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Reynolds, Janice. A practical guide to DSL: Understanding DSL, getting connected, networking: how to share a DSL connection. New York: CMP Books, 2001.
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Grasskamp, Anna Katharina. Art and Ocean Objects of Early Modern Eurasia. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463721158.
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During the early modern period, objects of maritime material culture were removed from their places of origin and traded, collected and displayed worldwide. Focusing on shells and pearls exchanged within local and global networks, this monograph compares and connects Asian, in particular Chinese, and European practices of oceanic exploitation in the framework of a transcultural history of art with an understanding of maritime material culture as gendered. Perceiving the ocean as mother of all things, as womb and birthplace, Chinese and European artists and collectors exoticized and eroticized shells’ shapes and surfaces. Defining China and Europe as spaces entangled with South and Southeast Asian sites of knowledge production, source and supply between 1500 and 1700, the book understands oceanic goods and maritime networks as transcending and subverting territorial and topographical boundaries. It also links the study of globally connected port cities to local ecologies of oceanic exploitation and creative practices.
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Group, Barna, ed. Churchless: Understanding today's unchurched and how to connect with them : based on surveys by Barna Group. Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2014.
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Wijers, Jean Paul, ed. Managing Authentic Relationships. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462988613.
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In an increasingly connected world, Strategic Relationship Management is a vital capability for successful organizations. The book Managing Authentic Relationships; Facing New Challenges in a Changing Context focuses on building and managing a strong network and reciprocal relationships for the entire organization by implementing a professional relationship management approach at strategic, tactical and operational level. Professional relationship management makes valuable and measurable contributions to the strategic goals of an organization by: Expanding the organization's strategy to a Relationship Management Strategy; Efficiently managing relationships and correctly mapping stakeholders; Embedding clear responsibility for relationship management throughout the organization; Measuring results and calculating the Return-on-Relationship; Developing strong networking skills and networkers who are able to act as eyes and ears for the organization; Organizing effective networking activities with measurable results. This book also offers a holistic view. Managing authentic relationships requires a shared understanding of what relationships are. It is impossible to develop successful relationship management without authentic relationships based on trust and reciprocity.
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Neretina, Tat'yana, and Tat'yana Orehova. Formation at students of pedagogical profile "image of the parent" in the process of professional training at the University. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1043103.
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In modern conditions of development of mankind, when, for various reasons endangered is the institution of the family, especially actual is a problem of formation of the growing person in the period of schooling parental position as an essential part not only of development but also the survival of humanity as a species. The solution to this problem in terms of the organization of Russian society goes along with the family on a school teacher. Hence the need to prepare future teachers for performing this task.
In the present monograph presents one approach to solving this problem through the formation of future teachers of "the way I parent," a deep awareness and understanding of the essence and structure of process of formation of own "image of the parent", the content of this phenomenon relevant content, development of representations about itself as about the parent, about other people and the world in General.
Intended for University students, primary school teachers, specialists in educational work, as well as for lecturers reading a course of lectures on subjects connected with pedagogy, psychology and ethic of family education.
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Ng, Jenna. The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463723541.
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Screens are ubiquitous today. They display information; present image worlds; are portable; connect to mobile networks; mesmerize. However, contemporary screen media also seek to eliminate the presence of the screen and the visibilities of its boundaries. As what is image becomes increasingly indistinguishable against the viewer’s actual surroundings, this unsettling prompts re-examination about not only what is the screen, but also how the screen demarcates and what it stands for in relation to our understanding of our realities in, outside and against images. Through case studies drawn from three media technologies – Virtual Reality; holograms; and light projections – this book develops new theories of the surfaces on and spaces in which images are displayed today, interrogating critical lines between art and life; virtuality and actuality; truth and lies. What we have today is not just the contestation of the real against illusion or the unreal, but the disappearance itself of difference and a gluttony of the unreal which both connect up to current politics of distorted truth values and corrupted terms of information. The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections: Where Screen Boundaries Lie is thus about not only where the image’s borders and demarcations are established, but also the screen boundary as the instrumentation of today’s intense virtualizations that do not tell the truth. In all this, a new imagination for images emerges, with a new space for cultures of presence and absence, definitions of object and representation, and understandings of dis- and re-placement – the post-screen.
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Friel, Susan N., James T. Fey, William M. Fitzgerald, and Elizabeth Difanis Phillips. Bits and Pieces I: Understanding Rational Numbers (Prentice Hall Connected Mathematics). Pearson Prentice Hall, 2000.
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Lappan, Glenda. Stretching & Shrinking: Understanding Similarity (Connected Mathematics 2 / Grade 7, Teacher's Guide). Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2006.
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Marin, Mara. Connected by Commitment. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190498627.001.0001.
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Connected by Commitment examines our obligations to transform structures of oppression and argues that they should be understood on the model of “commitments.” Commitments are relationships of obligation developed over time through the accumulated effect of open-ended actions and responses. The book examines three spheres of social relations (legal relations, intimate relations of care, and work relations) and argues that in each of them oppressive relations are maintained by processes that make a mutual vulnerability invisible and in so doing are able to place it disproportionately on disadvantaged social groups. The notion of commitment is crucial for understanding how these processes can be undermined and oppressive structures can be transformed because it can explain how the cumulative effects of individual actions are implicated in sustaining oppressive relations. For example, understanding legal relations as commitments makes visible the continuous labor of compliance required by the law from those it governs and, in so doing, makes visible both the unequal burdens the law puts on different social groups and the possibilities of resistance intrinsic to the enforcement function of the law. The notion of commitment highlights the fact that we incur obligations to dismantle unjust social structures in virtue of our participation in them over time, of the cumulative effects of our actions, irrespective of our intentions. Commitment is essential to making sense of our collective obligations to transform oppression, and thus it offers a model of solidarity against multiple forms of oppression.
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Lappan, Glenda, James T. Fey, and William M. Fitzgerald. Bits & Pieces 1: Understanding Rational Numbers (Connected Mathematics Series: Number) (Student Edition). Dale Seymour Publications, 1998.
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Fey, Fitzgerald Friel &. Phillips Lappan. How Likely Is It? / Grade 6 (Connected Mathematics 2, Teacher's Guide) Understanding Probability. Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2006.
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Pickhardt, Carl E. The Connected Father: Understanding Your Unique Role and Responsibilities during Your Child's Adolescence. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
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Sladden, Darryl, Jagdish Girimaji, and Santosh Pandey. Connected Mobile Experiences and Location Based Services: Understanding Indoor and Outdoor Location Technologies Using Wifi, BLE, IBeacon and Other Sensors. Pearson Education, Limited, 2017.
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S, Feldman Robert. Essentials of Understanding Psychology with Connect Access Card. McGraw-Hill Education, 2015.
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Feldman, Robert. Loose Leaf for Understanding Psychology with Connect Access Card. McGraw-Hill Education, 2015.
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Stroud, Barry. Seeing, Knowing, Understanding. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198809753.001.0001.
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This book presents a volume of writings on knowledge, perception, and meaning from this millennium. The volume opens with introductory pieces on the practice of philosophy. Some of the chapters are epistemological, including new approaches to questions about perception and knowledge. Others examine self-knowledge and knowledge of one’s own actions, with links with Ludwig Wittgenstein and Immanuel Kant. One chapter presents an attempt to say in the simplest, least-cluttered terms exactly what Kant’s transcendental deduction is really meant to do. There are three chapters about the nature and reality of colours. Another chapter is about Kant and Gottlob Frege and necessary truth. Two more consider meaning and understanding, first in Wittgenstein and then in both Donald Davidson and Wittgenstein. The final chapter attempts, among other things, to connect questions of meaning with questions of evaluation and morality.
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Ferstman, Carla. Internal Adjudication by International Organizations. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808442.003.0005.
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This chapter considers the nature, remit, and functioning of review mechanisms established by international organizations to address grievances concerning their conduct. Do these mechanisms serve as adequate modes of redress for injured individuals and can they result in effective reparation? The practice is diverse, although the mechanisms that address claims from individuals not connected to the organization remain few. A review of the most relevant mechanisms reveals different understandings of, and degrees of adherence to, external rules and principles. For the most part, there has been little regard to the procedural and substantive rights of affected individuals explored in previous chapters. But if reparation is a right belonging to victims or even an obligation owed to them as the ultimate beneficiaries, international organizations cannot restrict their procedures and claimants’ entitlements in the pursuit of their own understanding of rules and obligations.
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Hilton, Denis. Social Attribution and Explanation. Edited by Michael R. Waldmann. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199399550.013.33.
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Attribution processes appear to be an integral part of human visual perception, as low-level inferences of causality and intentionality appear to be automatic and are supported by specific brain systems. However, higher-order attribution processes use information held in memory or made present at the time of judgment. While attribution processes about social objects are sometimes biased, there is scope for partial correction. This chapter reviews work on the generation, communication, and interpretation of complex explanations, with reference to explanation-based models of text understanding that result in situation models of narratives. It distinguishes between causal connection and causal selection, and suggests that a factor will be discounted if it is not perceived to be connected to the event and backgrounded if it is perceived to be causally connected to that event, but is not selected as relevant to an explanation. The final section focuses on how interpersonal explanation processes constrain causal selection.
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Daybell, James. Gender, Writing Technologies, and Early Modern Epistolary Communications. Edited by Malcolm Smuts. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199660841.013.28.
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Shakespeare’s age witnessed the extension of letter-writing skills to an increasing range of social groups, including women. The letter as a cultural form encompassed a complex range of practices and writing technologies connected to the composition, folding, sealing, delivery, reading, and afterlife of correspondence. Shakespeare depicts women across the social spectrum from queens to illiterate servants, composing, reading, or delivering letters. An understanding of early modern epistolary culture, and women’s involvement in it, is thus fundamental to interpreting the social and cultural practices embedded in Shakespearean drama. This chapter focuses on the writing technologies connected with women’s letter-writing, from the acquisition of basic literacy and skills of penmanship (in relation to the gendered nature of early modern education), through models, templates and printed epistolographies, the mechanics of composition, and personal and collaborative forms of authorship, to the material practices of writing, archiving and circulating epistles and forms of secret writing.
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McPherson, David. Transfiguring Love. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198796732.003.0005.
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This chapter seeks to show how the spiritual practice of an “active” or “engaged” love is integral to the sort of “epistemology of involvement” through which we come to a religious understanding of the world. Such an understanding is one that gives proper recognition to the sacred or reverence-worthy character of the world. The chapter discusses how a religiously inflected language of love and the practice it informs can transfigure the world for us and enable its sacred or reverence-worthy character to come into view (supposing it is there in any case). It also seeks to show how this is connected to a process of spiritual formation (or Bildung).
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Diwan, Ishac, Adeel Malik, and Izak Atiyas, eds. Crony Capitalism in the Middle East. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198799870.001.0001.
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The popular uprisings in 2011 that overthrew Arab dictators were also a rebuke to crony capitalism, targeted against both rulers and their allied businessmen who had monopolized profitable economic opportunities. While the Middle East has witnessed a growing nexus between business and politics in the wake of economic liberalization, little is known about the nature of business cronies, the sectors in which they operate, the mechanisms used to favor them, and the possible impact of such crony relations on the region’s development. Combining inputs from leading scholars in the field, this volume presents a wealth of empirical evidence on the form and function of crony capitalism in the Middle East. The volume is unique in both its empirical focus and comparative scale. Analysis in individual chapters is empirically grounded, based on fine-grained data on the business activities of politically connected actors—furnishing, for the first time, information on the presence, numerical strength, and activities of politically connected entrepreneurs. This volume also substantially enhances our understanding of the mechanisms used to privilege connected businesses, and their possible impact on undermining growth and job creation of firms in the Middle East. It offers a major advance on our prior knowledge of Middle Eastern political economy, and constitutes a distinct contribution to the global literature on crony capitalism and the politics of development. The book will be an essential resource for students, researchers, and policymakers alike.
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Kling, Sheri D. Avoiding a Fatal Error: Extending Whitehead’s Symbolism Beyond Language. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474429566.003.0008.
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Typically, discussion of Whitehead’s modes of perception and symbolic reference are limited to the perception of sense-data and the use and interpretation of language as symbolic, but Whitehead’s thought can be connected to the imaginal realm of art, dream symbols, and archetypes when he argues that broadening our definition of perception beyond solely sense perception ‘can be of no importance unless we can detect occasions of experience exhibiting modes of functioning which fall within its wider scope. If we discover such instances of non-sensuous perception, then the tacit identification of perception with sense-perception must be a fatal error barring the advance of systematic metaphysics’ (AI 180). In order to avoid the ‘fatal error’ of limiting perception to strictly sense perception, this chapter argues that since Whitehead included aesthetic expression in his understanding of symbolism, and was open to non-sensory perception, Whitehead’s symbolism can be connected to that of Carl Jung to broaden and enrich the scholarship on symbolism, and that such an integration can positively influence human society’s intensity of experience and overall aliveness, vitality, and zest for life, especially when a practice of dream work is incorporated in this integration.
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Johnson, Henry. Context, community and social capital in the governance of a New Zealand orchestra. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199352227.003.0003.
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This chapter provides a social analysis of the governance of an orchestral board in the city of Dunedin, New Zealand. The discussion interprets the ways context, community and social capital are interconnected concepts for understanding aspects of orchestral governance in a postcolonial state. The first part of the chapter provides a background to the orchestra under study, the Southern Sinfonia, in its cultural context, and it offers an historical and contextual framework for understanding this particular group’s raison d’être and its organizational practices. The second part discusses the contribution the orchestra’s board has made to the community it represents, especially with regard to its social and cultural links to key stakeholders. The last part focuses on the idea of social capital as a way of interpreting how the orchestra is connected with its local community.
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MacDonald, Raymond, and Graeme Wilson. Billy Connolly, Daniel Barenboim, Willie Wonka, Jazz Bastards, and the Universality of Improvisation. Edited by Benjamin Piekut and George E. Lewis. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199892921.013.007.
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Group musical improvisation is an important artistic, educational, and therapeutic process, and understanding the unique mental, individual, and social processes involved should be a key task for psychology. This chapter summarizes constraints in how some branches of psychology and ethnomusicology have conceptualized improvisation, and describes recent research embracing the breadth of what constitutes improvisation in music. Analyzing how highly diverse musicians discuss the fullest range of improvisational practices indicates important relationships between this creative interaction and wider psychological and social constructs. The chapter also presents research investigating the relationship between improvisation and health, highlighting a number of key benefits connected with improvisation in music therapy for patients with cancer. Enhancing understanding of the process and outcomes of musical improvisation in this way can help realize the potential contribution of music participation to contemporary culture, creativity in everyday life, and therapeutic interventions.
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Bailey, Doug. Cutting the Ground. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190611873.003.0009.
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This chapter presents a detailed description, discussion, and reinterpretation of the Neolithic causewayed enclosure at Etton in southern Britain. Discussion focuses on the sequences of digging-filling-resurfacing-redigging at the site, and examines the differences between the ditches and the interior filled-pits, as well as the eastern and the western segments of the site, and the distribution of different categories and conditions of artifacts. One result is a rethinking of the existing understanding of the site as connected to structured deposition, ground stone artifacts, and human lives. The proposal is that the reader interprets the site as a textured surface that was cut, resurfaced, and then cut again. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the relevance of this rereading of Etton for our understanding of the pit-houses at Măgura and at similar sites.
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Fischer-Lichte, Erika. Prologue. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199651634.003.0001.
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The Prologue proceeds from the common understanding that Philhellenism was constitutive of the cultural identity of the German Bildungsbürgertum since the end of the 18th century until the 1970s or even the 1980s – i.e. between the times of the French Revolution (1789) and the reunification of the two German states in 1989. This common understanding usually is connected to German poets and writers from Winckelmann to Stefan George (Eliza Butler) or explained with regard to the development of Altertumswissenschaften (Martin Bernal and Suzanne Marchand), albeit with different emphases. The link between Philhellenism and theatromania, epitomized in performances of Greek tragedies since 1800 has so far remained absent from this discussion. Therefore, in this study, the focus will shift to the relationship between performances of Greek tragedies and the cultural identity of the German Bildungsbürgertum. It thus attempts to understand tragedy’s endurance on German stages during the last 200 years.
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Chiang, Connie Y. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190842062.003.0001.
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While many scholars and commentators have written about the Japanese American incarceration, few have adopted an explicit environmental focus. The introduction explains why using an environmental lens is important to understanding this notorious episode in US history. Environmental history examines how the environment influenced humans and how humans interacted with and transformed the natural world. Nature Behind Barbed Wire applies this approach and demonstrates that the Japanese American incarceration was an environmental process that was connected to the lands and waters of the Pacific Coast and the camps in the inland American West. The introduction also suggests that the incarceration was part of a longer history of Japanese American exclusion and discrimination.
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Walther-Hansen, Mads. Making Sense of Recordings. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197533901.001.0001.
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The book shows how metaphors are closely connected to sonic experience and make sense within a larger historical context of technological developments and changing discourses of recorded sound. The book traces written discourses of recorded sound, discussing how everyday listeners and audio professionals describe their experiences of sound in recorded music. Building on cognitive sciences and ideas of embodied cognition, the book provides new theoretical and methodological approaches to sound perception and conceptualization with particular relevance to recorded music. It expands on existing histories of studio music technologies from production to reproduction to reception, but it also provides analytical and practical tools—including an encyclopedia of selected sound terminology—to aid in the understanding and communication of sound.
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Stanghellini, Giovanni. Emotions and the dialectic of narrative identity. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198792062.003.0014.
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This chapter argues that a significant part of a person’s self-experience and self-understanding is based on self-narratives—an ongoing process of establishing coherent formulations about who I am, who I was, and where I am going. Through self-narratives I seek to understand my actions and experiences as a semantically coherent pattern of chronologically ordered elements, and to grasp the way I relate myself to that understanding and to the world. The emotional experiences of moods and affects play a crucial role in the life and self-experience of the person. A given mood can develop itself into a character trait, that is, a permanent part of one’s sense of personal identity; this transformation occurs pre-reflectively and without a deliberate and thematic involvement of the person. Through narratives, moods can also be incorporated actively, reflectively, and thematically into a person’s identity. Moods are connected to self-understanding. My questioning about myself is often elicited by my mood before my identity becomes an explicit problem.
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Wilshire, Howard G., Richard W. Hazlett, and Jane E. Nielson. The American West at Risk. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195142051.001.0001.
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The American West at Risk summarizes the dominant human-generated environmental challenges in the 11 contiguous arid western United States - America's legendary, even mythical, frontier. When discovered by European explorers and later settlers, the west boasted rich soils, bountiful fisheries, immense, dense forests, sparkling streams, untapped ore deposits, and oil bonanzas. It now faces depletion of many of these resources, and potentially serious threats to its few "renewable" resources. The importance of this story is that preserving lands has a central role for protecting air and water quality, and water supplies--and all support a healthy living environment. The idea that all life on earth is connected in a great chain of being, and that all life is connected to the physical earth in many obvious and subtle ways, is not some new-age fad, it is scientifically demonstrable. An understanding of earth processes, and the significance of their biological connections, is critical in shaping societal values so that national land use policies will conserve the earth and avoid the worst impacts of natural processes. These connections inevitably lead science into the murkier realms of political controversy and bureaucratic stasis. Most of the chapters in The American West at Risk focus on a human land use or activity that depletes resources and degrades environmental integrity of this resource-rich, but tender and slow-to-heal, western U.S. The activities include forest clearing for many purposes; farming and grazing; mining for aggregate, metals, and other materials; energy extraction and use; military training and weapons manufacturing and testing; road and utility transmission corridors; recreation; urbanization; and disposing of the wastes generated by everything that we do. We focus on how our land-degrading activities are connected to natural earth processes, which act to accelerate and spread the damages we inflict on the land. Visit www.theamericanwestatrisk.com to learn more about the book and its authors.
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Ikaheimo, Heikki. Hegel’s Psychology. Edited by Dean Moyar. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199355228.013.20.
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This chapter aims to show that in the Philosophy of Subjective Spirit, Hegel develops a thoroughly ‘detranscendentalized’ account of the human person as the ‘concrete’ flesh-and-blood subject of knowledge and action, an account that deserves much more attention than it has received. Reconstructing Hegel’s holistic picture of the human person as the ‘concrete subject’ of knowing and acting requires a proper understanding of the structure of the text, which on a simple linear reading appears fragmentary and confusing. This chapter focuses on the Psychology section, and the thematically closely connected Phenomenology section. It first reconstructs the ‘parallel architectonics’ of the Phenomenology and Psychology, the understanding of which is essential for comprehending the substantial views Hegel puts forth in them. It then draws on this reconstruction and introduces central elements of Hegel’s account of the human person as the concrete subject of knowledge and action as it unfolds in the text.
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LaCroix, Alison, Saul Levmore, and Martha C. Nussbaum, eds. Power, Prose, and Purse. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190873455.001.0001.
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Power, Prose, and Purse is an edited collection of essays that draw connections between literature, economics, and law. The essays discuss literary works that explore the time period between the Industrial Revolution and the Great Depression and analyze the insights that novelists can offer to law and economics, while noting the tensions among these paradigms. Literature often addresses specific questions connected with a particular context, problem, or character. In contrast, both law and economics aim to focus on identifying general typologies and rules. Money and literature are both useful interpretive tools for understanding the law, and all three allow for greater understanding of human society—especially when considered in a collaborative rather than competitive way. Approaching these issues from a variety of methodological perspectives, including philosophy, history, and literary theory, the essays in this volume explore the important tensions between literature, on the one hand, and law and money, on the other.
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Goodier, Susan. Introduction. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037474.003.0001.
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This introductory chapter sets out the book's primary goal, which is to understand the movement for women's rights from the point of view of the women who opposed their enfranchisement in New York State. Recovering a clearer understanding of attitudes regarding women's power, as well as the meaning of the vote to women of the time, more accurately illuminates any study of women's rights movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book analyzes activities at the local and state levels, and those that connected New York State to the national perspective, in an effort to clarify the importance of anti-suffragism for the suffrage movement, as well as for the movement for women's rights. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.
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Aljunied, Khairudin. Muslim Cosmopolitanism. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474408882.001.0001.
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Cosmopolitan ideals and pluralist tendencies have been employed creatively and adapted carefully by Muslim individuals, societies, and institutions in modern Southeast Asia to produce the necessary contexts for mutual tolerance and shared respect between and within different groups in society. Organised around six key themes that interweave the connected histories of three countries in Southeast Asia — Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia — this book shows the ways in which historical actors have promoted better understanding between Muslims and non-Muslims in the region. Case studies from across these countries of the Malay world take in the rise of the network society in the region in the 1970s up until the early 21st century, providing a panoramic view of Muslim cosmopolitan practices, outlook, and visions in the region.
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Asseraf, Arthur. Electric News in Colonial Algeria. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198844044.001.0001.
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How do the things which connect us divide us at the same time? This book tells a different history of globalization by tracing how news circulated in a divided society: Algeria under French rule in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The years between 1881 and 1940 were those of maximum colonial power in North Africa, a period of intense technological revolution, global high imperialism, and the expansion of settler colonialism. Algerians became connected to international networks of news, and local people followed distant events with great interest. But once news reached Algeria, accounts of recent events often provoked conflict as they moved between different social groups. In a society split between its native majority and a substantial settler minority, distant wars led to riots. Circulation and polarization were two sides of the same coin. Looking at a range of sources in multiple languages across colonial society, this book offers a new understanding of what news is. News was a whole ecosystem in which new technologies such as the printing press, the telegraph, the cinema and the radio interacted with older media like songs, rumours, letters, and manuscripts. The French government watched anxiously over these developments, monitoring Algerians’ reactions to news through an extensive network of surveillance that often ended up spreading news rather than controlling its flow. By tracking what different people thought was new, this history of news helps us reconsider the relationship between time, media, and historical change.
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Gill, Robin. Congregational Life. Edited by Mark Chapman, Sathianathan Clarke, and Martyn Percy. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199218561.013.38.
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The rapidly growing discipline of Congregational Studies, which draws on insights from across a number of different academic field, offers a particularly interesting and relatively dispassionate way of understanding and comparing different forms of congregational life from a detailed analysis of the lived experience of communities so as to develop what has been called a congregational ecology. Congregational life displays elements of social capital as well as conflict. Across many different denominations and in different contexts this area of study has been able to show that there are important commonalities as well as some distinctive differences between churches and congregations. This chapter will suggest how Congregational Studies might be used effectively to understand and locate these commonalities and differences within the different churches, and connected communities of worldwide Anglicanism.
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King, Peter. Marguerite Porete and Godfrey of Fontaines. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198827030.003.0006.
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This paper argues that Marguerite Porete asked Godfrey of Fontaines to endorse her book, The Mirror of Simple Souls, because they shared three views in common. The first view is that the will is only contingently connected to the intellect and can be detached from it. The second view is that the traditional moral virtues are neither necessary nor sufficient for right action. The third view is that love has the power to literally transform one’s self. The first is unique to Godfrey, the second part of a shift in the medieval understanding of the role of virtue in ethical theory, and the third in many respects is a commonplace. Marguerite’s choice of Godfrey to sanction her treatise was therefore well motivated on doctrinal, not merely political, grounds.
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Park, Joonha, Susumu Yamaguchi, Takafumi Sawaumi, and Hiroaki Morio. Dialectical Thinking and Its Influence in the World. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199348541.003.0010.
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It is often assumed that East Asians, compared with Westerners, try to reshape their personal attitudes and expectations to fit the environment rather than attempting to influence realities. A recent review of the literature revises this idea by suggesting that East Asians, just like Westerners, do attempt to influence existing realities, but via subtly different routes: East Asians employ indirect strategies, seek support from influential others, or take a long-term approach to changing the world via self-improvement. This chapter discusses East Asians’ tendency to employ various tactics in association with dialecticism, and their default cognitive mode of understanding the self, others, and the environment as changeable, connected, and contradictory. Along with collectivist and interdependent cultural characteristics, dialecticism may have additive or interactive effects on control experiences and psychological functioning in East Asia.
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McQueen, Alison. Mosaic Leviathan. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803409.003.0008.
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This chapter defends three connected claims. First, we can account for Hobbes’s turn towards the Hebrew Bible by understanding the place of biblical Israel in the political and religious debates of seventeenth-century England. Second, Hobbes’s particular focus on the Mosaic polity is harder to explain. This focus is puzzling because, for both contextual and textual reasons, the period of Davidic kingship seems to fit much better with Hobbes’s philosophical account of the basis of sovereign authority. Third, Hobbes’s focus on the Mosaic polity is best seen as a rhetorical and polemical move designed to appropriate the images and narratives of parliamentarians, republicans, and radicals, and to subversively redirect them in the service of absolutism. There is suggestive textual evidence that Hobbes knew that this was both a radical and a risky strategy.
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Batsleer, Janet, and James Duggan. Young and Lonely. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447355342.001.0001.
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Young and Lonely The Social Conditions of Loneliness gathers evidence of young people’s experience of loneliness and connection from a youth co-produced research project and locates these within longstanding cultural and historical discussions of loneliness and solitude, friendship and belonging. The study explores loneliness and the experiences of connection/disconnection and inclusion/exclusion with a particular focus on the experience of loneliness in young lives and on how it is navigated when it is first encountered. It proposes that loneliness should not be considered only or even primarily as another psychological disorder or contagion, whilst recognising that severe loneliness may be an aspect of and connected to severe forms of psychological and emotional distress. The ways that young people encounter loneliness have resonance across the age spectrum and for questions of social organisation more generally. In three subsections, The social conditions of loneliness, The experience of loneliness, and Building friendship and connection, which focuses on the innovative critical and creative co-research used methods (which built on youth work practice) which enabled the conditions in which from the transient to the more enduring loneliness is experienced to be explored are explored. An accompanying attention to the range of methods of finding friendship and connection allows the complexity of young people’s experience to be foregrounded. The creative research methods used in the ‘Loneliness Connects Us’ collaborative research give a sense of some of the ways this sensitive topic might be approached and enhance understanding of friendship and solidarity.
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Marshall, Colin. Representing and Caring that Pain is Bad. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198809685.003.0014.
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This chapter extends Compassionate Moral Realism with an eye towards the issue of judgment internalism, that is, whether moral representation is necessarily connected to motivation. The challenges of giving a uniform account of the cognitive and motivational aspects of moral judgment are illustrated, and the possibility of a non-uniform, pluralist view is considered. After noting Compassionate Moral Realism’s compatibility with judgment pluralism, accounts are offered of both emotionally hot and emotionally cool moral judgments, using Chapter 12’s partial analysis of objective badness. In each case, a necessary connection to moral motivation is identified. For emotionally cool judgments, an agent who is not motivated is epistemically lacking by a standard that she acknowledges in that very judgment. Finally, it is explained how the present view can offer an attractive understanding of moral perception, as understood by Lawrence Blum and others.
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Klausen, Susanne, and Alison Bashford. Fertility Control: Eugenics, Neo-Malthusianism, and Feminism. Edited by Alison Bashford and Philippa Levine. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195373141.013.0006.
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This article analyzes the preoccupation of eugenics with fertility control—a broad term denoting all methods by which humans seek to induce, prevent, or terminate pregnancy. It also discusses the role of eugenicists in establishing birth control clinics, and to advocate for more controversial technologies of reproductive control such as sterilization and sometimes abortion. It also shows the link between feminist, eugenic, and neo-Malthusian discourses. It begins with the classic definition of eugenics and then indicates that contraceptive information would be offered to married women who are too young, ill, or weak for pregnancy, or who experienced pregnancy too frequently. This article also provides an understanding of the role played by feminism in the social acceptance of technologies of reproductive control. It concludes that eugenic feminists often connected by neo-Malthusian ideas have played a leading role in developing new reproductive technologies.
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Zbikowski, Lawrence M. Questions, Answers, Questions. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190653637.003.0007.
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This chapter provides a summary for the volume as a whole and discusses prospects for a cognitive grammar of music going forward. The first portion of the chapter reviews the main questions explored over the course of the book and the answers provided by the theoretical framework that has been set out. The second portion of the chapter sets out three ways a cognitive grammar of music might be furthered: first, through empirical research on processes of categorization, memory function, and analogies involving dynamic processes, all of which are connected with musical understanding; second, through an exploration of the relationship between the familiar constructs of music theory (like intervals, scales, and chords) and the sonic analogs for dynamic processes fundamental to musical grammar; and, third, through a continued investigation into the ways musical materials shape humans’ cultural interactions.
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Hedley, Douglas. S. T. Coleridge’s Contemplative Imagination. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198799511.003.0014.
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Chapter 13 takes as its theme the deep roots in the Platonic tradition of Coleridge’s view of contemplation as the experience of nóēsis, for Plato the highest form of epistēmē, being the knowledge of ‘Ideas’ beyond diánoia (discursive and conceptual understanding). Coleridge’s theory of the symbol only makes sense within this metaphysical-theological context. Plotinus’s decisive contribution within Coleridge’s metaphysics is often overlooked. Contemplation, for Plotinus, is connected to Gift. Contemplation is always a return to the ‘Giving’ of the One (rooted in Plato’s ‘unbegrudging’ Goodness of the demiurge, Timaeus 29), and this process of gift and return is mirrored throughout different levels of reality. Like the Cambridge Platonists before him, Coleridge furnished this contemplative return with a Trinitarian articulation. Coleridge’s own contemplative theology is especially inspired by the revival of neo-Platonism in German idealism.
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Julier, Alice P. Sweetening the Pot. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037634.003.0004.
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This chapter begins with a discussion of a dinner party attended by the author to highlight the complexity of social events with food when all the rigid rules of dinner parties are not applicable or desired. For many reasons, the majority of people's social events do not fit into those formal templates, so they must “invent” new ways of doing this. But in doing so, all modifications are fraught with new rules and new ways of negotiating a shared understanding of what is appropriate, what tastes good, and what makes both hosts and guests feel “comfortable,” appreciated, and connected to each other. It argues that the path to intimacy and closeness is not as free of constraints as the ideology of friendship suggests. In fact, people intentionally use these events to create bounded groups whose similarities exclude others.
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Blidstein, Moshe. The Origenist Synthesis. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791959.003.0009.
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This chapter argues that Origen’s purity discourse was innovative on many fronts, as can be seen in his writings on sexuality, baptism, and on dietary issues. Defilement imagery concerning sexuality is especially prominent. Although Origen did not prohibit marriage, he saw sexuality as defiled, the quintessential expression of human corporeality, closely connected with sin though not synonymous with it. I argue that Origen was the first Christian thinker who integrated the notion of temporary sexual defilement found in the Hebrew Bible with the second-century Christian notion of essential sexual defilement, creating a nuanced conception of defilement. As in sexual issues, in baptism too Origen supplies a relatively systematic usage of purity discourse; baptism and sex are linked through his understanding of infant baptism as purification from an inherent defilement linked to the sexual origin of the human body.
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Lambert, Erin. Singing the Resurrection. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190661649.001.0001.
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This book explores the lived experience of belief in Reformation Europe through two distinct yet deeply connected themes: the resurrection of the body and the act of singing. In late medieval Europe, the chanting of the Creed in the context of the Mass implied a universal community of faith that began in the time of Christ and was to endure until the dead were raised at the apocalypse. In the sixteenth century, these bonds were broken. European Christians continued to affirm the Creed’s promise of the universal resurrection of the dead, but they raised their voices in a range of new songs, each of which expressed a different interpretation of resurrection’s promise of the restoration of the individual body and the reunion of the Christian community. Using case studies drawn from each of the major traditions of the Reformation—Lutheran, Anabaptist, Reformed, and Catholic—this book reveals sixteenth-century belief in its full complexity. Whereas narratives of the Reformation have long equated belief with doctrine, songs of resurrection reveal contemporary understandings of belief that at once emphasized its understanding and embodiment, its ephemerality and eternal endurance, its utter individuality and its power as a tie that bound. In the religious ruptures of the Reformation, this book argues, belief was transformed into a way of living in the world.
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Kalligas, Paul. Second Ennead. Translated by Elizabeth Key Fowden and Nicolas Pilavachi. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691154213.003.0003.
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This chapter presents the English translation of Paul Kalligas’s commentary on the second Enneads of Plotinus. The second Ennead deals with “natural philosophy, including the physical universe and subjects connected with it” (VP 24.37–39). Because Plotinus is generally thought to have had little interest in the workings of the sensible world, it is not surprising that this part of his work has attracted relatively little attention on the part of modern scholarship. However, a careful reading of its contents reveals its crucial importance for understanding his philosophy as a whole. The reason is that it includes a series of detailed studies in conceptual analysis, which may serve as a kind of toolbox for reading the rest of his work and for understanding its logical structure and architecture. And, after all, both his complex metaphysical theories and his detailed treatment of psychological issues are in the last analysis meant to provide explanations of the functioning of the world of our common, everyday experience. We thus also come to appreciate better the reasons for his conflict with the Gnostics, who refused to see the sensible world as anything but a place of depravity and corruption.