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Biryukova, Ol'ga, Marina Glazatova, Irina Il'ina, et al. New approaches to Russia’s foreign economic strategy: analytical report. Publishing Center RIOR, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.29039/978-5-7133-1766-9.

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The analytical report deals with the development features and shifts in the international trading system that affect the global economic landscape and the participation of countries in the international exchange of goods, services, and intellectual property. There is a need to reassess approaches to the set of trade policy instruments used to support national producers and build economic relations with foreign partners. Possible contours of Russian trade policy are proposed that meet both existing global trends and new challenges and shocks. The analytical report uses the results of the projec

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Anderson, Barton L. Improbable Illusory Contours. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199794607.003.0062.

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Illusory contours are one of the most widely studied kinds of visual illusion. Illusory contours are often understood as an adaptive response to filling-in missing information created from conditions of camouflage. This chapter describes a new class of very vivid illusory contours that appear impossible to understand as forms of rational inference. It presents a set of illusory contours that emerge in conditions for which there is no missing information or need for their synthesis. It argues that such contours provide a valuable testing ground for both specific theories of illusory contour for

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Yamamoto, Koji. Contexts and Contours. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198739173.003.0002.

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This chapter sketches the contours of projecting as a discourse and the concrete activities during the period covered by the book. Combining data drawn from patents for inventions and the English Short Title Catalogue, it identifies two peaks of projecting, first in the 1630s and 1640s, and then from the end of the seventeenth century. The first is related to monopolies and fiscal exactions authorized by prerogative during the Personal Rule of Charles I, the second to joint-stock companies and patented inventions in the age of the financial revolution. Existing accounts have tended to treat th

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Porn chic: Exploring the contours of raunch eroticism. Berg, 2012.

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Lynch, Annette. Porn Chic: Exploring the Contours of Raunch Eroticism. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2013.

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Porn Chic: Exploring the Contours of Raunch Eroticism. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2013.

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Porn Chic: Exploring the Contours of Raunch Eroticism. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2013.

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Rao, P. V. India's Naval Diplomacy: Contours and Constraints. Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

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Rao, P. V. India's Naval Diplomacy: Contours and Constraints. Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

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India's Naval Diplomacy: Contours and Constraints. Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

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Kvanvig, Jonathan L. Non‐Cognitive Accounts. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198809487.003.0003.

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If we are unsatisfied with cognitive accounts of faith worth having, as argued in the last chapter, we will want to see what the options are for a non‐cognitive account of the matter. To that end, we can begin with an account of the contours of the logical space of non‐cognitivism that are relevant here. Specific non‐cognitive accounts are differentiated froma more generic, functional and non‐cognitive account, arguing for the superiority of the latter.

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Beaulieu, Marie-Claire, ed. A Cultural History of the Sea in Antiquity. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474207201.

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The sea is omnipresent in the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean basin. It is an inexhaustible source of food, but also a well-traveled roadway and a means to communicate, trade with, or wage war against one’s neighbors. Perhaps because these practical meanings of the sea were so deeply embedded in daily life, the sea also had a profound religious and symbolic significance for ancient people, from the worship of sea-deities by anxious mariners to the creation of intricate literary devices based on ‘the wine-dark sea’ and concepts such as insularity. People even imagined that, at the edge of

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Hogan, Linda. Conflicts Within the Roman Catholic Church. Edited by Adrian Thatcher. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199664153.013.32.

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This chapter situates the controversies about sex and gender in the Roman Catholic Church within the context of ongoing debates about the nature of the Church, the dynamism of the tradition, and the authority of the magisterium. It argues that underlying many of the most contentious of these disagreements, including those about reproductive rights, same-sex relationships, and gender-based violence, one can discern fundamentally different theological understandings about the nature of the human body, the relationships between the sexes, and the malleability of sexuality. Having examined these u

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Sisti, Dominic A., and David H. Brendel. Philosophical Pragmatism in Psychiatric Ethics. Edited by John Z. Sadler, K. W. M. Fulford, and Cornelius Werendly van Staden. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198732365.013.36.

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This chapter describes how pragmatism may be used as method of ethical inquiry to help clarify and resolve issues in psychiatric practice. We set out the basic contours of both classical and contemporary pragmatism and then illustrate the pragmatic method using three examples drawn from clinical experience. We propose that given the diversity of issues in psychiatry—from questions about the ontological status of mental disorders to the particularly fraught role of therapists as humanist-scientists—pragmatism provides a kind of conceptual space for consensus building, compromise, and measurable

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Steinberg, Marc I. The SEC’s Shareholder Proposal Rule and Related Developments. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199934546.003.0004.

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This chapter focuses on a federal corporate governance measure that was adopted by the SEC over 75 years ago (in 1942)—The SEC Shareholder Proposal Rule (Rule 14a-8). Because of the historical importance and meaningful impact of Rule 14a-8 with respect to the federalization of corporate governance, this subject is the focus of a separate chapter. From a historical and contemporary perspective, the chapter provides a general framework of Rule 14a-8 and addresses specific issues where the Rule has been utilized, including with respect to social issues, board declassification matters, and executi

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Allen, Nicholas. Ireland, Literature, and the Coast. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198857877.001.0001.

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The islands of Ireland are shaped by their relationships with land and sea. This book is a study of the various and changing ways in which literature has drawn the coast in lines that shape the contours of cultural experience. The literary and historical study of the sea has swelled in the last decade, as has an interest in the littoral and the archipelagic. Beginning with the early works of William Butler Yeats, this book travels through the diverse hydroscapes of Irish literature from the late nineteenth century to the present, framing writers and artists from James Joyce to Anne Enright in

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Egeberg, Morten, and Jarle Trondal. Organizing Public Governance. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198825074.003.0009.

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Chapter 9 concludes the volume by offering the contours of a design approach in political science. The ambition is to use insights from the volume to set out design implications from an organizational approach to public governance. The chapter thus draws a middle ground in an old turf war in organization studies and public administration between science and craft. Insights into how organizational factors affect public governance is a necessary precondition for using organization theory to meta-govern. This concluding chapter advocates that organization theory as craft requires organization the

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Ganeri, Jonardon. A Theory of Vision. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198757405.003.0008.

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Visual encounters set in motion a series of cognitive activities. Orienting responds to a visual stimulus, which gives rise to a primary visual acknowledgement. Orienting precedes all cognitive uptake; it is the ‘instruction’ sent to the visual apparatus to ‘open the door’. One cognitive module then receives the primary visual acknowledgement, a second works to investigate what has been received, and a third further to determine the output of the investigating module. Investigation locates the contours, shape, and boundaries of the object seen (‘It is round and flat’), while determination cate

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Büring, Daniel. (Contrastive) Topic. Edited by Caroline Féry and Shinichiro Ishihara. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199642670.013.002.

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This chapter discusses the semantics and pragmatics of contrastive topics vis-à-vis focus. A semi-formal characterization of its main properties is given, using the techniques of alternative semantics and questions under discussion. This treatment is compared to various analyses proposed in the literature for contrastive topics and arguably related constructions, such as the English rise–fall–rise contour. Finally a brief discussion of non-contrastive topics is provided.

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Saxe, Geoffrey B. Culture, Language, and Number. Edited by Roi Cohen Kadosh and Ann Dowker. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199642342.013.65.

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Some time ago, Bryant (1997) remarked, ‘Piaget and Vygotsky set the scene for much of the work that has been done over the last twenty years or so on children’s mathematical understanding.’ (p. 142.) Today, Piaget and Vygotsky’s conceptual and empirical frameworks still define principal contours of contemporary work on cognitive development. In introducing this section on culture, language, and number with chapters by Okamoto, Towse, Nunez and Marghetis, and Sturman, I situate the authors’ contributions in relation to Vygotsky’s and Piaget’s seminal writings and some contemporary strands of em

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Baggett, David. Moral Arguments (actually R1 to Rn). Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190842215.003.0016.

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This chapter quickly summarizes the contours of an abductive moral argument for God’s existence. The specific moral phenomenon in question here is moral duty or obligation, Plantinga’s preferred variant for this sort of argument, considering it to be the moral fact most resistant to naturalistic analysis. Noting the distinctive features of moral obligations without domesticating or watering them down enables one to see that the best explanation needs to be more robust than what naturalistic sources alone are likely to generate. The chapter gives two versions of the argument, the deductive vers

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Beer, Yishai. Conclusions. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190881146.003.0006.

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The writing of this book was triggered by a twofold desire: to bridge the unacceptable gap between the positive rules of the international law governing armed hostilities and actual state practice, and to reduce the humanitarian suffering caused by this reality. The current law does not seem to be optimal in balancing the different interests of states’ militaries and the humanitarian agenda. As summarized in this concluding chapter, in response to this challenge, this book offers a new paradigm based on reality that may elevate the humanitarian threshold by replacing the currently problematic

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Rabinowitz, Dani, ed. Knowledge and the Cathartic Value of Repentance. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198798705.003.0005.

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An austere form of legalism lies at the heart of Judaism. Apart from a limited set of exceptions, every adult Jew is required to observe the full gamut of relevant biblical and rabbinic laws. Success in this endeavor is handsomely rewarded and failure severely punished. Despite the apparent bleakness of this legalism, the system licenses a divine pardon in cases where the offending individual repents. This chapter opens with a discussion of this clemency, as understood by Moses Maimonides, before moving on to a reading of a Talmudic debate that introduces an epistemic puzzle regarding repentan

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Stefania, Errico. Part IV Rights to Land and Territory, Natural Resources, and Environment, Ch.15 Control over Natural Resources and Protection of the Environment of Indigenous Territories: Articles 29, 30, and 32. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780199673223.003.0016.

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This chapter assesses Articles 29, 30, and 32 to consider natural resources and the environment. Article 32 bears a profound relationship with the right to self-determination and defines overall the contours and the requirements for States' disposal of natural resources, in line with the contemporary emphasis on human-rights based and participatory forms of development. The provision is in fact pivotal to enabling indigenous peoples to set and pursue their own development path and requires participation and engagement at a broader level, beyond ad-hoc consultations on specific projects. Thus,

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Spelman, Henry. The Epinician Present. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198821274.003.0009.

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Chapter VII discusses epinician as a living social practice in Pindar’s day. By assembling clues from across his corpus one can see further into a cultural and literary context which shapes the meaning of many passages and indeed the significance of Pindar’s authorial project as a whole. The texts themselves provide our best evidence for the contours of that context. This chapter analyses different sorts of references and draws conclusions from each type. Five sections treat, in order, the epinician genre, Pindar’s career, patrons’ history of patronage, other eulogists, and revels at the site

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Foerstel, Herbert N. Free Expression and Censorship in America. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400653742.

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Despite the end of the Cold War, America's national security apparatus for controlling information has remained in place. However, sex and secularism are emerging as the major targets of censorship. Federal decency standards have been imposed on art, the broadcast media, and the Internet. Virtually every major political issue of the 1990s (abortion, campaign finance, violence on TV, homosexuality, indecency on the Internet) has First Amendment implications, and all are included in this comprehensive encyclopedia. This work covers the full history of America's struggle for free expression, as w

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Gallego, Angel J., ed. The Syntactic Variation of Spanish Dialects. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190634797.001.0001.

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This collective volume offers an up-to-date and comprehensive state-of-the-art presentation of the research that has been done in the syntactic variation of Spanish dialects, taking into account both European and American varieties. In so doing, this book seeks to set the boundary conditions for subsequent investigations on the different manifestations of Spanish syntax and its geographic contours, a very rich (though largely neglected) area of inquiry. Such investigations should ideally lead us not only to pin down the short-range microparameters of Spanish but also to explore its similaritie

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Kockelman, Paul. Meaning, Information, and Enclosure. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190636531.003.0004.

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This chapter argues that information is a species of meaning that has been radically enclosed, such that the values in question seem to have become radically portable. They are not so much independent of context, as dependent on contexts which have been engineered so as to be relatively ubiquitous, and hence ostensibly and erroneously ‘context-free’; not so much able to accommodate all contents, as able to assimilate all contents to their contours, and hence ostensibly and erroneously ‘open content’. To make this argument, the chapter highlights the ideas of Donald MacKay in relation to those

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Braziel, Jane Evans, and Anita Mannur. Diaspora. Edited by Lisa Disch and Mary Hawkesworth. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199328581.013.9.

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This chapter provides an overview of feminist inquiries into and deployments of the term diaspora as a conceptual framework for understanding the cultural dimensions of migration, migrant communities, long-distance nationalism, and the complex intersections of diaspora with race, gender, and sexuality. It situates the term diaspora as it has emerged historically, attending to contestations of the term and its relevance in negotiating the contours of various debates and concerns about migration and displacement. In reviewing some of the major developments in diaspora studies, the chapter provid

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McLarney, Ellen Anne. Covering in the Public Eye. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691158488.003.0005.

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This chapter explores the life and writings of three main personalities who contributed to shaping an aesthetics of veiling in disparate but analogous ways. In their writings and their performances of a public self, these writers construct a sense of the psychic space that the outward sign of the veil helps cultivate. This psychic space, this spiritual interiority, is created by veiling but also by the words, discourses, narratives, and images of the veil in public culture and public circulation. Each writer has been profoundly invested in the politics of performance—in television (Kariman Ham

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Nisenbaum, Karin. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190680640.003.0008.

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The concluding chapter draws on the story of Rosenzweig’s near conversion to Christianity and return to Judaism to explain why, for Kant and his heirs, what is at issue in reason’s conflict with itself is our ability to affirm both the value of the world and of human action in the world. The chapter explains why Rosenzweig came to view the conflict of reason as the manifestation of a more fundamental tension between one’s selfhood and one’s worldliness, which could only be dissolved by understanding human action in the world as the means by which God is both cognized and partly realized. To ma

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Epstein, Charles L., and Rafe Mazzeo. The Resolvent Operator. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691157122.003.0011.

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This chapter describes the construction of a resolvent operator using the Laplace transform of a parametrix for the heat kernel and a perturbative argument. In the equation (μ‎-L) R(μ‎) f = f, R(μ‎) is a right inverse for (μ‎-L). In Hölder spaces, these are the natural elliptic estimates for generalized Kimura diffusions. The chapter first constructs the resolvent kernel using an induction over the maximal codimension of bP, and proves various estimates on it, along with corresponding estimates for the solution operator for the homogeneous Cauchy problem. It then considers holomorphic semi-gro

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Sharma, Nitasha Tamar. Hawai'i Is My Haven. Duke University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478021667.

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Hawaiʻi Is My Haven maps the context and contours of Black life in the Hawaiian Islands. This ethnography emerges from a decade of fieldwork with both Hawaiʻi-raised Black locals and Black transplants who moved to the Islands from North America, Africa, and the Caribbean. Nitasha Tamar Sharma highlights the paradox of Hawaiʻi as a multiracial paradise and site of unacknowledged antiBlack racism. While Black culture is ubiquitous here, African-descended people seem invisible. In this formerly sovereign nation structured neither by the US Black/White binary nor the one-drop rule, nonWhite multir

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Chajes, Julie. Recycled Lives. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190909130.001.0001.

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This study historicises and contextualises the rebirth doctrines of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831–1891), the matriarch of the Theosophical Society and one of the most influential women of the nineteenth century. It analyses Blavatsky’s complicated theories about the cosmos and its divine source as presented in her two seminal Theosophical treatises, Isis Unveiled (1877) and The Secret Doctrine (1888), as well as her articles and letters. The book argues that Blavatsky taught two distinct theories of rebirth and that the later one developed from the earlier. It reveals Blavatsky’s appropriati

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Barua, Ankur. Hindu Self and Its Muslim Neighbors. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978732582.

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In The Hindu Self and its Muslim Neighbors, the author sketches the contours of relations between Hindus and Muslims in Bengal. The central argument is that various patterns of amicability and antipathy have been generated towards Muslims over the last six hundred years and these patterns emerge at dynamic intersections between Hindu self-understandings and social shifts on contested landscapes. The core of the book is a set of translations of the Bengali writings of Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899–1976), and Annada Shankar Ray (1904–2002). Their lives were deeply inte

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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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Death, Carl. African Climate Futures. Oxford University PressOxford, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198960775.001.0001.

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Abstract This is a book about how climate-changed futures are imagined in Africa and by Africans, and how these future visions shape political debates and struggles in the present. Scientific climate scenarios forecast bleak futures, with increased droughts, floods, lethal heatwaves, sea level rises, declining crop yields, and greater exposure to vector-borne diseases. Yet, African climate futures could also encompass energy transitions and socio-economic revolutions, transformed political agency and human subjectivities, and radically reparative more-than-human climate politics. This book has

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Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald, and Dustin Avent-Holt. Relational Inequalities. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190624422.001.0001.

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Relational Inequalities focuses on the organizational production of categorical inequalities, in the context of the intersectional complexity and institutional fluidity that characterize social life. Three generic inequality-generating mechanisms—exploitation, social closure, and claims-making—distribute organizational resources, rewards, and respect. The actual levels and contours of the inequalities produced by these three mechanisms are, however, profoundly contingent on the historical moments and institutional fields in which organizations operate. Organizational inequality regimes are com

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Hollis-Brusky, Amanda, and Joshua C. Wilson. Separate but Faithful. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190637262.001.0001.

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While the Christian Right has long voiced grave concerns about the Supreme Court and cases such as Roe v. Wade, until recently its cultivation of the resources needed to effectively enter the courtroom had paled in comparison with its efforts in more traditional political arenas. A small constellation of high-profile leaders within the Christian Right began to address this imbalance in earnest in the pivot from the twentieth to the twenty-first century, investing in an array of institutions aimed at radically transforming American law and legal culture. Separate But Faithful is the first in-de

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van Dijk, Boyd. Preparing for War. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198868071.001.0001.

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Abstract The 1949 Geneva Conventions are the most important rules for armed conflict ever formulated. They continue to shape contemporary debates about regulating warfare. But their history is often misunderstood. For many observers, the drafters behind these treaties were primarily motivated by liberal humanitarian principles and the shock of the atrocities of the Second World War. This book tells a different story. It shows how the final text of the Conventions, far from being an unabashedly liberal blueprint, was the outcome of a series of political struggles among the drafters. It also con

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Snowdon, Paul F. Essays on Perceptual Experience. Edited by Stephan Blatti. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780191760884.001.0001.

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Abstract A central figure in Anglo-American philosophy for over four decades, Paul Snowdon made seminal contributions to the fields of metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and the history of twentieth-century philosophy. Snowdon’s work on perception and perceptual experience—much of which is collected in this volume for the first time—was particularly impactful and firmly established “disjunctivism” as a view with which any theorist working in the field must reckon. In Part 1 (“Issues”), Snowdon traces the contours of the concept of perception, refining his formulation of the disjunctivist positio

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Bulman, James C., ed. The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199687169.001.0001.

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Shakespearean performance criticism has undergone a sea change in recent years, and strong tides of discovery are continuing to shift the contours of the discipline. The essays in this volume, written by scholars from around the world, reveal how these critical cross-currents are influencing the ways we now view Shakespeare in performance. Essays are divided into four groups. The first group interrogates how Shakespeare continues to achieve contemporaneity for Western audiences by exploring modes of performance, acting styles, and aesthetic choices that are regarded as experimental. The second

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Howe, Justine. Suburban Islam. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190258870.001.0001.

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Suburban Islam explores how American Muslims have created new kinds of religious communities, known as third spaces, to navigate political and social pressures after 9/11. This book examines how one Chicago community, the Mohammed Alexander Russell Webb Foundation (Webb), has responded to the demands of proving Islam’s compatibility with liberal democracy and embracing the commonalities of their Abrahamic faith. Through dynamic forms of ritual practice, such as leisure activities, devotional practices such as the mawlid, and communal reading of sacred texts, the Webb community offers an altern

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Gelvin, James L. The New Middle East. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780190653996.001.0001.

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Since Muhammad Bouazizi set himself on fire in Tunisia on December 17, 2010, galvanizing the Arab uprisings that continue today, the entire Middle East landscape has changed in ways that were unimaginable years before. In spite of the early hype about a so-called "Arab Spring" and the prominence observers gave to calls for the downfall of regimes and an end to their abuses, most of the protests and uprisings born of Bouazizi's self-immolation have had disastrous results across the whole Middle East. While the old powers reasserted their control with violence in Egypt and Bahrain, Libya, Yemen,

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Nisenbaum, Karin. For the Love of Metaphysics. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190680640.001.0001.

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In his Critique of Pure Reason, Kant argued that human reason is inherently conflicted, because it demands a form of unconditioned knowledge that transcends its capacity; his solution to this conflict of reason relies on the idea that reason’s quest for the unconditioned can only be realized practically. This book proposes to view the conflict of reason, and Kant’s solution to this conflict, as the central problem shaping the contours of post-Kantian German Idealism. I contend that the rise and fall of German Idealism is to be told as a story about the different interpretations, appropriations

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St. Clair, Robert. Counter-Modernities in Nineteenth-Century French Literature. Oxford University PressOxford, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198905400.001.0001.

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Abstract Counter-Modernities in Nineteenth-Century French Literature is an essay in literary criticism that explores a counterview of modernity in late nineteenth-century French literature (1848–91). The principal claim of this book is that what we find in the works of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Flaubert is a form of ‘writing against the grain’ of history: not the elegant lyricism of history’s victors, but a use of literature against the erasures of past injustices and for those ‘lost futurities’ upon which the order of the present is founded. What we find, in other words, is a critical literary

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Reinarz, Jonathan, Laurence Totelin, Iona McCleery, et al., eds. A Cultural History of Medicine in the Age of Empire. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474206709.

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Historians describe the ‘long 19th century’ as an age of empire, characterized by expansion and industrialization. The period witnessed the evolution of Western medicine into something uniquely ‘modern’, rooted in the shift to industrial capitalism and encroachment of government monitoring to state health, as well as the colonial mindset that drove overseas travel and encounters with unfamiliar populations, climates and disease. More than ever before, food, drugs, people and sickness circumvented the globe, crossing borders and prompting enormous changes in the way people made sense of health

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Nikol'skaya, Mayya, Lora Chkoniya, and Vyacheslav Pobedennyy. Made in Africa: from decolonization to the innovation of African capital. MGIMO University Publishing House, 2025. https://doi.org/10.63861/3027-0.

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The great prospects of Africa as a macro-region have become commonplace in both academic and mainstream discourse. In the next 50-60 years, it will see increased participation in the life of the global community due to its unprecedented resource potential, and, with a high degree of probability, the strengthening of its international legal capacity. The contours of the continent's economic development are somewhat less obvious. In retrospect, it is often understood as a side effect of a series of coups and conflicts, or as the consequences of the activities of international organizations and T

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Horing, Norman J. Morgenstern. Non-Equilibrium Green’s Functions: Variational Relations and Approximations for Particle Interactions. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791942.003.0009.

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Chapter 09 Nonequilibrium Green’s functions (NEGF), including coupled-correlated (C) single- and multi-particle Green’s functions, are defined as averages weighted with the time-development operator U(t0+τ,t0). Linear conductivity is exhibited as a two-particle equilibrium Green’s function (Kubo-type formulation). Admitting particle sources (S:η,η+) and non-conservation of number, the non-equilibrium multi-particle Green’s functions are constructed with numbers of creation and annihilation operators that may differ, and they may be derived as variational derivatives with respect to sources η,η

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Les zones grises des relations de travail et d’emploi. Teseo, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.55778/ts877231984.

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<p>Depuis les années 2000, le terme « zone grise » s’est diffusé dans la littérature en sciences sociales, mais aussi dans les médias. Dans le domaine du travail et de l’emploi, la perspective des zones grises donne à voir comment les régulations du travail, et comment les pratiques individuelles et collectives forgées depuis la fin du 19ème, sont aujourd’hui aux prises avec des mutations de fond. Plus encore, cette perspective manifeste l’épuisement et les limites des catégorisations héritées du salariat pour comprendre les transformations en cours.</p><p>Ce dictionnaire inv

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