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Valentini, Alessandra. Agrippina Maggiore. Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-346-5.

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On October 18th of 33 AD, after five years of confinement on the island of Ventotene, Agrippina the Elder, Augstus’ niece, Germanicus Caesar’s wife, Caligula’s mother and Nero’s grandmother, died. At first she was a witness and then she assumed a leading role in the fight for the choice of the prince's heir, held up by a consistent group of supporters and animating the opposition in the Domus Augusta. In recent years scholars’ attention has been dedicated to the reconstruction of Augustus and Tiberius’ politics and to the organization of the groups animating the fight for the heir’s choice in

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McIntosh, Jonathan. The women’s international gamelan group at the Pondok Pekak. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199352227.003.0008.

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Balinese gamelan music stresses notions of unity, community and totality that are realized through the interaction of players and instruments. Traditionally considered a male activity, Balinese women now perform gamelan music in sacred and secular contexts. Moreover, the rise of mass tourism and an increase in the number of expatriates living in Bali now means that gamelan music has become an important site for ‘intercultural’ collective music-making. Nonetheless, little research exists concerning this emerging and significant facet of Balinese musical performance, with no studies examining in

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Holden, Claire, Eric F. Clarke, and Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey, eds. Practice in Context. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197571385.001.0001.

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Abstract Historical performance research is undergoing something of a transformation and is broadening out, with the work of different scholars beginning to intersect in new ways. This volume reflects this vibrant, diverse, and evolving field and offers new perspectives on directions that promise significant benefits for HIP research and performance. It addresses a diverse range of pressing and exciting topics in nineteenth-century historically informed practices, focusing on new kinds of research that move away from traditional treatise archaeology. These include multidisciplinary approaches,

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Fox, Alistair. A Māori Boy Contests the Old Patriarchal Order: Mahana (Lee Tamahori, 2016). Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474429443.003.0016.

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Based on a comparison with Witi Ihimaera’s novel Bulibasha, King of the Gypsies (1994), the source for the adaptation, this chapter discusses Lee Tamahori’s Mahana as further evidence of two tendencies apparent in coming-of-age films on Māori subjects: an increasing inclination to reconfigure indigenous stories through a process of generic standardization, especially involving genres characteristic of Hollywood, and a willingness to contest, with a view to reforming, certain attitudes and practices of traditional Māori culture –in particular, the patriarchal assumptions of male elders in the w

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Esteban-Salvador, Maria Luisa, ed. The International Conference on Multidisciplinary Per- pectives on Equality and Diversity in Sports (ICMPEDS). 14th to the 16th of july 2021 . Book of abstracts. Universidad de Zaragoza, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.26754/uz.978-84-18321-32-0.

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The International Conference on Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Equality and Diversity in Sports (ICMPEDS) is organized by GESPORT with the support of the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union from the 14th to the 16th of July 2021. The conference is an excellent forum for academics, researchers, practitioners, athletes, man- agers and professionals of federations, associations and sport organizations, and those other- wise involved in sport to share and exchange ideas in different areas of sport related equality worldwide. We will keep you informed by email and post the latest informatio

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Pearson, Roger. The Beauty of Baudelaire. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192843319.001.0001.

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This book offers the first comprehensive close reading in any language of the complete works of Charles Baudelaire (1821–67). Taking full account of his critical writings on literature and the fine arts, it provides fresh readings of Les Fleurs du Mal and Le Spleen de Paris. It situates these works within the context of nineteenth-century French literature and culture and reassesses Baudelaire’s reputation as the ‘father’ of modern poetry. Whereas he is traditionally considered to have rejected the public role of the writer as moralist, educator, and political leader and to have dedicated hims

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Pynn, Geoffrey. Contextualism in Epistemology. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935314.013.12.

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In epistemology, contextualism is the view that the truth-conditions of knowledge claims vary with the contexts in which those claims are made. This article surveys the main arguments for contextualism, describes a variety of different approaches to developing the view, and discusses how contextualism has been used to treat the problem of radical skepticism. Many different objections to contextualism have appeared since the view first achieved prominence. This article explores and responds to a range of objections to contextualism, focusing particularly those arising from aspects of the lingui

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Flanagin, Andrew, and Miriam J. Metzger. Digital Media and Perceptions of Source Credibility in Political Communication. Edited by Kate Kenski and Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199793471.013.65.

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The rich research heritage on source credibility is fundamentally linked to processes of political communication and the provision of political information. Networked digital technologies, however, have recently complicated the assessment of source credibility by modifying people’s ability to determine source expertise and trustworthiness, which are the foundations upon which credibility evaluations have traditionally rested. This chapter explores source credibility in online contexts by examining the credibility of digital versus traditional channels, the nature of political information conve

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Parry, Robin. Lamentations. William B. Eerdmans, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/bci-0089.

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Traditional scholarly commentaries aspire to open up biblical texts in the light of their ancient social and cultural contexts. In this commentary Robin Parry seeks to take the insights of such works seriously yet also move far beyond them by considering Lamentations within ever-expanding canonical and contemporary contexts. How do the words of Lamentations resonate when read in the context of Jeremiah? Or in the contexts of Isaiah 40–55, the New Testament, the history of Christian anti-Semitism, or the suffering of victims today? The question at the heart of this unusual engagement with the t

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Sutton, Katelin A., and Megan J. Oaten. Women’s Talk? Edited by Maryanne L. Fisher. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199376377.013.14.

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According to some feminist critiques, gossip is merely a form of women’s talk and thus an activity that men do not participate in. Yet gossip may be an ideal strategy for both men and women to engage in when involved in mate competition, allowing the individual to covertly damage a competitor’s reputation while simultaneously preserving his or her own. This chapter investigates the role of gossip in mate competition, considering the influence of variables including sex and attraction context on both the usage and success of a gossip-based competition strategy. Evidence shows that, although sex

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Sarfo, Janice Ewurama De-Whyte. The Reproductive Rite. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198722618.003.0031.

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The diversity of beliefs and perspectives concerning reproduction make it a complex experience with economic, social, religious, and cultural layers. This essay presents childlessness in the context of a matrilineal culture; the Ashanti culture of Ghana, West Africa. The other culture under comparative consideration is ancient Hebrew culture, as depicted within the Hebrew Bible. This essay proposes that in ancient contexts, and even in current traditional non-Western cultures, reproduction is primarily the rite of passage for women, and that the notion of women’s reproductive rights is chiefly

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Threat, Charissa J. “The Negro Nurse—A Citizen Fighting for Democracy”. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039201.003.0003.

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This chapter examines the efforts by black female nurses and white male nurses to claim a space for themselves in a profession that relegated them to the margins. It begins with a discussion of the founding of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses and the Army Nurse Corps (ANC), along with an overview of healthcare and home-front racial politics during World War II. It then turns to nurse shortages during World War I and World War II and proceeds by analyzing the World War II integration campaign by African American female nurses within the larger context of the civil rights move

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Gyönki, Viktória, Andrea Maraschi, Karoline Kjesrud, et al. Food Culture in Medieval Scandinavia. Amsterdam University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462988217.

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The making, eating, and sharing of food throughout society represents an important and exciting area of study with the potential to advance the field of scholarship, particularly in the context of Scandinavian Studies. This book analyses the historical, legal, and literary sources of the region during the medieval period to explore different aspects of Scandinavian culture relating to food and drink: production, consumption (including feasts), trading (distribution), and the associated social rituals. Using new and innovative approaches, this collection of studies offers broad insights into a

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Gyönki, Viktória, and Andrea Maraschi, eds. Food Culture in Medieval Scandinavia. Amsterdam University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9789048558865.

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The making, eating, and sharing of food throughout society represents an important and exciting area of study with the potential to advance the field of scholarship, particularly in the context of Scandinavian Studies. This book analyses the historical, legal, and literary sources of the region during the medieval period to explore different aspects of Scandinavian culture relating to food and drink: production, consumption (including feasts), trading (distribution), and the associated social rituals. Using new and innovative approaches, this collection of studies offers broad insights into a

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Domina, Lynn. Understanding Ceremony. Greenwood, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216029359.

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Since its publication in 1977, Leslie Marmon Silko'sCeremonyhas become one of the most frequently assigned and important literary works in the expanded canon. It has garnered praise and respect both as a masterpiece of American fiction and for its contributions to the growing field of Native American literature. This casebook helps readers appreciate the work for both its literary merit and for its exploration of important cultural and historical themes and topics. The initial chapter offers a fresh literary analysis of the novel, with discussion of character and thematic development. Four top

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Stone, Ken. Marriage and Sexual Relations in the World of the Hebrew Bible. Edited by Adrian Thatcher. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199664153.013.020.

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The Hebrew Bible is sometimes understood as the source of a ‘traditional’ Judaeo-Christian approach to marriage and sexual practice. A comprehensive examination reveals, however, that biblical assumptions about sex, gender, and kinship are complex and internally diverse. Some of these assumptions stand in tension with traditional Jewish and Christian norms for marriage and sexual activity. This essay reviews such matters as the biblical vocabulary for, and representations of, marital relations; the status of women in households organized around fathers; the role of polygyny; differing standard

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Dugan, John. Netting the Wolf-Fish. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198788201.003.0009.

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This chapter offers a close reading of a single oratorical fragment, a passage ascribed to the second-century BC orator C. Titius quoted by Macrobius (Sat. 3.16.15‒16). The chapter explores the range of contexts we can use as readers to try to make sense of the passage, suggesting that quotation practices can illuminate aspects of the quoted text we miss if we concentrate simply on the testimonia to Titius’ activity as an orator as traditionally understood. In this particular case, attention to Macrobius’ concern with luxury and consumption, and the emblematic wolf-fish, also points towards a

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Reed Baker, Matthew. 1970s Jazz Fusion. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798765119556.

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The once derided musical hybrid that is 1970s Jazz Fusion has since become one of the most influential genres of music in jazz, rock, soul, and hip-hop. The once derided musical hybrid that is 1970s Jazz Fusion has since become one of the most influential genres of music in jazz, rock, soul, and hip-hop. This book is a celebration of one of the most adventurous but unappreciated eras in popular music, wherein the traditional sounds of jazz were melded and mashed up with funk, soul, hard rock, and electronics. Even as they were accused of selling out and contaminating traditional jazz, artists

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Hüsken, Ute, ed. Laughter, Creativity, and Perseverance. Oxford University PressNew York, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197603727.001.0001.

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Abstract In most mainstream traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism, women have for centuries largely been excluded from positions of religious and ritual leadership. However, as this volume shows, in an increasing number of late-20th-century and early-21st-century contexts, women can and do undergo monastic and priestly education; they can receive ordination/initiation as Buddhist nuns or Hindu priestesses; and they are accepted as religious and political leaders. Even though these processes still largely take place outside or at the margins of traditional religious institutions, it is clear that

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HO, Lusina. Contract Formation in Hong Kong. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808114.003.0010.

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This chapter examines the law on contract formation in Hong Kong which is closely modelled on the English common law but adapts the English solutions to the local context if and when required. The test for ascertaining the parties’ meeting of the minds is objective, the agreement (an offer with a matching acceptance) must be certain, complete, and made with the intention to create legal relations—the latter being presumed to be present in a commercial context and absent in a familial or social context. Offers are freely revocable although the reliance of the offeree is protected in exceptional

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Vinyard, Marc W., and Jaimie Beth Colvin. Demystifying Scholarly Metrics. ABC-CLIO, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400639180.

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Demystifying Scholarly Metrics gives librarians and faculty the confidence to navigate the maze of scholarly metrics, identify quality journals in which to publish, and measure the impact of scholarly works.re the impact of scholarly works. Both librarians and professors can be overwhelmed by the bewildering number of scholarly metrics. This user-friendly book demystifies them, helping librarians become familiar with scholarly metrics and giving them the confidence to assist faculty at their institutions. It also equips faculty authors with the knowledge to evaluate journals and use metrics to

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Petrie, Malcolm. Introduction: Class, Radicalism and Democracy, 1918–1939. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474425612.003.0001.

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British politics was transformed by the extension and equalisation of the franchise after 1918: the electorate at the 1929 general election was four times the size it had been in 1910. Traditionally, this was seen as a development that aided the Labour Party. More recent studies have emphasised that there was no simple relationship between class and political allegiance. Less attention has, however, been accorded to the impact of the new franchise on political culture more broadly, and, since it fulfilled the central demand made by radicals for more than a century, on the political left in par

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Arisawa, Shino. Akiko Fujii. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037245.003.0002.

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This chapter focuses on Japanese singer Akiko Fujii. She was born into a prestigious musical family in the 1960s, having both a mother and grandmother who were renowned singers of jiuta, an inherited male-dominated vocal tradition. When Akiko was in her forties, her brother became the head of their mother's music school, forcing her towards major life decisions—including a career as a professional jiuta performer, rather than a teacher. Following a path of independence, passion, and inspiration, Akiko chose to break new ground by adapting her performance style to draw in audiences and create i

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Parker-Guilbert, Kelly S., Samantha J. Moshier, Brian P. Marx, and Terence M. Keane. Measures of PTSD Symptom Severity. Edited by Charles B. Nemeroff and Charles R. Marmar. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190259440.003.0003.

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Assessment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom severity serves a variety of important clinical and research purposes and may be able to more accurately represent the nature of posttraumatic stress when compared with traditional categorical diagnosis. Numerous measures that assess PTSD symptom severity are available and choosing measures with strong psychometric properties that meet one’s clinical or research needs is essential to accurate assessment. This task is made more complex by the recent update to the PTSD symptom criteria from DSM-IV-TR to DSM-5. This chapter discusses ava

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Fox, Pamela. Sexuality in Country Music. Edited by Travis D. Stimeling. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190248178.013.21.

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Abstract: This chapter surveys prior scholarly work on country music’s ostensibly conservative relationship to sexuality. It tracks how sexuality becomes linked to other identity markers in songs by artists such as Gretchen Wilson and k.d. lang, as country functions as not only a distinctly classed but also racialized, gendered, and regionalized genre traditionally associated with white working-class Southerners. It probes whether earlier and recent modes of white masculinity and femininity, might or might not be constituted in relationship to queerness and/or blackness. This overview also sug

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Thomas, Nancy, Sherry Crow, Judy Henning, and Jean Donham. Information Literacy and Information Skills Instruction. 4th ed. Libraries Unlimited, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400670084.

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Exploring the ways in which today's Internet-savvy young people view and use information to complete school assignments and make sense of everyday life, this new edition provides a review of the literature since 2010. The development of information literacy skills instruction can be traced from its basis in traditional reference services to its current growth as an instructional imperative for school librarians. Reviewing the scholarly research that supports best practices in the 21st-century school library, this book contains insights into improving instruction across content areas—drawn from

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Appleton, Naomi, ed. Narrative Visions and Visual Narratives in Indian Buddhism. Equinox Publishing Ltd., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/isbn.9781800501300.

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This volume explores the interaction between text and image in Indian Buddhist contexts, including not only the complex relationship between verbal stories and visual representations at Indian sites, but also the ways in which visual imagery is used within textual narratives. The chapters are authored by a mixture of textual scholars and art historians, bringing together different disciplinary perspectives in order to seek a richer understanding of how text and art relate, and of the role of narrative imagery in different media and contexts. The book opens with an introduction that explores wh

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Kolsdorf, Juliane, and Ulrich Müller, eds. Transforming International Cooperation. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783748908388.

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The world of international cooperation is in transition. Global power shifts and the rise of populism have made the world multipolar, but not necessarily more multilateral. The traditional North–South aid system is being called into question, while transnational challenges are affecting all countries and require stronger global partnerships. In this context, the graduation of countries from Official Development Assistance (ODA) stands out as a focal topic in connecting current debates. Facilitated by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), this publication sees exper

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Cumiskey, Kathleen M., and Larissa Hjorth. Transition and Letting Go. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190634971.003.0005.

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This chapter focuses on mobile-emotive rituals of transition and letting go. Traditional psychological trajectories of the grief process typically end with the concept of the letting go of the deceased or “lost object.” While this book engages with critiques related to this trajectory, this chapter will focus on the ways in which the concept of “letting go” functions in terms of users’ relationships with digital content. Drawing from fieldwork in the United States, this chapter will show the role that the purging—as well as preserving—of mobile media plays in the integration of loss into one’s

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Lukas, Scott A. Heritage as Remaking. Edited by Angela M. Labrador and Neil Asher Silberman. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190676315.013.10.

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This chapter argues for a new perspective on heritage, one that is informed by the contexts of remaking. Traditionally, heritage has referred to specific types of architectural, material, and cultural forms and processes that carry with them a sense of monumentality. This writing argues for a new sense of heritage that takes into account the dynamic processes of the contemporary world. A series of five heritage metaphors (and their replacement metaphors) is considered in terms of the main premises of heritage as a cultural and political process. These include the tree (rhizome), battery (Rube

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Mathieson, John. Techniques Using Slips. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781789942637.

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An essential guide to the techniques of making and using slips. In this book, explore the many techniques for making and using slips - liquid clay which can be used for decoration on its own or covered with glaze - such as brushing, dipping, trailing and sgraffito amongst others. You can also find out how to make up slips and use them at higher temperatures, both with and without glazes. As well as examples of techniques, discover what can be achieved with many images of beautiful finished pieces from contemporary potters, and find inspiration through illustrations of potters in action, showin

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Birenbaum Quintero, Michael. Rites, Rights and Rhythms. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199913923.001.0001.

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Colombia has the largest black population in the Spanish-speaking world, but Afro-Colombians have long remained at the nation’s margins. Their recent irruption into the political, social, and cultural spheres is tied to appeals to cultural difference, dramatized by the traditional music of Colombia’s majority-black Southern Pacific region, often called currulao. Yet that music remains largely unknown and unstudied despite its complexity, aesthetic appeal, and social importance. Rites, Rights & Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombia’s Black Pacific is the first book-length acad

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Railsback, Steven F., and Bret C. Harvey. Modeling Populations of Adaptive Individuals. Princeton University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691195285.001.0001.

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Ecologists now recognize that the dynamics of populations, communities, and ecosystems are strongly affected by adaptive individual behaviors. Yet until now, we have lacked effective and flexible methods for modeling such dynamics. Traditional ecological models become impractical with the inclusion of behavior, and the optimization approaches of behavioral ecology cannot be used when future conditions are unpredictable due to feedbacks from the behavior of other individuals. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to state- and prediction-based theory, or SPT, a powerful new approach t

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Evans, Jennifer V., Erica Fagen, and Meghan Lundrigan. Holocaust Memory in the Digital Mediascape. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474271806.

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This is a comprehensive study of Holocaust memory in the digital age of social media and an important examination of how social technology affects the way history is made and circulated online. Social media has become a place where memories of the Holocaust take shape through user-driven content shared in elaborately interconnected communication networks. Curated exhibits, documentaries and scholarly research, smartphone photos, short videos and online texts act as windows into the popular consciousness. They document how everyday people make sense of the crime of genocide, presenting unique c

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Driver, Ciaran, and Grahame Thompson. Corporate Governance and Why It Matters. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805274.003.0001.

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This chapter introduces the idea of governance and proceeds to a structured discussion of what corporate governance means and why it matters. The discussion is divided into three themes: the first deals with enterprise—long-run commitments that firms make in terms of investment and innovation; the second deals with complementary inputs, in particular labour and the commitment of employees; the final theme is politics, where the external effects of company actions are discussed in a context where governments increasingly withdraw from roles traditionally considered public responsibilities. Thes

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Drenthen, Martin. Environmental Hermeneutics and the Meaning of Nature. Edited by Stephen M. Gardiner and Allen Thompson. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199941339.013.15.

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Environmental hermeneutics is a relatively recent stance within environmental philosophy that built on the insights and theories from philosophical hermeneutics. Philosophical hermeneutics starts with the idea that humans are essentially interpretative beings that seek to understand meaning. Hermeneutics traditionally focuses on the understanding and interpretation of texts; environmental hermeneutics seeks to expand this scope to include environments and landscapes. The starting point is the idea that the world we inhabit is always already interpreted and infused with meanings, and that envir

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John, Lovell. Part II Institutions and Constitutional Change, B The Parliamentary System, Ch.9 Parliamentary Sovereignty in Canada. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780190664817.003.0009.

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Despite a federal division of powers and entrenched constitutional rights provisions, parliamentary sovereignty is accepted in Canada as a significant legal phenomenon. The traditional understanding inherited from Britain is that Parliament remains legally free at all times to make or change any legal rule that it wants. This chapter recounts the story of how that understanding has been adapted to the Canadian constitutional context. It also discusses Canadian experience with the problem of a Parliament binding its successors, including certain qualifications that are now brought to the uncomp

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Henderson, Harry. Nuclear Power. 2nd ed. ABC-CLIO, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400692383.

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Provides timely and up-to-date facts, context, perspectives, and tools to make informed decisions about nuclear energy. In the 21st century, nuclear power has been identified as a viable alternative to traditional energy sources to stem global climate change, and condemned as risky to human health and environmentally irresponsible. Do the advantages of nuclear energy outweigh the risks, especially in light of the meltdown at the Fukushima plant in 2011? This guide provides both a comprehensive overview of this critical and controversial technology, presenting reference tools that include impor

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Anderson, Graham. Greek and Roman Folklore. Greenwood, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400659270.

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The Greek and Roman world is often noted for the rationalism of a few outstanding thinkers. This book is about the traditional superstitions, beliefs, taboos, folk-remedies, ghost stories, and folk tales that haunted the rest. Along the way it considers such questions as, Do modern approaches help or hinder our attempts to see ancient superstition from the inside? Can we break down the barriers between folk tales and myths? Did it really matter whether a healing herb was picked by moonlight or not? Was there a Cinderella tale in the ancient world? The volume begins by asking how we can attempt

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Schloegl, Christian, and Julia Fischer. Causal Reasoning in Non-Human Animals. Edited by Michael R. Waldmann. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199399550.013.36.

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One goal of comparative cognitive studies is to achieve a better understanding of the selective pressures and constraints that play a role in cognitive evolution. This chapter focuses on the question of causal reasoning in animals, which has mainly been investigated in tool-using and large-brained species. Our survey reveals that numerous animal species appear to be sensitive to violations of causality and may even be tuned to attend to causally relevant features. This, in turn, may facilitate causal learning. The ability to draw logical conclusions and make causal deductions, however, seems t

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Friedlander, Jennifer. Real Deceptions. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190676124.001.0001.

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Through a study of recent trends within contemporary media and art, this book considers how political transformation might be facilitated from within the much maligned aesthetic category of realism. It challenges both the enduring position that the realist form tends to be complicit with ideological conservatism and the arguments traditionally made for how realism can, on occasion, play a politically transgressive role. In cases where it is appreciated for its disruptive potential, realism is assumed to have the ability to guide spectators toward previously unseen truths by lifting the veil of

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Yeomans, Christopher. Hegel’s Philosophy of Action. Edited by Dean Moyar. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199355228.013.22.

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Though Hegel has a strikingly pluralistic philosophy of action, he intends that philosophy to make good on a range of traditional commitments running from the necessity of alternate possibilities through the value of desire satisfaction to the centrality of goal-directedness. It is of course true that many of those possibilities, desires, and goals are essentially social and even collective, and that determining their nature is a public and often retrospective interpretive act. But that determination must also take its cue from the interpretive direction proposed with the act by the agent hers

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Heim, Maria. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190906658.003.0007.

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The conclusion recapitulates the main arguments of the book, describing the argument that the Buddha’s qualities and omniscience were considered essential for Buddhaghosa’s theory of scripture and commentarial practice. It also restates claims made throughout the book about the importance of context, noting that the distinction between contextual knowledge as given in the Suttanta and the Vinaya is to be contrasted with the more categorical and abstract teachings of the Abhidhamma. The Conclusion also notes the importance of studying traditional commentarial theories of text, genre, and exeges

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Baker, Frank W. Political Campaigns and Political Advertising. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400697869.

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Examining political campaigns and political advertising through the analytical lens of media literacy, this well-illustrated and timely handbook guides readers through the maze of blandishments and spin that is the hallmark of the modern political campaign. It dissects the persuasive strategies embedded in the political messages we encounter every day in the media and demonstrates the importance of critical thinking in evaluating media stories. Key concepts of media literacy are applied to political advertising in traditional media (newspapers, television, radio) and on the Internet, the new f

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Lindsay, Richard. Hollywood Biblical Epics. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400665899.

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This is the only book of its kind to explore biblical epics from an LGBT perspective, studying films from the silent era, to the postwar major studio era, to the present day. In spite of restrictive Hollywood censorship regulations, filmmakers throughout history have pushed the boundaries of sex and violence when making religious films. In this unrivaled text, author and educator Richard Lindsay analyzes the relationship between bible-based epics and "camp"—films with overwrought acting, casts of thousands, and exotic sexuality. Lindsay presents the ways in which camp style identifies films as

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Owen, Gareth, Sir Simon Wessely, and Sir Simon Wessely, eds. The mental state examination. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199661701.003.0004.

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The chapter outlines traditional categories used to capture the current condition of a patient’s state of mind such as appearance and behaviour, mood, speech, thought content, abnormal beliefs and experiences. It suggests questions to ask and how to organize the material. The chapter encourages a descriptive approach in which examples from the interview are recorded to help future reference and help other clinicians make judgements as to significance. Guidance is also given on examining the cognitive state and interpreting intelligence. Further advice is offered on examining the mental state i

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Farriss, Nancy. The Art of Persuasion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190884109.003.0011.

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Missionaries and their native co-authors incorporated traditional indigenous oratory into Christian sermons in order to persuade, as well as instruct, the Indian neophytes. An analysis of sermons and devotional literature in indigenous languages reveals many examples of the refined style of Mesoamerican ceremonial discourse, especially the most characteristic literary device of paired couplets, or difrasismos. A comparison is made between Renaissance European and Mesoamerican poetics as represented in Mixtec and Zapotec texts, with an emphasis on the miracle stories of Marian devotion and deat

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Zięba, Andrzej A. Niewiasty z pastorałami : portrety ksień klasztoru benedyktynek ormiańskich we Lwowie: historia, konteksty, konserwacja. Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12797/9788381386173.

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WOMEN WITH CROSIERS: PORTRAITS OF THE ABBESSES OF THE ARMENIAN BENEDICTINE MONASTERY IN LWÓW/LVIV: HISTORY, CONTEXTS, CONSERVATION There are two reasons why the history of the Armenian nunnery in Lwów in the Kingdom of Poland (now Lviv in Ukraine) are special. The first is the uniqueness of the forms of Armenian female monasticism, the second is the traditional role of women according to Armenian customs. Among Polish Armenians, in Kamieniec Podolski (Kamianets- Podilskyi), Jazłowiec (Yazlovets), and Lwów (Lviv), the idea of community organized by women was not easy to reconcile with the princ

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Kekes, John. Wisdom. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197514047.001.0001.

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This book develops and defends a humanistic conception of wisdom as a personal attitude that guides how we evaluate the possibilities and limits of life in the context in which we live. The attitude is formed of our beliefs, emotions, desires, evaluations, and experiences that make our inner life what it is. It is personal, pluralistic, and fallible. Its components differ from person to person and each may be mistaken. It is a wise attitude if it is based on a critical enough understanding of the reasons for and against its components; if its basic factual and evaluative assumptions are realis

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Stroud, Barry. The Epistemological Promise of Externalism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198809753.003.0004.

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This chapter discusses the promise of an ‘externalist’ or ‘anti-individualist’ account of the contents of the thoughts and beliefs that one must have even to be faced with the challenging problem associated with ‘externalist’ definitions of the concept of knowledge. It first considers the central problem for philosophy since the time of Socrates: to understand the role of sense-experience in human knowledge, and to see whether or how we can know what we do about the world on the basis of what we perceive to be so. It suggests that threatening reflections about sense perception start from the u

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