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Collins, Barbara. Too many tomcats and other feline tales of suspense. Five Star, 2000.
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My first car: [recollections of first cars from Jay Leno, Tony Stewart, Carroll Shelby, Dan Ackroyd, Tom Wolfe, and many more]. Motorbooks, 2011.
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(Illustrator), Meredith Johnson, ed. Too Many Cats (We Both Read). Treasure Bay, 2003.
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(Illustrator), Meredith Johnson, ed. Too Many Cats (We Both Read). Treasure Bay, 2003.
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Barbie Life in the Deamhouse: Too Many Puppies Lev. 3. Random House Children's Books, a div. of Random House LLC, 2014.
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French Fried: One Man's Move to France with Too Many Animals and an Identity Thief. Book View Press, 2010.
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Kowalczyk, Carolyn, and Catherine Matthias. A Rookie Reader: Purple Is Part of a Rainbow, Too Many Balloons, I Love Cats: Level B, Grades K-1 (A Rookie Reader). Children's Press (CT), 2005.
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Drancourt, Michel. Other bacterial diseasesCat-scratch disease. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198570028.003.0024.
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Cat-scratch disease (CSD) is a worldwide zoonoses caused by infection with the bacterium, Bartonella henselae. The formal description of the disease by Debré in 1950 (Debré et al. 1950) corresponds to the most frequently diagnosed form of the disease. Cats are the main reservoir for B. henselae and transmission is via Ctniocephalides felis. Humans usually become infected after being scratched or bitten by a cat and is most frequently seen in children and young adults.CSD is a self-limiting illness which often begins with a small papule developing at the site of cat scratch or bite within 3-14 days of the infection. Nearby lymph nodes, usually neck, axillary or groin, become swollen and can persist for several months. It may take up to 7 weeks for the enlarged lymph nodes to appear and individuals may not recall any cat scratch or bite. In healthy cases antibiotics are not indicated.About 5-10% of patients may develop other forms of CSD including eye infection characterised by conjunctivitis and swollen lymph nodes, rash, liver and spleen enlargement, and more rarely encephalitis. Immunosuppresed patients may develop more severe disease, such as bacillary angiomatosis.General advice for preventing CSD includes avoiding rough play with cats, particularly kittens. Cat scratches and bites should be washed immediately with water and soap and cats should not be allowed to lick open wounds.
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Woinarski, John, Sarah Legge, and Chris Dickman. Cats in Australia. CSIRO Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9781486308446.
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Across the world, cats are loved as pets or are kept or tolerated for their role in controlling some animal pests. But cats, both pets and feral, also kill many native animals and this toll can be enormous. Cats have been remarkably successful in Australia, spreading pervasively across the continent and many islands, occurring in all environments, and proving to be adept and adaptable hunters. A large proportion of Australia’s distinctive fauna is threatened and recent research highlights the significant role that cats play in the decline and extinction of native species.
 Cats in Australia brings this research together, documenting the extent to which cats have subverted, and are continuing to subvert, Australia’s biodiversity. But the book does much more than spotlight the impacts of cats on Australian nature. It describes the origins of cats and their global spread, their long-standing and varying relationship with people, their global impacts and their ecology. It also seeks to describe the challenge of managing cats, and the options available to constrain their impacts.
 
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Freeden, Michael. 1. A house of many mansions. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199670437.003.0001.
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‘A house of many mansions’ shows that to understand liberalism you must recognize that there are various ways of looking at it. Liberalism is an ideology that contains seven political concepts that interact at its core: liberty, rationality, individuality, progress, sociability, the general interest, and limited and accountable power. These core elements are the nucleus around which all liberalisms revolve. Different forms of liberalism are discussed before concluding that liberalism has been adopted by truth-seekers, endorsed by humanists, campaigned for by reformers, cast aside by rival ideologies, deliberately misappropriated by those who wish to disguise their real political intentions, and attacked by those who regard it as a self-deluding smoke screen for anti-social conduct.
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Morrell, Kit. Cato, Stoicism, and the provinces. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198755142.003.0004.
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This chapter considers the content and context of the extortion law passed by Julius Caesar as consul in 59, the lex Julia de pecuniis repetundis. Cicero describes it as a ‘perfect law’, but its innovations should not be exaggerated. Many of its important features, such as the detailed prescription of a governor’s entitlements and the inclusion of maiestas-type offences, had precursors in a long series of previous extortion laws. Neither should the law be seen as solely Caesar’s project. The chapter draws a link between the lex Julia of 59, the trials of Gaius Antonius and Lucius Flaccus the same year, and Pompey’s interest in provincial reform. Indeed, even Caesar’s opponent Cato seems to have helped shape Caesar’s law, which incorporated new regulations decreed by the senate the previous year on Cato’s initiative.
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Westwood, Emma. The Fly. Liverpool University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781911325420.001.0001.
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It's not often that a remake outshines its original but David Cronenberg's “reimagining” of The Fly (1986) is one of those rare exceptions. Equal parts horror, science fiction, and romance, The Fly takes the premise of its 1958 original — a man unintentionally fusing with a housefly during an experiment in teleportation — and reinterprets the plot as a gradual cellular metamorphosis between these two organisms. This book teases out the intricate DNA of The Fly and how it represents the personalities of many authors, including a distinguished history of Man-as-God tales stretching back to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818). Drawing from interviews with cast, crew, film commentators, and other filmmakers, the book interlaces the “making of” travails of The Fly with why it is one of the most important examples of master storytelling ever committed to screen.
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Knust, Jennifer, and Tommy Wasserman. To Cast the First Stone. Princeton University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691169880.001.0001.
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The story of the woman taken in adultery features a dramatic confrontation between Jesus and the Pharisees over whether the adulteress should be stoned as the law commands. In response, Jesus famously states, “Let him who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” This book traces the history of this provocative story from its first appearance to its enduring presence today. Likely added to the Gospel of John in the third century, the passage is often held up by modern critics as an example of textual corruption by early Christian scribes and editors, yet a judgment of corruption obscures the warm embrace the story actually received. The book traces the story's incorporation into Gospel books, liturgical practices, storytelling, and art, overturning the mistaken perception that it was either peripheral or suppressed, even in the Greek East. It explores the story's many different meanings. Taken as an illustration of the expansiveness of Christ's mercy, the purported superiority of Christians over Jews, the necessity of penance, and more, this vivid episode has invited any number of creative receptions. This history reveals as much about the changing priorities of audiences, scribes, editors, and scholars as it does about an “original” text of John. The book calls attention to significant shifts in Christian book cultures and the enduring impact of oral tradition on the preservation—and destabilization—of scripture.
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Brown, Gwynne Kuhner. Performers in Catfish Row. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036781.003.0009.
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This chapter challenges the assumption that George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess is something done by whites to blacks by highlighting the indispensable, active role played by African American performers in every critically successful production of the opera. Porgy and Bess has been the subject of controversy for decades owing to its depiction of African Americans. Many of the arguments against Gershwin's work casts African Americans as the victims of malevolent or thoughtless white actions. This chapter examines how Porgy and Bess came into being as an opportunity for productive interracial collaboration by focusing on the Theatre Guild production of 1935, one of several postwar productions of Porgy and Bess that have managed to bring performers and the director together. It also considers Gershwin's respect for his cast members as individuals and concludes with a discussion of five case studies that speak of the tension in the relationship between white directorial staff and black performers in Porgy and Bess, including the production of Samuel Goldwyn's 1959 Technicolor film about Catfish Row.
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Cottingham, John. Transcending Science. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198796732.003.0002.
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In many contemporary debates, religion and science are cast as rivals, supposedly offering competing explanations of the origins and nature of the cosmos. This chapter argues that we need a more “humane” model of religious understanding, one that is responsive to the actual role played by religion in the life of the believer. Understanding the world religiously is less about subscribing to explanatory hypotheses than about a certain mode of engagement with reality, requiring a moral and spiritual transformation of the subject. This has important implications for the appropriate way to philosophize about religion. Instead of an epistemology of control, operating through the detached evaluation of “spectator evidence,” we may need to substitute an epistemology of receptivity. In religion, as in many areas of human life, proper perception and understanding may require a process of attunement for the relevant evidence to become manifest.
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Ronco, Pierre M. Kidney involvement in plasma cell dyscrasias. Edited by Giuseppe Remuzzi. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199592548.003.0150.
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Monoclonal proliferations of the B-cell lineage are characterized by abnormal and uncontrolled expansion of a single clone of B cells at different maturation stages, with a variable degree of differentiation to immunoglobulin-secreting plasma cells. Therefore, they are usually associated with the production and secretion in blood of a monoclonal immunoglobulin and/or a fragment thereof which may become deposited in tissues. These deposits can take the form of casts (in myeloma cast nephropathy), crystals (in myeloma-associated Fanconi syndrome), fibrils (in light-chain and exceptional heavy-chain amyloidosis), or granular precipitates (in monoclonal immunoglobulin deposition disease). They may disrupt organ structure and function, inducing life-threatening complications. All of the pathologic entities related to immunoglobulin deposition principally involve the kidney, which is not only explained by the high levels of renal plasma flow and glomerular filtration rate, but also by the sieving properties of the glomerular capillary wall and by the prominent role of the renal tubule in LC handling and catabolism.The different renal (and other) manifestations are related to the unique physicochemical characteristics of each paraprotein or immunoglobulin fragment, and the rate of their production.
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Pearce, Kenneth L. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198790334.003.0001.
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According to George Berkeley, “the doctrine of signs [is] a point of great importance, and general extent, which, if duly considered, would cast no small light upon things, and afford a just and genuine solution to many difficulties” (Alc, §7.16). As has long been recognized (...
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Maslon, Laurence. “You Never Seen a Show Like This Before!”. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199832538.003.0013.
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The advent of the compact disc provided another major sea change in the world of Broadway cast albums. Commercially accepted by the mid-1980s, the CD allowed for the recording of a full score of 70 minutes or more. At the same, cast albums became increasingly prohibitive to record and market; many shows opened on Broadway without a recording deal already signed and sealed—something unthinkable in the previous three decades. Still, the compact disc allowed for the reissue of many out-of-print scores, as well as minor pieces by major artists that flew underneath the radar. It also allowed for experimentation of larger, fuller scores, such as EMI’s three-disc archival version of Show Boat, conducted by John McGlinn. The archival opportunities offered by the compact disc were manifold, but the increased duration of the recordings often flew in the face of tradition, taste, and common sense.
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Mutter, Walter P. Urinalysis. Edited by Christopher G. Winearls. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199592548.003.0006.
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Physicians have examined urine for over 6000 years. Urine microscopy was first employed to diagnose kidney disease in the seventeenth century and remains an indispensable tool. The value of urinalysis for diagnosis and management of renal and genitourinary disease is well accepted. Urinalysis aids in the diagnosis of renal disease especially in cases when a renal biopsy is not immediately available or is contraindicated. It is most informative when done by the treating physician with knowledge of the clinical context. Inspection is done by eye. Routine chemical analysis is done by dipstick but urine microscopy is essential for it may reveal abnormalities even when chemical evaluation is normal. Dysmorphic red cells, red cell casts, white blood cells, renal cells, and specific crystals may be diagnostically important. Urinalysis and microscopy can narrow the differential diagnosis faster than many more complex tests are able to.
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Shanahan, James. What Do We Know About the Entertainment Industry’s Portrayal of Science? How Does It Affect Public Attitudes Toward Science? Edited by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Dan M. Kahan, and Dietram A. Scheufele. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190497620.013.33.
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Because the entertainment media command most of the attention of the mass audience most of the time, across the years scholars have devoted significant energy to understanding their impact. However, despite the large amount of entertainment content that is science-focused, the field of science communication has focused comparatively little attention on it. Not many researchers have assumed that entertainment bears an important relationship on how we understand science issues. The research that does exist reveals that early on scientists were portrayed on television in distorted ways that may have led to fear of science. Recent work, though, has shown a more complex picture. Some aspects of science are more positively cast, which may contribute to the resilience of science as a trusted institution. Future, more complex, entertainment environments are likely to yield even more complex effects.
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Tandon, Teena, and Rajiv Agarwal. Hypertension as a cause of chronic kidney disease. Edited by David J. Goldsmith. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199592548.003.0100.
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There is a strong association between hypertension and progressive renal disease, and it has long been assumed that a variable but often large proportion of end-stage renal disease is caused by essential hypertension damaging the kidney. While it is clear that malignant hypertension can cause renal damage, several lines of evidence cast doubt on the idea that more moderate blood pressures are commonly a primary cause of renal disease. These include (a) observational studies showing that microalbuminuria precedes hypertension; (b) morphological studies in animals and man suggest that changes traditionally described as due to hypertension correlate poorly with blood pressure; and (c) mutations in or near the APOL1 gene appear to underlie the development of renal disease in many black Americans previously labeled as suffering from hypertensive renal disease. The same mutations strongly predispose to focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. The mechanism of the association with ‘hypertensive’ renal disease is not established but it may act as a risk factor for progression of renal disease. Hypertension is associated with reduced renal mass. It is described as a consequence of renal cysts, simple as well as multiple. Obesity may be associated with accumulation of fat in the renal sinus and with hypertension.
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James, Philip. Relationships. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198827238.003.0006.
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Relationships between organisms within urban environments are many and varied. Plants are found in many households, and in addition to the benefits derived from their decorative properties, they also purify the air by removing pollutants. Over the course of history some animals have become domesticated: cows, horses, goats, providing food and transport. Of these, a select group have become companions (cats, dogs, and more exotic pets). Such domesticated and companion animals are an important part of the overall biology of urban environments and these relationships are explored and discussed. Some former companion or domestic animals have become feral, and other animals have never been domesticated and live freely in the urban environment. Some of these animals have beneficial relationships with humans whereas others are parasitic or are considered pests. These relationships are the focus for the later part of the exploration set out in this chapter.
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Levin, Frank S. Schrödinger’s Cat and the Meaning of It All. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808275.003.0016.
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Chapter 15 deals with various unresolved issues, such as how measurements are to be described, whether they induce collapse of linear superpositions, and if so, what the result should be. Another is whether quantum mechanics applies to macroscopic measuring devices, and if not, why not. Some of these issues are addressed via the Schrödinger cat-in-the-box experiment, in particular whether the cat is ever half alive and half dead; analogs of the corresponding Schrödinger-cat state (not involving a cat) have been studied experimentally. For Schrödinger, it was ridiculous to apply quantum mechanics to macroscopic situations, nevertheless, it has been explored by many physicists. Whether measurements induce collapse and whether collapse arises in various formulations/interpretations of quantum mechanics is examined in the context of generic measuring instruments known as pointer devices. Various conclusions have been reached, though consensus has not, despite only one interpretation having been verified experimentally.
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Hale, Bob, and Crispin Wright. Logicism in the Twenty‐first Century. Edited by Stewart Shapiro. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195325928.003.0006.
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This article focuses on issues which neo-Fregeanism must address, even if the scope of its leading claims is restricted to elementary arithmetic. Many of these concern the capacity of abstraction principles—centrally, but not only, Hume's Principle itself—to discharge the implicitly definitional role in which the neo-Fregean casts them, and thereby to subserve a satisfactory apriorist epistemology for (at least part of) mathematics. Others concern the other main assumption that undergirds the specifically logicist aspect of the neo-Fregean project (and equally, of course, Frege's original project): that the logic to which abstraction principles are to be adjoined may legitimately be taken to include higher-order—at the very least, second-order—logic without compromise of the epistemological purposes of the project.
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Frankfurter, David. The Construction of Evil and the Violence of Purification. Edited by Michael Jerryson, Mark Juergensmeyer, and Margo Kitts. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199759996.013.0035.
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This chapter explores the construction of evil and the strategies of violence in purification. Prurient fascination and righteous revulsion both recreate and repel each other, developing an anxiety of confusion that has resulted in many circumstances in community efforts to cast the subject, the symbol, of that confusion. Erotic prurience into the nature and deeds of Evil may remain as a living genre for centuries without lending itself to societies as legitimation for purge. Dramaturgy and procession can contribute to brutal but cathartic narratives of saints and monsters, martyrs, and their persecutors, into the immediate festival lives of communities. Furthermore, brutality and atrocity are recurrent characteristics of any culture, often aggravated in situations of historical stress independent of religious systems.
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Roberts, Allen F. Reflection. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199375967.003.0008.
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Tourist advertisements often depict an Africa filled with an astounding variety of wildlife, to the exclusion of local people (except insofar as they may provide “cultural” performances for safaris). By contrast, over the centuries African artists have depicted few of the domestic and wild animals whose environments they share, and the ones that are chosen are often not those emblematic of Western fantasies. Instead artists have concentrated on a curious menagerie of aardvarks and antelopes, bats and buffalo, pachyderms and pangolins, snakes, spiders, and spotted cats. Why are ...
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Moriarty, Jeffrey. Desert-Based Justice. Edited by Serena Olsaretti. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199645121.013.7.
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Justice requires giving people what they deserve. Or so many philosophers—and according to many of those philosophers, everyone else—thought for centuries, until the 1970s and 1980s, however, perhaps under the influence of Rawls’s desert-less theory, desert was largely cast out of discussions of distributive justice. Now it is making a comeback. This chapter considers recent research on the concept of desert, debate about the conditions for desert, arguments for and against its requital, and connections between desert and other distributive ideals. It suggests that desert-sensitive theories of distributive justice, despite the challenges they face, have a promising future.
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Mignon, B., and M. Monod. Zoonotic infections with dermatophyte fungi. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198570028.003.0077.
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Dermatophytes are highly specialized pathogenic fungi which are the most common agents of superficial mycoses. These fungi grow exclusively in the stratum corneum, nails or hair utilising them as sole nitrogen and carbon sources. Dermatophyte species are recognized and classified as antropophilic, zoophilic, or geophilic, depending on their major reservoir in nature (humans, animals, and soil, respectively). Zoophilic dermatophytes may result in zoonoses when humans are exposed to these organisms and dermatophytosis is considered to be one of the most common zoonotic diseases. The majority of zoonotic dermatophytoses are caused by four species: Microsporum canis (usually derived from pet animals, particularly cats and dogs), Trichophyton verrucosum (usually derived from cattle), Arthroderma vanbreuseghemii (usually derived from cats and dogs) and Arthroderma benhamiae (usually derived from guinea-pigs). Infection results most often from direct contact with an infected animal, but may be also acquired indirectly through contact with a contaminated environment. While clinical disease is rarely serious, the lesions can result in disfigurement and pain. Diagnosis is based on history, clinical appearance and diagnostic procedures, e.g. direct microscopic examination of scales, hair or nail and fungal culture. Specific treatment is generally required to resolve lesions, and this may be prolonged depending on the fungal species and the host status. Identifying animals as the source of infection for people can help in the prevention of recurrence or new infections, especially in children, by adequately treating affected pets and their environments. Immunoprophylaxis is an attractive means of controlling infection in animals, and the development and widespread use of efficacious T. verrucosum vaccines in certain countries has already proved valuable in the management of cattle ringworm.
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Kriegel, Uriah. Consciousness. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791485.003.0002.
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It is argued that for Brentano, a conscious perception of a tree is a single mental state that can be (accurately) conceived of, or framed, either as a perception of a tree or as a perception of a perception of a tree. It is further argued that this interpretation casts Brentano’s theory as quite a bit more plausible than it is commonly taken to be, indeed more plausible than many modern theories of consciousness.
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Strawn, Brent A. Material Culture, Iconography, and the Prophets. Edited by Carolyn J. Sharp. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199859559.013.6.
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This chapter probes one aspect of material culture—namely, ancient Near Eastern iconography—for its pertinence for the prophets. It focuses on lion imagery in the book of Amos and lion iconography in the ancient Near East, but especially in the archaeology of ancient Israel/Palestine. The artistic remains contribute to a better understanding of this motif in Amos, and the same holds true for the many other images and metaphors that may be found in both the biblical text and the archaeology. In certain cases, as with the lion in Amos, attention to the iconographic data can cast light not only on singular instances of an idea in a specific verse or two, but also on wider complexes of ideas across larger units, if not entire prophetic books. Still further, the iconographic data can sometimes contribute to—or, in fact, chasten—debates about a book’s composition and redaction history.
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Morris, Pam. Mrs Dalloway: The Spirit of Religion was Abroad. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474419130.003.0003.
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In Mrs Dalloway, Woolf’s hostility to an idealist consensus, elevating revered abstractions above material reality, focuses upon the use of religious, nationalist and scientific rhetoric to subordinate those perceived as troublesome. Idealists of various kinds, in the text, illustrate the dangerous madness that results when vision disconnects from facts. What these many idealists desire is order and disciplined bodies, an agenda veiled by a spirit of religion. The text is structured upon recurrent references to cars and flowers, things that, in Bruno Latour’s phrase, act as ‘gatherings’, conjoining substantive social forces. So, cars, in the 1920s, point to the inception of ‘Fordism’, the imposition of a radical new regime of industrial discipline. Innovations in horticultural productivity and plant breeding offered ‘scientific’ authority to eugenics as a means of engineering an idealised national identity. Only a materialist perspective, Woolf suggests, can challenge the visionary madness that licenses conscription of fleshly life.
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Wheat, L. Joseph, and Lynn Guptill. Histoplasmosis. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198570028.003.0076.
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Histoplasma was initially described from a lesion in a horse by Rivolta in 1873, who named the organism Cryptococcus farciminosum. In 1905, Samuel Darling noted the presence of intracellular organisms in many tissues, including the lungs, of a patient suspected of succumbing to miliary tuberculosis (Darling 1906). Darling named the organism Histoplasma capsulatum , because it appeared to be an encapsulated protozoan-like organism. In 1912, mycologist Henrique da Rocha-Lima reviewed Darling’s slides and noted the cytological similarities between Darling’s Histoplasma organism and Cryptococcus farciminosum. Cryptococcus farciminosum was reclassified as Histoplasma farciminosum in 1934, and in 1985 it was again reclassified as a variant of Histoplasma capsulatum (var. farciminosum ) (Weeks et al. 1985).William De Monbreun cultured the organism from the blood of a child suffering from an unexplained febrile disease in 1934, and demonstrated it to be a dimorphic fungus (De Monbreun 1934). De Monbreun and others reported naturally occurring histoplasmosis in a dog in 1939, and subsequently demonstrated experimentally that clinically inapparent histoplasmosis occurred in dogs (De Monbreun 1939). De Monbreun and others speculated that animals might serve as the source of histoplasmosis in human beings. However, C.W. Emmons demonstrated in 1949 that Histoplasma capsulatum is a soil saprophyte, and that inhalation of aerosolized microconidia and mycelial fragments served as the source of infection (Emmons 1949).The prevalence of histoplasmosis in endemic regions was estimated to be more than 50% based on positive skin tests for histoplasmin (Edwards et al. 1969). Active histoplasmosis has been identifi ed in up to 50% of dogs in endemic regions based on culture at necropsy of healthy animals (Turner et al. 1972a). The case prevalence of disseminated histoplasmosis at a veterinary teaching hospital in an endemic region of the mid-western USA of 43 cases in cats and 12 cases in dogs per 100,000 hospital records per year has been estimated (Clinkenbeard et al. 1988; Kaplan 1973). Dogs and cats with outdoor exposure are reportedly at greater risk for histoplasmosis than those with minimal time outdoors. However, some completely indoor cats become ill with histoplasmosis (Davies and Troy 1996; Johnson et al. 2004). Young to middle-aged dogs of hunting and sporting breeds have historically been reported at greatest risk for acquiring histoplasmosis (Selby et al. 1981). Risk factors for cats have not been systematically studied.Infection by Histoplasma capsulatum var. capsulatum is not contagious except in unusual situations. Rare cases of horizontal transmission have been reported. Horizontal transmission is associated with conjugal contraction of individuals with cutaneous lesions of the genitalia (Sills et al. 1973) and by solid organ transplantation of infected organs (Limaye et al. 2000). No documented cases of transmission from animals to human beings or vice versa have been reported. In contrast to Histoplasma capsulatum var. capsulatum, equine infection by Histoplasma capsulatum var. farciminosum is contagious and is transmitted by bites of contaminated flies or ticks as well as through skin traumatized with contaminated tack (Kohn 2006).
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Buchanan, Allen. Postscript. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190868413.003.0014.
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The focus in this volume is on the implications of the biological evolutionary origins of morality for the possibilities for moral progress. It makes no attempt to cast an account of the conditions under which progress or regression occurs in terms of cultural evolutionary explanations. The most rigorous, mathematically modeled cultural evolutionary explanations are of the “invisible hand” variety: they present cultural changes as the unintended emergent results of the actions of many individuals. Consequently, such explanations have limited applicability to cases of cultural change, including those that are morally progressive, which are the intended results of actions guided by moral reflection or changes in moral beliefs. Nonetheless, as analyses of the explanations of reductions in violence offered by the likes of Norbert Elias and Steven Pinker suggest, cultural evolutionary explanations of the invisible hand sort may be important pieces of the larger puzzle of moral progress.
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Macdonald, David W., Chris Newman, and Lauren A. Harrington. Beneath the umbrella: conservation out of the limelight. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198759805.003.0030.
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The concluding chapter of this book poses the question: what is special about the musteloids in the context of promoting their conservation. Ranking species on their public appeal, most musteloids score relatively poorly as ambassadors, or flagships, for conservation compared with, for example, big cats. There are individual exceptions (many of the otters, for example, and the endangered ‘celebrity’ species, such as black-footed ferrets or red pandas), and some have potential as umbrella species due to their range overlap with other threatened mammals. The chapter explores if and how musteloids contribute to ecosystem services, and thus their utility value, and assesses the potential for identifying priorities for conservation action (in terms of both priority species and priority countries). The conservation needs of musteloids are varied, and these are not the only important considerations, but they illustrate some of the complexity that is involved.
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Kipling, Rudyard. Just So Stories for Little Children. Edited by Lisa Lewis. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199538607.001.0001.
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How did the camel get his hump? Why won't cats do as they are told? Who invented reading and writing? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere. Kipling's imagined answers to such questions draw on the beast fables he heard as a child in India, as well as on folk traditions he later collected all over the world. He plays games with language, exploring the relationships between thought, speech, and written word. He also celebrates his own joy in fatherhood. The tales were told to his own and his friends’ children over many years before he wrote them down, adding poems and his own illustrations. They invite older and younger readers to share a magical experience, each contributing to the other's pleasure but each can also enjoy them alone, as more jokes, subtexts, and exotic references emerge with every reading. This fully illustrated edition icludes two extra stories and Kipling's own explanation of the title.
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Olsaretti, Serena. Introduction. Edited by Serena Olsaretti. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199645121.013.38.
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This chapter introduces the idea of distributive justice. It identifies several different views of what characterizes distributive justice, as opposed to other types of justice and to non-justice-based moral demands. The preconditions of distributive justice, its primary subject and its object, and its normative significance are discussed. The chapter then suggests that bringing the diversity of usages of the concept of distributive justice into view helps cast light on some of the many contemporary debates about distributive justice and its limits. This chapter also introduces and outlines the different topics covered by the different sections and chapters of the book.
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Bocquet, Lydéric, David Quéré, Thomas A. Witten, and Leticia F. Cugliandolo, eds. Soft Interfaces. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789352.001.0001.
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Many of the distinctive and useful phenomena of soft matter come from its interaction with interfaces. Examples are the peeling of a strip of adhesive tape or the coating of a surface or the curling of a fibre via capillary forces or the electrically driven ow along a microchannel, or the collapse of a porous sponge. These interfacial phenomena are distinct from the intrinsic behaviour of a soft material like a gel or a microemulsion. Yet many forms of interfacial phenomena can be understood via common principles valid for many forms of soft matter. Our goal in organizing this school was to give students a grasp of these common principles and their many ramifications and possibilities. The school comprised over fifty 90-minute lectures over four weeks in July 2013. Four four-lecture courses by Howard Stone, Michael Cates, David Nelson, and L. Mahadevan served as an anchor for the program. A number of shorter courses and seminars rounded out the school.This volume presents lecture notes prepared by the speakers and submitted for publication after the school. The lectures are grouped under two main themes: Hydrodynamics and interfaces, and Soft matter.
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Austen, Jane, and Adela Pinch. Emma. Edited by James Kinsley. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199535521.001.0001.
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‘I wonder what will become of her!’ So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilful,and fallible heroine of Jane Austen‘s fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant friend Harriet, only to discover that she understands the feelings of others as little as she does her own heart. As Emma puzzles and blunders her way through the mysteries of her social world, Austen evokes for her readers a cast of unforgettable characters and a detailed portrait of a small town undergoing historical transition. Written with matchless wit and irony, judged by many to be her finest novel, Emma has been adapted many times for film and television. This new edition shows how Austen brilliantly turns the everyday into the exceptional.
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Loh, Wulf, and Janina Loh. Autonomy and Responsibility in Hybrid Systems. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190652951.003.0003.
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In this chapter, we give a brief overview of the traditional notion of responsibility and introduce a concept of distributed responsibility within a responsibility network of engineers, driver, and autonomous driving system. In order to evaluate this concept, we explore the notion of man–machine hybrid systems with regard to self-driving cars and conclude that the unit comprising the car and the operator/driver consists of such a hybrid system that can assume a shared responsibility different from the responsibility of other actors in the responsibility network. Discussing certain moral dilemma situations that are structured much like trolley cases, we deduce that as long as there is something like a driver in autonomous cars as part of the hybrid system, she will have to bear the responsibility for making the morally relevant decisions that are not covered by traffic rules.
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Hague, Euan, Michael J. Lorr, and Carolina Sternberg. Introduction. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040597.003.0001.
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On the evening of April 7, 2015, following a runoff election in which he received 56 percent of the votes cast, Rahm Emanuel won a second term as mayor of Chicago. The contest was much closer than many had expected, particularly as Emanuel’s predecessor, Richard M. Daley, routinely received around 70 percent support (on the first ballot) when achieving reelection. Yet because Emanuel had failed to get more than 50 percent of the vote in the first-round mayoral ballot on February 24, he was forced into the runoff against his second-place challenger, Cook County commissioner Jesus “Chuy” Garcia....