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Leckie, Barbara. "“A PREFACE IS WRITTEN TO THE PUBLIC”: PRINT CENSORSHIP, NOVEL PREFACES, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW READING PUBLIC IN LATE-VICTORIAN ENGLAND." Victorian Literature and Culture 37, no. 2 (2009): 447–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150309090287.
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In 1818 John Keats claims that prefacesare written to the public and that he does not want to participate in this mode of address. In 1837 Thomas Love Peacock notes that his novels had originally appeared without prefaces and that he would have preferred that they remain that way. But, he writes, “an old friend assures me, that to publish a book without a preface is like entering a drawing-room without making a bow” (cited in Grierson 134). In England in the 1880s, however, the novel preface went beyond textual etiquette. It was not only written to the public but it also participated in the debate over competing definitions of the reading public, and it contributed, in turn, to a new configuration of this public.
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LOSENSKY, PAUL. "DAVID J. ROXBURGH, Prefacing the Image: The Writing of Art History in Sixteenth-Century Iran, Studies and Sources in Islamic Art and Architecture, vol. 9 (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2001). Pp. 289. $59.00 cloth." International Journal of Middle East Studies 35, no. 4 (2003): 640–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743803260268.
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The title and publication series of Prefacing the Image initially suggest that it treats a topic of interest only to specialists in art history—a dozen or so rhetorically ornate prefaces composed for bound albums of calligraphies, drawings, and paintings (muraqqaע) during the 16th century. However, it quickly becomes apparent that the scope of this study extends far beyond such disciplinary boundaries. “The primary objective of this book is to study the preface through a variety of approaches—historical, cultural, social, and intellectual” (p. 17). By integrating the album preface into a broad network of social practices and literary discourses, Roxburgh's well-researched and probing study should be of interest not only to art historians but also to any reader with an interest in the cultural and intellectual life of the later Persianate world.
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Xiao, Liang, and Liming Deng. "Generic Variation & Private Intention: A Multi-Dimensional Exploration of Book Reviews and Prefaces." Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics 41, no. 1 (2018): 47–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cjal-2018-0003.
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AbstractBased on Bhatia’s multi-dimensional analytical framework for discourse analysis, we explore key issues involved in genres construction such as private intention, manipulation of generic value and interdiscursive strategies. Two prefaces and two book reviews by expert linguists were collected and analyzed at great length from both text-internal and text-external perspectives. Meanwhile, four professionals from relevant disciplines were interviewed for their insights into the issues investigated. Through examining textual features, covert interdiscursivity and narrative accounts of the professional writers, the following findings are generated. 1) Generic variation occurs within and between the two genres due to expert writers’ intentional manipulation of generic value. 2) Interdiscursive strategies like “genre embedding”, “genre bending” and “genre mixing” are exploited by expert writers to achieve their particular private intention. Specifically, preface genre can be presented, to some extent, as a research article mixed with some promotional flavor, and features of research article genre, promotional genre and introductory genre are found mixed in the review genre. 3) Representations of the preface and book review genres such as linguistic feature, move structure and interdiscursivity are ultimately affected by generic value, authors’ private intention, professional practice and disciplinary culture. The findings have important implications for ESP/EAP writing practitioners and learners.
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Shilina, Marina, Robert Couch, and Benjamin Peters. "Book dialog: a preface." Russian Journal of Communication 9, no. 3 (2017): 322. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19409419.2017.1376839.
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Haaland, Kathleen Y. "‘The Hand Is the Cutting Edge of the Mind’." Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 6, no. 7 (2000): 829–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355617700247103.
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Connolly's preface to this book ends with Jacob Bronowski's very apt quote, “the hand is the cutting edge of the mind.” The “Preface” illustrates his fascination with the complexity of human movement.
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Marien, Stacey. "Book Review: Winning the War on Poverty: Applying the Lessons of History to the Present." Reference & User Services Quarterly 58, no. 4 (2019): 271. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rusq.58.4.7175.
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Fife is professor emeritus in the Department of Public Policy at Purdue University, Fort Wayne. He has written books and articles on many topics such as education reform and the electoral process.There is no preface or introduction to the volume, so the user must make assumptions about what the author has set out to accomplish. By looking at the title of the book with the table of contents, the user can surmise the purpose of the book, but it would have been much more helpful to have an introduction by the author.
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Andrushchenko, Elena A. "On the Origins of the Preface to the Second Volume of Dmitry Merezhkovsky’s Book L. Tolstoy and Dostoevsky." Studia Litterarum 6, no. 1 (2021): 396–413. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2021-6-1-396-413.
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The article analyzes the origins of the Preface to the second volume, Religion, of Dmitry Merezhkovsky’s book L. Tolstoy and Dostoevsky (1900–1902). The first publication of the book in Mir iskusstva ended with a Conclusion. When preparing a separate publication of his work (1902), Merezhkovsky published the Conclusion of Religion as a Preface without changing the original text. He used the revised text of the Conclusion for a paper entitled “Leo Tolstoy and the Russian Church” (1903). The paper includes the key points of the talk; it is an almost exact copy of the Preface to the second and third editions of the book (1903, 1909), as well as to both editions of the author’s complete works (Vol. VIII, 1912; Vol. XI, 1914). The article attempts to show the evolution of the author’s original design, explain the motives that encouraged Merezhkovsky to publish the text, reconstruct the context of the heated arguments about his book as well as his reasons to give a talk “Fathers and children of Russian liberalism” (1901).
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Camus, Albert. "Preface to The Pillar of Salt." Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy 19, no. 2 (2011): 15–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jffp.2011.509.
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Evenden, Elizabeth. "John Foxe, Samuel Potter and the Illustration of the Book of Martyrs." Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 90, no. 1 (2014): 203–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/bjrl.90.1.10.
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This article explores the production of an edition of John Foxes Acts and Monuments (more popularly known as the ‘Book of Martyrs’), printed by Adam & Co. in 1873. The edition was prefaced by an Irish cleric, Rev. S.G. Potter, who, at the time of production, was vicar of St Lukes parish in Sheffield. This article investigates Potters career as a Protestant cleric and Orangeman, examining why he might have been chosen to preface a new edition of Foxes martyrology. Consideration is then given to the illustrations contained within the 1873 edition and what relation they bare to the woodcut illustrations in the editions of the Acts and Monuments printed during Foxes lifetime. This reveals a markedly different agenda behind the choice of illustration in the Elizabethan and Victorian editions.
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Dils, Ann. "Preface." Dance Research Journal 24, no. 2 (1992): 17–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0149767700012031.
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These papers were originally given as a panel entitled What Constitutes a Dance at the 1989 Congress on Research in Dance Conference in Williamsburg, Virginia. Panelists selected Antony Tudor's 1937 Dark Elegies as a case study and basis for examining general questions regarding elements to be considered in identifying a dance work. Several issues and occurrences inspired panel members, such as recent interest in revivals of dance works from the beginning of this century and scholarly debate about issues related to directing dance from Labanotation scores. While Nelson Goodman's 1968 book Languages of Art served as a theoretical springboard for discussion, Judy Van Zile's 1985–86 article “What is the Dance? Implications for Dance Notation” proved a thought-provoking precedent for this investigation.
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Gartner, Georg, and Haosheng Huang. "Preface." Advances in Cartography and GIScience of the ICA 2 (November 6, 2019): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/ica-adv-2-1-2019.
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Abstract. We are now living in a mobile information era, which is fundamentally changing science and society. Location Based Services (LBS), which deliver information depending on the location of the (mobile) device and user, play a key role in this mobile information era. In recent years, lots of progress has been achieved in the research field of LBS, due to the increasingly maturity of the underpinning communication technologies and mobile devices. LBS have become more and more popular in not only citywide outdoor environments, but also shopping malls, museums, and many other indoor environments. They have been applied for emergency services, tourism services, intelligent transport services, social networking, gaming, assistive services, etc.Since its initiation by Georg Gartner from TU Wien (Austria) in 2002, the LBS conference series has become one of the most important scientific events decided to LBS. The conferences have been held in Vienna (2002, 2004, 2005), Hong Kong (2007), Salzburg (2008), Nottingham (2009), Guangzhou (2010), Vienna (2011), Munich (2012), Shanghai (2013), Vienna (2014), Augsburg (2015), Vienna (2016), and Zurich (2018). Starting from 2015, the LBS conferences have become the annual event of the Commission on Location-Based Services of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) (http://lbs.icaci.org/). In November 2019, the 15th LBS conference (LBS 2019) will be hosted by TU Wien in Vienna, Austria.This book contains a selection of peer-reviewed full papers submitted to LBS 2019. All the chapters have been accepted after a rigor double-blind reviewing process. The book provides a general picture of recent research activities related to the domain of LBS. Such activities emerged in the last years, especially concerning issues of outdoor/indoor positioning, smart environment, spatial modeling, personalization and context-awareness, cartographic communication, novel user interfaces, crowd sourcing, social media, mobility analytics, usability and privacy.We would like to thank all the authors for their excellent work and all referees for their critical and constructive reviews. We hope you enjoy reading these papers, and look forward to your participation in the future LBS conferences.
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Oller-Marcén, Antonio M., and José M. Muñoz-Escolano. "Conceptions about mathematics, its teaching and learning in Compendio Mathematico (1707) written by the Spanish Thomas Vicente Tosca (1651-1723)." Bolema: Boletim de Educação Matemática 33, no. 64 (2019): 635–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1980-4415v33n64a09.
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Abstract The preface of a book is one of the main examples of paratexts, defined by Gérard Genette as those devices and conventions that enable a text to become a book. It can provide information about aspects such as the author's motivation and intention, the origin of the presented ideas, the potential readers, etc. In the particular case of a mathematical text devoted to some extent to teaching, the preface can provide information about the author's conceptions and beliefs about mathematics, its teaching and learning. In this work, we analyze the preface of Compendio Mathematico written by Thomas Vicente Tosca in 1707. This approach will allow us to have a view of how the teaching and learning of mathematics as well as mathematics itself were conceived during Spanish preenlightenment.
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Krstic, Predrag. "Animals and philosophers: Preface to my critics." Filozofija i drustvo 20, no. 2 (2009): 3–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/fid0902003k.
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The author is here seeking to expose his book Philosophical Animal zoographical persuasion to philosophy, to his own remorseless analysis - and that way defend the book from potential criticism by the others. On the other hand, the author believes that this will open up the space for discussion about the book and themes that book provokes. This discussion is not going to be mere neatly registered response and/or appropriate praise but a contribution inspired by the book, resonating back to it.
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Marien, Stacey. "Book Review: International Cookbook of Life-Cycle Celebrations." Reference & User Services Quarterly 59, no. 2 (2020): 142. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rusq.59.2.7294.
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The first edition of this book was published in 2000, under the name Multi-cultural Cookbook of Life-Cycle Celebrations. The first edition had one author, (Webb) but the new edition has added two more authors. Webb died in 2012, and the new edition is dedicated to her. The preface does not say why the new authors felt a new edition was necessary, but perhaps it was in honor of the original author. The preface does state that there are a few new recipes and a couple new countries that are covered in the second edition.
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Wolf, Stacy. "The Cambridge Companion to the Musical. Edited by William A. Everett and Paul R. Laird. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002; pp. xvii + 310 + 18 illus. $65 cloth, $23 paper; Boy Loses Girl: Broadway's Librettists. By Thomas S. Hischak. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2002; pp. x + 277. $39.95 cloth." Theatre Survey 45, no. 1 (2004): 129–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557404270089.
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“Those who created this book, and many of its readers, think of the musical as art,” write Everett and Laird in their preface to The Cambridge Companion to the Musical (xv). Indeed, many of us who study or teach musical theatre feel the need to defend it as a viable artistic form worthy of scholarly examination. Both of these books demonstrate the musical's importance in cultural history and amply illustrate the artistry of its production.
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JEON, JEONG KOO. "Book Review: RICHARD BELCHER JR. FINDING FAVOUR IN THE SIGHT OF GOD: A THEOLOGY OF WISDOM LITERATURE." Studies in Old Testament Biblical Theology 5, no. 1 (2019): 222–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.35285/ucc5.1.2019.rev2.
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Richard Belcher Jr. is Professor of Old Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina. Belcher engages in scholarly discussions while he demonstrates the Christocentric nature of wisdom literature, providing pastoral and practical insight and implications. The book has a brief “Series Preface” by D. A. Carson (xi-xii) and an “Author’s Preface” (xiii-xiv). It starts with a journey and a question about “the problem of wisdom literature in Old Testament theology” in chapter 1 and is followed by ten chapters. The author ends the book with a bibliography, which is a valuable resource for the study of wisdom literature, and an index of authors and an index of Scripture (213–42).
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Richardson, William J., Richard Capobianco, and Ian Alexander Moore. "From the Archives: William Richardson’s Questions for Martin Heidegger’s “Preface”." Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual 9 (2019): 1–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/gatherings201992.
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Martin Heidegger wrote one and only one preface for a scholarly work on his thinking, and it was for William J. Richardson’s study Heidegger: Through Phenomenology to Thought, first published in 1963. Ever since, both Heidegger’s Preface and Richardson’s groundbreaking book have played an important role in Heidegger scholarship. Much has been discussed about these texts over the decades, but what has not been available to students and scholars up to this point is Richardson’s original comments and questions to Heidegger that led to the famous Preface. These are published here for the first time both in the German original and in our English translation. In our commentary we 1) discuss how Heidegger’s Preface came about, 2) explain the source and status of the materials published here, and 3) pair selected passages from Richardson’s text with Heidegger’s reply in his Preface to highlight the consonance of their thinking.
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SQUJS. "Preface." Sultan Qaboos University Journal for Science [SQUJS] 23, no. 1 (2018): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.24200/squjs.vol23iss1pp0-0.
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This special issue contains selected papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Numerical Analysis and Optimization: Theory, Methods, Applications and Technology Transfer (NAOIV-2017), held during January 2-5, 2017, at Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), Oman. More information is available at https://conference.squ.edu.om/Default.aspx?tabid=2157. The NAOIV-2017 conference was sponsored by SQU, Oman Mathematics Committee, COMSTECH (Pakistan), AMPL (USA), German University of Technology (GUtech) in Oman, and the British Council (Oman). Seventeen world leading researchers gave keynote lectures. In total, thirty-seven international participants contributed talks. After the conference, selected contributions were invited to be submitted as full papers for publication in a special edited book of the Springer series on Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics and SQU Journal for Science.Seven of the papers were selected for this special edited issue, each of which was accepted after a peer review process by independent reviewers. We wish to express our gratitude to all contributors. We are also indebted to many anonymous referees for the care taken in reviewing the papers submitted for publication.The NAO conference series is held once every 3 years at SQU: the first conference (NAO-2008) was held on April 6-8, 2008, the second conference (NAOII-2011) was held on January 3-6, 2011, and the third conference (NAOIII-2014) was held on January 5-9, 2014. The NAO conference will hopefully remain a forum where prominent mathematicians, worldwide experts and active researchers gather and meet to share their knowledge on new scientific methodologies and simulate the communication of new innovative ideas, promote scientific exchange and discuss possibilities of further cooperation, networking and the promotion of the mobility of senior and young researchers and research students.For the NAOIII-2014 conference (http://conference.squ.edu.om/Default.aspx?tabid=572), a total of 13 keynote papers were published in the edited book “Numerical Analysis and Optimization: NAO-III, Muscat, Oman, January 2014,” volume 134 (2015), Springer series on Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics, and eight papers were published in the special issue on “Numerical Analysis and Optimization,” volume 20, No. 2 (2015), SQU Journal for Science.For NAOII-2011 (http://conference.squ.edu.om/Portals/16/Conference2011/index.htm),nineteen papers were selected for two special issues of the SQU Journal for Science, highlighting the two themes of the conference Numerical Optimization and Numerical Analysis. Eleven papers were published in the volume 17(1) for the (2012) special issue on Numerical Optimization and eight papers in volume 17(2) for the (2012) special issue on Numerical Analysis.For the first NAO-2008 conference, M.J.D. Powell (who was a major figure in the world community of optimization researchers and left us during the year 2015) delivered the first plenary talk in the NAO series. For more details, visit the website:http://conference.squ.edu.om/Portals/16/Conference2008/index.htm
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Ast, Teodor. "Preface." Pure and Applied Chemistry 77, no. 10 (2005): iv. http://dx.doi.org/10.1351/pac20057710iv.
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The 4th International Conference of the Chemical Societies of the South-Eastern European Countries (ICOSECS-4) was held in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro, from 18-21 July 2004, at the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade. These conferences have become a biennial event: the first two were held in Halkidiki, Greece (1998 and 2000), and the third in Bucharest, Romania (2002).ICOSECS-4 was organized by the Serbian Chemical Society on behalf of the Society of Albanian Chemists, Union of Chemists of Bulgaria, Pancyprian Union of Chemists, Association of Greek Chemists, Society of Chemists and Technologists of Macedonia, Chemical Society of Montenegro, and Romanian Chemical Society.The title of the conference was Chemical Sciences in Changing Times: Visions, Challenges and Solutions. Within this broad title, there were contributions from all areas of chemistry. However, the main focus of the conference was reflected in three symposia:- Advanced materials: From fundamentals to application- The greening of chemistry: Pursuit of a healthy environment and safe food- Teaching and understanding chemistry: New concepts and strategies for changing times (dedicated to 150 years of teaching chemistry in Serbia)The meeting was organized under the auspices of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), the Federation of European Chemical Societies (FECS), the Ministry of Science and Environmental Protection of Serbia, and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). The president of IUPAC, Leiv Sydnes, and the president of FECS, Gabor Naray-Szabo, attended the conference and addressed the participants.Some 600 researchers from 26 countries took part in the conference. One of the reasons for this large attendance lies in the fact that the organizers of these conferences (the chemical societies of South-East Europe) have declared a commitment to keep the registration fee as low as possible. In comparison with prevailing fees at similar meetings, the ICOSECS-4 registration fee of 80 euros can be considered really modest; it included the book of abstracts, the welcome reception, a city sightseeing tour, and the conference dinner!The scientific program featured five plenary lectures:- John Fenn, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA, the 2002 Nobel Laureate: "Electrospray wings for molecular elephants"- Peter Atkins, Oxford University, Oxford, UK: "Modern trends in chemical education"- C. N. R. Rao, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India: "New directions in the chemical design of materials"- Egon Matijevic, Clarkson University, Potsdam, USA: "Mechanisms of formation of uniform fine particles and their applications"- Ivano Bertini, University of Florence, Florence, Italy: "From genomes to cellular mechanisms and drug design"In addition to the plenary lectures, the program included 38 invited lectures and 25 oral and 437 poster presentations. Brief summaries of all contributions were published in a two-volume book of abstracts.As already mentioned, the organizers put together a rich social program, which included a welcome reception in the historic City Hall (featuring a recital of the Simonuti Trio), a boat sightseeing tour of Belgrade, and a conference dinner with live music and dancing.The next conference, ICOSECS-5, will be organized by the Society of Chemists and Technologists of Macedonia in 2006.Teodor AstConference Editor and Chairman of the International Scientific Committee
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Scutt, Jocelynne A. "Book Review." Denning Law Journal 32, no. 1 (2021): 193–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.5750/dlj.v32i1.1923.
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Title: Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and Conspiracy to Protect Predators
 Author: Ronan Farrow
 Publisher: Fleet/Little, Brown & Company, London
 Date of Publication: 2019
 Hard Back, pp 448 (including endnotes)
 Title: She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Helped Ignite a Movement
 Authors: Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Circus/Bloomsbury, London
 Date of Publication: 2019
 Hardback, pp 310 (including index)
 Title: Brave – A revealing and empowering memoir
 Author: Rose McGowan
 Publisher: HarperCollins
 Date of Publication: 2018
 Hardback, pp. 245 (plus Author’s Note & Preface ix-xvi)
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Newlands, Carole. "Silvae3.1 and Statius' Poetic Temple." Classical Quarterly 41, no. 2 (1991): 438–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009838800004596.
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In the preface to each book of his collected poems, theSilvae, Statius writes in the apologetic mode. Addressing his friend Arruntius Stella in the preface to Book 1, he claims that his poems are mere impromptu productions, ‘qui mini subito calore et quadam festinandi voluptate fluxerunt’, and he worries that by the time they reach publication they may have lost their only charm, that of speed, ‘celeritas’. Statius makes the same claims for impromptu production with the poem I will be discussing in this article,Silvae3.1, which celebrates the remodelling of the temple of Hercules on the private Campanian estate that belonged to Statius' friend Pollius Felix: ‘nam primum limen eius Hercules Surrentinus aperit, quern in litore tuo consecratum, statim ut videram, his versibus adoravi’ (praef. 3).
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Gomel, Elana. "“SPIRITS IN THE MATERIAL WORLD”: SPIRITUALISM AND IDENTITY IN THE FIN DE SIÈCLE." Victorian Literature and Culture 35, no. 1 (2007): 189–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150307051480.
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BOOKS ARE SOMETIMES published posthumously. In the nineteenth century, books were occasionally written posthumously when spiritualist mediums claimed to receive communications from the spirits of famous writers anxious to keep in touch with their public from beyond the grave. Oscar Wilde wrote his last book twenty-six years after his death, Oscar Wilde from Purgatory: Psychic Messages (1926), edited by Hester Travers Smith, the medium who received the messages while in trance and inscribed them through the process known as “automatic writing.” The book was highly regarded in the spiritualist community, boasting a preface by Sir William Barrett, a famous physicist, a member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and – along with a number of other illustrious men of science such as physicists Sir William Crookes and Oliver Lodge as well as biologist Alfred Russell Wallace – a convert to spiritualism.
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Besprozvanny, Vadim G. "“The Big Book of Errors” (New Collected Works of Vladimir Narbut)." Literary Fact, no. 17 (2020): 366–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2020-17-366-386.
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This review of the newly published book “Vladimir Narbut. Poetry. Translations. Prose” (Roman Kozhukharov, ed., Moscow, 2018) evaluates the textual criticism methods applied to this collection, reflects on the quality of the commentaries and the preface essay, and reveals a remarkable number of flaws the new edition has: the altered structure of the poetic cycles, chronological and bibliographical errors, and issues with text variants. The editor demonstrates little regard for the textual accuracy, and employs a self-contradictory strategy for the versions and drafts of the poetic texts. The commentaries that supply the book lack merely a professional approach: some are too detailed (or too telegraphic), others disconnect from the context, and some are irrelevant or misguided. The latter is particularly true for the Russian-Ukrainian interlingual homographs and homonyms, and ethnographic realia. The long-winded preface essay provides a detailed overview of the poet’s life, and is full of debatable esoteric assumptions and preposterous conclusions.
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Deshman (†), Robert. "The Galba Psalter: pictures, texts and context in an early medieval prayerbook." Anglo-Saxon England 26 (December 1997): 109–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0263675100002131.
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The ‘Galba Psalter’ (London, British Library, Cotton Galba A. xviii) is a pocket-sized (128 × 88 mm.), early-ninth-century Carolingian book, perhaps made in the region of Liège, that was originally decorated with only ornamental initials. By the early tenth century the manuscript had reached England, where an Anglo-Saxon scriptorium added two prefatory quires (1r–19v) containing a metrical calendar illuminated with zodiac signs, KL monograms and single figures (pls. IX–X), and five full-page pictures. Two miniatures of Christ and the saints on 2v and 21r (pls. X–XI) preface the calendar and a series of prayers respectively, and three New Testament pictures marked the customary threefold division of the Psalms. Facing Ps. I was a miniature of the Nativity (pl. XII), now detached from the manuscript and inserted into an unrelated book (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson B. 484, 85r). The Ascension on 120v (pl. XIII) prefaces Ps. CI. A third picture before Ps. LI has been lost, but almost certainly it represented the Crucifixion. The placement of an image of this theme between the Nativity and the Ascension would have been appropriate from a narrative standpoint, and some later Anglo-Saxon and Irish psalters preface this psalm with a full-page picture of the Crucifixion. Obits for King Alfred (d. 899) and his consort Ealhswith (d. 902) provide a terminus post quem for the calendar and the coeval illumination. The Insular minuscule script of the calendar indicates a West Saxon origin during the first decade of the tenth century. On the grounds of the Psalter's style and later provenance, the additions were very likely made at Winchester.
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Bikmanienė, Milda. "Translator’s Preface as a Genre: A Comparative Analysis of Lithuanian and English Prefaces." Sustainable Multilingualism 12, no. 1 (2018): 184–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/sm-2018-0009.
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Summary Translations serve as a right to the international existence as they allow the national literature to reach wider audiences. Moreover, they allow readers to get acquainted with literature of other cultures. For these reasons, translators have an important role in the literary world. Translators’ prefaces are the main link between readers and translators. However, there is a lack of analysis of this specific genre. This research aims at analysing translator’s preface as a genre and examining differences and similarities of genre features in Lithuanian and English prefaces. 30 Lithuanian and 30 English translators’ prefaces are analysed according to genre elements, such as the format, genre moves and functions. The analysis covers a wide range of examples of both Lithuanian and English fiction books. For this reason, the analysed translators’ prefaces are published in different years, are translated by different translators and are published by different publishing houses. It may be noted, that the analysis reveals that Lithuanian translators tend to be more invisible in their prefaces than English translators. They focus on the author and provide little of their own evaluation and explicit explanations on translation issues. However, English translators focus on the translation process and the subjective analysis. The analysis also demonstrates that the basic format of prefaces is beginning with a title and ending with a signature.
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Dobbelaar, Tanny. "Skin Stories & Skin Portraits." European Journal of Life Writing 4 (December 12, 2015): C19—C34. http://dx.doi.org/10.5463/ejlw.4.177.
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What personal stories do people with a chronic skin disease have to tell? This was Tanny Dobbelaar's main question in 2001 when she initiated the project “Heftig Vel’’, which may be translated from Dutch as “Severe Skin”. In this essay Dobbelaar shows a selection of what she and photographer Adrienne Norman tried to communicate at that time through a highly hybrid project that has many sides to it. The selection starts with the preface of the book, which was specially designed to enhance the experiences of the subjects in the eyes the viewer. The preface of the book is followed here by several Skin Portraits & Stories of the participants. This article was submitted to the European Journal of Life Writing on 28 August 2015 and published on 12 December 2015.
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Marien, Stacey. "Book Review: Today’s Environmental Issues: Democrats and Republicans." Reference & User Services Quarterly 58, no. 2 (2019): 129. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rusq.58.2.6950.
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Walker is an associate professor of political science at Elmhurst College. This volume is part of a series titled “Across the Aisle.” The other titles cover Social Issues, Economic Issues and Foreign Policy Issues. The preface is written by Lindsey Cormack, an assistant professor of political science and director of the Diplomacy Lab at Stevens Institute of Technology. She goes on to state that members of Congress “do not dedicate the same amount of time and focus to each pressing environment issue.” (vii). Cormack presents some tables that contain both topics covered by party e-newsletters and keywords that are used most by each party. The preface also gives an overview of each party’s platform pertaining to environmental issues in 2016. The introduction states that this volume “examines the proposal and positions of the two parties—both the profound disagreements and the areas of common ground between the two parties.” (xviii).
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Baumgarten, Albert I. "The Preface to the Hebrew Translation of Purity and Danger." Religion and Society 11, no. 1 (2020): 30–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/arrs.2020.110103.
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Purity and Danger, published in 1966, remains Dame Mary Douglas’s most famous book and “The Abominations of Leviticus” its most widely read chapter. In 2005, only two years before her death and in preparation for the Hebrew translation of Purity and Danger, which appeared in 2010, Douglas wrote a preface for that publication. With the likely interests of the Hebrew reader in mind, the preface expresses Douglas’s final reflections on the history of her engagement with “The Abominations of Leviticus.” It includes a restatement of her conclusions in light of Valerio Valeri’s work, in which she found the preferred approach to the questions she had asked over the years. This article presents Douglas’s preface after setting it in the context of her contributions.
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Rankin, Susan. "The earliest sources of Notker's sequences: St Gallen, Vadiana 317, and Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale lat. 10587." Early Music History 10 (October 1991): 201–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261127900001133.
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‘This little book has verses of composed modulamen, so that he who wishes to be retentive may hold on to his breath.’ With this elegiac distich Notker Balbulus concluded the preface dedicating his Liber ymnorum to Liutward, Bishop of Vercelli, abbot of Bobbio, archchaplain and chancellor to the then emperor, Charles the Fat. The collection of sequences must have been sent to Liutward during 884, since by December of that year Notker had broken off work on his Metrum de vita sancti Galli, mentioned in the preface to the Liber ymnorum as in the process of preparation. The genesis of the book of sequences can be traced farther back: Notker tells in his preface how, on showing verses to his teacher Iso, corrections were proposed. Later he presented some ‘little verses’ to his teacher Marcellus (the Irish monk Moengal) who ‘with joy’ collected them on parchment scrolls (rotulae) and gave them to his students to sing. Marcellus died at St Gallen in 871, Iso in the same year at the monastery of Moutier-Grandval, where he had been sent to teach some time previously. Many of the ‘versus modulaminis apti’ must have been composed already by 871.
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Springsted, Eric O. "The Religious Basis of Culture: T. S. Eliot and Simone Weil." Religious Studies 25, no. 1 (1989): 105–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034412500019752.
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When T. S. Eliot wrote his preface to Simone Weil's The Need for Rootsin 1952 his own fame helped launch the book to a prominent place in the Englishspeaking world. The preface despite its warm admiration for Simone Weil, however, says little about the content of the book. What it does do is praise Weil as a balanced thinker who is ‘more truly a lover of order and hierarchy than most of those who call themselves conservative, and more truly a lover of the people than most of those who call themselves Socialist’. Since Eliot's stated intention in the preface was merely to get the reader to hold his prejudices in check and to be patient with those of Weil what he wrote was perhaps sufficient. Yet one wishes that he had said more; not to tease out further comments from one so celebrated but because Eliot himself had spent a certain amount of time thinking and writing on many of the problems which The Need for Roots addresses. His efforts are found in two monographs. The Idea of a Christian Society and Notes Towards the Definition of Culture which have been collected and published as Christianity and Culture.
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Franklin, Eric. "Book Review: The Preface to Luke's Gospel." Theology 97, no. 777 (1994): 204–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0040571x9409700312.
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Tormey, Simon. "Preface to the Book on Agnes Heller." Comparative Literature: East & West 8, no. 1 (2007): 60–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/25723618.2007.12015629.
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Kenney, E. J. "APULEIANA: TEXTUAL NOTES ON BOOK I OF THE METAMORPHOSES." Cambridge Classical Journal 60 (May 12, 2014): 59–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1750270514000025.
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Zimmerman's edition of this extraordinary novel (Oxford 2012) offers a well-constituted text based on consistently reliable editorial judgement, together with a substantial and informative preface and a full bibliography. But the last critical word has never been said, and a study of Book I has thrown up the following selection of passages which it is suggested may deserve further editorial attention.
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Aguilar, Enrique, and Carlos Valdés. "Preface." Pure and Applied Chemistry 82, no. 3 (2010): iv. http://dx.doi.org/10.1351/pac20108203iv.
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The 9th International Conference on Heteroatom Chemistry (ICHAC-9) was held in the Auditorio Príncipe Felipe of Oviedo, Spain, from 30 June to 4 July 2009. The conference was chaired by Prof. José Barluenga (University of Oviedo, Spain) and attracted about 210 participants, mainly organic and inorganic chemists, from 30 countries all around the world. The scientific program consisted of 9 plenary lectures, 21 invited lectures, 48 short communications, and 68 posters.This conference explored the state of the art of heteroatom chemistry and focused on the following major themes:- heteroatom ligands in catalysis- heteroatoms in organic (non-metal) catalysis- heteroatoms in medicine- heteroatom polymers and materials- heteroatom bonding and synthesisBesides the collection of 16 papers (based on plenary and invited lectures with the choice of oral contributions) included in this issue of Pure and Applied Chemistry, the ICHAC-9 Book of Abstracts remains available online and can be free downloaded from <http://www.uniovi.es/ichac9/> in pdf format.ICHAC will return to its origins for its 10th meeeting, and, therefore, ICHAC-10 will be held in Kyoto (Japan) in 2011 and will be hosted by Prof. Norihiro Tokitoh of Kyoto University. It is confidently expected that the conference will continue to fulfill its important scientific role in highlighting ongoing advances in heteroatom chemistry.The organizers are grateful to all who contributed to a successful scientific program, especially to the speakers and to our public and private sponsors: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spain), Consejería de Educación y Ciencia del Principado de Asturias (by Plan de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación-PCTI Asturias), Ayuntamiento de Oviedo, Universidad de Oviedo, Fundación Universidad de Oviedo, Lilly, Bruker and Scharlab and the Organic Division of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (Grupo Especializado en Química Orgánica de la RSEQ). Finally, in particular, we would like to thank all contributors to this issue for their timely efforts and the editorial staff for their help.Enrique Aguilar and Carlos ValdésConference Editors
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Baumgarten, Albert I. "Marcel Simon'sVerus Israelas a Contribution to Jewish History." Harvard Theological Review 92, no. 4 (1999): 465–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0017816000017776.
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Marcel Simon (1907–1986) wrote many articles and published a number of books during a long, active career as a scholar. Yet he remains most prominently associated with the first of his books,Verus Israel, initially submitted as a dissertation. Published in 1948,Verus Israelwas revised with the addition of a lengthy post-script in the original French in 1964, and translated into English in 1986. Based on research virtually complete before the war, this book is an outstanding example of new circumstances forcing scholars to revise their conceptions of the past. As Simon explains in the preface, his book is a response to the calamity of racist anti-Semitism. Although this anti-Semitism had been apparent even before the Second World War, its disastrous results had become painfully evident only in the war's aftermath. These were the issues that led Simon to re-examine the nature of the relationship between ancient Christianity and Judaism.
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Garthwaite, John. "The Panegyrics of Domitian in Martial Book 9." Ramus 22, no. 1 (1993): 78–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0048671x00002551.
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The rich diversity of Martial's Epigrams makes up, in Duff's words, ‘one of the most extraordinary galleries of literary pictures, vignettes, miniatures, portraits, caricatures, sometimes almost thumbnail sketches' of the Classical Age. Yet the books are by no means merely random or haphazard assortments. Like other Roman poets, Martial was attentive to the need to impose a sense of order and continuity on his published material. Naturally the very number of poems, as well as their varied inspiration and often impromptu composition, would militate against any overall thematic coherence. Moreover, Martial was also keen to exploit the inherent variety of the epigrammatic genre; thus, in the preface to Book 8, he says that he has interspersed more trivial and jocular material among his panegyrics of the emperor to prevent continuous eulogies from becoming tiresome to their recipient.
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Day, Helen. "A COMMON COMPLAINT: DINING AT THE REFORM CLUB." Victorian Literature and Culture 36, no. 2 (2008): 507–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150308080315.
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When Isabella Beeton wrote in her Preface to Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management (1861) that, in order to compete with the attractions of clubs, well-ordered taverns and dining-houses that serve men so well, the mistress must be conversant with cookery and all other arts of making and keeping a comfortable home, she was making use of a narrative that would have been familiar to many of her readers. Both male and female writers of etiquette and cookery books aimed at the bourgeoisie attempted to persuade their readers of the necessity of household management by drawing on this narrative.
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Georghiou, Paris E. "Preface." Pure and Applied Chemistry 82, no. 9 (2010): iv. http://dx.doi.org/10.1351/pac20108209iv.
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The 22nd International Congress on Heterocyclic Chemistry (ICHC-22) was held 2-7 August 2009 in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. St. John's, the capital of Canada's youngest Province, Newfoundland and Labrador, is also Canada’s oldest and North America’s most easterly city. The Conference was chaired by Prof. Mohsen Daneshtalab (School of Pharmacy, Memorial University of Newfoundland) and was organized by the School of Pharmacy and the Chemistry Department at Memorial University of Newfoundland.Approximately 260 participants from over 30 different countries attended. The scientific program consisted of 10 plenary lectures, 19 invited lectures, 52 short communications, and 115 posters. Prof. Samuel Danishefsky (Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, Columbia University) was honored with the 2009 ISHC Senior Award in Heterocyclic Chemistry, and Prof. John Wood (Colorado State University) was the 2009 Katritzky Junior Award winner. A special symposium entitled "Focus on heterocycles in organic synthesis today and tomorrow" was held during the Congress as a tribute to Prof. Victor Snieckus (Queen's University, Kingston) for his research accomplishments and long-time contribution to the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry (ISHC).The five Congress themes were:- New Methods in Heterocyclic Chemistry- Biologically Active Heterocycles (Pharmaceuticals/Agrochemicals)- Heterocyclic Natural Products and their Analogues- Applications of Heterocycles in Organic Synthesis- Heterocycles in Materials ScienceBesides the collection of 9 papers that are based on the plenary and invited lectures included in this issue of Pure and Applied Chemistry, the ICHC-22 Book of Abstracts is available online and can be downloaded for free from http://www.ichc2009.ca/abstract_book.pdf in pdf format.ICHC-23 will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, 31 July to 5 August 2011 with the following five main themes of heterocyclic chemistry: synthetic methodology, natural products and complex molecule synthesis, materials, medicinal chemistry, and nanochemistry. The conference will be chaired by Prof. Colin Suckling (University of Strathclyde).The organizers are grateful to all who contributed to a successful scientific program, especially to the speakers and to our public and private sponsors: City of St. John's, Memorial University of Newfoundland, IUPAC, Thieme, Wiley-Blackwell, Elsevier, Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., ChemRoutres Corporation, and American Diagnostica, Inc.Paris E. GeorghiouConference Editor
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Holl, Augustin F. C. "Thomas Patterson. Marx's Ghost: Conversations with Archaeologists. Oxford/New York: Berg, 2003. 204 pp." Comparative Studies in Society and History 47, no. 1 (2005): 225–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417505210101.
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The book Marx's Ghosts: Conversations with Archaeologists by Thomas Patterson is divided into five chapters with a preface and an introduction. It opens with an autobiographical preface that spells out the author's encounter with Marxism, from his young years in California to academia on the East coast, at Harvard and Temple, and finally, back to the West coast at University of California–Riverside. The book's aim is clearly stated in the introduction: to explore the many dimensions of Marxism in archaeological practice and discourse on two principal topics—the rise of civilization and the origins of states.
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Gallagher, Edmon L. "Why did Jerome Translate Tobit and Judith?" Harvard Theological Review 108, no. 3 (2015): 356–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0017816015000231.
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Jerome translated the Hebrew Bible into Latin over a decade and a half beginning in about 390c.e.With each translation he included a preface dedicating (in most cases) the translation to a friend or patron and defending his reliance on what he called thehebraica veritas (Hebrew truth)against his many detractors. This last feature of the prefaces proved necessary because by choosing the Hebrew text of the Old Testament as his base text, Jerome directly challenged the traditional position of the Septuagint within the church. The unpopularity of this move in some circles compelled Jerome repeatedly to justify his adherence to the Hebrew text. Similarly, in hisPreface to Samuel and Kings(the “Helmeted Preface” orPrologus galeatus) he famously advocated the Hebrew canon as the Christian Old Testament and relegated all other books to the apocrypha. As part of this latter category, Jerome named six books outside the Jewish canon that were finding acceptance as fully canonical in some quarters and would much later receive the label “deuterocanonical,” these books being Tobit, Judith, Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach, and 1 and 2 Maccabees. In multiple ways Jerome sought to restore the Christian Old Testament to what he considered the original Hebrew text and canon.
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Lakshmanan, Usha. "AN INTRODUCTION TO CHILD LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT. Susan H. Foster-Cohen. London: Longman, 1999. Pp. xv + 232. £13.99 paper." Studies in Second Language Acquisition 23, no. 3 (2001): 420–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0272263101243058.
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This book is an excellent introduction to the field of child language development. It demonstrates the need for both a theory of language development and reliable speech and comprehension data in child language research. As Foster-Cohen states in the preface to the book, the adoption of only a single approach, as opposed to a combination of different approaches, is unlikely to lead to a productive understanding of child language acquisition. The book successfully adopts the perspectives of both the empiricist and the rationalist traditions in its treatment of key issues.
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Koopman, Colin. "Preface to Symposium on David Rondel’s Pragmatist Egalitarianism." Contemporary Pragmatism 16, no. 4 (2019): 307–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18758185-01604001.
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David Rondel’s Pragmatism Egalitarianism offers valuable contributions to both contemporary pragmatist scholarship and contemporary political philosophy. The book was the focus of a discussion at the American Philosophical Association’s Pacific Division meeting in April of 2019 in Vancouver, British Columbia. That discussion forms the basis for the four essays gathered here: three critical responses from Susan Dieleman, Alexander Livingston, and Robert Talisse, as well as David Rondel’s reply to these critics. This brief prefatory essay summarizes the book and its contexts in contemporary pragmatism scholarship and political philosophy.
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Okruhlik, Kathleen. "Catherine Wilson on Leibniz's Metaphysics." Dialogue 33, no. 4 (1994): 725–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0012217300010799.
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Anyone preparing to work through Catherine Wilson's important 1989 book, Leibniz's Metaphysics, would be well advised to go back for another look at Bertrand Russell's Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz, for it is this book that provides the foil and the context for much that Wilson has to say. In particular, the preface to Russell's first edition stresses the very points regarding both methodology and content on which Wilson will disagree most vigorously with her predecessor.
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SARGI, ISLAM. "The Battle for the Mountain of the Kurds: Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in the Afrin Region of Rojava: Book Review." Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Studies 2, no. 6 (2020): 203–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/jhsss.2020.2.6.22.
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This paper aims to provide a critical review of Thomas Schmidinger’s book The Battle for the Mountain of the Kurds: Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in the Afrin Region of Rojava. (Translated by Micheal Schiffmann, Preface by Andrej Grubacic, PM press, 2019, 146 pp. ISBN: 978-1-62963-651-1)
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Talbert, Charles H. "Book Review: Preface to the Study of Paul." Review & Expositor 96, no. 1 (1999): 146. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/003463739909600120.
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Yanikkaya, Berrin. "Preface." Pacific Journalism Monographs : Te Koakoa: Ngā Rangahau, no. 7 (November 30, 2017): 2–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjm.v0i7.15.
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Lord, said David, since you do not needus, why did you create these two worlds?Reality replied: O prisoner of time, Iwas a secret treasure of kindness andgenerosity, and I wished this treasureto be known, so I created a mirror: itsshining face, the heart; its darkened back,the world; The back would please you ifyou've never seen the face. (…)Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi, from the poem ‘Be Lost in a Call’ in Love is a Stranger (translated by Kabir Helminski). Threshold Books, 1993.
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Aspaas, Petrus Pippinus, Sigrides Albert, and Fridericus Nilsen. "Rara avis in Ultima Thule: Praefatio / Preface." Nordlit, no. 33 (November 16, 2014): viii. http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.3192.
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This book<em> </em>is a Festschrift dedicated to Synnøve des Bouvrie, professor of classical studies at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, who celebrates her seventieth birthday on 16<sup>th</sup> November 2014. Apart from the introduction, the Festschrift is divided into four parts, namely a <em>Pars Mythologica</em>, <em>Philosophico-Litteraria</em>, <em>Thulensis</em>, and <em>Latinitatis Vivae</em>. Twelve articles have been written in English, seven in Latin, four in Norwegian and a single article in each of the languages French, Sami and Swedish. A biographical interview is also included, along with several illustrations made by Synnøve herself. The book has been edited by Per Pippin Aspaas (Tromsø), Sigrid Albert (Saarbrücken) and Fredrik Nilsen (Tromsø).
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White, Benjamin L. "How to Read a Book: Irenaeus and the Pastoral Epistles Reconsidered." Vigiliae Christianae 65, no. 2 (2011): 125–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157007210x508121.
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AbstractBoth the title of Irenaeus’ Refutation and Overthrow of Falsely-Called Knowledge and the opening lines of the preface to Book One of this work feature language from 1 Timothy. This prominent positioning once garnered significant attention from scholars, who, building on a larger narrative of a second-century Pauline captivity to “the heretics,” argued that it was only with the pseudonymous Pastoral Epistles that a Paul emerged who could be useful for the proto-orthodox church (Irenaeus, in particular) in its fight against the “heretics.” More recently, however, the role of the Pastorals in Irenaeus has been downplayed by those who are not convinced of the Pauline “captivity” narrative. In this article I argue, against this recent trend, that the Pastorals do provide, using the language of Gérard Genette, a significant hypotext for Irenaeus. The use of 1 Timothy in the title and preface of Adversus haereses clues the reader to this intertextual relationship and sets a paradigmatic course for the remainder of the work.
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Mchedlov-Petrossyan, Nikolay. "Preface." Pure and Applied Chemistry 80, no. 7 (2008): iv. http://dx.doi.org/10.1351/pac20088007iv.
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This issue of Pure and Applied Chemistry is based on plenary lectures delivered at the International Conference on Modern Physical Chemistry for Advanced Materials (MPC '07), which took place 26-30 June 2007 in Kharkiv, Ukraine.The Conference was sponsored by IUPAC and the European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences, and organized by V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in cooperation with L. M. Litvinenko Institute of Physical Organic Chemistry and Coal Chemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Donetsk, Ukraine) and the Physical Chemistry Department of the Ukrainian Chemical Society. Christian Amatore (Academy of Sciences of France) and Anatoliy Popov (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) were Chairmen of the International Scientific Committee and the International Organizing Committee, respectively. Professors Yuriy Kholin and Valentin Lebed (Kharkiv National University) headed the Local Organizing Committee and the Program Committee.The aim of the Conference was to review the physicochemical foundations of modern materials science and technology. At the same time, the event offered opportunities for Ukrainian physical chemists to strengthen international ties and collaboration, and to evaluate the status of modern physical chemistry in Ukraine against global criteria. A total of 170 active delegates from 23 countries participated in the scientific program, which provided a showcase for the achievements, both of internationally recognized experts and enthusiastic young researchers, all of whom contributed constructively to lively scientific discussions.The Conference was dedicated to the centenary of the birth of the outstanding physicochemist Prof. Nikolai Izmailov (1907-1961). On 26 June, just before the opening of the Conference, the book Scientific Heritage of N. A. Izmailov and Topical Problems of Physical Chemistry was ceremonially presented to the academic community and the media in the Kharkiv National University Museum.The majority of the 19 plenary lectures were devoted to nanoscience, supramolecular chemistry, self-assembled systems, and organized solutions. The papers collected in this issue are arranged in order of their presentation during the scientific proceedings; lectures on chromatography, delivered by Profs. V. P. Georgiyevskiy (Ukraine), V. G. Berezkin (Russia), and E. Tyihák (Hungary), will be published in the Journal of Planar Chromatography and in other journals. The program also included 46 keynote and oral presentations and 120 posters, which were distributed among symposia devoted to the following topics: chromatography, materials science, solution chemistry, theoretical chemistry, electrochemistry, kinetics and catalysis, and photochemistry.The social program included a classical music concert, welcome party, conference reception, visit to the Museum of Arts, bus excursion to the museum of the great Russian painter Il'ya Repin in Chuguev, and numerous local activities. On 25 June, an all-day excursion to the typical Ukrainian city Poltava provided an opportunity to visit the famous battlefield where the army of Tsar Peter I of Russia achieved a decisive victory over the invading forces of King Charles XII of Sweden in 1709.Nikolay Mchedlov-PetrossyanConference Editor
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Zuin, Vânia G. "Preface." Pure and Applied Chemistry 85, no. 8 (2013): iv. http://dx.doi.org/10.1351/pac20138508iv.
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The 4th International IUPAC Conference on Green Chemistry (ICGC-4) was held in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, 25-29 August 2012, under the auspices of IUPAC and the Brazilian Chemical Society (SBQ), with the theme “Exchanging experiences towards a sustainable society taking care of natural resources in their socio-economic development”. It is important to understand the historical context of ICGC-4 as part of a series that started in 2006 in Dresden, Germany. As observed by Prof. Tundo, the Chair of the first ICGC, green chemistry is “innovative because it is not necessarily connected to profits, it involves fundamental aspects and does not aim automatically at an industrial process. There is a great need to create a new type of chemistry focused on a new production system and utilization of chemical derivatives, in order to prepare the younger generation to reach a greener future.” ICGC-2 occurred in 2008 aboard the ship “Alexander Radishev” travelling from Moscow to St. Petersburg, Russia, and was centered around a number of fundamental and applied topics on green chemistry. ICGC-3 was held in Ottawa, Canada, 2010, with the theme “The Road to Greener Industry”. Bringing together academia and industry to exchange ideas about green chemistry was the purpose of the meeting.ICGC-4 also included all areas and sectors of chemistry worldwide (academia, industry, government, and chemistry societies) and focused on broad topics such as benign synthesis/process, green chemistry for energy/production, chemicals from renewable resources, green engineering, education in green chemistry, and engineering and policy. It attracted around 600 participants from 4 continents, especially young researchers. The event included 10 plenary lectures and 15 invited talks conducted by the most prominent chemists from all over the world in this field, 4 short courses, 15 parallel sessions with 4 oral presentations each, 3 technical parallel sessions, 4 roundtables, 2 poster sessions, and a book release (Capes at Rio+20).The organizers of ICGC-4 would like to thank the great number of sponsors who generously supported the event and the members of all committees for their immense contributions. Special thanks are extended in particular to Profs. Pietro Tundo and Buxing Han for their outstanding efforts, as well as Profs. Patricia Vazquez, Liliana Mammino, Arlene Corrêa, Vitor Ferreira, and Fernando Galembeck, all of whom contributed to the remarkable success of ICGC-4 (for more details, see www.ufscar.br/icgc4).The nine papers in this issue of Pure and Applied Chemistry are mostly contributions from plenary speakers and represent some of the topics discussed in the event. The tradition and involvement with such a fundamental and innovative field will continue in 2014 with ICGC-5, which will be held in Durban, South Africa.Vânia G. ZuinSecretary General