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Eknath, Eswaran. Meditation: Translate spiritual ideals into daily life. Jaico Pub. House, 2008.

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Ginneken, Jaap. Kurt Baschwitz. Amsterdam University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462986046.

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In this accessible, unique study of a forgotten but noteworthy figure, the author tells the story of the life of Kurt Baschwitz (1886—1968), a scholar who fled from the Nazis. He wrote six books, never translated into English, on four related themes: the press, propaganda, politics, and persecution. Baschwitz independently developed concepts that are now seen as key to communication science and social psychology, and the author places Baschwitz’s ideas in the wider context of his dramatic life and times.

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Recharge your career & your life: 5 best ideas and 95 activities that translate into success and renewal. Crisp Publications, 1990.

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Buckland, Warren, and Daniel Fairfax, eds. Conversations with Christian Metz. Amsterdam University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789089648259.

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From 1968 to 1991 the acclaimed film theorist Christian Metz wrote several remarkable books on film theory: Essais sur la signifi cation au cinéma, tome1 et 2; Langage et cinéma; Le signifiant imaginaire; and L’Enonciation impersonnelle. These books set the agenda of academic film studies during its formative period. Metz’s ideas were taken up, digested, refined,reinterpreted, criticized and sometimes dismissed, but rarely ignored. This volume collects and translates into English for the first time a series of interviews with Metz, who offers readable summaries,elaborations, and explanations o

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Nicolas, Malebranche. Treatise on Ethics (1684): translated and edited by Craig Walton (International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d'histoire des idées). Springer, 1992.

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Aristotle. The Metaphysics of Aristotle: Translated From the Greek With Copious Notes In Which the Pythagoric and Platonic Dogmas Respecting Numbers and Ideas ... on Nullities and Diverging Series, In. Franklin Classics, 2018.

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Kukułka-Wojtasik, Anna, ed. «Translatio» et Histoire des idées / «Translatio» and the History of Ideas. Peter Lang D, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/b14875.

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Kukułka-Wojtasik, Anna, ed. «Translatio» et Histoire des idées / «Translatio» and the History of Ideas. Peter Lang D, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/b14876.

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Warren, Mark E. Democracy. Edited by George Klosko. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199238804.003.0029.

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When compared to various forms of autocracy, monarchy, theocracy, oligarchy, and dictatorship, democracies are better at solving, routinizing, and institutionalizing basic problems of common social life and collective action. This article explores the historical origins of ideas that articulate and justify contemporary democratic theory and practice. First, it surveys the conceptual questions embedded in the concept of democracy inherited from the Greek, demokratia—literally, the power (kratos) of the people (demos), though commonly translated as rule of the people. Embedded in this concept of

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Cheung, Emily, and Maranatha Fung. The Hazards of Translating Wheaton’s Elements of International Law into Chinese. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199670055.003.0015.

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This chapter considers to what extent Henry Wheaton’s Elements of International Law was accurately translated into Chinese by WAP Martin in the 1860s. By conducting close textual analysis of selected translated words or phrases and exploring the impact of traditional Chinese culture and Chinese ways of thinking on the first ever attempt of translating a complete piece of Western international law literature into the Chinese language, we uncover the incommensurability of the Western and Chinese ideas of international order and a potential alternative or challenge to the traditional Western perc

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Wallace, Vesna A., ed. Sources of Mongolian Buddhism. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190900694.001.0001.

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This volume consists of twenty-four chapters containing a collection of selected original sources of Mongolian Buddhism, composed either in Tibetan or Mongolian language. This collection brings new material that has not yet been available in any of the European languages. Translated sources serve as a lens through which to examine Mongolian Buddhism in its variety of literary genres and styles and religious and cultural ideas and practices. Each chapter includes a translation of a shorter text or a selected section of a longer text, and each contributor also provides the introduction to a tran

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Wentzel, Arnold. Teaching Complex Ideas: How to Translate Your Expertise into Great Instruction. Routledge, 2019.

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Clément-Tarantino, Séverine, and Susanna Braund. The Aeneid and ‘Les Belles Lettres’. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198810810.003.0015.

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This chapter walks us backwards on the path of French prose translations of Virgil, from Paul Veyne to Jacques Perret. While Clément-Tarantino emphasizes that Veyne’s fluid and vivacious translation rekindled the interest of the French-reading public in Virgil, she also analyses the principles behind Perret’s translation of the Aeneid in the context of his book Latin et culture. In this work, which elaborates on the ?art of translation?, Perret considered attention to the philological and prosodic intricacies of the source text to be the main goal for the ‘ideal translator’; yet he decided to

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Cairney, Paul. Paul A. Sabatier, “An Advocacy Coalition Framework of Policy Change and the Role of Policy-Oriented Learning Therein”. Edited by Martin Lodge, Edward C. Page, and Steven J. Balla. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199646135.013.24.

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This chapter focuses on the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF), a highly influential approach to public policy that has been adopted in the United States and many other developed countries. The ACF first emerged in the 1990s, seeking to produce a general theory of policy-making based on the idea that people engage in politics to translate their beliefs, rather than their simple material interests, into action. In addition to representing an approach to the study of contemporary public policy, the ACF offers a set of ideas about how scientific enquiry should be conducted. The chapter examines h

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Wellings, Ben, and Shanti Sumartojo, eds. Commemorating Race and Empire in the First World War Centenary. Liverpool University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781786940889.001.0001.

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First World War commemoration in Europe has been framed as a moment of national trial and as a collective European tragedy. But the ‘Great War for Civilisation’ was more than just a European conflict. It was a global clash of empires that began a process of agitation against imperialism in Asia, Africa and beyond. Despite the global context of the Centenary, commemorative events remain framed by national and state imaginaries in which ideas about race and imperialism that animated and dominated men and women during the Great War sit uncomfortably with today’s official sensibilities. By employi

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Papy, Jan, ed. Justus Lipsius, Monita et exempla politica / Political Admonitions and Examples. Leuven University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.11116/9789461664204.

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In 17th-century intellectual life, the ideas of the Renaissance humanist Justus Lipsius (1547–1606) were omnipresent. The publication of his Politica in 1589 had made Lipsius’s name as an original and controversial political thinker. The sequel, the Monita et exempla politica (Admonitions), published in 1605, was meant as an illustration of Lipsius’s political thought as expounded in the Politica. Its aim was to offer concrete models of behavior for rulers against the background of Habsburg politics. Lipsius’s later political treatise also forms an indispensable key to interpret the place and

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Miller, Fred D. Platonic Freedom. Edited by David Schmidtz and Carmen E. Pavel. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199989423.013.34.

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Plato’s term eleutheria may be translated as “freedom” because it signifies the same triadic relation as the English term—freedom of an agent from impediments to a goal. While it is generally recognized that Plato rejects the democratic idea of personal freedom, it is often overlooked that he offers in its place an alternative, “aristocratic,” conception of freedom, originating in the moral psychology of Socrates and reflecting a popular view of freedom as opposed to slavery. In the Republic Plato describes aristocratic freedom as the rule of reason over the soul unimpeded by desires. In the L

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Hatzimichali, Myrto. Text and Wisdom in the Letter of Aristeas. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805663.003.0008.

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This chapter examines the Letter of Aristeas, a text that presents Jewish-Greek interaction in a number of arenas, including political power, pilgrimage and travel, material wealth, and everyday life, as well as literary heritage and religious/philosophical wisdom. It focuses on the last two aspects, tracing first how ideas from the Jewish religious tradition are combined with aspects of Greek philosophy and political thought in the ‘sympotic’ scenes where the Greek king receives advice from his wise visitors. It then argues that the measures taken for the preservation of the error-free accura

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Vu, Tuong, and Sean Fear, eds. The Republic of Vietnam, 1955-1975. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501745126.001.0001.

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Through the voices of senior officials, teachers, soldiers, journalists, and artists, this book presents us with an interpretation of “South Vietnam” as a passionately imagined nation in the minds of ordinary Vietnamese, rather than merely as an expeditious political construct of the United States government. The moving and honest memoirs collected, translated, and edited here describe the experiences of war, politics, and everyday life for people from many walks of life during the fraught years of Vietnam's Second Republic, leading up to and encompassing what Americans generally call the “Vie

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Morus, Iwan Rhys. Physics and Medicine. Edited by Jed Z. Buchwald and Robert Fox. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199696253.013.23.

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This article examines the relationship between physics and medicine during the nineteenth century, with particular emphasis on the ways that physics contributed to the practice of medicine. It begins with a background on Elements of Human Physiology, translated by Arthur Gamgee from the fifth edition of Ludimar Hermann’s Grundriss der Physiologie des Menschen. Both texts are particularly interesting and intriguing because of the language they used to describe exchanges of matter and energy in the human body. The article proceeds with a discussion of the problem of vitalism and its connection t

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Rhodes, Neil. Vulgar Italian and the Elizabethan Short Story. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198704102.003.0006.

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Early in the sixteenth century, Italy came to represent the cultural vanguard in Europe both in terms of new ideas and in offering a literary model of the vernacular. English visitors to Italy such as William Thomas and William Barker saw this in action at the Accademia Fiorentina where Giovanni Gelli lectured on Dante. The academy itself is a model for the principle of ‘vulgarization’ set out in the preface to Hoby's Courtier. This is put into practice in the first short-story collection in English, William Painter's Palace of Pleasure, which takes Boccaccio as its stylistic authority and in

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Majumdar, Sumit K. History and Background. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199641994.003.0003.

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The chapter summarizes details of political and institutional contexts for post-independence growth. India was severely impoverished in the period from 1900 to 1947, and per-capita growth rates were almost zero. Growth was ten times larger after independence, relative to before independence. Growth was conditioned by the institutional climate defining capitalism practiced in India. In the 1940s, the Second World War, the Quit India movement, the Bengal Famine, and the “Bombay Plan” were important growth-related contingencies. The background to policy making had been the Indian Industrial Commi

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Publishing, Translator. World's Greatest Translator: Lined Journal, 120 Pages, 6 X 9, Funny Translator Notebook Gift Idea, Black Matte Finish. Independently Published, 2020.

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Publishing, Translator. Best Translator Ever: Lined Journal, 120 Pages, 6 X 9, Funny Translator Notebook Gift Idea, Black Matte Finish. Independently Published, 2019.

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Holper, Anne, and Lars Kirchhoff, eds. Friedensmediation. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783845295749.

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This volume is dedicated to the field of peace mediation, which has developed fast and rapidly become specialised and professionalised in recent decades, both internationally and in Germany. In bringing together the history, status quo and perspectives on future developments in this field, the volume has three special features: It combines a critical academic and a practical assessment of actual political developments. It offers a selection of the ‘Fact Sheets on Peace Mediation’, which were compiled jointly by the Federal Foreign Office and the Initiative Mediation Support Deutschland (IMSD).

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Holper, Anne, and Lars Kirchhoff, eds. Peace Mediation in Germany’s Foreign Policy. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783748926160.

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This volume is dedicated to the field of peace mediation, which has rapidly developed and become profes-sionalised in recent decades, both internationally and in Germany. In bringing together the history and status quo of the field plus the prospects for its future development, the volume has three special features: It combines a critical theoretical and a practical assessment of recent and ongoing political developments. It offers a selection of the ‘Fact Sheets on Peace Mediation’, which have been elaborated by the Federal Foreign Office in cooperation with the Initiative Mediation Support D

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Isett, Philip. Introduction. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691174822.003.101.003.0001.

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In the paper [DLS13], De Lellis and Székelyhidi introduce a method for constructing periodic weak solutions to the incompressible Euler equations{∂tv+div v⊗v+∇p=0 div v=0in three spatial dimensions that are continuous but do not conserve energy. The motivation for constructing such solutions comes from a conjecture of Lars Onsager [Ons49] on the theory of turbulence in an ideal fluid. In the modern language of PDE, Onsager's conjecture can be translated as follows....

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Hinton, Alexander Laban. Disposition (Youk Chhang, Documenter and Survivor). Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198820949.003.0013.

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Beginning with an interview with Youk Chhang, the head of the Documentation Center of Cambodia, the chapter explores his path to the non-governmental organization and the projects it undertook, including Khmer Rouge Tribunal outreach. The second half of the chapter looks at how the play “Breaking the Silence” emerged from these efforts. A collaboration from the start, the play on the surface reflects the aspirations of the transitional justice imaginary, as illustrated by the title. Chhang, however, pointed out that this title made little sense in Khmer and therefore that his staff simply refe

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Cook, David. The Boko Haram Reader. Edited by Abdulbasit Kassim and Michael Nwankpa. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190908300.001.0001.

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Since it erupted onto the world stage in 2009, people have asked, what is Boko Haram, and what does it stand for? Is there a coherent vision or set of beliefs behind it? Despite the growing literature about the group, few if any attempts have been made to answer these questions, even though Boko Haram is but the latest in a long line of millenarian Muslim reform groups to emerge in Northern Nigeria over the last two centuries. The Boko Haram Reader offers an unprecedented collection of essential texts, documents, videos, audio, and nashids (martial hymns), translated into English from Hausa, A

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Pohlenz, M. Freedom in Greek Life and Thought: The History of an Ideal. Translated from the German by C. Lofmark. Springer, 2014.

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Anter, Andreas, ed. Die normative Kraft des Faktischen. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783748900481.

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Georg Jellinek was the most important representative of constitutional theory of his time. Up to now, his conceptions have been discussed in international state theory. Whether a two-sided theory, a three-element doctrine or a four-status doctrine—Jellinek imposed himself on the history of constitutional theory with concise numerical formulas. For a long time, his concept of the ‘normative force of the factual’ has been part of the fixed vocabulary of constitutional and political theory. Celebrated as a masterpiece on its publication, his opus magnum ‘Allgemeine Staatslehre’ was quickly transl

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Creswell, Robyn. City of Beginnings. Princeton University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691182186.001.0001.

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This book is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during the 1950s and became the most influential and controversial Arabic literary development of the twentieth century. The book introduces English-language readers to a poetic movement that will be uncannily familiar—and unsettlingly strange. It provides an intellectual history of Lebanon during the early Cold War, when Beirut became both a battleground for rival ideologies and the most vital artistic site in the Middle East. Arabic modernism was centered on the legendary magazine Shi'r (“Poetry”), w

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Levy, Benjamin R. Apparitions and Atmosphères (1958–61). Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199381999.003.0004.

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This chapter examines Ligeti’s breakthrough orchestral works Apparitions and Atmosphères. These successful compositions translate some of the ideas developed in the electronic music studio into orchestral writing, in particular, techniques for organizing rhythm and for handling sound masses to create a static surface with a sense of internal motion. In interviews Ligeti claimed to have attempted to move in this direction while still in Hungary with the unfinished pieces Víziók and Sötét és Világos. A comparison of the extant sketches for these works shows the degree to which his experiences in

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Norris, Pippa. Electoral Transparency, Accountability, and Integrity. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190677800.003.0011.

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This concluding chapter looks at the links connecting transparency, accountability, and compliance. In particular, it considers an ideal model of electoral accountability. Yet it is unclear whether dissatisfaction with the conduct of elections translates into voting preferences at the ballot box, and there are many conditions under which this ideal model fails, even in democratic states. To illuminate, the chapter compares some selected case studies, including Watergate in the United States, the Fujimori scandal and the Peruvian general election in 2000, and the Recruit scandal and Japanese el

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Kellner, Menachem. Dogma in Medieval Jewish Thought. Liverpool University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781904113218.001.0001.

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This is a book on history of ideas which traces the development of creed formation in Judaism from its inception with Moses Maimonides (1138–1204) to the beginning of the sixteenth century when systematic attention to the problem disappeared from the agenda of Jewish intellectuals. The dogmatic systems of Maimonides, Duran, Crescas, Albo, Bibago, Abravanel, and a dozen lesser-known figures are described, analysed, and compared. Relevant texts are presented in English translation. For the most part these are texts which have never been critically edited and translated before. Among the theses d

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Publishing, Translator ST. I'm a Good Translator I Just Cuss a Lot: Floral Translator Funny Gag Notebook Gift Idea for Women Mom Sister Sweary Translator Notebook Gift Journal for Quotes Cute 6x9 Blank Lined Notebook for Notes. Independently Published, 2020.

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Publishing, Translator ST. Future Translator: Diamond Crystal Translator Student Notebook Gift Idea for Women Girl Graduation Student Journal for Quotes Cute 6x9 Blank Ruled Matte Notebook for Notes Journaling. Independently Published, 2020.

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Thomas, Richard F. Domesticating Aesthetic Effects. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198810810.003.0017.

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Domestication of ancient epics appears to be a focal theme in recent translation studies. This chapter explores a specific aspect of this theme by focusing on the domestication of aesthetic, linguistic, and metre-specific effects. Thomas raises the question of whether or not it is possible to translate language-specific idioms into the target language without losing the poignancy of the source text; and his discussion provides copious examples drawn from English translations of Virgil’s works. By juxtaposing and evaluating different translations of the same highly marked passages of Virgil, he

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Waters, Mike. Hunting and the Seventeenth-Century English Gentleman. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789017.003.0012.

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This chapter discusses Christopher Wase’s edition of Grattius with the first ever English translation (1654). It traces the turbulent life of Wase and shows how his personal, academic, and professional circumstances converged to make Grattius an ideal subject of study and dissemination: it provides an apolitical scholarly project to secure a return to academic life; its difficulty to read and translate into rhymed verse showcases Wase’s literary talent; the theme of hunting is aimed at pleasing Wase’s noble employer, whose family had a long tradition of hunting and breeding dogs; and it does n

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Lloyd, Howell A. Getting and Spending. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198800149.003.0005.

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An assessment of Bodin’s financial prospects as a writer and career prospects as an avocat and administrator leads to an account of practical and ethical considerations informing contemporary understanding of the nature and functions of money. This introduces a critical examination of the basis and validity of Bodin’s contribution in his debate with the Seigneur de Malestroit over the question of the reality or otherwise of price inflation in France An assessment of his work as a translator in the course of diplomatic exchanges concerning Henry III’s candidature for the Polish crown leads to c

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Miller, Toby. The Art of Waste. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039362.003.0006.

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This chapter addresses macrolevel environmental and resource questions that underpin the critical study of media infrastructures. It examines the “art of waste” and brings a discussion of e-waste. Electronic or e-waste artists use the freedom of art to demand secure labor and a sustainable environment. They translate scientific and activist ideas and found or invented materials, encouraging people to think of the imminent, not just the past and present. This engages popular culture in an avant-garde way that can feed back into the everyday and in turn be made sense of by public-interest interm

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Furst, Eric M., and Todd M. Squires. Laser tweezer microrheology. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199655205.003.0009.

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To many, the idea that light can be used to hold and manipulate matter is probably quite foreign. The photon is a seemingly evanescent particle; its interactions with matter are weak. But while it has no rest mass, a photon carries momentum. Optical traps have become important tools used to measure forces on nanometer to micrometer length scale. Laser tweezers can be used to drive (or hold) microrheological probes. Optical trapping forces are reviewed and optical trap designs discussed, incluing the use of fixed and moving reference frame optical traps. Proper calibration of optical traps espe

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Herman, David. Animal Minds across Discourse Domains. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190850401.003.0007.

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This chapter uses a variety of example narratives to consider how cultures’ ways of orienting to animals (i.e., cultural ontologies) translate into, and depend for their support on, constellations of “discourse domains.” This technical term refers to the arenas of conduct in which strategies for negotiating self-other relationships—including human-animal relationships—take shape. At issue are frameworks for activity that determine what kinds of subjective experiences it is appropriate and warranted to attribute to others, nonhuman as well as human. The chapter draws on these ideas to reframe d

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Zwicker, Steven N. Royalist Romance? Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199580033.003.0015.

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This chapter considers how English-language and translated romances might have been valued during the seventeenth century. It asks whether these romances were thought of as mere trifles for female leisure and luxury or as allegories coded to flatter and console defeated royalists. The chapter also considers whether these fictions are intent on displaying the private and public dilemmas, obligations, and ideals shared across the many divisions and regimes of loyalty and over the years of civil war, political experiment, and Restoration. It is also possible that more than one of these reasons ma

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Clark, David. Epilogue: Making Sense of Cicely Saunders. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190637934.003.0008.

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Cicely Saunders married late in life and had no children. Her closest personal relationships were complicated. Her steely look and assured manner masked years of vulnerability, poor self-image, and struggles with her femininity. She was an unlikely pioneer of an improbable movement. Stripping away the hagiography, there is no doubt that Cicely shaped a new field of medicine which was gaining significant ground by the time of her death, and one which made further progress in the decade following it. A whole generation of palliative-care professionals was trained at St Christopher’s, many of who

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Preston, Katherine K. English-Language Opera at the End of the Century. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199371655.003.0008.

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This chapter addresses operatic activity in the 1890s—in particular, an insatiable public appetite for comic opera and operetta that eventually eclipsed interest in the translated continental repertory. After close inspection of representative English grand opera and light opera companies, the author concludes with a discussion of two ensembles that enjoyed extraordinary success in the late 1890s: the Bostonians (formerly the Boston Ideals) and the Castle Square Opera Company. In the face of changing American tastes at the turn of the century, the old-fashioned Bostonians eventually failed whi

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Targoff, Ramie. Passion. Edited by James Simpson and Brian Cummings. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199212484.013.0032.

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During the Renaissance, erotic love emerged as a favorite theme of Italian intellectuals. From the Neoplatonic treatises of Marsilio Ficino and Pico della Mirandola, to the works of Petrarch and Dante, the paintings of Botticelli and Raphael, thetrattati d’amore(treatises of love) by Pietro Bembo and Leone Ebreo, the learned commentaries on the sonnets of Michelangelo and Lorenzo de Medici, or the medical writings on lovesickness, Italy’s obsession with the subject of love was evident. Italian poets such as Dante were particularly preoccupied with the female beloved, whom they typically ideali

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Feinsod, Harris. Renga and Heteronymy. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190682002.003.0007.

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This chapter uses the backdrop of the myriad international poetry conferences of the 1960s to analyze poetic performances of cosmopolitanism and the discourse of translation. The ethical role of convening poets to perform and translate one another’s works was mainstreamed as a literary idea in service to the maintenance of a peaceful world, so much so that Paz, in the multilingual, collaboratively authored Renga (1971), announced he was living in “the century of translation.” Juxtaposing Renga and Kenneth Koch’s collection of hoax translations “Some South American Poets,” the chapter elucidate

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Endres, Nikolai. From Eros to Romosexuality. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789260.003.0015.

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In his famous courtroom definition of ‘the love that dare not speak its name’, Wilde pays tribute to Plato and ‘that deep, spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect’. But how does Wilde translate Platonic love into his works, especially The Picture of Dorian Gray, where erotic purity and perfection seem hard to find? Plato is a crucial influence, but this chapter suggests we should also turn to Roman sexual models, for two pivotal texts that Dorian reads are Petronius’ Satyricon and Suetonius’ Lives of the Caesars. What emerges is an idea of love and sex that destabilizes the catego

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Bross, Kristina. “A Universall Monarchy”. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190665135.003.0002.

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Chapter 1 analyzes a mid-seventeenth-century pamphlet exchange that suggests how global fantasies infuse writings that on their surface seem little interested in situating England on a world stage. In 1651, William Lilly, the “Christian astrologer,” responded to a Royalist Presbyterian’s pamphlet attack on the Parliamentarian cause. The two authors debated events of their time by exchanging prophecies that depended on the twinned notions of a Christian millennialism in which Christ would become a “universall monarch” over the whole world and of translatio imperii, fidei, and scientiae, the mov

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