be avoided or resolved. Addressing both academics and practitioners

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Cook, Kate. Praise and Blame in Greek Tragedy. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350410527.

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Exploring the use of praise and blame in Greek tragedy in relation to heroic identity, Kate Cook demonstrates that the distribution of praise and blame, a significant social function of archaic and classical poetry, also plays a key role in Greek tragedy. Both concepts are a central part of the discourse surrounding the identity of male heroic figures in tragedy, and thus are essential for understanding a range of tragedies in their literary and social contexts. In the tragic genre, the destructive or dangerous aspects of the process of kleos (glory) are explored, and the distribution of prais

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Norris, John. Collision Course. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400628498.

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If Europe, Russia, and international bodies such as the U.N. and NATO end up playing a more prominent role in Iraq's immediate future, all parties, including the United States, would do well to revisit the lessons learned during the U.S.-led war in Kosovo in 1999. As a confrontation over Kosovo's final push for independence looms, this book offers seminal insight into the negotiations that took place between the United States and Russia in an effort to set the terms for ending the conflict. This study in brinksmanship and deception is an essential background for anyone trying to understand Rus

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Smith, Marian. New Life for Character and Story in Sleeping Beauty. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935321.013.172.

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Alexei Ratmansky’s production of Sleeping Beauty was wrought with careful attention to its music and the manuscripts that preserve Petipa’s choreography. This article begins by touching generally on some aspects of the original ballet that Ratmansky has restored: its technique and style, large multi-generational cast, and full embrace of character dancing. Next, it focuses on musical and choreographic characterizations of the felicitous royal family and their servant Catalabutte and their domestic interactions. Then, it considers Ratmansky’s effective use of the episodes of tension and release

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Gaskell, Elizabeth. Mary Barton. Edited by Shirley Foster. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199538355.001.0001.

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‘It's the masters as has wrought this woe; it's the masters as should pay for it.’ Set in Manchester in the 1840s - a period of industrial unrest and extreme deprivation - Mary Barton depicts the effects of economic and physical hardship upon the city's working-class community. Paralleling the novel's treatment of the relationship between masters and men, the suffering of the poor, and the workmen's angry response, is the story of Mary herself: a factory-worker's daughter who attracts the attentions of the mill-owner's son, she becomes caught up in the violence of class conflict when a brutal

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Badhwar, Neera K., and E. M. Dadlez. Love and Friendship. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190689414.003.0002.

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Emma is a novel about the centrality of love and friendship to its heroine’s happiness. Emma’s friendship with Mr. Knightley illustrates Aristotle’s conception of the highest kind of friendship: a friendship of virtuous people who share their lives through conversation and joint activities. Critics who disagree with this claim misunderstand either Emma’s character or Aristotle’s conception of virtue. Some critics reject the Aristotelian-Austenian conception of a good friendship on the grounds that a good friendship is often in conflict with moral and epistemic virtue. Good friends are, and oug

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Steinberg, Shirley, Michael Kehler, and Lindsay Cornish, eds. Boy Culture. Greenwood, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400620980.

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In this two-volume set, a series of expert contributors look at what it means to be a boy growing up in North America, with entries covering everything from toys and games, friends and family, and psychological and social development. Boy Culture: An Encyclopediaspans the breadth of the country and the full scope of a pivotal growing-up time to show what "a boy's life" is really like today. With hundreds of entries across two volumes, it offers a series of vivid snapshots of boys of all kinds and ages at home, school, and at play; interacting with family or knocking around with friends, or pur

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Green, Robert K. Jimmy Carter in the White House. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350352940.

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This fresh examination of Carter’s presidency (1977-1981), the first in over twenty years, sheds new light on his time in office, reflecting on his domestic record, his key policies on the economy, civil rights, and energy, and challenging misconceptions about his character and leadership. The success of Jimmy Carter’s post-presidential career and the scandals of his successors, have begun to generate a nostalgic view of Carter’s time in the White House. This book looks at his presidency during a time of ideological conflict in the US political landscape, between liberalism and rising conserva

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Crescenzi, Mark J. C., Rebecca H. Best, and Bo Ram Kwon. Reciprocity in International Studies. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.414.

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Reciprocity refers to the character of the actions and reactions between two or more actors. This character is commonly one of responding in kind to the actions of another. As such, reciprocity is considered one of the fundamental processes observed by scholars in the study of international relations (IR). In the realm of international politics, the study of reciprocity typically encompasses formal/experimental and empirical research. Some scholars look at ethical dimensions and the propagation of norms such as the Golden Rule, while others undertake empirical analysis of patterns of reciproci

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Currie, Gregory. Aesthetics and Cognitive Science. Edited by Jerrold Levinson. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199279456.003.0042.

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The subject of this article is the connection between art and all those aspects of mind that have, to some degree, an empirical side. It covers results in neuropsychology and neuroscience, in cognitive and developmental psychology, as well as in various parts of the philosophy of mind. This article, however, ignores questions about the natural history of our mental capacities. To the extent that art has human psychology as its subject, there must be potential for conflict with the sciences of mind. As philosophers have recently noted, results in social psychology challenge our ordinary concept

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Richards, Paul. Shifting Cultivation as Improvisation. Edited by George E. Lewis and Benjamin Piekut. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195370935.013.22.

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Shifting cultivation is a type of farming without fixed boundaries. It obeys an ecological logic but requires constant improvisation and adaptation to fluid circumstances. The character of improvisation in shifting cultivation is explored with reference to an African case study (rice farming by the Mende people of Sierra Leone). Two elements are emphasized in particular—the management of fire (by men) and rice seeds (by women). A contrast, applicable not only to farming, but also to other activities such as military conflict and musical performance, is drawn between strategic planning and tact

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Zick, Timothy. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190841416.003.0001.

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The Introduction accomplishes several things. It emphasizes the central subject matter of the book, which is the relationships between freedom of speech and other (“non-speech”) constitutional rights. The Introduction also discusses different conceptions of constitutional rights—as textual guarantees, trumps of governmental power, and rhetorical devices. It emphasizes the relational character of rights and introduces the concept of Rights Dynamism, which is the process by which rights intersections occur. The Introduction highlights the bidirectional relationship between freedom of speech and

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Syrrina, Haque. Dialogue on Partition. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666989281.

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Dialogue on Partition explores dialogic possibilities in Indo-Pak English novels on partition of India in 1947 and expounds upon the potential of art and literature to offer dialogue. The book locates the inherent individualities of voices of narrators, characters and writers of these novels, as promulgators of dialogue in the face of the contentious event of partition and post-partition conflict. The book shows how the authors of these novels objectify their religious stance and present a regional affiliation attributed to a shared existence in the subcontinent, while locating and dissecting

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Ross, Charles D. Breaking the Blockade. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496831347.001.0001.

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On April 16, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln issued a blockade of the Confederate coastline. The largely agrarian South did not have the industrial base to succeed in a protracted conflict. What it did have — and what England and other foreign countries wanted — was cotton and tobacco. Industrious men soon began to connect the dots between Confederate and British needs. As the blockade grew, the blockade runners became quite ingenious in finding ways around the barriers. Boats worked their way back and forth from the Confederacy to Nassau and England, and everyone from scoundrels to naval offi

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Petersen, Jesper Aagaard. Modern Religious Satanism. Edited by James R. Lewis and Inga Tøllefsen. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190466176.013.33.

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Modern religious Satanism is a diverse movement of groups and individuals using Satan as a symbol for their oppositional identity. Translating Satan as “opposer” or “adversary” from the book of Job, Satanism co-opts the Satan-myth and reinterprets it as an antinomian critique of traditional mores championing radical individualism, using the language and aesthetics of magic, esotericism, and the occult. As the history of the development of the character of Satan—theologically, politically, socially, mythologically—is one of opposition and conflict, modern religious Satanism is a constant negoti

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Barr, David L. Narrative Technique in the Book of Revelation. Edited by Danna Nolan Fewell. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199967728.013.32.

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The book of Revelation is neither a guide to the end of the world nor a handbook of theology. It is a narrative in which John recounts what happened to him on Patmos, describes what he saw and heard when he ascended into the sky/heaven, and recounts the cosmic conflict between the forces of good and evil—an ultimate Holy War. It is thus a complicated narrative, recounting both John’s actions (what happened to him) and the actions he recounts in the stories he tells (what he saw and heard). He functions as both the narrator and as a character in the story. This article explores various techniqu

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Fain, Kimberly. Colson Whitehead. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2015. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798881815264.

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From his first novel, The Intuitionist, in 1999, Colson Whitehead has produced fiction that brilliantly blurs genre and cultural lines to demonstrate the universal angst and integral bonds shared by all Americans. By neglecting to mention a character’s racial heritage, Whitehead challenges the cultural assumptions of his readers. His African American protagonists are well educated and upwardly mobile and thus lack some of the social angst that is imposed by racial stratification. Despite the critical acclaim and literary awards Whitehead has received, there have been few in-depth examinations

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de Mello e Souza, Laura, and João José Reis. Popular Movements in Colonial Brazil. Edited by Nicholas Canny and Philip Morgan. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199210879.013.0032.

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To speak of popular movements in Brazil before 1822 raises problems, especially if European and Atlantic contexts are considered. Who are the people, and how would they manifest themselves in a social formation marked by three centuries of slavery that not only deeply influenced the lives of Brazil's inhabitants but also articulated all economic and social relations, and radically demeaned the value of manual labour? Bondage in Brazil involved millions of slaves from Africa, and before that, the enslavement of thousands of indigenous peoples; this diversity occasioned much tension and conflict

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Canali, MaÜro. Crime and Repression. Edited by R. J. B. Bosworth. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199594788.013.0013.

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This article describes crime and fascist repression in Italy during the rule of Benito Mussolini. It explores the character of Mussolinian totalitarianism and the issue of an alleged continuity between the policing practices of the Liberal and fascist regimes. In terms of its repressive techniques, the dictatorship retooled instruments and organizations that the Liberal state had forged in its social crisis or under the urgent requirements of running the war after 1915. For almost all combatants, the weakness of opposition to the national war effort meant that policy in regard to domestic secu

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Burke, Kyle. Revolutionaries for the Right. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469640730.001.0001.

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Freedom fighters. Guerrilla warriors. Soldiers of fortune. The many civil wars and rebellions against communist governments drew heavily from this cast of characters. Yet from Nicaragua to Afghanistan, Vietnam to Angola, Cuba to the Congo, the connections between these anticommunist groups have remained hazy and their coordination obscure. Yet as Kyle Burke reveals, these conflicts were the product of a rising movement that sought paramilitary action against communism worldwide. Tacking between the United States and many other countries, Burke offers an international history not only of the pa

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Telotte, J. P. Of Robots and Artificial Beings. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190695262.003.0003.

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This chapter examines animation’s fascination with the robot, a figure that has obvious reflexive links to animation’s typical anthropomorphic characters—the various mice, cats, dogs, and ducks that were the usual stars of early cartoons. The robot is also a figure that had an especially popular resonance throughout the pre-war period, as is evidenced by its appearance in a variety of popular culture venues, including vaudeville acts, World’s Fairs, and feature films. What makes this figure particularly significant in its ability to embody the culture’s conflicted attitudes toward science and

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Mangrum, Benjamin. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190909376.003.0001.

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The introduction begins by assessing standard historical accounts about the fracturing of the Democratic Party during the 1967–1968 presidential election. The standard account presents the period from 1945 to 1968 as the “apex of American liberalism,” presenting the election of Richard Nixon in 1968 as a result of Democratic conflicts over the Vietnam War and civil rights legislation. This book shows, however, that the cultural ideas that received intellectual prestige during the postwar decades complicate this standard narrative. The character of liberal thought underwent vast changes long be

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Tsangaris, Michael. Radical Communications. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978722576.

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Radical Communications explores unauthorized messages we see in the cities we live in and their impact on the construction of social reality. Michael Tsangaris treats the city as a text and examines the political slogans, graffiti, and street art of Athens as complex visual signs in an alternative communication system. He argues that the legitimacy, aesthetic value, and social acceptability of these expressions depend on the time, place, and social group or individual that interprets them. Finally, his analysis reveals the contradictory character of the contemporary city. It shows a city of so

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Pavlovich, Chekhov Anton, and Constance Black Garnett. Seagull: A Play by Russian Dramatist Anton Chekhov, Written in 1895 and First Produced in 1896. the Seagull Is Generally Considered to Be the First of His Four Major Plays. It Dramatises the Romantic and Artistic Conflicts Between Four Characters. Independently Published, 2020.

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Wilson, Donald. Practical Kantian Ethics. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350501300.

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Reversing the usual order of interpretation, Donald Wilson reinterprets Kant’s moral theory through his later practical works offering a new “inner freedom” account informing obscure aspects of Kant’s formal moral philosophy and the practical focus of ideals of proper respect.This account transcends the narrow rational asceticism often associated with Kant’s view, embedding morality in our humanity, recognizing the vital role of emotion in moral life, and prioritizing framing moral commitments and questions of character over obedience to formal rules. In doing so, it makes community and collec

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Cerovac, Ivan. John Stuart Mill and Epistemic Democracy. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2022. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666994988.

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John Stuart Mill and Epistemic Democracy explores the epistemic, or cognitive, character of democratic institutional practices and the protection of basic liberties in Mill's political thought. Mapping Mill's theory of representative democracy and critically engaging Mill's more controversial issues, Ivan Cerovac identifies the epistemic criteria within these proposals and uses them as a basis for unifying Mill's political thought. The book addresses the epistemic role of wide democratic participation on the one hand and institutional mechanisms used to filter the public will—such as political

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Anievas, Alexander, and Kamran Matin, eds. Historical Sociology and World History. Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd.is an affiliate of Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798881812768.

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The concept of 'uneven and combined development' was originally coined by Leon Trotsky to theorise Tsarist Russia's distinctive experience of modernity and revolution. But it has re-emerged over the last decade or so as a burgeoning research programme within International Relations (IR) and historical sociology. It has been critically and creatively deployed in two main areas: the provision of a sociological foundation to international theory overcoming the chronic schism between ‘sociological’ and ‘geopolitical’ modes of enquiry; and, relatedly, in superseding prevailing Eurocentric approache

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Ginor, Isabella, and Gideon Remez. The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967-1973. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190693480.001.0001.

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Russia's forceful re-entry into the Middle Eastern arena, and the accentuated continuity of Soviet policy and methods of the 1960s and '70s, highlight the topicality of this groundbreaking study, which confirms the USSR's role in shaping Middle Eastern and global history. This book covers the peak of the USSR's direct military involvement in the Egyptian-Israeli conflict. The head-on clash between US-armed Israeli forces and up to 20,000 Soviet servicemen (at a time) with state-of-the-art weaponry turned the Middle East into the hottest front of the Cold War. The Soviets' success in this war o

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London, Jack. Mutiny of the Elsinore: A Novel by Jack London. after Death of the Captain, the Crew of a Ship Split Between the Two Senior Surviving Mates. During the Conflict, the Narrator Develops As a Strong Character, Rather As in the Sea-Wolf. Independently Published, 2020.

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Gailus, Andreas. Forms of Life. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501749803.001.0001.

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This book argues that the neglect of aesthetics in most contemporary theories of biopolitics has resulted in an overly restricted conception of life. The book insists we need a more flexible notion of life: one attuned to the interplay and conflict between its many dimensions and forms. The book develops such a notion through the meticulous study of works by Kant, Goethe, Kleist, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Benn, Musil, and others. It shows that the modern conception of “life” as a generative, organizing force internal to living beings emerged in the last decades of the eighteenth century in biol

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Torre, Ybiskay González. Confrontational ‘Us and Them’ Dynamics of Polarised Politics in Venezuela. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798881818258.

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This book provides a theoretical framework for understanding polarised politics. Contrary to the common understanding that polarisation is associated with populism and illiberal democracies, this book demonstrates that polarisation is by no means the result of one anti-democratic side of the conflict. By proposing this analytical inquiry, this book advances a new theoretical framework to characterise politics as either polarised or not. This framework is a unique approach that integrates people’s agency and socio-historical constraints to explain polarisation in depth. Drawing on Foucault’s co

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Guerrieri, Pilar Maria. Negotiating Cultures. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199479580.001.0001.

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This book focuses on the city of Delhi, one of the largest mega-cities in the world, and examines—from a historical perspective—the processes of hybridization between cultures within its local architecture and urban planning from 1912, when the British Town Planning Committee for New Delhi was formed, to 1962, when the first Master plan was implemented. The research originates directly from primary documents and examines how and to what extent the city plans, the neighbourhoods, the types of residential, public buildings and the architectural styles have changed over time. The analysis of arch

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Ress, Stella A. American Girls in Popular Media. Lexington Books, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978748897.

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The appearance of high-profile girl characters in popular culture media of all types soared between the years 1924, when Little Orphan Annie first appeared in the comic section of newspapers, to 1945, when teenage girls replaced their younger sisters in the spotlight. As such, girl culture of the 1920s through the 1940s experienced a boom in popularity. Despite the substantial impact that prepubescent and preadolescent girls had on society during this time, scholars have largely overlooked the experiences of these girls and their depictions in popular entertainment. American Girls in Popular M

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Wagner, John A. Voices of Victorian England. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216033059.

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The Victorian age was a period of transition as Britain industrialized and society underwent profound changes. Here, contemporary voices provide students with an up-close look at this pivotal time. Voices of Victorian England illuminates the character, personalities, and events of the era through excerpts from primary documents produced between 1837 and 1901. By allowing Queen Victoria's contemporaries to speak for themselves, this work brings the achievements and conflicts that occurred during the queen's long reign alive for high school and college students as well as the general public. Exc

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Mérand, Frédéric. The Political Commissioner. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192893970.001.0001.

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Based on four years of embedded observation in the cabinet of a European Commissioner, this book develops a sociology of international political work. Empirically, it offers an insider’s chronicle of the European Union between 2015 and 2019. The analysis traces the successes and failures of Commissioner Pierre Moscovici and his team on five issues that defined European politics between 2015 and 2019: the Greek crisis, budgetary disputes with Spain and Portugal, the rise of populism in Italy, the reform of the eurozone, and the fight against tax evasion. The aim is not to ascertain whether the

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Temkin, Larry S. Being Good in a World of Need. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192849977.001.0001.

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Ours is a rich world filled with misery. This gives rise to a pressing question: how should the well-off respond to the needy? Peter Singer famously argued that just as we have an obligation to save a drowning child, we have an obligation to support charities like Oxfam. Inspired by Singer, Effective Altruism holds that we ought to support those charities doing the most good. Being Good in a World of Need powerfully challenges these views. Drawing on many sources, Temkin illustrates many disanalogies between saving a drowning child and supporting international charities, involving: intervening

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Bryant, Hallman. Understanding A Separate Peace. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216029212.

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Since its publication in 1959, A Separate Peace has acquired the reputation of a minor classic of American literature. This insightful analysis helps young readers relate to the themes of disillusionment, guilt and betrayal, and the fear of failure and intergenerational conflicts experienced by the teenaged characters in the novel. This casebook also situates A Separate Peace against the backdrop of World War II, enabling students to see the connections between the fictional world of the novel and the real World as it existed for young people. Moving well beyond a standard literary treatment,

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Gardiner, Stephen M., and Allen Thompson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199941339.001.0001.

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Environmental ethics is an academic subfield of philosophy concerned with normative and evaluative propositions about the world of nature and, perhaps more generally, the moral fabric of relations between human beings and the world we occupy. This Handbook contains forty-five newly commissioned essays written by leading experts and emerging voices. The essays range over a broad variety of issues, concepts, and perspectives that are both central to and characteristic of the field, thus providing an authoritative but accessible account of the history, analysis, and prospect of ideas that are ess

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Moraff, Jason F. Reading the Way, Paul, and “The Jews” in Acts within Judaism. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780567712486.

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Jason F. Moraff challenges the contention that Acts’ sharp rhetoric and portrayal of “the Jews” reflects anti-Judaism and supersessionism. He argues that, rather than constructing Christian identity in contrast to Judaism, Acts binds the Way, Paul, and “the Jews” together into a shared identity as Israel, and that together they embark on a journey of repentance with common Jewishness providing the foundation. Acts leverages Jewish kinship, language, cult, and custom to portray the Way, Paul, and “the Jews” as one family debating the direction of their ancestral tradition. Using a historically

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9780197673157, Annie Fullard, and Dorianne Cotter-Lockard. The Art of Collaboration. Oxford University PressNew York, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197673126.001.0001.

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Abstract This book invites all interested in cultivating a higher level of group artistry to gain a deeper understanding of working productively and joyfully within a musical ensemble. The concepts and techniques in this book help artists develop a vocabulary and tools to refine their music making process and learn how to work well as a team. It offers a systematic approach to individual preparation for rehearsal, score study, planning and implementing a constructive and effective rehearsal, and the interpretive process. The authors address tension and conflict within groups, including strateg

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Kettemann, Matthias C. The Normative Order of the Internet. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198865995.001.0001.

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Online anarchy? Far from it: as this study convincingly shows, norms matter online. In a tour de force, internet law expert Matthias C. Kettemann analyses the genesis, ontology, and legitimation of rule and rules on the internet. Innovatively, the study establishes the emergence of a normative order of the internet, an order that integrates norms materially and normatively connected to the use and development of the internet at three different levels (regional, national, international), of two types (privately and publicly authored), and of different character (from ius cogens to technical sta

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Huxtable, Simon. News from Moscow. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192857699.001.0001.

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News from Moscow: Soviet Journalism and the Limits of Post-war Reform is a history of the post-war Soviet press that takes readers from the tense ideological climate of the late Stalin era to the comparative freedom of the Thaw. Through a case study of one of the country’s most innovative and popular titles, the youth daily Komsomol’skaia pravda, the book shows how journalists attempted to remake the Soviet newspaper after Stalin’s death, but details the many obstacles they faced along the way. The book argues that Thaw journalism was characterised by an unresolvable tension between innovation

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Sternlicht, Sanford. Chaim Potok. Greenwood, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400624353.

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Since the publication of his first novel,The Chosen, Chaim Potok has been regarded as one of the most important Jewish-American writers of our time. In that 1967 landmark work, in its sequelThe Promise(1969), and in the other works that followed, Potok has explored the conflict between Jewish values and the secular American culture against which these enlightening stories are set. This full-length critical study introduces students to the powerful fiction of Potok. By examining in depth not only the spiritual elements but also the literary components that make works such asMy Name Is Asher Lev

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Emily, Brontë. Wuthering Heights: A Novel by Emily Brontë Published in 1847 under Her Pseudonym Ellis Bell . Brontë's Only Finished Novel, It Was Written Between October 1845 and June 1846. Independently Published, 2020.

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