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Medici, Marco, Valentina Modugno, and Alessandro Pracucci, eds. How to face the scientific communication today. International challenge and digital technology impact on research outputs dissemination. Firenze University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-497-8.

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Dissemination of scientific results is an important and necessary component of research activity. Nowadays research asks to be widely diffused and shared in a larger community in the effort to demonstrate its innovation and originality, so to enlarge network and obtain funds to keep working. In this context, PhD students, as part of scientific community and young researchers in training, have to understand the rule of publications to define the best strategy for the dissemination of their research. The present book, through the experiences of national and international PhD candidates, PhDs and

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Burghartz, Susanna, Lucas Burkart, Christine Göttler, and Ulinka Rublack, eds. Materialized Identities in Early Modern Culture, 1450-1750. Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463728959.

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This collection embraces the increasing interest in the material world of the Renaissance and the early modern period, which has both fascinated contemporaries and initiated in recent years a distinguished historiography. The scholarship within is distinctive for engaging with the agentive qualities of matter, showing how affective dimensions in history connect with material history, and exploring the religious and cultural identity dimensions of the use of materials and artefacts. It thus aims to refocus our understanding of the meaning of the material world in this period by centring on the

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Chuvikov, Dmitriy. Models and algorithms for reconstruction and examination of emergency events of road accidents based on logical artificial intelligence. 2nd ed. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1220729.

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The purpose of the monograph is to create a methodology, combined expert and simulation models, as well as algorithms and software-modeling tools for reconstruction and examination of accident events for automating decision-making by an expert center employee. The methodology of combining and algorithms of joint work of an expert system based on logical artificial intelligence (mivar approach) and a simulation system for solving problems of reconstruction and examination of road accidents are developed; model reconstruction and examination of the accident in the formalism of the knowledg

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Frolic folly: A choreographic thesis investigating specific movement qualities that convey humor in modern dance. 1986.

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Frolic folly: A choreographic thesis investigating specific movement qualities that convey humor in modern dance. 1988.

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Dose Book of Specific Medicines: Their History, Characteristics, Qualities, Strengths, Prices, and Connected Features of General Interest to ... Uses, and Therapeutic Qualities, and a Glossa. Franklin Classics Trade Press, 2018.

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Dose Book of Specific Medicines : Their History, Characteristics, Qualities, Strengths, Prices, and Connected Features of General Interest to Physicians: Together with Fac-Similes of Labels Giving Their Doses, Uses, and Therapeutic Qualities, and a Glossa. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2022.

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Bell, V. L. Dose Book of Specific Medicines : Their History, Characteristics, Qualities, Strengths, Prices, and Connected Features of General Interest to Physicians: Together with Fac-Similes of Labels Giving Their Doses, Uses, and Therapeutic Qualities, and a Glossa. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2018.

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Bell, V. L. Dose Book of Specific Medicines : Their History, Characteristics, Qualities, Strengths, Prices, and Connected Features of General Interest to Physicians: Together with Fac-Similes of Labels Giving Their Doses, Uses, and Therapeutic Qualities, and a Glossa. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2018.

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Dose Book of Specific Medicines : Their History, Characteristics, Qualities, Strengths, Prices, and Connected Features of General Interest to Physicians: Together with Fac-Similes of Labels Giving Their Doses, Uses, and Therapeutic Qualities, and a Glossa. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2022.

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Colpaert, Jozef, Yijen Wang, and Glenn Stockwell, eds. Proceedings of the XXIst International CALL Research Conference. Castledown Publishers, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.29140/9781914291050.

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The XXIst International CALL Research Smart Conference was hosted by Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan on July 8-10, 2022. The theme of the conference was Smart CALL, where “Smart” is defined as possessing three qualities: personalization, contextualization, and socialization. Personalization is the extent to which technologies and learning environments are adapted to the specific profile of the language learner. Contextualization is how technologies and learning environments can be adjusted to the specific context of the learner. Socialization is the way in which technologies and learning envir

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Cho, Jeasik. Practical Evaluation Tools and Uses. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199330010.003.0003.

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This chapter discusses a number of practical evaluation tools used by qualitative research journals. First, the chapter discusses the American Educational Research Association’s “Standards for Reporting on Empirical Social Science Research,” which emphasizes warrantability and transparency. Second, many ideas on reviewing qualitative research are briefly presented. Third, current qualitative research journals that use and those that do not use specific evaluation tools are discussed. The reasons why some journal editors do not use such specific evaluation tools are identified: trust, freedom,

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McKinlay Gardner, R. J., and David J. Amor. Insertions. Edited by R. J. McKinlay Gardner and David J. Amor. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199329007.003.0008.

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Insertions are a type of translocation, and indeed they are sometimes referred to as “insertional translocation,” “interstitial translocation,” or “nonreciprocal translocation.” Here, a segment of one chromosome is removed and inserted within another chromosome (in contradistinction to the usual translocation, in which the translocated segment is attached to the end of a recipient chromosome). It is, essentially, a one-way translocation; that is, there is no reciprocal movement back to the originating chromosome. Insertions are rare rearrangements, at the level of detection according to classi

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Thomson, C. Claire. We are a Little Land: Informational Film and Small-nation Cinema. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474424134.003.0003.

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Et lille land’ - a little land - is a trope of Danish identity which recurs in many of the short informational films about Denmark made from the 1930s to the 1960s. This chapter outlines why the notion of Denmark as a small country has historically been fundamental to the nation’s self-understanding as an imagined community, and how and why it has been employed in informational films made for domestic and foreign consumption. The chapter discusses the role of film in the national imagination, and the importance of medium-specific qualities in that process of imagining: for the purposes of this

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Davis, Coralynn V. Virtue, Truth, and the Motherline of Morality. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038426.003.0004.

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This chapter examines the universe of virtue as it is displayed in Maithil women's taleworlds—such virtues as devoutness, compassion, and generosity. One striking characteristic of Maithil women's narratives is that they generally portray very little gendering in regard to basic tenets of virtue. In other words, the same virtuous qualities are appreciated in men and women; virtues are gender specific only in the particulars of their enactment. The chapter also shows that, in Maithil women's narrative hands, differences in fortune are correlated with the measure of women's virtuousness, and, fu

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Cheyette, Bryan. The Ghetto: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198809951.001.0001.

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The Ghetto: A Very Short Introduction provides an overview of the history of the ghetto, focusing on specific times and places throughout history. Is the ghetto real or imagined? The word ‘ghetto’ would not have existed without 16th-century Italian economic interests, which led to the policy of placing the Jewish population in enclosed enclaves in around twenty-four Italian towns and cities. During the Holocaust, there were many hundreds of Nazi ghettos in Eastern Europe varying in size, duration, and purpose. The history of the ghetto was adopted by African-Americans in the mid-20th century a

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Crumpton, Michael A., and Nora J. Bird. Handbook for Community College Librarians. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400661082.

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An in-depth understanding of the complexities, dynamics, and emerging trends in community college libraries today. Handbook for Community College Librarians covers all aspects of librarianship that apply to community colleges in a one-stop reference book. It provides information that enables the librarian to become more successful in the community college environment and reflects on its unique qualities, identifying the specific skills required and the differences from other library settings. The authors address instructional design and highlight the distinctions in the types of information li

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Cho, Jeasik. Getting out of the Field. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199330010.003.0005.

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This chapter provides a review of the book, which explores how to conceptually understand and practically evaluate the quality of qualitative research. Despite the fact that there are few scholarly pieces regarding qualitative research, the depth and creativity that the pioneering researchers have demonstrated are profound, and the extent to which they cover not only the broad quality of qualitative research but also most of the specific qualities expected by many different kinds of qualitative research is incredible. This chapter summarizes the major topics of this book. Final remarks on this

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Womack, Kenneth, and Kit O'Toole, eds. Fandom and The Beatles. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190917852.001.0001.

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Unlike other bands of their era, the Beatles seem permanently frozen in time, having never descended into “nostalgia act” territory. Instead, even after the announcement of the band’s breakup in 1970, the group has maintained its cultural and musical relevance. Its timeless quality appeals to younger generations while maintaining the loyalty of older fans. While the Beatles indeed represent a specific time period, their music and words address issues as meaningful today as they were during the Summer of Love: politics, war, sex, drugs, art, and creative liberation. As the first anthology to as

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Chan, Kin-Sang, Doris M. W. Tse, and Michael M. K. Sham. Dyspnoea and other respiratory symptoms in palliative care. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199656097.003.0082.

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Dyspnoea is prevalent among palliative care patients with increased severity over time. There are two patterns of dyspnoea-breakthrough dyspnoea and constant dyspnoea-and three separate qualities of dyspnoea-air hunger, work or effort, and tightness. The measurement of dyspnoea includes three domains: sensory-perceptual experience, affective distress, and symptom impact. The management of dyspnoea includes specific disease management, non-pharmacological intervention, pharmacological treatment, and palliative non-invasive ventilation. Cough is prevalent and disturbing in patients with cancer a

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Saxe, Glenn N., Hannah Gartner, and Adam D. Brown. Psychosocial Interventions for Child Traumatic Stress. Edited by Frederick J. Stoddard, David M. Benedek, Mohammed R. Milad, and Robert J. Ursano. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190457136.003.0021.

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This chapter reviews the array of psychosocial interventions available for the treatment of child traumatic stress and the specific qualities of these interventions for addressing the needs of traumatized children and their families. The literature supporting the efficacy or effectiveness of these interventions is reviewed in detail. Unlike other reviews of the literature on this topic—which largely focus on highlighting the interventions with the highest level of empirical evidence from clinical trials—this chapter emphasizes the information that clinicians and their agencies will need in sel

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Wierzbicki, James. Broadway. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040078.003.0006.

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This chapter illustrates how veteran Broadway factotum Lehman Engel—in one of the first books that dealt with the substance of American musical theater and its history—delineated the distinguishing traits of what he called “the contemporary musical.” Most of the representative works that Engel discusses fall within the limits of the Fifties, and almost all of the plot-related characteristics he mentions are things that indeed come into focus when regarded through such Fifties-specific lenses as American foreign policy, race relations, the burgeoning youth culture, and sexual politics. Engel's

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McKinlay Gardner, R. J., and David J. Amor. Sex Chromosome Translocations. Edited by R. J. McKinlay Gardner and David J. Amor. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199329007.003.0006.

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The sex chromosomes (gonosomes) are different, and sex chromosome translocations need to be considered separately from translocations between autosomes. A sex chromosome can engage in translocation with an autosome, with the other sex chromosome, or even with its homolog. The qualities of the sex chromosomes have unique implications in terms of the genetic functioning of gonosome-autosome translocations. This chapter acknowledges the specific peculiarities that the sex chromosomes imply: the X being subject to transcriptional silencing; and the very small Y gene complement being confined large

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Herman, David. Narratology beyond the Human. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190850401.001.0001.

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This book aims to develop a cross-disciplinary approach to post-Darwinian narratives concerned with animals and human-animal relationships. In outlining this integrative approach to storytelling in a more-than-human setting, the study also considers the enabling and constraining effects of different narrative media, examining a range of fictional and nonfictional texts disseminated in print, comics and graphic novels, and film. Focusing on techniques employed in these media, including the use of animal narrators, alternation between human and nonhuman perspectives on events, shifts backward an

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Sandilands, Catriona. Floral Sensations. Edited by Teena Gabrielson, Cheryl Hall, John M. Meyer, and David Schlosberg. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199685271.013.33.

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This chapter turns on the concept ofsensationto sketch some of the ways plants are caught up in contemporary biopolitics. Specifically, the idea of the floral sensation both describes the spectacular qualities of (some) plants that make them particularly desirable commodities in the global floral industry, and gestures to recent research that indicate that plantshavesensations that are both similar to and radically different from human ones. Together, these meanings demonstrate that plants are extensively implicated in biopolitical relations, but as agents with specific capacities rather than

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Murphet, Julian, Helen Groth, and Penelope Hone, eds. Sounding Modernism. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474416368.001.0001.

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This volume brings together a range of essays by eminent and emergent scholars working at the intersection of modern literary, cinema and sound studies. By attending carefully to the dynamics and aesthetics of mediation, the essays in this collection explore the transformations of the rhythmic or metrical patterning of sound in a range of modern literary and cinematic forms produced from the 1890s through to the mid-twentieth century. The essays ask what specific sonorous qualities are capable of being registered by different modern media, and how sonic transpositions and transferences across

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Mendes, Conrado Hübner, Roberto Gargarella, and Sebastián Guidi, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Constitutional Law in Latin America. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198786900.001.0001.

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The history of constitutional law in Latin America offers a mosaic of national histories, political experiments, and institutional transitions. No matter how distinctive and country-specific these histories and trends might be, this handbook shows that there are a set of commonalities that transcend the geographical contiguity of these countries. The handbook seeks to identify the similarities between institutional outlooks, bodies of rights, declarations, ideological underpinnings, and canons of constitutional thought. The last wave of constitutional change shows that many countries in the re

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Alice Barksdale, Mary, and Getahun Yacob Abraham. Democracy in Picturebooks from Sweden and United States, 2000–2020. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666988673.

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Democracy in Picturebooks from Sweden and the United States, 2000-2020 explores democracy-themed picturebooks written for children between the ages of three and ten. With multiple analyses of picturebooks throughout the twenty-first century, the authors illustrate how picturebooks can play a vital role in the development of children’s perceptions about the different principles of democracy. From a holistic perspective, these books can be seen as the starting point for socializing children who will come to lead and participate in democratic societies themselves. The multi-pronged approach in th

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Belvedere, Carlos. Treatise in Phenomenological Sociology. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666983326.

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A Treatise in Phenomenological Sociology: Object, Method, Findings, and Applications provides the first systematic approach to phenomenological sociology. Carlos Belvedere claims that phenomenological sociology is a distinctive paradigm endowed with its peculiar object, method, and stock of knowledge. He defines phenomenological sociology as a science dealing with the natural attitude of groups. When it comes to its method, he describes the actual, centenary use of the epoché, the eidetic variation, and constitutional analysis in the practice of classical and contemporary social thinkers. Fina

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Kromhout, Melle Jan. The Logic of Filtering. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190070137.001.0001.

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This book traces the profound impact of technical media on the sound of music, asking: How do media technologies shape sound? How does this affect music? And how did it change what we listen for in music? Based on the information theoretical proposition that all transmission channels introduce noise and distortion, the argument accounts for the fact that technologically reproduced music is inherently shaped by the technologies that enable its reproduction. The media archaeological assessment of this noise of sound media developed in the book draws from a wide range of sources, both theoretical

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Collingwood, Loren. Campaigning in a Racially Diversifying America. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190073350.001.0001.

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As the United States moves toward a majority-minority country, candidates for public office must increasingly make appeals to voters from a range of racial and ethnic backgrounds. In 2008, Barack Obama did this to maximum effect with white voters across the U.S. Most recently, in 2018, Beto O’Rourke nearly became the first Democratic senator from Texas since the 1990s. O’Rourke, who grew up in El Paso, speaks Spanish and is extremely knowledgeable about border issues and immigration policy more generally, which translated into strong support and turnout among Latino voters. In Campaigning in a

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Gaakeer, Jeanne. Judging from Experience. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474442480.001.0001.

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Judging from Experience forms part of Law and Literature and/or, more broadly, Law and Humanities, the interdisciplinary movement in legal theory that focuses on the various bonds of law, language and literature. The book presents a view on law as a humanistic discipline. It demonstrates the importance for academic legal theory and legal practice of a iuris prudentia as insighful knowledge of law that helps develop the practitioner’s practical wisdom. In doing so it builds on insights from philosophical hermeneutics ranging from Aristotle to Ricoeur. The building blocks it proposes for law as

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Gollance, Sonia. It Could Lead to Dancing. Stanford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9781503613492.001.0001.

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Dances and balls appear throughout literature as a place for young people to meet, flirt, and form relationships: as any reader of Pride and Prejudice, War and Peace, or Romeo and Juliet can attest, dance scenes provide an opportunity for writers to criticize societal expectations about courtship and partner choice, while simultaneously entertaining their readers. In this book, Sonia Gollance examines Jewish mixed-gender dancing in German and Yiddish literature, arguing that dance provides a powerful lens for understanding Jewish acculturation, secularization, and modernization. Gollance exami

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Davy, Zowie. Sex/Gender and Self-Determination. Policy Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447344278.001.0001.

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This book considers key personal, political and pedagogical approaches to trans, sex/gender expansive and intersex people in various policy fields such as sex/gender recognition legislation, medical diagnoses, medical interventions and educational policies. The book also contemplates how self-determination relates to sex/gender, transitions and expressions, and how it corresponds to current debates around binary sex/gender embodiment. The relevant human and non-human qualities that are addressed throughout the book are not analyzed in relation to someone’s or something’s inherent nature but de

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Preter, Sabina E., Theodore Shapiro, and Barbara Milrod. Child and Adolescent Anxiety Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190877712.001.0001.

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Child and adolescent anxiety psychodynamic psychotherapy (CAPP) is a new, manualized, tested, 24-session psychotherapy articulating psychodynamic treatment for youths with anxiety disorders. The book describes how clinicians intervene by collaboratively identifying the meanings of anxiety symptoms and maladaptive behaviors and communicating the emotional meanings of these symptoms to the child. The treatment is conducted from a developmental perspective, and the book contains clinical examples of how to approach youth of varying ages. The authors demonstrate that CAPP can help children and ado

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Mogilner, Marina B., ed. A Cultural History of Race in the Age of Empire and Nation State. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350067547.

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This volume covers the cultural history of race in ‘the long 19th century’ – the age of empire and nation-state, a transformative period during which a modern world had been forged and complex and hierarchical imperial formations were challenged by the emerging national norm. The concept of race emerged as a dominant epistemology in the context of the conflicting entanglement of empire and nation as two alternative but quite compatible forms of social imaginary. It penetrated all spheres of life under the novel conditions of the emerging mass culture and mass society and with the sanction of a

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Millar, Lesley, and Alice Kettle, eds. Reading the Thread. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350320529.

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Reading the Threadbrings together artists, theorists and designers to explore the nature and use of cloth as a means of record and communication. Cloth is constructed from threads and, in acknowledging its qualities of recording or communicating a story, we are reading the threads – the read thread. There is also, however, an East Asian myth that when you are born you are linked by an invisible red thread to your soul mate; no matter what you do, this red thread connects you to your fate and, although the thread may become tangled or infinitely long, it will never break. Exploring histories of

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Lechte, John. Philosophy of the Medium. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350299214.

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Taking the principle of the ‘disappearance of the medium’ into new territory, this book questions the pervasive influence of the principle that the ‘medium is the message’ – that the best we can hope for is a knowledge of the world that is media specific, and that it is this specificity, rather than media content, that should be made an object of study. Bold and investigative, this book argues that we have for too long focused on the technical specificities of media, when we should have been focusing on what it is that mediums do, that is, on their ‘content’ rather than their formal and techni

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Adler, Paul S., and Terry A. Winograd, eds. Usability: Turning Technologies into Tools. Oxford University Press, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195075106.001.0001.

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As more and more equipment incorporates advanced technologies, usability -- the ability of equipment to take advantage of users' skills and thereby to function effectively in the broad range of real work situations -- is becoming an essential component of equipment design. Usability: Turning Technologies into Tools collects six essays that herald a fundamental shift in the way industry and researchers think about usability. In this new, broader definition, usability no longer means safeguarding against human error, but rather enabling human beings to learn, to use, and to adapt the equipment t

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West-Eberhard, Mary Jane. Developmental Plasticity and Evolution. Oxford University Press, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195122343.001.0001.

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The first comprehensive synthesis on development and evolution: it applies to all aspects of development, at all levels of organization and in all organisms, taking advantage of modern findings on behavior, genetics, endocrinology, molecular biology, evolutionary theory and phylogenetics to show the connections between developmental mechanisms and evolutionary change. This book solves key problems that have impeded a definitive synthesis in the past. It uses new concepts and specific examples to show how to relate environmentally sensitive development to the genetic theory of adaptive evolutio

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Agné, Hans. Legitimacy in Global Governance Research. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826873.003.0002.

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As a prelude to the three themes in the volume, this chapter explores more generally the turn towards legitimacy in global governance research. The chapter suggests that this turn is partly explained by shortcomings in normative research on global democracy, and the potential of research on legitimacy to overcome those problems. The chapter discusses the merits and demerits of alternative conceptualizations of legitimacy in serving these purposes. The chapter concludes in favor of a normative-sociological understanding of legitimacy that is sensitive to beliefs among members of relevant audien

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Nida-Rümelin, Martine. Colours and Shapes. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199666416.003.0004.

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The property which perceptual experiences of a given phenomenal kind enable the subject to track is not always identical with the property objects appear to have (in a phenomenally manifest manner) in the kind of experience at issue. Tracked properties and apparent properties come apart in colour perception but they are identical in the perception of three-dimensional shape. In order to defend these claims, this chapter proposes a criterion for the identity of tracked property and apparent property in a given experience. The view developed leads to an account of the traditional distinction bet

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Internet QoS: Architecture and mechanizms for quality of service. Morgan Kaufmann, 2001.

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Reychler, Luc. Peacemaking, Peacekeeping, and Peacebuilding. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.274.

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Peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding have generated considerable interest in the areas of education, research, and politics. This can be attributed in part to the growing recognition that there are limits to violence and that proactive violence prevention is more cost-effective than reactive conflict prevention. Peacebuilding became part of the official discourse when the United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali introduced the concept of post-conflict peacebuilding in the Agenda for Peace. The agenda specified four areas of action relating to preventive diplomacy, peacema

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