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Atlantic passages: History, community, and language in the fiction of Sam Selvon. New York: P. Lang, 1996.
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1266?-1337, Giotto, and Lessing Erich, eds. Vie de Saint François d'Assise selon Giotto. Paris: Oeuvre, 2011.
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Hagemann, Bernhard. Caught in the Same Boat - Gefangen im selben Boot. [S.l.]: Langenscheidt, 2010.
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Les fondements ecclésiologiques du Presbytérium: Selon le concile Vatican II et la théologie post-conciliaire. Bern: Peter Lang, 2002.
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Carles, Mancho, and Vidal Sergi, eds. El monestir de Sant Pere de Rodes. Bellaterra: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Servei de Publicacions, 2002.
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Fossaluzza, Giorgio. Guardi e Fontebasso a Selva del Montello: I dipinti ritrovati : Treviso, Casa dei Carraresi, 18 marzo-28 marzo 2000. Treviso: Fondazione Cassamarca, 2000.
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Riu, Ramón Ramonet. Reliquias de San Pedro Apóstol encontradas en Cataluña. [Spain: R. Ramonet Riu, 1987.
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Eduardo, Remedi, ed. Programas de atención a estudiantes indígenas en educación superior en América Central: Los sellos institucionales. México, D.F: Juan Pablos Editor, 2010.
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Pep, Botey, Rivas Humberto, and García Martín, eds. Monasterio de Sant Pere de Rodes: Guía histórica y arquitectónica. 2nd ed. Barcelona: Generalitat de Catalunya, 2002.
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Otzet, Imma Lorés. El claustre romànic de Sant Pere de Rodes: De la memòriaa les reste conservades : una hipòtesi sobre la seva composició escultòrica. Lleida, Espanya: Universitat de Lleida, 1989.
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Susheila, Nasta, ed. Critical perspectives on Sam Selvon. Washington, D.C: Three Continents Press, 1988.
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Martin, Zehnder, ed. Something rich and strange: Selected essays on Sam Selvon. Leeds, England: Peepal Tree, 2003.
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Dickison, Swift Stiles. Transnational carnival and creolized garden: Caribbean cultural identity and rooting in the narratives of Sam Selvon and Merle Hodge. 1994.
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Blumberg, Olaf. Ficken sag ich selten: Mein Leben mit Tourette. Ullstein Taschenbuchvlg., 2014.
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Musique et danse selon Ibn Taymyya: Le Livre du Sama et de la danse (Kitab al-Sama wa l-Raqs) (Etudes musulmanes). J. Vrin, 1991.
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Dejordy, Rich, and W. E. Douglas Creed. Institutional Pluralism, Inhabitants, and the Construction of Organizational and Personal Identities. Edited by Michael G. Pratt, Majken Schultz, Blake E. Ashforth, and Davide Ravasi. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199689576.013.9.
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In this chapter we propose that organizational identities—particularly organizational selves (Pratt and Kraatz, 2011)—are socially constructed in the service of personal identity projects. Building on institutional theory, we propose institutional inhabitants facing the myriad pressures associated with institutional pluralism respond with agency, socially constructing selves for organizations and appropriating them, through affiliation, as a resource in resolving those pressures in their personal identity projects. We then interrogate how and when this perspective may effect change in organizational identities and selves. We close the chapter by showing how this perspective applies in the comparison of three organizations existing in the same institutional environment and discussing implications of this perspective for future research on organizational identity.
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Abdul Halim, Ramli. Angkasa Minda. UUM Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.32890/9789672064268.
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A ngkasa Mindabertemakan Perpaduan dan Integrasi Nasional memaparkan kisah sekumpulan pelajar yang ditugaskan menyediakan skrap book mata pelajaran sains dengan memberi tumpuan kepada aerongkasa. Sesuai dengan matlamat mengukuhkan perpaduan negara memandangkan negara bermasyarakat majmuk dengan rakyatnya pelbagai kaum dan anutan agama, maka wataknya diipelbagai-kaumkan, termasuk diikut-samakan kaum Orang Asli, orang Siam dan orang Sabah dan Sarawak selain dari watak terdiri dari kalangan kaum-kaum utama negara, yakni Melayu, India dan Cina. Selain dari menggunakan huruf, penceritaan novel ini turut menggunakan angka kerana sesuai dengan keperluan penyebutan fakta agar mudah terlekat pada pemikiran pembaca yang dikhususkan untuk kalangan remaja.
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Ramely, Asmahany. Konsep amalan hijau dalam pengurusan acara. UUM Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.32890/9789672210474.
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Dalam konteks pengurusan dan penganjuran acara, syarikat pengurusan dan penganjuran acara dilihat lebih memberi fokus kepada keuntungan hasil daripada perkembangan pelancongan dan acara. Namun, di sebalik keghairahan itu, syarikat pengurusan dan penganjuran acara seolah-olah lupa akan kesan negatif acara kepada alam sekitar. Dalam konteks pengunjung acara pula, selain menikmati kegembiraan, pengalaman dan kepuasan berhibur; pengunjung acara harus mengambil tanggungjawab untuk sama-sama meminimumkan kesan negatif acara kepada alam sekitar.Secara adilnya, alam sekitar yang dipinjamkan ini harus sama-sama dijaga agar kekal lestari untuk generasi akan datang. Buku ini dihasilkan dengan tujuan memberi kesedaran, pengetahuan, di samping membincangkan beberapa kaedah yang boleh diguna pakai oleh syarikat pengurusan dan penganjuran acara dalam menghasilkan acara hijau.
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Thacker, Andrew. Modernism, Space and the City. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748633470.001.0001.
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This innovative book examines the development of modernism in four European cities: London, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna. Focusing upon how literary and cultural outsiders represented various spaces in these cities, it draws upon contemporary theories of affect, mood, and literary geography to offer an original account of the geographical emotions of modernism. It considers three broad features of urban modernism: the built environment of the particular cities, such as cafés or transport systems; the cultural institutions of publishing that underpinned the development of modernism in these locations; and the complex perceptions of writers and artists who were outsiders to the four cities. Particular attention is thus given to the transnational qualities of modernism by examining figures whose view of the cities considered is that of migrants, exiles, or strangers. The writers and artists discussed include Mulk Raj Anand, Gwendolyn Bennett, Bryher, Blaise Cendrars, Joseph Conrad, T. S. Eliot, Christopher Isherwood, Hope Mirlees, Noami Mitchison, Jean Rhys, Sam Selon, and Stephen Spender.
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Yatim, Bidin, and Sharipah Soaad Syed Yahaya. Statistik gunaan. UUM Press, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.32890/9839559680.
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Buku ini memperkenalkan konsep dan teknik dalam statistik inferen kepada para pelajar yang ingin menggunakan kaedah statistik sebagai sebahagian daripada keperluan program pengajian, dan mendapatkan pendedahan tentang teknik asas menganalisis data yang diperlukan dalam kajian saintifik. Konsep dan penyelesaian masalah diberikan dengan sejelas mungkin bagi membantu pemahaman. Selain itu, ianya turut mengutarakan penggunaan perisian SAS bagi menganalisis data. Berbagai contoh dan latihan disediakan bagi memantapkan lagi pemahaman pembaca tentang konsep yang dibincangkan. Jawapan bagi setiap latihan juga disediakan untuk membantu pembaca menyemak latihan dan kefahaman.
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Venkatesh, Viswanath. Road to Success: A Guide for Doctoral Students and Junior Faculty. Virginia Tech Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21061/road-to-success.
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This book provides guidance and tools to help PhD students and junior faculty members successfully navigate and mature through the various stages of an academic career. Senior faculty members can use this book as a source of ideas to advise their PhD students and junior colleagues. This book presents knowledge that is seldom imparted in PhD programs, and organizes the same as advice and tools related to achieving success at research, teaching and service, all while maintaining work-life balance. The advice and tools provided are based on years of experience of the author and guest contributors, who have successfully navigated many of the same challenges and mentored many PhD students and junior faculty members. This book is suitable both for those who seek careers in research universities or universities that promote greater balance across research, teaching and service.
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Bomberger, E. Douglas. Summer. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190872311.003.0008.
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Before air conditioning became the norm, concerts in the summer months were seldom given indoors. Muck, Samaroff, and other classical musicians vacationed in Seal Harbor, Maine, a small town that attracted a disproportionate number of musical vacationers. Their activities were closely observed by the newly established Military Intelligence Section. The Fifteenth Regiment Band continued to hone its skills during training stints at Camp Whitman and Camp Dix as the army brass debated what to do with black recruits in a segregated army. The summer of 1917 saw a flurry of new jazz records as well as numerous articles purporting to explain the popular phenomenon.
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Abu Yazid, Afifah. Kepelbagaian agama dan etnik dalam pembentukan negara bangsa. UUM Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.32890/9789670876559.
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Buku ini merupakan himpunan sepuluh buah artikel yang membincangkan keupayaan agama dalam memacu pembinaan negara bangsa Malaysia. Penekanan diberikan kepada peranan agama Islam sebagai sebagai agama rasmi negara, tetapi dalam masa yang sama menonjolkan nilai-nilai murni yang terdapat dalam agama etnik lain seperti Buddha dan Hindu, yang menganjurkan kehidupan harmoni berlandaskan agama. Turut dikupas ialah peranan dakwah dan fatwa, etika kerja, isu penggunaan kalimah Allah, senario penggunaan bahasa Melayu dalam kepelbagaian agama, peranan modal insan serta peranan hisbah dalam pendidikan dan pembinaan negara bangsa. Selain pelbagai gagasan tentang pengisian pembinaan negara bangsa, buku ini juga turut membincangkan implikasi Islamisasi terhadap hubungan antara etnik di Malaysia.
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Mapjabil, Jabil, ed. Program Homestay dan Pembangunan Komuniti Luar Bandar di Malaysia. UUM Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.32890/9789670474816.
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Buku Program Homestay dan Pembangunan Komuniti Luar Bandar di Malaysiamengetengahkan pelbagai topik dan isu berkaitan dengan program homestay dan komuniti luar bandar di Malaysia. Perkembangan dalam pembangunan program homestay dan peranannya dalam membangunkan komuniti luar bandar merupakan teras utama perbincangan. Buku ini terdiri daripada 12 bab dan disusun mengikut dua skop utama seperti berikut: Pembangunan program homestay dalam konteks Malaysia Kajian kes program homestay di negeri terpilih Buku ini memberikan manfaat kepada mereka yang ingin mengkaji serta mendapatkan pengetahuan lanjut tentang dua bidang utama iaitu program homestay sebagai tarikan pelancongan dan pembangunan ekonomi komuniti luar bandar. Selain daripada mahasiswa, pelbagai pihak sama ada yang terlibat secara langsung atau tidak langsung dalam pengurusan program homestay dan pembangunan komuniti di luar bandar.
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Yusof, Ab Aziz. Politik organisasi dalam penilaian prestasi realiti atau persepsi. UUM Press, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.32890/9839559850.
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Buku ini mengemukakan persiapan yang akan dihadapi oleh penilai bagi menghadapi sebarang kemungkinan yang ada kalanya di luar batasan moral, etika, akhlak, polisi,prosedur dan peraturan kesan daripada perlaksanaan sistem penilaian prestasi.Sehubungan itu, pihak yang terlibat dalam sistem ini, hendaklah peka dan lebih berwaspada apabila berhadapan dengan isu-isu pengurusan pada abad ke-21 yang lebih terdedah kepada maklumat-maklumat terkini, kepekaan terhadap perundangan,dan keprihatinan terhadap kualiti persekitaran di tempat kerja. Buku ini disediakankhusus untuk pengurus dan kakitangan awam, sektor swasta, badan-badan bukan kerajaan, ahli akademik dan golongan profesional, yang sentiasa dihambati pelbagai permasalahan dalam penilaian prestasi. Selain itu, pelajar Institut Pengajian Tinggi(IPT) juga disarankan membaca buku ini kerana mereka akan turut menghadapi masalah yang sama pada masa hadapan.
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Kitcher, Patricia, ed. The Self. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190087265.001.0001.
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This book is about the ways that the concept of an ‘I’ or a ‘self’ has been developed at different times in the history of western philosophy; it also offers a striking contrast case, the ‘interconnected’ self, who appears in some expressions of African philosophy. If ‘human being’ is a biological classification, ‘I’ is a mental one. What I’s do is think. The most common theme across western accounts of ‘I’s that think’ is that they are self-conscious. A second theme (in the west) is that selves have unity: There is one self who recalls past experiences and anticipates future actions. Despite being self-conscious selves, it has proven difficult to say what a self is without paradox. Normally, the object of consciousness pre-exists the consciousness, but we cannot be a self without being self-conscious, so it seems that a self and the consciousness thereof must be coeval. How can we be self-aware and yet have no idea of what a self is? (It cannot just be a body, since a live human body might not be able to think.) The essays in this volume engage many philosophical resources—metaphysics, epistemology, phenomenology, philosophy of psychology and philosophy of language—to illuminate these puzzles. The Reflections present attempts to approach some aspects of these puzzles scientifically and also provide a sense of how central they are to human life.
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Hamou, Philippe. Locke and Descartes on Selves and Thinking Substances. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198815037.003.0008.
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Locke’s construal of selves, persons, and thinking substances is notoriously difficult and the subject of wide controversy. In this chapter, it is suggested that we could go some way towards clarifying it by seeing it in the context of Descartes’s construal of the same or similar issues. The chapter argues that there are both strong threads of continuity (which may appear even stronger in the light of the recent reappraisal of Descartes’s so-called dualism) and a quite obvious (but often neglected) anti-Cartesian strand in Locke’s doctrine of the self. The target is to assess precisely where and why Locke departs from Descartes. The chapter shows, contrary to a common but misconceived view of Locke’s aim in Essay II. xvii, that it is not so much the Cartesian ‘substantiation’ of the self that Locke is arguing against, but rather its disembodiment.
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Parr, Connal. Stewart Parker, the UWC Strike of May 1974, and Prisons. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791591.003.0005.
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This chapter explores the UWC strike of May 1974 through the prism of playwright Stewart Parker. A native of East Belfast, Parker experimented with the dramatic form at the same time as structuring his work around the politics, divisions, and contradictions of his own community. The strike led to the destruction of the Sunningdale power-sharing Executive, though this was as much an expression of working-class Protestant power as an assault on the concept of nationalists (and Catholics) in power. This connectedly takes in Loyalist prisoners who began swelling the jails, a familiar academic concentration but seldom addressed through a cultural prism. Martin Lynch’s Chronicles of Long Kesh (2009) tackles the experience via a contested portrayal of Loyalist prisoners. The chapter ends with a return to Stewart Parker’s capacious and self-critical take on Ulster Protestant identity.
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Tsukamoto, Saori, Yoshihisa Kashima, Nick Haslam, Elise Holland, and Minoru Karasawa. Entitativity Perceptions of Individuals and Groups across Cultures. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199348541.003.0011.
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Cross-cultural differences in social perceptions pose an intriguing puzzle. East Asians, in contrast to Westerners, tend to have the view that individuals lack coherent and thematically consistent characteristics and, therefore, are likely to exhibit cross-situationally inconsistent actions and reactions. This tendency is explained in terms of naïve dialecticism. However, from a different domain of perception, East Asians perceive groups as possessing more coherent and thematically consistent characteristics than ascribed by Westerners. Does this apparent contradiction mean that, unlike individual selves, groups are not dialectically construed by East Asians? One way to reconcile these findings is to say that naïve dialecticism is domain-specific—East Asian dialecticism applies to individuals, but not to groups. Another is to consider individualism–collectivism and argue that East Asians perceive groups as more entitative because they are collectivistic, and Westerners perceive individuals as more entitative because they are individualistic. Pros and cons for these explanations are examined in this chapter and future research directions are suggested.
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Weiner, Marli F., and Mazie Hough. The Political Body. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036996.003.0001.
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This book investigates how slaves experienced illness and the practice of medicine, as well as the ways in which physicians sought to understand race and sex, in the antebellum South. It shows that doctors who tried to define health and sickness for men and women, black and white, also had to contend with the realities of a slaveholding society. Slaveholders often defined slaves as healthy enough to work when the slaves considered themselves to be sick. At the same time, slaveholders wanted to protect their financial investment in the bodies of slaves and so had incentive to provide medical care for them. Slaves had their own beliefs about bodily differences and the causes of sickness as well as how to cure them, but their beliefs were seldom validated or their practices respected by slaveholders and doctors. In order to elucidate medical and lay perspectives on the political body in the antebellum old South, the book draws on evidence from a variety of sources, including medical journals and texts, physicians' diaries, and slave narratives and folklore for slaves.
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Sabudin, Noor Sa'adah, Nor Fadzlin Mohammad Bahar, and Norazlina Abd. Wahab. Perbankan dan pasaran modal Islam: Isu dan aplikasi. UUM Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.32890/9789833827916.
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Sejajar dengan matlamat negara Malaysia menyasarkan pencapaian sekitar 20 peratus daripada pasaran perbankan domestik dikuasai oleh sistem perbankan Islam menjelang tahun 2010, pelbagai usaha dilaksanakan oleh kerajaan mahupun pihak swasta untuk terus membangunkan sistem kewangan Islam.Pelan Induk 10 tahun Perbankan Islam turut dilancar bagi mewujudkan satu sistem kewangan yang cekap, progresif dan lengkap selain memperkenalkan Malaysia sebagai pusat perbankan dan kewangan Islam di rantau ini. Kini, sistem kewangan Islam ialah sebahagian daripada sistem kewangan negara yang meletakkan Malaysia ke hadapan berbanding negara lain.Malaysia komited untuk membangunkan sistem perbankan Islam dan pada masa yang sama berusaha melaksanakan sistem kewangan Islam dalam struktur kewangan negara secara menyeluruh. Dengan peningkatan dalam dimensi kewangan Islam pada peringkat global, landskap kewangan Islam berubah dengan penglibatan pemain pasaran yang lebih pelbagai serta persekitaran yang lebih berdaya saing.Skop perniagaan kewangan Islam kini lebih meluas sebagai tindak balas kepada perubahan permintaan pelanggan pada peringkat global.Justeru, isu dan cabaran yang dihadapi oleh bank Islam untuk berkembang pada peringkat antarabangsa semakin kompleks.Antara cabaran global yang dihadapi ialah struktur instrumen kewangan, takaful dan pasaran modal yang lebih kompleks dan sofistikated akibat peningkatan dalam persaingan.
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Bell, Marcus. Whiteness Interrupted. Duke University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478021933.
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In Whiteness Interrupted Marcus Bell presents a revealing portrait of white teachers in majority-black schools in which he examines the limitations of understandings of how white racial identity is formed. Through in-depth interviews with dozens of white teachers from a racially segregated, urban school district in Upstate New York, Bell outlines how whiteness is constructed based on localized interactions and takes a different form in predominantly black spaces. He finds that in response to racial stress in a difficult teaching environment, white teachers conceptualized whiteness as a stigmatized category predicated on white victimization. When discussing race outside majority-black spaces, Bell's subjects characterized American society as postracial, in which race seldom affects outcomes. Conversely, in discussing their experiences within predominantly black spaces, they rejected the idea of white privilege, often angrily, and instead focused on what they saw as the racial privilege of blackness. Throughout, Bell underscores the significance of white victimization narratives in black spaces and their repercussions as the United States becomes a majority-minority society.
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Davis, Joy Lawson, and Shawn Anthony Robinson. Being 3e, A New Look at Culturally Diverse Gifted Learners with Exceptional Conditions. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190645472.003.0017.
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Our nation’s population of culturally diverse students continues to rise. Among this group are many whose intellect and creativity are often masked by behaviors often seen by classroom teachers as a deficit or in such need of correction that the same student’s gifts are seldom given any attention and therefore, go under-developed. Teachers with broader cultural experience, training, and openness to diverse expressions of intelligence and creativity tend to fare better when working with diverse learners and are able to capitalize on their strengths, despite specific disabling conditions. The challenges of being a culturally diverse learner with high potential and identifiable disabling conditions are complex and often troubling to students, their parents, and teachers. This newly conceptualized 3e status presents a quagmire of conditions requiring that educators view these students through a different set of lenses and utilize a more creative tool box of strategies to bring out the best in these often overlooked and misdiagnosed learners. This chapter will explore the challenges, provide real-life cases, and offer unique, but practical strategies matched to student traits. Recommendations will also be offered for parents and family members to enhance their role as advocates for their uniquely exceptional children.
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Rowland, Daniel B. God, Tsar, and People. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501752094.001.0001.
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This book brings together essays written over a period of fifty years, using a wide variety of evidence — texts, icons, architecture, and ritual — to reveal how early modern Russians (1450–1700) imagined their rapidly changing political world. The book presents a more nuanced picture of Russian political thought during the two centuries before Peter the Great came to power than is typically available. The state was expanding at a dizzying rate, and atop Russia's traditional political structure sat a ruler who supposedly reflected God's will. The problem facing Russians was that actual rulers seldom — or never — exhibited the required perfection. This book argues that this contradictory set of ideas was far less autocratic in both theory and practice than modern stereotypes would have us believe. In comparing and contrasting Russian history with that of Western European states, the book is also questioning the notion that Russia has always been, and always viewed itself as, an authoritarian country. The book explores how the Russian state in this period kept its vast lands and diverse subjects united in a common view of a Christian polity, defending its long frontier agai-nst powerful enemies from the East and from the West.
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Daud, Zulkiflee, and Isa Mansor. Teori dan praktis perhubungan perusahaan di Malaysia. UUM Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.32890/9789672363019.
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Buku ini memberi tumpuan kepada persekitaran hubungan majikan-pekerja, pihak yang terlibat dalam perhubungan perusahaan, proses perundingan kolektif, perjanjian kolektif, pertikaian industri, tindakan industri, menguruskan disiplin pekerja, kontrak pekerjaan dan penamatan kontrak pekerjaan Di samping itu, berdasarkan kepada amalan pekerjaan di Malaysia, beberapa bab di dalam buku ini membincangkan trend semasa atau isu-isu dasar dalam pengurusan pekerja di Malaysia.Buku ini membincangkan secara menyeluruh dari segi topik dalam bidang perhubungan perusahaan berdasarkan amalan di Malaysia yang menjadi asas kepada analisis yang lebih mendalam berkenaan isu-isu di dalam bidang perhubungan perusahaan. Buku ini turut menawarkan bahan tambahan yang direka untuk memberi tumpuan dan realisme kepada kajian berkenaan sistem perhubungan perusahaan di Malaysia.Buku ini sesuai untuk pelajar di pelbagai peringkat sama ada di peringkat Sarjana Muda dan Pasca Siswazah kerana ia menjelaskan fakta, proses, prosedur serta perundangan yang bersesuaian dengan topik yang dibincangkan. Selain itu, buku ini juga sesuai untuk dijadikan bahan rujukan oleh pengamal pengurusan sumber manusia di dalam industri kerana buku ini memberi tumpuan kepada prinsip, peruntukan akta dan kes-kes mahkamah yang boleh membantu untuk memahami tanggungjawab majikan dan hak-hak pekerja di tempat kerja.
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Shagrir, Oron. The Nature of Physical Computation. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197552384.001.0001.
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Computing systems are everywhere today. Even the brain is thought to be a sort of computing system. But what does it mean to say that a given organ or system computes? What is it about laptops, smartphones, and nervous systems that they are deemed to compute, and why does it seldom occur to us to describe stomachs, hurricanes, rocks, or chairs that way? The book provides an extended argument for the semantic view of computation, which states that semantic properties are involved in the nature of computing systems. Laptops, smartphones, and nervous systems compute because they are accompanied by representations. Stomachs, hurricanes, and rocks, for instance, which do not have semantic properties, do not compute. The first part of the book argues that the linkage between the mathematical theory of computability and the notion of physical computation is weak. Theoretical notions such as algorithms, effective procedure, program, and automaton play only a minor role in identifying physical computation. The second part of the book reviews three influential accounts of physical computation and argues that while none of these accounts is satisfactory, each of them highlights certain key features of physical computation. The final part of the book develops and argues for a semantic account of physical computation and offers a characterization of computational explanations.
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Díaz Perera, Miguel Ángel, ed. El insólito caso de Máximo y Bartola. Las diferencias humanas en el imaginario del siglo XIX. Translated by Ulises Rodríguez Guzmán. Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas. Centro de Estudios Superiores de México y Centroamérica / El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.29043/cesmeca.rep.919.
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A mediados del siglo XIX viajaron por Europa como parte de un espectáculo público dos jóvenes americanos conocidos médicamente como “microcéfalos”. Más común que en la actualidad, la exhibición de enanos, siameses y gigantes en las ferias y circos despertaba la curiosidad de un público ansioso por conocer los entresijos de continentes lejanos y excitantes como África y América. Con un imaginario ávido de lo exótico, donde se creía que fieras amazonas se escondían en las selvas tropicales y que existían ciudades perdidas de oro y plata, estos microcéfalos fueron atrapados por el hambre de conocer la naturaleza y el pasado del hombre americano que sin diferencias se calificaba como azteca. En este contexto se ubica el folleto titulado Memoir of an Eventful Expedition in Central America; Resulting in the Discovery of the Idolatrous City of Iximaya, in an unexplored region: and the possession of two Remarkable Aztec Children, Descendants and Specimens of the Sacerdotal Cast (now nearly extinct) of the Ancient Aztec Founders of the Ruined Temples of that Country, Described by John L. Stevens, Esq., and other Travellers. Translated from the Spanish of Pedro Velasquez of San Salvador. Se trata del relato de una incursión al corazón de Guatemala donde existía una ciudad perdida que preservaba costumbres milenarias intocadas por la mano española y una casta genuina azteca.
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El tesoro de Sant Pere de Rodes: Una ocultación de monedas de oro y de plata a principios del siglo XVI. Barcelona: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, 1999.
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Teresa, Marot, ed. El tresor de Sant Pere de Rodes: Una ocultació de monedes d'or i de plata a línici del segle XVI. Barcelona: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, 1999.
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Coovadia, Imraan. Revolution and Non-Violence in Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Mandela. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198863694.001.0001.
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The dangers of political violence and the possibilities of non-violence were the central themes of three lives which changed the twentieth century—Leo Tolstoy, writer and aristocrat who turned against his class; Mohandas Gandhi, who corresponded with Tolstoy and considered him the most important person of the time; and Nelson Mandela, prisoner and statesman, who read War and Peace on Robben Island and who, despite having led a campaign of sabotage, saw himself as a successor to Gandhi. Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Mandela tried to create transformed societies to replace the dying forms of colony and empire. They found the inequalities of Russia, India, and South Africa intolerable, yet they questioned the wisdom of seizing the power of the state, creating new kinds of political organization and imagination to replace the old promises of revolution. Their views, along with their ways of leading others, are closely connected, from their insistence on working with their own hands and reforming their individual selves to their acceptance of death. On three continents, in a century of mass mobilization and conflict, they promoted strains of nationalism devoid of antagonism, prepared to take part in a general peace. Looking at Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Mandela in sequence, taking into account their letters and conversations, as well as the institutions they created or subverted, placing at the centre their treatment of the primal fantasy of political violence, reveals a vital radical tradition which stands outside the conventional categories of twentieth-century history and politics.
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Chiovenda, Andrea. Crafting Masculine Selves. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190073558.001.0001.
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Crafting Masculine Selves represents a journey into the culture and psychological dynamics of a select group of Afghan Pashtun men. The book is based on eighteen months of fieldwork in a volatile area of Afghanistan, adjoining the border with Pakistan, carried out between 2009 and 2013. In addition to participant observation, the author employed a person-centered ethnographic methodology, wherein he conducted long-term, one-on-one interview sessions with four male individuals, and analyzed four additional life trajectories. The book unveils and chronicles how the creation and use of multiple subjectivities, and the unconscious, dissociative interplay that the individual maintains between them, is one of the “stratagems” with which individuals manage to make sense of what happens to them in real life, and to pragmatically inhabit personal circumstances that are often marred by conflict and violence, both at the interpersonal and at the political level. The main cultural thread the book investigates is that of masculinity, a crucial idiom in a very androcentric Pashtun society. Virtually all the interlocutors the book presents have to navigate deep private conflicts and contradictions related to how society expects them to be appropriate, proper men, against the backdrop of a sociopolitical Afghan context heavily impacted by almost forty years of uninterrupted war. Feeling constrained by the strict norms about a severe and honor-bound masculinity in a quickly changing Afghanistan, but equally striving to be culturally validated by their own peers, these men struggle to create and publicly legitimize their own, idiosyncratic way of being appropriate men. While they suffer at times the stern rebuke of their social environment, all the same they represent the seeds for a change of those very cultural norms.
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O Direito achado na rua: Introdução crítica ao Direito como liberdade. Editora Universidade de Brasília, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.26512/9786558190097.
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O direito como ‘expressão de uma legítima organização social da liberdade’ constitui o marco conceitual original do projeto denominado O Direito Achado na Rua. Um projeto de formulação de uma nova concepção de direito, em uma nova sociedade que se anunciava mais livre, justa e solidária, e que por seu turno apresenta hoje dilemas e desafios que nos convocam à reflexão-ação. É nesse contexto que surge a presente obra, com sentido plural, ora de revisitar os conceitos teóricos e epistemológicos de O Direito Achado na Rua, desde a sua concepção até os momentos atuais, a partir de suas linhas de pesquisa, ora para se projetar em novas formulações teóricas e práticas, a partir de uma atualização de temas que hoje, há exatos 30 anos da sua concepção, se reconhece a urgência e necessidade de sua abordagem, sem os quais não se é possível a formulação de um projeto de sociedade livre, justo e solidário, como os são a pauta antirracista e antipatriarcal. Este volume se apresenta também como uma compilação de autoria do coletivo de pesquisadoras e pesquisadores de O Direito Achado na Rua, bem como intelectuais e representantes de movimentos sociais que ao longo desses 30 anos compõem a fortuna crítica do Direito, e que historicamente estiveram sempre em diálogo com O Direito Achado na Rua, além de anunciar novas e atuais parcerias para a construção de agendas em comum na dimensão teórica e prática. Nesta edição, que forma o Volume X da Série O Direito Achado na Rua: Introdução Crítica ao Direito como Liberdade, com os selos da Editora UnB e da OAB Editora, na intrincada narrativa e consistente tessitura analítica do conjunto de leituras de um formidável elenco de expositores - formado por uma centena de autores e autoras provenientes dos espaços acadêmicos e políticos alcançados pela projeção de O Direito Achado na Rua nos Estados Unidos, México, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Espanha, Portugal e de todas as regiões do Brasil - pudemos repensar nossa experiência histórica e avaliar suas possibilidades ainda expansíveis e interpelantes.
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Lapidge, Michael. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198811367.003.0001.
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Introduction: The forty passiones translated in this volume represent a genre of Christian-Latin literature that has seldom attracted attention and is poorly understood; yet in sum they constitute a remarkable body of literature composed during the period between 425 and 675, and provide valuable evidence of the sentiments and beliefs of ordinary Christians of that time — their aversion to pagan practices, their admiration for virginity, their firm commitment to orthodoxy — as well as evidence for the machinery of Roman legal procedure. Since the passiones appear to have been composed by the clerics who were custodians of the martyrial churches and shrines in Rome, in response to the ever-increasing volume of pilgrim traffic to these shrines, and since these clerics appear not to have received the benefit of the highest grade of Roman education, they provide first-hand evidence for the sub-élite Latin of the time. The passiones are works of pure fiction: they abound in absurd errors of chronology, and of the Roman magistrates who figure in them, very few can be identified (this is one of the reasons why the passiones have largely been ignored by historians of late antiquity). Of the forty passiones, some twenty-one treat martyrs who are attested in sources earlier than c. 384, and who may be considered ‘authentic’ martyrs (which is not to say that the descriptions of their arrest, trial, torture and execution — which are often described in ludicrous terms — are similarly ‘authentic’). The remaining passiones treat persons concerning whom there is no reliable evidence that they were martyrs: some are the names of pious persons who donated property to the church; others are the result of pure invention. In any case, there is very little evidence that large numbers of Christians were martyred at Rome in the period before the ‘Peace of the Church’ (c. 312): certainly not the large numbers implied by the fictional passiones. No records of trials of Christians from the period before c. 312, so for their accounts of the trials the authors of the fictitious passiones were obliged to model their accounts on genuine accounts of trial proceedings involving Christians in proconsular Africa (the so-called acta proconsularia); but many features of the trials described in the passiones are imaginary: for example, the lengthy debates between the presiding magistrate or judge and the martyr on questions of Christian belief (the virtues of virginity, the evils of paganism), some of which devolve into lengthy sermons by the martyrs. In any case, the martyrs in the passiones never succeed in converting the judge, and are accordingly sentenced to torture (often described in excruciating, and sometimes absurd, detail) and execution. In most passiones, the bodies of the martyrs are recovered by pious Christians and buried in identifiable shrines (usually in suburban cemeteries).
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Norrgård, Stefan. Changes in Precipitation Over West Africa During Recent Centuries. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.536.
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Water, not temperature, governs life in West Africa, and the region is both temporally and spatially greatly affected by rainfall variability. Recent rainfall anomalies, for example, have greatly reduced crop productivity in the Sahel area. Rainfall indices from recent centuries show that multidecadal droughts reoccur and, furthermore, that interannual rainfall variations are high in West Africa. Current knowledge of historical rainfall patterns is, however, fairly limited. A detailed rainfall chronology of West Africa is currently only available from the beginning of the 19th century. For the 18th century and earlier, the records are still sporadic, and an interannual rainfall chronology has so far only been obtained for parts of the Guinea Coast. Thus, there is a need to extend the rainfall record to fully understand past precipitation changes in West Africa.The main challenge when investigating historical rainfall variability in West Africa is the scarcity of detailed and continuous data. Readily available meteorological data barely covers the last century, whereas in Europe and the United States for example, the data sometimes extend back two or more centuries. Data availability strongly correlates with the historical development of West Africa. The strong oral traditions that prevailed in the pre-literate societies meant that only some of the region’s history was recorded in writing before the arrival of the Europeans in the 16th century. From the 19th century onwards, there are, therefore, three types of documents available, and they are closely linked to the colonization of West Africa. These are: official records started by the colonial governments continuing to modern day; regular reporting stations started by the colonial powers; and finally, temporary nongovernmental observations of various kinds. For earlier periods, the researcher depends on noninstrumental observations found in letters, reports, or travel journals made by European slave traders, adventurers, and explorers. Spatially, these documents are confined to the coastal areas, as Europeans seldom ventured inland before the mid-1800s. Thus, the inland regions are generally poorly represented. Arabic chronicles from the Sahel provide the only source of information, but as historical documents, they include several spatiotemporal uncertainties. Climate researchers often complement historical data with proxy-data from nature’s own archives. However, the West African environment is restrictive. Reliable proxy-data, such as tree-rings, cannot be exploited effectively. Tropical trees have different growth patterns than trees in temperate regions and do not generate growth rings in the same manner. Sediment cores from Lake Bosumtwi in Ghana have provided, so far, the best centennial overview when it comes to understanding precipitation patterns during recent centuries. These reveal that there have been considerable changes in historical rainfall patterns—West Africa may have been even drier than it is today.
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Melo, Fernando Schumak, and Luiz H. Kulik. Bruma de dados: Introdução ao Direito do Futuro. Editora Studies Publicações, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.54033/stebook.00002.
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Seria o avanço de nossas tecnologias o pavimento pelo qual a raça humana traça o próprio caminho ou o último selo do destino sobre o declínio de toda a civilização? Qual o papel do direito neste novo mundo em que não há mais certeza na distinção criador-criatura? Quais as consequências jurídicas da conurbação dos conceitos homem-deus-máquina? Bruma de Dados propõe situações pelas quais devem passar a sociedade e os operadores do direito de um futuro próximo. O fio que permeia todos os capítulos é o Direito e sua necessidade de renovação em tempos cada vez mais incertos e velozes. Desde que nossas tecnologias passaram a avançar décadas em meses, podemos acreditar que em cem anos estaremos em patamares tecnológicos particularmente inconcebíveis atualmente, no entanto, nossos comportamentos e compreensão de nossas urgências humanas ainda estão tão rasos e incompatíveis como há séculos. Trata-se de uma obra literária propedêutica ao direito técnico, enquadrado nos campos da filosofia ou sociologia jurídica. O primeiro capítulo, “Com Algumas Mãos a Menos”, aborda o início do desenvolvimento de personalidades artificiais e a semeação da manipulação fácil até mesmo dentro das linhas de código mais complexas. No segundo capítulo, intitulado “Nos Seus Sonhos”, um médico metódico relata a história de pessoas presas em uma ilha e que foram submetidas a experiências de sonhos induzidos e inesperadamente compartilhados. No terceiro capítulo, nomeado como “Um Almoço bem Vestido com Muito Antiácido”, temos um narrador não confiável em uma teia de conspirações que ele mesmo costura para si sem perceber. O quarto capítulo, “Conto Sobre o Passado”, traz a injusta competição entre inteligências orgânicas e artificiais dentro de um parlamento híbrido. No quinto e último, “Todo o Tempo do Mundo”, um homem do futuro é lançado de volta para o passado para lutar em uma guerra que começou muito antes dele e é acolhido por pessoas que podem não parecer serem quem são. Em cada momento histórico podemos ver a humanidade excluída, manipulada e abandonada por seus próprios sistemas legais. Atropelada por um desenvolvimento tecnológico que não mais pode controlar. Como? Por quê? — Nos questionamos neste livro. Uma obra provocadora, inovadora, mas acima de tudo inspiradora para os criadores e criaturas do direito do presente e do futuro.