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Kanasaka, Kiyonori. Isabella Bird and Japan. Translated by Nicholas Pertwee. Amsterdam University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9781898823513.
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This book places Bird's visit to Japan in the context of her worldwide life of travel and gives an introduction to the woman herself. Supported by detailed maps, it also offers a highly illuminating view of Japan and its people in the early years of the 'New Japan' following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, as well as providing a valuable new critique on what is often considered as Bird's most important work. The central focus of the book is a detailed exploration of Bird's journeys and the careful planning that went into them with the support of the British Minister, Sir Harry Parkes, seen as the prime mover, who facilitated her extensive travels through his negotiations with the Japanese authorities. Furthermore, the author dismisses the widely-held notion that Bird ventured into the field on her own, revealing instead the crucial part played by Ito, her young servant-interpreter, without whose constant presence she would have achieved nothing. Written by Japan's leading scholar on Isabella Bird, the book also addresses the vexed question of the hitherto universally-held view that her travels in Japan in 1878 only involved the northern part of Honshu and Hokkaido. This mistaken impression, the author argues, derives from the fact that the abridged editions of Unbeaten Tracks in Japan that appeared after the 1880 two-volume original work entirely omit her visit to the Kansai, which took in Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe and the Ise Shrines. Bird herself tells us that she wrote her book in the form of letters to her sister Henrietta but here the author proposes the intriguing theory that these letters were never actually sent. Many well-known figures, Japanese and foreign, are introduced as having influenced Bird's journey indirectly, and this forms a fascinating sub-text.
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Korolev, Anton, Nadezhda Baranova, Elena Koroleva, Raisa Tamarova, and Dmitriy Nekrasov. Improvement of Kostroma breed cattle with the use of domestic and imported breeding bulls. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1900632.
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The Kostroma breed of cattle of dairy and meat productivity is a valuable gene pool of domestic animal husbandry. Animals of this breed have high milk yields, good meat and reproductive qualities, easily adapt to intensive technologies and are characterized by resistance to tuberculosis, leukemia and brucellosis. The use of the gene pool of brown Swiss cattle of imported origin (USA, Canada, Austria) has a great influence on improving the competitiveness of the Kostroma breed. At the same time, when breeding Kostroma cattle, it is important not only to enrich heredity by using the gene pool of brown Swiss cattle of foreign breeding, but also to preserve its valuable qualities.
 The monograph presents the history of the creation, characteristics of the modern breeding base of Kostroma cattle in the Kostroma region, the influence of bulls of different breeding on the economically useful qualities of cattle is noted. The analysis of custom-made mating in obtaining successor bulls and optimization of the genealogical structure of the herd, the economic efficiency of using breeding bulls of various origins (Russia, USA, Canada, Austria) are given.
 It is intended for researchers, specialists of the breeding service, animal breeders of breeding farms, teachers and students of biological and agricultural areas of training and specialties of universities.
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Nobuaki, Teraki, and Kurokawa Midori. A History of Discriminated Buraku Communities in Japan. Translated by Ian Neary. Amsterdam University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9781898823964.
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At the heart of modern Japan there remains an intractable and divisive social problem with its roots in pre-history, namely the ongoing social discrimination against the D?wa communities, otherwise known as Buraku. Their marginalization and isolation within society as a whole remains a veiled yet contested issue. Buraku studies, once largely ignored within Japan’s academia and by scholarly publishers, have developed considerably in the first decades of the twenty-first century, as the extensive bibliographies of both Japanese and English sources provided here clearly demonstrates. The authors of the present study published in Japanese in 2016 and translated here by the Oxford scholar Ian Neary, have been able to incorporate this most recent data. Because of its importance as the first Buraku history based on this new research, a wider readership was always the authors’ principal focus. Yet, it also provides a valuable source book for further study by those wishing to develop their knowledge about the subject from an informed base. This history of the Buraku communities and their antecedents is the first such study to be published in English.
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The Herb Doctor and Medicine Man - A Collection of Valuable Medicinal Formulae and Guide to the Manufacture of Botanical Medicines - Illinois Herbs for Health. Lammers Press, 2012.
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Herb Doctor and Medicine Man: A Collection of Valuable Medicinal Formulae and Guide to the Manufacture of Botanical Medicines. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2021.
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Day, Christopher. Miscellany of Medicinal Herbs in Verse: Short Poems about Valuable Herbs. Lulu Press, Inc., 2015.
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Chambers, Roger, and A. R. Harding. Ginseng and Other Medicinal Plants: Valuable Information for the Grower and Collector of Medicinal Herbs. Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016.
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Suzuki, Beatrice Lane. Buddhist Temples of Kyōto and Kamakura. Edited by Michael Pye. Equinox Publishing, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/isbn.9781845539207.
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Beatrice Lane Suzuki (1878-1939) was an extremely well informed and sensitive expositor of Mahāyāna Buddhism. As the American wife of the influential Zen Buddhist Suzuki Daisetsu, she lived in Japan for many years, becoming very familiar with the leading temples of various Buddhist schools—especially in Kyōto and Kamakura. Buddhist Temples of Kyōto and Kamakura brings together some of her writings from The Eastern Buddhist. The collection preserves valuable information from Suzuki’s own times and the charm of her personal discovery of the temples described here. Further information is also provided to place them in their current context. The volume will be of interest to scholars of Japanese Buddhism and to the many travelers to these sites today.
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Podsakoff, Philip M., Scott B. Mackenzie, and Nathan P. Podsakoff. Research on Organizational Citizenship Behavior: Where Do We Go From Here? Edited by Philip M. Podsakoff, Scott B. Mackenzie, and Nathan P. Podsakoff. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190219000.013.41.
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The purpose of this chapter is to highlight some of the most valuable suggestions for future organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) research made by the authors of this handbook. It is organized by section, beginning with future research issues related to the conceptual nature of OCB. Following this, we examine new directions for research on the consequences and antecedents of OCB. Next, we highlight promising ideas related to the mediating mechanisms and boundary conditions of the antecedents and consequences of OCBs that could be investigated in future research. Finally, we call attention to several methodological issues and problems that have implications for future research.
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De Landtsheer, Jeanine. In Pursuit of the Muses. The Life and Work of Justus Lipsius. Edited by Marijke Crab and Ide François. LYSA, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.54179/21.01.
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Famed for his ground-breaking philological, philosophical, and antiquarian writings, the Brabant humanist Justus Lipsius (1547-1606) was one of the most renowned classical scholars of the sixteenth century. In this volume, Marijke Crab and Ide François bring together the seminal contributions to Lipsius’s life and scholarship by Jeanine De Landtsheer (1954-2021), who came to be known as one of the greatest Lipsius specialists of her generation. In Pursuit of the Muses considers Lipsius from two complementary angles. The first half presents De Landtsheer’s evocative life of the famous humanist, based on her unrivalled knowledge of his correspondence. Originally published in Dutch, it appears here in English translation for the first time. The second half presents a selection of eight articles by De Landtsheer that together chart a way through Lipsius’s scholarship. This twofold approach offers the reader a valuable insight into Lipsius’s life and work, creating an indispensable reference guide not only to Lipsius himself, but also to the wider humanist world of letters.
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De Landtsheer, Jeanine. In Pursuit of the Muses. The Life and Work of Justus Lipsius. Edited by Marijke Crab and Ide François. LYSA, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.54179/2101.
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Famed for his ground-breaking philological, philosophical, and antiquarian writings, the Brabant humanist Justus Lipsius (1547-1606) was one of the most renowned classical scholars of the sixteenth century. In this volume, Marijke Crab and Ide François bring together the seminal contributions to Lipsius’s life and scholarship by Jeanine De Landtsheer (1954-2021), who came to be known as one of the greatest Lipsius specialists of her generation. In Pursuit of the Muses considers Lipsius from two complementary angles. The first half presents De Landtsheer’s evocative life of the famous humanist, based on her unrivalled knowledge of his correspondence. Originally published in Dutch, it appears here in English translation for the first time. The second half presents a selection of eight articles by De Landtsheer that together chart a way through Lipsius’s scholarship. This twofold approach offers the reader a valuable insight into Lipsius’s life and work, creating an indispensable reference guide not only to Lipsius himself, but also to the wider humanist world of letters.
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Somorble, M. Collecting and Growing Herbs Log Book: Planner for Those Who Love to Growing and Care for Herbs. Log Book Equipped with a Place to Write down Valuable Plant Finds. Independently Published, 2020.
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Thomason, Krista K. Ajax Redeemed. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190843274.003.0005.
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This chapter argues that shame is a morally valuable emotion, but not in the traditional sense. It argues for a constitutive view of the moral value of shame. Determining an emotion’s moral value involves examining the role it plays in moral psychology rather than the circumstances under which it is permissible to feel. A liability to shame is constitutive of our recognition of other moral points of view and of a wider sense of self. This chapter shows that a liability to shame is morally valuable because it shows that we do not take our self-conception as the final authority on the kinds of people we are. We can see this by examining what is wrong with shamelessness. The shameless person takes her own self-conception to be the final and only authority in her self-estimation.
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Newborn and Infant Nutrition: A Clinical Decision Support Chart. 2nd ed. American Academy of Pediatrics, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1542/9781610027946.
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Significantly revised and expanded, the second edition provides valuable point-of care decision support tools for nutrition of newborns and infants, based on AAP policy. This chart includes practical recommendations and reference materials from AAP policy and key federal guidelines are collected here for easy reference in an enlarged, expanded, colorized format. Available for purchase at https://www.aap.org/Newborn-and-Infant-Nutrition-A-Clinical-Decision-Support-Chart-2nd-Edition
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Diamant, Lincoln. Revolutionary Women in the War for American Independence. Praeger, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216008545.
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This modern, annotated adaptation of the original three-volume edition ofWomen of the American Revolutionby Elizabeth Ellet restores, in a single volume, a unique compilation of the roles played by eighty-four American women in the Revolutionary War. A best-seller in the 1850s, Ellet's work is here carefully edited for today's readers by a distinguished Revolutionary War historian. It contains a new introduction and many explanatory footnotes. A new organization arranges these biographies from north to south by colony, underlining the vast differences in class and culture among the various states. While not America's earliest female historian, Elizabeth Ellet may easily lay claim to being America's first historian of women. Before publication of her books, readers had come close to losing track of the important role played by women in the War for Independence. Ellet preserved these valuable stories through reliance, whenever possible, on first-person accounts which are still as fresh and compelling today as they were in the nineteenth century. A vivid and comprehensive account which will be of interest to both military historians and scholars of women's history.
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Lenman, James. The Primacy of the Passions. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786054.003.0015.
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Value is not perceived as the empirical world is but is constituted by the order and structure reflection and deliberation impose upon desires—the passions in our souls—that furnish the basic currency of evaluative and normative thought. Perception, like our other cognitive resources, is nonetheless shaped and informed by our passions as they in turn shape and inform it. Evaluative reason and justification is driven by our passions and ultimately grounded in them. While locally we generally desire things because they are valuable, globally, in the last analysis, they are valuable because we (at our best) desire them. Here the role of desire is grounding and global but it is still not Archimedean: it is not a matter of raw, brute desire but of evaluation informed by all the substantive ideals from which the whole complex web of our evaluative and normative thought itself is woven.
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Smyth, J. E. Madam President. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190840822.003.0005.
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Mary C. McCall Jr. was the Screen Writers Guild’s most valuable asset from its earliest days through the blacklist. Eventually, she would publicly sacrifice her career in Hollywood defending the basic right of screen credit against a new breed of politically repressive producers. But, like her most famous creation, Maisie Ravier, McCall did not give up on herself or her show business industry. Sadly, over the years, the guild and historians of Hollywood have denied her the screen credit she deserves. She was one of the most politically active and powerful of all Hollywood writers, and yet is one of the least discussed in scholarly accounts of the film industry. Though much of the scholarship on studio-era Hollywood screenwriters has focused on the men who led the Hollywood Left, during the studio era, McCall wielded more power than any Hollywood woman before or since. This is her story.
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Grolman, Ellen G. Emma Lou Diemer. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400645204.
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Emma Lou Diemer--a composer who successfully combines a classicist's interest in form with a fresh, contemporary, harmonic vocabulary--has produced a diverse, sophisticated, and largely unheralded opus, including 350 works composed for orchestra, symphonic band, chamber ensemble, keyboard, chorus, voices, and solo and electronic instruments. This complete guide to her extensive work examines her influences and her unique musical style, reveals her philosophy of composing, and offers the reader access to detailed information about her work. Though her organ psalm settings and hymn preludes are considered standard repertoire, as are a number of her choral compositions, Diemer has not received her due attention or acclaim-an oversight fully corrected by this valuable addition to music scholarship. Beginning with a brief biography that outlines Diemer's life and art, this thoroughly cross-referenced book goes on to enumerate the composer's many works and performances in a section divided by style and instrument. A complete discography and bibliography round out the volume, along with alphabetical, chronological, and genre-specific indexes.
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Fontenot, Wonda L. Secret Doctors. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216012290.
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Based on an ethnographic study of the traditional medicine of African Americans in the rural southern United States, this work concentrates on the original Louisiana Territory, with its Native and African American indigenous traditions, and the French migration and Black Haitian freed and enslaved population influx during the 1700s and 1800s. Fontenot finds strong ties between rural Louisiana practices and Haitian and West African medicine. The ethnographer, a native of the region where she did her research, is respected among local practicing secret doctors and is able to give a unique insider's view. Aside from documenting a rare treasure of our American cultural diversity, this study has a wider purpose in the field of health practices and policy. The high cost of Western medicine, lack of access to quality care, and the patient-doctor ratio are areas of major national concern, and rural residents and people of color are recognized to be the most at-risk populations. The alternative health-care system presented here can strengthen mainstream medicine's understanding of such patient populations while preserving valuable knowledge of healing plants and culturally sensitive therapies.
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van Schalkwyk, François, Stefaan G. Verhulst, Gustavo J. Magalhães, Juan Pane, and Johanna Walker. The Social Dynamics of Open Data. African Minds, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.47622/978-1-928331-56-8.
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The Social Dynamics of Open Data is a collection of peer reviewed papers presented at the 2nd Open Data Research Symposium (ODRS) held in Madrid, Spain, on 5 October 2016. Research is critical to developing a more rigorous and fine-combed analysis not only of why open data is valuable, but how it is valuable and under what specific conditions. The objective of the Open Data Research Symposium and the subsequent collection of chapters published here is to build such a stronger evidence base. This base is essential to understanding what open datas impacts have been to date, and how positive impacts can be enabled and amplified. Consequently, common to the majority of chapters in this collection is the attempt by the authors to draw on existing scientific theories, and to apply them to open data to better explain the socially embedded dynamics that account for open datas successes and failures in contributing to a more equitable and just society.
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Webber, Jonathan. The Imperative of Authenticity. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198735908.003.0010.
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This chapter articulates Simone de Beauvoir’s argument for a categorical imperative of authenticity, presented across her short book Pyrrhus and Cineas and so far overlooked in existential and moral philosophy. The argument aims to derive this imperative from the very structure of human being itself. It begins from a premise that, according to existentialism, everyone must accept. This is the premise that some ends are valuable. It aims to derive from this, by a sequence of logical entailments, the conclusion that the structure of human agency is objectively valuable. If we must accept the opening premise and if the logical reasoning is sound, then it is imperative that we accept the conclusion. If successful, this argument establishes a categorical imperative that both grounds moral constraints on behaviour and establishes that our enterprises within those constraints are not absurd.
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Pauleen, David, ed. Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Knowledge Management. Libraries Unlimited, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400634512.
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Knowledge, as intellectual capital in organizations, is one of the most valuable resources in the global economy; yet knowledge management research has been largely contained both within organizational boundaries and from the perspective of the West (in particular the United States). Here, the views of a diverse range of well-known academic researchers, industry leaders, and public policy experts have been brought together to show how knowledge and knowledge management perspectives vary across different cultures, in different contexts, using different processes for different purposes.
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Theunissen, L. Nandi. The Value of Humanity. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198832645.001.0001.
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In this book Nandi Theunissen develops a non-Kantian account of the value of humanity. Against the Kantian tradition, in which humanity is absolutely valuable and unlike the value of anything else, Theunissen develops a relational proposal according to which the value of human beings is continuous with the value of other valuable things. The book takes the Socratic starting point that good is affecting, or in other words, that good is a notion of benefit. If people are bearers of value, the proposal is that our value is no exception. Theunissen explores the possibility that our value is explained through reciprocal relations, or relations of interdependence, as when—as daughters, or teachers, or friends—we benefit others by being part or constitutive of relationships with them. She also investigates the possibility that we can be said to stand in a valuable relationship with ourselves. Ultimately she proposes that people are of value because we are constituted in such a way that we can be good for ourselves in the sense that we are able to lead flourishing lives. Intuitively, a person matters because she matters to herself in a very particular sort of way. To appropriate a phrase, she is a being for whom her life can be an issue.
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Milan, Betty. Analyzed by Lacan. Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798765106235.
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Analyzed by Lacan brings together the first English translations of Betty Milan's testimony of her analysis with Lacan in the 1970s, the play, Goodbye Doctor, inspired by her experience, an Introduction by Milan to both works, and a new interview with her about her writing and Lacan. Milan's firsthand account of her analysis, Why Lacan, provides a unique and valuable perspective on how Lacan worked and his approach to psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic theory. Milan's memoir shows that Lacan’s way of working was based on the idea that the traditional method of interpreting provoked resistance. Before writing the testimony, Milan wrote a play, Goodbye Doctor, based on her experience as Lacan's patient. The play is structured around the sessions of Seriema with the Doctor. Through the analysis, Seriema discovers why she cannot give birth, namely, an unconscious desire to satisfy the will of her father who didn’t authorize her to conceive. She ceases to be the victim of her unconscious, grasps the possibility of choosing a father for her child and thus becoming a mother. Goodbye Doctor has been adapted into a film, Adieu Lacan, by the director Richard Ledes. Analyzed by Lacan includes a new Introduction to both texts by Milan, an interview with Milan, and letters she received from Lacan.
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Reinhart, Crystal. Supporting Community Agencies. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190457938.003.0008.
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A community organization offers a diverse setting in terms of people, skills, and topics. It affords the opportunity to tailor work toward your own interests while continuing to build skills. In this chapter the author describes how she discovered community psychology, what she learned in graduate school and in the career she eventually chose, and the insight she now has into what is most valuable—and needed—in pursuing a practice career. The author highlights the importance of the competencies and skills she gained in her graduate school career, related to working with community organizations, and in settling into her new job. These include organizational strategic planning, training, reporting, research, and the dissemination of results.
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Blackmore, R. D. Lorna Doone. Edited by Sally Shuttleworth. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199537594.001.0001.
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‘Every woman clutched her child, and every man turned pale at the very name of “Doone”’ John Ridd, an unsophisticated farmer, falls in love with the beautiful and aristocratic Lorna Doone, kidnapped as a child by the outlaw Doones on Exmoor. Ridd's rivalry with the villainous Carver Doone reaches a dramatic climax that will determine Lorna's future happiness. First published in 1869, Lorna Doone was praised by R. L. Stevenson and Thomas Hardy and has remained constantly in print. The novel has many aspects: it is a romance; a historical novel set at the time of the Monmouth Rebellion in the seventeenth century; and a new development in the pastoral tradition. Underneath an ostensibly idyllic evocation of rural bliss and tale of love and high adventure lies a solid defence of Victorian social values, and a hero whose self-doubt prompts him constantly to prove himself. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Fabre-Serris, Jacqueline, Liza Bolen, and Susanna Braund. Reflections on Two Verse Translations of the Eclogues in the Twentieth Century. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198810810.003.0026.
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In the second half of 1950s, Virgil’s Eclogues were translated in verse by the poet Paul Valéry and by the playwright and novelist Marcel Pagnol. They were both accompanied by comments, which are a valuable testimony to the way in which their authors conceived and realized their project. Both authors drastically differed in their motivations, in their judgements about Virgil, his time, and his text, in their positions in regard to previous translators, and in their reflections on translation activity. This chapter offers a comparison between them, but also with Eugène de Saint-Denis, whose 1942 prose translation is here considered more successful.
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Meyering, Sheryl. Understanding O Pioneers! and My Ántonia. Greenwood, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216029632.
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Willa Cather's novelsOh Pioneers!andMy Ántoniaare at once accurate representations of life on the midwestern prairies in the era of their first settlement and continuations of a literary tradition that stretches back to Virgil and other classical writers who celebrated nature and pondered humanity's place within it. Both novels are given full literary treatment here with close examination of the timeless themes of love, loss, the transience of youth, and the influence of the land itself on people's lives. For readers who want to go beyond the subjects of these novels, to enter the places and eras Cather immortalized in her writing, this casebook also situates the two novels within their historical contexts with a rich array of documentation. Letters and journals from the late 1800s and early 1900s help readers understand the hardships and rewards of everyday life on the plains. Poignant personal accounts as well as government reports document the special challenges women and immigrants faced on the frontier. Readers will also be able to explore how the issues in Cather's novels continue to shape American culture today. Reports from congressional hearings and personal interviews give varied perspectives on the disappearance of the family farm and an USDA timeline chronicles the causes and ongoing ramifications of this important issue. Students and their teachers will find a wealth of valuable information for their classroom discussions and research projects in this interdisciplinary casebook. Each topic chapter offers ideas for oral and written exploration as well as lists of further suggested readings. Students will not only gain a better understanding of Cather's novels here, but will be able to make connections between their thematic concerns and contemporary social issues.
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Mulan, Telesa Ying. Confessions of a Chinese Heroine. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781611463996.
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The memoirs of Sister Ying Mulan describe her experiences as a Chinese Christian living in a turbulent era marked by the Communist takeover, the Cultural Revolution, and many momentous political reforms. Born into a family of politically active Catholics, Ying Mulan was eventually imprisoned in Shanghai and later sent to serve in labor camps for over twenty years. While living through such difficult circumstances, Ying Mulan derived strength from her faith. At the age of 60, she became a religious sister, and twenty-five years later she decided to write her autobiography. In this book, Francis Morgan offers the first English translation of Sr. Ying’s memoirs, providing explanatory notes based on historical research and a series of extensive interviews with Sr. Ying. As she recounts the trials that she and others endured, Sr. Ying speaks with a remarkable tone of gratitude, giving thanks to God for the tests that steeled her character, tempered her pride, and increased her compassion. While her work stands out as a modern spiritual autobiography, it also deserves recognition as a political text. Sr. Ying’s memoirs offer valuable and rare insights into the realities of religious life in China, the hidden world of labor camps and prisons, and the extremes of Cultural Revolution.
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Lipman, Matthew, and Daniela G. Camhy, eds. Lisa. Academia – ein Verlag in der Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783896659873.
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Lisa is the story of a young girl and her classmates. Various events in the lives of these young people prompt them to think about philosophical concepts like truth, justice, sexism, racism, human and animal rights, and death. Through dialogue, they ask profound questions about identity, their own thinking, and numerous philosophical issues that continue to preoccupy adolescents. The manual, Ethical Inquiries, that accompanies Lisa, serves as a valuable guide for anyone who wants to explore ethical issues, especially for educators who want to use the Lisa book in ethics classes.
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Solomon, William. Becoming-Child. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040245.003.0005.
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This chapter takes the concept of “becoming-child” from Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's study of Franz Kafka in order to account for the peculiarity of Harry Langdon's screen persona. The bizarrely babyish acting style of Langdon offers a valuable point of access to one of the fundamental traits of silent screen comedy as a whole: its sustained appeal to immature behaviors and correlative rejection of adult standards of behaviors, as well as the normative sexual roles these tend to enforce. What emerges here is one of the strongest links between slapstick film and the counterculture generation's affirmation of youthful irreverence as an oppositional stance.
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Austen, Jane, and Claudia L. Johnson. Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon. Edited by John Davie and James Kinsley. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199535545.001.0001.
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‘… in suspecting General Tilney of either murdering or shutting up his wife, she had scarcely sinned against his character, or magnified his cruelty.’ Northanger Abbey is about the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. Their romantic excess and dark overstatement feed her imagination, as tyrannical fathers and diabolical villains work their evil on forlorn heroines in isolated settings. What could be more remote from the uneventful securities of life in the midland counties of England? Yet as Austen brilliantly contrasts fiction with reality, ordinary life takes a more sinister turn, and edginess and circumspection are reaffirmed alongside comedy and literary burlesque. Also including Austen's other short fictions, Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon, this valuable new edition examines the ambitious and innovative works with which she inaugurated as well as closed her career.
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Britland, Karen. Women Writing in a Time of War, 1642-1689. Oxford University PressOxford, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198946588.001.0001.
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Abstract Women Writing in a Time of War, 1642–1689 examines the stereotype of the apolitical woman who was nevertheless valuable as a messenger or secret agent during the English civil wars because her imagined lack of political acumen obscured her partisan behaviour. It examines the interconnections between early modern men’s and women’s cultural production, analysing the secret writing and communication strategies employed by agents and spies during the wars and arguing that an attention to clandestine modes of writing provides new insights into women’s literary production during the conflict. Encouraging us to understand such literary production differently, the book offers a new history of early modern political writing, one deeply imbricated in—but by no means exclusively focused on—the literary work and experiences of women, the non-elite, and the racially marginalized in early modern England and its colonial trade networks.
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Koloski, Bernard, ed. The Historian’s Awakening. Praeger, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400663734.
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The Historian's Awakening is a full commentary on the text (included) that provides social and cultural history context, discussions of the author and her times as well as valuable insight into historical forces that shaped people's lives. Kate Chopin's classic novel about a modern woman who desires to break free from tradition endures, in part, due to its critical and thought-provoking themes about society. While many editions of Kate Chopin's classic novel are in print, only The Historian's Awakening deals exclusively with the 19th-century social and cultural environment from which the novel emerged. In The Awakening, Kate Chopin portrays a modern woman who seeks utonomy, subjected to intense social and cultural conventions that first draw her out of her lifelong solitude but ultimately leave her feeling even more alone. This newly annotated edition focuses on how 19th-century ideas about class, gender, ethnicity, and modernity affect a courageous woman’s life. Challenging prevailing scholarship by situating the novel within a rich historical context, it examines the social and cultural realities of the 1890s and explains how, in the novel, these forces combine with an emerging modernity to liberate and unsettle its female protagonist.
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Theischinger, Gunther, and John Hawking. Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643094109.
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Dragonflies and damselflies are conspicuous insects – many are large and brightly coloured. Here for the first time is a comprehensive guide to the Australian dragonfly fauna.
 The book includes identification keys not only for adults but also for their larvae, commonly known as ‘mud eyes’ and often used as bait for freshwater fish. With stunning full-colour images and distribution maps, the book covers all 30 families, 110 genera and 324 species found in Australia.
 Dragonflies are valuable indicators of environmental well-being. A detailed knowledge of the dragonfly fauna and its changes is therefore an important basis for decisions about environmental protection and management. Their extraordinary diversity will interest entomologists and amateur naturalists alike.
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Michael, Furmston, Tolhurst G J, and Mik Eliza. 5 Auctions and Tenders. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198724032.003.0005.
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This chapter discusses the process of making contracts by auction and by tender. Although these processes are different they have important features in common both in fact and in law. Reasoning from one transaction has been carried over to the other. Both auctions and tenders are an attempt to achieve the best price by competition without entering into negotiations. Auctions are typically used to sell valuable chattels such as paintings or houses or other buildings. Competitive tendering is commonly used for the procurement of services, particularly in the construction industry. Here the assumption is that those who desire the work will bid the lowest price they can afford, thus ensuring a low price for the person procuring the service.
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Burney, Fanny. Camilla. Edited by Edward A. Bloom and Lillian D. Bloom. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199555741.001.0001.
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First published in 1796, Camilla deals with the matrimonial concerns of a group of young people-Camilla Tyrold and her sisters, the daughters of a country parson, and their cousin Indiana Lynmere-and, in particular, with the love affair between Camilla herself and her eligible suitor, Edgar Mandlebert. The path of true love, however, is strewn with intrigue, contretemps and misunderstanding. An enormously popular eighteenth-century novel, Camilla is touched at many points by the advancing spirit of romanticism. As in Evelina, Fanny Burney weaves into her novel strands of light and dark, comic episodes and gothic shudders, and creates a pattern of social and moral dilemmas which emphasize and illuminate the gap between generations. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Sirias, Silvio. Julia Alvarez. Greenwood, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400675133.
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Julia Alvarez made her mark on the American literary horizon with the 1991 publication of her debut novelHow the Garc^D'ia Girls Lost Their Accents, a story based on her own family's bicultural experiences. Readers and critics alike quickly discovered the writer's penchant for extracting humor from hardship, and weaving personal history into vivid prose. Within a decade, Alvarez had published three more highly acclaimed novels, including!Yo!(1997), a delightful sequel to her first novel. This Critical Companion introduces readers to the life and works of Dominican American writer Alvarez and examines the thematic and cultural concerns that run through her novels. Full literary analysis is provided for each, including historical context for the factually based works,In the Time of the Butterflies(1994) andIn the Name of Salomé(2000). A brief biography and a chapter on the Latino novel help students to understand the personal and literary influences in Alvarez's writing. This first full-length treatment of Julia Alvarez discusses her entire canon of writings including her poetry, short stories, children's fiction and nonfiction. The four novels are analyzed fully, each discussed in its own chapter with sections on plot, character development, literary device, thematic issues and narrative structure. Cultural and historical contexts of the work are also considered, and alternate critical perspectives are given for each novel. A select bibliography makes this volume a valuable research tool for students, educators and anyone interested in Latino literature.
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Attanasio, John. Distributive Autonomy. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190847029.003.0002.
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This chapter first explores the logical imperative that if autonomy is valuable for all, there must be rights for each person to have at least some baseline of autonomy. This baseline imposes duties on each person in society to do her part, including giving up some of her own autonomy to make a minimal amount of autonomy available to all. But once one accepts these duties, one accepts some kind of theory of bounded rather than unfettered individual liberty. The theory of bounded autonomy is more of a justification for the principle of distributive autonomy rather than a principle itself. This chapter articulates a first approximation of the principle of distributive autonomy. This first approximation provides a context for discussing the campaign finance cases in subsequent chapters. To further sketch the initial contours of the principle, the discussion shifts to how key autonomy and liberty theorists have approached this problem.
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Pechey, Ben. The Book of Non-Binary Joy. Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781805016380.
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'A joy to read' JEFFREY MARSH 'I'm so happy this book exists' FREDDY MCCONNELL 'Full of wit, fun and wisdom!' ALEX IANTAFFI 'Oh hello darling, and welcome to The Book of Non-Binary Joy! This book is here to help you be yourself - free from judgement and expectation - as you unlock more joy in your life. Take my hand, and let's start your journey of self-love today.' Whether you are at the start of your journey or have been on the wild ride of gender introspection for a long time, this guide is here to help you thrive as your authentic - and most fabulous - non-binary self. With personal stories, valuable insights and interactive sections, this inspiring book covers a wide range of topics, including mental health, pleasure, fashion, understanding your past, allyship privilege and self-expression. Written with warmth and unapologetic humour, and with bold illustrations throughout, Ben Pechey has created the ultimate safe space for you to embrace your non-binary life and start living.
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Somos, Mark. John Warren’s Lectures on Anatomy, 1783–1812. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807025.003.0006.
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This chapter presents an English translation of selected passages from John Warren’s Lectures on Anatomy, delivered between 1783 and 1812. Most of the lectures deal with technical aspects of anatomy, ranging from the structure and parts of the body through characteristics of bones and ligaments to making anatomical preparations. Here Warren offers valuable insights into American medical history and progress. The present selection focuses on the history and theory of anatomy that Warren taught as part of his course over the first three decades in the history of Harvard Medical School (HMS). Warren was one of the founders of HMS on September 19, 1782, with Aaron Dexter and Benjamin Waterhouse. He served as the school’s first Professor of Anatomy and Surgery.
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Hardy, Thomas, and Margaret R. Higonnet. The Return of the Native. Edited by Simon Gatrell. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199537044.001.0001.
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‘To be loved to madness - such was her great desire’ Eustacia Vye criss-crosses the wild Egdon Heath, eager to experience life to the full in her quest for 'music, poetry, passion, war'. She marries Clym Yeobright, native of the heath, but his idealism frustrates her romantic ambitions and her discontent draws others into a tangled web of deceit and unhappiness. Early readers responded to Hardy's 'insatiably observant' descriptions of the heath, a setting that for D. H. Lawrence provided the 'real stuff of tragedy'. For modern readers, the tension between the mythic setting of the heath and the modernity of the characters challenges our freedom to shape the world as we wish; like Eustacia, we may not always be able to live our dreams. This edition has a critically established text based on the manuscript and first edition. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Schultz, Celia E. Fulvia. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190697136.001.0001.
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Fulvia: Playing for Power at the End of the Roman Republic is the first full-length biography focused solely on Fulvia, daughter of Sempronia and Bambalio, who is best known as the wife of Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony). Born into a less prestigious branch of an aristocratic Roman clan in the last decades of the Roman Republic, Fulvia first rose to prominence as the wife of P. Clodius Pulcher, scion of one of the city’s most powerful families and one of its most infamous and scandalous politicians. In the aftermath of his murder, Fulvia refused to shrink from the glare of public scrutiny and helped to prosecute the man responsible. Later, as the wife of Antonius, she was the most powerful woman in Rome, at one point even taking an active role in the military conflict between Antonius’s allies and Octavian, the future emperor Augustus. Her husbands’ enemies painted her as domineering, vicious, greedy, and petty—a caricature of woman who pushed against the boundary of female propriety, a woman about whom there was “nothing feminine except her form.” This biography peels away the invective to reveal a strong-willed, independent woman who was, by many traditional measures, a successful Roman matrona: she was never single for long, her husbands flourished, her children were many, and there was barely a whiff of sexual impropriety about her. On top of all that, Fulvia proved herself, over and over again, to be a valuable asset, a shrewd political ally, and a fearless defender of her family’s interests.
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Fletcher, Richard. Psychic Life in the Eternal City. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803034.003.0012.
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Freud’s analogy of the city of Rome as the human psyche in Civilization and its Discontents and Kristeva’s reading of Ovid’s Narcissus as a response to Freudian narcissism in Tales of Love have been treated as separate aspects of the reception of ancient Rome in psychoanalysis. In New Maladies of the Soul, however, Kristeva makes a direct connection between the two, building on Freud’s doubts about the usefulness of his analogy and offering a corrective image of her own. Kristeva, this chapter argues, thus locates the movement from Freud’s Rome to her specular city in what she calls a “mini-revolution in psychic life” that can be understood through the changes to the figure of Narcissus from Ovid to Plotinus. Psychoanalysis, in being both addressed to and partly founded on an erroneous narcissism, offers a valuable model for classical reception studies through its self-critical approach to narcissism’s ambivalent pleasures and dangers.
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Wharton Lowe, John. Summoning Our Saints. Lexington Books, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978730298.
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Summoning Our Saints: The Poetry and Prose of Brenda Marie Osbey celebrates and illuminates the poetry and prose of one of the South’s and the nation’s most notable writers. A native of New Orleans and a former poet laureate of Louisiana who served magnificently in that function during the dark days after Hurricane Katrina, Osbey has summoned up a magical, beguiling, sometimes chilling and appalling portrait of the myriad chapters of New Orleans, Southern, and hemispheric history. Her dazzling narratives offer apertures into desire, death and remembrance, often through the voices of neglected and abused citizens. The essays in this collection examine Osbey’s essays and poetry collections, situating them within greater traditions of African American women’s writing, blues music, and West African religious traditions and Catholicism. The chapters are punctuated throughout with Osbey’s own reflections on her work and bring a long-needed and appreciative critical focus to a great artist, elucidating her contributions to our common cultural heritage. The book examines Osbey’s meditations on topics such as colonization, the African diaspora, the circumCaribbean, and contemporary parallels between Europe and the United States to showcase the ways in which they add valuable new insights to transnational studies.
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Sanchez, Carlos Alberto, and Robert Eli Sanchez, Jr., eds. Mexican Philosophy in the 20th Century. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190601294.001.0001.
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Sánchez and Sanchez have selected, edited, translated, and written an introduction to some of the most influential texts in 20th century Mexican philosophy. Together, these texts reveal and give shape to a unique and robust tradition that will certainly challenge and complicate traditional conceptions of philosophy. The texts collected here are organized chronologically and represent a period of Mexican thought and culture that emerges out of the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and cultimates in la filosofía de lo mexicano (the philosophy of Mexicanness), which reached its peak in the 1950s. Though the selections respond to a variety of philosophical questions and themes and will be of interest to a wide range of readers, they represent a tendency to take seriously the question of Mexican national identity as a philosophical question—an issue that is complicated by Mexico’s indigenous and European ancestries, its history of colonialism, and its growing dependency on foreign money and culture. More than an attempt simply to describe the national character, however, the texts gathered here represent an optimistic period in Mexican philosophy that aimed to affirm Mexican philosophy as a valuable, if not urgent, contribution to universal thought and culture.
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Brontë, Anne. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Edited by Herbert Rosengarten and Josephine McDonagh. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199207558.001.0001.
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‘he looked up wistfully in my face, and gravely asked – “Mamma, why are you so wicked?”’ The mysterious new tenant of Wildfell Hall has a dark secret. But as the captivated Gilbert Markham will discover, it is not the story circulating among local gossips. Living under an assumed name, 'Helen Graham' is the estranged wife of a dissolute rake, desperate to protect her son from his destructive influence. Her diary entries reveal the shocking world of debauchery and cruelty from which she has fled. Combining a sensational story of a man's physical and moral decline through alcohol, a study of marital breakdown, a disquisition on the care and upbringing of children, and a hard-hitting critique of the position of women in Victorian society, this passionate tale of betrayal is set within a stern moral framework tempered by Anne Brontë's optimistic belief in universal redemption. Drawing on her first-hand experiences with her brother Branwell, Brontë's novel scandalized contemporary readers. It still retains its power to shock. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Mitchell, Charles P. Filmography of Social Issues. Greenwood, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400651083.
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Since the early days of silent film, some of the most memorable movies made have been those that have confronted and explored such challenging social issues as poverty or racism. Librarians and educators—as well as cultural historians, students and cinemaphiles— will find this book a valuable resource for examining films and how they reflect and comment on the major issues of our time. This specialized filmography first identifies and discusses twenty important social issues that have recurred in films over the years. In addition to the films critiqued here, other related titles are listed under each topic. The 100 films discussed in this volume, presented alphabetically in standard reference format, cover a wide spectrum of film perspectives and genres. Many of the films are American made, others are European, all are English language. Each film entry identifies the prominent social theme or themes and presents full credit information, including the major actors involved. The Overview section, which briefly describes why the film was selected, is followed by a concise plot synopsis. Finally the critique gives pertinent background information, commentary, analysis and evaluation. This filmography should be valuable both as reference tool for library film study collections and for video collection development. Educators will find it useful for incorporating film into the language arts and social curriculum, particularly for teaching thematic units and integrated studies. The volume is well organized, the entries expertly written in clear yet lively language, and the critiques interesting and insightful.
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Foster, Susan A., and John A. Endler, eds. Geographic Variation in Behavior. Oxford University Press, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195082951.001.0001.
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Studies of animal behavior often assume that all members of a species exhibit the same behavior. Geographic Variation in Behavior shows that, on the contrary, there is substantional variation within species across a wide range of taxa. Including work from pioneers in the field, this volume provides a balanced overview of research on behavioral characteristics that vary geographically. The authors explore the mechanisms by which behavioral differences evolve and examine related methodological issues. Taken together, the work collected here demonstrates that genetically based geographic variation may be far more widespread than previously suspected. The book also shows how variation in behavior can illuminate both behavioral evolution and general evolutionary patterns. Unique among books on behavior in its emphasis on geographic variation, this volume is a valuable new resource for students and researchers in animal behavior and evolutionary biology.
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Taberlet, Pierre, Aurélie Bonin, Lucie Zinger, and Eric Coissac. Paleoenvironments. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198767220.003.0015.
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One of the most fascinating facets of eDNA lies in the possibility of exploiting it to reconstruct past environments in paleoecology and in archaeology. Chapter 15, entitled “Paleoenvironments,” reviews different pioneer studies that scrutinized ancient eDNA extracted from different substrates (e.g., lake sediments, permafrost, or archaeological midden material), to address a wide range of questions. These include, for example, the taxonomic identification of archaeological fish bones in Madagascar from bulk samples, the reconstruction of past plant communities based on the large-scale analysis of permafrost samples, or the assessment of past human diet in Greenland based on midden material. Midden material from archaeological sites represents a valuable source of information for tracking food habits of ancient human communities. It also provides information about the surrounding biodiversity, using humans as biodiversity samplers, which is also explored here.