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Maria, Remarque Erich. All quiet on the western front: Unabridged and unadapted from the original text and with twenty-eight related readings. Everbind Anthologies, 2011.
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Gragnolati, Manuele, and Francesca Southerden. Possibilities of Lyric. ICI Berlin Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.37050/ci-18.
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Opening to passion as an unsettling, transformative force; extending desire to the text, expanding the self, and dissolving its boundaries; imagining pleasures outside the norm and intensifying them; overcoming loss and reaching beyond death; being loyal to oneself and defying productivity, resolution, and cohesion while embracing paradox, non-linearity, incompletion. These are some of the possibilities of lyric that this book explores by reading Petrarch’s vernacular poetry in dialogue with that of other poets, including Guido Cavalcanti, Dante, and Shakespeare. In the Epilogue, the poet Anto
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Mistrorigo, Alessandro. Phonodia. Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-236-9.
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This essay focuses on the ‘voice’ as it sounds in a specific type of recordings. This recordings always reproduce a poet performing a poem of his/her by reading it aloud. Nowadays this kind of recordings are quite common on Internet, while before the ’90 digital turn it was possible to find them only in specific collection of poetry books that came with a music cassette or a CD. These cultural objects, as other and more ancient analogic sources, were quite expensive to produce and acquire. However, all of them contain this same type of recoding which share the same characteristic: the author’s
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Balboni, Paolo E. Thesaurus di Linguistica Educativa: guida, testi, video. Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-607-7.
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When a scholar comes to the end of his or her professional life as a researcher, most of the ideas he or she contributed along the years are scattered in journals and libraries, and most of it is out of print and unavailable. No one apart from the researcher him or herself knows all that he or she has produced, and which among the ideas he or she contributed are original and innovative – or were so when they were published. At this point of his or her professional life a scholar can make a synthesis – and may move from the impersonal pronoun ‘we’ used by researchers to the subject ‘I’, thus ta
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Fantacci, Silvia, ed. Ruggero Jacobbi. Firenze University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-8453-688-4.
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"Ah, if only I were not so alive and so crowded with things, what a book I would write […] but there's so little time […]. There's lots of time to map them out, that's true, but it's not enough." This is the voice of the protagonist of Convalescenza, one of the stories in this book that – thanks to the painstaking editorial attention of Silvia Fantacci – presents the prose written by Ruggero Jacobbi starting from his precocious youth through to the Sixties. The nine sections, recording fragments of memories, vestiges of mystery and bitter solitude, meander between cinema and theatre, revoke th
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Readers Front and Center: Helping All Students Engage with Complex Text. Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
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Readers Front and Center: Helping All Students Engage with Complex Text. Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
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Barnhouse, Dorothy. Readers Front and Center: Helping All Students Engage with Complex Text. Stenhouse Publishers, 2014.
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Shearer, Benjamin F. Home Front Heroes. Greenwood, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400666117.
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Brings together 1,000 focused biographies of Americans who affected how the United States made, supported, perceived, and protested its major wars from the Revolution to Gulf War II. Inventors and scientists, nurses and physicians, reformers and clerics, civil rights and labor leaders, financiers and economist, artists and musicians have all been soldiers on the home front. Home Front Heroesbrings together brief and focused biographies of 1,000 Americans who affected how the United States made, supported, perceived and protested its major war efforts from the Revolution to Gulf War II. Battlef
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Miller, Leta E. Kernis Meets the New York Philharmonic. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038532.003.0003.
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This chapter recounts a highly public—and widely publicized—event on June 7, 1983 that catapulted the twenty-three-year-old Kernis into the national spotlight. At 8:00 that evening, in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, in front of an audience of nearly a thousand, the New York Philharmonic spent an hour reading through and rehearsing Kernis's “dream of the morning sky” (Cycle V), conducted—and critiqued—by music director Zubin Mehta. Nearly every biographical sketch of Kernis cites this event, with varying degrees of accuracy. Major national publications ran stories about it at the time as
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Smith II, Philip E., and Michael Helfand, eds. Oscar Wilde's Oxford Notebooks. Oxford University PressOxford, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198920731.001.0001.
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Abstract The Front Matter begins with A List of Scholarship on Sources and Corrections that directs readers to scholarly books and articles, published after the first printing of this book, containing additional sources for notebook passages and a few corrections of our misattributions of sources. Next, the Preface briefly describes the edited and annotated notebook texts and outlines in more detail the argument of our critical three-part critical monograph. We contend that the notebooks show the sources for Wilde’s philosophical synthesis of Hegelian idealism and evolutionary theory and that
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Levinson, Meira, Ellis Reid, Sara O’Brien, and Tatiana Geron, eds. Civic Contestation in Global Education. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350399532.
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Civic Contestation in Global Educationtakes readers into classrooms and schools on the front lines of civic education in pluralistic and divided democracies.The book offers eight case studies of educators and policy makers wrestling with schools’ civic and ethical responsibilities around the globe. Examples of the case studies include teaching critical consciousness in an Anti-CRT state, religiously sensitive satirical cartoons and radical extremism, and accommodating religion in schools. Each case is followed by a model conversation among diverse participants based in Australia, Canada, Germa
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Scheible, Kristin. Reading the Mahavamsa. Columbia University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231171380.001.0001.
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Vamsa is a dynamic genre of Buddhist history filled with otherworldly characters and the exploits of real-life heroes. These narratives collapse the temporal distance between Buddha and the reader, building an emotionally resonant connection with an outsized religious figure and a longed-for past. The fifth-century Pali text Mahāvamsa is a particularly effective example, using metaphor and other rhetorical devices to ethically transform readers, to stimulate and then to calm them. Reading the Mahāvamsa advocates a new, literary approach to this text by revealing its embedded reading advice (to
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Rose, Melody. Abortion. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400606199.
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This thought–provoking reference work explores the evolution of America’s heated abortion debate in a selection of over 40 primary documents from the 19th century to the present day. The guide includes not only key laws and court cases that have determined abortion policy, but also political speeches, medical essays, theological writings, newspaper advertisements, magazine articles, and popular books that offer insight into America’s changing attitudes towards women, race, the medical field, and the role of government in its citizens’ personal lives. Each document is preceded by an introductio
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Bronner, Yigal, and Charles Hallisey, eds. Sensitive Reading: The Pleasures of South Asian Literature in Translation. Translated by David Shulman. University of California Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/luminos.114.
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What are the pleasures of reading translations of South Asian literature, and what does it take to enjoy a translated text? This volume provides opportunities to explore such questions by bringing together a whole set of new translations by David Shulman, noted scholar of South Asia. The translated selections come from a variety of Indian languages, genres, and periods, from the classical to the contemporary. The translations are accompanied by short essays written to help readers engage and enjoy them. Some of these essays provide background to enhance reading of the translation, whereas othe
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Starks, Glenn L. 100 Black Women Who Shaped America. Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798765110751.
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This introductory text explores the lives of 100 Black women and their unique and meaningful legacies upon the history, society, and culture of the USA. Today, the names and remarkable achievements of Black women such as Maya Angelou, Serena Williams, Michelle Obama, and Oprah Winfrey are well known to many Americans. Yet throughout American history, many lesser-known Black women like them have made invaluable contributions to sports, science, the arts, medicine, politics, and civil rights. Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, who published the first newspaper written for and by African American women
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Smith, Kerry L. Encyclopedia of Indie Rock. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400669699.
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Independent rock, known as indie rock (rock independent of the major label corporations), is music dedicated to the art of rock: it's adventurous, eclectic, defiant, inventive, and restlessly creative. For over 40 years, indie bands have prided themselves on the back-breaking efforts of self-promotion, self-produced albums, homemade album cover art, and even, for the stalwart artist, self-run record labels.Encyclopedia of Indie Rockchronicles the history and development indie rock, providing students, scholars, and music fans with an extensive overview of the musical and cultural phenomenon. I
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Bouissac, Paul. Semiotics of Performances. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350372696.
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What is a live performance? And why is semiotics the best approach for the analysis and interpretation of the performing arts? Drawing on semiotic developments of the past five decades, this book introduces students to the semiotic analysis of live performances and provides them with a clear method for untangling the multimodal complexity of performance from the spectator’s point of view. Presenting live performances as two-way communication processes, social events, and cognitive and affective experiences, each chapter of this highly accessible book begins first with an overview of the basics
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Chattopadhyay, Swati. Small Spaces. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350288256.
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Small Spaces recasts the history of the British empire by focusing on the small spaces that made the empire possible. It takes as its subject a series of small architectural spaces, objects, and landscapes and uses them to narrate the untold stories of the marginalized people—the servants, women, children, subalterns, and racialized minorities—who held up the infrastructure of empire. In so doing it opens up an important new approach to architectural history: an invitation to shift our attention from the large to the small scale. Taking the British empire in India as its primary focus, this bo
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Rengel, Roberto J. The Interior Plan. 3rd ed. Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501369681.
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The Interior Plan is an introductory-level text introducing students to the process of interior design space planning. Topics include the design of effective spatial sequences, functional relationships among project parts, arrangement of furniture, planning effective circulation systems, making spaces accessible, and designing safe environments with efficient emergency egress systems. Exercises throughout the book facilitate learning by encouraging students to apply ideas and concepts immediately after reading about them. In the third edition, the author expands on the evolution of design idea
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Clark, Samuel. Good Lives. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198865384.001.0001.
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Reasoning with autobiography is a way to self-knowledge. We can learn about ourselves, as human beings and as individuals, by reading, thinking through, and arguing about this distinctive kind of text. Reasoning with Edmund Gosse’s Father and Son is a way of learning about the nature of the good life and the roles that pleasure and self-expression can play in it. Reasoning with Siegfried Sassoon’s Memoirs is a way of learning about transformative experience, self-alienation, and therefore the nature of the self. Good Lives develops and defends this claim, by answering a series of questions. Wh
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Mara, Gerald. Political Philosophy in an Unstable World. Edited by Sara Forsdyke, Edith Foster, and Ryan Balot. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199340385.013.39.
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For many readers, the perspectives of Plato and Thucydides are fundamentally incompatible. Plato’s authentic philosophers allegedly occupy an unchanging world of intellectual forms or ideas. Thucydides’ world is passionate and disrupted. If we agree with these assessments, we find two authors speaking such different languages that prospects for dialogue between them seem impossible. I want to challenge that conclusion by suggesting that we can read Thucydides and Plato more dialogically. I try to show how each author opens possibilities for dialogic engagement with his own text and then indica
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Kirkham, Michael. Passionate Intellect. Liverpool University Press, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9780853235439.001.0001.
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In Passionate Intellect: The Poetry of Charles Tomlinson, Michael Kirkham provides a critical reading of the poetry of Charles Tomlinson. Within the text, Kirkham addresses readers already interested in Tomlinson’s poetry, but also those who are unfamiliar with it. Kirkham aims to open up the understanding of the poet’s work by providing a contextual commentary on the poems and by advising ways to read them. The text is split into six chapters that follow the progression of Tomlinson’s poetry from his early career to the his work in the 1980s, and make a comment on the historical context as we
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Ikaheimo, Heikki. Hegel’s Psychology. Edited by Dean Moyar. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199355228.013.20.
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This chapter aims to show that in the Philosophy of Subjective Spirit, Hegel develops a thoroughly ‘detranscendentalized’ account of the human person as the ‘concrete’ flesh-and-blood subject of knowledge and action, an account that deserves much more attention than it has received. Reconstructing Hegel’s holistic picture of the human person as the ‘concrete subject’ of knowing and acting requires a proper understanding of the structure of the text, which on a simple linear reading appears fragmentary and confusing. This chapter focuses on the Psychology section, and the thematically closely c
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Sen, Robin. Effective Practice with Looked After Children. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350494114.
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Since the key developments that policy and research have undergone over the course of the past years, meeting the specific needs of looked after children is a priority for modern social work policy and practice. This comprehensive text combines an accessible overview of statutory policy and legislation with analysis of core theories and interventions to provide a guide for effective practice with children in all care settings by: - Covering legislation as well as research-based analysis of the key interventions and practice methods in the field - Meeting market needs: students and practitioner
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Barlas, Asma. Islam. Edited by Adrian Thatcher. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199664153.013.001.
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This chapter analyses the Qur’an’s position on theology, sexuality, and gender, with the intent of challenging readings of Islam as a patriarchy. It illustrates that missing from Islam’s scripture is the imaginary of God as father/male and endorsements of father-rule (the traditional form of patriarchy), as well as any concept of sexual differentiation that privileges males (more modern forms of patriarchy). Indeed, many Qur’anic teachings can be read on behalf of the principle of sexual equality since they establish the ontological equality of women and men and emphasize the need for mutual c
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Levine, Michael. Hume on Miracles. Edited by Paul Russell. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199742844.013.29.
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This chapter argues that Hume’s argument against justified belief in miracles in Part 1 of his essay is a priori and applies to firsthand experience of a miracle as well as to testimony. The disputed issues cannot be decided on how closely one reads the text or on what Hume “actually says” but are interpretive and require setting them in the context of Hume’s Treatise—his peculiar empiricism, his account of causation, and his theory of a posteriori reasoning. But even if, contrary to the a priori reading of Hume’s argument in Part 1, Hume never thought it impossible to justifiably believe in a
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Bussing, Marie A. Money for Minors. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400687167.
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Money. Debt. Interest rates. Bankruptcy. Billionaires. Students may understand that money makes the world go 'round, but most are a little shaky when it comes to explaining how and why. Using an A-Z format and containing over 400 entries, this reference book provides an essential foundation of business and economic knowledge for middle-school, high-school, and community college students. Short features scattered throughout the text add interest and fun, while helping students understand how economics affects their daily lives. Best, the entries are written in a style ideal for students just be
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Flynn, Shawn W. Once a Child, Always a Child. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198784210.003.0005.
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This final chapter is both a conclusion and a brief consideration of one final category in a child’s life. It offers an overview of how children likely functioned in the domestic cult, and thus explores the child’s ongoing role as “child” even into adulthood. This is reinforced by a discussion of delinquency and the consequences for not upholding the domestic context as the child faced growing responsibility. The logic of the child’s domestic-cultic value in the pre-birth stage and as expressed in the material culture of childhood burials is extended to the expectations placed on them to promo
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Winkler, Elizabeth Grace, and Trini Stickle. Understanding Language. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350355279.
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An introduction to linguistics, this book acquaints students to the key areas of linguistics using real-world illustrations. This fully revised and updated text draws upon students’ daily experiences with linguistic concepts, allowing them to integrate terminology and build analytical skills as they develop a deeper understanding of how language facilitates our lives and, collectively, our society. Features of the third edition include: - A new chapter exploring language, the brain and the mind - A new chapter on World Englishes - Updated and expanded coverage of topics throughout, including a
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Llewellyn, Dawn. ‘But I Still Read The Bible!’. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198722618.003.0032.
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While it might be assumed that post-Christian women have rejected the sacred texts of Christianity, this chapter highlights their continued use of the Bible to resource their spiritual lives, and in doing so raises two questions for gendered religious reading practices. First, post-Christian women’s biblicalism crosses the distinction between sacred and secular literatures, and reading processes sometimes made in religious feminisms. Second, despite the emphasis on ‘women’s experience’, feminist theology has focused on the text to the extent that actual readers and their spiritual reading prac
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Brown, Christopher. Mastering United States Government Information. Libraries Unlimited, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400683534.
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This up-to-date guide provides informational professionals and their clients with much-needed assistance in navigating the immense field of government information. When information professionals are asked questions involving government information, they often experience that "deer in the headlights" feeling.Mastering United States Government Informationhelps them overcome any trepidation about finding and using government documents. Written by Christopher C. Brown, coordinator of government documents at the University of Denver, this approachable book provides an introduction to all major area
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Thomas, George. The (Un)Written Constitution. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197555972.001.0001.
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The late Justice Scalia relished pointing to departures from text as departures from the Constitution, but in fact his jurisprudence relied on unwritten ideas. As textualism has become more prominent with the elevation of Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett to the Supreme Court—jurists in the mold of Scalia—it is crucial to reveal the unwritten ideas that drive textualist readings of the Constitution. Our deepest debates about America’s written Constitution are not about constitutional text but about the unwritten ideas and understandings that guide our reading of text. This fact is obscu
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Rüpke, Jörg. On Roman Religion. Cornell University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501704703.001.0001.
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Was religious practice in ancient Rome cultic and hostile to individual expression? Or was there, rather, considerable latitude for individual initiative and creativity? This book demonstrates that it was a lived religion with individual appropriations evident at the heart of such rituals as praying, dedicating, making vows, and reading. The book dismantles previous approaches that depicted religious practice as uniform and static. Juxtaposing very different, strategic, and even subversive forms of individuality with traditions, their normative claims, and their institutional protections, this
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Naiweld, Ron. Age of the Parákletos. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978726574.
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This book concerns the history of the Bible, Christianity, Rabbinic Judaism, and theological-political thought in the West. Its operation is threefold. First, it shows that the biblical text can be read as a theological-political narrative about a god who strives to be recognized as such by a group of people. Second, it reconstructs the history of the conversation that took place around this narrative from the fourth century BCE to the beginning of the Middle Ages, showing how it was dependent on social and political circumstances, rather than on theological notions. Lastly, it distinguishes b
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Moore, Stephen D. The Bible After Deleuze. Oxford University PressNew York, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197581254.001.0001.
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Abstract The impact of Gilles Deleuze on critical thought in the opening decades of the twenty-first century rivals that of Jacques Derrida or Michel Foucault on critical thought in the closing decades of the twentieth. The “Deleuze and . . .” industry is in overdrive in the humanities, the social sciences, and beyond, busily connecting Deleuzian philosophy to everything from literature to architecture, metaphysics to mathematics, ethics to physics, sexuality to technology, and ecology to theology. What of Deleuze and the Bible? What does the Bible become when it is plugged into the Deleuzian
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Mierlo, Wim Van. James Joyce and Cultural Genetics. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350169913.
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As a genetic study, this book uncovers the creative DNA of James Joyce’s oeuvre by looking at the cultural forces that shaped him and that he in turn shaped in the creation of his books, developing a two-way relationship with history, memory and national identity. Following his development as an author, it revisits and redirects Joyce’s attitudes towards the Irish Revival. From Chamber Music, through Ulysses to Finnegans Wake Joyce sought to define a cultural identity that went, in many respects, against the mainstream, but that nonetheless belonged to the wider Revivalist project with which i
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Gibson, Rebecca. The Bad Corset. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350295223.
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Both a translation and critique of an early 20th century seminal French text on the physical effects of corseting,The Bad Corsetexplores contemporary anti-woman bias to challenge the commonly accepted assertions about corsetry’s contribution to disease, disfigurement, and disorders of the female body. The original 1908 French book,Le Corsetby Ludovic O'Followell—with its graphic illustrations, some of which are reproduced here—tells a story, familiar to anyone interested in popular culture and fashion history, of women suffering for fashion, tormented by and subject to their corsets. However,
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Northcutt, Wayne. The Regions of France. Greenwood, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216006640.
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This is the one reference work that French teachers, students and librarians need for student assignments on the regions of France. A one-stop, easy-to-use reference guide organized by region, it offers in-depth and comprehensive coverage of the cultural life (including cuisine and recipes), customs, history, politics, and the economy of each region. There is no other reference work like it in either English or French. It makes the 22 regions of France accessible to students and others interested in modern and contemporary France, and helps them to understand the complexities of France today a
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Read-Heimerdinger, Jenny. Luke’s Characters in their Jewish World. T&T CLARK, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9780567711403.
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Jenny Read-Heimerdinger explores the characters of Luke-Acts in order to situate them in the Jewish world to which they belong.Through a close reading of the Greek text, she argues that Luke emerges as a person thoroughly steeped in a Jewish view of Scripture, familiar with a range of associated oral traditions; and that taking account of the Jewish features allows new insights into the way that the author situates events and characters firmly within the history of Israel, before the Church was a separate institution or religion. Read-Heimerdinger proposes that such a view of his work implies
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Vidas, Moulie. The Rise of Talmud. Oxford University PressOxford, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198915058.001.0001.
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Abstract The rabbinic sages of late antiquity are known for their sophisticated and creative reading of Scripture, but rabbinic literature also includes elaborate commentary on another kind of text: the sages’ own teachings. This book argues that the development of this commentary, later called Talmud, transformed the sages’ self-perception and intellectual world. By studying the first collection of commentary on rabbinic teachings, the often neglected and difficult Talmud Yerushalmi, and comparing it with earlier rabbinic texts, this study shows how ancient Talmudic scholars presented a new u
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Kotsko, Adam, and Carlo Salzani. Introduction: Agamben as a Reader. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474423632.003.0001.
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One of the greatest challenges Giorgio Agamben presents to his readers is the vast and often bewildering range of sources that he draws upon in his work. His books, written in an elegant and refined style that is also extremely dense and almost elliptical, venture into fields as diverse as aesthetics, religion, politics, law and ethics, with an uncommon erudition that ranges from ancient sources to medieval, modern and contemporary works in various disciplines and fields. Moreover, his peculiar ‘Italian’ style often plays with the ‘unsaid’ and practises the Benjaminian art of ‘quoting without
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Velázquez, Mirelsie. Puerto Rican Chicago. University of Illinois Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252044243.001.0001.
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This book chronicles the response of the Puerto Rican community in Chicago to the urban decay in which they were forced to live, work, and especially learn. Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940–1977 demonstrates that the work begun by schooling agents in Puerto Rico in 1898 was continued by Chicago officials after 1940. The book offers a historical reading of how the Puerto Rican community acknowledged and confronted the intricate ways their claim to space in Chicago was linked to schooling inequalities and challenges. The complex ways in which Puerto Ricans began to utilize print cu
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Miyake, Lynne K. The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350424951.
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This groundbreaking study examines the unlikely merger of two Japanese cultural phenomena, an 11th-century aristocratic text and contemporary manga comics. It explores the ways in which the manga versions of The Tale of Genji use gender, sexuality, and desire to challenge perceptions of reading and readership, morality and ethics, and what is translatable from one culture to another. Lynne K. Miyake shows that, through their girls, ladies, Boy Love, boys and young men, and informational comics remediations of the tale, the manga Genjis visually, narratively, and affectively rework male and fem
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Baron, Naomi S. How We Read Now. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190084097.001.0001.
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The digital revolution has transformed reading. Onscreen text, audiobooks, podcasts, and videos often replace print. We make these swaps for pleasure reading, but also in schools. How We Read Now offers a ringside seat to the impact of reading medium on learning. Teachers, administrators, librarians, and policy makers need to select classroom materials. College students must weigh their options. And parents face choices for their children. Digital selections are often based on cost or convenience, not educational evidence. Current research offers essential findings about how print and digital
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Olson, James S. Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in America. Greenwood, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216024859.
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The Industrial Revolution changed the course of American history, accelerated the American economy, and affected the way people lived. This ready-reference encyclopedia offers in-depth coverage of the economic, political, and social developments of the Industrial Revolution in the United States from 1750 to 1920. More than 200 substantial entries cover key individuals--among them entrepreneurs, inventors, captains of industry, and robber barons--significant technologies, inventions, court cases, companies, political institutions, economic events, and legislation. Highlights of the work include
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Tischler, Nancy M., ed. All Things in the Bible. Greenwood, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400609374.
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The Bible is the central text of Western civilization, and an understanding of it is vital to the study of world history and culture. In addition, more and more high school and college students are studying the Bible as literature. Monumental in scope and written especially for high school students and general readers, this encyclopedia surveys the material culture, customs, and beliefs of the biblical world. Included are more than 200 alphabetically arranged entries on the tools, animals, foods, habits, laws, professions, and peoples of the Bible. Each entry provides definitions; scriptural r
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9780198914617 and Julia Thomas. The Victorian Mind's Eye. Oxford University PressOxford, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198914600.001.0001.
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Abstract This book conceptualizes the material and mental mechanics of reading that emerged with the Victorian age of illustration. This period witnessed the growth of illustrated material on an unprecedented scale, with words and pictures printed alongside each other in works of fiction and non-fiction. Victorian illustrated literature was extraordinarily diverse in terms of its style, subject matter, and audience, but its common feature was its bi-mediality, a conjunction of text and image that instigated and demanded new processes and experiences of reading. This book identifies and analyse
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Eaklor, Vicki L. Queer America. www.greenwood.com, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216003670.
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Perhaps no topic today is politically more divisive than homosexuality, particularly when it is coupled with the deeply rooted concept of civil rights. This work focuses on 20th/21st- century U. S. history as it pertains to GLBT history. Major issues and events such as the Stonewall riot, Don't Ask, Don't Tell in the military, same-sex marriage, gay rights, gay pride, organizations and alliances, AIDS, and legal battles and court cases are discussed. Also included are sidebars highlighting major debates, legal landmarks and key individuals. A timeline and further reading sections concluding ea
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Sofras, Pamela Anderson. Dance Composition Basics. 2nd ed. Human Kinetics, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781718227415.
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If the saying “To be the best, you must learn from the best” holds true, then this book is gold for all aspiring dancers. Dance Composition Basics, Second Edition, doesn’t just feature the works and brilliance of dance and choreographic legends Alonzo King and Dwight Rhoden–it is completely based on the choreographic operations and forms in three of their original works: Chants and Dreamer by King and Verge by Rhoden. All compositional exercises in the book are based on those three works, and the book itself is expertly crafted by Pamela Anderson Sofras, who has 34 years of experience teaching