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Symposium, EARSeL. A decade of trans-European remote sensing cooperation: Proceedings of the 20th EARSeL Symposium, Dresden, Germany, 14-16 June, 2000. Lisse, Netherlands: A.A. Balkema Publishers, 2001.
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Tom, Badgett, ed. Official Sega Genesis and Game Gear strategies, 2ND Edition. Toronto: Bantam Books, 1991.
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Sandler, Corey. Official Sega Genesis and Game Gear strategies, 3RD Edition. New York: Bantam Books, 1992.
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India, Geological Survey of, ed. Annals of Deccan traps study and bibliography on Deccan traps. Calcutta: Geological Survey of India, 1996.
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India, Geological Survey of, ed. Deccan flood basalt: A pictorial atlas = Dakshiṇī plāvana vôsālṭa : eka sacitra eṭalasa. Calcutta: Geological Survey of India, 1996.
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F, Buchroithner Manfred, and EARSeL Symposium (20th : 2000 : Dresden, Germany)., eds. A decade of trans-European remote sensing cooperation. Lisse, The Netherlands: A. A. Balkema, 2001.
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Alonso, José Antonio, and José Antonio Ocampo, eds. Trapped in the Middle? Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198852773.001.0001.
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There is growing evidence that overcoming the low-income threshold and reaching middle-income status is not sufficient for countries to converge toward high-income levels. Few middle-income countries have successfully completed that transit in recent decades, with the majority remaining in the middle-income group, and so facing what has come to be called"the middle-income trap". It is therefore essential to explore whether middle-income traps really exist and, if they do, how these pitfalls are manifested, what their causes are, what economic policy measures are required to escape from them, and what international cooperation can do to support this process. Trapped in the Middle? brings together diverse perspectives on these important questions, providing new evidence and analytical approaches to enrich the debate on the domestic and international challenges faced by a significant number of middle-income countries, in which over three-quarters of the global population live.
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Frank, John C. Apostle Islands Water Trips: An Explorer's Guide and Two Decades of Memories. Trails Books, 2015.
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Charlton, Jim. Road Trips: A Trunkload of Great Articles from Two Decades of Convention Journals. Society for American Baseball Research, 2005.
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Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo. Informe de progreso economico y social 1997: America latina tras una decada de reformas. BANDAI CO.,LTD., 1997.
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Brennan, Jason, William English, John Hasnas, and Peter Jaworski. Business Ethics for Better Behavior. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190076559.001.0001.
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Business Ethics for Better Behavior concisely answers the three most pressing ethical questions business professionals face: 1. What makes business practices right or wrong? 2. Why do normal, decent businesspeople of goodwill sometimes do the wrong thing? 3. How can we use the answer to these questions to get ourselves, our coworkers, our bosses, and our employees to behave better? Bad behavior in business rarely results from bad will. Most people mean well much of the time. But most of us are vulnerable. We all fall into moral traps, usually without even noticing. Business Ethics for Better Behavior teaches business professionals, students, and other readers how to become aware of those traps, how to avoid them, and how to dig their way out if they fall in. It integrates the best work in psychology, economics, management theory, and normative philosophy into a simple action plan for ensuring the best ethical performance at all levels of business practice. This is a book anyone in business, from an entry-level employee to CEO, can use.
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Homburg, Stefan. Constrained Credit. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807537.003.0004.
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Chapter 4 considers economies with borrowing constraints. This assumption is motivated by the observation that monetary expansions after the Great Recession did not entail inflation in the expected manner. At the same time, nominal and real interest rates tended to decline in many advanced economies. The text offers an in-depth analysis of credit crunches, liquidity traps, and interest rates at the zero lower bound and demonstrates that borrowing constraints help reconcile theory and evidence. According to the key insight, a binding borrowing constraint detaches money creation from credit creation. In this case, inflation ceases to be a monetary phenomenon, as in standard models, but becomes a credit phenomenon. This finding explains why expansionary monetary policies failed to produce inflation since the Great Recession.
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Siff, Stephen. Postscript. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039195.003.0008.
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This concluding chapter explains the dramatic decline in interest in LSD by the news media after about 1968, when the federal government finally prohibited possession of the drug. In the face of growing government activism against drugs, elaborate reenactments of LSD trips faded from the news agenda. However, the psychedelic world introduced by the news media was increasingly enacted by television and film producers emboldened by the decline of the television and motion-picture production codes. As the 1960s faded into history, entertainment programming frequently offered itself as a substitute for the psychedelic drug experience that journalists had taught Americans to seek. Through intensive hype of LSD and psychedelic phenomena, the news media demonstrated the transporting, mind-expanding power not only of drugs, but also of journalism.
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Talbot, Ian, and Tahir Kamran. Martyrs, Migrants and Militants. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190642938.003.0008.
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Chapter seven discusses the emergence of revolutionary networks in the first decade of the Nineteenth Century and the activities of leading figures and movements during the First World War. The student population of the city provided recruits for militant groups that sought to overthrow the Raj. There are case studies of the Ghadr Movement, of iconic revolutionary martyrs such as Bhagat Singh, Udham Singh and Madan Lal Dhingra and of ‘absconding’ students to the trans-border camps in Chamarkand of what the British termed the ‘Hindustani Fanatics.’ The Muslim students became involved in Obaidullah Sindhi’s jihadist struggle in 1915 and in the hijrat movement to Afghanistan of March-August 1920. Some were to replace Pan-Islamic fervour with attachment to Communism inculcated at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East.
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Tras el muro: Diez anos despues de 1989 : Balance de una decada de transformaciones en los paises del Centro y Este de Europa. Fundacion de Investigaciones Marxistas, 2000.
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Gaiha, Raghav, Raghbendra Jha, Vani S. Kulkarni, and Nidhi Kaicker. Diets, Nutrition, and Poverty. Edited by Ronald J. Herring. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195397772.013.029.
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This chapter addresses a persistent tension in current debates over food security, with illustrative data from India. The case allows us to disaggregate concepts in food policy that are often lumped together, so as to better understand what is at stake in rapidly changing economies more generally. Despite rising incomes, there has been sustained decline in per capita nutrient intake in India in recent years. The assertion by Deaton and Dreze (2009) that poverty and undernutrition are unrelated is critically examined. A demand-based model in which food prices and expenditure played significant roles proved robust, while allowing for lower calorie “requirements” due to less strenuous activity patterns, life-style changes, and improvements in the epidemiological environment. This analysis provides reasons for not delinking nutrition and poverty; it confirms the existence of poverty-nutrition traps in which undernutrition perpetuates poverty. A new measure of child undernutrition that allows for multiple anthropometric failures (e.g., wasting, underweight, and stunting) points to much higher levels of undernutrition than conventional ones. Dietary changes over time, and their nutritional implications, have welfare implications at both ends of the income and social-status pyramids. Since poverty is multidimensional, money-metric indicators such as minimum income or expenditure are not reliable, because these cannot adequately capture all the dimensions. The emergent shift of the disease burden toward predominately food-related noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) poses an additional challenge. Finally, the complexity of normative issues in food policy is explored. Current approaches to food security have veered toward a “right-to-food” approach. There are, however, considerable problems with creating appropriate mechanisms for effectuating that right; these are explored briefly. Cash transfers touted to avoid administrative costs and corruption involved in rural employment guarantee and targeted food-distribution programs are likely to be much less effective if the objective is to enable large segments of the rural population to break out of nutrition-poverty traps. The chapter ends by exploring an alternative model, based on the same normative principle: a “right to policies,” or a “right to a right.”
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Polido, Fabrício Bertini Pasquot, and Mônica Steffen Guise Rosina. The Emergence and Development of Intellectual Property Law in South America. Edited by Rochelle Dreyfuss and Justine Pila. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198758457.013.20.
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This chapter analyses the emergence and development of intellectual property (IP) systems in South America as they have evolved since the early Pan-American treaties and the Paris and Berne Conventions, and how they have been influenced by national constitutions, domestic laws, and—most recently—international trade agreements. It highlights the coexistence of distinct landscapes for several decades before the TRIPs Agreement entered into force and brought minimum standards of harmonization. Before that, IP regimes in South America matured according to each country’s own conception of IP, resulting in different national statutes and constitutional provisions and producing a unique regional IP legal and policy landscape. From a regional perspective, South America has made efforts to create local systems of IP protection, but with limited success. The result is a fragmented system that still needs to relate to multilateral and bilateral rules, creating a challenging regulatory environment.
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Wark, McKenzie. Philosophy for Spiders. Duke University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478021988.
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It's time to recognize Kathy Acker as one of the great postwar American writers. Over the decades readers have found a punk Acker, a feminist Acker, a queer Acker, a kink Acker, and an avant-garde Acker. In Philosophy for Spiders, McKenzie Wark adds a trans Acker. Wark recounts her memories of Acker (with whom she had a passionate affair) and gives a comprehensive reading of her published and archived works. Wark finds not just an inventive writer of fiction who pressed against the boundaries of gender but a theorist whose comprehensive philosophy of life brings a conceptual intelligence to the everyday life of those usually excluded from philosophy's purview. As Wark shows, Acker's engagement with topics such as masturbation, sadism, body-building, and penetrative sex are central to her distinct phenomenology of the body that theorizes the body's relation to others, the city, and technology.
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Rashid, Salim, and Irwan Shah Zainal Abidin. From TPPA to CPTPP: potential impact on Malaysia's finance, banking and trade. UUM Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.32890/9789672210962.
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) is an economic partnership pact negotiated by 12 countries in three continents, namely Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, United States and Vietnam. The TPPA has evolved into the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), when the United States pulled out from the multilateral free trade deal in 2018. Malaysia began negotiations on the TPPA in August 2010, and participated as a full negotiating member from October 2010 onwards.The TPPA itself was based on the United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS), which was completed in 2011. This agreement provided a benchmark to decide and evaluate on several issues in the CPTPP. The overall intent of the CPTPP is a simple one: it is to extend non-discriminatory practices to all CPTPP members. This does not mean that regulations and restrictions will not exist that such regulations will apply equally to Malaysian and non-Malaysian CPTPP members. Contentious issues in the CPTPP will be analyse and discuss in this book. Is the Malaysian economy ready for the CPTPP rules especially in the financial and capital markets? To what extent that Bank Negaras ability to retain their power to intervene when either the balance of payments or the currency is felt to be under threat with CPTPP? What are the impacts of CPTPP to the real economic side of the Malaysian economy? Will national rights are being relinquished under CPTPP? How about the concern over investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS)? This book will address these issues in an objective and rational manner.
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Dubow, Saul. South Africa: Paradoxes in the Place of Race. Edited by Alison Bashford and Philippa Levine. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195373141.013.0016.
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This article discusses the proposition that eugenics and related scientific ideas play a major role in validating the systems of apartheid and its predecessor. It elaborates a comprehensive scheme of racial segregation as a national program in the first decades of the twentieth century and calibrates the distinctions between different races and ethnic groups thoroughly assimilated in the habits of mind and the social behavior of South Africans. This article gives an account of changes in the patterns of racial awareness and discrimination: for example, the shift from social hierarchies based on status, to those founded on race typology in the course of the nineteenth century. It presents the association of sequences of population movements with underlying racial competence. It further discusses the recent tendency to see eugenics as a trans-national phenomenon which fits well with reevaluations of the spread of scientific knowledge that eschew mechanistic models of the transmission of ideas from core to periphery.
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Cohen, Richard I., ed. Orit Rozin, A Home for All Jews: Citizenship, Rights, and National Identity in the New Israeli State, trans. Haim Watzman. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2016. 231 pp. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190912628.003.0059.
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This chapter reviews the book A Home for All Jews: Citizenship, Rights, and National Identity in the New Israeli State (2016), by Orit Rozin, translated by Haim Watzman. In A Home for All Jews, Rozin tells the complex story of an emerging society that absorbed hundreds of thousands of Jews during the first decade following independence. Rozin shows that the immigrants came not only in search of a home, but an identity as well. She also examines the mutual affinities between the struggle for civil rights and the shaping of national identity, as well as the connection between state and society and between nation-building and the formation of a state. Topics include the marriage of girls at a tender age, and the struggle that led to the adoption of the Age of Marriage Law in 1950; the campaign against the restrictions on travel abroad; and how nongovernmental organizations influenced the shaping of national identity and the perception of citizenship.
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Hood, Christopher, and Rozana Himaz. After the 2008 Financial Crash. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779612.003.0010.
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This chapter describes the long 2010–15 fiscal squeeze under the first Conservative–Liberal coalition since the early 1920s, in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis and with debt and deficit at levels not seen for four decades or more. It included sharp political debate over timing, depth, and tax/spending balance of fiscal squeeze, with most of the coalition squeeze based on its Labour predecessor’s plans, and the deficit reduction outcome roughly the same as those Labour plans, principally because of shortfall on the revenue side. This episode was marked by a repeat of ‘bear trap’ tactics by the incumbents, and the post-squeeze 2015 election rewarded one party in the coalition, while the other party was heavily punished and so was the Labour Opposition. How far the victory of ‘Vote Leave’ (Brexit) in the 2016 referendum on UK membership of the EU can be attributed to fiscal squeeze is debatable.
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Carbonell, Curtis D. Dread Trident. Liverpool University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789620573.001.0001.
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Dread Trident examines the rise of imaginary worlds in tabletop role-playing games (TRPGs), such as Dungeons and Dragons. With the combination of analog and digital mechanisms, from traditional books to the internet, new ways of engaging the fantastic have become increasingly realized in recent years, and this book seeks an understanding of this phenomenon within the discourses of trans- and posthumanism, as well as within a gameist mode. The book explores a number of case studies of foundational TRPGs. Dungeons and Dragons provides an illustration of pulp-driven fantasy, particularly in the way it harmonizes its many campaign settings into a functional multiverse. It also acts as a supreme example of depth within its archive of official and unofficial published material, stretching back four decades. Warhammer 40k and the Worlds of Darkness present an interesting dialogue between Gothic and science-fantasy elements. The Mythos of HP Lovecraft also features prominently in the book as an example of a realized world that spans the literary and gameist modes. Realized fantasy worlds are becoming ever more popular as a way of experiencing a touch of the magical within modern life. Following Northrop Frye’s definition of irony, Dread Trident theorizes an ironic understanding of this process and in particular of its embodied forms.
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Weill, Sharon, Kim Thuy Seelinger, and Kerstin Bree Carlson, eds. The President on Trial. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198858621.001.0001.
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By some accounts, the trial and conviction of Hissène Habré is the most significant achievement global criminal justice has enjoyed in the past decade. Simply creating a court and commencing a trial against a deposed head of state was an extraordinary success. The ad hoc tribunal set up in Senegal exceeded expectations, working on time, within budget, with no murdered witnesses or self-dealing officials. This achievement is particularly meaningful in the current climate, where we are witnessing a ‘backlash’ against international criminal justice. This book presents the Habré trial and its impact using a novel structure of first person accounts and academic analysis, presenting both local and international perspectives through distinct but inter-locking parts. It offers empirical source material followed by expert analysis designed to bring the reader closer both to the construction and work of the Extraordinary African Chambers (EAC) as well as wider themes of international criminal law. We the editors followed the case from 2015 onwards. We made several trips to Dakar in order to interview a spectrum of actors associated with the EAC. Convinced of the trial’s significance, concerned that it would remain understudied by an anglophone audience, and wishing to bring local experience and knowledge out of Dakar and to the world, we conceived of the book’s particular structure. This is the genesis of the twenty-six actor testimonials that constitute Part I, the heart of the book. In Part II of the book we situate the Habré case in its larger context through seventeen contributions of leading academics and experts in the field of ICL.
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Potts, Gwynne Tuell. George Rogers Clark and William Croghan. University Press of Kentucky, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813178677.001.0001.
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This is a story of greed, adventure and settlement; of causes won and lost. The book’s theme is eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century conflict and settlement in the Ohio River valley, told within the context of the national and international events that led to the American Revolution and guided Kentucky’s postwar future.“Colonel” George Croghan serves as the exemplar of Britain’s trans-Appalachian experience. The Revolution was fought in three theaters; the northern belonged to George Washington, and among his officers was Croghan’s nephew, Major William Croghan. The major joined the southern theater at the moment the Continental Army surrendered to Britain in Charleston. The third theater was the Revolution in the West, and its leader was Virginia colonel, later general, George Rogers Clark, whose vision secured the old Northwest Territory for the new nation. Taken together, the war adventures of Clark and Croghan epitomize the American course of the Revolution. Croghan and Clark arrived at the Falls of the Ohio River after the Revolutionto survey the land that served as payment for Virginia’s soldiers. Clark, however, regularly was called by Virginia and the federal government to secure peace in the Ohio River valley, leading to his financial ruin and emotional decline. Croghan, his partner and brother-in-law, remained at Clark’s side throughout it all, even as he prospered in the new world they had fought to create, while Clark languished.
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von Winning, Alexa. Intimate Empire. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192844415.001.0001.
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After a humiliating defeat in the Crimean War, the Russian Empire struggled to reassert its position as a global power. A small noble family returned from the siege of Sevastopol and joined the rulers’ efforts to advance Russian standing in the decades before 1917. Leaving Home tells the story of the Mansurovs, who were known to nineteenth-century observers as resourceful imperial agents and staunch supporters of Orthodoxy. In close interplay with scholarship and the media, they built churches and pilgrim hostels to increase Russian dominance within its borders and in the Ottoman Empire. They facilitated communication between the Russian Empire and the wider Orthodox world and expanded its institutional infrastructure in areas of religion and scholarship outside Russia. Some of the family’s achievements stand to this day: the Russian complex in Jerusalem and an impressive Orthodox convent in Riga. When the Revolution came, they faced stigmatization as former nobles, believers, and monarchists. Impoverishment and arrests became part of their daily lives in Soviet Russia. Leaving Home is a study of the momentous role played by elite families in Russia’s international involvement in the age of empire. It shows how three generations of a mobile noble family advanced the intertwined causes of the Russian Empire and Orthodoxy, using family resources and tools of intimacy. Women were crucial for the family’s efforts, both behind the scenes and in public. Russia, Orthodoxy, and noble family life emerge as part of the European trans-imperial scene.
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Lorino, Philippe. Pragmatism and Organization Studies. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198753216.001.0001.
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The development of pragmatist thought (Peirce, James, Dewey, and Mead) in the first half of the twentieth century in the United States deeply impacted political science, semiotics, philosophy, psychology, sociology, education, law. Later intellectual trends (analytical philosophy, structuralism, cognitivism) focusing on rational representations or archetypical models somehow sidelined Pragmatism for three decades. In the world of organizations, they often conveyed the Cartesian dream of rational control, which became the mainstream view in management and organization research. In response to the growing uncertainty and complexity of situations, social sciences have experienced a “pragmatist turn.” Many streams of organization research have criticized the view of organizations as information-processing structures, controlled through rational representations. They share some key theoretical principles: the processual view of organizing as “becoming”; the emphasis on the key role of action; the agential power of objects; the exploratory and inquiring nature of organizing. These are precisely the key theses of pragmatists, who formulated a radical critique of the dualisms which hinder organization studies (thought/action, decision/execution, reality/representation, individual/collective, micro/macro) and developed key concepts applicable to organization studies (inquiry, semiotic mediation, habit, abduction, trans-action, valuation). This book aims to make the pragmatist intellectual framework more accessible to organization and management scholars. It presents some fundamental pragmatist concepts, and their potential application to the study of organizations, drawing conclusions concerning managerial practices, in particular the critique of the Taylorian tradition and the promotion of continuous improvement. To enhance accessibility, each theme is illustrated by real cases experienced by the author.
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Kahn, Andrew, Mark Lipovetsky, Irina Reyfman, and Stephanie Sandler. A History of Russian Literature. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199663941.001.0001.
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The History of Russian Literature provides a comprehensive account of Russian writing from its earliest origins in the monastic works of Kiev up to the present day, still rife with the creative experiments of post-Soviet literary life. Five chronological parts by design unfold in diachronic histories; they can be read individually but are presented as inseparable across the span of a national literature. Throughout its course, this History follows literary processes as they worked in respective periods and places, whether in monasteries, at court, in publishing houses, in the literary marketplace, or the Writers’ Union. Evolving institutional practices used to organize literature are themselves a part of the story of literature told in poetry, drama, and prose including diaries and essays. Equally prominent is the idea of writers’ agency in responding to tradition and reacting to larger forces such as church and state that shape the literary field. Coverage strikes a balance between extensive overview and in-depth thematic discussion, addressing trans-historical questions through case studies detailing the importance of texts, figures, and notions. The book does not follow the decline model often used in accounts of the nineteenth century as a change-over between ages of prose and poetry. We trace in the evolution of literature two interrelated processes: changes in subjectivities and the construction of national narratives. It is through categories of nationhood, literary politics, and literary life, forms of selfhood, and forms of expression that the intense influence of literature on a culture as a whole occurs.
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Lapham, Heather A., and Gregory A. Waselkov, eds. Bears. University Press of Florida, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9781683401384.001.0001.
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Thanks to Irving Hallowell’s classic 1926 comparative ethnography on the special mythic status of bears in Subarctic cultures, anthropologists are generally aware that peoples throughout the northern hemisphere have treated bears as far more than a subsistence resource, something more akin to another kind of human or, to use Hallowell’s famous phrase, “other-than-human persons.” While Hallowell provided ample evidence of bear ceremonialism in northern latitudes, he found little evidence for the special treatment of bears elsewhere in Native North America. Archaeological and historical research over the last nine decades, however, has produced vast unsynthesized information about the roles of bears in Native American beliefs, rituals, and subsistence. This book is the first collective effort since Hallowell’s formative publication to consider how Native peoples viewed, treated, and used black bears (Ursus americanus) through time across Eastern North America. Contributors draw on zooarchaeological, ethnohistorical, ethnographic, and other evidence of bear hunting, consumption, and use, while contemplating the range of relationships that existed between bears and humans. They have reviewed thousands of pages of ethnohistorical and ethnographic documents and summarized and interpreted data on bear remains from nearly 300 archaeological sites from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico. Native peoples perceived and related to bears in remarkably diverse ways. Our authors explore the religious and economic significance of bears and bear products (meat, fat, oil, pelts, etc.), bear imagery in Native art and artifacts, and bears in Native worldviews, kinship systems, and cosmologies, along with their role as exported commodities in trans-Atlantic trade.
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Fitzgerald, John, and Hon-ming Yip, eds. Chinese Diaspora Charity and the Cantonese Pacific, 1850-1949. Hong Kong University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888528264.001.0001.
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Charity is common to diaspora communities the world over, from Armenian diaspora networks to Zimbabwean ones, but the forms charitable activity takes vary across communities and sites of settlement. What was distinctive about Chinese diaspora charity? This volume explores the history of charity among overseas Chinese during the century from 1850 to 1949 with a particular focus on the Cantonese "Gold Rush" communities of the Pacific rim, a loosely integrated network of émigrés from Cantonese-speaking counties in Guangdong Province, centering on colonial Hong Kong where people lived, worked and moved among English-speaking settler societies of North America and Oceania. The Cantonese Pacific was distinguished from fabled Nanyang communities of Southeast Asia in a number of ways and the forms their charity assumed were equally distinctive. In addition to traditional functions, charity served as a medium of cross-cultural negotiation with dominant Anglo-settler societies of the Pacific. Community leaders worked through civic associations to pioneer new models of public charity to demand recognition of Chinese immigrants as equal citizens in their host societies. Their charitable innovations were shaped by their host societies in turn, exemplified by women's role in charitable activities from the early decades of the 20th century. By focusing on charitable practices in the Cantonese diaspora over a century of trans-Pacific migration, this collection sheds new light on the history of charity in the Chinese diaspora, including institutional innovations not apparent within China itself, and on the place of the Chinese diaspora in the wider history of charity and philanthropy.
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Six-Hohenbalken, Maria, ed. Reisen zu den Quellen des Tigris ‒ Travels to the Tigris Springs. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1553/978oeaw85796.
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In the second half of the 19th century, European interest in research in western Asia increasingly expanded to the areas inhabited by the Kurds. From the modern perspective, these studies contributed not only to the study of still little-known regions, but also to the introduction of Kurdish Studies. Initially the focus of the research was almost entirely dictated by British, Russian and French colonial interests, which have been subjected to a critical reappraisal over the last three decades in accordance with post-colonial approaches and their importance redefined. It is for precisely this reason that those study trips which did not have a colonial background or did not pursue economic or power-political interests are particularly valuable. And that is also why nowadays autonomous and independently organised research, like that undertaken by Josef Wünsch (1842–1907), who worked in Prague and Vienna, can be seen as pioneering. Wünsch pursued universal research interests and produced both ethnographic and cartographic documentation. He drew up detailed cartographic material for the “Kurdish regions” and created a museum collection of everyday items. The results of his research on Mesopotamia were published in journals in Vienna and Prague, but he never produced a complete overview of his two years of research. Nowadays Wünsch's legacy is divided between various Austrian and Czech institutions. By bringing together the various partial legacies, in this collective volume all published and unpublished results of Josef Wünsch’s research will be edited, reports in Czech incorporated through commentated translations and then a critical re-evaluation undertaken. All of this will be preceded by an introductory chapter on Austrian contributions to the development of Kurdish Studies from the late 19th century on.
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Camino Solórzano, Miguel, Marcelo Patricio Espinoza Macías, Alejandro Mendoza Chávez, Jennyffer Machuca Pérez, Ámbar Solórzano Molina, Ronny Aldana Vargas, Geovanny Proaño Parra, Alexis Macías Mendoza, and Leidy Cevallos Barberán. Pueblos mínimos: planificación estratégica sobre cultura y economía circular. Mawil Publicaciones de Ecuador, 2021, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.26820/978-9942-826-55-8.
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Durante los años 2018 y 2019, en la Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí (ULEAM), se sucedieron por motivos diferentes, dos petitorios: el primero, por iniciativa de la Primera Dama de la Nación, quien solicitó que se realice la articulación entre diferentes instituciones estatales: Ministerio de Desarrollo Urbano y Vivienda (MIDUVI), Ministerio de Turismo (MINTUR) e Instituto Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural (INPC); con la finalidad de potenciar y convertir en un atractivo turístico nacional e internacional, a la comuna Pile del cantón Montecristi, en la provincia de Manabí. En segundo lugar, la comuna Sancán realizó un acercamiento con la ULEAM mediante su cooperativa ASESORALSANCÁN, para que ésta, en pleno ejercicio de su misión institucional, reflejada en la asistencia técnica a las comunidades más vulnerables de su área de influencia, realice un análisis de la situación, y elabore una propuesta que contribuya a la solución de la problemática presentada por los moradores de la comuna. Es a partir de estos antecedentes, que el Observatorio Territorial Multidisciplinario (OTM) de la ULEAM, decide tras la elaboración de ambas propuestas, presentar en este texto de manera compilatoria los resultados obtenidos, en conjunto con el debate multidisciplinar e interinstitucional, que produjo diferentes opiniones del abordaje a estas comunas, a las que denominaremos en adelante “pueblos mínimos”, a partir de una minuciosa caracterización, que busca retratar de manera precisa y coherente la forma en que dichos pueblos se han convertido en eslabones imprescindibles dentro de un sistema territorial, en donde las constantes referencias a la globalización deben ceder paso a las distancias locales e intermedias de estos pueblos pintorescos, variados y vitales.
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