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Slide show: The color photographs of Helen Levitt. New York: powerHouse Books, 2005.
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New York. Infinite jest: Caricature and satire from Leonardo to Levine. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011.
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Bertherat, Jacques. "L 'essaimage," levier de la création d'entreprises: Rapport au Ministre du travail, de l'emploi et de la formation professionnelle. Paris: Documentation française, 1989.
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New Zealand. Parliament. Regulations Review Committee. Complaint regarding Commodity Levies (Eggs) Order 2004: Report of the Regulations Review Committee. Wellington, N.Z: Published under the authority of the House of Representatives, 2006.
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Université Charles de Gaulle-Lille III. Conseil scientifique, ed. Activités apostoliques et culturelles en Europe et au Levant: Notre-Dame de Sion, milieu XIXe siècle-milieu XXe siècle. Villeneuve-d'Ascq: éditions du Conseil scientifique de l'Université Charles de Gaulle-Lille 3, 2009.
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Wijdoogen, Carola. 7 Roles to Create Sustainable Success. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789082949742.
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Which roles and practices do you adopt to effectively guide businesses towards a sustainable future? And what skills and competencies do you need to establish sustainable transformation? In 7 Roles to Create Sustainable Success, Carola Wijdoogen shares the insights of 25 professionals around the world and her own experiences as Chief Sustainability Officer of Dutch Railways (NS), which she helped transform into a climate-neutral, circular and inclusive railway company. For example, the Netherlands was the first country in the world with trains running on 100% wind power. The innovative science-based 7 Roles approach is explained using an excellent collection of practices and anecdotes from (among others) Kate Raworth (Doughnut Economy) and CSOs of companies like Ingka Group, Levi Strauss & Co., Starbucks Coffee Company, Unilever Benelux, Microsoft, Kellogg Company, Interface Europe, KPN, Philips International B.V, DSM, AkzoNobel, Google, Tommy Hilfiger Global/PVH Europe, etc.
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Dolfi, Anna, ed. Gli intellettuali/scrittori ebrei e il dovere della testimonianza. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-562-3.
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«Un’umanità che dimenticasse Buchenwald, Auschwitz, Mauthausen, io non posso accettarla. Scrivo perché ci se ne ricordi»: così Giorgio Bassani a chi gli chiedeva notizie sull’origine della sua scrittura. Guidata da queste parole Anna Dolfi ha costruito un tessuto di suggestioni che hanno spinto studiosi italiani e stranieri e persino alcuni protagonisti a riflettere su narratori, poeti, saggisti, storici, filosofi, editori, artisti, che dalla storia di una difficile appartenenza sono stati indotti a una sorta di fatale, testimoniale dovere morale. Ne è nato un libro di grande novità per taglio e proposte di lettura che, partendo dalla tradizione ebraica antica, da leggende rivissute in chiave politica e libertaria, dopo il Romanticismo e l’Ottocento tedesco porta in primo piano le moderne voci della letteratura/cultura europea e nord americana, della tradizione yiddish e orientale. A ricorrere sono i nomi della grande intellettualità ebraica della Mitteleuropa, di Canetti, Schulz, Döblin, Antelme, Wiesel, Sebald, Oz, Grossman, Nelly Sachs, Irène Némirovsky…, tra gli italiani quelli di Loria, Natalia Ginzburg, Giacomo Debenedetti, Cesare Segre…, soprattutto di Giorgio Bassani e di Primo Levi che, per serbare memoria della tragedia della persecuzione e della Shoah, hanno scelto di collocare la loro intera opera entre la vie et la mort. Inducendo a ricordare come il dovere di testimoniare si leghi all’affetto e al lavoro del lutto, all’effetto duraturo di una ferita immedicabile che ha nutrito la connessione tra la verità dell’accaduto e quello che si potrebbe chiamare il vero della creazione, le vrai du roman.
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Levitt, Ned. No Mountain Too High: A Father's Inspiring Journey through Grief. Ecw Press, 2004.
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Leuchter, Mark. The Levites and the Boundaries of Israelite Identity. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190665098.001.0001.
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The biblical record attempts to present the Levites as a clerus minor under the Aaronides, a second class priestly order occupying a mediating role between them and the larger Israelite public. But scholars have long recognized that this literary presentation obscures a much more complicated reality pertaining to the origin of the Levites and their role in the development of Israelite religion. This study provides a renewed examination of the Levites as a social entity within ancient Israel, providing a detailed picture of their origins, their ideas, their response to adversity, and the deep impact of the traditions they forged and preserved in literary form. The Levites’ own sense of social place and purpose persistently set terms for Israel’s own developing sense of identity—from the era before the rise of kingship, the formation of the northern kingdom, the emergence from Neo-Assyrian imperialism in the late seventh century BCE, the experience of exile under Babylon, and finally the complicated cultural negotiations under the Persian empire. An examination of the Levite traditions that emerged sheds new light on the role of myth in the formation of group identity boundaries both within and beyond Israelite/ancient Jewish social horizons.
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Leuchter, Mark. From Scribes to Sages. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190665098.003.0009.
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In challenging the Aaronide use of text for ritual authority in the first part of the Persian period, the Levites factored text into a wisdom curriculum that moved beyond Aaronide-ritual contexts. Nehemiah 8 provides a sort of model for this process, subjecting the Pentateuch to new terms of revelation through sapiential exegesis. But the creation of the Book of the Twelve served as the ultimate masterstroke, yielding a new model for how Levite sages actualized and facilitated revelation through their literary activity and study of textual sources. The Chronicler’s depiction of the Levites as prophets by virtue of their chanting and teaching of prophetic texts finds its roots in the ideology embedded in and expressed by the Book of the Twelve: YHWH’s presence was affirmed and indeed invoked through the sapiential engagement of prophetic texts.
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Leuchter, Mark. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190665098.003.0010.
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The cumulative effects of the historical and intellectual developments discussed in this volume left a deep impression on the Jewish literature of the Late Persian and Hellenistic periods. Chronicles and the Psalms show signs of Levite traditions worked into a sacred curriculum, and the Book of Daniel shows resistance to the normalization of Levite scribal/sapiential traditions. These traditions carry implications for the origins of Jewish midrash, and find their way into new myths cultivated in ancient rabbinic and Christian texts for the purposes of defining (and redefining) identity boundaries within and between those groups.
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James Levine: 40 years at the Metropolitan Opera. Milwaukee, WI: Amadeus Press, 2011.
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Helm, Peyton Randolph. "Greeks" in the Neo-Assyrian Levant and "Assyria" in early Greek writers. 1988.
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The Salome Ensemble: Rose Pastor Stokes, Anzia Yezierska, Sonya Levien, and Jetta Goudal. Syracuse University Press, 2016.
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Augustine, Saint. Soliloquies. Translated by Michael P. Foley. Yale University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300238549.001.0001.
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The first four works written by St. Augustine of Hippo after his conversion to Christianity are dialogues that have influenced prominent thinkers from Boethius to Bernard Lonergan. Usually called the Cassiciacum dialogues, these four works are of a high literary and intellectual quality, combining Ciceronian and neo-Platonic philosophy, Roman comedy and Vergilian poetry, and early Christian theology. They are also, arguably, Augustine's most charming works, exhibiting his whimsical levity and ironic wryness. This book is the fourth work in this tetralogy. Augustine coined the term “soliloquy” to describe this new form of dialogue. The book, a conversation between Augustine and his reason, fuses the dialogue genre and Roman theater, opening with a search for intellectual and moral self-knowledge before converging on the nature of truth and the question of the soul's immortality. The volume also includes On the Immortality of the Soul, which consists of notes for the unfinished portion of the work.
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Whitcher Kansa, Sarah, and Justin E. Lev-Tov. The zooarchaeology of early historic periods in the southern Levant. Edited by Umberto Albarella, Mauro Rizzetto, Hannah Russ, Kim Vickers, and Sarah Viner-Daniels. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199686476.013.24.
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This chapter explores the zooarchaeology of the southern Levant over a 3,000-year period, from the late fourth to the mid-first millennium bc. Highlighting contributions from zooarchaeological research, we explore broad-scale issues related to the archaeology and history of the region. Examples include the intersection of states and animal economies, religion and diet/sacrifice, ethnic foodways, and the appearance of new domesticates. Since much zooarchaeological research engages with the region’s archaeology by being contextually and historically grounded, we have organized this chapter chronologically, from the Early Bronze I to the Iron Age II. We also summarize the geography and history of zooarchaeological practice in the region. We close with recommendations for future research in Levantine zooarchaeology, including closer integration with archaeobotany and other related disciplines, as well as more formalized practices around data documentation and dissemination.
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Yaari, Nurit. Hanoch Levin. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198746676.003.0009.
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This chapter focuses on the theatrical oeuvre of Hanoch Levin, the most prolific of Israeli playwrights. Like Aloni, Levin learned theatre craft at the theatre and soon began to direct his own plays. He tried out new materials and learned the stage language while writing and directing his plays. In each play that he wrote in a new style, he used a particular dramatic template that he deconstructed and rebuilt, so that each étude became a play in its own right. Analysing his interpretation of tragedies by Euripides and Aeschylus—Everyone Wants to Live (Alcestis), The Emperor (Ion), and The Moaners (Agamemnon), the chapter discusses the ways he studied their dramaturgical techniques, and expressed their attitudes towards human destiny, human suffering, and social hierarchy. In his plays, he responded to their choices from a modern, contemporary attitude and with profound understanding of the many facets of contemporary human behaviour.
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Augustine, Saint. On Order. Translated by Michael P. Foley. Yale University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300238532.001.0001.
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The first four works written by St. Augustine of Hippo after his conversion to Christianity are dialogues that have influenced prominent thinkers from Boethius to Bernard Lonergan. Usually called the “Cassiciacum dialogues,” these four works are of a high literary and intellectual quality, combining Ciceronian and neo-Platonic philosophy, Roman comedy and Vergilian poetry, and early Christian theology. They are also, arguably, Augustine's most charming works, exhibiting his whimsical levity and ironic wryness. This book is the third work in this tetralogy, and it is Augustine's only work explicitly devoted to theodicy, the reconciliation of Almighty God's goodness with evil's existence. In this dialogue, Augustine argues that a certain kind of self-knowledge is the key to unlocking the answers to theodicy's vexing questions, and he devotes the latter half of the dialogue to an excursus on the liberal arts as disciplines that will help strengthen the mind to know itself and God.
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Schiff, David. Bagatelles. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190259150.003.0011.
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In his final decade, Carter composed with an unprecedented fluency, turning out a stream of compositions, large and small, for a wide variety of ensembles. Many of these works recall the Thurber-esque wit of Carter’s much earlier neo-classical music. Critics who had objected to the complexity they found in Carter’s oeuvre now praised the “newfound” lucidity and humor of the late instrumental works which include a group of concertos, mostly written for either Daniel Barenboim or James Levine (or both). These two eminent pianist/conductors became enthusiastic advocates for Carter’s music at this time.
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Williams, Kimberly D., and Lesley A. Gregoricka, eds. Mortuary and Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Bronze Age Arabia. University Press of Florida, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9781683400790.001.0001.
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Across the Near East, major changes in the commemoration of death and the formation of identity amongst the living took place at the beginning of the Neolithic. However, these investigations have largely focused on a narrow geographic expanse, including the Levant and Egypt, where processes of death and dying have been extensively documented. Much less is known about death and burial in the Near East, outside of the Levant. In recent years, however, interest in the mortuary landscapes of Arabia has steadily grown, and the potential for using death to reconstruct the lifestyles of once-living communities are becoming more fully realized. Mortuary and Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Bronze Age Arabia brings together an international consortium of archaeologists and bioarchaeologists, who are at the forefront of mortuary archaeology work across Arabia, to examine continuity and change in death and remembrance. While mortuary archaeology and bioarchaeology contribute important perspectives to the interpretation of life and death in ancient Arabia, these subdisciplines are rarely brought together in this region. Indeed, only recently have skeletal remains been recognized as a rich source of scientific data complementing burial context. Such joint collaboration highlights the novel, interdisciplinary perspective proposed in this volume, resulting in a synthesis of new ideas and interpretations that will undoubtedly guide future archaeological endeavors in Arabia and beyond.
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Mills, Simon. A Commerce of Knowledge. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198840336.001.0001.
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A Commerce of Knowledge: Trade, Religion, and Scholarship between England and the Ottoman Empire, c.1600–1760 tells the story of three generations of Church of England chaplains who served the English Levant Company in Aleppo, Syria, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The book reconstructs the careers of its protagonists in the cosmopolitan city of Ottoman Aleppo, and brings to light the links between English commercial and diplomatic expansion and English scholarly and missionary interests: the study of Middle-Eastern languages; the exploration of biblical and Greco-Roman antiquities; and the early dissemination of Protestant literature in Arabic. Early modern Orientalism is usually conceived as an episode in the history of scholarship. By shifting the focus to Aleppo, A Commerce of Knowledge draws attention to connections between the seemingly aloof world of the early modern university and spheres of commercial and diplomatic life, tracing the emergence of new kinds of philological and archaeological enquiry in England back to a series of real-world encounters between the chaplains and the scribes, booksellers, priests, rabbis, and sheikhs whom they encountered in the Ottoman Empire. Setting the careers of its protagonists against a background of broader developments across Protestant and Catholic Europe, the book shows how the institutionalization of English scholarship, and the later English attempt to influence the Eastern Christian churches, were bound up with the international struggle to establish a commercial foothold in the Levant. It then argues that these connections would endure until the shift of British commercial and imperial interests to the Indian subcontinent in the second half of the eighteenth century fostered new currents of intellectual life at home.
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Cook, Stephen L. Prophecy and Apocalyptic. Edited by Carolyn J. Sharp. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199859559.013.5.
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Chapter 5 describes the rise in exilic and post-exilic Israel of a new prophecy about God’s end-time reign. This prophecy (in Third Isaiah, Ezekiel, Joel, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi) exhibited significant shifts in genre and patterns of revelation and intermediation. It envisioned mythic images and archetypes, known from across the ancient Near East, powerfully resurfacing to reveal transcendence interrupting human history and establishing millennial peace incontestably. It forged vibrant, urgent worldviews from allusions to Israel’s emerging corpus of authoritative, sacred writings. Each new apocalyptic imagination reflected the traditions of its originating group, often a priestly sect of Aaronides, Zadokites, or Levites. Thus, Isaiah 26 forges a prophecy of bodily resurrection from images of fecundity found in Isaiah 54. Zechariah 3 and 6 rework Ezekiel 21 and Genesis 49 into expectations of a humble Messiah. And Malachi’s warnings of end-time purgation recapitulate God’s judgment on priests in 1 Samuel 2:27–4:1.
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Matthews, Victor H. Settlement and Competition in Iron Age I Canaan. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190231149.003.0003.
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This chapter examines the forces (environmental, economic, and political) that contributed to the nearly complete transformation of the eastern Levant at the end of the Late Bronze Age, including the super-power struggles between the Egyptians and the Hittite empire for control of Syria-Palestine that consumed much of their energy during the twelfth century BCE. Of equal importance is the invasion of the region by the people collectively known as the Sea Peoples. The ripple effect of that invasion, which resulted in the establishment of Philistine city-states along the Coastal Plain, transforms Canaan and provides the opportunities for new peoples, including the Proto-Israelites, to settle in the Central Highlands. Focus here will be on the challenges faced by these new peoples as they adapt to their environmental conditions with attention given to the stories in the Book of Judges. Subsequent economic and military rivalries between the Philistine city-states and the highland peoples set the stage for the development of the Israelite monarchy.
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Mitrani, Sam. Drunken Immigrants, Businessmen’s Order, and the Founding of the Chicago Police Department. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038068.003.0002.
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This chapter examines the conflicts that gave rise to the Chicago Police Department. Over the first half of the 1850s, elite Chicagoans confronted two interrelated problems of order that prompted them to create a police force: the need to protect their property and the property of visiting businessmen, and the need to enforce order more generally among a largely immigrant class of wage workers who were not bound by earlier forms of social control. It was in this context that Levi Boone's Law and Order Party won control of the city government and embarked on an anti-immigrant temperance policy. This chapter considers the creation of the Chicago Police Department on April 30, 1855 and describes the Lager Beer Riot as a founding moment for the department. It also discusses what the new police department did on a daily basis during its first six months, such as arresting a large number of working-class Irish and German immigrants for drinking.
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Alberto, Bolaffi, and Rigo Franco, eds. Venezia e il Levante: Le vie di mare : Venezia, le vie della posta nel secolo 19o = Venise et le Levant : les routes maritimes : Venise et les voies postales au XIX siècle. [Venezia]: Multigraf, 1988.
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Doak, Brian R., and Carolina López-Ruiz, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190499341.001.0001.
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The Phoenicians created the Mediterranean world as we know it-yet they remain a shadowy and poorly understood group. The academic study of the Phoenicians has come to an important crossroads; the field has grown in sheer content, sophistication of analysis, and diversity of interpretation, and we now need a current overview of where the study of these ancient seafarers and craftsman stands and where it is going. Moreover, the field of Phoenician studies is particularly fragmented and scattered. While there is growing interest in all things Phoenician and Punic, the latest advances are mostly published in specialized journals and conference volumes in a plethora of languages. This Handbook is the first of its type to appear in over two decades, and the first ever to appear in English. The chapters (organized in four parts) are written by a wide range of prominent and promising scholars from across Europe, North America, Australia, and the Mediterranean world, who offer readers summary studies and new perspectives on key historical moments (such as the history of Carthage), areas of culture (organized around language, religion, and material culture), regional studies and areas of contact (spanning from the Levant and the Aegean to Iberia and North Africa), and the reception of the Phoenicians as an idea, entangled with the formation of other cultural identities, both ancient and modern.
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Doquang, Mailan S. The Lithic Garden. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190631796.001.0001.
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This ambitious book offers new perspectives on the role of vegetal ornament in medieval church design. Focusing on an extensive series of foliate friezes articulating iconic French monuments, such as Cluny III, Amiens Cathedral, and Mont-Saint-Michel, it demonstrates that church builders strategically used organic motifs to integrate the interior and exterior of their structures, and to reinforce the connections and distinctions between the entirety of the sacred edifice and the profane world beyond its boundaries. Mailan S. Doquang shows that, contrary to widespread belief, monumental flora was not just an extravagant embellishment devoid of meaning and purpose, or an epiphenomenon, but a semantically charged, critical design component that inflected the stratified spaces of churches in myriad ways. The friezes encapsulated and promoted core aspects of the Christian faith for medieval beholders, evoking the viridity of the paradisiacal garden, Christ as the True Vine, the Eucharistic wine and ritual, and the golden vine of the Temple of Jerusalem, originally built by the wise King Solomon. By situating the proliferation of foliate friezes within the context of the Crusades, moreover, this study provides new insights into the networks of exchange between France, Byzantium, and the Levant, and contributes substantially to the “global turn” in the field of medieval art and architectural history.
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Gooley, Dana. PreludeThe Virtue of Improvisation. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190633585.003.0001.
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IN RECENT TIMES improvisation has made a significant comeback in classical music concerts, education, and scholarship. Pianist Robert Levin has injected fresh life into Mozart by improvising ornaments, lead-ins, and whole cadenzas to Mozart concertos. More impressively still, he plays free fantasies in Mozart style on themes given by the concert audience. Gabriela Monteiro has built a distinctive reputation among concert pianists by improvising at length on themes solicited from the audience, drawing on an eclectic range of styles from Bach-like baroque to modern jazz. Early music practitioners have long understood the importance of improvisation to historically informed practice, but artists such as violinist Andrew Manze and harpsichordist Richard Egarr have pressed it to new limits. Organist Thierry Escaich has been inventing entire four-movement symphonies on themes suggested by the audience, setting a new standard for a tradition already rich in improvisation. Students and fans of these elite musicians are showing signs that they intend to keep the flame burning by cultivating improvisational practice in various classical idioms....
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Densmore, Christopher. 8 Aim for a Free State and Settle among Quakers. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038266.003.0009.
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This chapter examines escapes from slavery and settlement patterns in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and Greenwich Township, Cumberland County, New Jersey, ca. 1820 to 1860. It analyzes the mundane interactions between the white Quakers and African Americans as well as their sometimes heroic collaboration in the fight against slavery. It identifies a conflict between the image of the good Quaker, as fictionalized by Harriet Beecher Stowe or exemplified in the lives of Lucretia Mott, Levi Coffin, or Isaac T. Hopper, and the Quakers who played no active role in antislavery. It further argues that the mythology of the good Quaker in the antislavery movement and in the Underground Railroad often underplays African American agency.
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Deruelle, Nathalie, and Jean-Philippe Uzan. Curvilinear coordinates. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786399.003.0003.
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This chapter presents a discussion on curvilinear coordinates in line with the introduction on Cartesian coordinates in Chapter 1. First, the chapter introduces a new system C of curvilinear coordinates xⁱ = xⁱ(Xj) (also sometimes referred to as Gaussian coordinates), which are nonlinearly related to Cartesian coordinates. It then introduces the components of the covariant derivative, before considering parallel transport in a system of curvilinear coordinates. Next, the chapter shows how connection coefficients of the covariant derivative as well as the Euclidean metric can be related to each other. Finally, this chapter turns to the kinematics of a point particle as well as the divergence and Laplacian of a vector and the Levi-Civita symbol and the volume element.
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Fahrenthold, Stacy D. Between the Ottomans and the Entente. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190872137.001.0001.
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Between the Ottomans and the Entente is the first social history of the First World War written from the perspective of the Arab diasporas in the United States, Brazil, and Argentina. The war between the Ottoman Empire and the Entente Powers placed the half million Syrian, Lebanese, and Palestinian migrants living abroad in a complicated geopolitical predicament. As Ottoman citizens living in a pro-Entente hemisphere, Arab migrants faced new demands for loyalty by their host societies; simultaneously, they confronted a multiplying legal regime of migration restriction, passport control, and nationality disputes designed to claim Syrian migrants while also controlling their movements. This work tracks the politics and activism of Syrian migrants from the 1908 Young Turk Revolution through the early French Mandate period in the 1920s. It argues that Syrian migrant activists opposed Ottoman rule from the diaspora, collaborating with the Entente powers because they believed this war work would bolster the cause of Syria’s liberation from Unionist rule. Instead, the Entente Powers used support from Syrian migrant communities to bolster colonial claims on a post-Ottoman Levant. This work captures a series of state projects to claim Syrian migrants for the purposes of nation-building in the Arab Middle East, and the efforts of Syrian migrants to resist the categorical schema of the homogenous nation-state and policies of partition and displacement.
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Lagunes, Paul. The Eye and the Whip. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197577622.001.0001.
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Corruption vulnerabilities exist where government officials have power over the provision of goods and the imposition of costs. Building permits and infrastructure contracts are examples of state-issued goods. Traffic tickets and tax liabilities are examples of costs levied by the state. These and other corruption vulnerabilities turn to actual threats when officials calculate that the benefits of abusing their power are greater than the penalties associated with getting caught. By a similar logic, the formula for corruption control requires increasing the probability of detecting corruption (that is, of activating the eye) through enhanced monitoring and then credibly threatening to apply the appropriate penalty in response to wrongdoing (cracking the whip). Notably, the common policy response to corruption often emphasizes only the first of the two mechanisms. Governments prioritize transparency measures but avoid the risks associated with confronting corruption. Therefore, as a means to improve on the current state of affairs, this book examines distinct approaches to promoting accountability, especially accountability among the set of unelected officials responsible for regulating the built environment. It analyzes the results of field experiments on corruption control conducted in the City of Querétaro in central Mexico, urban and peri-urban districts in Peru, and two of New York City’s boroughs. The book contributes evidence-based recommendations for how societies can go about fighting bureaucratic corruption.
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Mashhoon, Bahram. Extension of General Relativity. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803805.003.0005.
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Nonlocal general relativity (GR) requires an extension of the mathematical framework of GR. Nonlocal GR is a tetrad theory such that the orthonormal tetrad frame field of a preferred set of observers carries the sixteen gravitational degrees of freedom. The spacetime metric is then defined via the orthonormality condition. The preferred frame field is used to define a new linear Weitzenböck connection in spacetime. The non-symmetric Weitzenböck connection is metric compatible, curvature-free and renders the preferred (fundamental) frame field parallel. This circumstance leads to teleparallelism. The fundamental parallel frame field defined by the Weitzenböck connection is the natural generalization of the parallel frame fields of the static inertial observers in a global inertial frame in Minkowski spacetime. The Riemannian curvature of the Levi-Civita connection and the torsion of the Weitzenböck connection are complementary aspects of the gravitational field in extended GR.
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Soloveitchik, Haym. Collected Essays. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781904113997.001.0001.
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Continuing the contribution to medieval Jewish intellectual history, this book's author focuses here on the radical pietist movement of Ḥasidei Ashkenaz and its main literary work, Sefer Ḥasidim, and on the writings and personality of the Provençal commentator Ravad of Posquières. In both areas the author challenges mainstream views to provide a new understanding of medieval Jewish thought. Some of the essays are revised and updated versions of work previously published, and some are entirely new, but in all of them the author challenges reigning views to provide a new understanding of medieval Jewish thought. The section on Sefer Ḥasidim brings together over half a century of the author's writings on German Pietism, many of which originally appeared in obscure publications, and adds two new essays. The first of these is a methodological study of how to read this challenging work and an exposition of what constitutes a valid historical inference, while the second reviews the validity of the sociological and anthropological inferences presented in contemporary historiography. In discussing Ravad's oeuvre, the author questions the widespread notion that Ravad's chief accomplishment was his commentary on Maimonides' Mishneh Torah; his Talmud commentary, he claims, was of far greater importance and was his true masterpiece. He also adds a new study that focuses on the acrimony between Ravad, as the low-born genius of Posquières, and R. Zeraḥyah ha-Levi of Lunel, who belonged to the Jewish aristocracy of Languedoc, and considers the implications of that relationship.
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Gotman, Kélina. Choreomania. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190840419.001.0001.
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This book traces the emergence and spread of the choreomania concept through colonial medical and ethnographic circles, showing how fantasies of instability—and of the Oriental other—haunted scientific modernity. Scenes from the archives of medical history, neurology, psychiatry, sociology, religion, and popular journalism show how the discursive history of the ‘dancing mania’ moved and transformed with its translations throughout the colonial world. From antiquarian references to ancient Greek bacchanals and medieval St. Vitus’s dances, to scientific reperformances of early modern religious ecstasies, and American government anthropology, ‘choreomania’ arose to signal every sort of gestural and choreographic unrest. Village kermesses, revolutionary crowds, and neuromotor disorders—including hysteria, epilepsy, and chorea—were among the many unruly forms of locomotion indiscriminately compared to bacchanalian turmoil. So too, charges of spontaneous political agitation levied against demonstrators from Africa and South America to the South Seas reveal heightened anxieties about the spread of social disorder. Initially employed to describe ‘contagious’ popular dances, jerking movements, and convulsions, with decolonization, the ‘dancing disease’ increasingly described the fitful drama of anti-European revolt. Closely indebted to the work of Michel Foucault, this book opens a new chapter on the way we think epidemic madness and the organization and disorganization of bodies and disciplines in the modern age. Setting ideas about disruptively moving bodies at the heart of the scientific enterprise, this book argues that disciplines themselves were at once more porous and mobile than is commonly allowed, and that ‘dance’ itself has to be radically reimagined across fields.
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Chen, Min, J. Michael Dunn, Amos Golan, and Aman Ullah, eds. Advances in Info-Metrics. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190636685.001.0001.
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Info-metrics is a framework for modeling, reasoning, and drawing inferences under conditions of noisy and insufficient information. It is an interdisciplinary framework situated at the intersection of information theory, statistical inference, and decision-making under uncertainty. In a recent book on the Foundations of Info-Metrics, Golan (OUP, 2018) provides the theoretical underpinning of info-metrics and the necessary tools and building blocks for using that framework. This volume complements Golan’s book and expands on the series of studies on the classical maximum entropy and Bayesian methods published in the different proceedings started with the seminal collection of Levine and Tribus (1979) and continuing annually. The objective of this volume is to expand the study of info-metrics, and information processing, across the sciences and to further explore the basis of information-theoretic inference and its mathematical and philosophical foundations. This volume is inherently interdisciplinary and applications oriented. It contains some of the recent developments in the field, as well as many new cross-disciplinary case studies and examples. The emphasis here is on the interrelationship between information and inference where we view the word ‘inference’ in its most general meaning – capturing all types of problem solving. That includes model building, theory creation, estimation, prediction, and decision making. The volume contains nineteen chapters in seven parts. Although chapters in each part are related, each chapter is self-contained; it provides the necessary tools for using the info-metrics framework for solving the problem confronted in that chapter. This volume is designed to be accessible for researchers, graduate students, and practitioners across the disciplines, requiring only some basic quantitative skills. The multidisciplinary nature and applications provide a hands-on experience for the reader.