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Quiet talks about Jesus. Destiny Image, 2003.

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Baraibar, Ramón Cote. Como quien dice adiós a lo perdido. Valparaíso Ediciones, 2014.

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Favaro, Alice. Después de la caída del ‘ángel’. Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-416-5.

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Ángel Bonomini was born in Buenos Aires in 1929 where he lived until his death at the age of sixty-four in 1994. He worked for various newspapers and magazines as an art critic and translator, but always maintaining his literary activity. He inherited the tradition of the Argentine fantastic and was a prolific writer: his production includes essays, poems and fantastic tales.Although he lived in a period of great cultural splendor and his literary talent was recognised by authors such as Borges and Bioy Casares, he fell into an unexplained oblivion, disappearing quite early from the contempora

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Cinquegrani, Alessandro, Francesca Pangallo, and Federico Rigamonti. Romance e Shoah Pratiche di narrazione sulla tragedia indicibile. Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-492-9.

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Over the last 70 years, Holocaust representations increased significantly as cultural objects distributed on a large scale: fictional books, museum sites, artworks, documentaries, and films are only a few samples of those echoes the Holocaust produced in contemporary Western culture. There are some specific patterns in the way the Holocaust has been represented that, however, contrast with the survivors’ account of the same event: for example, the dichotomy between bad and good characters so essential within Holocaust-based media – especially on television and film - does not really match with

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Lobanov, Aleksey. Medical and biological bases of safety. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1439619.

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The textbook considers the subject and tasks of the discipline, highlights the medical and biological foundations of ensuring human security in the conditions of natural, man-made and biological-social emergencies, as well as when using modern weapons of destruction by a probable enemy.  Briefly, but quite informative, the structure of the human body and the basics of its functioning are described. The specificity and mechanism of the toxic effect of harmful substances on a person, the energy effect and the combined effect of the main damaging factors of the sources of emergency situatio

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Gordon, Samuel Dickey. Quiet Talks about Jesus. Echo Library, 2007.

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Gordon, Samuel Dickey. Quiet Talks about Jesus. BiblioBazaar, 2007.

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Gordon, Samuel Dickey. Quiet Talks about Jesus (Large Print Edition). BiblioBazaar, 2007.

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Thomas, Rosie. Not Quite (Pearl) White. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037689.003.0007.

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This chapter examines the construction of one form of modern Indian femininity in the late colonial period by focusing on the intriguing figure of Fearless Nadia, aka Mary Evans. Billed as the “Indian Pearl White,” Evans seems to have been the personification of the “Heroine of a Thousand Stunts” but without her gentler qualities. This chapter first provides an overview of the Fearless Nadia serial films before discussing the films of brothers Homi and Jamshed Wadia, including Diamond Queen. It then analyzes Nadia within the film production context of 1930s Bombay and how the Wadia brothers de

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Menelaus in the Archaic Period: Not Quite the Best of the Achaeans. Oxford University Press, 2020.

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London, Jack. The Call of the Wild (Quiet Vision Classic). Quiet Vision Pub, 2003.

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Preston, Katherine K. George Frederick Bristow. University of Illinois Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043420.001.0001.

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George Frederick Bristow (1825-1898), a pillar of the nineteenth-century New York musical community, was educated, lived, and worked in New York for his entire life. A skilled performer (piano, organ, violin, conducting), he was a decades-long member of the Philharmonic Societies of New York and Brooklyn, and conducted the Harmonic Society, Mendelssohn Union, numerous church choirs, and pickup choral and instrumental ensembles organized for special events. He taught music privately and in the public school system. Bristow’s professional activities were those of a highly skilled urban journeyma

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Thompson, William R., and Leila Zakhirova. The Netherlands: Not Quite the First Modern Economy. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190699680.003.0006.

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In this chapter, we look at four cases: Genoa, Venice, Portugal, and the Netherlands. Genoa, Venice, and Portugal acted as transitional agents over a five- to six-hundred-year period, creating sea power and trading regimes to move Asian commodities and innovations to and from European markets. While Genoa and Venice were primarily Mediterranean-centric, Portugal led the breakthrough from the constraints of the inland sea and inaugurated Europe’s Atlantic focus. None of these actors possessed the power of China nor subsequent global actors, but for their age, they were critical technological le

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Robert, Wintgen. Ch.10 Limitation periods, Introduction to Chapter 10 of the PICC. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198702627.003.0200.

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Chapter 10 of the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (PICC) deals with ‘limitation periods’. The chapter, which was added to the 2004 edition of the PICC but was not amended in the 2010 edition, generally follows an international trend, but some of its provisions are quite unusual in comparison with most domestic laws. Arguably, these provisions cannot be considered as general principles of law or lex mercatoria. In respect of limitation periods, arbitral tribunals should therefore consider carefully whether it is possible to follow the opinion that ‘a reference to lex m

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Robinson, Harlow. Lewis Milestone. University Press of Kentucky, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813178332.001.0001.

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This book tells the remarkable personal and professional story of Lewis Milestone (1895-1980), one of the most prolific, creative and respected film directors of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Among his many films are the classics All Quiet on the Western Front, Of Mice and Men, A Walk in the Sun, Pork Chop Hill, the original Ocean’s Eleven and Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Marlon Brando. Born in Ukraine, he came to America as a teenager and learned about film in the U.S. Army in World War I. By the early 1920s he was editing silent films in Hollywood, and soon graduated to shooting his own features

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Plotch, Philip Mark. Last Subway. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9780801453663.001.0001.

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This book is the fascinating and dramatic story behind New York City's struggle to build a new subway line under Second Avenue and improve transit services all across the city. The book reveals why the city's subway system, once the best in the world, is now too often unreliable, overcrowded, and uncomfortable. It explains how a series of uninformed and self-serving elected officials have fostered false expectations about the city's ability to adequately maintain and significantly expand its transit system. Since the 1920s, New Yorkers have been promised a Second Avenue subway. When the first

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Wolff, Nathan. Not Quite Hope and Other Political Emotions in the Gilded Age. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198831693.001.0001.

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Not Quite Hope and Other Political Emotions in the Gilded Age argues that late-nineteenth-century US fiction grapples with and helps to conceptualize the disagreeable feelings that are both a threat to citizens’ agency and an inescapable part of the emotional life of democracy—then as now. In detailing the corruption and venality for which the period remains known, authors including Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Adams, and Helen Hunt Jackson evoked the depressing inefficacy of reform, the lunatic passions of the mob, and the revolting appetites of lobbyists and office seekers. Reade

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Werth, Paul W. 1837. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826354.001.0001.

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Historians often think of Russia before the 1860s in terms of conservative stasis, when the ‘gendarme of Europe’ secured order beyond the country’s borders and entrenched the autocratic system at home. This book offers a profoundly different vision of Russia under Nicholas I. Drawing on an extensive array of sources, it reveals that many of modern Russia’s most distinctive and outstanding features can be traced back to an inconspicuous but exceptional year. Russia became what it did, in no small measure, because of 1837. The catalogue of the year’s noteworthy occurrences extends from the realm

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Dyson, Tim. Famines, Plague, and Influenza. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198829058.003.0007.

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Much of this chapter focuses on the huge crises—of famine, plague, and influenza—which affected India’s population during 1871–1921 and which influenced the growing nationalist agenda. While millions perished in these crises, the overall level of mortality and accompanying population growth of the period were probably quite similar to those of 1821–71. Eastern and southern areas of the subcontinent experienced considerable population growth. The existence of distinctive demographic regimes, in particular in the north and the south, is documented. From the period 1871–1921 there emerged more st

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Hughes, Aaron W. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190684464.003.0008.

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The conclusion addresses the present. It begins with the erection of the “security barrier” (from the Israeli side) or the “apartheid wall” (from the Palestinian). It uses this structure as a way to think about the intersection of Judaism and Islam in the modern period. Although much of the analysis in the book focused on the premodern period, it should be quite clear already that the premise is that the past cannot be accessed except through the present. Unfortunately, what “Jewish–Muslim relations” means at the current moment is known too well. While the goal is not to solve the unsolvable,

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Romaniuk, Peter. International Organization and Terrorism. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.235.

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Before 9/11, the literature on terrorism and international organizations (IOs) was largely event driven. That is to say, the modest nature of the debate reflected a modest empirical record of IO engagement in responding to terrorism. Moreover, this period saw a correlation between the way states acted against terrorism through IOs and the nature of subsequent debates. Famously, states were (and remain) unable to agree on a definition of “terrorism,” precluding broad-based action through IOs. The findings presented in this literature were furthermore often quite bleak. The immediate post-9/11 p

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Trimble, Jennifer. Communicating with Images in the Roman Empire. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195386844.003.0007.

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This chapter explores how the size, diversity, and connectivity of the Roman Empire in the first centuries CE fostered developments in image communication in a civilization in which levels of visual literacy, especially among city populations, should be considered quite well developed. At the same time, a full grasp of a monument’s iconography was not essential for effective communication at a range of levels. A remarkable, seemingly modern phenomenon of the period is the proliferation and stability of image use, enabling complex, varied interplays of empire and place to be articulated in all

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Aboumerhi, Hassan, and Tariq M. Malik. Interscalene Catheters: Complications and Management. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190271787.003.0044.

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About 4.5 million people visit physicians for shoulder pain every year. Most shoulder surgeries are performed in an ambulatory setting and pain control can be problematic during the recovery period. Continuous interscalene block, which is quite effective for postprocedural pain relief, is not risk free. Some postprocedure concerns can be resolved easily over the phone, but others require additional examination, imaging, or even surgical intervention. Effective and safe management of a brachial plexus catheter requires a complete perioperative plan, open communication with the patient and famil

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Paul, David C. Musicology Makes Its Mark. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037498.003.0006.

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This chapter examines the impact of musicology on Charles E. Ives's reception by focusing on the contributions made by musicologists to discourse about the composer during the period 1965–1985. It considers how musicologists portrayed Ives through their disciplinary practices and perceptions and shows that their image of Ives was deeply rooted in European music history. The chapter also explores how Ives became the subject of style history by looking at the work of William W. Austin, H. Wiley Hitchcock, and Robert Morgan. Finally, it discusses J. Peter Burkholder's discovery that Ives's commit

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Zuluaga Callejas, María Isabel, María Eumelia Galeano Marín, and Gabriel Jaime Saldarriaga Ruiz. Calidad de vida en la vejez. Propuesta metodológica y teórica para su caracterización. Fondo Editorial FCSH, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.17533/978-958-5526-60-0.

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La pregunta por el valor de la vejez y por el bien vivir en esta etapa de la vida ha recorrido la historia de la cultura humana. Desde Cicerón, quien se preguntaba en la Roma republicana por las claves del cómo envejecer con dignidad, hasta las investigaciones de la premio nobel en medicina Rita Levi-Montalcini, quien demostró con su trabajo que nuevas reconexiones neuronales se forman constantemente en la edad adulta y la vejez, lo que les permite a las personas alcanzar logros que, en la juventud, les serían imposibles. Pero este constante preguntarse y responderse por el buen envejecer impl

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Sundström, Malena Rosén. Leading the European Union. Edited by Jon Pierre. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199665679.013.29.

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This chapter analyzes how Sweden acted as Presidency of the European Union in 2001 and 2009. It explores the different roles associated with the Presidency:administrator, agenda-setter, mediator, andrepresentative. Using role theory, the analysis focuses on the Swedish government’s own role conceptions, and the expectations of other actors with regard to how the government would perform these various roles, and how it actually enacted them. The analysis demonstrates that role conceptions, external expectations, and actual execution were quite similar both times Sweden held the Chair, despite n

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Lee, Hye-Kyung. Self-referring in Korean, with reference to Korean first-person markers. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786658.003.0004.

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Lee’s chapter provides a corpus-based analysis of Korean first-person markers by examining the semantic and pragmatic features emerging from their dictionary definitions and their usages in discourse. Specifically, it is demonstrated that the use of the grammatical category of a pronoun does not quite fit the Korean data, because the exceptionally large number of the lexical items are highly specialized in their use. While the first-person markers have the primary function of referring to the speaker, self-referring via first-person markers in Korean is mediated by the speaker’s awareness of h

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Chang, Sung-sheng Yvonne. Wartime Taiwan. Edited by Carlos Rojas and Andrea Bachner. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199383313.013.21.

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Taking midcentury wartime Taiwan literary production as an emblematic case study, and relying heavily on the diaries of Taiwan author Lü Heruo as a revealing window into the literary field during this period, this chapter examines the relationship between the sociopolitical backdrop against which this particular literary field emerged, on one hand, and the internal structural constitution of the literary field itself, on the other. Using a specific literary phenomenon in wartime Taiwan as material for a case study, and in dialogue with some recent scholarship on the Japanese colonization of th

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Barratt, Alexander. Childbirth. Edited by James Simpson and Brian Cummings. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199212484.013.0029.

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During the latter part of Henry VIII’s reign, humanism became entrenched, England broke with Rome, and monasteries disappeared. More subtle changes occurred in other, quite different, parts of the cultural landscape, including the discourse of childbirth. This article examines, in the light of vernacular versions of theTrotula(the standard authority on childbirth during the medieval period), two editions of an English gynecological handbook,The Byrth of Mankynde, published in 1540 and 1545, and also their immediate source, theRoszgarten, composed by Eucharius Rösslin and translated into Latin

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Desbruslais, Simon. Reflection. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199351411.003.0015.

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During a rehearsal of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cantata BWV 51 in Oxford in 2008, a colleague, whom I had invited to listen and to observe, advised quite simply: more shapes. The aim, I believe, was to lift the notes further from the page to create a more nuanced and stylish performance. This suited both the contrapuntal edifice of Bach’s music and the period instruments that we were using. On this occasion I was leading the ensemble and therefore in possession of greater authority than usual. I have nonetheless had similar subsequent experiences of this piece, and of similar repertoire, where I

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Surdam, David George. Stability (1954–57). University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037139.003.0006.

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This chapter marks a period of stability and growth for the NBA during the mid-1950s. With the NBA down to eight teams, owners still faced inadequate revenues, although their continued efforts to improve and innovate would eventually lead to the NBA's stabilization. They also continued to grapple with the unattractive aspect of the league's end games, where fouling and rough play were still the tactics of choice. How to reduce the primitive aspects of the game remained a difficult problem, but it was one with an elegant solution—the twenty-four-second shot clock helped transform the pro game i

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Rahier, Jean Muteba. The Festival of the Kings in La Tola. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037511.003.0005.

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The situation, the population, and the history of the village of La Tola differ quite strikingly from those of Santo Domingo. These differences explain the singularities of the Play in each one of the two villages. This chapter underlines the characteristics of La Tola that are indispensable for the interpretation of the Toleño Play and for its comparison to that of the Santo Domingeños. The lesser intensity of the Play in La Tola also makes its interpretation somewhat easier. Additionally, some of the previous ethnographic information about the Santo Domingeño context is also valid for the vi

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Egnell, Robert, and Bruno Cardoso Reis. Counterinsurgency. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198790501.003.0035.

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Looking at the rise and decline of counterinsurgency between 2003 and 2017, this chapter seeks to assess its impact at the level of strategy, doctrine, and military structures within a number of European armed forces. The chapter finds that European states have engaged in counterinsurgency operations in quite varying ways and also extracted rather different lessons from this period. Regardless, several contextual factors point to the continued salience of counterinsurgency. They include the global trends of urbanization, Western technological advantage in conventional combat against most poten

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Salcedo Serna, Marco Alexis. Cuatro críticas filosóficas de Michel Foucault al psicoanálisis de Sigmund Freud. Editorial Universidad Santiago de Cali, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35985/9789585147898.

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El siguiente texto es producto de un amplio ejercicio hermenéutico que se hizo a la obra de Michel Foucault para ofrecer respuestas a una serie de inquietudes que son, en última instancia imprescindibles en su resolución para quien procure comprender el programa filosófico que Foucault implementó. ¿Quién o qué fue Freud en la obra filosófica de Michel Foucault? ¿Qué importancia Foucault le concedió? ¿Por qué el lugar que le otorgó en su obra? ¿Qué reconocimientos le realizó a su pensamiento? ¿Qué aspectos del decir freudiano fueron problemáticos para él? Este libro centra su mirada en el perio

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Alexander, Larry. Duties to Act Triggered by Creation of the Peril. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190683450.003.0010.

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In the criminal law, there is no general duty to rescue others from peril. Rather, duties to rescue are triggered in specific ways, including by having created the victim’s peril. This trigger of the duty is the concern in this chapter. Some cases of creation of the victim’s peril are easy because one has taken an act that will cause harm in a way unmediated by the victim’s or others’ beliefs in the absence of a “rescue.” There are other cases, such as those of belief-mediated imperiling, that are not easy and indeed are quite puzzling. The other group of puzzling cases of imperiling are those

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Fernández-Cobián, Esteban. Construir una iglesia (Vom Bau der Kirche) SCHWARZ, Rudolf. 2021st ed. Universidade da Coruña. Servizo de Publicacións, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.17979/spudc.9788497498135.

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Este libro se escribió en la hora más oscura de Alemania, pero por primera vez arroja luz sobre la cuestión de la construcción de iglesias e ilumina todo el problema de la arquitectura en sí mismo. Rudolf Schwarz, el gran constructor de iglesias alemán, es uno de los pensadores más profundos de nuestro tiempo. Su libro, a pesar de su claridad, no es fácil de leer, pero quien se tome la molestia de estudiarlo con detenimiento obtendrá una visión real de los problemas discutidos

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Pilkington, Lionel. The Little Theatres of the 1950s. Edited by Nicholas Grene and Chris Morash. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198706137.013.19.

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Irish theatre in the 1950s, when the Abbey was in exile at the Queen’s, is often thought of a period in the doldrums, but in fact there were quite a number of exciting and adventurous little theatres working at this time. The best-known is the Pike, with its landmark productions ofThe Quare FellowandWaiting for Godot, but there was also the Lyric in Belfast with its commitment to Yeats’s plays, the Gas Company Theatre Company, and the Lantern bringing new and different forms of drama to Ireland. This chapter explores the impact of such ventures and the extent to which they helped renovate the

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Trill, Suzanne. Lay Households. Edited by Andrew Hiscock and Helen Wilcox. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199672806.013.24.

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This chapter is primarily concerned with how devotional texts were used within lay (that is, non-clerical) households. As the household was frequently identified as ‘a little commonwealth’ such ‘private’ devotions had ‘political’ connotations, especially during a period in which officially sanctioned religious practices were continually shifting. This chapter focuses on how these changes impacted upon the devotions of three quite distinct seventeenth-century households: the controversial community established at Little Gidding by Nicholas Ferrar; the Presbyterian practice of Nehemiah Wallingto

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Shepard, Jonathan. The Shaping of Past and Present, and Historical Writing in Rus’, c.900–c.1400. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199236428.003.0015.

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This chapter explores how Rus' chronicles from the late eleventh century onwards included deeds of princes, town assemblies, invaders, and reverend men and women. These chronicles make up the bulk of the historical writing available for the entire period. Compiled in a few urban centers, they focus on their respective regions and only fitfully offer panoramas of goings on throughout the land of Rus'. They neither formulate nor imply a philosophy of historical development, issuing forth streams of factual data. The one exception is the Povest' Vremennykh Let, a compilation and historical compos

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Shulman, Shmuel, and Jennifer Connolly. The Challenge of Romantic Relationships in Emerging Adulthood. Edited by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199795574.013.007.

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Whereas theories of romantic stage development suggest that youth in the period of emerging adulthood are fully capable of commitment to an intimate romantic relationship, recent research suggests that the relationships of many young people are quite different. Marriage and other forms of deep commitment are delayed while many youth engage in short-term casual encounters or in noncommitted relationships. This chapter suggests that these data pose a challenge to stage theories, one that can be reconciled by considering the developmental life tasks that emerging adults must simultaneously resolv

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Salzman, Paul. Authorship, Publication, Reception (1). Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199580033.003.0001.

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This chapter charts the nature of prose fiction from the beginning of printing to the start of the Restoration period. The development, diversity, and increasing popularity of prose fiction from this era are an extraordinary literary phenomenon. Prose romance circulated from the 1470s through the sixteenth century in both print and manuscript, and formed the cornerstone of prose narrative during the late fifteenth through to the mid-sixteenth centuries. While it is impossible to find a great deal of hard evidence about the early readership for these works, their proliferation and their variety

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Wothers, Peter. Antimony, Gold, and Jupiter's Wolf. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199652723.001.0001.

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The iconic Periodic Table of the Elements is now in its most satisfyingly elegant form. This is because all the 'gaps' corresponding to missing elements in the seventh row, or period, have recently been filled and the elements named. But where do these names come from? For some, usually the most recent, the origins are quite obvious, but in others - even well-known elements such as oxygen or nitrogen - the roots are less clear. Here, Peter Wothers explores the fascinating and often surprising stories behind how the chemical elements received their names. Delving back in time to explore the his

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Blackie, Daniel. Disability and Work During the Industrial Revolution in Britain. Edited by Michael Rembis, Catherine Kudlick, and Kim E. Nielsen. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190234959.013.11.

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A common claim in disability studies is that industrialization has marginalized disabled people by limiting their access to paid employment. This claim is empirically weak and rests on simplified accounts of industrialization. Use of the British coal industry during the period 1780–1880 as a case study shows that reassessment of the effect of the Industrial Revolution is in order. The Industrial Revolution was not as detrimental to the lives of disabled people as has often been assumed. While utopian workplaces for disabled people hardly existed, industrial sites of work did accommodate quite

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Majumdar, Sumit K. History and Background. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199641994.003.0003.

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The chapter summarizes details of political and institutional contexts for post-independence growth. India was severely impoverished in the period from 1900 to 1947, and per-capita growth rates were almost zero. Growth was ten times larger after independence, relative to before independence. Growth was conditioned by the institutional climate defining capitalism practiced in India. In the 1940s, the Second World War, the Quit India movement, the Bengal Famine, and the “Bombay Plan” were important growth-related contingencies. The background to policy making had been the Indian Industrial Commi

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Strong, Rowan. Emigrant Christianity 1880–c.1914. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198724247.003.0007.

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This chapter looks at emigrants’ religious experiences in the final decades of the Victorian and Edwardian periods, when emigration took place either in larger wooden sailing ships, or in steamships. These larger vessels made religious encounters across the various classes of passengers less common, but such encounters as did occur are found to be broadly similar to those in previous decades, with both the maintenance of religious difference and new sympathies across religious divides occurring. There were common elements that facilitated this experience. So the conclusion is reached that thei

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Moran, Richard. Interpretation Theory and the First Person. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190633776.003.0012.

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The “rationalizing interpretation” view of psychological discourse, associated with Donald Davidson and Daniel Dennett, has been widely influential as a reconstruction of our practices of ascribing attitudes to others, and as an account of the meaning of psychological terms. This perspective has lent support to a wider assumption in philosophy of mind, that we should think of our ordinary use of psychological terms as part of a “theory” to explain the behavior of those around us. This paper argues that given the differences in application of psychological terms in their first-person and third-

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Bussel, Robert. Introduction. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039492.003.0001.

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This book examines Teamsters Local 688's community stewards program, a nationally acclaimed initiative launched by Harold Gibbons and Ernest Calloway in St. Louis to advance their advocacy of working-class citizenship and total person unionism. Through the community stewards program, Gibbons and Calloway sought to develop new kinds of unionists whose workplace and civic lives were seamlessly integrated. In addressing the needs of the worker as a “total person,” the two men looked beyond the shop floor and attempted to influence political decisions “affect[ing] the common economic, social, and

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Pollack, Howard. Banjo Eyes. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190458294.003.0009.

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During the period 1940–41, Latouche became involved with the Kurt Kasznar revue Crazy with the Heat, the Ice-Capades of 1941, and other lesser efforts. However, his largest achievement immediately following Cabin in the Sky was Banjo Eyes, a show written for Eddie Cantor’s triumphant return to the Broadway stage, with music by Vernon Duke. The musical was an adaptation of John Cecil Holm and George Abbott’s popular 1935 farce Three Men on a Horse. After mixed reviews on the road in New Haven and Boston, management fired Latouche—or he quit, depending on the source—for not writing in a more acc

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McKinlay Gardner, R. J., and David J. Amor. Gonadal Cytogenetic Damage from Exposure to Extrinsic Agents. Edited by R. J. McKinlay Gardner and David J. Amor. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199329007.003.0024.

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This chapter is a compendium of what is known about the susceptibility, or resistance, of the gonad to agents that might seem candidates for possibly causing damage, and with particular reference to chromosomal status of gametes. A main focus is on cancer treatments. A majority of children and young adults who receive modern cancer treatment survive. Some treatments cause sterility, but in quite a number, fertility is unscathed, or at any rate, subsequently recovers. The chapter also references industrial, environmental, and recreational factors. A notable and substantially reassuring conclusi

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Tesler, Michael, and John Zaller. The Power of Political Communication. Edited by Kate Kenski and Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199793471.013.003.

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Most scholars agree that the effects of mass communication are more than minimal. We find, however, that most communication effects are short-lived, involve mainly weakly held attitudes, and produce no political consequences. Party cues conveyed in mass communication can change attitudes, but usually weakly held ones; when individuals hold strong views, they often change parties rather than change attitudes. Non-partisan communication may not durably change any attitudes, even weakly held ones. These conclusions, derived from field studies rather than laboratory experiments, raise the old mini

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