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Price, Lisa. Success never smelled so sweet: How I followed by nose and found my passion. New York: One World, 2004.
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Peter, Kavanagh. Little Prince and the Great Dragon chase. Hemel Hempstead: Simon & Schuster Young Books, 1994.
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Monson, Daniel H. Age distributions of sea otters found dead in Prince William Sound, Alaska, following the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Anchorage, AK: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Alaska Fish and Wildlife Research Center, 1995.
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Monson, Daniel H. Age distributions of sea otters found dead in Prince William Sound, Alaska, following the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Anchorage, AK: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Alaska Fish and Wildlife Research Center, 1995.
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Monson, Daniel H. Age distributions of sea otters found dead in Prince William Sound, Alaska, following the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Anchorage, AK: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Alaska Fish and Wildlife Research Center, 1995.
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Holleman, Marybeth. The heart of the sound: An Alaskan paradise found and nearly lost. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010.
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Le temps des cardinaux: Richelieu, Mazarin : de l'assassinat d'Henri IV à la prise de pouvoir de Louis XIV..., de la guerre de Trente Ans à la fronde des princes..., de régentes jalouses en favoris décadents..., d'un cardinal de fer à un prélat de velours..., naissance de l'absolutisme royal sur fond de complots et débuts du Grand Siècle sur fond de misère. Toulouse: Privat, 2002.
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Reaffirming support for the legitimate democratically-elected government of Lebanon under Prime Minister Fouad Siniora; expressing condolences and sympathy to the people of the PRC for the loss of life and destruction caused by the massive earthquake centered in Sichuan Province; and Merida Initiative to Combat Illicit Narcotics and Reduce Organized Crime Authorization Act of 2008: Markup before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, on H. Res. 1194, H. Res. 1195 and H.R. 6028, May 14, 2008. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2008.
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Ekelund, Robert B., John D. Jackson, and Robert D. Tollison. American Art, “Experts,” and Auction Institutions. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190657895.003.0004.
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Estimates made by “experts” regarding the value of a painting to be offered at auction are evaluated as to whether or not they provide a “fair” or “unbiased” range. Using a sample of eighty American artists over the period 1987–2013, evidence is found that in general art prices are underestimated, but that very high priced art may be overestimated in the interests of profit-maximizing auction houses; we also find that the higher the low estimate, the less likely a painting is to sell, and the wider the range between high and low estimated, the more likely it is to sell; that if a painting does not sell on first offer, its hammer price will be about 60 percent lower if it sells on the next offering (it is “burned”); and that the rapid rise in buyer’s premiums charged by auction houses has had, in combination with other factors, a reduction in auction house revenues.
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Price, Lisa, and Hilary Beard. Success Never Smelled So Sweet: How I Followed My Nose and Found My Passion. One World/Ballantine, 2004.
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Capps, Christie. Lost & Found: A Pride & Prejudice Novella. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018.
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Bán, Zsófia. Lost and Found in Translation. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040832.003.0019.
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This essay contemplates playfulness, levity, and freedom of spirit in relation to Hungary, freedom, and the burden of history. Ban argues that one of the most enduring stereotypes of U.S. culture in Hungary (and elsewhere in Europe) is precisely its supposed “lack of reflection,” its lack of depth, its “childishness,” and its overall unserious nature. Moreover, she writes about Hungarian intellectuals as typically deploring the “Americanization” of their culture and their history. Debates have ensued and are now even being revived with the launch of Fateless, a Hungarian cinematographic memorial to the Holocaust based on Imre Kertesz’s book that earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002. But Ban focuses on examples where the assumed congruence of Americanization and postmodernism can be detected and actually seen as problematic. As she sees it, the problem of Americanization in Central/Eastern Europe goes beyond the simple paradox of “particularism within the U.S.” versus “global Americanization elsewhere.”
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Gayithri, K., and Indrajit Bairagya. Funding for Social Science Research: Government Sources. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199474417.003.0011.
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This chapter aims at ascertaining the flows and priorities in accessing funds by various institutions involved in SSR in India from government sources. The analysis is mainly based on the data collected from the various ministries, Councils, etc. The study found that the share of expenditure on social science research (SSR) as percentage of total union budget of the central government was 0.025 per cent whereas it was 0.86 percent for pure science research. The share of SSR budget to GDP at market price for the year 2010–11 was 0.0062 per cent whereas it was 0.21 per cent in pure sciences. While estimating the demand supply gap, the study found that supply of funds to SSR is much less than requirement.
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Mofo, Liako. Future-proofing the plastics value chain in Southern Africa. UNU-WIDER, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35188/unu-wider/2020/905-1.
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Plastics are ubiquitous across the region and play an important role in multiple industries. Most plastic products are based on a value chain that is grounded in petroleum refining, posing an environmental challenge. Plastic manufacturing in South Africa suffers from the high cost of polymers as inputs. Mozambique is endowed with large natural gas deposits. This research assesses the potential for the sustainable development of a plastics value chain in Southern Africa, with the aim of future-proofing the industry against changes in the petroleum space while bolstering growth in plastics manufacture and fostering a more equitable regional distribution of plastics activities. This study found that there is strong regional value chain potential between South Africa and Mozambique, with Mozambique producing natural gas feedstock and South Africa providing labour, capital, and technology. South African plastic manufacturers could also benefit from better input prices derived from better priced natural gas from Mozambique.
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Batson, C. Daniel. The Prime Suspect. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190651374.003.0004.
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In Chapter 3, we found that the empathy–altruism hypothesis and the remove-empathy hypothesis (the prime egoistic suspect) make distinct predictions in an Ease-of-Escape (easy, difficult) × Empathic-Concern (low, high) 2 × 2 experimental design. This chapter describes four different experiments that employed this design. Results of none patterned as predicted by the remove-empathy hypothesis. Instead, the results consistently patterned as predicted by the empathy–altruism hypothesis. Apparently, the motivation produced by empathic concern is not directed toward the ultimate goal of removing the empathic concern itself. Some other self-benefit must be the ultimate goal of the increased helping produced by feeling empathy for a person in need.
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Riley, Barry. Harry Truman, European Hunger, and the Cold War. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190228873.003.0008.
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Harry Truman was the hugely unpopular, embattled, pugnacious American president as World War II ended. He faced nationwide strikes, consumer unhappiness with continued price controls, and a Republican Party sensing a vulnerable Democrat in the White House. Abroad, his problems were, if anything, bigger: Soviet threats to Greece and Turkey, communist parties in Western Europe verging on political power, continued economic weakness, deepening hunger in many parts of the world. This chapter describes how Truman sought—with considerable success—to deal with these threats. With the Truman Doctrine and the Point 4 program, considerable help from the deeply conservative ex-president Herbert Hoover, and grudging financing from Congress, Truman found ways to weaken the communist threat in Europe. In the process, he succeeded in providing enough food relief to nearly end the threat of famine in Europe. The last hurdle was finding a way to spur European economic recovery.
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Riley, Barry. A Global Food Crisis. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190228873.003.0016.
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The global food crisis of 1972–74 was the result of unusually poor harvests in many of the world’s major production areas. South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa were particularly hard hit and needed to import basic foodstuffs to avert famine. Unfortunately, because of unprecedented purchases by the Soviet Union and decisions by oil-exporting countries to raise prices on oil, poor countries faced higher prices for both food and energy, while the food aid donors found themselves unable to find food aid commodities at affordable prices to send to countries desperately in need. This chapter describes how these events came about, the depth of the problem in the hardest-hit countries, and the nature—and constraints on—the U.S. response to them.
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Dunnington, Kent. Humility, Pride, and Christian Virtue Theory. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198818397.001.0001.
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This book proposes an account of humility that relies on the most radical Christian sayings about humility, especially those found in Augustine and the early monastic tradition. It argues that this was the view of humility that put Christian moral thought into decisive conflict with the best Greco-Roman moral thought. This radical Christian account of humility has been forgotten amid contemporary efforts to clarify and retrieve the virtue of humility for secular life. The book shows how humility was repurposed during the early modern era—particularly in the thought of Hobbes, Hume, and Kant—better to serve the economic and social needs of the emerging modern state. This repurposed humility insisted on a role for proper pride alongside humility, as a necessary constituent of self-esteem and a necessary motive of consistent moral action over time. Contemporary philosophical accounts of humility continue this emphasis on proper pride as a counterbalance to humility. By contrast, radical Christian humility proscribes pride altogether. The book shows how such a radical view need not give rise to vices of humility such as servility and pusillanimity, nor need such a view fall prey to feminist critiques of humility. But the view of humility set forth makes little sense abstracted from a specific set of doctrinal commitments peculiar to Christianity. The book argues that this is a strength rather than a weakness of the account since it displays how Christianity matters for the shape of the moral life.
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Stoneman, Paul, Eleonora Bartoloni, and Maurizio Baussola. Capacity Creation, Pricing, and the Promotion of Product Innovations. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198816676.003.0006.
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This chapter analyses market suppliers’ decisions relating to the pricing, promotion, and creation of capacity to manufacture goods that embody product innovations. The discussion encompasses durable and non-durable products; monopoly and oligopoly; horizontal and vertical differentiation; and original, new-to-market, and new-to-firm products. Firms may have incentives to further innovate after the launch of the original product; this will lead to lower prices and to greater demand and output. This may also imply greater capacity creation (in some location). It is found, however, that the incentives of the originator and those of potential new entrants may differ and will tend to lead to lower prices when there are many suppliers as opposed to when there are fewer. This means that, if there are more innovators, the quantity supplied will be higher; creation of capacity may also be greater, but findings on promotional expenditures are not conclusive.
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Viswanathan, P. K., R. Parthasarathy, and Madhusudan Bandi. International Collaborations as Research Infrastructure. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199474417.003.0005.
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This chapter examined the availability of the facilities for international collaboration for research, with a focus on two prime organisations, the University Grant Commission (UGC) and the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), which are engaged in promoting international collaboration. Beside this data also collected from various central and state universities. The study found that UGC has cultural exchange program with 48 countries, which include joint research project, exchanges of faculty, fellowship such as post-doctoral project-based exchange, and exchange of scholar programmes with several countries.
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Richardson, Ken. Australia's Amazing Kangaroos. CSIRO Publishing, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643097407.
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This book provides an authoritative source of information on kangaroos and their relatives. Topics include: species characteristics and biology, adaptations and function, and conservation. The book also discusses culling and the commercial kangaroo harvest, as well as national attitudes to kangaroos and their value for tourism.
There are 71 recognised species of kangaroo found in Australasia. Of these, 46 are endemic to Australia, 21 are endemic to the island of New Guinea, and four species are found in both regions. The various species have a number of common names, including bettong, kangaroo, pademelon, potoroo, quokka, rat kangaroo, rock wallaby, tree kangaroo, wallaby and wallaroo.
Illustrated in full colour, Australia’s Amazing Kangaroos will give readers insight into the world of this intriguing marsupial – an animal that has pride of place on the Australian Coat of Arms.
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USDA commodity forecasts: Inaccuracies found may lead to underestimates of budget outlays : report to the Honorable J. Robert Kerrey, U.S. Senate. Washington, D.C: The Office, 1991.
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USDA commodity forecasts: Inaccuracies found may lead to underestimates of budget outlays : report to the Honorable J. Robert Kerrey, U.S. Senate. Washington, D.C: The Office, 1991.
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USDA commodity forecasts: Inaccuracies found may lead to underestimates of budget outlays : report to the Honorable J. Robert Kerrey, U.S. Senate. Washington, D.C: The Office, 1991.
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Palmer, R. R. Democrats and Aristocrats—Dutch, Belgian, and Swiss. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691161280.003.0011.
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This chapter details events in the Netherlands and Belgium. In both countries, constituted bodies—in this case town councils and estate-assemblies—determining their own membership within a closed system, claimed to represent the country and to rule in their own right. Both asserted their powers and liberties against a “prince”—the Prince of Orange in the case of the Dutch, the Austrian Emperor in that of the Belgians—and both, after 1780, found a new popular party fighting at their side. The new party, which was neither exactly popular nor yet a party in a more modern sense, at first felt no difference of purpose from its allies. As the controversies developed, however, the new party began to brand its allies, or erstwhile allies, as “aristocrats,” and to favor an actual reconstitution of the old constituted bodies, so that these bodies would become representative in a new kind of way, either by actual choice at the hands of voters outside their own ranks, or through a broadening of membership to reflect wider segments of the population.
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Robinson, Scharn. Opportunity Costs. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036453.003.0008.
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This chapter looks at Bill Clinton's role in the 2008 campaign and his special relationship to Black voters. As he left office in 2001, Clinton's positive legacy of social and economic inclusiveness was very much intact in the African American community. Moreover, his relationship with and treatment of African Americans stood as a shining part of what would become the Clinton legacy. However, when President Clinton waged war on behalf of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination during 2008 presidential campaign season, he found that the political landscape had changed. He appeared to make little accommodation in his combative campaign style for the fact that Obama was being treated like the crown prince by American journalists and the Democratic Party. As a result, Clinton found himself explaining incidents of political sparring between the Clinton camp and the Obama camp that needed no explanation against other opponents. He also made gross miscalculations about the nature and strength of the Clintons' support among African Americans.
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Wilks, Timothy. Poets, Patronage, and the Prince’s Court. Edited by Malcolm Smuts. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199660841.013.10.
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This chapter examines Prince Henry’s emergent court during the years 1603 to 1612. It traces the development of a court culture that drew upon the contingent spheres of London publishing and public theatre to express the interests and ambitions of the prince’s circle. Both the patronage of writers and the establishment of libraries are presented as priorities of the court in its formative years. Shakespeare’s tragicomedies, all written in this period, respond to the interests in exploration, colonization, British identity and heritage being strongly advanced at Henry’s court; though unlike Jonson, Shakespeare appears not to have written for Henry. After Henry’s death, Protestant pastoral, having, in the Jacobean age, briefly found a court with which it could sympathize, is seen to change into an opposition poetry.
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Greer, Ian, Karen N. Breidahl, Matthias Knuth, and Flemming Larsen. The Marketization of Employment Services. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198785446.001.0001.
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This book examines the marketization of employment services and its consequences in Denmark, Great Britain, and Germany. What concretely does marketization mean in practice? What are its effects on the services and their governance? How does marketization and its effects map against the main ‘regime types’ found in comparative social science? These questions are answered using more than 100 qualitative interviews with policymakers, managers, and front-line workers. The qualitative material in the book shows how transactions are structured by the public authorities that fund the services and how managers respond both collectively as a sector and individually in organizing services. The book does so within a framework that allows both within- and between-country comparisons. Employment services are used as a window into the much larger phenomenon of intensified economic competition across Europe. These three countries have marketized their employment services in different ways, and the distinct trajectories are discussed. We define employment services as government-funded services to move jobless people into, or closer to, paid work, with a public employment service as the responsible ‘public authority’. Marketization in this book is conceptualized in terms of the features of transactions that produce competition between providers. Providers of employment services are deeply affected by marketization, because it shapes the uncertainty and resource scarcity that they face. Marketization can lead to the disorganization of employment relations and the intensification of managerial control, and the quality of services is part of these organization-level effects. Marketization creates four dilemmas that lead to change in governance—price versus quality, payment-by-results versus equal access to services, user choice versus user compulsion, and transparency/openness vs transaction costs. Failures of the work-first welfare state are due in large part to the failures of marketization.
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List of law books: Among which will be found some very rare Canadian works offered for sale at the low prices affixed by P. Gagnon .. [Quebec?: s.n., 1986.
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Bátiz-Lazo, Bernardo. The British Are Coming! Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198782810.003.0003.
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Chapter 3 (‘The British Are Coming!’) explains the origins of the technology in the United Kingdom. It is widely assumed that the operation of a machine in the Enfield branch of Barclays was the ‘prime mover’ in this industry. However, the historical record fails to identify a hero inventor; rather multiple independent versions of the cash machine were launched at more or less the same time in different countries. Yet in spite of the great fanfare, there was no real race to market. There is no evidence the engineers responsible for them knew of each other’s existence before this launch (but many bankers did). Four years later, very few members of the public knew the cash machine existed, even less had used them and only a handful found them convenient.
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Chaudhuri, Rudra. The Parliament. Edited by David M. Malone, C. Raja Mohan, and Srinath Raghavan. Oxford University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198743538.013.16.
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This chapter outlines the role of the Indian Parliament in the domain of foreign policy. It shows how the legislature can shape and even check executive decisions. Contrary to popular accounts, the chapter argues that Indian Prime Ministers have found themselves more vulnerable than otherwise accepted to the push and pull tensions of parliamentary oversight. This was amply clear in their approach to treaties, alliances, territorial agreements, and war and peace more generally. The chapter looks carefully at single-party governments in the early years of the republic and their relationship with the Indian Parliament in the making of foreign policy. It goes on to study the experience of governments and the execution of foreign policy in the twenty-first century, whilst also examining the role of state legislatures and regional politics.
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Davis, George C., and Elena L. Serrano. Horizontally and Vertically Related Competitive Markets. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199379118.003.0015.
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Chapter 15 demonstrates how markets may be interrelated. The chapter defines horizontally and vertically related markets and provides the steps to follow in analyzing those markets. The chapter demonstrates and discuss the implications a horizontally related market analysis would have for measuring the effect of a sugar sweetened beverage tax as has been found in the literature. The chapter then works through a hypothetical example of an increase in supply in an input market (the upstream market) and how this affects the output market (the downstream market) that is vertically related to the input market. This analysis is discussed in the context of research on the effects of US farm policy on corn prices and therefore the effects on downstream food markets and ultimately the contribution such policies make toward the obesity epidemic.
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Patton, Raymond A. Thatcher, Reagan, Jaruzelski. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190872359.003.0006.
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This chapter examines punk’s intertwined relationship with the rise of neoconservative/neoliberal politics amid the regimes of US president Ronald Reagan, UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher, and martial law Poland under first secretary of the Communist Party General Wojciech Jaruzelski. In each country, punk was intertwined with a shift from a Cold War political framework toward neoliberalism and an increasingly culturally based political alignment. Examining Oi! and 2 Tone in the United Kingdom, and straightedge, hardcore, and the punks around the ’zine Maximum Rocknroll in the United States, it shows how punk scenes around the world became entangled in these shifts and found themselves fracturing along the newly relevant political categories. In Eastern Europe, market reforms and efforts to revive the Polish economy and cultural sphere exacerbated tensions between subcultural capital and actual capital, creating analogous divisions within its punk scenes.
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Schabas, William A. Implementing Article 227. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198833857.003.0014.
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In late June 1919, as preparations were underway for the signing ceremony of the Treaty of Versailles, rumours reached Paris that the German Crown Prince, who had also found asylum in the Netherlands, was returning home, where he would lead a monarchist revival. The Council of Four sent a message to the Dutch warning them of their concerns and insisting that the Kaiser be safely interned. The Allies were embarrassed when the rumour proved to be false. At the same time, the Council of Four received a strange letter from the former German Chancellor, Theobald van Bethmann-Hollweg, offering to stand in for the Kaiser and take the blame for acts attributed to him. The Council of Four also drafted a letter addressed to the Dutch demanding the Kaiser’s surrender, but agreed to wait before sending it until the Treaty of Versailles entered into force.
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Rhodes, R. A. W. On Court Politics. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786115.003.0007.
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This chapter considers contemporary history, arguing for convergence between the core executive and predominant prime minister theses on the idea of ‘court politics’. It draws on the genres of presentation and thought found in the discipline of contemporary history. It suggests that marrying the notion of court politics to the historical analysis of high politics opens a challenging new research agenda for executive studies. The tools of historical analysis deployed by the New Political History provide a toolkit for accessing these insights. The chapter briefly summarizes an interpretive approach in historiography and makes the case for drawing on the New Political History, sketching its distinctive features, with examples, and explaining its relevance to executive studies. It reviews, with examples, existing literature on court politics; James Bulpitt on statecraft, and Donald Savoie on court government. Finally, it identifies the advantages of using an interpretive approach to study court politics.
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Markwica, Robin. The Gulf Conflict, 1990–1. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198794349.003.0005.
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Chapter 5 explores Saddam Hussein’s choice behavior in the Gulf conflict in 1990–1. The logic of affect demonstrates that the Iraqi ruler’s refusal to comply with the US demand to recall his troops from Kuwait was influenced by several emotions: He found it difficult to abandon Kuwait because its conquest served as a source of pride for him. He also nourished the hope that he would be able to defeat the American troops with the support of foreign volunteer fighters. Moreover, he tried hard to down-regulate his fear of a US attack because his identity as the Arab knight placed a taboo on the experience of this emotion. Any fear that he may have felt came to be overlaid by intense humiliation and anger at what he saw as the Bush administration’s degrading behavior. The combination of these emotions and identity dynamics shaped his resistance in the face of all adversity.
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Troisi, Alfonso. Goodness. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199393404.003.0015.
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Are we naturally good or bad? This chapter addresses the long-standing question by applying the fresh perspective of evolutionary behavioral biology and introducing the reader to the biological concept of ethical discrimination. From an evolutionary perspective, we are usually good with “us” and usually bad with “them,” whereby us and them are colloquial terms to indicate different degrees of genetic relatedness. With the evolution of complex social structures, genetic relatedness has progressively expanded to include ethnic bonds and common ideological and cultural values. The chapter then reviews the evolution of moral systems, analyzes recent findings from neuroscience on the neural bases of moral behaviors, and illustrates the complex psychological adaptations that have evolved to inform moral choices, including the crucial role of social emotions such as shame, guilt, pride, and empathy. The final section of the chapter faces a problem that many evolutionary scientists have found to be an embarrassment: the cultural evolution of moral and religious systems that have progressively reduced the discriminative limits of goodness, cancelling any distinction between “us” and “them.”
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Colls, Robert. This Sporting Life. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198208334.001.0001.
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This is a history of sport as one of England’s great civil cultures. It addresses ‘sports’ as athletic competitions, ‘sport’ as fun and games and showing off, and sporting occasions as a mixture of both. The subject does not lend itself to simple definitions, and the book does not try to impose any. By and large, it takes sport as it found it in the lives of the people. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from oil paintings to handbills, from the criminal to the constitutional, all the chapters begin with a ‘thick’ description of a sporting event before spreading the net to bring in the longer history, and meaning, of the sport in question. No one ever doubted that there was more to sport than sport itself. Prize-fighting and riding found particular favour with the army, cricket and rowing with the public schools, hockey and lacrosse with the education of middle-class girls, scarves and colours with the part sport played in the invention of the modern university. Above all, sport in England was recognized as liberty, the physical freedom to be. Of course, sport was not liberty’s only expression. There was always politics. Puritans fought a civil war for liberty and saw sport as a snare and a sin. For the first 100 years of this book, Methodists (and not only them) saw sportsmen as creatures of greed and corruption. This Sporting Life tries to show the reader some part of what it was like to be alive, and feel alive, rich and poor, men and women, young and old, in England, between 1760 and 1960.
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Gamberini, Andrea. The Clash of Legitimacies. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824312.001.0001.
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This book aims to make an innovative contribution to the history of the state-building process in late medieval Lombardy (thirteenth–fifteenth centuries), by illuminating the myriad conflicts attending the legitimacy of power and authority at different levels of society. Through the analysis of the rhetorical forms and linguistic repertoires deployed by the many protagonists (not just the prince, but also cities, communities, peasants, and factions) to express their own ideals of shared political life, the work proposes to reveal the depth of the conflicts in which opposing political actors were not only inspired by competing material interests—as in the traditional interpretation to be found in previous historiography—but were often also guided by differing concepts of authority. From this comes a largely new image of the late medieval–early Renaissance state, one without a monopoly of force—as has been shown in many studies since the 1970s—and one that did not even have the monopoly of legitimacy. The limitations of attempts by governors to present the political principles that inspired their acts as shared and universally recognized are revealed by a historical analysis firmly intent on investigating the existence, in particular territorial or social ambits, of other political cultures which based obedience to authority on different, and frequently original, ideals.
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Blyth, Michael. In the Mouth of Madness. Liverpool University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781911325406.001.0001.
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Somewhat overlooked upon its initial release in 1995, John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness has since developed a healthy cult reputation. But far more than simply a fan favourite, this closing instalment of the acclaimed director's self-described “apocalypse trilogy” (following The Thing and Prince Of Darkness) stands today as one of his most thematically complex and stylistically audacious pieces of work. The story of an insurance investigator drawn into the supposedly fictional universe of a best-selling horror novelist, the film is an extension of many recurring themes found in Carpenter's filmography (the end of the world, the loss of free will, a distrust of mass industry and global corporations, the cataclysmic resurgence of ancient evil), as well as an affectionate homage to the works of H. P. Lovecraft (and horror literature more broadly) and a self-reflexive celebration of the horror genre that predates the Scream-inspired postmodernist boom of late-nineties genre cinema. While numerous books and countless academic essays have been written about Carpenter's work, surprisingly little has focused exclusively on In the Mouth of Madness, a film which feels more prescient, more essential, and more daringly complex than ever. This book seeks to redress this imbalance, at last positioning this overlooked masterpiece as essential Carpenter.
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The History of the most unfortunate prince King Edward II: With choice political observations on him and his unhappy favourites, Gaveston & Spencer : containing several rare passages of those times, not found in other historians. London: Printed by A.G. and J.P. and are to be sold by John Playford ..., 1985.
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Jha, Pankaj. A Political History of Literature. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199489558.001.0001.
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Vidyapati was a poet and a scholar who lived in the fifteenth century north Bihar and composed nearly a dozen texts on varied themes in three languages. The book focuses on three of Vidyapati’s texts: Likhanāvalī, a Sanskrit treatise on writing letters and documents; Puruṣaparīkṣā, a Sanskrit compilation of mytho-historical stories focused on masculinity and political ethics; and Kīrtilatā, a political biography in Apabhraṃśa of a prince of Mithila composed in the ākhyāyikā style. Together, these compositions provide an exciting entry point into the knowledge formations of the fifteenth century. As such, the book marks a fascinating reading of politics in the literatures of a time that is known for a notorious absence of any ‘imperial’ formation. It does so by placing each of the three texts side by side with other texts composed earlier on identical or similar themes, genres, and ideas in the same and other languages. A critical historicization of the language, composition, and contents of the texts reveal an exciting and messy world of idioms, ideas, and skills drawn from different literary-political traditions. Strikingly, each upheld the ideal of imperium and provided for the cultivation of skills, ethics, and useable pasts appropriate for imperial projects. The book argues that the literary visions that sustained (and gained from) the imperial states in the earlier centuries did not disappear with the disintegration of the Delhi Sultanate. They lingered and found hospitable grounds in humbler locations. Vidyapati inherited and reworked these visions into newer, more ‘actionable’ knowledge forms.
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Stern-Gillet, Suzanne, Kevin Corrigan, and José C. Baracat Jr., eds. A Text Worthy of Plotinus. Leuven University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.11116/9789461663672.
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A Text Worthy of Plotinus makes available for the first time information on the collaborative work that went into the completion of the first reliable edition of Plotinus’ Enneads: Plotini Opera, editio maior, three volumes (Brussels, Paris, and Leiden, 1951-1973), followed by the editio minor, three volumes (Oxford, 1964-1983). Pride of place is given to the correspondence of the editors, Paul Henry S.J. and Hans-Rudolf Schwyzer, with other prominent scholars of late antiquity, amongst whom are E.R. Dodds, B.S. Page, A.H. Armstrong, and J. Igal S.J. Also included in the volume are related documents consisting in personal memoirs, course handouts and extensive biographical notices of the two editors as well as of those other scholars who contributed to fostering the revival of Plotinus in the latter half of the 20th century. Taken together, letters and documents let the reader into the problems – codicological, exegetical, and philosophical – that are involved in the interpretation of medieval manuscripts and their transcription for modern readers. Additional insights are provided into the nature of collaborative work involving scholars from different countries and traditions. A Text Worthy of Plotinus will prove a crucial archive for generations of scholars. Those interested in the philosophy of Plotinus will find it a fount of information on his style, manner of exposition, and handling of sources. The volume will also appeal to readers interested in broader trends in 20th century scholarship in the fields of Classics, History of Ideas, Theology, and Religion.
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Schofield, C. J. American trypanosomosis (Chagas disease). Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198570028.003.0050.
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American trypanosomosis is due to infection with Trypanosoma cruzi (Protozoa, Kinetoplastidae). This is a widespread parasite of small mammals and marsupials throughout most of the Americas, roughly from the Great Lakes of North America (approx. 42 ° N) to southern Argentina (approx. 46 ° S). It is mainly transmitted by blood-sucking bugs of the subfamily Triatominae (Hemiptera, Reduviidae) which are widespread in the Americas, but rare in the Old World. Except in some research laboratories, and infected immigrants from Latin America, T.cruzi has not been reported from the Old World, although closely-related trypanosome species are commonly found in Old and New World bats.Human infection with T.cruzi is generally known as Chagas disease, taking the name of Brasilian clinician Carlos Justiniano das Chagas who first described it from patients in central Brasil (Chagas 1909). Chagas isolated and described the parasite, correctly deduced most of its life-cycle and clinical symptoms associated with the infection, identified the insect vectors and some of the reservoir hosts, and also trialed initial attempts to control it. He was nominated at least twice for the Nobel prize in medicine (Coutinho and Dias 2000; Lewinsohn 2003).Although difficult to treat, Chagas disease can be controlled by measures to halt transmission, primarily by eliminating domestic populations of the insect vectors, together with serological screening to avoid transmission by blood donation from infected donors. Since 1991, a series of multinational initiatives have used this approach to halt transmission over vast regions of the areas previously endemic for the human infection. Estimated prevalence of the human infection has declined from the 1990 estimate of 16–18 million people infected, to the current estimate of just over 7 million infected (OPS 2006; Schofield & Kabayo 2008). Prevalence is expected to decline further, and control strategies are now being adjusted to develop a sustainable system of disease surveillance, focal vector control, and specific treatment for any new cases (Schofield et al. 2006; WHO 2007). Guidance for diagnosis and treatment is also required for non-endemic countries, where recent years have seen increasing migration from Latin America such that cases of chronic Chagas disease have now been reported from amongst Latin American migrants in Europe, USA and Canada, and Japan, together with some congenital cases and transmission from infected blood donors and by organ transplant.