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Tetzchner, Stephen von. Introduction to symbolic and augmentative communication. Singular Pub. Group, 1992.

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Goossens', Carol. Engineering the preschool environment for interactive symbolic communication: 18 months to 5 years developmentally. 4th ed. Southeast Augmentative Communication Conference Publications, 1999.

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Goossens', Carol. Engineering the preschool environment for interactive symbolic communication: 18 months to 5 years developmentally. 2nd ed. Southeast Augmentative Communication Conference Publications, 1994.

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Cook, Susannah. Exploring the means by which social order is maintained in a tourist information office, in accordance with the assumptions of symbolic interactionalism. University of Manchester, Department of Sociology, 2001.

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Arrigoni, Tatiana. What is meant by V?: Reflections on the universe of all sets. Mentis, 2007.

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Arrigoni, Tatiana. What is meant by V?: Reflections on the universe of all sets. Mentis, 2007.

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Salk Institute for Biological Studies., ed. Architect: Version I, Signfont preliminary handbook. Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 1987.

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Houen, Alex. Sacrifice and Modern War Writing. Oxford University Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780198912316.001.0001.

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Abstract This book surveys how Anglophone war writing explores sacrifice in relation to major conflicts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: the First World War; the Irish ‘Easter Rising’ and Anglo-Irish War; the Spanish Civil War; the Second World War; the Vietnam War; the Cold War; and the War on Terror. Various conceptions of sacrifice are examined, including Christian, Jewish, Islamic, and secular, and the discussion ranges across literary portrayals of multiple sacrificial practices, including martyrdom, scapegoating, and ancient practices of child sacrifice. Writings by over 110

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Forest, Christopher. The dollar bill in translation: What it really means. Capstone Press, 2009.

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Ōsugi, Yutaka, and Yoshimasa Seki. Watashitachi no shuwa gakushū jiten. Zen Nihon Rōa Renmei Shuppan-kyoku, 2014.

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Oka, Norie. Nihon Shuwa no shikumi: Bunpō ga kiso kara wakaru. Taishūkan Shoten, 2013.

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1938-, Cregan Ailsa, ed. Sign & symbol communication for mentally handicapped people. Croom Helm, 1986.

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Peter, Welton, ed. See what I mean: An introduction to visual communication. E. Arnold, 1986.

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Peter, Welton, ed. See what I mean?: An introduction to visual communication. 2nd ed. E. Arnold, 1992.

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Sachuk, Tat'yana. Territorial marketing: theory and practice. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2024. https://doi.org/10.12737/2062425.

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The textbook presents the modern concept of territorial administration. The main issues of territorial marketing are considered: the marketing environment of the territory, the subjects and the complex of means of implementing territorial marketing, consumer behavior, macro- and micro-segmentation, differentiation and competitiveness of the territory, positioning and branding of the territory, etc. The textbook reflects such categories as public benefit, local community, cultural, social and symbolic capitals of the territory, tourist destination, institutions of territorial development, etc.

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Stolyarov, Vladislav. Dialectical methodology of theory construction in modern scientific knowledge. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/2099001.

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The monograph is devoted to the analysis of dialectical (based on the theory of dialectics, dialectical thinking) methodology of theory construction. The concept of this methodology is based on the ideas of the world-famous logician A.A. Zinoviev about dialectical thinking as a system of logical operations, techniques, procedures in order to obtain an integral dialectical system of scientific knowledge about the essence, properties, structure, connections, change, functioning and development, contradictions of the studied object. The results of the author's long-term (more than 50 years) devel

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Xiong, Gu. Gu Xiong and Xu Bing: Here is what I mean. Museum London, 2004.

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José Miguel de Fonseca Neiva Santos. Sistema de identificação da cor para indivíduos daltónicos: Aplicação aos produtos de vestuário : tese de mestrado design e marketing. Universidade do Minho, Escola de Engineharia, 2008.

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Tuhbatullina, Leysan, Lyudmila Safina, and Venera Hammatova. Propaedeutics (basics of composition). INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1020434.

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The textbook presents the theoretical foundations of building a harmonious composition, describes the three main laws of composition (the law of integrity, the law of balance and the law of dominance), and considers the elements and means of harmonizing the composition. A separate Chapter is devoted to the issues of color in the composition, and offers options for creating harmonious color solutions. Semiotic aspects are considered, characteristics and features of creating signs-icons, signs-indexes and signs-symbols are given. One of the chapters is devoted to visual illusions in composition.

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Rowland, Charity. Tangible symbol systems: Symbolic communication for individuals with multisensory impairments. Communication Skill Builders, 1990.

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Dean, Jon. The Good Glow. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447340027.001.0001.

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We praise those people who do things for others. But the symbolic power of giving means individuals can take advantage of the glow of ‘goodness’ that charity provides. This book analyses the reality of how charity operates in the social world; how the personal benefits of giving and volunteering are vital for getting charitable acts to happen; how the altruism associated with gifts isn't always what it seems; how charity misbehaviour or bad management gets overlooked; and how charity symbols are weaponised against those who don't participate. Drawing on original data and a novel application of

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Ohnuma, Reiko. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190637545.003.0008.

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The potency of the animal as a symbol lies in humanity’s dualistic relationship with the animal. On the one hand, we ourselves are animals; on the other hand, we define ourselves in opposition to all other animals. There is thus both kinship and otherness, identity and difference, attraction and repulsion in humanity’s relationship to the animal. Through this dualistic interplay, animality becomes a fruitful resource for defining what it means to be human. As Buddhism—arguably, more so than any other major religion—is a profoundly human-centered tradition, we should not be surprised to see Bud

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Garson, James W. What Logics Mean. University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations, 2014.

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What Logics Mean. Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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Holloway, Sally. Materializing Maternal Emotions. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198802648.003.0010.

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This chapter analyses the material expression of emotion during the birth and renunciation of infants in England over the long eighteenth century. These transformative moments in the life cycle were shaped by the creation, purchase, and display of objects. The chapter focuses primarily on textiles with particular emotional or symbolic significance, exploring the changing emotional meanings of childbed linen, blankets, ribbons, cockades, and quilts. It argues that a mother’s touch provided a key means of imbuing these items with emotional value, as women carefully inked, pinned, and embroidered

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Shepherd, Rowena, and Rupert Shepherd. 1000 Symbols: What Shapes Mean in Art and Myth. Ivy Press, The, 2025.

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Scaletti, Carla. Sonification ≠ Music. Edited by Roger T. Dean and Alex McLean. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190226992.013.9.

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Starting from the observation that symbolic language is not the only channel for human communication, this chapter examines ‘data sonification’, a means of understanding, reasoning about, and communicating meaning that extends beyond that which can be conveyed by symbolic language alone. Data sonification is a mapping from data generated by a model, captured in an experiment, or otherwise gathered through observation to one or more parameters of an audio signal or sound synthesis model for the purpose of better understanding, communicating, or reasoning about the original model, experiment, or

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This Means This, This Means That: A User's Guide to Semiotics. King Publishing, Laurence, 2012.

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This Means This, This Means That: A User's Guide to Semiotics. King Publishing, Laurence, 2012.

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Hall, Sean. This Means This, This Means That: A User's Guide to Semiotics (Portfolio). Laurence King, 2007.

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Levin, Frank S. Quantum Theory. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808275.003.0009.

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The subject of Chapter 8 is the fundamental principles of quantum theory, the abstract extension of quantum mechanics. Two of the entities explored are kets and operators, with kets being representations of quantum states as well as a source of wave functions. The quantum box and quantum spin kets are specified, as are the quantum numbers that identify them. Operators are introduced and defined in part as the symbolic representations of observable quantities such as position, momentum and quantum spin. Eigenvalues and eigenkets are defined and discussed, with the former identified as the possi

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Tholen, Gerbrand. The Ideal of the Graduate Worker. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198744481.003.0009.

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This final chapter concludes the book and reflects on the findings described in the previous chapters. The chapter explains how the idealized version of graduate workers (as being a distinct labour market grouping aligned with high-skilled, high-waged employment) has not really wavered. To understand the status of graduate workers as a group we need to understand the symbolic power graduates hold within the labour market (through symbolic categorization and classification). Yet the case studies also show that the meanings of graduate work, skills, and occupations vary, leaving room for interpr

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Bauab, Adriana, Gabriel Sarmiento, and Isidoro Vegh. Times of Mourning. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978733336.

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Times of Mourning: Bereavement, Clinical Challenge, and Subjectivity works around the homonymous property of the word duelo in Spanish, which means both grief and duel. Adriana Bauab argues that the mourning process is a challenge and an opportunity for the subject to recompose their symbolic universe, recovering the function of lack that can ignite desire. Citing multiple clinical examples, Bauab proposes new tools for the treatment of grief.

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Ager, Sheila L. Diplomatic Communication in the Ancient Mediterranean. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195386844.003.0016.

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This chapter takes up the topic of diplomacy in the Mediterranean world. Ager shows that, in this world of manifold networks, the safeguards provided by formal, permanent international institutions of the modern type were lacking, and diplomacy by no means necessarily took improved relations as its goal. Although envoys were not professionals, the means of conducting diplomacy were varied and sophisticated, and the slowness of ancient travel did not prevent extensive exchanges. Symbolic messages of various kinds (including inscriptions, monuments, and coins) had an important role to play. In c

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Hardy, Duncan. Documentary Culture and Ritual. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198827252.003.0002.

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Political actors in Upper Germany interacted with one another through a shared repertoire of formats. Princes, prelates, nobles, and urban and communal governments all employed a similar array of documentary forms and ritualized transactions. The use of writing was characterized by ‘pragmatic literacy’: although by no means all elites could read, their interactions relied heavily on documents and records as means of communicating and supporting their governmental, financial, and judicial claims. In particular, the sealed charter, treaty, or contract (Siegelurkunde) had both symbolic and practi

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Hogh-Olesen, Henrik. Fiction and Narrative. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190927929.003.0009.

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Humans also create stories and dramatic settings that deal with the theme of what it means to be human. Humans live in narratives, and narratives are everywhere. This chapter looks at why humans spend that much time and resources on telling each other stories and dramatizing common human experiences. Which themes do these narratives revolve around? Are there universal themes? And what function do these symbolic universes have for our development and survival as individuals and as a species? Moreover, how and why do artistic expressions, themes, and forms change over time? The chapter lists exi

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Adelstein, Richard. Property and Technology. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190694272.003.0005.

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In this chapter, the dependence of property rights on government’s policy choices and their vulnerability to theft are both illustrated in the theoretically rich and institutionally challenging case of intellectual goods, ideas rendered in some symbolic medium. The peculiar qualities of these goods make it especially hard for sellers to prevent thieves (“free riders”) from stealing their value and thus make voluntary exchange with willing buyers possible. This induces a continuous competition of technologies, in which free riders seek the technological means to steal the value of intellectual

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Fox, Alistair. Delinquency and Bicultural Relations: Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi, 2016). Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474429443.003.0017.

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This chapter shows how Taika Waititi’s Hunt for the Wilderpeople, the most successful New Zealand film to date, adopts similar stylistic methods as Waititi’s earlier hit, Boy, in order to address similar themes: the effect of emotional deprivation as a result of parental abandonment, and the search for love and family. Through a comparison with the source novel, Barry Crump’s Wild Pork and Watercress (1986), the analysis retraces the means by which Waititi converts a story involving individuals into a symbolic representation of the history of New Zealand race relations at large with the aim of

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Hill, Susan E. Eating to Excess. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400643361.

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This provocative book explores how ancient notions about the fat body and the glutton in western culture both challenge and confirm ideas about what it means to be overweight and gluttonous today. People in the ancient western world made a distinction between being fat and being a glutton, even when they valued self-control and criticized excessive behavior. Examining many works of early western cultures, this book shows how ancient views both confirm and challenge our contemporary assumptions about fat bodies and gluttons. Eating to Excess: The Meaning of Gluttony and the Fat Body in the Anci

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Day, David. Antarctica. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780190641320.001.0001.

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Part of the What Everyone Needs to Know® series, David Day's book on Antarctica examines the most forbidding and formidably inaccessible continent on Earth. Antarctica was first discovered by European explorers in 1820, and for over a century following this, countries competed for the frozen land's vast marine resources--namely, the skins and oil of seals and whales. Soon the entire territory played host to competing claims by rival nations. The Antarctic Treaty of 1959 was meant to end this contention, but countries have found other means of extending control over the land, with scientific ba

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Huxtable, Michael, and Ronan O'Donnell. Medieval Colour. Edited by Christopher Gerrard and Alejandra Gutiérrez. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198744719.013.57.

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As well as being a highly significant and potentially symbolic phenomenon in medieval visual culture, colour was a serious topic for the learned concerned with its physical nature and means of perception. This article discusses the relationship between philosophical and theoretical understandings of colour and the use of colour in objects which survive in the archaeological record. In order to do this four classes of artefact are used as case-studies, namely: wall-paintings, clothing, illuminated manuscripts, and ceramics. It is clear that while use of colour was always contextual and informed

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High, Casey. Intimate Others. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039058.003.0006.

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This chapter explores the dynamics of kinship and marriage in Toñampari and what it means for Waorani people to live in a community that incorporates kowori people into household and village life. For many Waorani, the Quichuas are highly desired marriage partners and the primary source of shamanic curing. At the same time, they describe Quichua people as morally different from themselves, as “enemies” who invade Waorani lands and practice powerful assault sorcery. This seemingly paradoxical relationship illustrates the symbolic importance of affinity in transforming interethnic relations in A

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Oldenhof, Lieke, Jeroen Postma, and Roland Bal. Re-placing Care. Edited by Ewan Ferlie, Kathleen Montgomery, and Anne Reff Pedersen. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198705109.013.26.

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This chapter explores the meaning of place for health care governance. Although place is gaining importance in public health studies, it remains under theorized as an analytical concept. As a consequence, place is merely viewed as a context variable or a neutral backdrop for policymaking. This chapter provides a more dynamic reconceptualization of place by looking at the activity of replacing as a means to govern health care. Three different cases of re-placement of care are discussed that show how re-placements work out in practice: e-health, concentration of hospital care and neighbourhood c

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Radner, Hilary, and Alistair Fox. Film Analysis: Image and Movement. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474422888.003.0002.

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This chapter assesses Raymond Bellour’s contribution to the area of research known as “film analysis,” arguing that it is best understood as an “art” rather than a scientific practice. Grounded in the French tradition of “explication du texte” as a means of approaching literature, Bellour was among the first film scholars to bring a French literary sensibility to the analysis of Classical Hollywood film, which enabled him to recognize the rhetorical refinements of the cinematic medium and its potential for poetic expression. The chapter explores the significant concepts that define Bellour’s a

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O'Connell, Mark. Signs & Symbols: What They Mean & How We Use Them: A Fascinating Visual Examination Of How Signs And Symbols Developed As A Means Of Communication Throughout ... Psychology, Literature And Everyday Life. Southwater, 2007.

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Kramer, Alan. The First World War as Cultural Trauma. Edited by R. J. B. Bosworth. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199594788.013.0003.

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This article incorporates two complex concepts: trauma and culture. Trauma in the original medical sense meant simply a physical injury; it came to mean a state of shock brought on by injury; and in psychoanalysis it means the condition that can result from an emotional shock. Traditionalists might object that trauma is only individual, not collective; there can therefore be no cultural trauma. However, the term ‘collective traumatic memory’ can justifiably be used in relation to the experience of war. This article argues that individuals could sometimes express the traumatic experience of the

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Architect: Final version, Signfont handbook. Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 1987.

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Henderson, Andrea. Algebraic Art. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198809982.001.0001.

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Algebraic Art explores the invention of a peculiarly Victorian account of the nature and value of aesthetic form, and it traces that account to a surprising source: mathematics. The nineteenth century was a moment of extraordinary mathematical innovation, witnessing the development of non-Euclidean geometry, the revaluation of symbolic algebra, and the importation of mathematical language into philosophy. All these innovations sprang from a reconception of mathematics as a formal rather than a referential practice—as a means for describing relationships rather than quantities. For Victorian ma

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Andraș, Sonia-Doris. Women of 'Little Paris'. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350294486.

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Filling a gap in Eastern European fashion studies, this book presents middle-class women consuming fashion in the symbolic ‘Little Paris’ of interwar Bucharest, and examines how their material and cultural means supported the city’s modernisation. Combining archival research with personal archaeology, this interdisciplinary work explores Romania’s reinvention as a modern state, focusing on middle-class women as they lived their lives - walking through the streets, at lavish events, at cafes and clubs, shopping, and working. Analysing largely unseen, unused written and visual texts,The Women of

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Heine, Steven. Thy Rod and Thy Staff, They Discomfort Me. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190469290.003.0001.

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This chapter examines the role of the staff as perhaps the primary religious symbol representing the profound aptitude of the spiritual authenticity as well as institutional authority of Zen masters. By virtue of evoking and embodying an adept’s greatest levels of accomplishment, the staff serves as an especially expedient means for implementing his particular method of instructing disciples and, thereby, also becomes an effective method of transmitting the teaching style and legacy of his lineage. Through examining the history and symbolism of more than half a dozen varieties of canes, rods,

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